A/N: Welcome back! Chapter 2, people! Let's see if you can find out who these two mystery people are! Let me assure you that all guesses made so far are wrong. But keep trying!

Disclaimer: Again, GX isn't mine. And it never will be...

Chapter 2: A Date at the Festival

A week later, the day of the festival had come. The gang had decided to meet up at the Ra Cafeteria, and from there, go to the festival. Chazz was there, dressed in his Ojama Yellow costume from when he dueled Jaden while under Aster's tutelage. Syrus was also there, dressed as Drilloid. Hasselberry was sitting next to Syrus; he was dressed up as Black Tyranno. Blair was sitting with Chazz; she decided to be Mystical Elf. Zane was sitting in a corner of the room, catching a quick nap; his guise was that of Cybernetic Magicican. Mindy and Jasmine walked in; they decided to go together as Gemini Elf. Atticus and Aster followed closely behind the girls, guised as Panther Warrior and Doom Lord, respectively.

"Well, we're all here now. Just need to wait for Sarge and Capt. Lexi now," Hasselberry commented. (A/N: Since Alexis is now Jaden's girlfriend, she got 'promoted', so to speak, by Hasselberry.)

Right after he had said that, said couple happened to walk in, holding hands. Jaden had decided to go as Buster Blader. Alexis decided to dress up as Injection Fairy Lily. The boys, minus Atticus, were oogling Alexis, and Jaden use every ounce of self-control he had not to throttle them. Once they stopped staring at Alexis, the group decided to head out to the festival, which was at Obelisk Blue this time around, hosted by none other than Dr. Crowler.

Once they arrived, the group decided to split up, then they would meet for lunch, where they would determine who would be in the exhibition duel to be held this afternoon. Mindy and Jasmine took off first, wanting to find some eligible bachelors. After that, Chazz and Blair went their way to do duel some of the students. Atticus and Hasselberry left after that, hoping to scope out some cute girls. Aster, Zane and Syrus decided to go check out the events and see what's up. That just left the main couple of our story all by themselves.

"So, what would you like to do?" Jaden asked.

"How about we just walk around and see what happens?" Alexis suggested.

"Good idea," Jaden replied, kissing Alexis on the cheek.

So the lovely couple dove head first into the crowd, destination unknown. Meanwhile, those two shadowy that have been watching the duo since last week are standing near one of the many booths. The girl was absolutely ecstatic that she was there at the festival, while the guy looked like he had that mythical stick up his rear end and got stuck with nowhere to go.

"Today's such a nice day, isn't it?" the girl asked.

"I could care less. I'm here to accomplish my goal. You can do whatever you want," the guy scoffed.

"But WE should have at least a LITTLE fun!" the girl pouted, giving her male companion the puppy-dog eyes.

"…Fine. But eventually, we need to get to Jaden, okay? We're not spending all day checking out the attractions," he suggested.

"Yay!" the girl squealed. She then dragged him off into the depths of the festival; all the same, the guy was fuming, obviously not going to have any fun.

At the same time, hidden behind a tree, a mysterious figure was also watching the beloved couple. Not a shadowy figure; a mysterious figure.

"Should I approach them? I know they're having fun, but I'd like to be with Jaden for a while too and to get to know his girl. And Jaden did say to meet him today. Hope she doesn't freak out or throttle me," it thought.

Now then, we find the cosplaying couple over at a stall, checking out some rare cards. Jaden was drooling at the sight; some of these cards were only seen in use by the likes of Yugi Muto, Seto Kaiba, Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine, Rebecca Hawkins, and so on and so forth.

"Wow, these cards awe AWESOME!" Jaden shouted. "…Too bad that none of them are actually compatible with the Elemental Heroes or Neo-Spacians."

"It's okay, Jaden," Alexis comforted him. "Your deck is one of the best in the world already."

"Yeah…" he sighed. As he continued to scan the cards, two cards caught his eye, a monster and a trap.

"Lex, look!" Jaden got her attention and showed her the cards.

"Well, I'll be," she said. "I wasn't aware that Pegasus had made a new card for the Elemental Hero series. And that Trap Card would work with my Spellcasters quite perfectly! Let's get them!"

Jaden took a couple of minutes to barter with the stall's vendor. Finally, he managed to get his hands on the two cards. A grin was splattered all over his face, excited that he won out. He then gave the Trap Card to Alexis and they shuffled their new cards into their decks.

"Thanks, Jaden," said Alexis as she pecked him. "What should we do now? It's only about 11 and we meet everyone at twelve-thirty."

"Get some snacks!" he proclaimed.

"You and your snacks," she shook her head.

The two walked off, in search of something to temporarily appease Jaden's eternal appetite. After a few minutes of searching, they managed to find a snack booth. Alexis went to find them a seat while Jaden went up and got the snacks. The two reunited after a few minutes and began munching on their snacks.

"So, Alexis. Who do you think should be in this afternoon's duel? After all, Crowler did assign you to choose the lucky people," Jaden asked.

"Interested, are you? You want a repeat performance of Christmas?" Alexis asked back.

Jaden rubbed the back of his head.

"Well, no, not really. I just believe that everyone's expecting me and/or you to be in today's duel," Jaden answered. "But I want to give someone else the limelight for once. I know that your brother would enjoy it."

"Don't remind me," she commented while sweatdropping at the mental picture of Atticus appeasing the crowd. "But I agree; maybe Syrus or Blair or Hasselberry, perhaps."

"Maybe," he muttered.

As the two continued to discuss who they wanted to be in the afternoon duel and why, the mysterious figure slowly began approaching them, both eager and a little nervous to approach Jaden and Alexis. Regardless, the mysterious figure came up to them from behind, anticipating the worst-case scenario.

"Would you two mind if I joined you for awhile?" it asked them, interrupting the conversation.

"Well, depends on who asked," replied Alexis.

She then turned to see whom it was that wanted to join up with them. When she saw whom it was that was standing behind them, the color drained from her face. She was so pale that she was the shade of the Society White uniform, if being such a color was humanly possible at all.

"Hey, Lex, who's our mystery guest that asked to join us?" Jaden asked as he turned around, sipping a drink.

When he saw who it was, Jaden was definitely surprised, but not shocked liked Alexis. In fact, he looked pleasantly surprised, like he'd been waiting for this to happen.

"I was wondering when you would finally show up today, Yubel."

Yubel has appeared out of the blue! What does this mean? Where and who the heck are those shadowy figures? What were those new cards Jaden and Alexis got? Find out in the next chapter!