Thanks to all who read the last chapter hopefully you'll like this one.

Without further ado

WHY

Duel 3:

THE BURNING PHOENIX VS THE FUTURE HEROES

Duel Academy, a school set up for the next generation of duellists by Kaiba Seto himself. Over the course of three years, students will learn new tactics to use in their duels and will hopefully be picked by corporate sponsors to take part in the profession duelling circuit.

Notable Employees and Students

Principal: Miyagi Ishiko/ Vice-Principal: Wakayama Hibine

List of Dorm Heads

Osiris Red Male

Okinawa Oshiro

Osiris Red Female

Ehime Chouko

Ra Yellow Male

Aomori Sato

Ra Yellow Female

Kirijo Hanae

Obelisk Blue Male

Nakamura Raito

Obelisk Blue Female

Aomori Emiko

Current Kaiser: Fukushima Yuki

Welcome Students

Signed

Miyagi Ishiko

MIYAGI ISHIKO

Sora read the cover of the little leaflet that they had received upon docking, he noticed a list of several more people on the other side and decided to leave it for another day. As he left the boat he noticed the welcoming committee, which consisted of four desks. Each one had four people with clipboards sitting behind it and six boxes filled with large briefcases. Sora went straight towards the desk with the shortest queue.

"Red...what the hell do you mean red?" screamed Takeru from a two queue's down from Sora "Do I like look like some dropout boy to you!"

The person Takeru was shouting at looked frozen, unable to calm down the angry Takeru. The person was a first year obelisk blue named Nagasaki Reika, who had agreed to help with handing out the equipment for her incoming classmates, she had black hair, which she had in a ponytail, odd yellow eyes and was wearing black framed glasses. Luckily for Reika, Kenchiro arrived in time to quell the anger of Takeru by dragging him off towards the Osiris red dorm. Sora looked at this oddly before turning to desk in front of him. A black haired girl, with blue eyes wearing a Ra yellow uniform, a girl Sora remembered from the exam, was sitting behind the desk.

Flashback

Half an hour later, Sora had managed to make his way into the stadium. After a few minutes all the duellists had been ushered into a large hall like area. Then the duellists were split into four different groups and brought into rooms were they were all given an exam paper.

"Wow these questions are easy" thought Sora "A,B,D,D,C,C,A,F,G,G,L"

Sora filled in the answers within an hour of starting the exam. He looked around and saw another five people had finished their exams as well. One was a guy in a purple t-shirt and jeans. He had long black hair which was in a braid, his eyes were blue. Another was a girl with black hair and blue eyes; she was dressed in a brown coat and blue skirt.

End

"Um excuse me? What's your name?" the Girl asked looking at her clipboard.

"I'm Soubou Sora" Sora replied, the girl checked the clipboard and took a large briefcase from the box.

"You're in Ra Yellow, floor 4 room 13" the girl said before taking a map from under her seat "Here's a map in case you get lost along the way to the dorm"

"Thanks" Sora replied, he turned to see Daichi standing behind him, briefcase in hand.

Daichi's eyes met the girl's eyes, and suddenly Sora felt very tense "Hello Daichi" the girl said.

"Good day miss Emiko" Daichi replied in a monotone voice.

After a few seconds of silence Sora and Daichi left for their dorm. As they left Emiko looked sadly after Daichi.

"What the hell did you think you were doing!" roared Kenchiro as he pulled Takeru towards the beach house that would be their home for the next year if they were lucky.

"They put me in red! RED!" Takeru shouted flailing his arms around.

"Other than the fact that you're descended from Bulls, what's the problem?" Kenchiro asked as Takeru continued to flail about.

"Red's get no respect! I'll never b-"began Takeru.

"Think of it like this." Kenchiro cut in "If you are as great a duellist as you say you are, you should have no problem becoming the Kaiser around here, imagine what they would think if a red were Kaiser, they'd never disrespect you again"

"I-if I become the new Kaiser I'll command the respect or fear of everyone is what you're sayin'...right?"

"Exactly" Kenchiro confirmed.

"All right I'm in. What happened to you? You've won like seven international tournaments, how'd you only get into red?" Takeru asked genuinely confused.

"I fell asleep halfway through the written exam, I had ten or so red bulls the day before and hadn't slept for more than two minutes" replied Kenchiro shrugging.

"Like I'd believe that crap!" retorted Takeru.

"I don't care if you don't believe it" Kenchiro replied walking towards the red dorm.

After a few seconds Takeru shook his he head and shouted"Wait up!" as he began running after Kenchiro.

The red dorm was a large motel beside the sea, it had about ten floors, the ground floor housing toilets, the dorm heads room and a dining hall. It was mostly cream in colour, though each door and the roof was bright red. Kenchiro and Takeru walked up the red stairs to the third floor and walked down until they got to the tenth room.

"Here it is" Kenchiro said "Room 3-10, so where's your room?"

"Right in front of you" replied Takeru opening the door.

"Okay, I guess we're rooming together"

The room would be pretty large, if it were for one person. There were a total of three beds, one under the window and a bunk bed up against the wall to right of the room, beside the bunk bed was a large wardrobe. Across from the bunk bed was one desk with one chair, one computer, one lamp, and one small T.V.

"I get the window bed" Kenchiro said throwing his bags onto the bed, he opened the briefcase he had received and took out a red blazer; he replaced his gray coat with this blazer.

"I don't care where you sleep" replied Takeru walking over to the bunk bed, he climbed up to the top bunk and emptied his briefcase; he took the PDA and the completely red duel disk, he preceded to throw his red blazer onto the ground.

"Suit yourself" Kenchiro said as he shoved his PDA into his pocket and replaced the duel disk on his arm with the completely red academy duel disk "C'mon we have like ten minutes to get to the main building"

"So...what happened between you and that girl?" Sora asked as he and Daichi trudged towards their dorm.

"Emiko...I don't want to talk about it" replied Daichi.

"I get it you two had a bad break up, right?"

"No"

"Alright"

The two duellists walked on in silence until they came to their dorm. It was a large hotel-like building which was green and golden in colour. There was a large statue of a golden dragon-like creature.

"The Winged Dragon of Ra" Sora said whistling.

"So this is our home for the next year" Daichi said smiling "Seems like my style"

The entered the building to find a lobby full of students filing around them trying to locate their friends or trying to get to their rooms or just trying to leave. There were various rooms on this floor, Sora counted two dining halls, five toilets, a large room full of arcade games and an elevator. The two decided to take the stairs up to the fourth floor.

"Well this is my room" Sora said walking over to the thirteenth room "Where are you?"

"I'm in this room as well" Daichi said opening the door.

The left wall was lined with three beds and a wardrobe, beside the first bed was a bathroom. On the last bed which was nearest the window had a few bags and an emptied briefcase. Against the opposite wall were three desks, each had a laptop and lamp on them, and chairs beside them.

"It seems as though our roommate has already been here" Daichi said emptying his briefcase and taking out his new yellow blazer, a yellow duel disk and a PDA, he left his bags on the middle bed.

"A shame we didn't get to meet him" Sora said doing the same as Daichi.

"Let's get going" Daichi said pulling the zip on his coat up.

Sora thought about zipping up his coat, he decided to leave it down. After they were finished Daichi and Sora left the Ra Yellow Building.

Principal Miyagi read through her speech as the students filed into the duel arena/assembly hall. She was a woman of about forty, with pink hair, and red/pink eyes, she was wearing a female student uniform which was maroon in colour.

After all the students had settled down Miyagi began her speech "Welcome students both new and old. For our first years this will be a wonderful new experience, for our second years it'll be a wonderful old experience and for out third years it'll be like hell" she paused here for a breath "Now for those of you who are new here, there are a few places out of bounds, the volcano behind the school is always out of bounds as is a section of the forest near the obelisk blue male dorm, the main building and the dorms are also out of bounds to people in a different dorm or of the opposite sex after half ten at night. Finally after last year's graduation duel Kagoshima Tsuyoshi has now become the second best duellist in the school and Tokushima Yui is now the third best for those of you who missed the duel, your class assignments have been sent to your PDA and hopefully you won't see too much of me, now enjoy your last free day before the work begins"

Sora looked confused "Shouldn't there be more to this?"

"Nope" Daichi replied flicking through a newspaper "Let's get going"

"Okay" Sora replied walking towards the exit on his way out he bumped into Kenchiro. He hit the ground with a loud smack.

"Sorry about that" Kenchiro said helping Sora to his feet.

"No problem" Sora said dusting his clothes off "Good to see you again"

"You too" replied Kenchiro "Have you seen Shido anywhere?"

"No, I wonder where he is" Sora said scratching his head.

"Well I have to go find a friend of mine I'll see you later." Kenchiro replied slipping his hand into his pocket.

"Alright, I'll see you later"

Kenchiro walked down the stairs to Takeru who was waiting looking at his PDA "Took you long enough"

"I just needed to borrow something from Sora" Kenchiro replied pulling out a PDA "So let's go to the dorm and wait"

22:29

"Damn it!" roared Sora flinging his bags around the room "How could I have lost it already?"

"You're disorganised is why I'd assume you lost it" Daichi replied, he was sitting by his desk reading a small book.

"So...what's your book about?" Sora asked giving up looking for his PDA.

"It's a poetry book" Daichi answered he flicked through the pages, suddenly his PDA began beeping, he pulled it out and read the message "I think I've found you're PDA"

"Where is it?" asked Sora.

"The duel arena"

22:45

Takeru smirked as he stood in the shadows of the arena. He didn't know how he'd convinced Kenchiro to help him bring Sora down a peg by beating him, but he'd done it and now Sora would be completely destroyed. Kenchiro stood waiting in the middle of the duel arena, his eyes closed. Sora and Daichi walked down the aisles finally reaching the raised platform where Principal Miyagi stood giving her speech. As Sora walked onto the stage the lights turned on above them and Kenchiro's eyes snapped open.

"Kenchiro, you stole my PDA?" Sora asked shocked.

"It was the only way to get you to come here and duel me" Kenchiro replied walking to the other end of the platform and activating his duel disk.

"You could've just asked me when we met up earlier" Sora said activating his duel disk.

"This works better for me" Kenchiro replied "Now let's get on with it!"

"DUEL!" they shouted in unison.

(S:4000)(K:4000)

"I'll go first" Sora said drawing a card (H:6)

"Be careful Sora" Daichi said "He uses a special one of a kind deck"

"How special could it be, especially compared to the Future heroes?" Sora replied scanning his hand.

"You mean the archetype made up of cards that are so easy to get they make Kuriboh look like the Egyptian Gods in terms of rarity?" Daichi retorted "Just don't underestimate him"

"Whatever, he won't win against my deck, now come on out Future Hero Nitro Fighter (4/Fire/Warrior/Effect/Tuner/2000/0)(A man in red robotic armor appeared in front of Sora)" Sora grinned as his monster appeared beside him.

"Is that all you can do?" Kenchiro asked smirking "I'll win in no time if you keep this up"

"I set a card and end my turn" Sora replied as a large hologram card appeared in front of him. (H:4)

(S:4000)(K:4000)

"My turn" Kenchiro said drawing a card (H:6)

"Let's see the power of this one of a kind deck of yours" Sora said laughing "Is it a Kuriboh deck?"

"No, it's a Phoenix deck" replied Kenchiro "and I'll show you its power, first I activate card rotator which at the cost of discarding a card changes the position of all monsters on your field"

"Crap" Sora grunted as his monster knelt down and immediately exploded into pixels "My monster is automatically destroyed if it is in face-up attack position"

"I noticed" replied Kenchiro "now I discard the monster Servant of the Burning Phoenix in order to use its special effect"

"What does it do?" asked Daichi as Kenchiro placed the card in his graveyard.

"It resurrects a monster with the word Phoenix in its name that is in the graveyard, and I'll be bringing back the card I discarded for Card Rotator" Kenchiro answered placing the monster on the field "Say hello to my Knight of the Burning Phoenix (4/Fire/warrior/Effect/1750/1600)"

"I have never seen that monster before" Sora stated blandly as a man in golden armor with large burning wings a sword in its left hand and a shield in its right appeared.

"That's why it's called a one of a kind deck" replied Kenchiro "Now my Knight attack him directly!"

Sora grunted as the Knight flew over and slashed him with a fiery sword "Gah...well done" (S:2250)

"I place a card face-down. You may go" replied Kenchiro as a card appeared in front of him. (H:1)

(S:2250)(K:4000)

"Sora don't rush in this time" Daichi said "Build up a defence"

Sora drew a card listening to Daichi's advice (H:5)"I summon Future Hero Stone Gardna (3/Earth/Warrior/Effect/Tuner/0/2500) in defence mode"

"Alright Sora" Daichi said "Now try to faze him out"

"Uh I'm standing right here just so you know" Kenchiro replied.

"I play two cards face-down" Sora said as two cards appeared before him "Your turn" (H:2)

(S:2250)(K:4000)

"Are you alright Sora?" Kenchiro asked drawing a card (H:2) "You seem to be getting rather desperate, it's only the fourth turn"

"I'm fine" Sora replied "Just trying to figure out a way to destroy your monster"

Kenchiro smirked "I activate Heavy storm which wipes the field of all our traps" as he said this his face-down mirror force was absorbed into a large tornado.

"Darn it!" thought Sora as his face-down reinforcements, negate attack and magic cylinder were absorbed into the tornado.

"That could have been bad for me" Kenchiro said setting a card "I place one card face-down, your turn" (H:0)

(S:2250)(K:4000)

"Draw" Sora said drawing a card (H:3) "Future Hero Rabid Tiger, I could definitely use him here!"

"Come on Sora, let's see you destroy my monster!" Kenchiro said as Sora placed a card on his duel disk.

"I summon Future Hero Rabid Tiger (3/Light/Warrior/Effect/1700/1000) and now I'll tune my Stone Gardna to my Rabid Tiger!" Sora shouted as his stone Gardna turned into three rings and surrounded Rabid Tiger "Slumbering Giant of Earth, Come forth and put an end to this Havoc, synchro summon, smash, Future Hero Gaia Guardian(6/Earth/Warrior/Synchro/Effect/2000/3000)"A light shone through the rings and from them emerged a giant man made of rocks appeared.

"Let's see if you can take my Knight with your Synchro monster" Kenchiro said staring at the large rock-man in front of him.

"Go Gaia Guardian! World shaping fist!" roared Sora as his monster punched the Knight with its large fist; the knight in return just pushed the fist off of him.

"As you can see my monster isn't easy to beat" Kenchiro said as his life points fell (K: 3750)

"Why wasn't your monster destroyed?" Daichi asked arching an eyebrow.

"My monster can't be destroyed by battle" answered Kenchiro "Happy?"

"Inherently so" replied Daichi.

"I end my turn" Sora said gesturing for Kenchiro to make a move.(H:2)

(S:2250)(K:3750)

"Here it goes" Kenchiro said drawing a card "My signature monster already this is too easy"(H:1)

"Hurry up" Sora said "I haven't got all day"

"Yeah well I have!" Kenchiro replied "I sacrifice my Knight to summon my signature card True Burning Phoenix (6/Fire/Pyro/Effect/2200/1200)" A large bird made of flames shot out of the Knight of the Burning Phoenix; it flew all the way around the arena before stopping behind Kenchiro.

"Show off" grunted Sora.

"True Burning Phoenix attack! Wing of Incineration!" roared Kenchiro as his monster flew into the torso of Gaia guardian, who exploded into shards of rocks one of which slammed into Kenchiro "GAH!" (K:1550)

"What happened?" Daichi asked Sora.

"My monster has a special ability, you see when he is destroyed by battle you take damage equal to the attack points of the monster that destroyed it!" Sora (S:2050) shouted as Kenchiro recovered from the unexpected life point damage.

"Well played Sora" Kenchiro replied "It's your turn" (H:0)

(S:2050)(K:1550)

"The whole duel rides on this draw" Sora ripped the card from his duel disk his eyes closed (H:3) "Yes! I summon Future Hero Dread Hitman (4/Dark/Warrior/Effect/1600/1400)(A black haired man in a tuxedo, with sunglasses appeared in front of Sora. He held a briefcase in his right hand)"

"Hm" Kenchiro smirked.

"Next I activate his effect by depleting my LP by 1000 I can-"

"Let me just stop you there , I activate Ring of Destruction to destroy my True Burning Phoenix and deal damage equal to its attack to both of us" Kenchiro said as a black ring appeared on his monsters neck, it violently exploded sending flames everywhere.

"GRAH!" Sora shouted as he flew back onto the ground (S:0)

"Hm" mumbled Kenchiro (K:450).

"How are did you manage to keep 150LP?" Daichi asked as flames surrounded him.

"On the turn my True Burning Phoenix is destroyed all damage dealt to me is halved" Kenchiro replied walking over to Sora "Are you all right?"

"Yeah" Sora said getting up.

(S:0)(K:450)

"Here's your PDA" Kenchiro said "Sorry I stole it to make you come and duel me, I just wanted a fun and quiet duel"

"Don't worry about it" Sora replied taking his PDA from Kenchiro "It led to a pretty intense duel; I thought I was going to win for sure"

"You nearly did, that's the closest anyone's ever gotten"

"Really?"

"No"

"Sora, we've got to get back to the dorm now" Daichi said walking towards the exit "You should probably get back to your dorm too"

"I have to wait for someone" Kenchiro replied.

"Alright well see you tomorrow" Sora said as he and Daichileft.

When they had gone Kenchiro whistled aloud "Did you enjoy that?"

"No" came Takeru's gruff reply "I wanted him on the ground begging for mercy"

Kenchiro sighed "You're way to melodramatic"

"Whatever, let's get back to the dorm."

As Daichi and Sora walked on the fields of grass on their way back to their dorm Sora stopped and looked around him and smiled. He looked at the trees, their branches fluttering in the wind, he looked down at the grass and his smiled grew.

"If all the duels this year are going to be like that I need to shape up" Sora said shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Maybe, or maybe he's the toughest here you'll face this year" Daichi replied.

"Yeah mayb-wait, what the..!" shouted Sora searching through his pockets "I-I dropped my PDA!"

"Damn it Sora!" Daichi roared "Stop losing your damn PDA!"

They began searching in the grass for the PDA once more.

Card of the Day

Attribute: Earth

Future Hero Gaia Guardian

Level: 6

Warrior/Effect/Synchro

Future Hero Stone Gardna + 1 or more non-tuner Future Hero(es)

When this card is destroyed by battle deal damage to your opponent equal to the attack of the monster that destroyed it.

Atk:2000/Def:3000

Well I hoped you enjoyed this chapter, I tried to get it out as quick as possible before the period of long updates.

Next time,

Daichi: Sora I challenge you to a duel!

Sora: Nope, I have lo-ads of homework.

Daichi: Kenchiro?

Kenchiro: Sorry I have my hands full with this idiot.

?: I'll duel you.

Daichi: Alright let's do this!

NEXT TIME

Desperation Duel: THE ROOMMATE

Mizuki: Kick his ass Daichi!