Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Duelists of the Elemental Spirits ❯ Chapter 2: To Duelist Academy ( Chapter 2 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Shiro: And here's the next chapter! Along with a small chart to refresh your memory about the kids.

Suma Muto- Yami/Yugi
Amane Bakura- Ryou/Tama
Yasu and Ammon Khalid- Bakura/Yume
Zahur and Liam Ishtar- Malik/Ashling
Ryan Ishtar- Mariku/Holly
Chizu Kaiba- Seto/Serenity
Jono and Seth- Joey/Mai

Shiro: I hope that helps a little. Now, on with the chapter!

Disclaimer: I still don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. You'd think you all would have learned that by now. Oh, I also don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!GX. I do own all OC's in this fanfiction.

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The day of departure soon arrives for the main part of the Larks. On the correct day they all meet at the Kaiba mansion, as that’s where the Blue Eyes jet is awaiting them. Yes, Seto still has the infamous jet that tells all about his strange obsession. Of course, it was Chizu and Mokuba who talked him into taking them to the academy in it, so Seto really can’t be blamed for this one.

Soon they’ve all boarded the jet. Seto is in the pilot’s seat with Mokuba beside him in the co-pilots seat. All the kids are sitting behind them sitting in pairs. Chizu and Ryan are in one seat with Liam and Zahur across from them. Behind Chizu and Ryan are Jono and Ammon and across from those two are Seth and Yasu. Behind Seth and Yasu are Amane and Suma.

Seth grins and looks over at his brother after they take off. “This is going-”

“-to be the best ever!” Jono easily finishes, also with a grin.

“Will you two please knock it off?” Yasu asks in an irritated tone. “You two have been doing that ever since Maiko went off with your mom to investigate something and it’s really gotten so old and so annoying so fast.”

“You used-” Jono starts.

“-too many-”

“-big words.” They finish in unison.

Yasu groans while everyone else laughs, with the exception of Zahur who shakes his head in amusement and turns to the next page in his book.

“So, which word is it that is too big for you?” Zahur asks, marking his page when he comes to the next paragraph. “‘Knock’, ‘old’, ‘annoying’, or ‘so’?” He and the others already know what the answer will be.

And sure enough- “So!” The two boys say in unison before laughing and giving one another a high-five.

Up in the pilot’s seat Seto grumbles something about them being ‘a bunch of immature brats’ and ‘glad no one in my family is like them’. The second statement prompts Mokuba to take the microphone for the loudspeaker.

“Hello everyone, this is your co-pilot Mokuba Kaiba speaking! I’d just like to remind you all that no flying projectiles are allowed on the jet and that you are to keep your arms, legs, heads, hands, and every other body part inside the aircraft at all times. Thank you and have a nice flight to Duelist Academy!”

Seto groans and would bury his head into his hands if he were THE Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corporations. ‘It’s going to be a long flight.’

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“Wow…” Suma murmurs in awe, looking down at the island. ‘This is amazing! Aunt Tama, Uncle Seto, and Uncle Mokuba did an awesome job on this place. So cool!’

Beside her, Amane echoes her thoughts. “Amazing… momma, Uncle Seto, and Uncle Mokuba did an awesome job.” She looks up at everyone else and discovers Seth is sleeping. Grinning, the white-haired girl kicks his seat, jolting the poor brunette back into reality. “Wakey, wakey, little priest.”

Seth falls from his seat with a cry and lands heavily on the ground. “Oww…” He moans. “Void, what was that for?!”

“Look out the window, priest.” Yasu says.

Seth scowls. “Stop calling me that, Aqua.” Non-the-less, he looks out the window and nearly gasps when he sees the academy. “This is where we’re gonna be staying? Awesome.”

“Will you be quiet back there.” Seto snaps from up front. “I’m trying to concentrate on an important call and you all are not helping.”

The ten kids go silent, allowing the quiet Seto needs to complete his call. By the time he hangs up they have landed. They file out under Mokuba’s guide, almost surprised to see a crowd gathered around the jet. But then again, it’s not every day that Seto and Mokuba Kaiba visit Duelist Academy in their Blue Eyes jet with ten kids.

Mokuba steps up beside his niece with a grin on his face. “So, what do you guys think? Impressive?”

“Very.” Suma agrees, still looking around curiously.

Seto now steps off the jet and looks around in disinterest, having seen the academy countless numbers of times.

All of this has attracted not only students, but teachers as well. As such, it’s only a matter of time before-

“Mr. Kaiba! Young Mr. Kaiba! What brings you to this fine, fine establishment?”

-HE arrives.

Jono gives Dr. Crowler an odd look before leaning over to Chizu and whispering, “Seer, why does your dad keep him on the staff?”

“Because he amuses me and Uncle Mokuba.” Chizu replies with a grin that’s nearly identical to her uncle’s. “Dad could care less about him, Mom really doesn’t like him, and he annoys the crap out of Yukio.”

“He annoys me too.” Jono grumbles. “Does he get dressed in the dark or is he on something he shouldn’t be on?”

Seth smirks, easily overhearing the conversation since he’s right beside his brother. “Probably both.”

Ammon elbows the closest Wheeler boy and whispers, “Stop snickering and pay attention!” He glances over at his sister before continuing. “Although I really don’t blame you. What planet is he fr- OW! Yasu!”

“I told you to tell them to stop talking and pay attention!” The oldest Khalid child hisses. “Not for you to start chatting with them! Besides, the last thing we need is to draw attention to ourselves!”

Zahur snorts and Liam snickers, as their attention has turned from Dr. Crowler’s senseless rambling to the much more interesting conversation going on behind them.

“Yes, because we haven’t done that already, have we?” Ryan loudly teases.

The chatting teens are silenced by a single glare from Seto and then all of them are separated from Seto and Mokuba and are led to the dueling arena by Dr. Crowler. The large crowd that is steadily growing bigger follows them, all of them curious about the late newcomers.

As they’re walking to the main building, Dr. Crowler explains that they will be sorted into one of the three dorms by the results of two tests- a written exam and a duel against a randomly chosen student. Then he goes on about how Obelisk Blue is the best and how Slifer Red’s are a bunch of slackers. There’s no mention of the Ra Yellow’s.

The group of young duelists tune out the professor, already knowing about how things work at Duel Academy. Each of their parents have drilled it into their heads by now.

They take the written portion first. Suma, Amane, and Seth all appearing to struggle on it while Chizu and Zahur are the only two to easily breeze through it, finishing a good fifteen minutes before everyone else. Yasu is the third to finish and is shortly followed by Liam, Jono, Ryan, and Ammon. Suma, Seth, and Amane are the last to finish.

Now they move on to the duels. Amane is the first.

“Amane Bakura, you’re first.” Dr. Crowler announces.

Amane grins at her friends and gives a peace sign before jogging over to the duel arena to go against the assigned Ra Yellow standing opposite of her.

Among the people watching the duel from the stands are Alexis, Zane, Bastian, Jaden, Syrus, Chumley, Chazz and his cronies, and Professor Banner and his cat Pharaoh.

Back to the duel…

Amane takes her spot and activates her duel disc as she slips her deck out of the case that’s strapped onto her waist. Her duel disc is one that is specially made and was a birthday gift from her Uncle Seto, Uncle Mokuba, and her mom. It has a typical white base, but it has pale lilac and silver colored designs and hieroglyphics on it.

“Ladies first.” The Ra Yellow says politely.

Amane continues grinning as she draws her cards. “Aren’t you sweet.” She says in her light British accent. “Lets go. First I summon Amazoness Fighter in defense mode and put two cards face down! Your turn.” She finishes sweetly.

Over with the rest of the Larks that are at the academy, Yasu sighs and closes her eyes. “She’s got a good hand obviously. She’ll easily wrap it up in under ten minutes.”

“That won’t affect her chances, will it?” Seth questions, his gaze flickering between Amane and Yasu.

Zahur shakes hi head ‘no’. “And just in case it does, Liam can be quite persuading. Much more than myself at least.”

“This,” Chizu comments, her blue eyes shining with excitement as she leans forward in her seat. “is going to be a very interesting year.”

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Amane wins her duel in, as Yasu had said, ten minutes. Liam is after and then it’s Ryan’s turn. After Ryan, Zahur duels against some second year Obelisk Blue and wins in less than fifteen minutes. Ammon goes next and is soon followed by his sister. Then it’s Suma’s turn.

“Suma Muto.”

And of course the 16-year-old’s name just has to get a large reaction from basically everyone in the stands who recognize her last name. After all, one of her parents is THE Yugi Muto, the King of Games.

Just for the purposes of showing off, having fun, and annoying the hell out of Yasu, she places her hands on the edge of the arena and uses all of her strength to do a flip onto the arena.

“Show off!” Liam yells jokingly.

“You’re no worse!” Suma replies, activating her duel disc. Hers has a red base with golden hieroglyphics on it. “Now, let’s duel!” She says, drawing her cards.

With the life points set to 4000, the duel begins with the third year Slifer Red going first. Suma grins when it’s her turn.

“This should be fun…” She murmurs. “First off, I’m going to summon Kuriboh in defense and then I’m going to use the spell card ‘Multiply’. Say hello to my Kuriboh Brothers!” She grins. “They may look weak, but they’re three of my best monsters! Isn’t that right, boys?”

“Kuriii!” The trio of Kuriboh chirp in unison.

“Kuri ‘Kura.” Ryan snickers, only to be immediately smacked in the head by Yasu.

“I put one card face down and end my turn.”

Two turns later Suma summons her Dark Magician Girl to the field, bringing her number of magicians up to two. Already on her side of the field is the Silent Magician.

It’s fairly obvious that Suma wins her duel, so lets just move on. Besides, the next duel is quite a bit more interesting.

“Chizu Shirozaki.”

“Well that explains why you didn’t go before those two.” Jono comments. “Have fun kicking butt, Seer.”

Chizu gives a short nod. “I will.”

Poor Chizu gets paired up with a first year Slifer Red student. Just by seeing his first two moves she grumbles something about putting him out of his misery quickly.

On her first turn she gets her trap cards set up and uses the special effect of one of her monsters- The Dragon Guardian. The special ability of this monster allows her to summon her in defense mode on her first turn.

The Dragon Guardian unsurprisingly looks like Yume and Tama. Pegasus gave the Guardian dark red hair with a single black lightning bolt shaped bang and amethyst eyes. She wears black, Egyptian-style clothing and has a short and shield.

By her third turn she has her Red-Eyes Black Dragon on the field as well as the Dragon Guardian and the Slifer’s life points are down to 2000.

On her fourth turn she draws a card she didn’t even know she had in her deck and has to summon and then sacrifice a monster to summon it. Everyone stares in awe as the magnificent Blue-Eyes White Dragon appears in a burst of white light and roars. The duel ends on this turn, leaving a shocked audience. Chizu silently deactivates her duel dic and rejoins her friends.

“And you guys say me and Ryan show off.” Suma tells her. “You’ve got nothing on us, Ryuuzuka.” (1)

Now the only two left are the two Wheeler boys, Jono and Seth. Jono easily beats a Slifer while Seth struggles against an Obelisk. They both win, of course.

Now that that’s over with, they’re finally assigned to a dorm and are given their uniforms.

Chizu and Zahur are the only Obelisks of the group. Yasu, Ammon, Liam, Ryan, and Jono are in Ra Yellow. Amane, Seth, and, surprisingly, Suma are all Slifer Reds.

“All goes according to plan.” Amane comments to Suma and Seth. “You think Liam had to persuade Crowler to put you,” She points at Suma. “in Slifer?”

Suma shrugs and unbuttons the ends of her sleeves. “You know, for all the money Uncle Seto spent on this place you would think he’d make the Slifer dorm a little nicer. I am glad we don’t have girls uniforms though.” She says, changing a subject.
All three of them look at the run-down building.

“This is going to be an interesting year.” Seth comments, glancing down at a piece of paper in his hand. “You two are lucky that you get to room together. Apparently I’ve got three other roommates.”

Amane pats Seth on the back in a comforting gesture. “You’re welcome to join us anytime, Seth. Right, Suma?”

Suma nods in agreement. “That’s right! We wouldn’t dream of ditching you, dear Slifer Red buddy. You’re stuck with us now for all eternity!”

Seth groans as if in great pain and theatrically places the back of his hand to his forehead, mustering up his most pitiful voice to say, “Oh woe is me! To be stuck with the most dangerous of the Larks girls. I feel faint!”

Suma and Amane catch him when he pretends to faint. He soon stands up and they walk to the dorm cheerfully chatting and laughing.

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“Must it all be yellow?” Jono complains, looking at the building he’ll be staying in. “Yellow looks horrible on me! It clashes with my hair!”

“No, it matches your hair.” Yasu corrects with a sigh.

“Same difference!” Jono retorts.

Yasu continues on as if she doesn’t hear him. “And get used to the yellow. We’re going to be here for a year.”

The two stop and look around when nobody makes any comments.

Yasu turns to face Jono when she can’t find Liam, Ryan, or Ammon. “Alright, where’d my brother and the crazy blondes run off to?”

Jono shrugs. “For once I have no idea, Aqua. Lets just hope it has nothing to do with rocket powered anything.”

Yasu snorts. “Yeah, really. The last thing we need is to get in trouble in the first few hours.”

“And we’d all get in trouble because we Larks stick together.” Jono quotes, hiding a grin.

Yasu gives Jono a look. “You want to be with them, don’t you?”

“Of course I do!” Jono exclaims, waving his arms wildly. He gives Yasu a “are-you-kidding-of-course-I-want-to-be-with-them-causing-mayhem̶ 1; look. “They’re out there having all this fun without me and that’s completely unfair!”

Yasu rolls her eyes and walks past Jono, who has stopped in the middle of the path. “One of you needs to know where the dorm is and apparently it’s going to be you. You know how turned around and lost Ryan gets without guidance.”

Jono grumbles something under his breath and then jogs to catch up with Yasu. After a few minutes of silence, in which Jono quickly becomes bored, the blonde boy chooses a new subject. “I don’t see how you and Chizu can wear the girls uniforms. Now that’s I’m complaining…”

“We have shorts under ours.” Yasu replies shortly, not liking where the conversation is going.

“Oh.” Jono smartly remains silent the rest of the way to the dorm.

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Chizu happily hums the “Larks Theme Song”, which was made up the year before by her, Mokuba, Liam, Jono, Amane, and some of the younger Larks. Zahur walks alongside of her, reading the same book he’s been reading since the time he got on the jet. He doesn’t even pause in his step when he turns a page or pushes his glasses back up on his nose.

Chizu eventually stops humming and sighs heavily. “Hey, Zahur?”

“Yes?” Zahur responds, turning another page.

“I’m bored.” The younger replies, using one of her more pitiful voices.

Zahur momentarily looks up from his book to give the raven haired girl a calculating look. “Then find something to do. You’re very good at that.”

Chizu sighs. “But I promised Amane and Suma that I wouldn’t cause any trouble within the first few hours. At least, not without them.”

Zahur now sighs and marks the place in his book and then closes it. “So what do you suggest we do to cure you of your boredom?” He asks, blue eyes shining mischievously.

Chizu grins. “I’m sure I can think of a few things. There’s this one idea I have that needs some editing if it’s going to work.”

“Alright, lets hear it.” Zahur says.

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Thirty-four year old Ashling Ishtar watches her eleven year old daughter and nine year old son play together in the backyard. She sighs heavily and turns her head away, upset with some of the things that have been happening lately.

She’s known it would come eventually, but couldn’t help but hope it wouldn’t. Despite how young she is, Ophelia is already showing signs of being the next “Neko Tenshi” (2). This is a rare feat as there’s only one per one hundred years.

Her son, Salim, on the other hand has been showing signs of having the power of ‘light’. Since he was young he’s been terrified of the dark has to have some sort of light at all times. He also loves the sun and can’t stand being inside on a sunny day.

Outside Ophelia laughs loudly as Salim sprays her with the hose that he’s suppose to be using to water the plants.

Ophelia looks just like her father with her shoulder length sandy blonde hair and lilac eyes. She’s currently wearing a knee-length green and white skirt and a green spaghetti strap shirt. She’s also wearing a pair of forest green gardening gloves since her current duty is to clip off any dead or diseased branches.

Salim has black hair found in the Ishtar line and stormy blue eyes like his mom used to have. Like Zahur, he wears glasses since he’s near-sighted. He’s wearing jeans and an old faded navy blue t-shirt.

“Salim, stop!” Ophelia shrieks, dropping the hand shears onto the ground. She raises her hands up to her face to protect her eyes from the water.

Salim laughs and directs the stream of water back to the plants. Seconds later he’s tackled to the ground. The two siblings laugh and rolls around in the wet grass, their duties completely forgotten.

Back inside Ashling sighs sadly. ‘If only it could always be like this; peaceful and somewhat ordinary. But then,’ She glances back out the window. ‘what has happened and what’s going on are normal. Anything else and it’d be abnormal.’

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(1) Ryuuzuka- roughly translates to Dragon Lover, I think.

(2) Neko Tenshi- Cat Angel, what the cats call Ashling and it's also typically the title given to Bastet's chosen.

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Shiro: Now we've got a few more kids to add. And it doesn't stop there.

Bast: How many of them are there anyway?

Shiro: (grins) Nineteen.

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Salim Ishtar- Salim is an Arabic name and it means safe or secure.

Ophelia Ishtar- means 'to help'. CONTEST: Guess where I got the name from. Hint: It's from a movie.

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Shiro: That's all so far. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I gotta run now, so ja ne!

NEXT CHAPTER- Chapter 3: Problems with Dogs