Hello readers and reviewers. Here is the next chapter of survivor. I know I said I was going to wait till a very important character was introduced to introduce the punishments the academy gives out but I thought this chapter was better suited for the punishments. This means you finally get to learn about the punishments. That's all I'm going to say about this chapter. Please enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V in any way. I just own the idea for this story.
Chapter 9:
It had been a couple days since Kite and Shay had been punished. Both still had not regained consciousness but their close group of friends held out hope they would. Hopefully soon. No one knew yet why their two friends had skipped a day of classes and training and gotten punished. As soon as one of them woke up though they would be sure to find out.
"Any news on Shay and Kite?" Sylvio asked during lunch as Yuto shook his head no.
"I hope they wake up soon though," Yuto said as the group minus Yuri sat down at their table.
"Hey where's Yuri?" asked Yuya.
"He's with the Doktor right now," Celina told him.
"He slipped during our training exercise and injured his wrist. He waited until after the exercise was over to see the Doktor so there wouldn't be any trouble with Barrett or the Professor," Yuto informed everyone.
"Gong thinks the Doktor should see Shay and Kite," Gong insisted.
"He has," Dennis informed him. "The Professor called him in yesterday to find out why Shay and Kite haven't woken up yet."
"So what's the reason?" Yuya asked him.
"Weakness, blood loss, being struck over and over during their punishment," Dennis replied.
Yuri entered the room quietly and quickly made his way over to his friends. He made Dennis, Sora and Sylvio all move over a seat so he could be in the middle of the group between Celina and Dennis and in front of Yuto Gong and Yuya. This was the groups signal to the others that one of them had something to say.
"What's up Yuri?" Celina asked him as he gestured everyone to lean in closer.
"On my way here from seeing the Doktor I saw the man who brought us all here," Yuri whispered to everyone.
"Captain Cutter," everyone minus Sora spoke together in the same whispered tone before shuddering.
Captain Cutter was a man with brown hair who dressed up like a pirate. He was mean, Scary and tough and he didn't like the youths of the Akaba military academy. Captain Cutter was also the one who brought most of the students of the academy to the academy. He was as hated as the man who ran the place and its instructors. He was also just as feared as the Professor and the instructors. His brutal torment during the boat ride to the academy was the reason for that.
"If Captain Cutter's here that means someone new is starting," Celina said as the rest of the group nodded.
"Who is this Captain Cutter guy?" asked Sora.
"He's the reason we're all at the academy. He brought us all here," Yuri told him forgetting for a second Sora's parents had brought him here instead of Captain Cutter.
"Not me. I was brought here by my parents," Sora whispered to his friends.
"The point is Cutter's here and he only comes if he's bringing someone to the academy," Yuya said gaining everyone's attention.
As if on que the dining hall doors opened and in walked the Professor himself with Captain Cutter right behind him. In between them was a boy with blue and blond hair and blue eyes and a girl with green hair and orange eyes. Both the boy and girl looked unhappy. The boy looked angry and the girl looked frightened.
"Breakfast is at five-thirty am with lunch at ten fifteen till ten forty-five. Dinner is at Six pm. and everyone is to be in their rooms at eight pm no exceptions."
The Professor explained how things were run at the academy to the two newbies as they got to the middle of the room. He finished that explanation and started on the rules while the two new cadets looked around while still paying attention to what the man was saying. Their gazes soon settled on Yuya and his group.
"The rules are simple. Show up for all your classes and military exercises. Show up on time for everything. No leaving the campus at any time unless it is with an instructor and it's for training purposes. No running or shouting in the building. Talk of anything that is not related to your training or the academy is not allowed here. No locked doors at any time. Respect your instructors and myself at all times. No duels outside dueling class. You may have your decks but duel discs stay in the dueling classroom. Escape is not tolerated nor is breaking any of these rules. Understand?" Leo Akaba demanded.
The boy and girl both nodded and Captain Cutter walked away with the Professor to get his pay check. The two youths made their way over to Yuya and the others who had been the only group paying close attention to their arrival.
"Hey this spot taken?" the boy asked Yuya who replied with a no.
The new boy sat beside Yuya and the girl sat beside Sylvio in front of the boy. For a while no one spoke until Yuto decided to ask the boy his name.
"You got a name?"
"Yeah. It's Yugo and this is my girlfriend Rin," the boy said.
Yuto introduced the whole group to the new cadets even the two members who were not present at the moment and soon it was like they had always been part of the group. Everyone took turns explaining the rules in detail. They even mentioned who and what the juvenile officers were and why they existed to the two new group members. Yugo and Rin were warned about how mean the instructors were and how cruel the academy could be.
"It's better than being on the streets," Yugo commented.
"Yugo and I are orphans. We came from an orphanage a great distance from here," Rin explained.
"If we were still there when we turned eighteen we would have been out on the streets with nowhere to go. At least here we have a chance to make something of ourselves," Yugo stated calmly.
"Don't bet on it," was the response Yuri gave him.
"What's that mean?" Yugo asked.
"You'll find out soon enough," was the response given.
"Hey I didn't get a tour my first day here. Yuri briefly showed me where everything was," Sora announced to try and stop the pending argument about to start.
"You also weren't brought here by Captain Cutter. Your parents brought you here and the Professor was focused on them so I filled in for certain things."
"I still think this place, no matter how bad you say it is, is much better than the streets any day," Yugo informed regaining Yuri's attention.
"I'd take the streets over this place any day," Yuri argued.
"So much for stopping the argument," Sora muttered to himself as Yuya shrugged and gave him an at least you tried look.
"Let me tell you about the streets Yuri," Yugo offered getting riled up during the argument. "There are gangs out there that would kill you if you entered their turf or got on their bad side. At night when it's dark or when it's windy or there's rain and snow there's little chance of finding a warm safe place you don't have to fight for to stay in. You have to scavenge for every scrap of food and sip of water you get and you have to be willing to defend what you do manage to find even to the death."
"Good to know. Now let me return the favour by telling you all about the academy," Yuri proposed.
Yuri got up and approached the end of the table where Yugo sat. They locked eyes for a second before Yuri launched into his explanation.
"Here at the academy it might be warm but it certainly isn't safe. You can't show any amount of weakness here. You have to get up early in the morning even if you stayed up late or couldn't sleep the night before or you miss breakfast. We get small portions of food and an hour of hard training every day except weekends and hours of lessons from mean instructors. If even one small rule is broken we get punished, sometimes harshly."
"Is it really that bad here?" Rin asked softly, Sylvio nodded.
"When you say punished what do you mean? How bad?" Yugo wanted to know.
"It can be anything from an angry lecture to humiliation in front of the entire academy. You could get stuck with kitchen or bathroom duty or more harsh training with Barrett," Yuya answered him.
"That's not all," Yuri told him in a somber tone. "Depending on the rule broken you could be placed in solitary confinement or go without meals. You could also be beaten badly. Sometimes multiple punishments are used at once."
"So this place is kinda like living on the streets except warmer," Yugo joked. "Nice to know."
There You go chapter 9. We got to learn about the punishments in this story. Two new characters were intoduced (Yugo and Rin). And Yugo has an argument with Yuri. Let me know what you think. Don't worry Shay or Kite fans they will be fine (for now). They will be back next chapter. there is one more character to introduce before things get rougher for the gang and the deaths start happening. Leave a small review please. They inspire me and make the chapters come faster.