Hey guys! Sorry I didn't write this chapter earlier. It was my birthday and I wanted to post something on deviantart to celebrate the day XD. I also posted it on my forum for those of you that want to check it out. It's 8 ways on how to gain an audience on your fan fiction. Review please!
The morning came for Jaylin's first day of school and unfortunately, she overslept. She gasped as soon as she saw the time on Carl's alarm clock and began throwing on her school clothes, and then running out as fast as she could to her class. Jaylin had her backpack around her shoulder, running down the hill from her dorm. Her roommate already left, so she had to storm quickly to her class before the school bell rang.
Jaylin suddenly stopped when she spotted an older woman around her late 50's trying to push eight boxes, four on top of four, on some sort of flat wooden cart with wheels. The boxes were strapped to this flat wooden cart with long red duck tape. Jaylin didn't know what was in those boxes, but they seemed heavy and didn't want this poor old lady to be pushing that thing all by herself. She knew with old age came brittle bones.
The woman kept pushing the boxes, then finding Jaylin helping push them up the hill to the storage of the academy. Jaylin knew she would probably get in trouble for being late, but, being raised by her father, she learned to put others first before herself. She still remembered her father always telling her, whenever she would visit her grandparents, to help them and their father with the shop. She still kept those words in her head to this very day.
Once the boxes were up the hill, the woman panted, saying, "thanks for the help. What's your name?"
"Jaylin Yuki, maim!" Jaylin replied.
"Jaylin, I can take the rest from here. You should be getting to class."
The bell rang right when the woman said that, Jaylin smiled, replying, "it's fine. I was gonna be late anyways."
"I won't have that! I'll take you to your class and tell them you were busy helping me," the woman said with her caring smile.
"Thanks Maim!"
"Call me Ms. Dorothy."
"Okay, Ms. Dorothy."
"And before I forget, here's something you can have for helping me. I don't know if you have the card it needs for this to work, but you can try finding that card," Ms. Dorothy offered, showing two cards to Jaylin as her grinned widened.
"I have the card and I'll take it!"
"Good. I'm glad to hear that."
Ms. Dorothy led Jaylin to her classroom, which had a sign that read Professor Lyman Banner next to the door. Ms. Dorothy opened the door just as the teacher Lyman Banner was about to make his introduction. He and everyone else turned at Jaylin's direction, the teacher adjusting his glasses.
"Excuse me, Professor Banner, would you excuse Jaylin for being late? She was helping me push some boxes of tomato sauce cans up the hill," Ms. Dorothy asked, nodding her head.
"So that's what those were? They sure felt heavy for being canned food," Jaylin said.
"That's because the cans are about this big," Dorothy explained, lengthening the size with her hands that seemed to be as big as a watermelon.
"Okay, that makes sense."
"No worries. I will excuse her. This is her first day, meaning the students won't be written for slight tardiness for the week," Professor Banner replied calmly. He looked at Jaylin with a simple smile. "Will you take a seat, Miss Yuki?"
"Yes sir!" Jaylin replied, bowing in a 30 degree angle, before running quickly to her seat. Mr. Banner showed a small smile, then continued where he left on his introduction.
The classroom seating was organized into the different ranks. The Obelisk Blue students sat on the higher row at the very top, the Ra Yellow students sat around the middle, and the Slifer Red students sat at the very front. This was organized, so the honor students could have some peace and quiet, to be able to concentrate, and the ones failing the school could hear the lesson better. Jaylin was excited that she could sit at the very front, though slightly disappointed too, since she could be spotted a little easier, if she was to sleep. She decided to keep herself a note to create a mask, so it would look like she was awake.
Jaylin sat next to Ronda, who smiled when she noticed her friend sit next to her. Luckily, the whole class was just the introduction, so Jaylin wasn't too worried about what she had to listen to and slept through the entire class, hoping Professor Banner didn't mind. Ronda had to snicker at Jaylin sleeping during the introduction part of class. It made her wonder if Professor Banner would eventually catch her, if not today. It was no wonder Jaylin was in the Slifer Red dorm.
When lunch came, a buffet table was set in front of the classroom with plates, bowls, chop sticks, silverware for students from the Western region, napkins and food for the hungry students. Everyone got their plate and bowls, then sat at their usual seats, eating their food.
"Now, during lunch, you may sit wherever you'd like to. As long as you're not too loud, I won't have to organize you like in class. Now, enjoy your lunch!" Professor Banner announced before lunch began. Everyone, especially Jaylin, immediately got in line to get their lunch.
Jaylin and Ronda moved upward where the Ra Yellow Students usually sat, sitting next to Alexis. A Ra Yellow male student with black hair pulled back and dark brown eyes, which could be mistaken for black, sat next to Alexis. Jaylin smiled and waved to him.
"Hiya! What's your name?" Jaylin asked.
"Bastion Misawa," Bastion introduced himself.
"Sweetness! I'm Jaylin Yuki, this is Ronda Layo and Alexis Rhodes," Jaylin introduced herself and her friends.
"I actually have met Alexis, it's you two I haven't met. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"You too."
"By the way, is it just me or was that you snoring during introductions?" Alexis teased with a smirk up her lips.
"I don't snore or I would know," Jaylin said, rolling her eyes.
"Right."
"Don't worry. You weren't snoring," Ronda assured Jaylin.
"As I was saying," Jaylin said as Alexis chuckled.
"Most people usually don't know if they snore or not. You know that, right Jaylin?" Alexis asked.
"That's not what I meant. I meant I would know, because I live with someone that's the lightest sleeper in Japan and he would've told me otherwise, if I did snore."
"Well so-rry for my misunderstanding," Alexis replied playfully, putting her hands up defensively, before Jaylin and Ronda laughed in response.
"You're funny," Basion complimented.
"Thank you."
"Wow, I'm meeting so many new people today. First Ronda, then Syrus, then Ronda, Alexis, the dance team, Zane, now Bastion. I'm wondering if it's Christmas already," Jaylin said happily.
"Wait, Zane? You mean Zane Truesdale, the Pro Junior Duelist Champion!? You actually met him?" Ronda asked with a hint of excitement.
"Yeah. I've been wanting for my chance to meet him, so I can have a one on one with him and makeup for the time I would've dueled him at the Junior Grand Pix, if not for my fall," Jaylin explained with a hint of excitement.
"Wait, the Junior Grand Pix. You say you entered there?" Bastion asked with risen eyebrows.
"Yeah. I was going to duel Zane. I was at the top 16, then I fell down the steps and got a bloody nose."
"Ouch! That must've been horrible!" Alexis said in a gasp.
"I know. That's why I wanna duel him. I wanna make up for not dueling him at that time."
"It's weird. I remember being at the bleachers inside the Kaiba Dome during the Junior Grand Pix, but I don't remember you... no offense," Bastion claimed.
"No one usually does. I was the girl in pink with the french braids."
Bastion's jaw fell almost to the floor, almost screaming, "that was YOU!?" Jaylin nodded with her perky smile as Bastion slowly facepalmed himself, whispering, "damn." Jaylin cracked up laughing, having to cover her mouth to prevent her voice from reaching the four corners of the classroom. "I remember that. Poor thing."
"Yeah," Jaylin said quietly, smiling sleepishly.
"How exactly did it happen?" Ronda asked curiously.
"I was going to duel against Zane. I was so excited that I ran up, tripped, then fell off the dueling stage and hit myself face forward on the tile floor."
"It was pretty bad. I didn't even know that girl was you. You were so young back in the day," Bastion said with widened eyes.
"Yeah, I was pretty young, wasn't I?"
"Hey, um..." Syrus spoke next to Ronda as the four glanced at the blue-haired boy's direction. "Is it okay if I sit here?"
"Sure Sy. We were talking about the Junior Grand Pix Championship when I fell off the duel stadium," Jaylin said as Syrus took a seat behind her above.
"You're okay with talking about that? I know it had to be embarrassing."
"Actually, it isn't. It's... one of my most fond memories," Jaylin admitted, showing a small smile. Alexis and Ronda seemed confused. Bastion was slightly confused until he remembered what happened after the fall.
Young 11-year-old Jaylin Yuki was crying on the floor, so loud that everyone in the stadium could hear her wailing scream. Everyone began talking among themselves, several of them wondering if they should call 911. In a mere second, a man came storming through the double doors where little Jaylin came out from to duel Zane. Everyone knew who that man was and watched him scoop up the small girl into his arms, spotting the bloody nose, and used his shirt to stop the bleeding before out of the dome and through the double doors he stormed out of.
Bastion remembered that man, because that was when he first heard about Yugi Moto, the King of Games. His parents explained to him that day that he was the duelist champion of the world, who won Duelist Kingdom, Battle City, the Grand Pix in America, and many other major tournaments after that. Bastion wanted to be just like Yugi from that day forward, knowing that he was one of the very few Bastion knew that be so kind enough to help someone young and innocent he probably had no connections with.
Syrus remembered that part as well. He smiled, then nodded. Suddenly, he noticed Chazz about to try to squeeze through.
"Excuse me," Chazz excused himself, then leaned over on the desks and smiled at Jaylin. "Hey, you wanna duel after school?"
"Sure, why not? In fact, how about we deck it out now? There's still 30 minutes left and I'm already finished with my lunch," Jaylin suggested.
"Don't we need to ask Professor Banner first?" Syrus asked nervously.
"Ask me what?" Professor Banner asked with his calm smile.
"Is it okay if Chazz and I use our lunch break to duel?" Jaylin asked.
"Well, you don't have any homework today, so yes you can. Just remember that it's back to your seats when lunch break is over."
"SWEETNESS!" Jaylin replied psyched. She got out her duel disk from her book bag and turned it on. Chazz also got his duel disk and deck as well. They checked the bottom of their deck to see who would go first, and then drew five cards. Jaylin was to go first. She drew her first card. "I summon Elemental Hero Woodsman in defense mode!" An Elemental HERO that was half wood and half green appeared boldly in a defensive position. "You're up!" Chazz drew his next card, then...
"I play Magical Mallet from my hand!" Chazz smirked, taking the cards in his hand, shuffling them in his deck, then drawing the same number from his deck. "Then, I summon V – Tiger Jet!" A flying that that seemed to be shaped like a tiger appeared on the field as Jaylin snickered, biting the bottom of her lip. This was too tempting, but Jaylin decided to save the joke for later. "Now, I play my spell card Frontline Base and use its effect to summon out W – Winged Catapult!" A blue jet with wings on each side and above it with a gap in the middle of it. "Now, I banish these two to bring out my VW – Tiger Catapult!" Chazz removed V – Tiger Jet and W – Winged Catapult, bringing out his fusion monster VW – Tiger Catapult as the two holographic monsters began placing themselves together like Lego pieces.
Jaylin couldn't take it anymore and began singing, "The Transformers! More than meets the eye! Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Dicepticons!" To her surprise, Chazz and almost everyone else began laughing.
"That was good!" Chazz smirked.
"I couldn't resist!"
"Who could? In fact, I chose these monsters, because I'm a huge Transformers buff."
"That explains!"
"Anyways, I use Tiger Catapult's effect to change your Woodman to attack mode by discarding one card from my hand!" Chazz declared, sending one card from his hand to the graveyard. Elemental HERO Woodsman changed to an attack position. "My monster attacks yours!" The tiger head from VW – Tiger Catapult shot a blast at Elemental HERO Woodsman and bursting it from the field, leaving Jaylin with 3000 life points remaining. "I set one card face-down and that ends it!"
"Wow, that's dangerous!" Jaylin said, drawing one card. "I summon Elemental HERO Sparkman in defense mode, then throw in one face-down! Your turn!" A blue superhero with golden armor and electricity sparking all around it appeared on the field in a defensive position, crossing his arms.
Chazz drew his next card, smirking, "I summon out X – Head Cannon..." A blue chest piece with some gold parts and two cannons on its shoulders. "then use Frontline Base to bring in Z – Metal Tank to the field!" A middle piece with two huge tanks on each side and the Eye of Horus in the middle of it. "I also activate Call of the Haunted to bring in Y – Dragon Head!" A red robotic dragon with a tail, feet and wings appeared on the field as well.
"Wait, did you just summon a bunch of monsters in one turn?" Jaylin asked with widened eyes.
"Yeah, so?"
"You really are Seto Kaiba when it comes to dueling."
"Thanks. Anyways, I banish these three monsters to summon out XYZ – Dragon Cannon!" Chazz declared, banishing X – Head Cannon, Y – Dragon Head, and Z – Metal Tank from the field and replacing them with a fusion monster, who appeared on the field with two yellow tanks on the bottom with wheels, a dragon head on top of it, and a blue top part with two cannons on its shoulders.
"That's so awesome!"
"And it gets better, because I can remove these two monsters to bring out VWXYZ – Dragon Catapult!" Chazz smirked as he banished VW – Tiger Catapult and XYZ – Dragon Cannon, bringing out what LITERALLY looked like a transformer with yellow claw arms, two wide blue feet, red wings on its back, a small yellow head, and two cannons on its chest.
"I know Kaiba denies ripping-off of Transformers with this, but now I'm getting the feeling he's taking this way too far."
"I activate its effect by removing Sparkman from play," Chazz smirked as the dragon hea,d from VWXYZ – Dragon Catapult's crouch, shot a blast at Elemental HERO Sparkman and bursting it from the field. Jaylin's eyes widened, removing her Elemental HERO from play.
"Did your monster just shoot my monster with its d***?"
"Yeah," Chazz replied, smiling sleepishly.
"Ew."
"My Dragon Catapult attacks you directly!" Chazz declared as VWXYZ – Dragon Catapult loaded its cannons, then...
"Not so fast, I reveal my trap card Rookie Fight!" Jaylin declared, searching through her deck, taking out one card, then shuffling her deck. "I'm bringing out Elemental Hero Lady Heat in defense mode!" A female version of Elemental HERO Heat with a white suit, red flaming designs, and orange hair curled up.
"That won't work, because I use Dragon Catapult's other effect to change your Lady Heat to attack mode!" Chazz smirked as Elemental HERO Lady Heat changed her position to attack mode.
"Oh... oops. Sorry, this is the first time I've seen that monster. I didn't know Kaiba made a V and W version of the Transformers monsters, including the combination of the five," Jaylin said bashfully.
"That's fine! It did just arrive recently and I was lucky enough to retrieve it. It also attacks Lady Heat!" Chazz smirked victoriously as VWXYZ – Dragon Catapult loaded its cannons and shot down Elemental HERO Lady Heat, bringing Jaylin's life points down to 1300.
"Damnit!" Jaylin cursed at herself.
"I end my turn!"
"Oh, I'm so getting ya for that!" Jaylin glared, drawing her next card. "I play Winged Kuriboh in defense mode!" Winged Kuriboh appeared, making its kuri sounds. The female students watching were cooing over how cute Winged Kuriboh was, while the guys were thinking the idea of Jaylin summoning a cute little monster on the field was hot. "I set a card face-down, then I play Card Destruction!" Jaylin and Chazz placed their hand to their graveyard, then drew the same number of cards. "Now, I play my face-down spell card Alchemical Experiments!"
"What kind of card is that?" Chazz asked with widened eyes.
"It was a gift from Ms. Dorothy for helping her out! I can place Winged Kuriboh in the graveyard and banish three of my monsters to bring out Winged Kuriboh Level 9!" Jaylin explained as she sent her Winged Kuriboh to the graveyard, then chose three of her monsters to banish.
"Couldn't you have just showed me the written information on the card with your duel disk?"
"Yeah, but it's fun explaining it," Jaylin replied with her perky smile as a Kuriboh with wings and a tough red suit of armor appeared on the field boldly. "It's attack and defense are also equal to the combination of attack and defense points of the monsters I removed from play, which are Woodsman, Lady Heat and Wildheart! That would be..." Jaylin counted with her fingers for a while. There was a long pause, then...
"That would be 3800 attack points and 4600 defense points!" Alexis cried out.
"Thanks Lex!"
"Oh fantuckingtastic," Chazz responded with widened eyes. "I'm about to be destroyed by a winged puffball." Everyone in the classroom burst into laughter.
"My winged puffball attacks your Dicepticons!" Jaylin shouted as Winged Kuriboh flew right at VWXYZ – Dragon Catapult, swinging its claws at the machine and it crashed into pieces, bursting from the field and leaving Chazz with 3200 life points remaining. "I place one card face-down and end!"
Chazz drew a card from his deck, then declared, "I set a monster face-down, then another card face-down. You're up." There was a card face-down on Chazz's monster card zone and spell and trap zone.
Jaylin drew her next card, then smirked, "I summon Elemental Hero Shadow Mist!" A dark lady with black hair that shot straight out, as if the monster used hair gel, with a purple outfit over black armor. "She attacks your set monster." Elemental HERO Shadow Mist ran to the face-down monster, punched the card, and burst it from the field. "Kuriboh attacks you directly and that's game." Winged Kuriboh Level 9 flew at Chazz, striking him with its mighty claws before bringing his life points down to zero. Jaylin put her two fingers on her forehead, then shot them at Chazz's direction. "GOTCHA!" The class cheered for the duel as Chazz showed a smirk on his face.
"You're good. Anyone, who knows how to use Kuriboh like that has to be a master. I hope to see more of that later in the future," Chazz said.
"Same here. I had fun myself. Keep working on your dueling skills," Jaylin advised, winking and giving a thumbs up.
"Will do."
"Pardon me, but class is going to start in five minutes," Professor Banner announced.
"Sorry, gotta go," Jaylin said, rejoining her friends as Chazz watched her with a smile.
"What are you thinking, Chazz?" One of Chazz's friends with the straight up pointy black hair and brown eyes asked.
"I think I'm in love," Chazz replied with a sly smile, which then turned to a puzzling expression when he saw a ghostly Winged Kuriboh flying on Jaylin's shoulder. He brushed it off, then decided to return to his seat.
"Not now, Kuri. Class is about to start. Tell Dad I'll get his email as soon as I can," Jaylin whispered to Winged Kuriboh with her perky smile before Winged Kuriboh disappeared.
"Jaylin, who were you talking to?" Alexis asked with two risen eyebrows.
"Nothing. Let's get going, shall we?" Jaylin suggested, taking her seat. Ronda looked toward the direction Winged Kuriboh was previously at before disappearing. Alexis walked to her seat, which was at the top with the other Obelisk students.
"That's weird. I swear I saw something," Ronda whispered to herself before slowly taking her seat next to Jaylin.