Love and Duel Monsters

It is now the morning of the first test of the year, which was also the transfer exam for those who want to go up a dorm, and Will is walking towards the main building. Right now he just finished breakfast at the dorms, and decided to head towards the main building to wait for Aeris to arrive. When he got to main entrance, he caught sight of a familiar red head sitting on one of the uniquely built benches. "Have you been waiting long?" He asked, causing the girl to almost jump out of her skin.
When she finally caught her breath, she stood up and answered, "I've just arrived about a few minutes ago." She was trying her hardest to hide a blush that was starting to make itself known, "What is it that you want to talk to me about?"
Will gave a small sigh, knowing that no matter how he put this, she was going to take this the wrong way, "It's about your dueling and your deck." He said, seeing how Aeris was looking like she was being chewed out, "I've asked because I saw the last couple of duels you were in and from the looks of things there are two things that seems to be off. I thought I help you out a little bit in those two." When she looked up at him, curious at how he would be able to help her, "First I need to take a look at your deck, and then we'll work our way towards the rest."
Aeris nodded her head and pulled her deck from the box strapped around her leg, "Hey, Will, Aeris how's it going?" Both turned to see Alexis, Jasmine, and Mindy walking up to them.
"Not much Alexis, how about you?" Will greeted while flicking his wrist to get a better look at Aeris's deck.
"F-f-f-fine Alexis." Aeris barely said, while finding the ground a bit more interesting.
"Hey, aren't you going to say hi to us as well?" Jasmine asked, trying to intimidate the poor girl.
"What's stopping you from saying it first?" Will asked right back, "Just because you're good friends with the queen of the academy doesn't give you right to act all high and mighty." After he said this, his eyebrows went lower, "Aeris, did somebody help you put this deck together?"
Aeris looked up and answered "No somebody thought my last deck wasn't strong enough for the academy so she agreed to switch my deck with a spare deck of hers."
Will gave a small sigh, "Then you got hosed badly because these cards are so out of sync with each other that you're guaranteed to lose every time." He said, while scanning the cards, "What's the name of the guy who pulled the fast one on you?"
Aeris was looking a little bit more ashamed with herself, "It was Seika Kohinata (Check the GX manga.) Who I traded my deck with." She answered.
Will thought about where he heard that name before until, "Isn't she a third year Obelisk?" He asked.
Alexis's eyes went wide at this, "Yeah, I remember her. She raised a big stink when I first showed up here because I ended up becoming the next Queen of Duel Academy."
"Yeah, and she was always determined to see how much attention on herself." Jasmine started saying.
"And she was always too busy on trying to improve her image and her looks that will get so many peoples' attention on her looks, and less time on her dueling." Mindy finished.
"Reminds me of you two." Will said, getting angry glares from them, which he ignored, "Ever since I've been here, I've never seen you duel. Most of the time I've seen you either checking out guys or just using your friendship with Lex here to improve your imagine." He then turned towards Aeris, "Pick five cards and then I'll help you get enough cards to get a new deck going."
"Thank you." Aeris said, while looking through the deck. When she grabbed her five, Will put the rest of the deck into his pocket, "What are you going to do with the rest of the deck?"
"I'm going to take it to Chancellor Sheppard and have a little chat with him about this." Will said, "Anyway, due to the fact that the store won't open until sometime after the written part of the exam, how about we spend the time getting to know each other better."
Aeris nodded at this and said "Sure, I love to." Both started to walk towards the entrance into the academy.
"Hey, why don't you find a Slifer girl to be with loser?" Mindy asked.
Both of them stopped and turned to face them, "Name one." Will shot back at her. When neither one could provide an answer, "That's what I thought. Did you forget that when you girls sign up for the academy, that you're automatically made an Obelisk, while us guys get separated depending on how we do in the entrance exam, or in some Obelisk's case, how much lines our pockets." He said, before the pair continued walking.
When the pair went into the main building, "Alexis, how come you haven't stood up for us when that Slifer was insulting us?" Jasmine asked.
"He wasn't insulting you, he was stating the truth." Alexis said, catching her two friends off guard, "I've never seen you two duel either, and quite frankly, I'm getting tired of being the one who has to save your hides whenever you happened to be over your heads." Mindy looked like she was about to say something, "And no, I don't think I could defeat him in a duel Mindy. Look at what happened when I duel Jaden, I managed to do some damage to him, but he still defeated me."
"But dueling him would be different." Mindy said.
"You're right; he would have slaughtered me just as badly as he did Dr. Crowler." Alexis said, while walking away.
About an hour and a half later, Syrus was busy praying to who knows what that he would both get a good grade on this test, and not be pitted against Will in the field portion of the exam. While he still enjoyed having him as a friend, it's becoming his opponent that has him scared because of Will's dueling record, which already includes 50 wins, and 0 loses, and a good portion of those are from dueling second and third year students from Ra and Obelisk. He quickly took a look at Will who was busy concentrating on the test.
Just as he was going through the answers through his head by silently talking to himself, "Hey, I didn't know that there was an oral part to this exam, Sy?" He looked up to see Jaden leaning against his desk, perhaps you should have got some sleep instead of praying last night."
"If you don't mind, can you keep it down since some of us are trying to pass this exam?" Chazz yelled out.
Jaden just looked at him and said "Hey I try to pass it just doesn't turn out that way."
'No kidding.' Will thought "Hey Jaden, shouldn't you have grabbed a test when you made your up here?" He asked, not even looking up from his exam.
"And you can get it from down here when you find the time." Banner said.
Jaden sports an embarrass look on his face, while placing his right hand behind his head, "I'll be there in a jiffy." He said, before running to get his paper.
Alexis gave him a brief glare, with the word 'Idiot.' in her mind.
Bastion watched as Jaden runs up the stairs, 'This is somebody who claims to be the next King of Games.'
'I hope he knows what he's doing.' Alexis thought before continuing with her exam.
Will has just finished answering the last question on the exam he looked over to see Jaden and Syrus snoring away. He shook his head, 'Those two really make an interesting pair.' He thought before standing up to deliver his exam.
Banner looked at the clock and was surprised because there was about fifteen minutes left and he's already got a completed exam, while the rest of the room, except for the mentioned two, were a bit on edge. Banner was looking through the paper, "You may return to your seat Mister Rawelk." He said.
Will nodded and walked back towards his seat. "Mind your own paper." He said to snap people back into reality. When he got to the row that he was in, he noticed that Aeris was still looking at him. She was looking a little nervous, so he gave her a confident smile and a quick wink, causing her to blush like crazy and get back to the exam.
Alexis caught this and smiled a little. 'I'm glad she found the courage to be with him, even though they're just starting as friends, because he could help her find her true strength from within.'
When the rest of the fifteen minutes were up, the bell rang to indicate its end. "Okay everybody, pencils down and please turn in your exams." When they started doing what they were told, "And to let you know, the rare cards should be at the store by now." When he saw the looks on the students faces, "Oh my." Were the only words that came out of mouth before they stampeded out of there towards the store, amazingly enough landing in a nice pile onto his desk.
He looked up to see that he still had a few students left. Will, who was holding a very red Aeris in his arms, Jaden and Syrus who were still sleeping away, Chazz and his friends, and Alexis with hers. Will let go of Aeris who was trying her hardest not to faint, " Well, since the path to the desk is cleared, why don't you go ahead and turn your exam in."
Aeris nodded at this, not trusting her voice at the moment. When she looked up, she watched just as Alexis was about to step out the door, turned towards her and gave her a wink that said 'good luck.' The blush spread down towards her chest. When she returned her paper, she returned to Will, who walked with here towards the door. Not knowing why, her hand reached out and grabbed his hand. When she felt his hand grab hers in return, the blush she was sporting spread to the rest of her body. If she looked she might have notices a small bit of pink appearing on Will's cheeks.
Banner has a small smile spreading across his face. He knew that Will won't be a Slifer much longer, considering what he saw on the written exam, but he can still be glad that somebody from his dorm is having some luck in love. He couldn't help but chuckle at what happened next. Before the lovely couple stepped out the door, Will turned back slightly and yelled out "Oh my god, it's the Dark Magician Girl." And both ran out just as Syrus jump up yelling out "Where? Where?" While Jaden's head landed hard on his desk, but not hard enough to wake him up.
After another thirty minutes of chaos, this time caused by Jaden at the store, it was now time for the field portion of the exams. All the fields were used by some of the duelists, while the rest were in the audience, either waiting for their turn or already had it. Everyone was watching as Aeris was doing hers while Syrus and Chumley has just finished theirs. When Alexis and Bastion left when their names were called to take theirs, Syrus came and took a seat on both sides of Jaden. "Wow, Will, looks like your girlfriend is doing pretty well." He said.
"Yeah, although her deck seems different then from the last time we saw her duel." Syrus said, although he was still a little sore from earlier.
"That's because she's using one of my decks." Will said, getting their attention, "A third year tricked her into switching decks with her, giving her a deck full of random cards, so right now I'm letting her borrow one of mine to help her out during the exam. Afterwards, when she finds the time tonight, she is going to build a new deck with cards I helped her buy." Just as he saw her deliver the finishing blow, and noticing that her body was getting to cave from the courage she was trying to muster, "Excuse me." He said, before getting out of his chair.
Aeris was feeling the need to celebrate because she finally got her first victory since she got her, but her knees were telling her a different store. She wasn't sure if she could handle Will's deck, especially since it was filled with Amazon monster, but all he said to her were two things, 'Believe in yourself and listen to the deck." The first one she understood, but the last one was hard to pick up until she felt something, or someone, talking to her through her heart.
She felt her knees finally give way, but before she hit the ground, she felt herself get caught by a pair of arms. She looked up to see a smiling Will, "Good job." He said, before helping her back to her feet. When she let go, she was still a little wobbly, so she felt herself getting picked up again, this time bridal style, "I'll carry you back."
While most of the room was experiencing a feeling from envy all the way to really angry, Aeris decided to ask Will something, "While I was dueling . . ." before she could finish her question, both Will's and Jaden's name were called.
Will manage to make it all the way to where he and the gang were sitting, and placed her onto his seat. "I won't be too long." He said, before he ran off after Jaden.
Aeris was blushing like crazy due to some of the attention she was receiving, except for Syrus and Chumley, who decided to try and become her friends, "Hey, um, we never got a chance to meet yesterday, but my name is Syrus and this is Chumley." Syrus started the introduction, while offering his hand.
Aeris looked to see that they were sincere in wanting to be her friend. She shook their hands and introduced herself.
Jaden and Will got to their assigned dueling fields, both waiting for their opponents to show up. Jaden was surprised to see Chazz walk up on the other side of his field, "Hey, what's the deal? Don't I get to duel another Slifer?" He asked.
"Normally you would, but I've arranged it so that you and Mr. Rawelk each get to duel an Obelisk." Crowler said through a microphone.
"Cool, although are you sure you want to pit another Obelisk against Will due to how many he beaten so far?" Jaden asked.
Crowler couldn't help but sputter at this. "Just start dueling!" He shouted out, after being reminded that like Jaden, Will has yet to be beaten.