By time Yarden had made the trek to the Reject Well and then made his way all the back form the deeper parts of the forest and made it to his classroom, it was already 9:37. First period had began at 9 exactly. He was more than a half an hour late to his first class. Not exactly a great way to make a first impression - as soon as he opened the sliding automatic door and stepped within the classroom everything went entirely quiet and all eyes were on him.
He could have been there a good twenty minutes earlier if he didn't ask a few of his new friends to find any cards laying about the area and bring them to him. But, in his defense, as far as Tag Force went, there was a ton of useful cards just laying around, hell he remembered picking up an Amphibian Beast once, and that was a level 6, one tribute summon, 2400 attack point beat stick that would be amazing for where he found himself. Sadly he wasn't that lucky, but Mask of the Accursed and Burst Breath were two rather great cards when used properly and well worth being a bit extra late when he was already late to begin with.
"Ah Mr Odhar, so good of your lazy self to finally roll out of bed and shamble your way up to class and join us," Crowler drawled as he turned from the board where he had been previously pointing at a projected card.
There was a mattering of hushed snickers coming from the row of Obelisk's and even some of the Ra's, but he ignored them with a practiced ease and held back the urge to make a sarcastic response to Crowler's mocking. "Sorry Doctor Crowler," he apologized as sincerely as possible. It was hard to not just sneer it out, "My deck went missing during the night and I had to prepare a spare, Professor Banner said he'd tell you in advance just in case I was late."
Crowler pursed his lips. Yarden could practically see the gears turning in his head, whether to ridicule him again in spite of his apology and ignore the words of a fellow professor, or let it go. "Yes I'd heard from Banner you headed out to collect that useless scrap from the card dumping grounds," He drawled insultingly, as expected. Yarden ignored the multitude of angered growls and howls flooding my ears at the insult within his mind.
'How dare that hideous woman insult me!' Serpent Night Dragon hissed venomously. It took quite a bit of effort for him not to burst out laughing.
He was too much of a petty man at this point in time to give up any chance to try and insult a Slifer and lord the apparent superiority of the blue's over a red. "Hey now doctor, just because their previous owners were complete idiots that couldn't use them properly, doesn't mean the cards are bad." Yarden low key sniped right back. Judging by the way his face drew up in an affronted manner, the good doctor managed to grasp the insult.
It was mostly Obelisk students who tossed their cards away there.
"Hah, that's just so fitting for a piece of Slifer sludge like him," someone laughed from the Obelisk row, drawing all eyes in the class. The familiar form of Chazz's bespectacled minion Yarden recognized him as, "Rooting through the trash, right where he belongs."
"Quite, young Taiyou," Crowler smirked and nodded his head while the rest of the blue's exploded in laughter.
Yarden clenched his fist. If this was back home, he'd bounce over and kick the ever loving shit out of that pansy ass rich boy. But things worked differently where he was now, didn't they? "And just like an Obelisk pansy you sure do like to talk a big game, huh?" he shot back at Taiyou.
A hush fell over the class. The only sound coming form a muffled snicker down at the very front where Yarden could see a very familiar head of Kuriboh like hair. He casually glanced across the entire room, taking in his audience, his eyes meeting the lovely honey brown ones of the resident number one beauty Alexis Rhodes. She raised her eyebrow at him, but he merely smirked and turned away from her to focus on the Obelisk he'd just insulted. There would be time to ogle Alexis later, for now it was time to establish the pecking order.
And Yarden didn't quite like it when people thought they could step all over him. He tended to get violent.
"WW-what did you just say to me!?" Taiyou shot up from his seat and stood up glaring at Yarden.
Yarden just let his smirk stretch up tauntingly, "You heard me pansy." he replied. He lifted his arm up and showed the folded form of his duel disk attached to his arm, "Are you gonna do something about it or whine like a little girl?"
"That's it you loser, I'm gonna crush you and show everybody how pathetic you red's really are!" Taiyou shouted, pulling his own duel disk from under his desk and equipping it to his arm.
"Oooh I'm shaking in my red boots," Yarden taunted right back. This was working out oh so brilliantly for him. If it was anything like the games, then Slifer's earned much more DP if they beat an Obelisk because of their higher ranks. It was a reward and merit based system used to groom the up and comers of the world's most massive sport. A way to try and force the students to constantly improve towards the life of a pro duelist. According to the student handbook saved into the PDA at least. And heck, just one hundred DP was the equivalent of £10.
"Doctor Crowler shouldn't you put a stop to this?" Alexis stood up form her seat. Yarden noticed her casting an almost worried glance in his direction. Ever the nice girl, wasn't she? But there was no need, even with his haphazardly thrown together deck, if Taiyou was anything like his game counterparts he'd have little trouble.
"True my dear Alexis, but I think kicking off the year with an underdog dueling their superior would be quit exciting!" Crowler waved off her off. "Now boys, why don't you come down to the front so that everyone can get a good view of your duel."
"You hear that?" Yarden laughed at Taiyou, making his way down the stairs with the blue haired bespectacled boy hot on his heels "Even your own dorm head doesn't think you can win against me!"
"Damn Slifer sludge!" Taiyou cursed. It took even more effort for Yarden to not just bust out laughing at how pathetic the insult was.
Instead, he pulled his newly built deck from the card container strapped to his jeans and slipped them into his duel disk. He took a moment to just bask in the feeling as the duel disk beeped and came to life, un-compressing from his arm and lighting up to life. "Since I was first down the stairs, I think I'll take first move," the Slifer said to the boy opposite him.
"Fine, just get on with it." the Obelisk growled.
Yarden LP: 4000
Taiyou LP: 4000
'Not bad at all,' Yarden thought with a smirk as he looked over the first six cards he drew. For the first ever hand he drew in this world as a duelist, it wasn't too shabby at all. "Right then, to start my turn off I'll be using the spell card Foolish Burial to send one monster from my deck to the graveyard," he said. He slipped the card into the spell zone and a large image of the card appeared in front of him, showing off the grave stone image imprinted on it. He grabbed Serpent Night Dragon and slipped it into his graveyard.
"How stupid can you be?" Taiyou snorted, "I can't believe you actually sent one of your monsters to the graveyard. What a waste of two cards." He laughed.
Spoken like a true blue Obelisk mook. The only thing they understood was a beat stick strategy. Yarden honestly almost couldn't believe that the guy retained the Obelisk stupidity mentality from the anime. Not that he was going to complain mind you, it just made getting his first win all the easier.
"Whatever you say Taiyou," Yarden dismissed his words easily. "Next up, I'm going to summon Spirit of the Breeze in defense mode and throw three cards face down." As soon as he inserted the cards into his duel disk, two large face down cards appeared floating in front of him, and in front of them a lithe, green skinned, blue haired beauty clad in a silken yellow dress swirled into existence. 'Does it make me a cad that I'm totally checking her out?' she apparently heard his thoughts, since she turned slightly and gave him a cheeky little wink. If he was still a virgin, he'd probably have went all red faced.
Spirit of the Breeze (0Atk/1800Def/Level 3/Wind/Fairy/Effect)
That was a very interesting card for such a brazen guy to summon, especially as his first move Alexis mused. It had decent defense points and it had an interesting effect, but it just didn't seem like a card that would fit Yarden Odhar, especially with how confident he was in the face of an Obelisk. When they had met eyes, she had seen it, he had been amused by the situation he was in. There wasn't a shred of doubt in him that he couldn't beat Taiyou. It reminded her of a certain other student in the red house.
She'd learned her lesson in not underestimating Slifer's with Jaden, not only had he beaten Crowler and his legendary card, last night if his duel with Chazz had another few minutes, he would have taken him down as well. Could this guy be on a similar level?
"Ooh, she's cute, I wonder where I can get one?" Mindy gushed, breaking her from her thoughts.
"Not exactly a strong start with how he was acting huh?" Jasmine commented. propping her head up on one hand, "He's pretty good looking, but too bad a Slifer will always be a Slifer huh?"
Alexis wondered how so many people could so easily dismiss the fact that he had three face downs on the field and had sent a card to the graveyard for a reason. Even Jasmine, someone who watched her duel constantly and had quite a versatile Harpie Deck still focused so much on just flooding the field with Harpie's to power up her Harpie's Pet Dragon.
Alexis had the feeling that Yarden using Spirit of the Breeze was more of a feint than anything else. He didn't seem the type to shore up his life points and play stall tactics, not with how in your face he seemed to be when someone was calling him out. Right now, it was just a matter of seeing if Taiyou could see beneath that elitist attitude of his before he got taken out.
'Let's see how this plays out,' Yarden thought to himself as he ended his turn.
"After talking big you sure couldn't follow through huh? Draw!" Taiyou mocked then drew a card. He looked over the six cards in his hand before shooting a smirk Yarden's way, "Lemme show you how a real duelist does things Slifer sludge! I'm gonna start off by summoning by Lord of D and equipping him with The Flute of Summoning Dragon!"
Lord of D (1200Atk/1100Def/Level 4/Dark/Spellcaster/Effect)
A man in draconic bone armor appeared before Taiyou, before a golden dragon head shaped flute appeared in his hands. "Now that he has the flute equipped I can go ahead and special summon two dragon type monsters from my hand," Taiyou continued, "First I'll summon my Blackland Fire Dragon!"
He put the card down on the duel disk and in a swirl of color a large green skinned dragon, as tall as two cars stacked on top of each other burst into existence, standing tall on four legs, and golden horns jutting out from its head.
Blackland Fire Dragon (1500Atk/800Def/Level 4/Dark/Dragon/Normal)
'Wow,' Yarden 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, Yarden 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 Yarden, it had been about a decade and both Synchro and such were a thing where he came from, with much more powerful and easily summoned monsters were a dime a dozen. There was supposed to even be a new summoning method getting revealed soon.
"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 Yarden's monster, launching a massive fireball that absolutely dwarfed the green skinned girl.
"Not bad," Yarden 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.
Yarden 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 Yarden and blew him a kiss, a radiant green wind then surrounding him.
Yarden 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!" Yarden 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.
Yarden 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," Yarden 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 Yarden, 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.
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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," Yarden 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 Yarden 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," Yarden 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. Yarden 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," Yarden 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 Yarden barely noticed. He was far too invested in pulling out his PDA when it let out three loud beeps.
Name – Yarden 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 Yarden 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 scum 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.
Yarden couldn't bring himself to have any sympathy for the idiot. He brought it on himself with his attitude, and Yarden 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 Yarden 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?'' Yarden 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, Yarden 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.
Alexis couldn't fight the smile formed on her lips, "Well now, wasn't that interesting?" she mused, her eyes tracking the form of Yarden 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, Yarden smashed it into pieces with ease. What was that, a seven part combo? More, if she included the way Yarden 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?
Yarden 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 Yarden.
The rest of the day had been utterly brutal for Yarden. 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.' Yarden 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.
Yarden 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.' Yarden thought to himself.
"So do I need to pay for these or are they free?" Yarden 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 Destiny Draw was vaguely mentioned in every season of the anime, but never outright confirmed in anything but the games. Yarden 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. Yarden 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?" Yarden 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 Yarden'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?" Yarden 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?" Yarden 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 Yarden 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, Yarden 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," Yarden 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.
Yarden 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." Yarden gasped as he looked down at the first card glaring back at him. Black Skull Dragon! He couldn't use it, but still, "Fuckin' 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, motherfucking Spell Binding Circle another great card that was definitely going in the deck, Premature Burial was the 11th card.
Then, when Yarden 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 Yarden curiously.
The reincarnated Slifer couldn't fight off the grin that appeared on his face.
Hyozanryu (2100Atk/2800Def/Level 7/Light/Dragon/Normal)