Me: Finally, I'm updating. After I updated, life got busy. Got a call from my old job wanting me back and my hours have not been kind to me. Late morning to evening (11-8 usually). So I'm pretty exhausted by that time and really just want to relax. Anyway, the poll is finally over. The winner is Alexis Rhodes. It was tied between Akiza and her. Glad to see that it got broken. I also got a pretty funny review from Weeb that's a Sheep. I've already PM'd the guy but seems like he'll target anything that doesn't suit his fancy as he is seen on other stories reviewing. Several things that he has called out are OC's, Spirits, and my character.

First off, the Mary Sue part. It is INCREDIBLY easy to make one while very difficult to avoid one. You will more than likely fill one of the conditions for being a Mary Sue. I'm not even bothering avoiding it as I know that people will find a way to call the character out.

Second, It was complained about the amount of Spirits the character has. I have Zorc, Ruin, Demise, and Lunar Dragon. That's a measly 4 compared to the 7 Crystal Beasts and the ENTIRE Neo Space archetype. While yes, the character will have more, it will never top 8. I've also read stories with people having Jaden's entire E-HERO deck being spirits, but the reviewer never tackled him.

Thirdly, the OC's were not fleshed out as they have minor roles. If they had major roles, I would have fleshed them out. I will also add I am not harking you guys. It's a chance for you guys to have your own OC be part of the story and see where they go from your imagination into my story. I added those 3 characters (the foster family) to flesh out my character. While it may be unoriginal, cliché, and lackluster, it works.

Fourth, the character was called out on making every female blush. Take it as you will. I was aiming for the Summer time and that she was sitting outside for applicants. So she was overheating and her face was flushed. That may have gotten misunderstood due to my writing or whatnot.

Fifth, the interaction with Kaiba. Honestly I felt like Kaiba could have a bigger impact than he did. We had at best 3 cameos. One being with the Princeton Brothers, his name not disappearing in Season 4, and his deck being used by Kaibaman. So Kaiba will be in this story. Sorry this makes the character a Mary Sue? Ever read the other GX stories with that OC interacting with them? No? Then please keep that comment to yourself. There are tons of other stories that have the same kind of Mary Sueness and they are all much better than mine. That could be the reason. You saw a new story and went for it.

I know my stories flaws already, I knew them when writing them and will simply roll with them. This is not an attack at all on Weeb, I'm simply making my point and explaining thoroughly how his review is funny to me, as well as defending my story a little here. He might not though and you guys might agree with it. That's fine. All I ask is that you guys at least enjoy the story and if you don't, feel free to review on ways it could be improved.

Anyway, with that rant over, let's get on with Chapter 2.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Yugioh Franchise. All rights belong to Kazuki Takahashi and Konami.

Chapter 2: The Boat Ride

Yoshiro was in his room packing up his bags for his first year at DA. He got a letter in the mail saying that he passed with one of the highest scores in the Practical Test. He sister was not so lucky. While her scores on the written portion were great, her practical was something else. The proctors were not simply looking at the power of the examinee's deck, but also how well the deck was balanced. That's where Karen failed. Her deck focused more on powerful monsters. Her hand was usually cluttered with monsters she couldn't summon. She would usually hold her opponent back with traps. While it isn't a bad strategy, it's not a good one either. A number of cards take down her strategy and as it would just so happen, her proctor used Jinzo. Yoshiro closed his bag and looked around his room. Yoshiro heard a knock on his door.

"Come in." Yoshiro said. Karen walked through the door. She was still in her pajamas. She was incredibly upset with her results. There was always next year for her though. Hopefully he would see her then.

"So you're done packing up." Karen said looking at his bags.

"Just finished. I'm getting ready to head out right now." Yoshiro said picking up his bags.

"It's going to get pretty dull around here. Who will be here to tease?" Karen said smiling.

"You're definition of teasing is horribly distorted." Yoshiro looked at her. He was smiling as well. Yoshiro grabbed his suitcase and walked down the hallway with Karen. It was a silent walk down the hall. As they got to the bottom of the stairs he saw his Dad waiting for him. His Dad was taking him to the harbor. His Dad walked out the door leading to the car and Yoshiro began following him. Karen was close behind.

Yoshiro saw his Mom in the car as well.

"You're not coming?" Yoshiro turned around and looked at his sister.

"I need to revamp my deck. Hopefully I can come in the next semester." Karen told Yoshiro. Yoshiro nodded his head and put his suitcase in the trunk of the car. He closed the car door and they pulled out. Karen waved good-bye. Yoshiro nodded and they were off to the harbor.

Location: Harbor

They arrived at the Harbor. Yoshiro had to show his letter of acceptance to get in. His parents had to stay at the gate. They would not see their son for another 6 months, but they were happy. According to Yoshiro's PDA, he was assigned in the Slifer Red Dorm, which was the lowest of the dorms. When he had heard it was, he chuckled. Despite being the King of Game's Signature God, Kaiba most likely had a personal hatred of it. He soon was standing outside his designated ship.

"Well, I can already tell how much Slifers are treated." Yoshiro said looked at a fishing boat. Ra Yellow had a Cruiser, while Obelisk Blue had a Yacht. Yoshiro sat down next to the boat and was waiting for departure time, sighing. It wasn't before long that technical difficulties had arised. The Slifer's boat had engine problems. Yoshiro had heard that they were going to be split up on each boats. The other Slifers were happy, however, the Ras and Obelisks were greatly annoyed.

'Great, Slifers are looked down upon. I guess I can understand why the Ra Yellows are targeting the Slifers.' Yoshiro thought as he watched an Obelisk Blue berate and talk down to a Ra Yellow. Yoshiro was handled a slip. He grimaced at it. He was heading onto the Obelisk Blue Yacht. He took his suitcase and boarded the ship showing one of the DA employees his slip. It wasn't before long that they were off to DA. According to the time of arrival, they would arrive tomorrow morning so he had to find his room.

Yoshiro had found his room, but was greatly surprised. It seemed he was sharing it with a girl. He asked the teachers if this was a mistake, but according to them it wasn't. They had run out of room to place people. He sighed at his predicament. He knocked on the door. He waited a couple of seconds before knocking again. He heard movement inside. The door opened and Yoshiro saw his roommate for the trip.

"Can I help you?" The girl asked with an agitated voice. Here was another boy who was, no doubt, going to ask her out and try to get in her pants.

"I'm your roommate for the trip, and before you call me a liar, I asked the DA Staff. They ran out of room and yours was the only one left with enough room." Yoshiro said.

"…Fine." She sighed. She opened the door all the way to allow Yoshiro in. Yoshiro began to walk in before an arm blocked his path. "Don't get any funny ideas." The girl said with clear distaste in her voice.

"I didn't have any." Yoshiro said, patiently waiting for her arm to go down. It eventually did. As he walked in, he was directed towards a corner in the room. Yoshiro looked at the girl.

"This is your bed space. I don't want you anywhere near me." She walked off.

"It's nothing new to me." Yoshiro opened his suitcase and began laying down some blankets. This got the girl's attention. This boy was doing everything she told him, he didn't even bother to fight back.

"Why are you so agreeing?" She asked while looking back at him. Yoshiro had finished laying down his makeshift bed.

"Because getting into an argument would be pointless. If you want me to sleep in the corner, I will. I don't have a problem with it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get food." As Yoshiro began to walk out, the girl stopped him.

"Now I feel awful, here I thought you some guy with raging hormones and were just trying to get into my pants. My name is Alexis Rhodes." The girl now known as Alexis, reached her hand out for a shake. Yoshiro turned around.

"Yoshiro Yaragi." Yoshiro said, shaking her hand. Yoshiro turned back around and walked out, heading for the onboard cafeteria. Yoshiro had reached the cafeteria and looked at the food on the table. He gathered his food and was about to head over to a table, when he was stopped.

"Looks like some slime got lost." Yoshiro turned around and sighed. In front of him was Chazz and his goons. Chazz got up in his face and slammed his food into his chest, causing a giant mess all on him. At this point, Alexis walked in. "Slifers like you need to know their place. Move, scrub." Chazz shoved passed Yoshiro and started getting his food.

"…" Yoshiro was silent. He started brushing himself off. As he starting to finish he felt a wet sensation on his back. He looked behind him and saw that one of the goons had slapped pudding all over his back. All of the Obelisks either started laughing or chuckled. Yoshiro turned around. "Is there some sort of problem with me cleaning myself up?" Yoshiro asked. Alexis started to approach them, gaining the attention of Chazz.

"No one told you COULD clean up." The goon said with a sneer on his face. Yoshiro turned around and began to walk toward the exit. "It would be wise to grab your Duel Disk, I'll be back with mine." Yoshiro said before exiting the Cafeteria. Yoshiro was walking back to his room when he had heard whispering from some of the Obelisks.

"A mere Slifer challenging an Elite?" One of the Obelisks said. Yoshiro continued to walk past them and before long he reached his room. He walked in and noticed his stuff had been moved to one of the beds. He grabbed his new uniform and walked into the bathroom. After a shower, he changed into his uniform. He had a red blazer that he left open. Behind the blazer was a shirt with a picture of the moon and many stars on it. His pants were a beige color with red boots. He walked out of his room and headed back to the cafeteria.

Alexis was sitting down with her friends Jasmine and Mindy. No one deserved to be humiliated like that. She heard clamoring and saw Yoshiro on his new uniform. He was standing directly in front of the goon,

"What's your name?" Yoshiro asked.

"Raizou Mototani, and I can't believe you're going against an elite." Raizou started laughing, as well as the other Obelisks. Alexis glared at Raizou.

"I'm going to change that worthless perception. There are no elites among us in this room." Yoshiro said activating his Duel Disk. Raizou scoffed at his response and activated his as well.

"DUEL!"

Yoshiro – 4,000 LP

Raizou – 4,000 LP

"I'll go first! Draw!" Raizou said, drawing his sixth card. He got a smirk on his face. "I activate the spell, The Dark Door!" As soon as Raizou played his card, an outline of a door appeared in front of Raizou and Yoshiro.

The Dark Door: Spell/Continuous - Only 1 monster can attack during each Battle Phase.

"I now play the spell, Stumbling!" Raizou played his card.

Stumbling: Spell/Continuous - Any monster that is Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned or Special Summoned is changed to Defense Position.

"I play Wave-Motion Cannon!" Raizou played another card. A steampunk cannon appeared.

Wave-Motion Cannon: Spell/Continuous - During your Main Phase, you can send this card to the Graveyard to inflict 1000 points of damage to your opponent for each of your Standby Phases that have passed since this card was activated.

"I set one Monster face-down and end my turn." Raizou said setting his monster. "Let's see what you can do, Slifer Slime!"

"Draw!" Yoshiro yelled. "I play the spell, Frontline Base!" Yoshiro played his spell and the ground started to rumble. A giant wall broke through and slowly rose.

Frontline Base: Spell/Continuous - Once per turn: You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Union monster from your hand.

"I summon X-Head Cannon!" Yoshiro placed his monster on the field. A blue mech appeared. It has a sphere for its bottom half with spike around its circumference. It had twin gun barrels on its shoulders.

X-Head Cannon: Level 4/Light/Machine – 1800 ATK/1500 DEF

"I activated the effect of Frontline Base and Special Summon Y-Dragon Head!" The Frontline Base started to rumble and before long a red dragon mech appeared giving off a screech.

Y-Dragon Head: Level 4/Light/Machine/Effect – 1500 ATK/1600 DEF - Once per turn, you can either: Target 1 "X-Head Cannon" you control; equip this card to that target, OR: Unequip this card and Special Summon it. A monster equipped with this card gains 400 ATK and DEF, also if the equipped monster would be destroyed by battle or card effect, destroy this card instead.

"So what, they can't attack at all!" Raizou exclaimed as Stumbling went into effect. Both of Yoshiro's machines went into defense mode.

"Who said I was done?" Yoshiro said before picking another card from his hand. "I play the spell Double Summon!"

Double Summon: Spell - You can conduct 2 Normal Summons/Sets this turn, not just 1.

"I summon Z-Metal Tank!" Yoshiro placed his monster on the field. A yellow tank appeared and began rolling up to its allies. But just like them, Stumbling activated and it was forced into Defense mode.

Z-Metal Tank: Level 4/Light/Machine/Effect – 1500 ATK/1300 DEF - Once per turn, you can either: Target 1 "X-Head Cannon" or "Y-Dragon Head" you control; equip this card to that target, OR: Unequip this card and Special Summon it. A monster equipped with this card gains 600 ATK and DEF, also if the equipped monster would be destroyed by battle or card effect, destroy this card instead.

Alexis had her eyes widened, Yoshiro had managed to assemble all the pieces for an incredible card. She looked at Raizou, he looked unimpressed. Raizou knew about the card he was about to pull. He wasn't worried though. When it would be summoned, Stumbling would activate shoving it into Defense mode.

"I play the spell, Pot of Greed!" Yoshiro said while a pot with a grin appeared.

Pot of Greed: Spell – Draw 2 cards

Yoshiro drew two cards. He looked at his card and smiled.

"I play the spell, Heavy Storm!" As soon as Yoshiro played his card, a giant storm blew through the entire cafeteria. Raizou watched as his plan crumbled into pieces. The Wave-Motion Cannon was picked up and broke into many pieces, with the debris hitting The Dark Doors shattering them. Frontline Base slowly came out of the ground and was tossed onto the ground, breaking the effects of Stumbling.

Heavy Storm: Spell – Destroy all Spell and Trap Cards on the field

"Now, I fuse X-Head Cannon, Y-Dragon Head, and Z-Metal Tank to Fusion Summon XYZ-Dragon Cannon!" Yoshiro said while his monsters shot off into the sky. !" Yoshiro said while his monsters shot off into the sky. Y-Dragon Head's wings came off before it landed into Z-Metal Tank, electricity sparking as they began to dock. X-Head Cannon soon followed and landed into Y-Dragon Head with the same electricity sparking. The sphere from X-Head Cannon began to spin and a clunk was heard.

XYZ-Dragon Cannon: Level 8/Light/Machine/Fusion/Effect – 2800 ATK/2600 DEF – "X-Head Cannon" + "Y-Dragon Head" + "Z-Metal Tank" Must first be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing the above cards you control. (You do not use "Polymerization".) Cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard. You can discard 1 card, then target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy that target.

The machine monster gave a bone chilling screech, courtesy of Y-Dragon Head. Raizou had lost all of his fighting spirit. Yoshiro wasn't done though. He still had a card in his hand, and Raizou knew what that meant as well.

"I activate XYZ-Dragon Cannon's effect!" Yoshiro said as he send his lone card to the grave. XYZ-Dragon Cannon began to charge up. Orbs of blue energy started crackling on the twin gun barrels on X-Head Cannon, while an orb of red energy started to do the same in Y-Dragon Head's maw. Z-Metal Tank was doing the same with the cannons hidden within its carriers, except these were yellow orbs.

"Hyper Destruction!" Yoshiro pointed to the face down monster on Raizou's field. The energy launched eventually merging into a giant beam of energy with streaks of Red, Blue, and Yellow. The face down monster was flipped on impact revealing Stealth Bird. It disintegrated at a face pace before an explosion consumed Raizou's field.

"I attack you directly with XYZ-Dragon Cannon!" XYZ-Dragon Cannon began charging energy once more. "Cannon Firestorm!" Energy was once more shot at Raizou but this time it was aimed directly at him. Raizou took the blast but got to one knee from the huge impact.

Yoshiro – 4000 LP

Raizou – 4000 LP - 1200 LP

"I end my turn!" Yoshiro said. Raizou made no move to draw his card. There was no point in doing so. He had already lost the duel. Anything he did would get destroyed by XYZ-Dragon Cannon . The Obelisks that were watching started to criticize Raizou. Alexis was getting fed up with the Obelisks attitude.

"Keep Dueling." Yoshiro said. "You might pull a card that could get you out of this situation, but you will only know that if you draw your card. It's better to try then simply give up." Yoshiro continued.

Alexis looked at Yoshiro. Here she thought that he was coming back for revenge. But he wasn't. Not anymore.

Raizou got on to his feet. "Draw!" Raizou drew his card. "I play Pot of Greed!" Raizou played his card and drew two cards. "I set a monster face down." Raizou said before playing his monster. "I also play a card face down and end my turn!" Raizou said before putting his card face down.

Alexis was smiling now. A Slifer Red helping an Obelisk Blue who had his spirit crushed.

"I Draw!" Yoshiro drew his card. "I play the spell Dimension Fusion!" A portal had opened as soon as Yoshiro played the card. X-Head Cannon, Y-Dragon Head, and Z-Metal Tank appeared from the portal.

Dimension Fusion: Spell - Pay 2000 Life Points. Both players Special Summon as many of their removed from play monsters as possible.

"I attack with XYZ-Dragon Cannon!" XYZ-Dragon Cannon charged its energy again and launched it. The monster flipped up to reveal Stone Statue of the Aztecs but it crumble under the intense firepower of the attack. "Finish this duel, X-Head Cannon!" Yoshiro told his monster. X-Head Cannon launched its attack at Raizou which ended the duel.

Yoshiro – 4000 LP

Raizou 1200 LP - 0 LP

The holograms disappeared and Raizou fell to his knees. His fellow Obelisks began to talk down to him and berate him.

"ENOUGH!" Yoshiro yelled at the Obelisks. "At least he put up a fight, could you have done any better than he did in his situation. Just because he lost to someone from Slifer Red doesn't make him a bad duelist. In fact, his strategy to stop me from attacking so that Wave-Motion Cannon could get charged up was brilliant. Add the fact that he had Stealth Bird to nail me for 1,000 damage each of his turns is a great idea as he doesn't have to charge up as long." The Obelisks slowly began to walk away. Yoshiro approached Raizou and reached for his hand. Raizou took his hand and slowly got up.

"Thanks. Sorry for the pudding thing." Raizou said scratching his head. With that he walked off.

"Well, aren't you a nice guy, helping someone who humiliated you." Alexis said approaching him.

"I helped him as he needed it. Unfortunately, he will probably be looked down upon for a quite a while due to this loss." Yoshiro said looking at Raizou's retreating back. Alexis was smiling at his actions. Most Slifers have a disdain for Obelisks, but to her it seems Yoshiro looks passed that a realizes that they too, are just human. "Now then, I'm hungry!" Yoshiro exclaimed while making his way back to the buffet. Alexis looked at him with an amused expression.

"This year is going to be an interesting year." She said to herself while making her way back to her table.

Me: There you have it. R&R and hope you guys enjoy the eclipse today. As I already said above, the defense was not aimed at Weeb. It was defending my story.