Duel Academy Stories

Maiden and the Cowboy

It was the early morning at the Slifer dorm, as the Slifer Students were eating their breakfast. Banner stepped inside the mess hall with something important to say...

"Children, please quiet down, I have an announcement to make! Chumley, stop chewing with your mouth open!"

Banner paused as every Slifer in the mess hall stopped talking or chowing down on their breakfast before moving to the side, "Now everyone, please join me in welcoming two new transfer students." He paused again as a short boy wearing a large hat and a taller boy with a black cowboy hat walked out from behind a counter and joined him by his side, "Blair Flannigan and Jethro Cartwright."

Everyone looked at the new kids in the Slifer Red blazers. Blair was shorter than even Syrus, had brown eyes, and he could see tufts of purple hair sticking out from under the cap.

The taller one looked to be 6 foot even and had his sandy blond hair in a ponytail going down to mid-back under his hat. Making him stand out more was the fact that he wore blue jeans instead of the khakis and brown cowboy boots. Plus he carried an acoustic guitar on his back and a lasso on his belt.

"I had to stop chewing for some transfer students?" Chumley complained.

Syrus sighed as he got a better look at the shorter kid. Besides the hat, Blair wore these gray pants that seemed too small for him, because they went well above the ankles.

"He's shorter than me, dresses goofier than me..." Syrus lowered his head, "My sidekick days are over..."

"Aw be nice, you guys!" Jaden rose up from his seat between Chumley and Syrus, "Blair, Jethro, welcome to S-L-I-F-...uh...something, Slifer!" He half-yelled, raising his arms to the ceiling.

Blair and Jethro looked at Jaden like he was crazy. It didn't stop the E-Hero duelist from getting up from the table and running up to the new kids. "This is the best dorm on campus, I mean, sure we're not a bunch of snobby, uptight, egghead straight-A gettin' brainiacs, but still..."

"Jaden, wait a moment..." Banner interrupted him, "You don't understand."

Jaden grinned as he pulled the small boy to him, "What's not to understand, Professor Banner? I'm just..." Blair wrenched himself free of Jaden and hid behind Banner, peeking out at the others. "Trying...to make...Blair...feel at home..."

"I think you spooked the little fella." Jethro spoke to Jaden in a Southern accent.

Banner sighed, "But you see, this isn't Blair's home, as least not for long. Nearly all of his entrance exam scores were perfect,"

"Oooh..."

"You see Jaden, it is policy that when a transfer student comes to Duel Academy, they must start out in Slifer Red," Banner explained slowly, "But with Blair's test scores, he'll most likely advance to Ra Yellow in just a few days..."

Jaden scoffed, "Yeah, right! Next, you'll probably tell me that Jethro could be an Obelisk if he wasn't a transfer either!" he turned to his fellow Slifers still wearing that silly grin of his, "I love this guy!"

"I was..." The cowboy replied, making Jaden stop his laugh. "But I plan on toughing it out here; who knows I could make some dueling history as a 'seemingly' low ranked duelist." He said cracking a grin.

"Well then Jethro, you and Blair can take the double-bunk room on the first floor." Banner informed the transfers. "Now why don't you both say hello to your fellow Slifers?"

Blair cleared his throat and said, "Hello." in a low voice, barely being heard.

"Howdy!" Jethro greeted with a tip of his hat.