And here is the next chapter for Yu-Gi-Oh! Soul, now I must read a book for my exam on Wednesday and then proceed to finish the freaking chapter for Legend of Zelda Expanding the Triforce. So hope you enjoy though it isn't very long. Sorry. OH! And you can find the link to the uniform on my page thingy where my info and stuff is…. Author's page I think it's called. Yeah that thing anyway….

Chapter 3

Brody's Lock

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

4:30PM

Yugi watched Atem leave the stands to join Kaiba just as Joey and Brody got to the duel field. Atem and Kaiba exchanged a few words though they weren't projected into the stands, then Kaiba left into the section Bakura, Tristan, Téa, Regan and he were sitting in. Joey and Brody put on their duel disks and started shuffling their cards as Atem watched from the side.

"What kind of deck do you think Brody runs?" Regan asked Yugi.

"No idea, I've never heard of him. Though, he definitely has something up his sleeve if he thinks he can win against Joey." Yugi replied. "Bakura, you ever heard about him?"

"I think I remember him being in some magazine a couple of months ago, but I don't remember the deck he used." Bakura answered as Kaiba sat behind them. "What do you think of Brody, Kaiba?

"That if he got into the Blue Dorm on the first day he is a good duelist. But his attitude shows he's arrogant. So I'm expecting a good show of wheeler being mopped all over the floor, and then the American to do something stupid."

Joey and Brody activated their duel disks and set their decks in their slots ending the conversation.

"The duel between Joey Wheeler and Brody Edgar will now begin!" Atem's voice echoed the arena.

"Duel!" The two duelists shouted without a second delay.

Joey Wheeler VS Brody Edgar

Joey – 4000 Brody - 4000

"Since, you're the world famous duelist; I'm going to go first." Brody suggested as he drew his hand.

"Whatever helps with your lack of manners, go for it." Joey replied crossing his arms, not amused in the slightest with his cards already in hand.

"You tell him Joey!" Tristan cheered loudly.

Turn 1: Brody Edgar H: 5 LP: 4000

Brody drew a card from his deck. "I'm going to start off by summoning Archfiend Soldier in attack mode. Then I end my turn, let's see what you have Mr. Big Shot."

A purple fiend creature with a green cape appeared on the field.

Archfiend Soldier Fiend/Normal Attack: 1900 Defense: 1500

Turn 2: Joey Wheeler H: 5 LP: 4000

"That's all you have?" Joey asked as he drew a card. He placed it in his hand and looked over his cards.

"What's up with Joey? I've never seen him this way before." Regan asked.

"The mutt is actually being serious for once." Kaiba answered behind them almost sounding impressed.

"Joey has only been this serious a few times which is why you've never seen him this way." Tristan told Regan. "And when he's serious, that's when you need to be on your toes, he doesn't make as many jokes if any at all. And if you leave yourself open and you're his target, get ready to meet the floor both in dueling and in fighting."

"So this is Joey's true tough guy attitude then." Regan said crossing her arms as Yugi looked over at her.

"Yeah," Yugi nodded as he turned back to the duel.

"This should be interesting on who the winner is." Bakura added as he seemed to be trying to read what Brody was going play.

"I summon Panther Warrior in attack mode. Then, I activate Scapegoat." Joey said as he placed the cards on the field.

The purple panther and four different colored scapegoats appeared on the field.

Panther Warrior Beast-Warrior Attack: 2000 Defense: 1600

"I sacrifice a scapegoat to allow my panther to attack Archfiend Soldier."

The panther absorbed the orange scapegoat into its sword and proceeded to destroy the archfiend.

"I activate Dangerous Machine Type-6 and with that I end my turn."

Turn 3: Brody H: 5 LP: 3900

A small grin appeared on Brody's face as he looked at his newly drawn card. He placed it in his hand and then chose a different card. "You're so predicable; slowly digging yourself your own grave. I activate Dark Hole to destroy all your monsters."

A dark hole appeared in the middle of the field and Joey's monsters were sucked in disappearing from the field. Joey didn't make any movement of objection and Brody shrugged. "I summon Ancient Dragon and have it attack you directly."

Ancient Dragon Dragon/Effect Attack: 1400 Defense: 1300

A beige dragon appeared on the field and flew into the sky dropping onto Joey. Joey shouted something incoherent as he was thrown off his feet. He picked himself up and a glare appeared on his face.

"You'll pay for that." Joey scowled in annoyance.

"I highly doubt that." Brody smirked as the dragon's attack points went up to 1900 along with its level to level 5. "And because I attacked you directly with my dragon and succeeded dealing damage to you, it gains a level and five hundred attack points. Next I set a card down and end my turn."

Turn 4: Joey H: 3 LP: 2600

Joey drew a card and Dangerous Machine Type-6 started to glow. "Go machine give me a nice number."

The machine started to spin when Yugi noticed something. "A dark monster and this monster is a light monster, what a strange deck, they aren't even the same types."

"A light and a dark monster?" Regan questioned as the number five appeared on the machine.

"Since the machine rolled out a five, I get to destroy one monster on your field, and since you only have one; Dangerous Machine Type-6 take out his dragon!" Joey shouted

The dragon exploded into smoke and Brody's smirk turned into a grin.

"Joey is some serious trouble if Brody has an Envoy monster." Regan exclaimed suddenly.

Yugi nodded realizing what he was missing. He sighed inwardly at the way his brain was functioning, then his stomach growled and he figured out why. The noise of the stands was so loud that no one noticed the loud rumble that he felt. He was glad too; he didn't need Kaiba mocking him during Joey's duel.

"I summon Rocket Warrior to the field and he will attack you directly with fifteen hundred attack points."

A little green and yellow toy with a sword and shield appeared on the field.

Rocket Warrior Warrior/Effect Attack: 1500 Defense: 1300

"That's what you think Joey, I activate Inverse Universe." Brody commented as his facedown flipped up.

"And what does that do?"

"It switches the attack points of your monster with your defense points."

"So what, that's still thirteen hundred life points, a huge chunk that will be taking out of your life points."

The attack and defense points switched as Rocket Warrior slashed at Brody making him slide a few feet back. The monster returned to Joey's side of the field. I set one card facedown and that's that."

"Yes it is, for you at least." Brody laughed. "I draw!"

Turn 5: Brody H: 3 LP: 2600

"I activate the continuous spell Fiend Summoning!" A card with a bunch of little fiends on it appeared on the field. "This allows me once per turn to special summon a fiend monster with fifteen hundred attack points or less to my field once per turn. So I special summon Sangan from my hand."

An orange furry pumpkin like creature with green arms and legs with three eyes and pointy teeth appeared on the field.

Sangan Fiend/Effect Attack: 1000 Defense: 600

"Next, I activate Emergency Provisions and send my Fiend Summoning to the grave for an extra one thousand life points. Then, I remove from play my Ancient Dragon and my Archfiend Soldier from the graveyard to special summon Chaos Emperor Dragon – Envoy of the End!"

The monstrous dragon appeared on the field with a great roar of introduction. The crowd of students and teachers went crazy with excitement.

Chaos Emperor Dragon – Envoy of the End Dragon/Effect Attack: 3000 Defense: 2500

"I pay the thousand life points I just gained to activate my Dragon's effect to destroy our hands which you happen to have two cards and our fields which has a total of four cards to dish out a whopping total of 1800 points of effect damage to you, the Great Joey Wheeler."

Joey laughed which caused a smile to form on Yugi's face. "You thought I didn't see that coming, I have a couple of friends who happened to have Envoys and since you seemed to be confident, I guessed it had to be the Envoy of the End. So I prepared a little something for you. I activate my trap, Doppelganger. Now not only do I lose 1800 life points, but so do you!"

"You go buddy," Tristan cheered loudly over the crowd.

"Yea, show that American who's boss!" Téa shouted.

"Wait now I remember what kind of deck Brody uses!" Ryou exclaimed as he snapped his fingers. "How could I forget a deck like it, it's a Lockdown deck."

Brody growled just as the dragon sent a pulse of destruction sending both duelists off their feet. Brody picked himself up first as their life points dropped to 800. "Nice try, but that my Chaos Emperor Dragon wasn't there to put a whole in your life points."

"It wasn't?" Joey asked in confusion as he stood up.

"No, it was to make sure your field and hand was empty. Sangan's effect activates since it was sent to the graveyard I get to add a monster from my deck to my hand with 1500 attack points or less, and I'm going to normal summon it too! Meet your match; I summon Yata-Garasu to the field!"

Yata-Garasu Fiend/Spirit Attack: 200 Defense: 100

A purple raven appeared on the field with gleaming eyes. Yugi quickly recognized the monster as his memory brought up Battle City. Joey's face also showed that was he remembering the card as well.

"What does Yata-Garasu do, doesn't seem like much of a threat with a measly 200 points, but then again…" Regan asked as she trailed off looking at his face.

"It's a spirit monster,"

"A spirit monster?"

"Yeah so when it's summoned, it goes back to the hand at the end of the turn. Not only that, when it attacks and inflicts battle damage to the opponent; the opponent's draw phase is skipped."

"This is why he was in the magazine. His deck is a scary piece of work, cheap and unfair as ever, but legal. Its genius as one would put it."

"So with no cards in Joey's hand, Joey is done." Regan said in horror as she looked back at the field. "That's a horrible way to end a duel."

"That's not a cool." Téa hissed in annoyance. "It's not even fair, I hope that card get banned or something."

"I see by the look on your face you know what my little bird does." Brody bragged. "Good, glad I don't have to try and make you understand it. Yata attack him directly."

The bird flew and pecked Joey in the face. Joey almost grabbed it as it flew away.

"And I end my turn, so come back to my hand Yata."

Turn 6: Joey H: 0 LP: 600

"I pass." Joey said crossing his arms. "Though this is really the weakest and most pathetic way to take out an opponent, even a new born puppy could play out this combo."

Turn 7: Brody H: 1 LP: 800

"You're just saying that because you didn't think of it." Brody said smugly as he drew a card. "I summon Yata again to take a chunk out of the rest of your life points."

Yata appeared on the field again and wing attacked Joey's face. Yata landed on Brody's side before disappearing back to his hand showing that he had ended his turn.

Turn 8: Joey H: 0 LP: 400

"No really Brody, this is pathetic how can you even call yourself a duelist with this combo."

"You're not giving up?"

"No, I still read the meter as 400 life points; that is 400 points that I'm still in the game. I pass."

Turn 9: Brody H: 2 LP: 800

"Just give up already." Brody said as he drew his card and repeated the turn all over again. The crowd was hushed in tense excitement wondering what Joey was up to.

Turn 10: Joey H: 0 LP: 200

"No, I'm not quitting to a stupid lame deck that can't even take a punch. Your go"

Turn 11: Brody H: 3 LP: 800

"My deck can't take a hit huh; well then, allow me to give you this one chance to prove that theory. I set on card facedown and summon Alexandrite Dragon and end my turn without attacking you."

"And there is the stupid mistake I was talking about." Kaiba sighed. "Really, he had this and now he just gave the lucky bastard a free shot. Everyone knows he has a horse shoe shoved up his ass, why the hell give him the chance to draw one god damn card."

Yugi turned to Kaiba. "You seem disappointed."

"That kid is an idiot and he is attending my school in the highest level that he can get. If he loses, he's going to the Slifer Dorm."

Turn 12: Joey H: 0 LP: 200

Joey drew and looked at his card. "I activate Pot of Greed to draw two cards."

"Whatever, not like it's going to help you."

"His facedown is not friendly; he's probably trying to psych out Joey from attacking." Yugi concluded. "Not that Joey has to worry about that when he has a 2000 attack point dragon breathing down his neck."

"Next I activate Roll of Fate, this allows me to roll a dice and whatever number pops up I draw that many cards and remove from play the same number of cards from the top of my deck." Joey said as a dice appeared and rolled. It rolled a two. "Great, I draw two cards and remove two cards." He did that and a grin appeared on his face. "Time to get the show on the road! I summon Gearfried the Iron Knight."

A black iron knight appeared on the field and drew his sword.

Gearfried the Iron Knight Warrior/Effect Attack: 1800 Defense: 1600

"Yahoo, you got a knight, it's nothing compare to my dragon." Brody commented lamely.

"Not yet it isn't, there is a reason why they call me the luckiest guy in the dueling world, you made the mistake to fall into it." Joey retorted with glee. "I activate Release Restraint. I release my knight from his iron retrains to summon his true form. Come on out Gearfried the Swordmaster!"

The iron around the knight shattered and a suited up warrior appeared where the old monster stood.

Gearfried the Swordmaster Warrior/Effect Attack: 2600 Defense: 2200

"Big deal, you have a big warrior, it's not going to deplete all of my life points this turn if you did attack."

"You really need to know what to shut your trap and allow me to continue my turn!" Joey shouted at the American. "Gosh, I activate Lightning Blade and equip it to Gearfried, but it doesn't stop there. When Gearfried is equipped with something, I can target one monster on the field and destroy it. So guess who is saying goodbye?"

"Shit."

"Bingo!"

Gearfried threw the lightning blade at the dragon destroying it effectively and then the sword flew back to him.

"Well, this was fun playing this game of showing you who the real duelist is, but I'm hungry and a guy needs to eat. Gearfried attack Brody directly and end this duel!"

The monster charged and was about halfway when Brody shouted. "I'm not losing to you! I activate Ring of Destruction and target your monster!"

"Say what?!"

A ring of bombs appeared out of the card and the audience gasped in surprise as it wrapped around the warrior's neck. The bombs exploded destroying the monster and taking both duel duelists life points out with it.

Joey Wheeler – 0 Brody Edgar – 0

Draw

"This match ends in a draw!" Atem announced and the crowd cheered as the duelists turned off their disks.

"I can't believe Joey actually managed to talk Brody into unlocking his lock." Ryou said in astonishment.

"Not the first time he's talked his way out of losing." Tristan stated.

"He's getting better each day as a duelist though." Téa added.

Yugi was about to say something but the field below grew with tension causing everyone to go silent in the audience. There was a simple glare between the two and they left in their separate directions without saying anything to each other. Atem and Joey walked off stage as Chancellor Sheppard appeared on the dueling stage. "I hope everyone had as much fun watching the opening duel of the school year as much as I did. Classes will begin tomorrow, you should all have your schedules that were given to you in the mail, but if you have misplaced it then your PDA will tell you where you have to go for classes. I wish everyone a good meal to return to when you get to your dorms and a good night's sleep for tomorrow's first day of classes."

People started up their own conversations and started to leave around Yugi as he got up from his seat. The six of them left and met up with Atem and Joey on the floor just at the stand entrance. Joey looked less serious and greeted them with a smile.

"Nice duel, Joey." Tristan told high fived Joey.

"Ya, it was a good duel for what it was I guess, though I'm starving now." Joey said sheepishly.

"Same," Regan added. "I don't remember when I ate last. We should go and get going to our meals."

"Not a bad idea, I wonder how good the food is?" Yugi asked as his stomach grumbled again.

They walked out of the school together and met up with Alex at the front doors. There was a quick chat between Kaiba and Alex that Yugi didn't hear any of. Alex nodded and joined them on their walk to their dorms. They split with Tristan and Joey when they reached the Yellow Dorm. They said goodbye and good night to them and headed to the Original Blue Dorm. They entered to see the other five Original Blue students all in the main lobby taking to each other. There were where two students that Yugi didn't recognize and figured they were the other two students that were part of the dorm.

Professor Banner appeared from the top of the stairs and cleared his throat. "Dinner is waiting in the dining room; I'll join you in a moment so while you wait, you can make introduction to each other if you haven't already met yet. We'll be having to guests at our table tonight if you haven't heard. Mr. and Mrs. Kaiba will be joining us for supper before they head home."

He walked away from the staircase and into the deeper parts of the dorm. The dorm members seemed to keep their excitement to themselves as they turned to them.

"I don't believe we've met with the other half of our dorm." One of the students that he didn't know said with a strange accent he sort of recognized. Yugi turned to the black hair student with blue eyes. Another student was beside him with dirty blond hair with grey-blue eyes. "My name is Spyro Deinos from Greece and the Spaniard of our house, Renato Severanio."

Renato raised an eyebrow, "We met on the way over here and were the first ones in the dorm."

"Nice to meet you Spyro, Renato." Regan responded happily as she grabbed Yugi's arm. "I'm Regan Heartin Kaiba and this Yugi Muto."

Yugi smiled his greeting.

"I'm Téa Gardner and this is Yugi's brother Atem." Téa continued and indicated Atem and then turned to Bakura, "And this Ryou Bakura."

"Hello." Bakura said bowing slightly.

Yugi noticed Kaiba shift behind him in his usual show of annoyance at the greetings. "We should head to the dining room; Kaiba still has to fly back."

"Well then, this way." Fonda said and led the group to the doors in the hallway behind the staircase. She opened them and on the table was food set on the table with fourteen seating arrangements. Kaiba immediately took one of the ends of the table and Alex sat beside him. Regan dragged Yugi to the seats on the other side of Kaiba. Everyone else sat where they wanted to leaving the end seat to Professor Banner as he walked into the room.

"Ah glad to see I'm not that late, dig in don't wait for me." The professor said happily as he walked to his seat on the other side of the room.

Yugi was more than glad to hear those words as he grabbed some food and put it on his plate. About an hour later, the food was eaten and Kaiba and Alex were already walking to the school. There was a bit of chat during the meal, but it was rather laid back as if there wasn't a CEO of the school they were attending sitting at the table. Yugi wanted to look around the dorm before heading to bed and found Regan's door open as Phoenix walked out of the room. The cat jumped onto the banister and Yugi walked over to him. Phoenix rubbed his face against his chest and Yugi petted him a bit. Phoenix jumped off the banister and left him to explore the area, or at least that's what Yugi guessed.

Yugi walked over to Regan's room. He looked in and saw she was on her computer in the corner of the room looking at something intensely. She pressed the down button a few times and then stopped. She giggled slightly and then continued looking at the computer apparently oblivious to his existence. Whatever she was doing had her full attention. He knocked on her door and she jumped confirming she had no idea he was there.

"Oh, Yugi you scared me." She said turning to him.

"Sorry," He apologized as he walked in. "What are you doing?"

"Reading a great story."

"On the computer?"

"Yeah, on a site called FictionPress. It's where people who write stories in every type of genre and post it on the internet for other people to see and publishers can go looking for new stories and fresh authors. It's a sister site to ."

"Fanfiction site, that doesn't sound like a place I want to go to."

"It has great stories." Regan insisted, "Some of them are horrendous but others are great! But FictionPress has nothing in common with it except to allow readers to look at other people's worlds and ideas."

"So what are you reading on FictionPress?"

"This amazing story, it's gory, dark and absolutely great. The story just keeps getting better and better and I lost anyway to foreshadow what will happen next."

"So right up your alley because you like watch or read scary things in the dark, by yourself."

"Yea, though the main character, she puts a sailor to shame and she's so sarcastic. It's a beautiful contrast."

"Sounds interesting, what's the name? I might look it up later."

"The Darkwater Chronicles by TyranicFish. I have no idea if his head is on straight, but he knows how to write. It's a wonder why they aren't published in book stores."

"They have other stories?"

"Yea quite a few of them and different genres too, talented write they are, I already read what chapters they has up on them so far, so I decided to tackle their longest running one. It's several books already."

"Wish I had time to write something like that."

"Me too, but between school and saving the world, doesn't seem like that will be an option for a while."

"I think when things settle down again, I'll write about our adventures."

"You have to start with your adventure first."

"That's what prequels are for. This one will be fresh in my mind." Yugi beamed.

Regan smiled. "So what did you come for anyway?"

"Just wanted to see if you wanted to walk around this place and explore its interior."

"I see, I'll walk with you so if you get lost, we can get lost together. But after that, I have to find out what is going on in this story."

"Are you even going to bed tonight?"

"I don't know, depends if I read it all before the morning." Regan said as she stood up from her chair. "Let's go on a mini and not dangerous adventure."

And there we go! I just wanted to wish a happy birthday to my friend TyranicFish as it is his birthday and stuff, for me its several minutes late, but for him its right on the date the seventh so, Yeah... ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY~ (cake, streamers going off…. And he's ignoring everything as he is currently playing Elder Scrolls Online, loud confetti shooters things, presents)

Yeah, you should check out his stories, he needs some self-confidence and if you guys like my stories, you are probably going to like his more as his are usually grammatically correct and perfect on just about every standard. But he doesn't believe me so… if you want to say happy birthday to him and stuff check him out on FictionPress.

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