Chapter 1: One of a Kind
"Text" = Speech
"Text" = Thought
*Yawn* "Oh man what a good sleep."
My name is Azrael Vortex and I live in Descendent City Australia. I'm 16 years old and my dream is to be a world-famous duellist, but I wanted to earn it like most people. You see growing up I lived with only my mother, my father was arrested many years ago. His name was Xeno Malice and he was a crazy scientist who did illegal experiments on children who claimed that they could see duel monster spirits. My father did it because he too claimed he could see spirits and he didn't care who died if it meant finding the answer as to why they could see them. Once he was arrested after my mother found out and called the police all the money was given to her and let me tell you he had a lot of money.
My childhood wasn't the best either, thanks to all the money. My mother could afford to send me to the best duelling prep school for 3 years and in those years, life was tough for me because I didn't make any friends and i got beaten up a lot until I learned how to defend myself, not even the teachers cared whether i got hurt or not, even though in my opinion it was for the better. Everyone else there was cocky and arrogant, some of their duelling skills were laughable. Thankfully my mother taught me not to let the money decide who I am.
My mother Sally Vortex was the only one that kept me going throughout my childhood. She was the nicest person I ever knew, she was every kind of support you could think of both emotionally and physically. She always picked me up when I was down, she taught me how to do so much from laundry and how to cook so I could live by myself when I moved out.
We live in an apartment in a hotel, my mother explained to me that she didn't want me to live in a mansion. She explained to me that kids that live with lots of money grow up to be selfish and rude to everyone else and that is exactly what she didn't want to happen to me.
It was three days until the entrance exams and I had my deck ready to go, well almost ready. My deck was filled with the best water attributed monsters I could find. Why water monsters? Because in my life there are 3 things in my life that I love: Swimming, duelling and teamwork. So I filled my deck with water monsters that have high stats and special abilities that allow my monsters to work together as a team.
The date was 14th of January at 9am when I got out of bed, 15 minutes later after I had a shower and washed my short blues hair and changed into my clothes. I wore blue jeans, my black Spider-Man shirt and my white knitted pullover hoodie. I went downstairs to have some breakfast and I saw my mother watching the news I decided to have a little fun. I slowly snuck up on her who while she was to distracted to notice me then I grabbed her shoulders and screamed
"Good morning Mum" he said with cheer in his voice.
"AHH Azrael are you ever going to stop doing that?" she said with laughter in her voice.
"Nope. You know that your mornings would be boring without my great personality" he said with a sarcastically cocky face.
"Oh just be careful son, I'll get you back for that" Sally said in a playful manner.
"I can't wait to see what you come up with." he said.
"Well I'm heading to the card store I'll be back in a few minutes." Azrael said walking out the door.
"Son Wait." She tried to say but failed to finish because he was already gone.
"You forgot to eat breakfast. Well he'll be back in about 20 minutes I'll just make him some toast."
After about 5 minutes of walking into the local card store where he was greeted by the store owner Jason Ragnarok.
"Good morning Azrael how is my best customer doing this morning?" Jason said with a smile on his face.
"Oh you know the usual getting ready for the entrance exams and if I'm going to be ready, I need to find that Dust Tornado trap card." Said Azrael with determination on his face.
"You are aware that you can just buy the card right now, you can afford it." Jason said.
"I've told you before and I'll say it again, most people can't afford it and have to rely on chance to find an ultra-rare card like Dust Tornado and it teaches them humility and to respect what you get. I maybe be rich but I refuse to just buy everything and turn into a jerk just because I can." Azrael said with a calm, but serious tone.
"It always amazes me how wise you are despite your youth" Jason said with amazement in his voice.
"Thanks Jason it's always nice to have someone to talk to and not be judged for not going all out with my money." He said with gratitude in his voice. Azrael then saw Jason frown.
"Jason is something wrong?" Azrael asked with concern.
"You and the other kids are the only business I have. Now that you and the other kids are about to leave and without you guys in about 3 years I'll be out of business without you and the others to keep my store open." He said disappointed.
"Don't worry Jason I don't know how I'll do it but I will find a way to keep your shop open for a long time." He said.
"Thank you Azrael, just remember when you get to the academy that you can always call for help when you need me." Jason said.
"Thanks Jason" Azrael said with a grateful smile.
Azrael picks up 5 packs from the "Burning Nova" box (card boxes from duel links) and brings it to the counter to pay the money after that he says goodbye to Jason. He walks back to his apartment to open the packs with his mother, it was a great pass time Azrael and Sally loved to open duel packs together. Sally loved duel monsters, but she doesn't understand how to play there was too much to remember from the monster abilities to the normal rules so she just preferred to watch matches instead of playing.
As Azrael walked up to his apartment door and grabbed the knob, he heard his mother laughing and he heard an unfamiliar voice. His mother was having a conversation with someone else and he was worried for his mother because even though she was having a nice time he still wanted to protect her. He opens the door and walks in and gasps as he sees who the other person was. It was a man who looked to be in his early 50s he wore a red suit and had shoulder length white hair that also covered his left eye. It was the creator of Duel Monsters himself Maximillion Pegasus.
"Good morning Mr. Vortex it's an honour to meet you." Pegasus said.
"Please the honour is all mine" He replied.
"So I suppose you want to know why I'm here correct Mr. Vortex?" Pegasus asked.
"Of course and please sir call me Azrael." He insisted.
"You're very polite young man. It seems you raised a fine son Sally. It must have hard doing it all by yourself, I'm sure your past has caused you alot of trouble." Pegasus congratulated. Azrael's eyes widened in fear after hearing that.
"Why thank you Mr. Pegasus I'm quite proud of how he has turned out." She said.
"Mum why did you tell Pegasus about our past? I thought we agreed we would never talk about it with anyone ever." He whispered with anger in his voice.
"Don't be angry with your mother Azrael. I already knew she didn't tell me about your past and don't worry I won't tell anyone else about it I can tell it's very personal to you both." He assured Azrael.
"I really appreciate that Mr. Pegasus thank you and Mum I'm sorry for getting angry." Azrael apologised.
"It's okay son I don't blame you for getting angry. I would too if I was in your position." She assured him.
"If I may ask how did you know about our past?" Azrael asked.
"I saw it on the news when your father was arrested it was a tragedy and unfortunately for me I never forget a tragedy." He said with regret. "Anyway, the reason I came here Azrael is to tell you that you won." He said with joy in his voice.
"I'm sorry but what did I win exactly?" Azrael asked as his eyebrow arched in confusion.
"The Duel Monsters Idea Contest from 6 months ago. I had everyone submit applications where they make suggestions on what my company should do with the future of Duel monsters." He explained.
"Oh yeah I completely forgot about that there was so much competition I didn't think I would win so I guess I decided to just forget about it." He realised.
"What did you put in sweaty?" Sally asked.
"I suggested a new summoning technique where the key was the monster's level because aside from a few spells and traps and how many sacrifices are needed for a tribute summon, monster levels don't play a big role in the game. So I created a new technique where you use a new type of monster that I call tuner monsters and combine its level with 1 or more non tuner monsters in order to summon a new monster. I call the new monsters Synchro Monsters and the technique is called synchro summoning. Finally I decided to design 5 monsters, 4 were tuner monsters and the remaining would be the first synchro monster." He explained.
"Well Azrael I have come to tell you that your idea won the contest and not only that I have a present for you." Pegasus said with excitement in his voice.
Then Pegasus reached into one of his suit pockets and pulled out four cards and gave them to Azrael. When Azrael looked at these cards he quickly realised that 6 of the cards was the cards he designed for the contest and the 6th card was a new trap card.
"Oh my god I never thought that these cards would become a reality. Thank you very much Mr. Pegasus I will be forever grateful to you and the people of your company." He thanked him.
"And the future of Duel Monsters will forever be grateful to you as well Azrael." He said with a smile.
"What do you mean Mr. Pegasus?" Azrael asked.
"I have decided that with your permission I will create hundreds of more tuner and synchro monsters and sell them worldwide and split the profits with you guys." He said with joy.
"Are you serious Mr. Pegasus you're going to take my idea and turn it into the next era of duelling?" He asked with amazement.
"Yes Azrael that is exactly what I plan to do it will take a long time before the new monsters hit the shelves at the bare minimum but most likely will take longer. Don't forget it was your idea which is why I'm asking your permission I don't want to take all the credit." He said.
"Of course Mr. Pegasus create as many tuner and synchro monsters you can think of. I only have one request." He said.
"Sure thing Azrael what would you like?" Pegasus asked with curiosity.
"When you make the announcement can you mention that it was my idea from the start. You see I want to be a world-famous duellist and if I can't make it to the Pro Leagues I'll at least be famous for bringing in the next era of duelling." He said.
"Why my dear boy I was planning on doing that anyway it was your idea in the first place and I want the world to know that Azrael Vortex brought tuner and synchro monsters to life." He said.
"Thank you Mr. Pegasus I have a feeling this will be the start of a beautiful friendship." Azrael said with pride in his voice.
"Me too Azrael me too. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go I have a lot of work to do. Thank you for your lovely hospitality. You're a great mother Sally and Azrael take my number and call me if you want to check on how our progress is going on the new tuner and synchro monsters and don't forget, I expect great things from you." He said.
Then Pegasus walked out the front door and closed the door behind him. Once the door was closed Azrael leaned back on his chair exhausted form trying to process what the heck just happened.
"Son can you believe it not only did you win a contest but your idea is going to go worldwide and you're going to be famous for it." She said with pure ecstasy in her voice.
"I'm still having trouble trying to." He said while out of breath.
"Son I couldn't be more proud of you. You are the only rich kid I have ever met who isn't a jerk and you are the first duellist with 2 new types of monster." she said with pure happiness in her voice and tears in her eyes.
"Thanks Mum" Azrael said.
"Son you truly are one of a kind." She said.
"Okay Mum how about we open some card packs." He suggested.
"Not until you eat your breakfast its 10am" She said sternly while dragging him by the ear to the kitchen.
"Okay Mum." He said.
Azrael spent the next 30 minutes eating breakfast.
"Alright Mum you ready to open todays packs?" He asked.
"I sure am Azrael lets see if this is your lucky day." She said.
They opened the first pack and it contained Robotic Knight, Madolchepalooza and Fifth Hope. Then came the second pack which had Tree Otter, Photon Cerberus and Revoke Fusion.
"Well that's 2 packs down 3 to go things aren't looking good so far." Azrael said.
"Don't give up hope son we still have 3 pack to go." Sally said.
"Who said anything about giving up?" He said with a smile.
"That's my boy." She said.
They then opened the third pack and it contained Three Thousand Needles, Megalosmasher X and Battery Charger.
"Hey I what about Megalosmasher X? That could be a powerful addition to your deck." Sally said.
"It may have alot of ATK points, but it is a normal monster plus its a dinosour. That wouldn't work with the rest of my Deck" Azrael said.
Then came the 4th pack inside it was Out of the Blue, Molten Whirlwind Wall and Gem-Knight Iolite and finally the 5th pack the last chance to find the card he has been looking for. He opened the pack and he saw Batteryman AA, Tiger Dragon and the card he spent the last 3 weeks looking for Dust Tornado when saw it he jumped out of his chair in excitement.
"Finally after 3 weeks of searching I finally have Dust Tornado. He said.
"Well done son like I've said to you before good things happen to those who wait." She said proud of her son.
"You are always right when your wisdom shows." He said.
"Well son I have to go the day-care centre isn't going to run itself." She said as she grabbed her handbag.
"Here give these to the kids." Azrael then gives Sally all the other cards from the 5 packs that he didn't want.
"Of course son the kids will be happy that you give them new cards to play with." She said with gratitude in her voice.
"Anything to make the kids happy. Say hi for me would you?" He asked.
"Of course son the kids really appreciate all the cards you give them." She said.
"Maybe I'll come around later to say hi to the kids." He said.
"All right, see you later Azrael." She said as she walked out the door.
Azrael spent the next hour and a half making sure that his deck is ready for the entrance exam in 3 days. After he was finished he could feel his stomach rumbling so he decided to head to a fast food place for lunch so he walked out the door with his deck, phone, wallet and house keys so he locked the door and walked to the closest fast food restaurant. When he arrived he saw a card on the ground he picked it up and looked at it the card was the card Simorgh, Bird of Beginning.
"This is a useful monster and it's effect is pretty cool to, I wonder if the owner is still inside." Azrael said as he walked inside.
Azrael walked inside to find the owner then looked around and saw a guy that looked about his age with short black hair a green jacket and black shorts looking through his deck and looks to be worried.
"He must be the owner." Azrael said as he walked up to the guy.
"Excuse me but I found this card at the entrance does it belong to you?" He asked as he showed the guy the card.
"Yes, it is my card thank you I really appreciate this." The guy says with relief in his voice.
"No problem I'd do anything to help others even if it is a stranger." Azrael said.
"Are you a duellist yourself?" The guy asked.
"Yes, I am my name is Azrael what's yours?" He asked.
"My name is Bruce Huntsman and I duel with wind attribute monsters." Bruce said.
"I duel with water attribute monsters." He said as he sat in front of Bruce.
"Interesting can't wait to see how you duel." Bruce said.
"Maybe you will at the entrance exams if you'll be there." Azrael said.
"Oh I'll be there what dorm will you be going for? I'll be going for the middle dorm since I didn't go to a prep school at all." Bruce said.
"I'll be going for the highest dorm. I did go to a prep school for 3 years but honestly it was a nightmare". Azrael said with annoyance in his voice.
"Why is that Azrael?" Bruce asked.
Azrael spent the next 5 minutes telling Bruce about how his years were horrible in prep school and how his mother and Jason helped him throughout it all.
"If I may ask how did your mother get the money to send you to prep school it is quite expensive." he said with curiosity.
Azrael then lowered his head and held his right hand over the right side of his face.
"I'd rather not talk about it". he said with sadness in his voice.
"Damn man I feel sorry for you man, no friends and horrible teachers your lucky you had your mother to help you mate." Bruce said.
"Don't forget Jason Ragnarok from the card store down the road." He reminded Bruce.
"Does he work at the store?" Bruce asked.
"He owns the store and runs it all by himself." Azrael said.
"That is impressive, maybe I'll stop by later to pick up something." Bruce said.
"You should, he'll treat you well. Azrael said.
"So mate how long have you been living in Descendant City Bruce? he said.
"I actually just moved here about a week ago with my mum while my father is in Japan for work for the next 3 years." Bruce said.
Azrael and Bruce spent the next hour getting to know each other better discussing about their decks and recent events.
"Well thank you for returning my card my friend I'll see you at the entrance exam in a few days bye Azrael." Bruce said as he walked away.
"See you there man. I feel like I have forgotten something." Then Azrael's stomach started to rumble.
"Oh yeah, I came here to eat I can't believe I forgot that." he said.
Azrael then spent the next 20 minutes eating and after that he decided to visit his mother at the child care centre to see the children. He then spent the next half an hour walking to the other side of the city and then arrived at the day care centre where Sally worked at. He opened the door and walked in and saw Sally sitting with 5 children while she watched them draw.
"Hey Mum." Azrael called out.
"Oh hi son. Hey kids look whose here we have a guest." Sally told the kids to get them excited.
"Hi Azrael." said the kids.
"So Mum how have you been today?"
"I've been just fine today Azrael all the kids have been very well behaved, right kids?" Sally said.
"Yeah" said the kids.
"Did you give the kids the cards I gave you?" Azrael asked.
"Oh my I seem to have forgotten." Sally said disappointed in herself.
Sally then reaches into her purse and takes out the cards that Azrael didn't want and takes them to the kids who continued with their drawing.
"Kids come here I forgot to give you a present." Sally said.
The kids stopped their activity and rushed over to Sally eager to see what they will be given. Sally then gave everyone cards and told them that it was a present from Azrael. After she told them that the kids then jumped on Azrael to hug him to thank him but they also knocked him over but, he said he was okay then started laughing as he hugged them back. Azrael then spent the next 2 hours helping his mother with the kids and teaching them how to duel with the new cards. Then the kids' parents came to pick them up and they went home. Then Azrael and Sally drove home to have dinner and talk about their day.
When they got home Sally decided to cook some pasta with the sauce that Azrael created. They sat down at the table and talked about their day.
"Well Azrael this Bruce boy sounds like a very nice guy and I'm very proud of what you did for him. I'm glad you finally made a friend in all these years." Sally said.
"Thank you. He said he will be at the entrance exams so I hope I'll see him there." Azrael said.
"Well all that is left is for you to get a lovely girlfriend and I'll be happy for life." She said trying to tease him.
"Good luck with that. We both know why I won't get a girlfriend." He said with disappointment in his voice.
"Azrael you know what your father did wasn't your fault you need to stop blaming yourself" She said trying to help Azrael.
"I can't just forget the role I played in his madness, it will haunt me forever." He said with regret in his voice as he held his right hand over the right side of his face.
"Once you find love, you'll realise how wrong you are my son. Once you find love you will be truly happy." She said.
Time Skip
17th January 10:30 am
The day has come the entrance exams are today and I am ready to pass. The exams began 10 minutes ago so I won't be able to see the first few duels. Which is disappointing cause I like to study my potential future opponents even though I never change my duel style I just like to know which card in my deck is the key to my opponents defeat. I walked towards the Kaiba Dome and saw 2 staff members at the entrance so I walked up to them.
"Hold up kid, name please." The 1st staff member said.
"Azrael Vortex" He said.
Then both staff members looked at each other with wide eyes in realization.
"Okay I see your name here sir go on in and good luck." The second staff member said.
"Thank you both have a nice day." he said as he walked in the door. Then as he walked out of the sight of the two staff members the first one put his fingers on the earpiece in his right ear and said.
"Boss the one you were waiting for has arrived get ready." he said.
"Thank you for the heads up I'm almost ready continue with your work." the boss said.
"Yes sir" he said.
Azrael walked to the stands where he saw many other people watching each other duel to get into the academy. He decided to look around for Bruce to see if they could sit together and watch the duels but he couldn't find him in the stands. He then looked into the centre of the arena and saw Bruce in the middle of his duelling exam. The proctor had 1000 life points and 1 Vorse Raider. While Bruce only had 1 face down card with 2000 Life Points.
"Vorse Raider 4 (1900,1200) attack him directly with Dark Axe Slash." Said the proctor.
"I activate my Trap Card Negate Attack." Bruce said with a grin on his face.
"Well done. I end my turn." The proctor said.
Proctor: 1000
Bruce: 2000
"I draw and summon Simorgh, Bird of Beginning 1 (0,1600) in attack mode." Bruce said.
"No attack points? Not exactly something that I should worry about if that's all you can do." The proctor said unimpressed.
"Something tells me he isn't done yet." Azrael said to himself.
"I never said I was done. I activate my Field Spell Elborz, The Sacred Lands of Simorgh." Bruce said.
The field then began to change and then Bruce and the Proctor found themselves on a mountain with dozens of birds in the sky.
"It increases the ATK and DEF of all my WIND Winged Beast monsters by 300." Bruce said.
Simorgh Bird of Beginning 1 (0,1600) - 1 (300,1900)
"That still isn't enought to pass this test." The proctor said.
"I'm still not finished. I place one card face-down and activate my Field Spell's effect. By revealing a high level WIND attribute Winged Beast monster all the Winged Beast monster I normal summon require one less sacrifice. So I reveal Simorgh, Bird of Divinty from my hand now." Bruce explained.
"It's too bad you already wasted your normal summon with your Bird of Beginning. if you had used that effect earlier you could have summoned a level 5 or 6 monster without tributing." The proctor explained.
"I still have one move left. Thanks to the ability of my Simorgh, Bird of Beginning I can normal summon again this turn as long as the monster I summon is a Simorgh monster. So I sacrifice my Simorgh, Bird of Beginning to tribute summon Simorgh, Bird of Divinity 7 (2700,1000). With that I end my turn. Bruce concluded.
"Why would you end your turn without attacking my Vorse Raider? You would have left me defenceless." The proctor asked.
"Because I don't need to. You see at the end of each turn where Simorgh Bird of Divinity is on the field each of us lose 1000 life points thanks to its special ability." Said Bruce.
Proctor: 0
Bruce: 2000
"Why didn't your life points drop?" said the proctor.
"Because the damage my Simorgh Bird of Divinity deals decreases by 500 for every spell/trap card I have on my field." said Bruce.
"Well done Mr Huntsman you have passed the test. Welcome to the academy." said the Proctor.
"Thank you sir, have a nice day." Said Bruce as he walked away.
"Well done Bruce glad to see you passed." Said Azrael as Bruce looked up to see him.
"Thanks Azrael, wait right there." He said as he walked up the stands to meet up with Azrael.
"Nice to see you mate." Azrael said.
"You to buddy." Bruce said.
"How did you do on the written exams? I got 92% on mine." Azrael said proud of himself.
"I got 76% on mine which is enough to get into the class I was going for the middle green class." Bruce said.
"So what colours are the best I didn't research it because I like to go in blind." Azrael said.
"Alright so before I tell you, you should know that the classes haven't been named yet. You know how the duel academy in Japan named their classes after the 3 Egyptian god cards are school doesn't want to do the same with their classes. I heard one of the staff say that the chancellor wants to find new legendary monsters to name their classes after." Bruce explained.
"Okay I understand." Azrael said.
"Good okay so the highest class is blue, green is the middle class and red is at the bottom." Bruce explained.
"What about the dorm rooms? How are they structured?" asked Azrael.
"I don't know about that." said Bruce
"Azrael Vortex will you please report to arena 3 please." said a voice over the intercom.
As soon as his name was called out a lot of students were whispering to each other and saying things like 'why does that name sound familiar' and 'wait I know that name'. Then Azrael closed his eyes and sighed as he knew that what was about to happen was going to happen, he was just waiting for someone to realise and call him out as he walked to the arena. When Azrael reached arena 3 he realised that he wasn't going to be facing a proctor, he was going to be duelling someone else. His opponent was a woman she was a lot taller than him and she had black hair.
"So you're the one my boss was waiting for? I don't know why, you don't look like much to me." she said all cocky like.
"This will be easier than I thought if you can get cocky even before the duel starts because I've learned that the most arrogant duellists are usually the worst duellists." he said.
"How dare you speak to me like that do you know who I am?" she said angry.
"Nope. I have no idea who you are and honestly I couldn't give a damn." Azrael said.
"Well I am Jasmine Steelion. I'm in charge of the entire green class at the academy and you should know that I know who you are Vortex or should I say I know who your father is." she said with an evil smile on her face.
When she mentioned Azrael's father everyone around them realised where they knew Azrael's name. They remembered who his father was and what he did and that didn't mean good things for Azrael. Half of them started screaming at him saying things like 'Get out of here freak' and 'leave you don't belong here, you belong in a lab getting torn apart.' While the other half was trying to shut them up saying things like 'leave him alone' and 'he isn't his father' and Bruce was the one who started Azrael's defence and Azrael was truly grateful.
"You see I'm not my father so don't act like I did what my father did" Azrael said.
"You think I care. I don't care that you didn't do all that stuff, you are still the son of a maniac and in my eyes that makes you dangerous and I won't let you endanger the other students. So lets duel, I can't wait to send you home and away from the school." She said.
"Before we start can you explain why I'm not facing another proctor like the rest?" Azrael asked.
"Why don't I explain Azrael." Said someone Azrael recognised.
Then both Azrael and Jasmine looked up to the top of the stands and saw Pegasus looking down at them.
"The creator of Duel Monsters himself." Bruce said.
"You see I wanted to test the new cards before I gave them to you, but I had no time so I decided to call the chancellor and asked if I could use your entrance exam as a field test. I'm sorry I didn't tell you before I just wanted to test you as well Azrael. Also I wanted to test them against a very strong monster so I called an old friend to borrow a card, it took some convincing but he agreed to it." Pegasus explained.
"I assume that you have that card Jasmine?" Azrael asked.
"You bet I do punk and I'm going to love using it to defeat you." Jasmine said.
"Then let's go." He said.
Azrael then got out his duel disk out, it was his own personal duel disk and it had the same shape as an academy disk but instead of white metal it was Ocean Blue and instead of being smooth it was serpent scales. Jasmine then brought out her duel disks and it was a standard academy disk but it was mostly black instead of white.
"DUEL" they both said.
Azrael: 4000 LP
Jasmine: 4000 LP
"Laddies first, I draw and I use Polymerization to Fusion Summon King Dragun 7 (2400,1100) in attack mode. And as long as he is on the field all my dragon type monsters are safe from card effects and during each of my turns while he is on the field, I get to summon another dragon type monster from my hand. So I Special Summon Tiger Dragon 6 (2400,1800). Now I activate Pot of Greed now I get to draw 2 cards. Next I activate De-Fusion and split my King Dragun 7 (2400,1100) back into Lord of Dragons 4 (1200,1100) in attack mode and Divine Dragon Ragnarok 4 (1500,1000) also in attack mode. Finally I activate the spell card The Flute of Summoning Dragon this lets me Special Summon up to 2 Dragon types from my hand as long as Lord of Dragons 4 (1200,1100) is on the field, so I Special Summon the card that Pegasus gave to me, Blue Eyes White Dragon 8 (3000,2500)." Jasmine said with a smile on her face.
"You can't be serious right now." Bruce said surprised.
"Are you kidding me 4 monsters and one of them is Blue Eyes White Dragon. This is going to be a challenge." Azrael said shocked.
"I end my turn" Jasmine said. Then Pegasus began to smile.
"She played Kaiba's card now it's time to see if Azrael has the skills to bring out his dragon and use it to win this duel." Pegasus thought.
"How the heck is Azrael supposed to defeat all of that?" Bruce thought.
"My turn I draw. I summon The Dragon Dwelling in the Deep 4 (1700,1400) in attack mode. Next I activate the special ability of my Warrior of Atlantis from my hand, by discarding him to the Graveyard, I can add 1 A Legendary Ocean Field Spell to my hand from my deck which I'll now play." Azrael said.
Then the arena was filled with water and stone henges rose out of the ground around them.
"That's one powerful field spell it will give him quite a hand in this duel." Bruce said impressed.
"And now all my Water monsters gain 200 ATK/DEF points and all of them lose 1 level including the Water monsters in my hand." Azrael explained.
The Dragon Dwelling in the Deep 4 (1700,1400) – 3 (1900,1600)
"Next I play the spell card 'Double Summon' which allows me to Normal Summon again this turn so I summon Mecha Sea Dragon Plesion 5 (2300,1800) in attack mode." Azrael said.
Mecha Sea Dragon Plesion 5 (2300,1800) – 4 (2500,2000)
"Then I activate my Pot of Greed and draw 2 cards from my deck. Finally I activate the Continuous Spell card Aquarium Stage from my hand and as long as this spell is active all my Water monsters can't be destroyed in battle by non-water monsters. Now my Dwelling Dragon attacks your Lord of Dragons with Deep Destruction." Azrael said.
The Dragon Dwelling in the Deep 3 (1900,1600) VS Lord of Dragons 4 (1200,1100)
Then The Dragon Dwelling in the Deep flew towards Lord of Dragons and slammed his body into it and Lord of Dragons shattered into pieces and Jasmine's life points dropped.
Azrael: 4000 LP
Jasmine: 4000 - 3300 LP
"And now my Mecha Sea Dragon Plesion attacks your Ancient Dragon with Mecha Flood." Azrael said.
Mecha Sea Dragon Plesion 4 (2500,2000) VS Ancient Dragon 4 (1400,1300)
Then a grey wave appeared behind Mecha Sea Dragon Plesion and then it crashed into Ancient Dragon and destroyed it causing Jasmine's life points to drop even more.
Azrael: 4000 LP
Jasmine: 3300 - 2200 LP
"I place 1 card face down and end my turn." Azrael said.
Azrael's GY: Double Summon, Pot of Greed
Azrael's banished cards: 0
Azrael's hand: 1
Azrael's face downs: 1
Jasmine's GY: Polymerizarion, Pot of Greed, De-Fusion, The flute of Summoning Dragon
Jasmine's banished cards: None
Jasmine's hand: 0
Jasmine's face downs: 0
"My turn I draw." Jasmine said.
"Yeah and now my Dwelling Dragon's effect activates when either of our Standby Phases come around my dragon gains an Ocean Counter."
Then a little ocean symbol appeared above the Dwelling Dragon.
Then Jasmine growled at the card she drew as it proved to be useless right now.
"Now Tiger Dragon attack his Dwelling Dragon with Tiger Terror."
Tiger Dragon 6 (2400,1600) VS The Dwelling Dragon in the Deep 3 (1900,1600)
Then Tiger Dragon jumped towards The Dragon Dwelling in the Deep and sliced both claws at it but it wasn't destroyed thanks to Aquarium Stage, but Azrael's life points still took a hit.
Azrael: 4000 - 3500 LP
Jasmine: 2200 LP
"Finally my Blue Eyes White Dragon attacks your Dwelling Dragon 3 with White Lightning." Jasmine said.
Blue Eyes White Dragon 8 (3000,2500) VS The Dragon Dwelling in the Deep 3 (1900,1600)
Then Blue Eyes White Dragon fired a white beam at The Dragon Dwelling in the Deep and once again wasn't destroyed thanks to the effect of Aquarium Stage.
Azrael: 3500 - 2400 LP
Jasmine: 2200 LP
"Impressive in one turn Jasmine has almost managed to even out this duel, but its even more impressive that Azrael managed to keep both his monsters on the field." Bruce said.
"I end my turn but don't even bother drawing you know you can't beat my Blue Eyes White Dragon so just give up right now freak." Jasmine said.
"You know you should really be in charge of the blue girls because your just as arrogant as any 'elite' duellist." Azrael said with a grin on his face. Then Azrael drew his next card and smiles at what he saw.
"Hey Pegasus good news you're getting your field test." Azrael said with a smile.
"Very good Azrael now let's see what you can do." Pegasus said.
"Here we go. I summon the world's first Tuner monster Guardragon Justicia 2 (0,2100) in defence mode." Azrael yelled.
"And don't forget that my field spell is still active." Azrael said.
Guardragon Justicia 2 (0,2100) – 1 (200,2300)
Then everyone in the arena gasped and started chatting about the new monster while some complained saying things like 'why don't we get one' and 'that thing is beautiful' but Azrael just ignored the haters.
"Grrr... So you have a new monster but it doesn't impress me. Even with your field bonus your little tuner can't protect you from Tiger Dragon or Blue Eyes White Dragon." Jasmine said angry.
"Good thing it won't be out for long, nor will any of my monsters. I tune my level 1 Guardragon Justicia with my level 3 Dwelling Dragon and level 4 Mecha Sea Dragon Plesion to SYNCHRO SUMMON HOPE DIAMOND DRAGON 8 (2500,2000). IT'S TIME TO SINK OR SWIM. Plus, the effect of my field spell boosts his ATK/DEF by 200." Azrael said proudly.
Hope Diamond Dragon 8 (2500-2000) – 7 (2700,2200)
Then the crowd lost their minds at the sight of Hope Diamond Dragon and some began to cheer for Azrael while some remained silent as they didn't want to cheer for what they consider a freak.
"This duel is mine if that is the best you can do. Your pathetic dragon is no match for my Blue Eyes White Dragon even with your little field boost." Jasmine said unimpressed.
"Good thing Blue Eyes White Dragon isn't the target, your Divine Dragon Ragnarok is, attack with Wave of Hope." Azrael said.
Hope Diamond Dragon 7 (2700,2200) VS Divine Dragon Ragnarok 4 (1500,1000)
Then Hope Diamond Dragon flew up and brought its wings close to its body before opening them up really quick and then three spiraling streams of water erupted from the wings at Divine Dragon Ragnarok which obliterated it.
Azrael: 2400 LP
Jasmine: 2200 - 1000 LP
"With that I end my turn." Azrael said with a grin on his face.
"About time you finished you were starting to put me to sleep. I draw and I play the spell card Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your Aquarium Stage." Jasmine said.
Then a strong whirlwind formed and started heading towards Aquarium Stage. Once the whirlwind hit it was immediately destroyed.
"Now all your monsters can't be saved by your pathetic continuous spell card." Jasmine said. Then Azrael growled as he knew what she would do next.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA." You're finished you freak. Blue Eyes White Dragon finish off that pathetic Hope Diamond Dragon with White Lightning." Jasmine said with an evil grin.
Hope Diamond Dragon 7 (2700,2000) VS Blue Eyes White Dragon 8 (3000,2500)
"Oh no if Azrael's dragon falls he won't have anything left to stop the rest of her monster from destroying the rest of his life points." Bruce said worried.
Then Blue Eyes White Dragon fired its white beam at Hope Diamond Dragon and when it hit, Hope Diamond Dragon exploded.
Then Azrael smiled as the smoke cleared. Jasmine then gasped as she saw 2 Blue eyes glowing at her through the smoke. Then the smoke fully cleared to show that Hope Diamond Dragon survived the attack and didn't seem to be harmed at all.
"What the heck just happened? How did your dragon survive my attack?" Jasmine asked confused.
"How is it still on the field?" Bruce asked also confused.
"Simple, my dragon's ATK points were higher than yours." Azrael said with a grin.
Hope Diamond Dragon 7 (2700,2200) – (4200,2200)
"But your dragon's ATK points should only be 2700. How did its power increase?" Jasmine asked.
"It's quite simple. I activated my newest Trap Card Synchro Strike which can only be used when a Synchro monster attacks or is attacked. It increases the attack points of my Synchro monster by 500 for every monster used to Synchro Summon it. Since I used 3 monsters to Synchro Summon my dragon it gains 1500 ATK points for a total of 4200 ATK points." Azrael explained.
*CRACK*
Jasmine looked at Blue Eyes White Dragon and saw it began to break apart and crumble away as she realised that she has lost the duel completely and it was because of her own attack. She had no one to blame but herself. She then dropped to her knees in shame.
Azrael: 2400 LP
Jasmine: 1000 - 0 LP
Winner: Azrael
"All right he won." Bruce said cheerfully.
"Looks like I win. Listen despite who I'm related to I'm not my father so you shouldn't judge me because of my father's actions, but I understand you wanted to protect the other students. You're a great duellist and despite all the insults you've earned my respect. I hope we can be friends at the academy." Azrael said kindly.
"I need time to think this through Vortex. I'll see you at the academy." Jasmine said as she walked away.
"See you there." Azrael said also walking away back towards Bruce.
"Dude that was incredible. I can't believe that you beat Blue Eyes White Dragon that's one of the strongest cards in all of Duel Monsters." Bruce said very impressed.
"Thanks man. Honestly even I can't believe I was able to beat that thing." Azrael said out of breath.
"Well while you rest you mind if I see those new cards of yours?" Bruce asked.
"As long as you don't pull an underwood on them then sure." Azrael said slightly laughing as he handed the 4 cards to Bruce.
"Thanks man. Wow these cards are awesome man but you never used these ones." Bruce said as he showed Azrael the other three cards.
"Next time I'll play that card alright man?" Azrael said.
"Sure thing buddy." Bruce said as he handed Azrael his cards back.
"All those who have passed the exam step outside to receive your blazers if not better luck next time." said a voice over the intercom.
Then they both walked outside the arena to receive their blazers for the academy (same designs as GX jackets just different colours), Bruce's jacket was parakeet green while Azrael's was ocean blue.
"Well done my son I just knew you would pass the test." said a female voice.
Azrael and Bruce then looked to their side and saw Sally walking up to them.
"Whose that Azrael? Bruce asked.
"That would be my mother Bruce." Azrael said.
"Oh, nice to meet you Ms. Vortex my name is Bruce Huntsman." Bruce said.
"It's nice to meet you to Bruce. My son has told me all about you and I'm glad you are my son's friend. So Azrael how did the new cards help you?" Sally asked.
"It was thanks to these cards I was able to win Mum." Azrael said.
"It's too bad I couldn't be here to watch your match honey." Sally said.
"Well how about the next best thing then?" Pegasus said walking up to them.
"Hello again Pegasus. What do you mean by the next best thing?" Sally asked.
"I recorded the whole duel on video for research purposes and I made a copy in case Azrael wanted something to remember his first victory with his synchro monster." Pegasus said as he handed the disc case to Sally.
"Thank you very much Pegasus. I can't thank you enough for everything you have done for us." Sally said grateful.
"What does she mean by that Azrael?" Bruce asked.
"I'll explain in a minute buddy." Azrael replied.
"Well I'll be on my way. Now that I have had my field test, I need to get back to my company to create more cards for the world to enjoy goodbye." Pegasus said walking away.
"Bye." Azrael, Sally and Bruce said.
"So Ms Vortex what has Pegasus done for you guys the curiosity is killing me." Bruce said.
"I think Azrael should be the one to tell you that." Sally said looking at Azrael.
"I won a contest and now because of that Pegasus is going to make hundreds of tuner and synchro monsters and sell them worldwide not only that he also said since it was my idea he would split the profits with us." Azrael explained.
"Dude you're probably the luckiest guy in the whole city." Bruce said amazed.
"Normally I'd disagree but now I really just can't." Azrael said slightly chuckling.
"Okay Azrael its time to go home. Now that you've passed the exams you need to pack your things. You need to get ready for ABYSS ACADMEY." Jasmine said.
Next time Chapter 2: A Ride to a New Friendship
Watch GX episode 38 Get Yar Game On to get ready for chapter 2.
Thank you all for reading the first chapter. Let me know what you think I will try to update as much and as soon as possible so until next time enjoy.