The second duel wasn't starting for a good couple of minutes yet but most of the students were using the time to chill out and stretch their legs either outside the main building or nearer the main school arena and in the case of Chloe she was sitting on the main steps and chatting with her roommate Chelsea.
"I can't believe Lance sung the Pokémon theme during the duel!" Chloe said with a laugh and Chelsea shook her head. "On the other hand though, I probably would've enjoyed it more if he could sing!"
"Yeah, we're not taking him out on Karaoke night if we decide to do that over summer break." Chelsea responded with a grin not noticing that Lance was approaching the two girls from behind. "Not even if we found a metal club that did Karaoke because I'm pretty sure his vocals are bad even by metal standards."
"He also happens to be standing right behind you." Lance chimed in with a grin and the two girls looked up seeing Lance standing behind him. "My singing might have been bad but that doesn't mean you can talk about it behind my back."
"First off Lance, I'm not even sure if that noise that came out of your mouth counted as singing." Chelsea retorted and Lance rolled his eyes.
"This coming from the girl who practically listens to nothing but Death Metal." Lance retorted and Chelsea sweat-dropped. "Anyway, you guys mind if I join you for the next duel?"
"Well I think it goes without saying that I don't mind." Chloe responded with a grin before she stood up and kissed Lance. "Chelsea on the other hand I'm not so sure about."
"As long as you don't destroy my eardrums with more Pokémon covers I won't complain." Chelsea responded as she put her hands up and Lance rolled his eyes. "And don't even think about bringing Death Metal into this because that I'm used too! Whatever that noise that you tried to pass off as singing was I'm not used too."
"Hey I can sing! I just didn't have time to prepare during the duel!" Lance protested and Chelsea scoffed not noticing that a female security guard was approaching the trio.
"Keep telling yourself that but at the moment you rank just below Jingle Bells as sung by barking dogs." Chelsea responded earning confused looks from the other teens. "And yeah, it exists."
"Now I'm morbidly curious, I'll have to look it up on YouTube after the second duel." Lance responded before noticing the security guard. "Chelsea, we've been joined by a rent-a-cop." Lance added and Chelsea looked up seeing the female guard and quickly stood up.
"Don't mind me kids, I'm just doing the rounds." The guard responded apparently unfazed by Lance's comment. "Have you seen any suspicious persons around here?"
"Yeah, they are all dressed the same, in fact their outfits look similar to yours." Chelsea responded with a grin and the guard chuckled.
"I'll take that as a no, also the duel should be starting in a couple of minutes." The guard added and Lance checked the time on his watch.
"Shit, she's right." Lance said and Chelsea quickly stood up before jogging up the stairs to meet her friends. "Err, thanks….."
"Name's Rachel, we should be seeing each other around." The guard responded before the three students walked off and she walked off towards the northern end of the island, once she was out of earshot of any student she laughed sadistically. "Kids these days are so gullible, I could've told them that I was one of Santa's elves and they would've believed me."
"I wouldn't get too cocky if I were you Delaney." Jack's voice rang out and Delaney frowned. "Especially since you're using your real first name."
"Hey I was told to use the name of the member of staff I was replacing, not my fault that we happened to share the same name." Delaney retorted before shaking her head. "How long do I have to keep this damn masquerade up anyway? This island's so fucking hot it's like an island sized sauna!"
"I know, it's pretty much the only reason why the school's so lenient about the dress code, as for your question wait until the second duel has finished, Thompson's waiting for you in the north side." Jack responded and Delaney sighed.
"You do realize that the first duel ran so long that I'm surprised that they didn't just move the second duel to tomorrow, right?" Delaney responded and Jack sighed.
"I checked up on him whilst you were talking to those brats, trust me, he's still there." Jack responded and Delaney nodded. "Look, just go meet him, if you hang around too much the actual security guards will start asking questions."
"And if they do I'll tell them that I was taking a call and needed to get away from the students." Delaney responded as she entered the north side of the island. "I mean those idiots, not counting the ones we already replaced, didn't even realize that the Rachel Delaney that started yesterday wasn't the same one who did the training with them despite the fact that she's shorter than I am."
"That's true but everything else matches, if anything they probably assumed that you were wearing shoes that made you look shorter." Jack responded and Delaney nodded. "And besides, it's not like Delaney or Thompson are around to spill the beans."
"Or any of the ones we replaced for that matter." Delaney commented with a chuckle and Jack laughed as well, before she could say anything else she spotted Thompson ahead of her. "Jack I've got to go, I've spotted Thompson."
"Just remember to stick to the plan and only target the Kaiba siblings." Jack responded and Delaney nodded before entering the clearing.
*meanwhile*
"This makes no sense." Tyler grunted as he read through the article for what felt like the thousandth time since he stumbled upon it the night before, next to his desktop monitor were several empty cans of red bull and one freshly opened can which he was using to keep himself up as he had been up all night. "Why would he lie to her again? Theresa told me that she didn't take him lying to her the first time well at all but this?"
"You realize that talking to yourself if a sign of madness right?" Tyler looked up and saw his older step-sister Miranda standing in the door with her arms crosses and a smirk on her face. "Seriously though, I came over to see what you were up too since you didn't turn up for the duel."
"I had some work to do and besides, I already figured that Lance and Evan would win the match." Tyler responded as he turned to his sister. "Lamont and Kris are good duellists but their decks are pretty mismatched."
"That's true but couldn't you have shown up anyway and do the work after the duels?" Miranda asked with a curious look on her face, however she quickly frowned when she saw the red bull cans. "Better question, how much Red Bull have you been drinking?"
"I lost count after ten." Tyler admitted and Miranda sweat-dropped. "This won't be like the last time this happened, for one thing my team's already been eliminated from the tournament."
"I know but you still have classes later." Miranda responded as she entered the room and closed the door behind her. "At least tell me you were up all night getting homework done."
"I would but that would require me having homework to begin with." Tyler responded as Miranda approached his desk. "You remember the meeting I had with the other students combatting the Orichalcos, right?"
"Yeah, you told me that Nicola Hastings, Jason Hutchins and Chakra Silvers agreed to help you out." Miranda responded with a nod. "What about it?"
"Towards the end of the meeting Chloe requested that I do some fact checking for her." Tyler responded as he pointed to the article. "Remember the picture Chloe found after Chelsea won her first Orichalcos duel?" Tyler asked and Miranda nodded. "Well according to her dad the girl in the picture was a neighbour's kid who they were babysitting for them only for her to be tragically killed in a collision with a drunk driver."
"It's sad and all but what does that have to do with the Orichalcos?" Miranda asked as she pulled up a chair and sat down.
"For one thing it fell out of the pocket of a robed woman who was observing the duel, since then we figured out that she's another Orichalcos Duellist." Tyler responded with a frown. "She seems to be working in the background with another agent and so far all we have on them are names, Jack and Sara."
"And considering how common those names are you may as well start searching for needles in haystacks." Miranda responded with an annoyed sigh and Tyler frowned. "In a way they sound almost like that Michael guy that kept showing up towards the end of the initial portion of Battle City."
"You know I don't like talking about him." Tyler responded with a deep frown and Miranda winced. "Never thought I'd say this but I liked it better when I thought he died in that fire all those years ago." Tyler added before he went to take a sip of his the last red bull can only for Miranda to snatch it from him. "HEY!"
"Oh no you don't, I'm pretty sure you've got enough caffeine in your system to kill an elephant." Miranda responded and Tyler's eyes narrowed. "And I swear to god, if I hear that you turned up to Duel Theory more jumpy on a rabbit on speed I'm telling dad about this."
"That can was almost done anyway." Tyler responded and Miranda gave the can a shake showing it to be mostly full. "You try staying up all night without that stuff."
"Yeah because that makes the situation that much better." Miranda responded sarcastically before spotting Tyler's mini-fridge. "How many cans do you have in the fridge?"
"Five." Tyler responded absentmindedly as Miranda stood up and walked over to the fridge, once she opened it up he quickly got the idea. "Miranda…."
"Trust me bro, you'll thank me for this later." Miranda said as she carried an arm full of red bull cans into the en-suite and emptying the contents one by one. "Besides, staying up all night whilst hyped up on red bull isn't going to impress the teachers."
"Would you prefer that I turned up to class half asleep." Tyler responded as Miranda returned to her chair. "Besides, you know I can order more."
"And I'll be there every time to empty your mini-fridge of legalized crack." Miranda responded before checking the time on her watch. "Besides, the last duel of the day is about to start."
"Fine but after the duel I'll tell you what I've found, deal?" Tyler asked and Miranda nodded giving him the cue to switch tabs.
*meanwhile*
Whilst the siblings were watching from the confines of Tyler's dorm room the arena was filling up with the other students who weren't ill ready for the second and last duel of the day, and so where the two teams that were taking part.
"Are you ready for this Vernon?" Charity asked as she walked up to her tag team partner, the two partners were currently in the hallway that would lead them to the main arena. "Or did you misplace your deck among your girlfriend's sex toys again?"
"I'm never going to live that down, am I?" Vernon asked with an annoyed sigh and Charity nodded with a giggle. "There's a slim chance that I would've done that again if I still had a girlfriend."
"Come again?" Charity asked and Vernon sighed.
"My girlfriend broke up with me just before the second round started, turns out that I unintentionally got her in trouble with the school officials when I revealed why I was late to the duel last week, that and she didn't exactly appreciate the whole school learning about something that private." Vernon added and Charity winced. "To make matters worse, I'm pretty sure most of the Ra Yellow girls have boyfriends."
"What about the girls who were promoted last weekend?" Charity asked and Vernon shook his head.
"Chelsea's in a lesbian relationship with Beth, Chloe got hitched up with Lance the day after the promotion duels and I'm pretty sure Rachel has the hots for Kyle." Vernon responded as he walked down the hallway. "And I'm not about to try dating one of the Obelisk Blue girls on the off chance that one of them is just as bad as Jessica Stevens."
"Is that even possible?" Charity asked jokingly and Veron shook his head. "What about the Osiris Red girls?"
"Most of them are fifteen years old and most of the older students were the girls that got promoted." Vernon responded and Charity shook her head.
"I was talking about me, dumbass." Charity responded and Veron paused. "I mean hell I'm still using the Normal Monster deck after the disaster last week and I do have sex toys in my room, difference is I'm not embarrassed by it."
"If I was dating girls only for the fact that they had sex toys my bodily fluids would be swimming in STDs…..no offence." Vernon pointed out and Charity chuckled.
"And I always practice safe sex." Charity added and Vernon paused.
"I'll get back to you after the duel, win or lose." Vernon responded before nodding to the door. "And speaking of which….."
"Third round here we come!" Charity interrupted him enthusiastically before they entered the arena.
"Welcome to the second match of the day!" Martin announced and the crowd cheered in response. "The second duel will take place between Vernon Chan of Ra Yellow and Charity Hensley of Osiris Red as they get ready to take on Louella Schneider and Latoya Conley of Ra Yellow."
"If you think your Skill Drain deck will trip us up think again." Louella said confidently as she and Latoya started shuffling their decks. "We know what to expect from it and how to beat it."
"Is that a fact?" Vernon asked as he and Charity started shuffling their decks. "Well I'll have you know that I've never been beaten off by a girl and I'm….." Vernon trailed off before he realized far too late what he had said, not helped by the crowd's laughter. "I am actually glad that my girlfriend broke up with me after last week's duel."
"Wait, she broke up with you?" Latoya asked with an amused look on her face. "Let me guess, it had to do with the sex toys incident."
"I'm not saying anything about that but what I will say is yes, that's pretty much the reason why I'm back on the market." Vernon commented with an annoyed sigh. "Anyway how about we let our actions in the duel do the talking for us?"
"We would be we're waiting for Martin to announce the order." Louella responded and sure enough Martin cleared his throat.
"The order will be as follows, Vernon will go first followed by Louella followed by Charity and finally Latoya." Martin announced and the duellists got into position. "Let the duel begin!" Martin announced and the four duellists drew their five cards before Vernon drew a sixth.
"Perfect, I drew Skill Drain on my first draw, this means that I'll be able to stop the effects of their Gemini Monsters and Dark Monsters." Vernon thought before picking up two cards. "I set one card facedown and a monster in defence mode." Vernon announced as the two set cards appeared on the field. "That ends my turn." Vernon added and Louella drew her card.
"I'll bet good money that his facedown card is Skill Drain and the monster is likely something like Prevent Rat." Louella thought before looking at her drawn card and her hand. "Unfortunately I don't have my copy of Mystical Space Typhoon in my hand so I may as well risk it." Louella thought before playing the card she had drawn. "I summon Dark Valkyria!" Louella played the card and the twisted version of Dunames Dark Witch appeared on the field (4/1800/1050). "Next I activate Double Summon, normally this would allow me to summon another monster but in this case I'm using it to activate my monster's Gemini Mode…"
"I think not! Activate Skill Drain!" Vernon activated the trap and winced as his life-points dropped to seven thousand. "Your monster may as well be Dunames Dark Witch as long as this is on the field!"
"I should've known, what's worse is that I've just wasted a perfectly good Spell Card." Louella thought before sending Double Summon to the graveyard. "I set one card facedown and end my turn." Louella announced and Charity drew her card.
"Okay so Vernon wasted no time in activating Skill Drain, unfortunately I don't have Imperial Custom in my hand or a way to search it out, better hope that Latoya doesn't have a Trap Eater in her hand." Charity thought before playing a card. "I summon Vorse Raider!" Charity played the card and the halberd wielding beast-warrior made famous by Seto Kaiba appeared on the field (4/1900/1200). "And I end my turn." Charity announced and Latoya drew her card.
"She didn't set a card?!" Vernon thought as his eyes widened. "Crap, if her hand has Trap Eater in it then our decks may as well be normal monster decks."
"If you were hoping that Skill Drain would be around as long as it was during your last duel, think again!" Latoya said as she played a card and a tongue appeared from out of nowhere and quickly wrapped itself around Skill Drain's hologram. "I destroy Skill Drain to summon Trap Eater!"
"I just had to go and jinx it." Vernon thought with a frown as the tongue pulled the card towards its source and the purple fiend appeared on the field (4/1900/1600). "Do you honestly think I'm stupid enough to just run one copy of a trap card that's a key to my strategy?"
"I don't know, I mean you were dumb enough to lose your deck among your girlfriend's sex toys." Louella countered and Vernon face-faulted.
"I just knew that you were going to bring that up at some point." Vernon sighed as he got back to his feet. "And for the record, she's now my ex-girlfriend, she broke up with me after last week's duel."
"Ouch, that's a rough day if I've ever heard one." Latoya winced before looking at her hand. "Trap Eater was my only monster and I'd ask Louella if I could use her monster in a Synchro Summon but I'm pretty sure that she still needs that monster." Latoya thought before picking up two other cards. "I end my turn with two facedown cards" Latoya announced and Vernon drew his card.
"Okay, no need to panic, they've only destroyed my strategies' key card on the first turn and as far as you know there's no way to search for trap cards." Vernon thought before looking at his drawn card and grinning. "Recycling trap cards on the other hand? I have just the card to do that." Vernon thought before picking up his drawn card and setting it on the field. "First I set a monster in defence mode, now Charity, will you live up to your namesake and let me use that monster of yours?"
"If I had a dollar for every time a guy began a pick-up line with those exact words with the intent to use it on me after learning my name I'd have enough money to open up my own Duel Academy." Charity sighed in annoyance before nodding. "Go ahead." Charity added as Vorse Raider made his way over to Vernon's side of the field.
"Excellent, and I'll try to avoid making similar puns in the future." Vernon commented before pointing to Dark Valkyria. "Vorse Raider, attack her monster!" Vernon commanded and the Beast-Warrior charged into battle before decapitating the Gemini Monster with his halberd bringing Louella's life-points down to 7900. "I do believe that's first blood to us."
"I'm guessing that's not counting life-point payments?" Louella asked sarcastically and Vernon nodded. "Are you done?"
"Give me a moment." Vernon responded as he looked over the remaining cards in his hand. "I have a monster that could take out Trap Eater but without Skill Drain on the field he'd be open to monster effects, besides I've already used my normal summon." Vernon thought before nodding to Louella. "I end my turn." Vernon added as Vorse Raider returned to Charity's side of the field.
"Good, in that case I'll activate my trap card!" Louella announced as the trap card flipped up. "The ever useful Call of the Haunted! And since, between me and Latoya, there's only one monster in our graveyard you get no guesses as to what I'm bringing back," Louella added as Dark Valkyria returned to the field, she promptly drew her card and looked at it. "Blazewing Butterfly, I already used my copy of Double Summon last turn so I can't use its effect and Dark Valkyria's effect on the same turn."
"I know that luck, she has two really good moves in mind but she can only use one." Vernon thought as his eyes narrowed. "That's something that's plagued many duellists no matter how experienced they are."
"I have a way to get Tuned Magician into my graveyard fairly quickly and if I summon Blazewing Butterfly I can use its Gemini Mode effect to bring out Tuned Magician, I may lose the ability to activate Valkyria's Gemini mode but that's a small price to pay for Black Buldrago!" Louella decided before playing the card. "I activate Heaven's Lost Property."
"Considering how long its predecessor has been on the ban list I'm surprised that Sophia Pegasus hasn't banned that card yet." Vernon commented as all four duellists drew three cards and discarded two.
"An effect that affects both players, or in this case teams, makes all the difference Vernon." Louella responded before looking at her drawn cards. "Okay, this changes everything, I just have to hope that Charity doesn't draw something like Mystical Space Typhoon." Louella thought before setting the card. "I set one card facedown and I activate Dark Valkyria's Gemini Mode!" Louella announced as Dark Valkyria started glowing and her attack increased to 2100. "But that Spell Counter won't be around for much longer, I activate her second effect and I use it to destroy Vorse Raider!"
"Oh shit!" Charity cussed as Dark Valkyria's attack dropped back down to 1800 and she casted a spell at Vorse Raider destroying the monster. "Vernon, you realize that they have enough firepower to deal some serious damage to my life-points right?"
"Yes, I've already done the math in my head, their two monsters have a combined attack power of 3700." Vernon responded as he pushed his glasses up his nose. "If you had actually bothered to set a trap last turn you wouldn't be in this mess!"
"I DIDN'T HAVE ANY TRAP CARDS IN MY HAND MR. "I MUST CRITIZIZE MY PARTNER'S USUAL DECK AND CLAIM THAT MY BORING ASS DECK IS FAR SUPERIOR TO HERS"!" Charity snapped at him and whilst Vernon rubbed his ear in pain the other students sweat-dropped, Charity quickly followed suit once she calmed down. "Great, we're not even dating yet and we're already arguing like an old married couple!"
"I was merely stating the facts at the….." Vernon trailed off as he stopped rubbing his ear and noticed the glare Charity was giving him. "For the sake of my hearing I'm not going to finish that sentence."
"That's probably a good idea." Latoya responded with a chuckle before raising an eyebrow. "Wait, not even dating yet?" Latoya asked and Charity blushed like a madwoman.
"Err, I….." Charity trailed off before being cut off by Louella.
"Don't tell me you tried to jump on his bone as soon as you heard that he's back on the market?" Louella asked and Charity sighed in annoyance before nodding. "Oh good grief, he's not even that good looking!"
"I'm standing right here." Vernon grunted in annoyance only to be ignored by the three women.
"Give me a break, I felt sorry for the guy!" Charity groaned as she ran a hand down her face. "Besides, it's not like we had pity sex in the hallway before we came out for the duel, I was merely suggesting it!"
"You suggested having pity sex in the hallway?!" Louella asked as she tried not to burst out laughing and Charity face-faulted.
"NO!" Charity snapped at her as she got back to her feet. "And besides, if we did do that don't you think you would've heard…..well, you know…."
"Yeah, I know, and considering that Beth McKenzie is my new neighbour in Ra Yellow I've learned to block out those kind of sounds whenever her girlfriend was spending the night with her." Louella responded and Charity shook her head.
"Anyway, I was suggesting that we, as in me and Vernon, go out on a date sometime and he said that he'd answer after the duel." Charity added and Louella went to respond….
"Speaking of which." Vernon quickly interjected before Louella could respond. "Did you ladies forget about the time limit?"
"Oh shit!" Louella cussed as Trap Eater made its way over to her side of the field. "Trap Eater, Dark Valkyria, attack Charity's life-points directly!" Louella commanded and the two monsters launched their attacks at Charity bringing her life-points down to 4300. "I end my turn." Louella announced and Charity drew her card.
"Okay, I just took a ton of damage thanks to Vernon forgetting about Louella's facedown card but we won our last match with lower life-points than that so this should, hopefully, be a breeze." Charity thought before looking over her hand. "I have nothing strong enough to defeat Trap Eater or Dark Valkyria, I'd better defend." Charity thought before picking up two cards. "I set one card facedown and a card in defence mode to end my turn." Charity announced and Latoya drew her card.
"Hey Louella, quick question." Latoya asked as she glanced up at her partner. "Do you need Dark Valkyria for anything other than her effect?"
"As a matter of fact, I do." Louella responded with a nod. "So if you plan to use her in a Synchro Summon, don't."
"Got it." Latoya responded with a nod before looking at her hand. "At least I can use Synchro with something other than Trap Eater." Latoya thought before playing two cards. "I set two cards facedown now, Louella, can I borrow Dark Valkyria?"
"You let me borrow Trap Eater during my last turn so I don't see why not." Louella responded as Dark Valkyria made her way to Latoya's side of the field. "Just remember what I said."
"Got it, now onto business, first I attack the monster Vernon set last turn with Trap Eater!" Latoya set the card and the Fiend Type Monster's massive tongue whipped out towards the facedown monster, revealed to be a strange, yellow mask (2/900/400) that was quickly consumed by the tuner monster. "Mask of Darkness? People still use that card?!"
"Why not? Magician of Faith has made a comeback since it came off the Forbidden List." Vernon shrugged as he retrieved the sole trap card in his graveyard. "Besides, do you have any idea how rare Taking the Bait is? I was lucky enough to get one copy in a booster pack!"
"Well, that answers my follow up question." Latoya commented before shaking her head. "Valkyria, attack his defence monster!" Latoya commanded and the monster launched her attack only for the spell to rebound. "What the?!"
"Sometimes a good defence is the best offence, just ask my good friend Giant Soldier of Stone." Vernon responded as the giant stone statue appeared on the field crouching down (3/1300/2000) whilst Latoya's life-points dropped to 7900. "Yes, I realize that this is an old card and one of the more obscure members of Yugi Mutoh's deck but a defence of 2000 is still one that can't be beat by most Level Four monsters."
"That may be true but unless you have a card that can prevent Synchro, XYZ or Tribute summons that won't last long." Latoya responded before looking over her hand. "I end my turn." Latoya announced and Vernon drew his card.
"Perfect, this is just what I need." Vernon thought before setting a card. "First I set a card facedown and now I tribute my Soldier to summon Cyber Tech Alligator!" Vernon played the card and Giant Soldier of Stone vanished from the field, in its place stood the humanoid alligator in red, high tech armour (5/2500/1600). "Cyber-Tech Alligator, attack Trap Eater!" Vernon commanded and the alligator sprang into action…..
"I don't think so, I activate Astral Barrier!" Latoya activated the trap and the attack went over Trap Eater and aimed for Latoya instead. "And I negate the direct attack by summoning Battle Fader!" Latoya added as the small clock like fiend appeared on the field (1/0/0).
"That was a lot of effort to go through just to keep your Tuner Monster and life-points safe." Vernon commented as Cyber-Tech Alligator returned to his side of the field. "I end my turn." Vernon announced and Louella drew her card. "And I activate Skill Drain!"
"And the award for most predictable move in Duel Academy history goes too Vernon Chan!" Latoya snarked as her other trap card flipped up. "In fact it was so predictable that I set this Trap to negate it, Seven Tools of the Bandit!"
"God damn it." Vernon cussed as his life-points dropped to 6000 whilst Latoya's life-points dropped to 7000 and his trap card shattered. "All I wanted was to bring Duel Monsters back to a simpler time with my deck but you just had to keep negating my trap!"
"Wait, that's why you run that deck?" Louella asked as a large sweat-drop rolled down her head. "Sorry to break it to you Vernon but unless your deck can travel through time those simpler times won't be coming back."
"Not to mention the fact that there were plenty of Effect Monsters around back during Yugi's prime." Latoya added and Vernon winced. "They just weren't as prevalent as they are today."
"A guy can dream, can't he?!" Vernon protested and the girls shook their heads.
"Dreaming big is good but dreaming so big to the point of your dreams being unrealistic? Yeah, get new dreams Vernon." Louella responded before playing a card. "Anyway back to business, I summon Blazewing Butterfly!" Louella played the card and the butterfly from her previous duel appeared on the field (4/1500/1500). "Next I activate Supervise allowing me to activate Blazewing's Gemini Mode!" Louella played the card and Blazewing glowing for a few seconds before disappearing. "I use its effect to summon one of the monsters I discarded for Heaven's Lost Property last turn, Tuned Magician, with its Gemini Mode active!"
"Why do I get the feeling that I know what's coming next?" Vernon asked as Tuned Magician appeared on the field (4/1800/1600).
"Hey my moves may be predictable but at least their fun to watch! Anyway since Blazewing Butterfly was just sent to the graveyard with Supervise equipped to it I can bring it back as a normal monster." Louella responded as the butterfly returned to the field. "More on that in a second, I'm tuning Tuned Magician with Dark Valkyria to summon my ace!"
"Black Brutdrago." Vernon commented with a frown as the two monsters went through the Synchro Summon and the massive black dragon appeared on the field (8/3000/2800). "Your monster doesn't scare me!"
"He's about to give you a reason to be scared! I active Brutdrago's effect! By sending a Gemini Monster from my hand to the graveyard I can target your Cyber Tech Alligator!" Louella announced as she sent the monster to the graveyard and Cyber Tech Alligator started glowing. "Now Brutdrago, turn that alligator into alligator shoes!"
"I think you mean Crocodile shoes." Vernon corrected her as Brutdrago breathed fire at the alligator destroying him and bringing Vernon's life-points down to 5500.
"If I were you I'd be more worried about your life-points, since I just sent a monster targeted by Brutdrago's effect to the graveyard I can use his effect to bring back Tuned Magician, complete with his Gemini Mode active!" Louella added as Tuned Magician returned to the field. "Tuned Magician, Blazewing, attack his life-points directly!" Louella commanded and the two monsters launched their attacks at Vernon bringing his life-points down to 2200.
"Not a problem, I'm still in this!" Vernon said confidently but his confidence quickly vanished when Louella's facedown card flipped up. "URGENT TUNING?!"
"That's right! And I have more than one copy of Brutdrago!" Louella responded as the two monsters went through the Synchro Summon causing another Brutdrago to appear on the field. "Any last words before I finish you off Vernon?"
"Can my luck get any worse at this point?" Vernon complained as the dragon breathed fire at him bringing his life-points down to zero. "Charity, they have more than enough firepower to finish you off, I think you know where I'm going here."
"Your right." Charity sighed to herself before surrendering. "I knew I should've stuck to my old deck."
"Here are your winners, Louella Schneider and Latoya Conley!" Martin announced and the crowd cheered. "That marks the end of the second round and tomorrow the third round will start, however it will also end on the same day." Martin added causing looks of confusion between the qualified students. "Each team that has qualified for the third round must nominate a representative, that duellist will compete with the others in a battle royal style duel that will determine the fourth round's matches!"
"He can't be serious!" Chelsea exclaimed as her eyes widened. "Chloe, that means that either of us will have to face either Cameron, Jessica or Thomas at the same time."
"And something tells me that Thomas won't let Rajin get a say in the matter." Chloe responded with a frown.
"Here's how it'll work, the first representative eliminated will face the second as will the next two teams, the third to last representative eliminated will go straight to the fifth round, the second to last team eliminated will go to the next round whilst the last two teams will compete in a match to determine who will go through to the finals." Martin explained and the crowd cheered. "I expect each team to confirm their nominations with me by the end of the day otherwise your choice will be made for you."
"Okay, we'd better talk strategy." Brandon said as he turned to the others. "Chloe, you've faced Cameron and Thomas before so I think you should represent your team."
"Err, Brandon, you realize that that will just cause them to team up on her right?" Chelsea responded with a wince and Brandon nodded.
"Don't worry, I have it covered." Brandon responded with a nod. "Theresa, you protected Chloe during the Battle Royal in the Battle City Semi-Finals, think you can do it again?"
"I know I can." Theresa responded with a confident nod. "What about you Lance?"
"Are you kidding? She's my girlfriend now, I'll have her back." Lance responded with a grin and a thumbs up. "I'll have to chat with Evan about it but he likes Chloe and hates Cameron and Jessica, he shouldn't have a problem with it."
"That just leaves the Troy's." Andreas commented as he folded his arms. "Theresa, do you think you can talk with them at some point today?"
"Provided that they haven't made their minds up already I shouldn't have a problem." Theresa responded with a nod. "That just leaves two teams, the team that just qualified and Amelia's team, unfortunately I don't know either team that well."
"Hold on, we haven't even asked if Chloe wants to represent the team yet." Chelsea protested and Chloe put her hand up.
"Chelsea, I made my mind up, I'm representing the team in the next round." Chloe responded and Chelsea nodded reluctantly. "You may not like it but if I can get us through to the finals we won't have a problem."
"You realize that that's easier said than done, right?" Chelsea responded and Chloe nodded. "Okay, I may not like this but I don't have any better ideas so I guess we're set."
"Right, I'll try to find Evan and chat with him, afterwards I'll meet you guys at Martin's office." Lance responded as he and the other students stood up and left the arena.