1. Initiation
Kyu ran outside, looking at the blue sky, a couple of clouds, and lots of fresh air. "I'll be number one!" Kyu said. "Kyuharu will be number 1!"
Kyu happily walked down the street. "Yah! Duelist Academy is waiting for me!" Kyu said.
"Kyu!" A voice called out.
"Eh?" Kyu said, turning his head.
"Wait for me!" The boy yelled, waving his hand frantically.
"Hide!" Kyu said happily as Hide caught up to him, panting.
"You weren't going to leave me behind now where you?" Hide chuckled.
"No way! I was heading toward your place!" Kyu said.
"My place was three blocks away." Hide said.
Kyu chuckled embarrassingly as Hide laughed. "That's ok, I'm excited for this too." Hide said. "Anyways. I've been up all night. My deck has been rejuvenated once again. But I'm not sure."
"Give it a rest! You're deck is powerful enough to take out most of the teachers." Kyu said.
"Most?" Hide said in confusion.
"Yeah, because I'll be the one to take out all of them with my deck... That is, if I ever get a chance to." Kyu chuckled as the two raced toward the large building.
Kyu and Hide stood in front of the large entrance where lines were filled with first year students. "Aww man! We have to wait in this line!" Kyu said. "We're going to miss out on all the duels!"
A while later, Kyu and Hide had registered. They were to report to the dueling arenas for tests. If a student were to lose at a duel against the teachers, they'd have to wait a year to get in again.
"I wonder what kind of dormitories there are." Kyu said, looking at all the different kinds of people.
"Don't you know. There are three dormitories. Obelisk Blue, being the highest ranking dorm, Ra Yellow, the middle class, and Osiris Red, filled with inferiors." Hide said.
"Explains why everyone is only wearing three colors." Kyu chuckled. "It reminds me of high school though. Like everyone picks on you for being in the first year."
"Yeah but we'll get through it." Hide smiled.
"Diabound Lady! Attack!" A voice was heard from a distance. A girl with a monster on her side of the field launched an attack at a competitor.
"Ahh!" The opponent screamed as the monster attacked him, reducing his life points to 0.
"Wow, that girl is young, how did she ever become a teacher." Kyu said.
"Probably not a teacher. There are students here who exceed their own teacher's duel ranking." Hide said, looking inside a little booklet. "Plus, they've been here longer probably."
"That explains it. When will I get to duel?" Kyu asked.
"Haha, soon." Hide said.
"Hey, you didn't bring your duel disk with you." Kyu said.
"Didn't need to. I'm already applied for Obelisk Blue." Hide smiled.
"What! How?" Kyu asked.
Hide sighed and smiled. "My parents..." Hide said.
"Oooh so the rich boy knows what he's doing already." Kyu chuckled as an intercom came up. All the duel fields were empty and it was time for a new batch of duelist to test their skills.
There was a list on a giant screen over the duel fields and Kyu's name was on the very first of the list. "Kyu! Looks like your up!" Hide pointed out.
"Awesome! With my skills I'll get directly into Obelisk Blue!" Kyu said, whipping out his duel disk.
Kyu ran down to arena, getting to his side of the field. "Heh, look at the first years. They have no clue what's ahead of them." A girl said from a distance at the higher bleachers.
"Sophia, be nice. I mean come on, he's just as new as that boy." Genesis said, pointing to Kyu.
"He's kind of cute." Sophia chuckled. "But his odds are getting into Obelisk Blue are way out of his league. Hell I bet you he won't even get anywhere near Osiris Red."
The two Obelisk Blue students giggled as they sat back and drank red wine.
"Mimura, sir, you are up for the test duels now." A security guard stated towards him.
"I know! I'll be there in a second." Mimura said, "Damn first years. Why can't they find a different Duelist Academy. I'm always the one who babysits the darn first years."
"Sir don't forget to use your Beginners Deck." The guard said.
"Won't need to, this'll be easy picking for my own deck." Mimura smiled, sliding his deck into his updated Duel Disk.
Kyu stood in his circle, seeing that all the other duels have already started and his opponent was late. Suddenly the teacher appeared out of a trap door under the ground, viewing Kyu.
"I'm Kyu..." Kyu said nervously.
"Mimura. Hmm do you think you are fit to be in this academy?" Mimura asked.
"Sir yes sir!" Kyu said loudly.
"No need for that. By the look of you, Osiris Red will be your new home." Mimura said.
"That's not what I want, sir, I'd like to be in Obelisk Blue!" Kyu said.
Suddenly Mimura burst out laughing. "Sorry boy, but your deck will have to be your choice of the matter. Now! Let's duel!"
"Stop!" A girl called between the two duelist.
"Genesis? Can't you see I'm in the middle of a duel." Mimura said angrily.
Genesis smiled and threw back her hair. "Mr. Mimura, let me have a shot at this little boy." Genesis said.
"Why should I let you. Just because you're a Grade A student does not mean you will get what you want. It's my job to make sure everyone is sorted out." Mimura said sternly.
"Oh boy..." Kyu thought.
"What's going on?" Hide said in confusion.
"Mr. Mimura, I know it's your job, but sitting up there is boring. I want some action. Let me easily defeat this inferior and you'll have one less boy to worry about." Genesis said, putting on her charm.
Mimura whipped out his cell phone, dialing a number. Suddenly a voice came up. "Quartz, we have a situation." Mimura mumbled.
"I see. Don't worry about it. Obey Genesis' orders." The young voice said back.
"Yes sir..." Mimura said, unsure. He quickly left and Genesis giggled, walking over to the other side of the field.
"Hello, little boy. I'm Genesis, your opponent." Genesis said, giving a little wave.
"Kyu..." Kyu said, uneasy about what's going on.
"I'll be your new opponent for your test duel. If you win you will be eligible to enter the Obelisk Blue. If you lose you won't be able to get in." Genesis said, as her Duel Disk folded out. She dug through her pocket, sliding in her deck. "Now! Let's duel!"
"Alright! Finally!" Kyu said as they both drew their first card of the round.
"To begin, I'll set a monster in defense mode, then set a card down and end my turn!" Genesis announced.
"Strange how to start a duel like that... She must be hiding something." Kyu thought, drawing his next card.
"Well Kyu, this will be a very interesting duel. But sadly to say, you are a first year so we can't get along." Genesis said, slowly her expression turning into a serious one. "Now! Reveal trap card, Drop Off!"
"Drop off! Already!" Kyu said in shock.
"Yes, with this you'll have to discard the card you've just drawn." Genesis smiled.
Kyu groaned. "I discard Raise Dead..." Kyu announced.
"What luck." Genesis said.
"Now! I summon this, X Head Cannon! (1800/1500)" Kyu announced. "Now! Attack and destroy her face down monster!"
"Reveal face down monster, Eye of Kyutora! (200/500)" Genesis announced as a crystallized eye with legs materialized onto the field.
"Eye of Kyutora! But thats a rare card. The teachers can't use rare cards like that against the first years!" Kyu said.
"I'm not a teacher..." Genesis smirked. "Now! Eye of Kyutora, switch places with X Head Cannon!"
Suddenly both monsters disappeared, then reappeared on different side. "Darn... This will harm me good.." Kyu thought.
"Well go on. I didn't chose to duel you just because you were cute." Genesis said.
"I'll set two cards face down and end my turn!" Kyu announced.
"Draw..." Genesis announced. "Now! I sacrifice X Head Cannon to summon this, Diabound Lady! (1800/1200)"
"Diabound Lady?" Kyu said, astonished as a woman appeared, but the lower half of her body was a snake.
Genesis smiled. "Now! Diabound Lady, attack Eye of Kyutora!" She announced. The demon woman attacked with her snake, charging at Eye of Kyutora. "Diabound Lady's special effect forces any of your defense monsters into attack mode. So your defenses are useless."
Genesis smiled as the Diabound Lady struck the Eye of Kyutora, reducing Kyu's life points to 2400."Now I end my turn!" Genesis announced. "I should also tell you that no matter what, Eye of Kyutora can't be destroyed. Not even my attacks can bring it down. You won't be able to sacrifice it too."
"Kyu's doing bad." Hide said, biting his knuckle.
"Draw!" Kyu announced, drawing his next card.
"Now! The effect of Eye of Kyutora is activated! Once you've moved into your Standby Phase, the Eye of Kyutora will take five hundred of your life points away!" Genesis explained as the sharp claws from the creature struck Kyu. Kyu gasped out loud as his life points reduced to 1900. "Haha, in the next two turns, you'll lose and will have to be sent home."
"No, I can't go back home." Kyu growled, looking at his hand. Suddenly Kyu smiled.
"Well Genesis, I don't plan to start heading home now." Kyu smiled.
"What?" Genesis said in shock.
"Reveal magic card!" Kyu announced. "Bond of Brothers!"
"No..." Genesis growled.
"By sacrificing one thousand life points (LP: 900), I can summon two monsters of the same type to the field." Kyu said. "And I summon Y Dragon Head (1500/1600) and Z Metal Caterpillar (1500/1300)!"
Kyu smiled, holding the last card in his hand. "Finally! I'll activate this, Weak Revival!" Kyu announced.
"No!" Genesis gasped.
"Now I bring back X Head Cannon! (1800/1500 -1000)" Kyu announced as the machine appeared back onto the field. "Now! I'll remove all three of my monsters to summon forth my XYZ Dragon Cannon! (2800/2600)"
The three machines flew into the air, combining together. "Alright Kyu!" Hide cheered from a distance as everyone else watched in suspense.
Genesis felt embarrassed, knowing she'd be defeated soon.
"And now! I'll use the special effect of my XYZ Dragon Cannon..." Kyu said.
"You can't you've run out of cards in your hand!" Genesis pointed out.
"I still have one more face down card." Kyu smiled as it flipped up. "Pot of Greed!"
"No!" Genesis scowled.
Kyu quickly drew his two cards, then discarded one. "Now! XYZ Dragon Cannon, destroy Diabound Lady!" Kyu commanded.
The monster launched missiles at the snake woman, destroying her easily. "Finally, XYZ Dragon Cannon, attack her life points directly!" Kyu announced.
The machine pointed it's many cannons toward Genesis. Genesis looked in shock as the powerful monster blasted missiles around her. Genesis screamed as her life points reduced to 1400.
Genesis looked at Kyu in shock. No one so low ranked has beaten her like that. As the shock came over, Genesis smiled gently. "I forfeit this battle. Congratulations, Kyu. You've been accepted into Duelist Academy"
Kyu smiled. "Alright!" He said throwing a fist into the air. Genesis quickly disappeared, walking right in front of Sophia.
"Nice duel there..." Sophia said, unimpressed.
"I guess I just underestimated him." Genesis smiled.
"And now look what you've done with our title. Quartz is not going to be happy with us. Obelisk Blue is ruined once that Osiris Red Inferior goes into Osiris Red!" Sophia complained.
'"Hide!" Kyu waved, running up to him from the bleachers.
"Well done Kyu!" Hide said, nodding his head.
"So what now?" Kyu asked.
"We wait for our test papers to get back, then we'll find out what dorm you're in." Hide said.
"Oh yeah... That test was pretty hard." Kyu said, looking away from Hide.
"Students please make your way toward the run way located at the roof." An intercom said.
"Alright! Let's get going." Kyu said as they made their way on top of the run way. Each student lined down the run way. Suddenly helicopters appeared, about 50 or so of them, each to carry some students to where the real school was.
Kyu felt asleep in his seat, snoring as Hide listened to his head phones as he watched the waves of the ocean run down.
"There!" Hide said, nudging Kyu. Kyu quickly looked.
"Awesome!" Kyu said as the helicopters landed one by one. The students were directed to a bunch of tables where their PDA's were waiting for them.
Kyu looked at his. "Obelisk Blue..." Kyu said. "So I actually did good on the test!"
"Yeah you did, you got a 89 out of 101." Hide said, amazed. "How could you have been so great?"
Kyu smiled and shrugged. Sophia and Genesis watched as Kyu boasted how he was in Obelisk Blue. "So, I guess he's with us now." Sophia said, angrily.
"Heh." Genesis said.
The students were directed toward the arena where a ceremony began to introduce the new and old students. There were five people standing in a line.
"Who are they?" Kyu asked.
Hide looked through his PDA. "Kaiba Seto..." Hide said. "He owns this whole place."
"Are you serious! A young man like him?" Kyu said.
"He's an heir to the Kaiba Corporation, and some prodigy! I'd like to have a study session with him sometime!" Hide said. "And that student to his left, Quartz. His last name isn't shown but he's one of the highest honor students yet."
"Quartz, does that mean he's a good duelist?" Kyu asked.
"Probably, either that or maybe he scores high in the test, or maybe even both!" Hide said. The PDA was only specific on Kaiba Seto and Quartz, the others were Dorm Leaders.
"Students of Duelist Academy..." Kaiba announced. "I've created this just for you all. You all better do well or it'll be your ass."
Everyone cheered for Kaiba while Kyu and Hide just sat there, confused. "Ok..." Kyu said.
Everyone was then excused to go check out their rooms in their dorms. Kyu and Hide found their room and went in. "Holy crap! It's perfect then my old room!" Kyu said amazed.
"Wow..." Hide said, finding his bed with his suitcases on it.
"I don't know about this." Sophia said, collapsing on her bed. "Kyu is going to out rank us..."
"Don't sweat it, jeez." Genesis said, putting her clothes in her drawer. "I mean come on, it was just beginners luck."
"And Quartz won't even do anything about it. It's all Mimura's fault, he should have talked with Kaiba." Sophia grumbled, clenching her pillow.
"Come on, it's almost lunch time I say we go grab a bite to eat." Genesis said.
There were many other honor students in Osiris Red and Ra Yellow. Quartz led the head table where many other honor students in Obelisk Blue sat.
Kyu grabbed and plate with Hide and they headed toward the honor students table. "Where do you think you're going..." Sophia said, standing up to Kyu.
"To sit..." Kyu said.
"Not with the honor students, first years are over there." Sophia pointed over to a table in a corner, where some other first years Obelisk Blue students sat.
"Why should I have to sit there!" Kyu raised his voice.
Sophia laughed. "Because someone isn't too organized." Sophia said, pointing at the ground.
"Ahh!" Kyu said, crouching down and picking up his cards which had fallen out of his pocket.
"Now please, excuse yourself to that table, come back when you can actually duel." Sophia said.
"That's enough, Sophia..." Quartz said, standing up. "They are our class mates, you shouldn't treat them like this."
Sophia looked at Quartz then to Kyu who stood back up. "I'm watching you, just because you're in Obelisk Blue doesn't mean you're not a inferior."
Sophia sat back down and Hide and Kyu went over to the other table. "The nerves!" Kyu said. "It's not my fault I got into this dorm... I should be the one getting respect!"
The night came down, everyone was alseep, except for Kyu. "Man! I can't sleep, I'm so pumped for tomorrow!" Kyu said.
"Eh..." Hide said, snoozing.
Suddenly Kyu's PDA lit up. "Hey I got a message..." Kyu said, shining the light in Hide's face.
"By who?" Hide asked.
"Hey, first year boy, if you're up for a challenge, meet me in the Obelisk Blue Duel Stage. If you don't then you're just a big CHICKEN!" The message said.
"Don't do it Kyu, we have a big day tomorrow!" Hide said.
"Yeah right! I'm accepting that challenge, come on Hide you're coming with me." Kyu said.
"Awww, the first day and now we're just waiting for trouble to come at us." Hide groaned.
CARDS PLAYED
Drop Off: TRAP / Desc: The opponent must discard the last card they have drawn during their draw phase.
X Head Cannon: Level 4 / 1800/1500/ Light / Machine.
Eye of Kyutora: Level 3 / 200/500/ Dark / Demon / Desc: FLIP: Switch this card with an opponent's monster on the field. This monster cannot be destroyed in battle nor can it be sacrificed to summon. Inflict direct damage to the player's life points by 500 during each Standby Phase.
Diabound Lady: Level 6 / 1800/1200/ Dark / Demon / Desc: Each time this card attacks a Defense positioned monster, switch that monster into Attack Position during Damage Calculation.
Bond of Brothers: MAGIC / Desc: Pay 1000 Life Points to Special Summon 2 monsters with the same Type to the field.
Y Dragon Head: Level 4 / 1500/1600/ Light / Machine / Union / Desc: Once per turn during your Main Phase, you may change this card to an Equip Magic Card, and Equip it on 1 of your "X Head Cannon", or remove it from being an Equip Magic Card, and place it in Face-Up Attack Position. While this card is an Equip Magic Card, increase the Equipped Monster's ATK and DEF by 400. (A monster can only have one Union Monster Equipped to it. If the Equipped Monster would be destroyed by battle, destroy this card instead.)
Z Metal Caterpillar: Level 4 / 1500/1300/ Light / Machine / Union / Desc: Once per turn during your Main Phase, you may change this card to an Equip Magic Card, and Equip it on 1 of your "X Head Cannon" or "Y Dragon head", or remove it from being an Equip Magic Card, and place it in Face-Up Attack Position. While this card is an Equip Magic Card, increase the Equipped Monster's ATK and DEF by 600. (A monster can only have one Union Monster Equipped to it. If the Equipped Monster would be destroyed by battle, destroy this card instead.)
Weak Revival: MAGIC / Desc: Special Summon 1 monster from your Graveyard, to the field. That monster's ATK is reduced by 1000 ATK.
XYZ Dragon Cannon: Level 8 / 2800/2600/ Light / Machine / Fusion / Desc: "X Head Cannon" "Y Dragon Head" "Z Metal Caterpillar". Remove the required Fusion Material Monsters from the field, out of play to Special Summon this monster ("Fusion" is not needed to summon this card) from your Fusion Deck. Discard 1 card from your hand to destroy 1 card on the field.
Pot of Greed: MAGIC / Desc: Draw two cards from your deck.