5 Card Spirits 5

"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 from 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.

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.