So… Yeah. This is a thing. Before you start reading, this story was made for comedic purposes only and should not be taken too seriously. In addition, character personalities have been changed with plot power, and decks have been heavily changed.
It should also be noted that a random word generator was used for this fanfiction and OC cards are also used. Certain cards will also have their anime effects *cough* *cough* Card of Sanctity.
Lastly, yes. I am kind of back into writing and will continue the other fanfics soon… probably. Maybe.
With that in mind, enjoy the fanfic. Please don't kill me for updating rarely.
(Chapter 1: Because of Sledgehammers)
Somewhere, in a quaint house located in Domino City, a young teenager was sound asleep on his custom-made Elemental Hero bed. This highly impractical bed looked rattled and tattered, with years of history embedded in its bent frame and faded colour. The teen was an average boy in height and build for a 15-year-old and had a mix of light and dark brown hair that ended at the base of his neck. This unfortunately also gave said hair an uncanny resemblance to a Kuriboh. His room was filled to the brim with tons and tons of Duel Monsters-related merchandise, from posters of famous Duelists to an assortment of wind-up toys of the Dark Magician Girl. On his messy desk lied one of Kaiba Corp's most famous devices… as it was the only device that people actually cared about; the duel disk, created by the rich, egotistical, dragon-loving orphan known as Seto Kaiba. He designed this expensive piece of technology for only the best reason; a tournament he arranged because he was butthurt about losing a children's card game to a sexy Egyptian pharaoh inside of a very short teenagers body. Oh, and also for having shitty parents. The teen's duel disk was sharp, slick and grey, almost perfectly mimicking the original design that was used in Battle City, but for some reason, had an immeasurable amount of Kuriboh stickers attached to it in every area except the card slots. Inside, there was a stack of 40 brown cards with black spirals on their backsides. These cards are known as Duel Monster cards, used to play Duel Monsters, a children's card game about holographic monsters beating the everloving shit out of each other.
The teen was spread eagle on his bed, snores occasionally escaping out of his drooling mouth as he slept peacefully on his tattered bed. His sleeping face was plastered with a wide grin as he dreamed about… shellfish with... tiaras. He was sound asleep with absolutely nothing disturbing him. But all good things come to an end, as outside the household, the introverts worst enemy began to rise up in the sky.
The sun.
And what came with the sun was the morning, 7 AM to be exact.
RING! RING! RI-
Suddenly, the brown-haired boy's eyes flashed open as his left hand dashed towards the side of his bed. In the blink of an eye, his hand grasped the handle of a carefully and conveniently placed sledgehammer. His pupils jolted sideways, staring with unending anger and fury at the source of the terrible noise that woke him up from his oddly pleasant shellfish tea party dream. His soon to be squished alarm clock. Swiftly, he jumped up into the air from his bed and slid his free hand onto the handle of his sledgehammer before slamming it down onto the poor time-telling device, obliterating it into a pile of broken glass and bent metal. The boy stared with cold and dead eyes at the hunk of trash he created and dropped the sledgehammer back in its original resting place at the side of his bed, somehow not damaging a single floorboard in the process. He yawned, took a step forward on his bed and then collapsed onto the bedsheets, knocked out cold as if the event had never registered in his mind at all.
After around a minute passed by, the boy's eyes jolted awake again, with an expression of excitement on his face. He slowly sat up and turned his head towards his table on the far side of the room, eyes focused on his duel disk. He smirked to himself. "It's time for Jaden Yuki to finally make it to Duel Academy!" the boy monologued before immediately tripping on his sledgehammer, causing him to squeak in surprise before slamming his face into the cold, hard floor. Thankfully, Jaden Yuki is absolutely flawless and took no damage.
It was a beautiful day in Domino City. Then again, a beautiful day in Domino City pretty much amounts to cloudy, smog-filled skies, people running around in a panicked frenzy and skyrocketing housing prices. On one particularly busy street, Jaden Yuki was busy sprinting towards a Kaiba Corp building, avoiding a large mass of people walking in the other direction. For some reason, he decided to wear a red shirt and a thick grey jacket in the middle of summer but he paid no attention to his illogical dress code as his short span of focus was focused on something other than the heatwave that was melting Domino City.
"Crap! Crap! Crap! I'm going to be late!" yelled a panicked Jaden Yuki as he ducked and weaved through the crowd of people on the street.
Suddenly, from the corner of his eye, he saw a cute and fluffy kitten, like a REALLY fluffy kitten, one of those really poofy and adorable ones, napping on the side of the road. His head turned to get a better look but before he could comment about its adorableness, he randomly smashed into a random person, knocking him into the air and then onto the ground as well as knocking all of the cards out of his duel disk. Somehow, the impact had not knocked over the other person, nor scratched either of them.
If Jaden were looking up, he would have seen that the man he had bumped into was a tall, lean man who was dressed in leather and chains. More noticeably, he would have seen this man's overtop gold and purple hair-do that spiked towards the heavens. If you were anybody relevant in this universe, you would instantly realize that this was Yugi Moto, the King of Games, the Legendary Duelist, the Prodigy of Domino City and most importantly; the guy who makes Kaiba butthurt.
Slightly frazzled, Jaden slowly regained his bearings before getting up from the floor. He shook his woozy head a bit before facing the person he had hit with an apologetic face. "Sorry for bumping into you. I'm kinda in a rush," he said as he turned back around to pick up some of his fallen cards. He picked up a few and blew some dust off of them before carefully placing them back into the deck holder of his duel disk. Miraculously, not a single card was bent or creased what so ever. Yugi made a mental note to ask Pegasus the next time they met about what in the actual fuck those cards were made of.
Yugi watched in amusement as the brown-haired teenager scrambled to gather up all of his cards. "You're a duelist aren't you?" the man asked, taking a quick look at the… interesting assortment of cards that were scattered across the ground.
Jaden picked up the last few cards on the pavement and dusted them off, gently blowing the dust off and carefully placing them back into his deck. "Gee...What brought you to that conclusion?" he sarcastically asked, not paying attention to who he was talking to.
Yugi chuckled, amused at the teen's obliviousness. Smirking, he reached into his spare deck box, searching for one particular card in there that for some time now, had been shaking ever so slightly, as if it was calling for something... or someone. Taking out the card, he looked back at the teen in front of him and smirked. "Well, you have a Duel Disk, Duel Monster cards and Kuriboh-like hair. Indicators of a potential duelist. Or an overeager fan who has no idea what they are doing. I'm willing to believe you are the former," Yugi replied in a slightly mocking tone.
Jaden quickly turned his head around. "What do you mean Kuriboh-like hai-" he pouted but quickly stopped as he realized exactly who he had randomly bumped into on the random street he was on. In hindsight, he realized he probably should have recognized him sooner. How could anybody not recognize that hair?
Yugi took the card in his hand and handed it over towards Jaden. "Something tells me that this card belongs with you kid," he said as he dramatically flipped one of his strands of hair, turned around and slowly walked away.
Jaden blankly stared at Yugi, his jaw dropped as far as it could as he held one of his idol's cards in his palm. "T-Thank you… I'll make you proud random and famous stranger that I have never seen in real life until this exact moment." he stammered towards Yugi before turning his focus towards his new card.
Giving the card a quick read over, his eyes widened like dinner plates. The card he was given was a monster card with an image depicting a small, female furball with claws. One of the claws held a blue and pink magical wand and the creature had a cartoonishly large, blue and pink helmet. The creature on the card was also winking and cartoonish hearts were drawn beside it. It was the greatest card that Jaden had ever seen in his life, one that gave him visual euphoria basically equivalent to spending 30 years in the mountains to reach Nirvana, finding enlightenment, or anything else along those lines. It was so great that he screamed on the spot due to the pure shock the card generated.
Loudly.
Yugi was still walking on the street, using the shade provided in the forest of skyscrapers he was surrounded by to avoid a constant stream of fangirls and attention. Then, he heard an ear-splitting scream from behind him.
"HOOOOLLLLYYYY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!"
He chuckled a bit at the boy's reaction and smirked to himself. It seemed like the spirit he just gave away had a new fan. "Sucks to be her," he thought as he continued chuckling at the reaction of the new master he had given to the duel spirit. Meanwhile, from the heavens above, Pharaoh Atem was also laughing his ass off.
Meanwhile, Jaden had finally stopped screaming. He quickly slid the card into his duel disk and checked the time.
Instantly, he paled. It was 9:58 and he was supposed to be at the Kaiba Corp building at 9:45... He was now very late.
Perhaps it wasn't wise to meticulously and slowly place his fallen cards back into his duel disk when he bumped into Yugi. Contemplating this thought, he quickly took off towards Kaiba Corp.
Soon, he saw the building in front of him as he began to run out of breath. All he needed was one jump onto the fence to make it to the reception, where he could take his exam and get into the academy. He gathered the rest of his energy and jumped as far as he could. This was the culmination of everything he had ever worked for. There was no possible way for him to screw up now.
…
He hit the wall.
Around that time, in front of the elevated building, 2 receptionist girls were bored out of their skulls. One of them groaned in boredom, looking down at her watch. The other girl was on her phone watching a video about Yugi Moto hurling copious amounts of insults at Kaiba. Suddenly, they heard a loud "THUD" from nearby. With nothing better to do, the 2 receptionist girls dashed towards the railing of the building to find the source of the noise. Looking down they saw Jaden, plastered against... no, INSIDE the wall. Shakily, Jaden fell out of the wall, face somehow untouched. "I...I'm here to.. take the exam for Duel Academy. Name… Jaden... Yuki." He said, before shaking his head and falling face-first into the ground. The girls sweatdropped before one of them went back to their desk to mark him present as the other slowly dragged him into the building.
Inside the building, there were several different dueling stages, each one hosting a different dueling test. Several applicants were dueling against various teachers at Duel Academy in their practical examinations. Surrounding the duel stages from above, were the already enrolled students as well as examiners watching the applicants. In one particular ring, a small, short and blue-haired kid was busy dueling against one of the school's proctors. The boy wore a small pair of glasses and a nervous look.
In his duel, neither players had any monsters on the field, while he had a face-down card. In front of him, his opponent summoned a Leghul, a purple centipede monster and attacked him directly, startling him. "H..How dare you attack me with that bug! I..uh… activate a card…" the boy whimpered as his life points dropped slightly from the attack. The proctor sighed and grumbled as he watched the boy struggle to click a button on his duel disk.
The proctor sighed, "What could you possibly have that would help you in this situation shortie? Just give up already!" he yelled in a tone of annoyance. During the entire duel, he had painstakingly learned that his young opponent was… not great at everything with the exception of dueling. Somehow he even struggled to place cards on his duel disk at times.
However, to the proctor's surprise, the blue-haired boy didn't back down, instead, he seemed to be getting even more pumped up. "Who are YOU calling shortie? Huh? I'll teach you!" he yelled in a surprisingly malicious, but not intimidating tone due to his smallness.
With icy fire in his little eyes, he finally managed to press the button on his duel disk to activate his face-down card. A sharp glint in his eye accompanied a cold sneer on his face as the card revealed itself.
"I activate the most powerful Trap Card I have!" he cried out in his adorable, high-pitched voice. The proctor yawned, not paying too much attention to his subpar opponent, expecting at most an equally subpar card. This, however, only fueled the boy's anger. "I activate the Trap Card; REALLY FLUFFY KITTEN!" he screamed as the holographic version of the card flipped up, revealing a pink card with a really fluffy kitten.
The proctor froze as a chill went down his spine as the boy yelled out the trap card's name. "Impossible! It can't be! REALLY FLUFFY KITTEN?" he yelled as his face morphed from boredom to fear in less than an instant.
The boy smirked sadistically at the proctor's reaction. "Really Fluffy Kitten turns your Leghul into a very fluffy kitten. On your next turn, it turns back. But for now, it is a very fluffy kitten." the boy said as he drew a card from his duel disk, abnormally perfectly, contrasting his errors from the rest of the duel. "Now, with this card! I WILL PUNCH THE KITTEN!" he shouted, revealing a monster card from his hand, depicting a cartoonish red fist punching a kitten on what looked like a cartoonish tank with eyes. "I SUMMON KITTEN PUNCHEROID!" he yelled, placing the card on his duel disk.
Kitten Puncheroid (Earth) Lv 4
ATK: 1500 DEF: 1400
Machine/Effect
If this card attacks a monster with "Kitten" or "Cat" in its name, activate the following effects.
•Punch yourself for being a heartless monster.
•Double this monster's attack points you heartless monster.
•Punch yourself again because you are still a heartless monster.
Upon hearing the boy's intentions, the proctor froze with a horror-stricken face. "No, I won't let you harm this kitten! I surrender!" he pleaded as he swiftly placed his hand on his deck holder, signalling a surrender.
The boy smirked as the duel disks deactivated. He turned around and left the arena, leaving the proctor on his knees, traumatized by the really fluffy kitten that was about to get punched. The blue-haired boy cackled as he left the arena, "Nobody… nobody messes with Syrus Truesdale and gets away with it." he said, walking up towards the stands.
Then, in an instant, his face returned to normal. His eyes closed shut and the young student-to-be stumbled forwards as if he was disorientated. Upon opening his eyes once more, there was not a single trace of malice, anger, spite, bitterness, devilment, gall or any other synonyms you might find within that group. "Ugh... these headaches... at least I... won? " he halfheartedly said to himself as he picked himself up and continued to walk towards his seat.
In another duel stage, another equally intense duel was happening. On one side was a smug-looking proctor who had 2 monsters on his side of the field, Millenium Shield and Big Shield Gardna, both very high in defence. His opponent was a black-haired teenager that doesn't look like the main character. On his side of the field was a simple Vorse Raider card along with 2 face-down cards. Both players somehow had 4000 Life Points despite being on turn… 40-something. We could probably track the actual turn count, but their decks don't seem to change size no matter how much they draw... well, at least until they deck out.
The proctor laughed out loud, "It seems you are unanimously, utterly unable to undermine my life points due to my awesome, super, special defence deck!" he yelled proudly as he ended his turn.
His opponent just sighed in annoyance. "You sir, are an idiot," he stated as he drew his sixth card and ended his turn.
The proctor stopped laughing and drew another card. "How am I an idiot? You haven't even dented my life points! Your deck is probably made of pathetic and weak cards applicant!" he yelled in mock fury as he ended his turn, placing another face-down card.
The boy rolled his eyes and drew another card. Glancing at the card he drew, he smirked as he saw what card he had drawn. Meanwhile, the proctor was still boasting about his awesome super special defence deck. "Alright, applicant! Multiple choice quiz! Ya got two monsters starin' ya down that you can't even touch! Do you, A, throw in the towel; B, beg for mercy; or C, run home to mama to replace those pathetic cards?" the proctor said, grinning like a madman.
The boy heard the proctor's mock quiz and calmly replied. "I choose D, Quote the King of Games," he said as a smile began to creep on his face. "My deck has no pathetic cards, O not so wise proctor. But it does contain... " he monologued, before revealing his hand to the proctor, shocking the man. "The unstoppable Exodia!" the boy cried out as a holographic pentagram began to draw itself in the air.
The proctor's jaw dropped. "Impossible! I-I.. totally should have seen this coming…" he mumbled, realizing the glaring flaw in his awesome, super, special defence deck.
"I've assembled all five special cards. All five pieces of the puzzle!" the applicant yelled as golden limbs began to reach out from within the pentagram. "It honestly wasn't that hard considering you haven't attacked once. I spent most of my turns discarding overdrawn cards!"
"Exodia! Ahh, it's not possible! No one's ever been able to call him… uh... that part of the quotation isn't valid anymore… shit." the proctor screamed as Exodia fully appeared on the field.
"Well, that part of the quotation may no longer apply, but this part does. EXODIA! OBLITERATE!" the applicant shouted as Exodia launched a giant glowy ball of death at the proctor.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Meanwhile, from above, several students were watching the duels below. In particular, a group of three snobby blue cloaked students were watching the duel between the proctor and the not very important kid. The two on the sides were clearly minor characters, but due to the insanely spiky and black hairdo the middle kid had, he was obviously a character worth mentioning.
"Wow, that guy's pretty good, don'tcha think, Chazz?" one of the students said as he watched Exodia absolutely destroy the poor proctor.
"He's a punk. We wasted our childhoods in duel prep school for the past three years, we're ready for the Academy. These kids don't know what they're getting into, but they'll learn. The hard way. The Chazz Princeton way! And when I mean the Chazz Princeton way I mean the beat the everloving shit out of every fucking person here way." the middle kid named Chazz said, barely paying attention to the two kids beside him.
On the other side of the building, Jaden Yuki had finally managed to get inside and was marvelling at the recently summoned Exodia. On his left was Syrus, who was praying that he had passed the exam... considering he forgot basically everything he did during the exam, that was completely justifiable. Noticing the really short kid beside him who clearly looked very shy and introverted and would clearly freak out if talked to due to possible insecurities that would be revealed later on, Jaden decided to start up a friendly conversation.
"Wow, that guy summoned Exodia. And quoted Yugi, the King of Games." Jaden said, turning his head to face the kid beside him.
Syrus jumped a bit from being talked to but quickly recovered. "A-oh sorry! Yeah, that's Bastion Misawa, 1st place applicant, quoting the King of Games. Wish I could see the actual King of Games though." he said, calming down after seeing the teen beside him meant no harm.
"Sucks to be you then, I just met him today! Look at the card he gave me!" Jaden said cheerfully as he snatched the card out of his deck and showed it to Syrus.
Syrus deadpanned. "Yeah right, as if you-" The card was shoved in Syrus's face and his eyes widened. "HOLY SHIT ON A SHIT STICK THAT'S COMPLETE PROOF THAT YOU SAW HIM YOU LUCKY BASTARD, THAT IS THE MOST AMAZING CARD I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE." he yelled upon seeing the card that was shown to him, before promptly fainting.
At that moment, Bastion walked up to the stands and sat in front of Jaden and Syrus. Jaden noticed this and decided to strike up another friendly conversation while Syrus recovered. "Hey, sweet moves out there Bastion!" he said, catching Bastions attention.
"Thank you, but my opponent was a fool. Who might you be?" he replied in a monotone voice as he took a seat.
"Name's Jaden Yuki and the not conscious person beside me is… I don't know." Jaden replied.
At that moment Syrus jumped up awake. "HOLY SHIT I JUST HAD THE GREATEST DREAM ABOUT THE GREATEST CARD EV- wait it was real wasn't it." he cried out before noticing that Jaden was still carrying around the card.
"Probably. Hey, what's your name, blue?" Jaden asked the now conscious person beside him.
"Syrus… Syrus Truesdale…" he replied sluggishly before noticing that Bastion was now in front of them. "Oh hey, Bastion! Great duel out there!" he complimented.
Bastion closed his eyes and stretched a bit. "Not much of a challenge when the proctor refused to attack at all," he said.
Jaden was quick to follow up. "Yeah, you just might be the second-best duelist here!" he cried out with excitement.
This caught Bastions attention. Second best?
Up in the teacher section of the upper stands, a… clown… no… a… gay… a ...no... (Why don't you go Google what Dr. Crowler looks like because I'm not fucking describing it.) was busy packing up after grading his current assignments concerning the applicants. Suddenly, he was interrupted by another random teacher. "Uh Doctor Crowler, there happens to be one more applicant who is late due to injuries," he said in a shaky voice. Crowler sighed in annoyance. At least someone got his title correct for once. "Who is this applicant and what is his score?" he asked. The other teacher fumbled around with his papers looking for the required information. "Uh..uh… HERE… wait no… Ah-ha! Jaden Yuki… he somehow flawlessly passed the written portion and for some reason is actually the real number 1 candidate... Except he forgot to write his name so by technicality, he's dead last." the teacher replied.
Crowler deadpanned. He expected a slaking slacker of slackington who was late and injured because they were lazy and didn't bother to walk around the wall in front of the building. Quickly he snatched the paper out of the other teacher's hand and reviewed it.
Jaden Yuki.
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Test score: /Debatable/ 100 / 0
Note: Technical score is due to lack of a name, however, it is clear that he wrote the exam.
Note-2: Lateness was due to injury caused by impact with the wall in front of the building.
Crowler blinked. Somehow he was right about one thing, the student did indeed smash into the wall in front of the school. After thinking for a minute, he realized the perfect solution to the problem at hand. "I suppose I must…"
RING RING RI-
Suddenly, Crowler's eyes widened as his left hand moved towards the side of his desk. In the blink of an eye, his hand grasped the handle of a carefully and conveniently placed sledgehammer. His pupils jolted sideways, staring with unending anger and annoyance at the source of the interruption of his conversation. His soon to be squished phone. Swiftly, he jumped up into the air from his seat and slid his free hand onto the handle of his sledgehammer before slamming it down- wait… his phone. Awkwardly, he put down the hammer and grabbed the phone to answer the call.
"Yes? Hello?... Yeah, I was just about to… This call is kinda not necessary… Absolutely!"
He put down the phone and sighed. "So who was that just now?" the bewildered teacher beside him asked. "Sheppard, making sure I give every kid an equal chance. Something I WAS ABOUT TO DO. JEEZ! WHY DOESN'T ANYBODY TRUST ME!" he yelled before storming off. "W-wait! Which test deck are we going to use against him?" another teacher ran up to him and asked. Crowler smirked, "Since it's unsure if he is any good, I'll use my own deck!" he replied calmly before changing demeanour and stomping away.
Back with Jaden and friends…
"Wait second-best? Then, who is firs-?" Bastion asked before being cut-off by the PA system.
-Jaden Yuki, please report to… actually, it doesn't really matter which field you pick because they're all empty. Just get to a field...-
Jaden jumped up in excitement. "Alright! Let's do this!" he yelled before backing up a bit.
He quickly turned to Bastion. "For your information, I'm number one!" He said before sprinting towards the edge of the stands and jumping off the upper level.
Bastion and Syrus just stood there, jaws dropped. "Dear Lord! He's either very talented or very crazy!" Bastion said in shock. "By the way, he was boasting, I think it's more talent than craziness. Let alone the fact he has the best card ever in his deck." Syrus replied, also in shock.
CRASH!
"OW FUCK! PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT THIS THROUGH!" Jaden cried out from below.
"I stand corrected. Definitely crazy." Syrus said with a sweatdrop.
Bastion sighed and looked onto the field Jaden fell into. He frowned when he saw Jaden's opponent. "Well, it's obvious he's crazy, but let's see if he is as truly talented at dueling as he says he is. Take a look at his opponent." Bastion said, noticing Crowler staring at Jaden in disbelief.
"What if I don't want to look at his opponent?" Syrus yelled, looking in the other direction.
"I wouldn't blame you for it." Bastion nervously said before changing his focus onto the now somehow recovered Jaden. "Wait… he's not injured at all!" he yelled, looking at a completely flawless Jaden with no external injuries. Syrus just stopped staring and closed his eyes. "Tell me when it's over. I prefer sane duels," he said to Bastion. "Says the person who uses Really Fluffy Kitten." Bastion replied, rolling his eyes.
On the dueling field, Crowler and Jaden had finally managed to get in a dueling position, ready to exchange a few words before the epic battle that would come next.
Crowler was the first to speak. "Hello little boy, I am Doctor Vellian Crowler, Head Department Chair of Techniques here at Duel Academy… even though we're not at Duel Academy yet… huh. Anyways, I will be your opponent, and unlike your other peers, due to a few circumstances, you will be facing something a bit more… challenging." he said, readying his duel vest.
Jaden's eyes sparkled at the vest in awe. "Wow, a department head! And one who has a cool duel vest thingy! And I'm facing a bigger ch-" He said in excitement before he realized, "I forgot to write my name on the test… didn't I." he said in a much less excited tone due to his very obvious and amateur mistake.
"Yes. Yes, you did. Now get ready to duel kid, because this isn't just any duel, to help you demonstrate your skill for evaluation, we will be playing 8000 Life Points!" Crowler said, before drawing 5 cards from his vest. He was a bit shocked at the fact that the kid managed to realize his own mistake, but it didn't really matter at that point.
Jaden quickly recovered. "Whatever! I'll make up for it in this duel, teach! So get your game on!" he yelled before drawing his own 5 cards.
"LET'S DUEL!" the two yelled.
[Jaden Yuki] vs [Dr. Crowler]
-8000 LP Duel, Challenger goes first.-
Jaden began the duel and drew his sixth card. He stared at the cards, wondering what to play. In his hand were some of the most powerful cards that he had assembled over years of childhood, undergoing tons of traumatic incidents and thousands of weighed packs to assemble together.
His hand consisted of Kuriboh, Kuriboh… Wata- wait no that's another Kuriboh, Winged Kuriboh, another Winged Kuriboh and Berserker's soul. Great starting hand. Definitely nothing wrong with it. Yup. Absolutely normal hand. No funny business. Overpowered.
Jaden looked over his hand and came up with a self-proclaimed best strategy. "I end my turn!" he confidently yelled with a smile on his face, confusing everyone in the stadium and causing Crowler to have an anime-fall.
Crowler internally screamed. "This is the kid that aced the exam? What? How? AGHHHHHHHH!" he thought, before catching the card that had ejected from his duel vest. He looked at the card, Heavy Storm. "Perfect, now I can end this duel as quickly as possible." he thought. He turned his attention back towards Jaden, "Alright, young scholar! I set 2 cards face-down and activate Heavy Storm!" he yelled. Two holographic cards appeared on the field but were quickly obliterated by a holographic windstorm.
Jaden yawned. "Let me guess. Statue of the Wicked am I right?" he said in a bored tone, not paying attention to the duel he was in.
This got on Crowler's nerves. "Alright, maybe the kid has brains… at least in Duel Monsters", he thought, remembering Jaden's not so spectacular entrance onto the duel stage. "But how dare he not pay attention to me! What a rotten brat, I won't let him pass this exam! Of course, with an empty field, that will be easy."
Everyone watched as the dueling field slowly became foggier and 2 golden snake-like creatures emerged from the ground. Crowler grinned. "You might have predicted my traps, but what about this? I tribute my two Token Monsters in order to summon the all-powerful ANCIENT GEAR GOLEM!" he screamed. As he played the card, a gigantic machine built up of grey plating and gears in a large humanoid shape emerged from the ground. Upon emerging, the gears began to turn and the gigantic golems red-eye lit up.
(Ancient Gear Golem) Lv 8
Atk: 3000 Def: 3000
Meanwhile, from above, a blonde-haired girl and a tall, blue-haired boy, both dressed in blue uniforms were watching the duel from above. The girl stared at the monster with a disapproving look. "Welp, looks like you were right Zane, Crowler is an asshole." the girl said. The boy, Zane, continued to watch the duel with a blank, emotionless face. "Well Alexis, at least we got to see the rare card Crowler had stashed up in his deck. Shame it has to be used against a player who can't even summon a monster on the first turn," he said in a cold voice. "Yeah, I guess. But maybe that kid had a bad starting hand, you know?" Alexis replied, staring at the kid with mild amusement.
Somewhere else from above, Chazz and his goons were also watching the duel in amusement. "Kids fucked." one of the boys said. "Well, this should be fun to watch. Sad it's going to end so soon." Chazz arrogantly said, chuckling at the situation Jaden had put himself in.
Bastion and Syrus had similar reactions. "Huh, guess he's just crazy." Bastion commented. Syrus just nodded, acknowledging the 3000 ATK monster that was staring Jaden down.
"Now, now, I hope you're not too scared of my legendary Ancient Gear Golem?" Crowler asked with a smug look on his face. Jaden just shrugged, changing Crowler's smug face into a scowl. This caused a lot of chatter from the crowd, mostly either people being impressed or calling him overconfident and arrogant.
"Well, maybe a bite out of your Life Points might change that! Ancient Gear Golem, attack! Mechanized Melee!" Crowler yelled, confident that he would absolutely destroy his opponent with ease. To his surprise, Jaden simply yawned and placed one of his cards from his hand into the graveyard. "I discard Kuriboh and take no damage," he said sheepishly. Crowler's eye twitched at this. "Fine! I end my turn." he screeched.
Jaden looked at Crowler in amusement and drew another card. Before his mind had registered which card he had drawn, he heard a little squeal from somewhere. He looked around in confusion before looking down at the card he had drawn. Dark Magician Kuribon. And it was winking at him. He then looked up with a smirk on his face, confusing Crowler. "Well, let's see you destroy this," he said, setting a different monster on the field. "I end!"
Crowler drew another card and stared at the face-down monster, before chuckling a bit. "Young scholar, I believe I should tell you about my Ancient Gear Golem's ability. It deals piercing battle damage, you fool! Destroy that monster! Mechanized Melee!" Crowler yelled once again. The golem wound up its fist and smashed into the other monster, revealing and destroying Winged Kuriboh.
(Winged Kuriboh) Lv 1
Atk: 300 Def: 200
Crowler's grin turned into an annoyed frown when he saw the monster. "Judging by your expression, I take it that you know what Winged Kuriboh's ability is. Since he was destroyed, I take no damage." Jaden said mockingly.
"Huh, that's the second time that kid survived that Golem's attack. Maybe he's not as bad as we think." Alexis said to Zane, staring at Jaden with mild interest. "Well, it doesn't matter how many Kuriboh's he has. He'll run out of cards eventually." Zane replied.
Crowler scowled. "Whatever, that pathetic Winged Kuriboh might have saved you another turn, but you will run out of them eventually. Jaden frowned at Crowler's words and drew another card. He grinned when he saw what it was. Secret Pass to The Treasures. He looked at Dark Magician Kuribon in his hand and smiled, putting his plan into action. "Actually, I won't run out, because this duel is over!" he yelled.
Crowler frowned. "You're bluffing!" he declared.
"No… not really. Now introducing… the best card in all of Duel Monsters!" Jaden yelled, before grabbing Dark Magician Kuribon's card and holding it into the air. This caused a few people to guess what card he had since they couldn't see it.
"Exodia?"
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon?"
"Swordsman of Landstar?"
"Wrong!" Jaden answered, before dramatically placing the card onto his duel disk. "I summon, DARK MAGICIAN KURIBON!" he yelled. Dark Magician Kuribon emerged onto the field and jumped into the air, waving her staff around.
(Dark Magician Kuribon) Lv 2
Atk: 300 Def: 200
The crowd went silent before it erupted with cheering and squealing from the boys and girls respectively. Crowler, on the other hand, was not impressed. "That pitiful card only has 300 Attack Points, what could it possibly do to my Ancient Gear Golem?" he asked mockingly. Jaden was all too happy to answer. "Firstly, she gains 300 Attack Points for every Kuriboh card in my graveyard," he answered.
Dark Magician Kuribon
Atk 300 - 900
"And before you say that it's still not enough, I'll activate another card from my hand. Secret Pass to the Treasures!" he continued. When he played the card, a random treasure map appeared in Dark Magician Kuribon's claw and she began moving her eyes left and right, reading the map. "This card lets a monster with less than 1000 Attack Points, attack you directly!" Jaden said, pointing at Crowler. "Now attack! Dark Blazing Multiply!"
Dark Magician Kuribon put down the map and waved her staff around with a bit of trouble. This earned her an "Awww" from the spectators. Then, the staff glowed a bright green colour, before creating a giant Kuriboh-shaped fireball which launched itself at Crowler causing him to shriek upon impact.
Crowler LP
8000 - 7100
Crowler was about to speak up again, but Jaden interrupted him. "Now before asking what the point of that attack was, I'll just tell you. Because I attacked you directly with a monster with less than 1500 Attack Points, I can now activate the Quick-Play Spell Card Berserker's Soul!" Jaden said. He then took his entire hand and placed it into the Graveyard. "Now I must first discard my entire hand. I should also say that I had 3 more Kuriboh cards in my hand so Dark Magician Kuribon's Attack Points increases!"
Dark Magician Kuribon
Atk 900 - 1800
(Author's Note: If I were you, I'd play the music "Fang of Critias" about now.)
Crowler's paled at this. "Now I must keep drawing cards until I draw a Spell or Trap Card. For every monster card I draw, Kuribon attacks! In addition, if you couldn't tell, my deck has quite a number of Kuriboh cards so her attack will increase for every single one that I discard, and since I've already activated Berserker's Soul, the 1500 Attack Point limit no longer applies!" Jaden yelled.
"W-wait! Time-out!" Crowler shrieked in fear.
"A bit late for that teach! Time to pay you back for calling my cards pathetic! Draw!" Jaden yelled, he looked at the card he drew and smirked. "I discard Sphere Kuriboh! Kuribon, attack!"
Dark Magician Kuribon
Atk 1800 - 2100
Dark Magician Kuribon waved her wand and fired another fireball at Crowler, causing him to scream in pain even though they are holograms that can't hurt people.
Crowler LP
7100 - 5000
As Crowler recovered, Jaden drew his second card. He inspected the card and then stared at Crowler, making eye contact. He smiled making Crowler pale even more. "Monster Card," he said, showing that it was Clear Kuriboh. "It can't be!" Crowler screeched, before being blasted by another fireball, knocking him to the floor.
Dark Magician Kuribon
Atk 2100 - 2400
Crowler LP
5000 - 2600
Jaden quickly drew his third card and revealed it as Winged Kuriboh Lv10. "Looks like this is it teach! I drew a Monster Card!" he declared, before tossing the card into the graveyard. Crowler screamed as a final fireball smashed into him, reducing his Life Points to zero.
Dark Magician Kuribon
Atk 2400 - 2700
Crowler LP
2600 - 0
Winner: Jaden Yuki
Crowler groaned in defeat as the holograms disappeared.
"That's game! So, this means I passed right?" Jaden asked, grinning and scratching the back of his head.
Crowler stood up and glared at Jaden, his face was visibly shaking with anger. He stomped towards Jaden and towered over him. Everyone gasped as tension began to rise.
Suddenly, his scowl turned into a smile and he began to laugh. Everyone in the room stared in shock, students and teachers. Someone actually made Crowler laugh? Several students checked their calendars. Nope, still wasn't 2012, the world hadn't ended yet.
When he stopped laughing he extended his hand towards Jaden. "I never thought I would ever see the day… Welcome to Duel Academy Jaden! Even though we're not there yet." he said cheerfully. Everyone else in the room just stood there, mouth agape. This kid actually got Crowler to like him! Who exactly was this kid?
"Alright!" Jaden cheered, before snatching his Dark Magician Kuribon card and staring at it with glee. "Thanks, Dark Magician Kuribon. Couldn't have done it without you." he thought before waving goodbye and walking out of the stadium.
"Wow, that kid has a future here. Something tells me that this is going to be a very interesting year." Alexis said out loud. She turned to Zane only to find that he was no longer beside her, instead, walking away silently.
"Wow, he did it," Syrus mumbled, still shocked about Jaden's victory. Bastion stayed quiet, with a small grin forming on his face. "Nice. I could use a little competition." he thought to himself, before also leaving the stadium. Since the try-outs were over now, other applicants followed suit. All that was left to do was wait for the results to tally up before the passing applicants would go ahead and leave for Duel Academy.
(To be continued in Chapter 2: The Chazz Princeton Way.)
Dark Magician Kuribon (Dark) Lv 2
ATK: 300 DEF: 200
Spellcaster/Effect
This card gains 300 ATK for every monster with "Kuriboh" in its name, in the GY. During your opponent's turn, during damage calculation: You can discard this card; you take no battle damage from that battle (this is a Quick Effect).
Really Fluffy Kitten (Trap)
(Normal Trap)
If your opponent attacks you directly, the monster used to attack you has its name changed to "Really Fluffy Kitten" and it's Atk and Def are reduced to 0. This effect lasts until your second End Phase after this card was activated."
Jaden Yuki's Current Deck: Kuriboh Deck/ Dark Magician Kuribon Support Deck
Syrus Truesdale Current Deck: Mentally Degrading Roid Deck
Bastion Misawa Current Deck: Offensive Exodia Prototype Deck
Doctor Crowler Current Deck: Standard Ancient Gear Deck
Here's an OC card that will be used Next Chapter:
Parasite Kuriboh (Earth) Lv 1
ATK: 300 DEF: 200
Insect/Effect
You can discard this card; you can replace all cards treated as Equip Spell Cards with a Parasite Kuriboh Token (Lv 1/Insect Atk: 300 Def: 200) (this is a Quick Effect). Any monster equipped with a Parasite Kuriboh Token cannot deal Battle Damage and deals 500 damage to its owner's LP when removed from the field.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter! - Miracle