Jaden fidgeted slightly in his seat only to have Syrus jab him hard in the back and whisper "Jay – sit still… everyone's watching…"

Jaden just grinned widely, "No one cares Sy, it's only a meeting and it hasn't even started yet – hey I say, if we run fast, we can go get some tacos and get back before it's too late… whatcha say?"

"I say we don't have time – it's already five minutes after it should've started," typical Jaden, always thinking with his stomach, Syrus sighed and lent back in his seat. To tell the truth no one was watching, it was just Jaden's constant movement was starting to make him feel edgy. But then again Syrus always did get edgy when they were called to big meetings with the whole school about things they didn't know.

Earlier that day the entire student body had received messages to meet in the duel arena for an announcement from Dr Crowler – or was it Principle Crowler now? Syrus didn't know, and as he looked over at the fidgeting brunette next to him, he doubted very much whether Jaden did either. Besides, the point was Crowler had called them there for this huge announcement, and apparently it was very exciting; though no one knew anything about it, and more often than not the students found whatever Crowler found exciting either deathly boring, or extremely frightening. In fact, most of the students were in a hushed silence not out of anticipation of the announcement but for the fear Crowler was going say something terrifying such as 'compulsory line dancing classes' were about to begin or something. However, Syrus was sure of the fact that whatever was about to said, was not going to be good.

Jaden moaned just then and his stomach growled loudly, "Syyyy I'm so hungry…" but then he was forced to shut up because Alexis lent over and hushed him.

"Jay – it's about to begin… shh or I won't be able to hear," she said, giving both Syrus and Jaden looks much like that a teacher might give two unruly pupils. The pair sighed and lent back in the seats some more, Jaden's stomach giving one last grumpy growl.

However, Alexis had been right, as she'd spoken Dr Crowler had made his way into the middle of the hall with a microphone and then he began to speak. "This is the only place we could fit you all in; so don't get your hopes up – we're not about to have a duel…" Syrus heard Jaden moan slightly from next to him, "However I have some rather exciting news for you all…"

Syrus slid closer to the edge of his seat, as Crowler was speaking, anticipation coursing through him. Syrus had never been one to be able to withhold excitement much and Crowler was speaking so annoyingly slowly – making the entire student body hang off every word; you could see from the man's face he was merely toying with them.

"This afternoon," Crowler continued, "Will see the arrival of…" he paused dramatically, "…one of the greatest duellers of all time!" Jaden sat up straight at that – his expression clearly reading 'I though that was me…' "Aster Phoenix will be-..." he was cut off by the massive uproar caused by his statement.

"Aster Phoenix? Oh my god like he's a real pro…!"

"I heard he took on Yugi and won!"

"I love his hair!"

"Do you like think he'll like wanna like join our dorm?!" "He can't he's a guy Mindy…"

Were a few snippets of the conversations that erupted around Syrus. The fifteen year old looked about him to see Alexis staring at Crowler with some intensity, Chazz behind them looking bored as ever, and Jaden who lent over and said, "Isn't that the guy who invented the corn dog?"

Syrus rolled his eyes and was about to reply when Chazz lent forward from his seat behind.

"You really are as stupid as you like, slacker," he said, his usual hoarse voice bored and – was that a hint of slight pity for Jaden? "Aster Phoenix is the world's youngest pro duellist," he smirked slightly whilst Jaden digested this piece of information, "He's never lost a match – and I'd dare say he's even better than you…" the last comment was basically swimming in resentment – it wasn't exactly a secret that Chazz hated the fact that Jaden was a better dueller than him.

"Ha! No way -…" Jaden grinned then looked at Syrus, "- no way, right?"

But Crowler had begun to talk again, above the rabble, "Aster Phoenix will be joining the school for a term!" everyone went quiet to listen to what Crowler was saying, "In the," he stopped, a strange look had passed onto his face and everyone could see it took a lot for the man to carry on, "…Slifer dorm."

The red coats burst into an eruption of happy cheers Jaden turning around hugging Chazz… yes Chazz, and then grabbing Syrus whilst saying, "We're gonna have a pro in our dorm Sy – even if he's better than me he'll be in our dorm!"

Chazz whose ears had gone slightly pink muttered something along the lines of, "You're insane…"

And then Crowler spoke again, even though everyone had been sure his announcement was over. "To celebrate his arrival Aster had given us permission to hold a welcome party – of sorts… and so, for this week – and this week only mind – students are allowed to sign up for either a tag team duel or a one on one duel and there will be a competition," more roars of happiness drowned out his next words and Crowler went the same purple shade as his lips as he shouted into the microphone, "The winners of these duels will then go on to duel Aster himself! To watch this competition," Crowler drew breath and then proceeded to scream into the microphone as loud as he could, "We have invited your relatives – who will also be staying the week!" he finished, then looked around the room and added over the sudden silence, in a kind of pained tone, "Have fun."

As soon as he stopped speaking everyone exploded into a frenzied yell of happiness, many of the students punching the air or hugging their friends. All of the students were high fiving or dancing or just generally whooping at the wonderful thought of being able to duel Aster in front of their families. All of the students – except one.

One student, sitting directly behind Jaden, in his black trench coat, had gone as white as a sheet – even paler than usual, if that was possible. He was staring at where Crowler had previously stood in disbelief; a horrible feeling had clasped his heart as the words had left Crowler's mouth. "We have invited your relatives – who will also be staying the week!" Chazz Princeton swallowed; having finally escaped his brothers after the summer it seemed that Jagger and Slade were about to show up again.

A/N Alright this is the short – crappy, intro chapter and though it doesn't have much Chazz in it, the rest of the story is mostly about him…

Chazz: Yeah – it'd better.

MsSparrow: It is about Chazz! It is! Really! Anyhoo – r + r please