A/N: Sorry bout the no update for like… Ever…
Chapter 2: Welcome To Duel Academy! Royale Duellers and Royal Snoozers!
The sounds of the helicopter's swinging blades deafened all the male duelists on it. It seemed that every male who passed their entrance exam was taken on one helicopter, while all the females were taken on the other.
Matt rooted through his deck with a stern look on his face. "Hmm…" he pondered to himself. He switched cards from his trunk to his deck and vice versa, "Ok… Without that trap, I have room for this card… Put In a little bit of… Yup… And… We're good!"
He sat back in his seat, looking at the completed deck in front of him. "I think this will get me far enough…" he said to himself.
"Far enough for what?" came a familiar, timid voice. "Er… I mean… If you don't mind me asking…"
Matt turned and smirked. "Well, well! If it isn't Cameron Shoq!" Matt said with a hearty laugh. What brings you over to this neck of the woods…" He looked around. "And, by 'neck of the woods'… I suppose I mean 'side of the helicopter'."
Cameron looked away. "Well… Um… I really… Don't know anyone… Except you… I suppose…"
Matt smiled. "Well, one true friend is better than a thousand false smiles!" He gave the smaller boy a thumbs up and put all his cards back into their appropriate spots. "I just restructured my deck, and I think it can get me through this year at Duel Academy…" He chuckled. "But hey… I'm probably the more new to this game than anyone else!"
Cameron smiled. "Well, you probably have what they call 'beginner's luck'!" He chuckled. "Um… I'm, well… Kidding, of course."
Matt laughed. "You got one crazy sense of humor!"
Suddenly, the helicopter started to descend and a voice came on the loud-speaker. "Gentlemen, take a look out your window. There you'll see the legendary Duel Academy Island, your home for, at least, the next year."
Cameron scurried over to a window with Matt slowly following him. "Oh wow!… This is… Great?… Yeah… Great!"
Matt smiled and chuckled. "You bet. A whole new life starts today!"
The pilot came over the loud-speaker again. "Also, due to the sudden change in air pressure, snake you may have brought may be popped out already, bottles may be broken, and any instruments you may have brought will be out of tune when we land."
Matt's head jerked up. "No! Not Olivia!"
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The whole new first year class stood at the front door of Duel Academy, awaiting their dorm assignments and their school starter kit, which consisted of a coloured blazer, a PDA and a bunch of administrative lists.
Eventually Cameron and Matt both got their kits and decided to hang back and wait until the mad dash of people was over with. Everyone heading back at one time could cause a bit of problems with traffic and whatnot.
Luckily, as it turned out, Erin was there and she had stayed behind as well. She approached the two boys in her lovely looking, yellow blazer. "Hey boys!" she said in her melodic voice. "You two keeping out of trouble?"
Cameron froze up, not because it was a girl speaking, but because he didn't see her coming and got really frightened.
Matt, on the other hand, coolly turned to her and smiled. "Hey Erin. We're just chilling. Waiting for everyone to get settled in before we head back."
"Hmm, I'm surprised. You're in a pretty calm mood." Erin noticed.
Cameron cocked his head towards her. "R-Really?!"
Erin turned to Cameron. "Not you. Him." she stated, pointing at Matt.
"Why wouldn't I be calm?" Matt asked.
Erin sighed and handed him a sheet of paper. "Here, read this."
Matt read the paper and raised an eyebrow. "This is almost every card in my deck… What is this?"
"It's… Um…" Erin stuttered. "New additions to the Academy Banned Card List."
It was silent for a few seconds. Matt finally blinked his way out of it. "Why are these cards banned?"
Erin shrugged. "I'm not sure. I've asked around though. It seems that any professor can add cards to the list any time before the school year starts."
"But… Someone has to check the new additions… Before they go in… Right? I mean… Surely…" Cameron mused.
"I thought so too, until I heard who that person was…" Erin replied.
"Professor Austin." Matt figured out. "Looks like Matilda couldn't handle losing to me in a duel." He sighed. "Witch of the Black Forest is banned. Legendary Musician Hero is banned. Final Solo is banned."
"I'm so sorry Matt." Erin said, putting a caring hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah!" Cameron spoke up. "He can't get away with this! It's just corrupt!" He suddenly stopped after he realized how confident he was acting. "Um… I mean… We need to stop this…"
Matt smiled at his two friends. "Hey, don't worry about it!" He looked at the list. "Yeah, sure, I won't be able to use the cards I used against Austin again, but Musician King isn't banned yet, and that's all I need!" He pulled his deck out of his pocket and threw all but one card into his trunk. He showed the card to Erin. It was Musician King. "We're gonna make it in this world, one way or another, as long as he's fighting by my side."
Erin smirked. "Well, you better get cracking. Classes start tomorrow, and you're going to need a working deck…" She looked over to see that their kits weren't even open yet. "You… You guys don't even know what dorm you're in yet, do you?"
"Dorm?" Cameron asked.
Erin sighed. "There are three dorms in this school. Osiris Red, Rah Yellow and Obelisk Blue. Osiris Red is where all the reject duelists go. The ones who did terribly on the entrance exam, or just don't do their homework or studying."
Cameron opened his kit and pulled out a red blazer. "Oh man…" He sighed. "Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised…"
Erin continued. "Next, Rah Yellow is for those who are good at what they do, if what they do is duelling. They consist of people keeping a good average in grades, and people who aced their entrance exam!" She twirled around in her uniform and posed. "As you can see!"
Matt smirked. "And what about this Blue place?"
"Obelisk Blue?" Erin raised her eyebrow. "Well… The halls of Obelisk Blue are filled with second and third year students. These students are ones that get amazing grades and win almost all of their duels. If a first year did manage to get into Obelisk Blue, they'd have to have done brilliantly on their entrance exam. Like, I mean, amazingly brilliant."
"Heh heh." Matt picked up his kit. "Then I guess that means…" He reached in and pulled out his blazer.
It was red.
"Oh…" he stated. "That's not what I was expecting."
Erin stifled a laugh. "Oh my…" She turned around and headed down the path. "Well, boys, I'm headed to my room. There's a map in your kits, you should be able to find your way to Red dorm." And with a wave, she left.
Cameron blinked. "Well… We better… Head back? Yeah…"
Matt nodded. "Right, I need to build a new deck."
"Not to mention… You know… Tuning your guitar?"
Matt stopped. "Ahh! I forgot about Olivia!"
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The Obelisk Blue dorm was adorned in a very fancy manner. There drapes were drawn over the windows, to shield the prestigious halls from the darkness of the night.
The girls' dorm and the boys' dorm were kept separate. At the head of the boys' dorm sat a familiar face. Professor Austin. He managed to snake his way up to his position as Blue Dorm head over the past years with a combination of butt kissing and trickery.
"Alright…" he mused to himself. "That damnable music kid is roaming the halls now… I managed to kill his deck, but I'm still not satisfied!" He looked around the hall at all the mingling second and third year students.
Suddenly, the professor spied a second year. He was about five-foot-seven, confident aura around him, and when he talked, the group around him listened.
"Hmm, he seems confident…" Austin mused. He got up and walked over to him. "Excuse me… Can we talk?"
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The Rah Yellow dorm was done fancy as well. However, the boys and girls were only separated by one side of the dorm. Girls are in the east side, and boys are in the west side.
Erin smiled at all of her new classmates. "Orientation isn't so bad. Good food, good people…" She grabbed a dinner roll off of the buffet table. "This is going to be a good year!"
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"What the hell is this?!" came a cry of objection from the Osiris Red dining room.
"It looks like… Rice and a single fried shrimp!" replied another.
Everyone in the room started to yell and rabble-rouse. The female professor at the front of the room sighed, a cigarette hanging from her lips. "You kids better settle down." she demanded. "This is probably the best you're ever gonna see in this house, so if I were you…" she glared at the now hushed students. "I'd sit down, eat, and get used to the crap that I'm given."
The mass of students had started eating by now, and scared out of their minds, they ate in silence.
Well, except for two. Matt and Cameron, who were just glad to be enjoying each other's company, they didn't even notice the death glare. "Man, I'm glad to be eating! It took forever to make my deck over from scratch!"
"Now, students," the professor started again. "It seems I'm missing one student." She held up a list attached to a clipboard. "His name is Napoleon Dormeur."
Everyone started to laugh.
"What a crappy name!"
"I'd hate to be that kid!"
The professor cleared her throat. "Mr. Dormeur is a third year, so I expect you all to treat him with respect." She read the list again. "According to this, he is in room 204."
"Hey, that's my room!"
Matt and Cameron looked at each other, surprised that they had said that in unison. "So… We're roomies?" Matt asked.
The professor smiled. "Alright then. Why don't you two go out and try to retrieve your lost classmate?"
The two boys nodded and left the dining room.
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Matt and Cameron eventually found themselves in their room, looking for the lost Osiris Red student. "I can't believe we couldn't find him anywhere!" Matt lamented.
"Yeah… It's a… Shame? Right?" Suddenly, a ringing noise went off in Matt's pocket. "Um… what's that?"
Matt reached into his pocket and pulled out his PDA. "Huh… It seems I have mail…"
Matt pressed the mail icon on the screen and a video window popped up. It was some cocky looking, Obelisk Blue student. "Hey, Valant. I heard you're good. But I don't believe it. Come to the Duel Arena at midnight tonight and we'll see just how good you really are!" And with that, the video closed itself.
Matt chuckled to himself. "Sweet! I already got a duel lined up!"
"This is great!..." Cameron started. "I mean… You get to… Um… Do what you love… Right?"
"It's a trap." came a soft voice from the top bunk of the three bed bunk-bed. A face slowly popped over the side. "And stop being so loud, you woke me up."
Cameron froze up again. He wasn't expecting anyone else to be in the room.
"Who are you?" Matt asked.
"My name's Napoleon Dormeur, third year Osiris Red." He laid back in his bed. "And I wouldn't go to that duel if I were you."
Matt tilted his head. "Why not?"
"Firstly, there's supposed to be no duelling on orientation night." Napoleon started. "Secondly, there's no use of the Duel Arena from ten at night until eight in the morning. If anyone were caught breaking both these rules, they'd probably be expel…" His sentence trailed off due to a sudden sleep attack, but the point was made.
There was a silence between the two boys that were still awake.
"You're not going… Right?..."
"I think I might have to…"
They were silent again.
"I'm going." Matt decided, standing up. "I don't want to be known, on the first day, as the guy too scared to accept a duel challenge…" He walked towards the door. "I'm going to finish my dinner, and then come back to prepare."
Cameron nodded. "I see…" He stood up as well. "I'll… Come too… Right?... Yeah…"
Matt smiled. "Thanks Cameron… Now let's eat."
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The two Osiris Red students stood in the Duel Arena. Matt had the duel disk that was in the starter kit attached to his arm, with his shuffled deck already in it. "It's almost midnight…" Matt said, looking around.
"Don't worry, I'm here!" came a voice from the other side of the room. The cocky looking kid from the video message walked in, duel disk on already. "Unless, of course, that's why you're worried!"
Matt scoffed. "You talk big. What's your name?"
The Obelisk student smirked. "Devon Royale… The future King of Games!"
"You wish!" Matt's duel disk activated. "Why don't you put your deck where your mouth is?"
"Hmph." Devon's disk activated as well. "Let's see this power that beat Professor Austin."
"How… Does he… Um… Know about that?" Cameron asked under his breath.
The two duelists drew their opening hands. "Duel!"
Devon drew a card. "Draw." He looked at his new card. "It's going to be hard to win, I imagine, with your deck all mangled and broken." He smirked as he turned to Matt. "After all… All your best cards were declared 'Forbidden', weren't they?"
"Hmph." Matt snorted. "What of it? I'm still a great duelist!"
"Uh, Matt…?" Cameron called from the side. "Don't you think that… Um… This guy knows a bit… Too much?"
"Yeah, I noticed that…" Matt replied. "We'll have to ask him about that later."
"Alright, let's do this!" Devon placed a card onto his duel disk. "I'll start by summoning Marauding Captain in attack mode! (1200/400)" A hologram of a blonde army captain appeared. "And that's not all! You see, when Marauding Captain is summoned, I can Special Summon a level four or lower monster from my hand!"
"What?" Matt exclaimed.
"I choose to Special Summon… Another Marauding Captain, in attack mode!" An identical hologram appeared beside the first.
"That's rough!" came a familiar voice from the entrance to the arena. Erin appeared. "As far as first moves go, that's pretty huge."
"Erin!" Cameron exclaimed. "What are… You know… You doing here?"
Erin looked to the duel field. "I was on a tour of the island with some of my classmates, and I overheard this Devon kid talk about how he was going to thrash some kid who took down Professor Austin." She shrugged. "I thought that Matt might be in trouble, and sure enough, my suspicions were confirmed."
"Huh? He's… In trouble?" Cameron asked.
Erin nodded. "Normally, when Marauding Captain is on the field, no other Warrior monsters can be attacked, besides himself." she started. "However, when two of them are on the same side of the field, they protect each other, making attacks impossible."
"Oh no!" Cameron gasped.
Devon smiled. "She's right! I'm invincible for now!" a hologram of a face down card appeared on the field. "I'll end with this face down card. Go ahead, it's your turn!"
Matt drew his card. "Alright then." He looked at his new card and smiled. "You know, I was a bit bummed when I found out I had to make a completely new deck. But it's not so bad, I suppose…" He placed a card into his monster card zone. "Because now, I get to announce the world premier of my Mini-Musician King! (1000/1000)" A hologram of a young boy wearing baggy clothes with a guitar on his back appeared. "But he won't be staying to long! Because my Mini-Musician King's about to get a record deal! That is to say, his effect lets me tribute him to Special Summon my key card from my Fusion Deck!" The young boy went up in a cloud of smoke. "Say hello to my Musician King! (1750/1500)" A grown man appeared as the smoke cleared. His spiky yellow hair was over shadows by the large red guitar he handled.
"Alright! Matt summoned his ace!" Cameron shouted with glee.
"I wouldn't celebrate just yet." Erin sighed. "Matt still can't attack, thanks to Devon's two Captains."
Two face down holograms appeared on Matt's side of the field. "I end with two face down cards."
Devon drew his card. "Finally, I thought you'd never shut up!"
Matt growled. "Don't be so cocky…"
"I'll be whatever I want!" One of his monsters disappeared. "I sacrifice one of my Marauding Captains for their General! Freed The Matchless General! (2300/1700)" A long, blonde haired man, clad in armour arose beside the Marauding Captain, towering over him. "Then, I'll activate my face down card!" His face down card flipped up to reveal a spell card. "It's called Double Summon! As the name suggests, I can make another Normal Summon this turn, and I choose Queen's Knight, in attack mode! (1500/1600)" A female warrior appeared, wearing armour, holding a large sword.
"Oh my." Matt said with a smirk. "You got your own little army over there!"
"Heh." Devon snickered. "Yeah, I'm putting it to use right now! Freed! Attack the Musician King!" The large warrior rushed up to the guitarist and threw a punch at him.
"Negate Attack!" One of Matt's face down cards flipped up. "My trap card negates your attack and ends the Battle Phase on the spot!" He gave Devon a thumbs up. "You didn't think I'd let you take down the King, do you?"
Erin sighed with relief. "That was close…"
Cameron smiled. "Way to go!"
Devon growled. "Fine. I end with one face down card."
Matt drew. "Alright!" He looked at his card. "Ah! Sweet!" He put a monster on the field. "I summon my Musician Drummer, in Defense Mode. (1000/2000)" A drum set appeared on the field, as well as a shirtless man with long, straight red hair behind it.
"What a pathetic looking monster!" Devon smirked.
"Hey, don't diss the drummer!" Matt remarked. "The drummer supports the band the most! Without him, everything would go awry!" Matt pulled out his deck. "And now he's going to support me! My drummer lets me add one level four or lower Musician monster from my deck to my hand!"
Erin raised an eyebrow. "What's he up to?"
Cameron blinked. "These musician monsters…"
"They aren't regularly used." Erin said sternly. "I'm not even sure I know many of the strategies associated with them."
"Oh man…" Cameron gulped. "I just hope Matt does… You know?..."
"I pick this one." Matt added one card from his deck to his hand and shuffled the deck. "Next, I activate the spell card in my hand!" He revealed his card to his opponent. "Polymerization!"
Devon raised an eyebrow. "Why would you need to activate that? Your Musician King is already on the field!"
"I know!" Matt replied. "And that's exactly why I'm using it! I fuse my Musician King with the card I just added to my hand, Musician Prince!" Musician King disappeared from the field. "By fusing these two monsters together, I Fusion Summon Superstar – The Ultimate Musician King! (2400/1600)" A large guitarist wearing a mesh shirt, sporting a snake tattoo on his face appeared where the Musician King once was.
"My my, what a monster." Devon stated, as if he didn't care.
"It's about to get worse! Because Superstar gains one-hundred attack points for every Musician card in my graveyard. So, my Prince and my King makes for two-hundred extra points! (2600)" Matt pointed at Marauding Captain. "Take out his Captain!" Superstar began to play a loud guitar riff. The Marauding Captain covered his ears, but it was no use. Eventually he exploded into pixels.
"Hey, why aren't his Life Points going down?" Cameron asked curiously.
Devon's face down card flipped up. "My trap card activated. It's called Warrior's Shield! I can activate it whenever a warrior-type monster is sent to the graveyard. I take no battle damage this turn!"
Matt growled. "I thought that was too easy. Fine, I end my turn."
Devon smirked. "Good!" He pulled his deck out of the duel disk and started rooting through it.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Matt asked. "Aren't you supposed to be drawing?"
"But this is my draw!" Devon said, mocking Matt.
"Oh, I get it!" Erin stated, turning to Cameron. "Freed the Matchless General is still on the field!"
Cameron gasped. "Oh no!..." He blinked. "Um… I…I'm not sure… I… Uh…"
Erin smiled. "It's alright Cameron. You see, When Freed is on the field, his controller has the option to forgo their draw to add a level four or lower warrior type monster to their hand from their deck… And if it's the card I think…"
Devon shuffled his deck and put it back in the duel disk. "Now, I summon my new monster! King's Knight in attack mode! (1600/1400)" Devon started to chuckle. "Now's where the fun begins! Because if I summon King's Knight while the Queen's Knight is already on the field, I can Special Summon Jack's Knight from my deck to the field! (1900/1000)" A solemn looking, blonde knight appeared on the field next to the other two knights.
"Hey, brainiac, you need to get your head checked!" Matt said with a chuckle. "My Superstar has way more attack points !"
"Matt, you idiot!" Erin shouted from the sidelines. "Don't egg him on! He's got something huge!"
Cameron gasped. "Huge? How huge?"
Erin looked to Cameron. "In terms of attack strength, not as big as Austin's Machiner's Force…" She looked back to the field. "But, when it comes to overall power, effect strength and all… It's not pleasant."
Devon slid a spell card into his duel disk. "Now, here's a card you may find familiar! My spell card, Polymerization!" The three knight monsters swirled together on the field. "Say hello to my ultimate creature, Arcana Knight Joker! (3800/2500)" A purple haired warrior clad in black armour appeared, towering over Freed.
"Oh my… That's a doozy of a monster…" Matt said, biting his bottom lip.
Devon pointed to Superstar. "Destroy his musician, Joker!" The knight swung his mighty sword and sliced the mighty musician in half, destroying it and causing Matt's Life Points to drop. (M:2800 D:4000).
"That's fine!" Matt said with a smirk. "Because whenever any of my Ultimate Musicians are sent to the graveyard due to battle, I can Special Summon one of the monsters used as a Fusion Material to summon it in attack mode! So, please, welcome back to the stage, Musician Prince! (1500/1500)"
"Alright then, Freed! Attack his Prince!" The blonde general ran at the Musician Prince and punched it hard, destroying it. (M:2000 D:4000) "How about that?"
"I'm okay with that, because now Musician Prince's effect kicks in posthumously!" Matt pulled his deck out. "Now I can add one spell card to my hand from my deck!" Matt added a card to his hand.
"Enjoy it while you can, 'cause I activate the spell card from my hand!" Devon slid a card into his duel disk. "Sacrifice of the Knight, activate! With this, I sacrifice one warrior-type monster on my field and deal damage to you, equal to three-hundred times its level!" Freed suddenly disappeared in a flash of light.
"What?!" Matt exclaimed. "Okay, so if Freed was a level five monster… Gah!" Matt's Life Points dropped again. (M:500 D:4000)
"Plus, if I activate this card when I have no cards in my hand, I can draw three cards!" Devon drew his three cards. "But, unfortunately, I have to end my turn after I activate it, so I guess it's your turn… Your last turn!"
Erin gulped. "This is intense… I can't believe Matt lost all but five-hundred of his Life Points in just this turn!"
"Matt can do it…" Cameron said softly. "I don't doubt it… I mean… He took down Professor Austin's Machiner's Force…"
"It's not that simple though…" Erin cleared her throat. "Matt! Watch out! Arcana Knight Joker has a special effect! Whenever he's targeted by an effect, all Devon has to do is discard a card from his hand to negate the effect… There's something else… But I can't remember what…"
Matt turned to Erin. "I know…" He turned to Devon. "I once read about a duelist who ran a Knight deck… A young, up-and-comer who just finished his first year at Duel Academy…" He pointed to Devon. "A young man by the name of Devon Royale!"
Devon chuckled and stroked his chin confidently. "Ah yes… I remember… I was interviewed for a local duel magazine a few months back. I was, and still am, considered to be the next King of Games! That's how great a duelist I am, and that's why I'm going to defeat you!"
Matt smiled. "That's impossible, 'cause I'm going to be the next King of Games!" Matt drew his card. "I'll activate the effect of my Musician Drummer, and add another Musician card to my hand!" Matt picked one card from his deck and added it to his hand. "Next, I activate my Field card, Concert Hall!" Matt put in the Field Spell, suddenly the surroundings changed. Matt and Devon were now on a stage and surrounding them were rows and rows of arena seating. "This card powers up all Musician monsters by three-hundred points! (Musician Drummer = 1300/2000) But, there's another twist to this magical place!" Suddenly, in a cloud of smoke, Musician King returned to the field.
Devon gritted his teeth. "What is this?"
Matt pumped his fist. "My Concert Hall lets me Special Summon a Musician monster from my graveyard, just as long as it was used as Fusion Material! Like my Musician King! (Musician King = 2050/1500)" Matt slid a spell card into his duel disk. "Now, I activate my Fusion Sage spell card! Now, I get to add a Polymerization from my deck to my hand!" Matt rooted through his deck and added the spell card to his hand.
Erin smiled. "Oh my… He's got something planned…"
"Go Matt!" Cameron shouted. "Take him down!"
"I'll activate Polymerization now!" Matt activated his card. "By fusing my Musician King and the monster I added to my hand, Musician Queen!" Musician King, once again disappeared in a cloud of smoke. "Ladies and Gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the main act this evening! The one, the only…"
Out of the smoke emerged a large, statuesque rocker, bald, besides a long, blonde ponytail, wearing heavy shoulder pads, as well as holding a double-necked guitar.
"Rockstar – The Ultimate Musician God! (2600/2100 to 2900/2100)"
Devon smirked. "You idiot, don't you see that your monster is weak?"
"Maybe you're the one who needs to see, Devon!" Matt pointed to his monster. "For every Musician Monster in my graveyard, my Rockstar gets an extra three-hundred points! So, my Prince, Queen, King, and Superstar, that's twelve-hundred points! (Rockstar – The Ultimate Musician God = 4100/2100)!"
Devon gulped. "Oh no!"
"It gets better!" Matt started. "Because I can now, tribute a monster on my field to destroy one monster on your field! So, thanks for all the help Musician Drummer!" The drummer disappeared in a flash of light. "Now, Rockstar, destroy Arcana Knight Joker!"
Erin gritted her teeth. "What's he doing? I told him he can negate an effect that targets his Joker!"
"She's right!" Devon sent a card from his hand to the graveyard. "By discarding a monster, I can negate your monster's effect!" Devon pointed at Matt. "Nice try pal!"
"No…" Matt said. "You're the one with the 'nice try'! When I read the story about you in that duel magazine, they had profiled some of your best cards… And I learned your monster's weakness! It can only use its negating effect only once per turn!"
"Gah!" Devon stepped back. "Oh no!"
Erin gasped. "That's right! That's what I forgot!"
Matt activated his face down card. "I now activate my face down card! De-Fusion! This card lets me send a Fusion Monster back to the Fusion Deck, and Special Summon its Fusion Material monsters to the field!"
"And, you're going to target your Rockstar?" Devon asked, sceptically.
"No…" Matt pointed to the Arcana Knight Joker. "I'm targeting your Joker!"
Suddenly, Arcana Knight Joker split back into the Jack's Knight, the Queen's Knight and the King's Knight.
Devon growled. "Grr… What is this?!"
Matt slid the last card in his hand into his duel disk. "And now, I activate-"
"Hey! Is someone there?!" came a voice from outside the arena.
"Crap! Security!" Devon said, lowering his duel disk. The holograms abruptly disappeared. Devon glared at Matt. "This isn't over Valant…" And then, he ran out, using the entrance he came in from.
"Matt! Let's go!" Erin shouted.
"… Right…" Matt replied.
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Three security officers ran into the arena to find it empty.
"Huh… I thought I heard someone hear…" said one of the officers.
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Erin, Cameron and Matt found themselves outside the Osiris Red dorm. "That was close…" Cameron said quietly.
Erin looked to Matt, who was looking at a card. "What's that, Matt?"
Matt turned to Erin. "It's the card I was going to play…" He flipped it around. "It's a spell card called Set List. I pay half my Life Points and any Ultimate Musician on my field gets to attack all monsters on the opponent's field."
Cameron gasped. "If you had played that card… You… Um… Would've… Uh… Might've won… Yeah?"
"Maybe." Matt said. "I guess we'll never know… I'll tell you what though… I think I may have made a powerful enemy tonight."
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Devon laid in his bed, back in the Obelisk Blue dorm.
"Necro Guardna…" he muttered to himself. "I discarded this card to activate my Joker's effect… I would've removed it from play to negate Valant's attack…" He sighed and flicked the card to the ground. "But would that have been enough…" He smirked and chuckled. "Of course it would have! I'm the next King of Games! I had thirty-five-hundred points on him!"
He snickered to himself. "I'm the best!"
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"What?!" Austin shouted over the phone. "What do you mean there was no one there?!"
He growled as he spoke to the security crew over the other end of the phone. "Fine… Thanks anyways…"
He hung up the phoned and rubbed his temples. "That pathetic musician is running around the school still… He's a lucky kid…"
"This is going to be a long year.
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Next Time…
Matt may be one hell of a musician, but when it comes to being a student, he's not exactly an ace. Professor Ivy, the head of Osiris Red, suggests a most unexpected tutor. Will Matt be able to take this study session seriously, or will he slack off in class? Find out next chapter!
Chapter 3: Learning from a Shy Teacher! Can I Really Learn?!
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A/N: Well, I hope you enjoyed that, review please, it makes me feel so good!
Meanwhile, I'll just post my original cards here (in order of appearance)
Mini-Musician King
Light/Spellcaster/Effect
ATK:1000/DEF:1000
You can tribute this card to Special Summon one "Musician King" from your Fusion Deck
Musician Drummer
Light/Spellcaster/Effect
ATK:1000/DEF:2000
Once per turn, you can add one Level 4 or lower "Musician" monster from your deck to your hand.
Musician Prince
Light/Spellcaster/Effect
ATK:1500/DEF:1500
When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you can add one Spell Card to your hand from your deck.
Superstar – The Ultimate Musician King
Light/Fusion/Spellcaster/Effect
ATK:2400/DEF:1600
Musician King + Musician Prince
The Fusion Summon of this card can only be conducted with the above monsters. This card gains 100 ATK for every "Musician" monster in your graveyard. When this card is destroyed as a result of battle, you may Special Summon one monster used in the Fusion Summon of this card from the Graveyard.
Warrior's Shield
Normal Trap Card
You can only activate this card when a Warrior-type monster is selected as an attack target. You take no Battle Damage this turn.
Sacrifice of the Knight
Normal Spell Card
Select one Warrior-type monster on your side of the field. Tribute the selected monster and inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points equal to the selected monster's Level x 300. Also, if you activate this card when you have no cards in your hand, draw 3 cards. End your turn after you activate this card.
Concert Hall
Field Spell Card
All "Musician" monsters on the field gain 300 ATK. Once per turn, you may Special Summon one "Musician" monster used as Fusion Material from your Graveyard.
Musician Queen
Light/Spellcaster/Effect
ATK:1600/DEF:1300
When this card is summoned, you may add one "Polymerization" from your Graveyard to your hand.
Rockstar – The Ultimate Musician God
Light/Fusion/Spellcaster/Effect
ATK:2600/DEF:2100
Musician King + Musician Queen
The Fusion Summon of this card can only be conducted with the above monsters. This card gains 300 ATK for every "Musician" monster in your Graveyard. Once per turn, you can tribute one "Musician" monster on your field to destroy one monster on your opponent's side of the field.
Set List
Normal Spell Card
You must pay half of your Life Points to activate this card. Select one "Ultimate Musician" on your side of the field. The selected monster can attack each monster on your opponent's side of the field. No other monsters can attack this turn.