Chapter 2: Day One
Nikolai opened his eyes slowly as the digital alarm clock went off loudly next to his head. He leaned over and turned off the siren like sound and then rolled onto his back so he was looking at the ceiling. He yawned and looked out of the window near his bed to see the Eiffel Tower in the distance and the overcast sky of Paris. He was in his hotel room which he had been to since the examination; it was large and comfy with a bedroom/living area together and a very modern bathroom as well as a small kitchen where basic food was stored. He had wandered about the city with Carissa after dropping his things off, sightseeing and then proceeded to get back where he slept at 7. It was now 25 minutes to 10 in the morning. He groaned and got out of the bed. He was in his trousers from the day before and that was it so his chest was exposed. Not extremely muscular but not wimpy weak. Just average. He then proceeded to get ready, getting washed and dressed. Flicking through the TV channels, which were all in French, bored him so he decided to go for a walk. He left his room and headed down to sparsely decorated hallway on his way to Carissa's room. He needed someone to talk to. There was nothing to do. Sure everyone had a Psp V2 or something but he was not very wealthy. When he arrived he knocked on the door and heard someone groan on the inside.
"Hmm?" Came a groan from inside.
"It's Nikolai."
"Hang on." He heard movement and then the door opened.
Carissa was in some jeans and a grey shirt with a bowel of cornflakes in her arms with a spoon. She unlike him had brought extra clothes.
"Morning." She smiled as she prepared to take a spoonful. "Nice sleep?"
"Ok." He nodded. "Just anxious for my results."
He rubbed his hands together. All this waiting was playing on his nerves. His results would be given to him at around midday apparently and that was too long for him.
"You're fine." She spoke through munching. "They'd be mad not to let you in. Come in."
She moved out of the way as he walked inside to a similar room of his own as she shut the door and sat down on the bed.
"I forgot." She suddenly spoke out. "Where'd you get those cards? I've never heard of them before. Eon."
"Long story." He chuckled. "So…what now."
Carissa shrugged her shoulders. "The waiting game I think they call it."
Nikolai nodded. "Can I have some breakfast please?"
In his room Kai wet through his deck and changed his cards from his extra pile. He was just reading his deck as he wanted to make a BIG impression when he got to Duel Academy KC. He had been up 2 hours now and he was just relaxing. He had his blazer he had his membership. There was nothing to worry about. He nodded as he flicked through his final deck. It seemed up to scratch. He opened up his deck holder on his belt and replaced it, clearing away his other cards into his tin. He stood up and stretched. The day was beginning and his empire would be built today. He took out a wallet from his inner pocket and flipped it open showing a family picture from around 7 years ago. It showed them in a garden under a tree. His dad had a goofy smile and was tussling his hair while he smiled with thumbs up in a casual way. His mother was next to him sitting down on a bench. Her blonde hair almost shimmering in the sun, next to her in a wheelchair with a was a small girl, she had the same sort of hair as her dad with grey eyes and a calm face bearing a small smile which was hidden underneath an oxygen mask attached to a barrel on the back of the wheelchair. Kai sighed. His sister had not been well back then but luckily she had recovered from the disease around 3 years ago. He flipped it shut and let out a breath.
Two Hours Later
Nikolai sat in his room. In a few minutes he would be getting his results. He had been staring at the door for a while now. For the moment it was all that mattered. He had got back 5 minutes ago due to the forms being delivered to their rooms and he wanted his as soon as possible. For 10 more minutes he sat there until an envelope was slid under the door. Nikolai felt his heart quicken as he picked it up and ripped it open. The letter inside fell to the floor as he shook it out. The KC logo visible on the corner with the stamped writing that had no personal touch whatsoever. He scanned through the pleasantries to the part that meant everything.
He saw he read he cheered.
He had been accepted with an 85 score on his theory and a high recommendation on his duel test. He headed over to the table beside the bed and turned on his mobile phone and texted his mum.
I Passed! See you soon!
Nikolai
He then bathed in the sense of self relish at his achievement. He was going to the premier Duel Academy in the world in an all paid for package, courtesy of the International Youth Duelling Fund that had scouted him. He opened the window and breathed in. The world seemed a better place already.
An hour later the passers were packed in a plane at the airport again and were ready to take off to the Pacific. Hours upon hours passed as Nikolai just stared out of the window. They were heading to a small island first to get to a helicopter which they were taking to the academy due to their not being a plane landing strip there. It was only a mile across with a small outpost where a KC building was situated for air travel to the island. It was uneventful except that Nikolai did not see Carissa at all. He felt sad. Maybe she hadn't passed. Forgetting that however he just sat and looked out of the helicopter window as they left the small island that was a jumping station. The sea was bright sapphire blue that almost blinded him from the sun light reflected and then he saw t. In the distance the island. The iconic structure of the main building, the deep green forests and the hulking brown volcano with smoke steadily billowing out. The pilots' voice then crackled over.
"This is your pilot speaking. It is another beautiful day on Academy Island, we are beginning our descent, please strap yourself in and enjoy your stay." The pilot stopped speaking ad the helicopter began to descend to the helicopter site that rose from the ground up like a corkscrew. As it landed down the helicopter pad began to head down into a steel building with them on it. They were inside some sort of hanger as there were other copters there and some jeeps with men in white uniforms running about. Finally they stopped and everyone got their stuff together and began to exit the plane. When they got out they were greeted by a man in a purple obelisk blue uniform.
"Greetings everyone." He spoke in a deep American accent. "I'm Mr Hawk and welcome to Kaiba Corp Duel Academia. We will now issue uniforms. If you will follow me we will get you suited up and then we'll go from there. Obelisks follow Mr Scott over there to the main auditorium. Now everyone Follow me."
Nikolai saw the already suited Obelisks heading off with another man to where they would ultimately head. He walked with Hawk and looked at the crowd. Carissa was still missing. Now he just sighed. She had obviously failed. He felt annoyed as she was his only friend really here that he knew of. They headed across the hanger and to a small door which everyone passed through into large office with two desks manned by some women in smart suits and two doors behind them in the corner with male and female signs on them.
"Ok everyone stand behind the line." He indicated a white line on the floor. "And when your name is called you head to your desk, pick up your essentials and get changed in the back rooms. Then you wait for me." He nodded at the two women and they looked down at their papers."
"Stevens, Roger." Called the first women and then it began.
Nikolai waited a while watching as the three women handed uniforms to disappointed and happy students. One desk handed Osiris red out and the other Ra Yellow. Blue was already in the school so there wasn't any point in that, you could only be blue in year one if you were connected or went to prep school first. Eventually Nikolai was called up to the Ra yellow desk. He felt pleased; this was the highest rank he could achieve here at this time. The women grabbed a plastic see-through package where the uniform, sheen and clean yellow, was seen.Ontop of the parcel was a small PDA with the Duel academy symbol on.
"Welcome to Duel Academy." Smiled the women as he left t get changed.
When he the boys room everyone was either getting changed or socialising. He took a set and got changed into his uniform. The grey trousers felt slightly tight around the legs but that wasn't a problem. He did not put on the yellow boots but instead opted for his black, worn trainers. Yellow shoes were too far for him. As he sat there he rolled up the sleeves past his elbow revealing his black shirt and keeping the front open, it felt better now, he had an identity. He then placed his clothes messily into the plastic bag and back into his baggage. He then decided to take a look at the PDA. He opened it up and then after a minute of configuring it to him he began to look around on it. He researched school events that would happen later that year and the school duel tables for who was the best. At the moment, seeded form last year, it was a third year called Hiro Tanaka from Japan and found himself and everyone else with him ranked at the bottom according to dorm and then alphabetical order, this grudgingly put Kai above him. After a while Hawk returned.
"Ok people back out." He led the way with the girls who were already waiting outside to a small bus. They all got in them and it drove them away from the big steel building ad into the jungle. It was brimming with sound and colour Nikolai had only seen on television. Russia was very grey in comparison. After leaving the jungle they came to the front of the main building, majestically towering over them with its 4 domes and spires. It was deserted from other pupils because, as his PDA told him, due to it being Day One everyone got a day off as things were compiled together meaning them.
"Ok people bags stay on bus. We'll deliver them later today." Declared hawk as people got ready to get out.
Nikoali dumped his bag down and reluctantly parted with it.
They entered the lobby and looked around at the wide open area. Ahead he saw the Obelisks standing around, laughing and talking, he saw Kai chatting to Jack animatedly and wondered what he was talking about. Hawk led the group away down a few corridors with windows for walls, giving a beautiful view of the islands beaches and jungles. Eventually they got to a door and Hawk opened it up revealing a large auditorium. It could seat a couple hundred people and already was seating some. Applicants from the other testing areas all over the globe were already seated randomly around the area Nikolai headed down to the front and took one of the few remaining seats next to the left wall, by an Osiris Red with more piercing on his face than skin. As everyone sat down and began to talk making the noise level rise a man walked out onto the main stage in front of the television displaying the DA symbol. He was black and in his early 50's with some light wrinkles and short black hair with glasses in front of dark eyes. He was in the maroon coloured blazer of the Chancellor of the school. When he spoke in what is a South African accent that was very deep.
"Welcome." He said as he took his place in front of the podium where he began to speak. "My name is Principal Simon Gaudin.You have accepted into the premier duelling school which is itself an achievement but there is along way to go yet. You will need knowledge, skill, luck and strategy to succeed in the duelling world. Here we will give you the facilities but you must go that one step further to become a true duellist."
He continued for another ten minutes talking about merit and other virtues needed and how he expected everything from them or they should leave now. Then he got onto the tables and Nikolai got interested.
"In this school there is a system of choosing our best duellist. The league system. By winning a duel anywhere against a faculty staff, student or approved visitor you will get 3 points. Drawing gets one and losing gets nothing. The Kaiser of the school is chosen doing this and leaving school with this title is most advantageous pupils."
He scanned the crowd.
"I will now introduce the dorm heads." He cleared his throat and placed and arm up to his left.
"I will begin with our male dorm leaders. Please applaud Professor Zahid Guner from Turkey."
A 30 years old man in a red version of the obelisk uniform came out to applause. He was around 6ft tall, thin and had an Arabic appearance with beady eyes and curly black hair and a short black goatee. He seemed slightly shy as he shifted constantly.
"Professor Avram Hess from Israel."Nikoali watched as dorm leader came out with a friendly grin and a wave to the crowd. He was round 30 and in a yellow version of Professor Guners uniform. He was a lot shorter, only around 5ft 9 and a little plumper with brown hair and a crooked nose as if broken with tanned skin. His grey eyes came upon Nikolai ad he gave him a friendly thumb up.
"Nice uniform." He commented in a Middle Eastern accent.
"Professor Lok Feng from Taiwan" a Chinese man in a blue uniform with what looked like Napoleonic shoulder pads strode out with his hands behind his back in a powerful fashion. He was Chinese and average height but muscular build. His black hair combed back and his face betraying no emotion. This man seemed cold as he had a superior look on his face as he looked over his dorm members.
"Now our female faculty. Of the Osiris Red female dorm we have Professor Harriet Law from Canada." A woman came out with her blonde hair in a tight bun and some red lipstick. She was in a female uniform except the colours were reversed from the normal scheme and she had a red jacket blazer on the top. She looked very secretarial.
"Professor Laura Lee from the USA." A second woman in a similar set of clothing I the Ra colours came out. She was around 5ft 10 and had a round face. She looked like she had American Indian heritage from her reddish skin and her black hair was tied back in a long ponytail.
"And Finally Professor Marie Fontaine from France." a young 20 year old women in an almost fully white version of the previous uniform approached which had blue around the edges. She looked mixed race and had her arms crossed behind her. She had serious look about her like Feng and surveyed the area with her green eyes as she brushed a hand through her brown boy-short hair. The last applause quietened down. Gaudin began to speak again.
"Now your timetable is in your rooms which will be on a slip of paper in your jacket pocket, I hope the obelisk have remembered it as many of our previous years have taken it out and left it behind." He gazed over the blue students; the majority had a disappointed look on their face. "If that is the case simply see your dorm head. It will be slightly inconvenient for them but necessary." He then began to step down. "When you leave use the map on your PDA to get to your dorms. Today is your day off so enjoy it. Thank you."
Everyone clapped as he left the stage and the rest of the staff followed him, chatted to some of their students or headed away on their own. Professor Feng couldn't seem to leave fast enough as could Guner who looked intimidated by all the people.Nikolai stood up and slowly pushed through the crowd. When he finally got out of the herd of people into the corridor he found the map on his PDA and headed toward his dorm near the west coast of the island. On his way through the forested path realized how lucky he was to be here of all places. North School was closest to him and he had originally chosen to go there however due to overcrowding there he settled on Duel Academy. He thought of his home near the mouth of the river and his parents the day he had been accepted into the scholarship program two years ago. He had come along way so far. After 10 minutes he got to his dorm. It was like a mansion. Big, yellow and in your face. It was intricately decorated and had marble statues of the God Card, Winged Dragon of Ra dotted around the area. A bit behind it was from what Nikolai could see, a small beach. He grinned at the thought of spending a few hours having a swim or just lazing about. He reached into his inner pocket and took out the paper telling him a lot he didn't need to know. He found his room. 42A. He entered the lobby and felt a cooling system wipe the sweat on his forehead back. It was like a grand hotel on the inside. After having a good stare at what he saw he took a left at the staircase majestically rising in the middle in front of him, impressed with it all, North School looked crap in comparison now. He carried on past paintings and statues until he reached his room. He stared at the door and read the notice.
42A
Adam Harper (1)
Nikolai Nekorovich (1)
"I have a roommate." He thought as he read it. "First year too by the look of it."
He placed his hand on the handle and turned it to reveal a room similar to his hotel room earlier. It was large with an ensuite bathroom and 2 beds on opposite wall of the room with a window taking up a lot of the opposite wall to him and a large TV near a shelf. A table was next to the door as was a cupboard. As he closed the door a guy walked out of the bathroom. He wiped his nose and looked at him slightly surprised.
"Sorry." He responded in a heavy English accent. "Didn't hear you come in. Adam Harper."
He extended his hand. Nikoali felt uneasy. Adam the swapped his hands, wiping the other snot covered one on his shirt.Nikoali took it with a chuckle.
"Nikoali Nekorovich." He said.
Adam was around his height and build. He had his uniform buttoned up however. His hair was dark auburn and was tied in a small ponytail. His hazel eyes were shifting constantly and his round face seemed friendly enough.
"A Russian." he commented interestedly. "Thought North school would have been your choice."
"Was but full."
"Oh well." He yawned and threw himself onto the left bed. "This ones mine Nik, you got the funny one."
Nikoali sat down on his bed and saw what he meant; it had one of the springs inside sticking up making lying down uncomfortable if you were on it.
"Where you from?" Asked Adam in a content voice.
"Archangel, its 700 Kilometres outside St Petersburg." Answered Nikolai as he made himself comfortable.
Adam let out a breath. "That's as long as Britain almost mate! I'm from Manchester."
Nikoali nodded and he laughed. "You don't talk much."
"English isn't my strong point." Nikolai sighed.
"Should be. You are good at it." He laughed.
Nikoali sat up and stretched. "So what are we going to do?"
Adam shrugged his shoulders. "Could check the rest of the island? Or we could go see if the upper years are duelling. Or we could duel!."
Nikolai thought it over. "Ok I'll duel you but don't cry when I win."
Adam smirked. "Not on your life. I'm the champ in Manchester my Eastern European friend. Let's get to the Ra Arena. I'll lead the way."
"Just one thing Adam. I'll go easy on you." Adam shook his head.
He flipped open his PDA and checked a route. He then got up extracted his new duel disk from behind his pillow. Nikolai looked underneath his pillow and found a new one for him. He felt a surge of appreciation as he snapped it on his arm with a satisfying click. It was a very up to date model, he would customise it later.
"It's first left…or right." Adam mumbled as he travelled out and down the hallway and further into the dormitory, passing the occasional third year or second year. Eventually they came to large arena adorned with the crest of Ra with stands for viewers that went up as they went, It was large enough to host a large match but nothing world class. Adam snapped his PDA shut and headed over to one end of the central arena as did Nikolai.
"Well who goes first Adam?" Asked Nikolai.
"I'll go." Answered Adam as he shuffled his deck and placed it in his duel disk, Nikolai did the same and they were ready to begin
Adam: 4000
Nikolai: 4000
"I will take me turn thank you." Said Adam as he drew his card. "I will begin by summoning The Doctor of Everything #1(1/400/400)."
As he summoned his monster an old man in a black Edwardian looking suit with a white shirts collar peeking over the top. His face was that of an old balding man with his white hair combed back with a face that had a kindness about it but also a hint of ruthlessness and determination. Adam flicked through his deck.
"Now my Doctor has a special ability which only triggers when his is summoned. I can now search my deck for a very special field card." He took out the card he was looking for, shuffled his deck and then placed the card into his field zone. "Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to 'The TARDIS!'"
Suddenly a strange wheezing groaning grinding like sound began and behind Adam something began to appear. A blue box. It slowly materialized and Nikolai saw it had the words police box written on it. Then after appearing the doors opened, Adam and the doctor got pulled inside it almost immediately by some unknown force as did Nikolai. He wasn't actually moving, just clever holographics. As Nikolai entered the doors shut and he looked around. It was bigger on the inside. All over was a white like metal with a honeycomb design roundels on the walls and a small futuristic door behind him where he arrived through o top of a grey shiny floor. In the middle of the room was a panel with some odd buttons and switches in numerous colours.
"I set a card now to end up. Your move Nik." Chuckled Adam.
Nikolai drew his card and frowned slightly. "I set a card and end my turn."
The back of a card appeared in front of Nikolai. He did have monsters but they were too high a level to summon now. He was stuck at the moment. As he thought to himself Adam was beginning his turn, he smiled.
"I'll have my Doctor finish this up by attacking you directly." The Doctor walked over quite relaxed with determined look on his face then he raised his arm back over a shoulder ready to hit Nikolai's. As quick as he could Nikolai played his trap. The common card known as Negate Attack flipped up causing the old man to frown and proceed back to his field. "End turn."
Nikolai drew his card and found a monster. "I set a monster and end my turn."
A horizontal card which a defensive monster was hidden under appeared on Nikolais field. He made a gesture for Adam to take a turn which he did.
"Time to speed this duel up. I activate Regeneration!" all of a sudden the Doctor of Everything spasms and grabbed the consol in the centre of the room for support. "My Doctor of everything is getting on a bit so it's time for a new model. Regeneration removes him from play and lets me summon his next form anywhere he exists at the cost of 500 life points."
Adam: 3500
Nikolai: 4000
Adam took out his deck to search while The Doctor suddenly stood up and spread his arms and screamed. He lit up like he was on fire; his voice slowly began to change as did his height. Then it stopped and a new figure was there. He was younger and scruffier with brown chequered trousers and blue shirt with a black jacket. His hair was a one of the Beatles but scruffier. His eyes had more daring about them than the original. He cricked his neck and looked at his hands with interest, heading over to the control panel he looked at his reflection and grinned.
"Meet Doctor of Everything#2 (2/800/800)" proclaimed Adam. The doctor nodded at Nikolai and Nikolai narrowed his eyes.
Then Adam flipped open his deck again and drew out two cards however he held them so he couldn't see what cards he had picked.
"What are you doing?" Asked Nikolai.
"Oh I forgot to say. When One of My monsters takes a new form I can add two random cards from my deck." He flipped them round and nodded with satisfaction. "Too bad"
"These cards he is using. They're so weird. Doctor of Everything? TARDIS? What the hell is this western shit?" Thought Nikolai as he scanned the field before him.
Adam shrugged his shoulders and threw an arm forward.
"Doctor Attack now!" The man nodded and did the same as the previous Doctor but with more of a bounce in his step, when he got to Nikolais set monster he kicked it up with his foot causing it to flip and Eon-First Explorer (2/400/400) which flew backwards with a cry in pain before exploding into pixels. Then as Adam got ready to end his turn two cards disappeared in a flash of light from his hand.
"First Explorers flip effect discards two cards from you. Sorry Adam." Smirked Nikolai as Adam grimaced at his two card hand.
"Oh well, can't keep them all. Your move." Chuckled Adam as he reached back and began to fiddle with his ponytail.
Nikolai drew and smiled. "I think we can get along Adam."
"Yeah no reason why not." Adam shrugged his shoulders. "Still while we're duelling there is no way on Gods Green Earth I'm going to let you win."
Nikolai laughed. "I beg to differ."
Adam nodded and stopped holding his ponytail. "Let's settle it then."
Nikolai nodded. "I activate Eon Particle."
As a activated it two strange looking Atoms Appeared. They were the average atom model but coloured like an Eon with red lightning all over it.
"Eon Particle brings two Particle tokens out (1/0/0) for one turn. They can't attack and are unaffected by all spells, effect and traps." Nikolai picked out another card. "Perfect tribute material."
He slapped down a new monster and the two of them disappeared in a flash of light that blinded the field in red light. After it cleared an Eon was standing their. It was in brightly coloured robes that covered the whole body but were more of a warrior dress as they allowed a lot of movement. (Think Jedi robes). The head was thin and sharp looking with some high tech goggles on and in its two hands sat a large futuristic cannon like gun that had a set of three spikes at the end instead of an open barrel that were connected and the centre where they connected glowed a blue light that crackled with a ominous noise and light. Interesting considering the other Eon's had no armaments.
"See Eon-Doom Trooper (8/3300/2800)." Declared Nikolai with an extravagant flash of his arm.
"Cool." Answered Adam.
"Now Doom Trooper has two effects. The first is that he cannot attack the first turn he is summoned and is unable to be special summoned."
"Good times."
"However he can destroy one of your monsters and spell or trap cards as soon as he does get to the field."
"Bad times." Cringed Adam.
"Oh yes British." Smiled Nikolai in slightly broken English. "Now I'll destroy your Doctor and the Tardis."
The Doom Trooper flung his gun up, flicked a small switch on the side that was aiming at blue to green causing the glow at the end of the gun to go out and become green again. He aimed forward as a sight flicked up and then powered up. After a few seconds he fired 2 lightning like bolts out at The Doctor and the TARDIS console. Adam however had a different idea. He touched a button on his Duel Disk and his set card flipped.
"Sorry but the TARIS has to survive, I activate my Heart of the TARDIS trap card." A trap card showing a silhouetted man against a Tardis console that looked different to the current one stood against a light that was blinding and wispy blue like beams waving outwards. "Heart of the Tardis stops my field card heading to the graveyard and as a bonus lowers one of your monsters attack points by 700."
The console in the centre opened and the same light and wisps came out, the bolt dissolved in mid air and Doom Trooper stared mesmerized by the light, the wisps then slowly embraced him and as they did so his stature changed, he grew shorter and the skin of his flesh changed too, less worn and younger. Fresher, but weaker. (EDT 30002600)
The second bolt however hit the Doctor in the chest with a crackling sound. The Doctor cried in pain and fell back a few feet. His chest was burnt and raw, his face weakened. Then however he somehow dragged himself up and threw his arms out, the same regeneration happened as before and he began to change.
"What!" asked Nikolai with wide eyes.
Adam laughed. "Got ya. Doctor of Everything has an ability that states whenever he is sent to the graveyard I can remove his form and bring on his next incarnation. So my monster is theoretically invincible."
"Theoretically." Growled Nikolai.
When the light subsided another new man stood before him. He had a set of old looking clothes on that had some dandy sleeves on the end upon a green suit. His hair was puffed up blonde and his face was calm and collected.
"Doctor of Everything#3 (3/1200/1200)." Summarised Adam plainly.
Nikolai shrugged his shoulders. "I end my turn."
Adam drew his next card and smirked wickedly. "Too bad Nik. I just got my last trump card."
He inserted his last card and a new monster came out. It was an old looking man with a worried look on his face. He was in Victorian red petticoat with black pinstriped trousers and a white shirt of the period. He had white hair and a worried look about him while he fumbled with a small strange looking fobwatch in his hand.
"Professor Yana (1/100/200) is here now. But not for long. Watch." The Professor looked around in amazement at the TARDOIS and then as he did so his watch began to glow. An orange like glow that seeped out. The Professor looked down at it and slowly opened it. Voices came out of various men as the energy slowly seeped into him. As it dissaparated he threw the watch away. The man before him looked far more confident with a darkness in his eyes. A rage but also a collectiveness that made him all the more threatening. The Third Doctor scowled as this transformed man stood before him and Yana looked at him with a glint of anger.
"When Yana is in play with the TARDIS I can remove him from play in order to summon The Master of All Things#5 (5/3000/2700), bit of a jump but so what I'm not complaining, As you can see The Doctor and the Master don't seem to like each other but the love is there really…not in a homosexual way of course. And I'm babbling. Great." Adam let out a breath and Nikolai shook his head with a grin. "Back on track now. TARDIS gives me another 2 cards. Due to Yana's transformation acting as regeneration. "
Adam collected his next two cards.
"Now I activate my next Regeneration card!"
Adam: 3000
Nikolai: 4000
Then The Master fell to a knee clutching his stomach as once again one of Adams monsters changed. The new man was hunched over the console and in a black suit with trousers and a black tie. He pulled himself up and stretched. He had smart brown hair and a manic look in his eyes, he wore a smile that was full of madness and power. The Third Doctor shifted stance as the new monster strode back to his spot.
"Now I'm showcasing the Masters highest calibre of incarnation. The manic and mighty, Master of All Things#6(6/3600/3300)." Adam sad with a sweep of his arm while the Master made a mocking bow. The doctor just rolled his eyes. "Now I'll have him attack doom trooper thingy."
The Master then walked over to Doom Trooper who was over 2ft taller then him and looked the alien in the face with interest, then without looking away him tapped the gun he was holding, the gun shot out into Doom Trooper foot with a crackle which caused him to explode.
Adam: 3000
Nikolai: 3000
"Now Doctor#3 attacks you directly." The Third Doctor walked over and made karate like chop into Nikolais neck making him fall to the side holding his neck in pain.
Adam: 3000
Nikolai: 1800
Nikolai got up stretching his neck as Adam crossed his arms, signifying his end turn.
"Weird monsters you have Adam." Commented Nikolai as he drew his next card. He grinned at it. "Outstanding. I play the spell card Eon Time Twister."
A spell showing a tornado tearing through space, in the Eon colours was displayed on Nikolai's field.
"Time Twister reverses what happened last turn at the cost my skipping the next draw phase." Explained Nikolai as Doom Trooper span out of a multicoloured tornado that flew from the card. He clicked his gun and took a step at the Master who shook his head with a grin.
"Now I can finally go on the offensive." Nikolai swept his arm at the Third Doctor, Doom Trooper aimed at the man and fired massive blast of blue energy. The beam crashed into the Doctor who flew back with a scream.
Adam: 1600
Nikolai: 2200
The Third Doctor once again began to transform, this time on the floor where he lay. When it subsided a man in a long brown overcoat with a brightly coloured scarf and curly brown hair lay there. He pulled himself up and inspected himself with a grin. His face was full of mystery with a look of understanding in them.
"Doctor of Everything#4 (4/1600/1600)." Said Adam dryly, he was searching through his deck for his new two cards. He made a fist as he got his first card but shook his head at the second.
Nikolai set a card carefully behind Doom Trooper and shook his head at Adam to take his turn.
"Get In there!" he cried as he slapped the new one down. "My third and final Regeneration card!"
He lifted it aloof and just as he did so, almost cruelly, the newly born Doctor began to change again. Now a man in a cream coloured jacket and trousers with red lining on the edges stood before him. He had a hat on his head that looked like something a cricket umpire wore except in the red and cream colour scheme, including a jumper that was cream too. Strangely he had a stick of celery attached to the breast of the jacket. His face was slightly chubby and his blonde hair was swept back in a clean fashion above his serious looking face albeit with a playful look in his eyes. All in all he appeared to be an English gentleman umpiring a game of cricket.
"Doctor of Everything#5 (5/2000/2000)" introduced Adam as the 5th incarnation was born while getting his next cards, giving him a hand of an impressive 10.
"Now to move this duel up some more. I activate my field equip card." Adam inserted it ontop of TARDIS in his duel disk.
"A what!?" exclaimed Nikolai.
"Field equip cards." Repeated Adam. "It's a type of spell that adds on effects to a spell card and is placed in the field card zone. Don't blame you. They are relatively new. Anyways where was I? Ah yes. I activate the field equip card…"
As he inserted it the TARDIS suddenly lurched about throwing them and the monster around the room, as it stopped they were suddenly ejected from the TARDIS I the same manner they landed in. The Tardis floated behind Adam now but he wasn't looking at that. As Nikolai looked around he gasped. They were on some alien world. The sky was a burnt orange with two burning suns in the sky and all around snow fell like pieces of the suns. Mountains surrounded them in majestic fashion however the most dominating factor was far to the right of the field. A city. Domed in glass with a steel citadel rising up with many towers surrounding it and some sort of spacecraft flying within. The Master and The Doctor looked around the place with sadness, the doctor even shedding a tear.
"Welcome to the Filed equip card; Planet Gallifrey." Adam explained smugly as he admired the scenery. "Amazing what holograms can do these days. Anyhow back on track. Gallifrey has two effects. A: the Doctor, The Master and all other listed monsters on the card gain 500 attack points."
(MOA6 36004100)
(DOE5 20002500)
"And B, once per turn I can add a card naming one of these monsters at the cost of missing my draw phase." Adam explained smugly. "I'll be using that effect now to add Sonic Screwdriver to my hand. Which I'll be placing in The Doctors."
He slipped a card from his deck and added it to his duel disk. In the Doctors hand was now a small metal rod with a blue LED like end. The Doctor flipped the switch ad it lit up ad emitted buzzing noise. He nodded in acceptance and twirled it in his fingers.
"Sonic Screwdriver gives him two abilities also. Firstly he gets 300 attack and defence points.
(DOE5 atk 25002800)
( dec 20002300)
"And secondly, he is immune to all your magic and trap cards that target him specifically." Nikolai growled as The Doctor gave a tip of his hat to him in a patronising fashion. "Now I attack Doom Trooper with the Doctor of Everything!"
The doctor aimed his screwdriver at Doom Trooper, it buzzed and as it did so the gun in Doom Troopers hands lit up and began to glow red as if it were to explode. Then Nikolai activated his set card.
"Trap card activates, Dimensional Tunnel-Mirror Gate." Laughed Nikolai as his trap flipped.
Suddenly in a flash of blue light The Doctor was on Nikolai's field and Doom Trooper on Adam's.
"I know this card." Commented Adam as he began to fiddle with his ponytail again. "It swaps our monsters in a battle for a turn."
"Correct." Replied Nikolai as The Doctor attacked Doom Trooper on Adams field. The gun heated up again and then exploded sending out light like tendrils in the multicoloured look of an Eon.
Adam: 1400
Nikolai: 2200
"Doesn't matter." Countered Adam. "The Master can clear this up."
The master then walked over to The Doctor until they were face to face. They stared at each other hard until without warning he punched him in the face, causing him to crumble to the floor.
Adam: 1400
Nikolai: 900
"I'll now set two cards and end my turn." Sighed Adam as he sent his hand size down to 6. "Damm, the Doctors dead."
Nikolai grinned as he removed a card from his hand, he didn't draw due to Time Twister. "Too bad Adam. Too bad. I activate Pot of Greed, a little something I've been keeping for a time like this."
He drew two cards and then his eyes lit up. "This duel is basically over comrade."
He slid in a magic card. "Spell reproduction activates. I discard two cards and add one spell card to my hand from my graveyard."
He slid a monster and a spell into the cemetery and pulled out Eon Particle which he activated immediately. Two of the strange atoms appeared again and then flashed out.
"I tribute those atoms for the last monster in my hand. My ace card, Eon-Force Devil (8/3450/3150) in attack position."
Then a new monster twirled out gracefully from one of the Eon rip holes made in time and space. This new one was large and like a demon, but from space. It had ornate liquid like armour and flexible but sharp claws adorning its body as well as a head in some sort of plain steel helmet with burning eyes that pierced your soul in a chilling manner when it starred at you. Its liquid like wings blazed outwards 6ft in both directions. It then turned to the sky and roared a mournful scream.
"Force Devil will now activate his effect. He counts the card in our hands first. ..8." As he said the number Force Devil cried out again and before their eyes grew up around 6 ft, dwarfing them.
"He gains 100 attack points per card in both our hands you see."
(EFD 34504250)
"However one downside is that every time he attacks I discard a card." He sent one of his last two cards to the cemetery and as he did so force Devil it placed its hands together and made some strange hand signals, fluorescent particles from the air then focused in on his hands until a multicoloured ball of energy sat In his claws, then he punched his head forward and roared, the ball of energy cascaded like a beam at The Master who was backing up in fear. It hit him and a deafening explosion echoed out.
Adam: 1200
Nikolai: 900
"End Turn." Smirked Nikolai at the empty field of Adam. "Looks like I've turned this around hey?No Master of All Things number 7?"
"Sure have Nik and no. He has a maximum unfortunately" Grumbled Adam as he drew a card and sighed. "I set a monster and end my turn."
Nikolai drew his next card and shook his head. "This is over I believe. I summon Eon-Border Marine (4/1900/1450)."
The familiar combat soldier of the Eons stormed out next to the massive Force Devil.
"Attack Marine." Said Nikolai quietly.
The marine powered up and shot off 3 energy shots at the set monster, they hit home and displayed a small robot with a faint similarity to a dog before being destroyed.
"Now I discard a card to allow Force Devil to finish the duel." He discarded and Force Devil repeated the attack pattern, cannoning a shot at Adam, just before it made contact however Adam flipped a trap card up.
"Call of the Haunted revives The Master of Everything#6." The familiar man appeared from a ghostly mist before taking another hit from the space demon. His facial expression seemed very sunken and Nikolai swore he mumbled not again to himself.
Adam: 1000
Nikolai: 900
"I'm still alive and kicking Nik." Nodded Adam although Nikolai was sure he had little left to throw at this time. "Listen to me I sound Bloody American."
"That is not good my friend." Laughed Nikolai. Russians and Americans did not mix very well.
Adam drew with a chuckle. "Shit! End turn! End Duel now actually."
Nikolai drew his next card and knew he had won. "Border Marine attack."
The marine fired out again and hit Adam squarely in the chest, winding him and knocking him to the ground.
Adam: 0
Nikolai: 900
The holograms faded and Nikolai helped Adam up.
"Not bad." Commented Adam as they headed back to their room to drop their stuff off. "For an eastern European of course."
Nikolai looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "You ca talk, most of them are plumbing for you now in UK."
Adam nodded as they got into their room and threw their things down. "Point taken."
As Nikolai sat down however he felt something in his jacket vibrate, he dug in and saw his PDA flashing the words VIDEO CALL. He got the touchpen out, lay on his bed and tapped accept and saw a familiar face on the screen.
"Carissa1" He smiled.
The Spanish girl was on the screen in a Red blazer in a small shabby dorm room.
"Hi Nik! Sorry to leave you."
"What happened? Where were you?"
Carissa shifted. "Well…my theory paper was fine, above fine I got extra marks you see. But my duel exam…flopped, I accepted failure but my mum complained and said I was fine to enter so after a while I got accepted but in Osiris red."
She grinned but he saw she was really embarrassed in her body language and reluctance.. "Don't worry; you'll be up in the top ranks no time."
"Sure about that?"
"I'll help if you want me to."
"Thanks, you're sweet. Got to go now, got early homework but I'll see you in class tomorrow."
"Ok." Nodded Nik. "Bye."
"Bye." she smiled and the video ended, from the other bed Adam laughed and Nikolai saw him looking at him with a smirk and a Science Fiction magazine called Clockwork.
"Nice one tiger. " Nikolai just rolled his eyes.
"She's just a friend."
"She's good looking, exotic Spaniard."
"So?"
Adam rolled his eyes. "So…can you introduce me?"
Coughed Adam shyly. "One extreme to the other with you, immature then shy." Nodded Nikolai to himself as he reached for the TV remote.
"By the way what was with your monsters?" Asked Nikolai.
"Ever heard of Doctor Who?"
"Nope."
Adam blinked and shook his head. "I shall have to educate you eastern heaven in the ways of the western science fiction fool."
Meanwhile Kai was standing outside his balcony window looking over the island from his luxury king size room. It felt just like his real room really but more classically decorated. He felt excited about tomorrow. It began tomorrow, his reign. No longer in his fathers Shadow. He would expand his influence. However he also felt stressed, slot of pressure was on him to succeed, not from his parents or family but other people and he had to prove, even though he knew he was already, he was the next big thing in duelling, the next Judai Yuki. Easily done due to it being his dad. He fed of attention of course and he being his the Prince of Games meant the load was lightened slightly by that fact. He remembered what his dad ha said to him last before leaving. He had talked to him on the phone from Las Vegas as he had a big league match there; Kai was disappointed at his father having little time for him but had learned to grow up with it. He had given him the basic advice he always did; enjoy it.
"That isn't enough." Growled Kai in anger to noone but his memory.
He was sick of his dad's sentimental messages, why did he only understand that life was far more serious than his dads' pathetic ideas on life and far fetched stories about his soul inhabiting a monster or space travel or Fucking cults trying to destroy the planet! He had all the time to enjoy his life but little to add him or his sister to it. It wasn't fair.
"Fuck him." Mumbled kai as he reached to his belt pulled a cigarette from the small pack and began to inhale the soothing nicotine. "Fuck him."