Oh, boy…this is not good…
Not good at all…
I did not expect this at all, many people are watching and things might get out of hand.
I may not know a lot about the exams here, but I did not know that they paired people who had matching scores on the written exam.
And it brought us to this…
The worse case scenario…we'll all lose our cover.
At best…well, I can't really picture that.
I'm just hoping for a miracle, not that it will actually happen…so basically…
…We're all doomed!
DOOMED!
…Just kidding! HA!
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Chapter 10: A Battle of Friends
Everyone's Kung Fu Fighting
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The Pacific Duelist Academy's main duel arena was filled with members of the facility readying the platforms.
"Come on people! We've only a few hours till daylight!" Satoshi shouted at the workers looking at his clipboard.
"Yeah…we need to hurry," Fortanu yawned while rubbing his eyes. "Though, I don't really see why I had to wake up at three in the morning!"
"Cause Fortanu, you see we needed to get the auditorium readied later this morning," Sparky answered looking a pad of paper in his hand. "Ya know, for the live screening of Mr. Munchausen's first finalist match. And we also had to prepare…"
"It was a hypothetical question!" Fortanu shouted causing Sparky to walk backwards.
"Hey just relax Fortanu," Satoshi sighed loudly. "This is how duel professors act? Man, why did I accept this job?"
"Cause our last Obelisk blue male professor disappeared," Sparky answered.
Satoshi slapped his forehead with a loud sigh. "You really need to learn when people are talking about hypothetical questions."
"Not really my forte," Sparky laughed as Satoshi and Fortanu walked away. "Hey come on guys! We still need to copy the tests!"
"WHAT!" Fortanu yelled as he turned towards Sparky. "We still need the test copies!"
"I didn't get a chance to copy them last night," Sparky laughed loudly only to get death glares from his co-workers. "You're mad aren't you?"
"HELL YEAH WE'RE MAD!" Satoshi and Fortanu roared before Sparky ran off.
"I'm going! I'm going!" Sparky shouted running off.
"How the heck did he become a professor?" Satoshi asked as Fortanu sighed loudly.
"He was the only one available at the time," Fortanu sighed closing his eyes. "Better get back to work."
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"Great…just great," Zeff sighed looking at the clock. "We've got twenty minutes to get to the exam area.
Rox just yelped in agreement to receive a scratch on the back of his ears. "Yeah, you're right…Garu! Get out of the bathroom!"
Zeff slapped his forehead when he didn't receive a reply. "What the heck are you doing?"
"Doing what?" Garu asked making Zeff turn around to see Garu fully dressed and ready for the day.
"How? When? Why? What in the world are you doing out here?" Zeff asked as Garu lifted a steaming cup of Ramen Noodles to his nose.
"Um…enjoying some breakfast ramen noodles?" Garu replied taking some chopsticks and lifted up some noodles. "Nothing like Ramen Noodles to wake you up."
"When did you get out of the bathroom?" Zeff shouted as Garu slurped up his ramen noodles.
"Thirty minutes ago, I decided to get some breakfast," Garu answered finishing his noodles. "And now if you excuse me, I'm going to head to the exam."
Zeff just watched Garu exit the room with his fist clenched. "Garu!"
Garu ran from his room jumping from the second floor, and when he landed, he just continued running towards the school. 'That's what you get for not knocking!'
Continuing to run Garu noticed that a few people were running as well towards the academy. 'Huh…I guess that some people also decided to wait at the last minute too.'
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"Damn it Garu! Come on Rox!" Zeff shouted pulling on his jacket while trying to open the door. "Hurry before we're late…?"
Outside the door stood Vergil and Taylor, Zeff just stopped dead in his tracks at the sight of the two. "Oh…what are you two doing here?"
"Zeff, its time we have a discussion," Taylor answered as Zeff smiled.
"I can see that already, I knew you would want to talk," Zeff replied as Rox jumped into Taylor's arms. 'Why does Rox always seem to be able to get into her arms easily?'
Vergil just shifted his glasses up as he turned towards the duel academy's main building. "It's more than why we were sent here, I also want to discuss that duel I saw last night."
"So…you were there," Zeff snickered as he shifted his eye patch/headband. "Rox did seem to sense more people there."
"You two were at a duel? And neither of you invited me?" Taylor asked as she lowered her head with a sigh. "That's quite rude of you men."
"It's not like that at all!" Zeff announced waving his arms in defense. "You always tell us not to interrupt your beauty sleep! And you usually go to sleep at ten!"
"You know that I enjoy a duel much more than sleep," Taylor scoffed as she scratched the back of Rox's ears.
"Anyway…any reason why you're prolonging me from the exam?" Zeff asked as Vergil sighed loudly.
"You should already know the answer," Vergil answered as Zeff's jaw dropped.
"Are you kidding me? I thought my request to be able to move up in the dorms was accepted?" Zeff questioned as tears began to appear in his eyes. "But what you're saying is that…"
"Yeah…I'm sorry Zeff," Vergil replied with a sour look in his eyes. "I mean, I'd love trading places with you but I follow the orders, don't make them."
"Oh well, at least I'll be able to enjoy the curry at this dorm some more," Zeff sighed in relief.
"Good, now let's hurry, we need to get to the exams to retain our levels here," Vergil stated starting to walk off to the stairs. 'That and for the fact that I'm starting to sense that a storm is about to appear…both here and at a different place.'
Taylor just followed Vergil while still scratching Rox's head. 'Hmm, Vergil seems to be sensing something…it must be big.'
Zeff dragged his feet as he followed his peers. 'I'm doing this for the curry; I'm doing this for the curry!'
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'Man, this reminds of the exams needed to enter this school,' Garu thought as he looked at the classroom he stood in. Every seat was filled with students of different dorms, but of course, the Obelisk Blues sat at the top of the classroom.
Garu quickly took a seat next to the Slifer Reds just as Satoshi, Fortanu and Sparky entered the classroom. Satoshi lifted up plenty of papers with both of his hands. "Well let's get this written exam on the road. Okay then, listen up and listen good students!
"If you think that this exam is going to be like the entrance exam, then think again! It's a lot tougher, a lot stricter, and a lot more creative. On a side note, it took a lot more time to copy these exams…Right Sparky?"
Sparky just smiled sheepishly towards Satoshi. "How many times do I have to say my bad?"
"Anyway…" Satoshi sighed as he looked back towards the students. "Students you all will be given two hours to complete this exam. If you are caught cheating you will automatically receive a zero on this portion of the exam. Doing so will extremely hurt your final grade on the exam.
"So now, Fortanu, Sparky, and I will now pass out the exams, when you receive the exams you may start immediately. No talking is permitted while people are working on the tests."
'Bring it on!' Garu thought as he watched Satoshi handed out the exam papers.
-One Hour Remaining-
'Damn it! Why exactly does it matter what kind of cards a Dinosaur Ryuzaki used?' Garu thought as he bit the end of his pencil. 'Wait…didn't that Taylor girl say something about a Ryuzaki…wait, how could I be so stupid! It's dinosaurs!'
-Thirty Minutes Remaining-
'Okay now…if a train leaves Boston at 3 o'clock traveling 75 miles per hour,' Garu read the question in his head looking at the question. 'And if a train leaves Detroit at 2 o'clock traveling 85 miles per hour, how many attack points does a Kuribabylon have?
'Okay…despite that being a trick question, I have now idea what the heck a Kuribabylon is. So…I'll just put a question mark for an answer.'
-1 Minutes Remaining-
'Damn it all! I've still got half of the exam to finish!' Garu thought as he quickly scribbled through the rest of the exam, rarely looking up at the clock.
'Damn it! Only one minute left!'
'Who in their right mind would know what monster this Kaiba guy used mostly in his duels?'
"The exam is now over!" Satoshi announced as Garu dropped his pencil and widened his eyes.
'Not good…' Garu picked up his pencil and began to write furiously. 'Gotta keep going! Gotta keep going!'
"Uh, Backwatered Duelist…"
Garu looked up to see Professor Satoshi standing over him. "The exam is over backwatered duelist."
"Uh…it's Garu," Garu sighed loudly not noticing that Satoshi swiped Garu's paper. "Hey I'm not finished!"
"Too bad, now then, please report to the main dueling arena and wait for your dueling opponent Backwatered Duelist," Satoshi stated as Garu dropped his head to the desk.
"Damn it…"
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"All right now Behemoth! Let's end this right now!" Zeff roared as his purple lion like monster slammed its head into Zeff's opponent. The fellow Slifer Red fell to the ground dazed. "Oh yeah! Who's the boss man?" (ZLP: 2000)
A few minutes later…
"Hey you two! What ya think of my match?" Zeff asked walking over to Vergil and Taylor (who still had Rox in her arms). "Come on…you know I rock!"
"Zeff, you know you weren't supposed to win by that much," Taylor sighed scratching Rox's back
"Yes, even the two of us managed to do such a task easily," Vergil scoffed as he turned towards the seated students. "Now I see why you were chosen to be in Slifer Red."
"Well excuse me Mister Perfect!" Zeff mocked looking his gaze over towards where Vergil was looking at. "Hey…isn't that?"
"Yes…it's her," Vergil answered.
Taylor raised an eyebrow and looked over to see a Slifer Red girl with long blond hair sitting next to a Ra Yellow guy with red hair being surrounded by three Ra Yellows with the same colored hair. "Okay…who in the world is that?"
"It's that girl I helped out…" Vergil answered as Zeff walked to next Vergil.
"It's Yae; I wondered where she went…" Zeff continued as a loud scream filled the air catching everyone's attention.
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"NO!" The Female Obelisk Blue duelist screamed as the Dark Sanctuary disappeared. She fell to her knees shivering a little bit. "Wh-what was that?" (FDLP: 0)
Vic just turned around from his opponent and walked away. "Your defeat…" (VLP: 3400)
'I don't understand it…I've been defeating multiple opponents, even those who are in Obelisk blue. So why did I lose to that foolish Slifer Red?'
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"Whoa…that guy is scary," Taylor stated as Rox whimpered in her arms.
"Yeah, try seeing his strategy only a few feet away," Zeff commented remembering last night. "After being inside it, I could barely catch a wink last night."
"It wasn't that bad," Vergil sighed as he scanned where the Slifer Reds were. His eyes fell on a particular student with blue hair. "It seems that Garu hasn't gone yet…I wonder who is opponent will be."
"I managed to catch a glimpse of him in the exam room after the exam was called back," Zeff stated as he petted Rox's head. "It looked as though he was trying to keep his hand on it trying to finish it. All I know is that he won't be getting such a powerful opponent."
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"DAMN IT!"
Vic slammed his fist into the hall's wall. Kiro just raised an eyebrow at the sight of his friend acting like that. 'At least he's not banging his head up against the wall.'
"This crap makes no sense!" Vic shouted as he punched the wall for a second time.
He shook his hand and quickly blew on it. 'Damn it…that will require some ice.'
"Maybe it was a fluke?" Kiro replied as he turned to look towards the arenas.
'It wasn't a fluke…it was something else,' Vic just walked over to the hallway opening and watched the multiple duels that were going on. "I'm tired of being second best…second rate…and second to the Kaiser's throne!"
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'Come on…come on! Me next! Me next! ME!' Garu stomped his foot into the ground for the anticipation.
"Will the following duelists please report to duel arena 7.
"Garu Honzou…
"And Yae Nanako…please report to duel arena 7."
"…oh crap," Garu muttered as he stood up lifting his duel disk and deck.
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"Not good! Not good! Not good!" Yae cried as she stood up and started to run off.
"You can't run from this Yae," Takashi stated as he and the T-Team stood up. "We need to get her to the arena!"
Yae was running with the four Ra Yellows following her. 'Why exactly are they chasing me?'
"Hey Yae…Watch out!"
Crashing into someone, Yae fell down to the ground. When she looked up to see who she had bumped into, she was surprised to see Zeff standing over her. "Zeff?"
"So…you're facing off against Garu…" Zeff said with a smile on his face. "Maybe you should get down there."
"But…but I can't," Yae stated as she stood up.
"You know, Garu's been looking for you," Zeff interrupted as Takashi and the T-Team stopped behind Yae. "This is the perfect time for you two talk about…well, I have no clue at what's going on."
"Hey lord Takashi…" Vector started catching Takashi's attention. "What's going on with your friend?"
"Yeah…I mean, what's up with this Garu guy?" Iruka asked while Kara just stood there looking at what was happening.
"I'll tell ya all later," Takashi replied as he started to head back to his seat. "In the meantime, just sit back and wait for this duel to begin."
Yae just looked to the side trying to avoid Zeff's eyes. "You wouldn't understand what's going on."
"You could always try me…or better yet," Zeff said pointing towards the arena. "You could go down there and face Garu with honor!"
Breathing in a deep breath, Yae looked towards Zeff.
He was right…
And so, she started to head down to the duel arena 7 while Zeff just watched her.
'I have a way with words…if dueling doesn't work out, I could become a professional motivational speaker!' Zeff thought as a huge smile appeared on his face.
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Garu waited patiently by tapping his foot on the duel arena's floor. All of a sudden, from the other entrance hall emerged Yae with her duel disk strapped on her left arm.
"About time you got here Yae," Garu said as Yae walked onto the duel arena.
Yae was silent as her duel disk hummed to life. And when she pulled her deck from her pocket and began to shuffle it.
A little peeved at Yae's silence, Garu did the same with his equipment, and then after he snapped his deck into the duel disk he raised a hand towards Yae. "Okay Yae! If you're not going to talk, then I'll make you listen!
"I don't know why you're here, but I'm going to find out! So I say to a wager here!
Yae raised her head and looked directly at Garu's determined eyes. "A wager?"
"Believe it! If I win then you have to tell me what in the world you're doing here!" Garu shouted as both duelists' life point counters began to activate. "But if you win…then I'll drop the subject! Deal?"
Yae thought about this for a few seconds, then responded by drawing the first five cards from her deck. "Alright then! It's a deal!" (YLP: 4000)
"No…it's a duel!" Garu shouted drawing his five cards. (GLP: 4000)
Both duelists waited for the other to draw…
Until Yae snapped off the top card from her deck, then she immediately slapped it onto her duel disk. "Ladies first! And I'll start by summoning up Karate Man (1000/1000) in attack mode!"
From behind Yae flipped a weird tanned man. His black afro was kept out of his hair with a red headband, and his baggy yellow and gray karate clothes matched his skin.
Taking another card from her hand, Yae slid it into her duel disk, a card appeared behind the Karate Man., "And I'll end my turn with that."
"If that's the best you've got to offer, then this duel will a piece of cake!" Garu shouted as he drew his next card. "Perfect! I summon Uzamaki – Tech Ninja (1300/600)!"
From the building's ceiling dropped the familiar, green, mechanical ninja wielding his two kunai. "Next up, I'll place a card face down, and then I'll send Uzamaki on the attack!"
Nodding to his master, Uzamaki ran towards the weird karate master. And just as Uzamaki was about to slash his kunai into the weird warrior…
The Karate Man delivered a powerful heel kick to Uzamaki's jaw sending him flying backwards into pixels.
Garu's eyes just widened as he watched his life point counter flash a couple of times. "W-what the heck just happened?" (GLP: 3300)
Yae smiled as the Karate Man shouted into the air. "You see Garu, my Karate Man has a special ability, once during the battle phase, and he can double his original attack points (2000/1000). Of course, when that's done, he's destroyed at the end of the turn that effect was used."
Lowering his head, Garu sighed. "'Damn it…that was a question on the exam…' Alright Yae, I'm calling it a turn."
At the sounds of those words, the Karate Man jaw dropped and shattered into pixels.
'Odd…if he wants to know why I'm here, then shouldn't he take this more seriously?'
Yae shook the thought away and drew her next card.
Then without a word, she lifted her arm over her face down card. Doing so caused the card to rise up revealing a powerful tornado sweeping in multiple feathers. "I activate my trap card, Dust Tornado! With it I can destroy one spell or trap card on your side of the field!"
Garu's eyes just widened as his face down card shattered into the wind. "Uh oh, that's not good."
"You're right! Especially when I'm summoning Hawk Taijitsu Master (1400/1000)!" Yae announced as a strong wind began to form on her side of the field.
From the wind appeared a young female fighter with long brown hair with multiple feathers in it. Her light green karate suit had her arms exposed, showing off her feathered arms.
As the Hawk Taijitsu Master smiled back at her master, a card shot out of Yae's deck and into her hand. "And when my new monster is summoned I can take a spell card from my deck with 'Taijitsu Art' in its name and add it to my hand! But now, I'll go on the attack with Hawk Taijitsu Master!"
Disappearing a flurry of feathers, Hawk got out of Garu's sight. Garu looked to the left and right, however, Hawk appeared behind him and delivered a powerful punch to the back of his head.
Garu stumbled forward a few feet and Hawk reappeared on Yae's side of the field. "That was a cheap shot." (GLP: 1900)
Yae just smiled and took another card from her hand placing it into the duel disk. "All's fair in love and war. And so is this face down card."
Snapping his next card from the top of the deck, Garu looked at the card…
…and smiled brightly.
"Oh boy, now you're in trouble, I summon Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke (1800/1000)!"
A white mist appeared on the field and the armored ninja appeared in front of Garu glaring at Hawk.
"Not so fast Garu! I have my face down card! Go quick play spell card, Taijitsu Art – Blue Wind!" Yae announced as her Hawk Taijitsu Master began focusing her energy.
The spell card revealed the Fox Taijitsu Master throwing a Monk Fighter to the stone cold ground. Then the Hawk Taijitsu Master ran over to Sasuke, grabbed his arm and slammed him into the ground.
Sasuke turned into an orb of light and flew into the bottom of Garu's deck.
Garu just stood there dumbfounded. "Okay…what the heck just happened?"
Yae's spell card dissipated into mist as her Hawk Taijitsu Master reappeared on her side of the field. "Simply put, my spell card returns one card to the bottom of your deck. And since that was your summon this turn, you don't have much to do left."
"That's when you are wrong, Yae, you see in my hand I have a monster that can be special summoned by simply discarding the top card from my deck," Garu replied as his top card flew off his deck and into his graveyard.
"So give it up for Yui the Ninja Mercenary (1600/1300)!"
Out of nowhere emerged a large cloud of dark purple smoke, from the smoke jumped out the young sea green haired ninja wielding her katana. "And since you've got no face down cards…I'll go on the attack!"
With a great amount of speed, Yui ran towards the Hawk Taijitsu Master and slashed the Taijitsu monster into pixels. Yae just stepped back lifting her arm to block the pixels. (YLP: 3800)
"And I'll wrap up this turn with a card face down card," Garu announced as Yui appeared behind Yui.
"Not that bad," Yae announced as she drew her next card. "But I've still got some tricks up my sleeve."
"What sleeve?" Garu interrupted as Yae lifted her fist.
"Not the point!" Yae shouted as she lifted a card from her hand. "I summon Tiger Taijitsu Master (1600/1200) and she has the same effect as my Hawk Taijitsu Master!"
From the ground emerged the familiar tiger stripped female Taijitsu master, causing a card shot out of Yae's deck and into her hand. "And I'll play it right now! Go Taijitsu Art – Leaf Hurricane!"
The Tiger Taijitsu Master began to spin around at a high speed causing a powerful white and black tornado to force Yui into a defending stance. "It forces all of your monsters to switch battle positions!"
Yae smiled…however, that smile disappeared when Garu's face down card went active, revealing the Armed Ninja performing a hand sign that produced a black over his hands. Yui began to perform the same hand sign and turned into a shadowed version of her self. "What in the world is that?"
"This happens to be one of the more dangerous ninja arts, Ninjitsu Art of Shadow Possession! All I have to do is remove one ninja on my side of the field," Garu answered as the shadow Yui flew into the Tiger Taijitsu Master. "And I gain control of your monster!"
Yae just watched as her Tiger Taijitsu Master tried to force the shadow Yui out of her, but ultimately…
…she failed and walked over to Garu's side of the field.
Yae just gulped as she looked into the different colored eyes of her former monster, and slid another card into her duel disk. "That's all I can do…"
"Then it comes to me!" Garu shouted as he drew. "Oh yeah, I summon Strike Ninja (1700/1200)!"
From the ceiling above appeared the black cloaked ninja landing on the ground softly and glared at the near defenseless Yae. "And now…Strike Ninja and Tiger Taijitsu Master! Attack Yae's life points directly!"
Both monsters jumped towards Yae, when all of a sudden a powerful vortex appeared the two of them blocking their attacks.
Yae sighed in relief as both of the monsters were thrown back. "Nice try Garu, but my face down Negate Attack cancels out your battle phase."
"Good thing I've still got a few cards left in my hand," Garu stated taking another card from his hand a placed it into his duel disk. "And I'll take this face down card as it."
"And then it's my turn!" Yae shouted drawing her next card.
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"Wow…what a duel that is…" Kiro stated before turning towards Vic. "Hey…how come you're not watching?"
"I have an idea on who's going to win," Vic answered as he began to walk away. "Now come on…we've both passed this exam, so we shouldn't have to be here any more."
"You go on ahead…" Kiro replied turning back to the duel. "I'm going to wait for Terri to duel."
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"Man, they're both counter each other's moves," Vector stated as he turned towards Iruka who was just memorized by the duel as well. "Really catches your eye."
"Um…Takashi…what do you think?" Kara asked as Takashi rubbed his chin.
"It's going to be tough," Takashi replied while still looking at the duel. 'For both of them.'
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From the higher stands, Mustang crossed his arms with a smile appearing over his face. "This is quite a duel…"
"It's really all exciting! I can't wait to see how this will turn out!" Ami exclaimed as Mustang started to try to put his arm around Ami's shoulder.
"Don't try that crap around me Mustang!" Cain yelled taking hold of Mustang's arm and bending it the wrong way.
"OW! OW! OW!" Mustang shouted as Ami took Cain's arm and started bending it the wrong way.
"OUCH!" Cain shouted as Ami sighed.
"Brother…please stop doing stuff like that in front of me," Ami sighed. "And shouldn't you be watching Kazica's duel?"
"When you let go of my arm, I'll do so," Cain moaned as Ami released her grip. 'I must have a bad influence on her.'
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"Okay Garu! Its time for me to turn this duel around!" Yae shouted slapping her next card onto her duel disk. "I summon Leo Taijitsu Master (1850/1200)!"
A loud roar filled the air as the duel arena's ground shattered to allow a handsome man with bushy blonde hair wearing a fiery fighter's outfit. A small lion tail wrapped around his waist.
For the third time, a card spat out of Yae's deck and into her hand, this time she immediately slid it into her duel disk. "And with his appearance I get another 'Taijitsu Art' and I'll play it!"
The spell card went active revealing the Tiger Taijitsu Master slamming her fist into a card back. "Taijitsu Art – Force Fist! Now I can destroy spells or trap equal to the amount of monsters on my side of the field with 'Taijitsu' in their names! So Leo! Take out that Shadow Possession card!"
With a powerful leap into the air, the Leo Taijitsu Master landed in front of the trap card and slammed his fist directly into the trap card allowing the Tiger Taijitsu Master to jump back with Leo to Yae's side of the field.
"Uh oh," Garu cursed looking at his face down card. 'I need to wait for this card when the time is right.'
"Now then…Leo Taijitsu Master! Attack Garu's Strike Ninja!" Yae commanded as her lion themed Taijitsu Master charged towards the Strike Ninja.
The Strike Ninja raised his Kunai but was too late; the Leo Taijitsu Master slammed the heel of his foot into the Strike Ninja's jaw. Garu watched as his Strike Ninja shattered into pixels. (GLP: 1750)
"And now, Tiger Taijitsu Master, attack Garu directly!" Yae yelled as the Tiger Taijitsu Master disappeared in a stream of wind.
Looking from left to right, Garu watched out for Yae's attack. Unfortunately, the Tiger Taijitsu Master appeared behind him, and slammed her fist into his back sending him forward. (GLP: 150)
"Nice move Yae," Garu complemented as he stood up and raised his arm over his face down card. "But I've got couple of good moves two! Like this one! Go Way of the Ninja!"
Garu's face down trap showed a Strike Ninja following a young girl in a forest. "This trap card activates when I take a direct attack. I'm then allowed to special summon one 'Ninja' monster from my deck whose attack is lower than the damage I took."
Snapping his deck out of his duel disk, Garu immediately scanned the multiple cards and took one card from his deck. "And good thing I did, cause this guy was at the near bottom of my deck! Say hello to Ryu – Kitsune Ninja (1400/900)!"
In a bright red light, the blue haired ninja appeared in front of Garu raising his kitsune staff towards Yae.
"You'll have to do better than that if you want to win Garu," Yae sighed looking through her hand. "And I think I'll end my turn on that note."
Drawing the next card on his deck, Garu immediately slipped into his duel disk. "I play the spell card, Graceful Charity! So I get three cards, and then discard two of them!"
A light rained down above Garu's deck and he quickly snapped the top three cards from his deck. Then after looking through his hand, Garu quickly placed the cards into his graveyard. "And I'll discard Lady Ninja Yae and Ninja Swordmaster Masamune."
"Okay…and you're telling me this because…?" Yae asked as Garu took another card from his hand and slid it into his duel disk.
"Because I can now activate my Pot of Avarice, his card allows me shuffle back the five cards in my graveyard," Garu answered as the five cards popped out of his graveyard and then he shuffled the cards into his deck. "And then I get two new cards from the top of my shuffled deck."
Then snapping the top two cards from his deck, Garu's eyes brightened at the sight of the cards. "Next, I summon Feral Ninja (1300/0) to the field!"
From the ground emerged the beastly ninja with a loud howl, then a second one emerged from the ground and growled towards Yae. "And since I called one to the field, I can bring out a second one from my deck! And next I'll outfit Ryu with Fuhma Shuriken!"
In an instant, multiple shuriken appeared in Ryu's hands (2100/900) and he smirked towards Yae. Garu took the remaining card in his hand and slid it into his duel disk. "And now…Ryu, take down Leo!"
Jumping into the air, Ryu took aim…
…And threw multiple shuriken that flew directly into the Leo Taijitsu Master.
"No…" Yae moaned as her monster shattered into pixels. (YLP: 3550)
"And next up, I'll have both of my Feral Ninjas go on the attack against your Tiger Taijitsu Master!" Garu announced as both of the Feral Ninjas jumped into the air and dived directly into the Tiger Taijitsu Master shattering her into pixels.
"You'll have to try better than that!" Yae shouted as Garu sighed. (YLP: 2550)
"Then why don't you show me what you can do," Garu challenged as Yae drew her next card.
"If you insist!" Yae growled looking at her card. "I summon Fox Taijitsu Master (1500/1300) in attack mode!"
From the ground shot up the red fox themed Taijitsu Master striking a pose, and a card shot out of Yae's deck and into her hand. "And like the others, he provides a skill automatically! And I'll play it right now! Go! Taijitsu Art – Broken Restraint!"
Yae's spell card appeared before her showing the Fox Taijitsu Master dropping multiple weights into the ground. "This card allows all 'Taijitsu' monsters to attack your life points directly, provided they have their attack points cut in half."
"Then that means…" Garu started as the Fox Taijitsu Master started to emit a powerful red aura.
"Right…my Fox Taijitsu Master (750/1300) can attack you directly!" Yae announced as the Fox Taijitsu Master jumped towards Garu. "And this is for the win!"
The Fox Taijitsu Master ran past all three of Garu's ninjas and began to wind up for a punch directly for Garu.
"I win!" Yae announced before suddenly multiple dogs jumped from the ground and clamped onto the Fox Taijitsu Master (900/1300). "What the?"
"You don't win! My Ninjitsu Art – Fanged Vengeance makes your monster unable to attack, and lowers its attack points by 600," Garu sighed in relief as Yae looked at her hand hoping for a solution.
There wasn't.
"I've got no choice…I end my turn," Yae sighed as Garu drew his next card.
"And now, for the big finish!" Garu shouted drawing his next card. "I'll start by having the Feral Ninjas wipe out her Fox Taijitsu Master!"
Just as with the Tiger Taijitsu Master, the two Feral Ninjas charged the pinned down Fox Taijitsu Master. Then in an instant, the Taijitsu Master shattered into pixels. (YLP: 850)
"And I hate to do this to do this to you Yae…but Ryu…finish this," Garu said as Ryu ran towards Yae.
Yae just raised her arms to block the oncoming Kitsune Staff.
However, when Yae felt nothing, she looked up only to receive a light bonk on her head from Ryu's Kitsune staff. "What the?" (YLP: 0)
"And…that's game!" Garu announced as his three ninjas disappeared into smoke. "Nice try Yae!"
'That was unexpected…' Yae thought as she walked off with Garu following her. "Yeah?"
"I hope you didn't forget our deal?" Garu snickered as Yae sweat dropped.
"I thought you didn't have such a good memory?" Yae sighed loudly as the two walked into the hall that was connected to the arena.
"You'd think that wouldn't you?" Garu asked with a laugh following it.
'How'd you get into this academy?' Yae sighed loudly as Garu walked beside her.
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Hawk Taijitsu Master / Wind / LV. 3 / ATK: 1400 / DEF: 1000 / Winged-Beast/Effect: When this card is normal, flip, or special summoned successfully, you may take one spell card with 'Taijitsu Art' in the card's name and add it to your hand.
Description: A young woman with long tied up brown hair, multiple feathers in her hair. Her light green fighter's clothes have multiple feathers in them as well. Her exposed arms have feathers attached to them.
Leo Taijitsu Master / Fire / LV. 4 / ATK: 1850 / DEF: 1200 / Beast-Warrior/Effect: When this card is normal, flip, or special summoned successfully, you may take one spell card with 'Taijitsu Art' in the card's name and add it to your hand.
Description: A handsome man with bushy blonde hair wearing a fiery fighter's outfit. He has a small lion tail wrapped around his waist.
Taijitsu Art – Blue Wind / Spell Instant / Effect: This card can only be activated when you have a monster with 'Taijitsu', 'Monk', or 'Karate' in its name on your side of the field. Select one card on the field, and return that card back to that owner's deck. The deck is then shuffled.
Image: The Fox Taijitsu Master throwing a Monk Fighter to the stone cold ground.
Taijitsu Art – Leaf Hurricane / Spell Instant /Effect: This card can only be activated when you have a monster with 'Taijitsu', 'Monk', or 'Karate' in its name on your side of the field. Switch the battle mode of all of your opponent's monsters (any face down defense monsters are flipped face up, negate any flip effects).
Image: The Tiger Taijitsu Master stopping a punch from the Hitotsu-Me Giant just by simply pushing his fist to the side.
Taijitsu Art – Broken Restraint / Spell Continuous / Effect: As long as this card remains face up, all face up monsters with 'Taijitsu' or 'Monk' in their cards' name may attack your opponent directly. If you decide to attack directly, cut the attack of the attacking monsters by half.
Image: The Fox Taijitsu Master dropping several weights to the ground.
Taijitsu Art – Force Fist / Instant Spell / Effect: This card can only be activated when you have a monster with 'Taijitsu', 'Monk', or 'Karate' in its name on your side of the field. Destroy spell or trap cards equal to the number of face up cards on your side of the field that include 'Taijitsu', 'Monk', or 'Karate' in their card names.
Image: the Tiger Taijitsu Master slamming her fist into a card back.
Ninjitsu Art of Shadow Possession / Trap Continuous / Effect: Activate this card by removing 1 face-up monster on your side of the field that includes "Ninja" in its name as a Tribute. Then select one monster on your opponent's side of the field. As long as this card remains face up on the field, you control the selected monster.
Image: A shadow from the Strike Ninja slamming into the back of a well suited man.
Way of the Ninja / Trap / Effect: This card can only be activated when you receive a direct attack. Special summon one monster with 'Ninja' in the card's name whose original attack is lower than the damage you received from the original attack.
Image: A Strike Ninja following a young girl in a forest.