This is my new story, "The Spirit World", this story will be set in Narrative POV until further notice.

I will have OCs that appear soon in this story but not now. This story is set in the 3rd season, before all the Yubel stuff, and after Jesse, Jim, Axel, and Adrian were introduced. In this, that Yubel stuff will never happen, but she does make an appearance. Axel is friends with the gang and Viper is not in existence. Adrian will not appear in this story. Hurray. I don't like Adrian… just sayin'. Yubel is not a duel spirit in this story, she is perfectly human. Like the Yubel they showed in the flashback, except, she's Jaden's age.

Enjoy The Story!

The Spirit World

It's a Secret

It was a perfectly normal day at Duel Academy. Well, as normal as it gets there, anyway. The gang was hanging out, just talking about stuff. When Jaden and Jesse's dreaded subject came up.

"What are you guys going to do over the summer?" Syrus asked everyone.

Alexis's face paled, oh, that's right. I just turned eighteen. Oh! Why me? She thought. But, instead, she said out loud, "My parents are going to force me to do something, but I don't know what it is yet." She half lied, she was going to be forced to do something, but she knew what it was.

Everyone else had normal answers. Like staying home, going on vacation somewhere, and stuff like that. That is, except Jesse and Jaden.

"What about you guys?" Blair asked, looking at Jaden and Jesse.

"Um… I'm probably just going to stay home." Jesse gritted his teeth at the word home.

"Yeah. Uh. Me too?" Jaden said.

"What is up with you guys and homes?" Chazz asked. "Every time we get on the subject you go quiet."

"Come to think about it…" Aster started. "I've been to everybody's house." He eyed Jay and Jess. "Except you guys'" It was true. Aster was a pro. So he traveled a lot, and over the winter, summer, and spring breaks, he has stopped by every ones house. Yet, he can't seem to ever find Jaden or Jesse. Then again, he has heard of the last name 'Yuki' – but that was impossible. Or was it?

Jesse tensed, but for some reason, Jaden was calm.

Jaden sighed, "You know guys…" he looked around himself. "You don't really know all that much about me. Then again, neither do I…"

"What?" Jim asked.

"I have a really hard life," Jaden explained, "this is, like, home to me." He said, referring to DA.

"You know, mate," Jim started, "whatever it is, you can tell us. We are your friends."

"It's hard to believe you have a hard life, Sarge." Hassleberry remarked. "Considering how care-free and child-like you are."

Jaden smiled. "Yeah, I've heard."

Alexis wasn't really listening all that much, she was examining Jaden and Jesse. There was something about those two, ever since she met Jaden, she had a feeling she already knew him. Then Jesse came along, and Jaden and him where so alike. Jesse also seemed familiar to her, but she never brought it to mind. Until now. She remembered what her mother told her, "Sweetie, soon, you will turn eighteen, and you have to make the biggest decision you have ever made in your life. Well, that's considering they are found. If they are not, you have no choice. I has to be Harrington." Alexis shuddered. She could never, ever imagine her and Harrington that close. It horrified her to think that she might have to. The day he challenged Jaden to be her fiancé. She was angry when Jaden accepted, no one had that right against her. Then, when Jaden won, she was glad, she had no idea why, but she was. When Jaden announced he didn't even know what fiancé meant. She could tell he was lying. He wasn't that naïve. He respected her decision, he would never have forced her into anything. That was the day she realized it, she was harboring feelings for the idiot.

"Lexi? Hello? Earth to Alexis." Atticus was trying to get his sister's attention. She missed the entire conversation. She was so deep in thought.

"Huh?" Alexis looked around her. All eyes were on her.

"Are you okay?" Atticus asked.

"Uh, yeah..." Alexis was confused. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"You were kind of muttering 'eighteen', 'choice', and 'feelings' a lot." Atticus whispered to her in a warning tone. "No one heard but me though. Thank goodness. And I want you to listen to what Jaden and Jesse have to say." Alexis turned her attention to the conversation.

"I'll tell everyone," Jaden sighed, "but you guys can't tell anyone else." He finally accepted that he shouldn't let one little fact about his life affect him so much. "When I was a baby, I was left on the doorstep of…" he gulped, "an orphanage, they took care of me until I turned five. Then I was sent bouncing about from one foster family to another. It was torture. Though, the orphanage I grew up in made sure I could stay in Duel Academy, so none of my many foster homes could get me out of here. No matter how much they tried. I never did know who my parents were. I was told, though, that I was very, very special."

Everyone was silent, that is, until Jesse spoke up.

"M-me too." He admitted, shocked that Jaden's story was so similar to his. "But… I – I was adopted, they treated me like I was a monster."

Silence.

"Wow. I'm so sorry for you two." Blair broke the awkward silence.

"Yeah." Everyone else said."

"Notice anything?" Atticus asked Alexis, in only a whisper.

Alexis was confused as to what her brother meant until something caught her eye.

"Umm… will you excuse me for just a second?" and before anyone answered Alexis she was gone.

"That was weird." Jesse mused.

"Uh huh." Jaden agreed. They were acting as if they did not just tell all of their friends their deepest secret. Unless, that wasn't their deepest secret.

Catching this, Axel asked, "Are you guys forgetting to tell us something?"

Their eyes widened, "No!" they rushed out at the same time.

"I really, really, wouldn't be surprised if you two actually were twins." Syrus remarked. Atticus smirked like he knew something the others didn't. Though, no one noticed him. At the word twins Jaden and Jesse felt their arms tingle. Quickly, the two hid the glowing that was now showing on their arm.

Unbeknownst to them, Atticus saw, clearing all doubts he once had. Now, he knew for sure, they were the missing twins of the Spirit World.

What will be answered in the next chapter:

What is the Spirit World?

Where did Alexis go?

What did she see?

What are Alexis and Atticus?

And more… I think.

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