"Wait, what?" came Melissa's reply. She had not been expecting to battle at all, though, she didn't know WHAT to expect. "Yes, battle! Now, in order to battle, you will need a Dueling Platform. We used to use Duel Disks, but these are much better." He held up his arm, and on his arm was a rectangle with card-shaped markings on it. These markings looked as though they constructed a board of some kind. He went over to one of the tables, picked up a second Duel Platform, and gave it to her.
"Now, let's duel!" the boy called. He grabbed his deck out of his pocket and placed it in one of the card areas, where it began to glow. "Now yours." Melissa picked her deck up and placed it on her own duel disk, where it started glowing. "Also, place your extra deck, which are the black, white, and purple cards, into your Extra Deck zone." He did the same.
"Now, I will go first, just to teach you how to duel. First, each player draws five cards." They each did so. "Next, I start my turn by drawing. Then," he said with a glint in his eye, "I set two spell or trap cards on my side of the field, here and here," two cards suddenly started hovering in front of him, "then I normal summon Obnoxious Celtic Guardian!" He took a few steps back, and placed one more card face-up on his platform. Suddenly, in front of him and the other two cards, a third one appeared, but face-up. Then, the Obnoxious Celtic Guardian arose from the card. Melissa screamed while the boy laughed maniacally.
After he stopped laughing, the boy said, "Sorry, but your face was priceless! So, I can only normal summon or set one card per turn, so I will end my turn here. However, just so you know: Obnoxious Celtic Guardian has an attack power of 1400, so anything above that will destroy my monster. If you destroy a monster in attack position, you will deal Life Point damage to me. Do you see that number above your head?"
Although she hadn't noticed it before, both her and her opponent had numbers floating above their heads. Each of them said 8000. "That number is your Life Points. If it goes to zero, you lose the duel." Melissa drew her first card. She looked at it, and the rest of her hand. "Before you do anything, you should know something: My monster has an effect. That effect prevents Obnoxious Celtic Guardian from being destroyed by any monster with a higher attack stat than 2000." She looked at her hand again.
Her hand consisted of Phantom King Hydride, Call of the Haunted, Exodia the Forbidden One, Dark Magician Girl, Magician's Circle, and Buster Blader. She almost gasped when she looked at her Phantom King Hydride. At 1500 attack power, it could destroy his monster! "I start by setting two cards." She placed her Call of the Haunted and Magician's Circle in her Spell and Trap section. "Then I summon Phantom King Hydride in attack position!" It appeared in front of her, mighty and true. "Phantom King, attack and destroy his Obnoxious Celtic Guardian!" The Phantom King attacked, and Obnoxious Celtic Guardian shattered into digitizing pieces. The boy's Life Points also went down by 100. "Yes! Sorry about your monster though."
"Don't be! Yours is going next, anyway," the boy replied with a smirk.