//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 Entrance Exam Part 1 A Sweet Start // Story: MLP Duel Academy // by Twistedphoenix1 //------------------------------// Chapter 1 Entrance Exam Part 1 A Sweet Start Spike Drago, a young 15 year old boy with spiky green hair and purple eyes, dressed in a purple jacket, green t-shirt and jeans stood in front of the large community center that he always would come to in order to practice his dueling skills. He had become pretty good in the couple years since he started. His mind went back to the time he first picked up a duel deck. His old babysitter always had hers on her and showed him the basics whenever she watched over him. Some of her friends even came over and helped teach him when they could. He started developing his first crush on one of the older girls when they had to start up boarding school and he hadn't seen them since. In person at least. They would usually participate in small tournaments over the summer and he saw them on TV but that was it. Until today that is. For the community center wasn't set up for the typical duels or other activities. Instead it was the host of the Duel Academy entrance exams, and Spike was going to pass. He had to. After hearing about it from the girls, he had wanted to attend it. Knowing the girls were studying there was just a bonus. "Ready Spike?" A metallic voice said. Spike looked at his deck in his duel disk and smiled. "Of course I am. I already scraped by on the written exam, now I just need to win one duel. Shouldn't be too hard!" And with that, he entered the building. The Duel Fields Spike entered the main room of the center and saw many stands set up around the four dueling fields. Bleachers lined the sides and the balconies had some older students checking out the duels to see what the new students would be like. "Are you here for the entrance exam?" A voice said. Spike turned and saw an attractive woman with pink hair and a purple dress that showed off her curves. Spike had to gather himself so he didn't make a fool of himself. "Yes I am. I'm not too late am I?" He didn't want to be refused for something like that. "Nope, you're right on time," the lady said. "We were actually about to close off admissions in a few minutes. Just find a seat and wait for your name to be called." Spike nodded and went off to find a seat on the bleachers. The nearest spot was next to another boy about his age. He had black hair with a few neon blue streaks. A pair of black framed glasses covered blue eyes. He wore a dark blue collared shirt and black jeans. "May I sit here?" Spike asked. The boy looked up at him and shrugged. "Sure," he said and extended his hand. "Name's Micro Chip by the way." "Spike Drago." Spike sat down and looked out at the duels. "So, any interesting duels so far?" Micro grinned. "Sure was. A few girls our age went out there and pulled off some well earned wins while this other seemed to win very easily. Given how she was bragging about her family's money I think her father bribed the tester." "Oh great," Spike said. "So, any notable cards?" Micro thought for a moment and shook his head. "Not really. Some pretty cool archetypes but not really any rare ones." Micro looked over at one of the duels. "Speaking of cool archetypes, Sugar is about to duel." Spike looked at him confused. "Sugar?" Micro looked sheepish for a moment. "Sorry, I met him before he was called. His name is Sugar Rush. He showed me his deck a bit and I just want to see how well he uses it." Spike nodded understanding before turning to the duel. The kid was about his age as well with red and white hair that swirled like on a peppermint. His eyes were a light red, almost pink. He wore a bright red button up shirt but with the buttons undone and a white muscle shirt underneath with a simple pair of blue jeans. "This should be interesting." Duel Field 2 "Duel!" Sugar and the proctor said. DP 4000 Hand 5 Sugar 4000 Hand 5 "I'll start this off of you don't mind," Sugar said as he drew his card. "And I'll start off by activating the field spell known as Madolche Chateau!" Their duel field changed into a paradise of sugar. The ground looked like it was made of sponge cake (though the two duelist didn't seem to be sinking in it) and there was a stream dividing them that seemed to be flowing with orange juice. Behind Sugar Rush a huge castle that seemed to be made of different cakes and candy rose up. "More on what it's effect is later. For now I just set one card in defense mode and end my turn." Balcony A group of seven older girls were gathered. They all wore their school uniforms which consisted of a black button up jacket (although they all had taken the jacket off since it was too hot for it) a white blouse that was tight enough to show off their well developed chests and a gray skirt that went down to a little above mid thigh, showing off plenty of leg. They were watching the duels with interest, with Sugar being their focus for now. "Oh wow!" A girl with pink hair done up like cotton candy said. "That castle looks delicious!" One of the other girls who had long rainbow colored hair chuckled. "Only you would think a hologram looks delicious Pinkie Pie," she said. "That's funny coming from you Rainbow, considering you're jealous of your cards," a girl with long blonde hair had a cowboy hat said with a southern accent. "Of course I'm jealous Applejack!" The girl Rainbow said. "They have wings and can fly. That'd be so awesome!" "Well I'm interested to see how this kid uses his cards," a girl with purple hair with a light pink streak in it said, leaning on the rail. "If he has that spell..." "He must be using a Madolche deck, right Twilight?" A girl with red and gold hair said, join her friend by the railing. Twilight nodded. "Correct Sunset. After all, no other types of monsters benefit from it." "Well, I just hope he brings out some of the cute little animals that are in that set," a pink haired girl said in a quiet voice. "Oh I'm sure he will Fluttershy darling," a girl with elegantly curled purple hair said. "I wonder if I can get any inspiration from some of the royalty cards." "You know you could just look them up Rarity," Rainbow said with a roll of the eyes. "Seeing them in a picture is not the same as seeing them in person," Rarity stated matter of factly. The rest of the group chuckled before turning their attention back to the duel. Duel Field. DP 4000 Hand 5 Sugar 4000 Hand 4 "My turn," the duel proctor said. "I'll set one card facedown and then summon Zombie Master in attack mode!" A pale man in gray tattered robes and wild light purple hair rose from the ground with purple energy surrounding his hands (Lv4 1800/0000). "Now, attack his facedown card!" The man sent a blast of magic at the face down monster, causing it to flip up and reveal a girl in a cute witches outfit, pink hair and a fork tinted of a broomstick that had frosting an the one end appeared on the field. "You attacked my Madolche Magileine (Lv4 1400/1200). Her flip effect let's me add one Madolche monster from my deck to my hand." He picked on card from his deck and smirked. "Next my Madolche Chateau activates and gives my Madolche Magileine an extra 500 attack and defense." (1400-1900/1200-1700). The proctor grinned. "Sorry but my Zombie Master still destroys it!" The energy hit the small witch causing her to shatter. "Good thing for me that's what I was expecting. You see, when Magileine is destroyed by one of your cards and sent to the graveyard, I can shuffle her back to the deck. Or that would be the case if not for my Chateau letting me return her to my hand." The proctor grunted a bit before ending his turn. DP 4000 Hand 4 Sugar 4000 Hand 6 "I draw and activate my Double Summon, letting me call out both my Madolche Chouxvalier (Lv4 1700/1300) and Madolche Hootcake (Lv3 1500/1100) in attack mode!" A small boy with a musketeers hat and coat riding a blue pony with a green mane galloped onto the field from the castle with a candy cane sword in his hand. A large, well dress brown owl flew after him with a pancake on his head. Power flowed from the castle into them. (1700-2200/1300-1800) (1500-2000/1100-1600). "Next I activate my Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face down!" A large whirlwind whipped around the field before focusing on the Duel Proctor face down card and destroying it. "Now Hootcake, destroy his Zombie Master! And Chouxvalier, attack him directly!" The owl stuck it's wing inside of its coat before flinging it a out and launching...pancakes at the Zombie Master? They somehow managed to shatter the man into pixels before the small boy started to gallop forward with his sword raised. He slashed the proctor across the chest before trotting back to Sugar's side of the field. "And I end with that!" DP 1600 Hand 4 Sugar 4000 Hand 3 "Not bad kid," the proctor said. "Now I activate Polymerization to fuse the Snake Hair and Dragon Zombie in my hand to fusion summon Great Mammoth of Goldfine (Lv6 2200/1800)!" A skeletal gold mammoth appear on the field with a spot in its skull showing it had only one eye when it was alive. "Now, destroy Hootcake!" The skeleton charged the owl who began flying around in a panic before Chouxvalier moved in front of him. "What!" Sugar smirked before explaining. "You might want to rethink that. You see, if Chouxvalier is on the field, you can't attack any other Madolche monsters." The proctor growled. "Mammoth, stop your attack! I'm forced to end my turn then." DP 1800 Hand 2 Sugar 4000 Hand 3 "My time to shine then!" Sugar drew his card and began to chuckle. "Looks like I win this." "What do you mean?" "I mean I just drew the one spell I needed. I activate the magic of Cost Down! By discarding one card I can lower the level of the monsters in my hand by two. So I discard Madolche Magileine in order to summon Madolche Puddingcess! (Lv5-3 1000-1500/1000-1500)" A small blonde girl with a Tiara and a dress that looked to be made of chocolate and vanilla pudding with whipped topping frills. "Sorry, but with that little attack total you won't be winning this duel yet." Sugar smirked at the proctor and glanced at Puddingcess who grinned back. "Good thing my Hootcake has an ability as well. I can remove one monster card from my graveyard in order to summon one more Madolche monster from my deck. And I choose Madolche Mewfeuille (Lv3 500- 1000/300-800)." A tired pink cat appeared on Sugars head with a fancy hat, looking around before falling asleep. Many girls in the arena could be heard "Awwwing!!" at the sight. Fluttershy for one was having a cute-gas up with her friends. "As cute as that cat is, it won't..." the Duel Proctor was cut off. "I wasn't finished yet. Now I have no monsters in my grave which gives Puddingcess another 800 extra attack and defense! (1500-2300/1500-2300) Now Puddingcess! Destroy his Mammoth!" The small blonde flew over the gold creature before waving her hand. Suddenly a bunch of deserts appeared around her before slamming down into the beast destroying it. "Now Chouxvalier, finish this!" With one final charge, the small knight struck the Proctor hard in the chest. DP 0000 Sugar 4000 WINNER The crowds cheered as they saw the young boy get a perfect victory against his proctor. He pulled a lollipop from his pocket and began to suck on it as he made his way back to his seat. "That was awesome dude!" Micro cheered as he high fived the other boy. "Thanks man," he said before noticing Spike. "Nice to meet ya. My name's Sugar Rush." "Spike Drago. That was some duel." "Yeah. Had a few strategies but thankfully the first worked out well. So, you duel yet?" "Not yet. Just got here." They would've continued but they heard a voice over the loudspeaker. "Micro Chip please report to duel field 3." "Well, looks like I'm up," the glasses wearing boy said. "Good luck," the two other boys said as they took their seats and saw the other boy face his proctor. "So, do you know what his deck is like?" Spike asked. Sugar grinned. "He showed me some of it. But I can't wait to see it in action." The two watched their new friend as he activated his duel disk. "DUEL!"