Yay! Second chapter and reviews!! But do you guys know what I don't get? When people give a good review, but don't add the story to their alerts, or when people add the story to their alerts and give a good review (you guys know who you are). They are both very nice, but it's so much nicer when you do both XD

Anyway, where exactly in the guidelines or terms of use or wherever it is does it say I can't reply to reviews? If someone could show me, that would really be helpful :-) Of course, right now at least...

Yami val: If you want to know if Yami comes back, scroll down to the very end of the page (not just the chapter; the actual page). And don't worry. This isn't one of those idiot 'Yami magically comes back from the afterlife to a boy who mysteriously has the millennium puzzle'. Wait... this is. Uh... this one is justified because it's 5000 years into the future, and the items weren't technically destroyed, and it's not an idiot plot with horrible spelling, grammar, characters, and duels.

trueyamigirlfriend: Well, of course it's just the first chapter! Could you tell that yugi was a total pacifist from the first episode of yugioh? (okay, in the first episode of the original japanese YGO, but in the YGO that was dubbed first) And with trap, I actually have a funny story about my spelling it 'tarp' by accidentt...

Writer of the Cards: Thx :-)

Ryu Jonesu: Of course you got a special thanks. What else was I supposed to do? And yeah, it's pretty much the same. The only differences are going to be differences in the writing, just to make it better (amazing how much your writing can change over 16 chapters XD). And of course I hope this becomes a big hit -.-

ForensicDuelist4137: Thanks! And of course i'd beta read your fic :-) Where is it?

Now, onto the second chapter of the fic! Yay!! RER!

Oh, and one last thing. They talk about 'duel families' a bit in this chapter. Duel families are families in which all members (usually 2 parents and 2 children) are extremely good duelist, and partcipate in the Pro League. Also, most duel families have changed their names to somehow describe them, or made their decks to fit their original names.


Chapter 2: A Rival Appears!

"WHOA!" Chris yelled. He was on the giant airship going to Duel Academy, and the island had just come into view. Chris not only gasped at the size of the "island," but at the giant castle-like structure that was near the center, and also at all the different climates on the island. He could see a large, grassy field, a wheat-filled farming-like prairie, a forest, a desert, a jungle, and even a small area that was completely made of ice. Trays suddenly slid out in front of all the students from the seat in front of them.

"Hello, students," A robotic monotone voice said from all of the PDAs. "This is your personalized PDA. You may use it how you wish. By imputing the Student ID you should have received, you can access you dorm number, dorm location, campus map, class schedule, classroom locations, information on Duel Academy, and much more. If you did not recieve a student ID or have forgotten yours, please contact a flight attendant immediately. Enjoy, and welcome to Duel Academy!"

All the students smiled, and started entering their student IDs so they could access the cornucopia of information stored on their PDA. Student ID? Chris asked himself. Then he remembered the e-mail he received with his ID and his schedule. And with that e-mail he happily discovered he was in Ra Yellow. He entered the 8-digit password and a screen popped up. He then noticed a stylus lodged in the PDA. He took the stylus out and realized the PDA had a touch-sensitive screen. He used the stylus to access "Information," and went through submenus until he got to climate. He read about it and learned how the location of the island allowed all the different climates, which were also maintained by special machines. He also learned that the island was then about 7 times bigger than when it originally opened.

After about 10 minutes, the airship was on the ground, and Chris had exited. He went up to the Ra registration deck, and gave his name. The woman at the desk gave him three copies of his yellow blazer, and two copies of the key to his room, which was 326R. However, before he could go to the dorm, all the students had to attend a welcome speech given by Chancellor Casatos.

"Welcome, new students!" Chancellor Casatos began once everyone was in the auditorium. Casatos was in his mid-30s, and was wearing a blue trench coat. He had brown eyes and the same color hair. His straight hair covered the right (his right, the students' left) side of his face, and was slightly less than shoulder-length. He was also wearing a blue hat that looked similar to a policeman's hat. "I hope you will enjoy your year at the academy. You all should have received a room number and key, which is three or four digits and a letter. The letter is S, R, or O, which simply stands for Slifer, Ra, or Obelisk. The first digit represents your dorm—or section—number, the second digit represents the floor, and the last number represents your actual room number. If your room number is four digits, then the last two digits are your room number. As I was saying about the section number, the island is divided into seven different sections. They are Yuki-1, Banner-2, Truesdale-3, Crowler-4, Rhodes-5, Princeton-6, and Misawa-7."

"What kind of stupid names are those?" A snotty new Obelisk remarked.

"Why don't you tell me?" Casatos asked. "5 page report on the names of the different sections, due tomorrow."

"WHAT?" The student exclaimed.

"Don't misbehave, if you can't make the grade," Casatos chuckled at his own joke as some of the students quietly groaned. "Anyway, to transport you throughout the island, we have a HTS—a highspeed transportation system. Each section of the island has an HTS building, which links to the other HTS buildings in the system. Each HTS building also links to other areas in that section of the island. Each section of the island has it's own dorm, infirmary, cafeteria, and all other essentials. And in case you were wondering, the giant citadel-like building you probably saw while flying in here—it's been nicknamed the 'Cathedral'—is its own section, and is the site of where the original island was. Now, I'm sure you all want to get to your dorms, so off you go! The HTS building is out through doors on your… left. Like all Saturdays and Sundays, there will be no classes today or tomorrow, so you can take the time to explore the island. Now you may go! And once again, welcome to the academy!"

All the students entered the room on their left. Well, in time; there were too many students so the process of actually getting to the room was pretty slow. Luckily, Chris' seat was on the left side of the auditorium, so he reached the room quickly. The room they were in was obviously the HTS room for section 1; a giant "1" was painted on the dome ceiling. There were about 30 tubes in the room; 12 of them were noticeably larger than the other ones. Each of those had a number painted in red on them (two copies of each number from 2 to 7), and all of the other tubes had a sign on them too, telling where they lead too. Chris made his way to one of the tubes labeled 3, along with about 20 other people. As soon as the door closed, they were zooming through the tube at an intense speed, which almost made Chris fall over. And when they stopped (which was only about 5 seconds later) he almost fell over again. He stepped out of the tube, and was in a room similar to the one he was just in; it looked almost exactly the same, except there was a giant 3 painted on the ceiling, and the tube he had just exited was labeled "1". He then went over to the tube labeled "Ra Yellow Dorm" and entered with about 8 other people. After about 3 seconds, he stepped out of the tube (which was crowded from everyone's luggage) into the main room of the Ra dorm.

To Chris, his Ra Yellow dorm looked more like a fancy hotel than a dormitory. It had a nice blue marble floor, a fountain, green plants hanging from the ceilings and sides, and a yellow ceiling and walls. He took his bags and walked up the stairs to the second story, and walked along the corridor for a few steps until he reached a door on which "326R" was painted in yellow letters. He slid his room key into a slot on the door that is so commonly found in hotels, turned the handle, and entered his room. Chris thought his room also looked like a nice hotel room instead of a dorm. It had two rooms, excluding the bathroom. The bathroom had a shower and a bathtub. The second room was a bedroom, which had two queen-sized beds, two cabinets, a desk with a computer, and a medium sized TV. The last room was a living room and foyer, and it also had a small kitchen mini-section. The 'kitchen' contained several cabinets, a sink, a small dishwasher, and a refrigerator. The main part of the room had a coffee table, a sofa, a large shelf with many drawers, a large TV, and a dining table with 4 chairs. His room also had a balcony, and when he went out onto it he was convinced the Ra dorm was a hotel. Everyone had an identical balcony, arranged in a grid. Chris could see there was only one floor above him, too.

Chris spent a few minutes enjoying the view; it was of the ocean, which had a few seagulls flying around. To the left he could see a giant blue 5-story building, which Chris assumed was the Obelisk Blue dorm for the section. He went back inside his room and went to the large shelf. The drawers were arranged in a 5 (row) by 2 (column) arrangement. The two bottom drawers caught Chris' attention, for they had keyholes. He opened them both and discovered a key inside each of them. He assumed that each drawer was for one of the occupants, which would mean he only had 1 roommate. He took the key for the drawer on the left. He inspected the size of the drawer, and Chris figured out which of his valuables could fit into the drawer. He went to his luggage and took out the golden box his Grandpa gave him. He put it into the drawer and then locked it. He took one of the yellow blazers he received and went into the bathroom to change.

Five minutes later Chris exited the bathroom, now in his yellow and white blazer, and was startled by another boy in the room, also wearing a yellow blazer. "Whoa! Who are you?" Chris yelled.

"Oh, I'm Samson… Samson Kraft," the boy explained. He had messy brown hair and green eyes which were covered by glasses. He was about half a head shorter than Chris. "I guess I'm your roommate."

"Nice to meet you, Sam. I'm Christopher Gold," Chris said, introducing himself as he put his hand out to shake.

"Chris… Chris Gold?" Sam asked. "You mean like the Gold duelist family?"

"Uh… yep." Chris said.

"Oh my god! Ohmygodohmygodohmygod!" Sam exclaimed, rapidly shaking Chris' hand. "I am such a big fan of your parents! I can't believe I'm actually meeting their son! Is it true that they have more gold trophies and medals than any other duel family, which is why they are named 'Gold'?"

"Well, they do have a ton of gold. Maybe two tons," Chris joked.

"Wow…" Sam said amazed, completely oblivious to the sarcasm. "Does that mean that they are the best duelist family?"

"Well… not really," Chris said. "They are great duelists, but not the best. The only reason they have so many gold trophies and medals is because they enter more tournaments than any other duel family. I mean, the Nova duel family could probably easily beat my parents with their Cyber Dragon cards."

"Oh…" Sam said, a little disappointed.

"Don't take it that hard!" Chris reassured. "They aren't bad duelists. They're great! Just not the best, that's all. And they constantly travel all around the world to enter tournaments, too.

"Anyway, on the bottom of that shelf there are two drawers that have locks, so we can keep our valuables in them," Chris gestured.

"You mean this one?" Sam asked as he opened the wrong drawer and discovered two, big light blue boxes.

"No, it's—whoa! What are those?"

"I dunno," Sam said. He took one of the boxes, and opened it up to reveal a duel disk.

"That's awesome! We get our own duel disks!" Chris exclaimed as Sam put the duel disk on his left arm. The duel disk was almost the same as the original Duel Academy duel disks, except these were thinner and had a rectangular screen instead of the blue circle.

"Please input student ID," the duel disk said as a number pad appeared on the screen. Sam quickly entered his eight digits. "Welcome," was all the duel disk said, and then it folded into a small wristband, with a small LCD screen that said "?" in red lights.

"Sweet!" Chris yelled. "I want one! But what is that question mark for? And how do you activate it again?"

"I don't know about the question mark, but I think I know the answer to your second question…" Sam smiled for a second, then shouted "DUEL!" and almost immediately the duel disk unfolded.

"No opponent found. Deactivating," the duel disk said.

"I guess you need somebody else to be near you in order to duel," Sam said as Chris opened the other box, inputted his ID, and watch in wonder as the duel disk folded into a small wristband around his wrist. "But what if you want to practice? There has to be a way to keep it from unfolding…. It's probably in the info section of the PDA."

"Okay. Cool. See ya later!" Chris quickly said as he rushed out the door.

"Where are you going?" Sam demanded.

"To explore the academy, of course!" Chris answered as he closed to the door.

"Why do I get the feeling that he's going to somehow get in big trouble?" Sam sighed as walked to the door and opened it. He looked down the hall but Chris had already disappeared.


Chris explored the duel academy for the rest of the day; he explored the slifer dormitories (he tried to explore the Obelisk dorm too, but some Obelisks kicked him out), the library, the Cathedral, some of the other Ra dorms, and even the infirmary. By the time he came back to his room, it was dark out, and Sam was already sleeping. Chris checked to make sure his gold box was safe, quickly changed into pajamas and went to sleep.
"Now I play the spell card Level Up(3), allowing my Mystic Swordsman LV4(1900/1600) to become Mystic Swordsman LV6(2300/1700)!" Chris yelled. "Now attack and destroy his Axe Raider(1700/1150)!" The swordsman jumped forward and slashed through the orange axe-wielder, reducing the lifepoints of his opponent—a redhead Obelisk—to 1600. "That it's for me."

"I draw(5)! And next I play the spell card…" The boy's voice suddenly changed. "Wake up…"

"You play what?" Chris asked.

"I said," The Obelisk said in his normal voice, but then his voice changed again. "Wake up. It's 7:30, you need to get up."

"Huh? What?" Chris asked groggily as he opened his eyes to see Sam looking down on him. "What happened?"

"You were sleeping."

"Oh, so it was a dream," Chris said.

"I don't know exactly what 'it' is, but I guess it was," Sam replied.

"WAIT!" Chris yelled, realizing something. "Did you say it was 7:30?"

"Yes," Sam answered.

Still not entirely sure, Chris looked at the clock to check, and saw that it was indeed 7:30 AM. "WHY DID YOU WAKE ME UP THIS EARLY?"

"Because you're going to need to get up at around 7:30 tomorrow," Sam angrily said. "So I'm getting you in the habit."

"Y'know, you are really acting like my grandpa right now," Chris said getting up. He grabbed his clothes and went into the bathroom to change. When he came out he noticed a PDA was on the coffee table, and it had a white exclamation mark flashing against a red screen. "That yours?" he asked.

"Nope," Sam said, taking his PDA out of his pocket.

"Then I wonder what's wrong." Chris went over to the PDA. He poked the screen and the words "You have a message," came up. So that's all. Chris took the stylus out and clicked the "play" button that had appeared.

The face of a boy materialized on the field. He had brown hair and piercing ice-blue eyes. Chris could also see the top of his blue blazer on the screen. "Hi, you must be Chris Gold! If you're not, then this message isn't for you," the boy said with a gentle smile. "Anyway, my name is Takashi. Since you didn't pick up your PDA and this is a message, I'm assuming that right now you are asleep. Anyway I heard that for your entrance exam you beat Mr. Richards! He's a really tough opponent, even with the proctor decks! After all, not many people beat him.

"I was wondering if you could come over to my room so I could look at your deck a little. I would love to see that awesome deck you have! And if you do, I can show you around the academy and stuff. So if you want to come, come to my room at 8:30 AM. My room is 3528O! I'll see you there!" The screen shut off.

"Chris, I don't think you should go," Sam, who had been listening, said. "It seems kind of suspicious to me."

"What do you mean? He just wants to see my amazing deck! Who wouldn't?" Chris asked. "Speaking of which…" He took his deck off of the coffee table and put it in his deck-case on his belt. He ate breakfast and then glanced at the clock. "Wow, it's 8:15 already! I gotta go!" He rushed out the door and down the stairs. He went into the tube to the HTS room, and then went into the Obelisk blue tube. As he stepped out a big Obelisk with brown hair was in the main room of the dorm, which was huge and decorated with many expensive pieces of art and miscellaneous items.

"What are you doing here?" He demanded. "And… didn't I kick you out yesterday?"

"Um… yeah!" Chris tried to explain. "But Takashi messaged me telling me to come meet him at his room, 3528O, in…" he glanced at his watch. "10 minutes."

"Yeah right. Why would someone like him want to see a Ra reject like you?"

"I swear it's true!"

"It had better be." The obelisk grabbed Chris by the collar and lifted him off the ground. He carried him over to an elevator tube, let Chris down, and pressed the button marked 5 (An elevator tube is basically exactly the same as out elevator, except it's a tube and transparent, and instead of being in a box you're on a platform that goes up and down). They rose through the other four stories, and stopped at the fifth. The obelisk grabbed Chris by the back of the collar and led him out of the tube. When they got out of the tube they were in a new small room, with the stairs on their left. There were two doors: one dark blue, the other light blue, both with a small circular window. The obelisk led him through the dark blue door on the left. They made their way through the turning corridor, and all the while there were doors on both sides of the hallways. Chris noticed how far apart the doors were from each other. They made a final left, and Chris could see the end of the dead-end hallway. They continued to walk, until the obelisk stopped at second to last door on the left, labeled 3528O in blue letters. The Obelisk knocked on the door and a few seconds later the boy from the message answered the door.

"Who is it? Oh, you came!" Takashi said.

"So you did ask this kid to come?" the Obelisk holding Chris asked.

"Yeah! Of course! Now let him go this instant!" The Obelisk immediately did that and walked away as Chris walked into Takashi's room. To Chris it looked similar the some of the rooms in his parents' mansion. The thing that really amazed Chris was this would mean that every single Obelisk blue dorm in the school was around this quality.

That must've taken a whole lot of money, Chris thought.

"So," Takashi began, "Can I see your amazing deck?"

"Uh… sure," Chris said, taking his deck out of his belt and handing it to Takashi.

Takashi began to sift through the cards he was handed. What's up with this guy's deck? Takashi thought, a little confused. His cards are all over the place! How'd he manage to beat Mr. Richards? But what's this? Mystic Swordsman LV2? And level 4? Those are pretty rare cards. But does he have-? He does! He has all three Mystic Swordsman! Of course, those help, but I can't really see how this deck is that good… "Wow, this deck is amazing!" Takashi exclaimed. He then handed the deck back. "So, how about I show you around the academy?"

"That would be great!" Chris answered as they exited Takashi's room.

Throughout the day, Chris learned a lot of information from Takashi, such as how the light blue door lead to the girls' section of that floor. He learned about the geography, some of the history, and even about some of the duelists. Chris learned the LCD was his rank, but it was a question mark because he hadn't participated in enough duels, so the computers could not tell his rank.

According to Takashi, there were three duelists who were constantly swapping the top three ranks. One was named Shadow; he had black hair, black eyes, black clothes… and even a black deck. He supposedly had a deck filled with dark monsters, but also only people who ever saw his deck in action were the teachers and the other two top three duelists. Shadow is also supposedly the best out of the three, and has been ranked number 1 more often than the others. The second duelist's name was Brainiac. Technically, it wasn't his real name, but barely anyone knew his real name. They nicknamed him Brainiac because he knew just about everything about duel monsters and the academy, including the weaknesses, strengths, and everything about everyone, including their decks. The final duelist was Sachi. He was optimistic, lucky, and outgoing. His deck involved monsters with interesting and helpful effects. He was much more social than Shadow and Brainiac, and there was another thing different about him: he accepted just about every challenge he received, whereas Shadow and Brainiac only accepted challenges from people they thought were worthy. Not only that, but Sachi hasn't lost any of those duels. By the time Takashi and Chris got back to Takashi's room, it was around 4 o'clock.

"Say," Takashi suggested, "Why don't we have a duel? I'd love to see your deck in action."

"Sure!" Chris eagerly answered.

"Also, how about we use the ante rule?"

"Um…sure…"

"But why don't we make things a little bit more interesting? How about instead of just anteing our rarest card, we ante our three rarest cards. Yours are the Mystic Swordsmen, right?"

"Yep. What are yours?" Chris asked.

"They are the Silence Swordsmen!" Takashi replied. (A/N: In this fic, the 'silence swordsmen' the are 'silent swordsman' in real life, and this fic's 'silent swordsman' will be the silent swordsman in the anime/manga.(the one that starts at level0 and increases by 1 each turn))

"So whoever wins will get all six swordsmen," Chris smiled. "You're on!"

Takashi led Chris out of his room and down the hall. He stopped by a door, and swiped his room key in the slot next to the door. The door opened and the duo stepped into a barely furnished, undecorated room. On the ground white lines were painted; there was a giant square, with a small rectangle each of the two opposing sides. On each corner of the room there was a dueling projector. "Cool, a personal dueling arena!"

"Well, not exactly personal," Takashi explained. "There is one for every hallway, and everyone in the hallway must share them. Now…"

"Let's Duel!" Chris and Takashi, who were now in the two rectangles, shouted as their duel disks unfolded and they slapped their decks into it.

Chris: 4000; Takashi: 4000

"I'll go first," Takashi declared as he drew a card(6), "After all, this is an Obelisk arena and I am an Obelisk. Now, let's see… first I'll set a monster(5) and a spell/trap(4) and end my turn." I may be risking giving his swordsman leveling food, but my trap will take care of that, just in case…

"Draw(6)!" Chris yelled. If only I had gotten my Mystic Swordsman LV2, I would be able to pulverize his face-down and get level 4! Aw well… "I summon Luster Dragon(5;1900/1600) in attack mode!"

Randomly assorted cards… it'll be fun to crush this guy! Takashi thought as a beautiful sapphire dragon appeared on Chris' side of the field.

"Now, attack his face-down monster!" The dragon flapped its wings once, unleashing a volley of sapphire shards. On Takashi's side of the field a small white puffball appeared. It absorbed the shards, and launched them back past Luster Dragon into Chris, who fell to his knees after the attack.

Chris: 3000; Takashi: 4000

"Stupid neural-interface system," Chris grumbled about the pain as he got back up. "What happened?" he asked.

"You attacked my Marshmallon(300/500)," Takashi explained. "Not only is he not destroyed as a result of battle, but when you attack him when he's in face-down defense he inflicts 1000 points of damage to you!"

Now I really wish I had had my swordsman. "I set a spell/trap(4) and end my turn!"

Takashi drew a card(5). "I summon Shining Angel(4;1400/800) in defense mode and end my turn." An angel appeared on Takashi's side of the field, and shielded itself with its feathered wings.

Chris drew a card(5) and immediately summoned the monster he had just received. "I summon Mystic Swordsman LV2(4;900/0) in attack mode!" The kid swordsman appeared on the field.

"So what?" Takashi laughed, and his smiled turned more cunning. "It's not like you can get passed my Marshmallon. Besides, that horrible of deck of yours will never beat mine!"

"What do you mean 'horrible'?" Chris asked. "You said it was amazing!"

"I lied."

"Why?"

"Why do you think?" Takashi asked. "To get you into this duel to get your swordsmen! Besides, there's another reason why you cannot win. It's because I'm from the best duelist family in the entire world! It's because I…" Chris' eyes widened. He knew who he was. "am a Kaiba."

Chris began to tremble. A… a Kaiba? How am I supposed to beat that? I mean, he's a Kaiba! I'm just a Gold! I can't beat him! I mean, my deck is good and stuff, it beat Mr. Richards, but… wait! I just said it myself! My deck is good! I don't care about the reputation of his family; I care about the reputation of him! "Takashi, you are not going to win. My cards were able to beat Mr. Richards, and my cards will beat you too! I don't care about what family you come from! I care about how you play! And I have plenty of cards to defeat you. Like this one! I activate the spell Book of Moon(3)! This card flips one of your monsters face-down!" A blue book appeared before Chris. It opened up and let out a spell that surrounded Marshmallon and flipped him face-down. "Now, Mystic Swordsman LV2 attack his face-down Marshmallon and Luster Dragon attack his Shining Angel!" The swordsman jumped forward and instantly slashed the card backing. Then the dragon unleashed sapphire swords at the angel, spreading feathers everywhere. When the feathers settled, a kid swordsman with green skin, orange hair, but a big sword was on Takashi's side of the field.

"When you destroy my angel," Takashi explained, "I can summon a light monster from my deck with 1500 or less attack, so I chose my Silence Swordsman LV3(1000/1000)!"

At the start of his next turn, it should level up, and if I'm correct it will have 2300 attack points. Of course, I think I have just the card to solve this crisis. "I set a spell/trap(2) and end my turn, so my swordsman levels up to level 4(1900/1600)!"

"Draw(5)!" Takashi proclaimed. "And now my swordsman levels up to level 5(2300/1000)!" The kid swordsman grew to almost double his previous height, and the length of this sword doubled as well. "And of course, everyone knows 5 is greater than 4 so attack!" Takashi's swordsman launched himself at Chris' swordsman. Suddenly a chain surrounded Mystic Swordsman's sword, and he counterattacked, destroying Silence Swordsman LV5.

Chris: 3000; Takashi: 3900

"Ha! I activated my Blast with Chain, increasing my monster's attack by 500 to 2400! Enough to destroy your monster!" Chris cheered.

"I thought you had something like that planned," Takashi said as his swordsman reappeared. "That's why I set my Call of the Haunted trap card, so now I can summon my swordsman back! Now, go and attack again!"

But why would he do that? Chris asked himself. Takashi's swordsman jumped up and landed before Mystic Swordsman. However, before he had a time to strike, Silence Swordsman jumped back up and landed in front of Chris and swung his sword. However, Chris didn't feel any pain and his lifepoints remained the same. "What happened?"

"I activated my Pointless Charge spell card(4)," Takashi explained. It allows my monster to attack you directly once, but all damage is reduced to 0. Also, because my swordsman attacked you directly, he'll level up at the start of my next turn. I set a spell/trap(3) and that's it for me."

"Yeah, and because my swordsman destroyed your swordsman once, he levels up to Mystic Swordsman LV6(2300/1700)! Now Draw(3)! I activate the spell card I just received, Pot of Greed(2)! So now I can draw two cards(4)! Hmm… all I can do is set two spell/traps(2), and end." The two card backings appeared in front of Chris.

"That move was pathetic," Takashi said, drawing a card(4). "Unlike my swordsman, who now levels up to Silence Swordsman LV7(2800/1000)!" The swordsman grew another foot taller and his sword grew even more.

"And now I'll activate my second Blast with Chain, to increase my swordsman's attack to yours!"

"Okay, but I'm just going to warn you, my Silence Swordsman silences all spells on the field!" Takashi yelled. "Now, attack!"

The swordsman launched forward and landed in front of Mystic Swordsman. Their swords locked, and for a second the lock was broken. However, the two swordsmen began to bring their swords towards each other, and would slash both of them in half.

"ACTIVATE TRAP! BEST ABOVE THE REST!" both duelists yelled at the same time. When the swords came back they just locked again. After the second lock, they just jumped back to their sides of the field.

Takashi sighed. "Looks like we both used the same card. Anyway, I'll just end my turn."

Chris drew a card(3) and played the Graceful Charity(2) he had received. Chris drew his three cards(5) and smiled when he saw them. He discarded two cards from his hand(3) afterward. If I can just utilize the other effect of Blast with Chain, I might be able to win. But for now… "First I set a spell/trap(2). I then activate Megamorph(1)!" A green aura surrounded Mystic Swordsman, but other than that nothing happened.

"Did you forget already? My Silence Swordsmen negates all spell cards!"

"I know, but I'm just preparing for when your swordsman is defeated. I'll end my turn."

"Like that'll happen," Takashi said under his breath as he drew(5). God, a five card hand and nothing to do. "I'll set a spell/trap(4) and end my turn."

"Then its time for me to win this match!" Chris declared as he drew a card(2). "First I'll activate the card I set earlier, Dust Tornado!"

Uh oh… he can destroy my Best Above the Rest card, and then he'll also be able to destroy my swordsman! Takashi worriedly thought.

"Don't worry about your swordsman," Chris said, seeing Takashi's concerned face. "I'm not going after your trap card… I'm going after mine! I'll use it to destroy my Blast with Chain!"

"But why would you do that?" Takashi asked.

"Because," Chris explained, "You've seen the chain part of my trap, but now you'll see the blast! You see, when it's destroyed by a card effect, I can destroy one card on the field! And I'll choose your swordsman!" The chains unwrapped from Mystic Swordsman's sword, and launched themselves at Silence Swordsman, destroying him. "And now that your swordsman isn't on the field…"

"Your Megamorph isn't negated!" Takashi finished as his eyes widened and Mystic Swordsman's size doubled, so it had an attack of 4600.

"Bingo," Chris said smiling. "Now, attack and win the duel!" The swordsman slashed his sword through Takashi as Takashi fell to his knees and yelled in pain.

Chris: 3000; Takashi: 0

"Well, looks like my 'horrible' deck won!" Chris said, walking over to Takashi, who was on his knees. "Now, you remember our agreement, don't you?"

"Fine, take them!" Takashi shouted, shoving the three cards into Chris' open hand. "Now just… just go away!"

"Fine," Chris said, walking away as his duel disk folded up, Takashi still on his knees, trembling.

After Chris left the room, Takashi's frown turned into a snicker. Well, that may not have worked, but at least I have a plan B…


Oooh... cliffie... Anyway, I think you all know what to do now. coughreviewcoughaddtoalertscough

Card of the Day

Silence Swordsman LV7 (LIGHT)
Warrior/Effect
Level 7
ATK 2800/DEF 1000
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except by the effect of "Silence Swordsman LV5". As long as this card remains face-up on your side of the field, negate the effect of all Spell Cards on the field.


Original Cards

Pointless Charge; Quick-Play Spell; You can activate this card when you declare an attack. Change the attack to a direct attack to your opponent's lifepoints and reduce all damage to 0.

Best Above the Rest; Continuous Trap; Monsters on your side of the field are not destroyed as a result of battle with monsters that have an equal attack.


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