Chapter 1: The Calm before the Storm

It was a bright and sunny day at Duel Academy. Jaden had just returned from the world of Duel Monsters, he acquired a new duel spirit named Yubel, and for once, it didn't look like the peace and calm of the world was about to be torn in half like wet tissue paper by a megalomaniac bent on universal conquest. But that would make this fanfic boring, so don't expect this peace to last for eternity. Or the next five minutes.

_Insert Theme Music!_

DumDum, Da! DumDum, Da! DumDum, Dum, Dum, Da!

Sing! this world of wonder,

Dance! won't be torn asunder,

Laugh! this party will not eh-eh-end!

Fight! this golden promise,

Win! will not be severed,

Cheer! this storm will not blow us-a-way!

DumDum Da!

We will fight! We will stand! We won't be blown-a-way!

We will duel! We will win! And we'll save-the-day!

The sky's! the limit, now-let's-go,

And fight! to save this world-we-know!

And we will never lose to the ev-il-no!

DumDumDa! DumDumDa! DumDum, Dum-Dum-DA!

_And End Theme Music!_

(Be sure to mentally sing this theme song

before every chapter 'cause I'm never typing

this again!)

Returning to the story, Jaden was resting on the red dorm's roof, when a cold breeze woke him up. He looked to his right, and a transparent Yubel looked distressed.

"That was an ominous wind, Jaden," she said, "It gives me the feeling something bad will come soon."

"Please," Jaden said looking calm, "It was just a slight breeze. The weatherman even said that there would be rain this afternoon. That was probably just the storm's warning to head inside soon." Yubel looked more reassured with that. She vanished, but Jaden's expression looked a bit serious now, "Yubel might be right, though. That was a strange wind. Something tells me we have more to worry about than a few raindrops."

Jaden fell back asleep, until Crowler yelled to him to reprimand him for missing class, waking him up and making him fall off the roof. "I hope this was what the bad feeling was about," he thought as he got chewed out by Crowler.

-Scene Shift to Nerima!-

"Ranma, you idiot!" Akane screamed as she threw Ranma out the window. This time Ranma was knocked through Akane's door in a fight with Ryoga, just while Akane was changing. Ranma landed gracefully on his feet, only to be splashed with water by an old woman who as watering her flowers.

Ranma-chan rushed back home and transformed back with a tea kettle, then headed elsewhere, only to be attacked by Mousse and Kuno. Apparently they hatched a plan to team up and get rid of Ranma, so Mousse could date Shampoo while Kuno could date the pigtailed girl, him not knowing she was actually Ranma-chan. Ranma could have handled them himself, but was saved by Shampoo and Koudachi, who called a temporary truce to save Ranma from Mousse and Kuno.

After dealing with the two idiots, Shampoo and Koudachi immediately started fighting right there in the street, while Ranma snuck away unharmed. To hide, he ducked into Ukyo's shop and grabbed a bite to eat before Ukyo joined in on the girl's fight and Ranma rushed home again.

This time, however, nothing happened. Happosai didn't attack him, nor did Akane. In fact, for a minute, it felt like time was standing still. Ranma felt something of a cold and heavy atmosphere during then like something he had never felt before. Then, after that minute, everything went back to normal, with Happosai splashing him with cold water and chasing Ranma while Akane followed with a mallet in hand for what happened that morning.

But Ranma couldn't shake off that feeling he got during that moment of peace, like it was a premonition of something bad. Something worse than Akane with a mallet. Something worse that Mousse and Kuno teaming up. Something even worse than cats! Ranma dismissed this thought and continued running from Akane and Happosai.

-Shift back to Duel Academy!-

Jaden was walking along side Syrus and Hassleberry, discussing the latest cards they recently got at the card shop. Hassleberry was especially proud of his new dinosaur card, while Jaden was disappointed that there wasn't anything new in his selection.

"Heehee! This card's great!" Hassleberry gloated, "I can't wait to try it out in a duel!"

"Say, Hassleberry," Syrus said, "wanna duel when we get back to the Slifer dorm? I thought up a new combo last night." Suddenly, however, the three of them heard a scream come from the Ra Yellow dorm a short ways away.

"Did you hear that?" Syrus said worried.

"You'd have to be deaf not to," Hassleberry said, "Let's go check it out!" And with that the three rushed towards the Ra dorm.

_Chapter End_