[color=aba000][u][h1]Michelle Kine[/h1][/u][/color]
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Michelle didn't get much sleep last night. She had been too excited to sleep, and now she was paying for it, especially in the current heat. Fortunately for her, it seemed like she wasn't the only one suffering, so she took some comfort in that. Michelle wondered what the academy life would be like; she had never done anything like it before. Eventually, the bus arrived at the academy, and Michelle took her luggage and went inside like everyone else. Being so excited, she hurried ahead and managed to be one of the first several inside. It was much cooler than outside, which she was grateful for.

She boarded the elevator and made the ascent, then made her way to the location where a bored-looking person was handing out structure decks. Michelle scanned the titles to see which deck she would like, then her gaze fell upon one: Realm of Light. She remembered that deck; it was the same one that the shop manager from the very first time she started playing Duel Monsters offered to her. With no hesitation, Michelle said, "[color=aba000]Realm of Light, please.[/color]" She was handed the deck, and Michelle walked away, satisfied with her choice. 

Michelle made her way over to another place where she had to fill out some forms. Michelle was a bit slow filling them out; she didn't know at first which choices she should make. Eventually, though, she managed to complete them, then she made her way to the stands, where other people were watching the placement duels. Michelle watched all of them with keen interest, and some also managed to surprise her, like the one that ended with a 6600 Life Point difference. 

Eventually, it was her turn to take her placement duel. She made her way to the arena, then began the Duel with the other first-year. The two fought hard and valiantly, but ultimately Michelle won, 1850 Life Points remaining and 3 monsters on her field. The rest of the day passed uneventfully, with Michelle being placed in the Wind dorm.
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Michelle watched the Action Duels keenly. The first one was disappointingly short, but Michelle noted how Leander made his plays. Attacking before summoning Ancient Sacred Wyvern was a good move, since using Seven Tools to stop Bottomless would've meant the Wyvern losing too much ATK to battle, and Trust Guardian's effect to prevent Wyvern's destruction by battle was also good. Unfortunately, a surge of Chaos monsters quickly overwhelmed Leander and got past his defenses before he could set new ones. Looking over the other spectators, it seemed like no one else noticed it, or at least didn't seem to care for it.

The second Action Duel was of more considerable interest. It was rather one-sided in the beginning, but Megan made a reversal by finally summoning monsters, which Camryn was too slow to recover from. All in all, a nice Duel. The day seemed to be over for now, and Michelle wondered what she would do now. She then decided to make her way to the card shop. As nice as her deck was, it was for the best that she make some improvements; one could only go so far using a standard structure deck. Entering the shop, Michelle browsed the collections of card packs, looking for ones related to her deck. Unfortunately, it seemed like not many were really focused on Lightsworns. There were a few packs, though, so she did take 2 packs of Light of Destruction. She could only hope that she got the cards she wanted from them now.

Distracted from her card packs, Michelle didn't notice Vincent in front of her until she bumped into his back, causing her to drop her Light of Destruction packs. "[color=aba000]Sorry[/color]," Michelle said as she bent over to pick them back up.