Brier and Beauregard

Alexis was walking to the cafeteria with Mindy and Jasmine.

"I can't believe that Crowler gave us so much homework, why does he always give us blue's more than the others." Mindy said, Alexis thought of what to say, it was true Crowler did always give Obelisk blue students more homework then he did anyone from the Ra or Slifer dorms.

"I think he doesn't want us to fall behind, because then he might feel embarrassed that his students are failing." Alexis said, as the three continued walking the school speakers turned on and everyone heard Crowler's voice "All Obelisk blue students report to classroom 4B immediately."

"What do you think that's about?" Jasmine asked.

"I don't know, but we'd better get to the classroom quickly." Alexis said.

At classroom 4B all of Obelisk blue was gathered together with Dr Crowler standing in front of everyone.

"Okay students I have a very important announcement to make." Crowler said. "Some of you may know this but most of you don't, many Obelisk students have been attacked after dark."

"The victims have reported that the attacker was some kind of dueling giant, and that he has been challenging then to duels and then he steals both their strongest cards and their jackets." Crowler continued.

"Because of this I am asking all of you to avoid going out at night if possible, and if any of you has any information then please report it to me immediately. Now then I believe that you all have homework to do, and just because there is a dueling giant running around does not mean you will not receive detention for not completing it, dismissed." Crowler finished.

Mindy turned to her friends.

"What are we going to do?" She asked.

"I don't think there's anything we can do." Jasmine said.

"Come on, the cafeteria will be closed by the time we get there, so I say we go to the library and get started on this homework." Alexis said.

The three left the room only to see Jaden running up to them.

"Hey Lex you got a minute." He said.

"What's the matter Jaden?" Alexis asked.

"Me and the others are planning a stakeout tonight to find out who's been stealing sandwiches, you want to come." Jaden said.

"Sorry Jaden, but Dr Crowler gave all of Obelisk blue extra homework, so I'm too busy." Alexis apologized.

"Well okay then, maybe next time." Jaden said looking disappointed.

After Alexis and her friends left, Ryan who had heard what Jaden had asked Alexis walked out of the classroom

"Hey Ryan, do you want to-"

"You're out of luck with me as well."

The library was now filled with Obelisk students all trying to complete their homework, Dr Crowler had demanded that they all write him a paper on all the Number monsters from Number 1 all the way up to 107, the paper must include every individual monster's names, rank and effect.

Alexis was sitting with Mindy and Jasmine.

"I can't believe we have to do all this work before tomorrow afternoon." Mindy said.

"I know but we've got to do a lot of work so we'd better get started." Jasmine said, and the three got started on their homework.

After many hours of working some of the Obelisk students had left to return to their dorms.

"I'm getting pretty tired, I think it's time to head back." Mindy said. Alexis looked at her work, she was only at Number 88 Gimmick Puppet of Leo.

"You can head back, I want to finish this work first." Alexis said.

Jasmine checked the time.

"But Alexis it's going to be dark soon, and you heard what Crowler said." She said.

"Don't worry about me, I'm not afraid of some dueling giant, and I don't want to rush to finish this work in the morning." Alexis said, Jasmine wanted to argue but she knew it was pointless so she and Mindy left Alexis to finish her work alone.

Finally Alexis finished her homework, looking up from her work she realized that all the other students were gone.

"Everyone else returned to their dorms." A familiar voice said. Alexis turned around to see Ryan still sitting at a table continuing his homework.

Alexis walked over to him.

"How are you doing?" She asked.

"Nearly finished." He answered. "All that's left is Number 107 Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon."

After finished his homework Ryan wiped his eyes and took a deep breath.

"That was draining." He said.

"Well knowing Crowler he'll probably tell us to do the same with all the Chaos Numbers next." Alexis said.

Ryan turned to Alexis.

"How long were we working on this. It's already nighttime." Alexis looked out the window and saw that he was right in was pitch black outside.

"We'd better get back to our dorms, I'd hate to be tired for school tomorrow." She said and the two left the library.

As Ryan and Alexis headed back to their dorms, the two began to talk.

"Gotta ask, which number monster is your favorite?" Ryan asked.

"I don't know, I've never really thought about using XYZ monsters before, but now that I think about it they could be useful in the event that I can't summon one of my ritual monsters." Alexis said.

As the two neared their dorms they heard a scream come from nearby.

"What's going on?" Ryan asked.

"I don't know, but we'd better go see." Alexis said running in the direction of the scream with Ryan not far behind.

Following the scream they found a Obelisk student on the ground with a giant figure standing over him, the giant appeared to be dressed in a combination of several blue jackets all sewn together making him look even bigger and covering his face.

The giant knelled down and yanked the students duel disk off of his arm clearly hurting him in the process, the student clenched his arm in pain as the giant started to look through his deck.

"Hey, get away from him!" Alexis shouted. This startled the giant causing him to drop the duel disk and deck, the giant turned to look at Ryan and Alexis and stared at them for a second before pointing at them and then at his duel disk which he then activated.

"It seems he wants to duel." Ryan whispered to Alexis.

"I'll take him on while you make sure he's alright." Alexis nodded.

"Alright duel giant. If you like messing with Obelisk Blues, try messing with me." He activated his duel disk.

As soon as the duel started Alexis ran over to the Blue student and helped him up. As soon as he was on his feet he ran away at full speed leaving his duel disk and cards behind.

"You're welcome!" Alexis sarcastically shouted as she started to gather the boys cards together.

The giant took the first turn, first he summoned Giant Orc in attack mode and then he played one card face down, after that he ended his turn.

Giant Orc ATK 2200 DEF 0 LV4 DARK fiend.

Ryan drew his card.

"I'll activate the Hammer Shot spell. This destroys the monster with the most attack points on the field."

"Next I'll summon Vorse Raider in attack mode." He said.

Vorse Raider ATK 1900 DEF 1200 LV4 DARK Beast-Warrior.

"Go after his life points." Ryan ordered.

Giant LP 4000 - 1900 = 2100

"I'll end my turn with a face down card."

The giant summoned Chainsaw Insect in attack mode, then he activated his face down card Skill Drain, the giant had to pay 1000 LP in order for Skill Drain to negate all monster effects on the field.

Chainsaw Insect ATK 2400 DEF 0 LV4 EARTH Insect.

Giant LP 2100 - 1000 = 1100

The giant's Chainsaw insect attacked and destroyed Vorse Raider. Then the giant ended his turn with a face down.

Ryan LP 4000 - 500 = 3500

Ryan started his turn by drawing a card. "I activate Heavy Storm to blow away all spell and trap cards."

The giant activated his face down card Fake Trap, Fake Trap then destroyed itself to protect Skill Drain.

"Good thing I have this, the Dust Tornado trap card. Say goodbye to your Skill Drain."

"Now I place a monster in defense mode and end my turn." He said.

The giant started his turn and summoned Indomitable Fighter Lei Lei in attack mode, and used it to attack Ryan's monster which turned out to be a small pink marshmallow.

Indomitable Fighter Lei Lei ATK 2300 DEF 0 LV4 EARTH Beast-Warrior.

Marshmallon ATK 300 DEF 500 LV3 LIGHT Fairy.

"Big mistake, because when Marshmallon is flipped up during battle you lose 1000 life points."

Giant LP 1100 - 1000 = 100

The giant then ended his turn.

Ryan drew his next card and smirked.

"I'll place another monster face down and end my turn." He said.

The giant started his turn and summoned Armor Exe in attack mode, then he used Lei Lei to attack Ryan's face down monster.

Armor Exe ATK 2400 DEF 1400 LV4 LIGHT Fairy.

"Congratulations, that was my Night Assailant. When this is flipped face up, it's effect destroys one of your monsters and the one I choose is Lei Lei."

Night Assailant ATK 200 DEF 500 LV3 DARK Fiend.

After the attack the giant ended his turn with no monsters on the field.

"Not a whole lot you can do with a empty field." Ryan stated.

He then started his turn.

"Time for this duel to end. I tribute my Marshmallon to summon Cyber-Tech Alligator."

Cyber-Tech Alligator ATK 2500 DEF 1600 LV5 WIND Machine.

"Now attack Armor Exe and wipe out what's remaining of his life points." Ryan ordered.

Giant LP 100 - 100 = 0

The giant fell over in shock.

"Time to find out who we're dealing with." Ryan said, advancing towards the giant.

"Stay away from him!" A voice shouted from the bushes as a boy come running out and stood between Ryan and the giant.

The boy was very short only about half of Ryan's height. He had long dark green hair and had a yellow jacket showing he was in Ra yellow,

"Brier, you were supposed to stay hidden." The giant said speaking for the first time.

"I'm sorry, but I can't let these Obelisks hurt you." Brier said.

Alexis looked at Brier and noticed he was wearing an earpiece.

"Wait, have you been helping him duel." She said. Brier looked at Alexis angrily

"So what if I have, you people deserve it." He said.

At this point the giant had removed some of his outfit revealing his face, he had an almost square shaped head and short brown hair, Brier turned to him

"Beauregard what are you doing, now they know your face." He said.

"In addition to his name." Ryan remarked.

"Now are you going to explain what's going on? Or do we have to tell Crowler about this."

"As if you don't know, you Blue bastards are always bullying us Yellow's, thinking your better then everyone else." Brier said.

"What, since when Ryan or I ever bullied you." Alexis said.

"I've never met you two before this evening." Ryan added.

"Well some other Blues have been bullying us." Brier said.

"Yeah a lot of the Blues aren't that pleasant, I'll be honest. Some blues however don't act that way. Tell me, how many blues that were beaten up actually bullied you."

Brier was speechless for a minute as he realized his mistake.

"Only two, I think." He said sadly.

"What are you going to do with us?" Beauregard asked.

"Give us a minute." Ryan took Alexis to the side so they could speak in private.

He and Alexis began to whisper among themselves about what should be done.

"What do you think, I mean I do feel sorry for them getting bullied all the time." Alexis whispered.

"Still, they shouldn't get off scot-free for stealing cards and beating other students up." Ryan whispered back. After a few minutes, the two came to a agreement.

"Alright here's the deal, I won't tell Crowler about this on the condition you return the stolen cards. Who knows, their punishment might be light."

Brier and Beauregard looked worried at the thought of this however they both agreed as it was a better option then being expelled from Duel Academy.

The next day Ryan was in the cafeteria eating his lunch when Alexis sat down with him carrying a sandwich.

"So, do you think those two turned themselves in?" She asked.

"I hope so, otherwise Crowler's going to find out." Ryan answered.

Alexis took a bite of her sandwich and her eyes widened in surprise.

"Wow, I think I got the golden eggwich." She said.

"Nice job." Ryan smirked. He then noticed Jaden over by the sandwich basket with a Obelisk student looking annoyed about something.

"Judging from the uniforms that I'm seeing, you turned yourselves in." Ryan said quietly enough so no one else in the cafeteria would hear, Brier nodded sadly.

"After last night's events we told Professor Sartyr everything, he told us how disappointed he was in us and demoted us to Slifer Red, he said that he wouldn't let us come back to Yellow until we learn how to duel someone face to face with honor." He said.

Ryan said nothing. He was aware that if Crowler found out, Brier and Beauregard would have been expelled and now the two had the chance to own up for their mistake.