Now we finally get into more of a story! Woot! Which reminds me, I forgot to put up a disclaimer. Really though, who is idiotic enough to think I own anything besides the plot?

Haou: You never know. Maybe there's some hobo out there who's only goal in life is to make people suffer because they forget disclaimers.

Me: O_O Scary!

Jaden: Anways, Sesco owns NOTHING but the plot.

Me: Darn Tootin'.


Haou smirked as he looked around the arena, which was thankfully still full of monsters and fiends. "Now, why don't you take me to your king?" he asked calmly to the nearest one to him.

The being looked at him, not phased it seemed by the tone in which he had asked the question, or rather, commanded. "I do not take orders from you." It spoke gruffly. Haou also sized the fiend up, taking in every single detail he could in a single glance.

The fiend was just that: a fiend. He wore a brown-green cape over his purple and golden armor (the cape was red on the inside), and he had several dull silver horns the made him look demonic. Hidden inside the cape, though not hidden very well cause Haou was able to see it, was a long sliver blade with a golden handle which had a single claw protruding from its hilt.

'Archfiend Soldier' Haou thought as he compared the fiend in front of him to the card. 'An expert at battle who belongs to a crack diabolical unit. He's famous because he always gets the job done.'

Haou knew that this fiend was stronger than he looked, but that wouldn't matter. "Take me to your leader." He demanded. Something inside of him stirred, and he felt it trying to laugh for some odd reason. Wait, J…Jaden? Haou narrowed his eyes, concentrating on the fiend's reply.

"You sent him to the stars."

"So, take me to your new leader then, insolent fool!" Haou snapped, taking a step forward. A bunch of the other monsters gasped and backed away, but the soldier held his ground.

"We have no other leader now than that of the Supreme King, and I'll be sent to the stars before I let you see him!"

'Wait…so you lied to me!' What the…ok, that was definitely Jaden. But how in the name of duel monsters was he still here!? 'Well, that's a load off my chest. I thought you were some evil bad power hungry bad guy trying to take over the wor-' "Shut up!" Haou snapped, silencing Jaden and telling off the fiend at the same time. He'd have to deal with Jaden later.

"I will see you leader, and I will take them down!" Haou sneered.

This was probably the worst thing he could have possibly said. Enraged by the threat to their king and inspired by the Archfiend Soldier's courage, the other fiends swarmed in around Haou, trapping him in on all sides. 'This…is not good.' Jaden's thoughts interrupted into his head again. 'No duh, Sherlock.' Haou thought back as he took on a defensive position, holding his duel disk out in front of him. "You think you all can take me on?!"

Laughter erupted among the fiends. "There's no need to duel when we outnumber you so!" one of them shrieked. "Take him down!" "Avenge or Mad King!" "Get him!" "Yeah!"

…So that was why one could find Haou running out of the prison like a mad man, being chased by about fifty or so fiends. He ran along a cliffside ledge, occasionally playing a monster card in order to delay the fiends as he tried to get away. 'Hey, look up at the sky!' The thought was not his, so he could only assume that it was Jaden yet again. Haou cast a glimpse upward, and realized at once what Jaden wanted him to see. The comet that lit this dark land would be going over the horizon soon, and by then the fiends would cease to chase them. Through Jaden's memories, Haou remembered what Freed had told them. 'You must wait for the light of the comet to fade; they don't patrol without it.'

Darkworld or not, this place was still a world, still an 'Earth'. That means that it turned, and therefore had its own days as well. "Just a little bit longer…" Haou grunted as he ran into a large gap inside the Cliffside. Maybe hiding here would be for the best…for now…

"Come out! We know you're in there!"

…Or not. Darn it!

Haou looked out the crack to see that he was once again cornered. 'Now what!?' he thought furiously.

'…You need power.'

Haou blinked. Why did those words sound familiar to him?

"Power? But how do I…get that?" he whispered, and then it dawned on him. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the blank card, holding it firmly between his fingers before slipping out of the slit into the mass of fiends.

"Super Polymerization! Accept my offering! Devour these fiends and unlock your true power!" he shouted, holding the blank card up in the air. The fiends gasped as a wicked bright light engulfed the card, and began to spread, concealing them all into their demise.

It only lasted about five seconds. It was a blur, really. There was the sound of screams, and then, simply nothing, nothing but glowing particles of light.

Haou stood there, looking down at the now fully developed card. Something inside him shuddered.

'That…that was horrible!'

"It was your idea, dimwit."

'But I didn't think it would be like that!' Jaden protested.

Haou grimaced as he could feel Jaden's shock and fear wash over him. "Calm down, will you? Did you forget that they were trying to send us to the stars? They had this coming to them. They're gone now, and we're safe. "

The light of the comet finally disappeared over the mountains, leaving the land in complete darkness.

'Um, Haou…'

"What?"

'Maybe we should hang out in the crack until the comet comes back…I mean….well…I really don't want to fall off the cliff and stuffs….ouch…?'

Haou growled. Jaden had a point there. Not even he could see very well in the dark. Haou made his way back to the rift inside the cliff and pushed his way into it. But now that it was completely dark, he noticed something…off. 'Is there something…glowing?' he wondered.

'Let's go see what it is!' Jaden decided.

Haou really didn't have a choice in the matter. If it was something dangerous, he'd rather find out about it now than later. He worked his way farther into the crevice in the cliff, almost getting stuck every once in a while.

The farther he got, however, the roomier the fracture seemed to get. And he wasn't the only one who noticed.

'Is it just me, or are we not squished anymore?'

Haou refused to grace that with an answer, however true it was. Before he realized it, Haou had come out into a domed cavern about the size of high school gym. He was able to tell the size because the glowing they had seen was being emanated off of strange looking shrooms that grew in spots around the cave.

"Is this some sort of pattern?" Haou asked, hearing his voice echo slightly. He walked toward the mushrooms, trying to figure out what their significance was. Why were they here?

That was when he stepped between two of them, and all chaos broke loose.

The pain was indescribable. He had been taking a step forward, but some invisible force was pushing him back while at the same time, 'not' pushing him back. It was shredding him from the inside out, and Jaden's yells inside his head were doing nothing to ease the pain.

"One is Light at heart."

"The other pure Dark."

"We've been looking so long for a light."

"One that shines this bright."

"Then what to do of the Dark?"

"We'll rip apart."


Yep, that's my poem! I made it up! Yup....I love poetry. You'll probably be getting another earfull of sickening rhymes in the next chap too. *coughs* So, anyways...off to formulate chapter three!