It had been almost a full week since the start of the new year at Duel Academy, and thanks to Kai's tutoring Yuki had been racking up the wins. However there was a certain trio of Obelisks that were not happy about this. Chazz Princeton was skulking around the empty hallways of the main building of the academy, flanked as always by his two goons. Raizou who was larger than the two, though looked to be all muscle walked along Chazz on the right. Torimaki who was the same height as Chazz wore rounded glasses and had dark blue hair, that had an elongated bang on the right, that he had curled slightly.

"Who does that slacker think he is?" Chazz growled. "Thinking he's a big shot just because he's won a couple of duels. People say he's gonna be the next King of Games!? That's my destiny!"

"But Chazz." Torimaki said. "He's being coached by Kai Murrasame."

"Yeah." Raizou supplied. "And Kai's got the highest marks out of all the second year students."

Chazz let out an exasperated growl. "You two aren't helping! If he keeps winning, then he'll get promoted, and there's only room at the top for one person, and that's me!"

"So what do you want us to do about it Chazz?" Torimaki asked in an attempt to sound helpful, making Chazz stop in his tracks, and look to the blue haired boy at his side. An evil grin slowly spread across the spiky haired Obelisk's face.

"What I want you to do Torimaki, is show that Slifer Slacker what a real dragon duelist is capable of." Chazz said, his evil grin growing.

Yumei smiled brightly as she exited the man building of the academy. She may have had to start in Slifer Red after missing the practical and a full week of classes, but thanks to her parents and her elder brother pulling some strings, Yumei had been allowed to take Duel Academy's written exam. Her score had been so high that Chancellor Sheppard allowed her admittance to the school once the doctors had permitted her to travel.

She slipped the red blazer over her dark under shirt, before frowning and shaking her head. She rolled the jacket's sleeves up so the sleeve stopped just below her elbows. "That's better, now let's see if I can go surprise Yu."

However Yumei never made it past the first step when a rather angry voice caught her attention. "Hey Slifer!"

Yumei turned around with a scowl on her face to see three Obelisks headed her way, and from the looks on their faces, they clearly meant business. "And just what do you three whant?"

"Oh very cute." Chazz growled coming to a stop a few feet away from Yumei. "You think you're a big shot now? Just because you've won every duel you've been in this week, doesn't mean you'll ever get to talk down to an Obelisk!"

'Okay Yu, just what have you been doing?' Yumei thought to herself, but decided to play it off. "Well then, why not put your money where your mouth is hm?"

"While I'd love to be the one that destroys you." Chazz began, a scowl on his face after Yumei's remark about putting up. "Torimaki here has the honor of taking you down."

Torimaki stepped up closer to Chazz, an off-putting smile on his face. "Time to show you how what a real dragon deck can do Slifer Slime."

"Alright, but just so you know, I won't be using my dragon deck today." Yumei replied, hoping her bluff would work. "I just constructed a new deck, and you have the honor of being the first person I take down with it."

Torimaki snarled as he put his duel disk on. "Just shut up and duel."

"Gladly." Yume said with a confident smile.

"Duel!"

Yumei-LP 4000

Torimaki-LP 4000

"Ladies first." Yumei said, drawing her sixth card. "Alright, I'll play the spell card Double Summon. Now I'm able to normal summon two monsters this turn, and I chose Silent Swordsman, and Valkyrian Knight!"

Two monsters appeared on Yumei's field, one a noble looking female, and the second a small and comical looking warrior.

Valkyrian Knight Atk-1900 Def-1600

Silent Swordsman Atk-1000 Def-1000

"Nex, I'll place a card face down, and that will end my turn." A card appeared face down at Yumei's feet behind her two monsters. 'Alright, so far so good. These stooges haven't realized I'm not Yu. Maybe once I beat this guy, I'll let them know.'

"Alright, now it's my draw." Torimaki drew, but Yumei cut him off.

"And my trap activates! Threatening roar, now you can't attack me this turn!" Yumei's trap flipped face up, and a loud roar eminated from the revealed card.

Torimaki growled. "Fine, I'll activate Cost Down, lowering my monsters level at the cost of one card." The Obelisk selected one card, and placed it into his graveyard. "Now I'll summon Luster Dragon Number Two!"

A large dragon with silver colored scales emerged in front of Torimaki Atk-2400 Def-1200. "See the difference between us yet Slifer? I can pull out strong monsters in one turn, where it takes you three to get your strongest on the field."

'Obviously talking about Horus … or he could be mentioning my Silent Swordsman, but that doesn't matter.' Yumei shook her head as she drew her next card. "One good move on your first turn doesn't mean there's a gap in skill."

Torimaki scowled yet again. "What are you talking about?"

"I'll show you." Yumei replied, revealing a card from her hand. "I'll play Pot of Greed, now I can draw two more cards. Then I'll tribute my Silent Swordsman Level Three, and special Summon my Silent Swordsman."

The small cartoonish looking warrior vanished, to be replaced with a far more serious looking version of the monster Yumei had just tributed. Atk-1000 Def-1000. "Then I'll summon my second Valkyrian Knight, and end my turn."

Torimaki scoffed. "Nothing in your back row? No wonder you're in Slifer. Now watch this, I'll discard the Thunder Dragon I have in my hand, to get two more. Then I'll use Pollymarization and fuse them together. So come on out Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon!"

A large orange scaled dragon with two heads appeared on Torimaki's field. Atk-2800 Def-2100. "Now, Thunder Dragon attack!"

"Not happening." Yumei said while shaking her head. "You see with my Valkyrian Knight on the field, you can't attack any monster on my field but her. And I have two of them, so that means you can't attack!"

"Lucky move." Torimaki frowned. "Fine, I'll set a card face down and end my turn."

"Complain all you want, bring out all the strong monsters you want, unless you get rid of my knights, you can't attack me!" Yumei drew her next card, and her Silent Swordsman's attack increased.

Silent Swordsman Atk-1500

"Even better, now I'll attack you with my Silent Swordsman!" Yumei declared which shocked the three Obelisks. "Destroy Thunder Dragon!"

"You're crazy, if you want to lose life points and your monster, then be my guest." Torimaki said shrugging.

"Crazy, hardly. Because I have the quick play spell Silent Sword Slash!" Yumei inserted the spell card into her duel disk. "Now my monster's attack increases by 1500!"

Silent Swordsman Atk-3000

Torimaki's eyes widened. "That's not happening, because I have a trap waiting. Sakuretsu Armor!"

Yumei only smirked as her monster destroyed Thunder dragon, making the Obelisk's points drop.

Torimaki-LP 3800

"What the hell!? Your attacking monster should have been destroyed by my trap! What did you do!?" Torimaki demanded.

"It's the effect of my spell card." Yumei explained. "See my Swordsman isn't affected by my opponent's card effects the turn I activate Silent Sword Slash, so looks like you just wasted your trap. And it looks like it's my turn, and my monster's attack grows."

Silent Swordsman Atk-2000

"And next, I'll give him the equip card Lightning Blade, boosting my monster's attack by 800!" As Yumei placed the card into her duel disk, a longsword crackling with electricity appeared in front of her Silent Swordsman, which was taken by the warrior.

Silent Swordsman Atk-2800

"Now Silent Swordsman attack Luster Dragon!' Yumei ordered, for her monster to behead Torimaki's dragon, which caused it to explode in a cloud of Pixels.

Torimaki-LP 3400

"Now my Valkyrian Knights are ending this, attack!" Both of Yumei's monsters charged forward, slashing Torimaki in such a way that their blades created an X-shaped pattern.

Torimaki-LP 0000

"And that's game over." Yumei said, as her duel disk deactivated. "Real dragon duelist huh? I didn't see much."

"You think this is over Slifer?" Torimaki growled, as he got back to his feet.

"Yeah it is." Yumei said, as she descended the academy steps. "Especially I'm not the person you were looking for." Yumei laughed as she walked away, headin for the Slifer dorms. "Jeez what a bunch of idiots."

Close to the Slifer dorms, another duel was taking place. This one between Yuki and a Ra, specifically Bastion Misawa. Bastion had challenged Yuki, as the Slifer had mentioned a second deck he hadn't used in years. On Bastion's field were two brown colored dinosaur looking monsters called Hydrogedon. Yuki's side of the field consisted of three spellcaster monsters: Maha Vailo, Neo the Magic Swordsman, and Black Magician Girl.

"My draw." Bastion said drawing his next card. "And I summon Oxygedon in attack mode!"

"Not so fast Bastion, I have a trap!" Yuki said, revealing his face down card. "Dark Renewal!"

Bastion's eyes widened in shock. "You had that card in your deck?"

"Yeah, and now since you normal summoned a monster, I can activate it." Yuki explained. "By sacrificing Maha Vailo, and your Oxygedon, I can bring my Black Magician back from the graveyard!

Both Bastion's and Yuki's monsters vanished into a black coffin that had materialized from Yuki's trap card, and from that same coffin emerged Yuki's Black Magician. The artwork on the card was almost transparent, and the monster itself had faded teal armor, white hair, and pale skin.

"And because Maha Vailo had Black Pendant equipped to it, you lose 500 points Bastion." Yuki discarded the equip card into the graveyard.

Bastion-LP 2000

Bastion smiled. "Well played indeed Yuki, now I believe it's your move."

"Right then, I draw, and I'll play Black Burning Attack!" Yuki revealed the spell card to Bastion.

"But that…" Bastion said shocked that Yuki had drawn not only that card, but the card he needed to win.

"Destroys all monsters on my opponent's field, provided I have a Black Magician Girl!" Yuki's Black Magician Girl pointed her staff at both Hydrogedon's and blasted them off the field with two orbs of black energy.

"Now go Black Magician! Black Magic Attack!" Yuki ordered his monster. Black Magician raised his staff, and shot a stream of black energy at Bastion, which struck him in the stomach.

Bastion-LP 0000

"Well done." Bastion smiled, getting back to his feet. Black Magician's attack had knocked him down to one knee. "For not dueling with that deck in years, you didn't seem to have lost your edge with it."

'He's right partner.' Neo's spirit said to Yuki. 'You should use us more often, now that you remember how that deck of yours works.'

"Thanks Bastion. It felt good to duel with my spellcasters again. Especially after dueling five days in a row with my dragons." Yuki shook the Ra's hand, as Jaden and Cyrus approached the two.

"Sweet duel Yuki. I didn't know you used spellcasters." Jaden said, his perpetual smile on his face.

"But what was up with that Black Magician?" Cyrus asked curiously. "It looked different than Yugi Muoto's."

"Take a look for yourself." Yuki said, showing the three the ghost rare artwork of his Black Magician card. Jaden, Cyrus, and Bastion looked from the heavily rare card, to Yuki, and back again. "I take it you want an explenation? There's really nothing to explain, I was just constructing my deck for Battle City, and I pulled this Black Magician card out of one of the packs."

"If you made this deck for Battle City." Bastion mused. "How is it you never made it to the finals?"

Yuki felt a jolt of anger shoot through his stomach. "Because my locator card was stolen from me by that cheating insect duelist, Weevil Underwood. And he didn't even duel me for it."

"That's just wrong." Jaden frowned.

"Yeah." Cyrus chimed in. "People like that give all duelists a bad name."

"Tell me about it." Yuki said, taking a deep breath to calm himself down. "So instead I gave my deck to my older brother Yuri."

"Woah, hold on!" Jaden looked shocked at this new piece of information. "Your older brother is Yuri Hyoudou?"

"Yeah. How did you not make that connection?" Yuki laughed, as Bastion cleared his throat. "With the exception of Bastion, how did you not make that connection?"

"I guess I never put it together." Jade laughed, rubbing the back of his head.

"Well Yu isn't the only one related to Yuri." Yumei said from behind her twin, makin his eyes go wide. Yuki whirled around, coming face to face with his sister.

"Yumei?" He asked, as Jaden and Cyrus peeked around their classmate. "When…? How…?"

Yumei laughed at how shocked her twin was. "To answer both questions: I got here … about an hour ago."

Yumei proceeded to explain her first hour on the island, including every detail of her duel with Torimaki, in that he along with Raizou and Chazz had confused Yumei for her twin. And how she had defeated Torimaki in three turns.

"Very impressive." Bastion said, nodding in approval. "Oh, I am sorry. Where are my manners? Bastion Misawa."

"Yumei Hyoudou." She smiled and shook Bastion's hand. "And you two are?"

"Oh right." Yuki said, lightly nudging Jaden and Cyrus forward. "Yumei, this is Jaden Yuki and Cyrus Trusedale."

"Nice to meet the both of you." Yumei, said shaking their hands. "And Trusedale? Any relation to Zane Trusedale?"

"Y-yeah…" Cyrus said looking at his shoes, making everyone give the small boy some confused looks. But they had no time to ask what was bothering Cyrus, when someone called out Yuki's name.

"Hey, Yuki!" Everyone looked up to see Kai and Dr. Crowler approaching the group.

"Hey Kai, a-and what brings you here Dr. Crowler?" Yuki asked, feeling confused as it was no secret that the headmaster of Obelisk had no love for the Slifer students, despite whatever respect he seemed to have for Yuki.

"I wanted to tell you the good news in person." Dr. Crowler said smiling. "Now, I just saw who I believed, and I may add correctly believed to be your sister dueling one of my Obelisks, and soundly defeating him."

"Oh umm thank you…" Yumei looked to Yuki for some help.

"Dr. Crowler." Yuki supplied.

"Dr. Crowler." Yumei parroted. "But in reality he was looking for Yuki."

"Yes, he said as much." Crowler replied. "Now onto what I came here to say: You said you wouldn't accept being placed into a higher dorm until after your sister arrived. Since she's here now, you don't have any excuse. On monday, you will have a promotion duel, and should you win, you will be immediately promoted to the Ra dorms."