Chapter 15: Classes
Today was the night of the dance, but first I had the first class of the year. I walked into my Duel Prep 2 class and no one stared at me like I would have thought they would after the nightmare I had. I just walked in the class and sat in my section with Kari, while Jaden joined, TK and Syrus in the Slifer Red section. I hated the segregation in our classes but it was by team and seeing as they weren't on my team that was just how it was.
"How are you Kari?" I said regreeting Kari the second time today.
"I'm great Alexis, so where are Mimi and Jane. Don't you usually hang out with them?" Kari asked.
"Yah I usually do but I decided to become a little dependant from them this year, I don't see them much anymore but they're in this class, but they'll most likely be late." Kari nodded understanding.
Year 2 Duelist, Part 1Schedule:
8am- Dueling 2a- Mark York
9am- Gym- Mrs. Jen
10am- Card Recognition 2- John Larks
11am- History of Dueling- Taylor Nans
12am- Lunch- All Students
1pm- Dueling 2b- Mark York
2pm- Analyzing - Elena Blain
Part 1 is a special group sorted by how you scored on your final the year before, that means TK, Syrus, Jaden, Sebastian, Kari, Chazz and myself are all on one group, I pushed Syrus and Jaden to their testing limits and they did good. In our first year they separated alphabetically by last name into 2 groups by year. A-M and N-Z.
Dueling 2: Duelist duel other duelists and try to gain levels and win as many duels as possible while using only their cards and not adding or subtracting, works as a sort of tournament. Students are commented by other students and the teacher on their dueling performance, Duel Disks and Decks Needed.
Gym: Students have a period to do the given sport of the week, directed by gym teacher. Duel Disks and Decks are not needed.
Card Recognition 2: It explains different cards and their purpose in play, their style what kind decks incorporate what kind of cards and how to use and play the cards and how best to use the cards in a duel at what time. Lecture Class, Duel Disks and Decks are not needed; Class Book Required.
History of Dueling 2: Students learn of the past history of dueling, they travel through time learning of great duelists, reasons for their dueling and history of the school and other dueling objects over time. Lecture Class, Duel Disks and Decks are not needed, Class Books Required.
Analyzing: Students learn how to react and analyze situations in duels that require thought and coming up with strategies and ideas. Lecture Class, Duel Disks and Decks needed, no dueling in class
"Welcome to Duel Prep 2, class. I am Mr. Mark York and I will be your homeroom teacher as well as Duel Prep 2 teacher. As you know this class explores different strategies different people use in battle, I will pairing you up according to your Dueling Class, I mean the letters you were all assigned, not the group."
I smiled about this, he was pairing us up on our level of dueling, not just because of dueling level which sounded fair. At least someone read the article, no one complained so I guess we made a difference in the school.
"See you were right about writing that article it's already made a huge difference in our first class of the year, see how great you were to think about writing that." Kari said, Kari and I were paired up because we were both Class A duelists, and we were next to each other, Jaden was paired up with Brandon Loft, Class A, he has only lost to a Jaden, me and a few others, he is an obelisk and is really good duelist. Syrus was paired with TK and Chazz with Sebastian.
After a lot of duels with lots of people and the outcomes for Jaden and I were all wins, and our class levels were trading up and down and we were doing very well, Kari won all of hers against everyone except Jaden, Brandon, me and Chazz which is still great for only taking a few classes last year.
"So now what do we have?" Kari asked, I pulled out my schedule and looked at it.
"Gym, great." I said sarcastically, Kari laughed.
"It couldn't be that bad, how was it at the beginning of the year last year?" Kari asked.
"Let's see, normal if you say Jaden almost killing me with a tennis ball, then some strange kid falls in love with me, then the kid challenges Jaden to see who will becomes my fiancé." Kari burst out and laughter. "It isn't funny."
"Yah it is, at least for me it is. Maybe not for you," Kari said, still laughing. "What else has happened in gym?" Kari asked interested in my unusual stories.
"That's it for things that involved me. Jaden has beaten Dr. Crowler with every sort of ball I can think of, basketball, tennis ball, soccer ball, and a baseball." Kari laughed.
"I think subconscious Jaden doesn't like Dr. Crowler but his mind doesn't know that because Jaden respects him but just accidentally ends up beating up Dr. Crowler." I nodded, Kari's idea seemed to match what happened in classes.
"It also might be that Dr. Crowler makes it happen because on the first day Jaden beat Crowler and showed him up in every class all day." Kari laughed, Kari had seen some of the times Jaden showed up Dr. Crowler but she hadn't heard all the stories.
"Any more funny stories?"
"Tons, Dr. Crower once wrote a note to Jaden from me, which wasn't but Jaden never uses his own locker so when Dr. Crowlder put the note in the locker with Jaden's shoes, Syrus was late and saw the note and thought it was for him. Syrus came to the girls' dorm and Mimi, Jane and I caught him and I hadn't met Jaden in person so we kidnapped Syrus and told Jaden to battle me for the chance to not get both of them in trouble."
"Nice, so how'd it turn out Alexis?" Kari asked.
"Jaden won of course, I lost by 300 points, it was close and that's when we first fell in love. He fell in love with my personality in my dueling. A duel can tell you everything about a person."
"You two get to have all the fun."
"You'll have more than your share of extra adventures this year, don't you and TK have adventures when you're home?"
"We had two main adventures but it's been a while, we enjoyed another adventure last year, we had an adventure to save the digital world when we were 8 and again when we were 12 but none since then."
"Last year on top of this summer would be all I can take of dangerous and crazy adventures, all the sadness, happiness and the danger put together any sane person would quit after the first thing."
"Yah but you and me lost our saneness after the first crazy thing that happened. We also enjoy adventure and excitement." Kari said jumping around in the locker room for gym, Kari didn't have gym with us because that was first semester, second semester we have Art.
"So any other amusing stories you have, I was only here for 2 months but I had fun while I was here, so what do you have to say?" Kari asked.
"I can't think of any other stories that Jaden or I haven't told you, I guess you know us very well."
"Yah, so let's go get dressed for gym." I sighed and got dressed gym was a bit boring because we were just getting the class intro today. We just sat and listened to all the rules that she gave us, Mrs. Jen was our gym teacher again this year.
"That was a real waste of gym, don't you think Syrus." Syrus shook his head furiously.
"I like not doing anything in gym, it keeps me safe from you Jaden." I laughed and Kari and I joined in with TK, Syrus, and Jaden talking.
"TK has always been good at sports Syrus, maybe Jaden can partner up with him and save you some of the pain. What did you do to Syrus, Jaden?" Kari asked, both complimenting TK and caring for Syrus.
"Syrus what are you saying, you just don't like having hard competition in sports, you'd rather just play table tennis so the only way you'd get hurt is with you hitting yourself with the racket." Kari, TK, and I laughed at Jaden's joke. We went to our respective locker rooms, and then settled down for our next class, which was also a new teacher, Mr. John Larks.
"Hello my name is Dr. John Larks. I'm not going to introduce the course because you took it last year, so what is a card that adds to the attack or defense points of a card. I stood up. "Also when you answer questions for the next few weeks, please say your name before the answer." I nodded.
"Alexis Rhodes, an equip spell card." He nodded and I sat down.
"Will someone else please name another way to increase your attack or defense strength, and someone else, an example of that card."
"Syrus Truesdale, a field magic card," He nodded and Syrus happily sat down.
"Jaden Yuki, skyscraper," He nodded and Jaden sat down.
"Okay, now what if you needed another way and had no magic or spell cards."
Kari smiled at me and stood up. "Kari Kamiya, you could use a trap that lowers the strength of the attacking monster."
"Very nice Kari, that was our next question but it works similar to that, traps can lower theirs and raise your when your opponent attacks." Kari nodded and we took notes. "Will someone name what the name of that strategy is?" Sebastian stood up.
"It is referred to as the defensive offense strategy used in rare decks, Sebastian Misawa is my name." Sebastian sat down.
"So now we have learned that defenses can easily be used as offensive when you lack in the proper offensive power, or when you lack in your defense you can use offensive maneuvers." We continued to take notes; Mr. Larks was a much better teacher than Dr. Crowler and incorporated everyone. He also called us by our first name and gave us our respects.
After class we now had History of Dueling with Taylor Nans. He seemed friendly, I hated that we had all new teachers in all our main classes, History of Dueling use to be Professor Banner. Card Recognition use to be Dr. Crowler. Dueling 2 use to be all the teachers together but now they have special roles so they got a new teacher, and we didn't have analyzing we had basic dueling which was were we watched famous battles and pointed out what they did wrong which was boring but I liked it.
"Where did dueling come from? Who would think of a game like this? Why invent a game like this? Who were these people? What was their origin for creating these games? These are all questions I am going to ask you and you may answer or you may not, but I will already have known everything about you, so wait for me to call on you, I will ask and you answer, my name is Taylor Nans. Professor Nans for you students so let us begin. Where did dueling come from?" Brandon stood up. "Brandon Loft, Class A, Obelisk Blue Year two, dueling, 36 class duels last year won 13 of them; answer please Brandon."
"Dueling originated in Egypt."
"Very good, who would think of a game like this?" I stood up. "Alexis Rhodes, royalty in our own presence, year 2, class A, obelisk blue, 47 class duels, won 45 of them. Answer please, princess." Ow how much I wanted to smack him.
"They didn't take it as a game, the duel monsters as we called them today we the evil souls inside people which were removed and put in stone tablets then later used to fight in war, it wasn't a game to them."
"A smarty mouthed princess do we, though very correct on this trick question, impressive, who started this event?" Jaden stood up. "Jaden Yuki, dueling prodigy, Slifer Red, Class A, Year 2, won all 125 of his class duels, except 1 he tied with the famous Zane Truesdale, Syrus here's brother, rather impressive." I had no clue how many duels Jaden had done.
"This event was started by the princes and kings of the land to protect their land, as well as the carriers of the 10 millennium items could only play until the final evil came."
"Your teacher must have been wonderful because there hasn't been one wrong answer yet, let's go with me picking the students." I think this is a bad idea because he knows up better than anyone ever has, it was sort of scary. I wanted to stand up and correct him for this indecency. "Takeru Takashi, a year two but never took this class or any one last year, just pasted the exam. He also lost 2 duels the only ones he participated in, from Japan. Okay Takeru what was the name of the prince who Yuki Moto living legend beheld in the millennium puzzle?"
"He wasn't a prince; he was a pharaoh, and a prince, Prince Atem."
"Smart kids, he never took the course and still knows, I give up, teach yourselves, chapter 1 questions 6-29." Everyone started whining. "Don't complain or you'll have 1-5 and 30 too." They were quiet and everyone went to work.
At lunch we all sat down at a table of 6, it was TK, Kari, Jaden, Syrus, Tai and myself. Tai joined because he needed help. "So how were your classes everyone?" We sighed.
"Our History of Dueling teacher stinks, he gave us 24 questions on chapter 1 to do and then he kept telling all our failures and passes in front of the whole class, it was horrible." TK said then returning to his questions.
"Professor Nans? I met him he was like oh hello there Taichi Kamiya, I saw your sister in my class, she's going to lunch now too, you should ask her how her day is I didn't get to talk to her today, nice talking with you, you're a year 1, unclassed, ra yellow. Good-bye."
"He's funny I think, how he conducts his class, giving one class one set of questions and the other another, he seems like a cool guy, other than the whole knowing who we are stuff." Jaden said excited about the class.
After that gym just went by very fast and no one worried about Dueling 2 because it was just dueling and Analyzing, Jaden answered everything, hope you get a good draw, use a spell or trap and that wasn't any of the choices. He was so going to fail, I'd help him later.
"Alexis, may I see you after class." I nodded and then after class I followed her down to her desk, it was funny because she was very tired. "You see I was wondering if you could figure out my schedule for me, I still don't understand, I'm sorry but you work in the office a lot so I thought you'd understand it. Sorry to bother you."
"No problem, first period you have Basic Dueling with group 1, year 1; second period Analyizing with group 2, year 2 then third period, Basic Dueling group 2, year 1; fourth period to the end are all analyzing but forth is year 3, group 1; 6th period is year 3, group 2 and finally group 1, year 2. How did you get through today without it?"
"I wish I knew, see you at the dance." I nodded and ran off to get ready.