Duel and dialog within the duel written by Romadrox.

"Submit! And the princess of Academia would like..."

"Not on your life and never! I don't want your stupid go-easy deals! We shall fight fully!"

Yuri had pinned Serena on the floor of the Academia training arena. Serena raised her boot and kicked Yuri in the stomach, sending him across the floor and Serena was freed.

"Not bad…" said Yuri as he rubbed his cheek from the hit.

"Yeah well take this!" Serena raised a punch and ran forward before Yuri, before she could connect, a siren went off. Serena stopped mid-hit. "What was that?!"

"It's a siren to stop this pitiful fight." A man in a black military outfit looked over the training arena. He had a whip in one hand and had a mustache. Serena and Yuri looked above.

"Sanders!" the two said at once.

"Yes, and I have to say this "fight" is pathetic." Sanders replied. "As head of Academia's training in all forms of physical combat and movement, I have to say you're weak!"

"We were asked to come here by Sora to get Serena back in fighting form after her injury in the coliseum." Yuri replied.

"Yes and I was ordered to watch over this "fight"!" said Sanders. "You know, I've never rated you girl!"

"You what?" said Serena.

"You're vital to the Arc Area Project but other than that, you're a measly Slifer Red!" Sanders replied. "Yuri is a high-ranking member for a reason! He can fight, he can perform, and he can duel!"

"How dare you!" said Serena.

"My job is to train all ranks and produce the finest Obelisk Blue students, and beyond! You're better than your fellow Slifer Red's but a Slifer Red is a Slifer Red, bottom of the chain!"

"Shut it!" said Yuri, protecting Serena.

"Yuri, on the field you are in command of small groups, but here, I'm in charge!" Sanders said. "I'm a higher rank then you, you will obey me!" Sanders aimed his whip at Yuri. "Just because you're vital parts, doesn't mean you're above me! Do you want to be punished again?!"

"What about you, Sanders?" A female voice was heard, she emerged behind Sanders.

She wore a purple coat which went slightly over her legs. It was buttoned down the right side and had an armband on her left arm along with purple pants and black boots. She had messy purple hair which mid-length and tied in a bun at the top. The female had black skin. Serena and Yuri were shocked.

"Marina!" the two said.

"Hey Serena, Yuri." she said. Sanders turned around in shock.

"Marina?!"

"Yes Sanders, glad to see you know who I am." Marina replied. "And you know what power I command. Now if you wish to remain in your job, scram, I'll take it from here."

"Y.. yes.." he said as he quickly ran off into the distance. Marina overlooked Serena and Yuri while doing a thumbs up to them.

Now below, Marina along with Serena and Yuri were now talking.

"Thanks for coming Marina." Serena said.

"Well what our friends for?" she replied.

"Yeah well… I would've beaten you Serena anyway…" joked Yuri. Serena punched Yuri in the shoulder. "Ow!" he said as he rubbed it.

"As ever, you two have a weird relationship…." Marina said. "Ever since the orphanage you two have been like this."

"Well maybe if Yuri ever grew up…..!" Serena said as she looked at Yuri with an embarrassed look.

"Well even though you should be training under Sanders, the Professor will understand about letting me take over your training. Anything is better than that old fart teaching you."

"Cool." said Serena. "But don't you have a squad to prepare for your deployment into Ritual soon?"

"Yeah, you always put your team first." Yuri replied. "Unless we're going to Ritual as well?"

"No, Serena is still recovering. Yuri I presume you will be sent out a mission soon enough to retrieve another dragon fragment, but the Professor knows that you wouldn't be at your best until Serena left the hospital ward; thankfully she was only there for a few days. Anyway, follow me to the coliseum, I need to test someone."

"Coliseum…." said Serena in a worried tone.

"Don't worry Serena." Marina said as he looked at Serena. "I know you're scared since what happened there but you can't show fear in Academia, you have to face your fear."

"I know." said Serena.

"Who are you testing?" Yuri asked.

"Gloria Tyler. It's her test to see if she will be one of my field commanders in Ritual. I need good people to assist me."

"Damnit… I'm a field commander…." Yuri said in annoyance.

"But… Gloria… Tyler?!" said Serena. "You picked her…. are you trying to get close to her?…." Serena said in a teasing way, Marina slightly blushed.

"What?... No! This is purely professional! I trained alongside her before the rankings were been given out when Academia begun… she's a good fighter."

Coliseum

Marina stood out in the coliseum as Yuri and a slightly nervous Serena were sat in the stands. There alongside them was Grace Tyler, Gloria's sister and a fellow field commander. Facing Marina was Gloria with her long blonde hair.

"So Marina… I presume you will test me to your full strength?" Gloria asked.

"I always do." said Marina. "I need the best to duel for me in Ritual. Commander Edo has a more experienced mindset when hiring field commanders… I prefer a different kind of warrior."

"Well we were both promoted to Obelisk Blue in an instant and quickly rose to higher ranks, just you did better than me, but that changes today! I will beat you and win a place as a field commander!"

"Excellent." replied Marina as she active her purple and white Academia duel disk while Gloria activated hers.

"Come on Gloria!" yelled Grace.

"Marina and Gloria are the same age." said Serena. "Both are eighteen and have both shared big experiences for Academia, this will be tough for her."

"Marina came from the same orphanage as us." replied Yuri. "Heck, we've known her since then as well. The girl always dueled on the streets to get money for the orphanage, until the Professor save the Fusion Dimension from the hell it was before. I put my money on her."

"But don't forget Gloria carded a lot in XYZ." added Grace. "She'll win!"

"No way!" Yuri replied. "Marina got more, hence why she got promoted to one of the five commanders."

"I wonder if she can get through this without blushing…" Serena said.

"What do you mean?" Grace said. Serena looked tense as she let slip a secret.

"Nothing, it's fine." she reassured.

Turn 1

Gloria LP: 4000 Hand: 5

Marina LP 4000 Hand: 5

"I'll begin by first revealing Amazoness Swords Woman so I can summon Amazoness Spy to my field in defence position via its own effect!" she exclaimed as an Amazon warrior with only a dagger in her hand looked out from Gloria's field. "After that, I summon Amazoness Swords Woman!"

Amazoness Spy ATK: 800 DEF: 1200 Earth/Warrior/Level 3

Amazoness Swords Woman ATK 1500 DEF 1600 Earth/Warrior/Level 4

"Are you still using your Amazoness?" Marina asked.

"Yes, why do you say that?"

"Why do you look so much like that archetype….?" Marina teased.

"You mean I look grumpy?" Gloria exclaimed as her body was surrounded by a dark aura and showed a murderous look

"Gloria she is saying that you are bossy and that you have the attitude of a gorilla!" yelled Grace from the sidelines in a joking manner.

"NO, NO, NO, it's not that! I think it's great because of the subject of the warriors and that's always been my image of you ... sorry." said Marina as Gloria was beginning to blush and Marina kept laughing because of her nervousness, while on the other side of the bench, Yuri and Serena had their palms in the face.

"Yuri, when do you think Marina is gonna make a move on her?"

"Sigh…when someone starts using the Ojama's in a non-ironic way." Yuri replied.

"I activate the Amazoness Village Field Spell When this card is activated, all my Amazoness gain 200 points of attack!" The coliseum begun to grow plants and trees around the field. Small straw huts were also formed.

Swords Woman ATK 1700

Spy ATK: 1000

"I set a card and finish my turn." said Gloria.

Turn 2

Gloria LP: 4000 Hand: 1

Marina LP 4000 Hand: 5

"Idraw!" said Marina. "I activate Foolish Burial to send to my Attribute Knight Hameline the Lord of Ashes to the graveyard. As I do not have any monsters on the field, I summon Attribute Knight: Raimond the Gaia Knight!" A knight emerged from the earth. He had a huge sword and his armour was yellow.

Attribute Knight: Raimond the Gaia Knight ATK 1500 DEF: 1000 Earth/Warrior/Level 4

"When Raimond is Special Summoned, this allows me to add a new Attribute Knight to my hand; I choose Joe of The Lake and summon him to the field." A torrent of water arose and a new knight with two swords appeared.

Attribute Knight: Joe of the Lake 1900 ATK / 1000 DEF / Water / Warrior / Level 4

"Huh, then you finally show why you call yourself the Academy Paladin." said Gloria.

"Yes, that nickname came after I beat my superior when I was still training. It was in that battle that I won this deck. I took that nickname because I will become the ideal soldier, so I can protect the people I care about. If that means not being able to sleep well, so be it.." Marina explained as she showed an empty smile and her gaze pointed to Yuri and Serena.

"... Continue with the duel and leave your melodrama"

"Yes, ma'am!" Marina joked as her empty smile disappeared and a more challenging face came over which caught Gloria's attention. "I will play my Spell Card Terracotta Knights, which allows me to summon Terracotta Tokens X the monsters I have, I bring them out in defence position!"

Terracotta Soldier 0000 ATK / 0000 DEF / Fire / Token / Level 4 X 2

"Then I'll Contact Fuse my Joe with Raimond to summon my Attribute Knight Colinus the Smasher!" She said as her knights entered a vortex and a new knight with two large gauntlets and who wore huge armour with big horn in the hull emerged.

"Then that deck also resorts to Contact Fusion like Gladiator Beasts?" added Gloria. "I knew you were good Marina but I'm very impressed."

Attribute Knight: Colinus the Smasher 2300 ATK / 1200 DEF / Earth / Level 6 / Warrior /

"By the number of monsters of different attributes that I have on the field excluding my Earth type Colinus, I can destroy that same number of cards that you have on the field. I choose your Amazoness monsters! I have two Fire types, so you lose two monsters!" Her two Amazons were wiped out right before her eyes.

"When one of my Amazoness is destroyed by a card effect or battle, I can summon another on the field due to the effect of Amazoness Village and I bring out Amazoness Princess in attack!"

Amazoness Princess 1200 ATK / 900 DEF / Earth / Level 3 / Warrior /

"When Princes is Special Summoned, I can select an Amazoness card from my deck and add it to my hand." Gloria said as her new monster sprang up.

"Battle, Colinus attack her Princess!"

"I play my set Quick-Play Spell! Relief of the Amazon! When an Amazon is about to be destroyed in battle, I can tribute it and Special Summon another from my hand!" She proclaimed as Princess disappeared and a new one was summoned. It had blue hair and was sat on a throne. "Appear Amazoness Queen!" yelled Gloria.

Amazoness Queen 2400 ATK / 1800 DEF / Earth / Level 6 / Warrior /

"Tch.. due to the fact it's not a replay, I will not continue my attack. Well played Gloria, this ends my turn." Marina said, a little disillusioned. "Next turn I will try and beat you!"

Turn 3

Gloria LP: 4000 Hand: 1

Marina LP 4000 Hand: 3

"Draw! I play Pot of Greed and draw two cards from my deck!" Gloria exclaimed as she played the card and then took two new cards from her deck. "I will use Polymerization to merge my Queen with my Paladin in my hand to Fusion Summon Amazoness Empress!" Gloria performed the pose of fusion with her two hands. Her Amazoness monsters were united in a vortex to create a new Amazon with dark skin that possessed a powerful sword. "My powerful Amazon Empress emerges!"

Amazoness Empress 2800 ATK / 2400 DEF / Earth / Level 8 / Warrior /

"Thanks to the Village effect, my Empress gains 200 points of attack!"

Empress ATK: 3000

"Now my Empress', destroy her Colinus!" Her emperor jumped hard and prepared her sword to break Marina's knight in two. She slashed across and destroyed it in an instant.

Marina LP: 4000 - 3300

"I will then activate a Quick-Play Spell from my hand! Amazonian Strength! This allows me to halve my monsters attack points, which allows me to me to attack all the monsters on your field! I also can cause piercing damage for this turn!

Empress ATK: 1400

"I attack your two Tokens!" Empress swung her sword as the two monsters and dealt piercing damage.

Marina LP: 3300 - 500

"I finish my turn; I hope your last turn is worth something." Gloria boasted as Marina got up after the attacks.

"It will, don't worry!"

Turn 4

Gloria LP: 4000 Hand: 0

Marina LP: 500 Hand: 3

"I draw! I activate from my graveyard Hameline's ability. This allows me to add a Attribute Knight card from my Deck but I must banish Hameline, I will take Genesis Fusion. Then I will activate Return to the New Genesis which allows me to summon an Attribute Knight from my deck to my field with its effects negated! A new dark knight emerged into the field.

Attribute Knight: Kastirion the Knight of the Shadows 1600 ATK / 1000 DEF / Dark / Level 4 / Warrior

"I will then activate Genesis Fusion and merge my Kastirion and Colinus who is in my graveyard to summon Attribute Knight: Azatroth the Fallen! I must banish all materials!" Marina said while her monsters joined in a vortex to create a new giant knight with a giant sword and a great triangular shield. He wore a cloak on his back. "Knight of the ancient world arises and help me to create the new utopia"

Attribute Knight: Azatroth the Fallen 3400 ATK / 2000 DEF / Dark / Level 9 / Warrior

"Azatroth's ability allows him to gain 200 points of attack for each banished Attribute Knight!"

Azatroth the Fallen ATK: 3800

"And that's not all! I discard my last card to activate the second effect of my Knight and destroy your Amazoness Village" she exclaimed as her monster increased attack and the creature of Gloria powered down.

Empress ATK: 1200

"See to her my knight, Apocalypse Slash!" Her monster used his long sword to cut his Amazoness in half.

Gloria LP: 4000 - 2600

"Is that all?" said a pained Gloria.

"No, because thanks to the effect of Kastirion when it's used as material, my Azatroth can inflict damage equal to the original attack points of the monster I destroyed!" Marina said as her Knight prepared for the second launch while Gloria could not believe what was happening. Azatroth slashed away at Gloria. Gloria was sent flying across the coliseum floor.

Gloria LP: 2600 - 0 Marina Wins

"No… Gloria lost…" Grace said.

"Thankfully Academia doesn't card higher ranks for losing one duel." Yuri said. "Otherwise she would be toas-"

"Not now Yuri, plus that's only on the field of battle you idiot." said Serena. Gloria got up and looked at Marina.

"Guess I failed…" Gloria said.

"You failed in losing but I saw the type of person I want for my squad, a hard working and skilled fighter, you're in my squad Gloria."

"Really?... Well… I deserve it." Gloria smugly said.

"Good to see." said Marina. "I… I will enjoy working with you…." Marina shock out of it. "Anyway, until we deploy, continue monitoring the Obelisk Blue students, I shall trust you to pick the best from the crop."

Throne Room

Leo stood up and spoke to a holo-screen. It was Edo on the other end.

"Commander Edo, why haven't you broke through that Real Solid Vision dome my idiot son made yet?!" Leo roared.

"It's very well designed sir." Edo replied.

"It's been days!"

"I know sir, we're trying our upmost best, we have sent data files to Academia's best engineers and they still can't figure a way around it."

"Not good enough!" Leo shouted. "I need carded people from ALL dimensions, SORT IT OUT!" Leo hung up on Edo. Leo's mood was terrible as he still felt the burning anger of losing Yuto. "Commander Ryo is at least wiping out the last bits of XYZ…. I need my dragons though!"

"Well this will be good news to you." Himika walked into the room from behind his throne.

"Is your project working well?" Leo asked.

"Reira is adjusting to all the summoning methods, she should be ready soon." Himika said.

"Good, it would be better to use just Fusion but we needed something more, someone to use the impure methods." Leo replied.

"Don't worry; the utopia will be filled with nothing but Fusion users, our loyal subjects, you wanted power and you took it. A world where people respect you and treat you as their god." Himika added.

"I fell in love with the place and the summoning method. I will guide the Fusion Dimension into a better world, one made for just Fusion users, one where Fusion reigns above the weak along and we reign above all with our soon to be dragon of destruction, a world where the angels of creation will create anything for me…. and a world…without Yusho Sakaki!"

All OC cards here and Marina belong to Romadrox.

A/N Thanks to Rom again for ideas etc. Thanks for the reviews/favorites/follows/views!

LilUsagi- We shall see who the green-haired person was soon..

Fantasymaker76 - As above!

Royal2 - What other characters will appear will be left to be seen.

Gentmen - Poor Ruri... can't win can she.

OC Cards to be added.