Author's Note: I would like to call it Alternate Universe but it's really not. We had seen the hero of Yugioh GX and 5Ds but who would forget the two heroes in one body of the original Yugioh. Thus I decided to come up with the other half of Yugioh GX hence the title. I hoped to use this story to fill in the plot holes in GX anime. I knew that the supposedly the GX anime took ten years after the original anime but I decided to use five years to use some official characters. I also hoped you will notice lot of things such as the characters' names. All of them are original and some are related to the characters in the anime. Oh yes, I wanted to apologize if there's any terrible mistakes in grammar and English. English is not my strong point.
Author's Note 2: I came to be aware that people will say this is similar to Duelist Twilight. Before there are any claims, here's what happened. As I mentioned in my profile, I hanged around in Jamine's Forum years ago. I posted the same story in the forum instead of here. Lux-Nero decided to create a story influenced by my story and posted Duelist Twilight here in fanfiction. Now we come to today, with the help of Lux-Nero's encouragement, I decided to post the story here and intended to finish it. So please bear with me if the first few chapters are similar in circumstances but I think it's different from there on currently in later chapters. I'm not sure, I haven't read Duelist Twilight yet, lol.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh anime but I do own some cards…some…..barely any…. Also credit goes to Tatsunoboshi Horoko for providing subs of the GX episode.
Duel Monsters, a game of battle with ferocious monsters and deadly magic, was played in Old Egyptian times and soon lost under the ancient ruins among the dunes of blazing sands. It was lost for many centuries until it was discovered by a man named Pegasus Crawford. It was he that brought forth this game to the world. It was he that made this ancient game into insanely popular card game. It was he that dragged up the never ending battle of Duel Monsters and the Gods that the nameless Pharaoh was destined to finish. The ancient battle was concluded with the help of a meek Japanese boy and his three loyal friends. However, the battle still continued in the hands of duelists all over the world. Kaibacorp, one of the richest companies of the world and creator of duel disks, decided to build an academy for young duelists. They successfully built Duel Academia which became so successful that Kabiacorp decided to build four more Duel Academies at the North, East, South, and West.
Five years had past by since the conclusion of the Pharaoh's battle and duelists of the present were still battling each other. In the city of New York, one of the greatest and the most populated cities of America, people were walking down the streets going to work and minding their own businesses without a single care for the decaying world. However, a young teenager was running through the streets, bumping into numerous businessmen and apologizing quickly. This young teenager was actually a slim average-body sized girl with short medium red maroon hair that nearly reached her neck. It was neatly combed with a bright pink hairclip on the side. She had also bright violet eyes shining with cuteness and naivety. She carried an adorable Hane Kuriboh mini backpack instead of a purse. Her face expressed extreme worries and panic. The girl yelled, "I'm late!"
The girl was breathing hard from long continuous running, "Stupid onee-chan! She should have waked me up early! Eh?" She turned white as she realized. She chuckled nervously, "Oh yeah…she's working in Industrial Illusions in Japan….." she sighed disappointedly as she cursed her strings of bad luck. She didn't wake up in time for the first bus, so she had to catch another bus. But then, that bus broke down, so she ran to the subway where she realized she didn't have the money for the ticket as she left her wallet on her nightstand, so she ran again. She had run numerous miles without transportation, not that it mattered since New York was insanely crowded, so transportation would be slow as her anyway.
Finally, to top things off, she missed her breakfast, her only valuable source of needed energy. Her stomach growled loudly, forcing the poor girl to stop as she couldn't bear the hunger. She noticed the twentieth Starbucks after running past the same shop on every block nineteen times. She smelled the sweet smell of fresh scones and licked her tongue, "Those smell really good…" She quickly remembered her true goal and gritted her teeth, "No…I don't have time to eat and rest! I'm already late!" She broke off in a fast sprint and accidentally bumped into numerous strangers again, "Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!"
BAM!
The poor girl crashed into someone and fell on her bottom. She groaned as she rubbed her butt, "Ouch……...Sorry!" She apologized nervously with her eyes closed. The teenage girl slowly opened her violet eyes and stared directly at amber colored eyes of a teenage boy with wild dual colored hair. His interesting hair colors were midnight blue on the top with ice blue at the bottom. He carried a black bag over his broad shoulder. The girl continued to stare at this handsome stranger with a slight blush spread across her face. Their hairs moved gently as the winds of destiny blew through them. It was fate.
…WAIT A MINUTE! THIS IS NOT SHOUJO STORY!
Too bad, it was not love at first sight because as soon as the girl stared at this boy's eyes. The teenager instantly glared at her with an ice cold look. The girl shivered with couple beads of sweat drops behind her head, 'Yikes, talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed this morning,' she then noticed a deck holder on his black belt, 'he's a duelist?' The maroon-haired girl quickly stood up and brushed off the dust off her purple skirt. She quickly bowed, "Sorry about that," She faced him directly, "My name is Kitamori Izumi!"
The dual-hair guy looked at her suspiciously as she was some creepy Barbie doll.
"You're duelist, aren't you?" Izumi pointed to herself, "So am I! Are you going to the exam site of the Kaiba Duel Academy?" She clasped her hands and closed her eyes as sign of embarrassment, "If you are, will you lead me the way? You see, I'm kinda lost… Sorry for asking!" She bowed again, "Please help me!" She heard no response and quickly assumed that the boy was not answering her request. She quickly looked up. She instantly gaped as she watched the guy walking away from her. Izumi fumed, "Fine, I'll find it myself! I hope you lose your duel!" She glanced at her purple watch and paled, "………….I'm lateeeee!" She ran off at the impressive speed of the light.
Judai was dashing through the park. He yelled, "I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" He quickly turned a corner, "The train just had to be late on my big day of all days!" He then realized, "No," He quickly smiled as adrenaline pumped in his blood, "It's exciting! This is just one of the tests that's been given to me!" He saw the Kaibacorp building up ahead, "Guts! Just you wait, Duel Academia!"
Judai noticed a person walking in front of him. He shouted, "Whoa, watch out!" His warning came too late as he bumped into the person. The dueling disk and his cards came flying out of his backpack as he fell to the ground. He panicked as he quickly turned around to pick up the cards. He quickly apologized to the stranger, "Sorry!" He continued picking up his cards.
The stranger stared at Judai. He asked, "Do you duel?"
The word "duel" caught Judai's attention. He looked back and answered cheerfully, "Yeah, I'm gonna take a test for the Duel Academia."
"Heh." The stranger smiled as he reached for his deck on his belt.
Judai stood up and laughed as he felt overly proud that he's going to take the test for the famous Duel Academia. He then finally noticed the stranger, "Hey, you're…"
The stranger held a single card and interrupted him, "This is a lucky card. It wants to go to you." He handed it over.
"Eh?" Judai blinked in surprise and accepted the gift, "Th-thank you."
"Do your best." The stranger walked past him.
"Um..hai!" Judai looked at him and thanked, "U-um…thank you very much!" He bowed.
The stranger smiled as he gave a thumb's up and walked off.
Judai couldn't help but smiled too. He looked down at his new card given by destiny.
The American Kaibacorp was one of the tallest buildings in New York and one of the few colorful ones, with walls painted in bright golden yellow compared to dull gray buildings and magnificent statues of the Blue Eyes White Dragon gracing the entrance. Inside the Kaibacorp building, there was a large stadium packed with audience seats full of duelists. Within the stadium, lied many dueling stages consisted of duelists battling instructors for a chance to enroll in one of the four famous Duel Academies located all over the world.
The girl just rushed in through the doors and gasped for air as she was about to collapse. Her eyes were in shadow and her arms were showing bones. Izumi collapsed on the rails behind the stadium chair and cheered, "I made it! I actually made it!" Her eyes were starry as she celebrated with a holy light above her. Then her eyes averted to the same guy she bumped into this morning sitting on one of the stadium chairs lazily. She blinked in surprise and then screamed mentally, 'It's that rude jerk!' She stomped up to him and pointed accursedly, "So you do know where it is! You could have showed me the way!"
The dual-haired boy just ignored her outburst and continuing watching the duel
Izumi's forehead vein throbbed in response. She shouted, "Hey? Are you listening to me?" The boy continued to ignore her. She groaned out of frustration and crossed her arms as she looked away, "At least talk to me! It's very rude when you ignore people!"
The boy just ignored her even more.
Izumi's forehead vein was twitching but she remained calm and tried to strike up a conversation, "So…whatcha looking at?" She glanced toward the dueling stage.
She saw a tall handsome boy with neatly combed pine green hair with hint of wilderness and eyes of the clear lake water under the moonlight. His build was athletic and his face expressed certain nobility. The boy was facing a uniformed instructor who had a humongous bright purple skinned beast with dark purple fur on its spine and claws on the dueling stage. It had sharp horns on its head and four knees. It also had a long tail and sharp razor teeth with green gums showing on its mouth. The beast was known as the Animal King – Behemoth. [Animal King – Behemoth: Earth/Beast/7/2700/1500: You may sacrifice only one monster to sacrifice summon this card, if you do, this card's original attack strength would become 2000. When this card is successfully Sacrifice Summon, for each monster you sacrifice to summon this card, return a Beast sub-type monsters from your Graveyard to your hand.]
The instructor had 1900 Life points displaying on the scoreboard over the dueling stage. On the opposite side, the boy only had one card face down on the M/T side of the field and he only had 2500 Life points left on the board.
"With no monsters to defend you, a direct attack from my Behemoth will take away all your life points!" The instructor bragged as victory had belonged to him, 'He only has one card in his hand and one card face down, there's nothing much that he can do to beat my monster. So much for coming from a noble family.'
The boy just stood there calm and composed but smiled with politeness, "I'm amazed at how quick you summoned such a powerful seven stars monster this turn but it's quite a pity." He closed his eyes as he smiled.
"Pity?" The instructor spoke in annoyed tone.
The boy nodded once, "Yes, a pity," He opened his eyes, revealing deadliness within them, "that you won't get a chance to use it." He put his only card on the duel disk, "I summon Blade Knight [BLADE KNIGHT: Light/Warrior/4/1600/1000: Effect: If you have 1 or fewer cards in your hand, increase this Monster's attack strength by 400. Also, if this is the only Monster you control, negate the Reverse Effects of Monsters that this one destroys during Battle.] in attack mode!" Suddenly, the famous knight dressed in shiny blue armor with a magnificent shield and sharp sword in his hands materialized on the field. The knight was commonly used by a powerful duelist who is the president of the company who hosted this exam. "Now that I have no cards in my hand, Blade Knight's effect will activate." The knight's initial attack strength suddenly increased to 2000.
The instructor laughed mockingly, "That's it? That's all the member of the Von Schraider family can do?"
"I'm not done yet." The boy smirked, "I activate my trap card, Hidden Ambush!" [Hidden Ambush - Trap: Every monster with the word [Knight] in its name with a lower attack strength than the opponent's monster's highest attack strength on the field can attack the opponent directly.] The face down card went erect, revealing a picture of gray knights hiding in the woods, waiting for the right moment to besiege an enemy black knight in the middle of the surroundings.
"What?" The instructor was shocked.
"Since my Blade Knight has lower attack strength than your Behemoth, I can attack your life points directly! Blade Knight, attack!" The knight hologram charged on his master's order. The armored knight rushed past the beastly king and headed toward his target. The hologram swung its sword and slashed diagonally at the instructor who screamed out of pain. How does a hologram ever hurt a person forever remained mystery. The attack sent the instructor's life points directly to zero.
The victor was decided and the holograms disappeared. The teenager smiled, "That was a good match."
The instructor gritted his teeth and looked down in shame, "I have lost." The audience cheered for his victory.
Izumi's eyes were wide as soft balls, "Wowww!" She complimented, "He's incredible!"
A red-haired boy suddenly ran in and panted. He cursed, "Oh man! I missed Von Schroeder's duel!"
Izumi blinked as she looked back to see the owner of the voice. It was another boy with fiery red spiked hair with few bangs staying down and a small thin tight ponytail. From Izumi's eyes, she had an instant impression that he was gangster with pierced ears and a wild-looking face. The boy looked up with glaring golden yellow eyes. Izumi cringed in fear, "Eh?"
The boy asked passionately, "So what did I miss? Come on, tell me!" His behavior completely contradicted his look.
Izumi looked at the boy with a sweat drop as she didn't expect his reaction. She slowly answered, "Um…I didn't see much…I only saw the last turn."
"Um, man!" The boy groaned frustratingly, "That's not big help!"
"Well…sorry…" Izumi felt offended, "I just got here myself."
The boy noticed her tone and quickly apologized with a laugh, "Sorry, sorry. I was just anxious to see this guy's duel but my exam duel took too long."
Izumi could feel that he was friendly and a nice person. She smiled, "It's okay."
The boy smiled back, "I'm Tsubaki Ryozai!"
Izumi blinked in surprise, "You're Japanese?" She cheered with enthusiasm, "Fellow comrade! I'm Kitamori Izumi! But you call me Izumi!" She asked, "Do you move here or were you born here?"
Tsubaki chuckled nervously, "Well, you could say I was born here in the Big Apple."
"That explained the American accent," Izumi pointed, "My family moved here from Japan though my older sister is still living there." Then she blinked as she realized something, "Von Schroeder? That name sound so familiar." She pondered as she put a finger on her chin.
"Two members of that family fought in the KC Grand Prix few years ago." Tsubaki explained
"Oh yeah! Those cheaters." Izumi frowned, "I bet that guy is the same." She glanced at the rich duelist at the dueling stage.
"Well, I'm not so sure about that. Ever since the Duel King defeated Leon, I heard the family turned over a new leaf." Tsubaki countered, "Plus he is candidate number one while…" He sulked with teary eyes, "I'm candidate 113."
Izumi sweat-dropped as she patted his shoulder, "There. There. It's alright." She noticed the same duelist was walking up the stadium stairs. She walked up to him, "Hey there, great duel!"
"Hmm?" The nobleman glanced at the short girl. He smiled politely, "Oh thank you for your kind compliment."
'Hmm, he really doesn't seem like a bad person.' Izumi, "Nice to meet you, I'm Izumi Kitamori," She remembered to switch her name and surname since they were in America, "I'm candidate 80!" She offered her hand.
"Nice to meet you too, my name is Alexander." Alexander smiled as he shook her hand, "You're candidate 80? I never seen you fought before."
Izumi laughed nervously as she rubbed the back of her head, "That's because I just got here. Heh heh, I missed the bus."
"Really?" Alexander's green eyes blinked in surprise, "That's quite a bad situation."
"Huh, why?" Izumi asked with confusion.
"The duels for candidate 71 to 80 were already over!" Tsubaki shouted.
Izumi blinked as she absorbed the knowledge and her eyes suddenly became wide as dinner plates, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! I completely missed my exam!"
"If you talked to the instructor, there's a chance that you could still duel." Alexander explained.
"Thank you!" Izumi bowed and rushed off in the speed of light again.
"Good luck! Break a leg!" Tsubaki yelled at her and Izumi just waved in response.
Alexander chuckled lightly as he was slightly amused by the strange girl's behavior but then he suddenly felt a brooding feeling as someone was staring at him. He averted his green eyes toward the icy cold amber eyes of a duelist who was sitting close by. Alexander just smiled, "I'm Alexander. What's your name?"
The cold teenage guy just ignored him as he moved his eyes back to the duels.
How rude." Alexander chuckled softly.
"How come I can't take the test?" Izumi cried to a woman sitting in front of a makeshift desk. The woman was a professor dressed in Osiris Red dress coat that fitted her body well and medium violet hair tied in braids. The girl continued, "I know I was late but I don't think that should be a reason for not letting me take the test."
"It is a valid reason." The female professor continued writing notes on her metal clipboard, "All duelists are expected to be punctual in appointments, duels, and most important of all, classes. If you failed to be punctual, then what's the point of being a proper duelist?"
"I…I know that!" Izumi defended, "But what if there are students that can't avoid be late like some traffic accident?"
"Then it's their unfortunate fate not to be duelist." The female professor replied sternly.
"That's cruel!" Izumi complained.
The professor spoke coldly, "Your complaints are not going to help you take the duel."
"Whose complaining, Carol?" A man with trimmed moss-brown hair walked in. He was dressed in long white sport shorts with closed Osiris Red custom sports teacher jacket, "Did someone want to retake the exam again just because she can't deal with loss very well."
"Something like that," Carol affirmed. She slit her eyes dangerously, "And it's Professor Morgan."
"It's not something like that!" Izumi disagreed and she ran up to the man who walked in, "Sir! I was late for my exam! You gotta give me a chance! Please?" She gave her best puppy eyes.
"Um well…" The man blushed as he couldn't resist the student's puppy eyes. He glanced at Morgan, "If it's only that, I don't see the harm in giving her a chance to take the exam."
Morgan suddenly slammed the desk with her clipboard, "Professer Tyrell!" She chided, "Must I remind you about the rules of our Duel Academy? If we let one student go just because it was an accident, then troublemakers will walk all over the rules and claimed too that it was an accident. Do you intend to take responsibility for that?"
"Well," Tyrell chuckled proudly, "the answer is obvious." He clenched his fist as his eyes were replaced by fires, "I intend to take full responsibility for it! That's what a real man do!"
"Denied." Morgan said it bluntly as she sat back in her desk.
"Ouch!" Tyrell whined, "What's wrong with letting me take responsibility? I'm a professor too!"
"Teaching sports doesn't require much brain"
Tyrell looked at Morgan with his left eye twitching, "That's an insult, isn't it?"
Morgan continued, "If I let you take full responsibility, the entire academy will go straight downhill."
"I can't believe it!" Tyrell wailed, "How can you not have faith in your fellow Osiris Red professor!"
"Because it's you, that's why I lack faith." Morgan glanced at the student's score paper on her clipboard. She grabbed her favorite stamp and pressed it. The paper now had a large bold red print of the world "Fail."
"Ouch! Just rub salt on my wounded pride, why don't you?" Tyrell grumbled.
Izumi sweat dropped as she watched the teachers argued among each other, "Um…teachers, my duel?"
"Denied!" Morgan insisted.
Izumi gasped, "You're cruel!"
Tyrell gaped, "You monster!"
"Insulting me is not going to help you take the test!" Morgan's vein twitched on the back of her head.
"But…but…" Izumi then noticed the same boy she bumped into walking down the hallway past them, "You!" She rushed up to him and grabbed his arm, "Hey, you!"
The guy suddenly glared with his cold amber eyes.
Izumi's eyes wavered in fright and her body shivered under his cold gaze. She slowly let go of his arm, "I'm sorry…" She realized the crucial situation, "Wait a minute! I shouldn't be sorry!" She clenched her fists, "You gotta help me here! They won't let me take the exam because I was late."
"And?" The boy spoke for the first time.
Izumi was surprised, "You actually talk…" Her brain then registered his word, "Wait, what do you mean by "and?"
The dual-haired boy replied boredly, "and what does it have to do with me?"
"Oh…" Izumi understood. There was a few seconds of awkward silence. She shouted, "Don't say it like it has nothing to do with you! You're the reason why I'm late!"
"Why?"
"Well because…" Izumi answered, "If you gave me directions or led the way, I wouldn't have got lost!"
"I didn't have to." The cold boy walked away, "I have the freedom to refuse. So it's your own fault."
"No…no way!" Izumi's hopes were crushed.
"I just told you so, didn't I?" Morgan claimed, "You can't take the test."
"I wouldn't say that, Professor Morgan." Alexander walked in, followed by Tsubaki.
"Yo, Izumi!" Tsubaki greeted.
"Alexander? Tsubaki?" Izumi was surprised to see them here.
"I couldn't help but overheard everything." Alexander smiled, "Professor Morgan, isn't there a rule in the book that stated that examinee shouldn't interfere with other examinee?"
The cold boy narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
The female professor's eyes tightened, "….there is a rule like that."
Izumi asked, "What are you doing, Alexander?"
Alexander chuckled, "Then we can safely say that this examinee prevented Izumi from taking the exam."
Izumi blinked for few seconds, "Eh?" Her slow brain registered it, "Ehhhhhhhhhhhh!"
The dual-haired boy gritted his teeth, "That's false accusation."
Alexander smiled, "But you have no proof that it is an accusation."
Morgan countered, "Same goes for you. There's no proof that this examinee interfered with the girl."
"Objection," Alexander politely stated with his smile growing larger, "But I do have proof."
Tyrell grimaced slightly, "Come on, that was a weak 'Objection'."
"…Since when did this turn into a courtroom drama?" Tsubaki questioned with a sweat-drop on his forehead.
Izumi shouted in surprise, "You have proof?"
"You see, I was riding in my limo, gazing at the bystanders through the window. That's when I saw a certain girl bumped into a certain boy. Out of amusement…I mean…concern, I decided to take a picture of it with my cell phone." Alexander took out his cellphone, showing a picture of Izumi's meeting with the cold boy.
Morgan grabbed the noble student's phone and analyzed the picture. She sighed disappointedly, "This picture is the proof."
"Eh?" Izumi questioned, "That means…?"
Morgan announced, "Examinee Izumi will be allowed to take the test but the other examinee is now disqualified."
"Alright!" Izumi cheered but quickly realized what else the female teacher said, "Wait, that's not good!"
The dual-haired guy suddenly grabbed Alexander's collar and glared intently, "What are you trying to pull?"
Alexander smiled with closed eyes, "Now, now, there's a way for both of you to stay."
The cold guy just tightened his hold even more, "I don't care. Fix this!"
Alexander opened his eyes and smirked, "If you're willing to repent your crime, you should duel in her place to redeem yourself."
"What?" The cold boy hissed, "I don't need to do this." Suddenly, something was tossed at him. By instinct, the boy grabbed it. He narrowed his eyes, "A duel disk…"
Tyrell slid his red duel disk down his left arm, "If you're a man, you should accept all challenges. Hey Carol, I'm going to duel this guy instead of the examiner."
"It's Professor Morgan." Morgan corrected. She sighed annoyingly and walked away from the crowd, "Do whatever you want. Just tell me the result when you're done."
"Got it!" Tyrell loaded his deck into the duel disk, "So boy, are you in or not?"
The cold boy scoffed, "I don't see why I have to do this."
Alexander smiled sadistically, "Then you would like to be kicked out?"
The cold boy growled but he knew that he had no choice. He put on the official Duel Academy duel disk and slid his deck in, "Let's just get this over with."
Izumi pointed out, "Wait, isn't a professor supposed to be really strong? Like stronger than an examiner?"
Alexander chuckled, "Of course otherwise you won't be a teacher at the Duel Academy?"
"Ehhhhh?" Izumi shrieked, "Then why did he have to duel a professor for? Why couldn't he deal with a regular examiner?" She glanced at Tyrell, "Why are you replacing the examiner for?"
"It's quite simple" Tyrell smirked.
"Simple?" Izumi blinked.
"It's manly guts!" Tyrell declared with passion.
Izumi blinked as her jaw dropped at sheer stupidity, "…huh?"
"Aren't you starting?" The cold boy complained.
Izumi averted her eyes to the dual-haired boy, "Are you crazy? You're dueling against a professor! This is my mess and I'll go back to talk to Professor Morgan to fix it!"
The cold boy grunted, "Shut up, flat chest."
The maroon haired girl gasped at his insult, "Flat chest?" She looked down and then blushed out of embarrassment. She yelled, "My chest is not flat!"
Tsubaki, being a guy, couldn't help but glanced at the girl's chest. He looked away as he laughed nervously, "It is kinda short."
Izumi punched Tsubaki in the cheek, "Pervert!"
"Ouch!" Tsubaki held his cheek, "I just got here with Von Schroeder!"
Tyrell grinned, "Alright since you insisted, let's duel!"
Suddenly both of their life points displayed 4000 appeared on a holographic scoreboard set up by the duel disk system.
"I'm charging in! Draw!" Tyrell drew a card and added it to his hand. He snatched one card and placed it horizontally, "I summon Tree Otter [Tree Otter: Water/Beast/2/1200/100: Effect: Once per turn, if you control another face-up Beast-Type monster, you can have 1 face-up monster you control gain 1000 ATK until the End Phase.] in defense mode!" A thick gray-furred otter materialized on the field. A baby otter appeared on her back as the mother otter crouched in defense, "I'll end my turn right here!"
"That's it?" Izumi questioned, "Why would he summon a monster with such a weak defense in defense mode?"
"Well, obviously, he's planning something." Tsubaki pointed out.
"Maybe…but…" Izumi squealed, "It's so cute!"
Tsubaki sweat-dropped, "But shouldn't an otter belonged in the sea? Why a tree?"
"Draw!" The boy drew a card from his deck set in his duel disk, "I summon E-Merc Flame Beserker in attack mode!" [E-Merc Flame Beserker: Fire/Warrior/3/1200/900] The card burst into flaming inferno that slowly merged into a tall muscular warrior with fiery orange skin. He wore a silver leg armors, foot guards and arm bracers with his chiseled chest bare. He also wore a silver helmet that covered his eyes but revealed its snarling mouth. Behind the helmet was his red hair moving as it was raging flame. He wielded a large red broadsword with flaming orange edge with both hands.
"Wow!" Izumic complimented, "That's a cool looking monster."
"But…it's a level three monster and normal too…doesn't seem that great to me." Tsubaki commented.
Alexander smiled as he continued to observe.
The boy ordered, "Flame Berserker! Burning Slash!" The warrior of fire charged across the field toward the cute mother and child pair. His sword burned violently as he swung it horizontally and sliced the creatures into fragments.
Izumi whined, "Aww, how could you kill such a cute monster?"
The boy glared intensely.
Izumi sweat-dropped, "Keeping my mouth shut."
The boy grabbed another card from his Hand, "I place one card face down." He inserted the card into Magic/Trap slot of the duel disk, making the holographic face down card appeared on the Field, "I end my turn."
"Draw!" Tyrell drew the top card, "Alright, now to begin the real assault! I play a magic card, The Great Barrier Reef!" [The Great Barrier Reef – Normal Magic: Select 1 Level 4 or lower WATER Beast, Reptile, or Fish-type monster in your Graveyard, and Special Summon that monster and 1 monster from your hand with the same card name] A green card appeared with an image of a beautiful coral reef filled with various exotic fishes.
"The Great Barrier Reef?" Izumi asked.
Alexander answered, "The Great Barrier Reef is the world's biggest reef located in Australia."
"Australia?" Tsubaki realized, "Wait, does that mean…?"
Alexander smiled, "His decks might have koalas."
Izumi squealed, "Eh, cute koalas?"
Tyrell explained, "The Great Barrier Reef allow me to special summon a Water-Beast type in the Graveyard and also let me special summon the same copy of that monster from my Hand!"
"Ah!" Izumi yelled, "That means…"
Tyrell placed two cards on the duel disk, "I get to special summon two Tree Otters! And I put both of them in attack mode!" Two angry-looking pairs materialized on the Field, anxious to attack the fire mercenary, "Tree Otter has an awesome little effect. When there's another face-up Beast type monster, Tree Otter can add 1000 ATK power to one face up monster till the end of my turn. So, I'm making both of them giving each 1000 ATK power!" The babies on the mothers' backs suddenly switched places, giving the bigger beasts power up. [Both Tree Otters: 1200 + 1000 = 2200 ATK]
"Woah!" Tsubaki stared in amazement, "He already has two monsters with over 2000 ATK power!"
Tyrell placed another card, "Then I normal summon Death Kangaroo [Death Kangaroo: Dark/Beast/4/1500/1700: Effect: If the ATK of a monster that attacks this monster is lower than the DEF of this card, destroy the attacking monster. (Damage calculation is applied normally.)] in attack mode!" A mean-looking green kangaroo with purple jacket shirt jumped into the field. It punched with its red boxing glove as warm-up.
Tsubaki continued, "Now he has three monsters!"
Tyrell declared, "Tree Otter #1, attack his monster!" The fat otter charged and slammed down the poor warrior into smithereens.
Boy: 4000 – 1000 = 3000. Tyrell: 4000.
"I'm going to keep up the assault! Tree Otter #2! It's your turn!" Tyrell ordered as the second otter charged toward the boy.
The boy gritted his teeth as he quickly pressed a button, "I activate my trap card, Finish the Job!" [Finish the Job! – Trap: Special Summon a monster with [E-Merc] in its name when it is destroyed as result of battle from the Graveyard.] His facedown card revealed a picture of the Greedy Goblin Merchant, holding a pot of greed in his arm, shouting orders to the E-Merc Flame Berserker who seemed wounded but remained holding his flaming broadsword up, "I special summon back my E-Merc Flame Beserker in defense mode!" A flame rose from the Field and the muscular warrior returned in defense by holding his broad sword in front of him. The second otter stopped her change and jumped back to her master's Field.
"Heh, that was nice, boy, but not for long!" Tyrell pointed to his kangaroo, "Death Kangaroo, knock out that warrior!" The kangaroo leapt toward the warrior while spinning its right arm. It then gave a powerful thrust that sent the warrior tumbling across the ground into thousand pieces, "Now, Tree Otter #2, direct attack!" The otter gave a loud shriek as she charged again. The boy narrowed his eyes as he instinctively brought up his duel disk in guard. The otter collided with the boy's duel disk, damaging his life points.
Boy: 3000 – 2200 = 800. Tyrell: 4000.
The otter jumped back on Tyrell's field to join the other Australian creatures. Tyrell crossed his arms as he felt extremely proud, "Normally, that would have been my last turn but you did well to survive, boy. I end my turn! Thus my Tree Otters' ATK points returned to normal." The otters' ATK point reset, "Now show me what you got!"
"Hmph," The boy scoffed as he drew his card. He snatched one card and played it right away, "I played Monster Reincarnation." [Monster Reincarnation – Normal Magic: Discard 1 Card. Add 1 Monster Card from your Graveyard to your Hand.] His card appeared with an image of beautiful cross filled with various decorations of wings and ribbons, "I discard one card," He grabbed one card and sent it to the discard slot, "And then I add E-Merc Flame Beserker to my hand." He grabbed one of the only three cards in the graveyard slot and added it to his hand, "I end my turn."
"Eh?" Izumi and Tsubaki were surprised.
"That's it?" Tsubaki complained, "Did he give up or something?"
"Maybe…" Izumi paled, "He's not doing his best because he's mad at me?"
Alexander laughed amusingly, "If he's mad, he should have take it out on me instead."
Izumi wailed, "This is not funny! If he loses, I might not get accepted at all!"
Alexander smiled, "Don't worry, Izumi. I don't think he gives up yet."
"That's all?" Tyrell questioned, "Do you expect me to show you mercy? Heh, a man doesn't show mercy in competition! A true man gotta give everything he got! Draw!" The professor drew the card and announced, "I'm going to end it with a bang! I play Polymerization!" [Polymerization – Normal Magic: Fuses 2 or more Fusion-Material Monsters to form a new Fusion Monster.] A picture of orange colored demon and a dragon were absorbed into the swirling vortex was on display, "I fuse Big Koala from my Hand and Des Kangaroo on the Field to fusion summon the strongest beast-type monster, Master of Oz!" [Master of Oz: Earth/Beast/Fusion/9/4200/3700] There was a huge burst of light as a gigantic green-furred koala with purple vest and red boxing gloves rose to the field. It had a kangaroo pouch holding a large lighter. It gave a loud roar as introduction.
"Woah!" Tsubaki yelled, "A monster with over 4000 ATK points!"
Izumi looked like she was about to say how cute it was. Her face expression immediately dropped flat, "It's not that cute."
Tsubaki fell down and Alexander laughed.
Tyrell continued, "Then I use both of my Tree Otters' effects and give their 1000 ATK point increases to Master of Oz!" Both children on the mother otters jumped into the giant koala's pouch. [Master of Oz: 4200 + 1000 + 1000 = 6200 ATK]
Tsubaki shouted, "And it's going even higher!"
Izumi asked, "Um…but is it really necessary to have this much power when he only got 800 Life Points left?"
Tsubaki explained, "He's a man! A man gotta give everything he got!"
Izumi rolled her eyes, "Alrighty, then…" She averted her violet eyes expressed with worries to the boy, "But what's he going to do with an empty field?"
Tyrell ordered, "Master of Oz! Attack him directly!" The giant beast roared as it pounced toward the boy. It held its right arm back and just as it was about to punch the duelist, a black barrier surrounded the cold boy. The barrier prevented the beast from attacking, "What?" He then noticed a brown furry ball with adorable claws and feet floating next to the cold boy, "A Kuriboh? Wait, it's different." The professor noticed that the Kuriboh had mean round eyes instead of cute eyes and it had black impish wings.
"I never seen this kind of Kuriboh before!" said Tsubaki.
"I thought all Kuirbohs are cute," Izumi admitted, "But this one looked cold as the owner himself."
"I activated the effect of my Yami Kuriboh," The boy revealed Yami Kuriboh card in his hand, "By removing Yami Kuriboh from the Graveyard, all Battle Damage is reduced to zero this turn."
"So you're able to live one more turn?" Tyrell smirked, "You're very persistent but that's an important quality in being a man! I end my turn and Master of Oz's ATK points returned back to normal." The giant creature's ATK points lowered to its normal ATK points, "So boy, do you have any luck? If you can't win this, you won't be able to get into the Duel Academy!" He laughed proudly.
The cold boy growled, "Not like I had a choice." He narrowed his amber eyes, "Draw!" He looked at the top card and slowly smirked, "Heh, that giant beast is dead."
Tyrell uncrossed his arms and frowned, "You actually drew a card that can change the tide?"
The boy quickly inserted a card into the M/T slot and activated it, "I play Quick-play Magic card, Revolutionary Weapon!" [Revolutionary Weapon – Quick-play Magic: Switch the original ATK and DEF of all face-up monsters on the field until the end of the End Phase.] The spell card that contained a picture of numerous warriors holding their powerful weapons in defensive positions, defending the castle, "This card allow me to switch the ATK and DEF of all monsters on the field!"
Tyrell gawked, "Eh, that means my monsters now have weaker ATK points." He mused, "Bad for my Tree Otters but my Master of Oz's ATK points are still high!"
"Not for long," The boy played another card, "Since you used fusion, I'm going to use fusion too. I play Polymerization and fuse my E-Merc Flame Beserker!" A burst of fire on the Field revealed the tough warrior, "And my E-Merc Tempest Lady!" [E-Merc Tempest Lady: Wind/Warrior/3/1000/1000] There was a gust of wind that revealed a slender woman with gray feathered wings and sky-blue armor over her chest and her legs. She wore a midnight blue protective bracers over her hands and talons. Her helmet resembled a predatory hawk covered her entire head with only the mouth showing, "Into E-Merc Blazing Windman!"
A pillar of fire and wind rose from the Field and merged together, creating a tiny explosion. As the smokes cleared, a powerful warrior had entered the field. Its face resembled man with a large black helmet with a feathered horn on the top and small wings on the sides. Its muscular body was mostly fiery orange with long reptilian sky blue tail and one large black feathered wing on its right side. Its right arm was an orange demonic arm with claws but its left arm was very large build with the head of sky blue colored hawk with dangerous white beak. [E-Merc Blazing Windman: Wind/Warrior – Fusion/6/2100/1200: This card can only be special summoned by fusion summon. When this card destroys and sends a Monster to the graveyard in battle, do damage equal to the defense strength of the monster destroyed to your opponent.]
Izumi gaped, "Wow, that's amazing."
"Yeah, but," Tsubaki pointed out, "Its ATK points is not high as Master of Oz!"
Alexander just smiled, "I don't think it's over yet."
"Pretty manly looking fusion, boy," Tyrell complimented, "But it's not enough to defeat my Master of Oz!"
"I still have two more cards, old man!" The boy played another card, "I play a magic card, Exchange of Blood Vows!" [Exchange of Blood Vows – Normal Magic: Pay 1000 Life Points or less in increments of 50, select a monster on the Field and increase the selected monster's ATK points by the same amount you paid with Life Points.] His magic card contained a picture of a young warrior clasping his hand with another young warrior's hand. Blood were seeping out of their clenched hands down their arms, "This magic card allowed me to use my Life Points to increase my monster's ATK points. So I pay 700 Life Points to give my E-Merc Blazing Windman an ATK point increase of 700!"
Boy: 800 – 700 = 100. Tyrell: 4000. [E-Merc Blazing Windman: 2100 + 700 = 2800 ATK]
"Finally, I play this card, Battle Coliseum!" [Battle Coliseum – Field Magic: When a monster with [Merc] in its name, battles a monster with Higher ATK, decrease the opponent's monster attack by 1000.] The boy held a magic card with a display of a lone warrior standing in the middle of the Rome Coliseum surrounded by cheering audiences. He opened the Field slot of the duel disk and inserted the magic card. Suddenly the battle field was replaced by the famous circular structure of Rome.
Tyrell looked around in amazement, "Boy, I have more respect for you." He gave a thumb's up, "This is truly a manly field!"
The boy's left eye twitched in annoyance but he explained, "When my Mercenary monster attack a monster with higher ATK, that monster's ATK will decrease by 1000."
Tyrell's eyes widened in surprise, "That means!" He glanced at his Master of Oz.
"The means my monster can now destroy your Master of Oz!" The boy ordered, "E-Merc Blazing Windman! Blazing Hawk!" The Blazing Windman suddenly soared to the sky. The giant koala quickly looked up to see his opponent but the shining sun behind E-Merc warrior and the cheers of the supporting audience had weakened his power dramatically. Her initial attack strength 3700 had dropped to 2700. The Blazing Windman aimed its left arm at Master of Oz. The hawk's beak snapped opened and fired a hawk made of purple flames at the weakened king of beasts. As it struck the creature, Master of Oz roared in agony as he burned into complete ashes.
Boy: 100. Tyrell: 4000 – 100 = 3900.
The boy smirked, "Because Blazing Windman destroyed your monster, its effect deal damage to your life points equal to the destroyed monster's defense strength," his smirk became wider, "which is 4200."
Tyrell gaped as he couldn't believe his eyes and the pain of loss had dragged him down.
Boy: 100. Tyrell: 3900 – 4200 = 0.
Tsubaki gasped, "He won….he actually beat a professor."
As the holograms disappeared, Izumi just stared at the boy with amazement.
Alexander looked at the boy with great interest, "I have a feeling it's going to be an interesting year at the Duel Academy."
The cold boy puts his duel disk away and started to walk away. Izumi quickly ran up to him, "Hey wait!"
The boy stopped with his back facing Izumi.
"I still didn't get your name. Will you tell me now?" Izumi asked.
The cold hearted boy with amber eyes and dual-colored hair sighed at the maroon-haired girl's persistence. He slowly turned his head and finally answered, "Yuki Kurai."
Episode 1: The one who succeeds Yugi's other half
TBC
Izumi: Yuki Kurai. Yuki Kurai. I think that's such a cool name!
Tsubaki: But why does it sound so similar to Yuki Judai?
Izumi: ACK! ::she threw a duel disk at Tsubaki::
Tsubaki: AHHH! ::he fell down::
Izumi: We're not supposed to know that name! Forget it right now!
Tsubaki rubbed his head: After you hit me so hard, I just probably did! Wait, I just remembered! Aren't we supposed to do the preview for the next episode?
Izumi: Ah! We're running out of time already! Um…Um…I forgot what I'm supposed to say!
Tsubaki: Quick! Mention the next episode title!
Next Episode: Episode 2: The Beginning of the New School Year!
Izumi cheered: I said it in time!
Tsubaki: But such a boring title.
Strongest Card of the Duel
Alexander: Today's strongest card would have to be Master of Oz, a fusion of kangaroo and koala, the strongest beast-type monster of Duel Monsters.
Izumi: Hmm, but it's not really cute as the smaller creatures. I mean what's with the giant lighter? And the weird mustache!
Alexander smiled: They said that a mustache signified the importance of being a man.
Izumi: Oh, I see. Would you grow one?
Alexander chuckled: Over my dead body.
Izumi sweatdrop: Eh, never mind then.
Alexander: Izumi, do you know the Master of Oz is truly the ruler of Oz from Wizard of Oz?
Izumi: Ehhhhhh? Really? How come I never heard of this guy?
Alexander: That's because the poor magnificent ruler was cut out for its extreme violent scene.
Izumi: Extreme violent scene?
Alexander: That's right. Remember, the fake Wizard of Oz left the Emerald City by a hot-air balloon.
Izumi: Uh-huh?
Alexander: That's not true at all. The Master of Oz was so repulsed by the wizard's fallacies, that he punched the old man out of Oz. He even punched Miss Dorothy back to Kansas too.
Izumi: Really? That's…I don't know what to say…I'm shocked, actually, to think that one of my favorite childhood stories is actually like this…
Alexander: Izumi…it's a lie.
Izumi fell down.
Alexander smiled: Oz is actually another name for Australia which make sense because Master of Oz is fusion of the two well most known creatures of the continent.
Izumi sulked: It was a lie….everything was a lie…
Wahoo! First Episode is completed. I hope you notice many things that are half. Such as Yugioh GX took place in Japan which and this story took place in America on the other half of the world. Plus if you noticed our cold hero used E-Merc deck, short for Elemental Mercenary. Mercenaries are different from Heroes who served for justice. Mercenaries are just type of fighters who willing to be bought for money instead serving for free. And yes, I know that this chapter's duel is similar to episode 1 duel. I did it on purpose. Hope you enjoy it and please review.