The screen turns on and on it appears Crow and Musa as little kids, standing in the courtyard of Duel Academy.
Crow's face is clear of his tattoos and his headband does not any rings on it. Musa's hair is long and has two short side tails on either side of her head. Instead of wearing regular clothes, Musa is wearing a white shirt (with a black undershirt) that has a mini blue cape, a blue skirt, boots, and belt; with a pair of blue gloves on her arms.
Crow is wearing a yellow shirt under a red jacket that has markings similar to Musa's. He's wearing dark pants with red shoes. "Musa!" Crow shouts as he sees her. Musa turns and smiles, waving to him.
"Hey Crow, where's Flora? I know you two don't always hang out but you're like twins."
"She's fine. Aunt Alyssa should be bringing her here sometime." Crow lies. Not many people know what is really happening with Flora, and Crow wants to keep it a secret. He just hopes that Flora gets her own individual room and not room with Musa, otherwise it's going to be a hard year.
"Crow," a woman calls out. She has long orange-hair with some strands standing out against her face from her ponytail. "Come on, we need to get you settled in."
"Okay Mom." Crow then waves goodbye to Musa as he goes over to his mother as they walk to his dorm.
"How old are you guys, and Flora where are you?" Brandon asks. "Because from the looks of things you can't be more than six-to-eight-years-old."
"Things aren't that simple." Flora tries to explain. "You see our Moms kind of paved the way for Musa and I. They've had their fair share of duels that have put them into positions of saving the magical dimension or plunging it into complete darkness."
"What does that. . . . . Flora where did you get those bracelets, and where can I get them?" Stella wonders as she sees two silver bracelets on Flora's right arm. One has a pink sphere gem that has silver petals surrounding it with the other has a yellow diamond gem and has wings on either side of the gem.
"Er, Flo's bracelets are a one of a king, Stell." Musa answers. "Plus she's had those bracelets for a long time."
"How long?" Bloom inquires.
"How about we just continue watching."
Crow's rooms is packed away and he is waving goodbye to his mom as he over looks the sea, where his mother is at the beach making a portal back to Linphea.
A new year means time to search. Don't worry Flora, I am going to find you and take down the person who took you. Crow thinks before he goes back inside his room.
In her room, Musa is supposed to be sharing a room with someone but she doesn't know who. It's not Flora, Flora has her own room this year. Too bad, Musa has been hoping to pull out her old dueling mat so she and Flora can duel without their duel disks.
Sighing Musa goes over to her dresser and pulls out the multiple decks she and Flora and Crow have built ever since they were babies. There's the elemental heroes, Cyber Angel, Cyber Roid, and several more. The only thing missing is Flora's plant deck that she uses when Synchro summoning her Black Rose Dragon.
It's almost time for dinner, and Flora still hasn't shown up yet. Musa doesn't like this, but Flora may be adjusting to having a dorm room all to herself. Then again, Flora also did take some summer courses and it is possible she may have been bumped down to a Slifer or a Ra.
She can almost remember last year when they first started and Chazz challenged Crow to a duel on their first day on campus. Or when she and Crow snuck into the duel riding arena where students interested in duel boards and duel runners have their classes. Musa and Crow snuck in to see if they could ride a bike or a board. Flora went after them so they wouldn't go through with it.
They got caught. Well, she and Flora did and they had to team up in a tag team duel so they could stay at school and stay Obelisks. That's when Musa first found out about Zane, Flora's older cousin by a year or so, who is a stiff for an eight-year-old who originally thought that Flora didn't belong at Duel Academy.
Flora never really does talk about her relationship with Zane much. They're cousins, but at the same time they could almost be complete strangers. Except the fact that Zane and Crow also happen to be over protective over Flora (Crow is more prone to showing it).
I can tell this is going to be one dang year. Musa thinks as she looks at her junk/stardust deck. She's back from the first-night dinner and still hasn't seen Flora. She can only hope that Flora will be in class tomorrow and will explain why she has been gone today.
On the other side of the island is an old dormitory that has long since been abandoned but the rood still intact. Inside is a way of explaining the Shadow Games and the Millennium Items, but inside the basement is a bunch of mini shadow creatures with a person in the shadows with a bird-like mask covering the first half of their face. On their left arm is a duel disk that is far too different from the issued ones by the school.
The cards in their card holder that's on their belt, is safely tucked away, but one. One that is dimming lightly in the shadows. "Don't worry my pets," the voice says. "The time will come soon enough and when it does, the key keepers will have no idea what hit them. Come, we must go meet with the others."
