Chapter 256 - My SI Stash #56 - Stacking The Deck! by 0Jordinio0 (YuGiOhGX) (2/2)

'Wow,' Jord held back a whistle. It looked so badass to see a freaking dragon like this up close and personal. He'd seen a bunch when he made his deck, but still, it was so amazing to see in real life.

”Now get ready, because the next one I'm bringing out is one of the ace's of my deck!” Taiyou shouted, lifting a fist into the air, ”Dragon born from the deepest of cursed flame, come forth and burn away my enemies! Come, Curse of Dragon!”

Wait, what!? A chant? Did he have to chant when he brought out one of his ace monsters as well?

A literal massive fireball flared into existence before Taiyou before exploding in a shower of golden sparks to reveal a large, serpentine golden dragon, with a large bladed golden tail and two golden wings flaring out from its neck area.

Curse of Dragon (2000Atk/1500/Level 5/Dark/Dragon/Normal)

Where he came from, he'd get laughed at for all that effort just to bring out a Curse of Dragon, especially with it being one of his ace monsters. Actually, Jord very nearly did laugh at him. But he had to remember, at this point in the timeline, it would actually be considered fairly impressive for the guy to actually get three monsters on the field on his first turn, one of them being one that usually needed to be tribute summoned. The tribute summoning had only come into existence a few years back in this world, where as for Jord, it had been about a decade and both Synchro and Xyz monsters were a thing where he came from, with much more powerful and easily summoned monsters were a dime a dozen.

”It ain't over yet either Slifer, get a hold of this,” Taiyou placed another card on his duel disk, ”I play the equip spell card Dragon Treasure and equip it to my Curse of Dragon, boosting its attack and defense points by 300 each!”

There was a flash of green light around Curse of Dragon's head, that died down to reveal a small green orb gleaming form its place inserted within the golden dragon's forehead.

Curse of Dragon (2300Atk/1800/Level 5/Dark/Dragon/Normal)

”Now, Curse of Dragon, attack his Spirit of the Breeze with Cursed Scorch Flame!” Taiyou ordered. His dragon roared, head tilting backwards, fanged maw filling with flames, before it thrust its head down towards Jord's monster, launching a massive fireball that absolutely dwarfed the green skinned girl.

”Not bad,” Jord admitted, ”But not good enough either! I activate my trap card, Scrap-Iron Scarecrow! Once per turn when you initiate an attack I can negate that attack, and what's more, my trap goes back to being face down after using it!”

His card flipped around, and the iron helmeted cross he was familiar with from the 5D's anime appeared before Spirit of the Breeze, the massive fireball somehow splashing harmlessly against it, not one lick of flame getting passed it despite how odd it looked.

”Tch, you got lucky,” Taiyou spat out, ”You won't get so lucky next turn sludge!” he insulted once more, ending his turn.

Jord snorted, ”Whatever you say mate,” the Slifer retorted easily, drawing a card. Huh, how ironic. ”Now that I've drawn, Spirit of the Breeze's effect activates and I gain a whole 1000 life points.” Spirit of the Breeze turned to Jord and blew him a kiss, a radiant green wind then surrounding him.

Jord LP: 5000

”Don't think shoring up on life points will help you,” Taiyou growled at him.

He wasn't, he after all didn't have nearly enough of the right cards to use his favored life point gaining strategy. Besides, he was one card away from taking this guy down in one full out offense ”I activate Pot of Greed and draw two cards!” Jord declared, drawing two cards. Then he laughed.

Graceful Dice and Dragon's Gunfire. Gunfire, just what he wanted. And he supposed the Graceful Dice could just be a little added on mockery while he was at it.

”What're you laughin' at sludge boy?” Taiyou demanded.

Jord shot him a smug, victorious grin, ”Just basking in my win pansy boy,” he insulted him right back. ”Let me show you what I mean, nice and slowly so your pea sized brain can keep up.”

He revealed one of his face down cards, ”I activate my trap card, Call of the Haunted to revive the monster I sent to the graveyard with Foolish Burial,” Jord said,then lifted one hand before his face and clenched it into a fist. Time to bullshit and steal lines from somebody else, ”Dragon, formed form the pitch black night! Come forth, the darkness of my very soul, Serpent Night Dragon!” he announced.

Totally not paraphrasing from Kaiba and Jack Atlas. Not at all.

An orb of shimmering darkness appeared before Jord, before bursting apart to reveal the lithe and beautifully graceful form of Serpent Night Dragon. ”Now that I've been summoned, victory is certain!” My ace monster declared, silky voice oozing confidence.

Serpent Night Dragon (2350Atk/2400Def/Level7/Dark/Dragon/Normal)

”But it isn't over yet, because I activate my final face down card, Tyrant Wing and equip it to Serpent Night Dragon,” Jord continued as the card flipped around to face up position, ”This not only increases a dragon monster of my choosing's attack by 400, it also lets them make a second attack on monsters during the battle phase.”

Serpent Night Dragon's wings grew out to massive proportions and started to glow a bright golden white, so bright Jord actually had to shield his eyes slightly from the glow.

Serpent Night Dragon (2750Atk/2400Def/Level7/Dark/Dragon/Normal)

He saw Taiyou opening his mouth, but cut him off before he could say anything himself, ”But even then I'm still not finished and activate the the quick play spell card Graceful Dice from my hand!” In front of him a large blue dice piece shimmered into existence, before shooting into the air and rapidly spinning, ”Whatever number it lands on, my monsters gain attack and defense points equal to it multiplied by one hundred for the rest of the turn.”

It landed on five.

Serpent Night Dragon (3250Atk/2900Def/Level7/Dark/Dragon/Normal)

Spirit of the Breeze (500Atk/2300Def/Level 3/Wind/Fairy/Effect)

”N-no way!” Taiyou stammered, looking at his ace monster with wide eyes and a gaping mouth, ”3250 attack points! that's even stronger than a Blue-Eyes!”

”This duel's over,” Jord smirked again, then pointed at Taiyou's monsters, ”Serpent Night Dragon, destroy Lord of D and Blackland Fire Dragon with your...” he floundered for a moment, ”..Ebony Flame!” he finally decided on.

”Had a bit of trouble there did you?” Serpent Night Dragon teased him, before following his order. He twisted his serpentine head from right to left, the dragon breathed out a wave of pure flack flames that rushed over the field and easily consumed both monsters, destroying them with ease.

Taiyou LP: 200

Tayou glared over at him as the flames died down and left his field with two less monsters, and him having taken a massive 3800 points of damage. ”Don't go thinking you've won yet sludge! This is just a set back! I'll definitely take you down next turn!” the blue haired Obelisk shouted at him in a rage. ”There's no way a useless Slifer like you will ever get the better of an Obelisk like me!”

Well, that was just sad. But it was time to put this idiots delusions to rest. Jord looked at the last two cards in my hand, Ookazi and Dragon's Gunfire. He had originally planned on using them both, but with how high his roll was on the Graceful Dice, it looked like he only needed one. Perfect, he could save one in advance, to have people thinking he could only deal 800 burn damage, when instead he could deal 1600. When playing at 4000 life points, that was a hefty amount.

”Sorry pansy boy, but like I said, this duel is over,” Jord said, placing and playing Ookazi, ”I activate the spell card in my hand, Ookazi, dealing you a grand total of 800 points of damage.” A large fireball appeared before him before shooting across the room like a rocket. Taiyou screamed in fright as it reached him and exploded, falling on his backside despite the fact that it was merely a hologram.

Taiyou LP: 0

A hush fell over the classroom, but Jord barely noticed. He was far too invested in pulling out his PDA when it let out three loud beeps.

Name – Jord Odhar

Year – First Year

Dorm – Slifer Red

Day – 02

DP – 1,630

'I just made £163 in ten minutes by beating a guy at a card game.' Even after everything he had seen today so far, it was surreal. Almost enough to put Jord into a daze. But with this, he had enough to go buy some booster packs.

”Useless things!” He heard Taiyou mutter as the monster holograms faded from around them. ”I thought dragons were supposed ta' be tough, Kaiba freakin' uses em! But you were absolutely useless, couldn't even beat a piece of sc_u_m Slifer!” The blue haired teen grasped his desk tightly in his hands, looking as if he was about to rip them before he scoffed and stamped his way back up to his feet, amongst the sudden cheers from the Slifers and jeers from the other Obelisk's due to him losing.

Jord couldn't bring himself to have any sympathy for the idiot. He brought it on himself with his attitude, and Jord remember from the anime that later down the line he'd snub Chazz and attempt to bully him because he lost to Jaden. 'Although,' His attitude and anger at his deck for losing might just be a good thing, for Jord that was. He called out to Serpent Night Dragon in his mind.

'What can I help you with, master?' the dragon asked.

'Can you keep an eye on him? And if he tosses his deck can you bring it to me?'' Jord asked internally.

'It shouldn't be a problem. I have enough power in me to exert the physical strain it would take to lift a deck of cards.' His ace monster replied.

Perfect, if all went well, then he might just get himself a Curse of Dragon and a bunch of other dragon based cards without any effort whatsoever. Unlike Taiyou, Jord was much more suited to such cards. An ungrateful idiot like him wouldn't be able to appreciate them like he could. Plus, he totally needed them more.

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Alexis couldn't fight the smile formed on her lips, ”Well now, wasn't that interesting?” she mused, her eyes tracking the form of Jord Odhar as he took a seat among the Slifer's, receiving many a pat on the back and congratulations.

”Well yeah, he's like totally cute,” Mindy replied, ”It shouldn't be too long before a guy like that ranks up and then he'll be total dating material.”

”Let's not get too hasty Mindy,” Jasmine piped in, ”Sure he seems to be a decent duelist, but we literally only saw him take two turns. It's a pretty far cry to say he's Obelisk material, he's totally not anywhere near Alexis' level.”

That play was hardly decent. And Jasmine really needed to take her off that pedestal she placed her on, and besides, shouldn't the fact that he just beat an Obelisk with ease mean the boy was certain Obelisk material himself? That combo he played was definitely worthy of a real Obelisk and not one of the rich prep boys that got in on money alone and no skill. He played Taiyou like a fiddle, and even with the Obelisk boys powerful start, Jord smashed it into pieces with ease. What was that, a seven part combo? More, if she included the way Jord riled Taiyou up and led him along, and then feigned strategies and lacking attack power with Spirit of the Breeze, so a nine or ten part combo strategy then?

Jord Odhar, just like Jaden Yuki was definitely someone Alexis was going to keep her eye on. She wondered if Zane be want to hear about him. Zane was extremely focused on dragon monsters, even if his main ones were machine dragons now since he learned the Cyber Style. He'd probably be interested in the plays of a talented up and coming dragon user like Jord.

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The rest of the day had been utterly brutal for Jord. As if listening to teachers drone on and on about things he already knew about dueling and had known since before he was a teenager for hours wasn't bad enough, after that he had to go through normal classes as well, normal classes that were at a higher level than he was used to due to Duel Academy being one of the top premiere schools of the world, he could barely keep up. And then to add on to the absurdity of it all, he had to sit through an hour of Professor Banner lecture on alchemy of all things.

He knew it was actually a real thing in this world and Banner could manipulate his very soul and create bodies to inhabit, but it was still absurd and entirely too complicated. All of it just added more on to his massive throbbing headache. And adding to his bad day even more and making his headache worse, was the sheer annoyance of having to listen to the Obelisk's boast and brag every two minutes, true it was the preppy cunts that did it, but still, if this was in his old world, he would have dragged those twats behind the school with a few friends and kicked the shit out of them.

He kind of wanted to do it regardless.

'Honestly, the only good points about today were watching Syrus flounder about and gym class with miss Fontaine.' Jord mused to himself, rubbing his throbbing forehead as he walked through the throngs of students traversing the corridors after classes finally let out for the day. Syrus was in general, a complete steaming pile of incompetence wrapped up in a nice lovely bow of skittishness. Watching him fail at literally everything had made him want to cringe and even make him of all people feel a bit sorry for him.

The highlight of the day though was during gym, where Fontaine had tested their stamina by taking the entire class on a jog and seeing how long the students could hold up for. This body wasn't as fit as his previous body, but it was in decent shape, and he knew how to pace himself and retain stamina during a run, so he'd managed to finish in the top percentage of the class, lasting until the end alongside Fontaine herself, Jaden, Bastion, Alexis, her two friends Jasmine and Mindy, and Chazz himself. He honestly couldn't wait for the next gym class, and not even for the chance to work out more which he loved to do. It was for the fringe benefit of watching Fontaine, Alexis, Jasmine and Mindy bouncing around as they exerted themselves so much.

They were all so damn stacked. It was so worth it, all the trouble it must be for normal students to enroll in Duel Academy, just for the chance to watch such an amazing show every time gym class came up. Not that he found the dueling class aspect to be hard at all so far. Honestly, everything that had been lectured about for hours in class today had been covered in the first few paragraphs of the rule books out of starter decks where he came from.

Jord really wondered how people could do so badly in those exams to end up in Slifer. If the classes so far were anything to go by, he would have gotten in to the top percentile of Ra Yellow with ease. Granted, he wasn't exactly a genius like Bastion, he was decidedly average as far as intelligence went, maybe a bit above average at best, but then a child version of himself could have got perfect marks on the dueling classes today, so was he above average in this reality?

He shook his head as he finally reached his destination, the card shop run by Dorothy whom he could see standing behind the glass counter, and the cute girl Sadie standing beside an open cart, filled to the brim with small packages that radiated an abundance of scents. 'Eggwiches if I remember right.' Jord thought to himself.

”So do I need to pay for these or are they free?” Jord asked, stopping in front of Sadie and shooting the cute older girl what he hoped was a suave smile.

She smiled at him brightly, ”You have to pay for these sweetie, 100 DP per pick and you can only buy one per day,” she replied. He almost gaped at her, 100 DP, that was £10! That much for basically a burger, seriously? She must have noticed the aghast expression that appeared on his face because she continued quickly, ”There are cards in every packet alongside the eggwiches, it all comes down to the luck of the draw, the better tasting eggwich you get, the better the card inside. It's supposed to test how good you students are when it comes to something called a Destiny Draw.”

Well, wasn't that interesting.The Destiny Draw was vaguely mentioned in every season of the anime, but never outright confirmed in anything but the games. Jord totally wanted to try his luck at it, so he quickly paid the fee, and it was so convenient, he only had to give her his student ID and she could take it from his total amount of DP, ”Good luck!” Sadie chirped with a cute wink as he reached into the cart, right down to the very bottom, as far as he could go, and then swiped his hand through them all, when he felt one fall into his palm, he grasped it tightly and pulled it out.

He took an experimental sniff of it and smiled. It smelled good, really good in fact. He opened up the wrapped eggwich and Sadie gasped, ”You got the golden eggwich! The very first one of the year even, how lucky!” she gushed. And she was right, it was freaking golden. The bun seemed to glow with a warm golden glow, and even the egg white he could see peeking out from the bun was gold itself instead of white, and there sat innocently atop the bun was the card he got with it. Jord had to fight off a smile as he looked it over.

Seiyaryu (2500Atk/2300Def/Level 7/Light/Dragon/Normal)

”Looks like destiny is on my side, huh?” He joked to Sadie, giving her a cheeky little wink right back, he took it as a personal accomplishment when she beamed happily at him. He couldn't believe his luck. As far as the meta went back in his own world before he ended up here, it was a pretty subpar card, with no support at all, and really would only do anything decent in a Blue-Eyes deck, but for where and when he was? It was a pretty amazing card.

”Oh wow, a Seiyaryu,” Sadie commented over his shoulder as he looked the card over, ”They usually go for a good 3,000 DP at the cheapest when we sell them on display, actually the one we have on display is at 4,000 I think.” Damn, that was damn expensive for such just a decent beat stick.

That was another little interesting tidbit she just revealed, quickly sliding his new card into his deck box, and re-wrapping his eggwich - he planned to really sit down and enjoy it later - he turned to face, ”Can I get a look at those cards?” Jord asked the older girl, ”I wanna see if there's any that'll fit my deck.”

”Sure, no problem, but since it's your first day n' all, I feel I should give you a little heads up first and tell you that the very cheapest we've got on display are like 300 DP,” Sadie replied and he had to hold back a whistle, the very cheapest were the equivalent of £30.

A couple weeks before he ended up here, he ordered a random assortment of cards in a duelist tin over the internet, with a grand total of a hundred and fifty cards inside, many of which were rather good cards, including a couple Red-Eyes, and it had only cost him £15.

It took a concentrated effort on Jord's part not to mush his face up against the glass display case as he eagerly looked over the single cards up for sale. Polymerization 300 DP, Mystic Space Typhoon 300 DP, Thunder Dragon 450 DP a piece, Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon 1,000 DP, he'd definitely come back for them when he won a few more duels. Ooh, Carbonnedon 450 DP, and Limiter Removal for the same amount. That would go really well with the Metal Dragon he picked up at the Reject Well, he already had a beast combo in mind.

Fuse Lesser Dragon and King of the Swamp to get Metal Dragon. Metal Dragon was a level 6, so he could equip it with his Fusion Weapon equip card bringing it from 1850 attack points, to 3350. Then he could use limiter removal and double its attack to 6700, then bounce it back to his hand with Giant Trunade, and use it again to get a massive 13,400 attack points. Now, if he could possibly get his hands on a Power Bond from Syrus or Zane, he could switch the initial polymerization with it and make it even stronger. Oh the possibilities! Hell, even just an initial power bonding to make Metal Dragon would get him a 3700 attack point beat stick, and he could just Rainbow Life or something to negate the damage from Power Bond.

There was one final card that caught his eye, a spell card at the very end, half hidden under another card and hidden quite a bit from view. He narrowed his eyes as he tried to make out the partially hidden text, before they widened in shock when he realized what card it was.

Revived Serpent Night Dragon. The only ever support for Serpent Night Dragon, but wasn't it a game only card!? He quickly pointed the card out to Sadie, ”Hey, can I see that card?” Jord asked.

”Sure,” she replied, opening up the display case and bringing it out, handing it to him.

Revived Serpent Night Dragon (Quick Play Spell Card):

Tribute one monster on the field, then special summon one ”Serpent Night Dragon” from your hand, deck or graveyard.

Holy crap, this was such a good card for him, and even if Seiyaryu was a bit stronger, this pretty much totally cemented Serpent Night Dragon as his ace monster. The fact that it was a quick play just made it all the better and filled with even more potential. He totally had to buy it.

”How much is this?” Jord asked.

”Eh, it was originally 500 DP but since nobodies been buying or even really using Serpent Night Dragon anymore it's been in the display case and up for sale for like a year by this point,” Sadie replied, she tapped her chin in thought before smiling at him a moment later, ”I'll give you it for 250, how's that sound cutie?” she winked at him again.

Hmm, hadn't both Mindy and Jasmine called him cute earlier? He'd been paying attention to Alexis in the corner of his vision while he dueled Taiyou and he was sure they did. And now Sadie thought he was cute as well? Was it because he was essentially the player from Tag Force? There was a literal meme Jord remembered where his title was the 'Red Hat Player', because he got so many of the female characters to fall in love with him during the games. Off the top of his head, he knew Alexis, Blair, Akiza, Luna and even Sherry all fell in love with the player if their story lines were completed.

Suddenly, Jord quite liked the position he found himself in, even with the imminent threat of multiple apolcaypse..s? Apolcypsie?..Even with the multiple apocalypse that he'd have to fight his way through, things were looking interesting.

”I'll take it, and I want one of those Carboneddon and Limiter Removal as well please Sadie,” Jord stated after ridding himself of the sudden casanova like day dream that threatened to take over his mind.

Sadie was quick to hand him the three cards and charge him for them. He mentally winced, he basically just spent £115 on three cards that usually wouldn't even cost £5 together back home, but it had to be done. He slipped them into his deck box quickly, ”Can I see your booster packs now Sadie?” he then asked the older girl behind the display case.

She nodded, ”Sure,” she chirped happily, leaning down and one by one pulling out an assortment of boxes that she placed on top of the display case, a grand total of fourteen of them. Smart, because obviously she wouldn't leave expensive items like the cards were in this world out front for just anyone to pilfer.

Metal Raiders, Spell Rulers, Pharoah's Servant, Labrynth of Nightmare, Legacy of Darkness, Pharaonic Guardian, Magician's Force, Dark Crisis, Invasion of Chaos, Ancient Sanctuary, Kaibaman Rising Movie Pack, Soul of the Duelist, Dark Beginning's 1 and Rise of Destiny.

Jord was familiar with all of them to a degree, besides the Kaibaman Rising one. Although, many of them had different images on the front and he only knew which was which because they were named.

”They're all 250 Dp each,” Sadie told him as soon as she set down the last box.

He looked each of them over, before deciding to check with his monsters, 'Can any of you guys sense any spirits in these?' he asked internally.

'Ooh ooh I sense one, a strong one! In the Dark Beginning's one!' Baby Dragon piped up excitedly in his mind. 'Just go through them and I'll tell ya which one he's in! If he gives you any trouble don't worry, I'll just beat him up for you!' one thing he'd learned so far, thanks to how enthusiastic the buff little orange dragon was, was how much Baby Dragon liked to fight.

Plus, Baby Dragon did technically help make up the strongest monster in his deck right now. Well, besides the Seiyaryu he just got from the eggwich.

With Baby Dragon's guidance he grabbed the booster pack containing the spirit, before turning to Sadie who looked at him with a bit of a raised eyebrow..he had after all basically lifted out most of the packs just to grab that one before putting them back, it probably looked quite weird from her point of view.

He didn't really want to try and think up some excuse, so he just paid for the pack grudgingly before beating a hasty retreat. He totally wasn't embarrassed either, he just needed to check out his new cards and tune up his deck before Jaden got roped into dueling Alexis that night!

He quickly made his way back to his dorm, and only when the door closed behind him did he finally open the booster pack and look through the..12 cards?

Wow, you only got five out of a booster pack nowadays where he was from. He forgot about the sheer amount of cards you used to get from booster packs.

”Woah, badass.” Jord gasped as he looked down at the first card glaring back at him. Black Skull Dragon! He couldn't use it, but still, ”F_u_c_kin' Black Skull dragon!” he laughed in a joyful glee.

Next after that, was another Spirit of the Breeze, he was definitely putting that in his main deck for now. Double Summon out his original and this new version and then protect them and he could be getting 2000 extra life points per turn. Suck it bitches.

Alexis was so wrong about how he liked to play. He loved shoring up on life points while blocking his opponents and smashing them with burn damage, and keep some big beastly dragons on the prowl ready to run them over. Granted, he did also love to just completely overwhelm people with massive attack points as well.

Next up was Monster Reborn, lovely. After that Harpie's Brother, a decent beat stick, and then Giant Soldier of Stone. United We Stand, Enchanted Javelin, Black Pendant, motherf_u_c_k_i_n_g Spell Binding Circle another great card that was definitely going in the deck, Prem_a_t_u_r_e Burial was the 11th card.

Then, when Jord reached the last card, there was a swirl of glittering light before a large, slender bipedal dragon with large wings appeared before him, its body made up of beautiful, glittering diamonds. ”Interesting, I can sense multiple spirits with you human,” Hyozanryu commented, looking over Jord curiously.

The reincarnated Slifer couldn't fight off the grin that appeared on his face.

Hyozanryu (2100Atk/2800Def/Level 7/Light/Dragon/Normal)

Chapter 3

Hours later, when the sun fell from the sky and the moon replaced it, dusk replacing day, Jord found himself sitting at the docks that would lead towards the Obelisk Blue girls dorm.

He'd made sure to come out here once he'd saw Syrus leaving the dorms behind. It was maybe a bit creepy of him, but if he wanted the attention of Alexis and the other girls around, intruding on the first duel against her after they caught Syrus would be the best time to do it.

Plus, as cold as it was, and this body definitely wasn't as used to the mild cold as his old one was, it did give him some peace and quiet to come to terms with his situation.

He'd panicked earlier about not having any cards and about all the crap that would hit the island he was on in the next couple of years, and now realised how incredibly silly he was, he had so much time to prepare at this point it wasn't even worth being a major worry right now.

Not to mention. He was in another world now, in a different body, one not his own, one belonging to someone he'd previously believed to be fictional. He didn't really want to think on it too much, because he'd left everything behind, his family, his possessions, his life. But it was daunting nonetheless, and he was very sure that this wasn't some fever dream.

He really had no other choice but to throw himself right in at this point. He had no idea where to even start on returning home, and in the end, he might not want to considering the possible options open to him here. But regardless, to make a life for himself here in the meantime, he'd need to abuse his knowledge of the world and take every advantage he could get, with ruthless efficiency.

At least if he focused on gaining as much as he could, he wouldn't need to focus on what he'd lost coming here

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'Are you done wallowing?' the voice of Petit Dragon asked within his mind.

'It's not nice to eavesdrop you know,' Jord replied back with a roll of his eyes, 'But yes, I'm done being a little bitch, I'm just passing the time now for Jaden to come along.' and it shouldn't be that long until then, Syrus had already rowed off in a boat twenty minutes ago.

'Good, then if you have nothing else to do, I'll let you know that the bonding is complete,' the small dragon told him, 'You should bond with Decoy Dragon now.'

That was quick. 'I thought you guys told me that it would take a while for my souls power to grow accustomed to housing you.' Jord replied.

'And I told you earlier, I'm a fairly weak monster,' Petit Dragon replied with a huff, 'You may see a very minor increase to your physical ability and senses, but other than that nothing much. Because I'm weak, it didn't take long at all for your soul to grow accustomed to the bond with me. Decoy Dragon should be enough to boost your soul to a strength needed to bond with a stronger monster like Fairy Dragon or Baby Dragon, then you can bond fully with the rest of the other low levelled spirits you picked up today.'

Well, fair enough Jord guessed. Petit Dragon would know better than he did. ”Alright,” he agreed. Reaching into his deck box, Jord lifted his deck out and flicked through his cards until he found the one he was looking for. Decoy Dragon. ”You ready?” he asked the card.

The card shimmered, and a moment later, Decoy Dragons translucent for appeared in front of him. The tiny turquoise blue dragon, little bigger than his hand looked up at him shyly, ”..Okay.” he squeaked. And before Jord could say anything else, the little dragon turned into a ball of light and entered his c_h_e_s_t.

He shuddered a bit as a warm energy flowed through his veins, but he shook it off. It wasn't unpleasant at all. And he was quite happy with how things were progressing. Weak or not, that was the second bond he'd formed today with his new monsters. He was well on his way to gaining the power he sought!

”I have returned master.” the silky voice of Serpent Night Dragon suddenly spoke up from behind him.

Yelping in fright at the voice coming out of nowhere, Jord jumped up from where he was sitting, whirling around fists up in preparation to attack. Only to find his boss monster looking at him with a dry expression, ”Really now?” the graceful, serpentine dragon huffed, rolling his eyes, ”The master of one such as I should not be so skittish.”

Jord huffed, lowering his fists and pressing one hand to his frantically beating heart, ”Yeah yeah,” he growled at the dragon monster spirit, ”So? Was my hunch right? did he toss any of his cards?”

Serpent Night Dragon eyed him drily for a few more moments before sighing and narrowing his head, ”..Indeed you were right,” the spirit responded. He lifted his tail and brought it around and Jord noted there was a card held with his tail coiled gently around it in the air, ”Only the one though.”

He deposited the card into Jord's hand, and he couldn't help but grin as he saw the card looking back at him.

Curse of Dragon - Level5/Dark/Dragon - 2000/1500

”Perfect, this will go well with this deck.” he noted in satisfaction, placing it in his deck box along with the rest of his deck.

”If you say so master,” Serpent Night Dragon bowed his head slightly, ”Now, I believe I shall take the time to have a little rest and meet the newest spirit you have obtained.” with that parting farewell, the dragon shimmered out of view and returned to his card.

Just in time for the rhythm of rapid footfalls to enter, followed by the sounds of loud, large breaths of exertion.

Jord looked over to the path that led through the tree line towards the Slifer dorms, just in time for a familiar kuribo haired individual to bust out of the tree line running towards where he was now, the docks.

Jaden Yuki. Despite himself, Jord could barely contain the excitement of seeing one of his favourite characters in the Yugioh franchise in the flesh.

Jaden slowed to a stop as he caught sight of Jord. ”Hey dude, what are you doing out here?” the brown haired teen asked, eyebrows narrowing a bit.

Jord resisted the urge to blink, that seemed completely out of character for Jaden. It took him a moment to remember just why he was out there, and remembering that Alexis sent him an audio clip, masking her voice and blackmailing him with Syrus' safety as a selling point to make him turn up for a duel.

Not letting anything show on his face, Jord raised an eyebrow at him, ”I was sitting out here enjoying the view,” he lied blatantly with a shrug, ”What are you doing out here though? And rushing this way so fast? The only thing in this direction is the girls dorm.”

Jaden tensed up, and Jord could see the indecision on his face. The second generation protagonist was a very open person early on before Yubel came back, he wore his heart on his sleeve. ”Is something wrong?” Jord asked, faking some worry into his voice.

It was a d_i_c_k move, and made him feel bad for manipulating a guy like Jaden. Because this wasn't fiction anymore for him, this boy in front of him was a real person. But, this was his life now. To gain a good life here, one he d_e_s_i_r_ed, a few white lies and manipulations were necessary.

..He'd make it up to Jaden and co later when he made sure they got through things easier later on.

Shoulder slumping, Jaden sighed in defeat, ”..My buddy Syrus got caught trespassing at the girls dorm apparently,” he admitted reluctantly, ”I got a call telling me to come meet them or he's gonna get expelled.”

”..Shit!” Jord cursed. ”Is someone targeting us Slifer's?” he asked, continuing the ruse.

”Dunno dude, but I really need to get a move on.” Jaden shrugged. Now that he had apparently confirmed Jord wasn't a part of things, he was eager to get a move on. The kuriboh-haired teen walked over and passed Jord, stepping down the dock and jumping into one of the row boats floating in the water.

Now was his chance. And Jord was going to take it with arms wide open. Turning, he walked down behind Jaden and jumped into the boat beside him. ”What are you doing?” Jaden asked.

Jord clenched his hand into a fist and held it up with a grin, ”I'm your back up in case this is some plot by some Obelisk's to jump you,” he responded, ”If it is, I'll kick their asses.”

Jaden snorted, ”Well glad to have you watching my back pal,” he responded. He sat down and began to row the oars, ”Grab a seat to make sure you don't fall into the water.”

Following his advice, Jord sat down on one of the benches in the boat, ”Let's do this mate.” he grinned, clapping Jaden on the shoulder.

”There he is!” Mindy jumped up excitedly, pointing out into the distance from the docks the four of them stood on, towards an approaching row boat with two figures in it, ”Though it looks like Jaden didn't come alone.”

”It's Odhar,” Jasmine raised an eyebrow in interest. She would have crossed her arms under her prodigious bust, but her hands were currently full with the rope tied around the blue haired boy the three girls had taken prisoner, ”Wonder what he's doing here? From what he was like in class earlier, he doesn't seem like the type that would lend a hand easily.”

Alexis who did have her arms crossed underneath her b_r_e_a_s_ts merely smirked in satisfaction, ”I don't care either way,” the blonde replied, ”He was my next target after I took down Jaden anyway, this just saves me the time of seeing more of his skill in person.”

Syrus whimpered, but was ignored.

Mindy sighed, ”You're never going to get a boyfriend like that,” the black haired girl shook her head sadly, ”Odhar was a total tough guy type with Taiyou earlier. You'll scare all the guys away if you consider someone like that just prey to duel and beat.”

Alexis rolled her eyes. No matter how many times she told them, she just wasn't interested in a boyfriend as things were right now, they wouldn't let it go. Not that there were many good candidates around her anyway.

You'd think with how boy crazy Jasmine and Mindy were sometimes that they'd have gotten boyfriends of their own by now. But they turned down nearly as many boys as her that asked them out.

Moments later, the rowboat hit shore and the two Slifer Red teenagers stepped out of the boat onto dry land. ”Hi Jaden, Hi Jord.” Syrus greeted them both sadly.

”Hey,” Jaden greeted him back softly, ”So what exactly is going on here?” he asked, eyes shooting up sharply to take in the three girls, most specifically Jasmine who was holding the rope that had him tied up

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”Well to make a long story short, I'm basically a big loser.” Syrus m_o_a_n_e_d in defeat.

”Don't be so melodramatic Syrus,” Jord cut in with a roll of his eyes, ”At least the eye candy was good right?”

Mindy tittered a bit at the compliment, cheeks flushing a light red. And Alexis had to internally praise the boy for his sheer confidence in this situation. She was right to want to keep an eye on him. After all, it didn't take a genius to figure out now that he and Jaden were here alongside Syrus, they could be reported and expelled as well. Yet still, looking over the Scottish teenager, who had a lazy smirk on his face, hands resting in his pocket, he seemed to believe he was in total control.

Maybe it was something to do with being European? Alexis didn't have much experience with people from outside of Japan. But Pier, the french boy she grew up with was a c_o_c_ky guy no matter the situation.

Jasmine huffed, ”Your friend here trespassed into the girls campus.” the redhead got straight to the point.

”Is that true Sy?” Jaden asked.

”I doubt it,” Jord rolled his eyes, before looking up to meet Alexis' eyes, ”No offense, but Syrus doesn't have the guts to come here peeking. Pull the other one.”

It seemed he wouldn't be fooled. Alexis stared right back into his eyes and was surprised to find he was amused. He rose an eyebrow at her in challenge and the blonde haired girl realised the jig was pretty much up.

Not that it mattered, she'd gotten what she wanted regardless. And a bonus on top of things. Jaden and Jord, both laid out for her to pick from. She wasn't arrogant enough to think she could take them two on one. So who to pick?

”True,” Jaden agreed. ”So out with it, what the heck is going on here? This is getting to far to be called a joke.” he demanded.

”Well it doesn't matter now,” Mindy smiled at both boys, eyes focused more on Jord than Jaden, ”Now that you're both here, you're trespassing too.”

”That's right boys,” Alexis grinned at them in a predatory fashion, ”If you want to get out of here without being expelled, you'll have to win your freedom by beating us in a duel.”

She'd rather take Jaden on right now. His skills were more known to her. His deck focused around hero monsters. Jord though, his deck was made just this morning from thrown away cards, yet he seemed so confident in the deck he had. He was more mysterious. Best let Jasmine and Mindy take him on so she could see more of his skill first before she took him on. If he was as good as she thought he was, he should be able to overcome them both.

”Oh man, I don't wanna get expelled, it's only been a few days.” Syrus w_h_i_n_ed pitifully.

”So that's your play,” Jord snorted, shaking his head, ”Fair enough, bring it on.”

”Don't worry Sy,” Jaden interjected at the same time, punching a fist into his palm, ”I won't let that happen. Bring it on Alexis.”

Jord and Jaden blinked as they finished, looking at each other. ”Jinx.” they grinned at each other. Both boys were surprisingly on a rather similar wavelength it seemed.

Minutes later, while Jaden and Alexis were out on the open water in a pair of boats, facing off all dramatic like, Jord stood across from Mindy and Jasmine, having preferred to just stay on solid ground for his duel.

.....He'd rather not risk dropping his cards into the ocean and ruin them.

”So how are we doing this?” Jord asked, smirking at the girls, practically oozing confidence. Truth be told, he was just giddy at being alone with two absolutely gorgeous, absolutely stacked girls.

Syrus had dutifully followed Jaden out onto the boats. And truth be told, he was totally okay with that. He'd never been that into Syrus truth be told.

”We'll keep it simple,” Jasmine held out her hand, activating her duel disk, ”All three of us have Four Thousand life points each, though this will be a two on one, so after I take my first turn, you're free to attack on your turn, that fine with you?”

”Yeah, simple,” Jord snorted, ”I suppose the fact that Mindy having a turn after me and you going right after her, meaning you get two turns back to back as a team is fair?”

”Oh you know my name?” Mindy cut in, smiling widely.

”Of course I do,” Jord shrugged, ”You, Alexis and Jasmine here are by far the three most beautiful girls in our year, possibly the entire school, it's hard not to know who are you.”

”Aw shucks, you flatterer!” Mindy laughed before wagging her finger, ”Don't think complimenting us will make us go easy on you though cutie.”

”We're way out of your league kid,” Jasmine rolled her eyes, ”Now let's get this over with, I want to watch Alexis wipe the floor with your pal Jaden.” with that said, she drew six cards.

Jasmine LP: 4000

Mindy LP: 4000

Jord LP: 4000

”Quite the high sense of opinion of yourself huh?” Jord shook his head, but followed suit and drew five cards, Mindy copying him, ”But sure, let's hurry this along, I've got things to do tonight.” Not to mention, he was incredibly excited to see how much DP he earned for taking on two Obelisk students at once, in a two on one.

”We'll see how c_o_c_ky you are after we're through with you Odhar,” Jasmine huffed, ”And I'll start that off by summoning my Cyber Harpie Lady in attack mode!”

There was a shimmer of light in front of her, and a moment later a tall bodacious blue skinned woman in metal bikini armour appeared before her. Feathers hanging from her arms and legs curling down into bird feet and talons.

Cyber Harpie Lady - Level4/Wind/Winged Beast/Effect - 1800/1300

Not a bad monster at all. Actually, an eighteen hundred attack point beat stick at this point in time was pretty rare, especially one that had a decent effect and not a detrimental one.

”But I'm not done yet, I equip my Cyber Harpie Ladie with Cyber Armour, increasing her attack points by five hundred!” the redhead continued, ”And finish off my turn by placing one card face down!” A card facing face down shimmered into existence at the same time the armour her harpy lady was wearing gleamed brightly as the equip card took effect.

Cyber Harpie Lady - Level4/Wind/Winged Beast/Effect - 2300/1300

Jord whistled as he drew his sixth card, his turn beginning, ”Not bad, getting a monster with twenty three hundred attack out on the first turn and shoring up with something to defend it.” he praised the girl.

..It wasn't really. It was something any child where he was from could do with ease. But here and now? It was actually something quite well done he supposed. Still, it put Jasmine quite a bit above the average duelist on this island just to play a combo like that.

”Yet you don't actually seem all that impressed,” Jasmine noted knowingly. and he had to give it to her, the girl was sharp, ”Let's see if Alexis is actually on to something and you really do have talent.”

”Sure, but don't blink or you might miss it gorgeous,” he winked at her and took some pride in the way this time, her cheeks actually flushed a tiny bit from the bold flirting, ”I'll start off nice and simple with Pot of Greed and draw two cards.”

With that said, he drew two cards and looked them over, smirking happily at his draws. He was so, so glad his deck was full of spirits. It was honestly kind of cheating, but honestly, if f_u_c_k_i_n_g Yugi could do it without guilt, so could he.

”I'll take care of your equip card and face down with Giant Trunade next,” Jord followed up, placing a card down. A massive green vortex howled through the area, and the face down and gleam of her monsters armour disappeared, returned to her hand. ”But I'm not anywhere close to done yet, because now I play Foolish Burial, to send the Carbonedon in my deck to the graveyard.”

”That card again?” Jasmine blinked, ”Planning on summoning that monster from the graveyard? I'm not sure what it is, but it sounds like a dinosaur monster, so I'n guessing it has pretty good attack points.”

”Close actually, I'm going to use its effect to banish it from my graveyard to special summon any level seven dragon monster from anywhere in my deck,” Jord grinned cheekily, ”Say hello to my Seiyaryu!”

Seiyaryu - Level7/Light/Dragon - 2500/2300

In a burst of light, a large and beautiful, shining pink metallic dragon appeared before Jord on the field. And it was a beauty. Jord had to take a moment just to admire such a lovely beast.It actually reminded him a bit of the pokemon Skarmory.

”Twenty five hundred attack points!” Mindy gasped.

”Jeez, maybe you really are that good.” Jasmine grimaced.

Jord wagged his finger at the two, ”Hold your horses girl, this is no time to be impressed, cuz I ain't done yet.” he teased.

”You're kidding!” Jasmine gaped.

”Nope!” he chuckled, ”Following up Seiyaru, I'm using the spell card Cost Down. Now by discarding one card to the graveyard from my hand, all monsters in my hand have their levels lowered by two. And I'm discarding my Hyozanryu, allowing me to summon my Curse of Dragon!”

The familiar golden, serpentine dragon used by Taiyou earlier today appeared in front of Jord, and he relished the moment.

Curse of Dragon - Level 5(3)/Dark/Dragon - 2000/1500

”Hey hey, where'd you get that!” Mindy gasped, ”Isn't that Taiyou's card? No way you just found that card! It's one of the main cards used by Yugi Moto! They're worth tons of money.”

”Finders keepers, and Taiyou had a hissy fit and threw it away after I creamed him,” Jord shrugged, ”Still, now I'll play my Monster Reborn to summon my Hyozanryu from the graveyard in attack position.”

In another burst of light, his newest spirit appeared before him, tall and graceful with a gleaming, bipedal diamond body that glittered beautifully in the moonlight.

Hyozanryu - Level7/Light/Dragon - 2100/2800

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