Right, here we are boys and girls. Some things came up and it took me a little bit longer to get this done. But, there's still seven hours or so left in this day, so the streak remains unbroken!


"You know for just a series of first turns, this is incredible," Jaden grinned as he stared down at the duel arena, "These Paradox guys are better than I thought they'd be. Between the pair of them they got two monsters out each, and three of them had over two thousand attack points, heck one even had over three thousand before Yarden destroyed it."

"Forget that Jay!" Syrus cried, staring down enviously at the field, eyes drawn particularly to the beautiful armoured blonde mounting a dragon, "Where the heck did Yarden get Dark Magician Girl!?….Actually, do you think he'd trade me it?"

"I doubt it." Zane snorted lightly. Unlike the other two his attention was on Alexis. He wasn't at all surprised that a pair of champions like the Paradox Brothers could play so well. And he had a first hand account of Yarden's own skill.

She'd shown a marked improvement since he last saw her duel. He was very impressed how she'd started off her first turn. She'd summoned a total of four monsters in one turn, albeit using one to fusion summon her Cyber Blader. Using Metamorphosis like that though, was genius. Using it to get around the negative effect of a monster like that. It was quite the combo and reminded him of his own strategy of using De-Fusion to get around the negative kick back from Power Bond.

She'd told him she was tuning up her deck after seeing his duel with Yarden. And the results definitely spoke for themselves.

She'd locked out the Paradox Brothers from attacking at all thanks to the effects of her Marauding Captains, and since they only had two monsters, her Cyber Blader had its attack points doubled thanks to its effect and was sitting at forty two hundred attack points.

Between her first turn set up and Yarden's own heavy line up. If the orange clad brother, Para didn't make some kind of fantastic play, odds were they'd be getting crushed by Alexis come the next turn.

He had to hand it to them. Even he himself would have trouble mounting a resistance against the kind of line up the pair had going on right now.

"Oh well, it's not like I have anything that would be worth trading Dark Magician Girl for anyway." Syrus slumped at Zane's answer.

"Oh cheer up Syrus," Jaden laughed patting the smaller boy on the back, "There's always Thunder Nyan Nyan."

The blue haired boy gasped, "Jayyyyy!" he whined, "You promised you wouldn't tell!"

"Oops?" Jaden just laughed louder.

"Not liscious dude." Chumley shook his head.

Zane smothered the smile that threatened to spread across his face. It seemed his little brother had found some good friends.


Para drew a card and smirked, "You may have broken our wall," he said, "But, you will still surely fall. Especially since I drew the spell card Awakening Of The Sealed Guardian, and I will be playing it here and now!"

As he played the spell card and it appeared in the air in front of him face up, it depicted the art of three elements, wind, water and lightning.

Yarden's eyebrows rose, "Never heard of it." he replied flatly.

"Which probably isn't a good thing." Alexis grimaced. Yarden had an absurd amount of knowledge on cards. If he didn't know anything about a card, that meant it must be absurdly rare.

"Which means you've never watched us duel." Dox noted with a smirk of his own.

"A gift from Pegasus, which will make you the fool," Para chuckled, "You see young noob, this card was especially made for us and only we have copies of it. And it has quite the interesting effects. For instance, by paying five hundred life points, this card allows me to search out Kazejin, Suijin or Sanga of The Thunder and either add them to my hand or send them to the graveyard. And, I will be paying one thousand life points to take both Suijin and Sanga from my deck and send them to the graveyard."

His and his brothers life points lowered by the amount stated, and he took the two cards from his deck and discarded them to the graveyard.

Yarden and Alexis: 8000 LP
Paradox Brothers: 7000 LP

"Which means it must have some effect that lets you use those three in the graveyard to summon Gate Guardian." Yarden noted.

The brothers blinked.

"You catch on quick." Para noted right back.

"In barely more than a tick." Dox nodded in agreement.

"Well it's obvious," Yarden rolled his eyes, "There'd be no point sending them all to the graveyard otherwise." he hid his surprise well at such a card. For as decent a beat stick as Gate Guardian was, it completely wasn't worth it considering how hard it was to summon. This card definitely changed things.

"Indeed," Para nodded, "It is as you say. By sending Awakening Of The Sealed Guardian to the graveyard while Sanga, Suijin and Kazejin are in the graveyard, I may special summon the legendary Gate Guardian from anywhere in my deck!"

A moment later, he did just that, and the towering form of the Gate Guardian, a colossal fifty foot plus sized golem appeared in front of him.

Gate Guardian – Warrior/Light/Level 11/Effect: 3750/3400

It was quite the sight, Yarden had to admit, a whistle leaving his mouth. It was almost as big as Five Headed Dragon.

Almost.

"And don't think I'm done there, because I believe I will be bringing back an old friend," Para continued and played a second spell card, "Go Monster Reborn, resurrect Wall Shadow!"

A moment later, they were surrounded once again by a massive labyrinth, and the terrifying mantis-like creature hung out of the wall behind the brothers once again.

And its attack points had risen through the roof.

Wall Shadow – Warrior/Dark/Level 7/Effect: 4000/3000

"Oh great that things back," Alexis wrinkled her nose, and then grimaced as she caught sight of its attack points, "And it's as strong as Zane's Cyber End Dragon."

"Still not impressed baldy." Yarden stuck a finger in his ear boredly and wriggled it around.

"We'll see how impressed you are, when your life points take a massive hit!" Para growled, pointing his hand out towards their monsters, "Go Gate Guardian, destroy that Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Knight!"

Gate Guardian lifted its massive arms into the air, thunder forming into an orb between its palms, before abruptly stopping and letting the power between its hands dissipate.

"What!?" Para gaped, "What is the meaning of this, why is my monster not attacking!?" his eyes shot to the pair of Alexis and Yarden and demanded.

Alexis smirked, "Guess even pro's don't know everything huh?" she mused, "It's because of my Marauding Captain. While it's on the field, you can't target any other monster for an attack. And since there's two of them blocking you from attacking either of them, it means your monsters can't wage an attack on ours at all!"

The blonde couldn't help but preen slightly as Yarden flashed her a thumbs up. Going into this duel she had been quite nervous, but now, not so much. This was just like any other duel. And if she wanted to reach the top of the pro circuit, she'd have to be better than these guys regardless. What did it matter if it was now, or later? With each turn, her confidence rose.

She could do this!

"No matter, it merely saved you a turn," Para scoffed, "I shall end my turn with a face down."

"Say your prayers, you clown!" Dox sneered at the voluptuous blonde.

"I don't think I will, draw!" Alexis shot back. She looked over her card, before playing it, "Right I'll be playing this card I just drew, Pot of Greed which lets me draw two more cards!"

She drew two cards, for a total of three, "Now, I'll be discarding The White Night Dragon in my hand to activate the effect of Yarden's Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Knight," Alexis continued, "Go, destroy Gate Guardian!" she ordered as she discarded the card.

Dark Magician Girl lifted her sword into the air and fired off a beam of crackling pink that shot through the air towards Gate Guardian like a rocket.

But just before it impacted, a barrier rose up around the gargantuan golem and blocked the attack.

"I think not," Para sneered, "By banishing Awakening Of The Sealed Guardian from my graveyard, I can negate the destruction of Gate Guardian through either card effect or battle and destroy the card behind it all."

The barrier around Gate Guardian surged and spiralled like a hurricane, before shooting out and sweeping over Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Knight and destroying her.

Alexis grimaced, "Damn," she whispered, before shooting an apologetic look over at Yarden, "Sorry, I got your monster destroyed."

"Don't worry about it," he waved her off, he was giving the Gate Guardian an impressed look, "The same thing would have happened to me. I wasn't expecting that spell card to have an awesome graveyard effect like that at all."

Alexis smiled, before shaking her head, "Still, let me make up for it," she replied, before playing a spell card from her hand, "I'll be using Monster Reborn myself to bring back Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Knight!"

"Wahoo, I'm back!" Dark Magician Girl cheered as she re-appeared atop Luster Dragon 2 in a flash of golden light.

"Now let's try this again!" Alexis clenched her fist, the leather of her blue fingerless gloves creaking slightly, "Since she's been re-summoned, I can do this! I'll be discarding one card from my hand to activate Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Girl's effect to destroy the Gate Guardian!"

This time, when Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Knight lfited her sword and fired off that now very familiar beam of crackling sparkling pink, Gate Guardian was powerless to resist and was blown away.

"Tch," Para clicked his teeth, "Do not forget though, with Gate Guardian now in the graveyard, Wall Shadow's attack increases by another three hundred!"

Wall Shadow – Warrior/Dark/Level 7/Effect: 4300/3000

"Big deal!" Alexis shouted back, "I activate my face down card, Call Of The Haunted. It lets me bring back one monster from my graveyard and equip it with this card. And I'll be bringing back my White Night Dragon!"

In a flash of light, a large towering dragon of ice roared as it burst onto field in front of Alexis, flapping its large jagged icy wings and glaring over at the Paradox Brothers.

White Night Dragon – Dragon/Water/Level 8/Effect: 3000/2500

"Now battle, I'll attack your Labyrinth Tank with White Night Dragon!" Alexis pushed on, "Go, Diamond Dust!"

Alexis's dragon gave a resounding roar and fired out a massive icy breath of jagged icicles that slammed into the large blue tank monster and wiped it from existence.

Yarden and Alexis: 8000 LP
Paradox Brothers: 6400 LP

And she wasn't done there.

"Now Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Knight, attack Kaiser Sea Horse!" the beautiful blonde continued.

"Say bye bye!" Dark Magician Girl giggled, thrusting her sword out and firing a beam of bright pink at the same time as Luster Dragon 2 opened its mouth and fired an emerald green beam. Both beams merged together and then slammed into Kaiser Sea Horse and sent it the same way as Labyrinth Tank.

Yarden and Alexis: 8000 LP
Paradox Brothers: 5600 LP

"Good thing for you your Wall Shadow is so strong," Alexis pointed out smugly, "Otherwise, you'd be down and out with this turn."

And she wasn't wrong. Wall Shadow had taken another massive jump in attack points due to the destruction of Gate Guardian, Labyrinth Tank and Kaiser Sea Horse.

Wall Shadow – Warrior/Dark/Level 7/Effect: 4900/3000

Not that it would do them any good. Since thanks to Marauding Captain, it didn't matter how strong it was, when it couldn't attack at all.

"And I'll end my turn here." Alexis finished, flashing Yarden a thumbs up in return for his earlier.

"My turn then, draw!" Dox took over.

The bald in green sighed in almost relief as he looked his card over. "I must admit, you two whelps are not bad at all," he admitted, before regaining his smirk, "But I believe this is where you will take that fall."

"Is that so? Then let's see you back up that gall." Alexis challenged.

"I do believe I will," he chuckled, "And with this spell card, Dark Element, your life will go to nil!"

"Oh?" Alexis raised an eyebrow. She looked over at Yarden to see if he knew what it was.

"It's used for summoning an upgrade to Gate Guardian." he explained with a shrug, unconcerned. It wasn't a real card where he was from, and actually a card he had saw used against Jaden and Syrus in his and Alexis' place against these two.

From what he'd saw though. It wasn't all that impressive, despite being much easier to get out compared to Gate Guardian.

It definitely wouldn't be able to get around the Marauding Captain's effect.

"Quite so," Dox nodded, "I can play this card as long as Gate Guardian is within my graveyard, and thanks to our shared graveyard, it is indeed in my grave. By playing this card, and paying half our life points, I can special summon Dark Guardian from anywhere in my deck to the field, and I choose attack position!"

A massive roar split the air as a titanic monster burst into existence. Larger even than Gate Guardian by a good twenty feet, it was a towering centaur-like beast. With a lower body of a gigantic metallic spider, while the upper half was that of a demonic humanoid in black spiky armour carrying a giant double headed battleaxe.

Dark Guardian – Warrior/Dark/Level 12/Effect: 3800/3800

Yarden and Alexis: 8000 LP
Paradox Brothers: 2800 LP

"A steep price to pay." Para noted.

"But worth it to play," Dox chuckled, "For you see, for every Sanga, Suijin or Kazejin in the graveyard after Dark Guardian is summoned, Dark Element allows me to draw one carda!"

He quickly drew three cards and his chuckles grew louder, "And I will be playing one card right away!" he said, slipping the card into his spell card zone, "Axe Slash Bash! As long as Dark Guardian is on the field, I can choose one monster on your side of the field and destroy it, and you take half of that monsters attack points as damage! And I choose Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Knight!"

"Not so fast baldy," Yarden grinned, "I still have a card in my hand! And my Dark Magician girls effect is a quick effect that can be activated on any turn. I'll be discarding the card in my hand to let her use her effect and destroy Dark Guardian!"

He discarded the card in his hand and Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Knight got right to it. She lifted her sword up into the air and fired off a crackling beam of pink from her blade.

Only, when it slammed into Dark Guardian, nothing happened.

"You fool!" Dox's chuckles rose up into hysterical laughter, "A useless tool! Dark Guardian cannot be destroyed by battle and is unaffected by monster effects!"

Yarden's eyes widened, and Dark Guardian's axe glowed with dark power. It swing its giant axe, leaving a trail of darkness behind that sliced right through Dark Magician Girl and Luster Dragon 2 and destroyed them both for the second time.

Yarden and Alexis: 6700 LP
Paradox Brothers: 2800 LP

"Not so smart now are you, fool?" Para sneered.

"Now watch and drool, for my monster still has his attack this turn!" Dox continued, "Dark Guardian, destroy one of the Marauding Captain's with Axe Slash Bash!"

Dark Guardian roared once more, its axe lighting up with dark power again and it swung. Marauding Captain stood no chance and was crushed beneath the giant axe.

Yarden and Alexis: 4100 LP
Paradox Brothers: 2800 LP

"And that is not all!" Dox added, "For Wall Shadow is free to attack now as well! Go, destroy the other Marauding Captain!"

The mantis-like creature sunk into the wall behind the brothers, only a shadow remaining. A shadow that disappeared from behind the brothers and reappeared on the wall next to the remaining Marauding Captain. A moment later, the mantis monster shot out of the wall and sliced through the blonde knight monster and destroyed it, causing their life points to take a massive hit.

Yarden and Alexis: 400 LP
Paradox Brothers: 2800 LP

Alexis went wide eyed at how low their life points and gotten, while Yarden grit his teeth. 'I wasn't expecting that!' he snarled inwardly.

He knew not everything was going to be the same. He'd already gotten quite a bit of evidence that proved that in different cards. But Awakening Of The Sealed Guardian, plus the changes made to Dark Element and Dark Guardian – it was absurd!

Enough to turn the duel around in an instant. Just a minute ago they were solidly crushing these two bald morons! Now they were one attack away from losing!

"Yarden.." Alexis bit her lip and sent him a worried look.

He schooled his expression and sent her a smirk, "Don't worry Alexis," he reassured her, "We've got this."

Dox snorted, "You sure talk tough for a brat with only four hundred life points left, let's see what you can do, for I play two face down cards, and pass to you, though I don't expect much," he responded, before shooting Yarden a smirk, "But then, what can you expect from a fool that plays a useless card like Serpent Night Dragon, you are clearly a tard."

"Now boy, draw your last pathetic card!" Para sneered.

Yarden stilled, before his eyes narrowed in fury, "The fuck did you just say you baldy walking puss filled fucking scrotum!?" he snarled.

Alexis flinched at the vitriol that left his mouth, "..You idiots have done it now." she shook her head.

The pair of brothers were taken aback by the aggressiveness in his voice, and even the crowd had gone mostly silent after a series of shocked gasps at his words.

Dox shook his head and regained his composure, "You heard us boy, you are for the urn!" he shot back.

"Your life points will be zero, come next turn!" Para finished.

"There won't be a next turn for you!" Yarden spat, drawing a card, "Here, let me show you why my deck doesn't have any pathetic cards. I'll be playing the legendary Pot of Greed and drawing two cards!"

He swiped two cards from his deck, before slamming one down again, "And now I'll be playing another Pot of Greed!" he snarled, drawing two more cards, "And another Pot of Greed!" he repeated the action, and went from zero cards in hand to four.

"Three in a row!?" Dox gaped.

"Surely it can't be so!?" Para was in total agreement with his brothers shock.

"About the same odds as you drawing the cards you did last turn, morons," Yarden lifted his gauntlet clad fist and flipped them the finger once more, completely disrespectful to the pair of them, "Now lemme show you morons, why the only retards are you and Rex Raptor for not understanding how great Serpent Night Dragon is, I'm playing Nightmare Sonic Blast! This lets me draw four cards, and it has a bunch of effects depending on how many monsters I draw!"

He swiped four cards from the top of his deck and displayed them openly and proudly for all to see. Serpent Night Dragon, Guardragon Promineses, Aleister The Invoker and Gift Of The Martyr.

"If I drew one monster card, I can add any of these cards to my hand. If I drew two can destroy one card you idiots control. If it's three, I can choose any of the above!" Yarden explained, "And I'll be getting rid of your Wall Shadow and adding Gift Of The Martyr to my hand!"

At his words, Serpent Night Dragon opened its mouth and unleashed a roar that blasted a massive wave of black sound waves at the labyrinth surrounding them, completely destroying it.

"No matter, Wall Shadow may be gone!" Para scoffed.

"But Dark Guardian has not redrawn!" Dox nodded.

"Let's see about that!" Yarden scoffed, playing a second spell card, "I activate Heavy Storm, and it destroys all spell and trap cards on the field!"

As the spell card appeared in front of him face up, it unleashed a massive gale force wind that tore through the area, destroying all of the trap and spell cards placed. Unfortunately, that also meant Call Of The Haunted, and White Night Dragon gave a roar as it was dragged back to the graveyard.

And his own face down trap card went with it. Not that it would do much good here and now. Burst Breath wouldn't do jack shit to the Dark Guardian.

"Sorry Alexis." Yarden flashed the blonde an apologetic look for a brief moment.

"It's fine," Alexis reassured him, flashing him an understanding smile, "Just don't waste it."

"Don't worry, I won't," he nodded, before turning his attention back to the two brothers, "Now don't think I'm anywhere near done you pieces of trash, because now I'm activating Future Fusion and by sending fusion materials from my deck to the graveyard, I can fusion summon here and now! I'm sending my other two Serpent Night Dragon's, Hyozanryu, Luster Dragon 2 and Curse Of Dragon to the graveyard, to fusion summon Five Headed Dragon!"

Prismatic blue light surged into the air above the duelling arena and the five dragons appeared before it before being sucked inside. A moment later, a monstrously large shadow burst through the light to reveal a titanic yellow dragon with five different coloured elemental, serpentine heads and Five Headed Dragon's chorus of roars shook the area.

Five Headed Dragon – Dragon/Dark/Level 12/Fusion/Effect: 5000/5000

"And impressive beast." Dox swallowed.

"But no threat in the least." Para shook his head.

Together, the brothers then smirked, "We are no amateurs, we know you cannot attack with that beast on the turn you summoned it using Future Fusion." Para and Dox smugly declared together.

"Obviously I'm not planning on attacking with it then you retards," Yarden snorted, "I'm playing the spell card I picked up through using Nightmare Sonic Blast. Gift Of The Martyr! Here's how it works. I choose one monster on my side of the field and send it to the graveyard, then I get to pick one monster on the field and give that monsters attack points to it! I'm using it on Five Headed Dragon to give all five thousand of its attack points to Serpent Night Dragon!"

Five headed Dragon began glowing with bright golden light, before turning into pure energy itself and shooting over to submerge into Serpent Night Dragon. Serpent Night Dragon grew massively in size, becoming more than three times larger, almost as big as a lorry and with a raging golden aura blazing from around his body.

Serpent Night Dragon – Dragon/Dark/Level 7/Normal – 7350/2400

"Oh dear." Para's eyes went wide.

Dox on the other hand snorted, "There is nothing to fear," he declared, "Those attack points will only last this turn! And mighty as your monster is, Dark Guardian cannot be destroyed by battle and even should you attack with your best, we shall still have life points left over!"

Fucking idiots must have failed mathematics in school, because no they wouldn't. Not that it mattered, because he was going full overkill to make a point!

"I told you, you weren't getting another turn!" Yarden countered, lifting the last card in his hand to show it off, "Because of you lowering our life points so much, I can play this equip spell. Megamorph, and when our life points are lower than yours, any monster equipped with this card has its attack points doubled!"

As he played the spell, the already massive Serpent Night Dragon roared and doubled in length and width. The serpentine dragon became so large he could fully coil around the arena multiple times. It was as if a dark, corrupted Slifer The Sky Dragon had descended.

Serpent Night Dragon – Dragon/Dark/Level 7/Normal – 14,700/2400

"Fourteen thousand, seven hundred attack points!?" the brothers gaped together.

"That's insane." Alexis stared wide eyed at the titanic form of Serpent Night Dragon.

"Sorry what was that about my dragon being pathetic?" Yarden's smug, proud smirk could not at all be hidden, "I couldn't hear you over the sound of your monster crying like a little bitch! Go, Ebony Flame!"

The humongous form of Serpent Night Dragon opened his mouth and unleashed a near tidal wave of glittering black flame that washed over Dark Guardian. Its roars of agony within the flame was the only indication of its existence.

When Serpent Night Dragon finally let up and the flames began to dwindle away, Dark Guardian was burned badly, but still standing tall. The same though, could not be said for the Paradox Brothers life points.

Yarden and Alexis: 400 LP
Paradox Brothers: 0 LP

The pair of bald brothers slumped to their knees while their massive monster began to fade away as the duel ended, alongside all of Yarden and Alexis' remaining monsters.

"I guess we won." Alexis mused, giving a dazed blink.

Yarden smirked smugly still at the pair of downed brothers before turning towards her, "I said we would, didn't I?" he questioned confidently, not an ounce of doubt in his voice.

He was not at all going to let on how close that actually was. If those idiots had a single decent equip card to give to their monsters like Axe of Despair, they would have totally lost.

"I guess you did," Alexis smiled and Yarden blinked as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and hugged him, "Thanks a bunch Yarden, if it wasn't for you I'd be getting expelled right now."

"Well I wasn't going to let my favourite blonde get kicked out now, was I?" he chuckled, wrapping his arms gently around her back himself and returning the embrace.

'Hey!' Dark Magician Girl pouted at him mentally.

'Favourite human blonde.' he corrected mentally.

'That's better!' she giggled.

A pair of coughs drew their attention and they let go of each other to turn to the Paradox Brothers who were smirking at them, "I must admit, I did not see that coming," Para admitted, "Shall we give you, our congratulations?"

"Indeed I agree brother, they have skill to top nations!" Dox laughed.

"That they do, I was very impressed," a third voice added in, and they all looked to the stairs of the duel arena to see Chancellor Sheppard making his way up the stairs, "Yarden, Alexis, you both have proven you deserve to be here and won your right to stay, congratulations."

"Was there ever any doubt?" Yarden squeezed Alexis around the waist gently, "Like I've said before, if you want to beat me and Alexis, you'll have to send Yugi and Kaiba."

"Guess you're definitely safe then," Chancellor Sheppard chuckled, "We definitely can't afford those two, especially considering one of them owns the academy."

Alexis laughed lightly, before pulling out of Yarden's grasp and bowing her head lightly to the chancellor, "I'm sorry again sir for causing so much trouble." she apologised.

"No, no, it's fine my dear," he waved her off, "If it were up to me, this wouldn't have reached anywhere near this far, but I suppose some good things came of it at least."

"Sir?" Alexis raised her head and asked, confused.

"Why, the whole world got to see how good a pair of our students are, holding their own and even defeating a pair of pro's," Chancellor Sheppard laughed, he then narrowed his eyes lightly at Yarden, "Though, I could have done without the cussing Yarden."

"I'm not apologising, they started it." he shrugged.

"Hmm, I suppose." Sheppard sighed.

He struck up conversation again with Alexis and Yarden would have joined in, if a familiar sunglasses wearing professor didn't catch his eye atop the bleachers. Wade grinned down at him and flashed him a thumbs up.

Yarden grinned right back, and reached into his red blazer to pull out his PDA. When he popped it on and looked at his balance, he almost dropped it in shock as he saw the numbers staring back at him.

DP: 3,157,630

Over three million DP! He could cash out that three million for three hundred thousand pounds, or roughly four hundred and thirty thousand dollars or so, and still have a hundred and fifty seven thousand DP to spend on cards.

'Yes!' Yarden cheered inwardly. It took all his self control not to start cheering and celebrating outwardly.

That meant, as far as his savings account went, with the interest of that added in to the ten thousand he already had, plus the three fifty he'd be getting every month from benefits, he'd be getting one thousand nine hundred pounds a month and rising from just the interest!

He'd done it. He'd made it big. He'd gotten to the point where on interest alone he was making just as much as a working adult a month.

And he was only approaching a month into the school year here and now.

God he fucking loved this crazy, wacky world! Who cares how stupid it was a card game ruled the world more or less? Not fucking him when it benefited so much from it.


"Well that was quite something," Yugi Moto chuckled lightly as the pair of students were announced the winners, he turned his head to look at the tall brown haired man opposite him, "Are you proud? A pair of your students just defeated a pair of pros, it will do wonders for the image of your school."

Seto Kaiba scoffed, "If they couldn't do this much, then clearly they weren't worth anything in the first place."

Yugi shook his head in amusement, even as he swivelled slightly in his seat to stare out of the window, his eyes looking into the deep expanse of space around them, "I was surprised, I'll admit," the King of Games mused, "I was not expecting for Dark Magician Girl to choose a new duellist, and especially not one quite so..."

"Quite so what?" Kaiba rolled his eyes.

"Like you," Yugi shot him a smirk, "He reminded me of you actually. Especially with how angry he got over his dragon being insulted. Perhaps a fan of yours?"

"Then he'd have actual good taste, unlike all the sycophants trying to hump your leg," Kaiba shot back with a smirk, "But so what? He has your old teenage masturbation aid and has the good sense to be a fan of dragons, nothing that makes him a competitor for me to take interest in was apparent."

"Can you not call her that?" Yugi's face flushed before he shook his head, "And yes, he may not be quite on the level needed to take you or I on right now, but there is potential there. As there is for the girl. I have no doubt Sheppard will choose the pair of them as part of the key keeper group."

Kaiba grimaced, "Ah yeah, those stupid god card wannabes," he huffed, "Stupid disobedient things. Let's hope they learned their lesson after getting locked up."

"Stranger things have happened," Yugi chuckled lightly, "At the very least, they don't outright attack anyone attempting to wield them besides a specific few like the god cards did."

"I don't care, the mere fact that they refused to obey me was enough for me to toss them aside like the trash they are," Kaiba rolled his eyes again, before shrugging, "Well, I wouldn't mind if one of the brats at that school manage to tame them. I could use a decent challenge. The last good duel I had was against that fool Wheeler of all people. What has the world come to that my only good source of a duel is Wheeler, or you? Do I really need to hack into the afterlife again just to shake things up a bit?"

'A world of your creation.' Yugi kept his thoughts private on the matter. The fact he could so casually talk about jumping to the afterlife just for a duel showed how much of an absurd breach of common sense Seto Kaiba really was.

Yugi's thoughts drifted to the boy of the pair that duelled the Paradox Brothers. He would be getting a lot of publicity now. The way he duelled and his attitude would no doubt attract fans. As much as Yugi didn't understand it, the public seemed to love a bad boy rebel and Yarden Odhar fit that to a T.

But, his thoughts weren't really on that. Rather, his thoughts were on his monsters. Dark Magician Girl was not the only duel spirit he'd seen in the boys possession. Serpent Night Dragon, the monster he got so angry over was a spirit as well, he could tell. And the way the boy managed to draw three Pot of Greed back to back. He must love his deck very much for that kind of loyalty to show through the Heart Of The Cards.

Yes, Yarden Odhar was definitely someone he would have to keep his eye out for. Just like Jaden Yuki, the boy who travelled through time on two separate occasions to meet Yugi. Once to help him defeat Paradox alongside Yusei Fudo, and another, second time to duel him.

A duel in which Yugi, even with Atem and the gods cards by his side, lost.

This new generation of duellist youths sure were something.


Name: Yarden Odhar
Age:15
Country of Birth: Scotland
Occupation: Student of Duel Academy
Student Dormitory: Obelisk Blue
Current Funds: 3,157,630 DP
Bank Account: £10,350
Bonded Spirits: Petit Dragon, Decoy Dragon, Lesser Dragon, Spirit Of The Breeze, Fairy Dragon, Chaos Necromancer, Soul Tiger, Larvae Moth, Griggle, Outstanding Dog Marron, Catnipped Kitty, Unhappy Maiden, Skull Servant, Archfiend Marmot of Nefariousness, Goblin Calligrapher, Serpent Marauder, Blade Rabbit, Steel Scorpion, Dreamsprite
Abilities: Massively Enhanced Physical Parameters. Enhanced Senses. Increased Growth Rate, Draconic Aura. Enhanced Endurance. Enhanced Recovery Rate. Enhanced Dexterity. Enhanced Bone Durability. Enhanced Healing Factor. Enhanced Reflexes. Enhanced Agility. Enhanced Flexibility. Magic Resistance.
Deck(s): Dragon Spirit, Magician Girl


And there we go, another chapter done with.

The duel with the Paradox Brothers was actually quite short, but each turn was a back and forth. And Yarden even gotten taken by hell'a surprise with the spell card designed for the Gate Guardian's and the upgrades to Dark Guardian he was not at all expecting. Truly a real close duel, but the power of friendship prevails!

And he raked in that big time cash money.

We even got to see a little bit form Kaiba and Yugi. Why? Well, I thought that it kinda made sense that they were up in the space station during the shit with Gx. It would explain why they didn't come running to deal with all the crazy shit that happened over the years Jaden was at the school.