I'm sorry if the duel is bad, I've never written one before.
Jacey's deck is entirely made up, other than the obvious cards that just about everyone has in their deck (Pot of Greed, Mystical Space Typhoon, etc.)
So, let's see how I do with this.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh GX.
Chapter 5
Third Person POV
Jacey had already finished the written portion of the exam by lunch time. And it had been scored.
"What was that?" Jaden asked when she told him her score. He'd dropped his fork half-way to his mouth.
"Ninety-eight percent," Jacey repeated, a smile on her face. She had only gotten one question wrong on the whole thing.
"Are you sure you're related to Slacker?" Chazz asked. Jacey looked at him, cocking her head.
"Who's Slacker?" she asked.
"That's what Chazz calls Jaden," Syrus explained.
"But I thought Jaden beat Chazz every time they dueled?" Jacey asked, looking to her brother for confirmation. Everyone around them laughed and Chazz gritted his teeth.
"I did," Jaden said. He picked up his fork again and tried again to eat what was on it.
"It's because of the dorm Jaden's in and Jaden's poor grades," Alexis explained. The others all went back to their lunches and conversations now, some shaking their heads.
"Oh."
"I'm still the best duelist in the school though!" Jaden said.
"Oh shut up," Chazz said, turning away from him.
"Speaking of dueling, when do you have your two duels?" Jaden asked Jacey.
"About an hour after lunch," she said quietly. Jesse and Jaden both frowned at her, but didn't say anything. Alexis was the one who put a comforting hand on her shoulder and smiled at her.
"You'll be fine. The proctor duels are always easy. They're meant to test you, not to make you fail. And if you put up a good enough show but lose, Chancellor Sheppard may still let you in. As long as you show promise."
Jacey nodded. "Right, okay." Already she felt a little better.
Xx
"I can't do this," Jacey said, standing outside the duel arena. She'd taken one step in, only to come right back out. Most of the gang had gone to find seats already. Jaden and Jesse were the only ones left. Jaden looked at Jesse and motioned with his head where the others had walked off. Jessed frowned but nodded and left.
"Yes, you can," Jaden said.
"There's so many people though!"
"Well, yeah. When word gets around that a duel is going down, people will come and watch."
"I don't do good in front of people though! I wasn't meant for the spotlight!"
Jaden laughed. "Still haven't gotten over your stage fright, huh?"
"No, not at all!"
"So you want to go home then? Without even trying?"
"I can't go home!"
"Which is why you're going to duel, and win, and be admitted into the academy."
Jacey looked away from her brother and started biting her lower lip again and fingering the duel disk on her arm. Jaden sighed and put his hands on her shoulders.
"You'll be fine. You're a Yuki. Dueling is in your blood."
"Yeah, but winning is something I have to learn to do, and I've hardly ever won a duel!"
"Jacey, listen to me. Don't worry about winning. Worry about having a good time."
"And if I lose?"
"Then we'll tell Sheppard the whole story and he'll still let you in."
Jacey looked back to her brother. "How can you be so sure?"
"I'm your older brother. There are some things I just know. Now go out there and duel your best!" Jaden smiled.
"But…so many people…It's like the whole academy is here!"
"Maybe not the whole academy. There are some people who are studying for some reason or other. Other than that pretty close."
"Jaden! That's not helping!" He laughed and put his hands up in surrender.
"It doesn't matter if there's just me watching or the whole academy. What are you really afraid of?"
"Well, just…making a fool of myself."
"They'll just blame me for influencing you. And it's kind of fun to do that," Jaden said. Jacey smiled a bit.
"You enjoy doing it. I don't."
"You won't make a fool of yourself anyway. You're dueling. The worst that can happen is that you lose."
Jacey Yuki, please report to the Dueling Arena, Sheppard's voice came over the loud speaker. Some whispers arouse at the name.
"Time for you to go!" Jaden said, turning his sister around and pushing her through the doors. She froze when she saw all the people watching her. He ended up having to push her all the way up to the duel arena. "Just focus on the duel. Nothing else exists," Jaden whispered in her ear before leaving the way he'd come.
Jacey stared at the place her brother had disappeared for a few moments before turning to face her opponent. She nearly laughed when she saw who it was, and she could recognize him easily from her brother's descriptions.
Dr. Crowler.
"Well, are you ready to lose now?" he asked.
"How do you know I'll lose?" Jacey asked, trying to put on a brave front.
"Please. You're an amateur. There's no way you can beat me. I have a Phd in dueling after all." Now Jacey was annoyed. How does this cross dresser know she's only a beginner duelist? He doesn't, that's how. Meaning he's just assuming. Meaning, Jacey is now really ticked off at him.
"What, so that piece of paper is your key to winning? I'm sorry, I was under the impression we played with cards," Jacey said. This cocky attitude of the teacher was annoying her. "Let's duel."
Jacey activated her duel disk and drew her five cards. Crowler used his special custom made duel disk and also drew five cards.
"I'll allow you to make the first move since you have no hope of winning," Crowler said. Jacey grit her teeth. She despised people who acted like this.
"No, you go first. You'll need all the extra security you can get, since you don't even seem to be secure in your gender!" Jacey said. She hadn't meant to say that, but when angry, a lot things she didn't mean came out of her mouth.
Xx
"Alright, Crowler's gotten her mad!" Jaden cheered from his seat. He was watching his sister closely, and saw exactly when she tensed up and her jaw locked the way it does when she's angry.
"Why is that good?" Aster asked from behind him.
"Now that she's mad, she's forgotten the fact that she's dueling in front of an audience, so she'll do better."
"Really?" Jesse asked. Jaden nodded. They all winced when Jacey called Crowler insecure about his gender.
"That…may have been going a little too far," Jaden admitted.
Xx
"Very well then, I'll make the first move," Crowler said, gritting his teeth. How dare she? "I'll summon Ancient Gear Soldierin attack mode."
(1300 Atk)
"Next I'll play Ancient Gear Castle, raising my Soldier'sattack points by 300!"
(1600 Atk)
"Lastly I'll throw down one facedown and call it a turn."
"About time," Jacey said. "I summon Masked Horse in attack mode!" A large white stallion with an intricate black face mask took to the field.
(1800 Atk)
"Now I'll play the field spell, Masquerade, which will raise all Masked monsters attack and defense points by 500 points!" A ballroom took the place of the dueling arena, many types of masks decorating the holographic walls.
Masked Horse-(2300 Atk)
"Now, Masked Horse, attack Ancient Gear Soldier!" Ancient Gear Soldier disappeared in a shower of little holographic pieces. "And I'll end my turn with two cards facedown!
Crowler: 3300 LP Jacey: 4000 LP
"Is that all? Very well then. I activate Pot of Greed, allowing me to draw two cards." A large green pot, looking similar to the duelist who summoned it, appeared on the field to become almost instantly pixilated. "And now I summon Ancient Gear Golem!"
(3000 Atk)
"What? But you need a sacrifice for that!" Jacey exclaimed.
"The answer to that is behind me. Ancient Gear Castle counts for as many sacrifices needed to summon a monster," Crowler explained as the castle disappeared.
"And now, Ancient Gear Golem, attack that Horse!" Jacey's Masked Horse was destroyed.
Crowler: 3300 LP Jacey: 3300 LP
"And now I'll activate my face down, Mystical Space Typhoon!" Crowler said. A whirlwind came out of the card and shot towards one of Jacey's facedown cards, destroying Mask of Destruction.
"Can I take my turn yet?" Jacey asked. She was fervently hoping he was done. She wouldn't be able to last much longer otherwise.
Crowler frowned at her. "I throw one card facedown. Proceed."
"Thank you." Jacey drew her card and frowned. Not what I was hoping for, but it'll have to do. I don't have many options. "I summon Masked Pirate in attack mode!" A pirate, looking very similar to the famous Jack Sparrow, came to the field. The only difference was this pirate, was of course, Masked in an intricate black, white, and red mask.
(1700 Atk)
"I end my turn there."
Xx
"She should have played him in defense mode," Jaden muttered.
"How come?" Alexis asked beside him.
"Because when he's destroyed, his effect will still activate, but Jacey wouldn't take any damage at all," Jaden said.
"What's his effect?" Syrus asked.
"When destroyed, the monster that destroyed him will lose 500 LP, and those points go right to Jacey's LP."
"That's a pretty decent effect," Aster said. Jaden nodded.
"She has a really good deck. She just doesn't always play it right."
Xx
"Well, that was a waste of a move," Crowler said. He drew his card. "Oh well, so be it. You know you really haven't been much of a fight," he said. "But, nothing you can do about that now. I summon Ancient Gear Soldier in attack mode."
(1300 Atk)
"Another one?" Jacey asked. She had started to bite her lower lip again.
"Yes, another one. But don't worry, he won't be here for long. I sacrifice my Gear soldier in order to summon Ancient Gear Beast!"
(2000 Atk)
"Now, Ancient Gear Beast, destroy that Pirate!"
"Hey, thanks!" Jacey said as her monster was destroyed.
"What do you mean?" Crowler asked, suddenly wary.
"Now that you've destroyed my pirate, his effect activates! And that means your little dog over there loses 500 Attack points, and I gain them as LP!" Crowler relaxed.
"I'm afraid not. You see, my gear beast prevents a monster's effect from activating when it's destroyed."
"What?" Jacey asked, the smile gone from her face.
Crowler: 3300 LP Jacey: 3000 LP
"And now, my Ancient Gear Golem is free to end this duel by attacking you directly!"
Xx
"Come on, please tell me that face down is what I think it is," Jaden muttered.
"What do you think it is?"
"A card that gives me no end of trouble whenever I duel her," he said. "It's called Last Chance."
"I activate my trap card," Jacey called out. Jaden smiled.
"There we go."
Xx
"Now normally, you'd have to pick a card from my hand, and then I can play it. But since I only have one card, I'll just get right to it and summon out my Masked Fire Fairy!" A fairy in a red outfit and a real fire mask appeared on the field.
(1500 Atk)
"You really hope to succeed with that little thing over there? My attack will still go through." And indeed it did. Masked Fire Fairy was destroyed, and Jacey took 1500 points of damage.
Crowler: 3300 LP Jacey: 1500 LP
"Yeah, but whenever you destroy one of my fairies, I can summon another from my hand or deck. And I choose Masked Water Fairy!" Jacey said. A blue fairy with a real water mask came to the field.
Xx
"Little buggers," Jaden muttered under his breath. Alexis laughed.
"I take it these fairies of hers are a nuisance?"
"They're the only four cards in her deck that she wields with the skill of a master duelist. She'll never have more than one on the field at a time, so that she'll always have back up for when one is destroyed."
Alexis laughed again. "They're saving her right now though, so you should be thankful she knows how to use them."
"I am. They're just annoying."
Xx
"I end my turn," Crowler said.
Come on deck. I need a winner right now! Jacey thought as she drew her card. Pot of greed. Okay. Let's see where this gets me.
"I play Pot of Greed and draw two more cards!" Jacey said. Please be something that will let me win!
Jacey drew the two cards and looked at them. A big smile grew on her face.
"You're smiling. Why are you smiling?" Crowler asked. Now he was starting to worry. This was just like Jaden's entrance duel all over again.
"I've just drawn the two cards that will let me win," Jacey said. "First, I'll summon Masked Genie in attack mode!" A teal genie appeared in a poof of smoke with a gold mask hiding his face.
(2000 Atk)
"And you're going to love his special effect. Once per turn, my Genie can destroy any card on your side of the field. Including any monster cards."
The crowd gasped. Jaden was smiling.
"I think I'll destroy…your Ancient Gear Golem!"
"No!"
"Yes!" Jacey said. The Gear Golem disappeared from the field in a shower of pixels. The crowd was all whispering to each other now. Crowler's ace monster had been destroyed by a monster effect.
"And now from my hand I'm playing the continuous spell card, Turncoat! This allows me to take control of one of your monsters, and I guess that means it'll be your Ancient Gear Beast!" The beast faded from Crowler's side only to reappear on Jacey's side.
"And now that you're wide open for a direct attack…Masked Genie, Ancient Gear Beast, Masked Water Fairy, take out the rest of his Life Points!" Jacey cried. The three monsters all attacked Crowler, creating a lot of smoke from the destruction.
Crowler: 0 LP Jacey: 1500 LP
"And Jacey wins!" Sheppard's voice rang out. He walked onto the arena with a microphone. "Congratulations Jacey. Duel Academy is proud to call you one of its students!"
Cheers rang out through the crowd.
"But, I thought I had to win two duels?"
"Originally you were going to. But then you took the written exam and scored such a high score, I decided you didn't need to do a second duel. Unless of course you would like to."
"No! That's okay!" Jacey said quickly. Many of the students still paying attention laughed. Some were already starting to leave. Jaden had already run from his seat and was now coming in on the ground floor. He hugged his sister.
"Alright! You're in! And that was a sweet duel!" he said. Jacey laughed.
"Thanks Jay! Now can you let me breathe?" Jaden let go.
"Let's get you situated in a dorm, shall we?" Sheppard asked. Jacey nodded and left with him. Jaden returned to his friends.
"I'll take it she learned how to duel from you?" Aster asked.
"Of course!" Jaden said. His stomach growled. "Hey, anyone want to get something to eat?"
"We just had lunch," Syrus said.
"Yeah, but that was like an hour ago," Jaden said.
"Hey, we should throw a congratulatory party for Jacey!" Atticus said. Alexis hit him upside the head out of habit as Jaden shook his head.
"Jacey hates parties in her honor," Jaden said.
"How 'bout just something to celebrate then?" Jesse asked.
"That could work," Jaden said. "Can we go eat now?"
"How can you eat so much in one day?" Bastion asked no one in particular, shaking his head.
"It's a gift," Jaden answered. His stomach growled.
"Let's go to Dorothy's café," Blair suggested.
"Sounds good!" Jaden said, already running. The others all sweat-dropped.
"At least he's going in the right direction this time," Jim said.
End Chapter
Well, I don't think the duel came out too bad. I might have a few technical errors though, and if I do, sorry!
If there are any questions on Jacey's deck just ask! I'd be happy to explain!
I'm really, really sorry but updates are going to be slow for a while! I'm dealing with some drama at home with my dog that's going to leave me depressed for a while and not in a writing mood and not only that but I'm starting to hit a wall with the story! I'm going to do my best, but please just bare with me while things settle down!
Please review and make me feel better!