I Don't Own Yugioh
"Now then everybody, time to get this duel on the road! On the green side, like always is the two teens that have won without question, Alex and Kyu, and on the other side, we got Sam and Tuno the two that are returning champs! As such, they will be deciding the coin flip!" I just slotted my deck into place while I listened to the announcer prattle on about it while Stealth seemed to hum in my chest with mild interest at the champ part.
It wasn't a big deal, it just means they might be a fun challenge and nothing else, I mean if I lose I lose, that's all there really is to it. The angry feeling in my chest told me what Stealth felt on the matter but I didn't really care. It's probably a much bigger deal to Stealth than to normal people since he's a duel spirit and dueling is kind of his point of existence. Still, if you wanted someone that was much more serious about all this then you should have found another guy to posses.
I got another more annoyed feeling from Stealth but I just ignored it in favor of focusing back on to the things going on around me. Listening as the opponents won the coin toss, I noted they chose to go first as I looked over the five cards in my hand. Nothing bad, but three out of five of these cards being monsters isn't an ideal start but I can make it work. With that I looked up as one of two started to go, the female one.
"I hope you don't mind Sam if I go first! I'll start by summoning out D.D. Warrior Lady in attack mode(1500/1600)! Now I set one card and end my turn" Not anything massive, but it does pose a problem for Alex. Warrior Lady is a card that can banish any card that attacks it. Sure it'll still take damage and get destroyed but it is a good counter to limit Buster Blader being able to get summoned out on the field. I'll have to do something about that then. Suddenly, I'm not to disappointed in my draws anymore. With that I called out
"I draw. Now I set two cards and activate a spell Dark Room of Nightmare which increases all damage from card effects by 300, next up I'll summon out a monster in defense mode and end my turn" Nothing amazing from my draw but it'll help me out in the future as one of the two set cards I had placed. Stealth agreed with a hum of approval in my chest as I watched as the next in line called out.
"I draw! Now I play Foolish Burial, sending one monster of my choice to the graveyard, and now I play a continuous spell card Card of Safe Return which will allow me to draw a card every time I special summon from the grave, but that'll come in later, for now I normal summon out a monster in set position, and now I'll have D.D. Warrior Lady attack that set monster!" Interesting, on a side note I really want one of those Safe Return cards, as that would certainly help my draw power. Anyways.
"Because you did that, I get to flip up my Penguin Solider(750/500) and since he's flipped but, I get to send two of your monsters back to your hands, I pick the only two on the field" It would leave Alex open for some free attacks even if he can't get his most powerful monster out right. Unfortunately it seemed that the girl, I think they said her name was Sam, called out.
"I activate Breakthrough Skill, which instantly negates your monsters effect" Oh great... I just frowned and let it resolve. I could have done something to stop it but using my Trap Jammer right now would be a waste when we're not taking any damage, and I don't have any grave power in this deck so Penguin Solider getting banished isn't really that big of a deal. It still annoyed me as I watched as my poor card was destroyed as they called his turn to an end.
"I-I draw. Now I summon in Defense mode Royal Magical Library then set one card and end my turn" He's having to play defensively at the moment, meaning his starting hand probably isn't that good. Great, we're already in a strained position. At least if that Warrior attacks then they'll be taking damage. Still, this has mostly been a bunch of passing at the moment, and I'm not a fan.
"I'm up once more it seems. Let's see if we can do anything this turn shall we? I draw! Now I'll play Graceful Charity and draw three cards before discarding two...Isn't this just my lucky day. First up since I just sent two monsters to the grave using Graceful Charity's effect, those monsters being Sangan and Asura Priest, I can bring out my ace monster by banishing them. First time this tournament to, so say hello to Black Luster Soilder - Envoy of the Beginning(3000/2500) everybody!" Oh. God damn it.
"Now this monster has a few effects, but I think this isn't the time to get into them, instead I'll be playing this lovely spell card I have. Lightning Vortex, by discarding a card, I can instantly destroy everyone of your monsters, even if it's only one, it leaves you completely helpless" Damn it part two. Trap Jammer can't do anything to that which is really annoying. And my other set card is just a Gryphon Wing which is pointless here.
"Now then I'll flip of the defense position monster to reveal Pyramid Turtle(1200/1400) in attack mode, and now I believe this would be a great time to start attacking so that's what I'll do. Black Luster Soldier and D.D. Warrior Lady attack them directly!" I just frowned as the wind pressure behind the massive slice in the air the monsters made with their blades. Hell, this is going to be annoying, it can instantly get rid of any card on the field and I'm certain they'll have another counter ready for me soon so if I don't get some of the need cards then we'll be in a lot of trouble. Stealth's anxiousness in my chest wasn't helping either.
Sam Tuno - 8000
Kyu Alex - 2300
I really need a good freaking draw to get back from this, come on then. Luck of the draw, heart of the cards, plot amour, whatever it is, I hope your looking out for me at the moment. Damn, I'm really not sure if it's my normal wanting to win attitude or if it's Stealth messing with me but I don't really want to lose when I'm this close to winning, though I have to admit, this is exciting all the same. With that I placed my hand on my deck as I called out.
"I draw... Ok, I play Pot of Greed, drawing two more cards, now I set two cards and end my turn" It most certainly wasn't the best draw but at the very least this should give us at least one more turn, I hope you can do something Alex because I have no idea how long this is going to last.
"I draw, now I think it's time to wrap this up, after I set a card, I'll have Black Luster Soldier attack directly to end this duel!" Oh thank god one of them is stupid. I called out quickly after he spoke up.
"I activate Nightmare Wheel, negating your monster's ability to attack and every standby phase one of you have you'll be taking 500 points of damage" Sam looked annoyed and a tad worried but the other didn't seem to care as he called out.
"Whatever, it doesn't matter since I can still attack with my remaining two monsters, Pyramid Turtle and D.D. Warrior Lady, destroy them!" We'd still be close to losing but at least I can still do this.
"Wrong, I also active Scrap Iron Scarecrow on your D.D. Warrior Lady, negating her attack, so we still have one more turn in us" Our life points were still taking a hit we really shouldn't be taking but we still had some and at least that damn Soldier is blocked for the time being. I can handle our life points soon, but with that annoying D.D. monster on the field I'm jammed. Alex would know that, so all he needs to be able to do is get rid of that Warrior and our chances will greatly improve.
Sam Tuno - 8000
Kyu Alex - 1100
"I draw" Alex seemed to almost not want to look at the card for a long moment, it was clear his nerves were starting to act up a lot again but after a moment, surprisingly he just seemed to grit his teeth before looking at it before calling out quickly afterwards.
"I summon out in attack position Breaker the magical Warrior(1900/1000), and I attack that D.D. Warrior lady!" Thank hell for that. I could feel the massive amount of relief from Stealth as we watched as the monster charged at the Warrior, at least that was the feeling before the idiot of the two in front of us called out with a victorious laugh.
"Ha, you're not the only one that can play traps, I activate Mirror Force!" Oh no you aren't messing with this moment. I called out instantly, nearly interrupting him before he could finish as said.
"Your right, I'm not the only one, it's to bad you're still outclassed, I play the first card I set at the start of this duel, Trap Jammer, instantly negating that Mirror Force!" I grinned to myself as I watched that annoying Warrior Lady get destroyed while also doing some light damage to them. We're still not out of the clear but thankfully that was the main issue for me solved.
"Now that a space has opened up for another spell, I play Mage Power, and I target my Breaker the Magical Warrior, instantly powering him up by 500 for every spell or trap we control which is five (4400/3500) and now I end my turn" Nice, and that protects him from anything else that might try to harm him through attack power but it still isn't a certainty. Just because that Luster Soldier can't attack doesn't mean it can't use it's effect, but it does make a smoke screen for me.
"It's my turn then, I draw-" I interrupted that just because.
"You trigger Nightmare Wheel taking 500 points of damage along with an extra 300 from Dark Room of Nightmare" She just growled at that before looking down at the card she drew for a moment before calling out.
"I set a card and now I use Black Luster Soldier's effect to banish one monster on the field and I choose that Breaker the Magical Warrior" Alex looked surprised for some reason, I guess he didn't know about why that monster is so dangerous in this time period. Oh well, it's not that bad, they still only have one more monster on the field and with Scrap Iron Scarecrow they can't attack us with it. Meaning-
"I end my turn" With that I reached down and called out the normal phrase as I pulled out the card and looked at it for a moment. This actually might be the exact thing I needed for this situation.
"I set one monster and a card then end my turn" It wasn't anything fancy, in fact it was weird that I was T setting this late into the game but hopefully this will work. Right now my entire job has been playing the defense while Alex has been struggling with being able to attack which has made my job pretty difficult but this should help me out.
"I draw, now I know I take some damage from your annoying cards but I don't card as I'll be doing something to finally end this duel. I play Monster Reborn, and I choose the monster I sent away with Foolish Burial, Ryu Kokki (2400/2000), now all I have to do is use Black Luster to banish that-" I interrupted him there as I called out.
"Nah, I activate another trap card to bring my Metal Reflect Slime up from the trap row to act as a monster(0/3000)" He frowned at that as he looked at the face down monster again for a moment before growling to himself as he called out.
"Whatever, Black Luster Soldier, banish that damn Slime and now Ryu Kokki destroy that face down monster!" Perfect, I could feel Stealth's joy echo around me as I called out as Nimble Momonga was revealed and promptly destroyed.
"Thanks, since you did that I can now summon two more from my deck in face down defense position and we regain 1000 life points" The guy looked very irritated, which I think just means I was doing my job properly as after a long moment of what looked like he was to himself.
"Pyramid Turtle destroy that set monster, and then I'll end my turn" We just got another 1000 life points out of it as I grinned as I looked at the quickly evening out score. Good, we're out of the danger zone at the moment, but we aren't safe still. That Black Luster could get rid of my last set and then we'll be open to at least one attack which will quickly put us back down to where we just were, So come on Alex, let's see something great.
Sam Tuno - 6000
Kyu Alex - 3100
"I draw... Now I summon out Skilled White Magician, first up I flip over my own trap card, Pitch-Black Power, allowing me to place one counter onto it, next I play Terraforming, adding a second counter, and it gets me a field spell card which I also play adding a third counter, this one being Gaia Power. Now I can use those three counters to tribute my Skilled White Magician to bring out my Buster Blader from my hand, who is powered up by Gaia Power(3100/1900)...Just enough. Attack Black Luster Soldier!" Damn, he must have been ready for that since the start, just waiting on getting that Skilled White, damn I couldn't complain as I watched as the Black Luster Soldier was destroyed.
Sam Tuno -5900
Kyu Alex - 3100
"Now... I end my turn" Alex looked like he was tired, which I guess was understandable, that draw must have been very stressful. He's probably been bricking for the last few draws which most certainly wouldn't have helped him.
"Could you two just lose already? This is getting annoying. I draw, now I summon Exarion Universe(1800/1900), now I attack your remaining face down, and I activate Exarion's effect, by lowering his attack by 400 I can inflict piercing damage, and hey, would you look at that, your monster is an Earth one, meaning it's attack is reduced from that Gaia Power, meaning I'm dealing the max amount, so you don't get any healing from this!" I think I've made her mad, good. With that he needed her turn which means I'm back up, time to see what this draw will be.
"I draw. Ok then, I use Bluster Blader to attack your Pyramid Turtle and end my turn by setting a card" I didn't get anything special and while I could have summoned out another monster, that Exarion could have just done piercing damage to it, and while I could have destroyed that card, I'm going for the most damage possible at the moment and since I just destroyed that zombie monster-
"Since you destroyed my Pyramid Turtle I get to summon a zombie from my deck with equal to or less than 2000 defense. And I choose my second Ryu Kokki(2400/2000)!" It probably isn't a great idea to let him be able to summon more things out but he isn't the main threat in my eyes, it's that girl. So by flooding the field, it'll be harder for her to get anything dangerous out.
"Now, it's my turn which isn't that just fitting after I get another one of my strongest monsters out. I draw, Ha! Hahaha, I play Heavy Storm, destroying every spell or trap on the field,sucks to be you doesn't it! I end my turn"...That was annoying, very annoying actually. That means my Scarp Iron is gone which has already saved us a lot, the only good thing is that this doesn't effect Buster Blader so they still can't touch us even if our defenses have dropped a good bit.
"I draw, now I play Megamorph, which means that Buster Blader's original attack is now doubled(5700/1900), now Buster Blader destroy that Ryu Kokki!" I smiled to myself at that as Alex seems to finally gotten his cards in order, it took a bit but that's why I'm here, to play defense while he gets set up so his ace can do crazy amount of damage.
Sam Tuno -1200
Kyu Alex - 2700
Of course it came at a down side, our life points were now lower than theirs which means Megamorph's effect is flipped, Buster Blader's original attack is now halved which with Gaia Power is still ok, at (1800/1900) but we are in a bit more of a rough position, it isn't to bad though since there is only one monster on there side, that last Ryu Kokki.
"Bad move dude, you seem to be pretty weak now, I mean looks like you're little monster is a lot weaker now" The guy was trying to taunt Alex but for once he didn't really seem to mind to much as he said back.
"Maybe but I have this so I don't really think so. I end my turn" He was right, Same, the girl was up and she only had one card in her hand, sure she'll get another but the chances of her getting anything that would screw us this late in the game is pretty low.
"I draw. Now I attack that Buster Blader with Ryu Kokki!" Alex didn't seem to mind as much as I would have figured, as we took some light damage as Sam quickly ended her turn after that. I was right she doesn't seem to have anything really left. Still, All things considered, I think this has been one of the more fun duels I've had so far. I'm up now. I wonder which of my monsters I should use here, considering that all I have in my hand at the moment. Well, that might change, let's see.
Sam/Tuno - 1200
Kyu/Alex - 2100
"I draw, I set a card and I set a monster and I end my turn" Was't this just fitting in a way... Well time to see how this plays out. The guy seemed a bit excited as he drew the last card of the game as he called out.
"I summon out Mezuki, now Mezuki destroy that face down card!" I just shrugged at that as I watched as Blast Sphere moved into my back row, it's effect now activated. The guy seemed to see that but didn't seem to care with how excited he was, which seemed to be effecting the girl as well as she looked really happy as he called out.
"Now Ryu Kokki end this! I attack your life points directly!" I felt my faint smile grow into more of a smirk as I called out to them.
"When will you learn your lesson to not attack me directly when I have a back row? I activate Magic Cylinder" The looks on their faces, going from absolutely suddenly happy to just so incredibly crushed will be one I'll be enjoying for at least a day or two.
Sam/Tuno - 0
Kyu/Alex - 2100
I would recount on the whole celebration thing but honestly it wasn't all that impressive. Pegasus came out and announced the things I had already talked to him about with the new cards. The two of us got a set of all the cards that were going to be soon released and Pegasus even through in a number of booster packs as well. we each got to pick two sets of ten from the last five most recent packs to be released. Alex panicked a bit in his choice but my picks were easy. I had already looked up the costs for them during my original mind building for my dragon deck.
So I just picked the most expensive ones that would fit my needs and that's that as those would be the hardest to get in any other circumstance. Why? Because I'm cheap as hell, which can be seen from the fact that I think so far I haven't spent a penny on any cards. I did attempt to, to be fair but Alex covered that and looking back on it, I was very tired at the time and I think that's the only reason for my slip in cheapness.
Anyway, I was back at the mansion house thing, in my guest room because I might as well use it more than like three times since I've been here. At the moment I was just looking over the free set of new cards. Right now I was looking up at the Dark Magician in my hand, it was re-textured from the original but still clearly the same monster, but right now I was just wondering if the spirit was in there or was it only in Yugi's deck. I mean, I could ask I guess.
Stealth, are you in all the Stealth Bird cards out there or are you only in my copy of it?... I felt a weird sense of confusion from that. Like he himself didn't really know, which I think is dumb since you're the one that is the duel spirit here. He felt annoyed at that but I feel like I have a point. Maybe the duel spirits can only come out to those that have strong duel energy and each energy naturally draws in a certain spirit... That's a thing right? Duel Energy? I remember hearing something about that but I have no idea if that was in GX or one of the later series.
Oh? I got a hum of approval for that so duel energy is in fact a thing in this world. I wonder how much I have? Stealth seemed to give me that shrugging emotion again that I still wasn't really sure was an actual emotion. So either he can't really find a way to explain it to me through emotion charades or he just can't really tell. Ok then, twenty questions it is. If yes then hum if no then just shut it. Can you sense my energy? That got a hum.
So does this mean you just don't know how to tell me how much? Another hum, alright then, only two needed before I got my answer, not bad, but I'm still curious so time to make a chart in my mind. Compared to the average duelist at the Academy, do I have more energy? A strong buzzing, isn't that nice for my ego. Ok then, what about Alex? A another hum but not as strong, fair, I'm a better duelist which I guess means I would be stronger in spirit or whatever this energy counts as.
I would ask about Jaden but I'm pretty sure he's some kind of king or something and judging by anime protagonist logic that means he's energy could bully mine like it's a two year old. Ok, you don't have to agree that strongly with that assessment Stealth. So Jaden is super powerful in the energy department, I figured as much. What about that one guy, the one with the cyber dragons that turns to the dark side or whatever. I got a faint, more confused hum. I'll call that fifty-fifty then.
Which isn't that interesting, so it isn't dueling skill alone as that cyber dragon guy to my knowledge is better than Jaden at the moment, so I have to factor in anime reincarnation logic into this as well, so by no means is this a power level scale, more like a general guide to whose more dangerous. Anyway, I got really off track and I still haven't gotten an answer about if Dark Magician is going to suddenly pop up next to me. I doubt it but I'm sure I'll be paranoid about it anyway.
Back to the cards then, I continued to look through them, none really caught my interest, besides the weird factor of these being brand new but years old to me, none of them were really all that helpful to me. A few spell and traps that would come in handy in some pretty limited situations but that was about it. Setting them down to my side, I picked up the last three cards and began to look them over before blinking to myself as I looked at the only monster in my hand. What the hell?
Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End. I didn't know there was a chaos based dragon, at least in this era. But here it was, one dark and light banishment and I get a dragon with 3000 attack, isn't that fun. At the start I really didn't have to many powerful dragons, I mean my strongest was a freaking Luster Dragon, but now, I have like three decently easy to summon dragons all with more than 2500 attack. Not mentioning five headed which is a bit harder to get but still totally possible with my monster ratio.
Whatever, I'm more awesome now, let's just go with that while I think over my ability to play this monster in my hand. Honestly it wouldn't be that hard, Divine Dragon Ragnarok and Element Dragon are both a Light dragons and I have two of each of them in my deck along with Blackland Fire Dragon which are Dark dragons and I use a full set of them, not to mention Stealth is also a Dark one so getting a few into my grave with Graceful Charity or Morphing Jar wouldn't be to hard. I might even slot in my Card Destruction from my burn deck as well but that might be over kill and putting to much focus onto just one monster.
I don't like putting faith into just one thing, it just doesn't sit right with me, it's why even though I call Horus my ace monster, I have like four others that by themselves could also be considered aces for their own decks. I mean in this series alone Red-Eyes Black Dragon is the ace monster of one of the better duelist alive right now and in my deck it's tied for fourth with two other monsters that have the same attack as it.
Of course it's more than just that since Red-eyes has some easier summoning conditions not to mention a hell of a lot of support, but I don't really have either of those two so I'm just going to continue to complain instead. Stealth hummed something at me for some reason, it didn't really have a feeling, more just like a weird vibration in my chest. If I didn't know I was hosting a spirit I'm pretty sure I would be thinking I'm having a seizure or something.
"Ready dude?" Ah, Stealth was telling me that Alex was on his way, I wonder why I didn't notice him, I'm pretty good at listening for footsteps. Whatever, with that I just pointed my hand out from my laying position on the bed to point at a small suitcase on the desk which was packed. My other hand was still holding the Chaos Dragon, I'm sure Alex would have already looked through his stuff so.
"Mind if I take your chaos dragon and you can take my copy of Dark Magician?" He looked like he was expecting that as he just tossed me his version, which I caught and handed over my Dark Magician. Not sure why, I mean I'm probably not going to run two Chaos Dragons, but it also not like I'm about to run a spellcaster deck either, so I might as well have the card that probably doesn't have a duel spirit in it, unlike whatever limbo state that Dark Magician might be in.
"I figured you'd want it, it's a powerful dragon , I thought about using it since most of my monsters are dark and lights but it wouldn't fit well and my graveyard doesn't fill up that quickly normally and it just isn't my style" Style? I guess that matters a lot in this world doesn't it. Still, his other points did make sense, he doesn't really send much to the grave on purpose and it would be out of place with all his other monsters and spell cards. Maybe it's because of how much of a mesh mash mess that is my burn deck but I just don't see how that matters as much.
"Yes because the cool factor truly matters in a card game. I'm ready, come on, I can't wait to get back to the mediocreness that is the Ra dormitory" Alex rolled his eyes at that but it was true, I really didn't like staying in this house. I'm weird when it comes to staying places, I just can't feel completely comfortable unless it's mine in some way. A guest room is more like them just handing it out, it's not mine. So I honestly would be happy when we get back to the school so I could go back to ignoring my own room, because it's mine.
With that the two of us stood up and made our way out of the door to head to the airport, which would drop us off at the boat. It's a tad bit annoying as I'm not really a big fan of heights, like at all, but it can be ignored without to much trouble so there's that at least. Side note, Stealth was annoyed at me, but he's a bird, I'm not, it makes sense that I want my feet to stay firmly on the ground.
"I win" I was back to boring duels, even Stealth was complaining and I think dueling is one of the few things he finds truly exciting and fun to watch and be apart of. At least during the tag tournament and even that duel with that plant monster chick the duels were a lot closer than this. Those people actually almost won, but now I was just stomping on this idiots.
I think the main problem is I'm literally only battling the extras of this universe, I mean I have yet to really even talk to the main cast yet, much less duel them and they're already established as the schools strongest at this point. Which I also don't really get, because my track record of duels is just as good as that one guy who has never lost. Plus I'm acing every class I'm in as well so I'm not sure why I keep getting paired up against easy opponents.
At least Alex is still as challenging as ever, he's always been difficult to beat, but now that's also getting stale, I mean his deck hasn't changed like at all really. To be fair mine hasn't either, at least my burn deck, but the only main addition to his is Dark Magician and without the support cards for it, that monster technically weaker than his Buster Blader. Sure it's a tad more difficult because I have more high power monsters to deal with and Alex can get them out easier but it still is the same formula really.
Basically I'm not good with monotony and that's all I'm dealing with right now. At least I got some joy from all those packs. My luck with drawing cards is about as poor as ever, twenty packs and I only got about four cards that I would be adding, thankfully those four are pretty good, but it's a shame that I drew like a hundred cards and didn't get something great from it but that's just reality, besides I can just sell and trade the useless ones later so it's not all bad.
Anyway, I walked off the duel stage and looked around for a moment before yawning to myself. I was exhausted to be honest with you, I haven't slept in almost five days now, which wasn't that bad but it had been a while since my insomnia had been this bad and when I zoned out now everything began to spin a bit which was a bit worrying, but I'm way to use to it at this point to care as I lazily dropped into my seat while the next pair was called up for their duel assessment after winter break.
It was boring, and it was annoying since a lot of people were bugging me about the tournament thing since it was broadcasted in Japan and here as well. I don't really care about people but it is easy for me to find them annoying and every fourth person walking up to me and jabbering my ear off is certainly a way to get me annoyed. Mix that in with how tired I am and it's no wonder I'm not in the best mood at the moment.
"Why are you upset?" And Alex is now bugging me. I thought about just not answering but knowing him that will just make him more concerned.
"I'm tired, bored, and annoyed by people" He just sighed at that like he should have expected that somewhat which I found rude but didn't comment on as I watched as Jaden walked up and started his duel with some Ra I didn't bother to learn the name of. He would win because protagonist logic but it was at least better than staring at a brick wall.
"Dude, aren't you always tired?" I just shrugged at that and didn't say anything as I just leaned back a bit as I looked up at the ceiling now, watching as Stealth seemingly appeared out of no where, flying around in the air. He doesn't like being land locked in my body for long periods of time, I didn't care since I didn't particularly want him in my soul anyway but I think he sees it as his roost at this point.
"Well yeah but that doesn't mean I find that particularly fun. Anyway, I saw that poster by the card shop earlier, want to check out Yugi's deck later?" He blinked at that before he opened his mouth to say something, I just interrupted that by holding up two tickets. Were they mine? Well no, I'm not paying to look a fancy bunch of cards, but the two that bought them clearly weren't smart or these tickets wouldn't have been so easy to pluck off from their desk.
"Do I want to know where you got those from" Alex is getting use to me, I wonder if that should be concerning that he looks more put out at that than annoyed at me. Eh, I've never claimed to be a good influence and I'm not going to start now. So I just hook my head, he looked at me for a moment before letting out a small sigh before grabbing one of the tickets before saying.
"Fine, I also saw those posters, it's opening tomorrow right?... I think that means that copy cat is going to try and steal them tonight" I nodded at that, looking around a tad with my eyes, noting no one was paying attention to us so I continued on and said.
"We shouldn't do anything, it sorts itself out. Though that probably would be a different story if the god cards were still in there but I'm pretty sure those got sealed so that's not possible. Even if I think it would be fun to battle against Obelisk or Slifer, maybe Ra" Alex looked at me like I was crazy but I didn't care, it was a fair assessment after all, I did just say I wanted to duel against literal gods basically.
"You...Dude you need to get a hobby or something" I just rolled my eyes as I absently noted that weird faint feeling bubble in my chest, letting me know that Stealth at some point at returned into my chest. I still don't like that my sense of surroundings seem to leave a natural blind spot for him but I'm getting a lot better at noticing him now and it has only been like two weeks since he showed up so I think I'm making decent progress at noticing the practically invisible small bird made of sass that is Stealth.
To prove my point, I felt Stealth hum annoyance in my chest but I ignored it.
"You know, they transport new cards to this island by a marine escort, but for one of, if not the most famous deck in the entire world, they have a glass case" Alex gave a small laugh at that as the two of us looked at the cards. They weren't anything special to be honest, well that was a lie, the cards were very special, but just from an outside glance you wouldn't think it.
"You'd think but I guess they just assumed everyone would respect the deck to much to try anything" Wasn't that a stupid reason. Whatever, it doesn't concern me I guess, still I must say, I'm curious about those cards, I remember that some cards can give off their own energy, I think it was the god cards or something but I wonder if anything is left over in that deck. Well, whatever, I don't care enough to ask or try to figure it out myself.
"That's a pretty idiotic reason, incredibly so since it was literally stolen last night" Alex rolled his eyes at my complaints of people's stupidity, which I didn't get but I didn't really care to say anything more on the subject so I just let it drop instead.
Moving forwards a bit, I leaned forwards to the glass, just looking at it for a moment. A history is there that I'll never be a part of. It was strange, I'm somewhat use to being dropped at the start of the story, this is the sequel to it, and this deck is the biggest proof of that. Battle city, the gods, and so many other things, it's just strange that I can stand here and know it all while no one else can. Besides Alex of course but I've gotten use to him already so there's that.
Maybe I'm just over thinking or Stealth is screwing with me but either way it is a bit weird. I wonder if the others ever went through something like this revelation? If they did I don't think I'm the one that wrote it out but that's the past I guess. It doesn't really matter, for right now this is just an interest set of playing cards and not much else.
"What do you want now?" I just gave a bland smile at Rose's annoyance, good to know the weeks in between my blackmail hasn't stopped her from hating me. It's always nice to know that I'm not to rusty in getting people to hate my existence, it just means that I'm doing a good job. So with that I just talked to her like it was normal, like her hate was so beneath me that I didn't bother reacting to it.
"I want a lot of things, most you wouldn't be able to even scratch the surface of, but that's besides the point. When's your next little gathering?" I honestly didn't need to ask, my deck is basically complete at the moment, I can think of a few cards that would be nice but nothing really is needed anymore for it, I have great firepower, a number of decent to great effect monsters, some powerful spells and traps, really I didn't need anything else, but I was bored so why not?
"Why? So you can screw over even more of my friends to get some more cards? I saw you on that little tourney, what kind of greed do you have that you still aren't satisfied?" She's rehearsed that, it was clear from how normally angry she was when it came to me, she was to calm, not to mention her infliction was different, an easy way to tell when someone's said something enough times to memorize it.
"Greedy? I prefer cheap, I mean why bother to pay for cards when your group can just go out and find them for me. But that's not what I'm here for, I don't really care much about you or your ante plays anymore, I'm just bored. Of course if you deny me this then the minor reason I have in not exposing your group is up and then I'll just be on my way" She was back to glaring, heavily at that, like she was contemplating stabbing. It would have been threatening if she wasn't a teenage who was a noticeable amount of inches shorter than me.
"You-... You are the absolute worst, you psychopath" Wasn't that just hurtful, well I didn't care, but Stealth was angry on my behalf and second hand emotions are about as strong as my normal ones so it feels like I'm angry, even when it's counterbalanced by the fact that I couldn't careless about what she called me, so to prove that I just raised an eyebrow and said.
"It would be closer if the prefix you used was socio, but that's besides the point. When's the next meeting?" She just looked at me for a long moment, like I was a crazy person, I couldn't really say I blamed her, I did just basically call myself a sociopath, which was a lie, I'm not and no one can say otherwise, but I'm fine with admitting that between socio, psycho, and perfect mental health I know which one I'm closer to. It's not something I'm ashamed of or something equally dumb like that, it's just who I am, and I see no reason to bother to hide it.
"You- It's in four days, same spot, if you show up I swear I will throw every single member at you until you lose" She acted like that was a threat, I just made a face like the idea was interesting before saying.
"Well, if you want every single one of your members to lose their rarest card then I won't say no" It was over confident, bordering on arrogance to say that as I'm sure the chances of me miss playing after fifty some odd games would only be likely, not to mention in that many games, the chances of my deck getting me a brick would also be way more than likely. It would be foolish to assume I would just win against that many without fail, but it would fun to try, still, I didn't feel like testing it so I'm warning her off.
She just glared at me before stomping away, now she won't try it. I mean she still might but now she knows I am fully fine with ruining a number of peoples decks by taking their most powerful or rare cards. Sure I might lose in the end, but the twenty to forty cards I could get out of it would show I would be the real winner in that situation. Besides it's not like I have to accept every and all duels that come my way, I have no reason to. I don't care about pride or honor enough to do anything like that.
Stealth seemed to not like that but I still didn't care. The two of us don't actually disagree on a lot, but when it comes to dueling we have really different opinion on the matter at what seems to be every other corner. I didn't mind, anyone and everyone can disagree with me for all I care, it won't change my opinion on the matter but it is a tad annoying that the one disagreeing and arguing about it is a mute spirit bird monster that screeches emotions into my head, who also can read my thoughts.
"I know you like to annoy people dude, but I think she really wants to strangle you" Alex is here now apparently which is neat. I looked over at him for a moment before saying causally as the two of us walked over to the general cafeteria the main building had.
"I would say I probably deserve it for what I'm doing to piss her off, but I'm not exactly into choking so I'm not going to say anything" He turned beat red at that as I smirked to myself, sure this world is rated T but I can still make jokes as long as I don't spell the meaning out. It works doubly well since in a school full of kids, he's really the only one that gets the jokes and since's it's Alex, his reactions are just entertaining to watch.
"Y-you're so weird dude" I just nodded, he was dead right in that regard, no reason to try and convince him otherwise.
I wasn't paying attention at the moment, we were in class and I was bored so I was just looking over a few cards that I had recently won from that ante group. Rose was pissed but all she could do was complain. Honestly she should be glad I'm not an easily riled up type, otherwise her constant insults would have lead her into a whole new world of trouble.
Anyway the cards I won weren't anything special, I'll probably just sell them later or if I feel it necessary then I'll, with reluctance, interact with the people around me to see if anyone has some cards I could use in either of my decks. On a side note, I managed to summon out Five-Headed Dragon recently and that was fun to see the guy I was dueling practically drop to his knees.
"Kyu, I don't suppose you should be paying attention as what I have to say is concerning to you" The stereotype was talking to me, the teacher one not any of the many others. I looked up at the man as he held that weirdly round cat, just to let him know I was actually some what paying attention, though I was curious about whatever he was going to say since apparently it involved me.
"Ah yes, now then, time to get to the matter. You and Jaden Yuki will be having a duel off" I just blinked, my mind seemingly stopping for a moment before what he said caught up to me. Ok, what the hell? Jaden also seemed to have a similar question as he spoke up at that point.
"Oh really teach, why's that?" The constantly blind professor just smiled and said.
"You see, we need a student to duel North Academy and both of you were recommend based on different merits, so the only way to decide who will be dueling the representative from North Academy is for you two to duel" Wasn't this suppose to be Bastion's job? I'm pretty sure it was, so why was I brought up? Is this suppose to be ironic karma or something to wondering about why I never duel any main cast members a few weeks ago? If so then screw off.
Jaden didn't seem to hold my contempt as he just turned and looked over at me before smiling and giving me a thumbs up. I absently noted that Alex was panicking to all hell and back so I just gave Jaden a nod before saying quietly to Alex.
"Relax" He just looked at me before glaring like I was the one that wasn't reacting properly to this situation. To be fair I was also wondering why in the world I was having to deal with this, the plot in this place is so weird, I get called out for going to that abandoned dorm and now this happens when really I haven't done much at all. It's like it's trying to drag me into the story. To be honest, it's not something I appreciate, but it looks like I might not have a choice. Joy.
Stealth on the other hand actually seemed happy, I didn't really get why. Maybe because he's weird and wants to see me lose, if that's the case then rude, but I think it's more likely that he wants to actually see a good match. He wasn't really around when I had any one on one challenging duels, so I'm sure this must be some what exciting for the spirit bird.
Gotta admit I was also some what looking forwards to this but I'm not sure how reality is going to see that excitement. Honestly I remember Jaden's deck pretty well, it isn't all that good. It almost completely revolves around him pulling out a polymerization at the last second or something equally unlikely but always going to happen with anime protag powers.
Honestly hero decks are cool, and can be very powerful with all the support out for them, but that's in my timeline, here Neos and mask heroes along with a large number of spells aren't really existent yet, or at least I haven't run into the later as the former I'm pretty sure had some plot relevance with space or something. Anyway, I'll need to look out for the monster effects, I don't really have anything that can counter that but if I can get Horus Lv8 out then I think my win would be near certain since he can't play Polymerization at that point but no need to get cocky, there is still plenty of ways to lose.
Hmm, I'm actually quite looking for to this, sure I don't really give a damn about dueling against Chazz and his gang of idiots but I can cross than bridge if I get to it. I got some restructuring to do in any case, just to be safe. Oh, I think that got Stealth interested, sorry bird but I think I might have to swap you out for some other cards, but your welcome to annoy me all the same while I'm switching things out. Hell knows your going to anyway.
I'm having fun with Stealth, I don't know why but I just like characters that can communicate in other ways besides speech, and emotions are such varied things that it's interesting to use them as a basis to talk and expression oneself with. Honestly I have no real idea for the plot, I'm mostly just enjoying writing out the duels and messing around with the characters I've made for this story. Another random fact, Rose was originally going to be a lead role instead of Alex and she was going to use a water deck which I later gave to one of the instructors for the 1v3 duel a few chapters back. It's fun to recycle self made characters and toss them into different than their original roles. Anyway, See ya.