Yuri

"Wake up," I hear a woman's voice call out.

I groan not waking up.

"Get up!" Another woman shouts.

I wake up to see my imaginary friend versions of my duel monster cards, Lunalight Purple Butterfly and Lunalight Wolf standing above me.

"You're going to be late." Butterfly says.

"Oh." I say, running out of the house.

I see they're about to pack up.

"Wait, I'm here." I say.

After they let me in, I walk over to the rails to watch the matches. I see a dark haired guy facing another guy to get into the match.

"Alright newbie, multiple choice, do you A. Throw in the towel B. Beg for mercy or C. run home to momma." The second dude says.

"I'll go with D. None of the above." The first guy says playing the Ring of Destruction card.

"A trap." The second guy replies.

"Exactly. With Ring of Destruction I can target one monster on the field in attack mode and we both take damage equal to its attack points." The first guy says using the card on his own monster deal 1900 points of damage to both of them the first guy has 1300 left but his opponent has zero, winning him the game.

"clever move applicant, welcome to the academy," the second guy says.

"thank you oh wise proctor," the first guy says.

"wow that last kid really tore it up," I say.

"yeah, Bastion Misawa they say he got the highest score on the written exam out of all us applicants," this blue haired guy next to me says.

"wow I that's extremely impressive." I say.

"I'm Syrus by the way nice to meet you." The blue haired kid says.

"I'm Yuri, pleasure to meet you." I reply.

"I have test anxiety, I don't know how I won my match." Syrus says.

"You're in that's great. I'll be in too once I win my matches." I say.

"Wait you haven't dueled yet?" Syrus asks.

"No." I say.

"Then you might have a problem. I think that this was supposed to be the last duel." Syrus explains.

"Oh." I say.

"Amazing duel Bastion." I say.

"Thank you." Bastion says.

"Impressive it looks like I'll have competition." I say.

"Yuri Richardson, please report to exam 24." A guy on the microphone says.

"Wish me luck guys not that I'll need it." I say.

"He's so confident. You think he's that good," Syrus says.

"he'll have to be. Look who he's dueling," Bastion says.

I enter the field to meet a blonde person with long hair. "what's your name son," the person says.

"Yuri Richardson," I say.

"well, Yuri Richardson. I'm doctor Villian Crowler. Department chair of techniques at duel academy," the blonde person says.

"a department chair, wow, it's going to be an honor to duel you," I say.

"Duel vest on," Crowler says, activating his cool duel disk.

"That's so cool teach, how do I get one of those," I ask.

"a lot of hard work and extremely high marks," Crowler replies.

"well I'm ready, so let's duel," I say, picking up five cards' in my hand.

"slackers first," Crowler says.

Crowler LP's 4000

Yuri's LP 4000

"I draw," I say, and then pick up a card. I look at my hand, I have a burial from a different dimension, black pendent, fusion recovery, lunalight crimson fox, lunalight blue cat, and lunalight wolf. "I set a monster face down," I say as I play crimson fox face down. "and end my turn with two face downs," I say, setting lunalight reincarnation.

"alright you're turn teach," I say.

"yes very good, don't call me teach," Crowler says.

"Alright for this first move I think I'll start nice and easy," Crowler says. "I'll play the spell confiscation, which after I pay a thousand life points, will allow me to look at a card and choose to send it to the graveyard," Crowler says.

Crowler's LP 4000-3000

"I remember some of these cards from when I was a naive rookie," Crowler states. But he's never heard of lunalight monster's and dismisses them. "Fusion recovery, to the graveyard," Crowler says. "and last but least I'll activate, emergency provisions and send my two face downs to the graveyard to gain 2000 life points.

Crowler's LP 3000-5000

Then suddenly two monsters appear on Crowler's field.

"Can somebody tell me what's going on," Syrus says.

"The two trap cards dr. Crowler had on the field were called statue of the wicked, it's a viscous trap that creates a token when destroyed, that's why he used emergency provisions," Bastion says.

"What an elitist snob, bullying an amateur with his very best cards," a blonde woman from obelisk says.

"You're too soft Alexis, I just hope we get to see Crowler's legendary rare card stashed away in that deck of his," a blue haired senior obelisk duelist says.

"You ready for your next lesson," Crowler asks.

"Yeah, if you guys teach stuff like this I can't wait for duel academy," I say.

"and now I sacrifice my two wicked statues to summon ancient gear golem," Crowler says.

Syrus and Bastion are shocked. "there it is the legendary rare card," Alexis says.

"I think we're about to find out what makes it so legendary," the black haired obelisk says.

Ancient gear golem

EARTH Attribute Level 8

Machine/Effect

ATK/3000: DEF/3000

"Now, now, I hope you aren't too scared if my legendary ancient gear golem," Crowler says.

"Wow, now this is going to be fun," I say.

"Fun?" Crowler asks.

"yeah, this is going to be a challenge, thanks for giving me your all, whether I win or lose this'll be a match for the ages," I say.

"Either Yuri's brave or nuts," Syrus says.

"He's staring that legendary rare monster like he doesn't have a care in the world. I guess the youth and inexperience have their benefits after all, huh, Alexis," the blue haired guy says.

"give it a rest, at least the kids showing some backbone," Alexis says.

"There won't be much to show after this," the blue haired guy replied.

Crowler laughs. "Golem attack, mechanized Malloy," Crowler says, and his monster attacks my face down crimson fox.

"Yuri's monster didn't stand a chance. His defense points were way too low. This isn't looking good," Syrus says.

"And it's about to look at lot worse. When ancient gear golem attacks a monster in defense mode it's attack points and the defending monster defense points are dealt out as damage," Bastion says.

"but that means Yuri's life points are going to take a hit," Syrus says.

Because my monsters defense is 800, I take 2000 points of damage.

Yuri's LP 4000-1800

"don't feel bad, this is the top dueling school in the country, some people simply aren't cut out…," Crowler says, but stops as soon as I start laughing.

"oh, I can't wait till I get there," I say.

"I draw," I say. I pick up a card. Lunalight black sheep. "I activate the effect of lunalight black sheep, which when I discard her, I can add, a lunalight from my graveyard to my hand or add a polymerization from my deck to my hand. And I choose polymerization. And now I use polymerization to fuse lunalight blue cat and lunalight wolf to fusion summon, lunalight cat dancer in attack mode," Yuri says.

Lunalight cat dancer

Dark attribute level 7

Beast-warrior/fusion/effect

ATK/2400 DEF/2000

"I end my turn," I say. "not bad, huh, teach," I say

"No, not bad for a beginner, but I am a master tactician, and your fusion monster is too weak to stop me, ancient gear golem attack, mechanism Malloy," Crowler says.

Golem attacks cat dancer and I take 600 damage but cat dancer isn't destroyed.

Yuri's LP 1800-1200

"check your gear, your monster is still on the field," Crowler says.

"actually, Cat Dancer can't be destroyed by battle," I say.

"how about that a card that Crowler didn't know," Alexis says.

"You can't expect a person to know every technique," the blue haired guy says.

"Oh, that's good," Syrus says.

"but only to an extent, as in two turns Crowler will have taken all his life points," Bastion says.

"oh, dear," Syrus says.

"but if you're friends as good as he says he is, he might find a way," Bastion says.

"wow did we really seem like friends," Syrus asks.

"I end my turn," Crowler says.

"I draw," I say. I pick up the card lunalight perfume. "perfect. You know your golem's pretty cool but he has a problem," I say.

"yeah. What's that?" Crowler asks mockingly.

"he doesn't have a team behind him," I say. Crowler rolls his eyes. "let me demonstrate. I activate lunalight perfume which allows me to summon a lunalight monster from the grave, so rejoin us lunalight blue cat," I say.

Lunalight blue cat

Dark attribute level 4

Beast-warrior/effect

ATK/1600 DEF/1200

"Then I use lunalight perfume's second affect, by banishing it, and discarding black pendent, I can add one lunalight monster to my hand," I say and then search my deck for a lunalight purple butterfly.

"you got any idea what this kids planning," Alexis asks.

"no, I've never seen a deck like this," the blue haired senior says.

"I don't mean to rush you, but I am a very busy man, are you done yet," Crowler asks.

"of course I'm not done yet," I say. "I activate blue cat's ability which allows me to double the attack of any lunalight monster except this one. So, I double cat dancer's attack points," I explain.

Lunalight cat dancer's ATK/2400-4800

"wait, time out," Crowler says.

Everyone is shocked.

"then I discard my lunalight purple butterfly which will increase a lunalight monster's attack by 1000 for the rest of the turn," I say.

Lunalight cat dancer's ATK/4800-5800

Crowler looks terrified. "and then I activate Cat dancer's ability. I can tribute my blue cat, and now the first time each of your monsters would be destroyed they are not, but cat dancer can attack all of them twice, for the rest of this turn, and it does 100 points of affect damage each time cat dancer declares an attack.

Everyone is speechless. "No, this can't be," Crowler says.

"Cat dancer attack ancient gear golem," I say.

Crowler's LP 5000-4900

Cat dancer attacks gear golem and deals 2800 damage, but both monster' survive.

Crowler's LP 4900-2100

"cat dancer, attack again," I say.

Crowler's LP 2100-2000

Cat dancer destroys gear golem and deals 2800 damage.

Crowler's LP 2000-0000

"Impossible. There's no way this delinquent could defeat me," Crowler says.

"It must have been dumb luck, there's no way Crowler could lose to some flunky," Chazz says.

"This kids got a future here wow," Alexis says, but the senior just walks off.

"oh, yeah, go Yuri," Syrus says.

"Nice I could use some completion," Bastion says.

"I made it to the academy! I made it! We made it," I correct myself talking to my imaginary friends. "And this is the start of one hell of a journey," I say.