Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Academy of Chaos

Fan Fiction by: scififan599

Yu-Gi-Oh! (Including GX, 5D's, and Zexal) original creator: Kazuki Takahashi

Chapter 1: The Phantom and the Golem

Yuzuki was late. She was supposed to have arrived at the Duel Dome for registration an hour ago, but her train had been delayed. Registration was closing within an hour. She knew this was her last chance - the International Duel Academy (IDA) did not take students 16 years old or higher. If she missed this, she would have to register at another Duel Academy, and while none of them were bad, none of them were as prestigious or could carry her as far as IDA.

Damn it, she thought. I should have woken up an hour earlier. That way I would have been on time.

As she ran down the street, she couldn't help but think it was unfair. She had passed the entrance exams with flying colors, and the recommendation from her father didn't hurt. If she couldn't get in, she was going to hit someone, Yuya or her father most likely.

Finally, after 45 minutes of running, she reached the Duel Dome. The line was nonexistent, with all other applicants having arrived earlier. Two people, a man and a woman, sat at a table outside, pushing papers around, and they didn't look up until Yuzuki ran up to them.

"Are you an applicant?" asked the man.

"Yes," Yuzuki said while catching her breath. "I'm sorry I'm so late, but my train was delayed, and -."

"No need to apologize, you're here in time," the woman said. "What's your name?"

"Fujita Yuzuki," she said while wincing internally. The look on their faces was both expected and irritating.

"Fujita? Daughter of -?"

"Yes," she cut him off. "Can I please go in?"

"Yes, of course," the man said. "It's an honor to have you here, Fujita-san."

As she walked into the building, she groaned. As much as she liked attention, she hated it when it was because of her name. She'd rather it be for her own accomplishments, not her father's.

After walking for 5 minutes, Yuzuki entered the main arena, and she couldn't help but gape in amazement. The place was huge, easily as large as any soccer field. The stands wrapped around the entire building and were divided into two areas. If she had to guess, the lower area, where she entered, was where the applicants were, since they all wore street clothes; and the upper area was for observing students, since they all wore school uniforms. The central area was far more interesting though. It was divided into eight Duel Fields, where the applicants went up against the examiners. As she walked into the stands, she saw six different duels happening simultaneously. She couldn't identify any of the duelists, but from what she saw, every one of them was good. This didn't surprise her - IDA was for the best of the best, and even the applicants who failed were better than most other duelists.

As she walked through the stands, she noticed a boy with red and green hair in one of the back rows. Recognizing him, Yuzuki grinned and walked up to him.

"Hello Yuya," she said to him. He turned around, and seeing Yuzuki, he smiled.

"Good to see you, Yuzuki," Sakaki Yuya answered back. "Just arrived? That's not like you."

She grimaced. "My train was delayed. Have you dueled yet?"

"Yeah, I just finished a few minutes ago. It was really close, but I won."

"Awesome! Once I win mine, we'll both be in IDA, like we planned."

"I hope so. Hey, check out that duel!" he said, and pointed to the field closest to them.

Yuzuki looked, and saw that the duelist, a girl with long blonde hair and a light green coat, was in trouble. All she had was one face-down card, and the examiner, a black-haired man with a visor and a blue coat, had Red-Eyes B. Dragon on his field. As the examiner declared an attack however, the girl activated her face-down card - Magic Cylinder. Yuzuki grinned. Magic Cylinder negated an attack and inflicted the attack points of the attacking monster to the opponent as damage. She watched as the examiner's Life Points hit 0.

"Not bad," she said. "She'll make excellent competition."

"Totally," Yuya agreed. "Her name's Leila Thompson - she's an international student from the U.K. and runs the Prophecy archetype."

Damn, Yuzuki thought. That's going to be hard to counter. The Prophecy archetype was one of the most diverse in the game, and experts in it tended to be very good duelists - and if that girl qualified for IDA, then she was definitely an expert.

While Yuzuki and Yuya were talking, across the stadium three boys were also watching the duel end. Their names were Kakimoto, Yamabe, and Sawatari Shingo, the last of whom had styled light-brown and blonde hair and blue-gray eyes.

"That girl was very good, wasn't she Sawatari-san?" Kakimoto asked.

"Yeah, she'll go far at IDA, huh Sawatari-san huh?" Yamabe asked.

Shingo closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair. "She's okay, but compared to us, she's nothing." He smirked. "We've been to the best prep school in the country, we're ready for the Academy. All those other duelists will learn their place soon enough, though."

While they were talking, a group of instructors in the upper stands were comparing notes, when one of the attendants from outside came up to the head instructor.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but one more applicant arrived 5 minutes before we closed down," he said while handing him Yuzuki's application.

The head instructor, a pale thin Italian man with long blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail, took the application and looked at it. He froze in shock momentarily, then looked at the attendant.

"She wants to take the entrance exam?" he said in surprise. "With her connections, she doesn't need to."

"I know, Dr. Crowler," the attendant responded. "But both she and her father requested that she take the exam. In fact, she signed up for the Type 2 test."

Dr. Vellian Crowler was in shock. Fujita Yuzuki, who could've gotten into the Academy the same way Sawatari Shingo and his gang got in, wanted to take the entrance exam. And not just any entrance exam, the elite exam that would set people on the path to the pro leagues. Or at least it would, if anyone had passed it, but the last person to do so had been three years ago and was currently a senior at IDA.

Still, she had requested it, and if she wanted to fail, then Crowler would be happy to oblige her.

He turned to his colleagues. "Gentlemen, I'll take this one. She wants to duel the best that IDA has, and that is me." He walked away before they could argue.

In the lower stands, Yuzuki and Yuya watched as Leila Thompson walked up to them and sat it the row in front of them.

"That was a very good finisher, Thompson-san," Yuzuki said. Leila turned around in surprise at her, and then turned forward again.

"Thank you," she said, somewhat stiffly.

"From the looks of it, you might be the third best duelist here," Yuzuki said cheerfully. Yuya and Leila both started and turned to look at her, but before they could say anything, the intercom went active and said, "Fujita Yuzuki, please report to Duel Field 4."

Yuzuki grinned. "Oh, that's me. See you later, Yuya."

"Wait," Leila said, which made Yuzuki pause before heading down. "If I'm third-best, who's first and second?"

Yuzuki's smile got wider. "Me and Yuya. The pro leagues are our dream."

As Yuzuki ran down to the Duel Field, Leila stared after her. Yuya chuckled. "Sorry about that," he said. "She has a very high opinion of both of us."

Leila turned to him and said, "The intercom asked for Fujita. That name sounds familiar."

Yuya's cheeked turned red. "Yeah, I guess it would. I'm Sakaki Yuya, by the way," he said, trying to change the topic, but Leila wasn't deterred.

"Sakaki?" she asked and narrowed her eyes. "That name sounds familiar too."

Yuya turned back to look at the field. "Maybe you'll remember after watching her duel."

Sawatari and his friends had also heard the intercom and were wondering the same thing as Leila.

"Fujita," Kakimoto said. "That name sounds familiar, doesn't it Sawatari-san?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've heard that name before," Yamabe said. "Doesn't it sound familiar, Sawatari-san?"

Sawatari didn't answer, but instead looked down at the Duel Field where the girl in question was just entering. The distance was too great to make out her features, but he could tell she had black hair with pink bangs and was wearing a black jacket and jeans.

As Yuzuki entered the Duel Field, she couldn't help but look around in wonder. From down here the Dome looked even bigger than before. Her amazement was such that she didn't see the other person in the Field until he spoke.

"So, applicant, what is your name?" Dr. Crowler asked. Yuzuki looked over at him and leapt to attention. "Fujita Yuzuki, sir!" she replied.

The doctor looked her up and down. She had black hair that went down to her shoulders, but her bangs were bright pink and brushed to the side. Her eyes were a similar shade of pink, as was the shirt she wore under her black jacket, both of which contrasted with her blue jeans. On her right wrist was a silver double-banded bracelet with a pink stone where the bands intersected.

"A pleasure, Fujita-san. I'm Dr. Vellian Crowler, department chair of techniques at IDA."

"Wow, really," Yuzuki said with a stunned look. "I know I requested the elite test, but I thought it would be one of the regular examiners."

Crowler smirked at that. "It would be, but I was surprised at someone with your credentials wanting to take the entrance exam, especially the Type 2 test. Are you one of those people who delight in self-punishment?"

Yuzuki glowered. "I want to prove that I belong here, not pay to belong."

"Very well," he responded. "Let's get started."

He reached for the Duel Disk on his wrist, a blue rectangular model with a square touchpad in the center. He pushed a button on the side, and a blue holographic blade appeared facing away from him. Yuzuki activated her own Duel Disk, a pink model with a pink blade.

"Duel!" They both shouted.

Dr. Vellian Crowler: 4000 LP

Fujita Yuzuki: 4000 LP

"I'll start!" Yuzuki said and looked at her hand. Taking a card from her hand, she placed it on the blade. "I Normal Summon Performapal Hip Hippo in Attack Position!"

The monster, a pink hippo with a top hat and red vest appeared on her field.

Performapal Hip Hippo: ATK 800 DEF 800 LVL 3

Crowler widened his eyes. She can't be serious, he thought. That monster is ridiculous.

"Then," she said, taking another card from her hand, "I'll place one card face-down, and end my turn. Your turn, professor!" The card she played appeared face-down on the field.

In the upper stands, three students - two boys and a girl - were watching the duel with interest.

"Well, that was a mistake," one of the boys said. He had dark skin, brown eyes, and black hair tied back in dreadlocks and was wearing a senior's uniform from IDA - a white jacket with blue shoulder pads and blue cuffs, both lined with gold, a blue tie, and blue trousers. "800 attack points? She should have summoned it in Defense Position."

"I don't think so, Damon," the girl said. She had pale skin, dark pink eyes, and dark blue hair that went down to her shoulder blades with light blue bangs. Her uniform was similar to Damon's, except she wore a blue skirt that went halfway down her legs and black stockings that covered most of her legs. "She's probably baiting Professor Crowler to attack. I bet that face-down card is a trap like Mirror Force or Draining Shield."

"I doubt that will work, Rio," Damon shot back. "Crowler is a highly skilled duelist and instructor. No way he'll fall for such an obvious setup."

The second boy, a tall boy with tan skin, blue eyes, spiky black hair with yellow highlights and a similar uniform to Damon except without the tie, spoke up. "She'll win this duel."

Rio and Damon turned to look at him. "What makes you say that?" Damon asked.

"Instinct," he replied, and they turned back to watch the duel.

Crowler was scowling. "Are you mocking me?" he whispered. "Well, if you are, you're going to pay for it. Draw!" he shouted and drew a card from his Deck. Looking at the cards in his hand, he smiled in satisfaction.

"To start things off, I will place two cards face-down on the field," he said and placed two cards in his Spell & Trap Card Zones. The cards appeared face-down on the field.

"Next, I will play the Spell Card Heavy Storm!" he shouted and placed the card on his Duel Disk. The card appeared on the field, and as it did a heavy wind started to blow around the field. "This card will destroy all Spell and Trap cards on the field!"

"Not so fast!" Yuzuki shouted. "I activate the Quick-Play Spell Card Hippo Carnival!" Yuzuki's face-down card flipped face-up and glowed. "It allows me to Special Summon 3 Hippo Tokens to my field, and I'll summon all of them in Defense Position!"

Three new hippos - one blue, one yellow, and one orange - joined Hip Hippo on the field, each one wearing dresses similar to those worn by Las Vegas Showgirls. Even more bizarrely, they started dancing.

Hippo Token: ATK 0 DEF 0 LVL 1

From the stands, Leila scowled. "Your girlfriend's monsters are absurd," she told Yuya.

Yuya blushed again. "She's not my girlfriend!" he stammered. "Besides, she's just getting started."

Crowler also scowled at the dancing hippos, but it quickly turned into a grin. "Well, we apparently had similar ideas. Both of my face-down cards were Statue of the Wicked."

Yuzuki paled. "Uh oh." Statue of the Wicked was a trap card that Special Summoned a Wicked Token when it was destroyed. Sure enough, two Wicked Tokens, serpents with four eyes and headdresses, appeared on Crowler's field.

Wicked Token: ATK 1000 DEF 1000 LVL 4

"Oh no," Yuya said with a frown. "Both of those tokens are stronger than Yuzuki's monsters."

"That isn't why Dr. Crowler summoned them," Leila said, which led Yuya to look at her in confusion, though that confusion didn't last long.

"Next," Crowler said," I tribute my two Wicked Tokens in order to Tribute Summon my most powerful monster: Ancient Gear Golem!"

The two tokens disappeared, and in their place rose a giant of a monster; it was made of gray metal with multiple gears appearing all over it. Both of its arms were as long as its body and almost hit the ground when it stood up.

Ancient Gear Golem: ATK 3000 DEF 3000 LVL 8

Sawatari, who was watching with interest, narrowed his eyes. "That card isn't in the test decks."

"Not in the standard ones, no Sawatari-san," Kakimoto replied. "I think I heard that that card is in the elite decks, for those who signed up for Test 2."

"Then this is over," Yamabe said. "No one's beaten that deck in three years, and there's no way that girl with her dancing hippos will do it, right Sawatari-san?"

Sawatari smirked. "I think we're about to see that, aren't we?"

Back at the duel, Crowler pointed at Hip Hippo. "Ancient Gear Golem, attack that silly hippo!"

"Not a chance!" Yuzuki shouted. "The turn that Hippo Carnival is activated, you can't attack any monsters except Hippo Tokens."

The doctor smiled. "Well then, Ancient Gear Golem, attack the orange one! Ultimate Pound!"

The Ancient Gear Golem pulled back its right arm and then punched the orange Hippo Token. Yuzuki watched in shock as her monster was destroyed.

"Oh," Crowler started, "Just so you know, when Ancient Gear Golem battles a monster in Defense Position with lower DEF than its ATK, it inflicts the difference to you as damage."

"What?" Yuzuki said, her eyes wide. She watched as the Golem's fist rammed through her and she flinched on instinct.

Yuzuki: 1000 LP

"I think I'll end my turn there," Crowler said. "Had enough, applicant?"

"Are you kidding?" Yuzuki asked as she raised her head. Crowler was shocked to see she was smiling. "This is fun!"

The doctor scowled. "Why do you have to ruin the moment?" he muttered.

Leila and Yuya watched the match with concern.

"I don't think your friend can win this match," Leila said. "One more attack from that Gear Golem, and she's done for."

"She's in a tough spot," Yuya admitted. "But she'll bounce back. I know she will."

The three seniors watching from the upper stands were having a similar conversation.

"You said she would win," Damon said to the other boy. "That does not look like winning."

"I hate to agree with Damon," Rio said, "but it does look tough down there. You really sure she'll win?"

The other boy smiled. "Absolutely."

Down in the field, Yuzuki was grinning, but she was worried. If she didn't get the card she wanted, she would lose.

"My turn," she shouted. "Draw!" She drew a card from her Duel Disk, and looking at it, grinned. Yes, she thought. This is it.

"To start," she said. "I'll activate the Spell Card Odd-Eyes Rising!" She placed the Spell Card on her Duel Disk, causing it to appear as a hologram. The card had an image of two dragons, one with yellow armor and the other with red skin, back-to-back. "By tributing three monsters on my side of the field, I can add 2 'Odd-Eyes' monsters from my Deck to my hand. I tribute my Performapal Hip Hippo and two Hippo Tokens, and add Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon and Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon to my hand." As her hippos disappeared, she added the cards from her Deck to her hand, and then showed them to Crowler. He was shocked.

"Those," he stuttered, "those are Pendulum Monsters." Yuzuki grinned.

"Yes, they are," she said, and then after adding the cards to her hand, she picked a different card from her hand. "But before I use them, I'll Normal Summon Performapal Sword Fish from my hand." Placing the card on her Duel Disk, the monster appeared in front of her. It looked like a sword that ended in a fish's head that had a blade coming out of its head and was wearing purple sunglasses.

Performapal Sword Fish: ATK 600 DEF 600 LVL 2

"When I Normal or Special Summon Performapal Sword Fish," Yuzuki said, "all monsters on my opponent's side of the field have their ATK and DEF lowered by 600."

Performapal Sword Fish glowed and smaller Sword Fishes appeared and stuck to Ancient Gear Golem, lowering its ATK to 2400.

"Next," Yuzuki declared, picking two cards out from her hand, "I'll set the Pendulum Scale with the Scale 1 Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon and Scale 8 Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon!" and then did so, placing them at the edges of her Duel Disk, which caused the word "PENDULUM" to appear on her Duel Disk.

Two pillars of light appeared on either side of her field. In the one on her left was a green-skinned dragon with yellow-white plates and in the one on her right was a red-skinned dragon with similar plates. Both dragons had one red eye and one green eye.

Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon: ATK 1200 DEF 2400 LVL 5 PS 1

Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon: ATK 1200 DEF 600 LVL 3 PS 8

The pink stone in her bracelet seemed to glow as she chanted. "With this, I can Pendulum Summon monsters with Levels 2 through 7! Pendulum Summon! Appear, Performapal Cheermole and the dragon with hidden eyes, Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon!"

A portal appeared between the two pillars. Out of that portal came two lights, one orange and one purple. They materialized on Yuzuki's side of the field as two monsters. The orange light became a mole in a cheerleader's outfit carrying pompoms, who quickly hid her face behind them. But it was the other monster that drew everyone's attention.

Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon had blue skin, but most of its body was covered in yellow-white armor. Instead of wings it had blades emerging from its' shoulders, with a red orb at the end of one and a green orb at the end of the other, and a blue orb in the center of its forehead. True to its name, it had one green eye and one red eye.

Performapal Cheermole: ATK 600 DEF 1000 LVL 2 PS 5

Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon: ATK 2500 DEF 2000 LVL 7 PS 4

Leila, Sawatari, Yamabe, Kakimoto, Rio, Damon, and Dr. Crowler all looked at the dragon in surprise. They hadn't expected her to summon such a fearsome monster. Only Yuya and the boy with black and yellow hair weren't surprised to see it.

Crowler was still in shock, but he overcame it soon enough and chuckled. "I must admit, I wasn't expecting you to Pendulum Summon," he said. "Even so, you should check your math. Your Phantom Dragon is strong enough to take down my Golem, but I will still have plenty of LP left."

In the stands, Leila was thinking. Fujita. Pendulum Summoning. Performapals. She started in shock. She remembered where she knew that name, along with Sakaki.

Turning to Yuya, she said, "Your friend, she's the daughter of-"

"Yes," he said.

"And you're-"

"Yes," he interrupted. "And we both learned from them."

Back at the duel, Yuzuki was grinning. "You're right, professor. None of my monsters are strong enough to defeat you. Not by themselves anyway." She pointed at her Sword Fish. "I activate the special ability of my Performapal Sword Fish! Since I Special Summon while this card was on my field, all of your monsters lose 600 ATK and DEF again!"

Just like before, Performapal Sword Fish glowed and smaller Sword Fishes appeared and stuck to Ancient Gear Golem, this time lowering its ATK to 1800.

Yuzuki wasn't done. "Next, I'll activate the effect of Performapal Cheermole! Once per turn, I can target one monster on the field whose current ATK is different from its original ATK. If its ATK is less than the original ATK, then it loses an additional 1000 ATK!"

Cheermole started swinging her pompoms around, and Gear Golem glowed as its ATK dropped to 800.

"Oh no!" Crowler screamed, a look of horror on his face.

"That's right," Yuzuki said, grinning. "Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon, attack Ancient Gear Golem with Phantom Spiral Strike!"

Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon attacked with a burst of blue energy from its mouth. The energy burst hit Ancient Gear Golem in the chest, and forced it to collapse. Crowler watched in horror as his most powerful monster disintegrated and he took 1700 points of damage.

Dr. Crowler: 2300 LP

"And now," Yuzuki said, "I activate the special ability of Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon! When it inflicts damage to you, it can inflict an additional 1200 points of damage for every 'Odd-Eyes' in the Pendulum Zones, and I have two 'Odd-Eyes' in the Pendulum Zone, meaning you take 2400 points of damage!"

"What!" Crowler shrieked. "No way!"

Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon and Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon glowed as Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon let loose a second burst at the professor, which knocked him onto his back.

Dr. Crowler: 0 LP

All of the holograms vanished, but not before Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon let out a roar of victory. Crowler, sitting up, stared in hatred at Yuzuki.

"There is no way," he muttered, "that this child with her silly monsters managed to defeat me!"

Sawatari and his friends had a similar reaction. All three of them were leaning forward in their seats with expressions of shock on their faces. Finally, Sawatari said what they all were thinking, "Impossible. There's no way a freshman could defeat a professional like Dr. Crowler!"

Yuya cheered for Yuzuki while Leila watched her with a smile on her face. Nice, she thought. Looks like I'll have more competition than I thought.

Yuzuki herself was waving at the crowd, laughing, excited at the fact that she had earned her way into IDA. None of them, however, paid attention to the three seniors who watched silently from the upper stands.

"Fujita Yuzuki," Damon started. "Daughter of Fujita Shuzo."

"Champion of Japan for two years," Rio added, "and quarterfinalist at the East Asian Championship."

"Best known for being one of the pioneers of Pendulum Summoning," the second boy finished. "Alongside his best friend Sakaki Yusho."

Damon grinned. "Well Rio, Yusei; guess this year will be more fun than we thought."

Odd-Eyes Rising Normal Spell Card

You can activate one of these effects:

Tribute 2 monsters on your side of the field; add 1 "Odd-Eyes" monster to your hand.

Tribute 3 monsters on your side of the field; add 2 "Odd-Eyes" monsters with different names to your hand.

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Yuzuki and Yuya meet their roommates at IDA and cross places with Sawatari Shingo.

Next Time on Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Academy of Chaos. Chapter 2 – The Shifting Pendulum

Announcements

scififan599: Hi everyone, this is the very first chapter of my Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Fanfiction. This is based around an original character named Fujita Yuzuki who takes the place of Hiragi Yuzu in the ARC-V Universe. There will not be alternate dimensions – instead the dimensions will correspond to different locations in east Asia. I also hope to include characters from the previous Yu-Gi-Oh! series to show how diverse the world is.

Thank you for reading Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Academy of Chaos. Please review the story and tell me how it is. This is the very first fanfiction I have ever done, and I want to improve as much as possible, so all praise and criticism is welcome. Once again, thank you.