Me: Morning Jaden.

Jaden: *yawn* g'morning.

Me: Still asleep?

Jaden: Yes.

Me: Well wake up. Your life is about to get interesting.

Jaden: *fully awake* Cool. Let's go then.

Me: That's a good boy.

Jaden sat up slowly, yawning loudly as he did. Cyrus had run in screaming something about a really important duel today. The young Slifer rubbed his eyes and swung himself out of bed. His feet had barely touched the floor when Cyrus came busting in again.

"Come on Jay! The duel is about to start! You have to get up now!" he cried grabbing Jaden's coat and pants and throwing them at his friend.

"Chill out Cyrus. Everything will be fine. I'm sure that we'll get there in time." Jaden said pulling his red jacket on over his black under shirt.

"Chill out? Chill out? How can you say 'chill out'? This duel is between my big bro and Chazz! This is a duel we don't want to miss. Come on, Jay!" Cyrus yelled sizing Jaden's wrist.

His eyes snapped fully open when they got outside. Cyrus said that Chumley was already there and not entirely sure who to root for. Jaden looked at Cyrus incredulously when he said that. It seemed obvious that they should root for Chazz because Zane had beaten Jaden and he wanted to see how well Chazz would fare against him.

Cyrus kept pulling on Jaden's arm, urging him to go faster. Reluctantly Jaden broke into an easy run, with Cyrus having to trot to keep up with him. By the time they made it into the arena Chazz was losing. Jaden didn't have the courage to shout words of encouragement from the ground so he waited until he and Cyrus were with Chumley.

"Go Chazz!" was all he said at first.

When he said that Chazz looked up and saw Jaden sitting with his pals again. He shook his head and returned to the duel. It was Zane's turn and he wasted no time in summoning his Cyber End Dragon. There were no monsters on Chazz's field and he had only six hundred life points left. Victory was impossible for him at this stage

With a smirk Zane launched his attack. Just as Chazz was about to activate a trap his opponent played a spell that made all of his trap cards useless for this turn. This was soo not his day; first Dr. Crowler had called him out for not having his homework done, Dorothy had told him off for trying to take some cards and now he was about to lose to Zane

Jaden watched in surprise as Zane played his spell card. This was not going to end well for Chazz. As Cyber End Dragon's attack hit home Jaden grimaced; he had seen Chazz's hand. There was a card in his hand that could have stopped Zane's monster's attack with ease and prolonged the duel.

It seemed to Jaden that Chazz just didn't realize he had the card so he didn't play it. Cyrus and Chumley both cringed as the smoke cleared. Both of them were a little bit afraid of Chazz now that he had lost. The small blue haired Slifer looked at Jaden in surprise when he didn't move very much.

"Jay? Are you OK?" he asked looking closely at his friend.

"Hmm? Oh. Yeah I'm fine, Cy. I was just thinking about the fact that Chazz had a spell card in his hand that could have stopped Cyber End Dragon's attack." Jaden replied gesturing to Chazz's hand.

"What? He did? Jaden, I can't see his hand from here and I have glasses. How is it that you saw his hand?" Cyrus questioned squinting at Chazz.

"Yeah, how did you see his hand? We're sitting really far away so it should be really hard to see his hand." Chumley chimed it as they got up.

"I don't really know. I remember watching Chazz try to activate his trap and raising his duels disc so if a person stood beside the field could see his hand. Then my eyes just focused on his hand and suddenly I could see every card in his hand. It was really weird." he said as they walked out of the arena.

Chazz pushed past them when they were outside and Jaden caught his arm. The Obelisk Blue jerked back when he did. Turning Chazz was prepared to yell at whoever had grabbed him. Seeing that is was Jaden he adopted a really pissed look.

"What do you want, you slacker?" he snarled.

"I just wanted to say that you could have stopped Cyber End Dragon's attack. You had a card in your hand that could have done that." Jaden said letting him go easily.

"How do you know what my hand was? There was no way that you could have known what my cards were, Jaden. No way. So, don't tell me that I could have stopped that attack. I could do nothing." Chazz hissed walking off.

Jaden stared at him for a moment more before shrugging and walking toward to gym. Cyrus and Chumley followed meekly in his wake. After changing into their swim suits they followed the rest of the class out to the pool. Mrs. Fontaine was having a hard time getting the class to focus on her lesson so she finally gave up.

Throwing up her hands she told the class that they could get in the water and have a free period. The class gave off a loud cheer at that and jumped easily in the water. Cyrus and Chumley stayed in the shallow end while Jaden and the others were in the deep end. After a time Jaden came over to his palls. Both seemed really surprised to have him pop out of the water the way he did.

"Awww, Jay! What was that about?" Cyrus asked shaking his head to get the water off of his glasses.

"Sorry, Cy. I didn't think it was that bad." The brunette replied pulling himself up on the edge beside his friend.

"I'm just wondering how you came from the bottom of the pool over here with only one breath." Chumley questioned putting a chubby hand to his chin.

"I have no idea. It was like when I saw Chazz's hand back at the arena. It just happened."

Right as he said that Alexis Rhodes came over, a strange look on her face. Cyrus elbowed Jaden to get his attention. He looked up at her with a question on his face. She just looked at him for another moment before shaking her head.

As she walked off Jaden could tell that she wasn't convinced of something. She would come to ask him something later. The rest of the class was goofing off in the deep end and Mrs. Fontaine was trying to make sure that the rest of the class didn't hurt themselves with whatever they were doing.

Alexis walked back into the locker rooms with her two friends, Jasmine and Mindy. They were talking easily about something. Jaden watched them for a moment before turning his attention the other side of the pool. Mrs. Fontaine had finally calmed down the rest of the class down to the point where she could get out of the water and sit on the side.

Glancing back at the girls he noticed that they stood outside the girl's locker room. Without any warning a small pop sounded in his ears. Wincing Jaden put a hand to his ear. Lifting his head and dropping his hand he realized that he could hear every word they were saying.

"Lex? Hello? Earth to Lex!" Mindy said waving a hand in front of her face.

"Hmm? What? Sorry Mindy, what did you say?" Alexis asked with a shake of her head.

"I was just wondering what's on your mind. You seem really spaced out, especially since Jaden swam past you a few minutes ago." the black haired young woman said nodding toward the brunette on the side of the pool.

"Well, when he swam by I thought I saw something on his neck. I'm not sure if I really saw it though." The blond Obelisk said glancing over her shoulder at Jaden.

Seeing her glance back Jaden turned his attention to the water. He heard another pop in his ears and the girls' voices faded. Rubbing his right ear the young Slifer thought about what was happening. As he thought that he realized that this was going to be an interesting year.

Jaden: There's more on the way, isn't there?

Me: Yep.

Jaden: *glares at me*

Me: *gulps* People please review before Jaden decides to kill me. Please, I'd like to live another day thank you very much.