I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX!
Hey guys, Darky back!
Haou: Oh yay and we totally missed you too.
Still charming as ever, Haou.
Jaden: Well if it counts for anything, I missed you, Darky.
Thank you, Jaden. Haou, why can't you be more like Jaden?
Haou: We're the same person in the anime. What more do you want from me?
Okay true. Anyway, time to review the question from last time. Who wants to do it this time?
Jaden: *Shrugs* I guess I will. So Darky asked you guys last time, "What are your top five favorite Archetypes?" and you guys answered with Crystal Beasts: 4, HEROES: 4, Lightsworn: 2, Gem-Knight: 2, Ice Barrier: 1, Madolche: 1, Fabled: 1, Blackwing: 2, Red-Eyes: 1, Amazoness: 1, Cyber Dragon: 2, Dark Magician: 1, and Dark World: 1. Huh? A lot of you guys like HEROES and Crystal Beast huh?
Spiritshipping!
Haou: *rolls eyes but sighs in relief* Well at least she can't say the other one.
You know, Haou, I'm in a good mood so...Darkspiritshipping!
Haou: *bangs head against the wall*
Anyway guys, I like to thank every one of you that replied to that author's note I left about what I should do. As you can tell, I just decided to skip it, and I quickly got this one done just for you guys :) Though this chapter might be shorter then what you guys are used to, I wanted it to just be a intro to the Battle City GX that I've been talking about lately. The next few chapters will be nothing but just a lot of duels so I hope you guys will like that. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy :)
As we all know, Duel Academy Island is known worldwide for its teachings of dueling to the next generation of duelists. Because of this world wide success, other areas around the world, from the north to the south, to the east and to the west, have created their own Duel Academies. In spite of this, the original still held its place at the top and to make sure it was kept that way, every year at Duel Academy, it would have a friendly challenge with one of the other schools, this year being with North Academy.
The challenge would be a duel between the two school's represents and whoever wins gets their school a special prize.
At the moment, Chancellor Sheppard, Professor Banner, Dr. Crowler, and the rest of the staff and faculty were sitting around an oval table, trying to decide on their rep for the School Duel this year. Along with them, standing at the head of the table, was Zane Truesdale. As the top student at the school, along with being last year's rep, Sheppard thought it would be a good idea to hear his input on this year's match.
Though, once Sheppard told everyone that Zane wasn't going to be their rep again this year, Crowler flipped.
"Are you out of your mind?!" Crowler slammed his hands down on the table. "The School Duel between Duel Academy and North Academy is the biggest match of the year! We can take no chances, so it's clear that Zane should be our rep."
Sheppard nodded. "While it is true that Zane is our best student, in grades and skill, he's at his final year at the academy and I've received word that North Academy will be using a first-year student."
"Why would they do that?"
The Headmaster in question just shrugged, not having any idea either. "Who knows? But, in the spirit of competition, I think we should use a first-year student as well," he replied before he turned to look at Zane. "You understand, don't you, Zane?"
The Obelisk nodded. "Of course, Chancellor," Zane answered.
Sheppard chuckled. "Now then, the only question is who this first-year should be."
"Well that is a tough call. We have many talented first-years this year." Banner admitted to the room.
Before anyway could make a suggestion, Zane closed his eyes and said, "Jaden Yuki."
Sheppard looked intrigued from the suggestion while Crowler cringed. While Crowler didn't want a Slifer Red to represent them, he sure as hell didn't want Jaden Yuki to of all people. What's next? Is Haou going to be suggested?
"Or his brother, Haou Yuki," Zane added making Crowler look like he was about to pass out. "Either one of the twins would be a wise choice."
Banner nodded, petting Pharaoh. "I agree, Jaden and Haou are our best new students. Don't you agree, Pharaoh?"
The fat tabby mewed in response.
Crowler rolled his eyes in disbelieve. "Well, it the cat says so," he grumbled.
"Chancellor," Zane said, looking at the Headmaster of Duel Academy. "The Yuki twins will make Duel Academy proud, trust me."
Sheppard gazed at him for a few minutes before nodding. "Well we're have to decide on which one of those two it will be but alright then, it's decided, unless someone has any other suggestions?" He asked, looking at his colleagues.
Crowler gritted his teeth. The Yuki twins, those Slifer Slackers! Every time they do well, they make me look bad! I won't stand for this a minute longer! "What about my dear niece, Elanor?"
"Elanor?" Sheppard questioned.
"Uh course! My dear loveable niece is a straight A student with remarkable dueling skills to match! She would be the best choice to be our rep!" Crowler told everyone.
Sheppard laughed. "Now, now, Crowler. Let's not let personal feelings be the judge of that."
"Well he is right, Chancellor." Miss Fontaine pointed out to the Headmaster. "Elanor does get straight As and is a talented duelist. She was even the top duelist at East Academy before she came here. I would like to recommend her too along with a few more of my girls."
"And who may those be?" The Headmaster asked.
"Kia Macy, Amber Inoue, Akane Hara, and Masika Miller," Fontaine answered. "They all are very talented students and duelists."
Banner nodded. "I agree. I've seen Kia and Amber multiple times at my dorm and while I believe that Jaden and Haou are our best duelists, I know that those girls can take them in a fight."
"Yes, and I've seen Akane and Masika in duels as well. They are remarkable duelists as well." Sheppard noted with a nod.
"I also like to suggest Bastion Misawa." Crowler added quickly. "After all, he did get the highest score on the written test and did very well in his entrance exam duel."
Sheppard leaned back in his chair after hearing all of these suggestions. "While I believe that any one of these duelists could very well represent us, how can we choose just one?"
"Might I make a suggestion, Chancellor?" Banner said calmly.
"Of course."
"We have eight choices for our rep and this is Duel Academy after all. We have a week to decide on our rep before the School Duel so why don't we throw ourselves, uh let's say, a Battle City Finals?
Everyone in the room, besides Zane who had his eyes closed, blinked at that.
"Battle City Finals?" Sheppard questioned, rising an eyebrow in curiously.
"Ah yes, a Battle City Finals, or might we call it Battle City GX?" Banner mused, petting Pharaoh once more. "GX meaning generation next, of course. It'll be our own little tournament to decide who will represent us in the School Duel with a Quarter round, four duels of two on two with the top four making it to the Semifinals which then the four duelists have to complete in a Battle Royal, with the first two losers playing in the first semifinal and the two survivors playing in the second, and the winners of those matches have to duel against each other in the Finals with whoever wins that duel gets to be our rep?"
"Well that sounds like it's more complicated than it's worth." Crowler muttered under his breath.
Sheppard seemed to think about it for a minute before he smiled. "I like it. We can have the Quarter round today with the Semifinals tomorrow and the Finals the day after that which will still give us enough time for our rep to prepare for the School Duel."
Well I guess that means there will be a ¼ chance that the Slifers won't be our rep. Crowler thought gleefully. "Very well then, Chancellor."
Everyone else in the room nodded their heads in agreement.
"Very well. Let us inform the participants." Sheppard said.
…
Jaden pointed at himself. "For real?"
"Not a joke?" Kia questioned, pointing at herself too.
Banner smiled and nodded. He had just told Jaden and the others that were a part of the Battle City GX about the little tournament they were throwing to decide who would represent Duel Academy in the School Duel. "Yes, you two, you both will be a part of the Battle City GX tournament along with Bastion, Elanor, Amber, Akane, Masika, and Haou. Though someone needs to tell that to those last two." He added since Masika and Haou weren't in his class at the moment.
"Sweet!" Jaden and Kia both exclaimed, high fiving each other.
"Hey! Don't leave me out on this!" Amber grinned, joining in on their high five from her seat above them.
Elanor looked up from the book she was reading and sighed softly. "Must we really have a tournament just to decide on one person?" She mumbled.
"Oh come on, Elanor, lighten up a bit." Akane, who was sitting next to her, said with a smile. "It might be fun. I, for one, am going to enjoy this."
"Yeah, you have fun with that." Elanor sighed as she went back to her book.
"Way to go, Jay!" Syrus cheered as he and Chumley walked up to his friend. "You might be in the School Duel!"
"No Slifer has ever done that before. You'd make Duel Academy history!" Chumley added.
"Uh course he will. If he can beat me that is," Kia said with a smirk.
Jaden glanced over at his friend with a smug look on his face. "Don't I usually beat you in a duel?" He asked.
Kia pointed a finger at him. "Okay, I don't know how you do it, but you cheat."
Jaden laughed at that. "Sure I do, Kia." He replied before he looked at Bastion, who was sitting a few seats above him. "Hey Bastion, we just might have our duel after all!"
Bastion nodded with a smile. "Indeed. Ever since my duel with Chazz, I've been formulating a new set of cards to defeat you and your monsters, Jaden."
"You said you would." Jaden remembered. "So, are ya finished?"
Bastion shook his head. "No, but it will be soon, along with a few other desks to defeat whoever I may face in a duel." He said looking at Kia and Amber.
"Oh please, there's no way you can tank my dragons, Bastion." Amber told him.
"My Dustons are not easy to defeat either, pal." Kia spoke.
"They are not lying, Bastion." Jaden said before he smiled. "Well, until then."
"Until then, my friend," Bastion replied before he got up from his seat and walked off.
Syrus looked at Jaden. "Bastion made a whole deck just to duel you with?"
"I dunno whether you should be really honored or really scared?" Chumley mused.
"Hey, we don't even know if those two will be facing off. None of us do." Kia pointed out. "Who know? Bastion could have just made that deck for nothing."
"I hope not but like Kia said. We don't know." Jaden shrugged before he stood up. "Well, I'm going to go find Haou and Masika and give them the good news. Anyone care to join?" He asked.
"Sorry Jay, as much as I would love to see Haou-" Kia rolled her eyes "-I need to get my deck prepared for this."
"Same," Amber added.
"And Chumley and I got homework." Syrus said and the koala duelist nodded.
Jaden shrugged. "Oh well, I guess I'll have to find them on my own then." With that, he took off.
…
"Okay, I'm not usually one to complain but this is boring." Masika groaned, her head collapsing on top of the book she was reading.
"You're the one that wanted to study." Haou replied with an amused chuckled as he looked up from his own study guide and at the bluenette.
"Well I didn't really have any homework to do so this was the next best thing." Masika giggled raising her head back up. "Sorry that I made you come along."
"Hey, I rather be in the library with you then in class, having to listen to my brother's snoring." Haou replied, honestly before he turned his head around to glare at something.
Masika raised an eyebrow at that. During the whole time that they've been studying in the library together, Haou, everyone once in a while, would turn to glare at nothing which Masika found strange. Not only that, this isn't the first time that Haou has done that since he happened to do this a lot of times when they hanged out.
"What are you looking at Haou?" She finally asked after a while.
"Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum," Haou grumbled back a response.
Masika tilled her head to the side before a though crossed her. "Do you have imaginary friends, Haou?"
Now that made Haou quickly turn to look back at her, "What?" he questioned.
"If you do, I won't judge you. I actually think it's kinda cute." Masika admitted with a smile.
Haou didn't even try to make a reply to that as he glanced out of the corner of his eye when Shadow and Magician started laughing.
"Imaginary friends; that's a first," Magician laughed.
"I'm liking your girlfriend more every second, Haou." Shadow said, smirking, with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Shut up, you two, or I'm throwing you both into the pits of hell." Haou growled at him quickly.
"Yeah, you go do that, Haou." Magician replied, grinning.
It might have just been the annoyance that made Haou forget that they were just spirits so he didn't even stop himself from throwing a text book at them.
Uh course, since they were just spirits, it just went right through them-
-and ended up hitting Jaden instead in the face when he walked into the library.
"Wow, nice shot, you're highness." Shadow beamed.
Haou blinked at that as soon as he saw Jaden get nailed by the book but he couldn't stop himself from smirking when Jaden looked at him in disbelieve and in sight pain.
"Okay, first off, ow!" Jaden groaned, rubbing his face to make sure nothing was bleeding or broken, which thankful wasn't. "And second of all, what the hell, Haou?!"
"For the record, I wasn't even trying to hit you, but that was awesome." Haou chuckled.
"Haou, how could you say that?" Masika asked, frowning at him before she stood up and went over to Jaden. "Jay, you okay?"
"Well I just got face booked." Jaden chuckled slightly at that. "Ha Facebook,"
"Jaden,"
"Don't worry, Masika. I'm fine. I've been through worse."
Masika let out a sigh of relief at that before she turned to look at Haou. "Haou, apology!"
"For what? For him having perfect timing?" Haou questioned, rising an eyebrow.
"For hitting your brother in the face with a book!"
"Again, I wasn't even trying to hit him."
"Still!"
"God, it's like I'm five all over again." Haou grumbled, getting him a glare from Masika.
"Hey, Masika, it's fine." Jaden told the bluenette. "Really, Haou does this all the time. I'm kinda used to it."
"That still doesn't make it acceptable." Masika pointed out to Jaden before sighing as she turned to face the younger twin. "Jaden, I'm sorry for what Haou did."
Both twins blinked at that.
"Uh what?" Jaden questioned.
"Masika, what the hell are you doing?" Haou asked the bluenette, narrowing his eyes in annoyance.
"Apologizing since you're not." The sea duelist replied over her shoulder.
"Oh for calling out loud here," Haou facepalmed in disbelieve.
"I think you're girlfriend just stabbed you in the back, Haou." Magician stated.
"I think she just broke up with him to be with Jaden." Shadow chuckled, getting him a death glare from Haou.
"Shadow, don't you ever say that again." Haou growled at him.
"Oh touché,"
"So before I was owned by a book," Jaden rubbed his sore face, trying to change the topic. "You guys won't believe what I'm about to tell you!"
Haou rolled his eyes. "Enlighten us, Jay."
…
Later in the day, the eight duelists that were chosen for the Battle City GX tournament were summoned to the Duel Arena where they were going to figure out who they were going to be dueling against.
Unfortunately for them, Dr. Crowler was the one explaining to them how this was going to work.
The Head of the Obelisk Blue dorm had just entered the arena, pushing a small tray wheel cart in front of him that was carrying large versions of Duel Monsters cards.
"What's that for?" Akane asked as Crowler pushed the cart to be right in front of anyone.
"This is what we're going to be using to decide who you all are going to be facing off against." Dr. Crowler answered gesturing to the cards that the cart was carrying.
Amber raised an eyebrow at that. "I don't get it."
Dr. Crowler looked to be trying his hardest not to facepalm. Why was I the one that had to do this? He wondered in annoyance. "To put it in simple terms, one match site is written on each one of these cards. Each one of you will draw one card and head for that place indicated. When you reach the place the card shows, you'll find out who you will be facing off against."
"So it's just by the luck of the draw huh?" Jaden grinned stepping forward to draw first. "Sweet, this is what I'm best at."
"I feel so bad for whoever he's going to be facing off against first." Kia muttered, though she was secretly hoping she got to duel against Jaden once more. If not, then she was hoping to get either Haou or Amber too. Haou, since she wanted to finish the duel they started during the beginning of the year and Amber because she really wanted a rematch against her friend.
So one by one, each one of the competitors came forward and drew their card. Afterwards, Dr. Crowler quickly told everyone not to share what they got; much to Jaden and Kia's disappointed out of anyone's. Crowler then added that anyone had a half hour to prepare before they had to go to their dueling spots.
"Oh and one more things," Crowler remembered just before everyone left to prepare. "Once the four winners have been decided, those people will have to report back here so we can get those competitors marked down for tomorrow matches."
"Sounds good to me, Dr. Crowler," Jaden said, giving him a thumbs up, before everyone left to get ready for the Battle City GX.
And that's the beginning to the Battle City GX arc. What did you guys think?
Kia: Did you take that selection process from the manga?
Yeah, a lot of these up'n coming duels will take some elements from the GX manga.
Jaden: That sounds sweet.
Haou: And yet, she left us with that terrible cliff hanger on who's going to be facing who.
Yeah about that. That's actually going to be this chapter's question! I like to know who you guys are thinking will be facing off against each other! Oh course, I already have the matches picked out but I like to see if you guys can guess any one of them right! If you do, I'll give you a shout out during that match's chapter! And speaking of shout outs, I'm almost to 200 review for this story! Yay, so let's see if we can make it to it and whoever gets the 200 review will get a shout out during the next chapter as well!
Well everyone, I hope you all enjoyed the intro to the Battle City GX arc. I, for one, found it pretty funny so I hope that this makes up for it being pretty short compared to some of my other chapters.
-Darky