Chapter 7-
It was a sunny morning on Academy Island where our heroes had just rescued Alexis and Jenny from the clutches of N and Titan, right now they were sleeping peacefully until men in black came running up to the Slifer dorm and the Ra dorm. Banner heard the commotion and looked outside and saw the men in black.
"Someone must have done something really bad." Banner said to his cat. Pharaoh meowed and walked back into his room. Jaden, Syrus and Chumley were sleeping peacefully until their room was burst into by the men in black.
"Where are Syrus Truesdale and Jaden Yuki?" One of them said. Chumley half asleep pointed to the two boys. The men in black grabbed them and pushed them out the door.
"Where are we going, J?" Syrus asked Jaden, scared.
"I don't know Sy but it looks like we got caught." Jaden said looking at Syrus. Syrus looked on scared as they were brought up by the men in black. The students in the hallway looked at Jaden and Syrus and were muttering some words about them; Syrus and Jaden ignored them and were taken to Sheppard's room. They were pushed inside and saw Matt and Bastion being held by the men in black.
"Thank you, guys you can let them go." Sheppard said while the men dressed in black left the room.
"So, you know why you're here?" Sheppard said frowning. Matt sighed to himself and Jaden told him.
"I'm disappointed in all of you especially you Bastion," Sheppard said while Bastion looked down. When Matt was about to say something, Alexis and Jenny barged through the door.
"Wait Chancellor, don't blame them, blame us," Alexis said. The gang looked at her in shock and Crowler couldn't believe it.
"She's just joking Sheppard, no Obelisk would follow a Ra and a Slifer." Crowler said trying to push Alexis out of the room.
"It's true; Alexis and I went there to find Atticus. Matt, Jaden, Bastion and Syrus followed us. Matt saved Alexis and Bastion and Syrus tag teamed up to rescue me," Jenny said reasoning with the Chancellor for the ones she considered friends.
"Hey, what am I? Chopped liver?" asked Jaden indignantly.
"Considering you barely passed your written entrance exams and won against Dr Crowler by a fluke, losing you to expulsion would benefit the academy, you're staining its reputation," said Jenny, glaring at the lazy Slifer with something akin to hatred in her eyes. Everyone was staring at her, shocked.
"Jenny," muttered Bastion, a bit shocked at her declaration.
"Hey I'm a red-head, I have a temper and I really don't think that he belongs here. Him leaving forever is fine with me," shrugged Jenny, "You leaving however, I'll fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening," she admitted and blushed, as did Bastion. Sheppard made a note to speak with Jenny after all this was over.
"Then if that's true, I have to expel Jenny and Alexis." Sheppard said as the rest gasped. Matt and Bastion couldn't take it and stood forward.
"You can't expel any of them Chancellor," Matt said softly. Sheppard looked confused and asked him to continue.
"I know you don't like Jaden, Crowler but he's got a future here, he will be the best duelist here when he trains," said Matt and Jenny snorted at that statement.
Matt continued, "Bastion is the smartest person I know and if you expel him you'll be losing one of the schools greatest duelists. Syrus has much to learn but he will be a great duelist when he works on his confidence, Jenny is the nicest person I know, except when she's talking to or about Jaden and if you expel her, Bastion wouldn't be happy," Matt stated, chuckling while Jenny and Bastion blushed. "And if you expel Alexis, you're throwing away your girl's division out because Alexis is smart, she's amazing at dueling and she is the most beautiful thing I've seen." Matt finished with the rest looking on.
"That was nice thing you said Matt so I will make you a deal." Sheppard said as Matt raised his eyebrow.
"I pick a teacher to duel you and if you win you stay with us and your friends but if you lose your on the next boat out of here." Sheppard said, Matt smiled and nodded.
"Oh, and because of your speech I've decided that Bastion, Jaden and Syrus will do a punishment as well." Sheppard said with them nodding.
"I think Syrus and Jaden will do a tag team duel and Bastion will verse Joey Wheeler," Sheppard said. They looked up in shock and asked why he was coming.
"I invited him guys," Yugi said. Alexis and Jenny were about to protest but Crowler silenced them. Jenny glared at the Dr, making flinch.
"I think I get to pick Matt's opponent." Crowler said with Sheppard nodding.
"I pick you, Mr. Moto." Crowler said smirking while the others shouted remarks.
"I accept the conditions." Matt said whilst the others gasped. "Do you Yugi?" Matt asked smirking.
"You're on, Matt." Yugi said accepting his handshake.
"You have conditions Yugi: If you let him win I think the Chancellor should fire you and torch your deck." Crowler said while Matt yelled out to far buddy.
"I accept," Yugi said simply and walked out, he turned around and looked at Matt and nodded to Matt, Matt smirked and put his thumb up.
Xxxxx
"Least you guys got off?" Jaden said to Alexis and Jenny while they were walking out of the Chancellor's office.
"It's at least you guys got off, good Ra, learn to speak English properly you moron," snapped Jenny.
"What's your problem with me?" asked Jaden.
"Try thinking back to when you were eight and you dueled a five year old boy called Leo McBride; that should give you a clue! Come on Bastion, Matt, we don't need our IQ's to be reduced by hanging around this dummy," and she grasped Bastion's hand and pulled him away, Matt went after them, wanting to find out more about Leo McBride and the reason for Jenny's attitude.
Alexis watched her best girlfriend leave with Bastion and Matt trailing behind them. She then knew that she wanted find out what was going on with Jenny and followed them.
"Hey Matt," she said, running alongside him.
"Yeah Lex?" he asked.
"I'm worried about Jenny," Alexis said softly.
"Yeah, it's defiantly not like her to talk like that at all. I want to know what's up and has she ever mentioned Leo to you?" asked Matt.
"No, she never speaks about her family," said Alexis.
"I wonder why," said Matt and they finally caught up with Jenny and Bastion on the beach, who were amazingly having an argument.
"Jenny, just because you don't like Jaden doesn't mean you should be mean to him!" yelled Bastion.
"I don't dislike Jaden, I hate, loath and despise him entirely and he doesn't belong here and shouldn't duel for the safety of others!" Jenny yelled back, her hair glowing in the sunlight, making seem as though it was on fire, with her golden highlights emphasizing the fire even more.
Bastion thought that she looked like an angel and then wondered where that thought had come from and then he refocused on the argument, "Why!"
"I can't tell you," said Jenny and Bastion was startled to see tears beginning to run down her face.
"Jenny? Jenny…please, please tell me what happened when Jaden was eight and Leo was five. I want to help you," he begged.
"No, not unless you defeat me in a duel," said Jenny.
"Alright then, I beat you and you tell me what happened. If I lose then…tell me when you're ready to," said Bastion.
Matt thought that there was a good chance of Bastion beating Jenny and getting the story but there was also a good chance of Jenny telling Bastion in her own time should she win.
Ok," said Jenny and activated her Duel Disk.
"Let's Duel," said Bastion, activating his own Duel Disk.
"Reach for the Light," said Jenny.
J: 4000
B: 4000
"Ladies first," said Bastion.
"Thank you, here I go! I draw and first off I'll summon Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress in attack mode, then I'll place one card face-down and now that it's my end phase I send the top three cards from my deck to my grave and I end my turn," said Jenny. (LLS 1700/200)
"Nice start, my draw! I summon Abyss Soldier in attack mode," said Bastion. (AS 1800/1300) "Abyss Soldier, destroy Lyla!"
"You triggered my trap card, Threatening Roar, now you can't attack this turn," said Jenny.
"Very well Jenny, I'll place two cards facedown and that will suffice," said Bastion.
"My move, I use Lyla's effect first, by switching her into defense mode I can destroy one spell or trap on your field," said Jenny and the card she destroyed turned out to be Torrential Tribute which made her sigh in relief. "Now I'll tribute Lyla to summon Gragonith, Lightsworn Dragon in attack mode! His effect, he gets three hundred attack and defense points for every Lightsworn in my graveyard, there are two in there, Lyla and Jain. His other effect, when he battles a monster in defense mode, the different between Gragonith's attack and your defense is dealt to you as damage," said Jenny with a smile. (GLD 2000/1600-2600/2200)
"I'm going to have to be careful then," smiled Bastion.
"Yeah you are, Gragonith, destroy Abyss Soldier!" and Bastion groaned, if only he had a Water monster in his hand, then he could have discarded it and sent Gragonith back to Jenny's hand. As it was he lost life points.
J: 4000
B: 3200
"I'm now in my end phase so now I send the top three cards of my deck to the graveyard and one of those cards was Wulf, Lightsworn Beast and his special effect allows me to summon him from my grave if he's sent there from my deck, come on out Wulf!" said Jenny with a smile. (WLB 2100/300) "I end my turn," she said.
"Here I go, I summon Hydrogeddon in attack mode and place one card facedown and end my turn," said Bastion. (H 1600/1000)
"Ok, my turn, summon Watapon in defense mode. I'll attack your monster with Gragonith! Go for it!"
"Not so fast Jenny, I activate my trap, Negate Attack, now you can't attack and your battle phase is over," said Bastion.
Jenny laughed, "Nice move Bastion, ok then, I'll end my turn with a facedown and Gragonith will allow me to send my three top cards to the graveyard," she said.
"I play Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two more cards. I summon Oxygeddon in attack mode," said Bastion. (O 1800/800) "Now Hydrogeddon destroy Watapon!" said Bastion. The cute alien was destroyed but Jenny didn't lose life points. "Hydrogeddon has an effect; if he destroys one of your monsters in battle then I can Special Summon another Hydrogeddon from my deck," said Bastion, "Now I'll use one of my facedown cards, Bonding H2O, by tributing one Oxygeddon and two Hydrogeddons I can special summon one Water Dragon from my hand, deck or graveyard . Come forth, Water Dragon!" summoned Bastion and Jenny looked at the creature in awe. (WD 2800/2600)
"Water Dragon, destroy Gragonith!" said Bastion, the Light Dragon hadn't received any power boosts yet and Bastion intended to take out his biggest threat before it got too big for him to handle.
"Ah!" said Jenny.
J: 3800
B: 3200
"It's now my second main phase so I'll play this card, Ookazi, now you lose eight hundred life points and I end my turn," said Bastion.
J: 3000
B: 3200
"Ok here I go. I draw and I tribute my Wulf to summon Gragonith, Lightsworn Dragon in attack mode!" (GLD 2000/1600 – 2900/2500)
"I'll summon my Herald of Creation in attack mode, her effect allows me to discard one card to my grave and then target a level seven or higher monster in my grave and add it to my hand. Now Gragonith will destroy your Water Dragon!" said Jenny. (GLD 3200/2800)
"Not so fast Jenny, I activate my trap Ring of Destruction! By targeting one monster on the field I can destroy that monster and we each take damage equal to that monster's attack points, I choose your Gragonith! So Jenny, we both lose," Bastion said softly as Gragonith was destroyed.
J: 0
B: 0
"The light is no longer shining," said Jenny, it was very rare that she was defeated and when she was, it was only against a duelist that was better than her, but this was a tie, that meant to Jenny, that her and Bastion were equal in dueling strength and that made her happy.
"Game over," said Bastion quietly.
Matt and Alexis had watched the whole thing and their eyes were wide, they'd never expected Bastion to end the duel in a tie.
"I'll tell you everything," said Jenny.
"We tied, you don't have to," said Bastion.
"No," Jenny sighed, "I want you to know and Matt and Alexis can come out of their hiding place now. They may as well hear this too," said Jenny and their friends came out, looking sheepish at being caught.
"It all began when I was eight, my little brother Leo was five. We were playing Duel Monsters in the park, Leo ran a LV deck and it was a good one. This boy was there, he challenged Leo to a duel, thinking that he could win against someone younger than him as he was a pathetic duelist. Leo won the duel, the boy cried and screamed that it wasn't fair, how could he lose to a boy younger than him? Then something happened, a spirit came out of a card, it was horrible, a freak card, a female with strange eyes and had a darkness around her, called…Yubel. She did something and Leo collapsed, gasping for air. I punched the boy, knocking him out and called my parents, who quickly came and picked us up, taking us to the hospital. Leo, he, he almost didn't…didn't…didn't make it. He's now afraid to duel anyone but me. We moved away, not wanting to be near that freak kid and freak card. That kid was Jaden Yuki and he was the most hated boy on the block because of his freak card and wanting to win, win and win, all the time. That's why I hate Jaden; he ruined my brother's life and almost caused him to die! I hate him Bastion, I hate him!" and Jenny threw herself into Bastion's arms, sobbing. Bastion didn't know what to do; he just held his crush close, allowing her to just cry.
'Crush,' he wondered and then decided that it didn't matter, he would be there for Jenny and he would also see if these weird feelings of his grew to something more for the beautiful redhead.
Alexis and Matt looked at each other in shock; this certainly changed their perceptions of Jaden drastically. How on earth could they talk to him after this?
Next Episode: Matt and Alexis have their duel but what will become of their friendship with Jaden? Will they forgive him or will they never talk to the Sliefer again!