Chapter 3

Claudia raised her left arm, Activating her black duel disk, giving Kaiba a hard look, and he returned that look with An all too familiar smirk in Artie's eye's, it had shocked him on how much he saw the resemblance between the two standing in front of him. He had a bad feeling about this Duel Especially when Kaiba drew his first card, "First dear niece I'm going to make you regret ever changing my duel disk." He added the card to his hand, and reached out for another to the left, "I summon Maiden with the eye's of blue in attack mode, and before ending my turn I will play these three face down, now make your move."

Claudia scoffs a little and a huge grin was plastered to her face, "Really? That puny little monster in attack mode? It doesn't even have any attack points! And here I thought you was some big shot dueller Kaiba, looks like your all talk and no play." She reached to her deck and drew her first card and the smile on her face brightened even more, "I summon Zubaba Knight in attack mode! Since you don't have any monsters in defence Zubaba's special effect isn't going to kick in but your life points are mine! Zubaba go! Take out his monster!" With that Zubaba knight raised his sword and ran across the field. She thought this was going to be a quick easy duel but that all changed when she heard Artie's voice.

"No Claudia! Oh dear god kiddo…." Her head slightly turned to the man that's been like a father to her, but then quickly realised that Kaiba wasn't fazed at all by her attack, "Foolish little girl, I activate Maiden's special ability! When you attacked, it switches my Maiden into Defence mode and this allows me to summon my all mighty powerful BLUE EYE'S WHITE DRAGON!" the ground began to shake slightly, and lightening struck from the sky, in the shadows of that flash, formed a 15 foot blue dragon.

Claudia eye's widened, and stepped back slightly, Artie's ancient gears she could handle but this was something completely new to her, "Well Claudia it's still your turn what are you going to do now?" he crossed his arms waiting on the young teenager to come out of her shock. She was stunned, the lightning had struck up old memories deep inside her mind, and Artie could see that. "Claudia! Breath! Deep breaths!" Kaiba scrunched his eye brows together, he had no idea what Claudia was doing or why Artie was telling her to breath, until he looked closely at the teenagers face, it had paled slightly.

He was about to stop the duel when she slapped her cheeks and looked back to him, Fire burning in her eye's, "I end my turn fossil brain." Kaiba clenched his jaw slightly, and drew a card, looking at his hand he smirked, "I activate the magic card Dragons Shrine! This allows me to send 1 dragon to the grave and oh if it was a normal monster then, I can send one more dragon to the grave yard, so I send White stone of legend to the grave, which allows me to add another all mighty Blue eyes to my hand." He looked the field over slightly "I told you, that you would regret messing about with my products half pint. Blue eye's white dragon! Take out her Zubaba knight!" At this the dragon's mouth opened and shot out a ball of blue lightning at Zubaba knight instantly destroying it, and causing Claudia's life points to be reduced by 1400 points. "I end my turn, the clocks ticking, your move."

Claudia felt slight anger inside her bubble, as she drew her next card, 'shit… absolutely nothing can help me at this moment in time…' "I play a monster in defence and end my turn"

From the side lines, Artie was clenching his fists, this man was taunting with the girl that had wormed her way into his heart, and he didn't like it, he was pushing his Claudia over. "Come on Kiddo, you can do it…" "Nice to see that Stubborness runs in their family doesn't it Arthur?" Jumping out of his skin, he turned to the side to see Mrs. Fredrick arms crossed and anger shown in her face.

"Mrs. Fredrick I tried to stop the duel but, Kaiba pushed Claudia into this," he spoke trying to explain on what happened but she just held her hand up to him, "I know I've been watching Arthur, as you can see, is testing Claudia on her skills, I had a feeling this is what he wanted to do which is why I arranged for him to come here to South Dakota. Now lets watch and see the out come of this duel."

Kaiba draws another card and looks up to his niece, 'she's nothing but a amateur who learned over night, if this is where my company is going then so god help me…' "Blue eye's white dragon, take out her pitiful monster!" again, another monster of Claudia's hit the graveyard, her right hand was shaking slightly every single move she'd made so far was trying to keep her life points safe.

"It's over Claudia, just make your next mistake and your life points are mine, There's no way you can win." He crossed his arms taunting her, she was so focused on him, she didn't hear a car pull up and voices shouting at her. "CLAUDIA! What the hell!" shouted the female voice, and the male next to her, "Don't you dare be bullying Claudia! Who do you think you are!" Turning her head, she saw Pete and Myka, and some how that gave her some type of hope, "Beat him down Claud!"

Reaching her hand out to her deck, she drew her next card and widened, This is it! This was how she's going to win, "Alright Kaiba play times over! I summon Gagaga Magician in attack mode and activate the magic card, Gagaga Wind, allowing me to special summon another monster with Gagaga in it's name as a level 4 monster and I choose Gagaga girl!" she slapped the card on her duel disk and smirked towards the older man, "oh cute, are they going on a play date together?" spat Kaiba, he had enough of her playing around.

"You can say something like that, I now overlay the two monsters and special summon Utopia!, now since Gagaga girl was used for an XYZ monster her special effect kicks in, meaning I get to reduce the attack points of one monster on your side of the field! And oh lucky here! I choose blue eye's!" At this the blue eye's attack points reduced to 0, Kaiba's head perked up at this, 'Now that's slightly impressive, she may have what it takes after all...' he thought, and then waited for what she was about to do. "Utopia take out that dum dragon!" and not a moment later Utopia crossed his swords and slayed the dragon in front of it. Dealing 2500 points of damage to Kaiba. "End my turn… you know what Kaiba I really don't know what you want from me, but I'm not going to play into your little game, how about this If I win our little duel, you leave me the hell alone! I want nothing to do with an uncle that demands stuff." Claudia spoke, Artie's mouth dropped she could not be serious in betting on this duel.

"hmm sounds interesting Claudia, Alright fine, but if I win, then well you have to follow in my footsteps as head of Kaiba corporation." He drew his new card, "I activate Silver's cry! This allows me to bring back my Blue eye's white dragon, now take out Utopia!" Blue eye's powered up his attack, but Claudia reacted quickly, "Not so fast, by removing one XYZ material monster, I can block your attack"

"Alright I place one card face down and end my turn." Claudia took this as to draw a card and switched Utopia to defence mode, "I throw down three face downs fancy pants, bring it"

"oh I'll bring it alright, I use Block Defence, switching your monster back to attack mode, but before I attack, I activate my trap card Fiendish chain! Which negates your monsters special abilities, meaning blue eye's! destroy it!", At this Claudia growled slightly, as the ball was batted back into her cage and she drew a new card, "I summon Gagaga Magician, in attack mode and place one card face down, then I equip my magician with Mage power, giving him an extra 500 power boost for each spell/trap card I have on my side of the field. Making my Magician 3500, oh dear uncle I thought you would be better than this, considering the fact that I only just started playing, just face it your about to get beat by a teenager! Gagaga Magician attack!"

Kaiba reacted quickly "I activate Negate attack!" giving off a Tch' Claudia ended her turn, Her uncle now looked more serious in the face, "I was just going easy on you newbie, you want to see my full strength well you will get it! I summon vorce raider in attack mode! And then activate fusion sage, which allows me to add 1 polymerisation card from my deck to hand, and then activate that very same polymerisation to fuse together not 1 , not 2 but all 3! Of my blue eye's white dragons to form my ultimate blue eye's white dragon!"

There standing in front of everyone was the all mighty ultimate blue eye's white dragon, one body but 3 fierce heads all looking down on the youngest member of warehouse 13.

"Attack my mighty beast!" The monster went to attack but Claudia jumped in halfway through, "Not so fast, I activate my face down card, Sakuretsu armour, since you attacked my monster this card allows me to destroy yours!" she spoke so proudly taking down his beast with no problem, Hearing Artie in the back ground cheering her on. Kaiba just cracked his neck backwards slightly, "oh really? I chain with my own trap card, Call of the haunted to resurrect my beast, destroy Gagaga magician!" not a moment later, Claudia's monster was destroyed, and out the corner of her eye she saw Vorce raider coming at her, "Wipe out her life points!" and not a moment later, the life point counter for the spunky red haired teenager hit Zero.

The warehouse agents on the side, watched as Claudia slowly fell down onto her knees, not caring that her favourite black skinny's was getting ruined, she just couldn't believe that she'd lost, she had come so close but that damn man was able to counter her at the last second, "No… " footsteps was coming closer to her, she closed her eye's slightly but a voice made the footsteps stop, "Get away from Her!"

Snapping her eye's open, standing in front of her was none other than her best friend for life, Agent Steven Jinks. "Jinksy!" Steve was stood arms out protectively "Don't you dare take another step closer, I don't know what's going on but you are to stay away from Claudia!"

Kaiba just stood back and burst out laughing, "Sorry but we had a deal now get out of my way" he stood shaking his head, he wasn't about to allow his best friend be taken away by this man. "Stand down agent Jinks, now what is it that you wish for Agent Donovan to do?" Mrs. Fredrick spoke walking up to Kaiba, "First to get off that filthy ground, I know she lost like a cocky little dog" at that Claudia stood up and was about to run to hit Kaiba in the face but was stopped by Artie, "Calm down kiddo," "second, she is going to attend my school on Duel island, it's called Duel academy, I've already spoke to the school board members and they are making a special acception for her, but… there is one condition she is to face off with one of the faculty members. And if she wins she's accepted into the academy. After all I won and she has to honour her side of the bet in becoming my successor"

"Dude no! I never said anything about going to school! Artie! Mrs.F!" held up her hand, "A deals a deal Agent Donovan, you will go to Duel academy and battle this teacher, Don't worry this won't effect what is meant to happen here. When does this duel take place ?"

"It takes place one week today, so I suggest you train hard and win, You are a Kaiba half pint and you are going to show them what a Kaiba is made off. I will be there watching in the stands, so be there next week at 12pm. I will send my personal chopper for you," with that he began walking back to his prize chopper and stopped to look over his shoulder, "Because if you ever expect to actually beat me, you better get into that school." With that he got into his chopper and left.

Claudia struck with shock, turned to Artie pure horror and fear in her eye's, "Please Artie, I …" "I'm sorry Claudia… there's nothing I can do apart from go with you next week… I'm sorry."

With that all the warehouse 13 agents stood in silence, as they watched Claudia trying not to break down into tears. They all knew on how she was with meeting new people, Artie just pulled her into a bear hug and watched the chopper fly off into the distance, "I promise you this though, after today he isn't welcomed here anymore…"

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Yay! Chapter 3 done and I hope you all enjoyed the duel!

What will happen at the duel academy entrance duel exam for Claudia?

For now Curedream90~ and ArticDragonSlayer~ over and out!