22 Obelisk Blue 2

"Right now? I was working out," Yarden replied, he cast a look over Jaden's shoulder and was relieved to find him alone and without his two shadows, "In general, giving my deck a tune up, doing my homework for class and getting packed to move dorms tomorrow." he stepped aside to let the brunette enter his room.

"Oh yeah, I heard you were moving up in the world," Jaden clicked his fingers together as he entered the room, "That was a sweet duel you had on Friday, that dice thing had me in stitches."

"Not as impressive as your own I hear," Yarden smiled back at him as he closed the door, "You ended up dueling that twit Chazz and punked him good."

"Yeah, that was great." Jaden laughed.

"So what brings you here to see me?" Yarden asked, curious, making his way over ho sit in one of the chairs at the computer, "And where's Syrus and Chumley? They're usually not far behind you."

"Ah, Chumley ran off looking for some place to get grilled cheese after we ran out downstairs, and Syrus ran off to try and keep him outta trouble," he replied, taking a seat on one of the other computer chairs, "I figured I'd come hang out with you, see what you were up to before you left us itty bitty reds behind to become a big mean yellow."

"Pretty sure you got promoted to Ra Yellow as well mate," Yarden pointed out dryly, before smirking and tapping a fist to his chest, "Besides red is definitely my color. I might be changing dorms, but at heart, I'm Slifer for life bro." Slifer was by far his favorite god card, give him the real dragon over the wannabe golden chicken and the big buff blue dude any day.

"I was promoted alongside you yeah, we're the only ones apparently, but I turned it down," Jaden smiled and gave a casual shrug, "Syrus was freaking out a bit about me leaving him behind, so I figure I'll just wait to rank up until he manages it as well."

Jaden was such a good guy man. It really was no wonder all his friends were literally willing to jump into alternate dimensions with him and risk their lives.

"You're a good friend." Yarden complimented him, truthfully. Jaden had always been one of his favorites.

"If you say so," Jaden shrugged, "Can't be better than you dude. You literally had my back when we thought some Obelisk's were out to get us when that whole thing with Alexis and Syrus went down."

No, he already knew what was gonna happen more or less. Him doing that was just to worm his way in to being friends with everyone, like a snake. A cunt thing to do, but something he didn't regret.

"If you say so." Yarden settled on replying back with a smirk.

Jaden snorted in amusement, "So you said you were tuning up your deck?" he changed the subject and eyed you in interest.

"Well, more making specific decks," Yarden replied, "I had a bit of a wake up call the other night, and the synergy was way off with my cards, so I decided to start making a bunch of different decks for all my cards."

...He'd seen some crazy shit when he was researching dragons available. Like, Seto Kaiba's cards for example. No seriously, what the fuck was with all the new Blue-eyes cards? A literal fucking level eight ritual monster with four thousand attack points that dealt double piercing damage. That was just bullshit!

It really did pay to be Seto fucking Kaiba.

"Sounds sweet," Jaden grinned, "I'm betting you made a dragon deck first right? Serpent Night Dragon is your total ace boss monster."

"Yeah," Yarden grinned back, "Honestly, I dropped a bunch of DP to get my hands on a bunch of cards to help with it, though I couldn't get my hands on one of the ones I wanted, just didn't have enough." there was another he wanted as well. Thanks to his spirits, he'd managed to get his hands on a Buster Blader. Now, he just needed a Dark Paladin. But, Sadie didn't have them in stock at the card shop because nobody bought them since apparently the only person who even owned any Dark Magician cards in the entire world, was Yugi Moto.

Buster Blader on the other hand, while pretty rare, wasn't anywhere near that rare. And with King of The Swamp or Sealed Hex Fusion, he didn't even need Dark Magician for it.

Why were people here so stupid? It wasn't hard to do.

"Ah, unlucky bro, don't you just hate it when you're that close to finishing up your new deck and you're just missing that one card? Drives you nuts huh?" Jaden shook his head.

"Tell me about it." Yarden sighed, leaning back into his seat. With Future Fusion and Dragons Mirror, he could bring out a five thousand beat stick in one turn.

Or even with just Future Fusion itself, it would be great to pair with Deal of Phantom, a trap card that usually gave one hundred attack points to a monster of your choice for every monster in your graveyard. Except the variation of it here in this world? It gave one hundred attack points, for every card in the graveyard.

It was just like Swordstalker's effect from that old Duelist Of The Roses game. Man he used to love using that thing.

"So what card was it you couldn't get?" Jaden asked, asked in curiosity.

"Five Headed Dragon. I've got an amazing combo for it." he replied with a shrug.

Jaden's eyes lit up, "Oh hey, I've got one of those!" the kuriboh-haired boy jumped to his feet snapping his fingers.

'He does?' Yarden blinked, before his eyes widened. He did actually! Now that he thought on it, didn't Jaden have one in that episode about the Abandoned Dorm? "Feel like selling me it at a discount? I've only got seventeen thousand DP left though." he asked hopefully.

"Pssh, you don't need to pay me bro," Jaden scoffed, waving him off, "We're buds, I'm not gonna charge you for a card I ain't even gonna use, if you need it I'm happy to give it to you."

...That was amazing.

"Mate, do you even know how much those things are worth?" Yarden gave him a dubious look. He already took advantage of Jaden's trust before, he'd like to do it as little as possible, "They cost thirty thousand DP, that's three grand where I come from and more than most working adults make a month." that was absurd to just give away.

"Don't worry about it buddy, you had my back like I said, lemme have yours here and do you a solid to pay you back," Jaden grinned widely at him and flashed him a thumbs up, "Besides, it's not like I paid for it or anything. I won it at a local tournament back home."

And before Yarden could say anything else, Jaden was making his way out of the room to his own dorm to go grab the card from his collection of cards.

'Well, I can't exactly not accept it now.' Yarden sighed, leaning back into his char and staring up at the sealing, lips pursed. Now he felt even guiltier.

He'd have to do something nice for Jaden later to make it up to him. Even if Yarden himself was the only one who would understand it.