Okay, I'm gonna do another chapter, because I really want to get this part with the Abandoned Dorm over with and get to the plot, because I know I put enough filler in as it is. Now, to answer one of my anonymous reviewer's question: no, Zane is not developing feelings for Jaylin nor will he EVER develop feelings for her. Zane isn't even in the state to be in any relationship period. He does have a soft side for Jaylin, but only because she's the only girl, besides Alexis, that doesn't have feelings for Zane. There can be a special connection with knowing that there are those of the opposite sex that have no feelings for you can be the ones that you would trust with certain subjects and/or personal matters. They're the type of people that you absolutely know is never going to ever change his/her feelings about you no matter what, compared to a romance relationship where after a breakup, you rather hate the person's guts or are not as close as you used to be. That's what you're seeing. Try to keep in mind that if there was any romance going on, it would be more obvious than what you were seeing with Zane and Jaylin. Review please!

Jaylin was with her friends Alexis, Carl, and Ronda swimming at the beach. Jaylin wore a black bikini, the top being worn like a sports bra and the straps crossing each other on the back. With her swim suit, she also wore hot pink swimming shorts. Carl wore a red bikini with the bottom of her top part hugging around her rib area and her bottoms having a skirt sewn with it. Ronda wore a light blue one piece and Alexis wore a simple white bikini with blue polka dots.

The four girls played in the clear blue ocean together, splashing water at each other. Ronda seemed to be the least active one, not wanting to be pulled underwater. She wanted to just stick with splashing water at each other and the girls respected that. The three other girls kept trying to push each other underwater, while laughing and having a ball. The sad part was that Jaylin was a quick and swift swimmer.

"Hey girls!" Jaylin cried, kicking water at the three girls before diving underwater.

"Hey!" Alexis cried out, diving under and tackling Jaylin underwater before they came up to the surface.

Carl poke her head out of the water from behind Jaylin, then pushed her head underwater with an evil smirk written on Carl's face. Bubbles came from underwater where Jaylin was at before she kicked Carl's legs. Carl laughed and swam as fast as she could, Jaylin rising up from the water.

"You're gonna pay for that!" Jaylin shouted, swimming after her roommate.

"You can't beat the most athletic girl in the group!" Carl shouted, while swimming.

Jaylin dove underwater, grabbed the top of Carl's bikini, and then dunked her underwater before popping her head up and crying out, "only at tennis!" Carl responded by pushing her away. Everyone laughed in response.

"You guys are nuts!" Ronda smirked before her friends splashed water on her and she screamed in response.

"Hey, we should totally duel each other in a four-way tomorrow!" Jaylin thought.

"I'll just be kicking your asses," Carl smirked snarkily as the girls rolled their eyes.

"Yeah, but I'm not gonna be the Duelist Queen or the new King... Queen of Games, if I'm not tested against my limits."

"It's your funeral."

"Don't get cocky, I've defeated you before. Remember that," Alexis smirked.

"Two out of twenty doesn't count," Carl stated.

"Have you dueled Zane before?" Jaylin asked curiously.

"Oh yeah! He has a higher record than me, but I've won a couple of times against him. You don't stand a chance."

"We only played ten times and we're kinda neck in neck."

"True, but I still have a higher record."

"By one."

"Shut up."

Jaylin laughed and Carl showed a smirk of her own, furrowing her eyebrows under her blond bangs. Ronda and Alexis swam up and joined with the two.

"So, I gotta ask ya, who's the hottie you always talk to on Skype?" Carl asked curiously.

"What hottie? I've got a bunch of guy friends on Skype that I talk to, including my dad," Jaylin asked confused.

"The guy that sent you that cute little ecard."

"Oh him? That's Shon! I've known him since I was five. He wanted to give me something for good luck."

"You miss your friends, don't cha?" Alexis asked.

"Alot. I practically grew up with them. We even took a bath together when we were kids. I share a special connection with them."

"Wow, that's tight!" Carl commented.

"Anyway, how's the dance team coming around?" Alexis asked.

"Great! We're practicing and you bet we're gonna be great during the Tennis competition!" Jaylin said.

"Awesome! Our team's practicing their very best. I know we're gonna be great!" Carl said with a huge smile on her face.

"Kuri!" Jaylin heard Winged Kuriboh. Ronda almost jumped, looking around to find out where that sound came from.

"I gotta go. Getting tired," Jaylin said, swimming to dry land.

"Are you sure?" Alexis asked.

"Sure!"

"Hey guys, did you hear something? A 'kuri' sound?" Ronda asked, seemingly worried.

"No, I didn't hear anything, did you?" Carl asked Alexis.

"Not a soul. Why?" Alexis asked.

"Nothing," Ronda replied. 'I swear I heard something. I hope I'm not going crazy. Maybe I'm just hearing things.'

Jaylin dried herself off with a towel as Winged Kuriboh appeared in his spirited form, the Slifer Red duelist asking, "what is it, boy?"

"Kuri," Winged Kuriboh replied.

"Okay," Jaylin replied, wrapping her white towel around her and looking at her cell phone. It read a text from her dad. She pressed read and it showed, 'call.' Jaylin dialed in her father's number and waited ring after ring.

"Great, you called. I talked to Kaiba about the information you gave me a week ago," Yugi replied.

"And?"

"At first he wouldn't tell me anything, besides assuring his students' and your safety, then I looked more into what's going on. He eventually spilled after some convincing and..."

"This is going to require a huge amount of Kaiba being bullshit, huh?"

"Yep. You remember about how Pegasus created the three Egyptian Gods?"

"Yeah. What about it?"

"As you know, creating them was a load of trouble and caused a number of deaths, including major injuries. Apparently, Pegasus also had failed attempts. There were the Wicked Gods, but there were also cards known as the Sacred Beasts. You have Hamon Lord of Striking Thunder, Ura Lord of Searing Flames, and Raviel Lord of Phantasms."

"What does that have to do with the Abandoned Dorm and the missing students?"

"I'm getting there. When Duel Academy was found and being built, the architects and builders were dying and going missing one by one. Kaiba went to investigate this and found the three Sacred Beast cards. Pegasus explained that he had thrown those cards into the ocean, because they were harming his colleges. He guessed that they somehow must've floated to the island by the currents. As you can imagine, these failed attempts are filled to the brim with dangerous black darkness. Kaiba ordered his men to bury them under the school."

"Question: why didn't he destroy them?"

"I have no clue, Princess."

"Wonderful!"

"So anyways, there was a book that the dean was supposed to lock away under lock and key to keep the magic of the three Sacred Beasts from harming the students. Unfortunately, three of the students were a couple of rule breakers and got a hold of the book. They opened the gateway to the Shadow Realm and that dorm became the home of every possessed student and teacher. Their darkness is at a standstill. I get the feeling they're waiting for the right moment to strike like a sleeping volcano."

"When do you think they'll strike?"

"I wish I knew, Princess."

Jaylin entered into her dorm room, then thought, "maybe I can investigate the dorm and see how bad we're talking."

"Princess, I know you've played Shadow Games since you were five, and thank the gods you have better control now, but we don't really know how powerful the darkness in there is or how dangerous the Shadow Games are."

"I'm just going to investigate the premise and calculate my limits. Will that work?"

"I'd say yes, but I'm not with you."

"Fine. I'll stay outside of the dorm."

"At least until you can find someone that can keep an eye on you."

"Deal. I'll call you, if I find anything. Hugs and kisses!"

"You too."

Jaylin hung up, dressing in a dark forest green long-sleeved shirt, black gloves, black jeans, black tennis shoes, and a black snow cap, her hair braided up in a bun and covered. She walked out of her dorm room, down the stairs, and crawled low down the hill, while sneaking behind the school. She knew she had to make it to the front of the Abandoned Dorm without getting caught to know the strength of the shadows. She was probably one of the rare individuals with strong dark powers. There were probably others, besides her and Yugi, but anyone else with these powers probably didn't know how to use them. In such cases, they were known as those with raw darkness.

Only a few humans male or female were given the powers of pure darkness or light. Those of light controlled the brightness of light, including fire and electricity. Those of dark controlled the shadows and darkness itself, dark matter. Each of them had their own advantages. With dark powers, an individual could see in the dark, hide in the shadows, see the shadows of the dead, and control shadow games, which led to controlling where the mind of their victims and if he/she lives or dies. Those of the light could control fire and lightning, hide in the brightness of the light, use their glow to shield himself/herself, or look into the hearts of people. Each of which had a huge advantage, but also were cursed. If either power was to go wild, that power could spread chaos. Those of darkness could kill anyone from the inside out and those of light could burn them from the outside in.

Jaylin was taught this by her father, who was not born with dark powers, but they were given to him as an inheritance from Atem, the nameless Pharaoh. While Yugi had never suffered from lack of control at a child age, as a teenager, he struggled for control. There were countless times he hurt someone on accident, even if it was just self defense. Yugi was against fighting, so for these powers come out of him and hurt anyone was like stabbing a rusty dagger into his heart. He could feel the pain Jaylin felt at a small age when she would torture those that hurt Yugi without meaning to. He could see those tears in his own eyes.

If there were any individuals with raw darkness or raw light, they would have absolutely no control. Though, this would only be shown once that individual finds himself or herself in any mortal danger or threat, depending on how the person takes the threat. For light, Jaylin nor her father were certain how those of light would start showing his/her powers. They only knew of how people would show darkness.


Zane was doing his homework in his dorm room on his desk between his microwave and mini refrigerator. His window curtains were open where the sun could shine on his desk and he could study. He also had his desk lamp just in case it was late at night. He was marking his answers on his loose leaf paper, looking at the text book questions. Sometimes he would look back into the text book chapter to find his answers, since they never came natural to him like for some students like his old friend Atticus.

Just then, he noticed something out his window, which was odd, since his window faced the back side of the school building. Zane was able to see a little bit of the back of the school. He looked through the window and noticed someone in some sort of dark clothing sneaking from the back of the school, walking toward the back of the Obelisk Blue dorm. He furrowed his eyebrows. Why would someone want to sneak from behind the school, unless they were up to something bad?

Zane turned his lamp off and decided to find out who this person was and what he or she was up to. Zane had his black t-shirt and green pants. He put on his brown boots before walking out of his dorm room and out of the Obelisk Dorm, since the students could only get to their dorm room from the inside of the Obelisk Blue dorm. He walked around the dorm quickly, spotting the same person scatting into the forest. He ran after the person, going through the forest. It was hard to see this person inside the forest, due to the camouflage the guy/girl wore. Why would this person be sneaking into the forest like this? What was he/she up to?

After a few moments of running after this person, it occurred to Zane what exactly this person was trying to do. This person was scatting toward the location of the Abandoned Dorm. This person probably took on some stupid dare to spend the night inside the Abandoned Dorm or something. Whatever the case, Zane never wished for anyone, crazy or not, to suffer what his friends Atticus Rhodes and Fuji Yusuke suffered. He wouldn't wish it on his worst enemy.

Zane ran as fast as he could to catch this person, though the forest was dark and the camouflage hid this person from Zane's eyes. Zane decided to at least make it to the fence. The wooden fence was so high, there was no way this person could climb to the top. Though, he was proven wrong by the time he got to the fence. This mysterious person was already at the top, having climbed on it through the branch of one of the trees. There was also the question how this person would be able to get down on the other side.

"Hey, get down, you don't know what you're getting into!" Zane cried out. The person never looked at him, but was tying a rope to the end of the branch he/she climbed on, wrapped it around his/her waist, grabbed the two parts of the rope from his/her waist, and then began sliding down with the rope. This person obviously wasn't taking 'no' for an answer. "Smart guy." The only thing Zane could do at this point was climb the same tree this person climbed on and get over the fence the same way.

Zane climbed the tree with everything he got, and it was hard. His muscles tightened from his arms and legs, sometimes his legs would slip, but he knew he had to get to this person before he/she got himself/herself hurt. Zane finally made it to the top, huffing and puffing. He crawled across the branch, trying to watch his balance. He never was the most athletic, but hoped that he could stop this person before it was too late.

Zane slowly and carefully stepped onto the top of the wooden fence, then grabbed the rope and began sliding down. He began getting rope burns, then let go before landing on his bottom. Luckily, he wasn't too far down or he would've broken his back or worse.

"Shit," Zane growled, then got up and began running through the tall grass and bushes, possibly growing trees, to the dorm. The person was probably already inside. What was the point now? He began slowing down, then suddenly saw the same person outside of the dorm, but... was standing there? WHAT!? "Hey! What are you doing!?"

The person, once again, didn't respond. He/she was holding possibly his/her cell phone and a red dot appeared at the middle of the top part of the phone. Was this person taking a picture of the dorm? There was also were two wires connecting from the phone to his/her ears. So that's why this person didn't respond!

"Did you get it?" The person asked in a voice that was... no... NO, it couldn't be!

"JAYLIN! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!?" Zane shouted angry and confused at the same time. Even if Jaylin was a brat, she still always was the type to think ahead.

Jaylin almost jumped, seeing Zane, then said, "can you hold on for a sec?" She pressed a button on her phone, then took her buds off. "Zane? How did you get here?"

"I followed you! I saw you sneaking from the back of the school!"

"Oh..." Jaylin replied, seemingly nervous. "Listen, I'm not going to go inside the dorm. I'm just scanning the premise to see how powerful whoever is in there is. I told Yugi about this place and decided to get to the bottom of this, since neither of us were told about the Abandoned Dorm or the Shadow Games when I was registered. Kaiba's not telling us shit and if this thing is dangerous as you say it is, it's only a matter of time before this thing starts becoming dangerous beyond the fence. We're trying to figure out the time limit we've got."

"I'm sure Mr. Kaiba has this under control."

"Right," Jaylin said, rolling her eyes. "If he had this under control, this thing wouldn't be locked in and he would've told Yugi to not sign me up, so we could stay out of his business. Zane, you do realize that whatever is in there, being as powerful as you stated, could break this fence, even if it was electric." The two stood silent for a brief moment, then Jaylin put one earbud on, pressing a button on her cell phone. "I'm back. Zane followed me and he's kinda pissed." Zane heard a pause as Jaylin faced the Abandoned Dorm. "I have no idea... I can't feel anything right now and I think that's a bad sign." Jaylin slowly walked toward the door. Zane followed behind just in case Jaylin did decide to change her mind about not going inside the dorm. She placed her hand on the door, eyes glowing gold. "I feel something faint now. I think it senses Zane's and I's presence." They changed back to hazel again.

"Senses our presence?" Zane questioned, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Anyone of darkness can sense anyone from miles around. I'm still trying to work on that maneuver," Jaylin explained, showing a sly smirk up her lips. Her lips turned to a frown, while her eyes changed to bright gold again. "We should get out of here."

"About time," Zane muttered under his breath as Jaylin scatted down the steps from the door. Zane followed her down the steps.

As soon as the two left down the steps, a dark shadow enclosed the field like a dome. Jaylin sighed, facepalming, "I hate it when this happens. Step back Zane, we're in for hell." Her eyes glowed an even brighter gold before the dark shadow enclosed over the two students.

"We wouldn't be, if you would've stayed behind the fence!" Zane shouted angrily before the doors of the Abandoned Dorm swung opened, showing an older male with an Obelisk Blue trench coat that was buttoned up from top to bottom, making it look like a dress almost, with a white collar. He wore dark boots and a white mask that covered the top half of his wide face.

"You didn't think you could escape, did you?" The man asked in an intimidating voice.

"Mr. Titan," Zane muttered.

"You know this guy?"

"Not the best teacher around. He never believed me when I told him about the book."

"So the bad boy was you! I knew it!" Jaylin smirked with such joy.

"Whatever."

"It seems you've grown since the last we've met. How's life been treating you, Zane?" Titan asked with an evil smirk on his face as Zane glared in response. "I see. I suppose it's only fair to start with you. You were lucky the first time, but I won't let you escape again."

"Not so fast! I'm decking you one on one!" Jaylin shouted.

"Cocky, aren't we? I see you have abilities... interesting."

"Jaylin, I'm begging you-"

"Zane, cut the crap. I'm the only one who stands a chance against this asshole. I've played shadow games before, besides you need to keep in contact with dad," Jaylin interrupted, handing Zane her cell phone and the earbuds that were supposed to go to a cell phone. She faced Titan. "Anyways, what's the rules of the game, big guy?"

"We'll be playing the rules of Duel Monsters. I think that should be easy for you, shouldn't it?"

"Who's getting cocky now? I accept your challenge!" Jaylin smirked, then glared. "Though, I don't have a duel disk."

"Then, come with me."

Jaylin followed Titan inside the dorm, Zane following from behind. He put one earbud in his ear, hearing, "Zane, is that you?"

"Yes, to give you an overall review, because of Jaylin's arrival at the Abandoned Dorm, my douchebag teacher challenged her to a Shadow Game and now she's probably going to get herself killed. I hope you're happy with yourself."

"I hate it when that happens," Yugi moaned in response. "Is it Diaha?"

"No, it's Duel Monsters."

Yugi sighed, saying, "good! More than likely, this guy doesn't know how powerful Jaylin is, and probably knows it. I need you to stay as close to Jaylin as you can."

"Glad to be her bodyguard."

"That's not what I meant. I was meaning for your safety. I don't know if you realize this, but she's the reason you're not being challenged to a Shadow Game as well."

"What are you saying?" Zane asked, slightly wide-eyed.

"When Titan used his powers to begin the Shadow Game, Jaylin used her powers to accept the challenge and shield you from it. When anyone of the darkness creates a shadow game, the person has the field advantage, but not to choose an opponent. If he traps more than one person, anyone of the darkness can tribute himself to take the challenge. I discovered this when Jaylin accidentally challenged someone to a shadow game. I was able to take the challenge and the hit, protecting the others."

"Great, but what about Jaylin? Doesn't that mean she'll be taking the hit?"

"That's the second reason I need you to stay close to her."

"Well, that just makes us feel safe!"

"I never said this would be safe. Hopefully, this dark one won't show all of his powers and probably will let Jaylin go."

"What makes you say that?"

"Because he might see Jaylin as a threat, especially considering he can't possess her at all."

This answer made Zane's jaw drop and eyes widen. He knew the power this dark one possessed, but Jaylin's powers, no matter how powerful they were, couldn't compete against it... could it? Zane didn't know how powerful Jaylin could be, but Yugi sure did. One the other hand, Yugi doesn't know how powerful the dark one is either. There was that slim chance that Jaylin could be considered a threat to the dark one. Zane could only hope that this was true and, if it was, him and Jaylin could escape from this mess.

Jaylin was led to what used to be the cafeteria of the Obelisk Blue Dorm. There were dusty tables and chairs everywhere with cobwebs around the corners of the ceiling and the buffet table where the food would be placed at. Peeled paint could be spotted on all four dusty walls of the cafeteria. Jaylin didn't seen any duel disks, but she could already guess where this was going.

"Instead of using duel disks, we'll be using tables and the shadows will summon out our monsters from the cards. If our monsters are damaged, we take the same amount of damage and that includes when we're attacked directly," Titan explained.

"Sounds good to me," Jaylin agreed, choosing a table to lay her cards at.

"He means it, Jaylin! You'll literally feel the pain of your monsters. I had to go to the hospital after my Shadow Game duel with this guy!" Zane warned Jaylin.

"I know what he means, but thanks."

"You'll think twice once the Shadow Game starts," Titan smirked wickedly

"Tell it to someone who cares! Let's play!" Jaylin snapped, shuffling her deck she retrieved from her pocket.

"Wait, if you didn't bring your duel disk, why is your deck in your pocket?" Zane asked.

"I can summon monsters, remember? It's just in case," Jaylin winked as Zane almost facepalmed himself.

"Oh yeah."

"Let's start the duel, shall we?" Titan smirked, drawing his card. "I summon Infernalqueen Archfiend to the field!" A tall demon, with a gold narrow-shaped head, two red horns on its head, a gold claw on each hand, and wearing a long purple dress with red armor, appeared on the field. The attack of the monster automatically rose to 1900 due to its effect. "Now, I activate a field spell card known as Pandemonium!" Just then, the whole field turned into some sort of ritual/bones of two dead dragons or fiends, whose heads were across from each other. One head was over Jaylin and other was over Titan. In the middle was some sort of glowing yellow hole. "That ends my turn."

"Not even going to lay down some face-down cards? What a shame," Jaylin said, drawing her next card. Zane was slightly baffled at the fact Jaylin was slightly smiling, despite the fact she was playing a dangerous Shadow Game. "I play Elemental Hero Woodsman, then throw down two face-downs! Your move!" Elemental HERO Woodsman was automatically summoned to the field before two cards were laid. As he was summoned, Jaylin's eyes began changing gold again. Zane couldn't understand why, since her eyes only seemed to glow gold whenever she used her powers in some way. Was she using her powers to summon that monster? Why, especially considering that Titan already stated that the shadows would summon the monsters for her?

"Very well," Titan smirked, drawing his next card. "I summon Terrorking Archfiend!" A demon with just bones and muscles, the bones being worn like armor almost, and two enormous wings appeared on the field. Its attack rose to 3000 due to the effect of Infernalqueen Arthfiend. "Terroking attacks your Woodsman!" Terroking Artchfiend jumped up, soaring into the air toward Elemental HERO Woodsman, about to attack when...

"I activate my face-down, Hero Barrier!" Jaylin declared as Titan smirked.

"And I activate the effect of Terroking," Titan smirked, lifting his right hand and showing balls floating over it with numbers, which were organized and circled like a clock. Each of them would glow clockwise. It kept going until it slowed down and stopped at a number 2. Hero Barrier was destroyed.

"Oh craptastic!" Jaylin glared before Elemental HERO Woodsman was attacked and burst from the field by Terroking Artchfiend's sharp claws. Her body immediately fell onto the floor sideways, catching herself with her arms, while letting out a scream. Her life points stooped down to 2000. "You son of a f***ing bitch!"

"Jaylin, are you okay!?" Zane asked worriedly, running to her before running into some invisible bubble wall. "Ow!"

"I'm fine, Zane. Also, you're not allowed to interfere with the Shadow Game," Jaylin explained, getting up, then Zane began seeing the rips on her shirt and blood oozing.

"What's going on?" Yugi asked. He could hear the duel going on from the other line, being that Zane put the cell phone on speaker, but still didn't know how bad the damage was.

"Jaylin's monster was destroyed and she's bleeding," Zane replied.

"How bad?"

"She has four large scratch marks across her rib area."

"Oh crud. She's probably pissed right now."

Jaylin was trying to cover her wounds with her hand. She looked down at her wounds and glared at Titan, "Thanks alot! Now, I'm gonna have to buy a new shirt!"

"I'm afraid clothing will be the least of your problems, little lady," Titan smirked.

"Maybe, but I activate Hero Signal and Special Summon Elemental Hero Knospe to the field!" Jaylin said, activating her face-down card as a small plant-like creature appeared on the field with leaves and its stems for arms, hands, legs and feet, a green bud for a head with two other ones unopened beside it, pink dots on each cheek, bright blue eyes, and wearing a silver necklace with a purple gem in the middle.

"Very well, then I end my turn."

Jaylin placed her hand of cards on the table face-down, then drew her next card. She declared, "I play Pot of Greed to draw two extra cards." She drew two cards at once with one hand, using her thumb to move the other one to see them both. She placed both of them down with her other cards, then pulled out one of them to activate it. "I play Miracle Fusion to fuse together Knospe and Woodsman to bring you Gaia!" Elemental HERO Woodsman and Elemental HERO Knospe fused together in the light and revealed itself as a large black robot-like monster with large arms, with rockets, and legs. "And I use its effect, when its first summoned, to half your Terroking's attack and Gaia gains the same amount of attack Terroking cuts in half!"

"Not so fast, for I also activate the effect of Terroking," Titan smirked as he lifted his hand and showed the glowing balls with numbers, each of them glowing clockwise. It slowed down and landed on a five, Elemental HERO Gaia bursting automatically from the field.

"Shit," Jaylin seethed. "I throw in two face-downs and end my turn!"

"Very well," Titan smirked, drawing his next card. "My Terroking attacks you directly!" Terroking Archfield flew out toward Jaylin just as she flipped one of her face-down cards.

"Mirror Force!" Jaylin cried out as an invisible barrier appeared in front of her, bouncing Terroking Archfiend at Titan's monsters and destroyed all of them from the field.

Titan jumped back, showing scratch marks on his chest area and shooting a glare at Jaylin. Normally, when he played Shadow Games against his opponents, they always took the damage and he was safe. Now, Jaylin not only took the damage, but he did as well. He could see that Jaylin was using her powers to make sure the game was even. A wicked smirk appeared on her face, which gave chills up his spine surprisingly.

"What goes around, comes around, as they say," Jaylin smirked wickedly.

Zane's eyebrows rose. For a single second, he saw Titan shiver with terror. Was he actually afraid of Jaylin? Why? The Shadow Game was playing by the rules he set up. Then, something dawned on him. During the last Shadow Game he played against the dark one, only he and his friends took the damage. The dark one, even while possessing his friends, never took any damage. Looking that the bleeding scratch marks on Titan, he began wondering if Jaylin was the one that made those marks on him.

'Was this what Yugi meant when he said that Jaylin might be a threat to the dark one?' Zane questioned himself. Maybe there is more to Jaylin then meets the eye.

"You're going to pay for that!" Titan cried out. "I send Desrook Archfiend from my hand to the graveyard, using its effect to bring back Terroking!" Desrook Archfiend was discarded to the graveyard and Terroking Archfiend appeared back on his fiend, Jaylin glaring in response. "I also use the effects of Pandemonium to add another Archfiend from my deck to my hand!" Titan searched through his deck and added another Desrook Archfiend to his hand before shuffling his deck. "Now, my Terroking attacks you directly!"

"Not in your lifetime! I activate my spell card Emergency Provisions by discarding one spell card to the graveyard!" Jaylin declared, sending one of her spell cards from her hand to the graveyard and her life points rose to 3000 before being attacked by Terroking Archfiend and being throwing to the floor, her screaming, piercing Zane's eardrums before Jaylin's life points reached 1000.

"JAYLIN!" Zane cried out, hoping Jaylin was still alive, since she was on the floor.

"I'm... okay," Jaylin replied hoarsely. She began pushing herself from the ground, revealing new wounds and claw marks on her neck and arms. Blood was starting to sink out, and Jaylin was panting heavily. She grabbed the table to push herself up, trying to cover her wounds and prevent herself from losing blood.

Zane was scared, just as much as when he and his friends played the Shadow Game against the dark one. Why did Jaylin have to sneak into this dorm? Why couldn't she just have stayed out?

"How bad is Jaylin hurt?" Yugi asked from the other line.

"She's barely standing up," Zane replied blankly.

"Calm down, Zane. Jaylin's been through worse than this. Just keep yourself leveled up," Yugi said as Zane took a deep breath, hoping that Yugi was right about this.

"My turn," Jaylin said, drawing her next card. "I activate Reinforcement of the Army to bring out Elemental Hero Frost Blade to my hand!" She searched through her deck and added her Elemental HERO Frost Blade to her hand cards, which were still face-down on the table due to having to use her left hand and arm to cover her wounds. "Next, I activate Polymerization to fuse Frost Blade and Shadow Mist from my hand to bring out Elemental Hero Escuridao!" Elemental HERO Frost Blade, a mini superhero with ice as its armor, and Elemental HERO Shadow Mist appeared, then fused together into the light. A black tall and skinny superhero, with boned wings and bone-like body with razor sharp claws, appeared onto the field. Its attack points rose to 2800 due to its effect. "And this monster attacks your Terroking!" Elemental HERO Escuridao few right at Terroking Archfiend and scratched right at the monster, bursting it from the field as Titan cringed in pain, feeling the scratch marks made on his flesh on his arms and chest as his life points dropped to 3200.

"I send my Desrook from my hand to the graveyard to bring back Terroking!" Titan growled.

"Is it just me or is your asshole teacher depending his deck's strength on just one monster?" Yugi asked from the other line.

"He's only summoning that thing as tribute," Zane explained.

"I was gonna say. This is the third time he's summoned that thing."

"I summon Elemental Hero Voltic in defense mode and end my turn," Jaylin glared as a purple hero with a silver belt, gold designs, purple and silver cuffs, and filled with electricity appeared on the field.

"I sacrifice my Terroking to bring out my Skull Archfiend of Lightning!" Titan declared as Terroking Archfiend disappeared from the field and was replaced with a large demon with wings that looked like an exact copy off...

"The hell... that looks like Summoned Skull! Is Pegasus running out of ideas or am I just imagining things?" Jaylin asked with narrowed eyebrows.

"I equip my Skull Archfiend with Axe of Despair!" Titan smirked as an ax appeared in Skull Archfiend of Lightning's hands and the attack of that monster rose to 3500. "On top of that, he destroys your Escuridao!" Skull Archfiend of Lightning ran up to Elemental HERO Esccuridao as Jaylin covered her neck.

"Not the head. Not the head. Not the-" Jaylin said before the ax cut Elemental HERO Escuridao as a huge cut appeared right across her back, making her yelp a scream. Surprisingly, she was still on her feet, but her back was bleeding. "Ow neh." She tried to keep herself from collapsing by holding onto the table. Her life points went down to 300.

"Jaylin, hang on! You gotta win this!" Zane shouted, praying to himself that Jaylin would win this. She had to or she was going to die. If she couldn't be possessed, Titan would probably kill her instead and Zane knew it.

"Calm down, Zane. How many life points does she have?" Yugi asked.

"300."

"She still has a chance, just be patient."

Jaylin draws her next card, then declares, "I play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your stupid field spell!" Pandemonium burst from the field and the field changed back to normal. "Then, I summon out Sparkman to the field in defense mode!" Elemental HERO Sparkman appeared on the field, surrounded by lightning in a defense position. "I end my turn!"

"Then, I go!" Titan glared, drawing his next card. "I pay 500 life points..." His life points dropped to 2700. "Then, I'll have my Skull Archfiend destroy your Voltic!" Skull Archfiend of Lightning swung its ax across Elemental HERO Voltic, bursting it from the field. Jaylin jumped back and cringed over the pain she took from the damage of her monster. Another wound appeared on her left waist.

Titan glared, peering at his hand before stating, "I set one card face-down, then summon out my Desrook Archfiend." A table-like monster with gold tentacles around it with a blue claw appeared on the field. "I end my turn."

Jaylin drew her next card and looked at it, before laying it with her face-down cards. She declared, "I switch my Sparkman to attack mode, then equip him with Spark Blaster!" A black electric gun appeared in Elemental HERO Sparkman's hands after he stood up in attack mode. "First, Sparkman attacks your Desrook, which kinda makes you look stupid that you would summon that thing in attack mode, since my Sparkman was on the field with its attack points shown." Elemental HERO Sparkman gathered up electricity, letting it surround his body, then ran up to Desrook Archfiend and punched it, bursting it from the field. Titan felt a punch right in the stomach, watching his life points drop to 2200. "Then, I use Sparkblaster to force Sparkman to defense mode!" Elemental HERO Sparkman aimed and shot right at itself, electricity surrounding it and forcing it to defense mode. "I end!"

Titan drew his next card and his life points dropped to 1700. He declared, "my monster attacks Sparkman!" Skull Archfiend of Lightning ran up to Elemental HERO Sparkman and swung its ax across it, bursting it from the field. Jaylin fell on her knees, a new wound appearing on her upper back, then coughed up blood to the floor. "I place one card face-down, then activate my face-down Battle-Scarred! Now, we both have to pay the maintenance cost to keep my Skull Archfiend on the field and by my turn, your life points will be gone and you won't have enough power left to protect your little friend!"

Jaylin pulled herself to the table, then flipped Titan off. She glared her deathly glare, eyes glowing gold, then drew her next card. She declared, "I summon Elemental Hero Bubbleman and use its effect!" She drew two cards from her deck. "I now play Enemy Controller!"

"Because you activated a card targeting my-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, activate its effect, just get on with it!" Jaylin snapped as Titan rose his hand and showing the glowing balls with numbers. Each of them glowed clockwise until it slowly came to a stop on 2.

"WHAT!?" Titan gasped.

"Yeah, got cha there for a moment there, didn't I?" Jaylin smirked, with the blood leaking from her wounds, a dribble under the bottom corner of her lips, and showing some debris on her face. The smirk with golden eyes made her look deadly. "I knew you were using the darkness to cheat your way to gaining the right effect, so I decided to wait for the right time to cheat back. As they say, crime never pays."

"HOW!?"

"I just watched you do it and copied what you did, though I had to make sure I got to your monster's effect first and knew the right time to do it."

Zane's eyes widened and jaw dropped. Despite all the pain Jaylin suffered, she was still able to keep her brain focused enough to come up with a comeback plan. Even Zane himself couldn't think right through all his pain and dizziness from losing blood during the last Shadow Game he played. Jaylin wasn't just any ordinary girl with powers. She could be his worst enemy or greatest super-powered hero.

"I use Enemy Controller to control your stupid monster!" Jaylin snapped as a game controller appeared in front of her and the buttons left, right, A, and B were pressed. Just then, Skull Archfiend of Lightning instantly appeared on her field, including the card on her table. "Now, I summon my Elemental Hero Heat, since Bubbleman was a Special Summon!" Elemental HERO Heat appeared boldly on the field, its attack points rising to 2000 attack due to its effect. "He attacks you directly!" Elemental HERO Heat blasted fire from both its hands, cooking Titan as he began screaming at the top of his lungs and his life points dropped to 0. Jaylin showed a deadly smirk, watching her opponent turn to barbecue pork and her golden eyes matching it. "I win." Zane gasped, realizing that the elemental hero didn't stop its attack after its win.

"Get Jaylin now!" Yugi told Zane as he checked to make sure the bubble shield was gone, which it was, then ran for Jaylin and grabbed her from behind, two arms wrapped around her. She instantly blinked and her eyes changed back to hazel and Elemental HERO Heat disappeared. Titan screamed from being on fire.

"Jaylin," Zane muttered, still in shock from what he just saw, realizing that Jaylin had fainted from blood loss. "She's out cold."

"Then get the hell out and don't look back!" Yugi said as Zane flipped Jaylin over his back and ran out of the Abandoned Dorm as fast as he could.

Zane kept running until he was right next to the fence and placed Jaylin on the grass. He took off his shirt to wrap around Jaylin's wounds, then tied her body to his with the rope that was still connected to the top of the fence. He climbed, the cell phone in his pocket, until he was at the very top. He then, began sliding back down on the other side, this time using his shirt to prevent rope burns, before untying the rope. Zane flipped Jaylin over his back once more and ran as fast as he could through the forest to get to the School Nurse's Office.