Chapter 30, Copycat.
"And what do you intend to do, run around the school and ask every student, hello have you stolen Yugi's deck" said Robin sarcastically, "Hey that's a great idea" said Jaden as he ran out of the room, "Jaden wait, I think Robin was only joking" said Syrus as he and Chumley ran after Jaden.
Jaden ran down the halls towards the main entrance with Syrus and Chumley not far behind, luckily Syrus and Chumley managed to catch Jaden just before he left the building.
"Jaden wait, you can't just go around and ask people if they stole something" said Syrus, Jaden stopped at the front door and said "Why, is seems like a good idea to me", "Jaden think for a second, if you just ask people if they stole Yugi's deck why would they admit it" said Syrus.
Jaden thought about what Syrus said, "I guess you're right, man that was a pretty dumb idea now that I think about it" he said, "So what are we going to do now" asked Chumley, "Well we can still talk to people around the school, we just can't ask them if they stole the deck" said Syrus.
"So what should we ask them" asked Jaden, "Well maybe we should ask them if anyone has been acting strangely recently, that might point us in the right direction" said Syrus, "Great idea Sy, let's go" said Jaden.
The three left the main building and started to look for someone to talk too, "Who do you think we should start with" asked Jaden, "I say we start with the blue's, some of them would do anything to get better grades" said Chumley.
Soon the three found a Obelisk blue student, it was Taiyou the boy who Alexis beat a couple of days ago, "Hey there, what's up" said Jaden, Taiyou looked at the three "What do you want Slifer's" he said bitterly.
"Calm down, we only wanted to ask you a few questions" said Jaden, "Don't bother, I'm not going to help some slackers like you" said Taiyou as he walked away without another word, "Maybe we should ask somebody friendlier" said Syrus.
After a short time of searching the three ran into Damon, "Hey Damon, how's it going" said Jaden, "It's going great, I've been having a lot more luck with my drawing recently" said Damon with a smile.
"That's great, by the way have you noticed anyone in Obelisk blue acting strangely recently" asked Jaden, Damon thought for a second, "No, no stranger than usual, why is something wrong" he said, "Don't worry it's nothing serious, thanks Damon" said Syrus.
Once the three was out of hearing range of Damon they began to talk about who they should ask next, "Guys have you seen anyone in our dorm acting strangely" asked Syrus, Chumley looked shocked at what Syrus said, "Do you really think someone in Slifer would do something like this" he said.
"Well it is possible, I mean there are a lot of red's who are desperate to move up to yellow" said Syrus sadly, "I guess you have a point, although I haven't noticed anyone acting out of the ordinary" said Jaden.
"Maybe we should ask one of the Ra's before we go and question people from our own dorm" said Chumley, Jaden and Syrus agreed and the three made their way to the Ra yellow dorm.
When the three reached the dorm they found many Ra students all looking rather glum, "Hey what's wrong with everyone" Jaden asked a Ra student wearing glasses named America Uchimura.
"Oh it's Dimitri, he's just built a new deck and he's been beating everyone with it" said America, "Who's Dimitri" asked Jaden, "Jaden, Dimitri is that copycat duellist who I beat Wednesday" said Syrus.
"Dimitri was pretty upset that he lost to a Slifer, I guess he must have been working on that new deck ever since you beat him" said America, "What type of deck was Dimitri using" asked Syrus, "It was a Dark magician deck" answered America.
Syrus seemed to be putting the pieces together, "Is Dimitri still here" he asked, "No, I think he usually hangs out near the cliffs to the south at this time" said America, "Ok, thanks a lot" said Syrus.
The three left the Yellow dorm, "Hey Syrus do you really think Dimitri stole the deck" asked Jaden, "I can't be sure but all the pieces seem to fit together" said Syrus, "Well that's good enough for me, let's go and find him" said Jaden as the three began to head towards the cliffs.
Half way to the cliffs the three ran into Robin, Alexis, Chazz and Bastion, "Hey guys, what are you doing here" said Jaden, "We're looking for Dimitri, we think he might have something to do with Yugi's deck" said Bastion.
"Really, well we're looking for Dimitri too, we think he might be near the cliffs" said Jaden, "Then I suggest we all go together" said Bastion.
"Guys I don't mean to ruin the mood but are any of us one hundred percent sure that Dimitri is the culprit" said Alexis, everyone shook their heads, "Good point, and if we just ask him then he'd just deny it" said Chazz, "Don't worry I've got an idea, just let me do the talking when we find him" said Robin, everyone agreed and continued on their way to the cliffs.
Once the group reached the cliffs they found Dimitri sitting on a rock looking out to sea, "Dimitri" said Robin loudly to get his attention, Dimitri turned around quickly and looked at the group, "Oh hello there, what are you guys doing here" he said.
"Don't play dumb with us Dimitri we know you did it, we know you stole it" said Robin his voice sounding a little threatening, Dimitri looked worried "What, but how did you know I took Yugi's deck" he said.
Robin smiled smugly "Because you just told us, and I didn't mention Yugi's deck" he said, Dimitri's face turned to one of horror as he realised his mistake, the group drew closer.
Dimitri ran to the edge of the cliff and held the deck out, "Take one more step and I'll throw it into the sea" he said in a panicked voice, everyone stayed still not daring to take another step closer.
"Don't do it that deck belongs to the king of games" said Jaden, "If you destroy the deck you'll only be in even more trouble" said Alexis, Dimitri didn't move away from the cliff, during the confusion no one notice Robin had pulled out his phone and sent a text to someone.
"Look Dimitri how's about a deal" said Jaden, "What type of deal" said Dimitri not moving from the cliff, "How's about me and you duel for the deck, and if you win then we won't tell anyone what you did" said Jaden.
Dimitri thought about Jaden's offer, then he tried to think about what his other options was, "If I win do you all promise that you won't tell anyone" he asked, Jaden, Syrus and Chumley all said "Yes" immediately.
Alexis thought for a second but a smile from Robin told her that he had a plan and they both agreed to the deal, seeing Robin and Alexis agree with the deal caused Bastion and Chazz to agree as well.
"Ok then so we're all in agreement, are you ready to duel Dimitri" said Jaden as he activated his duel disk, Dimitri placed Yugi's deck into his duel disk and said "It's time to duel" trying his best to sound like Yugi did in the battle city finals.
"I'll start us off, I summon E HERO stratos in attack mode, and when I summon this card I can add one HERO monster to my hand" said Jaden as he added E HERO bladedge to his hand, "Ok I end my turn".
E HERO stratos ATK 1800 DEF 300 LV 4 WIND warrior.
"My move" said Dimitri still doing his Yugi impression, "I summon Legion the fiend jester in attack mode".
Legion the fiend jester ATK 1300 DEF 1500 LV 4 DARK spellcaster.
"And while Legion is on the field I can tribute summon a spellcaster monster in addition to my normal summon, so I'll sacrifice my jester to summon Dark magician girl" said Dimitri, as soon as Dark magician girl appeared on the field Syrus began to blush and was unable to take his eyes off her.
Dark magician girl ATK 2000 DEF 1700 LV 6 DARK spellcaster.
"That's not all, when Legion is sent to the graveyard I can add a normal spellcaster to my hand" said Dimitri as he added Dark magician to his hand, "Now Dark magician girl attack Stratos" Dark magician girl destroyed Stratos.
Jaden LP 4000 – 200 = 3800.
"Now I play one card face down and end my turn" said Dimitri.
"Ok that was a pretty good move" said Jaden as he drew his card, I activate Polymerization to fuse Bladedge and Wildheart to summon Wildedge in attack mode" said Jaden as E HERO wildedge appeared on the field.
E HERO wildedge ATK 2600 DEF 2300 LV 8 EARTH warrior.
Dimitri smiled "I activate my trap card Dark renewal, I can only activate this card when you summon a monster, it lets me send both your monster and my Dark magician girl to the graveyard and then it lets me summon a DARK spellcaster from my deck" he said as Dark magician appeared on the field.
Dark magician ATK 2500 DEF 2100 LV 7 DARK spellcaster.
Syrus looked heartbroken over the loss of the Dark magician girl, Jaden looked worried as he looked at the Dark magician, "I summon a monster in defence mode and end my turn" he said.
Dimitri started his turn, "I normal summon Charging gaia the fierce knight, I can normal summon this card without a tribute but if I do its original ATK becomes 1900" he explained.
Charging gaia the fierce knight ATK 2300 DEF 2100 LV 7 LIGHT warrior.
Charging gaia the fierce knight ATK 2300 – 400 = 1900.
"Now Dark magician attack Jaden's face down monster" ordered Dimitri, Dark magician attacked and destroyed Jaden's monster which was revealed to be Clayman, "Now Gaia attack Jaden" Gaia attacked Jaden directly.
E HERO clayman ATK 800 DEF 2000 LV 4 EARTH warrior.
Jaden LP 3800 – 1900 = 1900.
"Now I'll play one card face down and end my turn" said Dimitri.
"Ok my turn" said Jaden, "I play a monster in defence mode and play one card face down, I end", "Not so fast, before you end your turn I'm going to activate my face down card, it's the quick spell Soul servant" said Dimitri.
"Soul servant allows me to take one card from my deck that lists Dark magician in its card text and place it on the top of my deck" explained Dimitri, "But that's not all, because I activated a spell card on your turn I can special summon Magician of dark illusion from my hand" said Dimitri.
Magician of dark illusion ATK 2100 DEF 2500 LV 7 DARK spellcaster.
Jaden finally ended his turn, Dimitri drew his card, "I activate the spell card Dedication though light and darkness, this lets me tribute my Dark magician to summon Dark magician of chaos, and when this card is summoned I can add a spell card from my graveyard to my hand" said Dimitri as he added Soul servant back to his hand.
Dark magician of chaos ATK 2800 DEF 2600 LV 8 DARK spellcaster.
"But that's not all, next I'll use my two level 7 monsters, Gaia and Magician of dark illusion, to xyz summon Ebon illusion magician" said Dimitri, everyone was shocked as the new magician appeared on the field.
Ebon illusion magician ATK 2500 DEF 2100 RK 7 DARK spellcaster.
"Now I'll use Ebon illusion magician's effect, by removing one of his xyz materials I can special summon a Dark magician from my deck" explained Dimitri, Jaden began to panic as he looked at Dimitri's three magicians.
Dark magician ATK 2500 DEF 2100 LV 7 DARK spellcaster.
"Dark magician attack his monster" ordered Dimitri, "And since I just declared an attack with a normal spellcaster monster I can activate Ebon illusion magician's second effect, it lets me banish one card on your side of the field and I chose your face down card".
Jaden's face down card which was revealed to be Call of the haunted was banished, Dark magician continued his attack and destroy Jaden's monster which was revealed to be Winged kuriboh.
Winged kuriboh ATK 300 DEF 200 LV 1 LIGHT fairy.
Dimitri knew he couldn't do any damage to Jaden's LP this turn thanks to Winged kuriboh so he ended his turn.
"Hey guys Jaden can still win this can't he" asked Syrus, "Sorry but it doesn't look good, those three magicians are very powerful, especially that xyz monster, I'm not sure Jaden can win this one" said Robin.
Jaden drew his card and looked at his hand trying to think of a way out of this mess, finally he got an idea, "Aright, I summon E HERO ice edge in attack mode" he said.
E HERO ice edge ATK 800 DEF 900 LV 3 WATER warrior.
"Next I activate Miracle fusion to fuse Stratos from my graveyard and Ice edge to summon E HERO absolute zero" said Jaden.
E HERO absolute zero ATK 2500 DEF 2000 LV 8 WATER warrior.
"Now Absolute zero attack Dark magician" ordered Jaden, Absolute zero attacked and both it and Dark magician was destroyed, "When Absolute zero leaves the field it destroys all the monsters you control" explained Jaden, Dimitri's remaining two magicians was destroyed leaving him with no monsters on the field.
"Ok I end my turn" said Jaden, "Man I sure hope Dimitri doesn't have anything in his hand to bring out another Dark magician or I'm finished" he thought.
Dimitri started his turn, "STOP THIS DUEL AT ONCE" shouted a voice, everyone turned and saw Dr Crowler and two members of security, "Grab that boy" ordered Crowler pointing to Dimitri.
The members of security grabbed a hold of Dimitri before he even had time to react, with Dimitri being held in place Crowler walked over and carefully removed all the cards from Dimitri's duel disk.
Crowler looked through the deck carefully analysing every card, "This is Yugi Moto's deck, so you're the one who stole it" said Crowler looking at Dimitri with pure rage in his eyes.
"What, What's going to happen to me" asked Dimitri finally dropping his impersonation of Yugi, Crowler smiled he didn't even need to think about what Dimitri's punishment was going to be.
"Dimitri Kagurazaka you are expelled from Duel academy, collect you things I want you on the next boat off of this island" said Crowler, Jaden looked shocked by this but the rest of the group didn't seem surprised.
"Wait do you have to expel him" said Jaden, "Yes" replied Crowler, Jaden was about to argue but was interrupted by Bastion "To be fair he did commit a very serious crime".
Everyone watched as Dimitri was led away by the members of security, Crowler was about to leave as well but was stopped by Jaden, "Hang on a second, how did you even find us here" he asked.
"We received an anonymous text telling us that the thief was here, I didn't believe it at first but Professor Banner said we should follow all leads" said Crowler, after saying this Crowler left the group.
The next day Yugi's deck finally went on display, the school had told everyone a fake story that the display cabinet had been broken and that was the reason that no one could see the deck yesterday, although many of the students could tell that this story was a lie.
Dimitri had left Duel academy on the first boat to leave the island that morning, a lot of the students had their own theories on why he had been expelled but few had managed to guess the truth.
Jaden was waiting in line to see Yugi's deck, although he was glad that he had gotten to see some of Yugi's cards first hand he was still wondering who had sent that text to Crowler telling him where to find Dimitri.
