A/N: Hey everybody! Just a little note. This is AU. Very, very, AU. Even though it's GX, there are going to be Xyz, Links, you name it. I just can't write a duel without my favorite monsters XD. It's a story with a new world, a new academy, new monsters, and new characters. Of course, I'll do my absolute best to keep the GX character's decks similar to what they had in the show though. Deep down, I've always wanted to see Jaden use the Xtra Heroes. They are just too cool! This is my first ever fanfic. I hope you enjoy it!
Dear, Mom
Well, I did it. I was able to get my diploma and I'll be on my way to Duel Academy where I'll learn to be a pro duelist like Sara. I called her to tell her the news, but naturally, she's not responding. Too busy with the league I suppose.
I don't mind, I'm too happy to care if she answers or not. Obelisk Blue just like I promised. I wish dad were here to see this day, but I know deep down he's smiling at me from Heaven and cheering me on with that ridiculous song of his. Remember that bracelet he gave me for my birthday with my Sacred Phoenix cards? Don't worry, I didn't lose it. I carry it with me always. He said it would bring me good luck and so far it hasn't let me down. Earlier today, I decided to head to the Kaiba Dome to see the entrance exams. They say that lots of surprises happen there. Well, mom, surprised I was.
A boy came in really late. And I mean late. They were just about to close the exams. So as punishment for his tardiness he was challenged by that teacher Sara warned me about. The one who kept sucking up to her while she was studying at the academy. Dr. Crowler. Sara wasn't kidding when she said he was very scary-looking. She also says he's a gentleman when you get to know him, but I guess only time will tell. For now, he doesn't seem that way to me. From where I was, I could see the hatred in his eyes. He was so determined to take the boy out and keep him from coming to school.
He wanted to show all the new students what real dueling was all about by sticking it to the boy. Jaden was his name. In no time at all, Crowler summoned that legendary monster of his. Ancient Gear Golem. Mama! They weren't kidding about that new Solid Vision Technology the school has. My God, the creature was so real! You can see bits of metal fall from its arms, the machinations inside of him whirred, and he let out this horrible sound l can only describe as worse than what the Tripods in War of the Worlds sounded like!
You and those programmers do a scary job designing these things. That's just a little too real for me. It makes me nervous because I'm sure I might face so much worse once I'm at school.
Anyway, the duel didn't go in Crowler's favor. Jaden beat him with this super cool monster. First, he activated a field spell or something that transformed the arena into a city at night. Then he fusion summoned an Elemental HERO called Flame Wingman. The field gave the HERO an ATK point boost that gave him enough power to beat that horrible Ancient Gear Golem. I can see why Sammy likes them so much. I took lots of pictures for him. I'll be sure to send them to him before I go to bed. I have a big day tomorrow mom. I'll write to you every day and I can't wait to see you over Christmas Break. I'm sure I'll have lots of stories to tell. Tell Sammy I miss him a lot. Wish me luck
Love
Alice
Alice Fenix was awakened by a sudden jolt of turbulence. "Ouch!" She bumped her head against the window. Outside, the glass was splashed with raindrops and she saw nothing but storm clouds enveloping the Kaiba Corp luxury Osprey like a veil of smoke, curtaining the world in pastels of gray, white, and black. Flashes of lightning illuminated the clouds and were followed by a light clap of lightning, drowned out by the thick walls of the vehicle. Despite how safe she was in the helicopter, a lightning storm was the last thing she needed right now.
"Not up here," she thought.
She pulled the blue curtain shut to avoid looking at the dreary sight and sunk into her seat. She checked her watch. It was twenty past one, meaning she had been asleep for four hours. She figured they were somewhere over the ocean by now and Duel Academy was close. Thunder rumbled outside again making her uneasy.
"Oh, why couldn't I have been asleep a little while longer?"
Another flash of lightning. This one was close. Alice gasped and slapped both hands over her ears, bracing for impact. BOOM! Thunder exploded close by, causing a few of the younger students to scream and a few others to whoop with delight. A little boy in the back was sobbing, crying for his mommy. Alice knew who he was. He was Evan (from Duel Links).
How he made it into Duel Academy was nothing short of a miracle. He dueled so poorly in his exam duel, summoning nothing but weak vanilla monsters from packs such as Metal Raiders and Spell Ruler. Had it not been for the Mirror Force card he played, he wouldn't have been able to save his monsters, which he later used as tributes to summon a powerful fairy named Wingweaver. Without her, he wouldn't have won.
Perhaps he had some skill, Alice thought after the duel. Only she later learned that the Mirror Force card was the only rare card he had in his deck and that it was given to him by his sister, who was rumored to be an Obelisk Blue student. No doubt the poor guy had some big shoes to fill if those rumors were true. Alice looked back at him from behind her seat. He was quivering as though he were out in the cold. And she spotted a very pitiful sight. The deck case he had strapped to his belt had a plastic gold plaque in the front of the deck. And it read...
Happy Birthday, Snookums!
Love Grandma!
Ouch. That had to be embarrassing. Well, if a newbie could beat a Duel Academy professor and his 3000 ATK monster, she supposed anything could happen in the exam duels.
The other students didn't seem to mind the storm at all. They were walking about despite the Osprey was shaking like crazy. Even though the rotors were loud, the sound of laughter and excited chatter could still be heard. Someone was playing pop music in the front seat. There was a group huddling around a young man's laptop watching the duel with Yugi Muto against a duelist named Diva during the unveiling of the new Generation 3 Duel Disks and the brand new Solid Vision Technology, which was going to enrichen the experience of the game.
"Did any of you guys hear about that kid who beat Crowler?"
"Yeah, I was there! His Elemental HERO was so beast!"
"Ha! He better watch out! I'm going to take him down no sweat!"
The Osprey cleared out of the clouds half an hour later and soared over an island with a multitude of biomes. The aircraft soared over wetlands, fields of red flowers, fjords with dozens of windmills, dense jungles leading to lively estuaries, and snow-capped mountains. The Osprey lowered until it flew directly over the jungle. Alice pressed her face against the glass when she saw flamingos flying right beside her over a river down below. This was like no other place on earth, that's for sure. It was like a paradise.
Finally, the Osprey reached the northern tip of the island where the academy and the buildings to house the students were located. This was it. Alice was finally in her home away from home. Duel Academy. When she saw the dozens of towers made of glass and steel, she began to grow puny and overwhelmed. Those were some mighty big facilities. School? This place looked like a city. She raised the carrying handle from her hard suitcase and pulled it toward a guard dressed in enough tactical gear to make him look like a soldier from Delta Force. His rifle was all dressed up with a variety of attachments as if he was about to go raid a warehouse full of bad guys.
Alice was intimidated by his presence, but she needed to know where to go. She stepped up to him and cleared her throat.
"Excuse me. Uh, do you know the way to the Obelisk Blue Girls..."
The guard pointed toward the mountains. "Into the forest, cross the lake, and make a left. Just follow the signs." His radio buzzed with com chatter.
"Uh...thank you." Alice was quite stunned by how rude he was. She power walked to get as far away from the soldier as she could. As she went towards the path into the jungle, she noticed more soldiers walking by, weapons drawn as if they were guarding a military base. Alice looked away from them and kept going, wondering why the academy needed so much security.
She noticed the holographic signs pointing the way towards the girls' dorm. It looked like she had a long way to go before she got there but if she followed the concrete path through the jungle, she had a feeling she would get there before the storm reached them. She heard something moving out in the trees. Monkeys. They hooted as they jumped from vine to vine. One even lept onto a branch and stood there watching Alice. She smiled at it and continued her journey to the dorms.
Moments later, she saw a path leading into a clearing in the jungle. There was some sort of commotion going on over there. Curious, Alice strayed off the main road and walked into the clearing. There were some duels going on there already. Wooden stands were packed with students, holding up handfuls of cash as they were making bets on who would win.
oddly enough, the scared boy from the Osprey, Evan was in a duel. He was up against a boy from Obelisk Blue who had him in the ropes. Evan had 500 Life Points left and his Obelisk Blue opponent still had all 4000 of his. He didn't even take a hit. On his field, he had a warrior monster called Knight of the Red Lotus and a Valkyrian Knight.
All Evan had was an Axe Raider monster and a Battle Warrior. Vanilla monsters! Alice would have never thought anyone still used those. The crowd was getting restless. They taunted Evan and booed him, egging him on to make a play. But he was just too nervous.
"Well, Snookums, are you gonna make your move? Or are you just going to run back to mommy to have your diaper changed?"
"I...I can beat you!" Evan said. "Come on deck, I really need you to come through for me! I draw. Hey, I did it. I use the spell, Ax of Despair. Now my spell increases my Ax Raider's attack by 1000!"
Ax Raider's default ax switched for one that looked like it was forged in the realm of shadow. He growled as a dark aura flowed around his body. His points reached 2700, causing many in the crowd to gasp in awe.
"Awesome! He's more powerful than your knight! Go, Ax Raider! Attack his monster."
"You fell right for my trap, scrub! I activate Ring of Destruction! This card will destroy your monster and we take damage equal to his attack points. Correction, you just take the damage. With my spell card, Ring of Defense, my Life Points will be safe!"
"HEY!" Evan shouted.
Ax Raider tried his hardest to pull the Ring of Destruction off his neck, but it was too late. The pins on the grenades popped off and then they exploded, blasting Evan with incredible damage, reducing his Life Points to 0.
The Obelisk Blue laughed. "Aww, what wrong, baby? You gonna cry? That's what you get for thinking you could play with us here in the big leagues. Tell you what, why don't you have a duel against you, so that way when you lose, it'll be to yourself." He walked away with two giggling girls and disappeared into the jungle.
Alice was appalled by the other player's behavior. "Man, talk about no respect." She wanted to talk to Evan, but he was already sulking away to get his things and go to his dorm in the swamps with the other losers.
Just then an explosion from a nearby field got Alice's attention. She couldn't believe it. It was the boy who beat Crowler. He was in the middle of a duel and it didn't look good for him.
The Dragonic Knight raised his sword and cut a monster named Elemental HERO Stratos in half. The attack dealt 1ooo points of damage to the boy named Jaden, who was in Slifer Red, the lowest ranking dorm in Duel Academy.
"Listen up, Jaden!" shouted Chazz, who was an Obelisk Blue student. "You don't have what it takes to be here. I've got the power of Dragonic Knight on my side. You've got nothing. You're just a stepping stone on my way to the top. After you're out of the way, there's no stopping me. I, Chazz Princeton, will be the Duel King!"
Chazz - 4000 LP
Jaden- 3000LP
Jaden let out a friendly laugh. "Well, Chazz, you're true to your reputation. You're good. But not good enough! I activate my face-down card! HERO Signal! Now, I special summon, Elemental HERO Avian!"
"Hmph!" Chazz snarled. "I set a card face-down and end my turn."
Jaden drew. "Sweet! I activate the spell card, Polymerization! Now, I fuse together Avian and Blazeman! Swirl up a storm! Elemental HERO Great Tornado!"
Chazz sneered. "So? Our monsters are evenly matched!"
"Not for long they're not! Here's Great Tornado's special ability! Downburst! Now, your monster loses half of its attack points! Your Dragonic Knight is history, Chazz!"
Great Tornado flew up and raised his fist. He the rocketed towards Dragonic Knight and smashed him in the chest.
Chazz braced for impact. "ARRGH!" Solid Vision technology was too strong. Chazz rubbed his chest. The extra damage from Great Tornado's attack stung him awfully, but he dug the soles of his boots to the ground and stood calm, fighting through it.
His Life Points dropped to 2500.
Jaden balled his fist victoriously. "How'd you like that, Chazz?"
"Celebrating already? I don't think so, Jaden! I activate my trap, Reverse-Time! Now our monsters are returned to the way they were. Great Tornado is eliminated from the game instead of going to the Graveyard."
Jaden saw a portal rip open above Great Tornado. It swallowed him up and then Blazeman and Avian returned to the field as if they never fused together to make the powerful HERO who stood there earlier.
"No! Great Tornado is gone!" shouted Jaden.
"And my Dragonic Knight returns to do battle. Revive!"
Alice covered her open mouth with her hands. "Wow! His dragon is back. And he looks ready for action! Poor Jaden. His Great Tornado didn't stand a chance against him."
"My turn!" said Chazz. "I summon Alexandrite Dragon!" Chazz tapped on the holographic card projected in front of him. The card then soared to the field and turned into a tall dragon with pebbly skin. The thousands of precious gems embedded all over its body glimmered in the sunlight peering through the jungle canopy. The dragon reared up its head and shot out glittering white flames from its mouth to intimidate Jaden.
Dragonic Knight
ATK 2800
Alexandrite Dragon
ATK/2000
"ATTACK WITH TWO DRAGONS" Chazz shouted.
Dragonic Dragon slashed Elemental HERO Blazeman in half. Then, Alexandrite Dragon burned Elemental HERO Avian to crisp. The double attack left Jaden with a mere 400 Life Points.
When the dust settled, Jaden looked over his arm, which he used to shield his eyes from debris. "Arrgh!...He's...strong!"
Chazz crossed his arms and scoffed, proud of the carnage he inflicted on Jaden. "You just don't get it, Jaden. You were never supposed to be here. You fail to understand that Duelists use their cards for power and for strength. But you...heh! You still see them as mere toys. A soul mate if you wanna get in deep. Well, where are your soulmates now, Jaden? I'm just one attack away from winning this duel."
"Don't get too cocky, Chazz! My monsters are just itching to get at you!"
"Bring it on you Slifer Slacker! Show me what your pitiful resistance can do! There's nothing you have that can stand up to my Dragonic Knight or my Alexandrite Dragon! Come on, impress me!"
"With pleasure! I draw! I use Pot of Greed to draw two cards. Here it comes, Chazz. I summon Winged Kurirboh!"
"You dare insult me with that little furball? Dragonic Knight! Wipe him out."
"I don't think so, Chazz! I use the spell, Transcendent Wings! Evolving Winged Kuriboh to Level 10!"
"Level…T-t-ten!"
"Now, by sacrificing himself, Winged Kuriboh Level 10 destroys all monsters on the field and deals their ATK points right back to you as damage!"
"NOOOOO!" Chazz cried.
Suddenly the holograms shut down. Soldiers from campus security marched into the jungle arena and shouted at the students to leave and go find their dorms. Now was not a time to be playing Duel Monsters. Everyone groaned but did as they were told. But none was more distraught about this intrusion than Jaden.
"WHAT!? Oh, come on! I was about to win!"
Chazz scoffed, shouldered his duffle bag and began to walk down the steps of the arena. "You lucked out, Slifer Slacker. We all know I would have won had it not been for these goons. Smell ya later."
"Aw, but I was winning!" Jaden cried. "Come on!"
"Beat it, kid!" shouted a security guard. "Now, before I go up there and bring you down myself."
One by one, the students began to leave the arena, hoping they would get to see more action tomorrow.
Alice was already ahead of them. She left as soon as she noticed the guards coming. Just as she was beginning to find her way a loud roar burst from the jungle causing Alice to freeze.
What was that?
There weren't lions or tigers on the island were there? That would be stupid.
Alice took a closer look at one of the tree trunks. It was moving. Then she heard a snarl. She looked up and saw a dinosaur glaring at her hungrily. She dropped her suitcase and screamed, running down the path. The trees collapsed as the prehistoric beast charged out to get her. Alice scurried up a tree like a frightened cat, hoping she could get high enough to escape the dinosaur.
She heard it snapping its jaws at her, forcing her to get up even higher and higher until she was finally at the top. It wasn't enough. The dinosaur's eyes and her eyes were locked on to one another. It looked awfully familiar. It hit her. This was no ordinary dinosaur. It was a weak Duel Monster called Tomozaurus. It was a Solid Vision hologram. Someone was playing a prank on her.
"Man, she ran away faster than the last one did," said a large-bodied boy with wild green and black hair and a round pink nose. He and his friends walked out of the jungle and gathered around Alice's suitcase. They were all wearing red uniforms with the depiction of a red dragon on their coat-of-arms. Slifer the Sky Dragon, Alice thought. Those boys were from the Slifer Red Dorm. But their accommodations were by the swamps. What were they doing all the way out here?
"I wonder what kind of cards she has in here," said the large boy.
One of his friends knelt down and tried to open it. "I guess we'll never find out, boss. This one is sealed tight with a luggage lock. We need to put in some kind of code."
"Aw, nuts! Is there any way we can break it open?"
"No worries, Boris. Once we take it back to my workshop, all her goodies will be as good as ours. Maybe we can sell them back to her."
"I don't think so!" Alice said. She was halfway down the tree. Suddenly the branch beneath her gave way and she fell down to the ground, landing hard on her butt. "Ow!"
Boris and his friends pointed and laughed at her. Alice moaned, rubbing her backside. She remembered she was being robbed and got up at once to confront the boys.
"Hey! That wasn't very nice!"
"So cry me a river girly."
One of Boris's friends sniggered. "Looks like she peed you a river, boss!"
Boris and the others burst out laughing. Alice looked at her legs and discovered she peed herself from fright. It didn't help at all that she was wearing a skirt. She gasped and crossed her legs, holding her arms down to cover her accident.
"Please, I need to change my clothes. Give me back my suitcase."
Boris flashed his large white teeth. "It's going to cost you two Ultra-Rare cards, girl."
"Why?"
"Because this here is our turf. You wanna cross through our jungle, you gotta pay up."
"I didn't know this was anybody's jungle! If anything, this is the pathway to the Obelisk Blue dorms. Why would Slifer Reds have any control here?"
"We're not just any group of Slifer Red losers!" said the shortest boy in the group. He had a tooth protruding from his upper lip. "We're the Red Crusaders."
"You've got to be kidding me?" Alice said with a blank expression on her face.
The short boy pointed at his face. "Does this look like someone who's kidding? My brother owns this part of the jungle cuz he's tough enough to deal with you stuck-up Obelisk Blues."
"I don't want to give you trouble, I really don't."
"Of course you don't," sneered Boris. "Cuz I'm a threat, so you're showing me the respect I deserve. Now, are ya gonna hand over your two rarest cards, or are you gonna have to walk to the girl's dorm like that?"
"No, but..."
"No buts or yours is about to get kicked!" Boris said. He punched his palm. "Oh, and your bracelet. It looks expensive. We'll be taking that, too."
"What? No! Take my cards, but you're not taking my bracelet. Just take what's in the suitcase and leave me alone."
All of a sudden, a Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Chaos jumped out from a fancy-looking glyph and killed Tomozaurus with his large sword. The boys jumped back in fear, falling to the ground. Soldier of Chaos walked towards them, pointing his sword at them as they backed up and huddled against one another. A girl with strawberry blonde hair tied into a ponytail with a red bow ran down the path to Alice's aid. She wore an athletic red and black uniform consisting of a practice jacket and short shorts. The color on the jacket's lower half faded into white and then dark red with black curvy designs. She must have been part of a school team by the looks of her.
"What the hell did I tell you about showing yourself around here, Boris! Christ! The term hasn't even started and already you're making an ass of yourself!"
"Holy crap, Enora! You scared the crap out of us!" Boris shouted. "That's not a way a lady should act."
Alice stomped her foot on the ground. "You are such a hypocrite! But it was perfectly fine when you did it to me!"
"You're an Obelisk Blue! You deserve everything you get!" shouted the short boy.
Enora snapped her fingers and the Soldier of Chaos stepped closer and closer towards them. "I can't stand this kind of behavior. It's because of jackasses like you and Chazz that there's so much animosity between the dorms. Get out of here before I get my father! You guys wouldn't want the head of security to bust you before the first day, would you?"
"Yeah well, there's not much he can do to stop us. I can't wait to finally settle things with you in the ring, Enora."
Enora wasn't scared. She stood where she was, poise and calm. She crossed her arms. "You're not worthy of my time. Now get out of here and don't ever come back!"
"Come on, guys, let's bounce."
"We'll be back!"
"This ain't over, Enora!"
Enora looked at Alice and smiled. She took off her jacket and wrapped it around Alice's waist. "Come on. You need to change your clothes. Follow me. The dorm isn't that far from here." She started walking then stopped. "I'm sorry this had to happen. There's a bit of a civil war going on around here."
"What for?"
Enora tilted her head toward the mountains, telling Alice to follow her.
"Pride. Each dorm thinks they're far superior than the other despite the ranks. Ra Yellow is fairly neutral but there's a lot of bad blood between the Slifers and us Blues. You can blame idiots like Boris over there for these kinds of things. Clans have been forming left and right, each one fighting against one another to see who is the superior dorm. I have a feeling things are going to get worse now that we have the likes of Chazz Princeton in our midst. Not only a day in here and he's already shown prejudice against the other dorms. Especially towards Slifers because they're the lowest-ranking dorm in the academy. I tried to warn everyone in Obelisk Blue to stop picking on them for a long, long time now. But then Boris came to school last year and he formed his gang. They started attacking Obelisk Blue students and stealing their rarest cards after beating them in unfair handicap matches. Pfft. The other Slifers followed suit and formed gangs of their own. You'll find them here and there causing trouble, so keep your guard up. They won't strike unless you're alone."
Alice stuck close to Enora. "Are they all this terrible? Oh, I'm Alice by the way. Alice Fenix."
"Enora Chevalier. Nice to meet you, Alice. And no, some of the Slifer Reds are actually pretty nice people. Remember that kid, Jaden? The one who beat Crowler? He's in Slifer Red and so far he's pretty cool."
"You met him?"
"Uh huh. Alexis and I helped him out when he had a slight confrontation with Chazz. Such a shame he didn't make it to Obelisk Blue. He seems really talented. Oh, well. He should be okay, provided he doesn't follow Boris or the other Duel Gangs around here. But you'll find some real assholes in our dorms. It's mostly full of rich boys who've been fed with silver spoons their whole lives. Many of them feel because they're at the top, everyone else is trash. Stay away from them, you'll mostly see them playing war against the Slifers."
"Thank you. I'll try and remember that. Your uniform is quite different than the others. For a moment, I thought you were Slifer Red."
"Ha ha. No. I'm the captain of the academy's female Duel Monsters team. The Red Arrows."
"Oh, that sounds really cool. What does it take to be part of the team?"
Enora smiled. "You interested in joining?"
"Oh no, I was just wondering is all."
"Well, if you ever consider joining us, give me a text. I'll give you my number when we reach your dorm. To be part of the team, you need to have good grades. Maintain at least a 3.0 GPA and you're golden. Oh, and obviously you need to have exceptional dueling skills."
"I'll work hard on my dueling that's for sure. But I'm here to be a programmer for Kaiba Corp like my mom."
"Oh, you're going to have a hand making holograms and stuff, right?"
"That's right. My mom and dad want me to be a pro duelist like my older sister, but it's not a path I want to follow really. Still, it wouldn't hurt to bolster my skills, huh?"
Enora stopped. "Hold on. Fenix? Your sister wouldn't by any chance be Sara Fenix would she?"
Alice sighed. "Yes, yes. She is."
"Well, color me intrigued Alice...I...wow! That is something else indeed. You've got some pretty big shoes to fill, huh? Oh, sorry about your father. My uncle knew him. He was a good man."
"Thank you. But Sara's shoes are something I'd rather leave unfilled. Being a pro is not what I'm interested in. Still, I figured that if I become a decent duelist, my mom could get off my back."
"Well, if you ever have a mind for it, you should really consider becoming a Red Arrow, Alice. We're a pretty competitive team and we have programs that can you get scholarships for your dream school after you're done with this place."
"Thanks for the offer. I'll consider it."
Alice saw the girls' dorm ahead. Its architecture was nothing short of breathtaking. It was a chateau built directly around the lake where a waterfall fell into. One part of it was built over a second one that poured into the bathing areas for the girls below.
"This is incredible!"
"Hey, you worked hard to be here. You've earned it. Where's your room at?"
Alice fumbled around the pockets of her denim jacket. "Uh, let's see." She found it. "Room 2100."
"Oooo, you get the underwater suites."
"Underwater suites?"
"Yeah. You get a great view of the bottom of the lake. There's lots of pretty fish living down there and the plant life is really colorful."
This, Alice couldn't wait to see. After getting registered, she followed Enora to an elevator that took them down to the rooms built at the bottom of the lake. Once the elevator doors opened they met a girl with long golden hair and brown eyes.
"Oh, Alexis!" Enora said. "This where you staying?"
Alexis smiled and dried her hair with the towel around her neck. "Yeah. Of course. Do you know what I had to do to get a room down here? Who's this? A friend of yours?"
"Oh, Alice? Yeah, she's all right. She had a little...accident when Boris and his boys gave her a scare on the way here. I'm here to help her find her room so she can freshen up."
"Aww, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, I ran into him when I got here this morning. He wanted to take my rarest cards. But once he saw that Zane was by my side, oof, boy, he went running."
Enora rolled her eyes. "Typical. He talks big, but he's a coward deep down. See, Alice? Don't worry. They're all just pushovers."
"But mostly towards scrubs and freshmen," said Alexis. "But once you start playing like a pro, those Slifer gangs will start to back off. Show them you're not to be fucked with, and they'll show their true colors."
"I'll remember that. I want to make him pay for what he did to me. I'm not going to let that slide, trust me."
Alexis giggled. "Ooo, look at the fire in her eyes. I like this one. Can't wait to see what she's got."
After Alexis left, Alice followed Enora down the curved halls to her room. They parted ways and she went inside to shower. By the time she had finished washing, night had fallen and it was time to change into her pajamas. After she brushed her hair, she began to decorate the room. By her bed, she hung a poster of a duelist named Aster Phoenix. He was sitting on a fancy black throne with his Destiny HERO monsters roaring loudly behind him. Dreadmaster, Dogma, Dominance, and his two aces Plasma and Destiny End Dragoon.
She rubbed her hand up and down the post to unwrinkle it. When she was satisfied with how it looked, she kissed Aster on the lips, turned off the lights and snuggled up in bed. So far the journey here had been an interesting one. There were some downs along the way, ala Boris, but deep down she was excited for what tomorrow would bring.