Test Duels part 1

A few weeks after school started, it was getting closer towards the day when the test duels would happen. Each term, Duel Academy would test their students to see if they were ready to move up to the next duel. There were two tests, the first was a written cards to see if they known certain card effects and how to use them. And then there was a field test which had students from the same dorms to see how much their dueling skills have improved. Solona and Daylen had been nervous for this exam. They were confident that they could get a good score as they had both been able to defeat an Obelisk Blue student but not many people knew that yet. They had also been spending a lot of time with Theorn and Bastion since they said that they did a lot of studying. Soon the day of the test arrived.
...
On the day of the tests, a fleet of ships was sailing through the ocean towards Duel Academy. They were escorted by some jet planes as well. The captain of the lead ship stood on the bridge as he looked at a small briefcase at his feet. 
"Captain." A voice came over the radio. "We'll soon be approaching Duel Academy."
The Captain smiled to himself. 
"Well, it's been a long journey, but we're almost there." He said. "Everyone's been after us, but it was worth it. Hold tight boys, it's time that Duel Academy receives it's brand new rare cards."
...
Meanwhile, at the Slifer dorm, Syrus was in his room kneeling in front of a poster of Slifer the Sky Dragon. He also wore a headband with three Duel Monster Cards in it. 
"Please." He begged. 
"Please, please let me past this test." He said to himself. "I don't want to be stuck in this red coat forever, I mean, it looks good on you Slifer but I want to be part of Ra Yellow." It was then that Jaden's alarm Clock rag very loudly. 
"SLIFER!" He yelled but turned to see that it was the alarm. 
"Just the alarm clock and just like always, Jaden sleeps right through it." Syrus went to Jaden's side and he tried to shake him to wake up. "Come on Jaden, wake up, we have our tests today."
"WRONG CAUSE I PLAY A TRAP!" Jaden yelled as he was dreaming, he flapped his arms around and he hit Syrus, sending him falling to the floor.
Syrus groaned as he picked himself up from the floor. "Oh why he can't he dream in Defense Mode when I wake he up?" He groaned. "It would be a lot safer."
Above Jaden's bunk, Chumley laughed. "Well Duh Sy, you shouldn't be waking Jaden up at all. You see, we have two tests, the written one and the field test where they pair you up with other students from your dorm. It would be better if Jaden slept through it, I would hate to be paired up with him. See what I'm saying."
Syrus glared. 
"Yeah, I get what you are saying." He said. "It's no wonder that you were held back two years in a row." He then looked at Jaden. "Wake up Jaden will you. I'll be back in a sec." And then he ran out of the rooming as Chumley sighed. "Oh well, Plan B it is."
...
Meanwhile, just below Jaden and Syrus room, Kallian was asleep on her bunk as she was ready for a good night's sleep so she was ready for the exam. Unfortunately someone else it the room was not going to allow that to happen. Kallian had set her alarm so that she would wake up ready for her to do some last minute studying, but Kallian's roommate, Sera had other plans.
'Ring Ring Ring.' The sound of Kallian's alarm at full volume came.
"Ahh!" Kallian screamed as she fell off the bed as she covered her ears and tried to find the switch to turn off the alarm. When she did find it, she turned and glared at a laughing Sera who sat nearby. 
"WHAT THE HELL!" She yelled. "I told you to stop messing with my alarm."
Sera still chuckled, "I couldn't resist." She said, "I needed to have a laugh before I mess up today."
Kallian growled, "Well, I'm going to change then do some studying. At the Library!" She yelled at the last few words as he angrily marched into the bathroom to change."
...
In the room next to Kallian's, Faren Brosca was looking through his cards. He was worried about his duel but he could only hope that he tried his best.
...
Several hours later, every student of duel academy was in the main lecture room as they all did their tests. Well, almost everyone as a certain Slifer student was not there yet. Jaden Yuki had finally woken up and was running towards the school when he saw one of the female members of staff struggling to push a large cart up the main path towards the academy building. When Jaden saw this, he stopped.
"Here." He said. "Let me help you."
"Oh thank you kind lad." The woman said. "You are most kind."
Later, after he had helped the woman get to the academy building, he managed to make it to the main lecture hall where he saw Syrus fast asleep next to his exam paper.
"A field spell counters a normal spell." Syrus mumbled in his sleep
"Jaden looked around. 
"I didn't know that this was an oral exam." He said to himself as he watched the students do their tests.
"HEY SLACKER, WOULD YOU KEEP IT DOWN!" The loud voice of Chazz from the rest of the Obelisk students at the top of the lecture room. 
"Unlike you, some of us are trying to pass our exams!" He continued to shout until he felt someone pull on his arm
"Stop shouting." Aedan hissed
Jaden laughed. "Hey, I do try to pass; it just doesn't turn out that way."
Over with the Ra yellows Solona watched Jaden and sighed. 
"Maybe you shouldn't sleep through your classes then." She said to herself and Daylen chuckled.
"Jaden." Professor Banner said "come down here and collect your test."
As Jaden went to collect his test Alexis looked at Jaden. "He'll be lucky if he even finishes" she whispered to herself "We're already a quarter of the way through the time."
...
About three quarters of an hour later, the test finished. 
"All right then class." Banner called. "The test is over. Please hand your papers to the front desk, and then form an ordinary line to receive your new rare cards."
"They're here!" One student shouted
"Oh dear." Banner groaned and then there was a stampede as almost all of the students ran out of the main lecture hall and towards the card shop. Only Syrus, Jaden, Bastion, Theorn and the Amell twins were in the lecture hall and then Syrus woke up from his sleep.
"Oh man." Syrus groaned. "I flunked again. I'm a totally failure"
Jaden laughed. 
"If this was a test for overreacting, you'll get an A." He said and then he noticed the almost empty lecture room. "Hey, where is everyone?"
"They're all at the card shop hoping to get a good chance of getting some of the new rare cards." Bastion said
"Wait rare cards?" Syrus asked. "Why didn't anyone tell us?"
Theorn looked at them. 
"Because they want to get the best cards for themselves." He said
Jaden then looked at Bastion, Theorn and the Amells. 
"So why aren't you guys at the card shop?" He asked
Bastion spoke first. "Please, one random card and my deck will be thrown off."
"Same with me." Theorn added
"Solona and I have already got rare cards that our family gave us." Daylen said. "And we're confident in our decks as they are. Solona's already got several decks."
"Well I'm not confident in my deck." Syrus said
"Well then, let's get down to the card shop." Jaden said and they both ran out of the hall.
As soon as they left, Solona turned to her brother. 
"So, do you think there'll be any rare cards left by the time they get there?" She asked
"I doubt it." Daylen said
...
Meanwhile most of the students had arrived at the card shop and were shouting as they reached the counter
"Slow down." The counter girl said but no one heard her as there was too much shouting, until a voice called.
"Hey kids." The captain from the ship earlier said. "Looking for these." He held up the briefcase and the children beamed. Until the case was placed on the counter and it was opened, and the students groaned when they saw that the case was empty.
"Where did they all go?" One student asked
"You know the rule." The counter girl said. "First come first serve."
Then they all noticed a man in a black suit nearby. "And because I was here first, I took every one." The man opened his cloak and revealed all of the rare cards. All of the students groaned in disappointment and they all left. And shortly afterwards, Jaden and Syrus arrived and were shocked to see that the card shop was empty.
"Wait it can't be." Syrus said. "You can't think..."
"...They've sold out of cards already!" Both Jaden and Syrus shouted but then they saw the counter girl. "Do you have any more cards left?" Jaden asked but the counter girl shook her head
"Some guy bought every card, none of the students got any."
"Wait, that's so unfair." Syrus protested but then they heard a laugh Jaden watched as he saw the woman he helped earlier behind the counter.
"Please excuse me assistant." She said. "I'm Dorothy and I work here. We did say that we're out of cards but there are some which I kept safe for kind people like you." Dorothy handed Jaden one small card.
...
Meanwhile, Chazz was walking with Torimaki and Raizou. 
"I'm sorry Chazz." Torimaki said. "But some guy took every card."
"Doesn't matter." Chazz said. "I'm still going to pound my opponent to the floor."
"Well you won't with that kind of attitude." A voice called on the stairs.
Raizou glared at the man. "Hey, it's the guy who took all of the rare cards."
"Rare cards?" The man stated. "What rare cards! Oh you mean these rare cards." The man opened his cloak and revealed all of the cards.
"The rare cards." Torimaki said. "Who are you?"
"Don't recognize me." The man said. "Well, how about now." The man removed his hood and was revealed to be Dr Crowler
"Oh it's just Dr Crowler." Chazz said. "You know you look better covered up."
Crowler started at Chazz. "Is that the kind of attitude going towards the guy who's going to help you defeat Jaden Yuki in the tests duels."
"But I can't face him." Chazz stated. "He's in Slifer red, and even if I could face someone of Lower rank, I'd rather show that Amell girl who the boss here."
Crowler stared at Chazz. "Solona Amell has already got an opponent, and I know her opponent, Solona's will have a tough test duel, but I want you to teach the Slifer Slacker a lesson on dueling."
However, someone had overheard Crowler and before he could be caught, the person ran off.
...
Over in the yellow dorm, Solona and Daylen were sitting Solona's dorm room as they were sorting through their cards; it was then that they heard a knock on the door. Daylen answered it and was shocked to see that it was Aedan.
"Aedan." Solona spoke up. "What are you doing here."
"It's Crowler." Aedan said. "I just saw him talking to Chazz, he was the one who took all of the rare cards, and he's organized a duel between him and Jaden."
"But Jaden's in Slifer Red, even though he's a good duelist" Daylen said. "He can't have a duel between an Obelisk and a Slifer."
"Crowler said that because Jaden always wants a challenge, he's going to give Jaden a challenge." Aedan told them.
Solona sighed even though Jaden was a good duelist; Chazz wasn't going to be easy to beat. He may be arrogant and think he's the best, but he was still a tough duelist, and with a deck made of rare cards, Jaden was going to have a huge disadvantage.
"So what are we going to do?" Aedan asked
"I don't know what we can do." Daylen said. "We can't stop this duel because we don't have the position. And we can't prove that Chazz has all those rare cards."
It was then that a though came to Solona. 
"Rare card, rare cards." She whispered to herself and then she had an Idea. 
"That's it." Solona walked over to her baggage which she still hadn't unpacked. "We can't stop Chazz using these rare cards, but we can help Jaden with rare cards of our own." She pulled out a small box which had duel monster cards in it. And these cards were some rare Elemental Hero cards. "Dad gave us this as a present a few years ago; it was a set of the latest Elemental Hero cards. We never used them, but maybe Jaden can use them."
"That could work." Aedan said. "But there is something else you should know, now that we are learning more advanced dueling, and to really test the students, the rule change involving Life points. Each player now starts with 8000 Life points instead of 4000."
...
Over at the Slifer dorm, Syrus and Jaden were looking through their decks ready for the tests, Syrus was worried but Jaden told him to calm down. Then they heard a knock at the door.
"Who is that?" Syrus wonder he walked over to the door and he opened it. But there was no one there. 
"Hello is someone here." Syrus was about to walk back inside when he noticed something on the floor. It was a small box with a letter attached to it. 
"What's this? A letter?" Syrus looked at the letter and then he went back inside and he closed the door before he handed the letter to Jaden. "It's for you."
Jaden looked confused. "What is this?" He wondered as he opened the letter. The letter said:
To Jaden Yuki,
These Cards will help you in your upcoming test duel, I don't need these anymore, I hope you can put them to good use.
From a friend.
Jaden wondered who the letter was from. He then opened the small box and to his shock, there were several Elemental Hero Cards in it. Some of these he had never even heard of before. 
"Who sent these?" Jaden asked
"I don't know." Syrus replied. "There's no name."
...
About an hour later, the test duels were taking place. The first duel was Solona's duel. All of her friend watched as she stood on her place on one of the dueling fields in the dueling test area. Then she saw her opponent. It was a Ra Yellow girl, she had silky red hair like Kallian only hers was longer and it went down her back. She also had sparkling emerald green eyes. 
"So you're my opponent." The girl said. "The name is Neria Surana, I hope you are ready to duel became I've been preparing to show off my skills since the entrance exams."
Up in the lookout area, Daylen, Bastion and Theorn watched as Solona prepared her duel
"This isn't going to be easy." Bastion said. "I know Neria, she duels with a Lightsworn Deck and she's really good, some of her monsters can turn the duel around in her favour. She's going to be a tough opponent."
Daylen smiled at Bastion. "My sister is a good duelist as well. But she would be happy to have a friendly rivalry with somebody."
"Neria thankfully is not a mean girl, she's quite nice but she likes to push duelists to their limits." Theorn added. "She would like to see how good your sister really is."
Back down in the arena, Solona and Neria drew five cards each "I'm ready" Solona replied
"Duel!"
Neria: 8000
Solona: 8000
"I'll go first." Neria said as she drew her sixth card. "I'll start by playing the field spell 'Realm of Light'" the field changed into a large city with two large pillars in the middle. "And then I'll summon 'Ehren, Lightsworn Monk' in attack mode." A black hair, dark skinned girl wearing a red skirt appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1600 Defense 1000) "Then I'll throw one card face down and end there, which means that I have to mill 3 cards from my deck because of Ehren's effect." She discarded the top three cards from her deck but then one shined "One of the cards I discarded is 'Wulf, Lightsworn Beast, and when he is sent from my deck to the graveyard, I can special summon him." A large Cat like monster appeared on Neria's field (Level 4 Attack 2100 Defense 300) "And then my Realm of Light gains three tokens so Wulf and Ehren gain 300 attack points" (ROL SC 3) (2100-2400, 1600-1900)
"Now's it's my turn." Solona said. "I'll start by summoning my Lord of D to the field." Solona's Lord of D appeared on the field ( level 4 Attack 1200 Defence 1100) "Then I'll activate the spell card Foolish Burial which allows me to send my 'Red Eyes Black Dragon' from my deck to the graveyard, then I'll activate my Flute of Summoning Dragon which allows me to summon my Red Eyes Black Chick and Divine Dragon Apocralyph." Solona's small red egg with a black dragon hatching from it (Level 1 Attack 800 Defense 500) and a fiery red Dragon appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1000 Defense 1500) "Then I'll activate Divine Dragon Apocralyph's special effect, by discarding one card from my hand to the graveyard, I can get my Red Eyes Black Dragon back into my hand. Then I'll special summon by sacrificing my Red Eyes Black Chick." The small red egg was replaced by a large red Dragon (Level 7 Attack 2400 Defence 2000) "And now my Red Eyes will destroy your Ehren, Red Eyes, attack with Inferno Fire Blast." Red Eyes let out a large fireball which destroyed Ehren.
Solona: 8000
Neria: 7500
"I end my turn there with a face down." Solona finished
"My turn then." Neria drew another card. "I'll start by activating my Offerings to the Doomed and discarding one card to destroy Lord of D." Lord of D shattered "Then I'll activate Solar Recharge to discard my Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter and then draw two cards, but I have to mill 2 cards as well. Then I activate Monster Reborn to summon back my Kaiser Sea horse which I milled with Solar Recharge." A large sea horse like monster holding a shield and axe appeared on Neria's field (Level 4 Attack 1700 Defense 1650) "But he won't be around for long, cause I sacrifice my Kaiser Sea Horse and Wulf in order to summon Gilford the Lightning in attack mode." A large armored warrior appeared on the field (Level 8 Attack 2800 Defense 1400) "And because Kaiser Sea Horse counts as two sacrifices for a light monster, I can activate Gilford's effect which destroys all of your monsters." Solona gasped when both her dragons shattered. "And now Gilford will attack you directly." Gilford then unleashed his lightning blade and then she slashed Solona.
Solona: 5200
Neria: 7500
"I end my turn there." Neria finished
"My turn now." Solona started her next turn. "I'll start by activating Card of Sanctity which allows us to draw until we hold six cards." Solona and Neria drew until they held six cards. "Next I'll activate my Monster Reincarnation, by discarding one card; I can add my Red Eyes back to my hand. Next I play Polymerization to fuse my Red Eyes Black Dragon and Summoned Skull in my hand in order to summon my Black Skull Dragon." A fusion portal was created and a large black skeleton like dragon appeared on the field (Level 9 Attack 3200 Defense 2500) "Next I'll activate my trap card Call of the Haunted which allows me to summon back the monster I discarded with Monster Reincarnation, my Barrel Dragon." A large machine like dragon with three large turrets on its back appeared on the field (Level 7 Attack 2600 Defense 2200) "Now I activate Barrel Dragon's effect, I toss a coin three times, if two are heads, then I can destroy one card of your field." Solona flipped a coin three times and she got two heads and a tail. "Two heads, so now your Gilford is destroyed." Gilford the Lightning shattered. "Now my Dragons will attack you directly." Barrel dragon fired three shots at Neria but she activated the trap she set on her first turn
"I play my Negate attack which negates your attack."
"So be it." Solona said. "I end there."
"My turn then." Neria didn't draw a card because of the effects of her Offerings to the Doomed. "I'll set one monster in face down defense and then I place two cards face down and call it a turn."
"My turn." Solona said. "I'll activate Barrel Dragon's effect." Solona flipped a coin three time again, but this time, she got two tails and a head. "Your monster is safe this turn; I summon my 'Alexandrite Dragon in attack mode." A large blue scaled dragon was summoned (Level 4 Attack 2000 Defense 100) "And now, my Alexandrite dragon will destroy your face down monster."
Alexandrite Dragon unleashed a fireball which destroyed Neria's face down monster which turned out to be Shining Angel.
"When my Shining Angel is destroyed, I can summon one Light Monster with 1500 attack points or less from my deck, so I summon Aurkus, Lightsworn Druid." Neria said and her monster appeared on the field. (Level 3 Attack 1200 Defense 1800) Then Aurkus gained 300 attack points thanks to Realm of light. (1200-1500)
"Then I'll have my Barrel Dragon destroy your Aurkus." Solona said and Barrel Dragon fired three shots which destroyed Aurkus.
Solona: 5200
Neria: 6600
"And then to finish my turn, Black Skull Dragon will attack you directly." Solona finished and Black Skull dragon fired a fireball at Neria.
Solona: 5200
Neria: 3200
"It's my turn now then, I draw." Neria drew a card and then he revealed a card in her hand. "Because I have four Lightsworn Monsters with different names in my Graveyard, I can special summon Judgement Dragon from my hand." A large blue scaled Dragon with red claws appeared on the field (Level 8 Attack 3000 Defense 2600) "Then I'll activate Judgement's effect, by paying 1000 Life points, I can destroy every card of the field." Solona watched in horror as every card but Judgement Dragon was destroyed
Solona: 5200
Neria: 2200
"Them I'll summon Jain, Lightsworn Paladin in attack mode." A female warrior dressed in white armour appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1800 Defense 1200) and then gained 300 attack points thanks to Realm of light. "And now my Judgement Dragon and Jain will attack you directly with judgement Blast." Judgement Dragon breathed a ray of light which hit Solona then Jain slashed her sword at Solona
Solona: 100
Neria: 2200
"It's your move now. Which means that I have to discard 4 cards thanks to Judgement Dragon so Realm of Light gains 4 more spell counters and Jain's attack points increase." Neria said (ROL SC 7, Attack 2100-2500) "Let's see if you can make this one count, this is your last chance to end this."
Up in the stands Bastion looked at Daylen. "Neria's right, unless Solona can summon a powerful monster, next turn Neria can use Judgement's effect to destroy Solona's cards."
Daylen looked at Bastion. "Don't worry; I'm sure my sister has a trick to use." He replied.
Solona looked at her deck. 
"Neria's right." She whispered to herself, "If I don't destroy Judgement this turn, it's over." She then looked at the one card in her hand it was Twin Twisters, but that card was useless at the minute. 
"My draw." Solona drew her card. "I play my Pot of Greed to draw two more cards" Solona drew two more cards, one was Dragon's Mirror while the other was the spell card 'Ruins of the Divine Dragon Lords' This was just what Solona needed. "I activate my spell card Twin Twisters, by discarding one card, I can destroy two spell or trap cards on your field, so I'll destroy your two face downs." Two twisters appeared and destroy Neria's two tap cards which appeared to be Mirror Force and Lightsworn Barrier. "Now I play the last card in my hand, I play my Dragon's Mirror, now I can remove five dragons from my graveyard to summon my Five Headed Dragon, so I remove Red Eyes Black Dragon, Red Eyes Black Chick Alexandrite Dragon, Divine Dragon Apocralyph and my Black Skull Dragon." Solona removed the Five Dragon Monsters from Play and then her Five Headed dragon appeared. "This duel is over, Five Headed Dragon; destroy Jain and the rest of Neria's life points." Five Headed Dragon blasted Jain and Solona won the duel.
Solona: 100 (Winner)
Neria: 0000
"Look like you win." Neria said. "That was a great Duel. I hope we can have a rematch sometime."
"Anytime." Solona replied and they shook hands before leaving the field.
...
Up in the stands, Chazz glared as Solona left the field. "You got lucky, but mark my words, I will make sure that you see who the real duelists are." He hissed to himself.
Meanwhile, Solona rejoined Daylen, Theorn and Bastion. 
"That was a good duel sister." Daylen said.
"Thanks brother." Solona said. "So when are you dueling? And who will you be dueling?"
Theorn spoke up. "I've been told that your brother will be dueling me, but first, there are some other duels taking place."
"Kallian told me that she will be dueling Syrus." Daylen added. "And then Faren will be facing a girl called Sera, she's Kallian's roommate, they don't get along well. Sera keeps pulling pranks on Kallian. Then I've heard that my rival, Aedan will be dueling our old friend Sereda."
Bastion then spoke up, "Looks like your friend Kallian and Syrus' duel is about to start."
...
Kallian stood on one of the dueling fields, Syrus stood across from her. Kallian could see that Syrus looked quite worried. Kallian knew that Syrus wasn't comfortable with duelling in front of a crowd. Jaden had given Syrus some advice before the duel but Syrus was still worried. 
"Hey." Kallian called. "Stay calm Syrus, I'm sure that you will do well in this duel."
Syrus didn't respond as he and Kallian drew their five cards.
"Duel!"
Kallian: 8000
Syrus: 8000
"I'll start this duel." Kallian said. "I summon my Marauding Captain in attack mode." A blond haired warrior dressed in blue armor and wearing blue armor appeared on the field. (Level 3 Attack 1200 Defense 400) "And now I activate my Marauding Captain's special ability which allows me to summon Mataza the Zapper in attack mode." A warrior dressed in Japanese Samurai armor appeared next to Marauding Captain. (Level 3 Attack 1300 Defense 800) "I throw one card face down and end my turn."
"My turn." Syrus said weakly. "I'll start by summoning my Submarineroid in attack mode." A cartoon submarine with a face and holding a torpedo was summoned to Syrus' field "Level 4 Attack 800 Defense 1800) "And my Submarineroid can attack you directly, so go now, attack Kallian directly." Submarineroid released the torpedo which struck Kallian.
Kallian: 7200
Syrus: 8000
"Then I'll throw this card face down and call it a turn though my Submarineroid shifts to Defense mode after it attacks" Syrus finished and Submarineroid crossed his arms
"My turn." Kallian said and she drew another card. "I summon Twin Sword Marauder in attack mode." A dark armored warrior joined Kallian's field (Level 4 Attack 1600 Defense 1000) "And now I equip my Twin Sword Marauder with Lightning Blade to increase his attack points by 800." (1600-2400) "And now my Twin Sword Marauder will destroy your Submarineroid." Twin Sword Marauder slashed Lightning Blade which destroyed Submarineroid. "Also, when my Twin Sword Marauder destroys a monster in defense mode, you get dealt damage equal to the difference between my monsters attack points, and your monster's defense points."
Kallian: 7200
Syrus: 7400
"And there's more." Kallian added. "When my Marauder destroys a monster in defence mode, he can attack again, and my Mataza can also attack twice, so now all my monsters will attack your directly." Marauding Captain, Twin Sword Marauder and Mataza all slashed their swords at Syrus which dealt a lot of damage.
Kallian: 7200
Syrus: 2000
"It's your move Syrus." Kallian finished
Syrus was worried; he had just lost three-quarters of his life points in just one move. 
"What's the point in me continuing." He said to himself. "Face it, I'm just a failure."
...
Up in the stands, Jaden watched as Syrus was being beaten badly by Kallian. 
"Poor Syrus." He said to himself. "I know that he can find a way to win this, but even I'll admit, it's not going to be easy.
Chazz sneered at Syrus. He then had an Idea to hurt Syrus even more. 
"Hey slacker!" He called. "Why don't you just throw in the towel now! It would save you the humiliation that you'll get when you lose!" Chazz's shouts were met with laughter from many of the Obelisk students. But Jaden glared at Chazz.
Over with Solona and her friends, she felt sorry for Syrus, Kallian was a nice girl but Syrus really needed some help. When she heard Chazz's shout, she glared at Chazz. 
"That snob!" She snarled, "He's enjoying this. He thinks that it's funny that Syrus is upset."
"Don't worry sister." Daylen said to her. "He'll be humiliated when he has to face Jaden because he's in for a surprise when he sees Jaden's deck."
...
Back on the dueling field, Syrus heard Chazz's shot. 
"Maybe Chazz is right." Syrus said sadly. "I can't do this. I'm no duelist."
"Don't listen to him Syrus." The call from Kallian came and then Syrus turned to look at her. "Don't listen to that bully. You can do this; you can find a way to turn this duel in your favor, you just have to believe in yourself."
Syrus looked at his deck and then he looked at Kallian and then at Jaden who smiled at him. 
"She's right" Syrus then said. "I can do this." He then drew his card and then he smiled at it. "I activate the spell card Lightning Vortex, by discarding one card; I can destroy all your monsters."
A large lightning storm struck and then lightning zapped all of Kallian's monsters which destroyed them. But to everyone's shock, Kallian was smiling. "You see what I mean" Kallian said "You can turn this duel in your favour, all it takes is one card"
"Now then." Syrus continued. "I summon my Steamroid in attack mode." A cartoon train with a face appeared on Syrus' field (Level 4 Attack 1800 Defense 1800) "Then I activate my face down Call of the Haunted to summon back my Submarineroid." Then I activate my spell card 'Vehicle Upgrade' by discarding the top five cards from my deck, I can summon 1 roid monster from my hand. So I summon my Battleroid in attack mode." A large cartoon battleship like monster with eyes on the bridge appeared on the field (Level 6 Attack 2400 Defense 2000) "And now all three of my Monsters will attack you directly." Battleroid fired three shots from his gun turrets, Submarineroid released his torpedo and Steamroid charged at Kallian.
Kallian: 2200
Syrus: 2000
"I end my turn with a facedown." Syrus finished and Submarineroid returned to defence mode.
"You see what I mean." Kallian said as she drew a card and then she began her turn. "I'll start by activating Monster Reborn to summon back my Twin Sword Marauder." Kallian's monster returned to the field "And then I'll equip him with Legendary Sword to increase his attack and defense points by 300." One of Twin Sword Marauder's swords changed into a large blade with a jeweled hilt. (Attack 1600-1900 Defense 1000-1300) "And now I'll have my Twin sword marauder attack your Submarineroid."
Twin Sword Marauder charged at Syrus' submarine but Syrus activated his facedown. "I activate No Entry, this switches your monster to Defense mode, and forces you to discard 1 card." Twin Sword Marauder went back to Kallian's field and then knelt down.
"I place one card face down and end my turn." Kallian finished
"All right, it's mine turn now." Syrus said as he drew his card. "I summon Drillroid in attack mode" A large cartoon drill like monster with a nose like drill and drill like hands was summoned on Syrus' field (Level 4 Attack 1600 Defense 1600) "And now my Drillroid attacks your Twin Sword Marauder, and when Drillroid attacks a monster in defense mode, it's automatically destroyed without damage calculation." Drillroid smashed through Twin Sword Marauder. "And now my Battleroid will attack you directly and end this duel." Battleroid's turrets fired three shots at Kallian which made her lose the rest of her life points.
Kallian: 0000
Syrus: 2000
"I did it." Syrus said to himself. "I actually did it. I won the duel." Syrus was cheering to himself that he didn't notice Kallian looking at the card which she had laid down on her last turn, it was Mirror Force. And she also had a Monster Reborn in her hand. Syrus then ran off the stage cheering and then Kallian walked back up to the lookout where she met up with Solona and Daylen along with Aedan and Theorn.
"That was a good duel Kallian." Daylen said
"Yeah, but I feel a bit sad that I was dishonest with him." Kallian confessed
"Dishonest?" Aedan said. "Why do you feel dishonest?"
Kallian showed then the Mirror Force trap card and the Monster Reborn. "I had Mirror Force facedown and then I had Monster Reborn in my hand."
"Why didn't you activate your trap?" Daylen asked
"Because I could see that Syrus was having problems with his dueling, so I lost to him on purpose in order to help him with his confidence."
"That was kind of you." Solona said
"Chazz has some nerve to speak like that to Syrus." Aedan growled. "Syrus can be a good duelist; he just need some help to believe in himself and his deck."
"Looks like Faren is about to start his duel." Theorn then added
Kallian turned and saw her black haired friend about to duel her annoying blond haired roommate Sera.
"Look like Faren is dueling my prankster roommate." Kallian growled
Solona noticed Kallian's growl. 
"You don't like her?" She asked
Kallian shook her head. "All she does is mess around. She tipped a bucket of water over me on the day we arrived at the academy and she keeps hiding my homework and school work, and just this morning, she increased the volume of my alarm so it was on full volume and made me jump when it went off. I hope Faren teaches her a lesson."
...
Down on the dueling field Faren was standing across from Sera who had just started laughing. 
"Let's show everyone how we duel shall we." Sera laughed. "Let's put on a show."
Faren groaned, Kallian had warned him about her roommate. "Let's just get on with our duel shall we."
"Get on with it." Sera laughed and Faren groaned again.
"Duel!"
Faren: 8000
Sera: 8000
"I'll start." Faren said and he drew his card then he looked at his hand. "I'll set one monster face down. Then I'll throw two cards face down and then end my turn."
"All right." Sera laughed. "My turn." Sera drew her card. "I summon out my 'Red Jenny Archer in attack mode." A small female archer dressed in a red robe appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1500 Defense 1300) "And now I activate my archer's special ability, by discarding one card, I can remove your monster from play for the rest of the turn, then it comes back to the field. And now my Red Jenny Archer will attack you directly." Sera's archer launched an arrow from her bow which struck Faren
Faren: 6500
Sera: 8000
"I end my turn with a face down. So your monster comes back."
Sera ended her turn and Faren's monster returned in face up defense position. It was a large blue armored machine monster with two large clubs for hands. (Level 4 Attack 0000 Defense 2000) "Meet my Superheavy Samurai Blue Brawler." Faren said and then he drew his next card. "I'll start by summoning my Superheavy Samurai Swordsman in attack mode." A large red armored machine which looked like a samurai warrior appeared on Faren's field (Level 3 Attack 1000 Defense 1800) "And then I'll switch my Brawler to attack mode."
...
Up in the stands, Syrus had rejoined Jaden and Bastion. Jaden congratulated him on his victory over Kallian; Syrus then frowned when Faren made his move. "Wait, why would Faren do that. His monster has no attack points."
"He must have some kind of plan." Bastion said
...
"Next, I activate the effect of my SuperHeavy Samurai Soulshield Wall in my hand, I can now equip this to Brawler and he gains 1200 Defense points." A large scaled jetpack appeared on Brawler's back(Defense 2000-3200) "I know that my monster hasn't increased in attack points, which is why I activate the spell card 'Shield and Sword which swamps the Attack on Defense points of all our monsters." Sera couldn't help but laugh as her monster changed its attack points.
(SS Swordsman Attack 1800 Defense 1000, SS Blue Brawler Attack 3200 Defense 0000, Red Jenny Archer Attack 1300 Defense 1500)
"And now my Swordsman will destroy your archer." Faren ordered and then his swordsman charged at Sera's archer and then destroyed her.
Faren: 6500
Sera: 7500
"Then my Brawler will attack you directly." Faren's Blue Brawler then marched towards Sera before it bashed her.
Faren: 6500
Sera: 4300
"I end my turn there." Faren finished and then his monster's attack points went back to their original. (SS Swordsman Attack 1800-1000, SS Blue Brawler Attack 3200-0000)
"My turn now." Sera started and then she activated her face down. "I play my tap card Call of the Haunted, which allows me to bring back my Archer."
'That's strange.' Faren thought to himself. 'Why didn't she play that now and now when my Brawler attacked.'
"But he won't be here for long as I sacrifice him to activate 'Letter to a Friend' spell card." Sera revealed. "Here's how it works, I sacrifice one Red Jenny Monster and then I pay 1000 Life Points to summon a level 7 or above monster. So now I summon Red Jenny Master in attack mode." Sera's archer disappeared and was replaced by a hooded figure with a bow across their back, two short swords at their waste and several daggers on the belt. The figure also wore a red and white hooded robe. (Level 8 Attack 2800 Defense 2400) But Sera's life points lowered as a result of her spell card.
Faren: 6500
Sera: 3300
"And now I activate Red Jenny Master's ability, by discarding one card so that my all Red Jenny monsters gain 700 Attack points until the end of the turn." (RJ Master Attack 2800-3500) "And now my monster will attack your Blue Brawler." Red Jenny Master threw two daggers at Faren's blue Brawler. The attack went through but when the smoke cleared, Faren's monster was still on the field. "What? How? Why isn't your monster destroyed?"
"Because my Blue Brawler cannot be destroyed in battle." Faren answered
Sera then sniggered. "But your Life points are a different story. You are still taking damage."
Sera's words proved true when one of the daggers struck Faren.
Faren: 3000
Sera: 3300
"I end my turn there." Sera finished and then his Master's attack points went back to their original. (Attack 3500-2800)
"My turn then." Faren said and then he looked at his hand. "Well Sera, I've had a great duel. But it's time for this duel to end. Since I have no spell or trap cards in my graveyard, I can special summon Superheavy Samurai Big Waraji in attack mode. However, I cannot special summon for the rest of this turn." A small light sandy brown machine with silver armor around it's body appeared on Faren's field (Level 5 Attack 800 Defense 1800) "And my Big Waraji counts as 2 sacrifices for a machine monster so I sacrifice him to summon Superheavy Samurai Big Benkei in defense mode." Faren's light brown machine was replaced with a machine monster which looked like his Swordsman, only his armor was a lighter shade of red and he was wielding some kind of 2 pronged trident. (Level 8 Attack 1000 Defense 3500) "Then I switch my swordsman and Brawler to defense mode." Both his monsters knelt down in defense.
Sera laughed. "I don't see how you can win with your monsters in defense mode."
Faren laughed. "You would be right, except that when Big Benkei is on the field, my monsters can attack even when they are in defense mode." Sera gasped at this "Now my Benkei will destroy your Master." Big Benkei charged at Sera's master which then thrust the trident through Sera's monster, destroying it.
Faren: 3000
Sera: 2600
"And now my Brawler will end this." Faren finished and then Blue Brawler bashed Sera, ending the duel.
Faren: 3000 (Winner)
Sera: 0000
"That's duel over." Faren said and the Sera just laughed
"I had a great Duel, let's duel again sometime. Wait till I tell my friends about this." Sera said and then she ran off the stage leave Faren behind.
...
Up in the stands, Kallian cheered as Sera lost. 
"Maybe she will finally learn to stop pulling pranks on me." She said
"I doubt that." Theorn said. "But maybe she could become a skilled duelist."
"Faren seems to be skilled in using those Superheavy Samurai cards." Daylen added and then there was a voice over the microphone.
"Can Daylen Amell and Theorn Maheriel report to Duel field 3."
"Well this is our duel then." Theorn said
"Well, good luck Theorn." Daylen added. "You're a nice guy, but I'm going to see how good you really are."
"Let's see then." Theorn said.