10 Chilling In The Schoolyard 4

"Now finish him off!" Yarden shouted, throwing his hand out pointing towards his opponent who had an entirely empty field, "Ebony Blaze!" he commanded.

Serpent Night Dragon reared up its graceful head, black flames pooling in its mouth before throwing its head forward and unleashing a wave of black flames that washed over his opponent.

Raizou Mototani fell to his knees, staring dumbly ahead, "..How?" he muttered in disbelief as his life points zero and the card holograms began to fade away.

Raizou LP: 0

Yarden LP: 3200

Yarden barely even paid his defeated opponent a glance, nor at the crowd forming around in the school courtyard to witness him yet again take on an Obelisk Blue. Instead pulling out his PDA and looking at how much his DP increased. Raizou was perhaps one of the weakest Obelisk's he'd faced so far, the only one being worse was Taiyou on the first day.

The only reason he'd managed to even take some of his life points was because of the spell card Ookazi that dealt eight hundred points of burn damage when used.

Name – Yarden Odhar

Year – First Year

Dorm – Slifer Red

Day – 05

DP – 34,102

'An increase around two thousand or so,' Yarden mused internally, a small smirk spreading across his face, 'Not bad.'

He stowed his PDA away and gave one last glance at Raizou before turning and making his way into the school, only pausing for a moment to wink at Jasmine who was once again in the crowd of onlookers and paying close attention to his duels.

She turned her nose up at him and looked away, but he didn't miss the light dusting of red across her cheeks even from a distance. Mostly due to the fact that he'd fully adapted to Decoy Dragon's presence in his soul this morning and integrated with Lesser Dragon as Petit Dragon had advised a few days ago, but he'd pay close attention to a girl like her anyway.

After that, he continued on his way into the academy. He wanted to stop by the card shop before class started. It was exam day today, and he had enough DP that he wanted to splurge a little. He was plenty confident in his winning the practical duel exam regardless, but a little extra insurance wouldn't hurt at all.

'Another easy win for that guy,' Jasmine stayed in position, eyeing the doorway the Slifer boy had entered through. 'I don't get him.'

Ever since he'd crushed her and Mindy in one turn back on Monday night, she'd kept a close eye on the boy and watched every duel he'd taken part in since then. He'd had eight duels now including Raizou since defeating her and her friend, all of them Obelisk's and each one he won with ease.

For the most part, she had noticed a few habits he had during duelling. He liked to use dragons mostly, and loved abusing the graveyard to special summon them instead of tributing. But that wasn't enough to beat him. One of the third year Obelisk's had gotten angry yesterday with him acting so smug and taking on any Obelisk that mouthed off, so he'd challenged Odhar and ran an anti dragon deck, with dragon capture jar and even one of the insanely rare Buster Blader cards.

...Only for Odhar to completely not use any dragon cards. He'd ended up destroying Buster Blader and winning a few turn later by somehow getting a field of defensive monsters, two Spirit of The Breeze, Soul Tiger and Castle Gate. Then he'd switched them all to attack mode and used Shield and Sword to switch all their attack and defense points. Then equipped United We Stand to Castle Gate. Ending up with a monster that had fifty six hundred attack points, one with twenty one hundred and a pair with eighteen hundred.

It was absurd. In another, he'd used Cost Down and Triangle Power to have monsters like Jerry Bean Man of all things with nearly four thousand attack points.

'..Why does he bother me so much?' Jasmine groused internally. She had no idea why, she'd been making excuses that she was getting a feel for his deck for Alexis to her friends, but really she just couldn't get him out of her head since that night.

It wasn't as if he was the type she was attracted to! Sure he had decent looks and was in pretty good shape. But he wasn't older and devilishly handsome, and he definitely wasn't rich! She'd looked into his student information and found out he was an orphan, an emancipated minor from Scotland of all things.

So why couldn't she get him out of her head! The cocky confidence he had, the way he smirked and so boldly just went about his way, not letting anyone tell him what to do. He was pretty much the picture perfect representation of someone with a devil may care attitude.

And she couldn't keep the heat from her face with the little subtle flirting he flung her way, couldn't stop her heart hammering in her chest.

"UGH!" Jasmine let loose a muffled shout before shaking her head, "..I can't sit around here just thinking on that cocky slifer, the exams start soon."

She made her way into the academy to head to class. But it was a pain trying to get Odhar out of her head.

No way, no how. She was not gonna let herself crush on that stupid kid.