"Hey Dad?"

My father looked up from his work desk and turned towards me with his usual grin that always seemed to brighten up a room.

"Something wrong Zeno?"

"N-No! But.....Um.... I just wanted to ask what exactly makes a great duelist?"

My dad always loved to talk about duel monsters! Whenever the topic of dueling popped up he seemed to explode with excitement like a little kid who got a new present. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a card and handed it to me,

"WWWWHAT! This card is super weak!"

"Hehe! Mystic Egg maybe weak but everyone has to start somewhere! If you don't remember anything remember this Zeno! For a duelist, the number one rule is trust in your deck....No matter what!"

The sound of an alarm rang throughout the entire house as a young teen slowly raised his hand over the alarm and silenced it. He slowly got out of bed still bleary eyed and sleepy and just as he was about to open the door to the outside it sudden flew open and struck him in the face.

"OWWW! WHAT THE HECK!"

"Zeno~" The sing-songy voice of a young woman said as the young man, known as Zeno, shivered from her icy tone.

"Ummm yeah sis?" He said with a nervous smile.

"YOU'RE LATE FOR SCHOOL! GET GOING YOU LAZY BUM!" She shouted at him as he scrambled to his feet to get dressed.

Meanwhile, his sister walked back downstairs and sat at the table and took a bite out of her breakfast. Her brother on the other hand nearly tripped down the stairs as he ran through the kitchen and grabbed a slice of bread.

"Ok sis gotta go! Thanks for waking me up! Love ya!" Zeno said in a hurry as he sprinted towards the door, but before he opened the door he suddenly realized something.

"Woops almost forgot my deck!"

Zeno quickly ran back upstairs and grabbed his card holder and his duel disk and placed them in his bag. With his tools in hand, he quickly ran out the door and made his way to his new school.

"CANTERLOT HIGH! HERE I COME!"

"And I'm totally late!" Zeno whined as he dragged himself up the stairs and opened the front door to the school.

"Ok, so I'm pretty sure there is supposed to someone near the front of the school who was supposed to give me a tour? Ummm...."

Zeno looked around the empty hallways and started to panic a little. That was until he suddenly heard a squeaky voice call out to him.

"H-Hey Zeno! Where are you! It's real dark in here!!"

Zeno reached into his bag and opened his card holder and a tiny ball of light rose from it and suddenly the faded image of a monster appeared.

"Mystic Baby Dragon! Just the guy I needed!"

Mystic Baby Dragon is well as the name suggests a tiny green dragon with a big cartoonish appearance.

"Don't tell me you managed to get lost or something?" Baby dragon asked with a sigh.

"UGH! why are you lecturing me! Help a pal out would ya!!" Zeno said with an annoyed tone.

Without another word Mystic Baby dragon flew away from Zeno and after a moment of silence he suddenly reappeared and pointed to a hallway which Zeno quickly ran towards.

"Thanks bud! I owe ya one!"

Zeno walked dow the hallway and suddenly say four girls talking to one another. Three of the girls were dressed kinda awkwardly like a group of punk rockers while the fourth girl's hair caught Zeno's attention.

"Woah her hair kinda looks like fire doesn't it!" Zeno said without thinking while the four girls stared at him awkwardly.

"Ummm thanks, I guess? I guess you're a new student right?" She asked while Zeno snapped out of his daydream.

"Huh!? Oh, snap sorry about that! I'm ah....Zeno! It's nice to meet you!" He said with a bow which caused the girl to blush from the embarrassment.

"Y-Yeah my names Sunset Shimmer, nice to meet you."

"Smooth~" The girl with the orange hair said before walking away with the other two girls.

"Ah man!"

"Ugh....Math totally stinks!" Zeno thought as he picked up his plate from the cafeteria and looked around for a place to sit.

"Umm, where should I sit?"

Zeno looked around the lunch room, however, he quickly realized that everyone was sitting in their own groups. He cringed mentally when he realized that he was on his own, that was until he saw something familiar.

"Hey is that duel monsters!" Zeno thought as he sprinted towards the table where a student with sparkling red and orange hair was sitting.

"Hey, pal! How's it going!" Zeno shouted as he sat in front of the annoyed teen.

"What do you want loser?"

"Huh!? What was that for!?" Zeno said in shock as the teen continued to inspect his cards.

"Look as you can see I'm busy and not only that but I really don't like anybody at this stupid school anyway. So leave me alone and go talk to someone else!"

"Man all I wanted to do was talk! Jeez, I'm new here and seeing as you play duel monsters I thought maybe we could duel sometime?" Zeno said with a defeated sigh as he stood up from his seat.

"Hold up you're a duelist?" He asked looking up from his deck with a raised brow.

"Yup! Dueling is my passion!" Zeno said with a cheery grin.

"Hump.....The names Spark." Spark said with a sigh as Zeno sat back down.

"COOL! Names Zeno nice to meet you!"

Suddenly the door to the cafeteria flew open as the three girls from before walked into the lunch room while singing a strange song. Suddenly a chill ran down Zeno's spine while the image of Mystic Baby Dragon appeared with a scared expression.

"Zeno this is bad! I feel something!"

As their singing continued something suddenly snapped inside of Spark as he felt his head began to suddenly feel light.

"Spark....let you're anger take control....let me guide you to VICTORY!" A strange voice said as an errie purple haze seemed to cover spark.

"Hey Zeno?" Spark said in a low tone as the singing intensified.

Zeno turned around and felt his blood run cold as Spark pulled out a duel disk.

"Lets go ahead and settle that little duel of ours right now! I'll crush you into dust!!" Spark exclaimed with a dark and melicious tone.

"Umm right now! You mean right now, right now!!" Zeno shouted in confusion.

"Yeah what better time to show everyone that I'm the best than right now!" Spark said as the entire room focused on the two.

"Well then.....I'd say...."

"GET READY SPARK CAUSE YOU'RE GOING DOWN!!" Zeno said as he pulled out his duel disk and his cards as the singing covered the cafeteria.

TO BE CONTINUED! Next Chapter: Sparks Fly! Mystic Vs Demolition Estimated time remaining: 22 Minutes