For Season 2-present, I'll be posting the chapters of the Thomas/Yu-Gi-Oh! Story. It was done in collaboration between me and Jriddle41 (Sodormatchmaker on DeviantART), and we both own the OCs that are used in the story. Everything else belongs to their respective owners:

Thomas and Friends (c) Hit Entertainment and Mattel

The Railway Series (c) Rev Wilbert Awdry

Yu-Gi-Oh! (c) Konami

Song used in Intro and Outro (c) Unknown

Cover Art (c) DaveMan1000

WARNING: The story is rated T (13-plus) for moments of violence, bloody moments, and some suggestive themes. Viewer discretion may be advised.

Genre(s): Game, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Drama


(Thomas stands on top of a building gazing out into the distance. After a few seconds, he smiles and jumps, causing the scenery to change to the title logo.)

YU-GI-OH! The Sodor Chronicles

All my life, I've been living in the darkness

Never knowing my true aim.

But then I found you in the corners of the light

and you've shown me just how to play the game.

(As Thomas continues to fall, his Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl both appeared, holding onto his arms, slowing his fall and allowing him to land safely. Suddenly, an army of hooded duels called the Rare Hunters appear, with activated Duel Disks, summon monsters to attack Thomas with. Thomas sent both his ace monsters to attack, until he noticed his friends with their own Duel Disks and monsters, Wingweaver, Elemental HERO Neos, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, etc. to come to help.)

But no matter how strong we are,

There will always be challenges ahead.

We just have to hold on and

Don't lose our heads!

(Each of Thomas's friends of the Tidmouth Teens show one by one; Emily, Percy, James, Edward, Henry, Gordon, and Toby. Duck also appears smiling. But then he spins around and, suddenly, the Millennium Ring appears around his neck and his kind face has become that of the insane Montague. A large stone tablet appears in the darkness behind Thomas as spirits of more of his friends Mavis, Lady, Rosie, Stanley, Discord, and others appear as well as Ishizu Ishtar, a young Egyptian woman with dark hair, and a robed man with a turban called Shadi.)

Let the power of greatness flow through your spirit

As your undying will to fight never rests.

Heed the wisdom and the might of all ages

As the world takes through its course of light.

(Spencer appears on a TV Screen with his three Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards in his hand before the three majestic dragons emerged from the TV Screen. Suddenly, a cluster of stars pool into large green rings causing a huge beam of light. Out of the light comes a mighty silver dragon known as Stardust Dragon. With it are other monsters called Red Dragon Archfiend, Black Rose Dragon, and Black-Winged Dragon as well as their five owners.)

As the night may seem real dim,

Never let the dangers in.

Challenge your might and see through the day then

Everything you've stood for will surpass your greatest test!

(The scene changes to Thomas facing off against Marik Ishtar, a young teenager with tanned skin and white hair, who gives off a rather sinister smile. The spirits of three large, powerful monsters called the Egyptian God monsters appear as the title logo come back again)

YU-GI-OH! The Sodor Chronicles


It was a new day on the Island of Sodor... Almost two months (it was now the month of May) since the events of the big San Francisco Duel Monsters tournament in the United States had been won by a resident of that very island... That boy was the 15-year old Thomas Billinton. Thomas had short bright blue-hair, and very commonly wore a black sleeveless shirt, blue jeans with a belt, a blue jean jacket over the shirt, and black sneakers. He was easily the best duelist on the Island of Sodor.

One warm May morning, he, his best friend Percy Avonside, and very good friend (and love interest) Emily Sterling, were all walking down the street heading for school. Percy was a 14-years old boy with short light green-hair, and was wearing a white t-shirt with a big green stripe in the center, blue jeans with a belt, and green sneakers. Emily was a beautiful 15-year old girl with long, dark green hair (almost emerald-like) with a yellow bow on the back of her head. Her current outfit was an emerald green shirt (exposing her midriff), an unbuttoned blue jean jacket, an emerald green skirt, and blue tennis shoes.

Like Thomas, both Percy and Emily were duelists, too. However, Percy was somewhat more experienced than Emily was, but the girl was still a fairly good duelist too, especially since she was getting better every day. While on their way home from school on that lovely spring day, Thomas, Emily, and Percy each took the train, and, soon afterward, walked down a street while chatting.

"Another day, another bunch of school work." sighed Percy.

"Never mind." said Thomas. "At least we also got to spend some time with our friends."

"Not to mention we'll reach summer very soon." Emily added. "As well as my 16th Birthday... My sweet 16th..."

Percy was just about to reply back when he stood and suddenly sniffed the air.

"Do you two smell smoke?"

"Yeah." agreed Thomas, also sniffing at the air. "I do; black smoke. It...sorta smells like... like..."

"Fire!" cried Emily.

With that said, the dark green-haired girl ran off to the direction of the smell of black smoke, whilst Thomas and Percy both ran along after her.


Title: Big Trouble at Sodor High, Part 1


Before long, the three teenagers found themselves surrounded in thick, smelly, black smoke...that meant Emily was right about one thing; there was a big fire coming from somewhere nearby. Quickly, the three teenagers ran on ahead, and soon found the source of the black smoke. It was coming from somewhere along a wide clearing...but also in the direction of one of farmer Terence's barns.

"Cinders and Ashes! I think it's coming from one of the barns that way!" exclaimed Thomas. "Come on!"

The three friends raced up the trail towards one of the barns to help with the fire. Over at the barn, the fire was practically a five-alarm blaze. Various people and farmers were passing and throwing buckets of water at the fire, hoping to contain the flames.

"Come on, come on!" called one farm-hand named Trevor. "We have to stop this fire from spreading further!"

The three teenagers raced in to help.

"Just in time, you three!" cried Trevor. "Grab a bucket of water and help douse the fire before it spreads!"

"How did this fire even happen?" asked Thomas.

"One of my workers was having a smoke break..." Terence coughed, hurling a bucket of water at the fire. "I came in and told him not to smoke. He dropped it and...it fell onto some dry hay."

"Sorry again!" called one of the workers.

Thomas, Percy, and Emily each didn't waste a single second and they began to help try and keep the fire under control. Despite the three teenagers' assistance, the fire only continued to get bigger and bigger, soon to wipe out the whole barn and perhaps spread about.

"It's no use!" cried another farm-hand. "The fire is too hot!"

"We can't give up!" objected Trevor. "We'll lose everything if we don't stop it!"

Just when all seemed lost, everyone heard the sounds of sirens, a horn, and a bell rang in the distance. Then, from the thick smoke came three, big, red fire engines. They stopped just outside the barn.

"It's the fire department!"announced a farm-hand.

Two firefighters quickly stepped out of one engine. One was a young woman, who was no less than 35-years old, she had long magenta coloured hair pulled into a ponytail and was dressed in blue. Her name was Belle. The other was a middle-aged man, who looked to be in his mid fifties (53 to be exact), he had dark hair and was dressed in red. His name was Flynn.

"Have no fear! The firefighters are here!" Belle declared bravely.

"Stand back, everybody! We'll handle this!" Flynn added.

The crowd stepped away from the fire engines. They were very relieved to see the firefighters arrive on the scene. The rest of the firemen quickly got out their fire hoses. Quickly, they connected them to their fire engines. In no time at all, water shot out of the hoses, and the firefighters began to battle the flames. It took a few more minutes, but at last the fire was out.

"The fire is out!" cried Terence.

Everybody cheered for the brave fire fighters. While that was going on, Terence went to inspect the damage to the barn, which wasn't too bad looking... nothing a little repairing and repainting couldn't fix.

"Not too much damage was done." The farmer finally said, turning around to speak to the firefighters. "Quite a surprise considering how big that fire was."

"What happened?" asked Flynn. "How did the fire even start?"

Everyone else (except Terence, Trevor, Thomas, Emily, and Percy) murmured to each other until one person (a farm-hand) stepped forth.

"It was me." The farm-hand admitted shamefully. "I was having a smoke break outside when I was caught by Terence, causing my cigarette to drop into the dry hay. As I went back to work, I didn't see the fire begin."

Flynn was very cross to learn all of that. "You should be ashamed of yourself!" he said firmly. "You're really lucky that no one was hurt in this incident. I certainly hope you've learned something from this."

"I know, sir, and I have." answered the farm-hand truthfully. "In fact, as of now; I'm gonna quit smoking."

"Good call." smiled Belle. "Smoking is bad for your health, anyway."

Terence merely shook is head at his farm-hand before he turned his attention to Thomas, Emily, and Percy, with his mood lightening up considerably.

"Thanks for trying to help, kids."

"It was nothing." said Percy bashfully.

It was then Flynn and Belle both recognized the three teenagers... especially both Thomas and Percy.

"Wait, aren't you two Thomas Billinton and Percy Avonside?" asked Flynn. "The latter a runner up in the San Francisco tournament, and the former was the winner of the whole tournament?"

"That's us." nodded Thomas.

"My goodness!" cried Belle. "My kids are big fans of you both since that tournament!" She held out a small notepad and pen. "I was wondering if I could get both of your autographs? This would make my kids so happy."

"Sure." Thomas took the pad. "Who should I address this to?"

"Gumball, Darwin, and Anais." Belle answered.

Percy had a thought about that... "Gumball, Darwin, and Anais? Now where have I heard those names before?"

"You okay, Percy?" Emily asked, breaking the green-haired boy's thoughts.

"O-Oh, nothing." answered Percy, shrugging. "It was nothing important."

Once Thomas wrote a little something on the pad, he handed it back to Belle, who then got Percy to sign something, too. Once that was done, Flynn spoke up again.

"Either way, we're very proud how you three. Despite you not having to help, you rushed in to help try to put the fire out."

"Thank you." said Emily politely.

"You three must be now late for school." Flynn stated. "Why not we take you three up to Sodor High School?"

"We'd like that very much." Thomas accepted gratefully.

Terence then spoke to the three Tidmouth Teens one last time...

"Thanks again for your help." he said gratefully. "If you ever need any fresh eggs or honey, just come on down."

"We'll definitely come down here." Percy nodded, just before he zoomed over in an instant. "Could I take a sample of your freshly made honey to go, please?"

Everyone shared a laugh over how silly Percy was acting.

(elsewhere...)

Ten minutes later, the fire truck pulled into the schoolyard of Sodor High School.

"Well, here we are." announced Flynn. "Now just lead me to your principal, and I'll make sure you three don't get into trouble for being late."

"Sure thing." nodded Thomas, as he and his friends began stepping out of the truck.

(elsewhere...)

Inside the school, the bell had rung to have everyone start moving to their next period classes. Sir Topham Hatt, upon seeing Thomas, Percy, and Emily, was cross.

"Where have you three been?! You're late and missed your first period classes!"

"That's because they were helping fight a fire." spoke the voice of Flynn, who walked up to the principal.

"Ah, you must be the fire chief, Mr. Oshkosh." Sir Topham Hatt exclaimed, fixing his tie while walking over.

"Yes, I am." The fire chief confirmed, shaking the principal's hand.

"And did I hear that these three kids helped put out a big fire?"

"They did." Flynn nodded. "If you ask me, these kids shouldn't be in trouble for being late if they risked their lives to help others."

"An interesting point." agreed Sir Topham Hatt, and turned his attention to Thomas, Emily, and Percy. "Thomas, Emily, Percy, please accept my apologies."

"You're forgiven." said the three teenagers at once.

With that said, they went their separate ways to their classes.

(elsewhere...)

Later on in his fourth period class, Thomas was outside near the track & field—well, field—wearing his blue track suit and warming up for gym class when Rosie Vulcan approached him. Rosie was a 14-year old girl with shoulder-length pink hair. She was wearing her gym clothes of a white t-shirt, black shorts, and pink sneakers.

"Hi, Thomas." greeted Rosie cheerfully.

"Hi, Rosie." Thomas greeted back.

"We didn't see you in Math class today. Why were you so late for school today?"

Thomas told Rosie about the fire.

"Wow, you got to help put out a fire?" asked Rosie. "That is so amazing!"

At that moment, Duck came up. Duck was a 15-year old boy with short green-hair. He wore a black and green track suit, but also a necklace of a sort around his neck.

"Thomas, Rosie!" Duck exclaimed. "The teacher is about to begin class, come on!"

"We're coming," said Thomas. Suddenly he noticed something around the Great Western green-haired boy's neck. "Say, Duck, what's that thing around your neck?"

"Oh, you mean this?" Duck gestured to the necklace around his neck. "This is something I got from my father many years ago."

"Could you tell us a bit about it?" Rosie asked curiously.

Duck was about to answer when he and the other two teens heard a whistle being blown.

"I'm afraid it will have to wait." The Great Western green-haired boy said, turning around. "Come on!"

The three friends raced off to their next class.

(elsewhere...)

Later on, it was lunch time, and in the cafeteria, Thomas, Emily, and Percy were enjoying their lunch with the rest of their friends.

Edward Stewart, age 17, had blue hair, wore a blue shirt with the number 2 on front, green overalls, and also had glasses.

Gordon Gresley, age 18, had blue hair, wore a blue shirt with the number four on the front and looked fairly muscular on the upperbody, as well as black jeans.

James Hughes, now age 16, had slick red hair, wore a red jacket (a black sleeveless shirt was underneath) with the number five on the left side, along with bright blue jeans.

Henry Stanier, age 18, had long light green hair tied back in a low ponytail, and wore a green shirt with the number three on the upper right side, along with black pants.

Toby Holden, age 17, had brown hair, wore a brown cap on his head, and wore a brown shirt with a blue number seven on front, as well as blue (slightly torn) jeans.

"So, you three actually fought a fire?" James asked in amazement. "Awesome!"

"But it was still very dangerous of you." Gordon scolded. "You could've gotten badly hurt."

"They needed help!" protested Percy. "You think we should have just ignored them and worried more about school?"

Gordon was upset. "No, of course not!"

Just before the argument could continue, a voice spoke up near the table.

"Um, Thomas?"

The voice belonged to Rosie. Thomas turned to face her, smiling kindly.

"Hi, Rosie. What's up?" The blue-haired boy greeted.

"I was wondering if you were busy tonight?" Rosie asked hopefully. "If you're not... maybe you'd like to go see a movie with me?"

But, to her dismay, Thomas shook his head.

"Unfortunately, I am busy. I've got homework that has to be done, and then I have to help my sisters and parents with the annual spring cleaning around the house. That work will probably take us the whole week to do."

Rosie felt rather disappointed. "Oh... okay then." she said unhappily. "Never mind I said anything."

With that, the pink-haired girl sadly walked away to a free table.

"You okay, Thomas?" asked Emily, seeing the disappointed look on the boy's face.

"I feel a little bad for turning her down." replied Thomas. "I wish I didn't have all that work to do."

"Perhaps you might have a slight thing for Rosie after all." Edward suggested.

Hearing that statement made a slight look of anger and jealousy appear on Emily's face, but Thomas managed to speak up before the dark green-haired girl did.

"Of course not, Edward. You know I'm not ready for a girlfriend yet."

"More like too afraid to get one." snickered James.

"That's enough, James!" Emily snapped, getting into her red-haired friend's face angrily. "You will leave Thomas alone! That is, unless you want me to hand you your hide in another duel!"

James immediately backed off, whimpering all the way like a coward.

"Wimp!" Gordon laughed.

Over to another table nearby, where Rosie was sitting, she was eating lunch all by herself quietly and sadly... Meanwhile, watching from a short distance was Diesel Horwich. He was a 16-year old, black-haired, boy wearing a black shirt with a skull stitched on the front, black jeans, and green sneakers. Diesel had a devious plan to get even with not only Thomas and Emily, but Rosie as well (ever since the pink-haired girl lost to Emily, and Diesel's money making scheme blew up in his face).

"This might work to my advantage." Diesel said quietly to himself.

With that said, the devious black-haired boy walked over to speak to her.

"Hello, Rosie."

"Oh, hello, Diesel." Rosie greeted quietly.

"Is something troubling you?" asked Diesel, pretending not to know why Rosie seemed upset.

"I really wanted to spend time with Thomas this weekend, but he's too busy for me."

"Oh my!" Diesel gasped with false shock... not that Rosie knew. "I'm so sorry to heart that!"

It was then Mavis Drewry, a 16-year old girl with shoulder-length blonde-hair, walked over with her lunch. She was not happy to see Diesel at all. Especially after what he nearly did to her back at the start of the San Francisco tournament.

"Go away, Diesel!" The blonde-haired girl snapped. "Don't you dare try toying with Rosie's mind so you can use her for your schemes."

"Oh, now that hurts!" said Diesel, pretending to feel insulted. "How could you ever say such a thing like that?"

In a fit of anger, Mavis grabbed her former boyfriend by the collar of his shirt and pulled him closer to her, so that they were seeing eye-to-eye.

"I'm warning you..." growled Mavis acidly. "If you try anything to harm ANY of my friends again, I'll make you regret it! Understand?"

"Y-Yes, ma'am." Diesel whimpered.

Satisfied to see Diesel in fear, the blonde-haired girl let him go and he walked away without another word.

"Don't be listening to anything Diesel has to say, Rosie." The blonde-haired girl warned. "He's a devious liar."

"I'll try." Rosie nodded. "Do you want to sit with me?"

"Sure."

With that said, Mavis joined the pink-haired girl for lunch. Too bad Diesel wasn't about to give up that easily...

(elsewhere...)

Later that day, after the bell had rung for the end of the school day, Diesel saw Rosie in the library working on a project and decided to try again.

"You don't really believe what Mavis said, do you?"

"I've heard about what you did to her a few months ago." Rosie retorted, getting an angry look on her face.

"What did I do?" Diesel asked, faking innocence.

"You snuck into the San Francisco Tournament, kidnapped Mavis, beaten her to the point she had to be hospitalized for a few days, rigged Thomas's deck for a duel, and then tried to hurt Mavis again even after you lost!" said Rosie hotly. "So why should I listen to you?"

"I've changed." answered Diesel. "I now want to do good."

"Yeah right."

"I'm serious." The devious black-haired boy insisted. "Besides, I can't help but feel sorry for you. Thomas doesn't seem to be interested in you, he seems to like Emily far more."

"Thomas already stated that he isn't ready for a girlfriend." Rosie protested.

"What if I were to tell you that he was lying?"

Rosie was stunned. "What?"

"I've noticed the two of them holding hands when they walk." said Diesel sneakily. "I even saw them kiss once or twice."

"I don't believe you." Rosie muttered quietly, slowly starting to break down in tears. "But, you also look like you're telling the truth."

"There, there." Diesel remarked comfortly. "It's quite alright. Would you care to maybe come to the Smelter's classroom tomorrow morning? My friends there would be happy to be your friends, too."

Now, normally Rosie would have outright refused to go with him, but she was so blinded by her sadness in thinking that Thomas had lied to her that she wasn't thinking straight... With that said, the pink-haired girl nodded.

"Very well, I'll come by when I get to school tomorrow morning."

"I knew you'd see things my way." grinned Diesel. "How about I meet you outside near the statue of Sir Topham Hatt?"

"All right." nodded Rosie.

(elsewhere...)

Meanwhile, at the Billinton residence. Inside Thomas's room, the blue-haired boy was busy doing his homework. He couldn't help but feel bad about what he said to Rosie...

"Maybe I shouldn't have turned her down." The blue-haired boy said to himself. "She seemed really upset that I couldn't spend any time with her."

As Thomas continued to work on his homework, he heard a familiar voice.

"Thomas..."

The blue-haired boy looked around. "Who's there?" he peeped.

Then Thomas saw, on his dresser, his deck glowing white. The blue-haired boy immediately knew what was happening.

"My Dark Magician is calling out to me."

Thomas walked over to his deck and drew the top-most card. It was the Dark Magician card that was glowing. Suddenly, the Duel Spirit version of Dark Magician appeared to speak with his master/friend.

"What's the matter?" asked Thomas.

"Thomas, I sense great danger ahead." said Dark Magician.

"Great danger, you say?"

"Yes." The purple-haired male spellcaster confirmed. "While I don't know what it is exactly, but I can say that someone in your very school is out to get you and your friends."

"In my school?" gasped Thomas. "I'll have to warn Sir Topham Hatt once I find out who it is."

"By the time you do, it will be too late." Dark Magician pointed out. "Please be careful out there. I would never forgive myself if anything were to happen to you."

With that said, the Duel Spirit vanished; leaving Thomas both confused and worried.

"I swear things in my life are getting more dangerous every day." The blue-haired boy said only to himself.

(elsewhere...)

The next morning, Rosie was standing by the statue of Sir Topham Hatt waiting for Diesel when...

"Morning, Rosie."

It was Percy and his girlfriend, Lady Stone. Lady was 15-years old and very beautiful looking. She had long golden blonde hair and a maroon headband and a maroon short-sleeved shirt with the word 'Lady' on the front and a maroon skirt with gold shoes.

"Hi, Percy. Hi, Lady."

"Since you're early, why not join us for breakfast in the cafeteria?" Lady kindly offered.

"No thanks, I'm actually waiting for someone." Rosie declined.

"Thomas finally find time to hang with you?" asked Percy.

"Unfortunately, no."

"I'm sorry." Lady apologized.

Rosie sighed. "It's fine... I'll try again another time."

With that said, Percy and Lady both went on ahead towards the school. When they were gone, Rosie heard a familiar oily voice...

"Hello, Rosie."

It was Diesel.

"Diesel!" gasped Rosie.

"Are you ready?" The devious black-haired boy asked immediately.

Rosie gave a quick nod.

"Very well, follow me."

Rosie followed Diesel into the school.

(elsewhere...)

The two teenagers both walked down the hallway until they reached the Smelter's classroom.

"Here we are." Diesel announced.

"Okay... Open the door." said Rosie slowly and nervously.

Diesel nodded and opened the door, making Rosie gasp at what she saw on the inside.

"Oh my gosh!"

The Smelter's classroom was a complete mess. The desks were all broken, oil and metal strung all over the place, Rosie could even swear she saw a rat scurry past.

"How can you live in a shop like this?" asked Rosie.

"Call it what you want." said Diesel, smiling as he looked around the place. "But it's home to us."

"Who's there?!" boomed a voice from the back room.

"I've brought Rosie Vulcan here!" Diesel called back.

Coming from the back of the room was a man with dark mustard-like coloured hair and clothing. He also had a huge cast on his right arm (a serious injury perhaps?).

"Hello, Rosie. Welcome to the Smelters' class." The teacher greeted. "My name is Mr. Nodniws. Diesel said you might come to visit our class. He's been telling me all about you. You are a very special girl. Come in and have a seat..."

Diesel pulled up a chair for Rosie so she could sit down. He (Diesel) gave her (Rosie) a kind smile.

"You may have already noticed that our room isn't big or grand like the others, but it's still a good classroom and we're all very happy to have you here." Mr. Nodniws continued.

Rosie felt nervous, but soon a small smile soon appeared on her face.

"Thank you, Mr. Nodniws."

With that said, the pink-haired girl sat down. At that moment, some of the other Smelter teens came out from the back room to see their visitor. There was Arry and Bert Hilton. There were also two boys Rosie had never seen before. The first was Den Royce who had orange hair and wore orange and blue clothes, while the other was his brother Dart Royce who had blonde hair and wore red and yellow clothes. There was Beyer Peacock, also known as Bear, for the growling noises he makes. He had blonde hair and blue or green clothing.

Then there were three other boys, one of whom Rosie knew well. The first was Paxton Derby, who had green hair and wore green clothes, and was also a good (yet rarely seen) friend. The second was Sidney Darlington who had blue hair and wore blue clothes. The third was Norman Ashford who had red hair and wore red clothes. He was also Dennis' cousin. Dennis Ashford, another member of Diesel's gang, was in the room too. He had gray hair and dressed in gray clothes.

The other two boys were recognizable, they were Splatter and Dodge Doncaster (both were members of Diesel's gang). Then there was Derek Clayton, another good friend of Rosie's. He had blonde hair and wore green clothes.

"Hello, I'm Den. Uh, what I mean to say is..." Den started to say, but got mixed up.

Dart decided to help him. "What Den means to say is he's the teacher's assistant and I help him a lot, I'm Dart."

Den pointed to the left. "These boys here are Sidney, Paxton, and Norman. And those boys over there are..."

"What he means is that those boys there are Dodge and Splatter." Dart finished.

"I know, Dart. I was going to say his name." sighed Den in annoyance.

"Um... hello, everyone." whimpered Rosie, sounding quiet and nervous.

"Diesel has been telling us that you were feeling unappreciated." said Mr. Nodniws.

"We're here to see to it that you're never ignored ever again." put in Arry.

"So, don't you worry." Bert added.

"You can always depend on us." Dennis threw in.

"As you can see, we don't get to enjoy noon-hour like everyone else." said Den. "Uh, I mean..."

"What he means is that the class is such a mess, that we end up having to spend our time cleaning it." finished Dart.

"Haven't you told Sir Topham Hatt about this?" asked Rosie.

Just before someone could answer her question, Paxton noticed the Duel Disk on Rosie's left arm.

"Wait a second." The green-haired boy interrupted. "You play Duel Monsters?"

"Yeah." nodded Rosie. "I was a champion that took part in the San Francisco tournament, but I lost to Thomas early on."

"She even copied Thomas's deck for her duel with Emily." added Diesel.

Mr. Nodniws grinned to himself. "Well then, how about that? What do you saw to a quick match against me?"

Rosie raised an eyebrow. "But isn't the bell going to ring soon?"

"I assure you this match won't take long." Mr. Nodniws replied, pulling out his own deck from his pocket.

"Okay." said Rosie, activating her Duel Disk.

Diesel gave his teacher a Duel Disk. The man then used his good hand to slot the disk onto his injured arm.

"You ready, Rosie?"

Rosie had her hand drawn already. "I'm ready."

(later...)

Several turns later, Rosie stared in horror as she watched her Guardian Angel Joan be destroyed by an unknown monster.

"I've...lost." The pink-haired girl whispered (LP: 0).


DUEL RESULTS: Mr. Nodniws wins!


"Good game, Rosie." said Mr. Nodniws, just as the holograms faded away.

"Whoa..." Rosie finally said, upon recovering from her shock. "That was a very quick duel indeed."

It was right around then the bell rang.

"Uh-oh! I have to run, now!"

"No worries, child." Mr. Nodniws said kindly. "You may go. And know that you're always welcome to come back and visit us. But, for our sake, please don't tell anyone you were ever here."

"I won't!" called Rosie, just as she took off out of the room for homeroom class.

Mr. Nodniws continued to smile until the pink-haired girl was out of sight. Once she was, his smile turned evil as he suddenly was met by a new voice inside his mind.

"So, my friend, how is the plan going?"

"Just as you predicted, master, all is going according to your plan." replied Mr. Nodniws.

An image of a teenage boy with tanned skin and also wearing purple robes appeared (the boy seemed to be Egyptian).

"Excellent!" smiled the teenage boy. "Soon the chosen one in the prophecy will fall..."

As he said that, he pulled out...a golden rod of a sort... It had a Millennium Eye-like tip on the top of the long handle.

"...and then die by my hands."

Two evil laughs (coming from the teenage boy and Mr. Nodniws) echoed throughout the teacher's head as he gave a very evil smile. Just who is this guy (the teenage boy, F.Y.I.)? And what is the connection between him and Mr. Nodniws? It would seem we'll find out very soon.


To be Continued!


(A large hourglass, shining in bleak darkness spun slowly)

Like sands through the hourglass

So life goes slowly along.

(Grains of sand began to trickle down the hourglass)

Every moment we see each other

Every time that we speak

Every night when the last thing we think of

is how to get a decent sleep.

(Through the grains of sand, Thomas and his friends appear one by one. The grains stopped falling, zooming out to find all the sand was now at the bottom)

We share our thoughts and dreams,

fleeing from the cruel reality.

But in the end, we're out of time

And things become the way they ought to be.

(The hourglass spun faster and fllew off into the sky, soaring over Thomas and his friends, who look up at it.)

For our souls will see the light in darkness

Our voices will cry out in the night

We stand together no matter the challenge

And we will bring forth the greatest light!

(The darkness disappeared and is replaced with the bright light of the sun, shining down on everybody.)