"We don't have to finish this duel you know." Dan said as he drew a card signaling the start of his turn. The bully from his younger years decided to have a rematch in the center of the cafeteria after [i]'buying a bunch of strong cards'[/i], but he had been loosing and the duel in total had taken about 15 minutes. Truthfully Dan was kinda hungry and wanted to finish his lunch, but at the same time he didn't want someone to be embarrassed so completely. "You have a chance to save some face, if you surrender before even more people arrive.."

"Shut the fu-" The bully had started to yell back but Dan quickly interrupted him with his own shouting.

"I'm sorry but I can't let you finish that!" The card he had just pulled was O-Oversoul, he could use this to bring back Elemental HERO Neos from the grave, but his opponent only had once face down and only 1900 life points left, Daniel could use Elemental HERO Neos Alius to finish him instead since he was already on the field. [i]The face down could be a trap, so I'll use mst to trip it to make it safe for my monsters[/i]. "I'm not taking any chances with you, I activate Mystical Space Typhoon!" Daniel shouted as he placed the card down onto his generic duel disk. A giant storm of lighting and thunder swept over the holographic field destroying the trap card, it turned out to be mirror force. [i]Good call Daniel[/i]. Daniel kept the O-Oversoul in his hand and continued his turn. "Elemental Hero Neos Alius, attack with solar flare finish!" The monster let out a loud grunting before flying over to his enemy and smashing a giant orb of light on him.

"Nnnoooo!" The former bully had lost all his life points, but with no extra damage.

"Hey look at Daniel's hand, he had O-Oversoul!"

"So?"

"So he coulda smashed Jason with even more damage by bringing back his stronger Neos!"

Various expressions of surprise and awe passed around the two spectators and those around them, eventually spreading through out the room. But Daniel quickly rushed back to his seat, lunch would be over in 5 minutes and he hadn't finished his chicken nuggets, he quickly scarfed them down, completely forgetting about the duel.

3 Hours later, after school ended Daniel returned home, his brother had been strangely sick for the last few weeks so Dan decided to skip his after school activities to tend to him. 

"You always had the stronger body, if I g-" 

But Dan was interrupted by his brother Diego. "Don't worry about it." Diego let loose a series of coughs before continuing. "Listen, I-I got an e-mail earlier last week about a tournament, I had already agreed to join it but..." Diego intentionally paused, but it seemed as though Dan hadn't noticed and continued for him.

"I'll go in your place, I'll fulfill your obligation for you!" Dan shouted, his concern was very obvious, after hearing this Diego smiled on the inside. 

"Thank you, according to the time they should be here soon." And as if on cue the Doorbell rung. "Be safe, Daniel." Diego said after coughing again several times.

"I will." Daniel left after tucking in his brother and answered the door. In front of him was an older woman holding a folder in front of her, she was a little bit taller than him, but she showed him a polite smile as he answered.

"Hello, Is there a Diego Cooper in the house?" 

"Yes, that's me."

The woman looked at a photo in her folder, becoming confused.

"I look older in photos."

The woman still looked as if she doubted him, but after a minute she closed her folder. "Alright come with me, I'm here to escort you." After she said that she led the way to a white suv, and Daniel followed in after her.

Back inside the house Diego stood up, completely ignoring the sheets, and began to apparently speak to himself. "Do you think they'll televise this?"