It was the day that the fate of me, Jaden, Syrus, Chumley, and Alexis would take place. We were order to stay in the hall behind the duel arena, so we don't run or something along those lines. Frankly I'm worried for Syrus and Jaden, they have the highest weight on thier shoulders for very different reasons.
Jaden is still thinking about comparing this to the duel we had in the shadow game. That made him more closed about his feelings in all this, which has me worried.
Syrus from what I know, never challenge for felt on the same level as him; or if he ever could. It makes me wonder if he would slip up from fear like Chumley did with his dad.
In the midst of my thoughts I absently noticed that Jaden and Syrus had a moment of secound thought. "You guys are Morons." I muttered with a ghostly smile.
"What's that supposed to mean!?" Jaden yelled a bit flustered from my remark.
"I remember that you were pumped about this duel last night, right? That even if you lost we will still be friends, so why the frown. Are you still a idiot to think that the shadow duel was you're fault?" I knew that it was partly all our faults, so no one was to blame for that night.
The intercom emitted static as it called Jaden and Syrus to the duel arena. "Well that's us Jaden." Syrus stood up, the look of barely hidden nervousness sprawled on his face. "Might as well face my brother with my head high." He said it as though he thought they would lose after one turn.
Before they left I clocked both of them in the back of thier heads. "Owww!" They both yelled from pain. "What was that for!" Syrus yelled at me.
"For not believing in yourselves, you're like childern. But this.." I held out an envolpe to Jaden. "Is for good luck..." I mearly mutters the last part.
Jaden opened the envolpe and his jaw opened wide. "What!? Isn't this you're Envoy!?" I looked at him with a serious face. He smiled coyly at this. "I thought you said winning with a card given isn't skill or something like that?"
I flushed a bit, the idiot actually remembered that!? "T-That was different! I'm giving this to you so I can fight with you, after all we're all in this." God I wish he would suck up and take it.
He looked at it with a smile. "Well, in that case." He actually put it in his main deck, wait why am I excited about that!? "When I draw it I will rember what we all have been through." We stared for a moment in stotic silence. "C'mon Sy, let's give a match of the century!" He returned to his vigor self, dragging Syrus into the duel arena.
I felt myself smiling unconsiouly as the duo left my view. "I hope you win guys." I turned around and saw one of the opponents and self entitled brat himself, Chazz. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be bragging about the win you're not going to pull?" I can't help, but be snarky to this jerk wad.
Chazz frowned at me. "Someone like you should learn your place, our rank means that you're nothing to me, slifer slacker." We engaged into a challenge of insults. "I doubt you would make it to blue, even if you had took the rank of yellow."
I smiled a bit. "Says the brat who lost to Jaden, a red I recall." He recoiled at that contradiction. "It seams you're just as interested to beating him, a slifer who defeated an obelisk." He recoiled even more at my insulting snark. "If you don't start accepting you're actual worth, you'll lose and never win, that's a fact!" He was fuming at my cutting words of truth.
"SHUT UP! I'm Chazz Princeton and I'll show you and this academy who's top dog!" He stormed away too angry to come up with anything.
"Someone needs to chill out." I muttered as I realized the duel was about to start. "I should probably hurry!" I dashed to the entrance to the spectator stands.
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I sat right next to bastion and Alexis, by pure luck that there was a spot. The below field had the feeling of tension and suspense between the rival teams.
Bastion looks analytical, but worried about Jaden and Syrus despite barely knowing them. I nudge bastion with a tap and he flinched a bit, right...he knows. "Bastion, do they have a chance of beating Zane and..Chazz." I said Chazz's name with a bit of scorn.
Bastion looks ahead. "Depends if Syrus doesn't collapse under Zane's gaze." He pulls out his PDA and pulls out several cards from the database, he clearly studied them. "Zane's most powerful monster is the cyber end dragon with four thousand attack points and a piecing ability. That means defense is pointless and detestating if it's lower then attack points."
I bit my lip, even if skyscraper is out on the field, none of Jaden's heros can touch it. Well except shining flare wingman if his graveyard is full of dead heroes. "Does he have any fusion summoning cards?"
He began pulling the cards. "He has two besides the basic one, future fusion and...power bond!" I cringe that is a devastating card for both sides, but Zane must clearly knows how to use it. "Chaz's deck, after that weird outing during the practical exam, is full of union and level monsters." I knew what unions and levels were, unions were based on combining and level monsters require time for its full power. "His deck is more risk based depending on the situation, but with the rare cards it's almost unstoppable."
I sighed a bit, Jaden beaten Chazz before so he must know what might happen in this duel. "What are the odds of winning for Jaden and Syrus?" I knew the number must be low so I bit my teeth.
"it didn't matter." Alexis states as she eyed Zane and Jaden. "Zane is there, nobody has beaten him before."
Bastion was flabbergasted. "I'll have you know that Syrus also has power bond to my knowledge! So that means it raises it dramatically to about thirty percent chance of winning!" Bastion glared at Alexis, good god I'm surrounded by rivals.
"Syrus doesn't know how to use it, he panics when he sees it so it's as useless as a fake trap!" I would laugh in this situation if I wasn't so tense. "If you don't know how to use a weapon, you would lose that very second!"
I metaphorically push them back. "Okay you two, break it up. You can have this argument later and kiss I don't care..." they stared at me flustered and irritated. "It's starting, wish them luck." The lights dimmed as Doctor Crowler stepped up to the stage nervous.
"Hello everyone!" Silence ensued as I saw he is shaking from fright, either the crowd or the possible results of the duel. "Today we are having an expulsion match on whenever the students on this list right here!" He pulled out a small piece of paper. "We stay or leave forever!" The crowd mumbled as we watched in anticipation.
Crowler pointed to Jaden's side of the arena. "On one side we have this year's number one rookie and the brother of Zane trusdale, Jaden Yuki and Syrus trusedale!" The crowd was mummering as the light shined on the two. Poor Syrus he never wanted the center of attention.
"On the other we have two of the most powerful obelisk duelists one of which has not lost yet! Bring it up for, Zane trusdale and Chazz Princeton!" This time the crowd roared at the thought of seeing Zane fight. Zane...he also knows my secret so I'm surprised he stayed silent about it, he doesn't he know me yet.
Speaking of Zane, in a split secound he was looking straight at me for two seconds. I knew form those eyes he was trained on me, what was he thinking about that involved me?
"I'm sure we are all very...excited about this event." It seams Crowler was not please with this idea of a fight. "So without further ado...Duel!"
(A/N: hey guys jester here! Yes it's just a fill in on what happens before the duel...it's a very long duel with bickering and contemplating so I thought it'd be best to have a pre intro. Anyways as you noticed with the summery that Chazz is supposed to be a more prominent character then this, don't worry time will come. Also I read chapter two and noticed that I forgot to tell you Yoshi' hair color, she's a red head (or just red in anime terms); however it's just dark enough to be confused with Black due to saturation. I really hope that cleared you up, I'm terribly sorry.)