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Scene 10) the Emissaries of Evil

Titan had reached a decision. It was a good decision he'd debated it long hard going over all the facts and making sure he fully understood his position before committing to it. It hadn't been an easy decision for him to reach nor was it the decision he'd wanted to reach but he'd reached his decision and was sticking to it…

Titan had decided he'd gone mad…the Shadow Cretins were slowly and painfully devouring his very soul, his mind, his body, his essence, everything. He didn't know how long he'd been trapped in hell or how long it would take the Shadow Cretins to completely consume him he'd been trapped for what seemed like an eternity and it seemed he was going to be trapped for an eternity. He realized this even in his degrading mental state. But as all duellists should know…eternity does not last forever…

Titan first felt the change when he noticed the Shadow Cretins were restless and then he saw it a figure emblazed in a dark purple hue wearing a mask with blazing red eyes the masked figure reaches out for Titan grabbing him and pulling him out of the shadows by force. The shadow Cretins take umbrage at this and attack the masked figure only to be blasted back with a concentrated silver blast. The masked figure blasts away the Shadow Cretins attached to Titan's body before dragging him through a fluctuating exit portal into the basement of the abandoned dorm.

Titan fell to his knees and drew in a ragged breath 'freedom…tasted so good' Titan looked up at his saviour "Thank…" his voice cracked from lack of use "Thank you" he wore a black trench coat and trilby with a half mask covering his eyes "I thought…I'd be…trapped for ever"

The masked figure regards Titan for a few seconds before reaching a decision of their own "You work for me now I saved your soul, I own your soul and I shall have my payment" the masked figure holds out their hand "A card from your deck" Titan hands over his deck; the masked figure skims through it before finding the desired card at long last the masked figure thinks my soul is complete.

Titan struggles to his feet "What happens now?" he asks the masked figure whose gaze snaps up from the card to look at him "We obtain additional allies" the masked figure states handing back Titan's deck before disappearing in a silver flare.

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Jaden and Chazz reached the cliff edge overlooking the docks and squinted out at the light house on the quayside where Alexis likes to hang out and think but the only person there was her brother Atticus dressed in a red trench coat with the Kanji for Duel emblazed on his back, a sea breeze tugging at his hair.

"She's not there" Jaden states.

"Perceptive" comments Chazz sarcastically "she's probably back in her dorm room by now it is kind of late after all" and her dorm head wasn't Atticus come to that. He starts to jog in the direction of the Obelisk Blue girl's dorm.

"Wait were not allowed on the girls campus not to mention Zara's already ticked of that Alexis beat her in front of everyone if we get caught she'll throw the book and everything else at us" Jaden protests.

Chazz merely shoots him a cocky smirk over his shoulder "So? Let's not get caught then" he tells Jaden who shrugs and grins back "if you say so" he jogs after Chazz.

Atticus turns his head to the side observing his observers with some interest his eyes narrowed at the two distant figures running away from the Slifer dorms the red and black jackets were unmistakable. Now either Jaden had finally told Chazz how he felt about him and Chazz had suddenly got over his crush on sissy, become homosexual and fallen for the Brunette tot eh point where the pair had decided to elope…or…more likely there was trouble coming, he could feel it in his soul something was going on tonight, something dark and something deadly. He broke into a run back along the Quayside and after his wayward students there was no way they were leaving him out of this after all he was their Dorm Head now.

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Camula was trapped in eternal damnation her soul having been sealed by her pact to Illusion gate trapping her in the crimson underworld and tormented by the denizens of the underworld. Bound in chains against a cross her head lolled with her tongue hanging out limply a dribble of spit dripping from the end. Camula was a vampire, therefore she was undead and would undie for all eternity but once again the masked figure had other plans.

Appearing in a flare of silver energy the masked figure summons a streamlined snake like Dark Dragon that blasts back the denizens with a sonic scream. Camula pulls her tongue back into her mouth with some effort and turns her head to look at the commotion.

The masked figure approaches Camula while her Dragon kept the Denizens at bay and shattered the chains binding Camula with a flash of silver energy before proceeding to drag her out of the crimson underworld through a rapidly closing exit portal back to the real world.

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Jaden and Chazz sneak along the lakeside towards the girl's dorm with a stealthy Atticus shadowing them ninja style! "If we get caught were dead" a nervous Jaden whispers to a non-plussed Chazz "yeah-yeah" he dismisses his partners concerns. "Amateurs" Atticus mutters to himself shaking his head in disappointment.

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In the abandoned dorm a partially recovered Titan watches on as the masked figure drags a haggard looking woman out of a portal similar to the one he'd been dragged through "Who's this?" he asks "is she even alive?"

"Technically she is dead after all who ever heard of a living vampire?" themasked figure retorts.

Camula vamps up her face distorts and her tongue distends "Blood! I must have blood!" she hisses her Transylvanian accent makes her pronounce it as vood rather than blood but her intent is clear enough.

Titan steps back afraid "A vampire!" a part of him wanted to say there were no such things but after been trapped in the shadows for so long slowly having his soul devoured by demons how could he deny it?

The masked figure ignores him leaving to fetch a wine glass filled with a blood red liquid that had been prepared earlier handing it to the mistress of the night Camula eagerly swigs it back a sliver of the red fluid trails down her cheek and drips on the floor as she throws the glass away having recovered her strength and senses, she takes a good look at her savour her eyes widening in shock.

"You! Your supposed to be dead!" Camula accuses the masked figure "and you" the masked figure replies without a trace of humour "are a fine one to talk" Camula glances around "and the others?" she asks the masked figure who replies "they are no longer in the running"

"This is what is left of the noble Seven Star assassins?" Camula asks critically. Titan felt mildly insulted. "That the glorious shadow Riders should be reduced to this" she continues.

"True" concedes the masked figure "but this is not the end we can still achieve victory…and we must kill Nightshroud and his vessel he threatens the final ascension"

"Can we really win against the forces of the light? We are but three emissaries of the Darkness" Camula asks her body may have recovered but her spirit was still broken.

"How poetic" comments Titan feeling left out.

"No there is another" the masked figure claims before vanishing in a silver flash.