Punishments

It was quite early in the morning one day in Duel Academy, the sun had not risen yet and most of the students were still fast asleep. But Alexis was not, she remembered what had happened when that strange guy had kidnapped her. She was over at the lighthouse near the docks over by the Slifer dorm. But she was not alone; an old friend of hers was there as well. This student wore a long white version of the Obelisk Blue uniform only it had blue along the collar and sleeves and he had turquoise blue hair. This student was Zane Truesdale, older brother of Syrus and the best student in Duel Academy.
"Hey Zane." Alexis called to him as he approached. "What are you doing here?"
"Nothing, I just felt like being alone." Zane replied
Alexis looked at him. "You know, I thought that with your brother now here, you would feel less alone, not more." She said
Zane looked at her. "That's because he doesn't belong here."
...
Later that morning, the sun was now out and most of the students were out of bed, they didn't have any classes today because it was the weekend, but three Slifers were not awake yet. These students were Jaden, Syrus and Chumley; they were still fast asleep in bed. But then several armored trucks pulled out of the Slifer dorm and they stopped and several Slifer students outside the dorm watched as what looked like soldiers climbed out of the trucks. The loud noise they made woke up Professor Banner and he went outside to see what was happening.
"Who could be playing war at this time of the day" Banner muttered and then his eyes widened as he saw who was outside. "Oh no, it's the Disciplinary Action Squad, they only appear when a student is in big trouble, and they're heading for Jaden's room."
When the Action squad banged on Jaden's door, they woke up Jaden who went for the door. "Open this door now or we will break it down." The head shouted
"Yeah." Jaden called. 
"You and what army." He laughed as he opened the door.
"The disciplinary Action squad army!" The head called as Jaden opened the door. Jaden was surprised to see people in green army uniforms standing in front of his dorm room. The head of them was a woman looked at Jaden. "You must be Jaden Yuki." when Jaden nodded she looked into the room and gazed at Syrus. "And that little young blue haired lad must be Syrus Truesdale."
"Yeah, now who are you guys and what are you doing here!" Jaden demanded
"As I said before." The head said. "We are the Disciplinary Action Squad and you are both under Campus arrest."
"Arrest!" Jaden cried. "What did we do?"
"That will be made clear to you after your interrogation!" The head replied. "Now get dressed!"
...
Over at the Ra Yellow Dorm, Solona had already woken up and was currently at her desk as she looked at the Diary which Samson had given her. It went into more description about the Venatori Shadow Duelist cult and their leader who was only known as the Elder one. The Diary also seemed to describe something known as the Seekers of Truth but there was not much else but it did given a who's who of the Venatori. But Solona only had questions than answers as Solona had no idea about why her father had this dairy. Solona wondered something, 'Was dad hiding something from us?' she wondered.
"You okay Solona." A voice called and Solona turned to see a spiritual red and black scaled Dragon in miniature Scale sitting on her bed post.
"I'm fine Urthemiel." Solona replied. "I just have a lot of my mind."
"You really want to find your father don't you?" Urthemiel said
Solona nodded. "I just want to see him again; I haven't seen his since he vanished almost 5 years ago, finding him means a lot to me." She said
"Well it seems my fears were correct." Urthemiel added. "That Samson guy was indeed a Shadow Duelist but he was a member of the Venatori Cult, for some reason, why you dueled him, I could feel the presence of my brother Razikale."
"Razikale, Old God of Mystery? Another Old God spirit, are you sure because he the Venatori do have him, then we're going to have a problem."
Before Urthemiel could reply, there was a loud knock at the door and Urthemiel disappeared. 
"Who could that be?" Solona wondered. "Daylen? Theorn? Neria? Is that you?" Solona asked and she opened the door. She was shocked to see several people dressed in green army uniforms, "Can I help you?"
"We're the disciplinary Action Squad." One of the soldiers replied. "Are you Solona Amell?"
"I am now what's going on?" Solona demanded
"We've been ordered to take you to Chancellor Sheppard's office; he wants to speak to you right away."
Solona sighed; she knew that this was about the Abandoned Dorm incident. "All right, let's go."
As Solona walked with the soldiers, she saw Daylen come out of the room, "Sister? What's going on?"
"I've been called to the Chancellor's office." Solona replied. "I need to borrow your Duel Pilot, I may need the evidence on it."
...
Solona was worried when the soldiers took her to the Chancellor's office, and then she heard some kind of argument in there and she heard Jaden's voice in there.
"Suspended!" Jaden cried
"That's right." The head of the DAS said. "You both trespassed in the abandoned dorm which is strictly off limits. We received a letter which supports this, you are both to be punished as an example to the school."
It was then that Jaden noticed Solona nearby. 
"Then why is Solona here?" he asked
Sheppard sighed. "We received word that Solona was also at the dorm as well." He turned to look at Solona. "Please tell me that this isn't true"
Solona sighed. "Well, not exactly, I was over in the Ra canteen with Theorn and Neria and my brother when this strange guy just came in and took Neria. I followed him and we ended up at the abandoned dorm. We dueled and I won" Solona pulled Daylen's duel pilot out. "Daylen has the duel recorded on his duel pilot."
The head of the D.A.S looked at her "Did you know this guy."
Solona shook her head. "I've never met the guy at all, but for some reason he knew my name." Then Solona lowered her head. "There's more, after I defeated the duelist he gave me something. I found a clue about what happened to my father."
"Your father?" Sheppard questioned
"My father went on a business trip 5 years ago, he never returned." Solona replied. "I don't know what happened to him but his diary had something in it which I was always curious about. The last entry had this strange diagram in it." To prove her point, Solona pulled the diary out and showed them the drawing. Syrus recognized it.
"That looks like the symbol that Professor Dorian showed us in class." Syrus said.
Solona nodded. "I looked it up in the Library and it seemed to be the symbol of a group of Shadow duelists called the Venatori."
"Shadow Duelists." Crowler scoffed. "They don't exist."
Solona glared at him. "Even if they don't exist, I still have something about what happened to my father. After I defeated the shadow duelist who said his name was Samson, he gave me another Diary." Solona pulled the second diary out. "This one seems to describe who's who of the Venatori, but there is nothing else in here."
Sheppard looked at her and then to Jaden. "Miss Amell has explained herself, so now you will. Why were you at the abandoned dorm?"
"Well." Jaden started. "I was curious."
"You were curious about the abandoned dorm even though you knew it was off limits." The head of the D.A.S added. "You two must be made an example of."
Then Crowler cut in. "But what kind of example are we setting. That we're a bunch of cold-hearted tyrants. I say we try something a bit more sporting."
"Sporting?" Jaden asked
"Yes Jaden." Crowler replied. "You and Syrus will go into a Tag Duel, win and you go free, but if you lose, then you'll be expelled."
"Sweet!" Jaden said. "I'm in."
Syrus looked worried. "But Jaden; he said we'll be expelled if we lose..."
Crowler interrupted him. "What do you think Chancellor, they've accept the conditions."
Sheppard sighed and then looked at Solona. "I'm sorry Solona, but because you broke rules as well, you'll have to duel as well."
"I understand sir." Solona replied.
"I'll arrange some opponents' immediately." Sheppard added
"No need Chancellor, I'll arrange them myself." Crowler added
"Very well, you have three days to prepare." Sheppard finished.
...
Later, Solona returned to her dorm room where she found Daylen, Theorn and Neria in the canteen. 
"Sister, what happened?" Daylen asked
Solona groaned. "Someone told the D.A.S that I was at the Abandoned Dorm, and now I have to duel in an expulsion duel."
"But you only went there because of that Samson fella who kidnapped me." Neria said.
"But I still went to an area off limits, so I have to go through with this." Solona said sadly.
"Well, I'm not going to let that happen." Daylen said. "We should get some training done as it's the weekend. When's this duel?"
"In three days." Solona answered. "But I'm not the only one in trouble, Syrus and Jaden were also caught at the Dorm as well and now they have to duel in a Tag Duel."
"That doesn't sound good." Theorn said. "Jaden's a good duelist and he confident in his deck, but Syrus has problems."
"Then we should help him to have confidence in himself." Neria added
…
Back at the Slifer Dorm, Jaden and Syrus were in their dorm room as they looked through their cards. "Don't worry Sy, I know that we can beat whoever Crowler chooses for us."
"But Jaden, I might hold you back and cause us to lose the Duel. Then we'll both be expelled. I don't want you to get expelled because of me."
Jaden chuckled. "You're a good duelist Sy, you just have to believe in your deck, I mean, you were able to beat Kallian during the test duels and she's a good duelist as well."
"I guess you're right." Syrus stated.
Later, Syrus and Jaden were outside the Slifer Dorm so that Jaden could help Syrus with his confidence. Then they saw Kallian and Faren join them.
"I heard about what happened." Kallian stated. "Is it true? If you lose that duel you'll be expelled?"
"Don't worry Kallian, I'm sure that they can beat whoever Crowler chooses for them to duel." Jaden said
"I'm still worried Jaden." Syrus said. "I'll just hold you back."
"No you won't Syrus." Jaden said. "Now let's practice." They both activated their duel disks and drew 5 cards
Duel
Syrus: 8000
Jaden: 8000
"You go first buddy." Jaden said
Syrus drew his sixth card and he started his turn, "I summon Gyroid in attack mode." A blue cartoon helicopter appeared on Syrus' field "And then I'll throw one card face down and end my turn."
"My turn then." Jaden said "I summon Elemental Hero Sparkman in attack mode." Jaden's blue and yellow hero came onto the field (L4 Attack 1600 Defense 1400) "And now my monster will attack your Gyroid."
"Don't you forget, my Gyroid can survive one attack each turn?" Syrus called
"True Syrus but you'll still take damage." Faren called from the edge.
Syrus: 7400
Jaden 8000
"It's your move Sy." Jaden called after the attack
Syrus drew a card, 'Only my Drillroid can destroy his Sparkman.' He thought, but that will destroy my monster to' then Syrus saw his Block Attack spell card. 'That's it.' He thought. "I summon Drillroid in attack mode." Syrus' cartoon drill appeared "Now I activate the spell card Block Attack which switches your Sparkman to defense mode." Sparkman knelt down "Now Drillroid will attack your monster and when Drillroid attacks a monster in defense mode, it's automatically destroyed." Sparkman was destroyed when Drillroid smashed into him "Now my Gyroid will attack you directly."
Syrus: 7400
Jaden: 7000
"I end my turn there." Syrus said
"You see Syrus, you can do it." Jaden said and he drew his next card. "Now I activate the spell card Polymerization which allows me to fuse Avian and Burstinatrix in my hand to summon Elemental Hero Flame Wingman." Jaden's green and red monster with the dragon head hand appeared on Jaden's field (Level 6 Attack 2100 Defense 1200) "And now my Wingman's going to destroy your Drillroid." The Dragon head let out a fireball which destroyed Drillroid and thanks to Wingman's ability, Syrus also lost the attack points of Drillroid in damage.
Syrus: 5300
Jaden: 7000
"It's your move Syrus." Jaden called
Syrus did his next move. "I activate my own Polymerization to fuse Gyroid on my field and Steamroid in my hand to summon out Steam Gyroid." A combination of the helicopter and steam train appeared on Syrus' field (Level 6 Attack 2200 Defense 1600) "And then I'll summon Submarineroid to join them." Syrus' submarine joined in "Now my Steam Gyroid will destroy Flame Wingman." Steam Gyroid launched into the air and descended onto Wingman, destroying him.
Syrus 5300
Jaden: 6900
"And now I'll activate my De-Fusion spell card to bring back Steamroid and Gyroid." Syrus added and Steam Gyroid separated. "And now all three of my monsters will attack you directly." Steamroid charged at him, Gyroid launched at Jaden and Submarineroid launched a torpedo at Jaden.
Syrus: 5300
Jaden: 3300
"I'll end my turn with one face down." Syrus finished
"You see Sy, you can do this, but it's my turn now." Jaden drew another card. "I'll start by activating Pot of Greed to draw two more cards, then I'll activate Monster Reborn to summon back my Elemental hero Sparkman. And then I'll play Fusion Hate." The field changed so there was a purple portal above them. "Now I'll use fuse my Sparkman and Burstinatrix together to summon Gaia." Jaden's black armored elemental hero appeared on the field "And now I'll activate his special ability which allows me to half the attack points of your Steamroid and then add them to Gaia." Steamroid's attack points halfed and Gaia gained them. (EH Gaia Attack 2200-3100) (SR Attack 1800-900)
"And now my Gaia will destroy your Steamroid." Gaia punched Steamroid and because of Steamroid's effect, his attack points decreased again to 400
Syrus: 2600
Jaden: 3300
"It's your move buddy once I throw down this face down." Jaden called and Gaia's attack points returned to normal.
"Oh man, I've got to do something." Syrus looked at his hand 'My Scrapyard recovery spell will allow me to get my Drillroid and a polymerization spell but the question is do I have the right card.' Syrus drew his card. "I activate Pot of Greed to draw two more cards." Syrus drew his two cards and was shocked to see what one of them was, it was the spell card Power Bond, a spell card like Polymerization. But Syrus wasn't sure he was ready to use it. He remembered a time when he duelled a bully and was ready to use Power Bond to end the duel but his brother Zane stopped the duel and revealed that Syrus would have lost the duel thanks to the Bully's trap card, Spellbinding Circle. "Syrus looked at his hand; he had Scrapyad recovery, Power Bond and Monster reborn. He realized that he there was something he could do. "I'll start by activating the spell card Scrapyard Recovery, by sacrificing Gyroid, I can add my Drillroid and my Polymerization card from my Graveyard to my hand then I'll activate Monster Reborn to bring back my Steamroid. Now I play my Polymerization to fuse my Drillroid, Submarineroid and Steamroid to summon Super Vehicroid Jumbo Drill." A large cartoon drill much bigger than Drillroid appeared the field. (Level 8 Attack 3000 Defense 2000) "And now my monster is going to destroy your Gaia." Jumbo Drill destroyed Gaia.
Syrus: 2600
Jaden: 2500
"I end my turn" Syrus finished
"It's my move now then." Jaden called. "I activate my Pot of Greed to draw two more cards." Jaden looked at them and smirked. "Syrus, you're my best friend, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go easy on you, I activate my face down Call of the Haunted to bring back Flame Wingman, and now I'll activate the Field spell Skyscraper."
Kallian and Faren watched. "This duel's over" Kallian said
"Syrus has nothing to stop Wingman now." Faren added
"Sorry Syrus, but this duel's over, now Flame Wingman, destroy Jumbo Drill." Flame Wingman dived onto Jumbo drill and destroyed him, ending the duel thanks to Wingman's effect."
Syrus: 0000
Jaden: 2500 (Winner)
"Oh man, I lost." Syrus cried. "It's no use, I'll never win this Tag duel."
"Hey wait up Sy." Jaden said. "Just because you lost doesn't mean you're a bad duelist Sy." And then Jaden thought of something "By the way Sy, what was that card you drew before that you looked shocked about." Jaden looked at Sy's card and gasped "Power Bond?"
Kallian looked shocked. 
"Why didn't you play it Sy?" she asked
"You could have beaten Jay if you played it." Faren added
"You don't understand." Syrus cried. "I'm not good enough to play that card."
"Wait what do you mean?" Jaden asked
"It doesn't matter." Syrus said
"Well maybe Solona will have some advice for you." Kallian said
"Well let's go see her then." Faren added.
...
Meanwhile down at the Ra Yellow Dorm, Solona and her brother were preparing for their practice duel. Theorn and Neria had come to watch and were joined by Alexis.
"All right then sister, let's do this." Daylen said
"You said it brother." Solona added
"Game on."
Solona: 8000
Daylen: 8000
"Since you learning here, you go first sister." Daylen said
"My draw." Solona replied and she looked at her hand. "I'll start by summoning Kaibaman in attack mode. And then I'll sacrifice him to activate his special ability to summon out my Blue eyes White Dragon." Kabiaman disappeared and was replaced by the beautiful white scaled Dragon monster. "Then I'll throw one card face down and call it a turn."
It was then that Jaden and the others arrived. 
"Look at that" Jaden said
"Blue Eyes White Dragon?" Chumley said
"But how, I thought there were only three copies of that card?" Syrus said. It was then that Bastion arrived
"After Battle city, Kabia created several more copies of Blue Eyes, and since Solona's father worked as a card designer, it seems that he has a few copies of them." Bastion said
"It's my move." Daylen said. "And I activate Graceful charity to draw three cards as long as I discard two." Daylen discarded his Entropy Mage and his Firestorm spell and he drew three new cards. "Now I summon Fire Mage in attack mode. Then I can special summon Frost Mage. Then with Premature Burial, I can give up 800 Life points t summon Entropy Mage."
Solona: 8000
Daylen: 7200
"I don't get it." Syrus said. "Daylen has three monsters on his field but none of them have enough attack points to destroy Solona's Blue Eyes."
"That's true." Theorn said. "But monsters still have special abilities."
"Like Theorn said, I activate Entropy's special ability, by sacrificing my Fire Mage, I can destroy your Blue Eyes." Both Blue eyes and Fire Mage shattered. "Now my remaining mages will attack you directly." Entropy fired a jet of black fire and Frost fired a whirlwind of frost at Solona.
Solona: 3900
Daylen: 7200
Alexis looked in shock. "On his first move and Daylen has already reduced his sister's Life points by half."
"Don't think Solona's out of this yet." Neria said. "She will still have tricks up her sleeve"
"It's your move sister." Daylen finished
"With pleasure." Solona said. "And I think I'll start with Monster reborn to summon back my Blue Eyes in my Graveyard, now I'll activate Polymerization to fuse my Blue eyes with another in my hand to summon Blue Eyes Twin Burst Dragon." The two headed blue eyed white dragon appeared on Solona's field. "And guess what, Twin Burst can attack twice, but before I do, I'll normal summon Alexandrite Dragon in attack mode." A sparkling dragon made of crystals appeared on Solona's field (Level 4 Attack 2000 Defense 100) "And now Alexandrite will destroy your Entropy." Alexandrite fired a flame breath made up of tiny gems and destroyed Entropy.
Solona: 3900
Daylen: 7100
"Now my Blue eyes will first attack will be on that Frost Mage." Solona added and Frost Mage was destroyed.
Solona: 3900
Daylen: 6300
"And now my Blue eyes will attack again." Solona added and Daylen was engulfed in bright light.
Solona: 3900
Daylen: 3300
"Then I'll finished by throwing one card Face down." Solona finished
"Neria was right." Jaden said. "Solona just turned this duel around quickly."
"Yeah, I can see why they're in Ra Yellow." Syrus added
"With their connections, they could have gotten into Obelisk Blue, but they wanted to earn the right to be there first." Bastion added
"It's my move." Daylen called. "And I activate Pot of Greed to draw two more cards. And now I'll activate Monster Reborn to summon back Entropy Mage, and then I activate my Mind Blast Spell card which allows me to take control of your Blue Eyes in exchange for 500 Life points." Blue eyes Twin Burst roared as he was forced to change sides.
Solona: 3900
Daylen 2800
"And now Twin Burst will destroy your Alexandrite." Daylen said and then Solona's own monsters battled with Blue eyes surviving the battle.
Solona: 2900
Daylen: 2800
"And now my second attack with Blue eyes is a direct attack. So end this." Daylen said but Solona activate a trap. "I play Call of the Haunted which allows me to bring back my normal Blue eyes from my graveyard." Solona said and then Twin Burst and normal Blue Eyes battle with Twin Burst being victorious.
"I don't get it." Syrus said "Both monsters had the same attack points, they both should have been destroyed."
"Blue Eyes Twin Burst cannot be destroyed in battle." Alexis said. "Solona knew that and she wanted it back at the end of the turn."
"Well I still have one last attack." Daylen added. "Now Entropy, attack her directly." Entropy fired a jet of black fire and hit Solona.
Solona: 1000
Daylen: 2800
"And don't think you're getting your monster back." Daylen said. "Because I use Entropy's effect to destroy that remaining facedown by sacrificing your Twin Burst." Solona's Dragon disappeared as was her trap which turned out to be Ring of Destruction. "It's your move sister, let's see how you do."
"Don't worry brother." Solona said. "I always have a plan" Solona drew her card and activated it. "I activate Card of Sanctity so now we both draw until we have 6 cards in our hands." Solona and Daylen drew until they had six cards in their hands and Solona smirked at her hand "If you think I just had Blue eyes cards in this deck you're wrong." Solona said. "I summon Red Eyes Black Vhick in attack mode." A small red egg with black spots appeared and then a black dragon hatched from it (Level 1 Attack 800 Defense 500)
"What's that going to do?" Syrus question
Bastion laughed. "If Solona has the right cards in her hand, this duel's over." He said
"Now I activate Chick's special ability which allows me to tribute it to summon Red Eyes Black Dragon." Solona added and then the baby dragon and egg disappeared as a fully grown dragon replaced them. (Level 7 Attack 2400 Defense 2000) "And now I will sacrifice him to summon his much darker version. I summon Red Eyes Darkness Dragon." Red eyes disappeared and was replaced by a much larger version with red stripes on his wings (Level 9 Attack 2400 Defense 2000) "And now his ability activate, now my Darkness Dragon gains 300 attack points for every dragon in my graveyard, so since I have 4 in my graveyard, Red eyes gains 1200 attack points." (REDD Attack 2400-3600) "And then I'll activate the spell card Dragon's Breath of Destruction, with this card, my Red Eyes' attack points doubles till the end of this turn, but at the turn's end, my monster is destroyed but that's okay." (REDD Attack 3600-7200) "And now my Red Eyes will end this duel, attack Entropy with Inferno Dark Fire." Red Eyes Darkness Dragon let out a huge fire breath which shattered Entropy, ending the duel.
Solona: 1000 (Winner)
Daylen: 0000
"That's game." Solona finished
"Good due sister." Daylen said
"Yeah, if you duel like that you'll beat whoever Crowler has planned for you." Jaden said
Syrus looked sad. "I just wish I could say the same." He said sadly
Daylen noticed Syrus look. "Is he alright?" he asked
"He and Jaden recently had a practice duel, Syrus lost but he could have won if he used Power Bond." Kallian said
"Wait you had Power Bond." Solona said. "Why didn't you use it?"
"You don't understand." Syrus muttered. "My brother says I'm not good enough to use it." He said "And he's right."
"Why's that?" Faren added
"You see it was a few years ago, I was dueling this bully and I was about to use Power Bond to defeat him but Zane stopped the Duel. When I asked him why he revealed that I would have lost because I forgot about the opponent's trap card which turned out to be Spellbinding Circle which would have made me lose the duel. Zane said I'm not good enough to use the card."
"Woah hold on." Jaden said. "Who's Zane?"
But Syrus just started crying with Chumley and Faren chasing after him and Alexis answered "Surely you've heard of Zane Truesdale?"
"I can't say I have." Jaden answered.
"He's Syrus' brother and a Third Yea Student. He's the Kaiser round here as he's the best student here, he's never lost a duel before but he said that Syrus doesn't belong here." Alexis said
"Hey that's not fair." Jaden said. "Sure Syrus may have confidence problems but he can still duel. How could Zane do that to his brother?"
"Well Zane is probably someone who expects the best from his brother." Solona suggested. "When he stopped that Duel he was only preventing him from being humiliated."
"Maybe but that still doesn't give him a reason to treat his brother like that" Jaden said "I'm going to show Syrus by duelling him."
"Jaden wait" Daylen said "This is between Syrus and Zane, you should stay out of it."
"That's right." Solona said. "I know you're angry but that doesn't give you a reason to get involved."
"Plus, Zane's the top duelist here, he may not even bother." Theorn said
"And you know what Crowler's like. He won't allow you to duel him." Alexis added. "And many Obelisks are the same."
"What about Aedan, maybe he could help." Neria suggested and then everyone stared at her. "What? I was just suggesting."
"We shouldn't bring Aedan into this, I don't want him in trouble." Solona said
"Well one way or another, I'm going to Duel Zane and get his confidence up." Jaden declared.
...
Meanwhile, back in Domino City, the Venatori cult had gathered. 
"So, our spy says that the Amell girl is to be placed in a duel, if she loses, she'll be expelled." Livius said
"This is perfect." Samson said. "We can take the card and remove the duelist at the same time."
"But how do we do that?" Calpernia asked
"Leave it to me." The Elder one said. "I'll handle this but one way or another, we will take the girl's card. And I know just the way.