Today is me and Atticus's first day with a homosexual named Dr. Vellian Crowler. I swear he wasn't what I expected. I did see him at the Obelisk welcome dinner and to be honest, I though he was a women. I guess I should be cursing my stupidity right now. Ugh…
Atticus dumped his bag on the ground and took a seat next to me. The room was pretty big. Our assigned seats were near the top, that signaled our rank. I have no idea on the nastiness between the three dorms. From a distance Slifers cast me an admiring look but every time I get near they scatter. Ras do the same. A few Obelisks to my great annoyance have a habit of following me wherever I go. I took out a notebook for notes. Atticus did the same. My cover way blank, his was crammed with black signatures in many different handwritings. As Dr. Crowler was getting ready for whatever, people started to talk. It was only when he slammed a yardstick on a Slifer's was when they all silenced.
"Hello," Crowler seemed to expect a reply. It was dead quiet. Crowler continued, "Well welcome to Advanced Dueling Skills. You shall all address me by the title Dr. and not Mr. Or Ms." A lot of people giggled but went quiet the moment Crowler put his eyes on them. "You should know this is a class for advanced dueling skills, there will be no room for slackers." Crowler's eyes traveled over a row of Slifers. When he was looking a few cast Crowler ugly death glares. Atticus glanced at me and grinned. I grinned half-heartedly.
"Now to start, I hope all of you know all the card types, Mr. Sampson can you please review them for us?" A red-jacketed boy jumped when he heard his name. He stood up nervously.
"There are uh monsters and… uh spells and…"
Crowler shook his head and insulted the poor kid, "No, no. I knew a Slifer like you wouldn't know anything! Detention for you!" For a moment I looked angry but it quickly faded away when my name came up.
"Ugh, like this you'll never be good as someone like Zane Truesdale. Mr. Truesdale would you care to enlighten this little boy." I sighed. Every eye was on me. I stood up and recited "There are monster cards. Some monster cards have special effects, are fusions or are both. Monster cards have 15 categories: Dragons, Reptiles, Sea Serpents, Aquas, Fish, warriors, beast-warriors, spell casters, insects, fiends, zombies, winged-beasts, fairies, rocks, and machines. Fusions are formed when two or more monsters are fused by the effect of special spell cards. There are Spells or Magic cards: Quick-play, equip, continuous, and field spell. A field spell gives one of both of the players certain advantages and disadvantages such as power change and how turns are carried out. Traps are under the same class as spells with the same categories or unless specified, they may only be played during the opponents turn. Of course the trap must be face-down on the field first."
I sat back down. Crowler applauded my answer but I didn't appreciate it. Atticus gave me a pat on the back. I sat there and forced myself to listen to the rest of Crowler's lectures with my pencil moving across my paper.
The day passed on. Our Alchemy teacher was Professor Lyman Banner. He was a strange fellow with a German accent. He had a funny liking to cats especially to a fat one named Pharaoh. That was a pretty strange name for a fat tabby. Life Skills with Professor Cornelius went fine except he kept on pointing me out. Can't I just have a normal life here? When attention was drawn to me, it was drawn to Atticus too and seemed to like that. The total moron but hey, everyone has their flaws.
Over the weeks a fan club had developed. The 'I heart Zany' club. Lovely. Absolutely Lovely. Apart from that something else happened.
It was just in the middle of Alchemy Class. Professor Banner called my name.
"Zane, the counselor would like to see you."
I nodded and walked down the flight of stairs. Everyone stared at me but I got used to it. I looked back at Atticus, he had a funny look on his face.
Even though Sheppard's office was on the other side of the building I encountered no one since they were I guess were all at class. The automatic door slid open revealing Sheppard behind his desk, his fingers in an arch.
I expected for Sheppard to mention something about six years ago. I was wrong.
"I've been waiting for you, Zane. As you should know the School Duel with North Academy is drawing up."
"Yes," I said inviting him to go on.
"North Academy has chosen their best third year student against us. True we won over them in the past years and our staff have decided to choose you for the special duel. Since your first day here, you've proven to be an extraordinary duelist to us. What do you say, Zane?"
"I'm flattered by your praise, Counselor. Yes, I would be honored to participate in the school duel."
Counselor Sheppard sat up, grabbed and shook my hand hard.
"Excellent. We'll give you around a month to prepare." I nodded.
"More than enough to prepare."
"Very well, Truesdale. You're dismissed."
At the end of the school day I told Atticus on what happened. He gave me his infamous slap on the back hard enough for me to spit out my tea. I was really glad no one saw that. Atticus didn't notice my annoyed look.
"Hey that's great, Zane! You're chosen to be our representative! Brilliant!" He grinned widely.
"Uh thanks. I appreciate your enthusiasm."
"You know, tomorrow's Saturday let's go to the beach. It's a really good day for it! Just let me get my board." I agreed and we both walked to the Obelisk Dorm. Atticus left me in the hall as he closed his room door. Five minutes passed and I was wondering what Atticus was doing. I knocked on the door. "Just a minute!" Came his voice from inside. Another five minutes passed until Atticus opened his door. He was wearing a black and purple wet suit, his board under his arm in a surfer's pose.
I pointed at his suit. "What is that for?"
Atticus looked at me as if I were growing an extra pair of legs or something. "Uh, it's a wetsuit.. .You can't just go surfing in your uniform." I shrugged and we both made our way to the beach.
I sat in the shade of the palm trees while Atticus surfed on the waves while girls watched. Every time he set foot on shore a couple of girls would run up to him for an autograph. No one paid attention to me since… well they couldn't see me until Atticus ran over to me and grabbed my wrist. He started dragging me to the water as if he wanted to drown me or something.
"Atticus, what the hell are you doing with me!?"
Atticus paid no note to my serious tone. He only said, "Man, Zane you seriously need to get out more, I'm going to teach you how to surf!"
"Are you crazy?" I started but Atticus had already forced me down on the board. I sighed angrily but played along. Atticus seemed satisfied. "There's a big wave and it's coming fast! Go do your stuff, Zane!"
Before I could do anything Atticus paddled and pushed me. When I looked back he was already near shore.
"Stand up on the board Zane!" he called. I tried to but lost my balance and fell in the water. In case Atticus didn't notice or forgot, I still had my uniform on. I resurfaced coughing up salt water while saying curses under my breath. Atticus was lying on his board laughing at me. He jumped of it and faced me. "You really suck at things like this, Zane." I know he was joking but it would've made me feel better if I got to punch him in the face. Atticus turned around to heave himself on the board. Quickly I grabbed a handful of sand.
"Hey Atticus, look at this!" I said. He turned around and-
SPLAT!
Wet sand and seaweed adorned Atticus's brown hair. He had the same look on his face when he got drenched by the raspberry soda. I quickly submerged to dodge a handful of flying sand.
We sneaked back to Obelisk Dorm drenching, cold, and covered in sand. I swear Atticus looked like a sea monster or something.
Atticus glanced at his watch. "Uh, it's 11' We better get to our rooms fast and cleanup."
We reached our own. I waved a good bye at Atticus which he returned before closing my door.
Tomorrow I need to prepare for the School Duel.
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