Ash Ketchum Attends Duel Academy

Courting Alexis

Winter Break was over and the rest of the students returned as classes resumed at Duel Academy. Right now, gym class was running and everyone presently in class was playing tennis with pairs. Jaden and Syrus were playing against Mindy and Jasmine.

"Come on, would someone tell me what does tennis have to do with dueling?" He asked as Syrus returned the ball with his racket.

"Everything!" Mindy replied. "Taking turns, thinking on your feet and the more you play..." She paused for a moment to hit the ball in the air, heading right for Jaden. "...the better you'll do!"

"In that case..." Jaden leaped into the air to deal a powerful strike with his racket, but at a bad angle as the tennis ball curved away from the court he was at to the neighboring one, and it was about to hit someone...

Ash then hit the ball and it was sent in a different direction towards someone else.

"Alexis!" Jasmine and Mindy were the first to come over to check on her. "You almost got creamed, are you okay?"

"Yeah, would you like me to carry you to the nurse?" The brown-haired guy said, turning to face the girls, flashing Jasmine and Mindy a grin...which ensnared them right off the bat as their eyes turned into hearts.

"I got it." Ash volunteered to take Alexis to the infirmary after she was nearly hit by a tennis ball.

"You don't need to do that, Ash." Alexis politely told him that his help wasn't necessary.

She appreciated his concern, though.

Unknowingly, the tennis guy was entranced with Alexis.

"Naw, it's just that...I've seen you from Obelisk Blue, not that I've had the chance of talking to you..." The brown-haired man said, who was obviously ensnared by Alexis as he grasped Alexis's hand in a gentlemanly manner before realizing what he was doing, and stopped. "...let alone touch you!"

"Sweet." Alexis said, still not entirely sure what was going on.

"Anyway." The brown-haired man asked, "Back to my match...um, what was the score? Love."

"Pika." Pikachu thought that he was crazy with the way he was speaking.

Everyone just stared as he went off.

"You two did this!" Crowler yelled.

"Oh great." Ash groaned after Crowler stomped over to them.

At the nurse's office, Crowler was getting treated for his black eye and forehead bump while ordering Jaden and Ash to come with him for their punishment.

"Look, we're really, really, really, really, really sorry for your eye." Jaden apologized. "How's that?"

"Nope...still not good enough." Crowler fumed as Miss Fontaine, who was there also, swung his head over to her as she doused the black eye in a bag of ice. 

"A little harder next time, my vertebrae are still intact!" He said angrily to the nurse.

"You know Dr. Crowler. if you don't mind me saying so, Jaden wasn't even the one who hit the ball back at you." Miss Fontaine stated trying to calm the angry doctor to no effect while placing a ice pack on his black eye.

"I do mind!" Crowler retorted, pointing to the boys. "Because he was the one that started it, I'm sure of it! I saw with my own two eyes!" Fontaine gasped and sweat-dropped as the Dr. corrected himself. "Well one eye now..."

"Look if you're gonna punish us, I won't play tennis anymore; I don't even like it."

Crowler then smirked at the Slifer. "Well, that can be a fitting punishment for you." He declared. "I'll make you play and under the tutelage of the tennis captain, to whip you into shape!"