Chapter 5: False Accusations
"Excuse me, Konjiki." Haseo said politely. The blonde haired boy turned around and smiled at Haseo.
"Hey there! Good morning Haseo." He greeted cheerfully.
"Good morning to you as well. I recognized you the minute I saw you. Thank you very much for letting me borrow your deck." Haseo said politely. Konjiki frowned when he saw Haseo look down the hallway he had just turned from and sigh.
"Dude, something wrong?" Konjiki asked worriedly. Haseo turned back to him and smiled sheepishly.
"Nothing it's just that I'm a little worried." Haseo answered. "Ever since last night I've been having to dodge students asking me to duel them. Plus, I've even been asked out by a few girls."
"Really? Well I guess that's what happens when you show off your awesome skills, look like you do, and have your dad." Konjiki answered.
"Yes, I suppose you're right." Haseo said, a hint of contempt in his voice. It was gone as soon as it was there though and he gave Konjiki another smile. "I know, but I hardly got any sleep last night. I've really been busy dodging a lot of people." Hasep trailed off as he let out a small but long yawn. Konjiki frowned as he looked at the younger boy.
"I've got an idea." He said. "I'll let you sleep in my room. We only have an hour or two left until we get to the school but that is something right? Nobody will know that you're in my room so nobody will come and bug you."
"You'd let me do that?" Haseo asked.
"Of course!" Konjiki answered. He smiled at Haseo. For some reason, he felt that he could trust this boy. He pulled his key out and pointed Haseo in the direction of his room. Haseo thanked him once more and then walked towards the room. He stopped though and turned back to Konjiki.
"I hope we can see each other again soon. Maybe we'll have a class together." Haseo said cheerfully.
"Maybe." Konjiki answered with a wide smile. "If you ever need someone to show you around then just ask."
"Thank you, I will." Haseo said before walking down the hallway. He smiled as he did, Konjiki leaving the hallway behind him. "That was easier than I thought." He said quietly.
"Most of you humans are easy to fool." A deep voice answered in Haseo's ear.
"Agreed." Haseo said with a small smile as he walked into Konjiki's room. "Now then, time to make Konjiki owe me one." he said slyly as he closed the door.
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"Wake up calls. Who the hell had the gall to issue a wake up call for the passengers?" Tsukiyomaru asked dangerously. He and Twilight had gone to the cafeteria to get breakfast, Twilight hoping to calm down her nightowl friend. "I mean really, who on earth actually wakes up at 8 in the morning?"
"Most normal people when they get the chance. Some people have to wake up early." Twilight answered, not caring enough to be sarcastic about it and a bit frightened to incur her friend's wrath.
"Well yes, for school or work. But we are going to school." Tsukiyomaru said. "We are not there yet and therefore not in school yet. This means we should be allowed to sleep in as much as we want."
"So then until noon?" Twilight asked.
"Exactly!" Tsukiyomaru answered. "Finally someone that gets it!"
"Why are we still walking?" twilight asked, not bothering to poke at her friend's logic and beliefs.
"Because we can't find an empty table." Tsukiyomaru answered. The room was filled with nice tables that could seat at least four people but Tsukiyomaru despised new people as you've probably guessed by now and therefore the two had been looking for an empty table. Sadly, there were none. He looked around and saw a table with only one person. "Wait here." Tsukiyomaru ordered. He walked over to the boy and said something Twilight couldn't quite hear. The girl sat up and walked away immediately, Tsukiyomaru sitting in the chair next to the girl's.
"How do you do that?" Twilight asked.
"People say I have a kingly authority. They find it hard to say no to me." Tsukiyomaru answered. Twilight shrugged and sat down next to her friend. They waited for one of the busy waiters to come by and waited patiently. Well, Tsukiyomaru did, Twilight didn't.
"They so need to hire more people for this place." Twilight grumbled.
"They'd need a bigger boat for rooms for the new employees. Not to mention pay more money as a whole or make cheaper pay which in turn may turn some people off from the job." Tsukiyomaru answered calmly.
"You have an answer for everything don't you?" Twilight grumbled again.
"No, just most things." Tsukiyomaru answered calmly.
"Hey, it's Tsuki!"
"Quick, take this knife and stab my brain through my eye!" Tsukiyomaru cried as he shoved the knife into Twilight's hands.
"You honestly trust me with a knife?" Twilight asked sarcastically.
"Hi guys!" Thanatos said cheerily.
"Don't hold back, jam it in there dammit!" Tsukiyomaru said desperately.
"You've obviously never seen my play FPS." Twilight chuckled.
"Hey." Ghost said.
"Who are you?" Tsukiyomaru asked.
"Ouch, that kind of hurts." Ghost answered.
"Well you guys didn't really talk much last night given that you were busy trying to kick the crap out of Haseo." Twilight answered with a shrug. "Besides, he's bad with names. It's why he prefers Geass over the Death Note."
Tsukiyomaru was about to say something when a cheerful song rang through the air. Tsukiyomaru quickly pulled out his cell phone and looked at it. "Deus E. Machina? Who the hell is that? I don't know him."
"Nice ring tone. Houki Boshi is a great song." A student walking by said.
"Thanks." Tsukiyomaru said, not really paying attention as he placed his cell phone in his pocket.
"Hi! Who are you?" Thanatos asked with a cheerfulness Tsukiyoamru thought impossible to be had in someone so early in the morning.
"My friends call me Kira, not that I have many friends." Kira answered.
"K-Kira?" Tsukiyomaru asked in shock. He looked up and looked at the face of the Slypher Red student. He had long and messy brown hair and looked slightly over weight. Tsukiyomnaru stared at him and he smiled back.
"Hi Tsuki." He greeted.
"What are you doing here?" Tsukiyomaru asked.
"Well fine, if you don't want me here." The boy said as he turned to walk away. Tsukiyomaru's hand shot out and grabbed his shoulder. Kira turned back and smiled at him. "Just kidding." He said cheerfully. He sat down next to Twilight, Thanatos and Ghost sitting down next to him.
"Did I say you two could be here?" Tsukiyomaru asked in his calm but annoyed voice.
"Are we allowed to be here?" Ghost asked.
Tsukiyomaru stared at them for a moment. He pointed at Ghost. "You stay." He said and then pointed at Thanatos. "You get the hell out of here."
"Aw, why?" Thanatos whined.
"Because you're presence literally hurts me." Tsukiyomaru answered calmly.
"Oh come on Tsuki, let him stay." Kira said. Thanatos smiled widely and Tsukiyomaru sighed. "So how have you two been?" Kira asked.
"I've been doing pretty well. I can actually play the game now, more or less." Twilight answered.
"I've been fine." Tsukiyomaru answered. "And you?"
"I've been doing well for the most part." Kira answered. "I wanted a fresh start at a new school since my old one got a little stressful for me. So I talked it over with my parents and I got them to let me come here. I had no idea I'd see you two here. Are you guys going out yet?"
Twilight spat the water she had been drinking out of her mouth and right into ghost. Tsukiyomaru gave Kira an annoyed glare, while Ghost cleaned himself off with a napkin. "Why must you ask that?" Tsukiyomaru sighed.
"Well you always said that you might fall for Twilight if you had any daily or extended contact with her so I just thought,"
"And there lies the problem." Tsukiyomaru cut him off. Kira frowned but Tsukiyomaru smiled. "Just kidding." He added.
"Wow, you guys seem like good friends." Thanatos said. "It kind of makes me sad when I think about all of my friends that I won't see for the whole school year. I'm not as lucky as Tsuki to get to see my old best friend and my girlfriend all year."
"When did I say you could refer to me in such a friendly manner?" Tsukiyomaru asked, too tired of the girlfriend joke to care at the moment.
"But we are friends." Thanatos answered with a happy smile.
"Ghost, please remove Thanatos." Tsukiyomaru replied.
"Oh come on!" Thanatos whined.
"Attention passengers." A voice said over the ship's speaker system. "We will be docking at Duel Academy in approximately one hour. Please make sure all of your belongings are packed and that you are ready to leave."
"Finally." Thanatos sighed. "This boat was beginning to get boring! Come on Ghost, let's go pack our crap!"
"Aw, I wanted to eat." Ghost moaned before Thanatos dragged him away. The two made it back to their rooms, walking down the hallway quickly. Thanatos moved quickly, Ghost jogging behind him to catch up. "Why am I following this guy again?" he asked himself before turning a corner and colliding with someone. "I'm sorry!" he cried, getting up and helping the person.
"Watch where you're going!" the boy snapped irritably as he fixed his black hair. He was an Obelisk Blue student but those two things were all Ghost could see before he moved out of the hallway. Ghost shrugged, moving down the hallway. He frowned when he saw one of the doors open and looked inside.
The room was a Ra yellow's, he could tell because the furniture and decorations were the same as within his own room. He looked into the room for a second, wondering if Thanatos had barged in somehow. "Thanatos has no idea where he's going." Ghost muttered to himself. He turned to leave, coming face to face with a shocked Konjiki.
"What are you doing here?" Konjiki asked.
"The door was open." Ghost explained as Konjiki walked past him. "So I,"
"Where's my deck?" Konjiki asked suddenly, silencing Ghost.
"Pardon?"
"Where the hell is my deck?" Konjiki asked angrily as he looked around. He turned on Ghost, the teen already knowing that this would end badly for him. Konjiki lunged at him, grabbed his collar, and slammed him against the wall. "My grandmother gave me that deck you bastard. What did you do to it!?"
"Nothing, I swear!" Ghost cried fearfully.
Konjiki quickly searched Ghost, obviously not caring about the boy's personal space. He came up empty, aside from Ghost's wallet and his own deck. But he remained unconvinced and grabbed Ghost before he could run away. "Where is it!?" he roared angrily.
"I don't know!" Ghost insisted.
"Oh lord, what is with this racket?" an annoyed voice asked. Ghost and Konjiki looked out to see Meiga looking at them.
"Yay, it's the parasitic moth!" Ghost cheered thankfully.
"What are you two doing?" Meiga asked again, though still looked bored.
"This little shit stole my deck!" Konjiki roared angrily.
"Oh please, settle down." Meiga sighed. "Come with me, I'll get things settled."
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"What!?" Thanatos cried when he heard the news. Kira flinched slightly at the loud cry.
"I'm only saying what I heard." He answered. "I thought I should tell you since you looked like good friends and all." Kira trailed off, for Thanatos had already zipped off down the hallway. Thanatos rushed down the hallway, searching for where the teacher's rooms were on the ship. He rounded a corner and kicked a door open.
"That wasn't locked you know." Zane muttered as he looked at Thanatos. Meiga, Konjiki, and Ghost were in the room as well. Ghost sat in a chair before the three, Zane sitting in a desk with Meiga and Konjiki standing around him.
"Ghost what's going on!?" Thanatos cried, paying no mind to the other three.
"I get the feeling that I'm going to be seeing a lot of Thanatos this year." Zane muttered to himself again.
"This little bastard stole my deck!" Konjiki roared.
"I did not!" Ghost cried.
"You did so! I saw you in my room!"
"But I don't have the deck on me!"
"You hid it somewhere!"
"Ghost isn't the kind of person to do that!"
"Thanks Thanatos!"
"But out! Didn't you only meet him last night?!"
"Yeah but he's my best friend at Duel Academy! Well, maybe Haseo is but I don't see him that often unless he comes to me so Ghost is instead."
"Thanks, I think…"
"Stop defending him if you have no proof he didn't!"
"Stop accusing if you have no proof he did!"
"QUIET!" Zane roared, silencing the three students' shouting and making Meiga take a step away from him. "Enough already." Zane sighed. "Surely there must be some way to settle this. If I let you go then Konjiki will whine and you may have done it. If I punish you then Thanatos will whine and you may not have done it." Zane sat back and frowned. "Why did I ever accept this job again?" he mused.
"They could duel." Meiga suggested.
"With what deck?" Konjiki snapped.
"I'll duel him then." Meiga suggested with a shrug. "I've been bored this whole trip to be honest. If I win Konjiki picks the punishment and he gives up the deck. If he wins then it's case closed and we look into it further."
"You better win." Konjiki growled angrily at Meiga, apparently forgetting that he was his teacher.
"Right." Meiga said with a sick smile.
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Moments later the group was inside of a small room, just big enough for a duel. Ghost faced off against Meiga, determined to prove his innocence. "I will win!" he cried.
Ghost: 4000
Meiga: 4000
"I'll go first." Meiga said as he drew a card. "I play a monster face down, and two other cards face down. Turn end."
'He uses Worms.' Ghost thought quickly as he looked over his hand. 'Each one has a flip effect or an effect that triggers with other flip effects. That means the best way to win is to shut down those powers.' "My turn!" Ghost cried, bringing his hand to six. "I play two cards face down and summon Falcon of Mist Valley!" A wind surged as the warrior descended from the sky. She had short gray hair, tan skin, a dark green top with tight black shorts and a red ribbon skirt over it. She had a large shield on her left hand and a large blade in her right. The falcon part about her was the pair of falcon wings on her back. (2000/1200)
"I end my turn." Ghost finished.
"I flip up my Worm Cartaros (1200/0)!" A light brown monster revealed itself. It had a vertically placed mouth, long fingers, and it's back peeled to create two sets of moth-like wings. It's eyes were yellow with black sclera. "He allows me to add a four star or lower Worm monster from my deck to my hand." Meiga searched through and smiled. "Prepare, young thief, to face the power of my deck. I activate a trap card, Reptilian Pheromone!"
Meiga revealed his trap, showing a large orange worm monster sending out a thick orange gas that attracted more worms to it. "When a Worm monster is flipped up I may summon one Worm monster from my hand. I select my Worm Ugly (100/100)!" A large slime ball rose up from the ground. It oozed purple slime and was covered in lime green boils. It had a small sucker and two red eyes on it's body. It floated, the slime bubbling and the mouth sucking at the air.
"Ugly is right." Konjiki said, not hiding his disgust.
"Ew!" Thanatos agreed.
"Be quiet you golden moron, I'm helping you in this!" Meiga snapped angrily before turning back to ghost and smiling. "Now since this was a special summon I can still play a monster. I offer Worm Ugly to summon Worm Warlord!" The ball of puss exploded to reveal a dark orange creature. It's body was round, two arms on the top and bottom with two legs on the right and left. It had a mouth like the other Worms, though it was diagonal rather than vertical. It's eyes were diagonal as well, one top right and the other in the bottom left of it's face. (2350/1800)
"If your strategy is disturbing beyond all reason then you're doing a good job so far." Ghost muttered. He gasped when he saw Ugly surface on his side of the field.
"When Ugly is offered for a Worm monster I may summon him to your side of the field in attack mode!" Meiga cried triumphantly. "Warlord, attack Ugly!" Warlord screeched and charged at Ugly. He tore into the slimy creature, knocking Ghost over in the process.
Ghost: 1750
"Trap activate, Damage Condenser!" Ghost cried as he recovered. "I discard a card from my hand to summon a monster with equal or lower battle damage to the amount I took." Ghost removed his card and brought forth his new warrior. "Come forth Shaman of Mist Valley (1200/1200)!" In a whirlwind another monster appeared. Another girl, she wore tight black clothing that covered her upper face. She had bird-like claws and gray wings. A red eye was drawn onto the fold that covered her face.
"Pointless!" Meiga cried joyfully. "When Warlord destroys a monster he may attack once more! Go, attack with Reptilian Rampage!" Warlord shrieked and charged at the blonde girl.
"Trap activate, Battle Tuned!" Ghost cried. "When this card activates I may Synchro Summon a monster during the battle phase!" Shaman glowed and exploded into four green stars. Falcon jumped up, the stars lining up within here. Yellow rings appeared, forming around the warrior.
"Whisper on the gentle breeze. Howl in the furious hurricanes. Winds of mind and soul blow away those that oppose you! Synchro Summon! Crash down, Thunder Lord of Mist Valley!"
The rings filled with lightening and exploded, the lightening crashing down. A massive beast stood in front of Ghost. He was golden, with his stomach purple with red markings. He had black raven wings and sharp bird claws and talons. He carried a large dagger, the hand and guard mechanical with the yellow blade shaped like lightening. He had red bone around his eyes, the eyes themselves glowing like lightening. (2600/2400)
"Amazing!" Thanatos cried, clapping excitedly.
"Indeed." Zane said blankly.
"Damn it." Meiga cursed. "Turn end."
"And turn begin." Ghost said with a smile. "I play two cards face down and summon my Thunder Bird of Mist Valley (1100/700)!" In a small crash of lightening a lime green bird appeared on the field. It had ornate lightening shaped tail feathers, with spiky feathers that rimmed it's eyes. "Now Thunder Lord allows me to return on card I own to it's owner's hand to gain 500 attack." The bird glowed, turning into lightening that covered the Thunder Lord.
"However, when the Thunder Bird is returned to my hand I may special summon him back to the field." The bird returned as if nothing happened, but the Thunder Lord kept his charged. "Go! Attack Cartaros with Lightening Squall!" Thunder Lrod roared, sending his claws forward and filling Cartaros with lightening. He exploded, blasting Meiga back a bit and damaging his life points.
Meiga: 2000
"Damn you, you little neophyte!" Meiga roared angrily. "I refuse to allow a student to harm me so! I planned on going easy on you, but no more! When your turn ends Thunder Lord weakens, giving me my chance." Thunder Lord did indeed loose his glowing aura as Meiga drew his card. "I activate Limb Regeneration! By paying 500 life points I may summon a Worm in my grave. Welcome back Ugly." The ball of slime returned slowly to the field, the body bubbling and oozing.
"Next up, I summon my Worm King! By offering a Worm he can be summoned with one monster!" Worm Ugly swelled up, Ghost backing away in surprise. It exploded, covering the other monsters in slime. Standing in it's place was a large orange Worm centaur. It's lower body had a large mouth with eyes, while it's head was smaller with small horns. It's lower body was covered in spines and it's back had several horns. Worm Ugly reformed on Ghost's field.
"No!" Ghost cried fearfully. 'He changed strategies!' he thought frantically. 'He hardly used any flips at all!'
"Worm King, attack Ugly with Royal Slime!" Worm King roared as it's lower mouth unleashed a green slime that destroyed Ugly and knocked Ghost down in it's torrent. Ghost watched his life points tumble down quickly.
Ghost: 0
"I lost." Ghost said in shock. "I'm going to be expelled."
"Serves you right thief!" Konjiki snapped angrily. "Now tell me where you hid my deck!"
"Everyone!" a familiar voice cried. The group turned to see Haseo running into the room. He stopped and began panting in front of them. "I heard, huff, about, huff, the duel!"
"Too late." Ghost sighed sadly. "I lost."
"No!" Haseo cried fearfully. "Oh no this is my fault!"
"What do you mean?" Zane asked curiously.
"Konjiki-san allowed me to use his room to take a nap so others wouldn't ask me to duel them." Haseo explained. "After I woke up I left the room in a hurry to pack and I think I may have left the door open."
"Oh, so that's how he got in." Meiga mused, glancing at Ghost.
"I swear I didn't!" Ghost cried.
"Wait a minute!" Haseo cried. "I saw someone!" The group fell silent and looked at him again. "After leaving I saw a student walking past me. He had black hair, he was an Obelisk Blue, he had pale skin, and he was coughing a bit."
"I ran into him!" Ghost cried, remembering the boy. "I forgot in all of the excitement and fear but I think I ran into the boy you're talking about!"
"Pale, Obelisk Blue, and coughing a lot." Zane muttered to himself thoughtfully. "Umehito." He realized. "He's supposedly a genius but he's very sickly. He transferred here from East Academy."
"Could he have stolen my deck?" Konjiki asked curiously.
"Of course! I knew Ghost wouldn't!" Thanatos cried.
In a few minutes the group was in Umehito's room. "I have no idea what you are talking about!" he cried before coughing violently. "I've never seen any of you before. I went to bed last night early because I wasn't feeling well. I have no idea who Haseo or Konjiki are!"
"Then what's this?" Haseo asked a she picked a deck up from the bedside table. He flipped through it and smiled. "Batteryman AA." He said, spreading the cards out to show Konjiki's deck.
"No." Umehito gasped.
Konjiki cried out and took the deck form Haseo. He hugged the younger boy closer to him. "Thank you so much man!" he cried tearfully. "This deck was my grandmothers. She used to be the Lightening Queen, a famous duelist. She gave this deck to me for her tenth birthday right before she died." Konjiki tearfully hugged Haseo, Haseo gasping for air but hugging back all the same.
"No problem." He squeaked as Zane and Meiga took the protesting Umehito out of the room to discuss punishment.
"It was a problem man!" Konjiki cried. He turned to ghost and smiled apologetically at him. "I am so sorry dude." He said. "I almost got you demoted or something!"
"It's no problem, really." Ghost answered, just hoping for the whole situation to be over with. Konjiki turned to Haseo and smiled again.
"We're friends form now on." He said warmly. "Consider you my new best friend, period. If you ever need anything just tell me and I'll make it happen." Haseo smiled and motioned for Konjiki to follow him out of the room. Konjiki picked his bag up and did, following the younger boy out.
"Funny you should say that." Haseo said with a small smile. "I've been looking for a few helpers and honestly I thought you would be the perfect first member."