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// Freshman Year: Duel 7 
// Story: Yu-Gi-Oh! Friendship is Dueling 0 
// by Bahamut0 
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	The next week, Burst had a crazy idea. He noticed Hoops and his goons trying to pick on Rainbow again. "Hey punks! Guess who can take you on in a duel now!" Hoops let out a chuckle.

"This oughta be good! Bring it!"

Burst: 4000
Hoops: 4000

"I got the first turn! I play the field spell U.A. Stadium! Next I'll summon U.A. Midfielder! Now I can add another U.A. monster from my deck to my hand! Then I'll set a card and end my turn!" 'Heh! This wimp probably has the weakest cards if he just put together a deck!'

"I draw!", Burst said as he drew a card. 'Yes! Just what I need!' "I'll summon Maiden with Eyes of Blue and set a card! I end my turn!"

"Hah! You send out a weak monster like that to fight? I'll send it to the penalty box! Midfielder! Attack his Maiden!"

"Not so fast! I activate Maiden's effect! When she's targeted for an attack, I can negate the attack and special summon a Blue Eyes White Dragon from my hand deck or graveyard!" Hoops' jaw dropped when Blue Eyes was summoned from Burst's deck! 'So much for all that attitude earlier!'

"I..I end my turn!"

"My turn then! I draw! Nice! I play The Melody of Awakening Dragon! I discard a card to add two dragon-type monsters with 3000 or more attack and 2500 or less defense to my hand! Now I play Ancient Rules to special summon Blue Eyes White Dragon from my hand! Now I'll attack your Midfielder!"

"Not so fast! I activate my trap! U.A. Penalty Box! At the start of the damage step, I can banish the monster that battles my U.A. monster!"

"I don't think so! I activate my own trap! Chamion's Vigilance to negate and destroy your trap!"

"No!", Hoops wailed as his Midfielder was destroyed! 'I can't bench his monster!'

"It's not over yet! I can still attack with my other Blue Eyes! White Lightning!" Hoops shielded himself as his life points dropped to zero! "And that's game!" Hoops and his cronies ran as fast as they could! 'That'll teach them a lesson!' Burst then looked to Blue-Eyes. 'We did it Blue-Eyes! Our first duel, and we won!' Rainbow Dash laughed as Hoops and his goons ran away like wimps.

"Thanks for the save Burst! Looks like you got to test your new deck sooner than we thought! Hey, you wanna go to the Freshman Fair? The others are already there!" Burst nodded.

"Let's go!" Burst met with the others as they all had fun with the games. "You know, thanks for making this year good so far."

"No prob. dude!", Inferno said as they shared a fist bump. "Let's make sure we always remember this!" The group then went to the photo area and had a picture taken. "That way we'll never forget times like this." All of them were smiling as they each took a copy of the picture.

"Yeah. Now way I'll ever having good friends like all of you.", Burst said with a smile. Meanwhile, Sunset was watching from the shadows. She had also watched Burst's duel.

'This guy is pretty good. Maybe I can use him...'