MLP Duel Academy

by Twistedphoenix1


Chapter 4 Duel of the Dorm Dilemma

Chapter 4 Duel of the Dorm Dilemma

In the main office of duel academy, a tall woman with aurora borealis like hair sat wearing a yellow suit jacket over a purple blouse and a purple pair of suit pants sat at her desk, looking through some papers about the new admissions this year. Her name was Celestia, the headmaster of the academy. She was just going through one file when the door opened up and her vice principal/sister Luna walked in.

She had dark blue hair with a few waves of very light purple. She wore a Navy suit jacket, dark purple blue underneath and black dress pants.

"Sister, I just discovered a small problem with the new admissions," Luna said as she approached her sister's desk with a file in hand.

"What is it Luna?" Celestia asked as she knew her sister wasn't one to interrupt without precedence.

"I was going over our number of students for the dorms and somewhere along the lines someone's made a miscount. After organizing the students into their rooms, I discovered we have two rooms left but six students. Three girls and three boys."

"Well that's not a huge problem, we've had three people share a room before."

"The problem is in which rooms are available." Pulling a photo from the file, Luna showed it to Celestia. Looking it over, Celestia's eyes widened.

"Oh..."

"Yes, oh indeed. Now normally we'd eliminate the ones with the lowest test scores but a out of all our new male students (which wasn't a whole lot) they all scored about even. I was thinking first come first serve and have the three boys that applied last get delayed admittion until next year." Celestia had a thoughtful look on her face before a mischievous smile appeared.

"Actually, I think we might be able to work something out." Luna narrowed her eyes.

"Celestia, I know that look. What are you planning?" Celestia began looking through her files again and found one she was looking for.

"Well, this is Duel Academy. I think we know how to settle this problem, and keep everyone happy." Luna though for a moment before her eyes widened.

"Tia you can't be serious!"

"Of course I am. Now, which one of them scored the best out of the three?" Luna double checked her files.

"Well Micro Chip and Spike Drago did about even with Sugar Rush a bit behind them and Spike and Sugar both scored even on there duels while Micro a little less due to the small damage he took." Celestia though about it for a moment.

"So Spike did better overall it seems. Well, then the best of those three shall duel the best female applicant to see if they can stay." Luna pinched the bridge of her nose.

"I can't believe we're even discussing this." Celestia grinned and passed the file to Luna. Luna looked at who it was and groaned. "You know she only got the best grade because of her father's money."

Celestia simply shrugged before sipping her coffee.

A few days later, in the Duel Academy entrance hall, all the new students were gathered. Girls wore there jackets, blouses, and skirts while the boys wore button up jackets and black pants. Spike, Sugar and Micro were standing next to each other talking.

"So you actually can record anything with those glasses?" Sugar asked. Micro chuckled

"Yeah, though I do set rules for myself. Namely not using it in theaters. I have regular glasses to switch to in order to prevent myself from doing it."

"Makes sense," Spike said. "So what do you do Sugar?" The boy shrugged.

"I helped part time in my family's candy store. It was a good way to meet some local duelists. We even had a few tables set up."

"So Spike, what about you? What did you do before you got accepted? Besides meeting hot older girls." Spike sheepishly chuckled.

"Well I..." They were cut off when a voice spoke up.

"Students please settle down," a voice said. The boys as well as the other students looked up and saw w Luna and Celestia standing by the microphone.

"Now, we know you are all excited to be here and are eager to check out your dorm rooms but we have a few announcements," Luna said. "First, a quick overview of the campus rules." Before Luna could continue, Celestia coughed into her hand and spoke up.

"Actually, I believe that they can go over that in their rule books in the dorms. We actually have a special announcement." Luna's eye twitched a little at that before going back to normal.

"Yes. As some of you received notices, we will be requiring some of you to share three to a room rather than the standard two."

Some students nodded. Spike and his friends grinned at each other. They were lucky to have a room together. Three girls nearby nodded as well. One had long red hair, another purple and pink hair, and the third short, reddish purple hair.

"What some of you don't know, is that there was a miscount on some of the rooms," Celestia continued. "Namely those in the boys dorm." The boys all looked at eachother and wondered what was going on.

"Now, we have a solution, though it is a little unorthodox." Luna glanced at her sister.

"We have discussed with some of the older students and they have agreed to give it a try, and allow the three boys who wouldn't fit in the usual boys dorm to stay in the girls dorm."

That got a lot of murmuring. Some girls were speaking against it, some were considering it, and the boys were just imagining it.

"Now I know what you all might be thinking, but we do have rules set up, and the dorm room for them is set up on the same floor as some girls who already know the boys and support the idea." With this, Luna gestured for someone else to come on stage and the three friends were shocked to see Twilight take the stage.

"Wait," Micro muttered to his friends. "If she is one of the ones that supported the idea and know the boys...are the boys they are talking about...us?" Spike and Sugar went wide eyed at that thought.

"As Principle Celestia said," Twilight started. "My friends and I know the three boys who would be staying in the dorm and they are a perfect gentleman. The room they would be staying in is on the same floor as me and my friends so we would keep an eye on them."

The girls were a little more accepting of that. At least they would have some older students watching them to prevent any...incidents. meanwhile the three boys who knew they were the ones being talked about were blushing. After all, while they were gentlemen and wouldn't act on their thoughts, they still had them and being in the same dorms as the girls...

"Now, we know some of you still won't accept this so we decided to settle this in the most appropriate way for this school," Celestia said. "With a duel between the top new female student and the top duelist among the three who would be staying in the girls dorm. So, would Spike Drago please come up to the stage?"

Spike was stunned for a moment as his two friends were trying to contain their excitement. The other two pushed their friend forward before he eventually came to his senses and went up. Twilight smiled at him and mouthed good luck before heading off stage again.

"Now for the top female applicant, Diamond Tiara." This was met with some groans from the audience as a girl with white and purple hair wade her way up to the stage.

"Not her," the red head next to Micro and Sugar said with her two friends nodding.

"Why" Sugar asked. "Who is she?"

"Just some arrogant brat that thinks because her dad has money she can do whatever she likes," the girl with the red purple hair said.

"Yeah I saw her entrance duel," Micro said. "Her proctor seemed to just let her win. I'm Micro Chip by the way, and this is Sugar Rush."

"Nice to meet you," the pink and purple hair girl said. "I'm Sweetiebelle, this is Applebloom and Scootaloo." The red head and short haired girl (AB and S respectively) smiled at the two boys. "I just hope Spike beats that brat."

"You know him," Sugar asked confused.

"Not personally," Applebloom said. "Our older sister's told us about him but we never met him personally."

On stage

"Now, if Spike wins, he and his friends shall stay in the extra room in the girls dorm. If Diamond Tiara wins, Spike and the others will have to wait until next year to be admitted." Spike gulped at that. Both his and his friends chances at this school were on the line.

"Hope you're ready to wait loser boy," Diamond Tiara said, adjusting an actual Tiara in her hair. "My daddy bought the best cards he could find for me and hired the best duel teachers." Spike's eyes narrowed.

'Based on the bragging, she's the one Micro said probably bought her way into the school. This should be a easier than I thought.'

"Are you two ready?" Luna asked. The two nodded and activated their duel disks.

"LET'S DUEL!"

DT 4000 Hand 5
SD 4000 Hand 5

“Ladies first,” Spike said. In the audience Scootaloo snorted saying ‘What lady?’ getting a chuckle from the others.

“Oh, such a gentleman,” Diamond Tiara said sarcastically. “You’ll regret it when you and your friends wind up being sent home! I start by activating the spell card Cost Down. By discarding a card, I can lower the level of all monsters in my hand by 2. Next I activate my Double Summon spell! So now I can set both of these monsters directly from my hand!”

Two face down cards appeared in the defensive position on Diamond Tiara’s side of the field, getting Spike and the audience to raise an eye brow.

“Why would she use Cost Down just to set a card?” Applebloom asked.

“It probably was to set a stronger monster with high defense,” Micro said. He pulled out his handheld and began cycling through his records of the entrance duels. He cursed under his breath. “Just as I thought. When I saw the proctor was taking it easy on her, I stopped recording the duel. I don’t know her deck.” He made sure his video glasses were working and began to watch the duel intently. If this girl had even some strategy to her deck, it was worth knowing.

“And with that, I end my turn,” Tiara said.

DT 4000 Hand 1
SD 4000 Hand 5

“My move! And I Summon up my Armed Dragon Lv3! (Lv3 1200/900)” The yellow and gray dragon appeared on the field in front of the young duelist. “But he won’t be around for long as I remove him to summon Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon! (Lv10 2800/2400)”

In a swirl of metal and fire, the smaller dragon vanished as the roaring metallic dragon took the field.

“And then I use his effect to special summon the Red-Eyes Wyvern! (Lv4 1800/1600)” The brown dragon beast took flight next to the larger metal one. “Now, Darkness Metal, attack the left face down!”

The large beast drew back its head and shot a ball of shrapnel and fire at the one face down. It flipped up to reveal a small fairy girl with a green hat and a gold coin in her hand. The girl saw the fireball and hid behind her coin before being hit and being destroyed.

“Sorry, but you just destroyed my Prediction Princess Coinorma (Lv3 800/1400). When she is flipped summoned, I get to set another flip monster from my deck that’s level 3 or higher.” Another monster appeared to take the Coinorma’s place face down. Spike narrowed his eyes.

‘I can attack the new monster, but its flip effect might stop my attack and leave her with two monsters. As for the other monster, I don’t know. It might have too high a defense, and be another flip monster. Then again, if the only restriction on Coinorma’s effect means it has to be higher than level 3, then it might be too strong for me to destroy as well. I might as well attack the one that might not be a flip monster and see what happens…’

“Wyvern! Attack the right face down!” The smaller dragon shot a ball of flames at the other monster and it flipped up revealing a woman in a blue and purple dress, blue headdress, with pink skin. She had a crystal ball in front of her.

“You just Targeted Prediction Princess Crystaldine (Lv5 1400/2200)!”

“No!” The fire ball was absorbed into the crystal ball and out flew a weaker one that hit Spike directly.

SD 3600

“And that’s not all. With Crystaldine’s effect, I get to add a ritual monster from my hand. And I choose my Prediction Princess Tarotrei.” Micro’s eyes widened as he searched through his database and pulled up the card.

“Oh no…"

“What is it man?” Sugar asked.

“I was wrong. It seems she isn’t someone who just gets by on her dad’s money. If I’m correct about what she may have planned, it could cripple Spike.” The other four around him looked shocked by this.

“No way,” Sweetiebelle said. They all looked up as Spike was forced to end with a face down.

DT 4000 Hand 2
SD 3600 Hand 2

“I draw. And from my hand I activate Prediction Ritual! Now by sending Crystaldine from my field and Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands from my hand to summon the ritual monster Prediction Princess Tarotrei! (Lv9 2700/1200)”
The girl with the crystal ball vanished as well as the monster from Tiara’s hand and in its place a woman covered entirely in blue robes, with golden arms sticking out appeared on the field. It glowed with power.

“Next I flip summon the face down Prediction Princess Petalelf (Lv3 800/700)!” A woman in a pink and purple outfit appeared with a mask over her face. “Next, her effect triggers. She forces all of your monsters in attack mode to switch to defense mode.” Spike watched as his dragons were forced to their knees. “Now, Tarotrei! Destroy his Darkness Metal Dragon!”

As the woman sent a burst of energy at Spike’s monster, a barrier rose up between them and absorbed it.

“Sorry, but my Negate Attack stops your attack and ends the battle phase,” Spike declared, causing Diamond Tiara to growl.

“Fine. I decide to use Tarotrei’s effect to re-set Petalelf. Then in the end phase, I can set one Prediction Princess from my graveyard, and I chose the one I discarded for my Cost Down. Prediction Princess Astromorrigan (Lv3 1300/0000).”
A girl with a blue-green and white dress appeared with blue hair done in pig tails and a sun and moon mask on her face. The figure disappeared as it was placed face down.

DT 4000 Hand 0
SD 3600 Hand 2

As Spike drew, he looked at Tiara's monsters.

"My move! And I switch my dragons back to attack mode!" Spike waited for his dragons to take the offensive again, but to his surprise, nothing happened.

"Didn't I tell you? When Petalelf switches a monster to defense, it can't change its battle position." Spike growled as he realized one of his most powerful monsters was now stuck in defense.

"Fine, but that doesn't stop me from activating Darkness' effect! I use it to special summon Divine Dragon Lord Felgrand from my hand! (Lv8 2800/2800)"

A brillante gold and silver dragon took the field next to Spike's other dragons.

"Next I sacrifice my Wyvern to summon Red-Eyes Archfiend of Lightning. (Lv6 2500/1200)" A black and purple skeletal creature with leathery wings and piercing red eyes took the smaller dragon's place. "Now Felgrand! Strike down Tarotrei!" As the dragon reared back its head, Diamond spoke up.

"Sorry, but Tarotrei’s effect can be activated once each players turn. So I use it to re-flip my Petalelf!" Said monster appeared back on the field in front of Felgrand and Archfiend. It's effect was triggered and the two monsters were forced to defense. Spike cursed.

"I have to end with a face down then," he said, sliding his card into its slot.

DT 4000 Hand 0
SD 3600 Hand 1

"Time to end this!" Diamond said as she drew.

"I don't think so! I activate Threatening Roar! Now you can't attack this turn." Diamond stomped her foot.

"You're just delaying the inevitable! I flip summon Astromorrigan!" The masked girl appeared again, this time glowing and cackling. "And like my other princesses she has a flip effect. Now all face up defense position monsters on you side of the field are destroyed and for each one you take 500 points of damage!"

The crowd gasped as all three of Spikes monsters were destroyed by Astromorrigan. Spike grunted as the damage hit.

SD 2100

"Next I use Tarotrei’s effect to re-set Petalelf again and the end phase effect to set Coinorma from the grave."

DT 4000 Hand 1
SD 2100 Hand 1

"Come on Spike!" Sugar yelled. "You can turn this around!" The peppermint haired boy turned to Micro. "He can turn thus around right?" Micro thought for a moment before answering.

"It definitely is possible. Almost anything is possible in a duel. Any card can turn a duel on its head. As for this situation...if he can special summon Felgrand...." He looked up at Spike as he drew his card. When his friend smirked, his eyes widened. "And I think he can." The others looked up at the green haired duelist.

"I activate the spell card Premature Burial!" Spike declared. "By paying 800 life points, I can now special summon a monster from the graveyard. And I choose to bring back my Divine Dragon Lord Felgrand!" The dragon roared back to the field, but Diamond Tiara wasn't intimidated.

"So what? All I have to do is activate Tarotrei's effect and it won't be able to do anything."

"Sorry, but that's where you're wrong. You see when Felgrand is summoned from the graveyard, I get to select one monster you control and destroy it! And I choose Tarotrei!" The robed woman cowered as the dragon loomed over her before its head shot down and consumed her. "And when he does, Felgrand gains attack and defense equal to that monster's level times 100!" (2800-3700)

"Yeah! Show her who's boss!" Applebloom cheered. Sugar and Micro sighed in relief. Now they had a chance to stay.

"Now Felgrand! Destroy her Astromorrigan!" A beam of white light shot out of the monster's mouth as it roared, engulfing the Prediction Princess and shattering it. "And with that I end."

DT 1600 Hand 1
SD 1300 Hand 1

'That little punk,' Diamond thought. 'He thinks I'm out of this, well he has another thing coming.'

"I flip summon Petalelf in order to switch Felgrand to defense mode. Next I use her as a sacrifice in order to set another card from my hand. And with that, I end."

DT 1600 Hand 1
SD 1300 Hand 1

'No matter what he does, I'll be able to re-summon Tarotrei and start the loop all over again. If he does manage to summon a monster to attack me, and he attacks Coinorma, I'll flip my second Crystaldine next turn and add Tarotrei back to my hand and sacrifice Crystaldine and the monster I summon with Coinorma to bring her back out to the field. If he attacks Crystaldine, I'll add Tarotrei, and next to flip Coinorma for a second sacrifice.' She looked at the second Prediction Ritual in her hand. 'Either way he'll lose.'

Spike looked at the one card in his hand.

'I just need to draw that card,' he thought. 'I have the sacrifice needed, I just need that monster and...' with a deep breath, he drew his second card. The entire audience was silent while his friends were biting their lips. He held it out for a moment, hesitant to look at it before holding it up to his face.

Bingo

"This was a great duel, and it definitely had me on my toes. But it ends here! I wanted to keep this particular card a surprise but I have to win this. I activate the ritual spell Chaos Form! And I use Felgrand as the eight star sacrifice!" A swirl of black mist appeared above Spike. Lightning cracked as Felgrand was sucked into the vortex.

"What the heck is happening!"Scootaloo shouted as the wind in the area picked up.

"Micro! Have you seen this card before!" Sugar called. Micro was holding onto his glasses as he watched in awe.

"Seen...no. I've never seen it. But I have heard about this card. It is a powerful ritual spell that can be used to summon a few famous monsters. Magician of Black Chaos. Black Luster Soldier...but one card requires it to be summoned. And given Spike uses a dragon deck..."

"Now rise from the void! Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon! (Lv8 4000/0000)" Out of the mist descended a dragon that looked to be made of grey and white metal. Multiple blue lights pulsed from its body, wings, and head.

Celestia and Luna looked up at that card in shock.

"Sister," Luna whispered. "How does a student have that card?"

"I don't know Luna," Celestia whispered. "I just don't know."

"Well we have to do something!"

"And what can we do dear sister? We can't just tell him he can't attend due to something he has no control over." Luna conceded at that point. They both turned back to the duel.

"Now Chaos MAX Dragon! Strike down her left face down!" The dragon glowed a brilliant white as it sent a powerful stream of lightning at the one card, which flipped up to reveal Crystaldine, who quickly shattered. As the dust cleared, Diamond began smirking.

"Oh, did you forget I don't take damage if my monster is in defense. Well too bad. now I activate Crystaldine to add Tarotrei back to my hand from the graveyard." She was about to retrieve her card when Spike laughed. "What are you laughing about loser? Once Tarotrei is brought back I can...

"But she's not coming back. You see, like all your cards, my dragon has a special effect. When it attacks a defense position monster, I take the piercing damage, double it, and inflict it directly to your life points!" Diamond gasped as the light's all over the dragon's body shone brightly and shot small beams of light at her. She screamed as her life points dropped completely.

DT 0000
SD 1300 WINNER

The holograms faded as the crowd cheered. Spike's friends rushed him and hoisted him up on their shoulders as Diamond Tiara was approached by a girl with glasses and silver hair.

"It's ok Diamond," she said. "It was still a good duel." She went to pat the girl on the shoulder, only to have Diamond pull away.

"I lost! There's nothing good about it Silver Spoon!" With that she stormed off with Silver Spoon trying to keep up.
"Way to go Spike!" Sugar said as he and Micro let him down.

"How the heck did you get Chaos MAX Dragon!?" Micro asked. "Last I checked Seto Kaiba had the only Blue-eyes cards there were." Spike looked a little sheepish.

"Well, he actually had a contest a while back. Whoever won his tournament, would be given any one thing his company could give."

"So you asked for the Chaos MAX?" Sugar asked.

"No. I actually asked for a duel against him." Many of the surrounding students gasped.

"You dueled Seto Kaiba?!" Sweetiebelle asked.

"How did you do?" yelled Scootaloo.

"How close did you come to winning?" Applebloom asked.

"Well, I didn't do the best. But It wasn't too bad either. He actually told me he was impressed. He told me that he would contact Industrial Illusions and have a special gift sent to me since I use a dragon deck. Chaos MAX was one of the cards."

"Wait," Micro said, picking up on something. "One of the cards? What others cards were there?"

"Now now students," Celestia said. "I think we've had enough excitement. It is getting late and classes will be starting tomorrow. It is time to head to your dorms." The students all filed out of the entrance hall while Spike, Micro, Sugar, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetiebelle were approached by Twilight.

"That was an amazing duel Spike," she said. "Now come on. I'll be showing you your dorm rooms."

As Twilight led the six of them away from the entrance hall, Celestia and Luna watched them with interest, mainly Spike.

"You know what him playing that card means right sister?" Luna asked. Celestia nodded.

"I know the prophecy well sister. 'When students call on Chaos' might, and dragons dark do take flight, into the skies of these great halls, light and harmony both shall fall.' Those were the words of that beast before he vanished."
"We have to prepare for the worst."

"Of course. But don't let the students know. We don't want to cause a panic." Luna nodded and left her sister alone. With a deep breath, Celestia looked up at the ceiling. "I was hoping to avoid this battle. Looks like that was too much to hope for."

Meanwhile Spike, Micro and Sugar were setting up their stuff in there dorm room.

"Well this is an interesting turn of events," Spike said.

"Yeah," Sugar said. "In a dorm surrounded by attractive girls. Definitely a good start to the year. Especially being on the same floor as that Pinkie Pie girl."

"I kinda like Twilight and Sunset," Micro admitted. "What about you Spike?"

"Well...I've kind have had a crush on Rarity for years now," he said blushing. The others chuckled a bit before they saw that it was getting late. "Well guys, with classes starting tomorrow we better turn in." The other two agreed and climbed into their beds to get rested for the next day.

Outside of their dorm room, a shadowy figure floated.

"So your the student that opened up the door for chaos huh," the creature laughed. "Well then, I'll be sure to make this a most interesting year for you." With one last cackle, the creature took off into the sky, fading into the night.