Duel Academia Legends
By: DarkStorm
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
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None due to lack of reviews at time of posting...sigh...
Chapter Seven: Potentially Flawed
"Just great," Kisho let out a sigh as he stared at the pink slip in front of him. "Detention for a month," he put the paper in his pocket, and closed his eyes. "All because I missed two classes."
Earlier in the day…
Kisho sitting at the same desk he was in for his previous class, Mechanics of Duel Disk 101 waiting for the next class to start Dueling Strategy and Philosophy 101 the class he played hooky from with Mercy the day before.
Kisho let out a sigh, "I hope I don't get in too much trouble for skipping this class yesterday."
As he finished his sentence the door to the class opened as the teacher walked in. When Kisho got one good look at the teacher he knew he was in hot trouble.
"YOU!" He yelled pointing to Professor Tavarius.
Professor Tavarius calmly put his briefcase on the teacher's desk; he opened it and calmly sat down.
Maybe he didn't notice I missed-
"Mr. Takai, I would like a word with you," he calmly said never once looking over at Kisho.
"D-damn!" Kisho spat out under his breath. Busted Kisho…
Professor Tavarius pulled out a piece of paper from his briefcase, "Where were you yesterday Mr. Takai?" He began to write something down on the paper.
"U-umm w-well-"
"Actually it doesn't really matter," Professor Tavarius stated as he continued to write. "You are not wondering where all the students for the class are?"
Kisho quickly glanced around the room. Where is everyone…did something happen?
"Now to be completely honest with you, I had no idea you were missing from class yesterday, until I spoke with Arnia, she informed me you didn't make it to tutoring yesterday either did you Mr. Takai?"
"U-uhh-"
"No need to answer. Now please," his voice remained calm, "Join me up here."
Kisho slowly got up from his desk and approached Professor Tavarius, he calmly handed Kisho the slip of paper.
"D-DETENTION?!" Kisho did a double take.
"Yes for one full month," Professor Tavarius stated calmly he closed his briefcase and began to walk out the door. "By the way, if you were here yesterday. You would have known that the class was being held in the Ra Yellow Battle Arena today. Now if you'll please follow me, we're late."
Present…
Professor Tavarius walked into the Ra Yellow Battle Arena, with Kisho in tow. When Kisho got a clear view of the arena he noticed how big it was, it had a huge battlefield in the middle as well as a huge stand for spectators to sit. At present everyone in his class was gathered together by rank, Slifer Reds in the first two rows, Ra Yellows in the second two rows and followed by one row of Obelisk Blue.
"Take you're place Mr. Takai," he calmly stated as he walked towards the battle arena.
Kisho quickly scurried over to the stands and found a sit next to a fellow Slifer Red.
"Now class," Professor Tavarius said speaking up. "Like I mentioned yesterday, today I'll announce the pairings for the duels."
"Duels?" Kisho looked around dumbfounded.
"As one of the proctors for the entrance exam, I have all the current information of the strategies of each of you here in the class," Professor pointed to his briefcase. "After carefully analyzing the data, I came up with the pairing for the matches. Now for anyone who missed the class yesterday."
Kisho winced he knew who he meant with that comment.
"Each day two students will compete in a Duel, once the Duel is completed, your assignment will be to write a report on what you thought was done correctly and what was done incorrectly in each Duel, then the following Monday we will meet in class to discuss the Duels from the previous week, and of course, turn in your reports on the Duels. Now with the current class size it will take 5 weeks to complete this, the rest of the agenda before the First Quarter will cover the Dueling Philosophy, which will be explained at that time."
So in other words everyone will get to analyze everyone's skills and write a report about it, I guess this class does have a very good name Dueling Strategy and Philosophy 101. Kisho thought as he watched Professor Tavarius looking over the pairing for the Duels.
Professor Travarius quickly announced the pairings for the first match, it was between a female Obelisk Blue and a male Ra Yellow.
As the match began, Kisho took out his pen and started to take notes on the Duel. This is great; watching Duels learning new strategies, this will help me reach my potential.
After class…
Kisho headed towards the schools library in a hurry, the Duel between the students in Professor Tavarius class ran a little late, but it was really intense, and Kisho had a lot of notes to go over with Arnia.
That is if she isn't mad at me for standing her up. Kisho thought as he reached the library, he quickly found the table Arnia was at, and she didn't look too happy to see him.
"S-sorry I'm late Arnia," Kisho said a little out of breath.
Arnia looked down at her nails, "So you got anything to say?"
"I'm sorry," he held his head down, "I should have sent you a message about yesterday."
"Damn right," she said still looking at her nails, "You do know that performance will determine if I get extra credit for this class."
"Yes and I'm sorry Arnia," Kisho said bowing his head.
"That's Arnia-Sensei to you," she stated still looking at her nails.
"Sorry Arnia-Sensei," Kisho strained with her name. I guess its true about a women's scorn.
"Okay," Arnia's whole demeanor changed as she looked over at Kisho.
Kisho looked a little dumbfounded.
"I know about your month of detention," she smiled.
"You didn't have to say that so pleasantly," Kisho sighed.
"Well that's what you get for standing me up," she stated. "So you going to tell me what happened?"
"Huh?"
"Between you and Mercy."
"You know about that?!"
"Yeah, I saw you two talking in the hall on my way to our session," she smiled.
"Well you see…HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" A loud shush was heard from a bunch of students in the library studying. "You knew about that? Then what's with the hard ass act?" Kisho whispered.
"Just seemed appropriate," she stated calmly, "Now back to business, seeing as all your classes just started, there isn't much in the way of school work yet, so lets start with a look at your deck," she held out her hand.
Kisho reached into his Deck Box on his belt and pulled out his deck, he handed it over to Arnia.
She let out a hmm or uh-huh after shuffling through a few cards, "Just as I thought."
"Good deck huh?" Kisho nodded his head.
"No actually," she placed the deck down on the table.
"Erh?" Kisho chirped. "What do you mean?"
"Don't take this the wrong way…but as your Sensei I've got to whip you into shape. Kind of like a Karate instructor, by analyzing your movements and getting you to hone your every skill to perfection."
"Oh," Kisho said buying into what Arnia was saying.
"Only problem is, unlike Karate where a teacher instructs his or her student in the art they know, I've got to instruct you in Duel Monsters, and you're strategy's are completely different from my own."
"Yeah, you use that Life Point gaining deck, I remember it well," Kisho said thinking back to his first defeat at the Academy against Arnia.
"That's correct," Arnia stated with a finger in the air while nodding her head.
"So how can you tell me there's something wrong with my deck?" Kisho asked.
"Simple, even though they are many possibilities of different cards and deck strategy, all decks have to follow the basic rules of the game," she paused for a moment and looked over at Kisho who stared back at her, a little confused. "NOTES!"
"Oh," Kisho stumbled into his backpack and pulled out a notebook.
"Now I don't expect you to write down the basics of course, but write this down," she cleared her throat. "My-deck-has-a-fatal-flaw."
As Kisho wrote each word he said it, "My-deck-has-a-fatal-flaw," he sighed, as he was one to not like taking notes. "HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" A loud shush was heard from everyone in the library as Kisho sunk into his chair. "What do you mean my deck has a fatal flaw?" He whispered.
"Just that, it has a fatal flaw," Arnia stated. "I noticed it in our Duel against each other."
My deck flawed…but I put that deck together myself…does that mean I'm flawed?
"Well every deck has this flaw really," Arnia stated with a sigh.
"Huh?"
"Duel Monsters, at least the way I look at Duel Monsters is, a game of resources," Arnia calmly stated.
"Okay," Kisho started to take notes.
"Each card in the game is a resource, the monsters, the traps, and the spells. Oh, and also the deck itself. Each Duelist starts the game off with the same amount of resources, like money in the game of Monopoly."
Kisho tries to image what Arnia is talking about and pictures a chibi version of him and Arnia playing Monopoly.
Chibi-Arnia finishes handing out the money and both chibi-Kisho and her have the same amount.
"Now after formalities like who starts and what pieces each player has."
Chibi-Kisho reaches for the car to represent him on the board but chibi-Arnia is quicker in grabbing it. Chibi-Kisho pouts in the corner as chibi-Arnia is holding the car above her head.
She then picks up the dice and rolls them, as they takes turn moving around the board.
"Now by passing Go both players get a salary of 200 Monopoly dollars, just like drawing one card in your draw phase. Now just like how Monopoly is a game of skill, determination and luck so is the game of Duel Monsters."
After a few turns of Monopoly chibi-Kisho as the most expensive area on the board, and some sporadic land across the board, he has a hotel on his most expensive property as well, his money, well was all put into his most expensive property. Chibi-Arnia on the other hand has 3 areas completely to herself with two houses on each of her property and a moderate amount of money in her hand.
"Now this is where the game of Monopoly differs from Duel Monsters, where as where if you use up all your resources in one shot, you can still sacrifice less important resources, such as land that doesn't have any houses or hotels on it."
We see chibi-Kisho mortgaging off all his property except his most expensive one after landing on chibi-Arnia's less expensive but more put together properties. Chibi-Arnia picks up the dice ready to roll; her piece was exactly 11 spaces away from chibi-Kisho's hotel. He looked at her piece with intensity as he sweat all over, if she didn't land on it, he would have to roll again, and his piece was surrounded by her properties with one safe spot. Chibi-Arnia rolled the dice and threw a 12 skipper her piece by chibi-Kisho; she had a huge smile on her face, and dollar signs in her eyes.
"So what you're saying," Kisho started to rationalize what Arnia was stated.
Chibi-Kisho rolls his dice as it landed on putting him right on Chibi-Arnia's most expensive property and causing him to lose the game.
"Is that it all depends on how those resources are used?"
"Correct," Arnia stated calmly. "In the case of your deck…"
"I waste a lot of resources…"
"That's right, I guaranteed if you think back to every Duel you've had up till now you've at one point or another, put all your eggs in one basket per say," Arnia stated. "I know you did in our Duel when you attacked my White Magican's Pikeru. It's then I noticed the flaw."
"Well couldn't you say that's a little of my own fault?" Kisho sighed.
"Yeah, I mean you did put the deck together, and to tell you the truth, I've never seen anyone Duel with a deck completely full of Ritual Monsters," Arnia stated.
"So Sensei what do you think I should do?"
"Well that's for you to figure out," she slid his deck back over to him.
Kisho picked it up and sighed, "So you're not going to help me, I thought you were suppose to be my tutor?"
"I am, but I'm not your answer book, I'm just suppose to help you out," Arnia stated.
"Well thanks I guess," he thumbed through his deck. "You stated that I waste a lot of resources in my deck, then shouldn't I just…"
"Throw it out? NO! Like I stated everyone's deck has this problem, that's why everyone you Duel has cards that help him or her draw more cards," she stated calmly. "Pot of Greed, Mirage of Nightmare, Reckless Greed."
"I've got all those cards in my deck already…so what can I do?" Kisho asked.
"That's for you to figure out," Arnia let out a yawn and stretched, "Why don't we call the tutoring off for today, I mean its not like this needs to be as long as a regular class," she rubbed her eyes, "Did you want help with any of your homework you got?"
"No," Kisho whispered, "I can handle it."
"Okay then," Arnia stood up and walked away.
"Hey Arnia-Sensei," his hair overshadowed his eyes. She turned around and looked at Kisho, "Thanks, for telling me."
She smiled, "That's what a Sensei is for."
"Could I be honest with you?" Kisho asked.
"Huh?" Arnia walked back to the table and sat back down.
"When I found out I was going to have you as a tutor I was kind of insulted, I figured if I could beat you in a Duel I could probably get out of a tutor and get that elective I wanted. But I'm glad I lost, cause, with you helping me I will reach my full potential."
"Thanks for being honest Kisho," she said with a smile. "To tell you the truth, I didn't really want to tutor you, until after we started Dueling, seeing your determination reminded me of why I came to the academy in the first place."
"What is it?"
Arnia let out a sigh, she reached into her deck box and pulled out her deck, after shuffling around for a bit she found two cards and pulled it out her deck. She then handed it to Kisho.
"What? I can't take these!" He held up Trial of the Princesses and Princess Pikeru (2000/0).
"Sure I've got another pair at home, think of it as a Sensei giving her pupil his Karate Gi!" Arnia let out a laugh. "But I must warn you, you should try to fix the flaw in your deck before adding those cards."
"Right," Kisho stated putting the cards on top of his deck.
"Also Kisho, I wouldn't tell anyone that your deck has a flaw, not even your teammate, because if word got out, some of the students would target you to get their rank up quicker."
"Not tell anyone…"
Arnia nodded her head as she walked away. Good luck Kisho. As she rounded the corner she ran into another Ra Yellow student, she looked up and realized who it was immediately. "Nero what are you doing here?"
"Huh? Oh Arnia."
"Were you eavesdropping?"
"Eavesdropping?"
"Yeah, me and Kisho had a session just now!" She held up her fist ready to hit him. "I can't believe you Nero stooping to such a low level!"
"What are you blabbering about, I had no idea you and that Slifer Red Shit were here, the reason I am in the library is fill out a Duelist Request Form!" He held up the piece of paper for Arnia to see.
DAL
My deck has a flaw? I can't believe it. Kisho thought as he moped around the Slifer Red Dorm, balcony on the second floor. And to think I came to Duel Academy to unlock my potential, but the whole time, I was flawed. Was my victory against Professor Tavarius a fluke?
"Hey Kisho!" Mercy yelled as she ran towards his dorm.
"Mercy," Kisho sighed under his breath. I've got to tell her, there is no way I can let us team up if I'm just going to be dead weight.
Mercy made her way up the stairs and over to Kisho, "I thought I would have found you at the library, something has come up!"
"What?!"
"It seems that after the return from Second Semester break Jane and Jana are having an Official Tag Team Tournament."
"Tag Team Tournament?"
"Yeah, it was just approved by the Chancellor today," she handed Kisho a flyer with the announcement on it.
He quickly scanned the notice before handing it back to her.
"I doesn't have the details of what exactly is the match and how you register but it is in there in writing, so aren't you excited?!" She asked.
"Yeah," Kisho turned her back to her. I've got to tell her no matter what Arnia-Sensei said. "Mercy they're something I've got to tell you."
"What is it Kisho?"
"Kisho is that you?" A voice was heard from behind Kisho's dorm room door. The door opened revealing Gellert, who was yawning like he just finished having a nap. "Oh it is."
"Gellert?" Kisho stared at him.
"And I see you got Mercy to come around huh?" Gellert reached for Mercy's hand and picked it up, gently kissing the back of her hand. "My lady."
Mercy yanked her hand away, and rubbed it on her jacket, "Don't ever do that again!"
"I was just being polite," Gellert said with a shrug of his shoulders.
I just don't get him sometimes. Kisho thought to himself. He has no respect for others personal space at all.
"By the way Kisho, this came in the mail for you today, I opened it and read it for you," he handed the open letter to Kisho.
"Thanks," Kisho sighed.
"It's a Duelist Request Form, looks like that Ra Yellow guy you faced off on the first day wants to finish what he started, this Saturday."
"Nero…" Kisho eyes were lost in the memory of the first Duel. Of all the times to issue a challenge.
"I wouldn't worry about at thing Kisho," Mercy stated. "I've seen both you and Nero Duel, and I've got to say, you've got this one in the bag!"
I wish I shared you're confidence in me Mercy…
DarkStorm: Sorry for the lack of Dueling in this chapter…consider this ground work for Kisho's rematch with Nero. Until next update enjoy!