Flip of a Coin

Far away from Duel Academy, there was a gambling ship sailing across the ocean. In one of the private rooms there was a young man who was watching Ryan and Chazz's duel live in TV while counting his daily winnings.

The man had brown hair that almost reached his gray eyes. He was dressed in a white tuxedo with a black bow tie and there was something red sticking out of his front pocket.

The man looked up from his money and noticed that the duel was about to start. Then the man relaxed in his chair and decided to continue counting his money after the duel was finished.

Suddenly something on the TV caught the man's eye and he quickly grabbed the controller and paused the TV. The TV currently showed Ryan about to begin his next turn, however the man was too focused on the crowd in the background.

The man was looking directly at Alexis who he could see leaning against a railing while watching the duel.

"Ma Cherie so this is where you have been." He said in a heavy French accent.

The man pulled out his phone and began to make some calls organizing a trip to Duel Academy.

A few days later at Duel Academy...

Life at the academy had mostly returned to normal, the students had finally stopped congratulating Ryan every chance they got, though he found the attention nice in the beginning he was happy that people were finally leaving him alone.

Chazz was not adjusting well to life at Slifer Red. He had refused to wear a Slifer Red uniform and had instead continued to wear his North Academy uniform.

Even though he had been lucky enough to receive a room for himself he still found the room to be frustratingly small, he had also quickly become tired of only being served rice for his dinner.

To make matters worse his brothers had frozen his bank account preventing him from accessing any of his family's money.

It was now Saturday and everyone had the day to do what they wanted. Alexis and Jasmine were sitting under a tree doing their math homework when they got a text from Mindy.

Alexis pulled out her phone and read the text.

"Guys, there's this really cute guy that just came to the island. He's dueling a bunch of the other boys now, you've got to see him he's so dreamy." The text said.

"Who'd be bothered about some boy coming to the island." Jasmine said hardly turning her attention away from her homework, while Alexis wasn't bothered about how handsome this boy was she was curious why he had come to the island.

Alexis stood up and began to walk towards the main building.

"Hey, where are you going?" Jasmine asked.

"I thought I'd go and see what all this excitement is about." Alexis said.

"Wait for me, I'm coming too." Jasmine said, not wanting Alexis to be too close to this boy.

Alexis and Jasmine reached the main building and after asking one of the other students found out which arena the boy was currently dueling in. Once they entered the arena they saw a boy wearing a white tuxedo dueling a Ra student.

Alexis noticed that Ryan was watching the duel and approached him.

"Hey Ryan, do you know who this guy is?" Alexis asked.

"He calls himself the Gambler." He explained.

The man had heard Alexis and Ryan talking and quickly finished his duel, then walked towards them.

"Is that my little angel I hear." He said in his French accent. Now that the boy was closer Alexis seemed to immediately recognize him and her face turned to one of pure hatred.

"What are you doing here." She said with venom in her voice.

The boy seemed a little surprised by the tone in Alexis's voice.

"Now, now ma Cherie is that any way to speak to an old friend." He said. This only made Alexis angrier.

"We're not friends Pierre." She hissed.

Pierre took Alexis's hand in his own.

"Now don't say that, or have you forgotten about me so easily." He said as he attempted to kiss Alexis's hand. However, Alexis pulled her hand away before his lips even touched her.

"Don't touch me." She said.

Pierre tried to hold Alexis's hand again, but Jasmine stepped in between the two preventing him from getting any closer.

"Didn't you hear her, she said don't touch her." Jasmine said.

Pierre frowned.

"Alexis I know we didn't leave each other on the best of terms, but I'm sure we can talk this out." He said.

"Just leave me alone." Alexis almost shouted as she stormed out of the room.

Pierre tried to go after Alexis, but was stopped by Jasmine.

"Keep this guy busy for a while, I'll go and see if Alexis is alright." Ryan said as he left the room to search for Alexis.

"Sure thing." Jasmine said although her eyes widened a second later as she realized what she just agreed too.

After a short time of searching Ryan found Alexis in one of the classrooms by herself. He could tell just by looking at her that she was still very angry.

"Hey, you good?" He asked. Alexis turned around to look at him sharply although she did calm down a little when she saw who had spoken to her.

"No, no I'm not okay." She said.

"Are you open to discussing it." Ryan asked. Alexis thought for a second, she seemed to be trying to decide whether she wanted to talk about this guy and finally she made a decision.

"That guy's name is Pierre, I met him in elementary school. He was an exchange student from France. He and I did become friends and I taught him how to play duel monsters." Alexis said the last part with anger in her voice but she continued her story.

"He came from a rich family but he always wanted more so he started to persuade the other kids to bet their favorite toys on card games. However Pierre was so rich he could just keep playing until he won."

"Finally I got sick of it and challenged him to a single game of duel monsters where if I won he would have to give back everything he'd taken, I won, but not only did Pierre not return anything he also stole my scarf, the one my grandmother knitted me. The next day he moved back to France and that was the last time I saw him." Alexis finished her story.

"You mean until today." A voice said. Ryan and Alexis turned to see Pierre standing by the door. Clearly Jasmine had been unable to stop him. Alexis stood up.

"Why are you here." She almost shouted.

"Why Mon Amour I am here for you." Pierre said fiddling with something red in his front pocket.

"Give me the all clear and I'll toss this fool off the island." Ryan whispered so only Alexis could hear. She was tempted to take him up on his offer until she noticed that the thing Pierre was fiddling looked familiar."

"Wait, what is that." She said.

"This, this is just my porte-bonheur." Pierre said as he pulled the red thing out of his pocket revealing it to be a red scarf.

"My scarf." Alexis said recognizing the scarf.

"Yes it has brought me such good luck over these past few years." Pierre said as he caressed the scarf.

"Give that back to me now." Alexis said, clenching her fists. It looked like she was about to punch Pierre.

"Why I would be happy to give this back to you, if you come back to France with me." He said.

"Or you give it back right now and I don't badly injure you." Ryan told him. Pierre seemed shocked and a little frightened by this.

"I'm sure we can handle this peacefully, perhaps a little wager." Pierre said starting to sweat.

"I've had enough of making bets with you." Alexis said with venom in her voice. Pierre looked nervous.

"But I think you will like this one, I propose a duel and if you win then I will return your scarf. But if I win, you must come to France with me." He said.

Alexis couldn't believe she was actually considering his offer.

"How do I know you won't just run away with if if I win." She said.

"Ma Cherie you wound me, do you really think I would do something so deceitful." Pierre said however Alexis was not convinced.

"He won't get the chance to run away. I'll make sure of it." Ryan said darkly. Alexis smiled, a part of her hoped Pierre would try to run so she could see what Ryan would do to him.

"Okay then Pierre, I'll duel you for my scarf." Alexis said.

"Merveilleux, I will see you at the arena." Pierre said as he quickly ran out of the room wanting to get as far away from Ryan as possible.

Alexis and Ryan started walking towards the arena.

"Just a heads up, this guy uses a coin flip deck." He explained. Alexis nodded. She had expected Pierre would use some type of gamble deck.

Soon the two reached the arena and found Pierre waiting for them with his duel disk already activated. Alexis took her place to begin the duel and Ryan stood in front of the exit in case Pierre tried to escape.

"I think I will go first." Pierre said as he started his turn. "I activate the continuous spell Second Coin Toss and I summon Abare Ushioni in attack mode. Now I'll use my monster's effect, it lets me flip a coin and if I call it right you take 1000 points of damage, but if I'm wrong I take that damage instead."

Abare Ushioni ATK 1200 DEF 1200 LV4 EARTH Beast-Warrior.

Pierre flipped a coin.

"Heads." He said. However the coin landed on tails.

"I think I will try again." Pierre said as he activated the effect of Second Coin Toss to flip his coin again. This time the coin landed on heads and Alexis took 1000 points of damage.

Alexis LP 4000 - 1000 = 3000

Alexis started her turn.

"I summon D.D Assailant in attack mode and now I'll use it to attack your monster." She said. Abare Ushioni was destroyed and after that Alexis ended her turn.

D.D Assailant ATK 1700 DEF 1600 LV4 EARTH Warrior.

Pierre LP 4000 - 500 = 3500

"Mon amour I have missed seeing you duel." Pierre said as he started his turn. "I activate Double Summon. This will let me normal summon two monsters this turn, and first I will summon Kryuel in attack mode."

Kryuel ATK 1000 DEF 1700 LV4 DARK Fiend.

"Second I will summon Twin-Barrel Dragon in attack mode, and when I summon this card I can flip two coins and if they're both heads I can destroy one of your monsters." Pierre explained.

Twin-Barrel Dragon ATK 1700 DEF 200 LV4 DARK Machine.

Pierre flipped two coins, the first one landed on tails and the second one landed on heads. Pierre used Second Coin Toss again and this time both coins landed on heads destroying D.D Assailant.

"Now then my monsters please attack my little angel." Pierre said as both Twin-Barrel Dragon and Kryuel attacked Alexis directly.

Alexis LP 3000 - 1700 = 1300

Alexis LP 1300 - 1000 = 300

"To finish my turn I place a card face down." Pierre said.

Despite only having 300 life points left Alexis didn't seem worried.

"I activate Twin Twisters. This lets me discard one card to destroy two of your spell or trap cards." Alexis said as she discarded Etoile Cyber to destroy Pierre's Second Coin Toss and his face down card which was revealed to be Fairy Box.

Pierre was starting to look worried without his Second Coin Toss.

"Now I'll summon Senju of the Thousand Hands and when this is summoned I can add a ritual monster from my deck to my hand." Alexis said as she added Cyber Angel Idaten to her hand.

Senju of the Thousand Hands ATK 1400 DEF 1000 LV4 LIGHT Fairy.

"Now I'll activate Machine Angel Ritual to summon Cyber Angel Benten." Alexis said as she used the Cyber Angel Idaten in her hand as a tribute to summon Benten.

Cyber Angel Benten ATK 1800 DEF 1500 LV6 LIGHT Fairy.

"Benten destroy Twin-Barrel Dragon." Alexis ordered. Twin-Barrel Dragon was destroyed.

"And when Benten destroys a monster, you take damage equal to that monster's defense." She explained.

Pierre LP 3500 - 100 = 3400

Pierre LP 3400 - 200 = 3200

"Senju attack his Kryuel." Alexis ordered. Kryuel was destroyed.

"Merci when Kryuel is destroyed I can flip a coin and if I call it right then I can destroy one monster on your side of the field." Pierre explained.

Pierre LP 3200 - 400 = 2800

Pierre flipped a coin and called "Heads." To Pierre's horror, the coin landed on tails.

Alexis ended her turn.

"I can still win as long as lady luck is on my side." Pierre said as he drew his card.

"Stop deluding yourself Pierre, you're not lucky. If it wasn't for that Second Coin Toss you'd never win." Alexis said.

This seemed to anger Pierre.

"No I am lucky, I summon Gambler of Legend in attack mode and now I'll use his effect to flip three coins." Pierre said.

'All I need is three heads and I'll win.' He thought.

Gambler of Legend ATK 500 DEF 1400 LV4 DARK Spellcaster.

The three coins flew into the air and fell back down.

"Mon dieu." Pierre cried as all three coins landed on tails. This forced Pierre to discard all the cards in his hand.

Pierre looked towards the exit but saw Ryan standing there, making it impossible for him to make a quick exit.

Alexis's turn started.

"Benten destroy his Gambler." She ordered. Gambler of Legend was destroyed and thanks to Benten's effect Pierre took damage equal to his monster's defense.

Pierre LP 2800 - 1300 = 1500

Pierre LP 1500 - 1400 = 100

"Now Senju end this duel." Alexis said. Senju attacked Pierre directly.

Pierre LP 100 - 1400 = 0

Pierre was stunned as his life points hit 0.

"Okay Pierre now give me back my scarf." Alexis said walking towards him. Pierre quickly looked at the exit and saw Ryan staring at him. He then looked back to Alexis who was now standing directly in front of him.

Sadly Pierre pulled the red scarf out of his front pocket and held it out to Alexis.

"Please Mon amour I only came back because I love you. We can be together if we try." Pierre said almost pleadingly.

Alexis wasn't swayed by Pierre's words at all as she took back her scarf.

"Did you really think I would care about you at all after everything you've done." She said as she held her scarf in both hands making sure Pierre couldn't take it again.

Pierre seemed to finally give up and headed toward the exit. As he had returned the scarf, Ryan let him leave without a issue.

Alexis carefully placed the scarf in her pocket as Ryan approached her.

"Now what?" He asked. Alexis smiled.

"First I'm going to wash this thing, god knows what Pierre was doing with it." She said.