16 Chilling In The Schoolyard 10

"My luck is something else." Yarden chuckled to himself as he made his way out of the academy and down towards his destination. His eyes were on the deck he was flipping through right now, his deck, and the new adds to it.

He'd just finished finalizing up his dorm change with Professor Sartyr, and the change would be finalized through the weekend. Until then, he was still considered a Slifer Red. But at the very least, the good yellow head professor saw no reason in holding back the monthly DP he was to get as a Ra Yellow.

His total maximum going up a full four thousand. Granted, it then dropped by two thousand five hundred DP not long later when he went to the card shack to pick up two packets of Dark Beginnings and a few specific cards to take advantage of the fact that he now had three Serpent Night Dragon cards.

He really was not expecting what he was going to get from those two packs though. Dark Hole. Raigeki. Two Sanga The Thunder, and even Buster Blader!

There was a shimmer of light by his side, and Serpent Night Dragon appeared, "Does it really count as luck when you have my fellow spirits scour the card packs for the best packets?" the graceful, beautiful dragon mused with a chuckle, "No luck finding the Red-Eyes Black Dragon you wanted I see."

Yarden didn't even break stride, he'd felt the dragon returning, "I suppose not, in that case, is it just pure skill and intelligence then? I'm a genius I guess." he smirked, puffing his chest out proudly. He bet Jaden would never think of this! There was thousands of packets of each booster pack in the Card Shack after all, well, the old ones, all the new packs had been bought out by Crowler earlier, not that Yarden had any interest in them right now.

Serpent Night Dragon chuckled lightly, before sobering, "I am afraid to admit my lord, but I failed to find the Dark Magician Girl again today," the serpentine dragon reported solemnly, "I will continue my search tomorrow."

Well, disappointing, but; "It's fine mate," Yarden waved the dragon off, "There's plenty of time to find her and this island is pretty big, so I wasn't expecting you to find her right away."

Serpent Night Dragon bowed his head in acknowledgement, before phasing out of existence and returning to Yarden's body.

He stuffed his deck back in his card box on his belt a moment later once he was happy looking through his new composition and picked up speed, making his way down to his destination.

It was a pretty damn long walk. Taking a good twenty minutes to get all the way down to the docks. And it didn't take him long to locate his opponent either.

He was standing at the edge of one, arms crossed as he coolly stared out into the distance of the darkened sky, while the rocking ocean waves lapped against the concrete dock. It was a picturesque sight.

'What a try hard.' Yarden snorted, rolling his eyes. Like, he couldn't be doing that on instinct could he? He had to be specifically trying to look cool and mysterious.

Surprisingly, there were three more people standing near Zane. Two of them quite unexpected. He was expecting Zane and Alexis, but Yarden wasn't at all expecting Jasmine and Mindy to also be here.

Not that he really minded. He had fun teasing Jasmine. And Mindy happily flirted back with him.

Just as he reached the path to the dock end and began to make his way up it, four sets of eyes strayed to him, and the owner of startling silvery-grey pair quickly made her way towards him before he could even get halfway towards his opponent.

"Are you seriously doing this?" Jasmine asked as she stopped in front of him, a frown on her lips.

Yarden gave a slow blink, before shrugging, "Pretty much, yeah." he replied with a nod. He didn't give a shit about Zane's reputation. He had the literal Heart of the Cards on his side and knew full well how the Cyber Dragon decks played, he owned a bunch of the cards himself before he ended up here.

And now that he'd had time to think over it. Who the fuck did that blue haired shit stain of a walking Gary Stu cliche think he was talking to earlier? Calling him a thug. He wasn't wrong admittedly, but it was the principle of the matter. But worse than that, talking like he knew his cards better than he did just because he got given the literal most powerful deck in the school and could spout some mysterious cryptic rubbish.

Jasmine bit her lip and rubbed her hands together, almost nervously, drawing a raised eyebrow from Yarden. She was acting weird. "..Look..you can still back out right now y'know?" she replied, meeting his eyes before looking to the side bashfully, "Right now, you're unbeaten, you've got a great record going for you. And if you keep this up, it won't be long before you do get to Obelisk Blue. But, a loss, even a loss to Zane, will still be a loss on your record, and these duels get officially recorded, so it will get out quick considering it will be listed on Zane's and your own, student profile."

"What's with you?" his second eyebrow joined the first, "..you're acting like a docile kitten, it's unlike you."

Her cheeks flushed, "..Nothing, I'm just trying to look out for you, okay?" Jasmine refused to meet his eyes.

A massive shit eating grin spread across his face, "Are you worried about me?" Yarden laughed in outright amusement.

The redhead huffed and finally turned to meet his eyes, "So what if I am?" she demanded, "We're acquaintances at least, and I've seen Zane duel before. I'll admit your really good Odhar, but there's nobody on this island that can even touch Zane."

"Except me," he grinned at her and walked a step forward, raising a hand to poke her on the nose, "Honestly, consider me touched babe, that you actually worried enough to try and get me to stop, but don't worry, Zane won't have an easy time getting a win from me."

Jasmine snorted, crossing her arms under her ample bust, pressing her large breasts up and making them look even bigger. His eyes flickered to them for a moment, and she just raised a fine red eyebrow back at him when he looked up into her eyes a second later, "I figured," she shrugged and admitted with a sigh, "Well, I tried. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt Odhar, kay? Let's see how well of a fight you put up against the best this academy has to offer."

He winked, "I think you'll be surprised." he replied, before making continuing on his way towards his opponent, the redhead following behind him to reach back up with her friends.

Yarden made sure to toss a wink Alexis and Mindy's way as he passed by. The blonde eyed him curiously, while Mindy giggled and gave him a little flirty wave back.

"You sure took your time," Zane mused, turning to face him, arms crossed, "I was beginning to think you'd chickened out."

"From what?" Yarden laughed, "You? Don't make laugh pretty boy." he jeered and outright lifted a hand to flip the older boy the bird.

He caught sight of Jasmine palming her forehead out of the corner of his eyes.

Zane didn't even blink, "You play the thug even outside a duel, how lamentable," he shook his head, before narrowing his eyes at Yarden, "Very well, are you ready?" he asked, uncrossing his arms and activating his duel disk.

"Mate, I could do this while literally in my bed," Yarden snorted, activating his own duel disk, "And since I'm the one being challenged, I'll be deciding the turn orders, that fine with you?"

Yarden Odhar: 4000 LP

Zane Truesdale: 4000 LP

"That's acceptable." Zane inclined his head in a tiny, cool little nod.

"Good," Yarden replied, "In that case, you're first robot boy."

Zane smirked, "So you know of the effects of my Cyber Dragons then? Someone has done his homework," he said, "It won't be enough though." he added as they both began drawing cards. Yarden five, and Zane six.

"We'll see." Yarden smirked right back.