Now the start of a new year, there was not much that had happened over the holidays. For Rosa, it was just the same; spending them by herself in the apartment that her aunty had left for her. Alone and also scared that someone would come and break in, but no one had done so.
Soon enough it would be time to return to Duel Academy and start the third and final year of school. The first day was quite normal, not much had happened but the second day came and everyone came to gather in the auditorium to see Chancellor Sheppard and talking to everyone about having new students within the school.
"First from East Academy we have Adrian Gecko." When he had stepped forward Rosa frowned and stared at him, he was weird looking and looked like a rich spoiled brat- perhaps more than Chazz in fact. He was overly muscular and tall; definitely Rosa wouldn't want to approach him or even want to be his friend.
"Next from West Academy we have Axel Brodie." The guy was dark-skinned, he looked like a solider, a military solider even, especially from the build and the fierce look that he gave out. He was probably scary so she didn't want to approach him either.
"From South Academy we have Jim 'Crocodile' Cook." The guy was wearing what appeared to be clothes from the outback, but as Rosa recalled—South Academy was from the country of where her mother lived. She was rather happy, finally…another Aussie for her to talk to! But it didn't seem all natural with the croc that he had on his back; she definitely wanted to talk to him.
"Finally from North Academy, we have Jesse Anderson!" But it didn't seem like he was showing up, where was he anyway? A man had entered the auditorium. Jaden, standing up had stared at him.
"So this must be the pep rally you were talking about?" he said; his accent was kinda cute in a way. Rosa couldn't help but laugh to herself.
"Say, you haven't seen someone called Jesse?" Jaden asked him, more of a smile kept on the blue haired male's face and replied.
"Yup, sure do."
So where was he anyway? Smiling he had raised his hand to be placed on the back of his head and rubbed it slightly.
"Ya'll lookin' at him, I'm Jesse." He replied, Jaden's eyes widened; seems that he was excited he forgot to introduced himself. The Chancellor had coughed slightly and then repeated his introduction, the students all clapping as they all stood.
"Oh yes, last but not least, I'd like you to meet our visiting Professor from West Academy, say hello to Professor Thelonious Viper." He was big, muscularly and scary looking, coming from the same school as that Axel guy; they were probably trained militants or something. That was definitely it.
His methods were pretty strict, and he had seemed to go over this once again.
"Why don't we kick off the year by holding an exhibition match, right now." He had paused there, he it seemed like he knew who to pick for the match.
"Jesse Anderson and his opponent will be Duel Academy's top student…"
Seemed Chazz stood up, "I accept." He said with such pride; but Rosa couldn't laugh at how big his ego inflated- but he wasn't the best and that hadn't got to him. Poor Chazz.
"…Jaden Yuki." Viper continued; Chazz falling back that it wasn't him but his rival.
"Sweetness!" He happily said, standing up- seemed he was looking forward to it. Both at the stage to receive something, which either of the two didn't seem to know what it was.
"The match will start in one hour and don't be late." Viper said right after. All quite excited she actually couldn't wait to see the match; she had bet it would be one of a kind- especially with how Jesse had a special deck it seems.
Rosa actually did want to alert Aster, but she didn't seem to have a phone—not that she even thought she would need it at all. But even if she did; she didn't have his number, since she didn't even seem to ask. It was a pity; but there wasn't really anything she could do about it. Having herself seated with the others an hour later, Jaden and Jesse standing on the duel field and the duel went and began.
Jesse had started first, and all went to watch closely at how his first move would be made.
"I play! This little guy! Crystal Beast Emerald Turtle!" His monster was placed in defense mode, a good way to start the duel! After he placed a face down and ended his turn next was Jaden's.
"I play, Neo Spacian Aqua Dolphin!" His monster sure did look rather strange, especially for it to be standing on two feet; but hey—they were his monsters. The duel had gone on and progressed more; by the look of it all it was pretty interesting. When his monsters were destroyed, they didn't go to the graveyard but seems like they stayed on the field in their crystal form but for what?
The duel continued more, with Jesse revealing more of his crystal beast decks and even what else they were able to do which did seem rather interesting to see all the more.
"The sarge needs backup." Hassleberry commented, Rosa who was sitting behind him and Chazz did agree. He needed to do something to save himself, until hearing a familiar voice.
"You don't know the half of it." Heads turned to stare at who it was. "Jaden's way in over his head this time." The voice continued.
"Aster?" Hassleberry stared at the pro that had his hands in his pockets.
"Why are you here?" Chazz asked afterwards, his eyes staring at the duel and Rosa had tried to not get quite distracted from him being there. He was supposed to be in the pro leagues, right?
"Gee thanks," he had smirked then stared down at the two. "I'm a student here, remember?"
"Student? I thought you were back in the pro circuit." Added Chazz, she did agree but perhaps he came here for something else?
"I was, until I heard those crystal beasts were here." So it seemed even he was interested in them, "they're legendary dude!"
"Hold up Phoenix, you're giving up the pros just to get your hands on some cards?"
He had explained to them about it, how Jesse was the one chosen by the Crystal Beast cards which was quite fascinating.
After some time, it seemed there was something special catching on.
"Now; all 7 beasts are on the field. Which means there's only one thing left to do, I play Rainbow Dragon!"
Jesse's hand raised in the air, his crystal beasts reacting and being raised above; making it seem like it had created the effect of a rainbow however—
"Meet the most feared creature in history!" He paused for a moment then laughed, "just kiddin'."
The attack from Jaden's monster had hit one of his thus ending the duel.
"Wait, where's Rainbow Dragon?" Asked Jaden, he was curious since it wasn't played on the field and it seemed like the other students were pretty curious as well why it wasn't summoned.
Scratching the back of his head he went to give his reason, "well that's the funny thing; I haven't got that card in my deck yet, Jay." He just laughed it off afterwards; but everyone of course didn't seem particularly happy about it.
But for Rosa, she did wonder why he hadn't gotten the card—it should've been with the other crystal beasts, or perhaps there was something else to it. That had to be it.
The crowd were raising their fists and yelling things at him like "seriously!?" and "you gotta be kidding!?" they had all the right to be angry at him.
"This is totally lame!", "no rainbow dragon?" and some others were plain boo-ing him as well.
"Sorry everyone, but I know it's out there somewhere!" What did he mean, and Jesse went to explain that it was within an Ancient Stone Tablet which hadn't yet been found and doesn't seem no one knows where it is.
After the two shook hands, Viper had spoken and said that he would hold up mandatory duels, that was kinda silly and she didn't want to do that and worse he had to keep an eye on them. Boy, wouldn't tomorrow be quite…productive.
