Tagging Up 15

For all that it was annoying that the amount of DP he could earn from trashing Obelisk Blue's had tanked with his promotion. The dorm itself and its privileges and facilities definitely made up for it.

He'd noted the high class and requestable food earlier. And his dorm room was way, way superior to the one he had in the Slifer dorm.

But on top of that, there were the entertainment lounges, in door sports fields, an arcade and even a large gym with top of the line, state of the art physical training equipment.

Since he was confined to the dorm all day. And he currently did not have any gaming consoles or the like to help pass the time beyond the laptop in his room, he decided to spend the better part of his day working out.

With a high class diet, protein shakes and supplements at his beck and call, on top of his much enhanced and ever growing endurance and recovery rate, the returns he made in comparison to others doing the same thing were multiple of times greater.

It wasn't until dinner came and went bye that Doctor Crowler announced to the dorm that they were no longer being confined and classes would start normally the next morning.

"You sure are something," Zane commented with a wince as the pair of them walked down the path leading away from the Obelisk Blue dorm, the older teen dressed in a simple pair of shorts and a tank top as he stretched out his arms, "Where do you get all that energy from? And how your muscles aren't killing you with how hard you went at it, is beyond me."

"I'm juicing up on duel monsters spirits." Yarden replied truthfully, smirking at the third year. He was out of uniform himself, clad in nothing but a black sleeveless hoodie and a pair of jogging trousers. And unlike Zane, beyond a small burning ache in his muscles that was fading quickly, he was completely fine.

Duel monster Ba's did the body good.

The older teen had decided to join him when he was going to split up from him earlier, and they'd spent the last few hours working out together.

Zane snorted, "And where should I look to get some of this duel monster spirit juice?"

One thing he'd found through spending the last few hours with Zane. Was, that the guy beyond always keeping his cool image up, was chill as all hell. And wasn't lacking at all in the banter.

"Have you tried snorting your cards?" Yarden teased.

Zane gave him a raised eyebrow, before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a card from his deck. An easily recognizable card, one with a purple frame and a giant three headed metal dragon depicted on it, "Hey, Cyber End Dragon, mind lending me some juice?" he asked, dryly, and then in full view of Yarden lifted the card up to hi nose and gave a full power sniffs with his nose.

"Nope, didn't work. Looks like you're full of it." Zane smirked at him, stashing the card away.

"Nah, Cyber End Dragon just clearly can't measure up to the legendary power of..." Yarden reached into his own pocket and pulled out a normal monster card, depicting a small winged green dragon, "Petit Dragon!" he grandiosely declared.

"Ah, of course," Zane crossed his arms and nodded sagely, "Silly of me, I hadn't even considered that. Truly, it's a wonder I've not flunked out of this school yet."

Yarden chuckled.

Their first stop was Duel Academy itself. Zane led Yarden through the halls until they reached a specific Professor's office.

Professor Wade specifically, the mathematics teacher. He was the one that dueled Bastion during his entrance exam. And he was one of the best duelists at the academy from what Yarden had heard through the grapevine, on the same level as Doctor Crowler and ran a spellcaster spellcounter and warrior deck and was known for running Buster Blader.

"Truesdale, and Odhar, what a surprise," Professor Wade looked up from his desk when the pair of them entered. He was a tall man, with dark tanned skin and easy black hair, a pair of sunglasses always covering his eyes, "An odd duo to say the least, well to anyone else bar we professors I suppose. What brings you two here?"

"Nothing special Professor," Zane replied simply before gesturing to Yarden, "My new friend here simply wanted to see about getting involved with gambling on duels here at the Academy."

"Oh?" Professor Wade's head tilted in Yarden's direction and a smile spread across his face, "Now this is a surprise. Though, thinking on it, it probably shouldn't be. You definitely come off as the type."

Well, he wasn't wrong. "I am," Yarden grinned, "So Professor, are there odds out at all already on the upcoming tag match me and Alexis are taking part in?"

"There is actually," the sunglasses wearing man nodded, "News only went out about it this morning, but already the odds of you guys winning your duel against the Paradox Brothers are six to one."

Hmm. He had just over twenty nine thousand DP to his name right now. He'd gotten two quick duels in while working out by disgruntled idiots and earned a few hundred more DP. If his math was right, if he won, that would come out to just under a hundred and seventy five thousand DP.

It was too bad he couldn't transfer his money back into DP. But, it was a savings account he'd sent his cashed out money to. He couldn't really just lift it willy nilly.

"That was quick," Zane mused, "By time the duel rolls around, it could reach three times that."

"I'm thinking more actually," Professor Wade grinned himself, "You kids didn't hear it from me kay? But that security bitch, she's wanting to embarrass Crowler, this duel is being televised boys. Come duel time, I wouldn't be surprised if this reached easily fifty to one."

Wait, it was being televised!?

Yarden's grin stretched as he thought about it. A televised event of a pair of Pro's taking on school children. The odds would definitely go up. And not only that, he and Alexis would be creaming two pro's live for the world to see.

This was perfect!

"Looks like somebody is pleased with that, huh?" Professor Wade chuckled.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Yarden shrugged, turning his grin on the older man, "A chance to make a ton of money and get my name out there? I'm all for it."

"Confident I see, but considering you mopped up Truesdale here, I guess you have reason to be," Professor Wade mused, "So then, you want in Odhar?"

"Yeah," he replied with a nod, "Though, I won't be placing my money till the morning of the duel, I want to get my hands on a bit more DP first."

"Fair enough," the sunglasses wearing professor shrugged, "Just lemme exchange PDA details with ya', then we can get it done real quick when the time comes."