Oscar rushed to class with his wrinkled Osiris blazer not even all the way on. It was only the first day of class and Oscar was already more than thirty minutes late for his first class. Sweat formed on his brow as he passed the cafeteria nearing the classroom he needed to be in.

Not even thinking of slowing down, Oscar burst through the doors interrupting the teacher midsentence and causing all the students to turn to see to cause of the commotion. Oscar blushed a bright red that almost matched his unkempt Osiris uniform while many of his fellow classmates pointed and laughed at him.

'Just like I thought. He'd be nothing but a Osiris Oaf,' Atlas smirked as he watched the Osiris student fumble around looking for a seat. And as if by some cruel chance of fate, or at least that's how Atlas perceived it, Oscar looked in hi s general direction and noticed the empty seat next to the elitist Obelisk Blue. Oscar smiled while Atlas cursed himself for not hiding his face from the Osiris student. Oscar clumsily shuffled past other students as he made his way to the seat.

Atlas let out an inaudible sigh as Oscar plopped down right beside him. "So what did I miss?" Oscar asked as he pulled out a few crumpled pieces of paper and a pen missing its cap to take notes with.

"Only the syllabus," Atlas replied quickly hoping that Oscar would have nothing else to say after that. Unfortunately for Atlas it wasn't. For the rest of class, Oscar bombarded him with questions about his brothers (much to Atlas's disdain) and what it was like to be famous. Atlas bit back his tongue struggling from just telling the eager Osiris the just shut up.

Class went by and when the teacher the class, Atlas attempted to get out of dodge but failed miserably as Oscar followed his every step not missing a beat.

It wasn't long until Atlas stood in front of the Obelisk Blue dormitories with Oscar still accompanying him.

"It looks like someone went slumming," came a callus voice to the right of Atlas and Oscar.

Atlas snapped his head to the origin of the insult then snarled his face in disgust when he found who he was looking for. The culprit was a tall, pale boy with jet black hair wearing an oversized Obelisk Blue jacket.

"Haven't I seen you before?" Atlas asked coldly. "Oh right…weren't you the star from The Nightmare Before Christmas?"

"Oh, how original! I've only heard that one a million times," the skeleton like boy retorted, "and the name is actually Walter Whitley."

"Well Walter Whitley, you have no business insulting me based on the people I'm around, especially when said person has been following me around like a lost puppy." Atlas looked on with distaste at the slender Obelisk.

"Wait," Oscar interjected confusedly, "are you guys talking about me." Oscar scratched his head starting to finally get what was finally going on.

"Bravo genius. You're finally getting a clue." Walter clapped as he taunted Oscar. "Aren't you that Oscar kid that interrupted class today? Wow, you really are an idiot."

Atlas could visibly see the change in Oscar's mood as his face darkened and permanent smile turned into a frown. Atlas knew exactly how this situation would be resolved, which meant he'd have a chance to escape from the bag of bones donned in blue and the dimwit wrapped in red.

"Look creep," Oscar said while unzipping his backpack and taking out his duel disk, "you don't even know me and you have the nerve to judge me based on the color of my jacket!"

"Um…yeah, that's kind of what the different colored jackets are for. Allow us to determine who's good," Walter spit while looking Oscar up and down, "and who's just pathetic."

"I'll have you know the only reason I'm not wearing the same color as you is because I'm not the greatest test taker!" Oscar's face started to turn a beet red. "It's true that I barely passed the written test and that I chocked during the duel exam, but I can still knock some sense into you."

Walter laughed as he pulled out his own duel disk. "Well Oli-boy, let's put your words to the test."

Duel

(Oscar: 4000)

(Walter: 4000)

Oscar grinned as both his and Walter's duel disks activated . "Well, I plan to show you Obelisks what Osiris like me can do." He smirked as he drew six from his deck indicating he was taking the first move.

"I'll start by summoning Oshaleon (1400/800) in attack position." As Oscar placed the card on his duel disk an odd multicolored chameleon with white stars on its body appeared in front of him. "Now I'll end my turn."

"What a pathetic first move!" Walter exclaimed as his pale fingers snagged a card from the top of his deck. "I'll show you a real move. Now I summon Blood Drain Knight (1900/0)!"

A skeletal warrior wielding a sword made of what appeared to be a spinal cord leapt out of the ground in front of Walter. "But it doesn't end there, because now he's gonna attack your overgrown lizard."

The boney warrior dashed across the field of an astounding speed and brought the blade through the quirky chameleon destroying it quickly (Oscar: 3500). "And if you thought it was over there, then you're dumber than you look, because now I activate my knight's ability. By paying 400 Life Points I can now inflict damage to you equal to the level of the monster he just destroyed multiplied by 300."

Blood appeared to flow from Walter to his knight as his Life Points dropped (Walter: 3600). The knight then swung his blade causing multiple shards of bone to fly straight through Oscar (Oscar: 2600). "Now I'll leave you with a face-down and let you continue showing us your pathetic dueling skills."

"Pathetic? Ha, that's funny." Oscar laughed as he drew a card. "Well while you were so wrapped up in activating your monster's effect, you didn't notice the effect of Oshaleon activated when you knight destroyed him which allowed me to add a reptile from my deck with less than 500 attack from my deck to my hand," Oscar smirked as he held his hand of seven.

"Oh, I'm so scared. What did you add to your hand, a gecko or maybe a baby field snake. Haha, what could a monster with only 500 attack do?" Walter replied as a toothy girn showcased his pearly white teeth.

"Let me show you! I summon the card I added to my hand, Gigobyte (350/300)." A small green, humanoid crocodile creature appeared in front of Oscar.

Both Atlas and Walter had to keep their jaws from dropping from looking at the puny, green creature Oscar just summoned to the field. 'What could he possibly be planning to do with that,' Atlas thought to himself as he found himself wrapped in the duel instead of leaving like he planned originally.

"Next I activate the continuous spell card Crocodile Feeding Grounds. Now once per turn, I can send one level four or lower reptile from my deck to increase the attack of a reptile monster I control." As Oscar activated the card, his side of the field started to transform to a marsh with shallow water and reeds. "So now I'll send my Lion Alligator (1900/200) from my deck to the graveyard to power up Gigobyte. Go ahead buddy, feeding time." The green reptile noticed a ripple in the water to his left then dived. There was some thrashing and splashing for a few seconds before Gigobyte rose from the water empowered (2250/300).

"Gigobyte, go tear that bone…thing to shreds with Ferocious Bite!" The pumped up crocodile lunged across the field aiming straight for the Blood Drain Knight.

"Predictable," Walter said with a mild tone. "I activate my face-down Rush Recklessly to increase the attack of my knight by 700." The knight easily dodged Gigobyte's attack as his own power raised (2600/0). The zombie then brought its blade down through Gigobyte destroying him and causing Oscar to cringe (Oscar: 2250).

"And don't forget my knight's ability," Walter pointed out as blood drained from him and his knight threw his knight threw more bones Oscar's way (Walter: 3200) (Oscar: 1950). "I might've taken a slightly bigger hit than you to activate that effect, but I'm so far ahead it doesn't even matter." Walter cackled loudly.

Oscar remained silent as he slid two cards in his back row. "Make your move."

"Looks like the dog has lost his bark, ha and you never really had a bite to begin with," Walter drew a card then immediately slammed it down on his deck. "I summon Blood Drain Merchant (1000/0), and now that I've summoned him, I'll pay 800 life points to draw two cards." A skeleton garbed in expensive looking silk robes appeared before Walter and drained his blood as Walter drew two cards (Walter: 2400).

"Now Blood Drain Knight attack him directly." The skeleton didn't hesitate before slashing into Oscar with his spine blade (Oscar: 50). "And now to end you. Blood Drain Merchant, teach this Osiris Oaf his place."

The finely dressed skeleton launched across the field preparing to connect its bony fist with Oscar's face, but before the attack could finish a large crocodile with a smaller crocodile sucking on a pacifier appeared on Oscar's side of the field.

"Sorry," Oscar said with a slight smile, "but I activated Damage = Reptile before you attacked with your knight which lets me special summon a reptile type monster from my deck with an attack equal to or less than the damage I took and I chose to summon Mother Croc (1400/1600) in defense position."

Walter's pale face started to grow bright red, "but—"

"I'm not finished there, because when Mother Croc is normal or special summoned, I can add any reptile type monster from my deck." Oscar added as he slid his deck out and searched for the card he needed.

"Fine," Walter exclaimed. "I'll just end my turn with a face-down, but you do know you're only delaying the inevitable, right?"

"We'll see," Oscar said as he drew a card. "I'll release Mother Croc to summon to the field the card I just added to my hand, Giga Gagagigo (2450/1500)." The crocodile sank down into the water left by Oscar's continuous spell as a larger humanoid crocodile emerged that looked like a grownup Gigobyte that was destroyed earlier except with some of his body parts exchanged with mechanical parts.

"I think you made him mad when you destroyed him before. Now he's angrier than ever." The large creature looked at the bone knight that had easily hacked through his younger form then let out a terrifying roar.

'Now we're getting somewhere,' Atlas thought as he silently found himself rooting for the Osiris, not that he would ever let him know.

"Now I'll activate the effect of Crocodile Feeding Grounds to send Razor Lizard (1500/300) from my deck to the graveyard to increase the attack of Giga Gagagigo." The large crocodilian thrust its mouth into the water gobbling up its prey (3950/1500.

"Now attack his merchant and this duel!" The giant reptile lunged across the field preparing to make quick work of the merchant but was stopped by an invisible barrier.

"I activate the Negate Attack. Nice try Osiris but you have to know by now that I'm always going to be one step ahead of you," Walter said, but Atlas didn't miss the waver in his voice. Atlas knew that Walter wasn't actually expecting such a strong attack from Oscar.

"Fine. I still have the monster with the strongest attack , so I'll just end my turn." Oscar responded confidently as Giga Gagagigo's attack dropped back to normal (2450/1500).

"Not for long," Walter chided in as he drew a card. "You see, I've been holding my strongest card since the beginning of the duel. Now I'll sacrifice both Blood Drain Knight and Blood Drain Merchant to summon a stronger beast." The bones of the two monsters broke apart then started to viciously swirl around in a circle.

"From pain and blood comes power and from cruelty comes the ability to use it! Form, king of suffering, Blood Drain Emperor (2600/0)." The bones started to go form together to create a large skeleton covered in heavy obsidian armor holding a giant metal hammer with spikes on both ends of it.

"Now I'll pay half of my life points to destroy every card on the field except for my emperor." The skeleton ruler drained a large amount of blood from Walter as the blood started to swirl around him in a ring (Walter: 1200). The emperor then lifted up his hammer and the blood started to shout out like bullets annihilating everything on the field, including Oscar's now face-up trap card.

"The card I just activated was Wabuko, which means any battle damage I take this turn will be reduced to zero," Oscar said relieved.

"You stall too much, but whatever I'll take you out eventually."

"Maybe you will beat me eventually, but not today. I activate Monster Reborn to revive Gigobyte (350/300)," Oscar thrust his fist in the air as his favorite monster busted from the ground.

Atlas sighed as he viewed what he thought was a giant mistake on Oscar's part. 'He could of anything back…but he chose to bring back that weakling. Welp, I guess that's why he's in Osiris Red.'

"Wow! Have you completely lost it?" Walter was practically in tears from laughing so hard.

"Not quite because now I'll equip Gigobyte with Amulet of Ambition and then he'll attack your emperor with Ferocious Bite!" A small star shaped necklace appeared on the little crocodile's neck right before it jumped straight for Blood Drain Emperor.

'He really has lost it,' Atlas and Walter simultaneously thought. But before either of them could say a word, a bright red aura surrounded Gigobyte as his attack skyrocketed (3850/300).

"You see when a normal monster equipped with Amulet of Ambition attacks a higher-leveled monster it gains attack equal to the difference in level times 500. And I count a difference of seven levels, which means you and your emperor are toast," Oscar explained with a slight smirk on his face.

Gigobyte collided with the emperor and burst out the other side before Walter even had a chance to react.

(Walter: 0)

(Oscar: 50)

"And that's how Osiriss do it!" Oscar as he stuck a thumbs up towards Atlas who's mouth was wide open.

Atlas only shook his head in a mixture of disbelief, confusion, and disappointment as he walked into his dorm building with Oscar hot on his heels

...

'How could I lose to a Osiris,' Walter thought to himself in his dorm still in shock form his duel earlier in the day with Oscar. "Mark my words, I will defeat you Oscar…no matter what it takes."


Cards of the Duel:

Oscar Hayden:

Gigobyte - Lv 1, Water, Reptile, 350/300

He has a tranquil soul, but carries a destiny that one day his heart shall be tainted by evil...

Walter Whitley:

Blood Drain Emperor - Lv 8, Dark, Zombie, 2600/0

Once per turn, you can pay half of your Life Points to destroy all other cards on the field. When this card destroys a monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard: Gain Life Points equal to the original ATK of that destroyed monster in the Graveyard.

Oliver surprised everyone after defeating Walter, an Obelisk Blue, with only a few life points left. Atlas is learning that Duel Academy won't be a place full of pushovers, especially when he witnesses a "friendly" duel between two best friends. Catch the next chapter, Bourne to be Wilde.