Do No Harm (T.J.)

Hello again my reader friends. Time for a couple of filler chapters before more plot happens. Also we're meeting some of our supporting characters this chapter, so there's that. This chapter was pretty much completely written by me, but we'll be back to writing together next week. But you're not here to read my ramblings, you're here for card games and self inserts right? Because that's what this is about! Enjoy or don't enjoy the chapter at your leisure. Feel free to pop a review on up there if you'd like. Or don't if you don't want to, no pressure.

T.J. walked along a long path on academy island. The one that lead to the Slifer Red dorm. He carried his single suitcase containing his remaining wardrobe. His one remaining case was lighter than either of his prior two had been the day before. Not being a Ra meant he couldn't really wear his Yellow clothes. He was left with a few of his black, gray and brown shirts, and a few sets of jeans on top of that. As he finally got a good look at the Red dorm peeking around some trees, he found that it was a bit less... He didn't actually know what he was expecting with the dorm, but it wasn't this. Everything was completely different from the Yellow dorm. Shoddy, dusty and dirty. The place looked like a wing of some kind of unfinished motel. It even had outdoor catwalks just to reach the upstairs rooms. He continued his approach with a sigh. 'So much for the life of luxury.' The closer he got to the dorm, the more the quality of the place seemed to chip away. He half expected it to fall apart when he made it to the base of the building. Though, maybe he was being a bit harsh on the place. Among other things, he would at least not have a scary sword owning roommate this time. At least he hoped that would be the case. He looked around the rooms, finding that his must not have been on the ground floor. As he ascended the staircase to the catwalk he passed another student with strikingly red eyes. Almost as Red as those of a certain dragon monster.

Neither of them spoke up or even greeted one another. T.J. noticed the shorter red eyed student actually seemed to shy away from him. T.J. didn't want to trouble him, so he walked onward up the stairs. Finally, after passing one other door, he found the room with the right number. At this point, perhaps at the worst possible moment, T.J. remembered what Ran had said, about the roaches and the spiders and the... Had he mentioned spiders? Because T.J. was sure thinking it pretty loudly right now. With an anxious and dry swallow, he opened the door to his next new room. Surprisingly, the room was very tidy. Not as clean as the Ra student's room, but cleaner than the rest of the building looked. He'd lucked out! Maybe he'd just get a neat freak after all. As he looked around his new accommodations, he noticed, -surprisingly late one might add- that his new roommate was nowhere to be found. If he'd learned the scheduling right, there were no classes at the moment. He did notice that the bottom bunk was still warm, so someone had been there recently. Maybe he was bunked with that red eyed kid who he passed on the way there. This theory was quickly disproved, he found that all of the clothes in the closet were those of a female student. This bothered him a little. He wasn't exactly the best around girls he didn't know. He hated to repeat himself, but this was still going to be a long year. As he explored his new tiny living space, he found something that was a little unsettling to him.

A lot of medical books. 'Yep' He thought. 'The new roommate is just as crazy as the last one.' Regardless, It would still be a little while before his next class, and he thought the best use of his time would be to meet his new neighbors. Or dormmates, he didn't know what to call the other Slifers. He'd probably even find his new roommate hanging around. He changed into his new set of Red clothes and set his Duel Disk on the desk, assuming he probably wouldn't be needing it just to look around. He noticed a few things the instant he'd left his room. Firstly, that red eyed kid from before was down on ground level, looking rather terrified and backing toward the dorm. Secondly, there was an Obelisk student standing not too far in front of him, with a cocky smirk running across his left cheek. His hair was a little long, black and seemed to jut out toward the end of a few locks. "Alright slacker, I saw that card you pulled earlier today, and I'm here for it." The Blue demanded, taking a step toward the much shorter student. In response, the red eyed kid -T.J. really needed to find something else to call him soon- took a few more hurried steps back. If he'd remembered correctly, the card shop had gotten some cards in that day, mostly some older ones. He pondered for a moment what such a top notch duelist would even want with most old cards, a lot of them weren't that good these days.

"But I need that card for my deck!" The red eyed student pleaded. "I had to buy so many packs to get it!" This seemed to provoke the Obelisk to begin stepping closer again. This was enough to spark a reaction out of T.J. "Hey!" Is what he would have said, had someone else not shouted it first. The Blue student stopped, as a brown haired girl in a Slifer uniform stepped forward from one of the lower doors of the dorm. "Please leave him be. He earned his card fair and square, you can't take it." She stated, she had a tinge of hesitance in her voice. "And what are you going to do if I don't?" He asked, approaching the scared student and grabbing him by the collar of his shirt. The girl stepped forward, raising her arm. "Then I'll have to d-duel some sense into you." She stuttered, her Duel Disk extending and lighting up, line by line. The Blue laughed. "Oh is that a challenge?" He asked, releasing the Slifer, leaving him to fall to the hard dirt. "I accept. I hope you know that when you lose, I'm taking your deck, and throwing it off the cliff." He threatened as his own Duel Disk flickered to life. The girl frowned at the idea of her hard earned cards being tossed to the wind, but she wasn't about to let someone else get bullied out of their own cards. "Fine." She mumbled. Two holographic projectors flew from the students' Duel Disks. "Ladies first." The Blue teased, drawing his five cards from his Duel Disk, leaving the girl to draw six. A frown that seemed to lack any confidence crossed her face. "I'll set two cards face down, and then I'll set a monster."

The cards materialized on her side of the field. "And I'll end my turn." She stated blandly, bringing a smile to the Obelisk's face. "Let me show you how a real duelist starts a duel!" The Blue began, plucking one card from his hand. "I'll start by summoning Fabled Raven!" On his side of the field, a monster rose from the ground. a man garbed in black with lavender colored skin, blades adorning it's arms. "And then I'll activate card destruction! Now we both discard our entire hands, and draw the same number of cards!" He sent all the cards from his hand to his graveyard, forcing the girl to do the same. "And one of those cards I discarded happened to be the Fabled Cerburrel!" He announced, the hologram of a small three-headed dog being lead by a small demon-like creature. "Next I'll activate Raven's effect, I can discard any number of cards from my hand, and he gains a level and four hundred attack points for each one!" As he sent one more card from his hand to the graveyard, the blades on the monster's arms seemed to jut outward. "And I discarded my Fabled Krus, allowing me to summon one level four or lower Fabled monster from my graveyard, and I'm choosing my Fabled Grimro." Yet another monster appeared on his side of the field, this time an angel, garbed in black feathers that matched her wings. "And then I'll activate Fires of Doomsday!" The girl watched on, the Blue's turn didn't seem like it was ever going to end. Two small black and blue creatures made of fire filled the rest of his field. "And lastly, it's time for a little bit of synchro magic! I'll be giving up my Cerburrel, Grimro and tokens to summon-"

He began, his monsters rose into the air only to be enveloped by a wall of light. "Fabled Valkyrus!" A man covered in red, black and gold armor rose exploded from the wall of light, stretching it's wings as it slowly drifted down to the ground. "Now, I think we've waited long enough! Let's see what we've got! Raven, Destroy her monster!" The monster raised it's arms, the blades that jutted from them glinting in the sunlight, before charging into the card, rending a rip through it. An image of a black cat flashed to life, it's eyes glowed Red before a transparent card glowed behind it. A trap card. "That was my Cat of Ill Omen, when this card is flipped, I can add one trap card to the top of my deck!" The girl announced, a card from her deck sinking into the Duel Disk before coming back out at the top of her deck. The Blue shook his head. "No amount of traps are going to help you!" He growled, agitated. "Valkyrus! Attack her directly!" He ordered. The fallen angel lifted it's hands above it's head, gathering a ball of light before throwing it at the girl, dealing a devastating blow to her life points. They clicked down to five thousand and one hundred. As the turns passed, T.J. had walked down the stairs to the side of the red eyed student, who still sat on the ground. "Are you alright dude?" He asked, extending his hand to help him up. He blinked for a moment before offering his own hand. T.J. helped him to his feet before turning his attention back to the duel. "She might be in trouble there." He commented. His shorter dormmate nodded. "Jack's a strong duelist. He's been picking on everyone who isn't a Blue or a Yellow all day. I don't know about Saiya though, she hasn't left her room since her last class." He added, brushing himself off. As the dust finally cleared from the attack, Saiya stood shielding her eyes. The holograms might be fake, but the dirt they kicked up was not.

Jack laughed. "Your turn slacker." Saiya drew her new trap card from her deck. "I'll set one card face down, and then I'll activate Bad Reaction to Simochi." She announced, the hologram of her face-down card raising. From the artwork of the card, several ethereal arms crept. They floated idly yet restlessly, ready to do their jobs. "As long as this card is on the field, any life points that you would gain are taken away from you instead!" She began, raising her voice to a slightly more confident tone. "Then I'll set a monster!" She continued. "I end my turn." Jack smirked as he drew his next card. Another slacker who's deck couldn't match their words. "Let's keep this shame train rolling then!" He seemed to be enjoying this a bit too much. "I'll activate the effect of the Fabled Nozoochee in my hand, to discard one fabled monster to special summon him!" He began. "And the card I discarded was The Fabled Ganashia, and when he's discarded, I can special summon him!" He continued, the holograms of a bipedal elephant, and a rather flat snake wearing a helmet appeared on the field, both accompanied by two small demons. "If you liked my first synchro, then you'll love my next one!" He exclaimed, his monsters raising, much like the others before.

"With my Fabled Raven, Nozoochee and Ganashia, I will bring forth the mighty, the ancient, ANCIENT SACRED WYVERN!" He cheered to himself. The wall of light shattered as soon as it appeared to reveal a massive white dragon, long streams of Yellow hair flowing off of it's head. "And when your life points are lower than mine, my Wyvern gains the difference!" The monster became cloaked in a transparent veil of light, raising it's already impressive twenty one hundred attack points to an unimaginable five thousand! "Now get ready to say goodbye to your deck!" He laughed, pointing at her face-down monster. "Valkyrus, do your thing!" He commanded again, and the monster obeyed, once again gathering a mighty light ball in it's hands. As it threw it, Saiya smiled for the first time in the duel. The hologram of the card exploded in a marvelous blast, and was replaced by a pinkish blob. "What the?" Jack questioned. There was no way any monster she could have just set could survive that attack. "You just attacked my Marshmallon!" She announced. The light seemed to swirl inside of the smiling pink creature. It expanded before finally throwing the ball back at it's attacker's controller. Jack recoiled as the hard light swept over his body, searing his life points down to seven thousand. The veil around the Wyvern seemed to decrease in intensity as it's attack fell to four thousand, leaving Jack with a scowl on his face. "When you attack Marshmallon, you take one thousand damage, and Marshmallon can't be destroyed by battle. So I'm safe."

Jack shook his head. "Not for long." He chuckled. "I'll activate Raigeki!" He triumphantly shouted. "Now every monster on your side of the field is destroyed!" A circle of dark clouds seemed to hover above Saiya's side of the field, before a hail of lightning came down, destroying her monster. "Next turn, you're toast slacker." His confident smirk returned to his face. "Your move." Saiya drew what could have been her last card, but fortunately for her, she drew the last card she needed. "I set one card face-down..." She began, her voice trailing off toward the end. "I end my turn." She mumbled, she was not one to like hurting someone's feelings, but she would be happy that this Obelisk was about to get what was coming to him. "Shame you couldn't do more, this was hardly even a fight." He joked, drawing what he assumed to be a needless card. "Time to end this, Sacred Wyvern, attack her directly! He spoke up, only to see a trio of cards raising on her side of the field. "I activate my three Gift Card trap cards!" She announced, a group of Kuribohs, holding small cards that were covered in bows and seemed to glint appeared from the cards. "Each of them makes you gain three thousand life points!" She continued, pointing to the cards before her. Jack nearly burst in to tears underneath his maniacal laughter. "You- Heh! -You slackers are really something else!" He began, trying to speak coherently between his bouts of laughter.

He didn't seem to notice the arms that were reaching out of the Simochi card beginning grabbing on to the little fiendish hairballs. "You should really pay closer attention to the field Jack." She commented, smiling happily as the arms arched back. In a rain of fluff, the arms threw the small balls of fur at the still laughing Obelisk. They each hit him hard, knocking him to the ground even. Nine thousand points of direct damage. He lost. The holograms disappeared and his laughter did the same. Jack's face turned into an angry scowl. "You... You got lucky slacker." He began, storming off before Saiya could respond. Saiya smiled, looking back to the red eyed Slifer. "He shouldn't bug you again for awhile." She optimistically stated, Her Duel Disk deactivated as she returned her cards to her deck. "And thanks for dealing with that guy." T.J. spoke up, breaking the girl's gaze from the shorter student. "Hm?" She mused, unsure what he meant exactly. As far as she could tell, he wasn't being bullied. In fact, she recognized him as the Ra student from last night's duel. "I would have, but now I don't need to get my Duel Disk dirty!" He joked. A comically large bead of sweat ran down the side of her forehead. "You're uh... Welcome." She sighed. She couldn't help but feel like she didn't get enough respect, but she wasn't the kind of person to speak up about it. "Also, I wanted to know, who's that room belong to?" T.J. asked, pointing back at his room.

Saiya frowned for a moment, before hesitantly answering... "It's uh... Mine. Why?" She drew out the end of the sentence, hoping she wasn't in trouble or something. T.J. paused, looking to the room and then back to her. Then he smiled. "Well then... I've definitely got the best roommate I could ever have! That duel was so cool! You didn't even have to attack once to win!" If there was one thing that impressed T.J., it was a good duel, and that, while a little slow, was a cool duel. The apparent reclusive personality on top of that, and he wasn't going to have any problems with his new roommate. Saiya on the other hand was having a miniature panic attack inside her head. She did not like being around other people at all, she didn't even really want to be here at the academy, but she'd need to become a strong duelist if she wanted to get some money on the professional circuit. Medical school was not cheap to get in to. He was looking at her funny now... Was she showing too much stress at the idea? She definitely didn't want to hurt his feelings, especially after he got kicked out of the Yellow dorm. She tried to put on a convincing smile. "I've never had a roommate before... Nice to um... Meet you." The confidence that her duel had built up for her began to shrink; her voice not much above a whisper now. T.J. shook off his odd look, she didn't seem too thrilled about this... But at least he wouldn't be alone while he was in the Red dorm. With a smile and a laugh, he ran back up the stairs to their room, being positive might calm her down a bit.

Saiya reluctantly and slowly followed after, drawing out each step as much as she could. If she was going to become a doctor like she hoped, she would have to get used to being around people. Maybe it wouldn't be all bad. Once she was finally out of sight, the door atop the staircase closing behind her, the short red eyed student heaved a sigh of disappointment. "My name's Lucky... By the way..." He finally remembered to mention, a little too late now.

This chapter got out a little late when I realized that Jack somehow had 2 extra cards in his hand after I finished it, but with some slight fixing, the problem was solved. As another note, when Ran and I were planning this story, we had yet to see 5D's, so we did not know that there was an important early antagonist named Jack in it. So keep in mind that our Jack's name was completely unrelated to the Jack from 5D's. I've also just realized that we're almost halfway through the year, I better get back to work on that Zoids story of mine before it's been another year without an update. Next chapter we'll be meeting two not-so-minor characters, so it's not entirely a filler chapter. Thanks for reading and such, see you next chapter if you choose to keep reading but if you don't that's okay too I guess. Also Ran says "Hi"