This is it. I thought as the helicopter traveled closer to the island. Duel Academy I'm finally here. Getting settled in was pretty easy. Classes didn't start for a few days in order to make sure everyone got situated. I hopped on one of the beds and realized they were better than mine at home and the rooms themselves weren't bad either. They were pretty spacious and comfortable to say the least. That's when my mind drifted to Ike. I hadn't seen him since we registered. I sure hope he hasn't found himself in any hard duels. I thought with a laugh. That's when the door opened and a kid walked in. He's pretty average looking. I thought. Average face, average hair average height. But I bet he has an awesome name.
"Hey" I said with a friendly smile "I guess we're roommates now; I'm Ron what's your name?
"John Smith" He replied.
Dammit I thought face-palming. Then I realized he was average as he looked I could swear I'd seen him before.
"Have we met before?" I asked him.
"No this is the first time I've ever seen you" John replied.
Then it hit me. "Wait I know I saw you at the entrance exams; you're that kid who destroyed the proctor with Lightsworns." "They put you in Ra?"
"Ya you know how it is, Obelisk is for kids with money" he said with this weird twitch in his eye.
"Haha I made a similar joke" I said trying to act like that twitch didn't bother me but I figured it was just a nervous tick. "Anyway you were really good with those Lightsworns and I wanna see em in action. Duel me.
"Ya alright" said John.
So we went outside to the back of the dorm. He used the generic academy duel disk while I still used the battle city one. He's so average. I thought again.
"I'll start" [4000/4000] I said drawing my first card. "and I summon Destiny Hero Diamond Dude in attack mode.(1400/1600)" I better not let him in on Diamond Dudes Powers Just yet. I thought. "I play a card facedown and I'll call it a turn."
Now let's see what you're made of. I thought.
"My turn" John yelled. "Draw." "I summon Garoth, Lightsworn Warrior"(1850/1300). "Next I activate the field spell Realm of Light." "Now Garoth attack Diamond Dude."
"Not so fast!" I exclaimed "I activate a trap card: D-Chain." "This card becomes an equip card when activated and the equip monster gains 500 attack so I'm equipping it to my Diamond Dude" (1900/1600).[4000/3950] "It gets better because when a monster is destroyed by another that's equipped with D-Chain, the destroyed monster's owner takes another 500 points of damage"[4000/3450].
"That was a pretty good move" said John rather nonchalantly and blandly. "I'll put down 2 face-downs and end my turn.
"My turn then" I said "and I activate the effect of Diamond Dude. With it I can flip the top card on my deck over and if it happens to be a normal spell I can send it to my grave and use it next turn."
Nice I thought as I smiled at the spell I flipped it over and sent it to the grave.
"Next I'll attack you directly with Diamond Dude!" I yelled.
"I activate my traps" said John "Pyro Clock of Destiny chained with Glorious Illusion."
"Destiny?" I said "but that's my shtick."
"It gets better" He said totally copying my catch phrase at that point. "Glorious Illusion allows me to summon a Lightsworn monster from my graveyard so Garoth (1850/1300) comes back to the field. Next Pyro Clock of Destiny kicks in. It increases the turn count by one since that means a turn ended then I have to send two cards to the graveyard from my deck due to the effects of my Glorious Illusion and because I sent cards from my deck to the grave I'm now allowed to place as many Shine Counters on my Realm of Light as cards I sent to the grave and that's two. Now every Lightsworn monster on the field gains 100 attack points for each Shine Counter on my Realm of Light making Garoth (2050/1300) stronger than Diamond Dude."
"No" I exclaimed entering my Main Phase 2 [3950/3450]. "I activate Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your Realm of Light."
"I activate the second effect of my Realm. What I can do is remove those two Shine Counters to negate and destroy your card."
"Fine" I said "I play one card face down and end my turn."
"My turn" He exclaimed as I grew nervous "I summon Aurkus Lightsworn Druid(1200/1800) in attack mode". "Now Garoth and Aurkus attack him directly!"
"Go Negate Attack!" I yelled.
"I send four cards to my Graveyard ,and draw two cards due to my Garoths effect and the two Lightsworns I sent to the grave now end my turn" said John.
"My turn and I activate the effect of the card I sent to the graveyard last turn with Diamond Dude". "Go Final Destiny!" I yelled. "Now usually I would have to ditch five cards to make this card work but since I used Diamond Dude I don't have to discard a thing and I can destroy every card on the field!"
"I remove two Shine Counters to keep my Realm of Light on the field"
This kid does not let up. I thought. If I'm going to win this I gotta step it up but theres not much I can do right now. "I summon Destiny Hero Doom Lord in defense mode!"(600/800). Well it can't get too much worse than this.
"My go" John said but this time an eerie smile came on his face and then the creepy twitch again. "Now since I have 4 different Lightsworn monsters I can special summon this; so come out Judgment Dragon!(3000/2800).
Crap! I thought again. I am in no position to fight this thing but lucky for me there's nothing more stimulating than duel where everything goes against you.
"Judgment Dragons also got a special ability" said John his twitch worsening. If I give up a thousand life points [3950/2450] I can destroy every card on the field other than my dragon.
Double Crap! I thought.
"Now direct attack Judgment Dragon!"[950/2450].
"My turn" I said trying to think up a plan. "and I activate my own field spell Clock Tower Prison!" "This is how it works each time one of your turns goes by I get a counter and when I get enough of them well let's just call it a surprise." "Next I activate the spell card Monster Reborn and with that I summon Doom Lord (600/800) back to the field in attack mode and summon Destiny Hero Captain Tenacious in defense mode."
"How do you plan on destroying my dragon with that?" asked John
"I don't you see as long as Doom Lord remains in attack mode I can remove from play one of your monsters for two of your turns as long as I don't attack for the turn!" I exclaimed.
"No my dragon!" yelled John his eye twitching more. "Fine I'll summon Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner (1000/1000) to destroy your Doom Lord!"[550/2450].
The more I got this kid riled up the more he started to twitch but when I removed his dragon he got this weird evil look in his eye that wasn't going away. It was kind of really freaking me out. "My go and I'll put a face down and summon back Doom Lord in defense mode with Captain Tenacious' effect."
"My turn and I activate the effect of my Lightsworn Summoner so by discarding a card from my hand to the grave I can summon Shire Lightsworn Spirit (400/1400) from my deck and I also normal summon Jain Lightsworn Paladin(1800/1200)." "Now all three of you direct attack!"
"I activate a trap" I yelled "Eternal Dread: since my Clock Tower Prison has been on the field for two of your turns I put two counters on it and now Eternal Dread lets me add two more and when my clock has four counters I no longer take battle damage."
"Your monsters still die!" said John harshly "and now I end my turn and send eight more cards from my deck to the grave."
"My turn" I yelled
"Now Judgment Dragon comes back to me" said John.
"I know" I retaliated "that's why I activate Misfortune!" "With this I can deal half the attack of one of your monsters on the field as damage to you"(550/500).
"Fine my go DRAW!" he said "and I activate Rain of Mercy so now we both regain a thousand life points [1550/1500]". "Next I activate Judgment Dragons effect and give up a thousand life points [1550/500] to destroy all cards on the field except my dragon again.
"Now you've unleashed the beast; when you destroy Clock Tower Prison with four or more counters I can summon Destiny Hero Dreadmaster from my deck and when he's summoned this way I can bring back from the graveyard two Destiny Heroes so come back Captain Tenacious(800/800) and Doom Lord(600/800) plus Dreadmaster's attack and defense are equal to the combined attack of the destiny heroes on my field! (1400/1400)."
"None of that matters!" yelled John "because I activate Charge of The Light Brigade so by sending the top three cards on my deck to the grave I can add a Lightsworn to my hand so I now summon Ehreren Lightsworn Monk (1600/1000). "Both of you attack his monsters and end the duel."
"Sorry but that won't be happening because when Dreadmaster is summoned by the effect of Clock Tower Prison on that turn I don't take damage of any kind and Destiny Heroes cannot be destroyed."
"No"! exclaimed John knowing what happened next.
"Yes and since you have Lightsworn Monk and Judgment Dragon on the field you have to send to the graveyard a total of seven cards and you only have six left so since you didn't beat me this turn you lose with no cards left to draw."
"That was a good game" said John still twitching a little.
"Yea" I said awkwardly shaking his hand. That kid really freaks me out and now I have to room with him I thought. But maybe I'll be fine so long as I don't get him riled up or duel him ever again. I looked off into the sunset wondering if Ike's roommates were a little more normal.