The sun rose over the sleepy city. Sunlight glimmered off the city's buildings and shone down on the very few early commuters. Although this was a city, very few people were out and about. Everybody in this city slept in later. This, Dormir City, prided itself in being able to sleep in late and still get all of the important stuff done.

Christopher Saigo was one of those people. He lay in his bed, unwilling to get up. He rolled around in his bed, trying to find a comfortable position.

"It's got to be too early." he moaned to himself.

Suddenly, his door burst open and slammed against the wall. Christopher was about to jump out of his bed when a small body slammed into him. He fell back onto his bed while the small body started jumping on his bed. It was his 5-year-old brother, Asher.

"Wake up Chrisy! Wake up Chrisy!" he shouted. "It's 10:30! You're late for your Duel Academy Entrance Exam!"

"What!?" shouted Christopher. He jumped from his bed and started grabbing clothes to put on. "Why did my alarm wake me?" He looked over at his clock and almost fell over. It read 7:30. "Asher," he said, picking himself off the floor. "Do you know what a 10 is?"

"Yup!" replied Asher, enthusiastically.

"Count it for me on your fingers." Christopher said. Asher held up seven fingers. Christopher sighed. "Asher, that's seven." Christopher then held up ten fingers. "This is ten, Asher. And another thing, its Chris! C-H-R-I-S"

Asher's face fell. "Sorry Chris. I didn't mean to bug you."

Chris looked down at his little brother. He knew that Asher meant well, but sometimes he went overboard. "Are mom and dad up?"

"They had to go to work early, remember?" said Asher. "But Anthia is down stairs making breakfast. Which is why I'm up here actually, she wants to know what do you want for breakfast?"

"Tell her that I'll tell her what I want when I get down there." said Chris. "But right now, I'm going to take a shower." Asher ran from the room. Chris grabbed some clothes from his closet and went to the bath room and took his shower. Ten minutes later, Chris stepped out of the bathroom wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans. Christopher was an average 15-year-old teenager. He was tall and thin. He had medium length black hair and dull blue eyes.

He went back to his room and attached his duel disk to his arm. He also grabbed his wallet and his reading glasses. He left his room and made his way down the stairs and almost tripped over his dog, Tyler. Stumbling into the kitchen, and caught himself and sat down at the table.

"Morning, Anthia." Chris said.

"Good morning to you too," she said, sliding a plate of bacon and eggs in front of him. "Why are you up so early?"

"Asher." Chris replied as he started eating the bacon and eggs. Chris noticed that Anthia was wearing a business suit. "What's with the suit?"

Anthia smiled. "I start my new teaching job today!"

Chris almost fell out of his chair! "What? When did you get a teaching job?" Anthia was not the type of person who you'd think of as a teacher. She was tall and thin, like Chris, but she was very outgoing and energetic. Also, she dyed her hair once every few months. This time around, it was bright green and tied in a pony tail.

"Yesterday!" she responded. "I've got to go now. They wanted me there early so I could help them set up something." She rushed out of the kitchen, grabbed a brief case, and rushed out the door. Chris continued to eat his breakfast when Asher stumbled into the kitchen carrying three large binders.

"Why have you got my spare cards?" asked Chris.

"You promised to build me a deck, remember?" replied Asher, dropping the binders on the floor.

"Oh yeah, that's right. I did." said Chris. "Let me finish my breakfast first." Chris ate his breakfast quickly. He put his dish in the sink and picked his binders up his binders. "Lets do this in the living room." After an hour and a half, Chris had constructed a Dinosaur deck that was at least half way decent.

"Thanks bro!" shouted Asher with glee. He slapped on a small duel disk and ran out the door.

"Where are you going?" shouted Chris.

"To the park!" Asher shouted over his shoulder.

"But wait, you can't go by yourself!" Chris shouted, running after Asher.

"But I'm not by myself!" Asher shouted. Chris ran out the door and saw that three or four other kids were with him. The oldest of the group, a 14-year-old named Donny, raised his hand in greeting.

"Hi Chris!" he shouted. "I've drafted into taking these munchkins to the park!" As the group went to the park, Chris could hear the little kids complaining to Donny about him calling them munchkins. Chris sighed and looked at his watch. It was 9:30.

"Oh well," he said to himself. "I might as well go none." He put on his duel disk, grabbed his reading glasses and left for the exam building. The entrance examinations for Duel Academy would start at 10:00 and last for two hours. The exam building was a good was away so it would take him awhile to get there. By now, most people were out an about and the city was brought to life with all of the hustle and bustle.

It took Chris a full hour to get there. Thankfully, the lines were not long and Chris was soon at the table on the outside of the building. There, he received papers that he needed to fill out about his name, age, date of birth, and health information. After giving the paper to an official, he was given a paper test and escorted to a small room with several small desks.

Chris thought that most of the test was easy. Basically they were questions on well known monsters and duelists. Then there was a small section of the test that was about personality. Above these questions, there was a small heading that said 'this part of the test will not be graded. We just want to know a bit more about you.'

This only had three questions. The first one was 'Why do you want to come to Duel Academy?' Chris's response was 'Because I want too!' The second question was 'Do you intend to use the same deck throughout the year?' Chris's response was 'Yes'. The last question was 'What kind of duelist are you? Bad, Good, Excellent?' Chris's response was 'Good'. After Chris finished the test, he handed it to the official in the room. The test was then graded. He got an almost perfect score, only missing two questions.

He was then lead to a large arena that had six small dueling fields with the stands circling around it. "Sit in the stands until you name is called for your duel." said the official and the official walked off. So Chris sat in the stands watching the duels. Then there was a large explosion and an Exodia appeared on one of the fields.

Chris looked over into that direction. "Wow!" some shouted close to his ear. Chris jumped, and saw that a person was set one or two seats away was leaning over in the direction of the Exodia. The boy was about as tall as Chris. He had short, sandy brown hair, and seemed fit.

"Hey! Stop yelling!" Chris shouted at the boy.

The boy looked up in surprise. "Sorry about that." He stuck his hand out for shaking. "The name is Caden Hama. Nice to meet you."

Chris shook his hand. "I'm Christopher Saigo, but call me Chris."

Suddenly, a voice came over the loud speakers in the room. "Will Mr. Caden Hama report to Duel Field #2?"

Caden jumped from his seat. "I've got to go." Caden ran off. Soon the voice came over the loud speakers again. "Will Mr. Christopher Saigo report to Duel Field #6?" Chris got up and went to the Duel Field. It was small with small hologram projectors around it. When Chris got to the field, a man was standing on the opposite end of the field. He was tall, and muscular. He was wearing a blue trench coat, black pants, and large sunglasses.

"Good afternoon," the man said. "I am Instructor Daiki Genji. If you are able to beat me, you get to enter Duel Academy. So lets cut to the chase." Daiki activated his duel disk and drew five cards. Chris activated his duel disk and drew five cards. "I will let you go first, junior."

Chris drew a card. "Hold on a second," he said pulling out his reading glasses. He pointed to them. "I need these to read the cards. Anyway, I summon A Man with Wdjat in attack mode (1600/1600). Next I place two cards facedown and end my turn."

Daiki drew a card. "I activate the trap card Thunder of Ruler!" Chris shouted. "This card makes it so you don't have a battle phase this turn."

Daiki sighed. "I summon Vorse Raider in attack mode (1900/1200). I place one card facedown and end my turn."

Chris drew a card. "I activate the effect of my A Man with Wdjat! During the standby phase I get to look at one of your set cards!" Daiki's facedown card flipped up. It was a Negate Attack. "Okay, I activate the facedown trap card Sword of Spellcasters! Since I have a spellcaster on the field, I can destroy one spell or trap card on the field! So your Negate Attack gets destroyed." A larger sword fell out of Chris's trap card and destroyed Daiki's Negate Attack. "Now I equip my A Man with Wdjat with Black Pendant! This will increase his attack points by 500." A Man with Wdjat's attack points rose to 2100. "A Man with Wdjat will now destroy your Vorse Raider!" Vorse Raider was destroyed and Daiki's life points dropped from 4000-3800. "I end my turn."

Daiki drew a card. "I activate the spell card Lightning Vortex! This will destroy all of your faceup monsters if I discard one card." Daiki discarded a card and bolts of lightning rained down on A Man with Wdjat. Black Pendant shattered and the shards flew at Daiki. His life points dropped from 3800-3300.

"I suppose I should mention that when Black Pendant is destroyed, you lose 500 life points." Chris said.

Daiki shrugged. "I know that. Moving on, I summon Giant Rat in attack mode (1400/1450). Now my Giant Rat will attack your life points directly!"

"I activate the trap card Spellcaster Apprenticeship!" shouted Chris. "This allows me to special summon one level 3 or lower spellcaster monster from my deck. So I special summon Apprentice Magician in defense mode (400/800)." Daiki's Giant Rat destroyed Apprentice Magician. "Now I activate the effect of my Apprentice Magician! When it is destroyed by battle, I get to special summon one level 2 or lower spellcaster monster from my deck in facedown defense mode." Chris took a monster from his deck and placed it facedown on the field.

"I place one card facedown. I end my turn." muttered Daiki.

Chris drew a card. "I flip up my Magician of Faith (300/400). This allows me to take one spell card from my graveyard to my hand. Basically, I get Black Pendant back." Chris took Black Pendant from his graveyard and added it to his hand. "Next I activate the spell card Magical Dimension! It requires me to sacrifice one spellcaster monster so I can special summon a spellcaster monster from my hand. So I sacrifice my Magician of Faith to special summon my Dark Magician in attack mode (2500/2000). Due to the secondary effect of my Magical Dimension, your Giant Rat is destroyed. Next I activate the spell card Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two cards." Chris drew two cards. "Now I activate the first card I drew, which is the spell card Monster Reborn to bring back my A Man with Wdjat. Next I activate the second card I drew, Magical Blast! This will inflect 200 points of life point damage to you for each spellcaster monsters on my side of the field!" A ball of magical energy burst from Chris's card and slammed into Daiki. His life points dropped from 3300-2900. "Now my Dark Magician will attack your life points directly!" Dark Magician lifted its staff and shot a ball of dark energy at Daiki, reducing his life points to 0.

"Congratulations junior," said Daiki, placing his card back in his deck. "Welcome to Duel Academy!"

Up in the stands, a teenage girl had been watching the duels taking place on the six duel fields with mild interest. She was an average 15-year-old teenage girl. She was tall and slender. Her brown hair hung down to her shoulders, and her icy blue eyes showed little to no emotion. She was wearing a dull pink shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes. A gothic girl was sitting next to her. She had short black hair. She was wearing a black shirt, black skirt, black stockings, and black shoes.

The first girl sighed. "So much world to conquer, so little time."

"With the power you posses, it so be easy." said the gothic girl. She was holding a small dagger in her hands. "It makes me wonder why you even need servants." The gothic girl flipped the dagger in her hands so that the blade faced her. She plunged the blade to her, but her arm froze right before the tip of the blade touched her shirt. "Why don't you just let me die?"

The first girl laughed. "For three reasons. The first being that you're a good duelist and that is a valuable skill I need. Secondly, your skills with a knife could also be valuable. Lastly, I like to watch you suffer."

The gothic girl glared at the girl. "I hate you." The first girl laughed again. Suddenly, a tall muscular boy walked up to them. He bowed his head.

"Madam Adelie." he said.

"You may speak." replied Adelie.

The boy raised his head. "I don't see why we have to stay here any longer. Most of these idiots are barley up to scratch to even get in to Duel Academy!"

"We need to scope out the compotation." replied Adelie. "Any more questions, Edon?" she asked sarcastically.

The boy, Edon, missed the sarcasm and asked, "If you're supposed to be an ultimate being of darkness, why do you wearing pink?"

Adelie glared at Edon. "Is there a problem with the way I dress?" she asked, her voice dripped venom.

Edon, realizing his mistake, took a step back and threw up his hands. "No, no," he said quickly. "There is no problem." Adelie looked away from Edon and looked back to the Duel Fields. Edon sighed with relief. "I wonder where that idiot Faron is."

Suddenly, there was a loud pop; a gangly boy about a head shorter then Edon appeared beside him. Edon yelped and jumped sideways, almost falling into the row in front of him. "You called?" asked the boy.

"Faron!" shouted Edon. "I told you to stop doing that!"

Faron laughed and waged his finger at Edon. "I'd like to see you try and stop me." Edon charge towards Faron and tried to hit him with an uppercut. Faron laughed and leaned back, and the uppercut flew right past his chin. Faron then ducked low and made several quick jabs at Edon, but they had about as much effect as Edon's uppercut.

Adelie sighed as she watched Edon and Faron fought. She looked over to the gothic girl. "Myrine, please stop them."

Myrine sighed. "As if I had a choice." She drew a second dagger and moved towards Faron and Edon. In a flash, both daggers were at both of their throats. When her blades touched their skin, they stopped in an instantly. She glared at both of them. "Behave yourselves." They nodded and Myrine withdrew her daggers. Edon glared at Faron, and opened his mouth as if he was about to say something. But he was cut off by the intercom.

"Attention all applicants," said a voice. "Please report to the main desk for your result papers." Adelie got up and started walking away. "Lets go." she said. Myrine, Edon, and Faron followed her."

After about an hour or so waiting in line, Chris finally got his results papers and left the build. He read them as he walked him. 'Congratulations! You have been accepted to Duel Academy!' was at the top of his paper in big bold letters. Then below that, there was a small box that read 'You have been accepted to the dorm'. Next to that was a box that had Ra Yellow written in it. Chris wasn't surprised by that. He had aced his entrance exam, but the only way you could start off as an Obelisk Blue was to have gone to this Prep school that Chris had found was totally unnecessary, and a total waste of time.

Chris looked down at the paper. Under the dorm box was his score on his written exam, which he already knew. Below that were several smaller boxes. Above these boxes was 'Comments on Duel Exam' in big bold letters. Chris looked at the boxes. Only one had anything written in it.

Chris read what it said. 'I believe that your deck is a complete rip-off of Yugi Mutou's deck. This is childish and if you want to be considered a true duelist then you should change your deck immediately.' Chris laughed. He couldn't believe that this idiot actually thought that his deck was a Yugi Mutou rip-off. Yes, he did use some cards that Yugi does but his was completely spellcaster except for one or two cards. Chris folded the papers in his pocket and enjoyed the rest of the day.

Sword of the Spellcasters

Type: trap

Image: a spellcaster holding a large sword.

Effect: This card can only be activated when you control one 'Spellcaster' type monster. Destroy one spell or trap card on the field.

Spellcaster Apprenticeship

Type: trap

Image: a old magician showing wand movements to a younger magician.

Effect: This card can only be activated when you control no monsters. Special summon one level 3 or lower 'spellcaster' monster in face up defense position.

Finally! I got around to starting this story!