Chapter 17, Chazz it up.

Far away from duel academy, out in the middle of the sea, drifted the Princeton family yacht half sunk into the water, shortly after leaving duel academy the yacht had been caught in a terrible storm and was badly damaged.

Everyone on board was killed in the storm except for Chazz, the radio was destroyed so Chazz had no choice but to wait for help, however in his time waiting Chazz had run out of both food and water and was beginning to feel weak.

Chazz leaned on the edge of the yacht thinking about what led him here "Stupid Crowler setting me up to fail, stupid Robin making me look bad in front of my friends, stupid Jaden ruining my reputation".

Chazz stopped and thought more about that last name "Jaden, I hate you, if I ever see you again I will reduce you too nothing, that's all you are nothing", Chazz felt his anger reach it's peek "I HATE YOU JADEN" he screamed at the top of his lungs.

Chazz pulled his deck out of his pocket and looked at each of his cards, "And you, each and every one of you failed me" he said to the cards, Chazz started to take each of his cards and ripped them up then throw them into the sea, "None of you are any good to me anyway" he said as he destroyed his last card.

After destroying all of his cards Chazz laid down on the deck on the boat, he hadn't had anything to eat or drink for the past two days and he was feeling tired, to make matters worse to was starting to get colder chunks of ice had started to appear in the water, "I'll just go to sleep for five minutes" thought Chazz as he shut his eyes shut fell into unconsciousness.

"Hey wake up" came a high pitched voice, "Come on boss wake up" said the voice, Chazz woke to find himself laying on a cold stone flour, he quickly jumped up realising that he wasn't on his yacht anymore.

Chazz looked around at his surroundings, he was standing on a stone path leading up to a large gold building with thick walls around it, everywhere else he looked he could see nothing but ice and snow.

"Hey are you ok boss" said the high pitched voice, Chazz turned around to see who was talking to him only to see that no one was there, "Hey I'm up here" said the voice, Chazz looked up to see a translucent Ojama yellow floating above his head.

Chazz fell over in surprise "What, what are you" he said, "What's the matter didn't you know you could see duel spirits boss" said Yellow, "What do you mean" asked Chazz, "Well boss it means you can see the spirits of monster cards" said Yellow.

Chazz stood up and walked away from Ojama yellow and towards the gold building, "Maybe they have a phone I can use to call for help" thought Chazz, as he walked down the path Ojama yellow followed next to him, "So, where are we going boss" said Yellow.

Chazz stopped walking "Why are you following me, and why are you calling me boss" he asked, "Well you've got my card so that makes you my boss doesn't it" said Yellow pointing to Chazz's pocket "What are you talking about, I don't have" said Chazz but he stopped when he put his hand into his pocket only to pull out a Ojama yellow card.

"How did I get this" asked Chazz, "I don't know, all I know is your my new boss" said Yellow, "Not for long" thought Chazz as he tried to throw the card over his shoulder, however no matter how hard he tried Chazz couldn't let go of the card, after several attempts Chazz gave up and placed the card back in his pocket then continued walking to the gold building.

After several minutes of walking Chazz reached the wall of the building, in front of him stood a giant door which was closed, Chazz approached the door and banged on it as hard as he could, "Hey is anyone in there, I need to use your phone" he shouted.

"I'm afraid they won't answer" said a voice, Chazz turned to see a man just off of the stone path sitting next to a fire with three small fish skewered and cooking in the fire, the man had short black hair and clearly hadn't shaved for a few days, he was dressed in worn and tattered clothing.

"What do you mean" asked Chazz approaching the man, "North academy won't let anyone in, at least not without a deck of at least forty cards" said the man, "So this is North academy" thought Chazz, "And how am I supposed to get any cards here, I don't see any shops nearby" said Chazz.

"There are cards scattered all around, on top of glaciers, inside caves, even inside water tight cases hidden under the icy water" explained the man, "And how many have you found" asked Chazz, "Thirty-nine, but I'm just too tired to look for another one" said the man sadly.

"Well I guess I should start looking" said Chazz as he started to walk away, "Wait, you can't go like that, you look half starved, here have some fish first" said the man offering Chazz a fish and a small canteen of water.

Chazz looked at the food and felt him stomach growl so he took the food and water and quickly devoured both, "Thank you" said Chazz for the first time in his life he truly felt grateful.

After thanking the man Chazz left to search for forty cards, "Now I wish I hadn't torn up my old deck" he thought, it didn't take long for Chazz to learn that finding forty cards was not going to be as easy as he thought.

On his search Chazz had to clime dangerously high and slippery glaciers, explore dark caves only to be attacked by bats, and dive into ice water and avoided being eaten by sharks, at one point Chazz was almost attacked by a polar bear only to escape by throwing his expensive watch in the other direction to distract the bear.

After many hours and hardships Chazz finally had collected enough cards to enter North academy, returning to the door Chazz could see the man was still there and appeared to have fallen asleep by the fire.

Chazz was about to knock on the door however he couldn't help but look at the man who had helped him earlier, sighing Chazz walked up to the man and tapped him on the shoulder waking him up.

"Oh it's you, how did your search go" said the man, "Well it wasn't easy, but I managed to find enough cards to enter" said Chazz, "That's good to hear, I wish you the best of luck in there" said the man.

Chazz smiled "I said I found enough cards, I didn't said I found forty" he said, "What do you mean" asked the now confused man, "I found forty-one cards, the extra one's for you" said Chazz pulling the top card from his deck and handing it to the man.

The man looked at the card with tears in his eyes, "You did this for me, thank you, thank you so much" he said as he hugged Chazz making Chazz feel very uncomfortable, the man let go and ran up to the door "Aren't you coming" he asked, "No, I think I'll make my own entrance later" said Chazz, "If you say so" said the man.

The man held his now complete deck in the air "I've finally got forty cards, you can let me in" he shouted, after a couple of minutes the doors opened and the man ran inside before the doors quickly closed again leaving Chazz outside.

Chazz sat down by the fire "Nice work Chazz, now you only have thirty-nine cards" he thought, despite knowing that he would have to search for another card Chazz couldn't help but feel good about helping the man, "I guess I can just find another one" he thought.

Why'll siting down Chazz put his hands in his pockets and was surprised to feel a card inside of one, Chazz pulled out the card and looked at it in amazement "How did I get this, I'm sure I didn't find this card" he thought, Chazz slipped the Inferno tempest spell card into his deck "Well it doesn't matter, at least now I have forty cards".

Chazz approached the door "Let me in, I have forty cards" he shouted, the door opened and Chazz walked inside, inside it was much warmer, there was a glass roof keeping the snow out and there was several wooden buildings all around, Chazz felt relieved to be out of the cold.

Suddenly about fifty people appeared all wearing ether brown or black coats clearly they was all North academy students, Chazz looked at the students and saw that the two in front was dragging the man who he had helped get inside.

Chazz was shocked to see the students throw the man to the ground "Leave north academy and never come back" said one of the students, Chazz stepped in between the man and the students "What are you doing, you can't just throw him out into the cold" he said.

Many of the students began to laugh at what Chazz said "Why not, he's weak, not even worthy of being called a duellist let alone staying at North academy, why shouldn't we throw him out" said one student.

"Well just because he's not a very good duellist that doesn't mean you can treat him like this" said Chazz, however even as he said these words he realised that he himself used to act just like these students when he was at Duel academy.

"Step aside" said a voice with a Russian accent, all the students stepped aside making way for a large young man with a small beard, "If you want to change his fate than first you must become king of North academy" he said.

"And how do I do that" asked Chazz, "You must defeat all of us, starting with the lowest and working your way up to me, Yuri Edogawa, Czar of north academy" said the large man, "Well if that's what it takes to reach the top then line-up" said Chazz preparing to duel all the students.

Chazz started to duel the students one by one, as the deck he had was made up of random cards some of which was very weak Chazz found himself struggling in many of his early duels, as time went on however Chazz learned to make up strategies on the go and to make the best out of what he had, eventually Chazz started duelling better than he ever had in his life.

Although he had many close calls Chazz managed to fight his way through all of the north academy students until the only one left was Yuri, "So Czar are you ready to be dethroned" said Chazz, "Don't be so sure, I have seen you duel so many times that I know your deck better then you do yourself" said Yuri.

Ojama yellow appeared on Chazz's shoulder, "Careful boss, this guy looks tough" he said, "Leave me alone" whispered Chazz quiet enough so no one but Yellow could hear him, "Now are you prepared to face the Czar of north academy" said Yuri clearly unable to see Ojama yellow.

The duel began with Yuri taking the first turn, "Too start with I activate Ancient rules, this lets me special summon Zoa from my hand, then I play one card face down and end my turn" said Yuri.

Zoa ATK 2600 DEF 1900 LV 7 DARK fiend.

Chazz started his turn "I play a monster in defence mode and one card face down, then I activate Reload this lets me return my hand to the deck, shuffle it, then draw the same number of cards" he said as he drew three new cards then he ended his turn.

Yuri started his turn "I activate Metalmorph and equip it to Zoa, this will increase Zoa's ATK and DEF by 300, now I sacrifice both Zoa and metalmorph to summon Metalzoa from my deck, then I activate Monster reborn to bring back Zoa" said Yuri.

Zoa ATK 2600 + 300 = 2900 DEF 1900 + 300 = 2200.

Metalzoa ATK 3000 DEF 2300 LV 8 DARK machine.

Zoa ATK 2600 DEF 1900 LV 7 DARK fiend.

"Now Zoa destroy his monster" said Yuri, Zoa attacked destroyed Chazz's monster which was Ojama yellow, the Ojama yellow spirit next to Chazz started to cry at seeing himself get destroyed.

Ojama yellow ATK 0 DEF 1000 LV 2 EARTH beast.

"Now Metalzoa attack him directly" Metalzoa attacked Chazz reducing his LP, "I activate my face down card Inferno tempest, I can only use this card when I lose 3000 or more LP in one attack, now we both have too banish all the monsters in our decks and graveyards" said Chazz, "It doesn't matter, my two monsters are strong enough to win this duel on my next turn" said Yuri.

Chazz LP 4000 – 3000 =1000.

"I'm afraid you won't be having another turn" said Chazz as he started his turn, "I summon Gren maju da eiza in attack mode, and for every one of my card that has been banished Gren maju gains 400 ATK and DEF points, and I have twenty-one".

Gren maju de eiza ATK ? DEF ? LV 3 FIRE fiend.

Gren maju de eiza ATK 0 + 8400 = 8400 DEF 0 + 8400 = 8400.

"Now Gren maju destroy Zoa" ordered Chazz, Gren maju destroyed Zoa.

Yuri LP 4000 – 5800 = 0.

Yuri and the rest of the students stared at Chazz in amazement, "Very good Chazz, it seems I was right about you" came a familiar voice, Chazz turned to see the man he had helped only now he was wearing a smart suit and had shaved the stubble from his face.

"What are you talking about" asked Chazz in confusion, "I'm sorry, allow me to introduce myself, I am Chancellor Ichinose Foster head of North academy" said the man, "I found you paced out on your yacht and immediately recognised you, so I set up this little challenge to see if you really are as good as they say" Foster continued.

"So all this was a test" said Chazz, "Yes and you have passed my expectations, and now Chazz I would like to offer you a place here at North academy as our new top student" said Foster.

Chazz looked around and noticed that all the students was bowing to him in respect as if he was a king, Chazz thought about Foster's offer then with a smile he said "I accept".