"Well said, young miss. Well said indeed," the effeminate man said as he stopped clapping and strode forward, leveling a stern gaze at the abusive father in front of him. "As for you, Mr. Densky, I had expected better of you. To even think you had this nasty side of you outside of the pro-league."

"You damn point?" Mr. Desnky snapped tersely as the man in the red suit glare turn even more serious.

"I can tolerate with the attitude outside of work, but you will not use that tone with me. Consider this day your biggest regret Mr. Densky because I'm revoking your status as a pro-league duelist from here on out."

"Y-You can't do that, Pegasus!" He sputtered as the man, now introduced as Pegasus, smile cruelly at the man on his knees, still trying to get up from the last attack given to him by Gem-Knight Topaz.

"Oh but I can, and I just did." We watched as the man, furiously, got off the ground and tried to attack, only to scream as he convulse back onto the dirt.

"Come now, Mr. Densky, you should know better to attack me while I have five bodyguards behind me, each equipped with a stun gun." The man shrugged apathetically while two of the five dragged the stunned man out of the church.

Pegasus puts his attention over at our direction as he gently smiled. "Forgive me for not introducing myself, I am Maximilian J Crawford Pegasus. President of Industrial Illusions and the creator of the game that you just played with that horrendous man."

That's...one long ass name. I looked at the awestruck crowd behind me before looking back at the rather ridiculous looking man that stood in front of me and Sarai. It looked like no one was going to pick up after the introduction, so I slowly release my hug on Sarai and spoke up.

"Not to be rude or anything," I began, "But why the hell are you here in the first place? If your a man of great prominence, then shouldn't you be busy with other things?"

Things like boring-ass conventions or meetings?

Most of the orphans, with the nuns and Father Xavier, gasped at my blunt response. However Pegasus seemed to find it all too amusing as the multi-billionaire mirthfully laughed at his own expense. "That may be true Ms..."

"Chung." It's not going to hurt to just give him my last name.

"Ms. Chung," He continued, "But...well, I must confess, while I was going to one of my conference meeting I felt an immense aura coming from your church."

"An aura?" I questioned as he smiled wider, "Yes! An aura!" Realizing that he wasn't making any sense to me he elaborated further about the subject.

"You see, there are duelists that have these...auras, so to speak, and only a few number can unleash this hidden potential. Sorrow, Anger, Joy and Calmness. Those are the four most powerful auras that a duelist can unleash; and while I was going to one of my conference meetings I felt it..."

...hey, I'm bat-shit crazy so I can't judge.

He stared at me for the longest time before finishing, "...and aura of intense anger. Pure rage that only a few can truly unleash. Frustration that some believe that they can achieve only to be shadowed by the true nature of it. I felt that aura from you Ms. Chung."

The guy's not that far off. I do have some anger management issues with myself. That, and I'm bat-shit crazy.

"Well, you found out, now could you please leave?" He blinked, probably not expecting us to really dismiss him easily. "Nothing against you or anything like that, but today was a stressful day for us. Right now we really need some time to ourselves." Pegasus blinked again. Before nodding his head, I turned away only to feel a hand on my shoulder.

"Actually, there is something I would like to give..." Turning around I saw Pegasus fish out an envelope. Pulling one of the content out, I blinked as Pegasus flashed a ticket in front of us "This is-"

"Saturday's X-Factor Pro-League tickets!" One of the orphans exclaimed as the others began to chatter excitedly. That made me blink as Pegasus nodded his head, excitedly. "That's right! I naturally have these because I'm the sponsor for the tournament, however I always have extras and..."

"...and you want us to have them?" I stared at the man in front of me with suspicion. "What's the catch?"

"No catch!" Pegasus immediately replied. "In fact, think of this as a thank you for letting me witness that wonderful match!"

"Mr. Pegasus," One of the guards motioned the watch on his wrist as he sighed dramatically.

"Well I must get going, multi-million meeting and all."

Handing me the envelop full of tickets he walked off of the church.

Leaving me with a group of orphans ready to pounce me for the ticket.

Saturday came way to fast, and the collective children were being chaperonage by me and Sister Cornello who was the only one that had time to come with the kids. The other nuns and Father Xavier had the Saturday Mass (the poor bastards).

As of right now we were at the third row of the fourth section, watching the pro-league duelists just wreck shit up with their deck. I've been playing Duel Monsters for nearly seven years now...and never in my whole life have I ever seen a person use such asinine cards and win.

I guess that's why they're pro's.

"This is awesome!" one of the kids exclaimed as I pulled the earbud out of my ears and looked over at the smaller looking girl with a blink. "What was that?"

"Ms. Chung! It's the semi-finals, and your not even watching the duel!" I rolled my eyes at the angry looking teen. "Look, want to know a secret?" Everyone, including Sister Cornello, leaned over at my direction...Jesus Christ, whatever the hell happened to personal space?

"I know what the other person is going to do before they actually do it." The teen scoffed as I pointed over at the person who was making his next and final move. "See how there's Swords on the field? I don't know if it's banned or not, but from the way how he's stalling, he's going to use something to recycle Swords. So my guess is this. He's going to use Trunade to get those facedown cards out of the way and use it to get back his Swords into his hand."

Just like how I predicted, and to much to everyone's surprise and shock, the guy did exactly what I did as a green hurricane like effect literally blew away the other guy's facedown as well as his own as Swords of Revealing Lights vanished from the opponent's field. "Now he's going to use Swords of Revealing Lights again to stall while Lava Golem eliminates the remaining LP that guy has."

The majestic swords literally fell from the sky as the guy set three more cards, "He doesn't need to worry about Mystical Space Typhoon, because those facedowns are probably trap cards that will protect his Swords."

Sure enough, when the guy activate MST, the guy countered with Seven Tools of the Bandit. Efficiently ending the duel by stalling.

Slowly the teen turned to me with a shocked look on his face. "Ok...how?" This made me smirk as I cross my arms around my voluptuous breasts. Reading various of tomes and books on duel strategies, as well as having a shit ton of experience with Duel Monsters kind of makes one really good at reading other people's moves. But I decided to have fun with these punk "I'm a psychic-"

"No your not." An unfamiliar female voiced out. Everyone looked down, including, the already irritated, me.

She's...pretty damn short. Especially when she's wearing that long black coat; behind it is a frilly shirt, and knee-length skirt. Her clothes pressed tightly against her sickly pale skin. She had untidy blondish-brown hair tied in long pigtails and black makeup which completely circled her pale blue eyes. Oh yeah, if your wondering how short she is? She stood about an inch shorter than most other children here. Poor midget-

"Please refrain yourself from calling me a midget, it's very offensive."

...did I say that out loud-

"No, but I would prefer to keep your opinions to yourself."

...ok seriously, what the-

"Don't curse."

Everyone looked at the girl, wondering if she has a mental condition. The only that wasn't right now is me. My eyes were twitching extremely fast as the girl gave me one of the most innocent looking glance. "Is there a problem?"

Yeah, stop reading my mind. It's very irritating and I would want some privacy to myself, you god damn psychic-

"I'm not a psychic, and what did I just say about profanities?"

"STOP READING MY MIND DAMN IT!" I pointed at the girl, my expression morphing into something of the line between insanity and rage. She merely blinked before turning back to the match, "You should calm your tits, your attracting attention."

...calm my tits?

"It's a phrase that I usually say. Everyone thinks I'm dull, so the psychologist told me to joke around a bit." The blond emotionlessly explained. Everyone in the vicinity blinked.

"Ah..." she tilts her head to the side, "I was suppose to laugh while I'm saying that." She paused...

"Ha. Ha. Ha."

Dear god that is the worse laugh I have ever heard in my life.

"It's not?"

No it's terrible! Your just saying "Ha" without even putting any enthusiasm in it. It's more fake than the time where I accidentally touched some slut's silicone breasts- and she's reading my mind isn't she?

"No, I'm not reading your mind Ms. Chung."

...ok that's it. "How the hell did you know my name?"

"You mentioned it a lot in the last chapter. You know for a gender-bender fiction, this is the most pathetic and ridiculous plot that I have yet to participate." She straighten her poise. "But it's ok, cause this is only the third chapter and your trying to attempt to finish all four seasons. For that I respect your admirable cause."

"...what?" I think I responded everyone's reaction to what Haleigh rambled.

And I thought I was bat-shit crazy

"And now! It's time for everyone's favorite half-time game!"

Half-time? Since when did Duel Monster started to become like Basketball?

"Tonight," The announcer, well, announced, "One lucky fan will get the chance to go one on one with the one, and only, Trap Master Hugo!" The said duelist proudly stood next to the small announcer. The difference was rather...well, big. While the announcer is a small, short and a bald man wearing clear glasses the duelist is a tall man in a blue coat with slick black hair with a white streak. The man pushed up a pair of thin sunglasses on his nose while the announcer continue to babbled on.

Everyone in the crowd cheered, while some murmured anxiously. I haven't watched too much Pro-League dueling while I was at the church, so I really don't know why people were being nervous to duel this guy. Although he is somewhat intimidating looking...and the name might imply that he's good at chaining traps, apart from that, I really don't know what else is there for anyone to be...well worried?

"Check your tickets everyone," The announcer smiled. "If your number is called then come on down, and bring your A-Game!" The short color-commentator turned to one of the dancers as she placed her hand onto the handlebar, which was connected to the glass cage filled with tickets. From the looks of things, if I have to estimate from the number of the crowds and the chances of us being called out, I say we have one out of a thousand chance that one of us will be called out.

"And here we go! Drum roll please!" The woman turned the glass cage as the tickets spun and land on-top of one another. In the stage everyone, excluding me and the Sister, prayed and crossed their fingers to be called out. Even the shy and self-conscious Sarai was hoping to be called out.

The woman stopped turning as the announcer pulled the hatch open, only for the tickets fell out of the cage like a waterfall. Well, I can say that our chances might have dropped a bit. Some of the audience groaned as a few even ripped up their tickets.

"Woah!" he cheered as he ruffled through the papers that were inside the cage. It took a while, but he managed to pluck out one of the tickets inside. He turned to the audience as the dancer closed the hatch.

"I have the winning ticket," the drum roll ceased as the man walked over to the duelist, mic out in front of him. "Getting excited Hugo?" The man slowly looked down at the tiny man, I could tell that this guy didn't want to be here. Not that I blame him, but come on. Show a little enthusiasm for the crowd?

"Yes," he drawled out, "Yes I'm very excited."

"Well..." The announcer laughed forcefully as he turned to the crowd. "So am I! How about you, duelists? Are you ready!" The crowd cheered as the children leaned on the edge of their seats-

"Woah!" Tommy cried as he fell onto the ground.

"Jesus kid, calm down." I muttered as I helped him back onto his seat, the five-year-old orphan laughed loudly as he sat back down.

"Well..." I muttered in synch with the announcer, "Here we go."

"Section 4..." That made me blink.

That's our section.

"...Row 3..."

...that's our row...

"...Seat 2!"

...that is not my seat. But...

"Sarai! That's you!" Everyone turned to Sarai as she stared at the man in shock.

"I...I go the ticket..." She murmured as the orphans around began to cheer. Even Sister Cornello joined in, and soon I was in the celebration as well.

"Come on down!" The announcer looked over at our direction as Sarai slowly stood up-

"No, I got that ticket first!" one of the man took hold of the ticket, trying to pry it off of Sarai's hand. Everyone around was trying to pull the man off of Sarai. "Girl, you got no shot at that pro-league duelist."

"Security!" I screamed from the top of my lung, pointing to the right. Everyone, except for the man, turned. "Like I'm going to fall for-"

BAM!

Gave the sonuvabitch a right hook to the nose. The fat-bastard fell back to his seat, blood dripping from his nose. "Bet you didn't see that coming." I turned to Sarai, who was also distracted from my diversion. "Sarai! Get going!" I screamed as she instantly snapped out of her trance. Nodding her head rapidly, the girl left her seat and made her way downstairs.

The moment everyone turned their attention back to our row, that guy was starting to get up trying to get out of his seat only to be punched again. "Your really going to steal from an orphan?" I demanded as he slowly backed down.

...turning around, I began to shake my hand in pain. Seriously, I punch a dude twice and my hand is bruising because of it.

"I'm going to have to pick up Kick boxing again..."

Sometimes, it sucks to be a girl.

(Third POV)

As the people in the third row got back to their seat, Sarai finally made it to the front as she stepped into the dueling arena. People were applauding the lucky orphan as she observed the arena with awe. Next to her wish of always remembering her mother, this was her biggest dream. A poor orphan like her thought that she would never be able to step into this ring, or even this building. But here she is...

The cheerleader were waving around their pompoms and the camera man was following behind her, Sarai's petite form appeared above the titantron. Turning around, she backpedaled a bit to absorb the cheers from the crowd. This is what she wanted. People appreciating her for who she is. What she accomplished... This is it.

"And here comes our winner now!" The presenter commented as Sarai slowly walked up the steps of the arena. The hum of the generator was melody to her ears as she recalled the time where Ms. Chung dueled with her father...

...can she compete in that level?

"Sarai. This is going to sound corny as hell, but you made your deck with love."

"Your dad doesn't think you can win with the deck that you made, well it's time that we prove him that he's wrong. Dead wrong."

"This deck...this deck is to show not only for her determination to change her life 180, but to remember her love for her mother! Something that you can never give to Sarai!"

No. She can do it. She has faith in her cards. Just like how Ms. Chung had faith in it too...

"Well!" The color-commentator chortled, "This is going to be some contest!"

Sarai smiled, not realizing that the man was actually being sarcastic. The man grinned as Sarai went over to the man's side. "Well little miss," The man began with a charming smile. "What's your name?"

"U-Um..." Sarai stuttered as she looked over towards her row. Sister Cornello and Ms. Chung gave her a smile as she cleared her throat to continue. "S-Sa-Sar..."

"Sar?" The man jokingly questioned as Sarai shook her head.

"Sar-Sarai Demsky!" The color-commentator boisterously laughed as he looked over at Hugo, who was staring off in some random direction. Not paying any attention to Sarai what so ever.

"Well Sarai, I want you to meet Hugo, one of the Pro-league's finest duelists in most of Europe and Asia." Sarai, glossy-eyed, looked at the sunglass-wearing duelist with starstruck as the man slowly turned his head to her direction. "W-Wow...t-this is..."

"How do you do?" Hugo finally asked as Sarai instantly closed her mouth, while wiping away some of the tears in her eyes.

"Oh boy! The duel hasn't started and little Sarai here is crying already!" The audience laughed as Sarai blushed furiously. "So sorry about that." The announcer apologized, though it really didn't sound like an apology to most of the people. The color commentator walked over to Hugo and whispered something into his ears...

Wonder what they're talking about?

"Crowd is eating this up. Don't embarrass the kid, let her at least get you down by 2000." Hugo stared at the reverential orphan before responding back to the announcer's request.

"1000."

Disbelief and insulted the color commentator turned to the duelist. "2000."

Hugo, feeling the same way that the color commentator is feeling, only not to himself, turned back to the announcer. "1000. I'm not going any further than that; from there on, she'll have to take me own with her own skills." Sputtering, the announcer quickly turned to the crowd and masked his humility with a smile.

"Alright!" He walked over to orphan, "Now Sarai, the rules are still implied here for this half-time duel. Here's the catch, you have to beat him in ten minutes! Ok?" Sarai was a bit unnerved at the time limit given to her, but nevertheless nodded her head as one of the cheerleader handed her a duel disk. "Now let's get this show on the road!" The two activated their duel disk as they drew out-

"Hey!" One of the audience called out. "Sarai you forgot to put your deck into the duel disk!" The said girl blushed as everyone around laughed. Even the stoic pro-duelist couldn't help but to chuckle a little.

"Thank you sir," The announcer contained his laughter, "We would like our duelist to have a deck to duel!" Sarai pulled out her deck from her makeshift duel-box as she stared at the cards...

Gem-Knight Topaz looked at the stun orphan, and gave her a thumbs up before vanishing.

Sarai closed her eyes and prayed. "Mama..." she whispered, "God...and Ms. Chung, give me strength..." She placed the deck into the deck holder and drew out five cards.

"Duelists, get ready!" The man points over to Sarai, "Go!"

Duel Start!
10:00 Minutes
Sarai: 8000
Hugo: 8000

"Knights! Assemble!"

"Knights...Assemble?" Sister Cornello giggled as the gender-blending jerk stared at Sarai, while scratching her head in disbelief. "Please don't tell me that's going to be your catch phrase..."

"Considering how she hasn't seen the Avengers and how the Knights are well known in legends as heroes," Haleigh looked at the protagonist of the story with a deadpan stare, "Then yes, there is a high chance that she will keep saying that for her catch phrase..."

...how the hell does this little midget know the Avengers?

"Also," She hits Ms. Chung's head with her umbrella. "What did I say about calling me a midget?"

Fucking psychic...

9 minutes and 56 seconds

"I summon Gem Turtle in defense mode!" The generators revved up as they irradiated one part of the ground. From there a giant turtle, with emerald around it's whole body, emerged. Although the turtle was impressive to look at, the shell was the real part of the show, as the shell of the turtle was literally an emerald gem. With the generator illuminating the field, the emerald shined brightly, like a spotlight.

Gem Turtle
Attack: 0
Defense: 2000

Hugo looked at the monster with a surprised look on his face, "Gem?"

"Oh my!" The announcer yelled in the mic, "What a surprise! Sarai is bringing out monsters that has never been seen in Pro-Dueling history! This is getting pretty exciting!" The crowds cheered-

"Sarai!" Sarai jumped as the startled duelist turned around. Ms. Chung was calling out her name and she looked...worried?

"Sarai!" She called out again, "Why didn't you set him face down!"

Set...?

"...set?" She looked at Turtle's effect...and gasped. "O-Oh no!"

"Explain."

The blond psychic didn't bother reading Ms. Chung's mind?

"I'm not a psychic."

Right... In any case...

"Gem Turtle's effect is a flip effect. When it flips, Sarai can bring out a Gem-Knight Fusion from her deck into her hand."

Now everyone knows why Ms. Chung was disappointed with what Sarai did back there.

9 minutes and 12 seconds

"I-I'll set one card facedown on the field and end my turn." Sarai slumped. Her first duel and she's already messing up...maybe her dad was right, maybe she really didn't have any talent at all-

"Girl!" Hugo snapped as the startled orphan immediately straightened up. "I don't know what you made a mistake in, but do not be distracted by it! If you do, then this match will be over in a second." With that the pro-duelist drew.

"I'll set a monster face down in Defense Mode. And I'll set two cards face down. That'll do for now."

"That's it?" Some of the children asked. In response, I pointed at Gem Turtle.

"Sarai's monster has a ridiculous amount of defensive points. It's rare to summon up a monster that can destroy Gem Turtle without over-exceeding the level limit."

For now, she's safe, but Sarai will have to do something while she has the chance to do so.

8 minutes and 59 second

"I summon Gem-Knight Alexandrite in attack mode!" The said monster emerged from the illumine ground. The very first Gem-Knight to emerge onto the field. To Ms. Chung, she couldn't disagree Sarai's choice of summon. The knight leaped from the ground as the lights shined on the various of gems on it's joints and limbs. The rainbow gem knight rammed it's two feet onto the ground and posed with it's arms at it's sides.

Gem-Knight Alexandrite
Attack: 1800
Defense: 1200

"And..." She looked down at Alexandrite's effect, in doing so she struck her head with the tip of the Duel Disk. She yelped and rubbed her forehead, much to the amusement to the crowd, "...and I'll activate his effect! By sending him to the grave, I can bring out one "Gem-Knight" Normal Monster from my Deck." The knight's armor began to crack. "And from my deck, I summon Gem-Knight Garnet!"

The knight let out a groan before exploding into million of gems. However he didn't leave without leaving a small gift for Hugo to face with. A smaller, but a more muscular knight emerged. His armor is colored red and the gem that is proudly being presented is a bright diamond shaped like ruby. Smashing it's fist together, the knight's fists combusted into flames.

Gem-Knight Garnet
Attack: 1900
Defense: 0

"I'll attack!" Gem-Knight Garnet cocked it's fist back before punching forward. A stream of flame erupted from the knight's fist and blasted the facedown card...

...wait, where is it?

"GRAWR!" Everyone looked up and some of the women screamed as a small brown insect with lots of sharp, little, teethes dove down at Garnet. Sinking it's sharp fangs into the armor, the knight roared in agony, combusting into flames. Within seconds, Gem-Knight Garnet and the monster vanished.

"W-What?"

"Man-Eater Bug!" The announcer screamed into the mic, "Hugo must have predicted something like this and set out Man-Eater Bug to deal with the situation! Oh what will Sarai do?"

Sarai, in response to the rhetorical question, pressed a small round button on the duel disk. "I activate the trap card, Gem-Knight's Calling!" A small, child like, Gem-Knight ran out to the field. Picking up a Viking Horn from it's side, the knight put it on it's mouth (wherever the hell that is) and blew hard (defying the law of mass and physics).

"When a Gem-Knight is destroyed by an effect, I can bring it back onto the field!" The small knight retreated from the field as a geyser of hot flames erupted from the ground. Slowly Gem-Knight Garnet levitated out of the geyser as it slowly died away once it's feet were planted on the ground.

"Also, when Gem-Knight are summoned onto the field like this, it can attack again!" Gem-Knight Garnet cocked it's fist again before launching out another stream of flames from it's punch. But the pro-duelist wasn't fazed. In fact, Hugo merely pushed up his glasses.

"It's time I activated my trap card. Zero Gravity!" The flames stopped right at Hugo's face as it suddenly arched upwards, into the ceiling. Green aura surrounded Gem-Knight as the red knight slowly and forcefully kneeled, while Gem Knight Turtle slowly got back to it's knees.

"I don't get it!" One of the teenaged orphans cried out, "How come Sarai's attack didn't connect!"

"It's cause of Zero Gravity." Ms. Chung explained as she looked at the trap critically. The male orphan blinked. "Zero Gravity? What does that do?"

"What it does," The blond began, "Is switch the battle positions of all monsters on the field. So basically, that knight have to switch to Defense mode."

"Not only that," Sister Cornello began, "But Gem Turtle is forced into attack mode."

"Darn it!" The girl cried out, "If only there is a way to protect Gem Turtle!"

Ms. Chung noticed that one of the camera angle was leaned close to Sarai's side. From there, Sarai's tutor noticed a spell card. A specific spell card with a picture...a picture of a blue book.

"There is a way..."

She just hopes that Sarai notices it too before it's too late.

7 minutes and 15 seconds

"I-I'll set another card facedown, and end my turn." Sarai mentally cursed, she was so close! Now she has to worry about Hugo attacking Gem-Knight Turtle and...

...wait...what's that?

"Very well, then." Hugo draws one card, "I play Pot of Greed, to draw two more cards. After that I activate my face down card, Bad Reaction to Simochi! Now, anytime you try to increase your Life Points, you'll only be making them drop. Oh, and this trap is also continuous. A real gem compared to your monsters."

"That may be the case!" The announcer pointed to the Life Point indicator on Sarai's Duel Disk. "But remember Hugo, Sarai still has 8000!"

"Not for long she won't. I activate the Spell, Rain of Mercy! Normally, this card would be used to increase both our Life Points by 1000. However, under the current circumstances…" Rain heavily poured onto the two as Sarai's Life Points dropped to 7000 while Hugo's Life Points rose to 9000. "Oh, and before I forget, I summon Pitch-Black Warwolf in attack mode!"

While the field shined, everyone yelped at the sudden wolf-like howl. In a flash, an armored wolf-like monster appeared on the field, brandishing a black sword.

Pitch-Black Warwolf
Attack: 1600
Defense: 600

"Also, I play my Forest Field Spell!"

The werwolf like swordsman leaped backwards as green grass started to sprout from the floor. A wall of giant trees surrounded them both. Covering the two from the audience. It was by luck that the cameraman was at the field, up close for the battle, otherwise the audience might have not liked the fact that they aren't able to see a thing.

"You should know this already, but my Forest increases the Attack Strength of all Beast, Beast-Warrior, Insect, and Plant monsters by 200 Attack points."

Behind Hugo, eyes gleamed over at the distracted Sarai.

Pitch-Black Warwolf
Attack: 1600 + 200 =1800
Defense: 600

"Oh, did I mention? As long as my Warwolf is up on the field, you can't activate your trap cards during the battle phase!" Most of the people in the stage gasped, but Sarai wasn't really paying attention. In fact she was looking at a card that was in her hand as she recalled one of the lessons that Ms. Chung taught her about this particular spell...

"Here," Ms. Chung handed her a spell card "Your going to need this, especially if your going to try and save a monster." Sarai looked at the card and noticed how there was a lightning insignia on the right side of the card.

"...change a monster's position to facedown defense mode?" Sarai skeptically looked at the card and back at Ms. Chung. "How will it-"

"Trust me Sarai," Ms. Chung pushed the card into Sarai's hands. "You will use this spell card in a duel, especially when something isn't going right." Sarai still stared at the card with disbelief.

"But how and when will I use this card...?" Ms. Chung simply grinned.

"Sarai, lemme tell you how I pissed off so many duelists with Quick-Play spell cards..."

At first Sarai didn't understand what Ms. Chung meant. Now seeing the situation she's in, as well as the fact that Gem Turtle is in attack mode, Sarai knows what this card is for...

"Warwolf, attack her Gem Turtle!"

"I don't think so! I activate the spell card Book of Moon!"

"Can she do that?" one of them questioned as Ms. Chung grinned wildly. "Oh you bet your ass she can!"

"Ms. Chung! Language!" Sister Cornello admonished, but couldn't help but to grin along with the Korean-American tutor as the children stare at the two with questioning looks.

"Book of Moon is a quick-play spell, which means it can be played from the hand!"

5 minutes and 8 seconds

"Book of Moon allows me to set one monster on the field facedown!" Hugo scoffed. "So what, you going to but Warwolf in defense mode-"

"Whoever said I'm picking Warwolf?" Gem Turtle vanished, as a card lying horizontally took it's place. Once Warwolf's blade connected the Turtle bursted from the card, knocking the Beast-Warrior off it's feet and on it's back.

Hugo: 9000 - 200 = 8800

"Alright!" The boy exclaimed as the other team of orphans began to cheer loudly. "Sarai is back in the game!"

"Not only that," The blond Lolita continued, "but Sarai figured out that by flipping Gem Turtle, she can activate his effect."

4 minutes and 51 seconds

"Now I activate Gem Turtle's Flip Effect!" Sarai's deck rapidly shuffled before spitting out one card, "When he's flipped, I can take one Gem-Knight Fusion from my deck into my hand!"

Hugo stared at the girl and back at his monster, "You flipped your own monster to not only deflect my attack, but to activate your own monster's effect...I'm impressed." The pro conceded as he crossed his arms. "Gem-Knight Fusion, is that some sort of Polymerization?"

At this Sarai gave the man a smile. "You'll find out on my turn."

Hugo nodded his head, "Very well. I'll set two card and end my turn."

"Alright," Sarai draws and smiles. "It's time to bring him out..."

"Him?" The announcer questioned as Sarai slid the Gem-Knight Fusion card into the magic and trap slot.

"I activate Gem-Knight Fusion! Sending Gem-Knight Garnet and Gem-Knight Tourmaline to summon a more powerful monster onto the field!" Tormaline stood side by side with his fellow knight. Garnet slammed his fist onto the ground as a fiery tornado surrounded the two. Statics surged around the walls of the self-made prison.

"Two will become one, and from one will come a great power! Watch as they merge their mights! Together, the one will deliver the lightning of justice!"

Lightning struck, as a familiar looking knight shadowed inside the flaming tornado.

"Fusion-Summon! Let's rock it! Gem-Knight Topaz!" The knight sliced the tornado in half as the flames instantly split in two. The knight walked out of the charred circle, with it's jagged blade of his tonfas in hand.

Gem-Knight Topaz
Attack: 1800
Defense: 1800

"WOW!" The announcer bellowed. "The monster that Sarai summoned! It screams cool!" He paused and checked it's attack points, "But! It's no match for the Warwolf! Sarai might have summoned an amazing looking monster, but is it worth the consequences in the end?"

"You bet your ass it is." Ms. Chung looked at one familiar monster in Sarai's hand. "Sarai is going full throttle for this duel, and since there's only three minutes and a half minutes before the match is done..."

3 minutes and 28 seconds

"Now I'll attack!"

"Foolish girl!" The pro exclaimed, "Our monsters will destroy each other before this battle even finishes!"

"No it won't! Because I activate Gem-Merchant's effect!" The wizard like creature appeared before the monsters, "By sending Gem-Merchant to the grave, Gem-Knight Topaz's powers increase by 1000!"

With a loud and a happy "HO!" the wizard merged with the knight. Lighting struck down onto the knight as it's body surged with electricity.

Gem-Knight Topaz
Attack: 1800 + 1000 = 2800
Defense: 1800 + 1000 = 2800

Gem-Knight Topaz took a step, before dematerializing into light. It took one millisecond, and it was easily missed for those that blinked, but the light pierced through the wolf with a crackle. The beast gave one last howl before shattering into glass.

Hugo: 8800 - 1000 = 7800

"Also! Topaz can attack twice on this turn!" The knight stood as it pulled out it's two tonfas. Throwing them lightly into the air, they twirled rapidly, before falling into it's hand. Suddenly a mirage of the two knights emerged from both sides as they attacked on each of Hugo's side before instant transmissioning back to Sarai's side.

Hugo: 7800 - 2800 = 5000

"No way! Sarai got him down!"

"Sarai's got a good chance to beat him!"

The orphans were muttering to themselves, but Ms. Chung was staring with a proud expression on her face.

2 minutes and 20 seconds

"I'lll set one card facedown and end my turn!"

"Crazy! Instense! Super! Special! Awesome!" The announcer cheered as the audience began to cheer. "Hugo took 4000 life points right there! If this was the minor league or the Division 2, then Hugo would have lost right there and then!"

Hugo staggered before regaining his balance. He wasn't angry, but was staring at her calculatingly. He slowly began to tug his gloves off. "I will be honest with you girl. The way you've been dueling, I thought getting to your Life Points was going to be easy. But I was wrong..." he took off his sunglasses, revealing tinted green eyes.

"E-Everyone! H-Hugo is getting serious!" The announcer exclaimed as the crowd began to murmur. The said man stared at Sarai, "Girl. I didn't bother remembering your name. I thought you were the rest of the duelists and had no skill, but you have talent. Tell me your name."

She blinked, not too sure whether to feel proud that he decides to remember her or feel offended for not even bothering to remember her. "Um...S-Sarai Densky?"

"Sarai Densky..." the man repeated as he drew, "Very well Sarai, for your performance for taking me down this far I shall honor you by bringing out some of the more monstrous and dangerous beasts in my deck!" With that Hugo draws.

1 minute and 5 seconds

"First I activate the spell card, Card of Sanctity! This forces us to draw until we have six cards in our hand." The two drew until their hands were filled with six different cards. "Now I activate my trap, DNA Surgery, allowing me to change all monster's type as the one I declare. I choose fairy!" Suddenly both turtle and Gem-Knight Topaz spurted feathery wings from their backs, like angels.

52 seconds

"Then I activate the quick-play spell Scapegoats, summoning four sheep tokens onto the field!" It took every single willpower for Sarai to not go "gaga" over the four adorable little sheep on the field, especially when they have little fluffy wings on them. But she'll have to get rid of them. "I activate the quick-spell card-"

"I activate my trap, Seven Tools of the Bandit, by paying a 1000 life points I can eliminate your spell card!" Sarai covered her face as the spell instantly shattered in front of her face.

"Now...it's time to bring them out." He pulled out two cards, "By using a Counter Trap, I can special summon these two monsters. The first one is special summoned by destroying all monsters on my side of the field." With one, synchronized, "Bah" the sheep were electrocuted by lightning. What made it very unusual was that the lightning was shot back to the heavens.

"By doing this, I bring out Voltanis the Adjudicator!"

The four bolts combined and let loose a massive one. And from it came a giant purple Synthetic Angel, carrying large staff.

Voltanis the Adjudicator
Attack: 2800
Defense: 1400

"Voltanis second effect activates! Since I summoned it this way and four fairies were destroyed, I can destroy up to four of your field cards!"

"B-But that would mean-"

"Voltanis! Show her no mercy!" The Adjudicator simply rose it's staff slightly in the air before slamming it by the butt of the staff, sending purple and white shockwaves over at Sarai's field, electrocuting her two monsters. They cringed and turtle even spasmed before exploding.

23 seconds

"Now my second monster's effect activates, when a Counter trap was activated, he's instantly brought onto the field. Come! Van'Dalgyon The Dark Dragon Lord!" Behind the Adjudicator a dark cloud slowly formed as dark red eyes glared at the defenseless girl. It spread it's synthesized wings outwards, nearly hitting the crowds as the dragon let out a mechanical like roar.

Van''Dalgyon The Dark Dragon Lord
Attack: 2800
Defense: 2500

15 seconds

"No way..."

"You better believe it, because the two are about to attack...now." The two charged up their attacks.

5

The two energy based attack merged together.

4

It created a massive ball of energy.

3

It slowly descended down.

2

It slammed onto Sarai.

1

She screamed.

0

The monsters and the cards faded away as the final score showed up on the screen.

Hugo: 5000
Sarai: 1400

Sarai fell onto her knees in shock, she...she was so close, and just like that he...he...

"HUGO WINS!" The announcer exclaimed as the crowd went wild. The cheers were slowly dying away in Sarai's ears. She lost...she lost...

"The hell are you crying for?"

((First Person POV))

"The hell are you crying for?" I asked her as I walked up to the arena, Sarai looked at me and blinked. She squealed in alarm, realizing that she was just crying in front of the million of people in the crowd. "You did so spectacular Sarai, I'm so proud of you!"

"B-But I lost..."

"So what?" She snapped her head upward as I crossed my arms, "Sarai, this is your first duel, and your first duel was against a pro! Getting him to at least 5000 is something that most beginners can't even do."

"She has a point there Sarai." Hugo stepped over to where Sarai was kneeling. "Sarai, I faced a hundred of duelists in my years dueling here in the pro league, and none of them are even capable of what you did today. You not only stood against the odds, but conquered them." The man covered his eyes with his sunglasses as he stared at us with a rare grin. "Sure you might have lost today, but today's lost will be tomorrow's victory. I want you to take this duel to your heart, and learn from it."

"Coming from a pro-duelist like yourself Mr. Onoro, it's a big surprise."

...oh my god, don't tell me...

"He's here!" The lights flashed down onto the smug bastard that handed us the tickets earlier last week. "The sponsor for the X-Factor Pro-League Tournament! Maximilian Pegasus!" He was holding a trophy of some sort as he walked pass Hugo and kneeled down in front of Sarai. "Congratulations, I couldn't help but to overhear what you three were talking about and I am thoroughly impressed as well!"

"T-Thank you sir..."

"Well there you have it folks! Give a round of applause for our young duelist Sarai Densky for that outstanding performance!"

And cue the applauses.

Jesus Christ is this part of the story just going to be applauses?

"Now then..." Pegasus began as he escorted us off the arena. "If you have time to spare, I wish to talk to you two about something...rather important."

I guess not.

For now I'm going to post this without Beta'ing it. However I'm going to send over my three other chapters to my Beta-Reader for gammer check.

Gem-Knight's Calling
Normal Trap
When a "Gem-Knight" on your side of the field is destroyed by a card effect, special summoning it back onto the field. That "Gem-Knight" can conduct it's battle phase twice on this turn.
Image: Picture of a Gem-Knight with a Viking Horn, blowing it while standing on the edge of the cliff. A sun-rise next to it made it even more dramatic than it should.