Disclaimer: I don't own YGO...unfortunately (I'd make a lot of money!) This chapter and chapter 1 were originally the same chapter. However, upon finishing the duel, I decided to split the two up. That, and NOT continue the super-long chapter that would have been chapter 1. So now instead of chapter 1 (and possibly 2), I have chapters 1, 2, 3 (and possibly 4) if everything goes well.

Legends of the Demon Duelist-Dragon Arc

Chapter 2: An Animated Duel

"Congratulations on your performance on the written exam." said another man, this one in a blue coat accompanied with thin-frame glasses. "The final requirement for entrance is that each of you duel a proctor. Out of all of the victors, the students who scored highest on the entrance examination will be admitted into the academy." explained the administrator.

Adriel waited nervously, but as the duels went in cycles of four, he had to wait about an hour and a half to duel. Finally, however... "Examinees numbers 17 through 20, please enter the arenas!"

Adriel stepped into an arena where a man in a white coat with half-frame glasses was waiting for him. It was the very same man who had checked his deck. "Welcome to your entrance examination! Since your number is so high, all you have to do is beat me to get guaranteed access into the academy!" the man said in enthusiasm.

"Thank you, sir." Adriel replied, remembering to be respectful.

"Now then, we'll begin the duel. It's policy to let newcomers make the first move." the proctor said as he drew five cards and waited patiently for Adriel to move.

"Alright..." muttered Adriel as he drew a sixth card. "I'll start our duel by summoning Luster Dragon #2 in attack mode." (1900/1600) A dragon composed of what appeared to be living sapphire appeared in front of Adriel. "Then I'll set two cards face down and end my turn."

"My move." Adriel's opponent called. "I'll summon a monster in defense mode along with one card face down for now." Two brown-backed cards appeared in front of the proctor.

"I draw again." Adriel said, observing his options. "Now I summon Masked Dragon in defense mode." A red and white dragon appeared in front of Adriel, before the card it was standing on shattered and it fell into a pit, which closed up afterwards.

"Your monster fell into my Trap Hole card." his opponent stated, showing Adriel the trap before putting it in his graveyard.
"Darn..." Adriel said, cursing himself for making such a rookie mistake. "I attack your facedown monster!" he shouted as his dragon launched itself at the facedown monster.

"Another hasty move. My monster was Hane Hane, meaning your monster is sent back to your hand." Adriel looked on in depression as his Luster Dragon shrunk and flew backwards into its card.

"Now it's my move again. I'll activate the card I just drew, Toon World, at a cost of 1000 life points." Adriel's opponent's field warped as a green-backed book opened and laid itself in his monster zones. "Since I've played Toon World, I'll be able to summon Toon Mermaid to the field." (1400/1500) A cartoonish mermaid appeared on the proctor's field, lying inside of a giant clam. "However, my monster cannot attack on the turn it was summoned, so I set a card and end my move."
Adriel drew a card and smiled. "I re-summon Luster Dragon #2 and activate Stamping Destruction!" Adriel's dragon reappeared on the field and flew at his opponent's field. "This card destroys one spell or trap card and deals you 500 points of damage." Adriel said. However, his dragon was stopped.

"I activated the card Toon Jammer since Toon World is on the field. I discard one card from my hand. It negates one spell card and bounces the effect back to you." his opponent replied calmly as Adriel's life points dipped by 500 and one of his set cards was destroyed.

Adriel paused. "Fine then. I attack your monster with Luster Dragon #2!" The dragon fired off several shards of sapphire, which struck the mermaid and destroyed it. (A LP: 3500 P LP: 2500)

"Very good play, but now it's my move." Adriel's opponent drew his card.

"I now activate Toon Attraction! Working like Toon Jammer, this card lets me take control of one of your monsters for the duration of my turn if Toon World is on the field. Furthermore, if that monster leaves the field, I gain life points equal to that monster's base attack points." Adriel's dragon flew over to his opponent's side of the field.

"No!" shouted Adriel.

"Yes...sorry. Now I sacrifice-"

Suddenly, a card flipped itself on Adriel's field. "You activated Dragon's Egg! This card creates an Egg Token on both of our fields." (/0/0/EARTH/Dragon) Two dragon eggs appeared, one on Adriel's field and one on the proctor's field. "This card returns your field to how it was before the summoning of your monster with the addition of the egg token."

The proctor sighed. "Very well. I guess I have to end my turn."

Adriel's dragon returned to his field next to his egg. "Next, the effect of the egg tokens reveals itself. During our main phases, each of us have two options: summon a level four or lower dragon from our decks, or gain 500 life points." As Adriel said this, his egg transformed into a dragon with a sharp, elongated nose. "Spear Dragon is my choice." (1900/0)

"Excellent, I see your strategy. You plan to attack my dragon egg with Spear Dragon, dealing trample damage to my life points, and then attack directly with Luster Dragon." the man said, applauding lightly.

"Yes...I do. But since you have no spell or trap cards, you won't be able to stop me. Spear Dragon, Gale Strike!" A burst of wind erupted out of Spear Dragon's mouth, but was reflected by the egg and launched straight at Adriel. (A LP: 1600 P LP: 2500)

"What happened?" Adriel asked.

"The card I discarded earlier for the effect of Toon Jammer was a card known as Toon Defense. It can only be activated from the graveyard if I was the one to send it there. I negate one of your attacks, you lose life points equal to the attack of your monster, and the target of your attack is cloned until destroyed." The Proctor suddenly had two eggs on his field instead of one. "However, all monsters I summon for the next turn, including the monsters currently on the field, are switched into defense mode until the end of my next turn."

"Is it my move?" Adriel asked. The proctor nodded in response.

"Then I'll continue my attack by destroying one of your eggs with Luster Dragon #2." Adriel's other dragon threw itself at one of the two eggs that Adriel's opponent had created. The egg cracked and disappeared.

"My turn." the proctor said as he drew. "I now use your token to gain 500 life points." (A LP: 1600 P LP: 3000) "Since I have no monsters on my field, I will defend with this monster in defense mode." A brown card appeared in front of him. "I then set one card face down and end my turn."

Adriel drew his card. He looked at what he had drawn and smiled. "I sacrifice Spear Dragon for Cyber Dragon!" (2100/1600) The first of Adriel's three dragons appeared on the field, roaring.

"So, you've gotten your first dragon onto the field. However, I won't let you fuse your best monster. Activate set card, Toon Jar!" A gigantic cookie jar appeared on the field, sucking in Adriel's Cyber Dragon. "Toon Jar is a continuous trap card whose effect states that I can choose one sub-type of monster. As long as this card is on the field, monsters of that type are considered to be 'in the jar'. This means that you cannot attack or defend with them. Nor can you take your monster off of the field in any way...most notably through a fusion."

Adriel paled in response. "Not good...but at least I can run through your defenses now! Luster Dragon, attack his set monster!" A thick stream of jagged sapphire blasted into the set card, shredding it. However, the sapphire spikes merely bounced off of a rounded shell of ice. That shell shattered violently, taking away 100 of Adriel's life points.

"Toon Aqua Madoor has 2000 defense points, 100 more than the attack points of your dragon." the proctor stated, drawing a card. "Now, however, I sacrifice it for something stronger! Come out, Toon Summoned Skull!" (2500/1200) A blue version of Summoned Skull with big, googly yellow eyes popped out of its card. "And it seems that you do not have any cards to protect yourself with, either. Attack his Luster Dragon!"

Several bolts of blue electricity shot out at Adriel's creature, which was instantly destroyed. Adriel's life points passed the 1000 line. (A LP: 900 P LP: 3000)

"I have to turn this around!" Adriel grunted in frustration, drawing his card. He looked his hand over. (Cyber Dragon, Cyber Dragon, DNA Injection, Pot of Greed) "I've got four cards. I'll play Pot of Greed, but I haveto draw a card that can destroy his jar!" Adriel hesitantly pulled out his Pot of Greed card. "I activate Pot of Greed!" Adriel said as he drew two new cards. "Power Bond...just great. Why now? I could've used it last turn to fuse my dragons! Not like it'd have mattered, he'd just have sucked my stronger monster into the jar. I might as well forfeit, not like a De-Fusion card helps me without a fusion monster..."

Adriel reached for his deck, feeling very upset that his life was about to be over...for the next year until the academy started calling for applications again. However...

"Did you know that when the jar is empty, it's destroyed?" asked Adriel's opponent.

"Huh...what?" Adriel asked, no longer reaching for his deck.

"Oh, nothing...just a thought..." the proctor said nonchalantly as he fiddled with his hair.

"What does that mean? ...wait." Adriel surveyed his five-card hand again. "Why is he helping me? I would've surrendered, but now I've won! I'll thank him later, I guess." Adriel said to himself, pulling out one of his cards. "I play the card DNA Injection!"

A giant hypodermic needle appeared on the field with a clear liquid inside of it. The needle dropped itself into the proctor's jar, and seconds later, Adriel's Cyber Dragon flew out of it. Its surface, however, was now composed of dragon scales, not metal. The jar, now empty, exploded into dust. "DNA Injection changes the sub-type of any monster I choose until I say otherwise. Then, if that monster is destroyed, I can summon out a monster of the same sub-type I changed the original monster into. However, that won't be necessary, because I now cancel the effect of DNA Injecetion and activate Power Bond!"

Adriel's other two Cyber Dragons appeared on either side of the first. The three of them were sucked into a vortex, tail end first, until all that remained on the surface were their heads. The monsters began to glow and the vortex disappeared, leaving one monster in their wake. "Cyber End Dragon is called to the field!" (4000/3500) The monster had three heads attached to one sinewy metal body, from which two wings erupted. "Thanks to Power Bond, my monster's attack points become doubled for the turn, making them 8000!" (8000/3500)

"The duel is mine! Cyber End Dragon, attack Toon Summoned Skull with Eternal Evolution Burst!"

Three orange balls of light charged in the dragon's three mouths. They erupted in a blast of energy, all targeting the proctor's fiend, which stood no chance. A monumental 5500 life points later, the proctor was down to zero life points, and Adriel had won the duel. "I did it...I'm in!" Adriel thought to himself as his dragon roared one more time before the holograms shut off.