//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 Brawl in the Bathhouse // Story: MLP Duel Academy // by Twistedphoenix1 //------------------------------// Chapter 6 Brawl in the Bathhouse The girls dorm had a very simple common area. There were coaches set up around the room, a large TV was against the wall with a game system and dvd player hooked up. Off to the side was a well stocked kitchen for anyone who didn’t want to all the way to the main cafeteria for a snack. There was also a door that lead to a large bathhouse. It was a wonderful addition for the girls. They had a spot to relax, soak, and overall just enjoy themselves. Granted each dorm room had a shower but it wasn’t the same as the large hot springs like set up the bathhouse had. On the other hand it was a constant pain for the boys to deal with. One of the obvious rules of them living in the dorms was no perverted shenanigans, and having a large bathhouse where a bunch of girls would go at a time to hang out, talk, and soak (in either towels or NAKED, the boys weren’t sure) connected to the main common area was a sore temptation. Speaking of the boys… The door to the dorm opened up and Spike, Sugar, and Micro dragged their way in. They were in white t-shirts that had sweat stains on them and black shorts with bags slung over their shoulders. “That was terrible!” Micro complained. “Why did coach Iron Will have to work us so hard on our first day of class?” Sugar whined as they collapsed on the couch. “‘If you want to get tough, your workout must be rough!’” Spike quoted, getting a pained chuckle from his friends. “At least we had no more classes scheduled today.” Micro said. The other guys for the most part had other classes after gym and those that didn’t obviously went to their dorm to rest. Sugar smirked at his friends “Well you guys have to admit there was one good thing about class.” The boys looked up dreamily. “The girls class,” they said. Their gym class took place right next to the track where the girls were doing their runs. Their gym uniform consisted of tight white shirts and tight red short shorts. The shirts showed their breasts off nicely as they jiggled while running meanwhile the red shorts did the same for their rears. In hindsight, it was a nice gym class after all. “Too bad that Diamond Tiara girl was there to,” Micro grumbled while his two friends groaned. The little brat had tried to get them in trouble when she saw them staring. Thankfully coach Spitfire didn't seem shocked by this and told her to get over it, especially since the other guys in class were also staring. “Did you see Rainbow and those other girls leading the pack?” Spike asked. Sugar and Micro nodded with Micro thinking for a moment. “If i’m correct those girls were some of the girls track team,” he said. “The Wonderbolts.” “I wouldn’t mind going to a few of their track meets,” Sugar said. His friends nodded. They went to stand up when they remembered just how sore they were. “Almost forgot what we went through to be able to view that,” Micro muttered. Sugar struggled to raise his head and saw the entrance to the bathhouse when a thought came to mind. Pulling himself up, he went over to the door. “What are you doing!” Spike yelled. “We could get expelled!” Sugar ignored him for the moment and went on to the door. He knocked on it and put his ear to the door. “Hello!” he called. “Anyone in there!” When he heard no response he opened the door and went into the changing room at the front of the bath. “What is that idiot doing!?” Micro groaned. Spike shook his head. He didn't know. All he knew was that if he was caught by someone, they'd be out. “Hey guys there's no one in here!” Sugar shouted. He appeared in the doorway again. “We have it all to ourselves.” “Are you sure?” Spike asked. Sugar sighed. “Well unless they decided to walk here naked, soak naked, and are planning on going back to their dorms naked since there’s no clothes here or towels missing, yeah, I'm pretty sure. Plus no one answered me when I shouted so...” “Well I'm in,” Micro said. “After dealing with that workout my body could use the relaxation.” Spike thought for a moment. “But what if girls come back before we finish? I they come in and find us they could think we were trying to spy on them.” “We could always put a sign up,” Sugar suggested. He rummaged through his bag and pulled out a notebook he used for earlier classes. He tore out a sheet of paper and wrote a short note on it before making a small hole above the words and putting it on the door knob. ‘In use. Spike, Sugar, and Micro.’ “That should take care of it,” Sugar said. “Now let's relax!” The other two looked at each other and shrugged before following their friend in. Shortly after they went in however, the door to the dorms slammed open again. “Ugh!” Diamond Tiara groaned as she entered the room, followed by Silver Spoon. Both were in the white shirt and red short from gym glass. “How dare that she devil push us so hard on our first day. Wait until my daddy hears about this.” Silver Spoon simply sighed. She knew Diamonds dad would simply dismiss it. After all, it was gym class what else were they gonna do. “And then those boys!” Diamond said. “Those dirty perverts were fantasizing about everyone of us and they still let them live here! I wouldn't be shocked if they stay up half the night thinking of ways to spy on us all!” “I don't think they…” Silver started, only to be silenced by a glare. “Well, at least we can now relax in…” Diamond goes to grab the door handle but feels the paper on it. She looked down at the note and as she read it her blood began to boil. “Those….those JERKS! How dare they use the bathhouse! That is supposed to be for girls only!” Silver had to bite her tongue lest she make her friend angry again. Technically there was no rule against them using it. And since they put a sign up...That was when she saw the look on her friends face. “Diamond...what are you…” “When do you think the rest of gym class will be back?” Silver was shocked by the question. “Well...most of the others have classes scheduled afterwards while the track girls were asked to stay and talk to Spitfire. If any of them don't have class, they should be back any minute.” “Perfect,” Diamond grinned. She tore the paper off the handle and crumbled it up before throwing it at the trash can. “What are you…!?” “If they didn't put a sign up, then they must've meant to spy on any girl coming in. So long as at least one of those track girls shows up and wants to bathe…” Diamond started laughing a little while her friend looked uneasy. “Are you sure we should be doing this?” Silver asked. “I mean...it seems wrong….” “It was wrong of them to be allowed to stay here, let alone use the bath. Sadly, now we have to use the shower up stairs. I get first go.” And with that the spoiled girl made her way upstairs. With a quick look back at the door, Silver Spoon followed. Bath a few minutes later The three boys were standing at the edge of one of the large pools of water that made up the huge hotsprings like bathhouse. They were currently shirtless and had towels wrapped tightly around their waists to cover themselves. “This is amazing!” Micro said. “No wonder the girls spent so much time in here last night!” After Twilight showed them around she had told the three of them to get relaxed why she and the others took a bath. The boys released in the main common room waiting for over an hour before they finally came out. “Well my friends,” Spike said. “Our turn.” They started wading into the water, adjusting to the heat as they went over to one of sides and sat down. “That already feels better,” Sugar said. “My soreness is melting away. Didn't I tell you this was a good idea?” “Sorry we doubted you,” Spike said. “Yeah man,” Micro said, defogging his glasses a little. “This was a great plan.” That was when they heard voices. “Man, that was a hard first gym class.” “Well you heard Spitfire. We have to be ready for the first competition.” “And practice will be a lot harder.” The boys tensed up. “Never mind,” Micro said. “THIS WAS A HORRIBLE PLAN!” “This doesn’t make sense,” Sugar said. “Why would they come in here after we hung up the sign!?” “It doesn’t matter,” Spike said. “We just have to get out before they notice…” The door opened and three girls walked in with towels wrapped around themselves. The three boys ducked down and hid as far under the water as possible, only their eyes and hair were peeking out. The one had Blue hair with a white streak that seemed to defy gravity. The other two both had pure white hair. One had it combed back into spikes and the other grew her’s long with two large bangs towards the front. The long haired girl also had tanned skin. “Huh, I don’t see anyone else here Gilda,” The girl with spikes said to the long haired girl. The boys sighed as they realized the steam was enough to hide them. “That’s weird,” Gilda said. “You saw the bags in the changing room to, right Misty?” She asked the blue haired girl. “Yeah,” she said. “So did Fleetfoot.” The spike haired girl nodded at that. The boys were dumbfounded as they saw the three track girls clad in only towels. “Holy cow,” Spike said. The other two nodded as they were stuck staring at the three girls as well. Micro was the first to recover. “Guys, we have to get out of here.” The other two snapped out of it and nodded. They start inching their way around the edge of the pool, praying that they didn’t get caught. They were almost to the exit when Sugar raised his knee to get out of the pool and banged it on the edge. “OW!” He gasped before slamming a hand over his mouth. “Wha…” The girls turned and saw the three boys. “Um…” Spike started. “Hi…” “AAHHHHHH!” Fleetfoot and Misty yelled. Gilda marched over to the boys and glared down at them. “And what the hell do you think doing here?” She asked angrily. “Well...you see…” Micro started. “We were sore after gym class, so we came in here…” “To the bathhouse in a dorm where every other person who would show up is a girl?” Fleetfoot said. “A likely story,” Misty said. “I bet you just came here to try and spy on any girls that come in.” “No! Honest!” Sugar said. “We even hung a sign on the door!” “Now we know you’re lying,” Fleetfoot said. “There was no sign on the door.” “What?” Spike said. “But we definitely…” “Yeah right,” Misty said. “Just wait until we report you!” The three boys looked nervous before Sugar spoke up. “Please no!” Sugar said. “I’m the one that suggested relaxing in here. Even if you don’t believe the full story, just let me take the blame.” “Sugar no!” Spike said determined. “We hung the sign up. There’s no reason for you to take any blame.” “That’s right!” Micro said. “We don’t know what happened to the sign but we definitely hung it up!” Gilda looked at the boys and saw the fire in their eyes. She was taken a bit aback by this. “Girls,” she said. “Let's talk about this for a minute.” The other two were shocked but listened and stepped away from the boys. “What did you want to talk about Gilda,” Fleetfoot said. “Yeah,” Misty said. “Let’s just report these pervs.” “I actually think I believe them,” Gilda said. “WHAT!” the other two said. “Look, Dash vouched for these kids and just look at them.” They glanced over at the boys. “They don’t look like they are lying to me. And if Dash says they are cool, I think we can trust her.” The other two looked at each other before nodding. “Ok,” Fleetfoot said. “So, we just let them go?” Gilda smirked. “No...I have an idea.” Meanwhile the boys were nervous. “What do we do if they decide to report us?” Micro said. “I don’t know,” Sugar said. “But as I said it was my idea. I should be the only to receive any punishment.” “No,” Spike said. “If you get in trouble, we get in trouble.” “Guys…” Sugar said. “Well if you feel so guilty,” Gilda said turning around. “How about you duel me?” “What?” Sugar asked shocked. “We duel here and now. If you win, you guys get off scot free. If you lose…” “You report us,” Sugar finished. The peppermint haired boy went up to the girl and stuck out his hand. “You got a deal.” The tan girl smirked and shook his hand before they grabbed their duel disks and decks from the changing room. They went back to bathhouse and took their positions on two large rocks before starting. “DUEL!” G 4000 Hand 5 SR 4000 Hand 5 “Ladies first,” Gilda said, looking across at the boy. ‘Dash told me about the duel she saw at this kid’s entrance exam. If he’s as good as she said, this should be interesting.’ She looked at her and and smiled. “I start off by summoning my Cyber Harpie Lady! (Lv4 1800/1300)” A red haired lady with green wings on her arms appeared in purple armor with red tights covering her legs. A fiery whip was in her hand. “Next I proceed to activate the spell card Elegant Egotist! Since my Cyber Harpie is treated as Harpie Lady, I can special summon one Harpie Lady Sisters. (Lv6 1950/2100)” A trio of girls in gold armor. One with long red hair, one with short orange hair, and another with tall blue hair. “I’ll set this card face down and then it’s your turn.” G 4000 Hand 2 SR 4000 Hand 5 “Draw!” Sugar said. “Now I start off by activating Hand Destruction! We both discard and then draw two cards. Next I summon forth Madolche Hootcake it attack mode! (Lv3 1500/1100)” The pancake topped owl appeared next to the young duelist. “Next I use his effect, allowing me to banish the Mewfeuille I sent to the graveyard in order to special summon Madolche Messengelato from my deck! (Lv4 1600/1000)” A young blue haired boy appeared in a black outfit with a green bag. “Next Messengelato lets me Madolche spell or trap to my hand when it’s special summoned so long as I control a Beast type Madolche as well. And now I add and activate Madolche Chateau!” The field morphed into the familiar castle made of sweets as the water of the bath house seemed to turn to syrup. “Yuk!” Fleetfoot said as she tried to scramble out of the syrup, only to back into Spike. “You do remember this is just a hologram right?” Misty said before laughing as her friend had fallen on top of the green haired boy and was now sitting in his lap. Blushing, Fleetfoot scrambled up as Spike sat in the water with a blush and a smile on his face. “Now my monsters all gain 500 attack points!” Sugar said as power flowed from the castle to his monsters (1500-2000) (1600-2100). “Now Messengelato, Destroy her Sisters while Hootcake takes out Cyber!” The owl reached under its wing while Messengelato pulled a package out from his bag with a smirk. He tossed the package at the same time as the owl threw his pancake projectiles. The pancakes slammed into Cyber Harpie while the package was caught by the sisters. They all gathered around it, looking in anticipation as one of them reached for the string. After they pulled it off...BOOM! The whole package exploded in their faces. “Next I set a card and end my turn.” G 3650 Hand 2 SR 4000 Hand 3 “Not bad kid,” Gilda said as she drew. “But it’s time to meet the beast of your defeat!” “That doesn’t sound good,” Micro muttered. He of course had his glasses activated as he didn’t want to miss any good duel footage. “If she is about to summon one of the Harpie’s pets…” “First I start by activating my face down Hysteric Party! This lets me bring back my Cyber Harpie Lady! Next I summon the adorable Rescue Rabbit! (Lv4 300/100)” A small black and white rabbit with a yellow helmet and a cell phone around its neck appeared on the field. “But it won’t be around for long. I can now remove it in order to special summon two level four or lower normal monsters with the same name. So rise my two Harpie Ladies! (Lv4 1300/1400)” The small rabbit vanished in a swirl of wind while two redheads in bodysuits and blue wings appeared. “Next I think I’ll take all three of my Harpies and overlay them! In order to summon one of my Harpies precious pets! Rise Harpie’s Pet Phantasmal Dragon! (R4 2000/2500)” The three winged beasts vanished into a large vortex. Wind howled as the duelists and spectators both remembered they were still in their towels and quickly grabbed a hold of them to prevent them from falling off. Descending from the sky was a large red dragon that was connected to a small red haired harpy in a white and black bodysuit by a chain. “Not that one!” Micro muttered. “Why?” Spike asked. “Why is this card so dangerous?!” Misty and Fleetfoot both chuckled. “That’s Gilda’s strongest monster,” Misty said. “With that card on the field, it makes her almost untouchable,” Fleetfoot said. “Now my pet,” Gilda said grinning. “Attack Sugar Rush now!” “What are you doing!?” Sugar said. “Both my monsters are strong enough to take it down.” “But my dragon’s not attacking your monsters,” Gilda smirked. “So long as my dragon has an Xyz material on it it can bypass your monsters and hit you directly!” Sugar gasped as the dragon shot into the air above the two Madolches. It opened its mouth and shot a fireball at the young duelist. “Aagggh!” Sugar screamed. “Next I remove a material from my dragon at the end of my turn,” Gilda said. “And it’s back to you.” G 3650 Hand 2 SR 2000 Hand 3 Sugar stumbled on his rock as he gritted his teeth. ‘One more blow like that and I lose…’ he thought. ‘I can’t let that happen.’ “I draw! And I choose to activate my facedown! Madolche Waltz! Now whenever a Madolche monster battles another monster, after damage calculation, you take 300 damage! Next I summon forth Madolche Cruffssant (Lv3 1500/1200)” A small brown and white dog with a tiny top hat appeared running onto the field from the castle as power flowed into him (1500-2000). “Now I’ll have Messengelato destroy your dragon!” The delivery boy reached into his bag to pull out another package, only for the dragon to fade out of existence causing the boy to look around in confusion. “What happen!” Sugar cried. Gilda chuckled. “Sorry kid, but my dragon has a special ability. So long as it has an overlay unit, you can’t target any monster with Harpie in the title with effects or attacks!” Sugar went wide eyed at that. “Then my Waltz is useless!” he sighed as he slid one card face down and ended his turn. G 3650 Hand 2 SR 2000 Hand 2 “I draw!” Gilda looked at her cards and then over at Sugar. ‘I could just attack, but I doubt he will just let me get away with it. That face down shouldn’t be able to harm my Harpies, and his Waltz could become an issue if I choose to attack his monsters. If he manages to survive my dragon’s attack, this turn will more or less be thrown away if I don’t get anything else out on the field. So…’ “I discard my Harpie Queen in order to add Harpie’s Hunting Ground to my hand, which I proceed to activate!” The castle around the field started to collapse as the new field spell took effect, reducing the power of his Madolches. (2000-1500)(2000-1500)(2100-1600). Trees erupted from around the bathhouse as the field seemed to turn dry. “Now all winged beast monsters will get a 200 point boost. And speaking of winged beasts I summon forth Harpie Channeler! (Lv4 1400/1300)” A red haired Harpie matching the one that was holding the chain of the dragon appeared, staff in hand. She took roost in one of the nearby trees. (1400-1600) “As a side note since I have a dragon on the field Channeller becomes level 7. Now my field spell allows me to destroy any spell or trap since I summoned a Harpie! Say goodbye to your Waltz!” Channeler shot feathers out at the trap card and destroyed it. “Now! Phantasmal Dragon! Strike Sugar Rush directly!” The dragon took flight again and prepared to send a fireball at Sugar. “Sorry but it won’t be that easy! I activate my trap!” “Did you forget kid?” Misty asked. “You can’t target Harpie monsters with card effects!” Fleetfoot said. “As long as dragon has an overlay unit they’re immune!” “First of all,” Micro said, jumping in to defend his friend. “You’re wrong. Just because he stops him from targeting them doesn’t mean they’re immune.” Gilda looked at the machine duelist in mild surprise. ‘So he knows the loophole of this effect,’ she thought. “And second!” Sugar continued where Micro left off. “I’m not targeting your monsters in the first place! I activate Gift of the Mystical Elf! This grants me 300 life points for each monster on the field, and counting my Madolches and your two monsters that’s an extra 1500 points!” A healing light surrounded the young duelist right before the fireball hit. The blaze engulfed Sugar in a roar of fire. SR 2000-3500-1500 “Nice save kid,” Gilda said smiling. “Now I’ll have my Channeller attack Hootcake!” With another wave of her wing, the redhead sent another wave of feathers at Hootcake, destroying it. “And with another end phase my Dragon loses another unit.” G 3650 Hand 1 SR 1400 Hand 2 “My move. And I summon my Madolche Chikolates (Lv3 800/1500)!” A bunch of baby chicks covered in chocolate appeared to the field. “But they’re not sticking around long as I return them to the hand to raise Cruffssant’s attack points by 300 and level by one. (Lv3-4 1500-1800). Now I can overlay it with my Messengelato in order to summon my own Xyz monster. Rise, ruler of the Madolches and all things sweet! Queen Tiaramisu! (R4 2200/2100)” The puppy and delivery boy vanished as a woman in a elegant dress appeared with a scepter in her hand. “Cool card,” Gilda said. “But too bad you can’t do anything with it until next turn.” “True but it’s strong enough that your channeler can’t do anything to it! I set a card and end.” G 3650 Hand 1 SR 1400 Hand 2 “Fine,” Gilda said as she drew. “Phantasmal Dragon! Attack him directly to finish his life points!” “Sorry! But my facedown card has something to say about that. Go Mirror Wall!” A crystal barrier appeared before the young duelist as the dragon shot another fireball at him. As it passed through, it shrunk in size before slamming into Sugar. SR 1400-400 “Since my Mirror Wall doesn’t target your monster and instead places an effect on your side of the field as a whole, it still works. Meaning your monster loses half its strength when it attacks me!” “Not bad kid but you only bought yourself one more turn. Now I discard from my hand my Harpie Girl in order to activate my Channeler’s ability. I can summon a Harpie monster in defense position. So rise Harpie’s Pet Dragon! (Lv7 2000/2500)” A second red and black dragon appeared on Gilda’s side of the field. It looked similar to the Phantasmal beast, but more solid. “Next I proceed to overlay my now Lv7 Channeler with my Dragon! In order to summon Gaia Dragon the Thunder Charger! (R7 2600/2100)” A dragon wearing red armor appeared from a vortex as the other two monsters disappeared. A knight in matching armor holding two green lances was riding its back. “Next turn, even if you manage to destroy my Phantasmal Dragon, you still have my Gaia to deal with. I remove Phantasmal’s last unit as I end my turn.” G 3650 Hand 1 SR 400 Hand 2 As Sugar drew his card, he chuckled. “Sorry, but I don’t have to deal with either of your Dragons. Because now that your Phantasmal Dragon can’t activate its effect, I can use my Queen’s.” The regal woman chuckled as one of her Xyz unit vanished. “I can return two Madolches to the deck! So I choose Hootcake and Chateau!” “So? those two cards can’t help you in your deck!” Gilda said. “Who said that's the end? Now I can send two cards you control back to your deck as well!” Gilda gasped as she saw her dragons turn to light and return to the extra deck. “Next I summon from my hand Madolche Chouxvalier! (Lv4 1700/1300)” The small knight one his green horse, holding his candy cane sword appeared next to his Queen. “Now! Both of my monsters can attack you directly!” The Queen waved her scepter and sent a wave of different sweets that the knight galloped through them, charging with his sword at the ready. As the sweets collided with Gilda the Knight swung his blade sending the track girl flying off her rock and into the water. G 0000 SR 400 WINNER Spike and Micro cheered while Misty and Fleetfoot looked surprised. “That brat actually beat Gilda,” Misty muttered while Fleetfoot just nodded. Sugar made his way off the rock and back to his friends who high fived him. “Yes! You saved us!” Micro said. “We’re not getting expelled!” Spike echoed. “Thanks guys,” Sugar said. “I’m sorry I got us into this mess to begin with.” “Oh please,” they heard Gilda’s voice and turned to see her coming out from behind the rock she was standing on. “We weren’t going to expel you even if you lost.” She walked up to the boys and grinned. “Dash told me about you guys so I knew I could trust you, I just wanted to see how good you were, and you were great kid.” She stuck out her hand to shake Sugar’s, only to have him stare at her dumbfounded. Spike and Micro were as well “What are you boys staring at?” she turned to Misty and Fleetfoot to see them giggling. “And what's so funny to you two?” She crossed her arms under her breast as she glare at them. That was when she felt something off. She shifted her arms a bit and went wide eyed. She looked down and saw what she feared. “AAAAAHHHHHHHH!” Her towel had fallen off when she was sent flying into the water. She turned to the boys and saw them still staring at her. “GET OUT!!!” The boys snapped out of it and started bolting for the changing room since they didn’t want to push their luck with the girls. After changing, the boys left the bathhouse bags in hand. “Well that was interesting,” Spike said. “Most definitely,” Sugar said. That was when he saw something out of the corner of his eye. “Hold on a second…” He went over to the nearby trashcan and saw a ball of crumpled up paper. He opened it up and his eyes narrowed in anger. “What’s up man?” Spike asked. Sugar turned with paper in hand. “Look at this,” he said turning the paper around. His friends gasped as they saw it was the sign they put up. “Someone took it down?” Micro asked. “Yeah,” Sugar said. “And I can only think of one person who would benefit from that.” “Diamond Tiara,” Spike growled. That brat is the only one he could think of who would do that and try to get rid of them. “We’ll have to be careful from here on out. We don’t want one of her plans to succeed.” The other two nodded as they made their way up the stairs.