Chapter 6
The sound of music was blasting into Claudia's ear's as she was laid on the bottom bunk in just a black vest and pair of black male boxers on, her eye's was closed slowly falling into a light slumber. She had ran her bike around Duel Island three times just so she could memorise where everything was, checked out a few stores on the island, it was a good job that the Warehouse paid wages for her otherwise she'd have no money for anything.
She'd bought a couple of sherbet lemons, 2 litre coke which she still had the snow globe Artifact to keep it cold up until she installed a mini fridge into the place. One wall was covered in rock/metal posters which she had brought a long, Her guitar was at the bottom of the bed on a stand, she considered changing the bed spread to purple but after the long day she was just worn out, her duelling gear was left in a draw at her desk, that held her name on it.
On the path up towards the slifer dorms, was two males, one brunette the other a pale blue colour and slightly shorter. "So the new kid is rooming with us? I can't believe you missed the duel yesterday Sirus! She was awesome! Took out Crowler on just her second turn!" the shorter guy known as Sirus sweat dropped, "Well sorry for being in bed sick Jaden, I wanted to see the duel but I couldn't, I can't believe were going to be rooming with a girl! oh my god what am I going to say to her? How's the room arrangements going to work out? Is she going to kick us out? What if we walk in on her changing?"
Jaden just waved his hand slightly, sticking his other hand into the red jacket, "I wouldn't worry about it too much bro, so long as I can duel her at some point! I wonder if she has any trades on her!" suddenly getting excited about meeting their room mate, Jaden began to speed up on his feet, "Hey Jaden! Wait up!"
Jaden just looked back with a silly grin on his face, "Sorry bro, but I'm all pumped up to meet her! I never got chance yesterday because she disappeared right after her match."
Running up the stairs to their dorm room, Jaden shoved his room key into the hole and swung the door open, "HEL-" he stopped midway when he saw the new girl, laying on his bed, half naked in which she looked like she was sleeping.
Jaden slowly began to back out the room, his face almost as red as his jacket, but Sirus ran into his back making them both tumble to the ground. The racket, caused Claudia to jump up from her slumber to see two males at her door. Instantly she took out her earplugs and throwing the covers of the bed sheets over her legs. "What the Frack are you two doing! Get out of my room!"
Sirus was the first to recover due to him not seeing Claudia in her boxers, "Excuse me but this is our room too! And why are you laying in Jaden's bed?" she just picked up something on the bed side table and threw it at them "I SAID GET OUT! FRAKING PERVERTS!" Instantly Jaden grabbed his friend, keeping a hand over his eye's, "w….we're so sorry!" and with that after bumping into a few things, he managed to get both himself and his friend out slamming the door shut.
Claudia jumped out of bed and threw on her skinny jeans with some socks and trainers, she had never been so embarrassed in her life, Zane never mentioned that she would be rooming with two guy's.
After taking a few shaky breaths, a small knock was heard, walking over to the door taking in a deep breath the red haired teenager opened the door to see that Jaden was stood there with his eye's closed, but hands up to protect himself just in case she was still mad at him "Decent?"
Giving her brown eye's a roll, "Just get in dude," the boy uncovered his young eye's, and walked in, she noticed the shorter one still outside, his face slightly dazed, but her eye's then wandered over to Jaden who was straightening out the bed sheets. Letting out a sigh she ran a hand through her red locks, "Look dude, I'm sorry I didn't know that was your crib, or the fact that I was rooming with dudes."
Jaden stood up wiping his hands on his jeans, then turned to her smiling, "It's cool bro, I was way too excited to meet you that I didn't even consider knocking; by the way I'm Jaden Yuki, and my friend over there is Sirus. I'm really sorry for just barging in. I swear I didn't see much…" he held out a hand and she just gave a nervous smile, but shook it, "Claudia Donovan. Why was you excited to meet me? I'm just the new girl nothing special about that"
Jaden just laughed, "Nothing special? Bro you took out Crowler in just your second turn! I wanted to talk with you because of your duelling, how long have you been playing?"
"A month, or slightly more with what use to be my job, being a duellist doesn't really matter to me, I lost a bet so now I have to be stuck here for the next 4 years doing something that means nothing to me." She let go of his hand and then sat down on his bed again, She looked down to the floor "I don't even want to be here, I want to be back in South Dakota with my mix match family,"
Jaden just ran a hand through his chocolate locks, but it was Sirus who spoke, "That must be really hard for you then, but to beat crowler in two turns, just from learning the game a month ago you must be skilled." Giving her shoulders a shrug "Not really, I just studied the game and I suppose you can call him my guardian trained me."
The boy's looked to each other and raised an eye brow, "Guardian? What about your parents? Don't they train you?" that was when they noticed a sad look inside her eye's, Claudia's mouth didn't move as she just looked away from them, Jaden didn't get why she was so quite but Sirus did. He looked down to the floor, "Oh… I'm sorry I didn't…" "No you didn't know it's ok peanut, I'm fine about it now I have my mix match family back home and that's all I need. No social gatherings, no friends really"
Jaden frowned at that "No friends? Now that can't be fun. Well I can easily fix that! I'm going to be your friend. Got that?" Claudia stood up and let off a small smirk, "I suppose I can trust you dude, right then we need to make some ground rules, Don't touch my guitar, my gadgets or even my clothes!
So that means no touching the laptop, Ipad, phone or anything electrical. I tested the doors earlier and that's not strong enough to keep intruders out so I'm going to be setting up a slight security system to make sure we don't get broken into, sorry dudes, but some kids these day's still steal other people's things."
Sirus stood back slightly impressed with the girl but thought slightly, "Hang on a minute why do you get to make the ground rules? We were living here before you Claudia!" She crossed her arms, which made her breasts slightly bigger, "Because I have the ammunition and If I got to live with a bunch of guy's then they follow my rules…. Or I will have to stun you guy's each and every time."
Once they had all agreed, they had all sat down on the floor, Jaden was looking over Claudia's deck while, Sirus was watching the girl tinker about with her duel disk, she had completely taken it apart and was connecting wires in different places, he moved closer to her to try and make out what she was doing, until she turned her head sideways "Can I help you?"
He sat back slightly "Sorry I didn't mean to disturb you but what are you doing?" She just gave a smile to him, "You never seen someone do tech work on their duel disk? One of my wire's fried in the duel with Crowler for the 3D imaging, so I'm just fixing it and maybe making a few more advancements on it too, You see here little dude, when Kaiba made these he tried to pack so much stuff into the duel disk, when it's over used it will over heat and the wires right here" she pointed to the 5 ones attached to the monster field, "Start to fry, I'm guessing he sent me a pre used Duel Disk so I'm trying to fix it"
Sirus sat back and pushed up his glasses slightly "Wow so your some Genius then, but why are you in Slifer if you're so smart?" after hearing that, she placed down her gadgets and sat back against the bed, "You know I don't really know, the head master wanted me in blue but this guy Zane…. He suggested I be in Red."
She looked to him , and noticed him stiffen at the name slightly but didn't push it, "Any case, when's dinner I'm starving?" placing a hand to her flat stomach, that made Jaden's head perk up. Only to have a slight alarm sound go off, "That would indicate dinner is ready!"
With that Both Claudia and Jaden raced down to the dining room for dinner.
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The next morning at 7am, Claudia's alarm went off giving a slight groan, she reached over to try and turn it off but, almost fell out of bed which made her snap her eye's open, "Crap!" she had forgotten hers was on the top bunk, and there snoring on the bottom was Jaden, sighing this was something she'd have to get use too.
Grabbing a pillow and throwing it in Jaden's face, "Oi! Turn the alarm off dude!" Snapping awake himself, drool hanging off his chin, "What? Earthquake?" the Red head groaned and just dragged herself out of bed lucky she remembered to wear some white sweatpants to bed, now that she was rooming with two guy's her habits had to change.
"Just wake up dude," once her feet touched the floor she gave out a stretch and cracked her neck, "Ugh 7am wake up call for the next 6 weeks, half term needs to get here soon." She saw both boy's just sat in bed rubbing their eye's. a pair of light blue boot cut jeans and grey t-shirt saying South Dakota rules, underwear and her red waist coat, she went into the bathroom to take a nice hot shower.
30 minutes later she came back out finished and both boy's was dressed, although Jaden looked half dead. Walking over to her desk, she sat down and began to place on her signature dark make up, "Morning Claudia how'd you sleep last night?" Sirus spoke, she let out a small smile, "Great, until that damn alarm went off," she leaned forward with a pencil in her hand placing on some eye liner.
Jaden let out another Yawn, "Nervous about today?" Taking in a deep breath, sitting back, "Yeah… I… don't do well with social crowds…." She finished her make up and moved onto throwing her hair up in a pony-tail, "Well the red waist coat looks good on you, and I'm sure you'll do just fine you'll have us there" he gave a goofy grin, thumbs up.
That placed a smile on her face standing up, she'd just finished getting ready, placing on a second belt that held her duelling deck she was ready to go, "Why don't we grab some food on the way to class then? How far of a walk is it to the school?"
"30 minutes, we're right on the edge of the island, it's been a nightmare every morning trying to get there on time." Giving out a grin, she picked up her key's "Well good job I have my car then, come on dudes lets go" with that they walked out of their dorm, and up to Claudia's silver Prius.
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It didn't take long to reach the school since Claudia had taken a drive the day before, she knew exactly where to go, she had told Sirus he had to sit in the back because he was smaller than Jaden, who had tried to mess about with her radio station but she instantly slapped his hand away.
As she parked her car in the school lot, sitting back looking up at the building her heart rate began to beat a little fast, gripping onto the steering wheel. "Claud? Are you ok?" Spoke Jaden, he noticed her breathing sped up, reaching over placing a hand on her shoulder, she suddenly looked to him, "Are you ok bro?" quickly wiping imaginary sweat off her forehead she gulped and nodded, "Yeah, no pressure… just another school…. Nothing can go wrong right?"
"Claud…. was you?" "Yeah… I was, doesn't matter though come on, let's just go ok?" with that she took the key's out of the ignition and got out of the car, both boy's looked to each other then got out themselves.
Sirus took the lead, while Claudia stayed next to Jaden as they walked into the building, she noticed a few people staring, and some whispering which caused her to grab onto the back of the boy's jacket and clutched her bag, "Hey… it's going to be ok Claud, relax no one's going to hurt you." She just gripped more onto his jacket and he sighed. He didn't understand girls at all and now he had to live with one.
Just as they reached the classroom, he felt the girl let go of his jacket and noticed her shrink back slightly "H…how many students are going to be in there?" he shrugged, but the smaller boy looked up, "30 I think, hey it's nothing to worry about." With that they walked up to a desk halfway up the classroom and sat down, with Claudia in the middle of both boy's, when the other student's noticed they did look and stare, but one person walked up to the trio, he had jet black hair, and wearing a long dark blue trench coat, "Well, well, well It's the new kid that beat Crowler in just two turns."
Claudia looked up to meet his eye's, they was rough looking and held deep anger, "And your sat here with the Slifer slackers, oh wait your one of them ain't you? Couldn't Kaiba's money buy you into obelisk blue like it's bought you a free education here?" This was what she was afraid off, nasty kids who want to push other people over. "Hey Chazz leave her alone, she got into this school fair and square just like the rest of us."
The dark haired kid leaned over to Sirus "Make me slacker, she's not even wearing the correct uniform, she won't last long in this school, especially against me, I don't even know why YOUR! Still here, after all you've lost all your duels so far in the school….maybe the headmaster just feels sorry for you" At that moment, Claudia stood up slamming her hand on the table, "Oi, you little shit, don't you dare speak to him like that! If you want to pick on someone then pick on me! But don't you insult Sirus."
Chazz stood back up and laughed slightly, "So the female slacker does know how to use her trap. Listen girly I'm in obelisk blue the highest status in this school and one of the top duellists so I can talk and pick on anyone I like." That just got Claudia even angrier, she reached out gripping onto Chazz coat, and ragged him forward, "Not while I'm around, You think you're the best huh? Then prove it! Or are you too scared to lose against a girl in a duel?"
Blinking slightly and slapping her hands off his coat, he stood back "Oh you think you can beat me in a duel? Then it's on! After school in the Arena if you lose, then both you and the little dweeb will have to be my slaves for a week."
Claudia's eye's hardened slightly the last time she made a bet she lost, and she didn't know what type of deck Chazz played, but she never backed out of a fight, whether it's with fists, Tesla's or even some snot nose kid, "Alright but I'll win, and when I do, you're going to apologise to Sirus in a maid's outfit! Right in front of the whole school! So make sure you bring your A-game tonight Arsehole." With a grunt, they both shook hands and Chazz walked off not looking back but held a smirk to his face.
Claudia sat down then suddenly realised what she'd done, covering her face with both hands and sighing, "Oh crap…. A fight on the first day of school…. Not what I wanted." Sirus placed a hand on her lower back, "Thanks Claudia, you meant well but I can handle Chazz, just back out of the duel."
Jaden had listened to the whole conversation, "I can duel him instead if you want…" Shaking her head, she sighed sitting back looking up to the ceiling, "No I can't, once I accept a fight, I go through with it. Let's just hope I win…. Without knowing his deck I can't get ahead of him…"
Suddenly an idea popped into her head, "Hey Sirus does the school keep a database of the student's decks?" "Yeah, we've got to register any new decks we build to the school that way they can make sure that we aint doing anything illegal.."
A smile formed on her face, "Well…. That's perfect, because illegal is my middle name." After hearing that sentence Sirus really didn't want to know what she was planning but he was going to find out soon enough.
With that Class soon began, all that was left was the countdown to Claudia's first duel of the school year.
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And another chapter up and done! Wahoooo!
What's Claudia got planned on finding out Chazz's deck?
Will she win the duel?
And why did she pick Maid's outfit?
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