Huh? Oh, so it's my turn to say something that makes a lot of sense, eh?
Well this is quite awkward…I don't really have that much to say, less than to know what to say…
Talk about myself? I guess that will have to do.
My name is Takashi Kuromori, I'm the kind of person who doesn't like talking about his likes or dislikes…
I don't feel like talking about my dreams.
As for hobbies…well, I have lots of hobbies.
…What! You've heard that before? Fine let me try this out.
From what I've seen at this island so far…it makes me see why Garu chose to come here. The breath taking sights, the calming sea air, the many new faces to be seen, and the fact at getting a new experience.
Yet, the people here are really competitive, take for right now this instance. I was casually watching my two friends (whom I just found out were now dorm roommates) and the next thing I know is that I'm on this really weird guy's hit list. Man, these academy students are quite judging on each other. And here I thought I could cut the high school crap…guess I thought too soon.
Even though I managed to get into the Ra Yellow dorm, it was mainly a fluke. The only real cards I have in my deck that is strong are considered not at all at a variety…at least to my opponent they aren't.
Unfortunately for him, my cards and I both share one equal bond…
…We both are the masters the Genjutsu arts…better known as the art of illusion.
This guy reminds me of an old saying that Master Yoh told me…he even has his own fan club.
…What's that? You want to know what the saying was? Well then, you'll just have to find out now will ya?
All I wanted to do is read my book…at this rate I'll never finish it.
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Chapter 3: Judgement Among Peers
The Style of Takashi
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The morning sun gleamed over the island of the Pacific Duel Academy, students were making their way to class, birds were chirping. And Garu was relaxing in his bunk, lightly snoring… wait that can't be good.
The sun shot through the open window and right into Garu's face causing the lazy ninja teen to groan. "Damn sun…"
A minute passed before he jumped from his bunk revealing his red pajama pants. As he scratched his head, he noticed that Yae was still asleep and there was a note on his bunk. "Its form Zeff."
"Hey Garu and Yae, heading to class earlier to find my classroom," the note said as Garu looked towards the clock. "P.S. don't forget…classes start at 8:15. From Zeff and Rox."
Through the sleep-drenched eyes, Garu read the clock saying that it was precisely 8 o'clock. At the sight of the clock, all of the sleep that remained in Garu's eyes was shocked out. "YAE! YAE! WAKE UP!"
Turning her head slightly to see a panicking Garu, Yae opened her eyes towards Garu. "Give me fifteen more minutes…"
"We've only got fifteen minutes to get to class!" Garu yelled making Yae fall out of her bed.
"WHAT!"
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A young Obelisk Blue walked through the crowded halls of the duel academy. His face was covered by his deep blue PDA. "Dueling Theories 1O1, class room number 7A, and the time is 8:11 a.m."
Unknown to the Obelisk Blue who was reaching a corner, Garu and Yae were running past all of the other duelists trying to get to their class. Their uniforms a little messed up from putting the clothes on really fast and for the fact that Yae forced Garu out while she changed. "Where is it again Yae?"
"It should be around the corner!" Yae yelled just as she and Garu were about to run past the corner…at the same time the young Obelisk was.
BBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!
Everyone turned to see the three duelists on the floor, papers, pencils and cards flying into the air. The young Obelisk Blue was the first to stand beginning to pick up his and the two Slifer Reds stuff he bumped into. Halfway through cleaning up the scattered debris, Yae and Garu sat up and watched the Obelisk Blue quickly finish.
The Obelisk Blue smiled, closing his eyes behind his small glasses. "I apologize…I wasn't watching where I was going."
Garu just blinked at the Obelisk's combed back spiky gray hair. "Uh…my fault we're trying to get to our Dueling Theories 1O1 class."
"Well its right there and I'm heading there as well," The Obelisk Blue stated as Yae and Garu stood up and were handed their stuff.
"Um, thanks," Yae replied with a little blush. "What a gentleman."
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"Welcome class to Dueling Theories 1O1," Professor Satoshi announced writing his name on the board. "For those of you who don't know me, I am Hikaro Satoshi. Former duelist pro league top ten, and official authority of dueling theories.
"In this class everyone of you duelists will learn the basic history of duel monsters, where the styles of the art originated and where the creativity of the cards came from. Expect a small amount of work and an average amount of five tests during this semester, I merely expect you all to pay attention."
Turning his back to his students, Satoshi began to write on the board once more. "Alright then, let's get started with the origin of duel monster. According to the multiple records written in the creator of the card game, Pegasus J. Crawford's journal. He had many expeditions to Egypt discovering multiple stone tablets with pictures of the monsters. However, he had traveled to various ruins in different parts of the world, thus explaining the…."
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"This is definitely one of the more boring aspect to duel monsters," Takashi leaned back in his chair watching his peers while Satoshi just went on with his speech.
Takashi's gaze fell upon Garu just as he yawned back into his seat. This was one of most boring things he was forced to listen to…even more boring when Master Yoh scolded Takashi when Garu blamed him for his various pranks. Shifting his gaze to his left and right, Takashi watched a number of students taking notes, talking to each other, or sleeping.
On Garu's left was Yae, somewhat asleep yet was drawing something with professor Satoshi's speech about this Pegasus guy. 'Guess she didn't much sleep.'
Takashi noticed that Garu was a little curious as to what she was drawing, so Garu looked over her shoulder. "Now what are you up to Garu?"
However, Yae spotted Garu trying to look over her shoulder and pulled her pad to her chest to cover it. Somewhat disappointed, Garu sat back into his seat, trying to keep his mind busy.
"…As for the E-Heroes…well, Pegasus got the idea from cartoons," Satoshi sighed as he looked into his book, briefly looking up at his students. Most of which weren't even paying attention. "I guess this is how Fortanu feels on the very first day of classes."
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Takashi just sighed as he followed Garu into his next classroom, Yae had a different class scheduled but at least Takashi would be able to watch him. Something about that just really didn't thrill him all that much. "I knew that this was going to be a terrible mission."
Making sure that he was quite a few seats back from Garu, Takashi just relaxed enjoying the small few minutes of near close silence he could get. He even managed to grab one of his books that he loved reading, this one was a humor/romance novel. And just as Takashi was about to reach the part of the book he's was dying to read for the last two weeks…
"What in the world do you think you're doing?"
"Huh?" Takashi turned his head to see a fellow Ra Yellow student, his black hair matching his purple shirt. From the sight of the two mascara marks on the guy's face in the shapes of fangs, added with the fact that this guy's body was really skinny, a huge drop of sweat appeared on the back of Takashi's head. "Why the heck is this guy wearing make up?"
The freaky Ra Yellow just growled tapping his foot irritably. "I'll ask again, what in the world do you think you're doing?"
"Sitting, trying to read my book," Takashi humored the guy trying to find his lost space in the book.
"Do you know who I am?"
"Don't really care…ya freak."
"You're in my seat…" the freaky Ra Yellow stated, Takashi this time didn't even look up from his book. "Get out of it right no…"
Takashi just laughed, this making the freaky Ra Yellow even more frustrated. "Man, that is a good line!"
"Pay attention to me! Not the book!" the freaky Ra Yellow shouted as more students entered the room. "Who in the world is this guy?"
"This is such a good use of time," Takashi thought as the freaky Ra Yellow walked over towards the other side of the room.
"Stiff it! It's the teacher!" One of the other students shouted as the teacher stomped into the classroom.
Slamming his books onto the desk to get the attention of the students, Fortanu sighed scratching his head. "And here we go once more, hello class, I'm Fortanu Zisener. Former duel academy student and your card strategist as well as the science teacher. But for this class, I'm here to teach you all about strategies used in the past and future techniques that you can use in the future."
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Listening intently about the dueling strategies of some duelist named Yugi-something, Garu found an even more love for this card game he was introduced to. "I had no idea that duelists like that were alive…"
Garu was depressed when he heard the lunch music play; however, as he walked away, he didn't notice the two Obelisk Blues that were watching from the back of the room. "And there he is…that Garu guy."
Vic just rubbed his chin, somewhat confused as how a relaxed person could've defeated Professor Satoshi. "So…ninja deck eh…which ninja won?"
"Well, it was a new one called Ryu – The Mythical Ninja," Kiro answered as Garu exited the room from the front. "You going to challenge the guy?"
"No…fighting an opponent without knowing what they've got in their arsenal is foolhardy," Vic replied as he began to walk towards the back door not noticing that Takashi was watching them both towards both of them. "I need to think of some way to see what that fool Garu has in his deck."
"Great it's that Vic guy…wonder what he and his muscle bound lackey are up to…oh well." Takashi just shrugged it off and decided to catch some lunch…unknowingly being watched by Vic and Kiro.
"And that is Takashi Kuromori, rated to the fourth best this year," Kiro stated as Vic looked at the card list that had Takashi's most recent card uses.
"Genjutsu cards…pathetic, he relies on luck," Vic scoffed throwing the paper to the side and stepping on it. "We'll have to deal with these five students later."
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"What is this…meatloaf?" Takashi looked at his food…mainly because he thought he had seen it move on its own.
After finding an empty table, Takashi braved the mystery meatloaf. As he poked and prodded the meat, Yae sat down next to him. "Stupid Garu…"
Takashi just sighed…a gut feeling told him he wasn't going to be able to read his book any time soon. "What'd he do this time?"
"First he duels my other roommate, ruining my chance to look over the island, then he and Zeff didn't shut up for the night!" Yae whined while Takashi scratched his chin.
"Roommates eh? Well that's certainly different," Takashi stated.
"And what's worse is that he woke me up fifteen minutes before class started," Yae scoffed to the side.
Takashi just pushed his tray off to the side, deciding that he'd rather not risk his health. "Aw come on, I can remember when you two would often sleep not only in the same room but also…"
"Takashi you say another word and I'll hit you so hard your socks will hurt," Yae threatened as Takashi covered his mouth.
Meanwhile on the other side of the cafeteria…
"Damn that stupid jerk!"
The freaky looking Ra Yellow glared directly at the embarrassed Takashi, his entourage filled with three other Ra Yellows with mascara marks as well. Two muscular guys and one petite girl who also each had their hair dyed black to match Raven's. One of the Ra yellows walked up to the freaky Ra Yellow. "Lord Raven…is that the fool who disrespected you earlier?"
Raven simply nodded as he looked at his more fancy lunch. "No one has dared to disrespect me in years…I transferred to this academy for I heard of the legendary duelists that were here."
The three other Ra Yellows just knelt down in front of Raven. "Lord Raven…how shall we help you achieve your revenge?"
"Underhanded tactics are for the weak…there is no honor in those ways," Raven replied lifting his glass of orange juice to his lips. "Preparation is in order…the Judgement from the Monarchs will decide his fate."
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"Yet another boring class where I can't read my book." Takashi just watched Professor Sparky writing on the board.
"Okay…now class according to the book right here, if two angles on a triangle are equal then what kind of triangle is it?" Sparky asked flipping through the pages of the book. "Wait…that can't be right."
From the other side of the room, Raven was looking through his cards, scanning each one to make sure that they were in perfect balance. "This card is not really necessary, now then…I just need to wait for the right moment."
Takashi just watched Professor Sparky look through the multiple books on the desk, somewhat panicked mainly because he lost his main book. "Looks like this could take a while…"
Takashi took this opportunity. "Maybe I thought too soon." Takashi quickly slipped his book out of his pocket, flipping the pages till he found his last marker. "Now, where was I?"
Sparky just chuckled a little bit to himself before he faced his class. "This is quite embarrassing for the first day class…so I guess you could consider this class a study hall till I get things set right."
Almost immediately the entire class was engulfed in conversation, while Takashi was still wrapped up in his book. Raven on the other hand…
"Lord Raven…how shall we get him to agree to these terms?" One of the three lackeys asked as Raven stood up.
"The gentleman's way…and if that doesn't work, one of you grab his book," Raven answered as he and his lackeys walked over towards Takashi.
"Heh, ha, heh, oh man, that is so classic." Takashi slightly laughed to himself reaching the next chapter in his book. He was totally unaware that Raven and his three lackeys were looming over him.
"You…" Raven stated as Takashi moved his eyes towards Raven. "I have no real quarrel with you, however, you disrespected me and I wish to gain that respect. I humbly challenge you to a duel."
"………Sure."
"I would be honored if you were to accept m….wait, what did you just say?" Raven asked a little dumbfounded at Takashi's response.
"I said sure," Takashi restated flipping the next page in his book.
"Why would you actually agree to this?" Raven asked as Takashi stood up with his face still in the book.
"Cause I know you're not going to leave me alone till I agree," Takashi stated finding a piece of paper and sliding it into the book. "Then I'll never get to read my book.
"Then prepare your duel disk and deck," Raven stated lifting up his custom duel disk snapping his deck into it.
Not since this conversation began, Takashi lifted his head up from the book. "What? Right now?"
Raven and his lackeys seemed to nod in sync in response to Takashi's question. With a sigh, Takashi pocketed the book and stood up. "Fine…let's get this over with."
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Raven slid his deck into the armored custom duel disk he had received, and in a quick response the machine hummed to life allowing Raven to draw his first hand. "Now then prepare yourself…Takashi was it?" (RLP: 4000)
With a yawn, Takashi just simply drew his five-card hand and sat on the ground. "Yep…and go ahead on the first move…" (TLP: 4000)
"Go Lord Raven!" All three of Raven's lackey's cheered at the same time. There was even a small crowd thrilled that there was something exciting going on.
Snapping his sixth card into his hand, and looking at his card a smirk appeared on his face. "Very well! That will be your first mistake!"
Just as Raven was about to play his first card, he noticed something in Takashi's free hand. "…? Is something wrong? I thought you were going to tell me about my first mistake."
"…But…you…I mean, I…I mean…Why are you…Why are you still reading…Is that a book?" Raven stuttered as Takashi kept his gaze to the book.
"Of course it's a book, I've been dying to see how this story ends." Takashi replied with a small snicker in his voice. "Carry on…it shouldn't make any difference in the end…considering who I'm up against, right freak show?"
The last comment got most of the class laughing, the only ones who weren't pleased were Raven and his three lackeys. "Don't mock Lord Raven!"
"Such disrespect is intolerable! And to start this duel I'll play the continuous spell card, Elemental Recover!" Raven announced as a huge contraption with six different colored crystals embedded into the machine that appeared surging electricity between Takashi and Raven.
"…So?" Takashi asked as Raven lowered his head. "What's so special about that weird device? It's just as weird as you are."
With a stomp of his foot Raven lifted another card from his hand into his duel disk and a wondrous angel appeared before him. "You'll find out what it does later! But for right now, I play the spell card Graceful Charity! This allows me…"
"I know what your spell is capable of…just please continue," Takashi replied as Raven drew his three cards. "I may not be a great duelist but I know the basics…Yeesh."
With a smirk, Raven slid two cards into his graveyard slot. "Fine then I'll discard Inferno (1100/1900) and Silpheed (1700/700) to the graveyard."
Flipping the next page in his book, Takashi sighed loudly. "And I should care because…?"
"I just want you to keep a count on my graveyard, cause now I remove Inferno from the game," Raven stated as his card shot out and he pocketed it. "In order to special summon The Spirit of Flames (1700/1000)!"
A large explosion of fire erupted in front of Raven, which quickly formed into a devilish like beast with horns and the bottom part of his body made up of flames.
"Is that all?" Takashi yawned not looking from his book.
Lifting the Spirit of Flames card from his duel disk, Raven immediately replaced it with another. "You wish! I sacrifice my Spirit for someone more potent! I summon Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch (2400/1000)!"
As the Spirit of Flames disappeared, a second eruption roared in front of Raven this time forming into a more daunting figure…all the while Takashi just read his book. This one was clad in plate armor and a helmet, and his face sported a Fu-Manchu beard and moustache. His grin was very unpleasant, and as he raised his hands, they became shrouded in flames. "What do you think? Pretty impressive wouldn't ya say?"
"If you think so," Takashi replied as Raven and Thestalos lowered their heads.
All of a sudden the Elemental Recover machine began to glow with a red aura, somehow that lifted Raven's spirit. "Oh yeah! Well I've got a chain right here! First, my Elemental Recover card's effect comes into play, whenever either of us tribute a monster with the same attribute as the monster summoned, the player who sacrificed gains 1000 life points!" (RLP: 5000)
"Whatever…" Takashi stated as Thestalos stepped towards him, his footsteps leaving behind scorched marks on the ground. "And what's his deal?"
"Glad you asked! See, when successfully tribute summoned, Thestalos forces one card from your hand," Raven explained as Thestalos pointed towards the middle card in Takashi's hand. Immediately Takashi slid the weird monster card into the graveyard. "And since that appeared to be a monster…you take 100 points of damage times the level of the monster."
Raising his hands, Thestalos summoned four fireballs in midair. With bringing his arms down, the four spheres of fire slammed directly into Takashi, sending him and his book into the air. (TLP: 3600)
"Since that was a level four monster I'm guess, I'll just do this…" Sliding another card into his duel disk, Raven watched as his monarch walked back to his side of the battlefield, still leaving the scorch marks. "And that's my turn."
"How dare you…"
"Huh?"
"You just pushed me over the limit…" Takashi just stood up, his head bowed down. With a quick draw, he snapped his head up and slapped his first card onto his duel disk. "You made me lose my place in my book!"
Raven just stood back as a huge flame appeared before Takashi, from the flames emerged a young man with coal black hair. His flowing baggy black shirt was covered with a red and yellow flame vest. His black pants were ripped exposing his red zori. In his mouth was a small pipe that shot up a couple flames. "Who in the world is that?"
"Oh where are my manners? Allow me to introduce, Pyro – Genjutsu Master (1200/1000)!" Takashi announced as Pyro blew a massive amount of smoke and flames from his pipe, causing a few of the students to cover their mouths from the smoke. Taking two of the remaining four cards in his hand, Takashi slid them into his duel disk. "And with two face down cards…I'm ending my turn."
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"Seems like an interesting duel…wish I could watch it but I gotta find that book," Sparky sighed before he lifted a few of the other books on his messy desk. "Nope not here."
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"Lord Raven! Teach this guy some manners!"
"Take him down!"
"Big speech for a little move!"
With more confidence Raven drew his next card, and with a smirk he placed it into his duel disk. "I play pot of greed! So now I get two more cards!"
Takashi just smirked as one of his face down cards went active showing a Goblin of Greed looking back and forth at multiple pots of greed. "I activate my trap card, Greed Confusion!"
"Not that card!" Raven yelled as a huge silver die appeared before him.
"Oh so you know huh, then I'll explain to the audience," Takashi said as he spun on his heel towards the people behind him. "This trap card forces my opponent to roll a die whenever he or she activates an effect that involves drawing. If the result is lower or equal to the amount of cards the effect allows him to draw then he gets double the cards…but! If its higher, then I get to draw cards equal to the result…so its your call Raven."
Waiting for a few minutes Raven gulped before he kicked the silver dice into the air. The dice snapped onto the ground a couple times before it began to spin on the corner till it…
…landed on a three.
"No!" Raven shouted as three cards shot into Takashi's hand. Takashi just gracefully accepted them as Raven drew two cards back into his hand.
Scanning over the three cards, Takashi immediately set one onto his duel disk. "And to bring even more bad news, but a drew a monster that allows me to summon it as soon as I draw it via spell, trap or monster effect. So give it up for…"
A huge spout of water surged onto the playing field, and a young woman jumped from the top of it quickly landing on the ground with the water settling on the ground. Her dark hair with a blue tint flowed past her shoulders, the sea blue kimono on her was covered with a bright blue vest with a dark blue scarf around her neck. She smiled at Pyro with a slight blush on her face. "Aqua – Genjutsu Master (1100/1100)!"
"So what! In case you've forgotten, I've still got my two cards and I'll use one of them! Go Monster Reincarnation! So I'll just discard Yomi Ship (800/1400) to take back Spirit of Flames," Raven stated as he exchanged the cards, then the Yomi Ship card shot out of his graveyard and into his pocket. "Next I'll remove it from play to special summon the Aqua Spirit (1600/ 1200)!"
A young woman with green skin with blue hair with a matching blue dress appeared before Raven, but was quickly encased with ice. "But now I sacrifice her for Mobius the Frost Monarch (2400/1000)!"
The ice that encased the Aqua spirit shattered and a new form appeared before Raven. The twelve-foot-tall giant rose up, seemingly dressed in armor made of ice, with a cape flowing over his shoulder. The giant simply pointed towards Takashi's face down card and a huge pillar of ice shattered the card. "And since you've seen that Mobius can destroy up to two spell or trap cards on the field, you'll be happy that thanks to my Elemental Recover, I gain another 1000 life points!" (RLP: 6000)
"It's only the second turn and already he's going life point crazy," Takashi thought as Raven gestured towards Thestalos.
"And since we both have monsters with the same attribute, I'll have fire fight fire!" Raven announced as Thestalos sent a huge stream of fire towards Pyro.
Just as the flame was about to strike Pyro, a huge wall of fire appeared before him halting the attack. Raven looked confused at the sight and Takashi just smiled. "Confused are we? Well then allow me to shed some light on this. When you declare an attack against Pyro, he forces you to flip a coin. You call it right, your attack goes through."
"And if I call it wrong?" Raven gulped as the flame styled coin appeared before him.
"We'll come to that when we get there," Takashi replied before Raven tossed the coin into the air.
"Heads!"
The entire room was quiet as the coin slowly fell to the ground, after a successful bounce, the coin began to spin around with everyone holding their breaths. As the coin began to come to halt everyone gasped…
…it turned up tails.
"And now! Your attack is negated and you lose life points equal to half off your monster's attack points!" Takashi announced as the flames in front of Pyro flew directly into Raven sending him to the ground. "Care to try again?" (RLP: 4800)
"If that was Pyro's power…then I wonder what Aqua's abilities are." Shaking his head Raven waved. "Make your move."
"Thanks…oh and if you're wondering, Aqua doesn't really have any other effects," Takashi stated drawing his next card and causing Raven to anime drop to the ground along with his three lackeys.
"Dang it!" Raven shouted as Takashi placed a new monster on his field.
"I know how you feel, and so does Zephyr – Genjutsu Master (1400/800)!" Takashi announced as a strong breeze appeared out of no where.
Many feathers appeared in the breeze and formed into a small feather cyclone, which immediately shattered revealing a young blonde haired man. With a light green samurai kimono underneath the large black overcoat, the young man didn't even seem at all weighed down. He even had an eagle feather in his hair. "Oh boy, and what can this one do…I pray tell?"
A smile appeared on Takashi face as a coin appeared in his hands, this time with a feather symbol on it. "Well, if you must know, I flip a coin and call it. If I get it right, then all of my monsters with Genjutsu in their name can attack you directly this turn. If I get it wrong, all monsters on your side of the field can attack me directly next turn."
"Well then what are you waiting for?"
Takashi threw the coin into the air and a powerful breeze sent it flying over the field. "NOTHING! Tails!"
The coin slammed directly on the ground, and all of the other students cheered at the sight…
"Crap!"
…of the tails face up. Raven just stepped back once more as the three Genjutsu Masters raised their hands. In Pryo's hands appeared a powerful orb of fire, in Aqua's hands formed a beautiful ring of water, and in Zephyr's hands were multiple feathers with their quills aimed directly towards Raven. "And since I got it correctly…my Genjutsu Masters can attack you directly right now!"
Nodding to their owner, the three monsters launched their attacks directly on Raven, who yelled at the contact of the quills, screeched at the flames, and sighed as the cold water cooled him down. (RLP: 1100)
"Maybe you should give up," Takashi offered sliding another card into his hand.
"Never! Why should I? I'm Raven Valens! Heir to the Valens house!" Raven shouted as the crowd jumped back to his side. "And I've got the crowd on my side again! There's no way you can beat me!"
"Must you talk so big?" Takashi asked as he reached for his book.
"What?"
"Only the weak speak loudly," Takashi stated as he sat down opening his book. "If you really want to become strong…then stop talking about it and prove that you are strong!"
Raven clenched his fist…but he knew truth was just slapped into his face. "Maybe he's right…maybe, I do need to prove that. But not just to him or the school, I need to prove it to me…"
Everyone gasped at what happened next, Raven laid his hand over his deck and lowered his head as the multiple holograms began to disappear. Takashi just flipped to the next page in his book. "Good…he's starting to see the bigger picture."
"Man what a drag…"
"The duel wasn't even seven turns long."
"That Raven guy was rumored to be one of the best at the Atlantic Duel Academy."
"Guess you can't believe everything you hear."
"That Takashi was pretty cool."
"He's also got great style!"
Raven just walked towards Takashi, the students starting to return to their seats as the clock began to reach the end of the school day. "…Thanks…"
"Whatever…" Takashi stated as the bell rang.
Sparky just sighed loudly as the students began to walk towards the doors. "Damn it…and just when I found the book too."
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The Next Day…
"Stupid homework on the first day, didn't get past the chapter I was reading." Takashi just read his book as Raven, now without the mascara, sat next to Takashi. "Yeah, staying away from the make-up is a good start."
"Listen…that advice you gave me…I'm grateful for that," Raven stated as three familiar Ra Yellow lackeys walked up behind Takashi with a couple of banners. "Now I'm more than ready for the real dueling world."
Takashi turned his eyes towards Raven, not noticing the now red haired Ra Yellow lackeys behind him. "Master Yoh taught me that…I'll have to thank him for that later, so note to self."
"However…from now on, consider yourself to have a rival," Raven stated as he turned his head to see Takashi back into his book.
"Hmm? Did you say something?" Takashi asked as Raven's jaw dropped.
Turning around, Raven clenched his fist extremely tight. "You win this round Takashi! But next time, on or off the dueling field I'll win!"
"…Weirdo." Takashi shrugged as Raven looked at his former entourage.
"Oh yeah, looks like you got yourself a fan club too," Raven replied as Takashi just gave him a confused look.
"Fan club?" Takashi turned around to see the three Ra Yellows with their hair dyed red and with headbands that resembled Takashi's. "Oh crap!"
"Lord Takashi! We are your entourage!" The first Ra Yellow male lackey announced waving the banner with Takashi's name sowed into it. His tanned skin and baggy jeans were a definite sight on him. "I am known as Vector!"
"Pleasure ta follow you lord Takashi!" The second Ra Yellow male stated shaking Takashi's hand. His somewhat paled skin, black shorts and shaggy hair really was strange. "People call me Iruka, or otherwise, the prankster!"
"And um," The petite girl mumbled as Takashi looked at her. Her blush on her face matched her eyes, bracelets and necklace. "…you can call me Kara."
"And together we are…" Vector announced as he and Iruka raised their banners high into the classroom.
"The Takashi Team…or T-Team!" Vector and Iruka announced as Takashi lowered his head.
"How quick they are to change sides…its somewhat amazing," Raven thought as Takashi closed his book.
"Now I'll never know what happens at the end!" Takashi just threw his book to the ground and lowered his head to his desk. "And these guys might just blow my cover!"
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Vyser D: Now then, with the revision of this chapter comes some hope for people to review it. And check out the forum of this story.