In the dark, dankly, attic of the Princeton Mansion a teen in a blue trench coat was going through boxes after boxes, in search of a particular item that he has sentimental value towards. How do I know this? Well he spent about a few hours up there trying to find it. How do I know that he spent hours trying to find that certain item?
Because I'm the fucking narrator, bitch.
In any case, the teen finally found what he was looking for as he slowly lifted the said object out of the trunk.
Chazz glanced at the small wooden box in his hands. Dust filled every spot on it as the Obelisk blue slowly opened it and somberly looked at it...a card, a monster card to be exact. Delicately pulling the card out, a low growl echoed in the room. To some, it would be terrifying and they would most undoubtably question their sanity. To Chazz however...he didn't hear a rumble.
"Jun..." A soft, feminine, voice whispered in his voice as he looked at the card. It was certifiable, it was psychotic to even think that one would hear something...but...
"...will you fight along side with me again, partner?"
"So what took you?" I asked as Chazz threw his back into the trunk of my Jeep. Sarai was sleeping in the back, with her duffle back already packed next to her as Chazz sat in the front of the seat with me.
"I-I needed to get something."
"Uh-huh..." I looked out from my window, we were on the right side of the house, so I could see the large mansion looming over my Liberty. "Does your brothers know that your leaving early?" The Obelisk shook his head. "I haven't told them anything, they rarely call me or talk to me. Unless if it involves with my dueling future, they tend to stay away from me."
"I could tell..." The lights were off in his house, but I couldn't help but to feel like someone was watching us. Shaking my head, I start the ignition and looked over at Chazz. "Last chance, you got anything else to take with you before coming to DA?" The spiky haired teen paused, before shaking his head.
"I got everything." he affirmed as I pulled the stick to drive and silently moved along the road, and towards the gate. With a push of a button, the gates slowly pulled itself open as I gently went over the bump and onto the streets. "Alright, next up..." Turning left, I took the street that would take us to one of the freeways.
8:52 PM
It was a little, but for students that made it into Obelisks, they needed to get there sooner so that they could get use to the feel of the new bearing first before anyone else. Sarai and some of the students are the exception because I'm doing him a favor while he's researching on the card...
o0O0o
Pegasus looked at the card, that was lying harmlessly on his work desk, with grim as I stood in front of the CEO of Duel Monsters. He picked it up and glanced over at my direction.
"Where did you get this?"
"From one of our applicant that attempted to cheat his way into Duel Academy. I managed to beat it before it could touch me." The silver-haired president looked at the back then to the front.
"I can't believe this..."
"What I want to know is why did you make this card?" I asked him, although I knew part of the answer. Before I explain what I'm talking about, I should have mention this statement waaaaay in the beginning.
I'm from a different world.
I'm not good with the drama and all that shenanigans that come with it, so I'll be brief. Five years ago, after Sarai beat me on national T.V., Pegasus asked me about all my skills and how I attained them.
Without really thinking about it, I told him about how good I gotten, and how that skills began to accumulate over my years with each new archetype and summonings that were coming out. When I saw the shocked look on his face, I knew what I said must have tipped something off.
When he asked me about the newest summons, I told him about the Synchros and the XYZ summonings. What I didn't expect was him telling me that the Synchros were a future project that Pegasus was thinking about doing. He demanded to know how I knew about them. I tried to explain, but at the time I really couldn't make up a good way to explain my situation.
So what he did was something that I'd remember forever in my life...well until I get back to my world.
He took me to an Egyptian museum where I met up with the museum's curator, Ishizu Ishtar where she told me that she was going to "read me".
I thought she was looney, I mean sure I'm bat-shit crazy, but still. That is until she touched my head with her two hands.
Then, like a cinematography being made, I saw films of my life flashing in my eyes. From the moment when I was born to the moment where I am now. It felt like a three-hour movie...but in reality it was just thirty seconds. You should have seen the look on Pegasus's face when he saw me frantically looking at the time and argue with the Egyptian woman about the time that passed by.
I never thought that a man could laugh that much...
Though I did get my kicks when I saw their faces change to shock when they realize that I was a dude in a girl's body. I had a hell of a time flirting with the already disturbed Ishizu Ishtar. Hey, she looks cute. Who cares about same sex gender when the other occupant is hot...
...wow, now I know what it feels like whenever a yaoi girl looks at two dudes together. It doesn't matter what other people thinks, if his pattern is damn smoking hot then you tap that ass.
She did give me her number, that does tell me something. Hey, when a girl gives you a number, it means your on her good side...either that or she's also into you and wants to bang you. Hey, with a situation like mine? A girl can be curious to know these things. I mean what does the mentality feel like for a girl when- ok I'm getting waaaaay off topic here.
Where was I?
Oh right, at the museum. Well after that whole fiasco, they deduced that I'm from a totally different world (considering how Duel Monsters is do damn hyped here and have devices to summon giant ass monsters of the size of Godzilla? Yeah it's not all that surprising to see. By the way, I was being sarcastic with that last statement).
So the two started to explain about this world and how big that Duel Monster's got. From the partnership deal with Seto Kaiba to the "Shadow Games" that the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs used to play with back in the days that resembles a lot with Duel Monsters right now, my reaction to this whole god damn thing?
I think I have a terrible case of brownie dosing and I'm seriously fucking high right now. It was the only explanation that I could think of. I mean, come on now. Children's card game in Ancient Egypt, and they used this to punish the wicked soul? Or use this for modern warfare? Totally shenanigan.
They can't believe that Duel Monster is not as advance as their world was...well we don't have Seto Kaiba, that probably is the reason why.
...damn it, I got off tangent again. To summarize, I've been warped into a different dimension by god knows what, and now in order to return I have to do a certain task that I certainly do not know what to do... if only my life was like Final Fantasy, then I at least know how to get to Point B from Point A.
Well, at least now I know why my dad didn't sent out a missing person report. That gave me some good closure, it did tell me that my dad couldn't do it because he has no idea that I'm in a different world. Although I hate the fact that I had to allow Ishizu to look through my mind to find that out...
Ok now back to the actual story. So, I know that these cards are never seen because they were from tournaments. They were handed out to the victor of the said tournament, and they were the only one out there. For the others that have them, they're either fake or...nope that's all there is, it's fake.
How the hell do I know this? Believe it or not, I actually have one. I forgotten the name, but I do know that it's sitting in my desk. Preserved from the world with my other cards.
Now what I want to know is why Pegasus wanted to make these cards? We're they for prizes in a tournaments? We're they a replacement for Exodia? What the hell was his problem?
"Ms. Chung, I never made this cards."
Oh...that's bad, right?
"That's bad right?" I vocalized my thoughts as he nodded his head, "I may have made a card like the Exodia and the God Cards, I may have made cards that were questionable in nature. However I would never make a card like this..."
Great, Pegasus has no idea and I'm possibly sure that there's more out there...
"You look very disturbed." Pegasus commented offhandedly. "Pegasus, from my world, there are a bunch of these out there." He opened his mouth, but closed it and stared. "That's...very bad."
"Yeah..."
We stood there silently, pondering our current situation...
"How many more are there, with these type of effect?"
I sighed, "From the top of my head...I think there's probably about twenty of them back in my world." I continued as Pegasus's eyes widened with shock at the sheer number that these monsters have. Twenty may not be a lot for a lot of people, but it sure is whenever you want to find something...across the world.
"But don't worry, half of those cards can't be summoned without using a special condition to summon them." I eased as he blinked.
"A special condition?"
"Synchroes and XYZ."
"Ah..." Yeah, Pegasus still doesn't have a cool how those two still work. Frankly I can't blame him, it took me months to figure our how each Synchroes worked. Hell I got stuck when I had to use a "Dark" tuner to synchro one particular monster. XYZ was a little more simpler to understand, but it was still the same shenanigan mixup that I had problems with earlier.
"In conclusion, I think we really have to worry about ten or twelve of them." I told him as he picked up the card. "I'll try my best to spot those cards back in Duel Academy, chances of some of the students having those cards in the school is kind of high, considering how an applicant tried to get in with those."
"In the mean time, I'll go over this with my Board of Directors to try and see what we should do with this card." That made me blink, "Your...not going to destroy it?"
"Ms. Chung..." He gave me an enigmatic smile. "This may sound a little unusual, but have you notice anything strange when you were dueling this monster?" I paused, recalling when the Queen...looked rather sad at dueling me.
"Y-Yeah...I thought for a second it was because I was stressed out, but while I was fighting her, she looked rather...reluctant to fight; also, just before I destroyed her, she smiled." I shook my head, "Now this gets really freaky, just before she gets destroyed she said 'thank you'."
Pegasus's smile widened even more, which I thought was impossible for a man to smile that wide.
"Well, we'll see what happens to this card. But please, if you do find more..."
"Don't worry Pegasus, I'll ship them out the next morning when I do."
o0O0o
"Ms. Chung?" Chazz's voice snapped me out of my little flashback as I exited the freeway. "Where are we going?"
Remember when I said Sarai, and some of the students? Well...
"I'm picking up my other students." That made Chazz blink, "Y-You have others?" I rolled my eyes, "Chazz, I only tutored you for two hours for those four years, I had time to tutor other students." We turned right, where we entered into a neighborhood filled with middle-class homes. Nothing too extravagant, but still better than the average Japanese condos that most Japanese people stay in.
"Wait right here alright?" I got out of the car and up the stairs before ringing the bell. First up... Jenny McBride. I've been only tutoring her for about two years and a half before her parent's told me to leave because of family issues. I did have some good memories with her, hell she reminded me of Sarai a lot. She's headstrong and has a good heart. Though she is more confident than my first pupil, she does have her own phobias.
I rang the door bell and waited for someone to come. I heard a voice, before stomping echoed behind. The door quickly opened, and I couldn't help but to laugh.
"Ms. Chung!"
The girl that was in front of me was none other than my third and quite possibly my favorite one in my three years of teaching(next to Sarai of course).
One thing I'm so jealous of about, with Jenny, was how her hair looked so damn gorgeous. Have you guys seen the sunset before? Imagine that color of red hair. Now I'm a drinker, so I use a lot of cocktail idioms, sayings, metaphors, analogies, etc. etc. So now imagine the sunset red hair as vodka and her golden highlights as Seven-Up. When you mix those two together, you get a gorgeous and a delicious result. Well that's how her hair is. It's pretty damn kick ass- oh dear god, did I just dedicate a whole paragraph to Jenny's hair? God I have no life.
Another thing I'm jealous about? Is her seriously crystal blue eyes. Never have I seen such clear blue eyes in my life. Hell I don't think I've ever seen the color blue like that.
What about me? I must look pretty darn hot when I was transformed into a girl, I mean I work out and keep myself extremely healthy, so why should I be jealous? My hair is brown and boring, also my eyes are just green. Nothing special, just green.
One difference I could spot on with me and her is that I'm pretty clean at the moment. Jenny, however, looked like she just hopped out of bed or something. The girl was rather in a state of dishevel: her band was in her mouth as the recently positioned Obelisk duelist tried to braid her hair. Her blazer was untucked and the belt on her jeans weren't even unbuckled. I laughed when the band fell out of her mouth when she tried to say my name.
"Damn it!" She cursed.
"Here, let me help you with that."
"But the boat-"
'It can wait, now turn around so I can fix that hair for you." It sounds really strange right? A dude, in a chick's body, telling the girl to turn around so he can fix her hair? I guess six years can do something to a guy, especially if he's in a girl's body.
"And...there we go." It did take me a little while, and I had to step into the house to complete the job, but Jenny now has her hair braided and is looking extremely pretty right now.
"I'm so envious of your hair," the Obelisk laughed as I got off the chair. "I mean, not only is your hair color beautiful, but it seriously matches with...just everything!"
"Teach, the one that should be jealous right now is me!" she points at my wavy dark brown hair, "I mean you look cool, and you manage to pull of a braid!" she was talking about the braid behind my left ear. I simply shook my head. "Oh shut up you-"
A honk echoed outside, and I suddenly realized that I left Chaz and Sarai in the car. "Did you get all your things?"
"Yup," She lifted her duffle bag. Mr. and Mrs. McBride was waiting by the door, with a sad smile on their faces.
"Don't you worry now Mr. and Mrs. McBride," I assured, "Jenny will be safe at the Academy, I'll be sure of it." I talked with the parents some more as Jenny picked up her bag and rushed to the car. I opened up the trunk so she could put her bags in there.
They asked the generic questions that every worried parents ask. So to ease their worries I gave them my contact information and told them to email me anytime. To make them feel more safe, if they want to video chat with their daughter I could book a classroom so that the two could talk to one another.
A red blur passed by as Jenny gave her parent's one last hug. "I'll be safe guys, don't worry..."
They stayed like this for a while, and it would have gone longer if I didn't hear the honk from my car.
"Sorry..." I told them sheepishly as Jen pulled away from her parents.
"Don't get yourself in trouble young lady!" The father called out as we walked to my car.
"And for the love of god, please don't blow up another toilet!"
...wait what?
"I can't keep any promises mom!" Jenny laughed as she hopped into the back seat. Rolling my eyes, I went to the driver's side and turned to Chazz, who was listening to his MP3 at the moment.
"Chazz." He snapped out of his trance and looked at my direction. "Honking at us? Was that really necessary? They were having a family moment and you had to go and ruin it-"
"I didn't touch it, I was here the whole time listening to my music when Sarai leaped over my shoulders..." My gaze slowly turned to the sleeping Osiris. I would have turned back and yell at Chazz for lying, if I didn't see the smile on her face. I turned to Jenny who was patiently waiting for something to happen.
"Jenny Rose McBride." That caught the Obelisk's attention as she turned to me fearfully, normally I don't say their full name unless I was going to punish them or say something serious. Slowly turning to the red-head I pointed at the light blond haired Osiris, who was 'sleeping'.
"Tickle her to death."
I didn't think her smile could have been cute and vicious at the same time.
"NOOOOOOOOO! STOP! PLEASE STOP! UNCLE UNCLE! I GIVE UP!" Sarai's laughter and cries of mercy echoed through the car as we headed for my next student.
o0O0o
It took about twenty minutes to get to the next house, though this one was more of an apartment then a house...actually not an apartment, but a penthouse. That would be the better term for it. If we need some more examples, all I got for you two are two words: Starks Tower. Look it up.
My next student is also a girl, and I happened to meet her after the duel tournament back five years ago. She actually gave me the idea to tutor more than one student, as she asked me to teach her somethings on how to duel and such.
Although she was next to my longest student to tutor, she was by far the most annoying one I had ever had the chance to teach. If her family weren't so damn rich, I would have just chucked the damn girl out the window.
Oh and if your wondering how I'm breaking the fourth wall so much, it's all thanks to this chick. If you think I was bad? You should see her on her off days.
I was waiting for the elevator to take me up to the highest level where my fourth student was waiting for me to pick her up. The common elevator music flowed in my ears as I tapped my foot impatiently. A melodious ding alerted me that I finally came to the highest level as the doors slowly opened.
I see the bags.
I see the parents.
I see no student.
"Where-"
"She's asleep." The father, Thomas Bangalter, embarrassingly told me as he led me to her room. She looked the same, except for her clothes. She was sleeping in her Obelisk Blue uniform as her small body breathed in and out. My eyes rolled over to the mom as she crept over and gently tried to wake her up.
No dice.
Looks like we'll have to do it the old fashion way. I scooped her out of the bed as carried her to the living room. The father followed me behind as he carried her bags to the elevator.
"So when did she-"
"She actually went to bed at eight o'clock." Thomas replied as I looked at the rather small Obelisk in my hand, it was almost like she was my own kid or something...
"How many students are you going to take?" the mother of the duo asked.
"I'm taking all the kids that I tutored with me to Duel Academy. All of them, with the exception of the truant, made it into Obelisk Blue." I told him as he nodded his head with admiration.
"Will my daughter be..."
"No, nearly all my students are girls. I only have one boy, and for two years I only tutored about...five or six kids?" I shrugged. "I can't recall."
The elevator finally arrived at the lobby as the two of us walked out where my car was, opening the trunk, Thomas placed all of his daughter's stuff in the next empty spot. While I was telling the girls to make some room for Haleigh to sleep in, Thomas was doing me a favor and organizing some of the bags in neat order in order for other peoples to put their stuff in there.
"Take care of her." He requested as he closed the trunk. I shook hands with him and smiled.
"Don't worry about her, with her insane psychic powers, there's no damn way she'll be in danger." He smiled as I walked back to the drivers seat. Putting the ignition on again, I drove to the next house, while Jenny and Sarai doodled on Haleigh's face.
Payback Haleigh for all the time you annoyed me with your psychic, fourth-breaking, powers.
o0O0o
My fifth one was a girl again.
Go figure.
No dude wanted me, except for Chazz.
He's the only cool one around here.
In any case, my fifth one is...how do you say...not a slut, but not a virgin either. She's a wild child that's for sure, but she's a good wild child. I've been only tutoring her for about an two years and she's already a pro at dueling.
Fortunately she's not a Sue. Though some of the things that she does makes me question if she is. So when I opened the door, and a small, adorable, Doberman puppy came out and sprinted into my jeep, I was not amused at all. My, rather hot looking, pupil didn't even have the chance to open her mouth before I sternly said, "No."
"But Ms. Chung..."
"Sasha, I'm not bringing a dog to DA."
"His name's Ace-"
"Remember how I said no to your mice last week?"
"Yes but-"
"And that kitten you found in the alley the week before?"
"But-"
"And, having said no to both kitten and a mice, you think I would say yes to a puppy?" I asked, my eyes twitching rather violently. Ace, trying to help his case, hopped out of the car and took a little dump in the grass, and went to a different part of the grass to wipe himself clean. Ace, the every happy puppy, disappeared back into the Jeep as Sasha tried to plead his case. "Ms. Chung, Ace is a good dog! I mean for god sakes, he's potty trained and he's not even eight week old!"
I folded my arms and gave my best "disapproving" look, which was pretty damn good considering how many kids I tutored and taught for three years. Oh and if anyone is wondering how I was able to teach at Duel Academy, you can thank Pegasus for that. \
Hey a multibillionaire can do wondrous of things, and if it's to get me to teach at Duel Academy, all he has to do is snap his finger and I'm in. Anyways back to the scolding,
"And what makes you think that I'll allow him to come along with us?"
Then, unexpectedly, Sarai and Jenny began to laugh.
"I love this puppy!" I hear Sarai announce as Jenny voiced out in agreement.
A sneaking suspicion as to what had made the noise, I strode towards the sound, with Sasha trailing behind me. I could barely hold in my laughter as Ace, the Doberman puppy, somehow found his way on top of Haleigh's head and was now sleeping along with the unconscious psychic. I seriously wonder how the blond was able to sleep through the whole cacophony of laughter in the car.
"Because Ace is being loved by everyone else, and if you take him away everyone will be sad?" Sasha answered hesitantly, metaphorical hand caught in the metaphorical cookie jar, only in this case the cookies were girls fawning over how adorable the puppy was as he slept onto of the head of the graffitied Haleigh Bangalter.
I could feel feel myself starting to lose it and slowly succumb to saying yes to the puppy. Hey, you have to admit, it's an adorable puppy; if not, then sue me. "Does your father know about you bringing Ace?"
"Probably," Sasha answered. "He is the one that breeds them."
Normally I don't sucker in, but with those puppy eyes on those puppy?
With that, Ace joins in our little motley crew.
o0O0o
Behold, my final student, and by far one of the more interesting of them all. How interesting? Three words: Ranma 1/2. I knocked on the door of a rather poor looking house as my final pupil came out with nothing but a dark one piece that gave a lot of pedophiles wrong idea. "Kia." I began as she fixed out her white locks, "Where is your blazer?"
"Sorry, my what now?"
Immigrated from Africa, Kia Kerasoki stood about three inches shorter than me, and looked damn sexy in that dark dress- oh fuck me, I'm getting hot from a fifteen year old girl. How can I not? Her red eyes are damn captivating as with her white locks, which I am convinced that she bleached it. Her light mocha skin really makes me wanna put whip cream all over her and lick it- and why the hell am I thinking like this?
"Kia..." She looked at me with those alluring eyes, "What the hell?"
"Sorry..."
Just like that, the attraction stopped. "Ok so..." She blushed, "I-It's...I don't know, ever since my first period people's been looking at me weirdly like how you did..."
Shit, she just hit her puberty? Well that would explain her nicely shaped legs and - damn it! Bad Josh! I mean, bad Julia! Your suppose to be a woman...well your first a dude, and then your a woman! Oh god I'm just-
"You know what, just get your things into the car."
Now people are wondering why I put Ranma 1/2 in there? Well, it turns out that...
...you know what, I'll keep it a secret for you guys up there.
o0O0o
And now we're on a mother f'cking boat. Yes people, we're on a boat. Now sing along now.
"Ms. Chung?" I looked over at the sofas where mostly everyone was lounging on, Jenny held Ace as the small puppy slept with it's head on her breasts. Chaz was looking through his deck while Haleigh and Sarai were sleeping on each other, their head supporting their weight as the two continued to sleep. Sasha was in the showers and Kia was in the bedroom, doing her own little thing.
"Is Chazz the only boy around here?" That caught the spiky haired teen's attention as he looked around...and paled. "Not to worry, Chazz is a gentleman and he wouldn't even think about peeking while your changing, right Chazz?"
"O-Of course!" The teen immediately exclaimed as I shook my head in amusement. Not bemusement; because bemusement means to be bewildered and confused. Stupid fanfic people, thinking that bemusement means the same as amusement just because they sound the same-
"Ms. Chung, are you even listening?"
"Sorry what?" Everyone laughed as Chzaz leaned back and frowned. "Sorry, in any case, let's get down to business." I sat in the center sofa as Sasha came out with a bathrobe. Kia sleepy walked to one of the vacant spot as I looked at all of them. "With the exception of Sarai, I'm happy to say that I'm proud of you all to get into Obelisk." I glanced over at Sarai's direction with a stern gaze. "I expect everyone to come on time next time?"
"Hehehe..." Sarai chuckled weakly as she tugged on her red blazer. I shook my head, "In any case, my class in Duel Academy is nothing different then what I've been teaching you guys, if you want to come and knock my class out early for your whole four years here, go right on ahead, you only need about two years in my class anyways."
"However, I'm going to put on some ground rules here in my class so listen up," Leaning back on my sofa, I started off with the basics of the basics. "First off, no smart-ass comments, you say one smart-ass comment, I'll test you to see if you can back up the statement. Got it? You can interrupt me whenever you guys want, after all it is a lecture and a socratic seminar class. However anything that isn't allowed in my class and you get a demerit, got it?"
"Yes Ms. Chung."
I looked at them and smirked. "Also, since you guys are Obelisks, it does mean priority over things. So if an under or an older-classmen decides to be a jackass and he's a rank below you, kick their asses." Jenny, with one hand rubbing the sleeping puppy's head, raised her hand. "And yes, you can blow up their toilets or poison their food because their being a complete asshole."
There's that cute and vicious smile again.
"Also, I'm very big against the whole house prejudice things, so if I hear any of you guys abusing your powers as Obelisks, you can turn in those blue blazers to me and I'll throw you guys those god awful yellow blazers. Got it?"
Everyone nodded their head, especially Jenny who looked pretty serious for that matter. "Now get some sleep, we'll be getting to Duel Academy tomorrow."
"That soon?"
"Normally, if we were to take a helicopter, it'd take about four hours. So relax and just breeze through these next four years with success." With that, me and Chaz helped the two asleep girls to their bed while everyone else went to their room.
"If that's the case..." I murmured as I tucked in Sarai into her bed, "Then why does it feel like it's not going to be a good year this year?"
o0O0o
Just like I predicted, we arrived at our Academy in the morning as I told them that their bags will be carried out and be in the building later. Sometime later within the Main Academy Building, the new students (AKA, freshmen or first-years) were lined up, facing a large rectangular screen with the Academy's insignia. All were wearing one of three colored blazers each, some students had yellow, few blue, and about most of them, red. My proud five Obelisk and one Osiris student stood in the front of the row as I stood along sides with the rest of the faculty members.
Crowler shook his head in disbelief while Sartyr, an elderly man with two interesting mustache, chuckled; Banner, a tall and skinny looking man with a dark hair and a pair of glasses, gave me a nod as he held his cat in his arms. Midori, a dark haired woman wearing the Osiris Red uniform -consisting of a red trench coat with even brighter red trim- and dark pants, smiled as Fonda, a woman with red hair and has one bunch that sticks out over the right side of her head, cooed at Ace who was currently sleeping in my arms.
The screen made a small sound as an image of a bald, bearded-old-man, with a red-colored jacket appeared on the monitor. He wore a big smile as he welcomed the new academy students.
"Welcome, Dueling Elites," he said. "I'm Chancellor Sheppard, the headmaster here. You all used your skills to open the narrow admission gates."
My students listened to the headmaster closely, getting the feeling that they was going to be asked what the man said sometime later by Sarai, who was standing right in front of the other student, asleep and breathing softly as a small nose bubble deflated and inflated out of one of her nostrils. I sighed as Midori and Fonda giggled next to me.
"At least he's not snoring…" I thanked god as the headmaster continued on with his speech.
"Please have fun studying—" the chancellor continued. However god has a sense of humor, like making me into a girl, because while the old-coop was talking, Sarai picked this time to suddenly wake up; wide-eyed right after her nose bubble popped.
"—in hopes of becoming the next King of…" Chancellor was cut off as a loud shriek interrupted him. Everyone turned to the shriek, which came directly from Sarai, surprising nearly everyone because she was one of the girls in the front of the row.
"NO!" Sarai shrieked. "My Gem-Knight Topaz! He's been annihilated!"
"…Games?" finished Sheppard as I smacked my face.
There was a moment of silence as everyone stared at Sarai, who had her hands on her head until she realized she was being stared at. Sarai looked at everyone awkwardly before stopping at her teacher. I covered my face, not knowing what to say. Unfortunately I, like the rest of my colleagues and the students tried not to laugh.
No, really, we all tried not to laugh…though, resistance was futile. Ace's little sneeze caused everyone to burst into laughter. Including the headmaster. There was a small select few of which who didn't laugh at my student's outburst, one included a neat, black-haired boy with brown eyes in a yellow blazer.
The boy was Bastion Misawa, an acquaintance of some sorts of Jaden and Syrus. Somewhat older than them by almost a year and more on the tall side (also the owner of a British accent), he sighed at the immaturity of the students and the headmaster.
Chancellor Sheppard, having stopped laughing, smiled at the students.
"Well, I'd say that's a good start!" he chuckled. "Now, I won't bore you anymore with my talking, so you may go to your assigned dorms and get settled in. I'll think you'll find them quite comfortable…depending on how you ranked, of course!"
Everyone laughed as the faculties began to divide the students to their respective dorm color, and dismissed the students.
o0O0o
Later that evening, all the welcoming dinners were starting. In the Ra yellow dorm we were all in our seats as I finished our evening prayer. Ace was hungrily eating a cooked meal that the chefs prepared for his little body. It wasn't as glamorous as the Blues that I heard rumors about, but they still had great food you'd find a restaurants and a buffet meal. Not only that, but the the headmaster of the Boy's Ra Yellow was the one that cooked it. I seriously need to get him something over Christmas, at least something like a new set of pans and knives or something. The boys and girls were dining together as the Headmaster
"Ah, buenas noches mis estudiantes!" The headmaster spoke in a thick, heavy, Spanish accent as everyone turned to him after my group prayer. "I am Professor Don Simon Sartyr, headmaster of the Ra Boy's Dormitory!"
"And I'm Professor Chung, headmistress of the Ra Girl's Dormitory." He nodded as he turned to his newer students with a gentle smile. One thing I like about Sartyr is that he does his best to treat his students not as "students" but more as a friend to a friend does. If anything, I take the whole teacher student relationship more seriously than anyone else in this school.
"Now, would like everyone to tell a little about themselves?" they looked confused as I rolled my eyes, "Here's an example." I began, as no one else would start it off. "My name is Julia Chung, I'm the headmistress of the Ra Girl's. My class is special, it's known as hell." Some of the more older students cringe the moment I mentioned my class number.
"I teach the synergy of different cards and the method of countering the said cards. Basically if you want to make or upgrade a deck to phenomenal levels, take my class for at least a month and you'll be pro at making any sort of deck." Some of the students began to murmur amongst each other as I closed my arms. "I'm a coffee drinker, black; and as a hobby, my goal is to find every single coffee flavor and try them out."
"...profesora Chung, that's not really a healthy hobby." I shrugged as Ace burped underneath the table. "It's nevertheless a hobby of mine." I looked over to the freshman class. "That's all there is to it, so anyone wanna go first?"
Bastion started first as he stood up from his seat, without hesitation. "My name is Bastion Misawa, and as a hobby I do numerous equations for all the decks I prepare." This I smirked, "Oh you and I are going to get along just fine." The British accented teen blushed before sitting back down.
"Very good, bravo! Muy Bueno!" Sartyr announced with a smile. "Who's next?"
"Me!" We turned to a...is that a Dark Magician Girl? Apart from her hair color -which was dark brown- and her eyes -which were light brown- she looked exactly like the Dark Magician Girl. "Hi everyone! My name is Melody Hikari, I'm a huge fan of spell casters and my goal is to be one of the first spell caster, female, pro-league duelists in the history of Duel Monsters!"
I gave her an affirmative nod, "With four years here, in one of the most prestigious schools here in Duel Academy, that goal is most definitively possible. Me and Professor Sartyr will make sure of it." She gave us a huge smile and bowed, "Thank you!"
The rest of the students started getting into the swing of introductions/ One example was a kid named Dimitri, who idolized every great duelist from past to present and even made several decks after them.
"Just be sure that no one learns how to counter each deck." I warned him as he scratched his head while looking bit sheepish from my statement.
Then a short guy named Brier, who was a bit shy when he got called on to talk. For that, I walked over and ticked the poor kid as he laughed out loud, "Feel better?" Brier looked at me and, to his surprise, he found himself nodded his head. "Alright, now from the beginning..."
After all the introductions were made, the feast started.
...and yup, I'm definitively getting something for Sartyr when Christmas comes along.
o0O0o
I checked the time, 9:32, it was almost time for my class to begin.
Crowler walked into the faculty office and grabbed himself a cup of coffee as Ace looked at the blond teacher with a blink. "So, how's the first day of class?"
"The Osiris Red, apart from the students that you taught, are being a complete dunderhead. If it weren't for Sarai Densky and Chumley Huffington I would have thought that this years O are hopeless."
Chumley Huffington, he was an unusual one. Apparently he's one of the few Osiris Reds that stuck to it in the end for my class. He even took an extra year in my class to learn more about my subject. Although he's a Osiris, the damn kid could easily pass for an Obelisk. When I asked him why he didn't want to move, he told me that he was too attached to his dorm.
"A shame, that he's not in my dorm." Crowler said as he sipped his suggarfied coffee. "But as long as he does his work, I won't think anything bad about him."
"How about the Ra's?" He grinned, "Impressive as usual, though they're not as impressive as my Obelisk Blues..." he turned to me and smiled. "You did wonders for those six, they answered every single one of my question."
I scoffed as I picked up my folder and walked to the exit. "Of course, who do you think I am?" Crowler laughed as I walked to my freshman class with Ace trotting along.
Time to make some kid's flunk out.
It was morning at Duel Academy and everyone was in class now. The seating chart was set so that the first year's were at the bottom and the higher years were going up. But since that dorm color thing's got most Obelisk Blue kids feeling that they are better than the Yellows or the Reds, it was more like the blue were higher up with the yellows in the middle or sides and the reds at the bottom. So basically, Chaz, Jenny, Haleigh, Sasha and Kia were at the top, Bastion and Melody -as well as the other Ra Yellows- were in the middle, and Sarai and Jaden at the bottom.
When I walked into the class, to my displeasure, nearly half of the class was in total chaos. I waited for Ace to up upstairs to Sasha before slamming my folder onto the desk, the loud noise caught everyone off guard, including the ones that were calmly waiting for me to start the lesson. Ace quickly crawled up into Sasha's jacket, as he slept in between her bosom while I turned around and glared at the lot. "SIT DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
Not wanting to incur my wrath, the students did what I ordered them to do while ignoring the fact that I just cursed in front of the whole Freshman class, "Welcome to class 211, also known as Hell."
I crossed my arms over my ample chest as I leaned back on my desk. "My name is Professor Chung, and I teach the symbiotic relationship that each cards have with one another and the synergy between them. I also teach you guys how to efficiently counter cards that put you in a real messy situation."
Glancing over at some of the students, to my disappointment, I guesstimate that 62% of the drop outs for my class are going to be Obelisks and Osiris, while the remaining 38% will be the Ra class. But I can't be too sure...
"So, you think your ready for my class?" I began, "Listen, all the rumors that you heard about class 211? About how freaking hard my class is? How people hear cries in this class when I'm in here?"
62 just went up to 74%, how do I know this? Those idiots were laughing, and not taking this seriously.
"...all of it is true."
That shut them up.
"Listen to me when I say this. I purposely try to make you guys fail in my class, why? Because going easy with this subject will not only make you lax for this, but also you'll expect me to feed you with a fucking silver spoon. No way. That's not how it's going to work in my class nor will it work in the Pro-League. I'm going to make you study. For those that don't, you'll come out of this class with a 2.1 GPA I guaran-damn-tee you on that."
The Ra looked as if I stated an issue of challenge, the Obelisk were slightly paying attention now at the low number GPA that would result from taking this class not seriously, the only one that looked absolutely terrified were the Osiris, with the exception of Sarai, as they murmured about this.
"Listen to me when I say this as well. Duel Academy is more than just a few 'talented' duelists coming in off the streets who think they can duel. These are people who compete at the highest level of competition. They got accepted from the skills they gained from experience and learning how to strategize and make their deck stronger, similar to the subject that I'm teaching right now."
Enough murmuring, this is the part where they need their attention on me now.
"I don't give a rat's ass about where you come from. I don't give a rat's ass how many trophies there are on your shelves form the junior league tournaments. You need to be ready for anything and everything."
I cracked my neck, feeling a little stiff as I continued with my little initiation. "In my class, if you just come here with high powered monsters, your leaving my class -humiliated- as your classmate bask in the victory and the fact that he won without a scratch on his life points. You just come in here with spells and traps that only benefit you in the short run? I'll show a video to the whole class where that went wrong after you win your first match before losing for the next five."
They gulped as I pointed at a random Osiris student. "I need all of you guys to stay in shape, to stay sharp and stay deadly as you plan on your next move. If your not dueling, your studying your ass off." This time I glared at everyone in their seat. "If your not willing to put a hundred percent effort in this class, I'll find someone who will."
Some of the students shift their seats, and a few of them actually got out of their seats. Fifteen Osiris, eight Ra, and Ten Obelisks walked out of my class. Some of them glared at the kids that walked out, "Yeah that's right! Get out of here Osiris Reds!" Thats where I draw the line. I may be disappointed in them for leaving my class without trying, but I'm not going to make them look like cowards.
"See those guys? They're making a smart move to back out now before backing out later in the semester with a shitty ass grade." That made the Obelisk silent as I glared at the obnoxious row at the top, "That's goes for all of you here in my class, you guys better decide right now if your going to stay or leave; because in a month we're going to have a practical exam to see whether you drop or you promote."
Right when I said practical exam, a few more students left the class including the punk-ass that said that rude statement. "A month in my class is long enough for me to see how much you've grown; and when I see you walk into that duel arena, I seriously don't want to find out that you've been wasting my time, and trust me, neither do you."
The students looked at one another, before they came to an agreement. My speech wasn't even done, and a whole bunch left my class. Now there were only about eight Obelisks, five Ra's and four Osiris. Three students less from last year.
"When it comes to talent, this class is filled with them. This class gives those students that aren't given the chance to do so, spread their imagination to unlimited height. Those talents are sitting right here, right now, in this class; and at the practical exam, they'll be ready for anyone that comes in their way." The bullying and the scaring was done and now is the time to complement those that have balls of brass to stay in my class a warm welcome.
"Win or lose, I want you to prove to me, prove everyone in the school that no matter what rank your in, you can still kick ass." I pulled out a small stack of my syllabus that I printed out earlier and laid them on the desk. "This is Duel Academy's class 211, and for those that are still here? We're as real as it gets..."
I gave them a warm smile, "My name is Professor Chung, and welcome to class 211."
"You already said that." Haleigh commented as I glared at the small psychic-
"I'm not a psychic."
"Stuff it, short stuff."
Ace took this time to wake up and bark, making the mood of the class relatively lighter.
Next time on GX: It Doesn't Mean Generation X
"Jaden Yuki! Wake the fuck up!"
"Jeez, she's more mean than Crowler..."
"Give that back!"
"What's going on?"
"M-Ms. Chung, it's gone!"
"GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE, NOW!"
"D-Dr. Crowler!"
"That action was very deplorable."
What's deplorable? Find out, in the next chapter!