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Hey want her and William do be adventuring buddies?


Yeah, sure.

Adventure buddies, art buddies, buddy buddies; let's do it.
Room for one more?

This ended up being kind of similar to William, but I liked the concept too much to change it.


Shun Nakano


The look of innocence Shun put on her face when she saw Takara stomping over to her probably wasn’t very convincing. She couldn’t quite keep the smirk off her lips or the sparkle out of her eyes as the shorter girl gave her a piece of her mind and a punch to the shoulder. Glad to see she was right that the comment would get under her skin, not that that was particularly difficult where Takara was concerned.

“Hey, hey, hey, I’m average height at best.” With a flourish that would draw the eye, Shun pointed off to the side, where Abigail was currently holding the bag of snacks high enough that the grasping catgirl couldn’t reach them. She is unreasonably tall.”

Now that she wasn’t panicking as much and knew that the worst she was going to get for her words was a punch in the arm and a huffy magical girl, Shun was more than willing to push her luck. “But don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll catch-up to us soon. So…!” Stepping away from the other girl, and hopefully out of arms reach, Shun sought to quickly change the topic by engaging the rest in conversation. “What are we waiting for? Is everyone here?”

@Rune_Alchemist
Leo Wilde – Slifer Red


Huh, okay. That was kind of a hostile reception. It seemed like he wasn’t the only one that found these kinds of parent/teacher days stressful; Leo could sympathise, but that wasn’t going to stop him from asking his questions anyway.

“Yeah, I want someone to give me a straight answer about what the hell happened last night.”

Subtlety had never been Leo’s strong suit, surprisingly enough. Maybe he was being too blunt just asking straight out like this, maybe he’d have better luck if he tried to make friends with this girl first, but he wanted answers so why not just ask for answers? “Why was everyone in the middle of the woods and why were you all acting like you were possessed or something? And don’t tell me it was ‘angry spirits’ like that weird Obelisk girl did; I want the real answer.”

@Psyker Landshark
Cassandra Moore – Obelisk Blue


When classes ended and the students were corralled towards the docks, Cassandra allowed herself to be drawn with them, despite the fact that she already knew that her own parents couldn’t make it. It wasn’t idle speculation that made her think that, since they had told her so themselves when she had last called them a few days ago; too busy with work, as usual, and unable to pull themselves away. It was a surprise to her to see so many students not know what today was; even if the school had failed to mention it, her parents had not.

Rather than be disappointed, she understood and accepted the news that they wouldn’t be coming. Her mom ran a veterinary clinic and was always busy, while her father was her assistant and was usually even busier; either one of them coming here today would mean closing the clinic due to them being understaffed and with patient appointments and even a surgery already booked in there was no choice but to stay home.

So she just sat at the docks, waiting with the other students despite knowing that there was no one for her to wait for. She would head back once the boats arrived, she supposed. Until then she passed the time by alternating between staring out at the ocean or by watching the people around her; the view was lovely from the docks, provided you liked ocean vistas, and the other students, the ones she had met so far, were all interesting. Particularly the ones that had spirits with them.

No one else had spirits back home. No one else could even see spirits back home; the other kids had always called her strange when she talked about her cards like they were her friends and the adults always gave her strange looks when she talked to Naga or Vaskii. They thought she was seeing things, hearing voices; which, in a way, she was, but they thought she was seeing and hearing things that weren’t real, instead of just things that were there but that they couldn’t perceive. It didn’t stop her from doing either of those things of course; her cards were her friends and she wasn’t just going to ignore them when they spoke to her. That would be rude.

Coming to this island, it was the first time she had seen other spirits and definitely the first time she had seen people who could see them like she could. It wasn’t every student, not even many of them, but there were a few; like the girl with the giant fiend monsters, or the girl with the little warrior, or the boy with the plants standing right over there. He even had his deck out and was talking to it, like she sometimes did, though strangely she hadn’t seen him with a spirit until today. Maybe he’d only met them recently?

Curious, Cassandra decided to walk over to the boy, whose name she didn’t actually know, to ask him. “Hello, I’m Cassandra.” At her back, she felt tiny hands grip onto her jacket as Naga poked her head out from behind her back. “And this is my friend Naga. Nice to meet you.”

@Crimson Flame

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Leo Wilde – Slifer Red


Leo hated parent-teacher days. It wasn’t just because they usually ended in him being scolded; honestly, he didn’t get into as much trouble at school as people thought he did, but he did get into some and that was still more than the none his caretaker wanted him to get into.

No, any school activity that involved parents was always annoying to deal with; another awkward occasion where students would ask why the person who showed up looked nothing like him, or was too old to reasonably be his parent, or where the staff would give him that oh so sad look because he was a poor orphan boy with no mom and dad and wasn’t that just sad? Even though he was just fine without them and the people who ran the orphanage were damn good at taking care of the children under their care. Assholes.

At least he wouldn’t have to deal with that today. He knew for a fact that the old caretaker didn’t have the time nor the money to sail all the way to this island to talk to his teachers; not when there were two dozen other kids that needed looking after. In fact, technically he wasn’t even under the orphanages care anymore; when he’d left to come to duel academy it had been more than just a temporary thing. He’d left. He was on his own from now until graduation; even though he was sure he wouldn’t be turned away if he ever needed to go back.

Not that he was planning on going back until he was a world-class duellist. This was sink or swim for Leo; always had been.

That hadn’t stopped the school from dragging him over to the docks with everyone else though. Kind of insensitive of them, to be honest.

Leo was looking for a chance to slip away and go back to the dorms when he spotted someone familiar. Sort of familiar anyway. It was one of the Ra girls he had duelled against the other night when she had been ‘possessed’. He still wanted to get to the bottom of that; it was a little too weird to just be a prank and the fact that none of the people involved had come clean about it even after everything was over was just strange.

“Hey, Dark World girl! You got a minute?”

@Psyker Landshark
Shun Nakano


Shun was running late. Well, actually she was walking, but she was definitely late. Actually, if you wanted to be technical, it was more of a leisurely amble than a walk, taking her time so that she could enjoy the ambiance of Shinjuku at night before meeting up with the others; which was probably why she was running so late if she was being honest. It would probably be a good idea to start running late at this point, so that she wouldn’t be quite as late when she finally did arrive. It would be an even better idea not to be late in the first place, but that ship had already sailed and Shun had missed the boat because she wasn’t watching the time.

Well, it was probably fine. It wasn’t like she was going to be the only one who was late.

Her phone buzzed in her pocket and she pulled it out to see a message in their super-secret magical girl group chat. From the looks of it people had already started to arrive, or one person at least; of course it was Takara, that girl was always spoiling for a fight so no wonder she was the first one there when it was time to fight shades.

And she was calling the rest of them slow. Brat.

Shun could run rings around all of them; she was slow by choice. It was called procrastination.

Time to retaliate.


    [Starry-Eyed]: Wait, really?
    [Starry-Eyed]: You’re gonna take out all the bad guys by yourself?
    [Starry-Eyed]: Guess I’ll just go home then, since you got this covered
    [Starry-Eyed]: Thanks a bunch, short stuff. I’ll be cheering you on

Takara wasn’t much shorter than Shun really, only an inch or so, but she was shorter and Shun wasn’t above using that to her advantage. That combined with making it sound like her attempt to hurry them up had the opposite effect should get under her skin enough to pay her back for the ‘slow’ comment. Hopefully she wouldn’t take it seriously and actually try to fight all the Shades herself.

…She wouldn’t right?

No, Takara wasn’t that gung-ho, and even if she was there were probably others there to keep her in check. They wouldn’t all be as late as she was, right?

She pulled out her phone again and began typing.


    [Starry-Eyed]: Wait, no
    [Starry-Eyed]: Don’t do that
    [Starry-Eyed]: You’ll die
    [Starry-Eyed]: I’ll be right there

Shun started running.

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She tried to play it cool as she arrived at the park a few minutes later, fully transformed, to find that not only had Takara not run off by herself, but that there were two others waiting with her. Linking her hands behind her head, Shun sauntered over to them as casually as she could, pretending like she hadn’t just driven herself into a panic with an invented scenario and then raced over as fast as she could to prevent it; nope, definitely not.

“Got anything to drink in there?”
Cassandra Moore – Obelisk Blue


When Cassandra next opened her eyes she was staring at the sky; a night’s sky, visible through the sparse branches of trees above her head and with a small smattering of stars glimpsed through wispy dark clouds. The ground underneath her was lumpy and uncomfortable, something sharp was digging into the small of her back and the cold dirt was leeching the heat from her body. Her arm, lying across her chest, still had her duel disk active on it.

But her eyes were open.

She hadn’t expected that to ever happen again. The last thing she could recall was losing the duel to the possessed Haruko, the darkness closing in on her and the reminder that she had been duelling for her life ringing in her ears. She had expected that loss to be… permanent, but apparently it hadn’t been. Unless…

Sitting up, Cassandra took in her surroundings, her eyes adjusting to the darkness to let her see a little further. The oppressive feeling of misery and anger had abated enough that though it still lingered in the air it was bearable and Haruko was nowhere to be seen; that was a good sign, but didn’t give her any answers. What she did see were three other students, none of whom she recognised; a boy in Slifer red and two girls in Ra yellow. Idly, she picked a dried leaf from out of her hair and called out to the person closest to her, the boy.

“Hmm, excuse me? What happened?”

He turned to her, a frustrated frown of confusion on his face as he looked her over warily. “Honestly? Not a damn clue. I’m still waiting for someone to fill me in on that.”

Nodding, Cassandra pulled her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around her legs; it was still cold out and she had rushed out here in her pajamas, but she didn’t feel like standing up just yet. “There were a lot of angry duel spirits in the woods; I think they were upset about being abandoned, discarded. They possessed that girl and… were trying to do something; gain power or… use power for something. I felt it from my dorm, so I came out here to help but… I lost. I’ve never lost before.”

The boy scoffed at her. “Spirits and possession? Are you serious? Are you sure it wasn’t just… wait, you’ve never lost before?” He stopped speaking then, staring at her in surprised. She responded by shaking her head. His eyes dropped to her jacket then, the blue standing out less in the dark than his red, but still visible, and shook the thought away. “Whatever. Anyway, this was probably just some prank right? Spirits don’t exist. Hell, you were a part of it; you started acting all weird after beating that girl…” He jabbed a thumb over his shoulder to one of the Ra’s. “…and then challenged me a Kaison to a tag duel. Then we won and everyone just kind of… snapped out of it.”

Understanding lit up in Cassandra’s eyes and she nodded at the boy’s explanation, even though he himself still looked confused. “Hmm, that makes sense.” She had been fighting for her life, but losing hadn’t meant death or destruction, it meant possession; like what Haruko had been through. After losing to Haruko she’d duelled on the spirits behalf, defeating others before being defeated herself and apparently being freed. That meant this boy had beaten her. And saved her. “Thank you.”

“Er, you’re welcome. I’m Leo by the way.”

Finally standing up, Cassandra patted some of the dirt from her pajamas and deactivated her duel disk. “I’m Cassandra. Nice to meet you.” She patted her pockets, making sure her deck was still there and pulling it out. All of her cards were still in her possession, including Gokibore, so she was happy; even if tonight could easily have gone much worse. “I’m going to go back to my dorm now.”

Still confused, Leo rubbed a hand through the hair at the back of his head. “Yeah, sure, er… do you need me to walk you there?”

“Hmm, no, I’ll be fine. I have my friends with me.” With that, she turned and walked away, limping slightly due to the cut on her leg, more than ready to crawl into bed and get some sleep.

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Leo Wilde – Slifer Red


Leo watched the strange girl leave, glancing from side to side to try and see these ‘friends’ she has mentioned. He considered following after, just to make sure she made it back ago, but decided against it; she was a big girl after all. Well, no, actually she was tiny, but she was old enough to take care of herself.

Instead he turned to leave, walking back in the direction of the Slifer dorm so he could try and get some shut eye before classes tomorrow. “Man, everyone in this school is so weird.”

Ogawa Nakai


~8AM | MT ARAPILES | CAMP GROUND



The cigarette in his mouth had burnt down to the filter at this point, but Ogawa continued to hold the butt in his mouth rather than throw it away; he could have stamped it out and put it in his pocket but he didn’t want to stain his jacket with ash, even on the inside where no one would see, but he also didn’t want to be the kind of cretin that littered on a hiking trail. He probably should have thought about all of this before he’d accepted the cigarette from his fellow reaper, or at the very least before lighting it up, but he wasn’t one to turn down a kind offer and when someone offered you a cigarette you had to smoke it.

Saving it for later just seemed impolite.

Not that Vera likely would have minded. She didn’t seem like the type to care too much for the same kind of formalities that Ogawa adhered to, but others being forgiving of your bad manners wasn’t an excuse to forget to be polite. You could develop bad habits if you mistook others tolerance of your faults for your behaviour being acceptable.

Anyway, it was time to work; he could think about pointless things later. The wisp they were here for rounded a corner in the trail ahead of them and headed directly their way; that saved them the trouble of tracking it down and would normally be celebrated, if it wasn’t chasing an unlucky hiker and being watched the whole time by a camera drone anyway. Rather than this being a quick, easy job they now had to deal with their target while keeping their bystander alive and footage of this thing ending up online.

The others leapt into action as Ogawa reached into the inside pocket of his jacket and pulling a pure black hammer; Aron giving the hiker a little boost to help them get away while Amelia dealt with the drone and Vera took the vanguard in dealing with the wisp. That left him with little to do himself but look to provide backup where needed, which most likely meant helping Vera.

“I’ll support.”

Fighting while trying hold a cigarette still between his lips was going to be a hassle as well; another reason why he should have thought ahead. He walked behind Vera, matching her pace but intentionally falling a little behind when she drew her sword out; he’d let her lead, try to stay out of the way of her weapon and pin this thing down if he could get a clear shot.
I'll be bringing back my girl from last time if that's okay.


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