Field Testing [Open]

[Eliza S.]

The sound of an electronic bell rang throughout the urban school building, signalling the end of the school day. Chair legs were quickly slid across the tiled floor floor as they were pulled out and pushed back under desks by eager to leave students. Today would be a lucky day for at least one of these children. For Eliza, today was one of the rare days where she would be able to leave school immediately with neither of her clubs having a meeting. As much as she enjoyed playing the flute and playing volleyball, they admittedly could wear on her without a break such as today. She had heard of a club centered around Duel Monsters being made in a high school in the district. It struck as odd though, a club around such a card game being in a high school filled with older teens rather than in a place with children.

Nevertheless, she grabbed the satchel off of her desk and headed out of the classroom and eventually out of the school's front gate. The one bad things about days like this was that Eliza rarely got to enjoy her free day with her friends, as they would have club activities to attend to in most cases. She never got too disappointed by this fact, days like this were rarely scheduled unless exams were around the corner, then it was a whole week of free time meant for studying.


The schoolgirl began walking down the street with confidence in her direction. Eliza knew exactly where she was going, it was the same place she went everyday she got immediate free time from school. The local card shop! They're were of course multiple, competing, card shops in a town such as Keiritsu. But the one she frequented was the one closest to the living district.

Upon arriving at her destination, the young girl place her hand on the front door, pushing it open as she walked inside. The sound of a metallic bell chimed as she opened the door and let it close behind her. The store itself is what one would call..."humble". It was relatively small with some tables to play on and a counter where the clerk stood at to ring up cards. That was about it for the shop really. But hey, what more would a shop need? Eliza reached down into her satchel, digging past her school supplies to pull out an orange deck box. Her head tilted up to to look upon the few people who had already made it to the store and began playing. She wondered who she would play today, if at all. Strangely enough a lot of older kids, and sometimes even adults were playing in these shops, and sometimes alienated her due to her age. But she couldn't let that get her down, she thought to herself.

[Yami]

Spike King was Present at the Tournament, he was looking for Duelists with potential, those who knew about the Shadow Kingdom Tourney would know who he was, and his Black and Red Duel disk gave away just what he had, the God Card, Slifer the Sky Dragon, he would look to see that there was One duelist, a young girl, who seemed a little hesitant, and with everyone else already having a dueling partner he walked over to her and Cleared his throat "My Name is Spike King, and I challenge you to a Duel" and he would raise his duel disk up in front of him.

[Eliza S.]

The girl would be surprised by the sudden approach of the older male. Spike King? That name sounded sort of familiar. It was that sort of name that would be associated with schoolyard rumors, but without seeing a face to said name, it all sounded like legends. But now there was a face to the name and it was challenging her to a duel. Well, if this man was who he claimed to be, this would prove to be nothing but exciting.

Her lips formed into that of a smile as she reached back down into her satchel to retrieve her duel disc, the standard model given out to most people. Her eyes shot back up to look at Spike's own duel disc. That's weird, she thought to herself. His had a different color scheme to it. Either he gave his model a personal touch, or he was a skilled figure to be given a custom duel disc. Nevertheless, she slid her hand into the forearm clasp as it shut around her arm and locked into place. Her hands worked to retrieve her deck from its orange box and slid it into the deck holder.

"I'll accept your challenge Mr. King." she replied happily.

[Yami]

Spike Smiled softly, as even though Eliza Put up a good fight, she lost, thankfully it was a Swiss Style Local tournament, so not only did it not really effect her status, she could very well wind up dueling Spike again to win the small tournament, But Spike was impressed and tossed Eliza his rare Insect Queen Card and tells her "Maybe we will duel again soon" He would then head on to the next opponent to chalk up another win, but much easier then the pulled out from Eliza

[Eliza S.]

Eliza had never been brought to physical exhaustion by a duel until a now. The rumors she heard about a certain "Spike King" were true. But strangely enough, every time she had heard about him, he was referred to as THE Spike King. She didn't know his name literally was Spike King. Nevertheless, more rumors were confirmed. Specifically that of cards depicting ancient gods of Egyptian lore. The other school kids could ever give the same name but always the same description. One was a giant red sky snake with two mouths. Another was a giant blue monstrosity of pure destruction. The final was a golden phoenix. Today she had encounter the first of the three and even a taste of it's power. She had managed to use Change of Heart in order to coerce the divine creature to fight for her for a turn. It was that very move that almost won her the duel, had it not been for Spike having a Kuriboh in his hand to stop the damage.

The tourney had quickly gained a number of spectators disappointed by the fact that they were too late to join the tourney, but not late enough to catch some action. This quickly happened upon Spike's decision to summon Slifer. It was no surprise after all, the sky itself seemed to darken with it's presence and the monster was large enough to coil around the building several times and still be terrifyingly humongous. Any attack it performed, she swore it pushed the holographic projectors to the limit, especially when she had control of the beast and commanded it to use a mouth blast with 8000 attack points.

The girl was shocked out of her daydreaming state upon being thrown a card, fumbling around with it before catching it with a good grip. Her face turned to one of almost pure disgust upon seeing the art. Insect Queen, gross. She hated bugs. She'd go as far as to say with a passion. But it seemed like the man was giving it to her...and she couldn't pass up on such a rare and powerful card. She took the card and placed it into her deck box along with her other extras with a plan to slip it in after the local tournament. For now she'd continue on to duel other opponents, some more willing now after seeing her give The Spike King somewhat of a challenge.

(Total WC 1089. Claiming 5 Starchips.)

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