Hey guys! Sorry for the long wait. I haven't had anything pop up in mind for the story so far, but now I have a few ideas and am putting them to the test. Hope you like them!! Now, without the wait, let's get on with it!!

Chapter 12:

Rivalry Unleashed: Judas vs. Shadow

Today is the day. It's been three days since Judas Kaiba issued me the challenge. I figured besides The Kaiser, this would probably be one of my back challenges I face here. Although some people would be kind of intimidated to admit they made a mistake challenging him, I'm not one of those people. I enjoy any match that's thrown in my face, until I receive one that is a life or death match. Anyway, I told them I was using my fire deck. I have a surprise for them, cause I plan on pulling a few strings to my deck. Wait til he gets a load of this. I'm preparing my deck ahead of time, cause at this rate, I doubt Shrewd will give me time to get my strategies ready for the duel after class.

"Well class, it's almost that time. In ten minutes, everyone head to the stadium. Some of you may not know, but Shadow has gotten a new challenger. Who you ask? None other than one of the top students: Judas Kaiba!" Everyone in the class started looking at the two of us. Judas was just sitting back while I everyone was talking as if this would be a bit of a challenge, but it was too easy. Judas, hearing all the talk, then spoke to defend me, which I know was not his intention.

"Guys. Come on! Shadow has been here for only a small while here and already he's become a challenging opponent to us all. No match for Kaiser, but still he is a great opponent to face. Which is exactly why I intend to put him in his place." After all that, he looked me in my eyes as if he thought this would be easy himself. You could see the fire and lightning in our eyes if you looked hard enough. After all that, not even the bell for us to get out was enough to break up us staring. Everyone left while we stood there staring. When everyone was out of the room, we said our final words before the duel and went our separate ways. We then headed to the arena behind the introduction doors. I was kind of nervous for this, but I have faced worse, or so I thought.

"You look tense. Try to loosen up." All of a sudden, my duel spirit, Nitro Warrior, appeared from behind me and walked beside me.

"Hey Nitro Warrior. Yeah, I'm kinda nervous right now, but seeing as how it's a Kaiba I'm about to face, I can't help but be excited. I just want to have fun, but also I'm kind of wondering why a Kaiba wanted to challenge me. I mean, I'm nothing special….am I?

"Would it be defined as being the kid who beat Sora, The Kaiser, one of the dueling proctors, and teamed up with his own brother and took out two of the Princetons?"

"I guess that would just about sum it all up. Thanks NW. That gave my mind a good refreshment."

"Anytime. Now, you ready to go out there and duel?"

"Yep. Let's get to it!" After those words, they were about to announce the duelists. Shrewd was the one making the announcements.

"And now! Ladies and Gentlemen!! Today's challenge is about to begin!! Now without further a due, here come the duelists! On this side, here comes the challenger!!! It's Judas Kaiba!!" Judas then walked up to the arena with a look on his face that looks like he's both in for a challenge, but yet an easy one. (One you would expect to see on Chazz's face to put an easier example out there.) And with him coming out, the crowd went wild for this dude. He is one of the top duelists in the academy. "And now on this side, is his opponent!! It's Shadow Kurosawa!!" The crowd didn't do all that much cheering for me. But hey, as I said before, it's better than being booed.

"Heh. Finally. It's my turn to put you in your place. I intend and making sure the best man will win."

"Why thank you Judas. Never thought you'd say that." Now, I'm not really one to make insults, but in this little case, I figured I'd throw someone's own words back at him. This gave him a bit of an angry look, but still focused.

"Alright! Enough talk!! Time to duel!!"
Ju: 8000Sh: 8000

"I'll make the first move! And I'll summon Krebons!!" He summoned a jester-looking being with a cybernetic look and 1200 life points.

"Whoa. I'd almost forgotten that Judas played a Psychic deck!" said Kazuya.

"And now I'll play one facedown card and end my turn."

"And now I'll start my move!!" It's my turn "I summon my Volcanic Slicer! And with 600 more points than your monster, I'll attack it!!"

"Not so fast!! I'll activate his special ability!! I pay 800 life points and I can negate an attack on him! So he is safe!!"

Ju: 7200Sh: 8000

"Whoa. Paying your own life points to keep your monster. I'll end my turn."

"And now I say we let the punishment begin. I summon my Mind Protector!!" He summoned a cybernetic yellow robot with 2200 defense points. "You're about to receive some nasty company."

"What do you………" said Shadow until he gave it some thought.

"I'll tune my Krebons to my Mind Protector!"

"Oh crud. A Synchro Summoning."

"How did you know?" He then thought about it for a minute and then just didn't care. "It doesn't matter. I Synchro Summon my Magical Android!!" He summoned a cybernetic looking woman with shield and scepter in hand and 2400 attack points. "Now attack his Volcanic Slicer!!" She released a fireball from the orb of her scepter.

Ju: 7200Sh: 7400

"I'll just end it with a facedown card and end my turn. And during my end phase, my android gives me 600 life points per Psychic monster on my field."

"Say what?!"

"It's your move."

Ju: 7800Sh: 7400

"I draw! Now I'll summon my Volcanic Blaster in defense mode!" I summoned a turret looking robot with fire on its top and 600 defense points. "My turn is done there."

"And now I draw! I summon my Telekinetic Shocker!" He played a red looking cybernetic spaceman with 1700 attack points. "And now I'll have my Telekinetic Shocker take out your blaster!!" He charged right in with and electrical aura.

"And now his ability activates! Since it was destroyed by battle, I can take one Volcanic monster from my deck and add it to the top of it."

"Hmm. He's probably preparing to use his Queen or his Doomfire again. But for Doomfire, he'd need to have out the Blaze Accelerator," Judas thought to himself. Then he began continued his turn.

"Not that it will do you any good against her. Magical Android, direct attack!!"

Ju: 7200Sh: 5000

"I'll end my turn, and with that, I'll be taking 1200 life points back please."

Ju: 8400Sh: 5000

"Now I draw! I'll summon my Volcanic Rocket!!" I summoned a burning pterodactyl-like rocket with 1900 attack points. "And now I can use his special ability. I can automatically bring out a certain spell card from my deck and add it straight to my hand."

"It's about to start," said Django.

"I'll activate my Blaze Accelerator spell card!"

"I figured as much," said Judas.

"Now I'll use it's effect to send the Volcanic Shell I drew just now and take out your Magical Android!"

"You're going to pay for that. But since you used that effect, you can't attack."

"I'll just play a facedown card and end my turn."

"And now I can begin my turn with this!! I'll summon up my Psychic Commander in attack mode!" He then summoned a robotic commander in a mini UFO with a cannon and 1400 attack points. "It's time old friend," he thought to himself. "I tune him to my Telekinetic Shocker to synchro summon my Psychic Lifetrancer!!" He then summoned up a green skinned, black long haired girl with cybernetics on her head and arm with a blue suit, two different energy spheres and 2400 attack points.

"Great. Another synchro monster."

"And this is exactly why Judas has been known as one of our top dueling students here," said Kaiser.

"He's about to get hit big time!" exclaimed Mr. Shrewd. "MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"