“Ok, duel disk, check. Deck, check. Diary, check. Looks like I have everything I need for my first class today!”, Mikey said, looking over to see Crystal and Onix still fast asleep in their beds.
“How on Earth are these two still asleep? Crystal! Onix! Wake up! You don’t wanna be late for your first class, now do you?”, Mikey said, shaking the two twins. Then, all of a sudden, he got knocked over by a random slap to the face. “Wrong! Cause I played a trap!”, Onix replied in his sleep, snoring softly.
‘Why couldn’t he have been in defense mode at that moment?’, Mikey thought, rubbing his face gently. He looked at the clock and said, “Crap, I’m gonna be late!” He quickly gathered all of his things and ran out of the dorm room. He saw Jessie come out of her room and say, “Good morning, Jessie. Ready for class?”
“Yup! Let’s get moving!”, Mikey said, running over to the stairs with Jessie, jogging down the stairs and out of the dorm. 30 minutes later, Crystal sat up in her bed yawning softly, scratching the top of her head as she looked at the alarm clock. “…..AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ONIX, WAKE UP!!!”, she yelled loudly, scrambling over to him and kicking him out of his bed.
Onix mumbled softly and said, “Too tired….need more sleep….wake me up in an hour or so….” Crystal kept running around the room, trying to get herself dressed in her uniform, her hair still wet from a quick shower. “SLEEP NOTHING! If we don’t get to class, we’ll probably get detention! OR WORSE!”, she exclaimed, pulling on the blankets that covered up Onix, hearing him yelp as he fell on the floor.
“Oh geez, it is time for class, ain’t it!? Let’s get going!”, Onix replied, putting on his uniform quickly, grabbing his deck belt and running out the room with Crystal following behind. “Man, why didn’t Mikey try to wake us up? I’m starving!”, Onix complained, the main campus starting to come into view in the distance.
“We’ll just have to buy something to eat in the school’s store later, Onix! I can see the school now!”, Crystal said, still running behind Onix. Faster and faster they ran, closing in closer to the campus, when they saw a woman trying to push a truck up the hill. They passed her, only stopping when Onix said, “Hold it a second!”
“Onix, what are you doing? We have to go. NOW!”, Crystal said, jogging in place, looking back at her brother. Onix scratched the top of his head and said, “Tricky situation….to be mean and leave this lady struggling here, or try to get to class in time? ….Well, I’m never on time for anything anyway!” He ran back down the hill towards the broken down truck and said, “Never fear, Onix is here!”
“Oh, finally! One of the school staff is here!”, the lady said with a strain. “Don’t let the red blazer fool you. I’m a student here!”, Onix said. “Oh, isn’t that nice?”, the woman said, the truck slipping from her grip, her starting to slide back down to the bottom of the hill with the truck.
“What would be nice is if I helped you push! Hey, Crystal! Give me a hand here!”, Onix said, pushing at the back of the truck. Crystal sighed and said, “Well, what can I do when you make up your mind? At least we’ll be missing Prof. Kaiba’s class! Ha-ha!”
Onix laughed loudly, pushing the truck alongside the woman and his sister. “Yeah! That guy really doesn’t like us at all for beating him in the entrance exams!”, Onix said. The woman smiled and said, “You two seem like a lively bunch. My name is Dorothy. You two should stop by the school store later. I’ll have something to repay you with.”
“Oh, so you run the store, Dorothy?”, Crystal asked. Dorothy nodded gently as the truck came to a stop at the entrance. “Now, you two get to class before you get in more trouble!”, Dorothy said, walking into the staff entrance.
“Ok!”, Crystal said. She pulled the PDA from the side pocket of her skirt and looked at the class schedule she had. “Hmm….from the looks of it, I’m signed up for Duel Alchemy next. What about you, Onix?”, she asked her brother. He looked at his own PDA and said, “Me too. Looks like Yami is the one teaching that class. Wonder why it is called Duel Alchemy?”
“Perhaps it is a class that deals with the different types of Spell Cards?”, Crystal said, walking into the front entrance, Onix walking beside her. “Hmm….maybe.”, Onix said, looking around for their classroom. “The PDA says the class is in Classroom #121.”, he said.
“Here it is!”, Crystal said, opening the door to a classroom. She gulped as they felt all the eyes off the students turn onto her and Onix. “Onix, Crystal. Glad you could join us. Please, take a seat.”, Yami said, standing up beside his desk.
“Where would you like us to sit, Yami?”, Crystal said, getting smacked in the head with a stylus. “Ow, what the!?”, Crystal said, putting a hand to her head. “That’s Prof. Nomura, Crystal. And I really don’t care where you sit.”
“NO ASSIGNED SEATS?!”, Onix said, running up to the front of the class, seeing two empty seats next to Mikey. Crystal sat down beside Onix, handing Yami his stylus that he threw at her. “Thank you, Crystal. Now, since two more of my students came in, I’ll start from the beginning. My name is Yami Nomura, and I will be teaching you Duel Alchemy during the four years you are here. No, Duel Alchemy does not deal with potions or finding the elixir of life. No, it concerns the Spell Cards that we may use in a duel: both the safe ones….and the ones that are truly life-threatening.”
A soft chuckle was heard from a few of the students, and Yami looked at them sternly through his glasses. “I don’t think that was very funny.”, he said. He turned to his desk and pulled out a tablet, tapping on it with his stylus as the lights dimmed. He tapped the tablet a few more times and a bunch of small holoscreens popped up in front of the students. “Today’s lesson is going to be on three spell cards that are said to be the most powerful ones in all of dueling history. A lot of people in our time refuse to talk about them. I THINK DIFFERENTLY! Now, can someone name one of the cards?”, Yami continued, looking out at his students.
A few hands went up slightly, Mikey raising his hand up nervously as well. “You, you’re Mikey Redheart, son of Dr. Jonathan Redheart, yes?”, Yami asked, sitting down backwards in his chair, rolling over to him quickly. “Y-Yes, Prof. Nomura. That’s me.”, Mikey said. Yami tipped his glasses that were slowly sliding off his nose, looking at Mikey with interest. “Good man, great duelist, and the highest authority in the field of android technology. Can you tell me the first of these three cards?”, the cat-eared professor asked.
Mikey crossed his arms and looked up to the ceiling in thought. “I heard of a card one time from my father…..I think it’s called The Seal of Orichalcos?”, Mikey said with an unsure tone. “Correct, sir!”, Yami said, spinning around in his chair as he tapped his tablet, the picture of the card in question showing up in front of the students. “Knowing about this card is EXCEEDINGLY impressive! This card….was once used during the time the Chancellor of this academy was still an upcoming duelist in the world. During this time, he actually lost his title of King of Games to the duelist Raphael when he himself used this card. It’s properties is that when this card is activated, the powers of darkness consumes the mind, and if you lose, the one who activated it LOSES their soul. The same effect would also occur if the person who would win lost instead.”, he said, before saying, “Mr. Anderson, if you wish to dispose of your chewing gum, please use the trashcan instead of our academy’s desks!” Dash’s eyes widened when that was said. He looked at one of the Obelisk Blues and whispered, “Crazy guy can see out of the back of his head!” Yami frowned and threw his stylus again; it barely misses Dash’s head as it clattered on the floor behind him. “I can also hear across classrooms, Mr. Anderson!”, Yami snapped. “Now bring me my stylus. You’ll be the next volunteer.”, the professor said, motioning a hand to him.
Onix and Crystal snickered as Dash grumbled in defeat, walking down to the professor with his stylus. “Alright, now: can YOU give us a name, Dash?”, Yami asked, tapping his stylus on his arm slightly. Dash sighed and said, “I don’t know….perhaps Super Polymerization? That’s a card, right?”
“Yes, yes it is! And here is the interesting part: this one-of-a-kind card is owned by our very own Slifer Red headmaster, Jaden Yuki! There is a story to how he got this card…..unfortunately, I am not allowed to talk on it, since it is only known by Jaden and his friends.”, Yami said. His face turned to one of boredom when he mentioned that. It was quite obvious he wanted to talk about it to his students. Yami then turned to Crystal and said, “Maybe you’d like to talk about the last card, Ms. Noroi?”
Crystal shook her head slightly, and Yami sighed softly. “The City of Amaria Field Spell. It is not a forbidden card, yet it can be very dangerous if used wrongly. It has been rumored….that if this spell card is ever destroyed, it could be the very thing that creates another card: a card modeled….after The Amaria Shadow himself. And even a single fragment of him is enough to put the entire world into peril. Luckily, only a select few has this card. And one of them is sitting in this very room.”, Yami said, looking directly at Crystal.
Onix: Something definitely felt off about Yami during his lesson. I couldn’t place it, yet it seemed like he was there, yet not there at all. A few hours had passed since then, and me and my sister were finally getting a good meal for lunch….
“Whoo, yeah! I am starving!”, I said, slurping down some of the ramen noodles I had. Crystal chewed on an apple slightly as she heard the cafeteria door open, a bunch of students in a PURPLE uniform walked in. “A purple uniform? Are they part of this school?”, Crystal asked.
“I heard that there were actually four classes here, and that has to be the Exodia Purple class that Prof. Nomura is the co-headmaster of.”, I said, still eating more and more food. “Exodia Purple, huh? Wonder what that class is like….”, Crystal said. That’s when a voice behind her said, “I wouldn’t think on it! You and your brother could never even make it to that class!”
I looked behind Crystal and frowned as I saw that Dash was eating at the separate table behind us. “What do you want, Dash? Did you come here to pick a fight?”, I asked. “I’m just laughing at how your sister is thinking of Exodia Purple. Everyone here on the island knows that they are the best of the best. They even surpass us Obelisks. It is rumored that the headmaster of that class is supposedly the strongest duelist on the island, who can rival Chancellor Muto with ease!”
“Wow, this guy sounds like a pretty strong duelist! I would definitely enjoy a duel against him!”, I said, putting my empty bowl down on the table. “Not a he, you dork. The rumor is that the headmaster of Exodia Purple is a woman.”, Dash said with a sneer. “A woman? Didn’t expect the strongest headmaster would be a woman.”, Crystal said, looking at her brother. “Neither did I. Shows what I know. ….Still, I wonder who she is.”, I replied, rubbing my chin in thought.
“That’s the thing. No one but Chancellor Muto and Prof. Nomura knows. It’s a rule to everyone here on the island: not a single person is allowed to know her, since she is the one most duelists face as a graduation exam into the Exodia Purple class. You newbs didn’t even read the rules in the PDA, did you?! And you two are supposedly the best duelists in the Slifer Red class….you two won’t last a day here.”, Dash said confidently.
“That sounds more like a challenge than a threat, Dash.”, I said, wiping my mouth with a napkin.
“What was that!?”, Dash said, snapping the chopsticks he was eating with. “I don’t think I stuttered.”, I replied.
“Alright, that’s it. Tonight, you and me in the Grand Arena. I’ll let your cards do the taking then. Be prepared for a message on your PDA tonight.”, Dash said. He stood to his feet and walked away, throwing his trash away.
“Well, this is gonna be fun. I can’t wait to see how this will turn out!”, I said, still eating. Crystal smiled, not noticing Prof. Nomura staring right at her and Onix at a nearby wall. “Those two are definitely gonna stir the excitement here in these four years. So, are they really related to you, Sanji?”, I said, looking behind the wall at a female wolf sporting the Millennium Ring and an eyepatch.
“Yes, they are. Things will definitely be exciting.”, Sanji replied, walking from Yami and out of the building.
As the day slowly came to a close, I waited in my dorm room for the message for me to meet Dash in the Grand Arena. How things will turn out tonight will show exactly how things will be during me and Crystal’s time here….
