Duels of Love and Rivalry

The day after Solona defeated Chazz was the first day of school. All of the students were in the main room where classes were held. It was a big lecture room, Obelisk students were seated in the top rows, Ra students in the middle rows while Slifer students sat at the bottom. Solona and Daylen sat next to each other they waited for class to begin.

Then Solona watched as Dr Crowler entered the room. "All right class, listen up because I'm only going to say this once. I am Dr Vellian Crowler, I'm your first teacher for the day and I teach all the different card types." Solona looked at Crowler, she knew that Crowler hated the Slifer students and hated slackers. He also held a grudge against Jaden for humiliating him at the entrance exams. "Now, can anyone tell me what the different types of cards in duel monsters are?" Crowler looked around the room and his eyes looked at Alexis. "How about you Miss Rhodes?"

Alexis stood up and answered. "Duel Monster Cards and be sorted into 3 categories, Monster Cards, spell cards and Trap cards. Monster cards can be sorted into normal monsters, effect monsters, ritual monsters and fusion monsters. Spell cards can be sorted into normal, field, continuous, ritual, equip and quick play spells while traps can be sorted into normal, continuous and counter traps"

"Well done Alexis." Crowler said. "Perfect, outstanding. Of course, I would expect nothing less of one of my Obelisks." Alexis sat down. Solona shook her head; she could tell that Crowler was one of those teachers who only cared about the better students and did nothing to help others. He also seemed quite rude towards Slifer and Ra students but mainly towards Slifer students. Daylen looked at his sister.

"You okay?" He asked

Solona smiled at her brother. "I'm fine; I'm just worried about Crowler."

Daylen chuckled. "Don't worry about him. I'm sure that not every teacher is like him."

Crowler then asked the next question. "Now, who can tell me what a field spell is?" He scanned the room and his eyes fell on Syrus "How about you Syrus Truesdale"

Syrus began to panic as he said "UH a field spell is a thing, which uh, affects the thing."

Crowler and many of the Obelisks and some Ra's except for Sereda, Alexis, and Aedan laughed Bastion and the Amells didn't look too happy. Solona looked quite angry and she looked at her brother. "See what I mean, he's doing this on purpose to make the Slifers look bad." Her brother agreed with Solona, he knew that Solona hated bullies and that Crowler had no right to be like that toward the Slifers. Everyone deserved a chance.

"Even a slacker should know that." Crowler said. "You see, you Slifers are all just losers, you'll never be great duelists." That got Solona cross, without thinking, she threw her pen at Crowler before Daylen could stop her, luckily, Crowler didn't see it. "Calm down" Daylen said but before Daylen could say anything, Jaden stood up and glared at Crowler. "You know something teach, you shouldn't be making fun of Slifers, I'm a Slifer and I managed to beat you. And not every Obelisk is unbeaten; Some Ra students have defeated Obelisk students." This got the Slifer and Ra students laughing as Crowler freaked out and bit on a handkerchief 'that's it, I won't allow that Slacker to be in my school any longer.' His eyes then looked on the Ra students and they fell on the Amell twins.

'Those twins should have been in my dorm, but they chose to be with those rejects. Maybe I can find a way to get those twins in my dorm; after all, they are the children of the great former duelist, Aristide Amell. He was a brilliant duelist in his day.'

While Crowler was thinking about Jaden and the Amells, Chazz was glaring at the twins.

"That Reject beat me yesterday." He muttered to himself. "I'll show that Reject how we elites duel. She'll pay for humiliating me. I'll show her that I'm the next king of Games."

...

After Crowler's class, the next class was led by Professor Banner, the head of Slifer red. He wore a white shirt and glasses and he had long black hair. Solona could see that he looked friendlier than Crowler. "All right class, I am Professor Lyman Banner, I specialize in some of the lesser known abilities in dueling which are unknown to even an experienced duelist.

Jaden dozed off during the lesson and Kallian and Faren sighed at this. They were sat not far from Jaden. But Jaden's nap was interrupted by Syrus. "By the way Jaden, thanks. Thanks for sticking up for me."

"It's no problem." Jaden said

"Don't feel bad Syrus." Kallian said. "It's hard to speak out in front of an entire class."

"Kallian's right Syrus." Faren added. "Just ignore Crowler. Some teachers never give people a chance but many will be."

Syrus smiled but was then interrupted by Banner. "Excuse me Syrus, would you mind picking up Pharaoh." Syrus wondered what he meant and then Banner added "Unless you want to be a scratching post." Syrus looked down to see Banner's tabby cat rubbing against his legs. This got everyone including Jaden, Kallian, Faren, Solona and Daylen laughing as Syrus returned Pharaoh to Banner.

While this was happening, Chazz was scribbling something onto a piece of paper.

*'This will get that Reject into trouble. It will also show her that we Obelisks are the best.'* He thought to himself.

...

While Professor Banner's class was going ahead, Crowler was in his office writing a letter and scowling under his breath. "That Slacker made a mockery of me today in class, in front of the entire school as well." he muttered to himself. "Well that ends today, it will be the last mistake he ever makes." He sealed the letter inside an envelope and kissed it. "The big kiss off"

After he finished the letter, he went over to the boys' locker room where Jaden's locker was, he looked in each one of them before he found Jaden's shoes inside one of them, laughing at himself and he placed the letter in the shoes before he ran off. Also, while Crowler was doing that, Chazz had sneaked into the girl's locker room during a break so he would not get caught. It took him a while but he soon found Solona's locker and he placed the note he wrote in the slot between her locker and the locker next to it and then he left before anyone could spot him.

...

After the class break, it was time for the first Gym Class. The boys had already changed and the girls were now changing. Solona went to get her gym bag from her locker. She found her locker and found her bag, but then she noticed a note between the slots. She picked the note and she could see that it had her name on.

"Who could this be from?" Solona wondered but then she looked at the time.

"I haven't got time to read it now. I read it after class." She then placed the note in her locker and she got changed. After she had changed, she went to the Gym where she found her brother waiting for her.

"What took you so long?" He asked

"It takes time to get changed." Solona said. Then the school gym teacher came. The Gym teacher was Miss Fontaine, the head of the obelisk blue girl's dorm as well as the school nurse.

"Good morning students." She said kindly. "I am Professor Fontaine, and I will be your school coach."

While the other Students were in the Gym class, Syrus was still in the locker room.

"Lousy Girl's gym, why did they make the signs so small." He muttered to himself. And then he opened his locker and he saw Jaden's shoes inside "I see Jaden is still borrowing my locker." But then he saw the letter on the shoes. "But this isn't Jaden's." He opened the letter and he read it.

'From the moment I met you, I have been in love with you. Meet me at the girl's dorm tonight so I can give you a big kiss.

Signed Alexis Rhodes'

"This is from Alexis." Syrus said. "This is better than what Mum writes me." He imagined what Alexis thought about him as he walked away smiling, completely unaware that the letter was addressed to Jaden.

...

Later that evening, Solona was in her dorm room finishing off some homework that had been assigned. After she finished her homework she was prepared to look through her deck when she remembered the Letter that she found earlier. She went into her bag and he placed the letter on her desk and she read it.

'Dear Solona Anell, there is something I wish to tell you about, after school tonight, meet me at the boys obelisk dorm by the lake and I will tell you.

Sighed Adean Cosland.'

Solona stared at the letter. Something was wrong, if Aedan want to tell her something, why didn't he just say after class. Not only that, Aedan's own name was spelt wrong, as was her surname. She stared at the letter when the door opened and Daylen stepped in. "You okay sister."

Solona gasped and she hid the letter behind her back.

"Yeah, I'm okay." Daylen smirked and the he walked up to Solona and he snatched the letter from her hands. "What's this?" he then read the letter "A note from Aedan. What does he want?" After he finished reading the letter, Daylen narrowed his eyes.

"That friend of Chazz, the boy who thinks he's the best, has something to tell you. This could be a threat or payback for beating his friend; I'm going to have a few words with him." He then ran out before Solona could stop him. "Daylen wait." Solona called after him and she grabbed her deck and ran after her brother.

...

Meanwhile, Aedan was outside the Blue dorm by the small lake near the dorm with Chazz. "I still don't know why you brought me out here Chazz; if you're thinking about bullying a student then don't bring me into this."

Chazz laughed. "You'll see." but before anything else happened, he heard a loud shout "AEDAN COUSLAND!" Chazz turned to see a cross looking Daylen stood nearby, he was glaring at Aedan.

"What is it you want Daylen?" Aedan asked

"I want to know why you sent my sister that note." Daylen said

"What note?" Aedan asked. "I didn't send any notes."

Daylen the letter out of his yellow blazer and then he tossed it to Aedan. "That one."

Aedan looked at the letter and then he turned to Chazz, only to see that he had gone back inside the Blue Dorm.

"I think Chazz has been playing a trick on us."Aedan said. "He must have wanted Solona to get caught on Blue territory. That would get her in trouble for being on Obelisk territory. It's a good thing that Dr Crowler had important things to do."

Just then Solona came over to them.

"DAYLEN AMELL, YOU IDIOT!" She shouted. "You know that we are not allowed here."

Aedan sighed. "Solona, someone has been playing a trick; I never sent you a note." That he had an Idea. "Chazz told me that you beat him, he said you cheated but he's just being a sore loser, he's angry that a yellow beat him. I haven't see you brother duel yet so how about let's see how good he really is."

"You want a duel Aedan." Daylen said. "Then let's duel." Daylen and Aedan activated their duel disks and placed their decks into play and they got into position.

"Duel"

**Aedan: 4000**

**Daylen: 4000**

"I'll go first." Aedan said as he drew his sixth card. "I'll start by summoning my 'Knight Templar' in attack mode." A soldier wearing silver armor with a flaming sword engraved on the chest appeared (Level 4 Attack: 1600 Defense 1400) "Then I'll set down 2 face downs and end there."

"My turn." Daylen said. "I'll start by activating by 'Drain Life' spell which causes you to lose 500 life points." A light shone around Aedan which lowered his life points.

**Aedan: 3500**

**Daylen: 4000**

"Then I'll summon my Fire Mage to the field." Daylen's female spellcaster wearing red robes appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1600 Defense 1400). "Then I can special summon my Frost Mage to the field." The female blue robed spellcaster appeared on the field (Level 5 Attack 2200 Defense 2100) "Now I'll activate my Fire mage's special ability, by discarding 1 card from my hand, I can destroy one monster on the field." Daylen discarded 1 card and then Aedan's Templar warrior shattered. "Now both my monsters will attack you directly."

Both Fire Mage and Frost Mage raised their staffs to attack but Aedan activated his trap. "I activate my face down 'Tranquillity' This card allows me to negate the attack of Frost Mage and now your monster can no longer attack."

Frost mage stopped her attacked as a brand appeared on her forehead, but Fire Mage's attack still went through.

**Aedan: 1900**

**Daylen: 4000**

"I throw down two face downs and end there." Daylen said

"My turn." Aedan said. "I'll start by summoning 'Knight Captain' in attack mode" A heavily armred warrior appeared on the field (Level 6 Attack 2500 Defense 1900) "I know that this is a level 6 monster but when you control a monster and I don't, I can special summon this from my hand, next I'll summon my 'Templar Healer' to the field." A warrior wearing healing robes under the armor appeared on the field (Level 3 Attack 800 Defense 1500) "Then I'll activate the Field Spell 'Therinfall Redoubt.' This card allows all of my Templar Monsters to gain 500 attack points." The field changed into a large fortress with banners with a flaming sword displayed on the walls and the courtyard looked like a training yard. Knight Captain and Healer gained 500 attack points (2500-3000, 800-1300) "It also lowers the attack points of all Spellcaster type monsters on the field by 500." Daylen gasped as the attack points of his monsters decreased (1600-1100, 2200-1700) "And now my Knight Captain and Templar Healer will destroy your monsters." Templar Healer destroyed Daylen's Fire Mage and Knight Captain destroyed Frost Mage.

**Aedan: 1900**

**Daylen: 2500**

"I place one card face down and then end my turn." Aedan said

...

Up in the blue dorm, Chazz sniggered as he watched the duel from his bedroom, "I can't wait to see that Reject lose this duel. It will show his sister not to mess with us elites and that her win was luck. And now that Reject has got a disadvantage because of that Field Spell."

...

Daylen then began his next turn. "My draw." Daylen drew his card and then did his turn. "I activate the spell card, Pot of Greet to draw two cards." But before the effect could activate, the spell card froze. "What!" Daylen shouted. "Why isn't my card activating."

Aedan smirked. "It's because of the effect of my Field Spell; it prevents the activation of Spell cards for both fields, though I have to discard 5 cards each turn."

Away from the duel, Solona gasped when she heard the effects of Aedan's field spell. "Oh no, that puts my brother at a huge disadvantage, he has a lot of spell and spellcasters in his deck."

But Daylen didn't give up, "I activate my face down 'Call of the Haunted' this allows me to summon back my Fire Mage. Then I sacrifice her in order to summon my 'Pyromancer' to the field" A male spellcaster wearing red robes which were on fire and had fire appeared on the field. (Level 7 Attack 2600 Defense 2500) "His special ability allows me to special summon his by sacrificing 1 Fire Mage." The only problem was that Therinfall Redoubt reduced Pyromancer's attack points (2600-2100) "However, he gains 300 attack points for ever spellcaster in my graveyard so he gains 600 points." (2100-2700) "Next, to increase my defense, I summon my Drawing Mage to the field in defense mode." A small man wearing a belt that was full of cards appeared on the field (Level 4, Attack 500 Defense 2000) "And now my Pyromancer will destroy you Templar Healer." Pyromancer let out a large fireball which smashed into Templar Healer which caused the monster to burn and then shatter.

**Aedan: 500**

**Daylen 2500**

"I end my turn" Daylen said.

"My turn then." Aedan then drew his card. "I'll start by activating my face down, Call of the Haunted, this allows me to summon back my Templar Healer, then I'll activate my other face down 'Coin draw' so now I flip a coin, if I call it right, then I draw five cards, if I'm wrong, then you draw 5 cards." Aedan flipped a coin and then it landed in Aedan's hand. "It's heads." Aedan looked at the coin only to see that the coin was actually tails. "I'm wrong so you draw five cards."

Daylen drew Five cards but was disappointed to see that many of them were spell cards. "Next, I'll activate my Templar Healer's special ability, I gain 500 life points for every card in your hand so now I gain 2500 life points since there are five cards in your hand."

**Aedan: 3000**

**Daylen: 2500**

"And then, I sacrifice my Templar Healer and my Knight Captain in order to summon my Knight Commander." Templar Healer and Knight Captain vanished from the field and then a new large warrior replaced them (Level 8 Attack 2800, Defense 2500) "And then I use his ability which allows me to summon back my Knight Captain to the field." Knight Captain returned to the field and thanks to Therinfall redoubt, they gained extra attack points (2800-3300, 2500-3000) "And since my Knight Commander is on the field, I can use spell cards so I activate the spell card 'Harrowing Chamber, now I flip a coin, if I call it right then I destroy one of your monsters, if I'm wrong, then one of my monsters is destroyed." Aedan flipped a coin and then he caught it. Daylen held his breath. "It's Tails." Aedan said and then he revealed the coin. To Solona and Daylen's horror, the coin was tails. "So now your Pyromancer is destroyed." Daylen's Pyromancer was shattered "Now my Knight Captain will destroy your Draw mage" Knight Captain drew his sword and then slashed Draw Mage which destroyed him. "And now, my Knight Commander will end this duel, attack Daylen directly"

But before Aedan's monster could attack, Daylen had a plan. "When you destroyed my Draw Mage, you activate his ability which allows me to draw two cards. And one of the cards I drew was my Quick Mage. And now I activate Quick mage's effect from my hand, when you declare a direct attack, I can special summon this monster to the field in defense mode." A small mage wearing blue robes appeared on the field and then kneeled down. (Level 3 Attack 800 Defense 1000) But Aedan's knight Commander had a special ability as well. "When my Knight Commander destroys a monster in Defence mode, the difference between my Commander's attack points and your monster's defence points are dealt to you as damage." Aedan's knight Commander destroyed Daylen's Quick Mage and dealt damage to Daylen.

**Aedan: 3000**

**Daylen: 200**

Solona watched in horror as Daylen lost a bunch of Life points. "Come on brother, you can do this" she whispered to herself.

Chazz laughed in his room as he saw the Ra yellow was almost out of Life points.

But Daylen wasn't going to give up. "It's not over yet, it's my turn." Daylen drew his card and when he looked at it, he smirked. "I can have a way to do this now. I summon out 'Breaker the Magical Warrior'" The armoured Mage warrior appeared on the field. "And now I activate his special ability as he gains a spell counter when summoned, so I remove it in order to destroy your Therinfall Redoubt which will allow me to use my spells again."

Aedan's field spell shattered as the attack points of his monsters decreased (3300-2800, 3000-2500) "And now that I can use spell cards again, I activate Monster Reborn to summon back my Pyromancer." Pyromancer returned to the field (Level 7 Attack 2600 Defense 2500) "And next I activate the spell card 'Dark Magic curtain' which allows me to summon out my Dark Magician from my deck by sacrificing half my Life points." Daylen's life points decreased as the purple spellcaster monster appeared on the field (Level 7 Attack 2500, Defense 2100)

**Aedan: 2500**

**Daylen: 100**

Aedan and Chazz gasped when they saw that Daylen had a very rare card in his deck. "And then I'll equip my Dark Magician with 'Torch of Embers' which increases his attack points by 500" (2500-3000) "And then I'll sacrifice my Breaker in order to activate the spell card 'Walking Bomb' which destroys your 'Knight Commander'" Aedan gasped as Breaker shattered and then the light slammed into his Knight Commander which exploded. "And now, my Pyromancer will destroy your Knight Captain." Inferno sent a Fireball which destroyed Knight Commander.

**Aedan: 2400**

**Daylen: 100**

"And now my Dark Magician will end this duel with a direct attack." Daylen finished Dark magician waved his staff around and then let out a ball of dark magic which slammed into Aedan, ending the duel.

**Aedan: 0000**

**Daylen: 100 (Winner)**

"Looks like I win this one." Daylen said

Aedan looked at him and smiled. "I'm not going to start shouting and say that you cheated. You won fare and square, though this duel was close." He said

Solona looked at them. "We should get back to the Yellow dorm before we are caught here." She said to Daylen.

Daylen nodded and then looked at Aedan. "If you want a rematch, just ask. I look forward to having some friendly rivalry." Aedan smiled as he went back into the Blue Dorm while Solona and Daylen walked away and towards the Blue Dorm. However, someone was not very happy. Chazz glared at the twins as they walked away "Lucky Brat." He sneered. "He never would have won if it wasn't for that Breaker card. But I'll show them. I show them one day that we Obelisks are the best."

...

Meanwhile, while Solona and Daylen had gone to the Blue Boys dorm, Syrus had taken a rowing boat and was crossing the Lake towards the Blue Girls Dorm to meet up with Alexis. At the Blue Girls Dorm, Alexis was chatting with her friends. Sereda was one of her friends while one was a girl with long Ginger hair known as Jasmine while the other had light Black hair called Mindy. They were all talking about how Jaden had talked to Crowler in class today.

"Did you see how Jaden spoke to Dr Crowler today." Jasmine said. "Totally disrespectful, he has some nerve talking to a teacher like that."

"Actually, I think it was kind of cool." Alexis said

"I agree with Alexis on this one." Sereda said. "Crowler shouldn't be cruel towards the Slifer students. Solona didn't look too happy either. Just because one Slifer, who gets worried and nervous, couldn't answer the question doesn't mean that you can insult the other Slifers. Some of them are still good duelists, they're just not good at written work. I'm pretty sure I saw her throw something at Crowler after he insulted the Slifers."

"You've known the Amell Twins for some time." Alexis said. "What do you know about them?"

Sereda looked at her. "Solona and Daylen are very close. They also loved their parents until their father vanished on a top secret mission. Solona also has a bit of a bad temper and she despises bullies. Daylen is also very protective on her. The disappearance of their father has made then quite lonely but they both want to be great duelists one day just like their father was before he became a card designer. Their father is also an historian and has travelled the world looking for card Ideas. I went to their house once and I saw the many different designs, but I did notice something strange in some stone tablets but the family didn't talk about them. But I've always wondered what those tablets were. Also, because of their connections they could have gotten into Obelisk Blue, but they chose not to." Sereda smirked at Alexis, Jasmine and Mindy's shocked faces. "They claimed they wanted to earn the right to be in the Blue Dorm, not just be given it because of who their father was."

While Sereda was explaining to her friends about the Amells, Crowler was hiding nearby in a wetsuit, holding a camera.

"This is perfect." He said to himself. "As soon as Jaden comes here looking for Alexis, I'll just snap a picture of him, creating evidence that will get him expelled." But then he saw the boat come to the shore and to his horror, it was not Jaden Yuki at all, it was that student who didn't know anything about field spells.

"That's not Jaden, that's that field spell nitwit!" He said a bit too loud which alerted the Obelisk Blues.

Jasmine spotted Syrus nearby.

"It's a boy!" She shouted

"I'm not a boy, I'm a man!" Crowler shouted, thinking that the girls were talking about him, only for him to topple backwards into the lake.

The four Obelisk Girls grabbed Syrus and moved him behind the bushes.

"What is a boy doing here?" Mindy asked

"I bet he was trying to sneak a peek at the Girls in the dorm." Jasmine growled

Syrus shook his head. "I was invited here, by Alexis, I found this in my locker." Syrus said as he gave Alexis the note.

Alexis and Sereda looked through the note. "Syrus, that's not even how you spell my name."

"So you don't love me." Syrus whispered to himself but then Sereda saw who the note was addressed to.

"Hold on." She said. "This note is addressed to Jaden Yuki"

"Oh man." Syrus groaned. "I can't even get a fake love letter."

"Hold on." Jasmine said. "How do we know that he didn't just write this note himself to use as an excuse to come here."

Sereda glared at her. "I doubt Syrus would write a love letter to Jaden and use it himself, someone has pulled a cruel trick on Jaden and Syrus has fallen for it instead."

"Girls, what's going on down there?" The voice on Miss Fontaine called. The four girls turned to see the Obelisk girl head teacher standing on the balcony on the Obelisk Blue Girls dorm. The four girls moved in front of Syrus to hide him.

"Nothing's going on Miss Fontaine." Alexis said. "We'll keep down the noise."

"Just don't be too long." Miss Fontaine said. "It's nearly midnight."

After Miss Fontaine went back inside, the four girls looked at each other.

"So what are we going to do then" Jasmine asked

Alexis smiled. "I'll tell you what; we are going to use Syrus as bait to get Jaden over here. Let's see how good he really is."

Sereda looked at Alexis. "I don't know Alexis; you could get them both in big trouble for something they didn't do. It's not fair to get two innocent students expelled."

"We just want to see how good Jaden really is." Alexis noted

Sereda sighed. "All right, but even if you win, they both go free. I'm not going to allow someone to be expelled over a fake love letter."

...

While Syrus had gone over to the Girls dorm, Jaden had recently finished taking a shower in the Slifer Shower room and had come back to tell Syrus that the showers were free, only to find out from Chumley that he wasn't here and that he had some important business on the Island. Chumley said that he didn't know what but Syrus did look very happy.

Now Jaden was sorting through the cards in his deck while Chumley was asleep on his bunk. He was about to get ready for bed when he heard his Duel Pilot rig. When he looked at the message, it said. **"We have your roommate Syrus Hostage, if you want him back, come over the Obelisk Blue** **Girls Dorm tonight, alone."**

Jaden widened his eyes at the message, why was Syrus at the Blue Dorm? It didn't matter, Syrus was his friend and he was going to save him.

...

After Jaden had gotten his deck and duel disk, he ran over to the Lake and he used one of the boats to get across the lake towards the Blue Girls Dorm. When he got to the shore, he saw four Obelisk Blue Girls standing at the shore with Syrus kneeling on the ground. Jaden recognised two of them as Sereda and Alexis and he knew that the other two was Alexis' friends Jasmine and Mindy.

"Hi Jaden." Syrus said weakly

"Hey Syrus." Jaden replied. "So what is going on here."

"In short, I'm a complete loser." Syrus stated

"It's simple." Jasmine said. "Your friend was caught trespassing on Girl's campus."

"I told you, it wasn't like that!" Syrus protested

"And now that you're here, you're trespassing too." Mindy added

"That's right, so the only way that you go free is if you beat me in a duel." Alexis said. "If you win, we'll forget that you were trespassing. But if you lose, then we'll tell security."

"But we'll be expelled if you do that" Syrus said

"Don't worry Syrus." Jaden replied. "I'll duel you Alexis. So let's duel"

...

Later, Jaden and Alexis had taken two boats out of the shore of the lake. Alexis was in one while Jaden was in the other. Sereda, Syrus, Jasmine and Mindy were all back on the coast as they watched the duel.

Crowler was watching the duel from nearby.

"An Obelisk vs. a Slifer." He said to himself. "Put him in his place Alexis"

Jaden and Syrus looked at each other.

"Ready?" Alexis asked as they both drew five cards.

"Get your game on Alexis." Jaden replied

"**Duel."**

**Alexis: 4000**

**Jaden: 4000**

"Alright I'll start." Alexis said and she drew her sixth card. "I'll start by summoning my 'Etoile Cyber' in attack mode." A young woman wearing a tutu appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1200 Defense 1600) "Then I'll place one card face down and end there,"

Jaden then drew his card. "My turn now." Jaden looked at his hand before he made his move. "I'll start by summoning my Elemental hero Sparkman to the field." A blue and silver warrior appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1600 Defense 1400) "And now I'll have him attack your Etoile Cyber." Sparkman then sent out a shockwave from his hand, but before it could hit 'Etoile Cyber, Alexis activated her trap.

"I activate my Trap card 'Doble Passe' which causes me to take the damage instead, but now my Etoile Cyber can attack you directly." Alexis stated. "Oh and when my Etoile Cyber attacks directly, she gains 500 attack points."

Sparkman's shockwave hit Alexis instead and then Etoile Cyber kicked Jaden in the chest causing both of them to lose Life points.

**Alexis: 2400**

**Jaden: 2300**

Mindy looked impressed. "Sacrificing your own Life points to damage the opponent."

"So are you impressed?" Alexis asked

"Impressed?" Jaden replied. "I think I'm in love"

"You're sweet." Alexis said. "Too bad I have to crush you. Now then where were we? Oh yes, it's my turn now." Alexis drew her next card. "I summon my 'Blade Skater' to the field." A purple warrior wearing ice skates appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1400 Defense 1500)

"And now I activate the spell card Polymerization which allows me to fuse my Etoile Cyber and Blade skater to create my Cyber Blader." A purple haired warrior wearing red armor was summoned to the field (Level 7 Attack 2100 Defense 800) "And now my Cyber Blader attacks your Sparkman." Cyber Blader destroyed Jaden's monster which caused him to lose more Life points.

**Alexis: 2400**

**Jaden: 1800**

"Way to go Alexis." Mindy cheered

"See, I told you that winning against Dr Crowler was a fluke." Jasmine added only to be slapped on the shoulder by Sereda

"What did I tell you about saying things like that." She said and Jasmine said nothing.

"Well, it will be my pleasure to show your friend wrong." Jaden said and he began his move. "I activate the field spell Fusion Gate." The field changed so that a large dark portal was swirling above the field "This card allows me to fusion summon without Polymerization, so I fuse my Avian and Burstinatrix in my hand to summon my Elemental Hero Flame Wingman." Jaden's green and red warrior appeared on the field. (Level 6 Attack 2100 Defense 1200)

"So, your fusion monster vs. my fusion monster." Alexis said. "But they have the same attack points so they'll both be destroyed."

Jaden smirked. "Not after I play the spell card 'Kishido Spirit.' With this spell, my Flame Wingman can't be destroyed when it attacks a monster with the same number of attack points. And you know my Wingman's effect, when he destroys a monster, you take damage equal to your monster's attack points, so go Flame Wingman, destroy Alexis' Cyber Blader."

The dragon head arm that Wingman had let out a fireball which hit Cyber Blader and let out a cloud of smoke. But Jasmine smirked.

"Someone hasn't be doing their homework." She said to herself

When the smoke clear, Jaden was shocked to see that Alexis Cyber Blader was still standing. "What? How? Why isn't your monster destroyed."

Alexis smirked. "It's the effect of Cyber Blader, when you only have one monster on the field, my Cyber Blader can't be destroyed in battle."

"Oh well, looks like you survive this turn." Jaden said. "I end my turn here."

"Right. It's my turn now." Alexis said and she drew another card. "I activate my equip spell, Fusion Weapon. This gives my Cyber Blader an extra 1500 attack and defense points." Cyber Blader's arm became a large sword as her attack points increased (2100-3600) "And now my Cyber Blader attacks your Wingman." Cyber Blader swung her sword which crashed into Flame Wingman causing the monster to shatter.

**Alexis: 2400**

**Jaden: 300**

"Looks like you're going to lose." Jasmine mocked. "I hope you guys haven't gotten too comfortable yet. Just one more turn and Alexis will win this duel and then you'll be expelled."

"We will?" Syrus asked weakly

"Don't worry Sy." Jaden said. "I'm not going to lose, I promise you."

*'You best not make promises you can't keep.'* Alexis thought to herself.

"I hope I'm not making a promise I can't keep." Jaden muttered to himself. "It's not going to be easy, the only card I have is Fusion Gate and I have Monster Reborn in my hand. It all comes down to this draw. My turn." Jaden drew his card and he looked at it to see that it was Elemental Hero Clayman. "This will work." Jaden then said. "I summon Elemental Hero Clayman in attack mode." A small rock like warrior appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 800 Defense 2000)

"What are you going to do with that card?" Alexis asked

"Well next I play the spell card Monster Reborn to summon back my Elemental Hero Sparkman." Sparkman came back to the field (Level 4 Attack 1600 Defense 1400) "And then I use the effect of Fusion Gate to fuse my Sparkman and Clayman to summon my Elemental Hero Thunder Giant." A large Golden warrior who looked like Clayman appeared on the field (Level 6 Attack 2400 Defense 1500)

"Just how are you going to win with that?" Alexis asked. "My Cyber Blader's got more attack points."

Jaden smirked. "Your monster may have more attack points but mine's got a special effect. Once per turn, I can destroy one monster on your field whose original attack points are less than Thunder Giant's"

That made Alexis eyes widened. "Original attack points?" She said. "But then Cyber Blader..."

"... Is about to be destroyed." Jaden finished and then Thunder Giant let a large thunderstorm which struck Cyber Blader and then the monster shattered. "And now this duel's over. Thunder Giant; finish this duel off, attack Alexis directly." Thunder Giant let out another shockwave which struck Alexis, finishing the duel.

**Alexis: 0000**

**Jaden: 300 (Winner)**

Mindy and Jasmine were stunned. "Alexis!" They screamed

Syrus smirked. "Way to go Jaden."

"And that's game." Jaden said

...

After Alexis and Jaden went back to shore, Jasmine Mindy and Sereda released Syrus.

"So now you remember the deal." Jaden said to them. "We go free."

"That's right." Alexis said. "A deal's a deal."

Jasmine narrowed her eyes. "If you ask me, I say we should turn them all in anyway." Sereda then slapped her shoulder again.

"When we make a deal, you keep it!" Sereda said angrily.

"Yeah and no-one asked you." Alexis added. "Jaden beat me in the duel, fair and square."

"That's right." Jaden said. "You know, you're a really strong duelist Alexis, you ever want a rematch anytime, just come and ask."

"I'll be sure to do that." Alexis said and then Jaden and Syrus got into the boat and then they rowed back to the Slifer dorm.

"Even if I had won, I could turn those Guys in." Alexis whispered to herself. "This place is much more fun with them than without them."

*'I've never seen Alexis act like that.'* Jasmine thought. *'Is she falling in love with that Slifer.'*

Back with Crowler, he was glaring as he watched Jaden and Syrus row away.

"That lucky brat, just you wait, I'll find a way to get him expelled." He said to himself and then he wobbled "Just as soon as I find a way home"