Chapter 4:
Nikolai growled and grit his teeth. He had been waiting for this for a long time and he WASN'T going to wait any longer. He raised his fist and hammered it down against the wall, hard, three times. No answer. He did it again but harder. Still no answer. He was getting pissed off now.
"ADAM!" He boomed out causing the few people outside to look around due to the window being open. "I …NEED… To Use …The BATHROOM!"
He heared a chuckle from inside and the sound of water moving.
"Keep your 'air on. I've only just got in!"
"Half an hour." Groaned Nikolai as he crossed his arms with annoyance.
"Time fly's when you're having a bath." Then after what seemed an eternity he heard him leave the bath and pull the plug.
"Thank you." Sighed Nikolai as he waited for him to get dressed. When Adam came out his hair was very untidy due to the water and he was trying to get his ponytail done up.
"You're in." He said simply. "I'm off to breakfast."
Nikolai headed in and closed the door. He removed his clothes and then turned the shower on with his hand under it to test the water while it warmed. It didn't. He was there for 10 minutes before he looked at the meter in the room for the days hot water supply. Unfortunately this meant walking past the open window much to a people's disgust, amusement and in a few girls and one boys case interest. With great embarrassment he returned to the bathroom and reluctantly had a cold shower.
After having breakfast in the canteen he and Adam set off to class. It had been a few days since Dedrick had duelled Kai and the novelty of school had worn off and it was now routine. Interesting but some times annoying. . As they walked along the track to the main building he heard someone's voice. He turned and saw Carissa Jogging over in her uniform that was scruffy and with a backpack. Adam wolf whistled quietly as he looked her over. Nikolai looked at him blandly and with a clearing of the throat he left it at that. Carissa got over and smiled.
"High Nik!" She smiled happily. She turned and saw Adam. "Who's this?"
"This is-"But he was cut off.
"Adam Harper. Hail from Manchester." He said in an attempt to magnify his accent. Apparently it was his idea of being sexy.
"Carissa Mendez, Madrid." She raised an eyebrow slightly as they continued on their way.
"So from Spain." Commented Adam. "Nice place, been there once or twice. Seville."
Carissa nodded. "You travel then?"
"Hmm? Oh well yeah." He nodded hard. "Mostly in the commonwealth though. I've been India, Kenya, New Zealand, and Jamaica. Hell I've been to the Baghdad! Had a few happy memories there"
He smiled goofily and Nikolai closed his eyes. This would be painful. Ever since the American led coalition had invaded and held occupation in Iraq it had become very…disappointing in the eyes of the Euro community at international levels. It got worse however. Eventually it became an almost permanent administration. America and Britain held the county as their own for 4 years to allow each other to recover while the other controlled the country. Currently it was in American hands but changed later this year. Carissa raised an eyebrow and her eyes hardened.Nikolai preyed he wouldn't mention Afghanistan.
"So." Her tone was more serious now. "Was it nice there?"
"Ok. Bit warm for me and the flies we-"
"Good. I'll check in to a hotel there next time I'm on vacation. Nikolai." She nodded politely at him and strode off.
Adam watched with a confused expression as she walked off. Nikolai placed a hand on her shoulder and grinned.
"Not good Brit."
"What happened there, I only said I'd been to Bag da-da-dad." It suddenly hit him and the penny dropped form the look on his face. "Shit Shit Shit!"
Nikolai laughed and patted him on the back as he headed off, to before Adam however jogged toward Carissa to explain himself. He stopped and watched. He saw the two stop and Adam talk quite fast then Carissa interrupted him and began pointing right in his face intimidating so that Adam stepped back. She then walked off again.Nikolai preceded to class. As he was about to enter the room the class was in when someone tapped him on the shoulder. He turned and saw Gwen with a grin on her face.
"Hi." She gave a small wave. She was now dressed in an obelisk girl's uniform with stockings and black fingerless gloves.
"Hello." Replied Nikolai with a friendly smile. "You in with me then?"
She shook her head. "I'm third year. Have a class with professor Chronos."
Nikolai raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Chronos?"
A nervous look graced her face for a second before she shook her head. "Sorry. I mean Professor Guner.Well, I must leave. Goodbye."
She then walked off briskly before Nikolai could reply. As he entered the classroom Adam slinked in quietly and threw his stuff down beside Nikolai.
"I won't ask." He patted his back with a grin and Adam let out a sigh in frustration.
The day went on with quick pace. Most of what was being taught Nikolai was new to although that didn't stop Feng, who had now grown a habit of singling him out and making a point Ra's were worse than Osiris's because they were smug enough to say they were but manipulative enough to try to become blue (Overlooking own dorm members habits. Wherever Jack or Kai went things went missing). The detentions had been shit and he was bored cleaning out the room instead of the caretakers doing it. Still he had finally got to see Carissa's classes. He had been let out early by Professor Guner after being pressurized by some rowdy Osiris students and he had dropped past her class. It was sad really. A small amount, maybe 10-20 people were seated round a table in a disused meeting room and they sat and were taught basic things like poker faces, how to draw, strategy and good deck compilation. This on top of the homework from the other class Nikolai took, which these students took on top of theirs after hours, added to stress and also a reclusive nature in some. Still this was Duel Academy and It is very poor to learn to duel WHILE here. He hoped Carissa could last till the end of the year when she rose to his level again. After the first bloc of lessons finished lunch was declared. It was during this time the two met up with Carissa again. She ignored Adam completely and spoke only to Nikolai.
"Ok Nik?" She smiled.
"Sure. What you doing?" He asked in his heavily accented words.
"Off to get my stuff." Her words made Nikolai give a quiet ahh. Today was collection day. Students got letters and other goods from home. This was the first of 1 monthly service. He hadn't heard from his parents in ages.
"I'll come too. My parents properly sent me something. Hopefully my Blu Ray player, I forgot it when I packed and I've only got the films." He turned to Adam. "You coming?"
Adam nodded. "Ok. Probably just got a letter but still good to hear from them."
From his expression he wasn't exactly pleased with his parents but Nikolai was sure he was only going to get to see Carissa, regardless of the fact they barely knew each other and had brought up a sensitive issue that had split them already. Anyhow they proceeded down to the docks where a building had a congregation round it where some well organized lines were made. They got into a line and waited as they slowly moved forward while the people who had collected their things walked past. Eventually they got to the front and Nikolai collected a cardboard box with the DA symbol on, he waited for Carissa and Adam and then walked off to open them, Carissa making a effort to stay away from Adam. As they were about to leave the Dock area someone called out.
"WAIT! STOP! YOU HAVE MY STUFF!" came a shout form further down the road to the school behind them. Nikolai turned and saw an older Ra student jogging over. As they got closer to him he slowed down into a stride. He was average height ad had white hair with black flecks. A Japanese ethnic look adorned his features, especially eyes, and he had blue jeans instead of the normal set of clothes on. He had a cool feel about him despite his outburst earlier and a relaxed look was on his face. He held the box out to Nikolai and Nikolai saw NEKOROVICH N. written on it, he looked down at his won box and saw ASARI B. emblazoned upon its face. "Apologies." Said Nikolai. "I didn't realize."
The Asari guy chuckled. "No matter. Simple mistake. Benjiro Asari, second year Ra."
He placed a hand out and Nikolai shook it. "Nikolai Nekorovich. First year."
Benjiro looked up at Adam and Carissa. "Hi."
"Carissa Mendez and A-"Nikolai went to say.
"Adam Harper." Interrupted the Manchurian again.
Benjiro nodded at him. "Pleasure."
They stopped shaking and Nikolai went to get his stuff when unexpectedly Benjiro dropped it down and quickly pulled his duel disk out rather dramatically. He snapped it onto his wrist and slapped a deck inside.
"Duel me." He stated with a cold intellect.
Nikolai raised an eyebrow with a sigh. This was his first taste of the slightly odd logic of duel academy. You duel for everything.
"Do I have to?" He asked in an irritated manner.
Benjiro narrowed an eye. "You don't want your stuff back?"
Nikolai slowly and reluctantly nodded.
"Well then..." Benjiro crossed his arms and waited for Nikolai's response.
With a sigh Nikolai slowly set himself up for a duel.
"At least I can show off my new an improved design. Right Adam?" He looked toward Adam as he reached into his back to retrieve his duel disk. Adam and Carissa had moved to the side of the road under a tree to watch them duel it out. Adam smirked and looked toward Carissa.
"Check this."
Nikolai pulled out his duel disk and snapped it onto his arm with a proud smile. Benjiro and the other two looked impressed. He had spent hours on this. It was still academy issue but he had used black spray to place intricate designs all over it, the areas that were still visible were grey and in the centre some Russian lettering was emblazoned. In his tongue it meant 'One True Legionnaire'. The central orb area which was normally blue had been removed and instead a new glass purple one was installed that glowed a dark blue when activated.Benjiro chuckled quietly.
"Nice Duel Disk." He remarked as Nikolai inserted his deck.
"Ok Fine. Just can we make this quick. I want to get my stuff back." Nikolai retorted.
B: 4000
N: 4000
Benjiro drew a hand of six cards, signifying his taking the first turn. He silently slipped in a spell card.
"Terraforming." He said as it appeared on the field and he picked up his deck and searched through it.
Nikolai narrowed his eyes. He knew the card allowed him to add a field card to his hand so he knew he had to be vigilant at this point.Benjiro finished and added the card to his and before setting spell or trap face down.
"Your move."
Nikolai drew his next card and inspected his hand with a tactical eye. He didn't want this to draw out. He wanted to get back. He slapped a monster onto his duel disk.
"Eon-Border Marine (4/1900/1450)." He said simply as the inter-dimensional soldier burst forth. Raised an eyebrow. "Anything else?"
Nikolai shook his head. "No, not sure you worth time yet."
Benjiro sighed. "Guess I'll have to open up the valves a bit."
He snapped a card off his deck as hard as he could and smiled.
"Seems faith has rewarded me."
Nikolai rolled his eyes. "It's a card game with randomly arranged cards that don't change position depending on your belief you can win. So don't try to disguise good luck."
His opponent frowned slightly. "You have no faith I see."
"Faith gets you nowhere in life. Only rational thinking and truth." Spoke Nikolai with passion. "If only Sascha had known that."
Benjiro smirked slightly. "I'll prove you wrong one day. Now on to my move. I activate the field card Realm of Light!"
As he placed it down a temple began to arise behind the Japanese boy. It was large and imposing with a golden sheen and mighty towers with spheres of light upon them.
"This card has no power but will with the play of my next cards, not one but two Solar Recharges!"
He slipped two magic cards in and as he did so holographic beams of light let loose form the sun and infused the orbs upon the towers with greater power.
"These magic cards require I discard a light sworn monster form my hand to the cemetery so I do so." He sent two monsters to the grave leaving him with 1 card left. "Then I draw two cards."
He whipped 4 cards off the deck and then went on to explain the final ruling of the card. "Now I send two cards from my deck to the grave."
He sent another 4 cards form his deck to the grave.
"This will now give realm of light its power. See a Shine counter is added to the field spell each time a card from my deck goes to the grave. Four have been sent so now 4 counters are added. For each of them a Lightsworn will get 100 attack points so they will now gain 400 attack points." Benjiro grinned as he went through the card rulings and Nikolai frowned at the disadvantage now. "I summon now Lightlord Summoner Luminous (3/1000/1000)."
A dark skinned woman with blonde hair in a white dress stepped out. She had purple magic rings that spiralled around her hands gracefully and mysteriously.
"Don't you mean Lightsworn." Asked Carissa from the sidelines suddenly.
Benjiro sighed. "Apologise. I'm used to the native name. In your language it is Lumina Lightsworn Summoner.Her effect will now come into play now. I can discard a card in order to special summon a level 4 or lower lightsworn from my graveyard." He slipped a card away and snapped another out, bring forth another new Lightsworn. "This is Wulf Lightsworn Beast (4/2100/300)"
An anthromorphic wolf in white armour with gold designs upon it clutching a golden battle axe began to materialize from a spell the Summoner started to weave. It howled and as it did so the summoner and the beast had a glow that encompassed them.
(WLSB 21002500)
(LLSS 10001400)
Nikolai nodded with appreciation at the moves. He had to admit this guy played with fluid grace. Grace he expected to be from an obelisk student. Then the picture of Jack and Kai came into his head and decided against it.
"Now I attack Border marine with Wulf!" He pointed at the alien and the animal warrior charged forward and swung its' axe with great ferocity. It cleaved the marine in half completely to the disgust of Carissa who looked away as the purple blood spelt out of it violently.
B: 4000
N: 3400
Then the sorceress continued the assault by speaking in tongues and firing a purple blast of magic at Nikolai's face, it temporarily blinded him much to his discomfort and lowered his life points.
B: 4000
N: 2000
Adam frowned at the wings. "Halved in three turns. Not good Nik."
"Yeah thanks Adam." Grunted Nikolai.
"End turn." As Benjiro said this Lumina began to speak and a purple smoke like spell touched the Ra Yellow opponents deck causing the top three to go to the cemetery. "Lumina sends three cards from my deck to grave when I finish a turn."
This caused his two monsters to grow in power.
(LLSS: 14001700)
(WLSB 25002800)
Nikolai drew his next card and examined his hand.Benjiro began to talk again.
"So Nikolai, you have no faith. May I be personal enough to wonder why?" He asked with a calm expression.
Nikolai glared at him. "No. Why you religious?"
Benjiro shook his head. "Just want to know what drives you if you believe in nothing."
"My own interests." Retorted Nikolai in an irritated tone.
Carissa watched on with interest.
"Seems like a raw nerves been touched here."
Nikolai looked over his hand. "I was going to stay out of this duel but you are starting to bring up memories I'd rather forget Asari."
He slapped down a monster card with resolve. "I summon Eon-Quantum Blader (3/1500/800)."
An eon with its liquid like armour twisted out of the familiar void. It had a round helmet like head with one ruby like eye and in its hands was a pole with two sword like blades upon the end made of a similar material to the armour except more solid.
"Now Quantum Blader activates his ability. I can now lower his attack by half to attack you directly for one turn."
The blader spun his blade expertly even though his attack power went down to 750. he then threw the blade like a boomerang. It flew toward Benjiro and sliced his neck before spinning back into the Bladers hands. Benjiro stumbled slightly but remained upright.
B: 3250
N: 2000
"Next I'll activate Eon Pulse."
A card showing space rippling like water showed up. It was a continuous spell.
"Eon Aura-Mercury now activates in continuation." As he played the equip card on Blader it's armour took on a grainy green and black colour and its attack power increased to 1700. Not too noticeable. As this happened however something noticeable did happen. The field pulsed outward like everything were made of liquid. Slightly startled Benjiro raised his eyebrows.Nikolai grinned slyly.
"Eon Pulse activates when an Eon Aura is equipped to an Eon monster. I can now increase that monster attack by 100 points, then 200 and then 300 and so on."
(EQB 17001800)
"Finally I set a card and end my turn." Nikolai cricked his neck and watched for Benjiro to take his turn.
"This guy uses Lightsworn so he is in danger of milling him self to death. I assume he will soon start bring out heavy hitters soon enough. This means I must either outlast him or take him out before he can react."He watched intently as Benjiro drew. Now drawn into the duel. His opponent looked over his hand before slowly sliding a card into his disk with method.
"I summon Ehran Lightsworn monk (4/1600/1000)." A black young woman in light lightsworn armour leapt out and made some kung fu like moves with impressive speed. The aura engulfed her and the field spell card enhanced her attack power.
(ELSM 16002300)
Nikolai groaned at the new high hitter monster. Benjiro lashed an arm out, pointing at Quantum Blader with a smirk.
"Attack Ehran." The monk jumped forward with a battle cry, as she made contact by laying a fist into the eon's face Nikolai activated his set card freezing the scene to allow time for the effect to activate.
"Trap card, Negate Attack." This caused the holograms to revert to their positions before the attack was called.
Benjiro crossed his arms. "End turn."
As he said this he discarded 3 cards per Lumina's affect and then another 3.
"Ehran has the same effect." He explained as his deck shrunk and his monsters grew. "My monsters are getting stronger but next turn I promise you I will show you something special."
(ELSM 23002900)
(LLSS 18002400)
(WLSB 28003400)
Carissa from the sidelines placed her head in her hand and narrowed her eyes at the Japanese boy. She knew for some reason that he wasn't bluffing when eh said next turn he would bring something out. She had played a deck similar to this back in Spain and while she remembered the name of the card she didn't realize why it was dangerous.
"I won't tell Nik, he has to figure this out by himself." She mumbled.
Nikolai slashed a card off his deck and inspected it with delight.
"Your power will now go down Comrade. Eon Spaceway is here." He slapped a card into his field spell slot to benjiros dismay. The temple behind him crumbled into dust and from the ruins expanded space, never-ending space with all the cosmos to see. This obviously meant his monsters became shadows of what they were now, their auras leaving like dying stars.
(ELSM 1600)
(LLSS 1000)
(WLSB 2100)
Nikolai then spun a card with ease in his hands before activating it.
"Eon Aura- Pluto." A blue tint was painted into the armour of the blader making him a mix of grainy green and deep blue. "This card empowers him not as it is no longer a planet but instead lets mead 3 cards in my grave to my deck."
He took three cards in his grave and shuffled them well into his stack of cards. As he did this Eon Pulse pulsed out more violently than last time.
"Quantum Blader now gains 200 attack points."
(EQB 18002000)
Nikolai grinned. He was in a medium now, he could turn this duel in his favour. Before he went further however he decided more firepower was needed. He summoned a new Eon.
"Eon-Spacial Priest (3/1200/0) comes to visit." An Eon in ornate deep blue and gold robes strode out with his hands covering his face while preying in a twisting turning language. The hands were wrinkled and grey, some colour would occasionally shine through like Quantum Bladers armour did but it was weak, old, sick. The head was box like but pointed at the front and was covered by the hands in groves that were shaped to be filled by the hands of the pious alien.
"Attack Spacial Priest! Lumina die!" The priest began to chant with greater force and rocked backwards and forwards, as he did so a star above him began to shine yellow then another further by did the same, eventually 10 stars were shining, they left their placed in the sky and made a spinning halo of stars above the sorceress before…they stopped…they dropped…and exploded with force around the woman. She screamed but was drowned out by the noise of dying stars.
B: 3050
N: 2000
Nikolai carried on by ordering Quantum to attack Ehran. She stood no chance. She attempted to duck and dive from the spinning, lacerating , impossibly fast attacks of the monster but was eventually bested as it kneecapped her first and then spun round, causing the blade to sink into her back and through her chest.
B: 2650
N: 2000
Benjiro brushed himself down as some holographic blood spilled onto him and Wulf making the beast warrior roar in rage at the death of his allies.Nikolai smirked ad set a card to end his turn.Benjiro drew and smiled broadly.
"Ok comeback. Ok. Ok watch as I summon possibly my greatest creature. One you have partially helped summons." This caused Nikolai to put on a confused face to Mr Asari's amusement. "Watch as I remove 4 lightsworn monsters form my grave!"
As he did so ghostly forms of Lumina, Ehran,a second Lumina and a dragon plated in the lightsworn armour prowled onto the field with mournful expressions yet there was also hope, hope that their deaths had meant something. The ghost dissipated and a eerie mist made from the ghosts took form in space, fogging the Lightsworn master from view. A few seconds passed and Nikolai felt a chill go down his spine as the sound of flapping wings came to his eyes and a crunch as something heavy landed, he squinted into the fog but saw nothing. His opponents voice then pierced the silence, it was slow deliberate and meant to intimidate.
"Behold…my best card. My Judgement…" As he said this to Nikolai surprise (And adams, he fell back clutching his chest in fright) a massive roar erupted making the mist flee and withdraw almost immediately revealing a huge dragon face baring its teeth at Nikolai and spraying him with spit and terrible odours from its belly where many had rotted after facing it unsuccessfully.
"-Dragon (8/3000/2600)." Finished Benjiro satisfied. The creature was huge and purple with wide spanning majestic wings and red talons. A lion like mane with Japanese origin sprouted round the head. Nikolai almost forgot it was a lightsworn. It seemed too different.hre looked up at it with awe and fear. The he calmed himself down.
"It is just card, it is defeat able, don't be pathetic and fear that which is ot real." He mumbled to himself.
"Losing is real." Butted in Benjiro.
He glared at Benjiro and he remained unshaved. He cleared his throat and then declared the monsters ability.
"My magnificent Judgement dragon ahs a great ability you know. Sacrifice 1000 life points to destroy all other cards in play. Brilliant!" He nodded enthusiastically. "However. I will give you one turn to do something worthwhile."
"Why?" Nikolai raised a suspicious eyebrow.
"Because I'm cool." He said quietly. "I'm still attacking though so I guess your priest can go."
The Dragon took this signal with hungry delight leaned over with its mighty fangs and as quick as possible engulfed the priest, swallowing him whole. Not an impressive death but realistic.
B: 2650
N: 200
"End turn." As he did so he sent 4 cards form his small deck to the grave, Nikolai reasoned the dragon had an effect similar to Lumina.
Nikolai looked down at his deck and sighed with frustration.
"I have to draw something or he wins. If he thinks he can walk away with my stuff then he is wrong as I'll just hit him hard but He can't think faith beats rationality! It just doesn't!"
"Feeling faithful?" Came the other Ra yellows voice.
"Fuck off" Snapped the Russian.
Benjiro didn't react and simply watched with interest.
Nikolai drew his card and lifted it to his face hoping it was useful. It was to an extent.
"Pot of Greed." He said before drawing two cards that turned out to be quite useful indeed..
"Time Twister reverse what happened last turn but I cannot draw next turn." He explained as the space around them began to spin with incredible speed, when it slowly stopped the priest which had previously been consumed was back. "Now I'm going to bring out my second best card. Eon–Chrono Devil (8/3450/3150)."
A secondary Eon Devil swept onto the field this one different from the earlier Force Devil used against Adam as two of the Eon's died.
Eon Pulse then shattered and so did the Eon Aura's. Nikolai pocketed them.
"When the equipped monster dies all of the eon auras and Eon pulse are removed from play." Explained Nikolai. Few listened though as they inspected the devil.
It was strange to say the least. A thin sickly looking alien in the oil like armour with one again hellish design upon it. Its face was demonic with ram's horns and in its left hand a sceptre with an orb containing a sickly yellow and green light. As you watched however it was if you developed double vision, visions of children and elderly flashed around the demon, places long gone or soon to come, pyramids, Present day cities, futuristic cities, everything. The ghosts of times gone, coming and happening. Its eyes cold blue that made you feel as if time had stopped and only the terrible devil meant anything anymore. It opened its jaws and let out a long scream that seemed to go onforevever, a sad tone to it but also an echo of good times gone by, almost nostalgia. The dragon responded by letting loose a proud roar and the two clashed glares.
"Weird monster." Commented Adam, sill getting over the jump of Judgement dragon. As he said so he heard another voice just behind him of a man, not loud but quiet yet there was also strength to it.
"Define what's normal first." It sounded amused.
Adam snapped his head round but saw no one. He scratched his head and dismissed it. Carissa just raised an eyebrow. "What was that?"
"Hearing things." He replied with a small smile.
She rolled her eyes and turned back to Nikolai.
Nikolai cricked his shoulders and prepared his assault. Firstly however he discarded his entire hand. As he did so the sceptre of the devil glowed brightly with its strange colour all of a sudden a bolt shot from it , in complete silence, and vaporised Benjiro's hand.
"When he is summoned we discard our hands and count up the cards. In my case 2 and in yours-"
"2."
"So a total of 4. Chrono Devil now loses 100 attack points for every card." Explained the russian.
(ECD 34503050)
Nikolai then pointed at the Lightsworn dragon. "I declare an attack on Judgement Dragon but before it go's through, Chrono Demon gives me card when I attack with him."
He drew a cards from his deck. Then the demon pointed the sceptre toward the dragon and tongues of the strange essence drifted over the field, wrapping themselves around the Dragon. It began to age and age, wrinkling and becoming thinner, A sadness gripped the dragon as its prideful body decayed until it was but dust.
Nikolai let a harsh laugh out. Carissa and Adam gave a cheer. He hadn't won but he was soon to. Benjiro then did something surprising. He clapped.
"Well done Nikolai. You played well there. Very simple but still effective." Then he smirked. "But did you forget the card I setted?"
Everyone's eyes widened as he activated his card. Then Nikolai noticed something, the Life points hadn't changed!
"Lightsworn Barrier." He explained, he then sent two cards form his deck to the grave and all of a sudden the dust of Judgement dragon rebuilt itself into the vengeful and youthful beast.Nikolai swore in Russian at his misfortune.
"Fuck! Judgement Dragon can use his ability now and cleanse the field. Then he can attack me directly. I can't believe I overlooked that card for the whole duel, earlier I had a card that could kill it! Before I summoned the Devil!"He gritted his teeth.
Benjiro drew a card. "Now I can win this duel! I ca sacrifice 100 life points to destroy all cards other than Judgement Dragon!"
The Dragon roared and Nikolai looked to the floor in frustration. "Get on."
Then he said something so powerful, so sudden and so out of the blue that Nikolai had a double take as it sunk in. It didn't seem possible. It made him partially relieved but also very angry.
"But I surrender." Came the calm words of the Japanese boy as he placed his hand over the duel disk and the sensors within recognized the lack of light as a surrender signal.
B: 2600 (Surrender)
N: 200
Nikolai jerked his head up while the holograms faded and the duel disk righted themselves. Benjiro tossed the box of Nikola's home memento's to Nikolai who caught it clumsily. Benjiro nodded before turning to leave.
"That was unexpected." Commented Carissa.
"You're telling me." Replied Adam.
She glared at him and he backed off. Let the box fall to the floor and stormed after Benjiro.
"Don't walk away from me! Why did you do that!" Nikolai called with rage.
Benjiro stopped and spoke without turning. "I want to see you progress, you have talent and squashing you will not do you too good."
"No one surrenders to Nikolai Nekorovich, I'd rather loose! There's no victory in surrender it's a default result." He ranted.
Benjior shrugged his shoulders. "As I said I don't want to squash you so soon. Anything you say now will fall on deaf eyes I'm afraid Nikolai, I've made my decision now bye." Then he left leaving nikolai in the dust. He blinked a breathed out. Then he turned to Adam and Carissa as he got his things together.
"Well, I'm back to my dorm." He said wearily.
"I'll come too matey." Adam slapped him on the back.
"See you tomorrow Carissa." Nikolai nodded at her.
"Bye Nik." She smiled and gave small wave as she left in a different direction.
"Hey wait! I'll walk you back to the dorm rooAARGH!" Nikolai trod on Adam's foot here.
"You don't know when to stop." Laughed Nikolai as Adam massages his foot while they walked.
Once they got back Nikolai laid down on his bed and Adam headed into the bathroom to have a quick shower to freshen up. While he did this Nikolai slowly headed over to his wardrobe and with melancholy opened it. Inside were some of his normal clothes which he could wear at certain times. He dug into his favourite jacket and removed his wallet; he dug further in and pulled out a small crinkled photo of a guy around his eyes with floppy black hair and green eyes with a friendly smile on his face and his arms crossed. He was standing n front of beautiful snowy field in some Russian wilderness. Nikolai sighed.
"Sascha…" he simply said as he stared at the photo for a few minutes before replacing it and without telling Adam took a walk to clear his head.