This chapter will contain the first duel, a practice duel actually but still a duel. I won't say anything about her deck, it will be revealed more and more as the chapters go by.
Talking: "Talking"
Thinking: "Thinking"
Shouting: "SHOUTING"
Spirit talking: "Spirit talking"
Spirit thinking: "Spirit thinking"
Flashback or dream: Flashback or dream
Declaimer: I don't own anything.
Chapter 5
Azula was currently making her way to Obelisk Blue Girl's dorm. She was wearing a long sleeved black shirt, an Obelisk blue girls' jacket over it and black pants. Her hair was combed straight down to the middle of her back. A device, white and blue in color was attached on her left arm called a duel disk. According to the secretary, it was used to… well, duel, using the cards. A deck-case that kept her cards. In her left hand was a small device called a PDA which has many uses. She learned how to use it, with much instruction of course. It has a live map function that shows your location and a detailed map of the island and she is using it to find her way to her dorm. She was also given a key to room 'number 77'. "And my roommate is supposed to be Tenjoin Asuka. At least I don't have to explain everything all over again."
When she reached the dorm she was once again met with lots of white." What is with these people and their obsession with white color?" She opened the front door, the hall was colored golden, there was a fountain in the middle of the hall and right in front of her upstairs was a statue of… probably a famous monster from the card game. There were some girls chatting with dressed similar to each other. They were looking at her with curiosity and were whispering to themselves. This doesn't bother her anymore; she was used to these whispers. She didn't bother asking for help and went upstairs to find her room. She found her dorm room and used the key to enter. The room was quite large, a little bigger than her room back home but this one is a room for two. She checked the room for a while. It had two beds each with a drawer beside them, a mirror to other side of the room, a large window that opened to the balcony. It was similar to her old room but with an extra bed and decorated with bright colors.
She dropped the duel disk on her bed and put the PDA in the drawer. Since she had nothing to do, she took the cards from the deck- case and decided to study them. She was told that her roommate will teach her the basics of dueling which is essential on this island.
Tenjoin Asauka and her two friends just finished their afternoon classes and are heading to their dorm.
"Is it really necessary to take Cronos-sensei's classes? I mean, we aren't newbies. It has almost been two months and we have been thought the basics twice." Junko grumbled.
"Well, if you want to take grades and graduate than you have to take his classes." Her blonde haired friend answered. "And last time I checked out of the three of us, you are the one who uses one of the combos he thought."
"Well, I have to admit that combo is very useful but other than that I haven't learned anything new."
"We are learning about cards that we haven't even heard about." Her black haired friend stated.
"Yeah, most of which is useless. Who in their right mind would bother using a card like 'Raigeki Bottle'? And does he really have to teach us what 'pot of greed' does?" Her friends didn't argue any more, they knew she is right. Most of the cards they were taught about were either useless or they already knew about. They didn't like his classes much either but it was not worth failing.
They reached their dorm room by now. Asuka used her key and she was surprised to see it unlocked. She thought, she may have forgotten to lock it. When she entered she saw a girl with long black hair at the balcony. When the girl turned around she recognized her as Azula.
"Azula? What are you doing here?" Asuka asked.
"What, you got any other roommate?" Azula answered.
"Huh?... oh, sorry. So, uh… the chancellor enrolled you here?"
"Seems that way. Since I don't have anywhere else to go, he said I should stay here for the time being."
"Well, that is good to hear." Asuka extended her hand. "Then let me be the first to welcome you to Obelisk Blue Girl's dorm." She said with a smile on her face. Azula shock her hand and nodded as a 'thank you'. At that moment Junko entered her room.
"Asuka, Who are you tak-" She stopped when she saw Azula in the room as well. "Oh, hey Azula. What are you doing here?"
Azula tilted her head slightly and looked at Asuka. "Do I have to answer that to everyone separately?"
Asuka giggled a bit and answered instead of her. "She is a new student here and also my roommate. Since she has got amnesia, she will stay here for the time being."
"That is good to hear. Welcome to Obelisk Blue- but I guess Asuka has already told you that." Junko asked and Azula nodded in response. "Then I hope we can be good friends." She extended her hand.
"Friends" Azula thought and shock her hand. Momoe chose that moment to enter the room. Azula's eyebrow twitched. "Something is seriously wrong with this world." Momoe was about to ask something but Azula cut her off. "Don't say a single word." She growled.
Momoe was taken aback by that. "Uh… hmm… d-did I… do something wrong?"
That made Asuka laugh. "No, no. you didn't do anything wrong." She said between laughs.
"I will explain later." Said Junko and Momoe nodded.
"So, do you know how to duel?" Asuka asked.
"No. They said you are supposed to teach me"
"Ok. Since you don't know about dueling, let's start from the very beginning." For the next three hours they told Azula about the basics of dueling. Monsters cards, magic cards, trap cards, different type of magic and trap cards, level of monsters, different attribute of monsters along with the 'kanjis' and little history lesson about the god cards which the dorms are named after. She also learned how to use the duel-disk. It was not hard for Azula to memorize…
"… and that is most of what you need to know about dueling." Asuka sighed in relief. "Finally it is over and lucky for us you are a fast learner."
"Fast learner? It took us three hours." Azula stated and the trio looked at each other.
"You know, three hours is a miracle. Normally for beginners it takes from a few days to a week just to get the hang of basics. I think that proves that you were a duelist before all this." Azula mentally laughed at that. "Ok, do you want to go for a test drive?" Azula nodded.
"Can I duel her? Can I? Can I?" Junko asked raising her hand.
"Yeah, I guess. I don't see the problem." Asuka said. "Ok, let's go downstairs to the hall."
"I will go grab my duel-disk." Junko said rushing out of the room. Azula picked her own cards and left the room following Asuka.
"Ok, since this is her very first duel and some combos are really hard to counter, I think you should go a little easy on her." Asuka said to Junko.
"I was going to." She looked at Azula. "Ok, since you are a beginner I will let you go first."
Azula remembered that if you go first you can't attack but you can plan to be a step ahead of your opponent.
Azula: LP 4000
Momoe : LP 4000
Turn 1 Azula: 5 cards in hand
Azula drew six cards and looked them over. "I set one monster" she placed one card horizontally on her duel disk. A card in similar position appeared in front of Azula. "That is all."
"Well… that is very weak start even for a beginner"
"I remember you were the one who advised me not to underestimate my opponent."
Turn 2 Junko: 5 cards in hand
"Well yeah… OK. Back to duel." She drew her sixth card. "I summon 'sea serpent warrior of darkness' in attack mode." She placed the card vertically on her duel-disk and a humanoid looking sea serpent monster with dark purple body and wielding an anchor appeared on the field.
'Sea serpent warrior of darkness' (A 1800/D 1500 – water – sea serpent – level 4)
"Next I equip him with the equip spell card 'steel shell'." She inserted a card in her spell/trap card zone. "This increases a water attribute monster's attack by 400 and his defense by 200."
'Sea serpent warrior of darkness' (A 1800-2200/D 1500-1700)
"Now 'warrior of darkness', attack her facedown monster." The monster rushed toward the facedown monster and smashed his anchor on it, shattering it to pieces. Just before it was destroyed it was revealed to be a girl with blonde hair that reached to her neck and a dark blue visor that covered half of her face. She was wearing a sleeveless high collar white jacket with red outlines, a mini skirt with the same color. All of her exposed body parts were dark blue in color except her face. Her hands and feet were completely white.
'Resistance medic' (A 0/D 500 – light – machine – level 2)
"Hmm, I have never seen that monster before. Whatever, I end my turn."
Turn 3 Azula: 5 cards in hand
Azula drew her next card. "I summon 'resistance soldier' in attack mode." The new monster on the field was a robot blue, light blue body parts with white outlines. It had round head and red light instead of face. It's left hand and feet was completely white and its right arm had no hand instead there was a cannon.
'Resistance soldier' (A 500/D 0 – dark – machine – level 2)
"Next, I activate the magic card 'double summon' which allows me to normal summon once again. So I use it to summon in attack mode 'resistance decoy'." Another monster appeared on the field very similar to the previous monster except this one had no cannon; instead there was a small rod with lightning charging through it.
'Resistance decoy' (A 0/D 0 – dark – machine - level 1)
"You know monster like those are usually placed in defense mode, you know with barely any attack point at all." Junko stated.
Azula just smirked. "Are you sure?" she pointed to her soldier. "Soldier, attack." This surprised everyone.
"What? But its attack point is way lower than her warrior." A surprised Momoe said from the sidelines.
"I think that monster can attack directly." And Asukas statement was proved right when the soldier shoots a beam which passed Junko's monster and hit her on the chest.
Junko: LP 4000 -500 = 3500
"Well, that was a surprise. OK, What next." Junko said.
"Nothing, I end my turn."
Junko was completely taken aback by the way she played, it is too carefree. "You know, it is true that we are just practicing but that doesn't mean you have to leave yourself wide open. I just need to summon another monster and you will take a lot of damage."
"I couldn't do anything else with these cards." She lifts her cards. "Don't worry. Take your turn."
Turn 4 Junko: 4 cards in hand
Junko drew her card and frowned. There was nothing else she could summon. "Well, you are in luck because I can't summon anything else." Azula smirked, of course she is lucky. She was born lucky. "Warrior of darkness, attack her soldier." Azula smirked once again. The single eye on decoy's face shone bright and forced the warrior to change target. This once again surprised the bystanders when the warrior slammed his anchor on decoy's head and shattering it.
"Uh… care to explain what just happened?" Momoe asked quizzically.
"When your monster attacked, decoy's effect activated and changed the target to itself." Azula explained.
"OK, I get that but why didn't you lose life points?" Asked Junko.
"Any battle damage involving this monster is dropped to 0. So I take no damage."
Junko huffed in annoyance. "I end my turn."
Turn 5 Azula: 2 cards in hand
She drew her card and her smirk widened. "Good, now the battle gets a little more serious. I activate field spell card 'resistance base: ground zero'." She opened her field spell card zone and placed a card. The field magic card changed the scenery around them. They were in a clearing in a forested area with tents all around them and a few weird looking trucks.
"Now, due to the effect of my field spell card, I can send one card from my hand and special summon one 'resistance soldier', 'resistance decoy' or ' resistance medic' from my deck." She searched her deck took one card and shuffled the rest. "And I choose 'resistance medic' in defense mode." She placed the card. "Next I activate the effect of my medic. Once per turn I can select one 'resistance soldier' or 'resistance decoy' in my graveyard and summon it to the field. And I choose 'resistance decoy'." She took the monster and summoned it. "Normally the monster I choose is sent to my hand but my field spell card improves her effect. And finally I summon another soldier to my field in attack mode. Now both of my soldiers will attack you directly."
Junko: LP 3500 -1000 = 2500
"I don't have any more cards so that is all." She gestured for Junko to take her turn.
Turn 6 Junko: 5 cards in hand
She drew her cards and was completely pissed about what she drew. "What the hell. Is it trying to make sure I lose to a newbie?" Asuka and Momoe were snickering at their friend's rotten luck. "Whatever, I activate 'moray of greed' this card allows me to select 2 water attribute monster in my hand, send them to my deck and draw 3 new cards." She drew her cards and smiled. "That is much better. I summon 'mermaid knight' in attack mode." This monster had the top half of human's body. She had long red hair and wilding two swords in each hand. The lower half of her body was that of a fish.
'Mermaid knight' (A 1500/D 700 – water – aqua -level 4)
"First my mermaid will attack your decoy." The mermaid snaked her way to the decoy and slashed with both swords. The smirk on Junko's face suddenly dropped when she saw the decoy still standing. "What the hell. Why is it still standing?" she demanded.
"When my field spell is active, decoy can't be destroyed once per turn." Azula answered her question with a smirk. Asuka and Momoe were laughing hard by now.
Junko growled at her two friends. "Since your decoy will come back next turn it is useless to attack so I set one card and end my turn." A card appeared face down in her magic/trap card zone.
Turn 7 Azula: 0 card in hand
She drew her next card. "I send this card from my hand to summon another soldier to the field in attack mode. Now all three of my soldiers will attack you directly."
"I activate my trap card, 'negate attack'. This will stop all of your monster's attack and ends your battle phase." The soldiers attack was stopped and dissolved in midair. Azula just ended her turn.
Turn 8 Junko: 4 cards in hand
"Finally, something I can really use. I activate the effect the spell card 'terraforming' this allows me to select one field spell card in my deck and add it to my hand. Now I activate my field spell card 'umi'." Azula's filed spell card shattered and the field was filled with water up to their knee. "Now I sacrifice both of my monsters to summon 'levia-dragon – deadalus'." The two monsters vanished and in their place a huge serpent appeared. The head of this monster looked similar to that of a dragon and had a long serpentine body.
'Levia-dragon – Daedalus' (A 2600/D 1500 – water – sea serpent –level 7)
Azula looked at the huge monster in awe. She had seen the pictures of dragons back home and this monster was very similar to those. "Impressive, right?" Junko's voice snapped her back to duel.
"While it is impressive, it is still just one monster."
"While it is true that it is just one monster but this bad boy has a veeeeery useful ability." She said with a smirk. "Now I just have to get rid of my field spell and in exchange he will destroy every single card on your side of the field and I am just going to do that." Azula raised an eye-brow. That was indeed a very powerful ability. Since she had nothing to counter it she just watched as all of her monsters was destroyed and left her wide open. "Now my dragon will attack you directly." The dragon opened his mouth and shot a large surge of water and depleted a large chuck of her life points.
Azula: LP 4000 -2600 =1400
"That ends my turn."
Turn 9 Azula: 0 card in hand
She drew her card and looked at it. "I end my turn." This surprised the girls.
"Are you sure, I mean your field is empty." Momoe stated.
"I can't use this card as it is."
"OK, I think that is enough for now." Asuka said. Junko nodded and deactivated her duel-disk and the monster disappeared.
"As someone who has learned to duel just today, you were pretty good." Junko said. Azula took her cards and put them back in her deck-case.
Asuka looked at the time and then to Azula. "It is going to be dinner time in a while. Tomorrow I will guide you to the classes after that I will give you a tour of the island." Azula nodded and went back to her room. Tomorrow will be her first day to a new life. A life, maybe better than her previous one.
New cards:
'Resistance Medic' (A 0/D 500 – light – machine –level 2)
Once per turn you can select one 'resistance soldier' or 'resistance decoy' in your graveyard and add it to your hand, if 'resistance base –ground zero' is on your side of the field, you can instead special summon the selected monster on your side of the field.
'Resistance soldier' (A 500/D 0 – dark – machine –level 2)
This monster can attack your opponent directly. Yet to be revealed.
'Resistance decoy' (A 0/D 0 –dark – machine –level 1)
While this monster is on your side of the field your opponent can only select 'resistance decoy' as an attack target. Any battle damage involving this card is reduced to 0. While 'resistance base –ground zero' is on your side of the field, this monster cannot be destroyed once per turn.
'Resistance base –ground zero' (Field spell)
Once per turn you can discard one card from your hand to select one 'resistance medic', 'resistance soldier' or 'resistance decoy' from your deck and special summon it to your side of the field. Yet to be revealed.
The deck she is using is from one of my favorite video game series, 'Megaman Zero'. I tried my best to make sure the deck is not over-powered, like some fan-made decks I've seen. Judai will have an extra 'Elemental Hero' fusion monster and so does Asuka, since I thought she is the only one that does not have a monster with over 3000 ATK points.