Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-gi-oh GX.

AN: Sorry for the incredibly long wait but I lost access to my computer after getting kicked out of my house and only have a phone to use for typing. For a story that averages 7000 or 8000 words a chapter, I wasn't exactly all for doing this on my phone. But I finally snapped and said 'Fuck it" and here I am with something new.

Hope you guys enjoy it after the long wait. BTW, over 100 favorites and follows in 3 chapters? You guys spoil me :)

Also, someone asked if Jason's bandages would be taken off. The answer is yes. Jason will have his bandages taken off and we will see what's under them. It'll be at the duel to be Alexis' fiancé, so around 5-8 chapters hopefully.

Enjoy

Chapter 4-

The next day after Jaden and Jason's duel with Alexis and Asami, a fleet of ships and air planes cruised through the ocean. It was like they were heading off to war or something of the sort. "Well, everyone," the Captain spoke to his crew. "It's been a long journey, it seems like everyone's been after us with attack subs, secret spies and air force fighters but it'll all pay off soon. We will arrive at our destination with our payload safe and intact. Now, full speed ahead, this is the moment we've been waiting for, the moment Duel Academy gets their new rare cards!"

...

"Please, please, please, let me pass this test." Syrus was sitting at the desk with lit candles and wearing a white headband with three Monster Reborn cards on them. He was praying to a poster of Slifer the Sky Dragon; apparently he had little to no faith on passing. "I don't want to be stuck in this red jacket forever… not that anything's wrong with red, I mean it looks great on you, Slifer… I wanna be in Ra Yellow! Please give me a chance!"

Syrus had to turn his head to see Jason standing behind him, watching him with a confused one eyed expression that only he was capable of. His bandages were still tightened around the right side of his face, hiding what ever it was that was on his face. Jason shook his head slowly in amusement before turning to the blazer that was hanging on the wall.

Syrus' face turned as red as the blazer that Jason shrugged on his shoulder. "No one has to know about this, right?" Syrus mentally smacked himself at his words. Even if Jason wanted to tell someone, he wouldn't be able to. "Sorry!" He quickly apologized, hoping not to hurt his feelings. "Forget I said that."

Jason gave an easygoing smile towards the small blue-haired boy, shaking his bandaged head to show that no harm had come from Syrus' words. Jason felt comfortable and relatively safe around Syrus and Chumley with the topic of his injuries and disabilities. They were good guys from what he can tell and see. Plus, Jaden trusted them and he hasn't done that since he gave duel monster spirits to his Cooper deck to give him friends.

"You were born like that, right?" Jason gave a confused gesture to his face and then his mouth. "Mute..." Syrus elaborated, causing Jason to make an awe motion before nodding his head. "It was hard to live like that?" Jason gave another nod to the head towards Syrus. "I've been picked on, but to imagine being picked on for being mute... I don't think I woulda been able to handle that."

Jason watched him trail off into his own thoughts of his bullied childhood, knowing the feeling really well. He hated it. Being picked on for things that were out of his control sucked. He had no friends but his brother and his monster spirits and recently Syrus and Chumley. For fifteen years of life, that wasn't exactly the best track record.

*RING!*

"SLIFER!" Syrus freaked, but he just heard the alarm clock ringing. "Just the alarm clock..." He walked over where the clock was residing, which was right next to Jaden's head, "...and as usual, Jaden sleeps through it." Jason smirked, remembering all times that he had to yank Jaden off of the bed to get him to wake up. Syrus started to push Jaden slightly. "Jaden, wake up; the tests are today and we don't wanna be..."

"Wrong!" Jaden yelled, smacking Syrus in the face, knocking the poor Slifer to the floor and causing Jason to turn his smirk into a giant grin. "'Because I played a trap!" Jaden was still sleeping and turned over on the bed. Jason found himself shaking his head at his brother's antics. He suddenly grabbed his head, feeling woozy all of a sudden.

Syrus groaned, "Why can't he ever sleep in defense mode? It'd be a lot safer!"

"Duh, Syrus..."

The blue haired Slifer looked up to see Chumley looking down on him, head propped up on his arms, "You shouldn't be waking him up at all! Let him catch some Z's, and make our day easier. Get what I'm saying?"

Syrus shook his head slowly, "Chumley, I don't get anything you say.."

"You see, we have two different tests today. First a Written Test and then our Field Test. The Written Test shouldn't be a problem, but the Field Test has you paired up against other students from the same dorm and I don't wanna duel one of the guys that beat Dr Crowler. If we let the competition sleep in, it should make passing the test easy. Now do you get it'?" Chumley added winking.

"Yeah, I get what you're saying alright!" Syrus glared at Chumley, "It's no wonder you were held back three years in a row!" He turned his head to Jason when he hit the wall from his stumbling. "Jason?" The mute Yuki brother fell to the ground unconscious. "Jason!"

Syrus' alarmed voice was the thing that jumped Jaden back from the land of slumber. Jaden's eyes immediately fell to his unconscious twin. "Jason!" He ran over. "Help! Sy! Chum! Get help!"

...

"Well the good news is that he's gonna be okay..." Fonda Fontaine, the school nurse, assured Jaden, Syrus, and Chumley of Jason's condition. Syrus ran like the wind to get to the nurse and within a few minutes, Jason was lying in the infirmary. She specifically eyed Jaden next. "You said this happened before, right?"

Jaden nodded, doing his best to avoid the confused looks from Syrus and Chumley. "When he first got hurt, it happened a lot. But they stopped for a long time now. Its been a year or two since the last time he passed out like this." He reminisced. Jaden was already going through his mind to try and figure out why this was happening again. He used his Supreme King powers to stabilize his brother's injuries when he got out of the coma and he thought that was the end of the passing out. Did his power run its course and needed a refill? He would deal with that the next time he and Jason were alone.

Fonda gave a reassuring smile to Jaden. "His life isn't in any danger so that's good." She handed Jaden a nurse note. "Can you hand this to your teachers and inform them that Jason needs to stay in bed rest today in case he passes out again?" Jaden nodded, casting a small glance to his brother before he led Syrus and Chumley out the room, the latter muttering something about Jason being lucky about not having to take the tests.

Fonda turned back to Jason, who was just starting to come to. "Well lookie at who's up?" Jason gave a small smile of return to the nurse. "Time to swap those bandages..." Jason didn't look pleased but started to unwrap them for her.

As she started grabbing the new ones, she told him. "You're a lucky boy to survive what happened."

If Jason could talk, he would let her know that he wasn't lucky and that he wished he died that day.

...

Jaden entered the classroom with Syrus in tow behind him, almost like a shadow after the events that just happened with Jason. He was stuck on auto pilot mode that he missed Chumley skipping class to avoid the test, Banner asking him where they were, and all the looks he was getting. He simply handed Banner the excuse note for Jason, took a test, and stared into space as he walked to a desk.

"Hey Slacker!" And of course, Chazz had to start something. "Where's the Mute?" Too tired and occupied to do much else, Jaden did a middle finger flip from his spot. He heard the chorused "ooh" that came with it, but didn't care. Jason's fainting was back.

He couldn't believe it was happening again. He thought he stopped that. He stopped the injuries Jason had sustained and lowered the pain with Yubel's help so Jason would be able to live life a little easier. But now he was passing out again... and it was because of the gunshot wound to his face.

'I warned you it would come back,' Yubel started again towards him. 'You can ease it as much as you want, but the injury never went away and its not going to.'

Jaden scoffed mentally, doodling on his test as Syrus fell asleep from the lack of rest from his all nighter cram session. 'So? Doesn't mean I can't try. I'm the Supreme King! I can handle a little wound to my brother.' He rationalized. Jaden was really hoping shape shifting and regeneration was part of his Supreme King power. Jason really needed it if he wanted to kinda be normal compared to others.

And Yubel started with the reasoning. 'He's hurt really bad, Jaden; and you can't keep denying that. He got really lucky, but even bad luck comes with some good luck.'

'He'll be fine...' he argued really weakly. He was so engrossed in his crappy doodling of a Inferno Wing that he missed Alexis trying to get his attention out of the corner of his eye.

'Incoming...' Yubel weakly warned as a ball of paper smacked Jaden in the side of the head.

He rubbed at the spot before he noticed that there was a ball of paper on his desk. Confusingly glancing it over, he unfolded the paper to see what was written on the inside.

'You okay? Where's Jason?'

Alexis' name was signed at the bottom to let Jaden know who had thrown him the paper. He turned his head just a little to see the Obelisk girl staring at him in confusion over the missing form of his brother. It was strange to see him without Jason. This was probably the first time since landing here that he and Jason were separated.

Jaden wrote down an answer, making it look like he was taking the test. He'll be fine if he skipped out on doing it. He'll more then make up for it during the field test today. Once Banner turned for a split second, Jaden tossed the ball of paper back to Alexis.

'Jason is in the infirmary.' He had wrote down. To the other students, this could look like he and Alexis were cheating. Maybe it was because he was doing this with Alexis that no one batted an eye. She had built quite the reputation already as a smart capable girl during the first few days here. No one would think she was cheating, especially with a Slifer? No one would buy it.

Jaden heard a faint gasp come from behind him. That didn't sound like Alexis. Turning back, Jaden saw that the gasp had come from Asami as she was the one holding the balled up paper. Alexis must've either handed it to her or she snatched it. Considering Alexis was rubbing her hand, it must've been the latter.

The paper came roaring back, Jaden catching it and seeing just what was written inside.

'Is he okay?'

Before Jaden could raise a pen, Banner cleared his throat, "All right, children, the written exam is now over, now please walk don't run to get in line for your new rare cards."

"They're here!?"

"Oh dear."

As soon as those words left the professor's mouth, a mass mob of students ran out from the classroom as everyone took off. Soon, only Jaden, Syrus, Alexis, Asami, and Bastion were left.

"Where did everyone go?" Syrus asked after the confusion had lowered somewhat.

"Everyone's at the card shop trying to improve their decks for the field test with the new rare cards that arrived." Bastion explained to the stunned Slifer.

"Hey wait a second,." Syrus said, turning to the Ra boy and Obelisks girls. "So why aren't you guys in a hurry?"

The Obelisk girls shrugged, "We believe in our decks."

"Same with me. One errant card and the delicate balance of my deck would be thrown off." Bastion replied.

"Well mine wouldn't!" Syrus said as he took off like a light. Jaden was surprised by the dust cloud that somehow got there with no dust in the room. Instead of chasing his small friend, he waited for the question that was no doubt on Alexis and Asami's lips.

"Why's Jason in the infirmary?" Alexis had asked first as Bastion looked confused, Jaden taking in a deep sigh as he decided to go with a half truth for Jason's absence.

"He passed out this morning... Something to do with his bandages." He explained. Jaden wasn't gonna be the one to reveal exactly why Jason had gotten hurt. That was for his brother to decide.

"Is he okay?" Asami looked worried over his brother's condition. Jaden was mostly surprised that no one asked what was up with Jason's bandages. The opportunity was present clear as day and no one asked it yet. They must have more respect or manners then Jaden expected. Already at Duel Academy for a few days and the people here were already treating him and his brother better than people they knew their whole lives.

"He'll be okay. He just needs to take a day to rest." Jaden explained to the worried bunch. "I'll be sure to give him your condolences." Jaden made a move to leave before he saw Alexis reach over and grab him by the shoulder. He didn't miss the jolt of electricity that he felt when her hand made contact.

"We can stop on by for a few minutes to say hi..." she insisted as Asami and Bastion's heads nodded in agreement, which had Jaden's lips almost upturning into a smile. Like he briefly mentioned before, it felt weird that people they barely knew were already treating them better than people they've known their whole lives, whether it be old friends or acquaintances of Jaden's. He was starting to think that maybe coming here was the right idea.

"I'm sure he'll really appreciate that."

...

At the card shack, the students were banging down on the steel door, hoping to get at the cards before anybody else...

There was also some guards forming a fence between them for some reason... a reason about to make itself known... hopefully.

"Oh children," the officer called to the mob of students who were banging up against the metal door blocking the Card Shop. "Looking for these?" The crowd burst into cheers. He held out the brief case. The metal door slid opened a crack. The officer bent down to enter. "Then come and get them."

The metal doors opened and the card shop was revealed. The brief case was on a table.

It was empty.

A face fault on a massive scale erupted from the students, arguments about where the cards were erupting not even a nanosecond after.

A counter girl was standing by the brief case and so was a man in a long black coat and hat. "You know the rules, first come first serve," the counter girl said.

"And I was here first, so I took everyone!" The man replied.

The crowd melted away, all with negative feelings of the entire ordeal.

Syrus caught up a minute later and saw the lack of presence. Looking around wildly, he came up with only one possible outcome.

"They ran out of cards already!?" He bellowed as he pulled on his hair. "Why is the world against me now of all times!?" He sighed. "Time to hope I pull a miracle and pass..." he muttered depressingly as he scurried on away.

...

Chazz's friends had just explained what happened at the card shop to him. "We couldn't get you a single one, sorry, Chazz."

"You know what's sorry? You two, but it doesn't matter, because there's not a single Duelist at this school who can beat me no matter what card they carry."

"Unless that single Duelist happens to be Jaden or Jason Yuki." The three Obelisk Blues turned to see a man in a long black coat and hat.

"Who are you?"

"Somebody who thinks you despise the Yuki brothers just as much as I do."

"That's him!" Torimaki cried. "That's the sticky fingers who took all of the rare cards?"

"Rare cards, what rare cards? Oh, you mean… these cards!" He spread his jacket open to reveal row after row of cards.

"Talk about having a card up your sleeve!"

"Enough of this cloak and dagger," Chazz said. "Tell me who you really are!"

"Don't recognize me, do you, Chazz? Well, how about now!" He threw off his hat to reveal that…

"Crowler!"

"You looked better all covered up." Chazz said dismissively.

Crowler face faulted. "Is that any way to talk to the one who's going to help you beat Jaden Yuki on the field test?"

Chazz growled, "But we're not in the same dorm," he pointed out. "So I can't be his opponent and even if I could, I want that mute Jason!"

"Jason is currently in the infirmary right now." Crowler explained. "Something about those bandages he wears on his face so he can't take the exams today," he shrugged before grinning. "And about Jaden, you just leave that to me, you just be sure to use these rare cards in the field test against him. And once he loses miserably, he'll be kicked out of the school and with his big brother gone, little Jason will follow suit!" Crowler handed Chazz a stack of rare cards.

...

Jason had new bandages around his face, flipping absentmindedly through his cards as he recalled his earlier display of fainting. He really thought this was all behind him when Jaden used his power to stabilize the damaged parts to his brain, but it looks like that only delayed his issues for a little while. Fear went through him as he remembered the words of the doctor the first time he passed out many years back.

'With an injury this serious, your brain isn't as strong and developed as it should be and its very possible it could shut down at any time.'

That one memory kept repeating and repeating to him. Jason was really scared. Scared that when he passes out that he might not wake up from it. He hasn't shared that fact with Jaden, knowing that his older twin brother would go nuts like he did the day of the accident and probably cause more harm. They were only given a warning by officials that any other incidents with them and they were going into a home and the last thing Jason wanted for his brother was for him to be stuck with people who don't care about him. He had to keep this a secret until he finally fell and stayed down for the last time and hopefully by then Jaden will be eligible to handle himself age wise. He just had to make three more years.

He stopped fanning his cards and stared at the wall where his spirits Tennessee, Galleth, Rioichi, and Sly, brought to life by Jaden and Yubel's powers, stared sadly at him. They were as scared as he was and knew that they couldn't do anything to fix this. The only help Jason can get from them was their promise to not tell Jaden until he finally fell.

Speaking of his brother, he entered the infirmary not two seconds after his final thought had finished and behind him, much to Jason's surprise, was Alexis, Asami and Bastion.

"Awwww..." Asami said as she got a good look at Jason in his infirmary bed. Jason's face turned red, almost pulling the covers over himself to try and hide his face from hers. He couldn't have looked that bad and his bandages were secured so she couldn't see his face.

"How're you doing, Jason?" Alexis asked as she asked as she got a good look at him. Jason shrugged, not really sure what else to do. He wasn't expecting them to be here, just Jaden.

"Little accident, pal?" Bastion asked. Jason almost gave a smile. Bastion had no idea just how right he was that this was all one big accident. If you asked his brother about that, he would give a completely different answer.

Jaden took a seat on the edge of the bed. "My little bro here is one tough guy. Nothing to worry about." Jason knew that Jaden was thinking about using his power to try and stabilize his injury again like he had the first time around. Jason didn't want to tell him that he was just wasting his time and that someday, even if Jaden used his Supreme King powers, he was gonna drop dead. When it happened, at least Jaden would know that he did everything he could to help.

"Of course we're worried," Asami's words touched Jason and by the slightly stunned look on Jaden's face, so was he. "He's our friend and friends worry about each other." Jason didn't assume they were friends, especially after he and Jaden were blackmailed into a duel with expulsion as their losing reward. But here were the two girls they faced and their Ra Yellow chum from the entrance exams, seeing him when they had tests to worry about. Maybe they were friends. Jaden and he didn't have a bunch of experience to work with to know for sure.

Alexis continued "We know that the other night might've given you guys the wrong idea about who we are, but we really do want to be friends. We just wanted to duel with you and kinda took it a step too far..."

"If it helps, we were never planning on turning you in even if you lost."

Bastion, despite having obvious questions about what they were talking about, threw in his two cents. "I might not know you or your brother well, but I can see that you guys are good chaps and know that you have my consents and support."

Jason was a little taken back by the words. He was genuinely happy that he and his brother were getting friends here. This was a good idea to come here, even if their plan was to stay away from strangers due to past experiences; Chazz being a good example as to why, the others they met here were starting to unlock the gates they placed on their hearts.

Two minutes later, they had to start going to the duel fields for the exams. With a handshake from Bastion and waves from the Obelisk girls, they were starting to leave. Jaden stayed behind for a second to say something.

"I'll use the power later..." and he took off. Once his back rounded the corner, Jason gave a sad distant look, knowing that the day will come that Jaden will say that and later would never come.

...

Making it to the field exam in time, Jaden was called down first as having one of the first matches. When he saw his opponent, he did a double take to make sure he was in the right spot.

When he realized he was, he gasped, "You mean I'm dueling an Obelisk and it's Chazz?" He asked Crowler who was judging their exam.

"That's right, Jaden," the teacher confirmed. "Since you always talk such a big game, I decided to pull some strings for you so you got the challenge you deserve." He pointed to Chazz, "So congratulations, you'll be dueling one of the top ranked students at the school. What an honor! I sure hope you were able to snag a lot of today's rare cards so that your deck's up to snuff." Jaden could sense something was wrong with the tone of Crowler's voice. "What's wrong, aren't you going to thank me?"

"This is bad," Syrus said.

"They can actually put a Slifer versus an Obelisk!?" Asami asked half-curiously and half-angrily.

"This is clearly a trap," Bastion said, knowing that something was wrong too. "Only a cavalier fool would agree to this."

"I'll do it!"

Everyone gasped at Jaden's answer.

"All right, Chazz, get your game on," Jaden said. "Now I'll get to finish what my brother and you started at Obelisk Arena."

"I wish he was here..." Chazz admitted. "I wanted to finish stomping him like I was back at the arena." He shrugged. "I'll settle for you instead."

Jaden smirked. "You're not gonna like what I do to you for all those comments you made to my family."

"Indeed," Crowler said indifferently. "And in front of the whole school too so everyone can watch."

"Yeah, watch you get slammed by me," Chazz jabbed. They inserted their decks into their Duel Disks.

"Let's duel!"

Crowler ran out of the way.

Chazz: 4000

Jaden: 4000

"I'll squash you just like I was close to doing with your brother!" Chazz promised with a sneer.

Jaden gave a small glare before drawing his card. "Yeah, yeah, noise, noise..." he mumbled, causing Chazz to growl in frustration. He overlooked his hand. "You might remember this from my entrance duel?" Jaden held up a spell. "I play the Dark Fusion spell card. Now I can fuse Elemental Heroes Wildheart Avian to form my Evil Hero Wild Cyclone!"

The two heroes appeared and started swirling together in a cloud of black smoke, a dark tan man with wings and red and green accessories wearing goggles appeared kneeling. (ATK: 1900/DEF: 2300)

"And that'll be all," Jaden declared.

"Don't think that overgrown bird man stands a chance against me, or against this!" He drew a card. 'Appreciate the rare card, Crowler.' "Fresh off the presses, Magical Mallet!"

"What's that?" Jaden asked.

"A redo, all the cards in my hand that I don't want I return to my deck, then I can shuffle and draw the same number of cards."

"A rare card on the first draw?" Syrus gasped.

"And a very dangerous card at that," Bastion explained. "Now Chazz will be able to pick exactly which cards he wants and which cards he doesn't."

"I didn't even get to the best part," Chazz said, redrawing from his deck and showing Magical Mallet again. "You see, Jaden, I got to shuffle Magical Mallet too! So if I drew it again, which I just did, I can play it again and again. And that comes in handy, know why?"

"Uh… nope." Jaden rolled his eyes.

"It comes in handy when I'm looking for this! V-Tiger Jet, sharpen your claws for attack mode!" A yellow mechanical tiger, shaped like a fighter jet appeared. (1600/1800)

"Jeez, things aren't looking good!" Asami said.

"And there's a lot more where that came from! Check out the magic of Frontline Base, it lets me summon a level 4 or below monster this turn. And I have just the one, W-Wing Catapult!" A blue jet platform appeared. (1300/1500) "Gentlemen, start your engines!" The set of wings took off and the V-Tiger Jet soon joined it. "Now merge!" The Catapult revealed two missile launchers. The Tiger Jet landed on top of it. Thruster units appeared on the back of both the machines. (2000/2100) "All right, the VW-Tiger Catapult!"

"At least Jaden's monster has more defense." Alexis noted.

"But wait, I'm not done yet, because he still has his special ability." Chazz told Jaden.

"Forget it..." she sighed.

"That's not good," Jaden complained.

"Give me a break! Is this guy's turn going to end sometime this century?" Syrus asked.

"By sending a card to the graveyard, I can force one of your monsters into attack mode!" Jaden gasped as Wild Cyclone stood up from his kneeling position. "So after this Heat-Seeker Blitz from my Tiger Catapult, your life points are toast!" The Tiger Catapult fired its missiles. Jaden groaned from the smoke produced by Wild Cyclone's destruction.

Chazz: 4000

Jaden: 3900

Crowler saw all this from the special viewing box where he was watching with Chancellor Shepherd. "My goodness," he said with fake sincerity. "Looks like Jaden can't play with the big boys after all. I guess he's not as good as he thinks."

Shepherd just stared out the window.

"I'll finish up with two cards face-down." Chazz said as two face down cards appeared at his feet.

Jaden drew. 'Let's see... four cards, three monsters and a spell. Not exactly the best hand right now.' He took a closer look. 'Need to beat Chazz and finish what Jason started.' He smirked. 'Got an idea.' He mused as he took three cards.

Alexis saw him smirk. "Wonder what he's up to?" She mumbled.

"Hopefully a miracle." Asami prayed.

"I activate my Dark Calling spell card. It works like Dark Fusion, only I can use cards from my hand and graveyard. And who better than Sparkman and Clayman?" A warrior in lightning and the familiar earth hero appeared and like Avian and Wildheart, fused in dark smoke. "Give a nice welcome to Evil Hero Lightning Golem!" A hero in dark purple and blue armor appeared in front of Jaden. (ATK: 2400/DEF: 1500)

"And his ability is a sweet one. Once a turn, I can destroy any monster on the field!" He pointed to VW. "And I don't like him, so bye bye!" Lightning Golem got ready to fire.

"Sorry Slacker," Chazz cut in. "I need to keep him intact, so I'll play Interdimensional Matter Transporter!" A trap flipped to show a large pod. "What this does is remove from play a monster of mine until the end of the turn." VW got inside the pod and vanished.

Jaden sighed. "At least I still got a direct attack!" Golem took that as his signal to strike at the snobby Obelisk; shocking him with lots of volts of electricity.

Chazz: 1600

Jaden: 3900

"That's for teasing my brother..." Jaden glared.

"Jaden now has the lead!" Syrus exclaimed happily.

"Yes, but for how long?" Bastion mumbled.

"Ready for round two, Slifer Slime?" Chazz taunted as he drew, VW returning to the field. "I play Pot of Greed to draw two more cards." He smirked at his findings. "Ready to get pummeled?" A blue machine with a spike ball lower region and two cannon barrels on its shoulders appeared. (ATK: 1800/DEF: 1500) "Because X-Head Cannon is ready to attack and thanks to Frontline Base, so is Z-Metal Tank." A yellow tank that looked more like some kind of cruiser than an actual tank also appeared. (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1300)

"Wait, if he has X and Z," Syrus said. "That can mean only one thing…"

"Now I play my other face-down card," Chazz said as his trap card was lifted up. "Call of the Haunted, and in case you slept through that class as well, it lets me bring a monster back from the graveyard. And I choose…" A red metallic dragon appeared. (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1600)

"No way!" Alexis and Asami gasped.

"He has it!" Bastion confirmed.

"It's him!" Syrus gasped.

"That's right, it's Y-Dragon Head! I discarded it with my Tiger Catapult's special ability." The new monsters flew up and began to lock on to one another, with X taking the top, Y in the middle and Z on the bottom. (ATK: 2800/DEF: 2600) "And next I'll combine them to create the XYZ-Dragon Cannon!"

"Now Chazz has two monsters out with over 2000 attack points each," Bastion said.

"But wait, Jaden, there's more." Jaden gasped. "Actually, less, you see they say that two heads are better than one. But I would have to disagree, especially when the one in question is the ultimate V to Z Dragon Catapult Cannon!" The two machines joined and transformed. The new creation looked vaguely humanoid and was made up of all the machine monsters Chazz had. (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2800)

"Now it makes sense why he took the hit to keep the VW Tiger Catapult!" Alexis noticed. "He wanted to make this!"

"Say what you want about Chazz, but that was a smart play." Asami begrudgingly admitted

"Makes your Lightning Golem look like a lightning rod, or at least it did." Golem disappeared.

"My Lightning Golem!" Jaden cried as the audience gasped.

"Oh, I'm sorry, didn't I mention V to Z's special ability? He allows me to remove one card on your side of the field once per turn." He chuckled. "And if you think that's impressive, wait until you see its attack, an attack that will strike your life points directly." The machine prepared its guns as it took aim at Jaden. "Fire!" The machine obeyed, Jaden holding an arm to his face to try and block the damage.

Chazz: 1600

Jaden: 900

Syrus and the others gasped. "Jaden!"

"Aww, what's the matter, Jaden, having some test anxiety?" Chazz taunted. "I knew scum like you and that disabled pathetic excuse of a duelist brother of yours didn't belong at this academy but don't worry because it will all be over soon! And once I'm through with you, Mute is going down next!"

Jaden growled as loud as an angry lion before his eyes turned to their Supreme King Gold. "You're finished... now!" He drew. "I play Card of Sanctity!" Both drew until they had six.

Chazz laughed. "You just gave me more ways to take you down!" He boasted.

"Too bad you won't use them..." Chazz looked confused. "Because I'm taking you down now. Since I got nothing on my field, I can special summon Evil Hero Infernal Prodigy!" A short fiend appeared on the field. (ATK: 300/DEF: 600) "And since you're so kind to have a monster out, I can summon my Evil Hero Malicious Edge out with only one sacrifice!" Prodigy was traded in for the crazed fiend from the tag duel. (ATK: 2600/DEF: 1800)

Chazz snorted. "All that talk for a monster weaker than mine? You really are a Slifer Slacker!"

"Keep on talking..." Jaden urged quietly. "I play Double Summon, bringing out my Evil Hero Infernal Gainer!" The black and red armored fiend appeared. (ATK: 1600/DEF: 0) "And before that big mouth opens, he's not staying because his ability let's me banish him two turns into the duel to allow a fiend to attack twice..." Jaden smirked. "And who better than Edge?" Gainer vanished, a dark aura surrounding Edge.

"What's Jaden doing?" Syrus asked. "Edge is still too weak."

"Is he letting anger cloud his mind?" Bastion asked.

"No..." Alexis realized wide-eyed as Jaden held up his last two cards. "He's letting it motivate him."

"This here are the cards that spell the end for you. My Vicious Claws equips to a fiend and gives it...? Come on Chazz, take a guess."

"A silencer to shut you up?" He narrowed his eyes.

"As much as I would like one for you, I think 600 ATK points to Edge is better..." the crowd and Chazz gasped in realization as Edge's claws darkened. (ATK: 3200)

Jaden smirked. "What's wrong, Chazz?" Jaden asked when Chazz couldn't form words. "Gone mute? Now if you ask nicely, I won't attack."

"Really?" The Obelisk asked hopefully.

"No." Jaden glared. "And just so you know... Jason drew a card that would've let him won before the duel got cancelled." He revealed to add to the embarrassment that Chazz was about to feel. "Edge! Attack!"

Edge charged forward before swipping and destroying the Dragon Cannon.

Chazz: 1400

Jaden: 900

"Edge... finish him." He smirked when Edge laughed maniacally and slashed Chazz's torso, the Obelisk rich boy falling to the ground.

Chazz: 0

Jaden: 900 (Winner)

"He won!" His friends cheered.

"Impossible!" Crowler cried leaning against the glass. "Not with all the rare cards I gave Chazz, this simply can't be!"

"Rare cards, what exactly are you talking about, Crowler?"

Crowler jumped, he hadn't realized he been talking out loud or that Chancellor Shepherd was listening in. "Uh… nothing… I… uh… have to go grade some tests." He quickly walked off.

Shepherd laughed at Crowler's back.

Jaden waved to the crowd who was cheering for him, and pointed at Chazz with a smirk. "That's game, unless you want to duel again."

"Oh we will," Chazz hissed.

"Jaden!"

"Hey Jaden!" Syrus, Asami, Alexis, and Bastion ran up to him.

"That was well done, Jaden." It was Chancellor Shepherd, speaking over a loudspeaker. "Never in the history of our revered academy has a Slifer ever dueled an Obelisk at these exams. Not only did you hold your own, but you won! Your courage against overwhelming odds is… inspiring. It is with great pride that I grant you the promotion to Ra Yellow. Good job!"

The crowd cheered again.

"You're the best, Jaden!" Syrus complimented throwing his arms around the taller boy's waist.

"I do what I can," Jaden said with a smile.

"Good show, Jaden, allow me to be the first to welcome you to the Ra dorm." Bastion offered.

"Thanks," Jaden said shaking hands with the Ra Yellow student.

The girls smiled. 'Jason would be proud of you.' They both thought of the boy in the infirmary.

...

Later that night at the Slifer dorm, Chumley was contemplating on searching for a new roommate after hearing from Syrus that the E-Hero duelist got promoted. Jason was laying on the bunk he and his brother shared, having heard of his promotion when he checked out of the infirmary. He was really happy for him, knowing that Jaden was too talented to remain in red.

"Hey Syrus, if you're gonna mope around, you might as well make me a grilled cheese." The koala boy ranted.

"I just thought Jaden would say goodbye to us at least..." Syrus said sadly. Jason was thinking the same thing too, knowing he woulda for sure said something to him. That can only mean...

"Hey, who's talking about saying goodbyes?"

Jason was proven right as the Slifers turned to the side to see Jaden leaning against the open doorway of the dorm. Syrus jumped up out of his bed. "Jaden?! What are you doing here?!"

"I wanted to say congrats on passing your field test. Also, in case you've forgotten," he placed his hands on his hips and grinned. "I live here!"

"What?!"

Jaden shrugged, "Sure, Ra Yellow has nice, clean sheets, lack of cockroaches, and those spiffy blazers, without Jason and you guys, it's not my home!" he explained. Jason smiled with a watery eye and got up to hug his big brother; at least he did before Syrus sniffed and dove at him first, tears falling from his eyes like a waterfall already. Jaden squirmed, "Hey! Easy, Syrus, you're getting my jacket soaked!"

Syrus looked up, tears still going, "I thought...I thought I lost you forever! Now I'm never letting go!"

Jaden sweatdropped, "Just chill out, Syrus! Come on, get off!"

"Please Jay, just a couple more hugs!"

"Its not the hugs its the water works!"

Chumley and Jason laughed at the entire ordeal.

End of Chapter 4 of Supreme King Jaden

Finally back and ready to give this story my full attention. I can promise you that the next chapter will be out by the end of the month. I already know what's gonna happen.

But now you guys know a secret. Jason is slowly dying ;( Shocking ain't it!? Is there hope to save him? Maybe? Will Jaden find out? Also a maybe.

We also got some JadenxAlexis and JasonxAsami development here which will of course develop more in the coming chapters.

The next two chapters are the famous Titan duel with an addition, Jaden and Jason playing hero, and development to a Jaden/ Syrus and Jason/Chumley bromance.

Also, someone asked me in a PM if all four seasons will be separate stories. The answer is no. I like to keep everything together, so all four seasons of this will be in one story. Sorry if people are bothered by that. Its easier for me.

Next Time: Chapter 5