Disclaimer: see previous chapter
Chapter 10: Flame Wingman Captured
"And that's what happened," Ryoko said, after telling Yusuke and Keiko that Jaden, Syrus and Kuwabara went to Obelisk arena. Chazz Princeton challenged Jaden to an ante duel.
"I'M GOING TO KILL THAT IDIOT!" Keiko yelled, in outrage and screaming how much of moron Jaden is.
Yusuke sweat dropped at the brunette's reaction, 'Wow, she's just as scary, as Kari and Kagome, when they're angry,' he thought, "Doesn't Jaden know that an ante duel is against the room here?" he asked
"I really don't know, Yusuke," Keiko replied, in an anger tone, "All I know is that when I find him, I'm going to……"
"Let's go!" Yusuke interrupted as he ran off with Keiko following him
-In Obelisk arena-
"Are you sure that this is such a good idea, Jaden?" Syrus asked, while following Jaden to the arena with Kuwabara and knowing that this wasn't a good idea.
"Of course," Jaden replied, "When someone challenges you, you've got to step up, you've got no choice."
"I have a very bad feeling about this," Kuwabara said, as the three boys approached the arena, where Chazz and his two flunkies were waiting for him.
"Well, well, well, he shows," Chazz sneered, with his arms crossed
"You better believe it, there was no way that I'm going to miss this." Jaden walked up towards the stadium to face Chazz.
"Time to find out that you beating Dr. Crowler was a fact or a fluke," Chazz sneered, again
"Yeah, and we're going to know something else," Jaden told him, "Like which one of us has a shot to be the next King of Games," Jaden said
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, just don't cry when you lose."
"You too, now game on."
"JADEN YUKI, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE PULLING HERE!" came a very pissed off feminine voice, which freaked the boys, including the Obelisk boys.
"Ack! What was that?" Chazz asked, with his finger in his ear, "It sounded like a bullhorn!"
Jaden had his fingers in his ears to cover the loudness that occurred, 'I know that yell anywhere,' he thought as he turned to see a certain pissed off brunette by the arena, glaring at him, "Ah! Keiko, what are you here!" Jaden exclaimed, in a freaked manner
Yusuke arrived in the arena panting and gazed what was in front of him, "Okay, for……. such a small………. sized girl………… she can run………really fast!" he panted, with little sweat drops on his forehead.
Keiko stared at Jaden hard, "Jaden, you do realize that……."
"Hey, in case you didn't know this, Ra Rodent," Chazz interrupted, "We're working here and this will be fast!"
Keiko turned her glare at Chazz, "In case you didn't realize this, your actions are really going to………"
"Look it's real sweet and everything that you're looking after your brother and everything," Chazz interrupted, "But you never interrupt a man-to-man fight!"
Before Keiko could protest, "Keiko, for once, please don't try interrupting my duels," Jaden suggested, "Besides, I know that I can take this guy."
"Take this guy!" Keiko yelled, staring at her cousin hard, "Are you kidding me!"
Before Keiko could yell at Jaden, more, Yusuke got in front of her, placing his hands on her forearms, restraining her, "Whoa, whoa, Keiko, I think Jaden knows what he's doing. Besides he definitely surprised us when he defeated that weird looking guy's real deck." Yusuke told her.
"I guess you're right," Keiko said and an incoming red blush came upon her face when she was close to Yusuke, "Uh! Yusuke……could you let go of me, please."
Yusuke realized that he has his hands on Keiko and as if it burns let's go of the brunette and step back, "Sorry!" he said, a little too loudly and hastily, with a hint of pink in his cheeks.
"Yeah, no problem!"
Chazz and Jaden activates their duel disks, "Duel!" (CLP: 8000/JLP: 8000)
"Ore no turn!" Chazz draws his card, "For my first move, I'll summon Reborn Zombie in defense mode!" a decay zombie appears on the field (DEF: 1600), "Next, I'll place a card facedown!"
"I guess that's one way to start a duel," Jaden said, "But I like to go a little bigger. Ore no turn, draw!" Jaden draws his card and places it in his hand and heard coos coming from them, "Good to see ya, Winged Kuriboh, maybe I'll use you later but know I'll use Polymerization to fuse both Avian and Burstinatrix!" Avian and Burstinatrix entered into a vortex above, "And bringing out Elemental Hero Flame Wingman in attack mode!" Elemental Hero Flame Wingman (ATK: 2100), "I told ya that I'd go big didn't I?"
Chazz smirked, "I was hoping that you were," he sneered
"You did? Why's that?"
"Because that move you made activated a trap card, slacker that you set off, Chthonian Polymer do your stuff!" Chazz's facedown trap cards opened up, "What's Chthonian Polymer's stuff?" Syrus asked, feeling intimidated
"I had a feeling that I'd find you guys here."
Yusuke, Keiko, Syrus and Kuwabara turned to see Alexis walking towards them, "Hey, what the hell are you doing here!" Yusuke spat, staring Alexis hard, "If you came here for a rematch now you better forget it!"
"Chthonian Polymer is a nasty trap card that let's you take control of your opponent's fusion monster by sacrificing your monster," Alexis replied, ignoring Yusuke's question
"What! But Jaden had summoned a fusion monster!" Keiko said
"I'll sacrifice my zombie to take control of your Wingman!" Chazz declared, as his trap card glowed yellow and it took engulfed his zombie and a cloak of darkness captured Jaden's monster and put it on Chazz's side of the field.
"How did Chazz knew how to play that?" Syrus asked
"I have no idea," Kuwabara added
"You're so predictable, Jaden!" Chazz told him, "I saw you play that monster with Crowler, so I knew you'll play him!"
"But since my Wingman was a special summon, that means that I get to normal summon a monster during this turn!" Jaden studied his hand and grimaced, 'Not that any of these cards can stand up to the Wingman.' Jaden looked at the monster that betrayed him
Chazz grinned, 'Go on, you Slifer Slacker, summon a monster,' he thought, 'I didn't forget about Flame Wingman's special power.'
"Alright, I'll summon Elemental Hero Clayman in defense mode!" Jaden declared as a clay bodied monster with a red head appears and kneels on one knee (DEF: 2000), "There I'm all set!"
"Ore no turn, draw!" Chazz whips out a card from his deck, "Yeah, you're set up alright, set to get knocked down! Rise Chthonian Soldier!" a grey-armored warrior, holding a huge curved sword appeared next to Jaden's stolen monster (ATK: 1200), "Now Flame Wingman!" At Chazz's commanded, Flame Wingman jumps up into the air, "Attack with Skydive Scorner!" Flame Wingman flares up and dives towards Clayman, destroying Jaden's defending monster, "And don't forget about my Flame Wingman's superpower, you take damage equal to the attack of your destroyed monster."
Jaden gasped, as the Wingman's dragon hand was at Jaden's face and blow flames at him, "Jaden!" Keiko cried, see her cousin screaming as his life points deceased (JLP: 8000)-(JLP: 7200), "Don't think for one second that I'm done yet, slacker!" Chazz told the brunette, "Chthonian Soldier attack Windstorm Slash!" Chthonian Soldier charges towards the unprotected Jaden and slashes the brunette's torso. Jaden wraps his arms wrapped his stomach fell onto his knees when his life points decreased even further (JLP: 7200)-(JLP: 6000)
"Have you found your place in the academy, yet?" Chazz goaded, "You've might been someone back at him, but here in the Big Leagues you're nothing but a pathetic amateur, Slifer Slime! I'll end my turn with a face-down card." A card appeared behind Chazz's monsters, "Go ahead, slacker!" Just then I heard a sniff like noise from Jaden, "Aw what wong, baby! Are you crying?" Chazz sneered, in a baby tone, and then heard laughing from Jaden, "This is too fun!" he laughed
"What!" Chazz gasped, in surprise
"Just what I came for, the trash talk, the action, it's just too great!"
"What the……"
"Ore no turn, draw!" Jaden whips out a card from his deck, "I'll activate Pot of Greed, this allows me to draw two cards from my deck!" Jaden draws two cards, "Next, I'll summon Elemental Hero Sparkman in attack mode!" a hero in a blue jumpsuit, golden armor and mask appears in front of Jaden in a fighting stance (ATK: 1600), "Alright Sparkman now, attack with Static Shockwave!" Sparkman shoots a blue lightning blot at Chazz's Chthonian Soldier and destroy the monster. Chazz shields himself with his duel disk as his life points decreased. (CLP: 8000)-(CLP: 7600)
"Nice hit!" Kuwabara cheered
"Jaden shouldn't have done that," Yusuke said, "Chthonian Soldier's special power is gonna bite him in the ass!" True to Yusuke's word, it did bite Jaden in the ass, as Chthonian Solder's sword spun up and hurled through Jaden's stomach and taking his life points with him (JLP: 6000)-(JLP: 5600), as he clutched his stomach.
"Still think it's great, slacker?" Chazz sneered, sarcastically, "Because when you destroyed my Chthonian Soldier, you've activated it's special ability, by taking the same amount of damage as I do!"
Jaden slightly winced as he opened his eyes, "It's only a matter of time, slacker," Chazz started, "Your best monster is gonna be all mine!" Chazz then turned his gaze to Yusuke, "And you don't think you're off the hook, rookie!" he sneered, pointing at the black haired duelist, "As soon as I'm done with this slacker, I'm taking you out!"
"Hey Urameshi, does this guy have a bone to pick with you or something?" Kuwabara whispered
Yusuke shrugged, "I have no idea, but I'm guessing that it to do with the dueling entrance exams this morning."
"This isn't over," Jaden slipped a card in the spell/trap card slot of his duel disk; "I'll throw down a face-down!"
"Play what you want! Ore no turn, draw!" Chazz draws his card from his duel disk, "Go Flame Wingman!" Flame Wingman flares up once again and lunges at Sparkman, "Not so fast, that a trap you set off!" Jaden's facedown card was opened up
"Damn it!" Chazz gasped
"It's Mirror Gate!" Syrus added
"Then, Jaden still in this duel," Alexis started, "Mirror Gate switches two monsters in battle to each side of the field and now that Wingman is with Jaden!" True to Alexis's word, in a flash of yellow light, Jaden's Wingman was back on his side of the field with Sparkman on Chazz's side of the field, gripping hands with Flame Wingman, "Oh yeah, go Wingman!" Jaden commanded, as his Wingman blasts Sparkman away and Chazz screaming in agony as his life points go down (CLP: 7600)-(CLP: 7100), "And just as you told me, don't forget about my Flame Wingman's special power, you take damage equal to the attack of your destroyed monster!" Jaden told him, as his monster electrocuted Chazz (CLP: 7100)-(CLP: 5500)
"Alright!" Syrus cheered
"Awesome hit!" Kuwabara added
"Nice moves, Jaden!" Alexis commented
"More look lucky moves if you ask me you Slifer School Scum," Chazz seethed and pulling a card from his hand, "I'll activate a spell card, Trap Booster!"
"What does it do?" Jaden asked
"Damn, you're dumb," Chazz commented, "By discarding one card from my hand to the graveyard, I get to activate a trap card from my hand and I'll choose Chthonian Blast! Since you destroy my monster, I get to destroy a monster of yours." True to Chazz's word, a swirl of wind destroys Flame Wingman, "And we take damage equivalent to half of its attack points, but I'll be safe since I'll activate Ring of Defense, which blocks trap damage to my life points!"
"Flame Wingman……" Jaden (JLP: 5600)-(JLP: 4550) muttered
"Next, I'll activate Call of the Haunted!" Chazz's face down stands up, "I get to summon one monster in my graveyard to attack mode! Rise Chthonian Soldier!" Chthonian Soldier returns from the grave, "But that's not all, next I'll sacrifice him to summon Mefist the Inferno Warrior!" a heavily armored knight riding on a black horse who was carrying a long-handled axe in one hand appears on the field (ATK: 1800)
"Not bad!" Jaden commented
"Not bad?" Chazz repeated, wondering why Jaden isn't afraid yet and smirked, "You're something else, slacker. Acting all confident like that, but your lousy monsters aren't going to get you out of this jam!"
Just then a coo was heard by Jaden and the brunette looked at his hand, which held Winged Kuriboh, "I know he's wrong Winged Kuriboh!" Winged Kuriboh winked at him in responds, "Because doesn't know that my monsters and I, we have a bond. Ore no turn!" Jaden draws his card, 'Speaking of……'
Just then, Yusuke heard footsteps coming here and he wasn't the only one, "Uh! Guys, we've got company!" Alexis exclaimed
"Oh crap!" Yusuke replied, "It's campus security, if they found us here, we'll get seriously busted!"
Jaden turned his head around, "Why? We're students here," he said
"Idiot!" Keiko screamed, glaring at Jaden, "I will not have my first expulsion from a school, because of your stupidity, moron!"
Jaden tiled his head a bit, "What are you talking about?"
Alexis sighed at Jaden's 'innocence' and got out a booklet, "Student Handbook clearly states that no off-hour duels and ante rules are prohibited on campus!"
Chazz choked on Alexis's words, "Chazz knows this, but let me guess, he didn't tell you!" Alexis spat
"Come on, let's go!" the blunette Obelisk told Chazz. Chazz turned and glared at Jaden, "Well, well, slacker, it looks like you lucked out this time."
"What do you mean by that?" Jaden asked, in outrage, "The match isn't over!"
"Oh yes, it is," Chazz jumps off the stage, "I came here for what I saw, you're a sorry duelist. You beating Dr. Crowler was a fluke!" Chazz and his goons walked away
Jaden was known to be a very stubborn person, "Hey come back……" he then felt a painful pull on his left ear, "Jaden, my sweet baby cousin……" Keiko said, sweetly to his ear, "WE'RE LEAVING NOW!" she pulled Jaden by the ear and ignoring complains coming from Jaden, "Ouch…. on, Keiko, that hurt!" he cried as he was pulled off the stage, with other following the cousins.
A few moments later, campus security came into the arena and found no one there.
While outside the school, Keiko pulled the stubborn Jaden out by the ear still, "Ouch! Okay, okay! Let go woman!" Jaden cried, as Keiko let's go of his ear, "Thank yo…" Jaden didn't get the chance to finish, because he felt a very painful slap on his face, which made him fall to the ground, flat on his face, "Ouch!" he cried getting his face off the ground and glared at the person responsible, "What was that for!" Jaden yelled, holding his left cheek as Keiko brought her hand down and returned the glare, as she grabbed Jaden's collar and pulled him up to meet with Keiko's face, "Because you pulled a stupid stunt and almost got ALL of US expel for it!" she spat, as she was shaking Jaden, "How many times are you going to pull this same stupid stunt!"
"Remind me never to get her bad side," Kuwabara said, while seeing Jaden getting chewed out and hiding behind Yusuke's back, with Syrus, "Yeah, not kidding," Syrus said
Jaden got Keiko's grip on him off of him, "Okay, okay, sorry it won't happen again," he plead
"That was amusing," Alexis said, referring to Jaden getting chewed up by Keiko
Jaden gave Alexis a 'you must be joking' look, "I've have live with it almost everyday of my life," he sighed
"Sorry that you didn't get to finish your duel with Chazz." Alexis told Jaden
"No problem, I knew how it would end anyways!" Jaden said
"Yeah, with you losing," Keiko enticed in a bored tone, which was followed by Jaden giving her a glare, "No! It's the other way around!" he said
"Oh really," Alexis said, "It looked to me that it could have gone either way, when you and Chazz stopped."
"No way," Jaden showed off a spell card in his hand for the others to look at
"Hey hold on," Yusuke said, "That's Fusion Monster Reborn isn't it?"
"The one and only," Jaden said, "And that's all that I had in my hand!" Jaden showed two other spell card in his hand, "De-Fusion and Fusion Weapon!"
"With Fusion Monster Reborn, I can summon one fusion monster from my graveyard, regardless of summoning requests and I choose my Elemental Hero Flame Wingman!" Jaden said, as his monster had appeared (ATK: 2100)," Now I'll play the spell card, Fusion Weapon to increase his strength by 1500 points!" (ATK: 2100/DEF: 800)-(ATK: 3600/DEF: 2700) "Attack Skydive Scorner!" Flame Wingman flares up and charges towards Chazz's Mefist and destroys it and Chazz screams as his life points decreases (CLP: 5500)-(CLP: 3700), "Don't forget about my monster's ability it can deal damage to your life points equal to the attack of your destroyed monster!" Flame Wingman blasts flames at Chazz's face and he screams as his life points went further down (CLP: 3700)-(CLP: 1900), "That's great slacker," Chazz said, sarcastically, "But you'll take damage equal to half of the attack points at the end of your turn!"
"I know that, but I came prepared," Jaden said, "I'll activate De-Fusion to separate my Wingman to both Avian and Burstinatrix!" Wingman glows gold as it splits to Avian and Burstinatrix, "And you're left wide open! Attack!" both of Jaden's monster attack the stunned Chazz directly and Chazz screams as his life points hit zero. (CLP: 1900)-(CLP: 0000)
"So in other words, Jaden would have won that duel," Kuwabara said
"Duh!" Yusuke said, in response to the carrot top's comment
"See ya!" Jaden walked off, with Syrus and Kuwabara following
"Hey Yusuke," Alexis said
Yusuke turned to the blonde, "What?"
"About that, rematch"
"No way!" Yusuke snapped, "Not now, it's late if you didn't know!"
"Actually, I did know," Alexis said, in a bored tone, "How about having it tomorrow morning at 10 am."
"Why would you want a rematch with me?"
"Believe me, it wasn't my idea"
Flashback
"You two want me to ask Yusuke for a rematch?" Alexis asked, her two roommates
"Yeah, that punk made a fool out of us," Jasmine said
"That's right, where does he get off saying that dueling you was making him bored!" Mindy added
"I don't think it's such a good idea to ask him," Alexis said, "Besides, I can tell that he doesn't like me that much."
"DOESN'T LIKE YOU!" the girls yelled, "He's a guy, Alexis, how could a guy not like you, Alexis Rhodes, the Queen of Obelisk Blue?" Mindy asked
"I don't know, but in the duel I could sense some hatred emitting from him." Alexis said, "But I'll give it a try through."
End Flashback
"Those owls you call friends talked you into it," Yusuke said
"And for myself," Alexis said, "If I win, then you answer a question that I have in mind, without any sarcastic remarks."
"Yeah whatever," Yusuke said, as he walked off, which Keiko following, "Bye!"
As they were walking inside the Ra Yellow dormitory, Yusuke and Keiko were walking inside the hallways without one to say a word to another. Keiko glanced over at Yusuke's retreating back, before she could sense some hostility coming from Yusuke when they were with Alexis. She wondered why he would have some hostile feelings for the blonde after she helped them escape from being seen by campus security, but she also knew not to step into people's business, besides she's know Yusuke for a day, probably she'll come to asking him after sometime of him trusting her.
"Yusuke, hold on," Keiko said, "This is my dorm room and……thanks for walking me here." She added, with a hint of red in her cheeks
Yusuke shrugged, "Hey, it's the least I can do for having you cheer for me when I was dueling that Obelisk, Alexis." He said, "Well good night!" he said, as he walked off to his room.
"Good night," Keiko closed her door with a warm smile
Yusuke got to his room and noticed that he wasn't alone, "Okay how long have you been following me?" he asked, turning to see Kagome at the side of him, "As long as I seen you two coming into the dorm." She replied
"Humph, just don't get any ideas," Yusuke said, as he stepped into his room, which Kagome following, "What do you mean by that?" she asked
Yusuke gave her a 'you know what I'm talking about' look, "Forget it."
"Fine whatever," Kagome sighed, "Just to let you know that you'll have to start trusting people at some point in time."
"Yeah and some point isn't 'now' is it?"
"I guess not," Kagome said, "Well good night!"
"Hey Kagome!" Yusuke called out as his cousin spun around to meet Yusuke, "Yeah."
Yusuke smiled, "Thanks for helping but I can take care of it." He said
"Don't mention it," Kagome said, as she walked out of the room and closed the door from behind.
-Jaden's Card List-
New Cards Used
De-Fusion (M), Elemental Hero Clayman (M), Elemental Hero Sparkman (M), Mirror Gate (T)
Fusion Monster Reborn: Normal Spell: Select 1 Fusion Monster Card from either your opponent's or your own Graveyard and place it on the field under your control in Attack or Defense Position (face-up), regardless of summoning requests. At the End Phase, you take damage equal to half of the original attack of the monster summoned by this effect.
-Chazz's Card List-
New Cards Used
Call of the Haunted (T), Chthonian Blast (T), Chthonian Polymer (T), Chthonian Soldier (M), Mefist the Inferno Warrior (M), Reborn Zombie (M), Ring of Defense (S), Trap Booster (S)