Oh man, oh man, oh man!
This is too much! I still need to study!
Oh man! The written test needs to be shorter! I know I'm going to fail this!
I guess I'll have to rely on the field exam…
…but what's with this guy?
Not only is he weird, but he's got that thick accent…
But what I don't get is why he's using these cards he's using. I mean, I'm able to beat them easily.
But I'm sure he's got a few tricks up his sleeves.
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Chapter 9
Viva Exam Revolution!
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On the calm waves of the ocean, a small wooden boat slowly made its way closer and closer towards the Atlantic Duel academy. Two guys in their early twenties were rowing the boat while a third man, this one looking in his thirties, sat lazily in the back of the boat.
"Hurry up you two dweebs!" The older of the men ordered adjusting his American flag bandana. "I want to get to the academy before nightfall."
That's when one of the twenty-year old men narrowed his eyes from behind his long brown hair. "Yeah, yeah, we heard you yesterday but that still didn't get us there!"
"Listen dweebs, you should be glad that I even included you dweebs in this plan of mine," chuckled the older man crossing his arms.
"Shut up fossil breath!" The other twenty-year old man ordered adjusting his yellow glasses with his free hand. "This is our big break…"
"Why do I keep listening to you?" The brown haired man sighed lowering his head.
From behind his sunglasses, the bandana wearing man's eyes spotted a familiar island that looked to be only a few miles away. "Well would you look what we got in the distance…?"
The two other men turned their heads to see the same island. The glasses wearing one began to chuckle to himself. "Hyohohohoho! That must be the academy!"
"Right you roach…" the older man replied throwing his hand towards the academy. "So full speed ahead!"
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"Rena…"
"Hmm…Five more minutes Guy…" Rena moaned over her books.
"Rena, you need to get up!" Rukia shouted getting Rena to throw her head up from her books.
"Huh? What's going on?" Rena yawned loudly stretching her arms.
"Um, well," Rukia stuttered scratching the side of her cheek.
That's when Rena noticed the clock that was behind Rukia's shoulder, and her eyes widened at the sight of the time. "OH! Why didn't you tell me we were late!?!?"
Rukia just stared in amazement as she watched Rena run out of the room at an amazing speed. That's when she noticed the thing that Rena was wearing. "…She's just asking for blackmail now…"
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"Come on! Now you're charging me a percentage rate?!?"
Ganryu, Klein, Koji and Van were slowly walking towards the duel academy, Klein was currently arguing with the smirking Ganryu. Apparently, Ganryu just changed his collection plan for Klein's debt.
"What'd you expect?" Van sighed shrugging his shoulders at his shorter friends. "I mean, he's a cold hearted stiff, who only shows kindness to a pretty face."
In response, Ganryu just glared daggers at the apparent idiotic Slifer Red. But then, something managed to catch Ganryu's attention, making him to take a step to the right.
"Look at that, I didn't think this cold-hearted jerk was able to not react to violence…" Klein laughed loudly before he noticed the same thing that Ganryu was looking at. "What the…?"
"I'M LATE!"
Suddenly a running Rena just sent Van and Klein flying while Ganryu and Koji watched the scene from a good short distance from being sent flying themselves. "Man, those two went far…"
Ganryu just slightly smirked to himself when he saw Van and Klein getting their heads stuck in a large tree while Rena skidded to a stop. She quickly caught her breath and looked at Ganryu and Koji. "Huh? Hey guys…where's Van and Klein?"
As if on cue, Koji and Ganryu gestured at the same time with their arms towards the tree where Van and Klein were pulling their heads from the tree they got stuck in. Rena just panicked slightly and bowed a little bit. "ACK! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY YOU TWO! I DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE!"
"Watch where you're going!" Klein roared freeing his head from the tree and stomping towards Rena. "I nearly lost my head in there!"
A second later, Van managed to reach the group, pulling a branch from his hair. "That's what people always say when they slam into us…"
A very small smirk appeared on Ganryu's face.
That's when something dawned on Rena staring at the four fellow Slifer Red students around her. "Hey…how come you guys aren't in class right now?"
"What are you talking about?" Van questioned raising an eyebrow at Rena.
Rena just blinked in confusion and then slowly replied. "I thought classes are going on…"
"Classes are canceled today girlie," Klein chuckled reaching into his pants' pocket.
With her dropping jaw, Rena just stared at her classmates. "Y-you mean that I ran all this way…and we don't have classes today?!?"
"I see you're forgetting what Asche told us," Klein replied holding up a small digital camera. "We'll be starting to work at our jobs…after today's Promotion exams!"
"E-exams!?!?" Rena shouted in the air pulling her hair. "NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"
"I take it she forgot the exams…" Koji whispered to Van's ears.
"That's not all she forgot…" Van replied turning to the side to hide his slight blush on his face.
Koji realized this and turned his entire body the other way, while Ganryu turned his head to the right slightly to block the very super, duper small blush. A large question mark appeared over Rena's head. "What? What did I forget?"
"Heh! Nice pajamas!" Klein laughed before taking multiple snap shots of Rena in her rose red pajamas. "Say hello blackmail!"
"Give me that camera!" Rena roared chasing after Klein, who was still taking pictures while being chased by Rena.
"I guess it was only a matter of time before she went nuts as well…" Van sighed watching Klein trip Rena by accident, but still got a few more photos.
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"So wait…why are you staying with the boat?"
The three older men had finally docked at a secluded beach; the two younger of the two men were standing on the beach while the rough looking one sat in the boat with an old fold out magazine. The man looked up from magazine slightly and glared at the two. "Cause, unlike you two underdeveloped dweebs, I can't really walk around this place without getting some suspicion thrown my way…"
"Oh well…more cards for us," The green haired man chuckled to himself adjusting his yellow glasses.
"Don't count on it…I happen to be your guys' ticket out of here!" The older man stood up on his feet and glared downwards at the two shorter men. "And unless you two don't want to be stranded here, you better bring me those rare cards that are on that list!"
"Whatever," the other man growled before turning around with the second man. "Let's get this over with…"
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In the crowded classroom, a now properly dressed Rena placed her head on the desk she was sitting at. "Aw man…I'm not ready for this…"
"Just relax a little Rena," Van comforted sweat dropping at friend's overreaction. "Just take a deep breath and think when you take the test. It'll make things a lot easier…"
Ganryu sighed annoyingly. "Focus on the exams idiots…"
"Way to comfort me…." Rena sulked to herself.
"Enough!" Professor Kryancelo shouted passing out the exams manually. "Anyone who is caught talking or cheating on this written exam will be failed immediately! And don't even try to test me on this day!"
A small dark aura appeared over Rena's head when Professor Kryancelo walked up next to her and handed her the written exam.
Shrugging it off, Kryancelo smirked when he reached Ganryu. "Mr. Dashiben…"
In response, Ganryu glared at the fire deck Professor.
"Nice…" Kryancelo commented crossing his arms. "Now then, after this part of the exam is over with, meet me in the hall. I have matters with you that I might want to look into…"
The professor just walked away after that little comment. Rena turned back to Ganryu to see what that was about, but only got a shrug from the rude Samurai duelist.
Slowly turning her head back, Rena stared at the first problem of this exam, and immediately came to a conclusion…
…This exam, described the most dangerous thing in the world to her…
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"Why do I have to wear red?" The long brown haired man pulled his red jacket over his green jacket.
"Because I'm the superior duelist, fossil breath," laughed the shorter man zipping up the Ra yellow jacket over his black beetle shirt while the two walked through the hallways of the academy.
"I seem to recall that I managed to get farther in the DK tournament bug eyes," remarked the other man raising a hand to his chin to rub it. "And you got knocked out in the first round…"
"That tournament didn't count! BC was the harder on and you lost to a phony psychic," Laughed the shorter man adjusting his glasses.
"You only got to the second round through your cheating!" The other man growled at his accomplice.
Sparks began to fly between the men's eyes as they glared at each other. "Please…I calling strategy! STRA-TE-GY!"
"And I call ya a cheater!" 'Fossil Breath' snarled at 'Roach' raising his fist up. "C-H-E-E-A-T-E-R!
"There's only one 'E' in cheater you numbskull!" 'Roach' yelled back narrowing his eyes at 'Fossil Breath'.
"You wanna take this outside!?!" 'Fossil Breath' offered raising a fist to Roach's face.
From the corner of 'Roach's eye, he spotted a certain part of the school that made his face curl up into a wicked smile. "That can wait…right now I see our target…"
'Fossil Breath' looked up and a smile crept on his face. The two of them were standing directly in front of the school's card shop. "…That's a good reason…"
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Two hours had almost passed when the exam had begun, and a small portion of the students were rushing through the exam. Van was writing frantically barely having any time to actually ponder the question.
Rena was panicking pulling her hair slightly as she struggled on the problem she was on.
While on the other hand, Ganryu was calmly filling in a question he saved later…
Ironically, all three of them were on the same question.
Van silently read the question to himself. "It's your turn. Your opponent has 2050 life points with a Millennium Shield in defense mode on their side of the field as well as a face down monster (Man-Eater Bug). You have 1000 life points left, only one face down card on the field, and one monster and one spell card in your hand. Explain what three cards you have in your hand and field might be in order for you to win during this turn. Come up with at least two combinations."
'How does anyone know this!?!?' Rena panicked in her head while thinking of the answers.
"Heh…" Ganryu chuckled to himself as he wrote down the answer. 'You'd have to be an idiot to not to be able to get this answer…'
"Pencils down!" Professor Kryancelo shouted slamming his hands into his desk. "Any unanswered questions you haven't finished yet…well too bad! But I do have some good news…the new cards have arrived, so at least wait till I get out of the way before you go rushing to get them…"
"Hurry up! Before they're all gone!" Klein shouted into the air leading a mass of students towards the door. Koji was being dragged by a majority of them.
After a majority of the class had exited the room with Klein leading the way, Van stood up and stretched his arms. "That wasn't too bad after all!" That's when he noticed a small gloomy aura around Rena. "Uh…you okay?"
"I suck…" Rena sulked even further into a depressed mood. "I know I did horrid on the exams…"
Rukia walked up behind Van and looked at her depressed friend, didn't take much to realize what Rena was fretting over. "…She thinks she failed?"
"Yep…" Van replied.
"Relax Rena…there's always the field exam…" Rukia comforted sitting down next to Rena. "Um…maybe we should get some of those cards in the shop. I mean after all, they could help for the next part…"
"Hey…where'd the cold stiff get to?" Van asked referring to Ganryu.
"I saw him head out of the room," Rena sighed pointing towards the door…just when Ganryu walked back into the classroom.
"Speak of the devil…" Van chuckled to himself. "Where'd you head off to you cold-hearted stiff?"
Ganryu looked down at his fellow Slifer Red. "None of your business."
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"Hyohyohyohyo! Those fools!" 'Roach' laughed to himself looking at the many packs of duel monster cards he held in his hands. There were even more packs in a small bag that 'Fossil Breath' carried in his hands. "While we've got the cards, while those fools get nothing!"
"I can barely wait to power up my dinos with these cards!" 'Fossil Breath' snickered to himself.
"Maybe we could find our own boat and not give any of these cards to that American has been," 'Roach' suggested pocketing the packs in his pants.
"Finally! It's been ages since you've had a decent idea!" 'Fossil Breath' commented crossing his arms.
"Sir…you have nuhzing to worry about."
Both 'Fossil Breath' and 'Roach' turned their heads to the side down a separate hallway to find the source of the voice. If they were found out here, then they'd be basically screwed. The two men jumped to the wall and slowly peered beside the wall.
Down the hall stood at least five cloaked people standing in front of a non-cloaked man who didn't even look to be in his early twenties. His sickly pale body was topped off with pitch black hair with white highlights tied back into a ponytail. He seemed to be gothic with his black overcoat (that looked similar to the Obelisk Blue Students' overcoat), a tight black muscle shirt and had baggy dark gray cargo pants that looked to have something in each of the pockets. "I…should…hope so…Rosen…" The way this leader was talking, it sounded as if that each breath he took was painful before he even spoke to his subordinates.
The cloaked person, apparently named Rosen, stood up and raised a hand into the air. "Moi have calculated ze numbers sir…moi is am confident zat I shall be able to get past ze opponent zat ze beautiful academy has set up for moi."
"Excellent…and have…you made sure that…you're not using…your…true deck?" the Gothic leader asked raising his hand to his mouth to cover up a cough.
"Oui, oui! Moi has prepared to take it easy on ze lovely opponent moi has been selected to face…" Rosen replied lifting a small blue rose from his dark cloak. "Now zen, I must be getting to ze arena before moi's match begins."
The Gothic leader bobbed his head up and down realizing that Lancet was right. "I see…later we'll begin…the plan…"
"Exquisite!" Rosen exclaimed before walking past the rest of the group. "I'll see you all later in ze day!"
'Roach' and 'Fossil Breath' blinked at each other in confusion at what had just happened before them but shook it off and quickly walked away from the hallway, hoping to not to be caught by those freaks.
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Meanwhile in the duel academy's examination field, many of the students were already dueling for their field exam. Many of the students who weren't dueling were sitting in the stands waiting for their turn to come up.
"So you're saying that none of the new packs were there?" Rukia asked a slightly depressed Klein.
A loud sigh managed to get free from Klein's mouth before he smiled goofy to his other Slifer Red. "Yeah…good thing I managed to get the regular packs! And I'll use these to get out of that greedy stiff's debt!"
What Klein didn't realize that Ganryu was sitting directly behind the shorter duelist. Almost as a reaction to the comment, Ganryu swiftly brought his leg to Klein's head and sent him flying into the arena dropping a few of the packs he hand in his hands. Rukia just sweatdropped at the sight of the flying red student. "Okay…hey Ganryu, you know where Rena and Van are?"
"…Went to check who they're facing…" Ganryu stiffly replied crossing his arms and lifting his legs onto the seat in front of him. "Koji too…"
"…That's the most I've heard you say without referring to an insult to start off…" Rukia stated with an astonished voice.
In response to that, Ganryu glared daggers at Rukia with a blood vessel appearing on the back of his head. 'What I wouldn't give for a moment of silence…'
While the confrontation was going on, Rena, Van and Koji stood up with multiple students around them, all of them starring at the electronic board in front of them that had the names of who was dueling who and in which arena.
"Uh…do you guys see me anywhere?" Rena turned towards her friends.
Koji shook his head at Rena's question, but pointed towards the board where his name was. "Nope, but I've got a match with a guy named Kazuki later today…"
"Oh yeah, we've never seen you duel before," Rena realized smiling down at the shorter duelist. "What kind of deck do you have?"
"I'll just say…it's out of this world," Koji replied, actually sounding happy that someone was actually interested about him.
"I see…still going for that strategy?" Van asked to get a nod from his short friend. "Nice…"
"Howdy d'ere guys!"
At the same time, all three Slifer Red students turned around to see Tony and Leo standing behind them. In his right hand, Tony held onto a special pack of Duel monster cards that didn't even look familiar to any of the reds.
"Hey Tony, hey Leo," Rena replied with a smile.
"Ah…it appears that you've grown accustomed to our appearances…" Leo sighed in disappointment, but was still able to pull off his calm demeanor.
"Well, you guys need to be more creative when you appear," Rena suggested…not knowing that later she would regret saying that…
"Hmm…very well," Leo snickered before turning towards the board. "So…who are you facing up against Rena?"
"Well, I really couldn't find my name up on the board…" Rena answered scratching the back of her head in embarrassment.
Tony just smiled and walked up to Rena. "No worries d'ere Miss! Your name jus came up and you're facing…" At the sight of the other name, Tony's eyes widened and he almost drop his jaw. "I don't believe it…"
A question mark flashed over Rena's head, making her walk past Tony to see her name across another's. She slowly read the name written across. "Antonio Rosencrantz?"
"Rosencrantz?" Leo questioned rubbing his chin. "He sounds familiar…"
"He should…" Tony replied with a dark tone in his usual cheery voice. "He's a transfer student from Paris…the Junior Champ of the French Leagues."
"What!?!" Rena shouted turning ghostly pale. "W-why is he here then?"
"Ya see, he happened ta hear that American duelists were startin' ta get better," Tony explained looking down at the pack in his hands. "So he wanted to see how the next generation here would turn out and learn how to defeat them…"
"And I get to face him?" Rena stuttered lowering her head. "Just my luck…"
Seeing this, Tony held the pack he managed to come up with. He smiled to himself and held it up to Rena. "It may not be much consolation…but here ya go."
Tony dropped the pack in Rena's hands, making even more confused. "Um…why are you giving this to me?"
Tony rubbed his chin in deep thought for a few seconds before his face widened into a large smile. "Hmm…Why not?"
"…Can you be any more confusing?" Van asked raising an eyebrow at Tony's response.
"Actually yes," Tony replied with a more evil looking smile.
"He's starting to scare me…" Koji replied stepping behind Van.
"Oh…Am I not the scary one any more?" Leo asked scratching the side of his cheek.
"Prove us with your next entrance," Van challenged crossing his arms.
"No worries there," Leo chuckled softly to himself.
That's when Rena noticed the time written next to her name. "Oh man! My match starts soon!"
"Well then...see ya after da match! We'll be heading off ta our seats!" Tony wished before heading off with Leo towards the stands.
"I need to get ready for my match, it's against a guy named Deo…" Van replied before taking off.
"My match isn't until later…" Koji replied standing next to Rena. "Although…knowing Klein…he's probably getting into trouble again…"
"It's okay Koji…" Rena replied smiling at the younger of the Drei twins.
"So…what'd you get in that pack?" Koji asked looking at it. "I've never actually seen a pack that had that design on it before…"
It was weird, the pack was a weird metallic blue color that had a small cute green jumping on the cover. The pack didn't even have a name written on it. Rena shrugged as she began to open the pack. "Same here…"
When the pack was open, Rena and Koji slowly looked at the cards inside and there eyes widened at the rare card in the pack…
"NO WAY!"
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A few minutes later, Rena was standing at her dueling arena with other students dueling on both sides of her from a distance. "…Aren't I the one who's usually late?"
"My apologies madam," A snooty voice filled with a rich French accent apologized. "Moi was in a small meeting…"
Rena turned her head from the side and saw that a person who would fit the Frenchman type. He was a skinny person wearing a pink dyed Slifer Red jacket over a tight black shirt and pants. On his left arm was a bubble gum pink version of the Academy duel disk. His slick black hair was short in the back, yet was large in the front. "Allow moi to introduce moi. I am ze lovely Antonio Rosencrantz!" At that, Antonio lifted up a small blue rose. "Moi is honored to have ze beauty of a lovely red flower as yourself; you must also be honored to face moi."
"Well…If a stomach cramp counts as honor…" Rena sighed lowering her head.
"Oh my," Antonio chuckled to himself before he laughed slightly to himself. "Mademoiselle you are one of ze more interesting moi has seen in ze beautiful academy so far…"
"…I'm sorry, but I can barely understand you," Rena sighed scratching the side of her head.
Hearing that, Antonio began to fall to the side before standing back up on his feet with his eyes narrowed. "H-how dare you!?! You are making moi angry! And when zat happens, wrinkles start to form! Moi has to be young to keep ze title moi has earned!"
'This guy's nuts!' Rena sweatdropped at the fact that this guy was actually worried about wrinkles. Heck, the guy didn't look older than Rena did.
"Now zen! Let us commence!" Antonio shouted activating his bubble gum pink duel disk. (ALP: 8000)
"Um…Let's duel…?" Rena questioned shuffling her deck. (RLP: 8000)
"DUEL!"
Antonio elegantly drew his next card and looked at his card. "Truly a beautiful draw…Moi will set two cards and a guard face down."
Three face down cards appeared in front of Antonio, two of them vertical while the other was horizontal. "Zat end zis turn…now zen…let's see what you've got…'
"You got it!" Rena announced pulling her sixth card from her deck. "Yes! Say hello to my first card! The field spell card, Ancient Forest! Welcome to Lothorein!"
Immediately, the area around the two duelists was replaced with trees that began to grow taller than skyscrapers and sprouted lush leaves that blocked most of the lights above the two duelists. In the trees above the two, were multiple spiral stairs that led up to wood huts occupying the branches.
Antonio didn't even flinch at the sight of the trees surrounding him and Rena. "Ah…a fan of ze Lord of ze Rings, are you?"
"Blame my brother…" Rena giggled looking at her next card in her hand. "Anyway, this field spell card gives all elf monsters an additional three hundred attack point bonus. Plus they can't be destroyed by spell cards."
"Ah…I shall make a note of zat," Antonio said crossing his arms in front of his chest. "Now zen, please continue wiz your turn."
Rena nodded back to Antonio and lifted another card from her hand. "Right! I summon Archer Elf (1300/450 +300/0) in attack mode!"
From one of the huts in the trees, leapt a new elf, this one wearing a brown wooden vest over a moss green tunic over his muscular body. A light brown quiver was wrapped around his back and a wooden bow is in a hand (1300/450 +300/0). As the elf landed on the ground, he pulled an arrow from his bow and prepared to fire it on command. "Next I'll lay down a face down…"
"Most interesting…A fantasy deck," Antonio commented rubbing his forehead slightly. "Moi zinks zat will not do against my cards zough…"
"We'll see about that," Rena replied raising her hand towards her lone elf. "Archer Elf! Take down that defense!"
With a swift pull on the arrow, the Archer Elf fired a lone arrow towards the face down card. When the card was pierced through the back, a large amount of armored goblins appeared yelling in pain (2300/0) before shattering into pixels.
Rena just stood there confused at the sight of the monsters' death. "Goblin Attack Force? Why did you have it in defense mode?"
"Simple…so moi could activate zis trap card!" Antonio announced through his hand over his face down card.
The card flipped up to reveal several people dressed in midlevel clothing preparing a plan. "It is called, Cause for Revolution! It activates when a monster wiz over two zousend attack points is destroyed on moi's side of ze field! It zen allows both of us to take two monsters from our beautiful decks…but only if zey are level zree and have less zan ze attack points of ze destroyed monster."
"…I barely understood that…" Rena sighed pulling her deck from her duel disk and fanned it out. She immediately selected two of the cards and added them into her hand.
Antonio did the same, but had a devilish grin on his face appear when he looked at his cards. "Now zen…do you have anymore cards you wish to use?"
"Nah, I'm good," Rena responded with a smile. "Okay, I know he's got a few monsters in his hand…but they shouldn't be too much to deal with…right?"
"Wrong madam," Antonio interjected wagging his finger towards Rena. "For you see…zanks to zee, moi was able to acquire zee necessary cards to accomplish zis feat!"
"Whatever you just said forget it!" Rena shouted while watching Antonio draw his next card.
"Oh zat's so cute!" Antonio laughed into the air with his free hand next to his mouth. "You make sound as zough you have a choice in ze matter!"
'Well, it's too bad you can only summon one monster per turn…" Rena started to say…
But was then interrupted when Antonio lifted up a card from his hand. "Zat is why I have zis in moi's deck. Ze spell card, Viva Revolution!"
The spell card materialized in front of the French Duelist, showing multiple commoners charging towards multiple knights. "Zis spell card allows me to summon two monsters from moi's hand…just as long as zere combined attack points are lower zen the weakest monster you have out…so zat's no problem!"
With a quick flick of his hands, Antonio immediately slapped two of the cards he had in his hands onto his duel disk. Immediately following, two flashes of light erupted from the ground before forming into a very large amount of figures. There had to be at least twenty people standing in front of Antonio. Half of them looked to be simple commoner people with terrified looks on their faces (600/600), while the other half were farm people who looked to be in worse shape with the looks of anguish on their faces(400/2000).
"Meet Oppressed People and People Running About!" Antonio laughed loudly even scaring his own monsters.
"Okay…I don't get why you summoned them…" Rena stated with a large question mark appearing over her head.
"It will in a mere moment my dear…" Antonio replied lifting up his next card. "For now moi shall summon ze monster that will tip ze duel in moi's favor! United Resistance rise up!"
From behind the multiple holographic trees ran out many militia soldiers each wielding a sword and a makeshift shield (1000/400) in their arms. When the soldiers walked up next to the Oppressed People and People Running About, they seemed to make them brighten their faces up into smiles.
"I don't get it…what's with these monsters?" Rena asked scratching the top of her head.
"Simple, you see madam, zese many monsters are under ze rule of a tyrant," Antonio explained raising his hand to the trees around him. "Ze monsters were zrown from zere homes unless zey were to fight in a pointless war. When zat happens, ze people harbor hatred for zeir leaders…You Americans need to consider all of ze zings zat your government does…"
"That was random…" Rena stated with a large sweat droplet appearing on the back of her head.
"It all as a reason, moi assures you…" Antonio replied lifting his hand over his other face down card. "So let moi ask you a question madam. What happens when people are faced with an over tyrannical leader?"
"Well that's easy…Revolution…" Rena answered when Antonio's face down card began to flip face up.
"Correct! Or in zis case, Huge Revolution!" Antonio announced as a powerful electrical surge pulsated through out the entire forest. "And now! Watch as my French Revolution deck's true power!"
The electricity surged through out the entire forest, shocking every card on Rena's side of the field, as well as the Archer Elf. That wasn't all, electricity surged from Rena's duel disk making her yelp out in pain and drop her hand of cards. "AH!"
Then with a great flash, the entire forest shattered around the two duelists, leaving Antonio with his sizable hand and three monsters…
…And Rena with absolutely nothing. "Wh-what the heck was that?"
"Huge Revolution's effect," Antonio replied sliding the card into his graveyard. "When I have ze Oppressed People, People Running About, and United Resistance on moi's side of ze field, and moi activates zis card, every card in your hand and field is sent to ze graveyard."
"That card's got to be illegal!" Rena protested before she noticed that all three groups of Antonio's monsters surrounded her, all of them with enraged looks on their faces.
"Typical American attitude, when something tips ze scale from your power," Antonio sighed raising his light blue rose towards Rena. "You try to find a loophole to get ze advantage back. Moi's trap card is perfectly legal, and ze ozer two in moi's deck are legal as well…"
"But zat's for later! Now zen…attack the madam directly my monsters!"
All of Antonio's monsters charged towards a panicking Rena. In a few moments Rena and a large dust cloud covered up all of the action. But with all of the sound effects, it was definite that the monsters were ganging up on Rena.
When the dust cleared with the many monsters running from the sight, Rena was a little bruised up, but still standing. (RLP: 6000)
"Dang that hurts…" Rena sighed lowering her head. "But I'm still in this!"
"Moi sees zat…" Antonio replied fitting another card into his duel disk. "And hopefully, you see zis face down card. Moi's beautiful turn is over."
'Come on monster…' Rena slowly drew her next card, but then lowered her head at the sight of the card. "…End turn…"
"Nozing, eh?" Antonio asked elegantly drawing his next card. "Too bad…but zen again…you've got a bigger problem in front of you. Now my monsters! Attack her directly!"
Once again the three groups of monsters charged on Rena, smacking her around for a few good minutes before heading back to Antonio. (RLP: 4000)
"Already down to half of your lovely life points…" Antonio sighed looking at his face down card. "And not a scratch on moi's…such a disgrace wouldn't you agree madam?"
"What exactly does that mean?" Rena asked glaring daggers at the French duelist.
"Nothing personal, but you really aren't ze American duelists I've been looking for," Antonio sighed once more this time rubbing his forehead from stress. "Moi came here to see what duelists here were like; moi is guessing zat you duelists aren't like ze Japanese duelists moi sees."
"…That's what you think?" Rena asked slowly drawing her next card. "Well, it'll be a pleasure to prove you wrong!"
'It seems that I actually whipped her into frenzy…' Antonio couldn't help but smile at this fact.
'Finally!'
"I'll summon a monster face down," Rena announced as the face down monster appeared before her. "And that's it!"
"Really? Zat's it?" Antonio asked with his eyes widened at that.
Rena slowly nodded her head in response.
"Moi has seen some moves before, but zat one has to take ze cake for cheapest move…" Antonio commented drawing his next card. At the sight of it, a small chuckle came from his mouth. "Moi will guess zat it's time for zis duel to be done. First, moi activates the spell card, Shield Crush! And just like ze name says, it crushes any monsters zat dares to hide in defense mode! So unless zat card is Winged Kuriboh, zen zis duel is over wiz!"
A powerful yellow light appeared over Antonio's head, that suddenly surged over the field and crashed directly into Rena's face down card shattering it into pixels. The card revealed to be a small cute emerald green half beast with cute large black eyes and pointy ears that looked like his sharp pointed back hair. On his forehead was a large red beautiful jewel. The monster's hands and feet were covered by white cartoon gloves and boots. (200/300) The monster squeaked in pain before shattering into a large sum of light.
"Moi may not know what zat was, but zat doesn't matter," Antonio replied lifting another card from his hand. "And zis card shall be it. Moi summons Revolutionary Leader (1500/0)!"
A bright light appeared behind the multiple oppressed people; they all turned around and then moved to the sides. From what Rena could see, they were all giving respect to the newest monster that had just appeared behind them.
The young man slowly walked past the cheering people, his long brown hair flowing behind his royal blue head band and black vest. At his baggy brown pants was a fancy silver sword that hung without a sheathe. The warrior smiled brightly at the sight of Rena and his eyes were replaced by hearts. Antonio slapped his forehead at the sight of his monster. "Damn it! Get your head out of ze clouds and focus!"
"Huh?" Rena questioned raising an eyebrow.
"Now zen, I'll equip my Revolutionary Leader wiz Sword of ze Soul Eater!" Antonio announced fitting his next card into his duel disk. At that moment, a powerful sharp black sword appeared in the Revolutionary Leader's hands. The monster seemed to hate the sight of the sword in his hands. "Now zen, all moi has to do is send normal monsters from my side of field to ze graveyard, zen moi's leader gains one zousend attack points per monster!"
The Revolutionary leader's eyes widened as he turned his head to see his followers moaning in pain as a dark aura appeared over their bodies. The same aura surged over the sword in the Revolutionary Leader's hands (1500/0 + 3000/0). All of a sudden, the leader's followers suddenly turned to stone, and then turned to dust.
The Revolutionary Leader turned his head back to see Antonio laughing loudly. "And now, wiz nozing to hold him back, he will be able to strike you down madam. Attack her directly!"
In response, the Revolutionary Leader turned back to Antonio and glared at his master. After a small glaring contest, the Revolutionary Leader slowly walked towards Rena raising the sword in the air.
Rena raised her duel disk in response and prepared herself. 'Bring it on!'
'Please…forgive me…'
'Huh?' Rena's eyes widened as she looked around to try to find where that voice came from. That's when her eyes fell on the Revolutionary Leader coming closer and closer with his dark sword gleaming in the light.
"Hurry zis up!" Antonio ordered making the Revolutionary Leader run towards Rena with tears in his eyes.
Just as the Revolutionary Leader was about to slash Rena across the chest, a faint green small figure appeared before Rena blocking the sword. Antonio and Revolutionary Leader's eyes widened at this. "What is happening?!?"
"Remember that monster you destroyed with Shield Crush?" Rena replied reaching into her graveyard, she then lifted up a monster card and smiled. "It's called Reflect Carbuncle! And all I have to do is remove it from the graveyard and…well see for yourself!"
The small figure transformed into a large green barrier that shattered into glass, turning into a large blast of powerful light that pierced right through the Revolutionary Leader.
The monster however seemed to smile at his destruction and gave Rena a weakened thumbs up.
Antonio on the other hand…
"So…zat monster has a Mirror Force ability…" Antonio growled to himself looking at his cards. "…Since zat excuse of a monster saved you…Moi won't be able to summon anozer monster…"
"Then I guess you won't mind if I draw!" Rena announced pulling her next card from her deck. "I play Pot of Greed!"
"Fine! Zen take your two cards," Antonio shrugged off crossing his arms.
At the sight of her new cards, Rena smiled. "Okay, first I'll summon Obnoxious Celtic Guard (1400/1200)!"
With a bright light the elf swordsman appeared on the field raising his sword at Antonio, his eyes narrowed down at the French Duelist. "And now…I'll play the spell card Monster Reborn!"
A holy light began to appear in front of Rena, and suddenly the Revolutionary Leader (1500/0) walked from the light with a great big smile plastered on his face. "And guess who likes to say hello!"
"Go ahead, take zat weakling!" Antonio laughed pointing his hand at the Revolutionary Leader.
"We'll see about that!" Rena replied lifting the last card in her hand. "Let's see if the Revolutionary Leader is a chosen warrior…I equip him with Excalibur!"
Antonio's eyes widened as a beautiful shinning sword appeared in the Revolutionary Leader's hands (1500/0 + 1500/0). 'H…how dare she! How dare zat woman play zat card!'
"Now then, double direct attack!" Rena announced as both of her monsters leapt towards Antonio, both of them raising their swords ready to slice the opponent in two.
Antonio didn't even have a second to react when both of the warriors slashed across his chest and forced him flying to the ground. (ALP: 3600)
The French duelist slowly stood up and glared daggers at Rena. "It'll take a lot more zan zat to beat me to ze ground!"
Antonio drew his next card and looked at the card. "...Moi…Moi…ends moi turn…"
Rena just smiled, she wasn't allowed to draw due to Excalibur's effect. "Let's do this again boys! Double direct attack!"
Once more, the two warriors charged Antonio and immediately slashed their swords across his chest sending him flying over the side of the duel arena. 'How? How is zis possible?!?! Madam, you haven't seen ze last of moi!'
Rena held her breath when her two warriors ran back to her side of the field. When the holograms didn't disappear, she knew something was up.
"Ho ho ho! It'll take more zen zat to take moi down!" Antonio laughed standing back on his feet. He held up his duel disk to show he still had life points. (ALP: 3200)
"What the? How could you have that many life points?" Rena asked with a puzzled look on her face.
Antonio gestured towards his now flipped up trap card. It was a familiar trap called Nutrient Z. "Moi is sure ze madam knows what zis cad does…"
"Well that definitely explains your life points…" Rena sighed looking at her empty hands. 'Maybe playing Excalibur wasn't the best idea…'
"Now zen! Let's get zis duel back to moi's favor!" Antonio laughed pulling his next card. At the sight of it, a small laugh emerged from his lips. "And zese are ze cards zat shall bring out moi's strongest monster! But first, moi activates ze spell card, Card of Sanctity! So we both draw till we boz have six cards!"
As Rena drew her cards, the Excalibur sword shattered in the Revolutionary Leader's (1500/0) hands. "Now zen, moi plays ze spell card, All Ze King's Men!"
Antonio's new spell card flashed onto the field, revealing many people standing before an empty royal throne. "Now all moi has to do is give up half of moi's life points…" (ALP: 1600)
As Antonio's life point counter began to drop, three spirits flew from his graveyard and began to float in front of him. "…Zen, moi can remove monsters from moi's graveyard and use zem as if zey were tributes! So moi will remove Oppressed People, People Running About, and United Resistance! To summon ze king of Knights himself!"
The three spirits flew into the air before colliding with each other into a large blinding light. Rena held her arm up to block the light from her eyes.
When she lowered her arm, her jaw fell as well to the ground. The monster that stood behind Antonio was the cause, mainly because it was a warrior that stood a good twenty feet tall. Its beautiful gold armor had multiple dragon emblems on it, with a flowing red cape attached at the shoulder armor. In the large knight's hands, was a finely crafted jewel encrusted sword that gleamed in the light (2950/2600). When the warrior raised his sword into the air, a powerful wing gust swept through the playing field while Antonio laughed. "Meet ze true king! Knight of ze Round – King Arzur!"
"…I'll go out on a limb here and guess King Arthur…" Rena gaped looking at the large golden knight behind Antonio.
"Zat is what moi said!" Antonio shouted raising his fist. "Now zen…moi's warrior can attack every monster ze madam has on her side of ze field!"
"What?!?" Rena questioned as the large knight raised it's sword into the air.
"Attack with Sword of ze Round!" Antonio commanded King Arthur, to have the monster raise its sword up into the air and bring it down between both of Rena's monsters. "Just be glad zat wiz my All Ze King's Men ozer effect, moi's monster cannot destroy yours zrough battle…"
The force of the sword sent the Obnoxious Celtic Guard and the Revolutionary Leader flying to the side wounded, but not dead. However, Rena's life points weren't as lucky when the force struck her a few feet back. (RLP: 1000)
"And wiz zis face down card, zat wraps up moi's turn," Antonio laughed to himself crossing his arms. "So let's see if you have anyzing left in zat deck of yours…"
"Oh you'll see alright!" Rena announced drawing her next card and looking at the cards in her hand. 'Okay…That Reflect Carbuncle was a good card in that pack…but it wasn't the only thing I managed to get out of it…time to see if this will work!'
"First off, I'll summon Thoroughbred Elf (1800/1500) in attack mode!" Rena announced with her fighter elf jumping over her next to the other monsters she had out. "And next I'll activate Quick Summon!"
"Quick Summon?" Antonio questioned before both of Rena's elves disappeared into light.
"That's right! Quick summon allows me to normal summon another monster this turn, and this one requires tributes!" Rena explained placing the two monster cards into her graveyard. "So let's give a round of applause for Mana Dragon!"
A small bright purple light appeared before Rena, quickly forming into a small cute aqua purple dragon with cute yellow eyes and wings that were larger than its body. On its chest was a large blue sparkling jewel (0/0). The dragon squeaked in joy at being on the field.
"…What ze heck is zat?" Antonio questioned with a sweatdrop appearing the back of his head.
"My Mana Dragon…" Rena replied.
"B-b-but it's so weak!" Antonio pointed out when suddenly a powerful blue aura surrounded the dragon.
"True…but his effect makes his attack and defense the combine attack of both monsters that I sacrificed!" Rena explained as her dragon began to perform multiple muscle man poses as its muscles began to pulsate (3200/3200).
"But, zat means…" Antonio gasped at the sight of the powerful dragon.
"Yep! My dragon's stronger than your monster!" Rena shouted when her dragon flew up into the air. The dragon lowered his head towards the knight with a powerful charged sapphire fire.
"No!" Antonio shouted into the air.
The dragon fired a powerful blast that immediately engulfed the legendary knight making him roar into pain. The warrior shattered into shards that flew past Antonio's head, scratching his face a little. "M-m-m-Moi's face! She is ruined!" (ALP: 1250)
That's when he noticed the angered Revolutionary Leader standing in front of him. "What ze? Get back you traitor!"
"You're the one calling him that after you betrayed his people," Rena replied crossing her arms. "Attack him directly!"
The Revolutionary Leaders slammed his fist directly into Antonio's face sending the French duelist flying with part of his hair flying off. Rena's eyes widened at the sight of the hairpiece falling to the ground. "He was wearing a wig!?!?"
"It's not a wig!" Antonio shouted crawling towards his wig, the top of his head was bald…which really explained the wig. "It's a hair enhancement device!" (ALP: 0)
"Whatever you say…" Rena whistled as the holograms disappeared.
Antonio glared at the fading Revolutionary Leader. "Zat traitor…keep zat damned card! Moi hate zat card! You haven't seen ze last of moi!"
Rena just sweatdropped as she watched Antonio running off with tears streaming from his eyes and adjusting his 'hair enhancement device.' "…Well that was a weird duel…"
Shaking her head, Rena looked at her cards. "Well…at least I've got some new cards and hopefully a good score on my field exam…if only my written exam was better…"
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Duelist Stats
Name: Antonio Rosencrantz
Deck Type: French Revolution/Knight's Nightmare
Being the French Junior Champ, he's bound to know some powerful combos and moves. Being born in France and being the junior champ, that's all the academy knows about him.
He says that he fights for his people, but he actually has a deep disrespect for his cards as many people have seen it. However, it maybe because he has a better deck and doesn't feel that anyone he faces deserves its true power…
…Maybe he finally found someone to use that deck on…
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Card Stats
Shield Crush / Spell / Effect: Destroy one defense position monster on the field.
Image: A powerful yellow blast surging through a Millennium shield.
This card was first used by Syrus/Sho in Yugioh GX.
Cause For Revolution / Trap / Effect: This card can only be activated when a monster on your side of the field with two thousand or more attack points is destroyed. All players may take two level three or lower monsters who attack points are less than the destroyed monster.
Image: several people dressed in midlevel clothing preparing a plan
Revolutionary Leader / Earth / LV. 3 / ATK: 1500 / DEF: 0 / Warrior: This brave soldier respects his followers and wishes for a time to lead them from a tyrant's hold.
Description: A young man his long brown hair flowing behind his royal blue head band and black vest. At his baggy brown pants was a fancy silver sword that hung without a sheathe.
All the King's Men / Spell / Effect: Pay half of your life points. During this turn, if you summon a tribute you may remove the correct amount of monsters from your graveyard. The monster summoned by this card's effect cannot destroy your opponent's monsters as a result of battle or attack your opponent directly as long as it's on the field.
Image: many people standing before an empty royal throne
Knight of the Round – King Arthur / Light / LV. 12 / ATK: 2950 / DEF: 2600 / Warrior/Effect: This card may attack all of your opponent's face up monsters at once. For each monster in your graveyard with 'Knight' in their name, increase the attack of this card by 100 points per card.
Description: An extremely tall king in beautiful gold armor had multiple dragon emblems on it, with a flowing red cape attached at the shoulder armor. In the large knight's hands, was a finely crafted jewel encrusted sword that gleamed in the light
Archer Elf / Wind / LV. 3 / ATK: 1300 / DEF: 450 / Warrior/Effect: Once per turn, you may lower the attack and defense of one monster on the field by 400 points.
Description: A semi-muscular blonde elf wearing a brown vest with a forest green tunic. A light brown quiver is wrapped around his back and a wooden bow is in a hand.
Ancient Forest / Field Spell / Effect: Increase the attack of all monsters on your side of the field with 'Elf', 'Half-Elf', 'Elven' or 'Celtic' by 300 points. The monsters with the following card names, cannot be destroyed by spell cards.
Image: A beautiful forest with multiple elves hiding behind the trees.
Reflect Carbuncle / LV. 1 / ATK: 200 / DEF: 300 / Beast/Effect: While this card is in your graveyard, if your opponent declares an attack against you, you may remove this card from your graveyard to negate the attack and destroy all face up attack mode monsters on your opponent's side of the field.
Description: A small cute emerald green half beast with cute large black eyes and pointy ears that look like his sharp pointed back hair. On his forehead is a large red beautiful jewel. His hands and feet are covered by white cartoon gloves and boots.
Mana Dragon / LV. 8 / ATK/ DEF/ Dragon/Effect: The original ATK of this card becomes equal to the combined original ATK of the two monsters you Tributed for the Tribute Summon of this card. By discarding one monster card from your hand when this card attacks, your opponent cannot chain with spell or trap cards.
Description: A small cute aqua purple dragon with cute yellow eyes and wings that are larger than its body. On its chest is a large blue sparkling jewel.
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Rena: Hey guys! I won my match!
Tony: Congrats Rena! But that's old news!
Rena: That's just rude!
Leo: You must forgive us…but the Kaiser match is about to begin. And you won't believe who the Kaiser is facing…
Rena: Is that…
Next time, the best on the island reveals themselves – Chapter 10: Clash of the Titans!
Rena: Ganryu!
