Sup! I know it's been a while, but I've had testing, so give me a break. Anyway, her is the long anticipated next chapter of Lie of a King! Without further delay, here you go! (p.s, to make it up to you guys, this chapter is going to be extra-long!)

Chapter 5: Revelations

A bird flew past the early morning sun on Duel Academy Island, headed straight for the cliffs by the Slifer Red dorm. Inside, a small blue haired boy, no older then twelve slept face down in his pillow on the bottom bunk. The small bird perched on a windowsill, looking at the bluenette and tilted its head with a confused stare, or as confused as a bird can look. Soon it abruptly started chirping loudly, causing the slifer to jump up and hit his head on the bed above him. With a groan, he slowly rolled out of the bed and onto the dirty brown carpet of his shared dorm room. All while he kept his drowsy eyes closed to the early morning sunlight coming out of the only window.

"Ugh…. Stupid bird… Ruining my Saturday… mghmghg." The boy had an abnormally high pitched voice, even for a kid his age. Bright blue eyes opened up to the world as he slowly picked himself up. "Jaden, you really need to start closing that window at night." When no response came, the bluenette became curious, and looked up to the bunk above his, only to find it empty. "Gone again…"

Syrus Trusdale was many things. Weak, cowardly, and quivering may be a few of them, but he also was a good friend, so when Jaden had started to act funny after his battle to save the school and the world, he was naturally worried for his friend. He would go to sleep with Jaden above him, then wake up to find him gone, and at Crowler's class before anyone else was the next day. Anyone could see that there was something wrong.

Like he said, he was a good friend, but he wasn't stupid.

With another quick groan, Syrus slowly got dressed for the day, slipping on his small glasses seeing as the annoying bird, who was still chirping in the windowsill, wouldn't let him get anymore sleep. After getting dressed, he decided to go look for his friend. Again. A sigh escaped his lips as Sirus thought back to all the other times over the past month Jaden had disappeared in the morning, never to be seen again until nighttime, where her cleanly dodged his questions about his whereabouts. A determined look suddenly came into his eyes as he thought back at how many times the King of Slifer red had saved his life, as he grabbed his red jacket to go with the standard school uniform of kakis and dorm colored tennis shoes.

I'm going to find you this time Jaden. These were Sirus' last thoughts before he left his "room", if you could call it that. His destination? The dorm room turned penthouse next door. If anyone could help Syrus find Jaden, it was his friend's self-proclaimed "rival", Chazz Princeton. Ok, maybe he was wrong.

"Come on, Chazz! You know something is up with Jaden!" Siruspleaded to the black haired boy in front of him. He wore a black trench coat-like jacket, black pants, and had his hair spiked up, which made his head look more like a mop then a fashion statement. The black clad Slifer looked at the smallest of the slifers and scoffed arrogantly.

"And why would I help you, shrimp? You come knocking at my door at *yawn* 7 in the morning, asking for my help looking for the Slacker? Have you tried the mess hall?" He replied with a condescending smirk. Chazz turned his back to the much smaller slifer, who followed him inside. They walked deeper into the massive dorm, where Chazz lied down on the gigantic leather couch and closed his eyes, while Syrus stood in front of the T.V. The bluenette was always stupefied every time he saw where Chazz lived. You could easily fit ten of Syrus' rooms into just Chazz's foyer alone, which consisted of 2 leather couches, loveseat, 52" plasma T.V, air hockey and pool tables, and… was that a hot tub? Sryus shook his head. He may be a stuck-up prick, but boy does Chazz know how to live. Dismissing those thoughts, he regained his determined look and walked up to Chazz, who when sitting down was at his height.

"Chazz, I this is serious! Jaden's been disappearing all day to god knows where, what if he needs our help?"

The raven-Haired boy looked up and saw the concern in the squeaking slifer's eyes. He sighed, and opened his eyes to meet his. As much as it might be a surprise to hear, he wasn't a complete asshole when it came to his "Friends". Sure, he may bash Jaden a little, but he always respected him as a duelist and an opponent. Over the past year, Jaden had surprised him battle after battle he had fought, right up to his battle with the superintendent. He had to admit it to himself, Jaden was good. Really good. And sometimes he almost told him that fact, but he never did.

He just didn't want the slacker to think he was getting soft on him.

So yea, Chazz Princeton was many things. Being a douchebag, arrogant, and impulsive may be a few of them, but he wasn't stupid (For the most part). He knew as well as Sirus that something was up with Jaden, and he couldn't let his biggest rival go and die on him, could he?

"Say…I were to help you out. Try and find your friend," Sirus perked up at this, a bit hope in his eyes. Chazz slumped back into his couch, never breaking eye contact for a second; he brought his arm up around the black leather backing and closed his eyes again. "What would you have me do anyway? You know, IF I said yes" Sirus smiled and looked up at the celling behind me. I followed his eyes and saw what he was looking at. It was one of my security cameras I kept in the room. I looked back to him. He caught my gaze

"Do you have any more of those outside?"

We find our favorite blue bird again, right after leaving the Slifer Red dorm after Syrus. It flies all the way around the island, and lands inside the room of our favorite Obelisk Queen. Currently, the blond beauty was in a state similar to Syrus, only this time she was face first in her master bed room, on linin sheets. The bird, once again begins to chirp, but doesn't get far as a blue tennis shoe comes fling at it, effectively silencing the little blue pest. Alexis is still face down in her bed, now with throwing arm extended. She turns halfway, only showing one eye as she stares where the bird was.

"Ugh…. Stupid bird…ruining my Saturday… ugh." She slowly picks herself up out of bed and looks around. She tries to get up, but immediately regrets it as she suddenly is hit by a wave of nausea. Forced to sit back down, the blond Obelisk clutches her head. "Man, what did I do last night?"

"Oh, you're finally up." She looks up (Slowly this time), and sees Jasmine, her roommate, standing in her doorway. Jasmine was a purple-haired girl who wore a, ah, more revealing version of the traditional school uniform. She always liked to accessorize, if that's what you call wearing skirts one size to small. "Good, me and Mindy thought you were in a comma." She says just a little to happily. It's enough though to make Alexis cover her ears.

"Jasmine, not so loud!" She looks at her with questioning eyes. "What happ-"

"You don't remember?" Jasmine buts in, "Yea, I guess with the way you drank. Wow girl, id didn't think you had it in you." Alexis just stares at her friend dumbly. Jasmine sweat drops, but continues. "You know, at Harrisons' party, some Ra brought a keg from the principal's stash, and you were taking jello shots with Ms. Dorothy? Oh, come on! That was awesome!" Before the blond can say anything in protest, her energetic friend continued "Anyway, Me and Mindy brought you home, and put you straight to bed. You were out like a light, girl!"

Her mind finally woke up, and the blond remembered. "Wait, so I wasn't alone in the room at all last night?"

Jasmine looked at her confused "No, we went right from the school to the party, and we were with you the whole time. Why?"

Alexis looks at her friend with a fake smile, the best she could muster with her hangover " No reason." She choked out. While this was going on her mind was going into overdrive. So…that whole thing…was a dream? It seemed so real… It did make sense thought. She'd admit, she did harbor some feelings for the Slifer King, that started to form after they're first duel, but that's all they ever were, feelings. Never had she had the urge to pleasure herself over it. She'd never even told anyone, not even Jasmine and Mindy. She especially hadn't told HIM. No, he was too busy becoming duel king for her to distract him; she wasn't going to get in the way of his dream. But the dream she had last night…

"Uhhhh Alexis? Hello, you there?" She was broken from her drabbles by her roommate, and realized that she had been staring at nothing. She put on another smile and nodded.

"Yea, I'm fine, just tired. Hey, can you get me some water?" She asked, more to get her out of the room. Not that she didn't like her roommate, but she wasn't the best person to have around when fighting a hangover. She looked at her friend with sympathy and nodded. As she left, Alexis collapsed back on her bed. "Jaden…what is this? What's going on?" She hadn't even seen the Slifer in a week, as every time she tries to go see him she is turned away by a nervous Syrus, who abruptly slammed the door on her whenever she tried to go in. He had been coming to class, but with him being a Slifer Red, and her being an Obelisk Blue, they sat on opposite sides of the classroom. The queen of blue sighed, oh well, she'd get to see him eventually to work out her feelings for the brown haired boy, break was coming up and the key holder group that had seemed to form during the shadow rider incident would most likely get together again. With her plan in place, she lied back and tried to get back to sleep.

Outside, the chirping bird had managed to wiggle its way out from under the shoe, and was airborne once again. It flapped in place for a little bit, looking at the window it was "Booted" from, and flew back into the sky. It soon found its way back to the Slifer Red dorm, now at Chazz's windowsill. Seeing it open, the bird flew inside, into an open door to a black room, bare except for a chair, a keyboard and a desk with a stack of computer monitors on it, all showing different areas in and around the run down dorm, the screens providing the only light source in the room. There we find our slifer duo of Chazz and Syrus, who is standing next to a siting Chazz.

"So, these monitors show us everything the cameras see?" The bluenette questioned. Chazz smirked while typing on the keyboard.

"Yep, can't have anyone sneaking up on 'The Chazz' now can we?" He answered, still typing.

"But wait, that one isn't the slifer dorm, is that…the girls' locke-"

"NO!" Chazz screamed as he quickly shut off the perverted monitor. "Hey, I'm doing you a favor, so no questions!" He defended with a flaming blush. Syrus simply nods. Calming down a bit, he turns back to the screens. "No, you said Jaden started acting weird a few days after his duel? So, if we re-wind the recordings a bit…Ah ha! Got it." The black clad boy slid the chair back so the smaller slifer could see. It was a camera pointed at the door of he and Jaden's shared room. At first, nothing happened, and he was about to ask Chazz if he got the day wrong, until he saw the Door open on the screen, and Jaden walk out. He looked around for a while, and then walked off screen. "Hold up…" Chazz sat back up and hit a button on the keyboard, and the screen switched to show the outcropping by the cliffs behind the dorm. They saw Jaden walk on screen, and look out at the sunset. He then abruptly turned around, as if someone had called him. However, the assailants' face was hidden by the bottom of the screen. After a few inaudible shouts that they couldn't hear from the camera, the two watched on as Jaden deployed his duel disk. The two Slifers watched in stunned silence as they saw the Slifer King loose in two turns.

Syrus looked at the boy in the chair. "Is there another angle?" Chazz looked at him and then began typing again.

"Yea, right….here…" He said in shock, face tuning pale as the camera view changed to one at a wider angle, with a clear view of Jaden's opponent. Syrus looked at Chazz confused, and then he looked back at the screen and matched his expression.

"Is you're camera broken? Please tell me it's busted." Syrus pleaded, eyes turning to Chazz. All he gets is a few incoherent mumbles, and a shaking of his head. He looks back to the screen just in time to see Jaden lose. But that didn't surprise Syrus nearly as much as his opponent. Standing there, across form Jaden, effectively putting down the best duelist on the island was…

Nobody.

Chazz gains his senses back first. "How can he be dueling nobody? No opponent, none of his cards, Jaden's just blow up, and he loses! How can there be nobody there?" He shouts in a voice so high it challenged Syrus' own, as he typed aggressively [Don't ask me how you can type 'aggressively'] at the keyboard, but Syrus stood there in silence, not moving as he watched his friend lose to nobody again and again.

As this was happening, the bird was watching silently from its corner, until it decided to fly back through the door, out of the penthouse suit as back into the open sky. As it flew toward the forests, it slowly began to glow a faint color. It was faint at first, but as it went deeper into the forest, the glow became brighter, more profound, so much so that by the time it reached its destination, it was as bright as a lamp in the cold dark forest. Ahead was a rundown building, with splintered wood and shattered windows. The glowing bird flew in through a window, down a flight of stairs that led to an underground chamber; the one Jaden had first confronted Titan in. The bird flew in place in the center of the room, until the glow consumed it, growing bigger and bigger, until the glow seemed to take shape. First a leg, then an arm took shape. The shadows around the room seemed to come to life, and dashed at the glow, consuming the shaping form in darkness and as the darkness reached the now fully formed figure's head, the last of the faint glow diminished, and the previously floating figure dropped to the floor knee first. At first glance, it looked like a monster of sorts, but if you looked closely, it appeared to be a more twisted version of Elemental Hero flame wingman, but it was distorted by the darkness to tell. It stayed on one knee, head down facing the shadows as another figure emerged from the darkness. His cape fluttered behind him as he looked to his servant and smiled. He held out his hand in front of him, touched the deformed hero and smiled, his eyes looking down upon him. He focused his power and the two vanished from the chamber in a flash of gold.

So? What'd ya think? That was a long one, and expect more like those to come. I'll try for something by the end of next week. Also, PLEASE REVIEW! Review make me want to write. And please, only constructive flames. You know who you are. Until then!