Hours later, when the sun fell from the sky and the moon replaced it, dusk replacing day, Yarden found himself sitting at the docks that would lead towards the Obelisk Blue girls dorm.

He'd made sure to come out here once he'd saw Syrus leaving the dorms behind. It was maybe a bit creepy of him, but if he wanted the attention of Alexis and the other girls around, intruding on the first duel against her after they caught Syrus would be the best time to do it.

Plus, as cold as it was, and this body definitely wasn't as used to the mild cold as his old one was, it did give him some peace and quiet to come to terms with his situation.

He'd panicked earlier about not having any cards and about all the crap that would hit the island he was on in the next couple of years, and now realised how incredibly silly he was, he had so much time to prepare at this point it wasn't even worth being a major worry right now.

Not to mention. He was in another world now, in a different body, one not his own, one belonging to someone he'd previously believed to be fictional. He didn't really want to think on it too much, because he'd left everything behind, his family, his possessions, his life. But it was daunting nonetheless, and he was very sure that this wasn't some fever dream.

He really had no other choice but to throw himself right in at this point. He had no idea where to even start on returning home, and in the end, he might not want to considering the possible options open to him here. But regardless, to make a life for himself here in the meantime, he'd need to abuse his knowledge of the world and take every advantage he could get, with ruthless efficiency.

At least if he focused on gaining as much as he could, he wouldn't need to focus on what he'd lost coming here

'Are you done wallowing?' the voice of Petit Dragon asked within his mind.

'It's not nice to eavesdrop you know,' Yarden replied back with a roll of his eyes, 'But yes, I'm done being a little bitch, I'm just passing the time now for Jaden to come along.' and it shouldn't be that long until then, Syrus had already rowed off in a boat twenty minutes ago.

'Good, then if you have nothing else to do, I'll let you know that the bonding is complete,' the small dragon told him, 'You should bond with Decoy Dragon now.'

That was quick. 'I thought you guys told me that it would take a while for my souls power to grow accustomed to housing you.' Yarden replied.

'And I told you earlier, I'm a fairly weak monster,' Petit Dragon replied with a huff, 'You may see a very minor increase to your physical ability and senses, but other than that nothing much. Because I'm weak, it didn't take long at all for your soul to grow accustomed to the bond with me. Decoy Dragon should be enough to boost your soul to a strength needed to bond with a stronger monster like Fairy Dragon or Baby Dragon, then you can bond fully with the rest of the other low levelled spirits you picked up today.'

Well, fair enough Yarden guessed. Petit Dragon would know better than he did. "Alright," he agreed. Reaching into his deck box, Yarden lifted his deck out and flicked through his cards until he found the one he was looking for. Decoy Dragon. "You ready?" he asked the card.

The card shimmered, and a moment later, Decoy Dragons translucent for appeared in front of him. The tiny turquoise blue dragon, little bigger than his hand looked up at him shyly, "..Okay." he squeaked. And before Yarden could say anything else, the little dragon turned into a ball of light and entered his chest.

He shuddered a bit as a warm energy flowed through his veins, but he shook it off. It wasn't unpleasant at all. And he was quite happy with how things were progressing. Weak or not, that was the second bond he'd formed today with his new monsters. He was well on his way to gaining the power he sought!

"I have returned master." the silky voice of Serpent Night Dragon suddenly spoke up from behind him.

Yelping in fright at the voice coming out of nowhere, Yarden jumped up from where he was sitting, whirling around fists up in preparation to attack. Only to find his boss monster looking at him with a dry expression, "Really now?" the graceful, serpentine dragon huffed, rolling his eyes, "The master of one such as I should not be so skittish."

Yarden huffed, lowering his fists and pressing one hand to his frantically beating heart, "Yeah yeah," he growled at the dragon monster spirit, "So? Was my hunch right? did he toss any of his cards?"

Serpent Night Dragon eyed him drily for a few more moments before sighing and narrowing his head, "..Indeed you were right," the spirit responded. He lifted his tail and brought it around and Yarden noted there was a card held with his tail coiled gently around it in the air, "Only the one though."

He deposited the card into Yarden's hand, and he couldn't help but grin as he saw the card looking back at him.

Curse of Dragon - Level5/Dark/Dragon - 2000/1500

"Perfect, this will go well with this deck." he noted in satisfaction, placing it in his deck box along with the rest of his deck.

"If you say so master," Serpent Night Dragon bowed his head slightly, "Now, I believe I shall take the time to have a little rest and meet the newest spirit you have obtained." with that parting farewell, the dragon shimmered out of view and returned to his card.

Just in time for the rhythm of rapid footfalls to enter, followed by the sounds of loud, large breaths of exertion.

Yarden looked over to the path that led through the tree line towards the Slifer dorms, just in time for a familiar kuribo haired individual to bust out of the tree line running towards where he was now, the docks.

Jaden Yuki. Despite himself, Yarden could barely contain the excitement of seeing one of his favourite characters in the Yugioh franchise in the flesh.

Jaden slowed to a stop as he caught sight of Yarden. "Hey dude, what are you doing out here?" the brown haired teen asked, eyebrows narrowing a bit.

Yarden resisted the urge to blink, that seemed completely out of character for Jaden. It took him a moment to remember just why he was out there, and remembering that Alexis sent him an audio clip, masking her voice and blackmailing him with Syrus' safety as a selling point to make him turn up for a duel.

Not letting anything show on his face, Yarden raised an eyebrow at him, "I was sitting out here enjoying the view," he lied blatantly with a shrug, "What are you doing out here though? And rushing this way so fast? The only thing in this direction is the girls dorm."

Jaden tensed up, and Yarden could see the indecision on his face. The second generation protagonist was a very open person early on before Yubel came back, he wore his heart on his sleeve. "Is something wrong?" Yarden asked, faking some worry into his voice.

It was a dick move, and made him feel bad for manipulating a guy like Jaden. Because this wasn't fiction anymore for him, this boy in front of him was a real person. But, this was his life now. To gain a good life here, one he desired, a few white lies and manipulations were necessary.

..He'd make it up to Jaden and co later when he made sure they got through things easier later on.

Shoulder slumping, Jaden sighed in defeat, "..My buddy Syrus got caught trespassing at the girls dorm apparently," he admitted reluctantly, "I got a call telling me to come meet them or he's gonna get expelled."

"..Shit!" Yarden cursed. "Is someone targeting us Slifer's?" he asked, continuing the ruse.

"Dunno dude, but I really need to get a move on." Jaden shrugged. Now that he had apparently confirmed Yarden wasn't a part of things, he was eager to get a move on. The kuriboh-haired teen walked over and passed Yarden, stepping down the dock and jumping into one of the row boats floating in the water.

Now was his chance. And Yarden was going to take it with arms wide open. Turning, he walked down behind Jaden and jumped into the boat beside him. "What are you doing?" Jaden asked.

Yarden clenched his hand into a fist and held it up with a grin, "I'm your back up in case this is some plot by some Obelisk's to jump you," he responded, "If it is, I'll kick their asses."

Jaden snorted, "Well glad to have you watching my back pal," he responded. He sat down and began to row the oars, "Grab a seat to make sure you don't fall into the water."

Following his advice, Yarden sat down on one of the benches in the boat, "Let's do this mate." he grinned, clapping Jaden on the shoulder.

"There he is!" Mindy jumped up excitedly, pointing out into the distance from the docks the four of them stood on, towards an approaching row boat with two figures in it, "Though it looks like Jaden didn't come alone."

"It's Odhar," Jasmine raised an eyebrow in interest. She would have crossed her arms under her prodigious bust, but her hands were currently full with the rope tied around the blue haired boy the three girls had taken prisoner, "Wonder what he's doing here? From what he was like in class earlier, he doesn't seem like the type that would lend a hand easily."

Alexis who did have her arms crossed underneath her breasts merely smirked in satisfaction, "I don't care either way," the blonde replied, "He was my next target after I took down Jaden anyway, this just saves me the time of seeing more of his skill in person."

Syrus whimpered, but was ignored.

Mindy sighed, "You're never going to get a boyfriend like that," the black haired girl shook her head sadly, "Odhar was a total tough guy type with Taiyou earlier. You'll scare all the guys away if you consider someone like that just prey to duel and beat."

Alexis rolled her eyes. No matter how many times she told them, she just wasn't interested in a boyfriend as things were right now, they wouldn't let it go. Not that there were many good candidates around her anyway.

You'd think with how boy crazy Jasmine and Mindy were sometimes that they'd have gotten boyfriends of their own by now. But they turned down nearly as many boys as her that asked them out.

Moments later, the rowboat hit shore and the two Slifer Red teenagers stepped out of the boat onto dry land. "Hi Jaden, Hi Yarden." Syrus greeted them both sadly.

"Hey," Jaden greeted him back softly, "So what exactly is going on here?" he asked, eyes shooting up sharply to take in the three girls, most specifically Jasmine who was holding the rope that had him tied up

"Well to make a long story short, I'm basically a big loser." Syrus moaned in defeat.

"Don't be so melodramatic Syrus," Yarden cut in with a roll of his eyes, "At least the eye candy was good right?"

Mindy tittered a bit at the compliment, cheeks flushing a light red. And Alexis had to internally praise the boy for his sheer confidence in this situation. She was right to want to keep an eye on him. After all, it didn't take a genius to figure out now that he and Jaden were here alongside Syrus, they could be reported and expelled as well. Yet still, looking over the Scottish teenager, who had a lazy smirk on his face, hands resting in his pocket, he seemed to believe he was in total control.

Maybe it was something to do with being European? Alexis didn't have much experience with people from outside of Japan. But Pier, the french boy she grew up with was a cocky guy no matter the situation.

Jasmine huffed, "Your friend here trespassed into the girls campus." the redhead got straight to the point.

"Is that true Sy?" Jaden asked.

"I doubt it," Yarden rolled his eyes, before looking up to meet Alexis' eyes, "No offense, but Syrus doesn't have the guts to come here peeking. Pull the other one."

It seemed he wouldn't be fooled. Alexis stared right back into his eyes and was surprised to find he was amused. He rose an eyebrow at her in challenge and the blonde haired girl realised the jig was pretty much up.

Not that it mattered, she'd gotten what she wanted regardless. And a bonus on top of things. Jaden and Yarden, both laid out for her to pick from. She wasn't arrogant enough to think she could take them two on one. So who to pick?

"True," Jaden agreed. "So out with it, what the heck is going on here? This is getting to far to be called a joke." he demanded.

"Well it doesn't matter now," Mindy smiled at both boys, eyes focused more on Yarden than Jaden, "Now that you're both here, you're trespassing too."

"That's right boys," Alexis grinned at them in a predatory fashion, "If you want to get out of here without being expelled, you'll have to win your freedom by beating us in a duel."

She'd rather take Jaden on right now. His skills were more known to her. His deck focused around hero monsters. Yarden though, his deck was made just this morning from thrown away cards, yet he seemed so confident in the deck he had. He was more mysterious. Best let Jasmine and Mindy take him on so she could see more of his skill first before she took him on. If he was as good as she thought he was, he should be able to overcome them both.

"Oh man, I don't wanna get expelled, it's only been a few days." Syrus whined pitifully.

"So that's your play," Yarden snorted, shaking his head, "Fair enough, bring it on."

"Don't worry Sy," Jaden interjected at the same time, punching a fist into his palm, "I won't let that happen. Bring it on Alexis."

Yarden and Jaden blinked as they finished, looking at each other. "Jinx." they grinned at each other. Both boys were surprisingly on a rather similar wavelength it seemed.

Minutes later, while Jaden and Alexis were out on the open water in a pair of boats, facing off all dramatic like, Yarden stood across from Mindy and Jasmine, having preferred to just stay on solid ground for his duel.

...He'd rather not risk dropping his cards into the ocean and ruin them.

"So how are we doing this?" Yarden asked, smirking at the girls, practically oozing confidence. Truth be told, he was just giddy at being alone with two absolutely gorgeous, absolutely stacked girls.

Syrus had dutifully followed Jaden out onto the boats. And truth be told, he was totally okay with that. He'd never been that into Syrus truth be told.

"We'll keep it simple," Jasmine held out her hand, activating her duel disk, "All three of us have Four Thousand life points each, though this will be a two on one, so after I take my first turn, you're free to attack on your turn, that fine with you?"

"Yeah, simple," Yarden snorted, "I suppose the fact that Mindy having a turn after me and you going right after her, meaning you get two turns back to back as a team is fair?"

"Oh you know my name?" Mindy cut in, smiling widely.

"Of course I do," Yarden shrugged, "You, Alexis and Jasmine here are by far the three most beautiful girls in our year, possibly the entire school, it's hard not to know who are you."

"Aw shucks, you flatterer!" Mindy laughed before wagging her finger, "Don't think complimenting us will make us go easy on you though cutie."

"We're way out of your league kid," Jasmine rolled her eyes, "Now let's get this over with, I want to watch Alexis wipe the floor with your pal Jaden. But to make it fair, let's say you can attack on your first turn then, okay?" with that said, she drew six cards.

Jasmine LP: 4000

Mindy LP: 4000

Yarden LP: 4000

"Quite the high sense of opinion of yourself huh?" Yarden shook his head, but followed suit and drew five cards, Mindy copying him, "But sure, let's hurry this along, I've got things to do tonight." Not to mention, he was incredibly excited to see how much DP he earned for taking on two Obelisk students at once, in a two on one.

"We'll see how cocky you are after we're through with you Odhar," Jasmine huffed, "And I'll start that off by summoning my Cyber Harpie Lady in attack mode!"

There was a shimmer of light in front of her, and a moment later a tall bodacious blue skinned woman in metal bikini armour appeared before her. Feathers hanging from her arms and legs curling down into bird feet and talons.

Cyber Harpie Lady - Level4/Wind/Winged Beast/Effect - 1800/1300

Not a bad monster at all. Actually, an eighteen hundred attack point beat stick at this point in time was pretty rare, especially one that had a decent effect and not a detrimental one.

"But I'm not done yet, I equip my Cyber Harpie Ladie with Cyber Armour, increasing her attack points by five hundred!" the redhead continued, "And finish off my turn by placing one card face down!" A card facing face down shimmered into existence at the same time the armour her harpy lady was wearing gleamed brightly as the equip card took effect.

Cyber Harpie Lady - Level4/Wind/Winged Beast/Effect - 2300/1300

Yarden whistled as he drew his sixth card, his turn beginning, "Not bad, getting a monster with twenty three hundred attack out on the first turn and shoring up with something to defend it." he praised the girl.

..It wasn't really. It was something any child where he was from could do with ease. But here and now? It was actually something quite well done he supposed. Still, it put Jasmine quite a bit above the average duelist on this island just to play a combo like that.

"Yet you don't actually seem all that impressed," Jasmine noted knowingly. and he had to give it to her, the girl was sharp, "Let's see if Alexis is actually on to something and you really do have talent."

"Sure, but don't blink or you might miss it gorgeous," he winked at her and took some pride in the way this time, her cheeks actually flushed a tiny bit from the bold flirting, "I'll start off nice and simple with Pot of Greed and draw two cards."

With that said, he drew two cards and looked them over, smirking happily at his draws. He was so, so glad his deck was full of spirits. It was honestly kind of cheating, but honestly, if fucking Yugi could do it without guilt, so could he.

"I'll take care of your equip card and face down with Giant Trunade next," Yarden followed up, placing a card down. A massive green vortex howled through the area, and the face down and gleam of her monsters armour disappeared, returned to her hand. "But I'm not anywhere close to done yet, because now I play Foolish Burial, to send the Carbonedon in my deck to the graveyard."

"That card again?" Jasmine blinked, "Planning on summoning that monster from the graveyard? I'm not sure what it is, but it sounds like a dinosaur monster, so I'n guessing it has pretty good attack points."

"Close actually, I'm going to use its effect to banish it from my graveyard to special summon any level seven dragon monster from anywhere in my deck," Yarden grinned cheekily, "Say hello to my Seiyaryu!"

Seiyaryu - Level7/Light/Dragon - 2500/2300

In a burst of light, a large and beautiful, shining pink metallic dragon appeared before Yarden on the field. And it was a beauty. Yarden had to take a moment just to admire such a lovely actually reminded him a bit of the pokemon Skarmory.

"Twenty five hundred attack points!" Mindy gasped.

"Jeez, maybe you really are that good." Jasmine grimaced.

Yarden wagged his finger at the two, "Hold your horses girl, this is no time to be impressed, cuz I ain't done yet." he teased.

"You're kidding!" Jasmine gaped.

"Nope!" he chuckled, "Following up Seiyaru, I'm using the spell card Cost Down. Now by discarding one card to the graveyard from my hand, all monsters in my hand have their levels lowered by two. And I'm discarding my Hyozanryu, allowing me to summon my Curse of Dragon!"

The familiar golden, serpentine dragon used by Taiyou earlier today appeared in front of Yarden, and he relished the moment.

Curse of Dragon - Level 5(3)/Dark/Dragon - 2000/1500

"Hey hey, where'd you get that!" Mindy gasped, "Isn't that Taiyou's card? No way you just found that card! It's one of the main cards used by Yugi Moto! They're worth tons of money."

"Finders keepers, and Taiyou had a hissy fit and threw it away after I creamed him," Yarden shrugged, "Still, now I'll play my Monster Reborn to summon my Hyozanryu from the graveyard in attack position."

In another burst of light, his newest spirit appeared before him, tall and graceful with a gleaming, bipedal diamond body that glittered beautifully in the moonlight.

Hyozanryu - Level7/Light/Dragon - 2100/2800

"Hmph, quite the line up you've gotten for one turn." the dragon commented, nodding his head in respect.

"Oh Jeez, are you finally done?" Jasmine groaned, palming her pretty face, "Because seriously Odhar, you're kind of ridiculous."

"Just one last thing," he laughed and placed down one final card, "I'm playing the spell card Revived Serpent Night Dragon. You'll love this. It lets me sacrifice any monster on the field, to summon a Serpent Night Dragon from my hand, deck or graveyard. And I choose to sacrifice your Cyber Harpie Lady."

"Say what!?" Jasmine gasped. The girl was looking at him wide eyed, shocked to the core.

He couldn't blame her. Because this card was seriously overpowered. If his opponent had nothing to stop it with, he could basically destroy any monster on the field to summon the ace of his deck. One of the most bullshit cards he'd ever come across.

God the anime world was absurd.

Cyber Harpie Lady gave a shriek of dismay, before shattering out of existence. The shards of light left behind by her immediately swarmed over onto Yarden's field and from them, Serpent Night Dragon emerged.

Serpent Night Dragon - Level7/Dark/Dragon - 2350/2400

"You've gotta be kidding me," Jasmine muttered, "Four monsters, all of them level five or over, with two thousand or more attacks points, all in the one turn? While leaving me with nothing on my field at the same time?"

"Aw, I'm not even gonna get a turn am I?" Mindy pouted before shaking her head and smiling wryly, "Well at least Alexis will be happy that she was proven right."

"Seiyaryu and Hyozanryu attack Jasmine directly, and Serpent Night Dragon and Curse of Dragon you both attack Mindy directly too." Yarden commanded. A slew of breath attacks in a multitude of elements left the four dragons, and moments later, both girls were reduced to zero life points at the same time.

Jasmine LP: 0

Mindy LP: 0

Yarden LP: 4000

Moments later, Yarden heard a ringing sound from his PDA and pulled it out while the two girls were in shock over their dual instant loss. He flicked it open and checked his profile, only to nearly drop it in shock when he saw the number of DP he had staring back at him.

Name – Yarden Odhar

Year – First Year

Dorm – Slifer Red

Day – 02

DP – 12,680

'Holy fucking shit!' he screamed internally. He had two hundred and thirty DP left over after buying cards earlier. That meant he'd gained twelve thousand, four hundred and fifty from beating these today. What the actual fuck! That was over a grand worth!

He made over a grand just for beating a pair of girls in a duel? What the actual fuck!? Jesus Christ!

"What just happened?" Jasmine asked, dumbfounded, looking at the boy who crushed them both effortlessly. Mindy patted her on the back sympathetically.

After seeing the three boys off, Alexis turned to her two friends. She raised an eyebrow as she took in the despondent Jasmine sitting on her knees staring at the ground wide eyed in shock and Mindy continuously patting her on the back.

"What happened?" she asked. Yarden had just walked passed her when they returned to shore and jumped into the boat with Jaden and Syrus to take off back to the Slifer dorms. The only thing he'd done was smirk and wink at her as he went passed. Oh and checked her out as he went. He was subtle about it, but she was very used to being ogled, and it was easy for her to spot the way his eyes zeroed in on her chest. It could be irritating at times, but she didn't blame him. With how annoyingly big her breasts were, the tight uniform shirts she had to wear did nothing to hide them.

Well she could confirm he was interested in girls at least she supposed.

"...He destroyed us." Jasmine muttered.

"Mhhmm," Mindy agreed smiling at Alexis, "We didn't even stand a chance. Heck, I didn't even get a turn. Looks like you were right Lexi', Odhar is definitely a top tier duelist. He'll hit Ra by the end of the week when the first promotion exams take place, and in a few months probably be promoted right up to Obelisk."

Well now, wasn't that interesting? It had been a close match with Jaden, but she'd lost. Now she just needed to see how Yarden stacked up. Considering how Jaden had beaten her and would have beaten Chazz. It was no doubt, that one of those two was the top duellist of the first years.

The only other possible contestant for that title was Bastion Misawa.

"Did you record it like I asked?" the blonde asked her black haired friend.

Mindy held up her duel disk and beamed at her, showing off a blinking cam corder hanging from the edge, "Yep, ad I think you'll get a kick out of it," Mindy replied, "He was really something else right there."

'This academy really is much more interesting with them around.' Alexis mused internally. For now, she'd have to wake up Jasmine though and get back to their dorm. She'd look into challenging Yarden Odhar another day.