I Don't Own Yu-Gi-Oh
"Wait really?! That's so unfair though! You really should have gotten a warning or something at least not right out suspension" Alex was weird, I had discovered that pretty early on. One moment he was socially awkward, the next he looks super serous, and then he's like this, ready to go to war on something I don't think really matters much. Though I will admit, I thought it was a little odd his reaction, it seemed slightly panicked, but I just put that off as him not wanting to lose, from the looks of things, his only friend here.
I mean the worse thing that could happen to me is I just lose and get ejected from the plot, I can think of worse things to happen. I'll probably deal with some crap from my 'parents' but it's not like I actually care about their opinions so that's fine by me. Sure, I'll some what miss Alex as he is a friend now at this point, but I've never been good at making connections with people, and I was more than use to being by myself, I would be fine.
"I'm not suspended yet mind you, I have to lose a duel first against some Obelisk for that to happened. But from the looks of things, winning this shouldn't really be to hard, none of those blur coats seem to really be anything special beyond ego, it shouldn't be too hard" Alex just frowned at that before saying.
"You really should worry more, this is your future on the line dude. Come on, we can at least have a few duels before hand, get you ready" I just sighed at that and thought it over for a moment before saying.
"Not right now, I still have a few days before then, and right now I need to get ready for that mini tournament being held for those card packs" I'm not a fan of jobs, but they are necessary to make the world go around, and in this case, I don't exactly have a stable income at the moment so maybe it's time to work on that at some point soon. I really want to finish up my new deck soon.
"I-, I guess. Come on, I think it's going to be held soon" I just nodded as I yawned a bit as I picked up my duel disk. I wasn't expecting anything challenging, all the top duelists here already have very well established decks, and from what I know about the show, honestly I think only those that like making extra decks or card collecting really go to these things, so I really shouldn't have to much of a problem.
At worst there is someone with a Jinzo or something similar to counter my traps but those are what my monsters are for, and if they have a counter for that then I have my spells, and if that doesn't bloody work then at that point good bloody job to my opponent. Anyway, time to set out.
"And I win" The dude in front of me just yelled out in anger before stomping off in a rage. He was actually a pretty good duelist, nearly beat me a few times with some well placed combos but nothing he could summon was strong enough or out on the field long enough to get past my ultimate defense monster, a trap card called Metal Reflect Slime, it was actually a trap card, but I could use it like a monster and it had 3000 defense points. I only had one but that was usually more than enough to drain a persons life points to zero.
Still, I can now open up, I believe five packs of boosters which I think is the most I can get, which is also good considering that I had to be like six people in a row for this. Yeah a lot of people showed up for the first one of these, to bad only the last two were anything close to challenging, it had been kind of a chore to do this, mostly because my style is mostly based on long drawn out duels. Still, it says something when I've managed to beat some of these people by turn three, which is difficult to do with my deck unless I get a very good starting hand.
Moving on, I was currently picking up the packs I had requested from the start. It's how it works, everyone selects five sets they want and if they win they get them, it's to speed up the whole thing, at least I think it is. Anyway, I picked out a few packs as I was in fact smart enough to use a school computer to see what all current standard boosters had in them.
I didn't recognize any of them unfortunately, in fact after looking at the cover art for the packs, I don't think any of these were available back in my old world, so that add about an hour or so of research to find the best type of pack to choose. I'll be honest, I already had an ace monster for my dragon deck, that being Horus, but I still need it's final card, so I'll be honest, I mostly just picked packs that had it available, and then looked for cards that would fit my deck from there.
I decided on a pack that seemed to have an interesting mix of spells and dragon focused cards, the spells themselves didn't really seem to have any theme, the same could be said for the dragons as well to be honest, but I didn't mind, both worked for my deck so those were the ones I picked and the ones I was currently holding in my hand, wrapped up by the seal packaging.
While opening them up now was tempting, I decided to hold off on it for a little while until I was at my dorm room at least so I'll have time to think over my cards a bit more. Besides that I also know that I'll have a lot of extra cards after this, as I have no doubt I'm going to pull a lot of cards I won't be using. Five packs with nine cards in each of these, which should be forty-five, and knowing what's in these on top of the types I want, I'll be lucky to get maybe fifteen good cards, and if I'm beyond lucky then I'll draw my last Horus LV.
Still, now that that was over, I pocketed the packs and walked off, I just kind of felt like a scroll to be honest, so that's what I was going to do, I didn't really need to build my deck right now, and even if I pulled super well, which I'm still doubting, those cards are still in the pack so it doesn't matter, all that is here is anticipation, the cards will be the same no matter how fast I open them, so no point in worrying.
Though maybe worry wasn't the correct word for this, it was more like curiosity really, but I think that's fair since how little I've been able to do in the last few days, besides that today is another day to see if I can finally find those two, technically three, that I've been looking around for to steal from. Maybe that isn't the best way to phrase it, well, I am totally stealing but is it really stealing if the items in question are already stolen? I think not.
Moving on I looked around for a moment as I yawned again. I really didn't get it, my insomnia really seemed to really pick up a lot more recently in how bad it is. I minded a lot since I like sleeping, but being use to it just makes it more of one of those things I just have to deal with more than anything. Though I do seem to think about that a lot recently, mostly because I have literally nothing else to do.
I'm going to look into getting a music player of some kind, as while I have no idea what types of music are out at the moment, or if there will even be any overlap in titles I'm familiar with, it'll at least give me something I can use to spend time with. I'm complaining to much, I seem to do that a lot nowadays.
"Oh? Are you here for the draw sweetheart?" I was unsure how I was suppose to feel about some older woman calling me that but I just nodded to her question as I decided that with all the things I've been called, a positive one honestly should have the same effect, give or take, since it's from some person who I don't know. Though I did know of her which I wasn't sure if it made better or worse. She was on the lady that ran the card shop here.
"Well then, you better get to grabbing then, you can look around here later, but you should get one now before they're all gone" I just frowned at that as I looked at the mass that was crowding around the box of sandwiches. I didn't mind crowds, as long as they made sure I didn't get bumped into that is, and judging by the sight, I don't think that's going to be a possibility. Yeah, I think I'm going it wait it out a bit more, I know the amount that is suppose to be in that box and after a quick count, a number would still be left over by the time the crowd pissed off.
"I don't really feel like being tramped today so I think I'll to the latter first. Besides, I wanted to ask you a question" She just smiled at that like I had made a wise decision before nodding for me to continue.
"Do you sell specific cards, out side the packs?" I had been curious to be honest, so I figured there wasn't any real harm in asking. Plus it would be nice to stop having to deal with these drawings a bit early, I mean I'll probably still do this just because it's convenient but at least I'll have a stable deck at that point. And I kind of want to use my new deck in this coming up suspension duel. Though that probably wouldn't be the smartest idea.
"Some yes, though it's mostly those that come in to return unused cards, we do give some money back for that after all, and since we can't repackage then, we sometime sell them at discounts or mark-ups depending on the condition or rarity of the card" I think I just found out my way to earn a bit more cash, I have a lot of cards that were useless to me at the moment, as most I would have to build a full new deck to actually, properly use, mostly from those packs but the point still stands all the same.
"I see, I don't suppose you would have a Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8 back there somewhere?" It was a long shot so I really wasn't surprised when she shook her head at that so I just hummed a bit before pulling out my extra deck and looked over the cards for a moment. Taking out the cards I might use later, I handed over them all to the lady and said.
"I don't suppose you would mind me turning these in then while I'm waiting" She just gave me a smile before giving an short affirmation as she walked behind the counter to trade them in. I probably would only get enough for about two or so packs since only a few of those cards are really all that rare, but it would be something at least. While she was doing that, I moved forwards and walked up to the box that had been mostly left now that the rush was over.
Picking up one of the packages, I ripped it open and pulled out both the sandwich and card, not looking at the second right away as I just took a bite of the sandwich instead out of curiosity. Spicy chicken, well I like one of those things at least, still pretty good all things considered, so I just took another bite as I looked down at my free hand where the new card was located. Huh.
Monster Reborn, the uncensored one as well, it didn't really matter to me but it was something to make a note of anyway. I didn't really care about the idea of a god, but I'll totally use this cross all the same, getting a monster back from my grave would actually be helpful, surprisingly, with my current spells, I actually have some decent grave power in this deck, it was pretty unintentional but I'll totally take it all the same.
"Here dear" I blinked as I pocketed my new card as I turned to take the money from the older woman's hand. I gave a half smile to her out of instinct to which she just gave a warm smile back before walking back to the counter. Well then, this was interesting I guess.
Sighing to myself as I looked over my new cards for a moment, oh there were certainly a few nice ones in here but not as many as I was hoping for to be honest, then again, I did get about ten or so nice cards though I did get one that I couldn't use at the moment, Armed Dragon LV5, it would be nice later and honestly this LV card along with Horus can lead to a pretty strong lock down deck if done right, though I'm still about ten cards short of a forty card deck at the moment, so it'll have to wait anyway.
The main pull from this was a few extra dragons, like Masked Dragon, Element Dragon, and Divine Dragon Ragnarok. Yeah, this deck really is all over the place isn't it, though on a side note, I have decent deck already, it's mostly just missing a few last key cards, like the last piece of my best monster, along with many another strong back up monster in case of emergency, though I have a feeling Armed Dragon will fill that role.
Maybe I could just use the rest of the available slots for some deck thinners...I could deck one of my pots of greed and a nightmare wheel, just to keep true to myself, honestly it might be best as I was already over forty in my burn deck and that'll lower back down to forty, which I normally wouldn't care much about as my burn deck has very consistent draw power, but I've been yelled at by a lot of my friends who played this game a lot that it's a terrible idea. Though besides weaker draw power, no one bothered to explain why it was pure evil to do.
Speaking of burn power, I hummed to myself for a moment before pulled out a card, not from either of my decks but from my wallet, I had nearly forgot about this card to be honest, but Stealth Bird is a decent defense monster and it's effect can be a deciding factor in a quick win... Yeah, why not, it's not like it'll hurt the deck as I don't have any fields at the moment that needs it to be dragons...though now that I'm thinking about it, I'm pretty a card I could get my hands on would do something similar.
I can't remember the exact name but I do know it's art is of a group of those weirdly shaped, multi-colored things. I'm pretty sure they're called Ojamas, or something similar to that at least. Anyway, that might be something to look for at a later time but ti doesn't really matter right now since I don't have it right now so Stealth Bird is still fine and if it really matters that much I think there's another card to change monster type.
You know what that's a bit to complicated just to keep one card from screwing me over. When or if I get that card then I'll just shuck Stealth bird into my Burn deck. Though at that point I'll also have to remove another monster as well, nope, I've already dragged myself into this hypothetically to much already so I'm stopping here and I am going to wait until I actually get the damn cards needed to be thinking about this to begin with.
That out of my mind, I just finished up with the additions to my incomplete deck before slipping them into my pocket as I wondered what else I should get for this deck. I wonder how hard it would be to get a five headed dragon, that cards very powerful and for how much it showed up in the original, I don't think it would be that hard. Eh, thoughts for later, moving on, I'm hungry so with that I'm going to head down to the cafeteria.
And by that I mean head to the Ra dorm, because I figured I'd talk to Alex a bit more as I hadn't spoken to him since I left his room yesterday and to be honest, his one of my only continual forms of entertainment on this island. Plus it doesn't hurt that Ra actually has a working food court of some kind instead of here where we only get three meals a day. I didn't care to much, but it was a good enough excuse as any.
So with that I stood up and pocketed my cards as I walked out of my room after locking it out of habit. Walking down the outside stairs, I was about to just walk away to the Ra dorm like I had been planning but my thoughts were interrupted as I listened to the sound of what seemed to be yelling. It says something that I was both incredibly uncaring for what all I could know be someone being stabbed to death, and that the only reason why I went over to check was because of how bored I was.
Walking up the side of the cliff, I just looked over at the two others that were also standing there, fat guy and token female. Was that rude? Yes, but I've used those names before and frankly they fit. The two seemed to notice me and from the looks they were giving me, apparently I was the one intruding.
"Who are you?" I just looked over at the blonde for a moment before rolling my eyes at her tone before replying.
"I'm sure Jaden or Sryus told you about me, I'm the other guy that is having to duel to get out of suspension" She didn't seem to really like my answer as I had replied in a very bored tone, like the whole thing was trivial, while I, quite literally, looked down at the sight of Jaden and Syrus dueling, getting ready for their tag duel.
"Ok then, better question, what are you doing here" I don't remember her being that rude in the show, then again, I don't even remember her name, so maybe that's not saying a lot.
"Because I also happen to live here? Or how about one of them screaming for some reason? Take your pick" She just huffed at that as I continued to look down at the two as I watched Syrus smile at his draw before suddenly frowning hard. I wonder what's with the whiplash. Still, it was clear who was going to win this, I didn't even need foreknowledge for this one.
"Well, I don't care enough to watch an already decided duel, I'm out" She just glared a bit at me as I walked away. But it was turn so I didn't really see why I should care at all, so I just didn't, simple as that.
"And I win" Alex just sighed as he leaned back against his bed as the two of us looked down at the game mat in front of us. Yeah, I didn't bring my disk so we were just playing it on the ground like normal people. It kind of was weird to going back to this kind of playing after using the disks but it wasn't like this was bad, in fact I was a lot more use to this, though it was a lot less interesting to watch.
"Darn it! You get that Nightmare Wheel up to fast, it keeps stopping my best card!" It's true, if I didn't have Nightmare Wheel, I think I would have lost a few times to Alex by now as he has a habit of powering up one Bluster Blader to an extreme amount, he even slide in a Trap Jammer to his deck after our first few duels but he's had to use it to stop my Mirror Force or Magic Cylinder, which always seems to leave him open for Nightmare Wheel to stall and burn him away.
"I would say come up with a new plan then, but I'd be a hypocrite, wait no, I doubt care about being a hypocrite, you need to come up with something new to try and counter me" He just huffed at that as the two of us looked at each other for a moment before he just started to laugh to himself as I just let out a small silent chuckle and let a small smile pull on my face as I gathered up my cards
"Oh, by the way, here, I drew it from that sandwich thing the school does. It's not like I would use it" He got and grabbed something from his desk before handing it over to me. I just took the card and looked it over for a moment before smiling. Luster Dragon #2, it was a level six so it needed a tribute but that was fine, I have plenty that could make it work and this card is actually stronger than Horus LV6, if only by a small margin and it didn't have any effects so it balanced out a bit.
Still, maybe I should look into getting another Pot of Greed or a Graceful Charity, as right now it has some pretty poor deck searching abilities. How I've made it though is that I'll have to get a really weird assortment of cards to truly brick an opening hand, but it still would be helpful in the later stage of the game. Moving on towards something else I noted a phone on the desk in the room start to vibrate. Glancing over towards Alex, I noted he seemed to be lost in thought so I just spoke up to snap him out of his thoughts.
"Your phone's buzzing" He blinked to himself before looking over to his desk for a moment before walking up to it and looked down at the piece of tech before an interesting frown came over his face. He actually looks upset, that's a new one for him, he's expression is mostly closer to a pout when he's annoyed or disappointed, but he genuinely looks upset. He picked the phone up for a moment, looked it over, before placing it back down with answering it as the call went to voicemail.
"I didn't recognize the number" He said that but I have a feeling he knew exactly who was calling him, but it wasn't kind of literally none of my business so I just stayed silent and just shuffled my deck again as I watched as Alex sighed before forcing a smile onto his face. It was clear as day, I've been doing the same for years now, it was easy to spot. Well, now I'm kind of curious and want to question him, but I'm not that depraved of entertainment...Ok, I totally am, but I have something really rare, I have impulse control, and I'm also not an idiot.
"Alright. Move over, I want to look up something" He grumbled good naturally but nodded as he moved out of the way of the desk, which had a small computer on it, yeah I'm totally moving up to Ra first chance I get, honest I prefer the red as a color but the benefits curb stomps my preference for colors. Maybe I should then move up to Obelisk, I like blur more then yellow after all, though I still like red more, but internet access removes red from the options list.
But that was besides the point as to why I had walked to mess with his computer, really I just wanted to have an excuse to look at his desk as I glanced down, not to the keyboard but to the phone, with a small display on the front that read. Romine: One Voicemail. Romine? I'm not the best with name's but I'm at least forty person sure that's Alex's last name, so someone related to him? I'll just web search it later and see if there is any results.
Still, time to make use to my excuse so I just powered on his computer before opening up a tab and started to search a few things up. Turns out there is always ebay, or this worlds equivalent to it, to buy cards from. Not to mention, while some of the rare ones were just stupidly expensive, the more common ones weren't so bad. Hmm. Time to think about what I should get, I wouldn't mind another trap card, but that might be because those are kind of my thing. Maybe a Feather Duster to deal with back rows, I would like to buy Horus but hell to the no, I'm way to broke for that, so compromising.
It wasn't to expensive, and here's a real fun fact, I can buy card packs and they'll be delivered here, I mean it'll be sent to Alex's room but he's fine with me using him as a post office. But the main point I'm getting across is the packs that I can buy straight from Industrial Illusions at a blood fifth of the price of the ones at this school. I think the school board here are all idiots and the student body as well since they didn't seem to think to do this, judging by how many people I see at the store on my way to classes.
Still, a Feather Duster would set me back a small bit, as I'm already limited in funds already, but it would come in handy if I ever have to deal with someone like me, which I assure you would be nothing but a nightmare for all involved, so I should get at least one, and I'll still have enough to buy about three more packs though I do want to change the ones I'm getting, still for now at least that's as much as I'm willing to spend. I'm a cheap man at heart and I like the idea of having some kind of funds on me at all time.
"Mind if I use your card account? It's already on here and I don't feel like putting mine in, I can just pay you back out of pocket now if you want" It might also be because of the fact that I don't actually have a bank account to put in. I'm a minor at the moment after all, which was why I was a bit surprised to see Alex had one, though I should start to look into a way to get an account of my own. I really don't like the idea of having others, in this case my parents, having access to my monetary value.
"Yeah no problem, but don't worry so much about paying me back right away if you don't want to, it isn't that much" I blinked at that as I adjusted my glasses as I looked at the figure on the screen reading out the total cost. Sure, it wasn't that much in all honestly, but to my very limited cash, it was a lot more than I'd normally be comfortable with spending, but hey if he didn't mind then my broke self isn't going to complain.
"I'll still pay you back later" He nodded at that, seemingly glad to know I wasn't just going to act like I wasn't paying for things that only benefited me with his money. Though those words were mostly hollow, he didn't know that and I was planning on paying it back at some point, just when I have an actual income of some kind. Maybe a summer job, or I could just go around and bet on duels, that might work in my favor if I'm the one dueling. Thoughts for later.
After receiving a message that I would be getting my stuff in the next four to seven days, I leaned back a little as I frowned a bit internally, I wouldn't be getting my cards in time for my duel then, which is unfortunate but I can just use my burn deck some more, I still like the cards and when I get some entertaining reactions it's fun, but doing the same thing over and over and always more or less getting the same result is basically the definition of insanity, give or take.
Still, thinking of the duel, it was to actually take place tomorrow actually, I'll be honest, I wasn't really worried at all. I've defeated a surprising number of Obelisks at this point, so unless he's doing what he's planning on for Jaden, and getting some famous duelist I've probably never heard about, then I should be fine. Plus he did seem to just look at me like I was an after thought, or in this case, the warm up to the main event since Jaden and Syrus are dueling the day after me.
"Whatta you thinking about?" I blinked as I realized I was still sitting down, now mostly lost in thought as I heard Alex's voice. Blinking, I just looked up at him for a moment before shrugging and said.
"About my duel tomorrow... How do you think I'd fair?" He just shrugged a bit at that and right as he was about to say something the phone on his deck began to vibrate again, I gave it a half glance to the number, it had a name attached, the same one from before. Alex panicked a bit before quickly reaching forwards and picked it up, probably hoping I wouldn't see it. I just let him think that as he looked the number over for a moment.
"...Sorry, this one I need to take" If it wasn't for the fact he looked the exact same as last time I might have believed him, at least if I wasn't me. Being pessimistic has it's perks, it comes with me being very observant of things around me, though that's more of a cause than the reason why I can do that. The reason I can keep track of it all is because I'm just good at processing information, another perk of having my mind always be busy with at least three to five things at a time.
Still I just gave him a nod as I watched as he walked away, for some reason leaving the room when I should have probably been the one to step out. Well, whatever, just another chance to snoop around, with that I looked over towards the door for a moment. He clearly didn't want to talk to whoever was on the other end of that phone call, meaning he'll try to end it quickly. Boredom aside, I'm not idiotic enough to think risking one of the nice things about this place over being mildly entertained. At least not when Alex would notice or catch me at what I'm doing.
Doesn't mean I can't do some basic and nondescript bit of information gathering, with that I did something I'm sure most would frown upon, I opened up Alex's browser history. You know, I'll admit, I was totally doing this because I was bored and honestly I wasn't expecting to find anything interesting, maybe some random things and a few card catalog sights and maybe a few things a hormonal teen would look at...What I wasn't expecting to see was a search history that weirdly mirrored my own.
Synchro, that was one of them, it was an interesting feeling to see on the history of this computer that it was there, along with what looked to me like someone trying to establish a timeline, events that had happened in the past were all here, and it looked like a lot of the same things I came across as well when I had been looking into this world, more specifically if the movies happened.
It wasn't a hard conclusion to draw, but it was a shocking one. Alex was in the same boat I was in, but why? It had never been like this before, not once, so why now? Because I didn't understand this world well? It's confusing and a mess but I didn't let it get to me as I quickly closed out of the history tab and moved it back to my last site. I'm use to weird, me being here to begin with is plenty proof of that so it isn't exactly hard to suspense my disbelief a bit and accept Alex is some what in a somewhat similar position.
I doubt it's the same position, hell for all I know he was just looking up a definition as was researching something completely unrelated but that was a very coincidental thing to have happen, and I don't trust coincidences very much. Mostly because half the time I'm dealing with them or the one setting them up in the first place. Still, this might explain just what's up with Alex and who ever he's on the phone with. I'll be honest, I'm glad no one has called me yet on my own phone, because I have no idea who any of them are.
And honestly I couldn't bother to care, if one of them calls me then I'm probably just going to blow them off until they stop calling. I don't like getting shoe horned into being social, I'm more than capable of doing that on my own, I just prefer to not have to. Anyway, my crippling problems with social interaction aside, I could confront Alex when he gets back in here but I like to be a bit more informed before I jump into this. It's not as interesting as hyper analyzing someone to make it seem like I know everything, but it's also a lot easier and gives me time to prepare. Not to mention it's been a while since I've done that last thing, so I'd be a bit rusty.
"Hey, sorry about that" I just nodded to Alex as he walked back into the room. I noted he seemed a bit annoyed about something, but he was trying to play it off, he really wasn't that good at this. Though to be clear, I preferred it like that, I don't think I could really get along with another person like me, I'm fully aware that a secretive personality like mine is one I actually don't like to deal with.
"I don't mind, hell knows I have a few people I don't want to talk to" He just sighed at that like that was to true before seemingly thinking about something for a second before asking
"Why do you say hell? I mean isn't it normally heaven knows?" That was a weird thing to use as a conversation starter, but I mean it is true, I'm pretty sure that's the more popular one, and honestly I don't really know why I use it. So the only thing to do is come up with some philosophical answer, or just make it funny, I could do both.
"Well, with the person I am, I doubt heaven has much interest in me" Closer to humors but a tad self deprecation mixed in, why not. Still, Alex just laughed a bit at that before saying.
"So what were we talking about?" I just reminded him of the question I had asked him before we were rudely interrupted. He seemed to think about it for a second, with a small frown on his face, like the fact that I was in this situation at all was bugging him, and I mean, if I had foreknowledge and knew this didn't happen I would find it disturbing to. Maybe my paranoia is connecting unrelated dots, but I don't think so, I'm not usually wrong about reading expressions.
"I'd like to say you'd win, cause your honestly the best duelist I know, but knowing Crowler, I wouldn't be surprised if he got some super great duelist to duel you. Maybe even convinced Zane" Zane? I heard that name before, I think he's that guy with the cyber dragons that I remember from the show, otherwise known as the only decent Obelisk blue here, more or less. Still, he made a comment about Crowler, I don't think he's even had a conversation with the man, so how does he have his personality pegged.
I know him well enough to know that's closer to my thing than his. He's too socially awkward to pick up on something like that through observation. Not to even mentioning the fact he mentioned Zane, and said it in a tone that conveyed that he was worried about the idea of that happening. Even when at best he should have only heard rumors about Zane at this point, but he shouldn't really know to much about him since he's in Ra. Damn, now that I'm paying more attention, he's pretty obvious.
"Maybe, but the worse that'll happen is I get kicked out" He just frowned a bit at that again, I don't think he likes how uncaring I am about this whole situation but jokes on him, I'm just always uncaring about most things. It's practically one of my main character traits. I just don't see a point in getting unnecessarily bothered by such unimportant things, or important things as well. It probably isn't healthy, but I just refer back to the uncaring to deal with that problem.
"You're way to relaxed" I just shrugged at that before replying back to him with.
"More like I'm way to bored" He just rolled his eyes at that as smile slowly replaced his frown, good, it's annoying when he's all moody.
"Well that's on you for getting the dorm with the least amount of things to do... Actually how did you end up in Slifer Red? Your a great duelist and I don't think you've gotten anything below a ninety-five yet in class, so how did you manage to get into the 'slacker' dorm" I wondered about that to since it seems no one bothers to double check where the proctors sent their applicants, which is probably the reason Jaden got shipped to Slifer when he very publicly defeated Crowler.
"I pissed off my duel examiner a lot, and I mean a lot. So I think he just did this as some sort of petty revenge on me humiliating him" Alex just looked at me for a moment before shaking his head, which I think is the right reaction since he's had enough time to come to grips with the fact that I do enjoy really messing with people, just in general.
"Now send in the accused! Kyu Malo!" I just rolled my eyes at the over dramatic voice as I walked out onto the stage. Technically speaking this is being countered as a test and I figured this was a good a time as any to ask, though it doesn't hurt to wait a bit to see who I'm going to have deal with right now. I was about to yawn when suddenly Crowler jumped up onto the stage and called out.
"Now, let's get to this slackers opponent! One of the strongest in Obelisk Blue! Marlon Trushake!" I had absolutely no idea who this girl was, meaning that he really just chose some random person to duel against me. I bet he thinks that just because she's in the 'best' dorm that means it matters. Though now that she's walked out, I can bring up my question while I absently activated my duel disk.
"Random question. Can this count as an exam ti get me into Ra? Because I'm getting more than good enough grades for a promotion, and this chick is apparently one of the best in the best dorm so" I let the question hang out in the air as I trailed off as Crowler spun to glare at me, seemingly angry that I had put off the idea of me losing to the point that I would some how be getting a reward for breaking the rules. I was curious, but I also totally did that to annoy him. Though I was surprised when Sheppard spoke up when Crowler tried to shut me down.
"I must say that it would be a tad unconventional but then again, we don't normally do this for expelling either, so why not. It'll give you some motivation for winning" You know, I don't remember much about him from the show, but that alone made me remember that he was pretty much a big pushover. I mean really? I totally didn't see that actually working out for me, if anything I thought this would turn into a fun debate between me and Crowler in which I could continue to make him angry until he gave up and started the duel.
"Chancellor! Is that truly wise?" Chancellor? Is that what his title is? I prefer headmaster, it's more nostalgic. Anyway, I just yawned as I noted the girl across from me was glaring at me in a bit of annoyance, I just raised a bored eyebrow in her direction. I don't know what I did to piss her off, but I have made a habit of it recently, so I'll just assume I did something, doesn't mean I'm going to act like I give a damn about whatever it is I did to her.
"I don't see why not, he does have a point, he's already ready to move up to Ra, so why not kill two birds with one duel?" That makes a bit more sense, doesn't mean I didn't think this wasn't a bit dumb all things considered but I won't be complaining, especially since I'm the one that brought it up to begin with. Moving on, Crowler just sighed before turning back to the two of us and said.
"Fine! Moving on, Marlon will be going first. Now duel!" I just pulled out my five cards as she did the same as I looked down at my hand for a moment as I thought over my draw. I already got Metal Reflect Slime, so that's already a powerful defense, not to mention I also got Nimble Momonga so that's also free defense. Moving onto damage though, I didn't really have much, I have a Dark Room and my Magic Cylinder. And my last card is Torrential Tribute which isn't really a good card at the moment, but might come in handy later.
"Since I'm going first, I might as well start by getting enough power to get that damn look off your face! I start by activating a continuous spell card called Fire Formation - Tensu, I'll get to it's effects later but for right now I normal summon Gladiator Beast Respite(1500/800) in attack mode! Now I can special summon my Test Tiger(600/300) onto the field because I have a Gladiator monster on the field!" It was a decent first play, getting two monsters onto the field but it seems she has more in mind.
"Now I activate Test Tiger's effect, by using itself as tribute and by sending Gladiator Beast Respite back to my deck, I can now special summon one Gladiator Beast from my deck, and the one I pick is Gladiator Beast Augustus(2600/1000)!" That was more impressive, I don't really know much about those monsters but from the looks of things, she has a lot of searching power in that deck, and from her smile, I think there might even be more.
"I won't be using this one's effect, but I will be using my continuous spell card's effect! You see, when this card is activated, I can normal summon one extra Beast-Warrior Monster, and so I'll be summoning Gladiator Beast Andal(1900/1500) in attack mode, but that isn't all as my spell also increase my monsters attack power by an extra 100 points! Meaning Gladiator Beast Augustus is up to 2700 and Gladiator Beast Andal is at a round 2000! And now I think I'll end my turn"
Ok, I'll admit, for this time, that was a very great opening, two monsters already on the field, both with 2000 or more attack, it was a hell of a play, but I still have more than a few tricks up my sleeve, though maybe this won't be so boring after all.
"Oh, finally, nice of you to end that short turn of yours. I draw" I just said that because why not as I pulled out my new card and looked it over, it was my Blast Sphere. I wouldn't mind using it but I had a better monster to use at the moment, though it will come in handy later.
"Alright, first things first, I'll set one monster face down and then place three cards in my back row, though I will be activating one of them now, Dark Room of Nightmare, we'll get to that later, but for now, I end my turn" She frowned a bit at that as she drew, looking over my back row with clear worry, since from the looks of things, she was better at beating down by summoning a lot of monsters fast, which wouldn't work if she had to get through a few traps, which was the entire point.
"Since you seem to have your panties in a twist, I'll get right to point then, I go straight to battle mode and I'll have Gladiator Beast Andal attack your face down monster!" I just shrugged at that like what was I suppose to do as Momogna was revealed and then promptly destroyed. I think it seemed to give her confidence that I didn't have anything in my back row since I let it happen. Time to show her why I did it.
"You destroyed Nimble Momogna, and because you did that, I get to gain 1000 life points and set two more monsters face down onto the field, so thanks for that" She just frowned as the two cards appeared as I pulled them out of my deck and placed them down. Though her hesitation didn't last long as she called out.
"Fine, Gladiator Beast Augustus attack the one on the right!" I just smiled blandly as it was revealed to just be another Momogna, I never say it, but I feel like it should it obvious what cards I'm summoning, not that she has much choice in attacking, but still. Not that I was complaining, I'm up to 6000 now, it's always nice when I get Momonga in my opening hand.
"I end my turn" I just nodded to her and drew my card, doing the obligated thing by calling it out before looking down at it. Card Destruction, I think I'll hang onto this until I get a Magical Thorn out, but for right now I don't have anything left to do so.
"I'll pass on mine" She grinned a bit at that as she drew again, she was probably just glad that I seemed to brick after giving me a bunch of extra life points, and to be fair I kind of did, but I don't mind, all it means is I have an opportunity for something else later on.
"I activate another continuous spell card! Fire Formation - Tenki, meaning I can draw one level four or lower Gladiator Beast from my deck to my hand, and it also happens to increase my monsters attack again by another 100!" She had a lot of buffing power in that deck.
"Now I summon the card I just chose my second Gladiator Beast Andal(2100/1500)! And guess what? While you'll be gaining another thousand for that last Nimble Momonga you have, I'll be doing 5900 right back to you! Gladiator Beast Andal attack his face down then the rest of you attack him directly!" I just smiled as I watched at the attacks come for a moment before calling out as I watched Momonga get destroyed.
"Yeah, I'd rather not, I activate Magical Cylinder for your little Augustus, so you'll be taking 2900 damage to your life points, at least you would normally, but with Dark Room of Nightmare, that damage is increased by 300" She yelled out in surprise as the card effect did it's work, shooting her life points down to 800, but she quickly recovered and said.
"That might be but I still will be attacking you directly with Andal!" I just shrugged at that before replying nonchalantly.
"I mean, you can attack me but you'll have to get by my monster first" She just made a show of looking around, like she was wondering what monster I was talking about so I just smirked and said.
"This one, I activate my last trap card and move my Metal Reflect Slime(0/3000) into the monster zone in defense mode, and if I'm doing my math right, if you attack, you'll just be dealing 900 life points worth of damage to yourself, and correct me again if I'm wrong, but that's more than you have" She just stared at me for a moment, seemingly taking in the mocking in my voice before glaring at me and said.
"Fine, I end my turn" I just smiled at her for that as I drew my card and hummed to myself at the sight of it. Delinquent Duo, I could use it to get rid of those two cards in her hand, but I could also just continue to wait until Magical Thorn, as that'll be enough to end this...Right, but just in case.
"I'll be setting one more monster down in face down position and then'll I'll end my turn. She just frown at my carefree attitude for a moment before drawing what could be her last card, before she suddenly smiled, interesting.
"I play Graveful Charity, I'll draw three cards and then get rid of two...and now I'll be playing both of my remaining continuous spell cards, my second Fire Formation - Tenki and second Fire Formation - Tenus! Meaning I get one more Gladiator to my hand, and I'll be summoning out my final Gladiator Beast Andal! But don't forget that all Gladiators still are now getting a 400 attack boost! Meaning Gladiator Beast Augustus now has an attack power of 3000! And I'll be using it to destroy that Metal Reflect Slime!" I couldn't help but feel an actual smile pull on my face as I watched her go, ignoring the probability, this was an amazing sight, this was the closest I've gotten to defeat from anyone besides Alex. Only two cards in my deck could save me now as I watched my slime explode, it was exciting.
"Attack his face down Andal!" I just continued to grin as my card was revealed before being disappearing, I didn't bother to say anything as I just enjoyed the moment.
"Now, both of you! attack him directly!" And attack they did as I watched my life points shoot down from 7000 to 2400. This close, not to mention that's the most life points I've ever lost at once, if it wasn't for Momonga I would have just been defeated.
"With that I end my turn, though I won't need more than one more to end this!" I just smiled and nodded to her before saying.
"I couldn't agree more, I draw" I pulled the card out and looked at it for a second before smiling to myself in faint amusement. What a time to get bricked huh? Talk about the heart of the cards...oh well.
"I pass my turn" She looked shocked for a moment before smiling as she was about to call out her attacks as she drew, I couldn't help but let a small laugh bubble up before calling out.
"And I win" She looked confused for a moment before she seemed to notice something in my back row, which should only have one card in it, but instead had two. As it lifted up I decided to explain.
"You didn't notice since you were so excited but the monster you destroyed was Blast Sphere and this little guy has an effect when he's destroyed he becomes an equip to the one who destroyed him, and during your next standby phase he comes back and blows up, dealing the same amount of damage to your monster did to him right back at you while also destroying that monster in one feel swoop" Her eyes widened at that as Blast Sphere shot out at went straight for the Andal that attacked him before ramming it and exploded on impact. Shooting her last 800 life points to zero.
"I-I...lost?" I just nodded as I disengaged my duel disk before telling her as I removed the cards from it back into my deck.
"Yep, good duel though, you're one of the most challenging duelist I've gone against" She just sighed in clear disappointment as Crowler seemed to not know what to say as I just yawned before asking.
"I have a friend in Ra, mind getting me a room next to his?" I was kidding, but the look on his face was great as I smirked to myself as I walked off the stage. It was closer than I thought it would be, one more turn huh. One more turn and I would have been expelled, isn't that just interesting.
I hummed to myself as I looked at the Harpie's Feather Duster in my hand for a moment, not really sure which deck to drop it into. Eh, I need to pad out my dragon deck already so it can go there, besides, if I need to use it then I can just switch it around to my burn deck before the duel starts, it isn't that big of a deal. Now then, onto this packs. Reaching over, I just grabbed the one on top before ripping it open and pulled the cards out.
Moving through them, I hummed as I looked at the Grave of the Fourth Dimension, and Meteor of Destruction, two fun spell cards, one was good for getting LV cards back into my deck while the other was just a burn staple that's really nice to have in a starting hand, being able to instantly deal 1000 points of damage instantly. But no particularly great monsters in here, another mask dragon which is nice to get some more dragons out in case it is destroyed plus it's extra searching power.
Next pack again annnd...Level Conversion, not bad for a trap as it can get me a high leveled dragon out without having to tribute, though I don't have a lot of those at the moment, it'll certainly come in handy all the same... No wait, I can use it with this, Serpent Night Dragon, a decently powerful card though no effects and I don't think it has much support but it shouldn't be to hard to get out onto the field and it gives my deck a bit more power.
The rest is mostly unimportant spells that don't help me, so last pack, I'm hoping I get something decent out of this. With that I opened it up and looked it over, it was surprisingly good. For one, while I didn't get my Lv8 Horus, I did get another Lv4 which makes it easier for me to get my lv6 out onto the field, and I also got Curse of Dragon, a 2000 attack point level five monster, still no effect, but that seems to be most of my deck. And last but not less is another Dragon's Gunfire, not bad.
Hmm, I'm still a few cards down, but I can deck in a few cards from my main deck to fill that in and it'll let me have some more traps and stuff to level out the kind of big power gap this deck has with most other dragon decks, plus I can get my Kunai with Chain back from Alex which will be a nice equip card to have on hand.
Making and choosing the decks for these duels is really difficult, I'm not the best at building decks but I have made most of the ones here, like Kyu's, Alex's, and a few others, but some times I just search online for one and then just edit it a bit, which can be annoying with all the stuff I have to remove to make it fit the summoning ways available at this time and checking everything with a tuner tag before adding in a few banned card to give it that old time feel. It probably takes more time than I like to do it all. Anyway, See ya.