A half hour had passed since Andreas won his promotion duel against Maria and whilst the six remaining duelists were getting ready for their matches one of them was making some last-minute adjustments to her deck.
"Are you nervous Beth?" Chelsea asked as she sat next to her girlfriend in the spot previously occupied by Andreas who was still being fitted for his blazer, Beth looked and smiled confidently.
"I'd be more nervous if we had swapped opponents!" Beth responded before they shared a quick kiss. "But even with that in mind, yeah, I'm nervous as hell, Jeff didn't get to the position he's in by being a pushover."
"Same can be said for Martin and I still beat him." Chelsea responded with a grin and Beth shook her head.
"You mean after he had handed you the win on a silver platter by playing that Relay Soul Trap Card." Beth pointed out and Chelsea shook her head. "Then again he probably included that Trap Card because he knew his Sylvain deck would trip up any student he faced."
"Yeah, as much as I hate to admit it, his deck did trip me up at first." Chelsea admitted with a grin as she watched her girlfriend shuffle some cards into her deck. "Are you adding more healing cards to work with Reficule?"
"That and some monsters, don't know if you noticed but the only other monster I played in this deck whilst I was still in the tournament was Sangan and, well, that was banned before the first round was over." Beth responded with a frown as she finished shuffling her deck. "I'm surprised you never added that card to your deck, you'd think Sangan would work great with Watts."
"Yeah well, the shop was always sold out of that card and by the time I finally ordered one online the banlist was out and it was too late to cancel the order." Chelsea sighed in response as she started to fiddle with her hair a bit. "I still have that copy in case I2 unbans it but considering that there's been a few banlists since Sangan was put on there and he still hasn't been removed I don't exactly have my hopes up."
"Well, don't forget that Pegasus's daughter Sophia is now in charge and she was a pro-duelist before she moved into the corporate world." Beth responded after thinking for a moment. "Looking back at the banlists I2 released after she came into power I'm beginning to think that she had a bad experience with the decks affected especially Dragon Rulers."
"Ahem." The two girls looked up and saw Andreas standing there wearing his new Obelisk Blue blazer and folding his arms. "Chelsea, I believe you're in my seat."
"And you were the one who was sitting next to my girlfriend the whole time." Chelsea responded with a grin on her face. "Tough luck Andreas but look on the Brightside, I kept your new seat warm for you!"
"Yes and your girlfriend's duel is going to start right about….." Andreas trailed off as he looked towards the large clock hanging above the duel field. "….now." Andreas finished and the two girls looked up seeing that not only had enough time passed between Andreas's promotion duel and Beth's but Jeff was waiting for her on the arena.
"Shit! Why didn't you say so?" Beth asked as she quickly fit her deck into the slot and ran up and onto the arena whilst Andreas sat down in her previous spot before noticing the dirty look he was getting from Chelsea.
"You couldn't let me spend a couple of more minutes with her?!" Chelsea protested as she folded her arms and Andreas shook his head.
"If I did the other students up for promotion would complain." Andreas pointed out as he motioned to the students next to him. "Besides, if she wins she'll be able to attend the Ra Yellow welcome party and once Jeff makes his speech you can always sneak off to your new dorm room for a bit off "quality time"." Andreas responded whilst providing air-quotes for the last two words and Chelsea quickly got the idea.
"Just hope for your sake that she gets promoted and we'll call it even." Chelsea responded and Andreas nodded in response before they turned to the arena.
"So Beth, so far you are the only student who failed to make it past the opening round of the Tag Team Tournament to be up for promotion." Jeff commented as Beth stepped up onto the arena and activated her duel disk. "Combined with the fact that you're facing me, well not many people would think that you had much of a chance here."
"It's a good thing that I don't value their opinions whatsoever then." Beth responded with a grin as they reshuffled their decks. "Besides, I was THIS close to winning that tag team match and if I had activated Rain of Mercy instead of attacking Kimberly's life-points directly then my team would've faced Miranda's…." Beth trailed off before a large sweat-drop rolled down her head. "In hindsight losing the duel was the preferable option."
"If you are done trash talking I have a match to announce." Martin's clearly annoyed voice rang out over the PA system before he cleared his throat. "Welcome back everyone, the next duel will be contested between Osiris Red's Elizabeth McKenzie and the Ra Yellow Headmaster Jeff Trenton!"
"How many times do I have to remind him that I prefer to be called Beth?" Beth thought with an annoyed sigh before she turned to Jeff. "So, who's going first?"
"Normally I'd say lady's first but I would like to go first." Jeff responded and Beth nodded before he drew his card. "Besides, I know how her Anti-Cure deck works and I need to be prepared." Jeff thought before picking up a monster. "I send Gravekeeper's Commandant to the graveyard to activate his effect allowing me to add the Field Spell Card Necrovalley to my hand." Jeff announced before sending the card to the graveyard and picking up his deck.
"Chloe was right, he's running Gravekeepers." Beth thought with a frown as Jeff picked up the spell card and added it to his hand. "Not too much of a problem, before that card was banned the only revival card I ran was Monster Reborn so Necrovalley's effect shouldn't affect my deck that much."
"Now I activate the Field Spell Card Necrovalley!" Jeff played the card and the scenery changed to the Egyptian Desert. "I take it you know the card's effect."
"Considering how old that card is I'll be surprised if anyone doesn't know its effect." Beth responded before grinning. "Basically it means that the graveyard is almost untouchable and all Gravekeeper Monsters get a five hundred attack point boost."
"The Field Spell may be old but my deck has a few new tricks like Gravekeeper's Heretic!" Jeff played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, he was a tall Egyptian man with wild silver hair who was wearing a black robe opened up to reveal his bare chest, pants and various jewelry and he was carrying a gold staff (4/1800/1500).
"If I was straight I'd probably be fawning over him like most of the other girls in the arena." Beth commented as she sweat-dropped as, like she said, most of the other girls in the arena fawned over Jeff's new monster. "Then again even if I was straight I like to think that I have better standards than most girls my age meaning that I wouldn't be drooling over anything with a six pack and a large cock." Beth muttered under her breath before shaking her head. "But besides that I don't see what's so special about him."
"Well for one thing you have probably noticed that he hasn't got the attack boost from Necrovalley." Jeff responded and Beth blinked before realizing that he was right. "Essentially as long as Necrovalley is on the field my Heretic is unaffected by all other card effects."
"And that means that I can't beat him with traps, unfortunately my strongest monster is Nurse Reficule and she's too weak to stand up to him." Beth thought before turning to Jeff. "Anything else or can I start my turn?"
"I set one card facedown and end my turn." Jeff set the card down and Beth drew her card.
"Great, I haven't drawn Reficule yet, at least I have a way of summoning her directly and protecting her." Beth thought before picking up two cards. "I set one card facedown and a monster in defense mode to end my turn." Beth announced and Jeff nodded before drawing his card. "Sangan may have been banned a few ban-lists ago but he's far from the only searcher in this game!"
"I may have added some new toys to my deck." Jeff commented as he played a card. "But sometimes that old favorites work just as well! I summon Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier!" Jeff played the card and Beth's eyes widened as the spear wielding Gravekeeper appeared on the field (4/1500/1000). "Unlike Heretic he does get the bonus from Necrovalley." Jeff added as Spear Soldier's attack increased to two thousand. "And that's bad news for you because he also comes with a piercing effect, Spear Soldier, attack her defense monster!" Jeff commanded and the soldier threw his spear at the monster, revealed to be a large tomato with an evil looking face, (4/1400/1100) that was quickly destroyed. "You've added Mystic Tomato?"
"My deck needed a new searcher after Sangan was banned." Beth responded as her life-points dropped to 7100 and she picked up and searched through her deck. "Summoning Nurse Reficule right now would be suicide since Jeff can just destroy her with Heretic and unless I draw MST and use it to destroy Necrovalley I won't be able to revive her." Beth thought before playing the card she wanted and another Mystic Tomato appeared on the field. "Give me your best shot!"
"It's your funeral, Heretic, attack her second Mystic Tomato!" Jeff commanded and the Heretic pointed his staff at the second Mystic Tomato, a beam of light shot out of it destroying Mystic Tomato and bringing Beth's life-points down to 6700. "I suppose you're going to use that monster's effect to summon Reficule?"
"Am I really that easy to read?" Beth asked as she searched through her deck, she quickly found her ace card and played it causing the demonic nurse to appear on the field (4/1400/600). "And I think it's about time I paid you back for the damage I've suffered this turn, I activate my trap card Gift Card!"
"Oh no…." Jeff grimaced before bracing himself as the blast from Reficule hit him bringing his life-points down to 5000. "If you had set three of those cards you could've won."
"If I was that lucky I would've set the three Gift Cards as soon as I drew them." Beth responded as she sent the trap card to the graveyard. "Besides, as long as Reficule remains on the field this duel is mine for the taking."
"That's assuming that you'll draw Mist Body and find a way to destroy Heretic and Spear Soldier." Jeff responded and Beth frowned. "I end my turn." Jeff announced and Beth drew her card.
"I activate the Spell Card called Spellbook inside the Pot!" Beth played the card and she and Jeff both drew three cards. "It's that monster I added to my deck recently this will help me strengthen my lead." Beth thought before picking up the card. "I summon Silent Wobby…."
"Silent what…." Jeff trailed off before, to his surprise, Beth tossed the monster over to him.
"…..and I summon him to your side of the field!" Beth added and Jeff picked up the monster before reading through his effect, once he read it a couple of times to confirm Jeff nodded and played the card causing a large purple fish with a blue helmet to appear on the field (4/1000/2000). "Since you read his effect would you care to explain it?"
"I may as well." Jeff responded as he noticed the confused looks on the other student's faces. "Silent Wobby's effect states that Beth can summon it to her opponent's side of the field as she just did, normally I gain two-thousand life-points from this but with Nurse Reficule's effect…." Jeff trailed off as his life-points dropped to 3000. "And Beth gets to draw again." Jeff finished as Beth drew another card.
"And on a side not Jeff's hand size limit is down to three." Beth added with a grin. "And before anyone says it's broken, it's not as I can only use this effect once per turn." Beth said before picking up two cards. "Speaking of turns, I set one card facedown and I equip Nurse Reficule with Mist Body to end my turn." Beth announced as the facedown card appeared on the field whilst Nurse Reficule started glowing and Jeff drew his card.
"Your girlfriend's not wasting any time here." Andreas commented to Chelsea who turned to him. "She's giving Jeff a run for his money!"
"Why do you think I started dating her?" Chelsea asked jokingly and Andreas shook his head. "Joking aside, since she was eliminated from the Tag Tournament Beth's come to see that match as a reality check of sorts and she's seriously beefed up her deck since then."
"You mean with the additions of the Mystic Tomatoes and Silent Wobby." Andreas realized and Chelsea nodded.
"Despite what she said earlier she got her hands on the Tomatoes before Sangan was banned and if it wasn't banned she'd probably use them in conjunction with it." Chelsea added before frowning. "As for Silent Wobby, I don't even know when she got that card."
"If you think that I'm about to let Silent Wobby's hand size effect affect me then you're about to be disappointed." Jeff said with a grin as he pointed to Heretic and Silent Wobby. "Because thanks to you can now construct the Overlay Network with Silent Wobby and Heretic and make a Rank Four XYZ Summon."
"Damn, I knew I forgot about something!" Beth thought with a frown as the Overlay Network opened up and Heretic and Silent Wobby were sucked in.
"And my monster will make you regret ever facilitating this move for me, I XYZ Summon Maestroke, The Symphony Djinn in attack mode!" Jeff played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, he was a tall man in a white suit and hat that was carrying a sword (Rank: 4/1800/2300).
"Okay but I don't exactly see the point." Beth commented with a frown. "You'd get the same result from battling Reficule with Heretic and switching Wobby to defense mode."
"Not exactly, I activate Djinn's effect!" Jeff announced before retrieving Silent Wobby and tossing it back at Beth. "To activate this effect I have to detach an Overlay Unit but in exchange I can target one face-up monster you control and flip it into defense position."
"But that means…." Beth trailed off as her eyes widened and Nurse Reficule disappeared from the field taking Mist Body with it.
"I wasn't born yesterday Beth, I know that centering a deck on one monster is one of the worst decisions a duelist can make, and that decision is about to cost you!" Jeff responded before pointing to Beth's facedown monster. "Spear Soldier, attack Nurse Reficule!" Jeff commanded and the soldier tossed his spear again, Nurse Reficule returned to the field again only to get impaled by the spear bringing Beth's life-points down to 5100. "It's your turn Maestroke, attack…."
"Not this time! I activate my Trap Card Changing Destiny!" Beth activated the trap card and Maestroke suddenly crouched down. "Since you just declared an attack Changing Destiny will force Maestroke into defense mode and negate the attack."
"Then why didn't you use it on Spear Soldier? You could've saved yourself some damage!" Jeff asked and Beth shook her head.
"Two reasons really, I was going to lose Reficule no matter what monster I used Changing Destiny on and Changing Destiny has another effect that you get to choose." Beth said with a grin as Jeff raised an eyebrow. "Either I gain life-points equal to half the attacking monsters attack or the same damage comes out of your life-points."
"Very well, as I'm behind on life-points as it is, you will gain the life-point boost." Jeff responded and Beth grinned as her life-points increased to 6000. "It won't last long however, next turn I will change Maestroke back into attack position…."
"Actually you won't." Beth interrupted him with a grin. "Any monster that's changed into defense position by Changing Destiny stays in defense position! Honestly I'd have hoped that you knew that being one of the teachers at this school and all." Beth added and Jeff chuckled. "Did I miss a joke?"
"Not at all, I knew Changing Destiny's effect but I wanted to see how well you knew your own card's effect." Jeff responded and Beth blinked in confusion. "The same can be said for Silent Wobby's effect and I have to say, so far you've passed all of your tests with flying colors."
"He was toying with me this whole time, doesn't matter anyway, I have more than one copy of Nurse Reficule and as soon as I draw one I'll be back in the driver's seat." Beth thought with a frown which only deepened when she looked towards Spear Soldier. "Honestly I was hoping to use Changing Destiny on Spear Soldier and then use the Rush Recklessly in my hand to deal with Heretic but my misplay may have cost me the duel…."
"I end my turn at that." Jeff announced and Beth drew her card.
"Son of a bitch…." Beth thought with a frown as she looked at the card she had drawn. "Normally Call of the Haunted would be ideal in this situation but now? It's a dead draw due to Necrovalley." Beth thought before adding thee card to her hand. "On the other hand I can still use it." Beth realized when she remembered the third card that she had drawn. "I set one card facedown." Beth announced as her facedown card appeared on the field. "And I activate the Blasting Vein Spell Card, the card I just set is destroyed and I get to draw two cards in exchange." Beth added as she played the card and her set card was consumed by fire before she made two draws.
"That was a waste of a perfectly good Spell/Trap Card." Jeff pointed out and Beth shook her head before holding up the Call of the Haunted Trap Card.
"It was a dead draw anyway due to your Field Spell." Beth responded as she sent the two cards to the graveyard, she looked at her two new cards and set them both causing a set monster and another facedown card to appear on the field. "I end my turn." Beth announced and Jeff drew his card.
"That's it? Even though I'm still unable to attack with Maestroke because of your trap card the same effect doesn't apply to Spear Soldier." Jeff responded before looking at his drawn card. "I set my own monster in defense mode." Jeff said as the facedown monster appeared on the field. "Now Spear Soldier, attack her defense monster!" Jeff commanded and the soldier threw his spear again, only this time the attack bounced off. "What?"
"You didn't think it would be that easy to penetrate me with a spear did you?" Beth asked with a grin only to subsequently face-palm out of embarrassment once she heard several students laughing. "I can't believe I just said that during my promotion duel." Beth muttered under her breath as she ran her hand down her face. "Forget I said that! In fact I'll let my monster speak for itself!" Beth added as the monster was revealed to be another Silent Wobby.
"Neither of my monsters can get past that." Jeff commented with a frown as he looked over the field. "But you realize that your hand size limit is now three, right?"
"Desperate times call for desperate measures." Beth responded as she folded her arms. "Are you done?"
"Yes, I am." Jeff responded and Beth drew her card.
"I need to get rid of Silent Wobby and fast, unfortunately I don't have any XYZ Monsters in my deck otherwise I'd do what Jeff did." Beth thought with a frown before mentally counting the number of cards in her hand. "Five cards, six counting the one I just drew, most of them are cards that heal the opponent but I don't have Reficule to use them with." Beth thought before looking at her drawn card. "Upstart Goblin, this could backfire big time but this is my chance." Beth thought before playing the card.
"Getting desperate enough to pad my own life-points are we?" Jeff asked as Beth drew her card and Jeff's life-points increased to 4000.
"Like I said, desperate times call for desperate measures." Beth responded before looking at her drawn card and grinning. "And it just paid off big time! Guess whose back?"
"Beth, you're not going to start singing Eminem are you?" Chelsea called out to her girlfriend as a large sweat-drop rolled down her head.
"Come on, you know I have better taste in music than that!" Beth called back before turning back to Jeff. "As I was saying, I summon my second Nurse Reficule!" Beth played the card and her signature monster returned to the field. "But that's not all in fact I have more than enough healing cards in my hand to win this duel in this turn!"
"That's what she thinks." Jeff thought as Beth played the card.
"First I activate Rain of Mercy normally this spell card would let us both gain a thousand life-points…." Beth trailed off when she saw Jeff quickly discard a card. "You just discarded Effect Veilor, didn't you?"
"You didn't think it would be that easy, did you?" Jeff asked as the Nurse stopped her spell and the rain fell upon both duelists increasing Beth's life-points to seven thousand and Jeff's life-points to five thousand. "But thanks for giving me two thousand life-points."
"Well your about to lose more than that because my nurse can still attack!" Beth responded as the nurse casted her spell at the facedown monster only to have it deflect off of it. "What now?"
"Gravekeepers Recruiter, that's what!" Jeff responded as the bald man in robes appeared on the field (3/1200/1500) and Beth's life-points dropped to 6900. "Now if you are done defeating yourself I would like to take my turn."
"Yeah, but not just yet, don't forget that I have to discard a card due to my monster's effect." Beth responded before discarding a trap card. "It's your move." Beth announced and Jeff drew his card.
"That's good, because I'm about to make my big play!" Jeff said as he played a card. "First I activate Double Summon, as you should know this Spell Card lets me to summon two monsters in this turn." Jeff said as the spell card appeared on the field. "But first I detach Maestroke's last overlay unit to flip Nurse Reficule facedown!" Jeff announced as the monster was flipped facedown.
"Great, it's a repeat of the same move he made when he summoned Maestroke!" Beth realized with a frown.
"Next I summon Gravekeepers Curse!" Jeff played the card and the Gravekeeper in the dark robe wielding a golden staff appeared on the field (3/800/800). "And when Gravekeepers Curse is summoned I can deal you five hundred points of damage." Jeff added as the Gravekeeper fired a sickly green beam of light at Beth bringing her life-points down to 6400. "Now I use my second summon to tribute Gravekeepers Spear Soldier, Recruiter and Curse to summon my best monster!"
"You're sacrificing three monsters?!" Beth realized as the three Gravekeepers disappeared from the field. "As incredibly unlikely as it is, you're not summoning an Egyptian God Card are you?!"
"Beth, if I had access to one of those things I wouldn't be teaching, I'd still be a pro-duelist!" Jeff responded with a deadpan expression on his face before playing the card. "But the monster I am summoning is almost as powerful as the Egyptian God Cards, I summon Gravekeepers Oracle!" Jeff played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, this one was a mountain of a man with dark skin and blonde hair with a matching beard who was wearing a majestic looking black robe and carrying a golden staff (10/2000/1500).
"You had me worried for a second there." Beth said with a sigh of relief. "But come on, three sacrifices for a level ten monster with two thousand attack points? His effect had better be amazing!"
"Actually the correct term would be effects and yes, they are amazing." Jeff responded as he grinned broadly. "First off, I had the option of either sacrificing three monsters you just one Gravekeeper Monster to summon him, as you just saw I chose three monsters and he gains up to three effects depending on how many monsters were used to summon him."
"And you used three." Beth said as her eyes narrowed. "I'm all ears."
"The first effect is that Oracle gains attack equal to the combined levels of the three monsters used to summon him times a hundred, just to recap I sacrificed two level three monsters and one Level Four Monster so, on top of the bonus he gets from Necrovalley, he gains one thousand attack points." Jeff explained as Oracle's attack points shot up to 3500. "The second effect is that he destroys all facedown monsters you control."
"Wait, what?!" Beth protested but it was too late as a beam of golden light emerged from Oracle's staff destroying her facedown Nurse Reficule. "I'm almost afraid to ask but what's the third effect?"
"That effect is simple, all monsters you currently control lose two thousand attack and defense points." Jeff explained as Silent Wobby's attack and defense dropped to zero. "Let's not forget about Recruiter, since I sent him to the graveyard just now I can add another Gravekeeper monster from my deck to my hand." Jeff added before picking up his deck.
"That's all well and good." Beth responded as Jeff added the monster to his hand and shuffled his deck. "But you sacrificed Spear Soldier to summon Oracle meaning you can't touch my life-points for another turn."
"Think again." Jeff responded before pointing to his long forgotten about facedown card. "Did you think I set this for no reason?"
"I was hoping you had forgotten." Beth admitted and Jeff shook his head.
"Far from it, I just waiting for the right moment to use it, and that moment is now! I activate my Trap Card Rite of Spirit!" Jeff activated the trap card and Beth's eyes widened once it hit her. "Normally I wouldn't be able to touch my graveyard with Necrovalley on the field but Rite of Spirit allows me to summon one Gravekeeper from my graveyard whilst ignoring Necrovalley."
"And I think I know what monster you're summoning." Beth responded with a frown as Gravekeepers Spirit Soldier returned to the field. "I knew it! Also, this is going to hurt!"
"Consider yourself honored Beth because you're actually the first duelist I've used this monster on! Spear Soldier, attack Silent Wobby and finish the job you started last turn." Jeff commanded and the soldier tossed his spear at Silent Wobby impaling it and sending Beth's life-points down to 4400. "Don't worry Beth this duel will be over soon, Oracle, attack her life-points directly!" Jeff commanded and the Oracle pointed his staff at Beth before another gold light beam hit her bringing her life-points down to 900. "Unless your next draw gives you a miracle you'll be the first student who won't be graduating today, I end my turn."
"Make that draws! I activate my Trap Card Shock Draw!" Beth activated the trap and quickly drew five cards before drawing a sixth to start her turn. "You just made your big play, now I'm about to make mine! And unlike your big play mine will win me the duel and my place in Ra Yellow!"
"I'd like to see you try." Jeff responded and Beth grinned.
"Gladly, first I summon my third and final Nurse Reficule!" Beth played the card and the Nurse appeared for a third time. "And thanks to Shock Draw I have several spell cards that would normally heal your life-points like Rain of Mercy!" Beth played the card and the nurse casted her spell as the rain fell increasing Beth's life-points to 1900 and reducing Jeff's to 4000. "Good, he doesn't have another Effect Veilor." Beth thought with a sigh of relief. "But why stop there? I activate Upstart Goblin." Beth played the card and drew once whilst Jeff's life-points dropped again to 3000, she played one more healing card, namely Rain of Mercy which increased her life-points to 2900 and reduced Jeff's to two-thousand.
"For all your talk about this move winning you the duel you haven't won yet and I still have two thousand life-points left." Jeff commented as she sent her final Rain of Mercy to the graveyard. "If all that bravado you displayed earlier was a bluff then you can consider it called!"
"It wasn't a bluff in fact I'll think I'll let my monster speak for itself again!" Beth responded as she tossed the card to Jeff and his eyes widened when he saw it.
"Very well, congratulations Beth and welcome to Ra Yellow." Jeff responded before playing the card and Beth's third and final Silent Wobby appeared on the field causing Jeff's life-points to drop to zero.
"Here is your winner and the newest student to graduate to Ra Yellow, Elizabeth McKenzie!" Martin announced and the crowd cheered whilst Beth groaned at being referred to by her full name again, still she left the field as did Jeff as the next duel was coming up soon.
"Hah, nice one Beth, Jeff never saw that move coming!" Chelsea said with a laugh as her girlfriend walked up to her. "Well, its official, we've all moved up a dorm."
"Yes and I'm very eager to see my new dorm room." Andreas grunted as he pushed his glasses up his nose. "But unfortunately we're stuck here for another five duels."
"Well, we may as well make the most of it." Lance commented with a shrug as Beth ran off to get fitted for her new Ra Yellow Blazer. "Who knows? Maybe we'll get some good duels out of it!"
*later the day*
The rest of the promotion duels went off without a hitch but unfortunately for the students their run of luck ran out after Beth's duel as only two of the remaining five duelists graduated to the next dorm above them namely Rachel Travis and Kyle Winston who managed to defeat the proctors that they had been placed against.
Right now though the students who had graduated were getting ready for their dorm's respective welcome parties, the school had spared little expense for each party as they had hired a well-known DJ to provide the music and a chef to provide the food for the students, whilst most of the students stuck to their new dorms welcome parties Lance, Andreas and Marcus had elected to attend the Ra Yellow welcome party for their own reasons.
But what about Chloe and Chelsea, well the two girls were still in their old dorm room and were getting changed for the party since it was one of few occasions when the school was allowing the students to not wear their uniform.
"I can't believe I finally made it to Ra Yellow." Chelsea said with a grin as she put on her mid-riff exposing Slayer top and jeans. "It's been a long time coming."
"We're definitely in agreement there." Chloe nodded in agreement as she put her crop top and jeans on before searching for a jacket to hide her arm scar. "Back when I was accepted into the school I thought I had done well enough for Ra Yellow but, well, obviously I didn't."
"Just be glad they didn't hold you back due to your temper like they did to me." Chelsea responded as she put on a denim jacket that was decorated with various band logos both new and old with the album cover for Amon Amarth's "Twilight of the Thunder God" album taking up most of the space on the back of the jacket. "And I'm hoping that the DJ is open to some metal songs being requested, pop songs can get boring after a while."
"Yeah, I think Lance told me he was and that he was taking some of his CDs to the party for that reason." Chloe responded as she put on a jacket and Chelsea grabbed a handful of CDs. "I'm ready to go when you are."
"I'm ready, let's go!" Chelsea responded with a nod as she tucked her CDs under her arm, the two girls subsequently left their old dorm room for the Ra Yellow Boy's Dorm which was were the party was being held as it was quite a bit bigger than the Girl's Dorm.
*elsewhere*
Whilst the students who had graduated were looking forward to living in their new dorms there was a sinister force on the island and he had arrived before the duels had even started.
"Damien, it's Jack and it's time to move!" Jack's voice rang out through Damien's earpiece and he placed a hand to it. "The promotion duels just ended, all of our targets graduated but they are at the Ra Yellow Welcome Party at the boy's dorm."
"My, my, how considerate of them was it to make it easy for me!" Damien responded with a chuckle as he started making his move. "Who should I target?"
"Normally we'd give you a target but since they are all in the same place we figured we'd leave that up to you." Jack responded and Damien grinned. "Just make sure that we have all of their souls by the end of the night!"
"Understood, I will see to it that it's done!" Damien responded before walking off.