(OOC Note: Thanks to Colossal Fighter GX for supplying the characters of Jason Hutchins and Chakra Silvers as well as some of the cards in their decks, all custom cards in their decks were created by him and all creative credit goes to him)
It was now the day after Theresa got The Fang of Crittius and the rest of the previous day went quietly considering the island was home to a boarding school/duel monsters training center and whilst the new students were getting acquainted with the school grounds the students with Duel Spirit partners where waking up.
"Is there something on your mind Chloe?" Chelsea asked as she glanced up from her laptop, they had been awake for the past twenty minutes and her roommate seemed to be distracted by something, Chloe only looked up when Chelsea called out to her.
"It's Lance, I can't stop thinking about him…..and not in a sexual way either!" Chloe quickly added once she saw the grin on Chelsea's face. "When we split up yesterday to find the Orichalcos Duelists yesterday he wanted to ask me something."
"Okay, what did he want to ask?" Chelsea asked and Chloe shook her head.
"By the time he got around to asking me his cell-phone went off with Theresa's text message." Chloe answered with a confused look on her face. "By the time I finally got around to asking him what it was about Theresa had summoned her legendary dragon."
"And then we got hauled into Martin's office for sneaking off to find those bastards." Chelsea sighed as she rolled her eyes. "Excuse us for taking the incentive." Chelsea muttered under her breath before turning to Chloe. "You plan on asking him again?"
"I will, just letting him calm down for a bit." Chloe said earning a curious look from Chelsea. "He seemed frustrated about Theresa texting him just as he was about to ask the question and well, you know the rest."
"Oh yeah, I know what that question was about!" Chelsea thought with a grin. "Maybe he was asking you out?" Chelsea asked and Chloe blushed. "Oh come on! You're obviously crazy about each other!"
"Yeah and I'm about as reluctant to date anyone as they come." Chloe answered and Chelsea turned to her. "Believe it or not I've never had a boyfriend before."
"A girl with your good looks hasn't dated before…." Chelsea trailed off as it hit her, "Why do I get the feeling it has something to do with your childhood?"
"You'd be right there." Chloe responded with a nod. "I've gotten interest from several guys, and one girl…." Chloe said getting a laugh out of Chelsea. "But I'm worried that I'd be a hindrance to whoever I date because of my childhood."
"Wait, really?" Chelsea asked as she turned to her. "Chloe, all things considered, you've coped really well with that and you have several friends, what makes you think that?"
"Because that'll be the first time I've let anyone get that close to me since my mom's death." Chloe answered with a sad sigh. "Even my step-parents, for everything they've done to help me cope with the past, find it difficult to get close to me because of that."
"Oh man, now that you put like that…." Chelsea trailed off as she shook her head. "Look, Chloe I know it's a completely different thing but I'm a rock chick with a temper as short as they come and a criminal record, for a while I didn't think any girl would date me, doesn't help that most of the girls in Osiris Red are either straight or only willing to experiment with girl on girl, but now I'm dating Beth."
"Yeah, I know but…." Chloe trailed off and Chelsea shook her head.
"No buts Chlo." Chelsea said with a grin. "If someone like me can get into a relationship then you should be able to get into one no problem." Chelsea added with a grin. "Besides life's all about taking chances, your parents took quite a big chance when they adopted you back then." Chelsea added before wincing. "Wow that's gotta win the award for most insensitive example in the history of mankind."
"It's okay; I get what you're saying." Chloe answered with a nod. "Even so it's not a risk I want to rush into and if that was the case I would've told him exactly that."
"I hear ya; it's a pretty big leap." Chelsea agreed as she turned to her laptop. "Come on, where is that damn thing?!"
"Loose something?" Chloe asked with a raised eyebrow and Chelsea shook her head.
"Nah, I'm trying to find a link to the new banlist." Chelsea answered as she loaded up Google. "The last one caught me off guard with Lightning Recharge's limiting but since I only run one copy it wasn't that big an issue."
"Yeah I remember you saying." Chloe responded with a nod. "Wasn't the last one released a few days ago though?"
"I asked Martin about that, apparently I2 feel that E-Drags and Prophecy are dominating the game too much so they made an emergency banlist to address those decks, I know Lance's tag partner won't be happy about that." Chelsea answered as she turned to her. "I also asked when the promotion duels where taking place and it's next weekend and pretty much all the students with Duel Spirit partners who aren't in Obelisk Blue are up for promotion."
"That's good." Chloe agreed with a grin. "As much as I like it here moving up to Ra Yellow would be great."
"Definitely, and since the room will have its own computer I'll see if I can be your roommate again if we both win and I can help you get set up on the thing." Chelsea said with a nod. "As for who we'll be facing, it'll be either other students or the teachers but that's all Martin would tell me." Chelsea said before turning to her laptop and grinning. "Yes! I found it!" Chelsea said before loading it up; however the grin quickly disappeared once she saw the banned cards. "Oh boy….."
"Is there something wrong?" Chloe asked before looking at the banlist, her eyes widened when she saw it. "Heavy Storm, Monster Reborn, Pot of Avarice, Card Destruction, those cards are all banned?!"
"Unfortunately yes, I2's pretty much hit every deck in the school big time." Chelsea said with a wince before retrieving her copies of Avarice, Reborn and Heavy Storm. "I'm gonna have to go to the shop later and buy new cards, with these three banned my deck is now three cards short of the minimum deck size requirements."
"Yeah, same here, mine's not too bad because I've never been able to get my hands on Heavy Storm but Monster Reborn, Avarice and Card Destruction on the other hand…." Chloe trailed off as she retrieved the cards. "If they had banned Card Destruction earlier I likely would've lost my first round match in the Battle City Semi-Finals."
"And you never would've gotten your revenge on Otto for those comments." Chelsea added with a frown. "We'd better get there early, as soon as the other students find out that those cards are banned the card shop's going to be cramped!"
"Agreed, I've been meaning to include some XYZ monsters in my deck anyway." Chloe agreed before following her roommate out of their room.
*meanwhile*
The Ra Yellow Boy's Dorm was a lot busier than usual due to the influx of new students into the boy and girls dorms, and any new student walking past Lance's room could hear the sounds of the song "To Reign Again" by Kataklysym emanating from it.
"Huh, didn't realize that there was other Metalheads at this school." One new student commented as he walked past the dorm room. "Maybe I should meet him…."
"OH SON OF A BITCH!" Lance's voice rang out over the music which subsequently stopped the new student sweat-dropped as Lance emerged from his room. "Heavy Storm, Monster Reborn, Pot of Avarice, really I2, out of all the cards you ban you pick those three?!"
"Let me guess, you've seen the banlist?" Andreas asked as he glanced up at Lance. "What on Earth was I2 thinking hitting that many cards on one banlist."
"Well it is an emergency banlist." Marcus commented with a frown. "Man I had just got my hands on Super Rejuvenation and I2 goes and bans it?"
"Err; is this a bad time to introduce myself?" The new student asked nervously and three boys turned to him. "Hi, I'm Justin; I heard your music playing."
"Yeah well, if the noise levels disturb you just give me a knock and not go to Jeff." Lance responded as he pocketed his now forbidden cards. "The last thing I want is an earful from him!"
"But….but I was enjoying it." Justin commented and Lance shook his head before leaving. "Where are you going?"
"The card shop, I don't know if you noticed but I2's released its Emergency Banlist and it has rendered my deck several cards short." Lance called back to him as he left. "The name's Lance by the way." Lance added before leaving.
"Is he always like that?" Justin asked Andreas who shook his head.
"No, he's just been a bit on edge since earlier today." Andreas sighed as he shook his head. "And speaking of which I'm off to follow in his footsteps." Andreas added before following Lance. "I'll talk to you later!"
"Yeah same here!" Marcus added before following the other duelists, Justin blinked before noticing something.
"You realize that you left your dorm rooms open right?" Justin called out to them and they quickly ran back, closed their doors and left. "Boy, I'm glad I never ran those cards in my deck." Justin thought before wondering off.
*later on*
Fortunately for the duelists who had read the new banlist they were able to get to the card shop early and get new cards for their decks, however Chloe and Chelsea left the shop about twenty minutes before the boys from Ra Yellow did denying Lance another chance to talk to Chloe.
Right now Chloe and Chelsea where relaxing on the roof of the Osiris Red Girl's dorm, they rarely want up there for a couple of reasons, whilst the roof was flat there wasn't enough room for a Duel Disk assisted duel and even a good old fashioned game with just playmats got boring after a while, still that didn't stop the two girls from testing out their decks with a friendly traditional style duel.
"And Wattchimera attacks directly for the game!" Chelsea said with a grin and Chloe sighed as she used the calculator app on her phone to reduce the life-points down to zero. "That was a good game Chloe."
"Yeah but I could've won if Heavy Storm and Pot of Avarice wasn't banned." Chloe grunted in annoyance as she picked up her huge graveyard. "Or hell, even Monster Reborn would've helped me a lot.
"Yeah, I still can't believe they banned those cards." Chelsea commented as she gathered up her cards, once she and Chloe where done she rested her arm on her leg. "Killing off E-Drags and Prophecy like they did I can understand given how stupidly broken those decks where but banning Avarice, Reborn, Storm and Card Destruction?"
"I'm just glad I was able to replace the cards I lost due to the list." Chloe answered as she shuffled through her deck. "And yes even if I didn't get to use any of my new cards against you." Chloe added with a sigh. "Still they are apparently releasing another banlist in a few months so I'm going to hold onto my copies of those cards in the meantime."
"Good idea." Chelsea agreed before something caught her eye, there was a third student on the roof with them and like the two girls it was an Osiris Red Student, unlike Chloe and Chelsea however it was a male student. "How did we miss a boy being on the roof with us?" Chelsea wondered out loud and Chloe looked up once she returned her deck to her duel disk.
The student looked like he was a couple of years younger than the two girls and had short black hair; he had a giant bang in his hair with a grey highlight in the middle which ran from his forehead to the side of his head and was wearing a white shirt under an open Osiris Red Blazer.
"I don't know." Chloe shrugged her shoulders as she stood up. "I haven't seen him around the school so maybe he's one of the new students?"
"Seems likely, he has a first year blazer like we do." Chelsea agreed before turning to Chloe. "What do you say? Should we talk to him?"
"Wouldn't hurt, at least we can find out what he's doing on the roof of the Osiris Red Girl's dorm." Chloe responded and the two girls walked up to him. "Err, hi." Chloe greeted him and the teen nearly jumped out of his skin.
"Oh sorry, I didn't see you there." The teen responded once he turned to the two girls. "What are you doing here anyway? Isn't this the boy's dorm?" The teen asked and the two girls sweat-dropped.
"Yep, he's definitely a new kid." Chloe and Chelsea thought simultaneously and Chelsea spoke up.
"Actually this is the Girl's Dorm; the boy's dorm is a bit further along the coast line." Chelsea explained and the teen blushed upon realizing his mistake. "How about we start from the top? I'm Chelsea Cunningham and this is my roommate Chloe Richardson."
"Hi, I'm Jason Hutchins." Jason introduced himself with a small smile. "I err, came up here to clear my head, I just had a rather nasty encounter with an Obelisk Blue Student."
"This student wouldn't happen to be called Jessica, Thomas or Cameron, would they?" Chloe asked and Jason looked at her confused. "They are three students that have given me some trouble since I returned from Battle City."
"Err, no I haven't met them." Jason admitted after thinking for a moment. "The student was a girl by the name of Chakra Silvers; she's a new student like I am."
"What can you tell us about her?" Chelsea asked and Jason sighed.
"Well at first she was nice to me but after a talk with a female Obelisk Blue Student with red hair who was wearing a skimpy version of the Obelisk Blue Girl's Uniform got into her ear and whilst I don't know exactly what she said to her but she shunned me right afterwards." Jason explained with a sigh.
"Wait, Silvers, have I heard that surname before?" Chloe asked after thinking for a few minutes.
"I have, the Silvers are pretty prestigious in the fields of politics and finance, aren't they?" Chelsea asked and Jason nodded.
"That's them, once I found that out it didn't take me long to figure out how she got into Obelisk Blue in the first place." Jason responded with a frown. "At the moment I'm considering challenging her to a duel but I don't know how to go about that."
"You can go to Professor Hamden's office at the Boy's Dorm and request a duel request form from him." Chloe answered with a frown. "On the other hand I may want to duel Chakra myself, sounds like she has quite the attitude problem."
"As long as you can avoid turning off the safeties on your duel disk you should be all set." Chelsea responded and Jason looked at her with a confused look on his face whilst Chloe gave her an annoyed look. "It's a long story and it involves two of the three students Chloe mentioned before."
"They sound like nasty pieces of work." Jason commented with a frown. "So what's the plan? I want to duel Chakra and so does Chloe and something tells me that she isn't willing to accept a two on one handicap match."
"So you guys going to let me chime in?" Theresa asked as she approached them, Chloe looked up and smiled at the older student.
"Err, Theresa, how long have you been standing there?" Chelsea asked as she rubbed the back of her head nervously.
"I've only been up here for the past few minutes." Theresa said with a shrug. "I came by Chloe and Chelsea's room to talk with Chloe about something but when you didn't answer Nicola told me you had headed up to the roof."
"We wanted to test out the new cards we were pretty much forced to get thanks to the banlist." Chloe responded as she turned to her. "But only Chelsea got a chance to test them out."
"You'll get another chance." Theresa reassured her and Chloe nodded in agreement, Theresa turned to Jason and frowned. "Weren't you the kid who was talking with Chakra earlier?"
"Yeah that's me, I'm Jason Hutchins." Jason introduced himself. "Why do you ask?"
"I heard some of her comments about Osiris Red on the way over, they weren't pretty but it wasn't nearly as bad as some of the comments from people like Cameron and Jessica." Theresa responded with a frown. "Not all Obelisk Blue students are like her and you shouldn't let it get to you."
"I know but the thing is both I and Chloe want a duel with her but we can't decide how to go about it." Jason explained with a frown. "Well, you wanted a chat with Chloe and I need to get to the boy's dorm before the headmistress finds me up here, see you around Chloe." Jason added before leaving the rooftop area.
"I'd leave as well." Chelsea said as she took a seat on the edge of the roof. "But I get the feeling this has to do with a certain trio of dragons."
"You got it Chelsea." Theresa nodded in response before turning to Chloe. "So, two of the three Legendary Dragons have revealed themselves."
"Yeah and they seemed to have gone to opposite ends of the experience spectrum when choosing their holders." Chloe commented as she retrieved Timeaus from her side deck. "Here's the thing I've been trying to figure out since they chose you for Crittius, what deck are you going to use him in?"
"That's a good question, one that I stayed up all night trying to figure out." Theresa responded with a yawn. "And that's when I wasn't asking Brandon to borrow some cash so I could afford the new cards in the decks I own that ran Reborn, Storm and Avarice which was most of them."
"You didn't borrow too much did you?" Chelsea asked as she turned to Theresa. "Knowing how rich Brandon's family is and all."
"I didn't have too, Brandon insisted on buying the cards for me." Theresa responded as she turned to Chelsea. "He also insisted that I didn't have to pay him back, just as long as my new cards won us the tag tournament."
"Err, yeah, you may have a bit of trouble there considering that me and Chloe plan to win the tournament ourselves." Chelsea responded with a good natured grin and Theresa smiled at that. "So don't get your hopes up."
"You realize that the competitions only going to get tougher once the second round starts, right?" Theresa asked and the two girls nodded. "No offense but for all we know you two could end up against me and Brandon in the next round."
"Yeah, that would be some incredibly shitty luck." Chelsea responded with a wince. "So, can we go back to the Legendary Dragons?"
"Good idea. Anyway I eventually decided to keep it in my side deck and only add it to the deck I want to use against them when the time comes, at least then I can use it in all my decks, even if I'm retiring a lot of them." Theresa responded and the two girls looked at her surprised. "I realized after Battle City that over twenty decks was way too many for one duelist even an Obelisk Blue like me, that coupled with the fact that I never got around to using most of them meant that they had to go."
"That's a lot of decks." Chloe pointed with a frown. "What did you do with all those cards?"
"I sold most of them to the card shop, got quite a bit of money for them, others I traded to other students in Obelisk Blue for cards that I've been trying to get my hands on for a while and I kept what was left over in my side deck." Theresa responded with a nod. "All in all that's left me with four decks in total, my Kaiba Deck, my Fairy Deck, my Dark Deck and….one I'm saving for the finals, I'm not ready to reveal what that is just yet."
"If it's Chaos Dragons we may as well drop out right now." Chloe commented before pausing. "I meant drop out of the tournament, not the school."
"I had a feeling that was the case." Theresa responded with a nod. "And no, it's not Chaos Dragons; I'm leaving the Chaos stuff to Brandon since that seems to be the theme for his deck nowadays." Theresa responded and the two girls sighed in relief. "As for what it is you'll have to wait until the finals to find out."
"And if it's anything like your other decks and we're your opponents we're in trouble." Chloe said with a gulp.
"Don't sweat it Chloe, we'll still win!" Chelsea said confidently before yawning a bit. "I'm heading back to the dorm room to do some homework I got from Tracy on Friday, see you guys in a bit." Chelsea added before leaving the rooftop area.
"Good, I never thought she'd leave." Theresa commented and Chloe blinked, Theresa's tone of voice was a lot more serious now and she turned to her. "Chloe, we need to talk about the Legendary Dragons."
"Weren't we doing that already?" Chloe asked as she scratched her head.
"We were but I wanted a serious talk and as much as I like Chelsea the conversation kept getting derailed with her around." Theresa answered as she walked up to the younger student. "Chloe, you realize how much power we have in our decks with these cards in them right?" Theresa asked and Chloe nodded.
"Err, yeah, whilst their effects still don't make any sense to me, especially yours, they are great cards and if we hadn't drawn them when we did…." Chloe trailed off before shuddering. "After seeing what it did to Andreas back in Battle City I'd rather not think about that."
"I don't blame you but that's not what I meant." Theresa responded and Chloe blinked. "Like the teachers said after you got Timeaus the dragons where used to fight the Orichalcos by Yugi Moto, Seto Kaiba and Joey Wheeler but after your duel I decided to do some research on the cards."
"To prepare for when someone else got one, right?" Chloe asked and Theresa nodded. "What did you find out?"
"Well Duel Academy's website has a file on the dragons but it's restricted to the headmasters and Chancellor Wilkins, I asked Tyler if he could help but he declined." Theresa said with a sigh. "He said that, as much as he wanted to know more about the dragons, he'd rather not risk another expulsion duel for hacking the academy's website."
"Wait, students can have more than one expulsion duel?" Chloe asked and Theresa nodded.
"It operates on a Three Strike System, obviously that's only applicable if you win your first one." Theresa responded with a frown. "If you win your second one you get suspended for a month immediately after the duel but if you break a major rule for a third time there's no Expulsion Duel, you are expelled, plain and simple."
"Man, that's harsh." Chloe said with a gulp. "But I guess it makes sense at the same time." Chloe added and Theresa nodded in agreement. "Have there been any times when they skipped expulsion duels in the first place?"
"And just expelled them?" Theresa asked and Chloe nodded. "A few times but that usually involves something big happening, the most recent example being Otto after everything he did during the Battle City Semi-Finals, thankfully those incidents are rare because the school doesn't like to throw away a student's future career as a duelist." Theresa added with a frown. "For that to happen one of three things have to happen, they have to use the Orichalcos willingly like Otto did, they have to go one step to far with their bullying, like trying to drive another student to suicide, or they physically attack a staff member or willingly break a crime on canvas in general."
"Has the third one actually happened?" Chloe asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Once, back when I was an Osiris Red student, an Obelisk Blue student with a temper almost as short as Chelsea's disagreed with a grade Hamden gave his duel and that led to him punching Hamden." Theresa responded with a frown. "His family was rich and he thought that he could use his family's connections to get out of trouble, obviously it didn't work and it served as an example to the other students."
"Attack a staff member and we'll expel you no matter how rich your family is." Chloe responded and Theresa nodded. "We were talking about the dragons?"
"Right, well I went to several other tech savvy students including Chelsea whilst you were at gym class but they said the same thing so I went to an outside source for my info." Theresa responded with a nod. "Took a bit of searching but I was able to find some info….." Theresa trailed off when she heard the door to the roof open and saw two female Osiris Red students entering the roof area.
"You were saying?" Chloe asked and Theresa shook her head.
"Not up here, I don't want anyone listening in; I'll stop by your dorm room later." Theresa said before walking off and Chloe followed her whilst offering a friendly wave to the students. "By the way, did Lance ask you something yesterday?"
"That's oddly specific." Chloe said before shaking her head. "He was about to but your text interrupted him and we rushed off to your tag duel, I think you know the rest." Chloe added with a confused look on her face. "Why do you ask?"
"No reason." Theresa responded as the two girls made their way down the hall. "I had a feeling that was the case, hopefully Lance will ask her."
"So what will we do when the third dragon reveals itself? Hell we still don't know who it'll choose since theirs seven of us to choose from." Chloe said in a low voice.
"I'll figure something out when the time comes, unfortunately the best time for us to tackle this problem will be when Summer Break arrives and that's not until after the tournament." Theresa added with a frown. "On the bright side the second round will be starting in a few days so we don't have that long a wait."
"So when are they going to announce the second round matches?" Chloe asked and Theresa shrugged.
"Likely when the last first round match ends and if my guess is correct they'll likely give the competing students some time to prepare, probably half an hour like the Battle City Semi-Finals did." Theresa answered as the two girls reached Chloe's dorm room. "Well, this is your stop, I'll stop by later to talk about the dragons."
"Sure, see you later." Chloe answered before opening the door to her room and entering it, once the door was closed Theresa made her way out of the dorm.
"Theresa, you realize that you'll have to tell her at some point, don't you?" Armed Dragon asked and Theresa nodded.
"That's why I came over in the first place." Theresa answered as she made her way out of the girl's dorm. "But I didn't want to panic the girls who joined us on the roof if they realized that we were talking about the Orichalcos, when I stop by later I'll insist that we meet in the forested area between the dorms." Theresa answered as she walked towards the Obelisk Blue Girl's Dorm.
"So, you must be Theresa." Theresa stopped in her tracks and turned around, behind her was a female first year Obelisk Blue student with long dark-silver hair tied into a ponytail and blue eyes, her uniform was fairly standard and she was wearing a chain necklace, bracelets and anklets. "I heard a lot about you, the name's Chakra." The student added before offering a hand.
"Let me guess, your last name is Silvers?" Theresa asked and Chakra blinked before nodding. "I heard a lot about you as well, not all of it pleasant."
"Don't tell me, you had a chat with Jason Hutchins right?" Chakra asked and Theresa nodded. "He's a nice kid but I was forced to choose between that and my fellow Obelisk Blue students."
"And you choose your fellow students." Theresa said as she shook her head. "I understand wanting to fit into a school you just moved into but take my advice, the likes of Jessica Stevens are not the kind of people you want to hang out with."
"I'm not naïve Theresa." Chakra said as she folded her arms. "I may be a rich girl but I could tell from one conversation with Jessica that I was not going to get along with her at all so I split off from her." Chakra said with a frown. "That said I'm off to the Osiris Red Boy's Dorm to apologize to Jason for my behavior and before you ask, yes, I do know how to get there."
"Good thing you waited this long, he somehow ended up at the Girl's Dorm by accident." Theresa answered and Chakra blinked as a large sweat-drop rolled down her head. "Funny thing you should mention that actually, there's two students over there who want to duel you, Jason and Chloe Richardson."
"Is she the same Osiris Red girl who came in third at Battle City?" Chakra asked and Theresa nodded. "I saw her deck in action when I watched the finals; I wasn't impressed even after her deck was destroyed by Otto."
"Basing a deck's strengths on a tournament that happened a few months ago isn't wise; she's been constantly improving her deck since then." Theresa answered before grinning. "So who's it going to be? Will you duel Chloe or Jason?"
"That is a good question." Chakra admitted as she folded her arms. "I know what cards they run, like I said I watched Chloe's duels in the Semi-Finals and Jason's qualifying match was just before mine." Chakra added before smirking. "I have an idea, I'll duel both of them, one after the other, and I'll even let them choose the order."
"You want to face them in a gauntlet match?" Theresa asked with a raised eyebrow and Chakra nodded. "Well you'd better tell them that yourselves." Theresa said before pointing behind Chakra, she turned around and saw Chloe and Jason standing there. "Chloe, meet Chakra, she has an interesting proposition for you."
"I know I overheard your conversation, same with Jason." Chloe said with a nod before turning to Chakra. "You're really willing to go through with this?"
"Well I have been looking for an excuse for my duel as part of this academy." Chakra answered with a smirk. "Meet me at the Obelisk Blue Duel field if you're still up for it." Chakra added before walking off in the direction of the main building.
"Err, Theresa, I don't know where that duel field is." Jason answered as he rubbed the back of his head nervously.
"You have nothing to worry about there." Chloe reassured him as she turned to him. "They won't let Osiris Red or Ra Yellow students onto that field without an Obelisk Blue Student with them."
"Yeah and either she doesn't know that yet or she did know that and she knew that I'd be accompanying you two." Theresa responded before leading them to the duel field. "So Jason, what deck do you run?" Theresa asked as she turned to the younger student.
"Me? I run a Genex Deck, it's mostly machine monsters." Jason responded and Theresa nodded. "I know Genex Udine has seen some play in Mermail decks but this deck doesn't have any Mermails in it."
"Yeah, we know, one of our friends had a run in with a Genex Deck a few days ago and managed to win." Chloe responded with a nod. "Though what he doesn't need to know is that said run in was with an Orichalcos Duelist but that's beside the point." Chloe thought as they made their way to the Main Building. "Did you watch the Battle City Finals on TV by any chance?"
"Yeah, I did." Jason responded with a nod. "It was part of the reason my parents were convinced to send me to this school in the first place, I mean a girl from Osiris Red made it to the Top Three so I'm actually glad to be in Osiris Red."
"That's not a sentence I was expecting to hear." Chloe muttered under her breath as they reached the duel field. "So how are we deciding the duel order? Rock, Paper Scissors?"
"If you want to go first I won't mind." Jason responded with a shrug as they climbed the stairs to the duel field. "But I wanted to duel her first so I'll go first."
"You know what? Let's just do the Rock Paper Scissors game for simplicity's sake." Chloe sighed in annoyance and Jason nodded in agreement, they stopped on the stairs and did a quick game of Rock, Paper Scissors which resulted in Chloe choosing Scissors and Jason choosing Rock. "Guess you are going first, at least this will give me an idea of what to expect."
"That's fine by me." Jason responded as the two students entered the duel field with Theresa, they located Chakra quickly enough and Jason activated his duel disk. "We decided that I am going first Chakra."
"I heard." Chakra responded with a nod as Jason stepped onto the duel field. "And we have a small audience." Chakra added before motioning towards the bleachers, Jason and Chloe looked up and saw Andreas, Marcus, Lance, Mike, Nicola, Brandon, Chelsea and Tyler in the audience and Chloe grinned. "Just don't start making out with your boyfriend Chloe, we all know what almost happened at Battle City." Chakra added causing Lance and Chloe to face-fault.
"I'll have you know that nothing like that happened!" Lance called out to her as he and Chloe got back to their feet. "All that happened was we shared a passionate moment and I should really stop referring to that incident like that." Lance commented as a huge sweat-drop rolled down his head.
"Just shut up before you embarrass me even more!" Chloe responded as she sat down next to Lance, whilst that was going on Jason hopped onto the duel arena and Chakra activated their duel disk. "So was anyone here present for their test duels?"
"I'm afraid not, we couldn't find the time to leave the island due to the tournament and our lessons." Chelsea responded as she shook her head. "Not to mention the Orichalcos Duelists. "Chelsea added in a low voice and the others nodded in agreement.
"But I have talked to some of the students who could find the time to attend the duels, most of them where students already eliminated from the Tournament." Theresa responded with a nod. "Chakra's deck was all they could talk about."
"What do you mean?" Lance asked as he turned to Theresa.
"You'll see when the duel starts." Theresa answered as Jason and Chakra drew their opening hands.
"I'm a firm believer in ladies first." Jason said as he looked over his hand. "So I'm letting you go first!" Jason added and Chakra nodded before drawing another card.
"Excellent, then let me make things more interesting." Chakra said as she played a card. "I activate the Field Spell Card Silver Dungeon!" Chakra played the card and the scenery changed to a silver, medieval style dungeon. "I'll get to its effect in a bit but first I chain it's activation with another Spell Card, Silver Pot of Chains!" Chakra played the card and silver colored Pot of Greed wrapped in chains appeared on the field. "This Quick Play Spell can only be activated at Spell Speed 2 or higher and since I activated it at Spell Speed 2 I get to draw two cards." Chakra explained before drawing twice. "And since it was activated at Speed Spell 2 it returns to my deck!" Chakra said as she returned the card to her deck. "I set two cards facedown and a monster in defense mode, feel free to take your turn." Chakra announced and Jason drew his card.
"Good and I'll start my turn by summoning Genex Searcher!" Jason played the card and a tall, slender dragon appeared on the field, it looked like a stereotypical robot except for the dome like head, large red eye and pincer like claws (4/1600/400). "Genex Searcher, attack her facedown monster!" Jason commanded and the monster charged forward…..only to bounce back as Jason's life-points dropped to 7400. "What?"
"You fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book!" Chakra responded as her monster reveal itself, it was a large fiend seemingly made out of smoke that was purple in color and had a dog like face and bat like wings (4/1300/2200). "Emperor Sem's defense is too strong for your searcher to crack."
"I set a card facedown and end my turn." Jason announced as the facedown monster appeared on the field and Chakra drew her card.
"For the girl whose deck was the most talked about thing from the Test Duels her deck does not impress me." Chloe admitted as she scratched her head. "The only thing she's done is play a very situational draw card, a strong defense monster, a mysterious field spell and two facedowns."
"Don't underestimate her, the test proctor made the same mistake." Theresa answered as Chakra looked over her hand.
"Unfortunately my Pot of Chains card comes with a side effect, if I draw more than two cards with its effect I have to mill cards equal to the number of cards in my hand, I have seven which means I mill seven cards." Chakra explained as she milled her cards.
"That's a pretty harsh drawback." Jason commented and Chakra shook her head.
"Remember its effect from the first turn? Guess what? That effect also applies at Spell Speed 2!" Chakra added as she returned the card to her deck. "Now I truly start by activating my Trap Card Ultimate Offering!" Chakra's trap card flipped up and there was a bunch of gasps coming from where the spectators where. "Yes, I'm aware that this card is on the Banned List and before anyone questions it this trap works on my deck because it's configured to the OCG list where the only banned cards are the Baby Dragon Rulers and Spellbook of Judgment."
"You mean to tell me that we wasted that much money on new cards where we could've just reconfigured our disks?!" Lance yelled out and Chakra shook her head.
"Lance, reconfiguring duel disks for different banlists is a lot harder than it sounds, not even I or Tyler can do it." Chelsea answered as she turned to the Ra Yellow student. "That and doing so would get you in trouble with the teachers…..come to think of it why aren't you in trouble for that Chakra?"
"Oh I got a sneak peak at the banlist Friday morning when I was flying to Domino City on my family's private jet." Chakra answered as she turned to her. "When I arrived in Domino City I stopped by a small but nice looking card shop and asked its owner, a tall bald man, if he could help me reconfigure my duel disk."
"Err, that card shop wouldn't happen to be on the west side of the city, would it?" Chloe asked and Chakra nodded. "I'm asking because you just described my stepdad's card shop and my stepdad."
"Huh, I thought I recognized him." Chakra commented before shrugging. "If it helps your father has a very keen business sense." Chakra said once she saw the confused look on Chloe's face.
"Actually I'm more surprised that he knows how to reconfigure a duel disk whilst my two tech savvy friends don't." Chloe answered and Chakra shook her head.
"Anyway back to the duel and I activate Ultimate Offering's effect." Chakra said before wincing as her life-points dropped to 7500. "And I do so that I can summon this monster, Combo Fighter, in attack mode!" Chakra played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, it was a tall, muscular shirtless man with spiked up red hair, a green band around the hair and green and brown pants (4/1600/800). "And I chain the summoning to another Silver Pot of Chains and Mystical Wind Typhoon!"
"Did she say WIND Typhoon?!" Lance yelled out as a typhoon appeared on the field before subsequently destroying Jason's facedown Trap Stun.
"Yes I did, it's like MST but it can only be activated at Chain Link 3 or higher and I can't have cards with effects that share a name in said chain." Chakra explained as she drew three cards before grinning broadly. "But that's not all it did! Just look at Genex Searcher!"
"Huh?" Jason asked before looking, his eyes widened as she saw his robot being weighed down by several chains as his attack and defense dropped to 1300 and 100 respectively. "What….."
"That's the effect of Silver Dungeon, when a chain is activated that excludes my field I can put Chain Counters on one face-up monster my opponent controls and said monster loses one hundred attack and defense points for each link in the chain, there were three chain links so your monster loses three hundred attack points." Chakra added before grinning. "Oh yes, I almost forgot, want to know why my monster's called Combo Fighter?"
"No but I get the feeling I'm about to find out." Jason grunted and Chakra grinned.
"To put it simply if a chain occurs that has two chain links or higher during my first main phase he gets to attack twice during the battle phase!" Chakra responded and Jason's eyes widened. "And that battle phase is starting now! Combo Fighter, attack Genex Searcher!" Chakra commanded and the warrior charged towards the restrained robot before kicking its head of in one kick bringing Jason's life-points down to 7100. "Anything you want to say before my monster attacks again?"
"I activate the effect of Genex Searcher! When he's destroyed in battle I can search through my deck for another Genex Monster with fifteen hundred attack points or less and Special Summon it to the field!" Jason responded before picking up his deck, once he found the card he was looking for he played it before shuffling his deck. "And I summon Genex Turbine!" Jason played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, it was a small green engine that was shaped like a football and had a green light at the end (4/1400/1300). "He may not look like much but Genex Turbine's effect gives all Genex Monsters four hundred attack points including him!" Jason explained as Turbine's attack increased to eighteen hundred.
"Very clever, I'll call off my attack for now." Chakra conceded as Combo Fighter returned to her side of the field. "But since I destroyed a monster that had Chain Counters attached to it my field spell's effect activates, you now have to mill cards from your deck for every two counters that it had attached to it, Genex Searcher had three so you have to mill two!" Chakra explained as Jason milled two cards. "I end my turn with two facedown cards."
"So let me get this straight, her entire deck strategy revolves around Chain Links?!" Chelsea asked as she scratched her head. "I've seen some weird deck strategies in my time but that takes the cake!"
"I don't know what's weirder; the fact that that's her deck strategy or the fact that it works!" Marcus added as he scratched his head. "What about those Silver cards? Anyone heard of those?"
"Yes but they are incredibly rare due to how powerful they are." Tyler nodded in response. "Just one of those cards can go for thousands of dollars."
"And that's pocket money to someone as rich as Chakra's family." Brandon responded with a frown. "I think I have a couple of Silver Pot of Chains in my deck vault back home but it's been a while since I last looked in there so I wouldn't know."
"Then why don't you run them?" Chloe asked and Brandon sighed.
"Couple of reasons, there's the fact that those cards are incredibly situational to the point that you have to build a deck around them like Chakra has done and my deck doesn't really have any Quick-Plays outside of Mystical Space Typhoon." Brandon explained as he turned to Chloe. "That and I've had to do so many edits to this thing recently that I just want a chance to duel with one build off it without changing it."
"My move and since I have a Genex Monster on my side of the field I can Special Summon Onmi Genex!" Jason played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, it was a bulky machine which looked a bit more outdated than the other Genex monsters (5/1000/1000). "And for my normal summon I'm bringing out Genex Controller!" Jason played the card and a small brown robot's head on wheels appeared on the field (3/1300/1200).
"Let me guess, a Synchro Summon?" Chakra asked whilst looking unimpressed as the two Genex monster's attacks increased to 1700 and 1400. "I know that Controller's a Tuner Monster!"
"That's right and I'm tuning Genex Controller with Onmi Genex!" Jason explained as the two monsters leapt into the air, Genex Controller dissolved into three green Synchro Rings that quickly surrounded Onmi Genex. "Please welcome Thermal Genex!" Jason played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, it was a giant blue robot with several flamethrowers attached that looked menacing (8/2400/1200) and it's attack increased to 2800 thanks to Genex Turbine.
"Wait a minute, I'm familiar with the Genex Monsters and I know that that monster requires the non-tuner monster to be a Fire Type Monster and I could see from her that Onmi Genex was an earth type." Chakra protested and Jason grinned.
"Well for starters it's a LIGHT Type monster but that's beside the point because its Special Summon effect isn't its only effect." Jason said as his grin grew wider. "In fact it has three effects, first off my monster's treated as a FIRE, WATER, WIND, and EARTH type monster and as for its other effect, well I'd explain but I don't have enough cards in my graveyard." Jason explained before grinning. "Thermal Genex, attack Emperor Sem!" Jason commanded and the machine fired it's flamethrowers at the fiend destroying it. "And when Thermal Genex destroys a monster in battle it's effect activates inflicting damage equal to the amount of Genex Monsters in my graveyard times two hundred to you, that's normally bad enough but the two cards you made me mill where two more Genex Monsters."
"That's five cards which means I lose a thousand life-points." Chakra commented with a frown. "But no matter, I chain it to my Chain Heal Trap Card which gives me five hundred more life-points but more importantly it activates my Dungeon's effect and I'll be targeting your Synchro Monster…." Chakra said as her trap card glowed.
"In that case I'll chain my own Quick Play Spell Furnace Explosion!" Jason played the card and Thermal Genex exploded. "Not only is Thermal Genex destroyed but you take damage equal to half its attack power." Jason explained and Chakra winced….but quickly grinned.
"I can't believe you fell for that bluff." Chakra said as her trap card flipped up. "Accumulated Fortune can only be activated at a chain link of four or higher and it allows me to draw two cards, in other words I'm now targeting Turbine and that monster's now going to lose four hundred attack points!" Chakra explained as she drew two cards, winced as her life-points dropped to sixty-eight hundred, sighed in relief her life-points increased to seventy three hundred only to wince again as her life-points dropped to 6300. "In other words you just wasted a powerful monster and weakened your monster!" Chakra added as four chains ensnared Turbine bringing its attack points back down to its original score.
"I set a card facedown and end my turn." Jason set the card and Chakra drew her card.
"Wow, I've seen some moves backfire before but that takes the cake!" Chelsea said with a wince. "Chakra may be behind on life-points but she got two more cards, got rid of Jason's Synchro by tricking him into destroying it and weakened Turbine."
"And if her deck has any of the nastier chain cards then Jason will be in trouble." Tyler agreed with a nod. "And so will Chloe once that duel ends."
"Man, I had almost forgotten that I was facing her after this duel." Chloe responded with a gulp. "Still my Silent Magician Level Eight will be immune from the effects of her Field Spell so I have that going for me."
"If you can get it out that is." Theresa pointed out and Chloe nodded. "Then again your deck has several methods of getting her out so who knows?"
"I activate the effect of Ultimate Offering." Chakra announced as she winced as her life-points dropped to 5800. "And I use its effect to Special Summon another Emperor Sem!" Chakra announced as the fiend returned to the field. "Now for my normal summon I tribute Combo Fighter to summon his master, the appropriately titled Combo Master!" Chakra played the card and Combo Fighter disappeared from the field, in its place stood another, older man with the same hair as Combo Fighter but was slightly bulkier (5/2200/1500).
"I'm going to guess that he shares Combo Fighter's effect?" Jason asked and Chakra grinned.
"Exactly, but first Emperor Sem's effect activates, whenever I tribute summon a monster we can choose one card in our graveyards and return it to our decks, and I chain it to my trap card Pharaoh's Treasure." Chakra explained as the trap flipped up. "But you'll have to wait until I draw it again before I explain its effect because when Pharaoh's Treasure is activated it goes to the top of my deck face up and is shuffled into it." Chakra added before shuffling it into her deck, she then retrieved her graveyard and she picked up Accumulated Fortune and returned it to her deck.
"And I'll use its effect to return Thermal Genex to my extra deck." Jason announced before picking up his graveyard, once he found Thermal Genex he returned it to his extra deck and waited whilst Chakra shuffled her deck. "Is there a reason you're being so helpful?"
"Well I'd say it's because of my field spell's effect but it isn't, the truth is that my field spell can't target monsters that already have Chain Counters on it." Chakra explained before grinning. ""So I guess you could say that I did it because I could! Well that and Combo Master's effect, speaking of which, Combo Master, attack Genex Turbine!" Chakra commanded and the monster charged towards the machine before short circuiting it with a swift kick bringing Jason's life-points down to 6300. "Since another monster with chain counters was destroyed you have to mill four cards." Chakra added and Jason milled the four cards. "Combo Master, attack his life-points!" Chakra commanded and the monster charged towards Jason…..
"I activate my trap card Genex Bulward!" Jason announced as the trap flipped up revealing several Genex Monsters stopping a charge. "I can only activate this during Damage Calculation, by removing a Level 3 or lower Genex Monster like Controller from my graveyard I can reduce the damage I'd take to zero." Jason explained before pocketing the monster and wincing as Combo Master punched him. "As an added bonus I can now draw cards equal to the level of the removed monster!"
"A Genex Exclusive Defense Draw with variable drawing power, not bad." Chakra admitted as Jason drew three cards, Chakra looked over her hand before picking up a card. "I set a card facedown and end my turn."
"Then I guess it's time I used Onmi Genex's effect." Jason said as he drew his card, he added the new card to his hand and retrieved Onmi Genex. "By removing him from play I can take four monsters with different attributes, shuffle them into my deck and draw two cards, if my hand was empty I'd get to draw four cards but I'll make do." Jason explained as he shuffled the cards into his deck and drew twice. "And before you ask, I can't use that effect on Light or Dark Type monsters."
"I wasn't about to say anything." Chakra commented with a shrug as Jason looked over his hand. "So what do you plan to do now?"
"I'll show you!" Jason said as he picked up four cards. "I set three cards facedown and a monster in defense mode to end my turn."
"Playing defensively to get around my Dungeon's effect, very clever," Chakra admitted as she drew her card. "But not clever enough."
"If you're planning on using Ultimate Offering…." Jason said as his trap flipped up. "My Trap Stun trap card has something to say about that, for the rest of your turn neither of us can use Traps."
"Then I may as well make the most of it, I chain Trap Stun to my facedown card Chain Detonation, now you take five hundred points of damage and since it was activated after Trap Stun its effect takes priority!" Chakra said before playing a card from her hand. "And I'll chain that to my first Silver Pot of Chains!" Chakra activated the card and the silver pot appeared on the field and she drew three cards. "And what luck! I drew into Pharaoh's Treasure!" Chakra said as she sent it to the graveyard. "Now I get to add one card from my graveyard to my hand as long as it's not Pharaoh's Treasure." Chakra explained before retrieving a card from her graveyard, Jason winced as his life-points dropped to 5800.
"No matter what I do it backfires, I'd better hope that my facedown cards can help!" Jason thought as he braced himself.
"Then there's the fact that Trap Stun affects your cards as well." Chakra said with a grin. "You would've been better off holding on to that and now you'll regret it, Combo Master, attack his defense monster!" Chakra commanded and the monster charged towards the facedown monster, revealed to be a short bulky brown robot carrying a scythe (3/1000/1900) which was quickly destroyed. "Genex Gaia, too bad, if you had drawn that earlier it could've helped you but I digress, Combo Master, attack his life-points directly!" Chakra commanded and the monster charged towards Jason before kicking him in the chest bringing Jason's life-points down to 3600. "You may as well face it Jason, as good as you are your out of your league!"
"Last I checked it's my move!" Jason answered back as he drew his card. "Using Trap Stun that early did cost me but I have other tricks up my sleeve!" Jason thought before playing a card. "I summon Genex Undine!" Jason played the card and the water monster Andreas recognized from his last Orichalcos Duel appeared on the field (3/1200/600). "Now I activate her effect, I send another Genex Udine to the graveyard to add my second Genex Controller to my hand." Jason explained before picking up and searching through his deck, once he found the cards he was looking for he sent one to the graveyard and added the other to his hand before shuffling his deck.
"And what good will that do you?" Chakra asked and Jason grinned.
"I did it because with Undine on the field I can activate this Quick Play Spell Card." Jason said as the card flipped up revealing Genex Udine glowing with energy. "Geyser Rejuvenation, in exchange for sacrificing Undine my life-points gets a boost equal to her attack strength." Jason explained as Undine disappeared from the field and he sighed as his life-points rose to 4800. "And I end my turn at that!" Jason explained and Chakra nodded before drawing her card. "I have everything I need to summon my Ace Monster and my facedown copy of Genex Bulwad will protect my life-points again."
"I'm sure you remember the side effect of Silver Pot of Chains." Chakra said and Jason nodded before they took a card from their graveyards, Pharaoh's Treasure for Chakra and Genex Undine for Jason, and shuffled them into their decks. "It seems that I don't need a chain to defeat you Jason."
"Huh?" Jason blinked and Chakra grinned.
"Yes, why defeat an opponent with complicated strategies when I can beat him the old fashioned way? I sacrifice Emperor Sem in order to summon the mighty Vanity's Fiend!" Chakra played the card and a tall, muscular man with long red hair appeared on the field, he was dressed in a long black cloak with a red jumper under it (6/2400/1200). "And if you're planning on bringing out more Genex Synchros next turn don't bother, as long as Vanity's Fiend is on the field neither of us can Special Summon!"
"You're kidding?!" Jason yelled out and Chakra grinned.
"I'm afraid not, Vanity's Fiend, attack his life-points directly!" Chakra commanded and the fiend charged towards Jason…..
"I'm not out yet! Activate trap card Genex Bulward, I remove Genex Undine from play to reduce the damage I would've taken to zero!" Jason announced before reaching into his pocket…..before noticing Chakra's grin. "Oh no, I've set off a chain haven't I?
"That's right; I activate Silver Pot of Chains from my hand and I'll add Chain Strike as well, this Spell can only be activated at Chain Link 2 or higher and you take four hundred points of damage for each link in the chain!" Chakra quickly played the cards before drawing twice and Jason winced as his life-points dropped to 3600, Jason pocketed Undine without a word and drew three cards. "And since a chain resolved my Combo Master can attack twice and finish it!" Chakra added as the master charged towards Jason and kicked him twice in the chest bringing his life-points down to zero.
"I….I lost." Jason stammered as he got back to his feet, Chakra grinned as she folded her arms.
"Off course you lost, your Genex Deck is good but my deck blows it out of the water!" Chakra responded as Jason gathered up his cards. "Now are you sure you want to go through with this duel Chloe?" Chakra asked as she turned to the female student.
"I'm sure!" Chloe answered as she marched down the audience stairs and entered the arena. "Your deck's good but no deck is unbeatable."
"Axel Loather's deck was unbeatable for a long time." Chakra pointed out and Chloe shook her head.
"But he finally met his match when he fought Theresa during Battle City." Chloe answered as she activated her duel disk. "And like I said, there is a way to beat your deck and I intend to find it!"
*meanwhile*
"Hey boss, are you sure about this?" A robed figure asked as he entered the island via a speedboat where Jack was. "They already have two Legendary Dragons."
"Legendary smegendary, even with two of them those guys are up a creek without a paddle without the third one." Jack shrugged his shoulders as he turned to the figure. "You have your orders; take out the remaining duelists with Duel Spirit partners before The Fang of Hermos gets a new owner." Jack added and the figure nodded before going into the forested area of the island. "And don't screw it up, if they get a third dragon we are screwed!" Jack called after him and the figure nodded before leaving.