The days in between the attack and the expulsion duels came and went, if you asked the students who were facing expulsion the day came way to quickly as they would've liked a couple of extra days to prepare for the duels but as much as they appealed to Martin to push the date forward he refused and now the day had arrived.
Chloe let out a yawn as she woke up before glancing around the room, Chelsea was at her laptop as always but Chloe couldn't tell what her roommate was up too. "Good morning Chelsea." Chloe greeted her with a yawn but Chelsea didn't answer. "Chelsea?"
"Oh sorry Chloe, I was miles away." Chelsea apologized once she heard her roommate's voice. "I was thinking about the duels later."
"Ah crap, I forgot they were today." Chloe groaned as she swung her legs over. "How are your ribs holding up?" Chloe asked and Chelsea smiled a bit.
"They feel a lot better, which is unfortunate because I can't use them as an excuse to delay the duels." Chelsea answered before turning to her roommate, it was at that moment that Chloe realized that her eyes where bloodshot.
"Didn't get any sleep huh?" Chloe asked and Chelsea nodded. "That's probably not going to help later on today." Chloe pointed out as she started getting changed into her uniform and Chelsea groaned.
"Please Chloe, I can handle myself." Chelsea said before turning to her laptop to give her roommate some privacy. "Besides the duels aren't until 1:00pm which is….oh shit!" Chelsea yelled out once she saw what time it was. "The duels are in Half an Hour's time!"
"Please tell me you're kidding?" Chloe pleaded as she hurriedly put her clothes on, Chelsea shook her head as Chloe put on her blazer over her stomach exposing top. "Oh great, we hardly have time to prepare! We'll get expelled for sure."
"You can relax, you're on last." Chelsea told her and Chloe sighed in relief. "But as for me? They scheduled my duel first, what's worse is that all they've told us about our opponents is that they are pro league duelists."
"They didn't give a name?" Chloe asked and Chelsea shook her head. "Great, knowing out luck they probably flew in Axel Loather!"
"Ugh, don't remind me, back when I was going to talk to Martin about joining you guys in Battle City he was on the top of the list of duelists I was dreading facing." Chelsea answered with a nervous gulp and Chloe frowned. "I mean hell; Theresa had a hard enough time beating him in her Semi-Final match against him!"
"Yeah, that was part of the reason I was nervous about facing her after that match." Chloe said honestly as she put on her blazer. "Let's try not to think about that, it may be a good idea to get to the Duel Field early."
"Good idea, we don't want to be late for these duels." Chelsea gulped before closing her laptop lid and following Chloe out of the dorm room and too the center of the island. "Wait; do we even know where the main duel field is?"
"You're in luck, I know where it is." Theresa said as she approached the two girls, they turned to her and saw that she had a frown on her face. "I would've liked more time to prepare for these duels to be honest."
"I can't help but agree there." Chelsea agreed as she put her hands in her blazer pockets. "But at this way we can get it out of the way."
"True enough." Theresa agreed before frowning. "You girls have any idea who the Pro Duelists they've flown in are?"
"We were hoping you'd know that." Chloe answered and Theresa sighed. "As if the fact that they decided to fly in Pro Duelists wasn't bad enough, we don't even know who they are."
"Hey Chloe, over here." A voice Chloe nor Theresa hadn't heard since returning from New York rang out and they blinked before turning around and seeing a pair of Irish Duelists.
"Phillip, Francesca, what are you guys doing here?" Chloe greeted the couple as they approached them.
"We were flown in for the expulsion duels of several students." Francesca explained and Chloe gulped when she heard that. "Was it something I said?"
"Yeah, you're looking at three of the students facing expulsion." Chloe told them sheepishly and the two Irish Duelists looked at her funny. "It's a long story."
"I'll take your word for it." Phillip said with a frown. "We heard about the Duel Disk Malfunction the other day, you girls weren't hurt where you?"
"I was, got some bruised ribs for my troubles; I'm feeling well enough to duel though." Chelsea said as the two duelists turned to her. "Oh, I'm Chelsea; I'm Chloe's roommate in Osiris Red." Chelsea introduced herself.
"Chelsea? Oh you're the one who's up first." Francesca realized and Chelsea sweat-dropped at being reminded off that. "Well, we've gotta run, Martin's waiting for us, guys, we may be friends but we won't go easy on you when it's your turn to duel."
"And we'll say the same to you." Chloe said with a nod before the two Irish Duelists ran off, Chloe watched them go into the main building and sighed. "Things just went from bad to worse."
"Yeah, you and Lance had a hard time against them in Battle City and I think it's safe to assume that they've improved their decks since then." Theresa remembered before shaking her head. "Come on, we've got expulsion duels to win." Theresa said and the two girls nodded before following her into the Main Building, it didn't take them long to find the main Duel Arena or Andreas, Marcus, Tyler, Lance and Brandon as they were hanging around the entrance for duelists. "You guys were waiting for us?"
"Yeah, we didn't want to enter without you." Lance agreed before frowning. "Chloe, you realize that Phillip and Francesca are two of the Pro-Leagers here today right?"
"Yeah, we bumped into them outside the Main Building." Chloe said with a nod before sighing. "And it's a safe bet that they've improved their decks since our last duels against them."
"We'll worry about that later, let's go in." Tyler told them and the duelists nodded before entering the Duel Arena, the Duel Arena was much larger than the one set aside for Obelisk Blue Students and had an audience containing students and family members off the duelists, conspicuous in his absence were Brandon and Tyler's fathers but they assumed that they were too busy to attend, facing the duel arena where two lines of chairs that contained enough chairs for each duelist. "We'd better take a seat." Tyler told them and the students sat down soon afterwards.
"Good afternoon students, this is never an easy time for the school but these eight students are facing expulsion from the school and have been given a second chance." Martin's voice rang out over the PA system as spotlights shone on the eight students. "Due to the severity of their offence we have flown in eight pro league duelists to face them in one on one duels, if the students win they can stay at the school and their records will be wiped, should they lose then they'll be expelled."
"So, there's no pressure on us in other words." Lance muttered under his breath as he stared at the duel field. "That thing must be big enough for several one on one duels."
"It is, and if I'm not mistaken our duels may take place at the same time." Tyler answered and Lance frowned at that.
"Now to introduce the Pro League Duelists, first all the way from Spain he is the Spanish National Champion Ricardo Diego." Martin announced as the first duelist stepped forward, he was a handsome Spanish teenager with long black hair in a ponytail and black eyes who was wearing a black t-shirt, blue jeans and brown boots. "He will face Osiris Red's Chelsea Cunningham."
"Great, I get to face the Spanish National Champ!" Chelsea muttered sarcastically before stepping forward, both duelists stepped onto the duel field and activated their duel disks.
"Hmm, I wasn't expecting to face someone as pretty as you." Ricardo said as he shuffled his deck, Chelsea didn't let his attempt at flirting affect her as she shuffled her deck. "Regardless, I will show no mercy but who knows? Maybe you'll be forgiving enough to take me on a date when it's over."
"Sorry Romeo but I'm already taken." Chelsea informed him as they finished shuffling their decks and drew their opening hands; she glanced towards the audience and spotted Beth in the front row. "In fact she's watching the duel right over there."
"Ah I see…..wait, she?!" Ricardo did a double take when he spotted Chelsea's girlfriend, he blushed furiously upon realizing that he had attempted to flirt with a gay person. "My apologies let it be known that I respect your life choice."
"Apology accepted…..and no you can't have any sex tapes." Chelsea said and Ricardo face-faulted at the last statement, she heard laughter coming from where the other pro league duelists where sitting as well as some stifled chuckles coming from the audience.
"I wasn't going to ask; regardless I like a girl with a sense of humor." Ricardo said as he got up to his feet. "Such a shame that your defeat will lead you to being kicked out of this school." Ricardo added as he looked over his hand.
"Yeah, in your wildest dreams maybe you'll beat me." Chelsea said as she looked over her hand. "But I may be stuck in Osiris Red but I'm still one of the best duelists in the dorm….I realize that's not saying much but you'll see what I mean."
"Then by all means, take the first turn." Ricardo offered and Chelsea nodded before drawing her card. "The teachers denied us access to their Duel Academy profiles so that we wouldn't get an unfair advantage in these duels, in that case they shouldn't have selected Phillip and Francesca since they dueled Lance and Chloe during Battle City." Ricardo thought before shaking his head. "It doesn't matter, as soon as she makes her move I'll know what I'm up against." Ricardo thought as he waited for Chelsea to decide on her opening move.
"All right, I start with a Spell Card called Terra Forming; this allows me to add a Field Spell Card to my hand." Chelsea played the card before picking up her deck, searching through it and adding the card she was looking for too her hand, once that was done she shuffled her deck and sent her Spell Card to the graveyard. "You're probably wondering what card I added to my hand, well I won't keep you waiting." Chelsea said as her field spell card slot opened up. "I activate the Field Spell Card Wattcastle!" Chelsea announced as she played the card and the scenery changed to the cartoonish castle that was spewing electricity.
"Clever move, since most of Chelsea's monsters lack in attack strength but make up for it in strength this will give her the advantage." Tyler commented and Brandon nodded in agreement. "That said I have no idea what kind of deck Ricardo runs."
"Hmmm, a Watt Deck should be interesting to see how Ricardo handles this." Phillip commented once he recognized the field spell.
"How he'll handle it is by kicking Chelsea out of this school." One of the other pro duelists spoke with a Scottish Accent, he was a short teenager with short silver hair (obviously dyed) and blue eyes, responded to Phillip and the Irish Duelist turned to him. "Duel Academy's supposed to train the future of Duel Monsters, not waste our time by flying us in to duel unruly students."
"Erick, that's bullshit and you know it." Francesca countered him and Erick frowned. "First off every school's bound to have the occasional troublemaker and Duel Academy's no different, besides me and Phillip dueled Chloe and Lance back in Battle City and we know that they are good duelists, call me crazy but I think there's more to this."
"You're crazy." Erick said simply before turning his attention back to the duel.
"Now I summon Wattcobra in attack mode!" Chelsea played the card and the electric snake appeared on the field (4/1000/500).
"So…..first you play a weird field spell and then you open up with a weak monster?" Ricardo asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Trust me, you're not the only one who's underestimated my monsters but believe me, this guy's tougher than he looks." Chelsea said before picking up two of the cards in her hand. "I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Chelsea set the two cards and Ricardo wasted no time in drawing his first card.
"I play the Spell Card Reinforcement of the Army which lets me add a Level 4 or lower Warrior Type Monster from my deck to my hand." Ricardo played the card before picking up his deck, searching through it and finding the card he was looking for, once he added the card to his hand he sent his Spell Card to the graveyard and shuffled his deck.
"So you're running a warrior deck huh? Meh, nothing I can't handle." Chelsea shrugged her shoulders and Ricardo grinned.
"You won't be so confident after my first move; I summon the monster I retrieved from my deck using Reinforcement of the Army." Ricardo said before playing the card. "Welcome to the field Heroic Challenger - Spartan!" Ricardo announced and the monster appeared on the field, as its name suggested it was a man in Spartan Armor wielding a shield and a sword (4/1600/1000).
"Heroic? Granted most of my knowledge about Spartans comes from that dumb 300 movie but Spartans weren't exactly heroic?" Chelsea pointed out and Ricardo shook his head.
"You misunderstand, Spartan here is a member of a newly released Archetype, and being the national champion of Spain I got him and his compatriots as a prize." Ricardo said before grinning. "You should be thankful that I'm not using the deck I won the championship with, otherwise the duel would be over in five turns."
"Is that a fact?" Chelsea asked bluntly before grinning. "Then again given your failed attempts to hit on me I think it's safe to assume you're used to finishing early around women." Chelsea said nonchalantly and Ricardo face-faulted as the students and even his fellow pro-duelists started laughing their asses off at Chelsea's comeback.
"I'll show you! Spartan, skewer that snake!" Ricardo commanded as he got to his feet and the Spartan let out a battle cry as he charged towards Wattcobra.
"Yeah, I don't think so; I protect my monster with the Waboku Trap Card!" Chelsea activated the trap and the three priestesses appeared on the field blocking the Spartan's path.
"Fine, I'll get your monster next turn! For now I set two cards facedown and…hey what happened to my Spartan's attack points?" Ricardo asked once he realized that Spartan's attack points had dropped to a mere 600.
"My field spell happened, basically any monster that battles a Watt monster loses one thousand attack points during Damage Calculation as long as my Spell's on the field." Chelsea explained before grinning. "Oh yeah, almost forgot, the loss in attack points is permanent."
"So I see no matter I have ways to get back attack points." Ricardo said nonchalantly before picking up two cards. "I set two cards facedown and call it a turn."
"Tyler, have you heard of the Heroic Archetype?" Chloe asked Tyler who shook his head.
"Wish I could say I have but I haven't." Tyler answered with a frown. "I know a new booster pack was released recently but I was too busy preparing our decks for these duels to pay much attention to it."
"I have though, and he's not lying about having ways to get back attack points." Theresa answered and Chloe turned to her. "Heck I've been trying to make a new deck based around it, basically this will be an interesting mix of styles." Theresa added as Chelsea drew her card.
"He has more huh? Well, I've got some tricks up my sleeve." Chelsea thought before playing her drawn card. "I activate Wattcine; as long as this is on the field I'll be able to gain life-points whenever I inflict damage via a direct attack." Chelsea explained and Ricardo grinned.
"Unless you have another monster on the way you won't be damaging my life-points that way any time soon." Ricardo said with a grin…..which quickly disappeared once he saw Chelsea's grin. "You have another monster?"
"Don't need one, Wattcobra, attack his life-points directly!" Chelsea commanded and before Ricardo could utter a word of protest Wattcobra leapt over his warrior and bit him in the arm bringing his life-points down to 7000 and raising Chelsea's life-points to 9000. "This is something you'll learn quickly about my monsters; most of them can attack your life-points directly, and as an added bonus when Wattcobra inflicts damage to your life-points I can add another Watt monster from my deck to my hand." Chelsea explained before picking up her deck and searching through it, she found the card she was looking for and added it to her hand before shuffling her deck.
"Okay…..that I didn't expect." Ricardo grumbled as he got to his feet. "But let's see you handle this trap, I activate Heroic Strike Back!" Ricardo activated the trap, which depicted Heroic Challenger - Spartan getting ready for battle, and grinned. "This can only be activated if I control a Heroic monster and I take battle damage, first that damage gets added to Spartan's attack points." Ricardo explained as Spartan's attack increased to 1600. "And I get to draw a card, if it's a monster than you take the damage I just took only doubled." Ricardo said before drawing a card. "And it's not your lucky day!"
"Oh crap!" Chelsea yelled out as Ricardo turned the card around revealing it to be a monster she recognized from Chloe's Battle City Duels, namely Rose Warrior of Revenge, and Spartan charged towards her before striking her in the stomach with his spear bringing her life-points down to 7000. "There's gotta be a drawback to that card!"
"There is, for the next two turns any damage I inflict to you that involves Spartan gets cut in half." Ricardo explained as he sent his trap to the grave and Chelsea frowned.
"I can live with that, for now I end my turn." Chelsea shrugged and Ricardo drew his card. "The monster he drew with his trap's effect is a Tuner Monster; if this guy's smart he'll use it and Spartan to bring out Colossal Fighter." Chelsea thought as she waited for Ricardo to make his move, Ricardo on the other hand was looking at his drawn card with a frown on his face.
"Okay, I'm feeling generous so I activate a Spell Card called Heaven's Lost Property." Ricardo played the card and grinned. "What it does is….."
"I know what it does, it's basically Graceful Charity's effect applied to both players." Chelsea interrupted and Ricardo nodded before both duelists drew three cards.
"Damn, I could've used this card last turn." Ricardo thought before he and Chelsea picked up two of their drawn cards and sent them to the graveyard, they added the remaining card to their hands and Ricardo frowned. "I could bring out Colossal Fighter but I do want to use my Heroics to their full advantage." Ricardo thought before looking at Chelsea. "You've met one Heroic, now meet another, I summon Heroic Challenger – Double Lance!" Ricardo played the card and a knight in silver armor appeared on the field, as the name suggested he was wielding twin lances (4/1700/900).
"First you summon a Spartan, now a knight?" Chelsea asked with a raised eyebrow. "What next? Are you going to summon a Roman Legionnaire?"
"Unfortunately there isn't one in this Archetype though I wouldn't put it past I2 to make one." Ricardo answered with a shrug. "Anyway Double Lance here has an effect, when he's normal summoned I can Special Summon another from my hand or my graveyard on the condition that I don't use it to summon a Synchro or an XYZ monster." Ricardo explained before retrieving a card from his graveyard and playing it, sure enough a second copy of Double Lance appeared on the field.
"Let me guess, discarded it for Heaven's Lost Property?" Chelsea asked and Ricardo nodded to confirm her suspicions. "Great, my facedown card's Judgment of Thunder, this is going to suck!"
"Double Lance, attack Wattcobra!" Ricardo commanded and the knight charged towards Wattcobra before skewering it with his lances bringing Chelsea's life-points down to 6300. "Sure Double Lance loses some of his strength thanks to your Field Spell but that's nothing compared to what you're about to lose, Double Lance, Spartan, attack her life-points directly!" Ricardo commanded and Chelsea braced herself as the two warriors charged towards her before slamming their weapons into her stomach bringing her life-points down to 4000.
"Oh great, the first Expulsion Duel and Chelsea's already in trouble!" Marcus yelled out as Chelsea got to her feet. "At least it can't get any….."
"Err, guys, I think Chelsea's about to lose her temper." Chloe interrupted and the other students blinked before noticing the look of anger and frustration on Chelsea's face.
"Never mind, it just got worse!" Marcus said as a massive sweat-drop rolled down his face.
"That will do for my turn." Ricardo said not noticing the look on Chelsea's face, she quickly drew her card and he grinned. "But you may as well give up at this point….."
"NOT A CHANCE IN HELL!" Chelsea interrupted him catching the Spanish Pro Duelist off guard, not to mention the other pro-duelists.
"Okay, where the hell did that come from?!" Philip yelled out as once he noticed the look on Chelsea's face. "I would chalk that up to the stress of the situation getting to her but even that's overreacting."
"Maybe she just has a short fuse and is a sore loser." Erick shrugged his shoulders once the surprise wore off.
"Okay, okay, I was just offering." Ricardo said as he put his hands up defensively. "No need to bite my head off!"
"Chelsea, keep that temper in check!" Wattchimera advised her and Chelsea growled.
"Easy for you to say, you won't be sent to military school after losing this duel." Chelsea responded before looking at her card. "I activate Monster Reborn and I use it to bring back a monster I discarded for Heaven's Lost Property last turn." Chelsea played the card and Wattaildragon appeared on the field with a roar (6/2500/1000). "Now to narrow the gap a bit, Wattaildragon attack the weaker Double Lance!" Chelsea commanded and the dragon roared before charging up his attack…..
"I activate Heroic Challenger – Spartan's effect, when a monster besides him is targeted for an attack that monster's original attack points get added to Spartan's attack points until the end-phase." Ricardo announced as Heroic Challenger – Spartan's body glowed as his attack points shot up to 3300.
"Like that'll help you, Wattaildragon, continue your attack!" Chelsea commanded and as the dragon charged its attack up Ricardo activated a trap. "Heroic Charge, I've never heard of that one."
"You're going to wish you hadn't, to activate this trap one Heroic Monster has to be targeted for an attack, since you just did that I can double Spartan's attack points for the rest of the turn." Ricardo explained as Spartan's attack increased to 6600. "Oh yeah, and he's your new target!" Chelsea's eyes widened as Wattaildragon changed its attack target to Spartan; Spartan dodged the ball of electricity and impaled Wattaildragon in the chest, however to Chelsea's surprise Wattaildragon survived. "As you can see the downside is that both monsters aren't destroyed as a result of battle, your life-points on the other hand…."
"I knew that!" Chelsea said with a growl as her life-points dropped to 900, she looked at her dragon before picking up the card she retrieved via Wattcobra's effect the previous turn. "I set this monster in defense mode and end my turn." Chelsea announced and once Spartan's attack returned to normal Ricardo drew his card.
"Okay, this chick definitely has issues; I'd be able to understand if it was due to the stress of her situation but no amount of stress causes this much anger." Ricardo thought before shaking his head. "Double Lance, attack her defense!" Ricardo commanded and the stronger of the two Double Lances charged towards Chelsea's facedown monster, revealed to be Wattdragonfly, which was skewered by his lance.
"Since you destroyed Wattdragonfly I can activate his effect allowing me to Special Summon another Watt monster from my deck." Chelsea explained before picking up her deck and searching through it, she found the card she was looking for and played it. "Say hello to Wattlemur!" Chelsea announced and the monster appeared on the field, it was a small yellow and blue monkey with a long tail (2/800/100).
"Okay, that's strangely cute but you would've been better off summoning another Wattaildragon…" Ricardo started but was interrupted by Chelsea.
"And my Judgment of Thunder trap card!" Chelsea announced and Ricardo's eyes widened as lightning struck Heroic Challenger – Spartan destroying it. "And since both of your Double Lances are weakened by Wattcastle and I still have Wattaildragon my life-points are safe."
"Okay, I admit, that was pretty clever." Erick said begrudgingly as Ricardo sent his monster to the graveyard. "All though it was probably dumb luck due to that temper of hers."
"In that case I'll end my turn with a facedown card." Ricardo set the card and Chelsea drew her card without any hesitation. "Okay, Chelsea, quick question before you do anything else?"
"What?" Chelsea asked almost immediately and Ricardo frowned.
"What's with your sudden change in attitude? I realize that this is a stressful time for you and your classmates but losing your temper won't help." Ricardo asked and Chelsea growled.
"That's none of your business!" Chelsea snapped at him before looking at her drawn card, Ricardo frowned as he realized that he wasn't going to get any straight answers.
"Suit yourself." Ricardo shrugged and Chelsea played a card.
"Good, now to continue my move." Chelsea said before playing another card. "I summon Wattpheseant in attack mode!" Chelsea played the card and the electric colored pheasant appeared on the field (4/1000/800).
"I'm guessing he's tougher than he looks?" Ricardo asked as a massive sweat-drop rolled down his head, Chelsea nodded with a grin.
"Yep, you see Wattpheseant is another monster that can attack directly!" Chelsea announced and the pheasant charged towards Ricardo before pecking at him bringing his life-points down to 6000 and bringing her life-points up to 1900 thanks to Wattcine. "And now Wattpheseant's effect activates, since he just inflicted damage via a direct attack one of your Double Lances gets removed from play until I end my turn." Chelsea explained and Ricardo's eyes widened as Double Lance disappeared from the field. "Wattlemur, take out the other Double Lance." Chelsea commanded and the monkey charged towards the monster…..
"Not this time, I activate my trap card Heroic Retribution Sword!" Ricardo activated the trap and Double Lance's…..lance was replaced by a large red and black sword.
"So? That didn't increase his attack points one bit!" Chelsea said as Wattlemur bit Double Lance in the neck destroying it.
"True but when the monster equipped with Heroic Retribution Sword is attacked we both take the battle damage!" Ricardo explained and both duelists winced as their life-points dropped to 5900 and 1800 respectively. "And there's more, the monster that attacked the monster that's equipped with this sword bites the big one as well!" Chelsea's eyes widened as the sword reappeared on the field and skewered Wattlemur destroying it.
"Fine but I still have my dragon to attack you with!" Chelsea announced as the dragon launched a ball of electricity at Ricardo bringing his life-points down to 3400, now that the scores where much closer Chelsea calmed down a bit. "I'll end my turn which means Double Lance returns to the field." Chelsea grunted as the second Double Lance returned to the field with its stats intact, Ricardo nodded before drawing his card.
"I'd hate to do this but I can't have her replenish more life-points." Ricardo thought before playing the card. "I activate Heavy Storm to clear the field!" Chelsea's eyes widened as a storm washed over the field destroying both of her Spell Cards. "Now I can attack without my monsters losing any attack points!" Ricardo said with a grin but Chelsea shook her head.
"That doesn't matter because you won't be able to attack." Chelsea said as she retrieved Wattlemur from the graveyard. "When he's destroyed by battle or a card effect you have to skip your next battle phase." Chelsea explained before returning the card to her graveyard.
"Fine, I can wait a turn before attacking." Ricardo shrugged before playing a card. "But I will do this; I summon the Tuner Monster Rose Warrior of Revenge!" Ricardo announced and red haired female warrior appeared on the field next to Double Lance (4/1600/600). "Unfortunately Double Lance can't be used as a Synchro Material Monster full stop…..unless I negate his effect!"
"Let me guess, Forbidden Chalice?" Chelsea asked and Ricardo nodded before playing the card, Double Lance glowed as his attack points increased to 2100 but winced as he felt his powers drain away.
"And thanks to Forbidden Chalice I'm in a perfect position to make my big play!" Ricardo said as Rose Warrior and Double Lance leapt into the air and Rose Warrior dissolved into four green glowing rings that surrounded Double Lance. "I tune my two monsters together so that I can Synchro Summon Colossal Fighter!" Ricardo played the card and a bright flash enveloped the field, once it faded the mighty warrior stood in Double Lance's place (8/2800/1000) and its attack increased to 3200 thanks to his effect. "But as you said I can't attack so go ahead and take your turn." Ricardo told her and Chelsea quickly drew her card.
"I don't care if he brings out Colossal Fighter or Obelisk the fucking Tormentor; I am NOT losing this match!" Chelsea thought with a frown as she glared at the large monster in front of her. "Not even Wattaildragon can beat that thing and as far as attack power goes he's the best I've got." Chelsea thought before looking at her drawn card. "I switch my remaining monsters to defense mode." Chelsea announced begrudgingly as her two monsters crouched down. "That'll end my turn." Chelsea added and Ricardo drew his card.
"I set one card facedown." Ricardo set the card he had just drawn down. "Now Colossal Fighter, attack Wattpheseant!" Ricardo commanded and the fighter charged towards the much smaller monster before squashing it with his first. "That ends my turn." Ricardo announced and Chelsea drew her card once she sent her monster to the graveyard. "I activate my Trap Card Heroic Gift."
"Oh great, now what do you have planned?!" Chelsea grumbled once she saw the trap card flip up, however she was caught by surprise when she saw her life-points shoot up to 8000. "What the…."
"This trap can only be activated if my opponent has less than 2000 life-points; your life-points become 8000." Ricardo explained and Chelsea blinked. "Don't worry, I haven't gone insane as I get a benefit as well, namely I can draw two cards." Ricardo added before drawing twice.
"I'm not complaining but that's one of the dumbest moves I've seen." Chelsea said before looking at her newly drawn card. "I mean hell; if not for Wattaildragon you could've beaten me last turn."
"I know, but it will make sense soon enough." Ricardo said feeling a bit relieved by the fact that her temper seemed to be subsiding. "So you ready to talk about why you got stressed."
"No, I'm not, at least not in public." Chelsea answered with a frown before looking at her drawn card again. "Not much I can do so I set this card facedown and end my turn." Chelsea set the card down and Ricardo drew his card.
"Now to reveal why I activated Heroic Gift, I activate Megamorph and equip it to Colossal Fighter!" Chelsea's eyes widened as the fighter doubled in size and attack power, all the way up to 6400. "Now I equip him with Big Bang Shot."
"Oh this is going to hurt." Chelsea gulped as Colossal Fighter's attack increased to 6800.
"Colossal Fighter, attack Wattaildragon!" Ricardo commanded and the fighter pulled back its fist and slammed it into Wattaildragon destroying it and knocking Chelsea on her backside sending her life-points down to 2200.
"Off course due to Megamorph's side effect Colossal Fighter's attack points get cut in half but that's not an issue." Ricardo said as he played another card. "I play Emergency Provisions getting rid of Megamorph and gaining a thousand life-points." Ricardo announced as Colossal Fighter shrank back down to normal size and its attack decreased to 3600, at the same time Ricardo's life-points increased to 4400. "That ends my turn." Ricardo announced and Chelsea drew her card.
"She may as well give up at this point." Erick said out-loud and Chelsea glared at him. "There's no way she can summon something strong enough to beat Colossal Fighter."
"I thought it was obvious that my deck isn't about strength." Chelsea shouted back before playing a card. "I activate Spellbook inside the Pot which lets us both draw three cards." Chelsea played the card and Ricardo shrugged before drawing three cards, when she saw one of her cards her eyes lit up. "In fact I'm about to bring Colossal Fighter down!"
"Oh? And how do you plan to do that?" Ricardo asked as she played another spell card, his eyes widened when he saw it. "Oh crap, not Mystical Space Typhoon!"
"That's right and I'm targeting Big Bang Shot!" Chelsea announced as a tornado ripped through the field and destroyed the Spell Card, as soon as it was destroyed a portal opened up behind Colossal Fighter and sucked him in. "And we both know you can't summon him back from the removed from play slot."
"You may have destroyed Colossal Fighter but I still have 2000 more life-points than you." Ricardo pointed out and Chelsea grinned.
"Not a problem, first I activate my trap card Wattkeeper which lets me Special Summon a Level 4 or lower Watt Monster from my graveyard, so welcome back Wattcobra!" Chelsea played the card and Wattcobra returned to the field. "Off course Wattkeeper's side effect will destroy Wattcobra once I end my turn but it won't be staying around for that."
"It won't?" Ricardo echoed with a raised eyebrow, Chelsea grinned as she sent her trap to the graveyard once she did that she held up another card.
"Let me put it this way, you're not the only one who can Synchro Summon!" Chelsea said as she slapped a card down on her duel disk. "I summon the Tuner Monster Wattfox!" Chelsea played the card and the small electric fox appeared on the field (2/800/100). "You've met my strongest monster, now meet my favorite monster, Wattfox, it's time to tune up Wattcobra!" Chelsea commanded and the two monsters leapt into the air, Wattfox dissolved into two green glowing rings that surrounded Wattcobra. "Say hello to Wattchimera!" Chelsea played the card and a bright flash enveloped the field, when it faded the mechanical version of the mythological beast appeared on the field (6/1400/1200).
"I think it's safe to assume that that monster is one of your monsters that can attack directly?" Ricardo asked and Chelsea nodded. "Even so, it's very weak for a Level 6 monster."
"True but the two other cards I drew with Spellbook will help with that." Chelsea said before playing the card. "I activate Wattcube and equip it to Wattchimera, with this my monster's attack is increased by 100 points for each Thunder Monster in my graveyard, there's six in there at the moment giving my monster a grand total of 2000 attack points!" Chelsea explained as her monster's attack increased to 2000. "Now I activate Hidden Armory which lets me search out another copy of Wattcube."
"So you're powering up your monster to 2600." Ricardo said as Chelsea retrieved the card, sent her spell to the graveyard, shuffled her deck and subsequently equipped it to Wattchimera increasing its attack to 2600, however to his surprise she sent her second Spell to the graveyard. "Why'd you do…?" Ricardo trailed off as Wattchimera's attack to 3000. "Is that another effect of Wattcube?"
"You got it, by sending it to the graveyard I can increase my monster's attack by one thousand points, show him Wattchimera!" Chelsea commanded and the mythological beast leapt at Ricardo and bit him in the shoulder bringing his life-points down to 1400. "Wattchimera has an additional effect as well; when he successfully attacks your life-points direct it sends a random card in your hand to the graveyard to the top of your deck." Chelsea added and electricity struck one of the cards Ricardo drew with Spellbook, Ricardo nodded before sending it to the top of his deck.
"Well, well, it seems Chelsea might win after all." One of the Pro-Duelists, a French Teenage Girl with shoulder length black hair and blue eyes who was wearing a blue halter top, blue jeans and white trainers, commented with an impressed smirk.
"Don't count Ricardo out yet Adrienne, he did win the Spanish Nationals for a reason." Erick said confidently as Ricardo drew his card.
"I activate The Warrior Returning Alive!" Ricardo played the card and retrieved a card from his graveyard before adding it to his hand and sending the Spell to the graveyard. "I set a monster in defense mode and two cards facedown." Ricardo said as the three cards appeared on the field. "That ends my turn." Ricardo announced and Chelsea drew her card. "Once she tries to finish me off with Wattchimera I'll activate Mirror Force, if she somehow gets past that I'll use Magic Cylinder to finish her off and, unfortunately, end her tenure here." Ricardo thought as Chelsea looked at her drawn card.
"Sorry but this duel's over, I activate my own Heavy Storm!" Chelsea activated the spell and Ricardo shielded himself as a storm washed over the field destroying both trap cards. "Sorry to disappoint you but as far as Duel Academy goes, I'm here to stay until I graduate, Wattchimera, finish it!" Chelsea commanded and the chimera leapt over the facedown monster and bit Ricardo bringing his life-points down to zero.
"The winner of the match is Osiris Red's Chelsea Cunningham, as a result she will remain in the school and her record will be wiped." Martin announced over the PA system and the crowd cheered, the holograms disappeared and whilst Chelsea was gathering up her cards the reality of what happened was just dawning on Ricardo.
"I lost…..the National Champion of Spain and I lost to a Student from the worst dorm in Duel Academy…." Ricardo muttered under his breath as he got to his feet, once Chelsea gathered up her cards Ricardo approached her with a frown on his face. "I didn't come to the academy expecting a loss…."
"Honestly I wasn't expecting to win either." Chelsea responded but was caught off guard when Ricardo's frown turned into a friendly smile and he offered her a handshake.
"You keep this up and you'll be a force to be reckoned with in the Pro-Leagues." Ricardo said and Chelsea smiled before accepting it. "Just gotta watch the temper."
"Believe me, I'm working on that." Chelsea sighed before letting go off the handshake and hopping off the duel field, whilst she rejoined her friends Ricardo returned to the Pro-Duelists. "Well, that's a weight off of my back."
"Tell me about it, I'll be glad to get my duel out of the way." Lance agreed with a nod. "Anyone know who's up next?"
"I think the only one who does know is Martin." Chloe answered and as if on cue Martin's voice was soon heard over the PA system.
"Our second duel of the afternoon is between Ra Yellow's Lance Alvers and the man who came in second in the Australian National Championships Mark Stevens." Martin announced and Lance grinned before standing up and hopping onto the podium, his opponent hopped onto the podium revealing him to be a tall teenager in his late teens with short red hair and blue eyes who was wearing something that looked more at home at an Archeological Dig.
"Let's cut to the chase mate." Mark said as the two duelists activated their duel disks and drew their opening hands. "Your lady friend may have beaten Ricardo but I won't go down as easily as he did."
"You call being in the lead for the majority of the match going down easy?" Lance asked with a look of confusion on his face. "Never mind, like Chelsea said as far as Duel Academy goes I'm here to stay until I graduate so let's duel!" Lance shouted as both duelists drew their opening hands.