Chapter 19, Duel academy's top student.
At the Slifer dorm Jaden and Syrus was in the dining room duelling each other, they had decided not to use their duel disks and was playing on the table with a couple of playmats instead.
Syrus was supposed to go home for the holidays but had received an email from his parents two days before the holidays telling him that they was visiting his uncle in America and he would have to stay at Duel academy.
Jaden was currently wining the duel, but it was Syrus's turn next.
Jaden LP 1800.
Jaden's field E HERO flame wingman (attack mode) one card face down two cards in hand.
Syrus LP 600.
Syrus's field Gyroid (face up defence mode) three cards in hand.
Syrus drew his card and saw that he just drew Power bond, Syrus was about to use the card when he remembered what his brother had told him "You're not ready to play that card, you'll never be ready until you learn the difference between playing a card and using a card, now never play that card until you're ready".
The memory hurt Syrus to the core, "Why do I even keep this card in my deck, I'll never be ready to play it" he thought sadly as he reached for the card next to Power bond.
"I activate Polymerization to fuse my Gyroid on the field and my Steamroid in my hand to summon Steam gyroid" said Syrus, "Now I attack your monster and end my turn" Flame wingman was destroyed.
Steam gyroid ATK 2200 DEF 1600 LV 6 EARTH machine.
Jaden LP 1800 – 100 = 1700.
Jaden started his turn, "Sorry Sy, but I activate Miracle fusion to fuse Sparkman and Crayman in my graveyard to summon Thunder giant" said Jaden, "Now I'll use Thunder giant's effect to discard one card to destroy your monster", Steam gyroid was destroyed.
E HERO thunder giant ATK 2400 DEF 1500 LV 6 LIGHT warrior.
"Now I attack you directory" said Jaden.
Syrus LP 600 – 2400 = 0.
Syrus dropped the cards in his hand in defeat and looked down at his feet feeling disappointed in himself, Jaden was about to comfort Syrus when he noticed one of the cards he had in his hand.
"Wait you had Power bond in your hand, why didn't you play it, it would have doubled your monster's ATK and you would have won" said Jaden clearly very confused, "I can't use Power bond, I'm not ready" said Syrus sadly.
"What do you mean" asked Jaden, "Zane told me that I'm not ready to play Power bond until I learn how to use it" said Syrus, "Syrus does your brother tell you things like that a lot" asked Jaden, "All the time, why?" answered Syrus.
Suddenly Jaden stood up and walked towards the door, "Jaden where are you going" asked Syrus, "I'm going to have a word with your brother" answered Jaden, Syrus jumped out of his seat and tried to pull Jaden back.
"Jaden you can't just walk up to Zane, he's the best duellist at the academe" said Syrus, "I don't care if he's the king of games, he can't just treat you like that", said Jaden, "But Jaden" said Syrus as Jaden walked out the door and towards the Obelisk boys dorm.
Syrus continued to try and stop Jaden the entire way to the Blue dorm but with no success, once they reached the dorm Jaden headed straight for the front door only to be stopped by two Obelisk boys.
"Hey Red this isn't your dorm" said the first, "Maybe he's gone colour blind" joked the second, "I'm here for Zane, so you two can tell him to get down here and face me" said Jaden with determination in his eyes.
Both Obelisk students burst out in laughter, "Have the cockroaches at your dorm laid eyes in your brain, a Slifer like you wouldn't last two minutes against Zane" said the first, "Actually I'll go tell Zane, he's going to get a kick out of this" said the second as he ran inside the dorm.
After a couple of minutes the Obelisk boy returned with Zane close behind him, "I heard someone wants to challenge me" said Zane, "Zane, I want to know how you could treat your brother the way you do" said Jaden.
"Treat him like what?" asked Zane, "Treat him like he's nothing, what gives you the right to tell him what cards he can and can't play" said Jaden, Zane looked annoyed "I tell him those things because he's not a duellist, and he doesn't know how to use his own cards" he said.
Both Obelisk students was shocked at what Zane said "Zane, don't you thing that's a little harsh to say to your own brother" said the first, "Until he becomes a true duellist that's all I will say to him" said Zane with no emotion at all.
"You know it's no wonder Syrus has no confidents, with a brother like you I'm surprised he even has the courage to pick up a deck" said Jaden a little angry, "If he stopped duelling at least he'd stop humiliating me" said Zane.
"You know what you're not so great Zane, and I'm going to prove it, I challenge you to a duel" said Jaden, Zane chuckled "I'm impressed, you're the first person this year with the guts to challenge me, I accept" he said.
Syrus grabbed a hold of Jaden's arm "Jaden you can't duel Zane, he never loses" he said, "Stay out of this, he already challenged me" said Zane, Syrus stepped back with his head tilted looking at the floor unable to say another word.
Jaden and Zane stepped out into the open in front of the dorm building and took their places to begin the duel.
From his room Robin could hear the commotion, he closed the book he was reading and stepped out onto his balcony to see what was going on, as his balcony was on the side of the building Robin couldn't see what was happening while everyone was at the front door.
However as Jaden and Zane took their places to duel each other they both came into Robin's view, "Jaden's going to duel Zane? Good I could use a laugh" thought Robin as he pulled out his phone to record the duel.
The duel started with Jaden taking the first turn, "I summon Elemental HERO wildheart in attack mode, and end my turn" said Jaden, Zane was clearly unimpressed.
E HERO wildheart ATK 1500 DEF 1600 LV 4 EARTH warrior.
"I was hoping this duel would last longer, I'm sad to say I was wrong" said Zane, "I summon Proto – cyber dragon in attack mode, and while Proto – cyber dragon is on the field its name becomes Cyber dragon".
Proto – cyber dragon ATK 1100 DEF 600 LV 3 LIGHT machine.
"Next I activate polymerization to fuse the Cyber dragon in my hand and Proto – cyber dragon to summon Cyber twin dragon" said Zane, "And I'll use my dragon to destroy your monster" Wildheart was destroyed.
Cyber twin dragon ATK 2800 DEF 2100 LV 8 LIGHT machine.
Jaden LP 4000 – 1300 = 2700.
"And since Cyber twin dragon can attack twice in the same turn I'll now use him to attack you directly" said Zane, Cyber twin dragon attacked Jaden.
Jaden LP 2700 – 2800 = 0.
Jaden was in shock that he lost so quickly, he'd never lost a duel this fast in his life, Zane turned around and walked back inside the dorm building closing the door behind him.
Still standing on his balcony Robin was laughing, "I can't believe it, one turn, he lost in one turn" he thought, Robin watched the video he took of the duel, "I can't wait to share this" he thought.
Back on the ground Jaden hadn't moved since he lost to Zane, he was still in shock over what happened, Syrus watched Jaden standing there not moving a muscle, after watching Jaden lose like that he felt even worst about himself.
"Hey, your names Syrus right" said a voice, Syrus turned to see one of the Obelisk boys who had stopped Jaden from entering their dorm, "Right, I mean, I am" said Syrus nervously, "Look kid, I'm sorry about how your brother treats you, no one deserves that from their own family" said the Obelisk boy, Syrus gave a smile "Thanks" he said.
The Obelisk boy returned to his dorm leaving Syrus to lead a still shocked Jaden back to the Slifer dorm, "Maybe Zane really is just being mean to me, even the other Obelisk students think he treats me badly" he thought.
The next day Jaden entered the dining room to found several Slifer students all laughing at something, "Hey guys, what's so funny" said Jaden as squeezed passed them to see what they was laughing at.
Jaden was horrified to see that everyone was watching a video of his duel with Zane, "What someone was recording that duel, who put this video up" said Jaden in panic, "I don't know who put it up, but I think everyone on the island has seen it" said a Slifer girl named Scarlet who always wore red ribbons in her hair.
"Please tell me your kidding" said Jaden, "I'm going to be the laughing stock of the whole island".
