Chapter 5

Artie was sitting in the stands, watching the youngest agent of his warehouse team, and the one person that had wormed their way into his heart. He clenching his fists, his eye's hardened slightly 'Alright kiddo, you you've been talking big and acting cocky up until now, let's see if you've actually got it in you to win this… I believe in you…"

Professor Crowler stood tall with a smirk on his face, "Alright you little brat, this won't take too long, so don't go crying to daddy when you lose…" he drew his first card, "Alright I activate my field spell Gear town!" suddenly the stadium shook slightly and the visual images of an old rustic gear town appeared around Claudia. Professor Crowler was grinning until Claudia slumped her arms down to the ground sweat dropping.

"Seriously? Why do all relics from the prehistoric times, all play ancient gears?" Professor crowlers mouth dropped slightly, a very large angry cross began pulsing on his forehead, while he was so focused on the teenager in front of him , someone spoke up from the crowd, "CLAUDIA! Zip it and just beat this guy!"

Slapping a hand to her face she turned to where Artie was sat in the crowd, "Quite caveman I'm trying to focus here!"

"Enough! It's still my turn! I summon to the field Ancient gear solider! And then I use the magic card Mystic space typhoon to destroy my field spell, to special summon Gajitron dragon to the field! Then I end my turn, now make your move!"

He covered his mouth slightly grinning behind his cards, 'this kid doesn't know what she's got herself into, there is no way she can get passed Gajitrondragon or what I've got in store for her on my next turn, this will be over in no time….'

Claudia stood up straight, her face suddenly getting serious, "Alright it's my turn then Grandma! I draw!" She looks down to her hand and then back to the field thinking slightly, "I summon to the field Gagaga Magician in attack mode! Then I activate my spell card, Gagaga Lightning, this allows me to destroy one monster on your side of the field so sorry ruffles! Gajitrondragon is going to the R.I.P Zone!"

With that a beam of lightning hit Gajitrondragon instantly destroying him, Professor crowler slouched forward slightly gaping. His mighty beast taken out so quickly, "Now Gagaga Magician attack gear solider!" her wizard gave a slight nod and charged forward taking out solider and dealing 200 points of damage to Crowler, "Now before I end my turn I place one card face down, Your move cross dresser."

One card appeared face down on the field behind Gagaga Magician, she crossed her arms giving off a natural Kaiba look. Professor Crowler gritted his teeth "Alright you cocky little kid," he took a card from the top of his deck and he began to laugh, "Alright I use Monster reborn to bring back Gajitrondragon from the grave, and then I activate polymerization to fuse him, as well as Ancient gear golem and one more ancient gear from my hand to special summon Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem!... hahaha I bet you've never seen such a mighty beast on the field before! Behold!"

He outstretched his arms as a giant ancient machine appeared on the field.

Claudia took a step back and gulped slightly, "Oh Fracking hell" this made Crowler smile more making him think he had it in the bag, until "I activate my face down card, Gagaga Shield!"

"That won't do you much good! Ultimate ancient gear golem attack!"

In a swift move his machine attacked Claudia's monster, creating a large dust of smoke, after a few moments Claudia's monster was still on the field but her life points had taken a heavy chunk.

In the stands Claire gripped onto Artie's arm, it was her first time she had ever witnessed something like this, Artie placed a hand on top of hers, "Come on kiddo…"

Professor Crowler looked slightly shocked "Wha…what?" this gave Claudia chance to smirk back at him, "Sorry Teach… but my monster stays on the field, yeah I may have taken damage but I still get to keep my monster."

"Whatever, I end my turn with a facedown, just make your move…" Crowlers eye's left her form and down to his face down card, 'There's no way she can win, my defence is flawless…. Even if she has a monster powerful enough to take out my Ultimate gear monster, I have the perfect back up plan just in case, once she attack's my mirror force will wipe out all her monsters…."

Claudia raised her eye brow, and drew a new card from her deck, "Alright grandma, I summon Gagaga Gardna in attack mode, and then I overlay these two level 4 star monsters to create Utopia!"

He let out a snarky laugh, "Oh desperate times call for desperate Measures my dear huh? Your only postponing the inevitable… it's over…"

The snarky teenager huffed, "Huh, oh really now caveman? Well this is how we do it 21st century style and not from the stone-age… I activate the magic card Rank-up Barians force to upgrade my Utopia to my ultimate monster Utopia ray V!"

In the crowds, Kaiba had been watching the whole duel and was surprised on how fast his niece kept outsmarting and pulling back different combinations to win the duel, and it had looked to him that she was tormenting Crowler. Artie on the other hand couldn't help but smile, " That's it, that's my kiddo…" Claire smiled, she was proud of her sister.

"Alright Gramps, I activate Utopia ray V's special ability by removing one XYZ material, and that means I get to destroy your monster" Crowlers eye's widened as he watched his monster destroyed, but his smile never faltered, "Go on then! You destroyed my monster so attack!"

He smirked more ready to activate his face down card, when ready, "This is why I say you can never teach an old dog new tricks Crowler, you see, when Utopia Ray V destroy's a monster on the field right… that destroyed monsters Attack points gets turned into damage points so sorry dude but it's game. I win, AS you are down to 0 Life points."

Falling to the floor Professor Crowler couldn't believe it, this kid had outsmarted him and won the duel, now he had to deal with her cocky attitude for the next 4 years.

Claudia stood there, when suddenly the crowd began going wild, kids cheering for her, clapping was heard, she turned around and then saw the man that introduced her walking up to the stage, "Congratulation's Miss Donovan, I am happy to say that you are accepted into my school Duel Academy, I was very impressed with how you played today and how you was able to stay calm to use your brain to win. I would like to place you into Obelisk Blue"

Claudia didn't know what to say, she was feeling so overwhelmed by winning and everyone cheering for her, that words wouldn't come out until she heard a familiar voice behind her, "With all due respect sir, Miss Donovan is a skilled duelist but at this current moment in time I think it would be best to place her in slifer Red, being in such a large dorm building maybe a little overwhelming for her straight away. Plus with these skills she has shown us today, there is no doubt In my mind her potential will grow. Let Miss Donovan adjust to the school first before forcing her to deal with the elites of the school."

Turning around Claudia saw the same boy that gave her the prep talk before the duel Zane Trusdale, She didn't know on how these dorms worked so she just listened to the conversation, Especially when talking to people she didn't know she just sort of froze up, "I see, Well Zane you are one of my most responsible and well respected student on campus, Well Miss Donovan We've only just started the term year, I will be expecting you tomorrow. Zane here will show you to your dorm rooms tomorrow 9am sharp?"

Claudia nodded and shook hands with the man who was smiling like a Cheshire cat, but before she could speak to Zane the red haired teenager heard her name being called, she turned to the left and saw Kaiba standing there arms crossed.

"come with me for a moment, I want a private word with you Claudia…"

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Standing in front of a small run down dorm house, Claudia held onto the messenger bag on one shoulder and a guitar on the other, standing next to her was Zane, holding her duffel bag, she hadn't brought much stuff to Duel academy as she was told they had special uniforms for the students.

Closing her eye's she thought back to the conversation with her uncle the day before,

'flash back'

Standing on the docks of Duel Academy, Kaiba was facing the vast ocean, his trench coat blowing with the wind while Claudia was staring at his back, hands in her pockets. "You wanted to see me just to look at the ocean?"

He turned his head slightly to her, she saw a different look in his eyes, a sudden gentler look, "No I must say Claudia I was impressed today I told you to duel like a Kaiba and you did, I expect to receive good reports on how you do here, and that you hit Obelisk blue before you finish Duel Academy. On the holiday's you can go back to that dump in South Dakota apart from the summer, I expect you at Kaiba Corp training under me in becoming the future successor."

She let out a Tch, turning her head away from him, "I don't understand on why you think you can tell me what to do Kaiba, You're not my father … only Artie has that right" he turned his full body towards her and grabbed her chin, "That old man isn't your flesh and blood like I am, I know what it's like kid, no parent's, being adopted. Having to grow up before your ready too, now listen to me when you were duelling out there today I could have sworn I saw Mokuba in you."

Her eye's snapped back onto the taller man, she had only ever heard Mrs Fredrick call her father Mokuba, "You are a Kaiba by blood, but you have more of your mother in you, I only met her a few times, it's the reason why I never spoke to my brother. I'm sorry but I can't be a father to you but I can try and guide you…" she closed her eye's looking down, she hated it when people spoke about her biological father, especially when she couldn't tell them the real reason on why he's dead.

That was until she felt a cold metal chain around her neck, snapping her chocolate eye's open she looked down and saw a necklace version of a Yugioh card, the same Necklace Kaiba was wear- wait where was his necklace.

"I'm sorry but that's all I have left of your father, and I think you should have it." She opened it up and saw a picture of her father from when he was only a child, no older than 10. Her eye's began to glistened over as she ran a thumb over his face, "Dad?" she looked up to see Kaiba but he was gone, and she was left alone on the docks. An she stayed there for some time until Artie and Claire found her.

~End of flashback~

"Miss Donovan?" opening her eye's she looked to the right to see Zane holding her duffel bag, "Are you ready to go to your dorm room?" she took a deep breath and nodded, "I was born ready…." Raising an eye brow to her not so convinced, he took a step forward heading up some steps, looking to the piece of paper, once reaching a door he urged her to unlock it in which she did.

"You will be sharing this dorm with two other people, unfortunately since it's only a small dorm, you can't have your own room until you work your way up the ranks. Which if I'm right you will." Claudia sighed, "Thanks dude for … helping me and for taking time out of your busy day, but… why are you being so nice to me?"

He placed her bag on one of the three desks in the room then turned to her, "Like I said to you yesterday Miss Dono-" she held a hand up towards him, "I'm gonna have to stop you right there bro, cause it's just weird being called Donovan all the time, just call me Claudia."

He nodded, "Right Claudia, as I was saying I said I saw potential in you and I still do, There is a fire inside you that's just starting to burn and I can see that fire expanding" he walked up closer to her, "Your uniform's on your bed, if you have any problems feel free to tell me."

He watched the teenager place her guitar next to the desk with her duffel bag on, then laid her Messenger bag on the desk, he noticed she was wearing a knee length black leather jacket today with some light blue jeans and salmon pink vest, he had to admit the girl was cute even with the gothic make up. "Thank you Zane, this means a lot to me, I suppose I should get settled in then…" he nodded and walked passed placing a hand on her right shoulder, "Yes you should, because Claudia the real challenge starts tomorrow."

With that he began to leave when she heard the voice again, 'Our Master….has arrived..'

Blinking her eye's she looked to the door and saw that Zane was gone. Sighing she walked over to the wardrobes, and noticed one had her name on it, she opened it up and saw the school uniform, she had a choice of a long sleeve red jacket or red waist coat, black under vest, and a red skirt. Pulling a face at the skirt she quickly plucked it out and threw it in the nearest trash can. "No way is some horny teenage boy going to be seeing up my skirt."

With that she began to unpack, before deciding to take her Ducati out for a spin around campus to get herself familiar with the Island.

Her roommates wouldn't be back till at least 5pm for dinner, so she had over 6 hours to herself, which was plenty of time to relax and not panic.

She did know this though; it was going to be one interesting school year.

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Well that's it for now! Hope you enjoy reading this chapter!

Who's going to be Claudia's roommates?

Will she ever find out who that voice belongs too?

And where's Jinksy?

Curedream90~ and ArticDragonSlayer~ over and out!