There is a perfectly good reason why I have failed to update these past months...

Problem is, I don't have one.

Alright, so here it is. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: Still don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

Chapter Ten - Suspicion! The Truth Hidden Behind A Mask!

Narrative POV

"Lord Placido! Sir, R-027849-293561 has spotted the target!" Shouted Sado, looking eagerly at the screen, then back to his leader.

Not hesitating, Placido pushed past many lowed-class Yliaster members, knocking them over ruthlessly in his rush to Sado. Standing next to him calmly, he peered at the screen, unable to hide his cruel excitement.

"R-027849-293561 has not attacked yet. But it has acquired an alias, impersonating one of the school children." Sado grinned, his eyes alive with malice. Placido ignored everything else, as he watched the screen, looking at the child R-027849-293561 was pretending to be. Some young boy...

"Tell it not to attack, until the Signer exibits his full power."

"What?" Sado's grin disappeared, being replace with a puzzled expression.

"If it attacks now, the Signer might not be able to come back. We don't want him harmed too badly. But," Placido smiled slightly, and his visible eye glowed darkly. "If the other two get in the way, set it's program to kill."

Sado's smile re-appeared within moments. "Yes, Lord Placido." As he began typing into the computer furiously, Placido walked away. This time, all will go according to plan, he mused o himself, and this time, we can do without the other two Signers. They would have be terminated earlier, but they had held some usefulness. But if the cause trouble, then they are done for.

Placido smiled maliciously, his eyes shinning with the same emotion, full of malice, full of hatred.

Bastion's POV

This is the third day that those transfer students have been here.

Though, I have an odd suspicion they aren't what they say. When questioning them on such things, they seem to become somewhat-tense, as if hiding something. They haven't said where they are from, except a short, un-descriptive answer of "America".

I had checked their files a day after they had arrived, shortly before the tournament began. Their files had very little information--- names, genders, obvious things like so --- but nothing that gave him a clue about what they were hiding. After dealing with Shadow Riders, and The Society of Light, I've learned that when people start to act odd and suspicious around here, something bad is bound to happen. And I'd really, really rather avoid anything that will harm my friends, or put my chances to gain a higher level of education at risk.

Anyway, after I had talked to basically everyone who had any contact with the three --- whose names I gathered, were Jack, Crow, and Yusei, the latter two having truly odd names --- I found little information. All I found was that they had very different decks, and from what I heard from one, did not use fusion at all, but had a new, strange way of summoning monsters.

I looked all over the island during the beginning day of the tournament, but to no avail--- they were rather allusive bunch. Still, I did manage to get some information one time, when I had actually talked to one of the three. Crow.

He had looked at me odd when I asked where he was from, and it took him a minutes to answer me.

"Uhh..." He stuttered, glancing around, supposedly for his two friends, who were elsewhere. "America, yeah, Jack, Yusei and I are from America."

He wouldn't answer to much else, and I got the feeling I wasn't exactly talking to smartest of the three. Chazz, the other day, was complaining about Jack, still going on about his nerve at insulting him or something when they first met, which reminded me of how they first acted when we met them.

Yusei was silent, and calm for the most part. Crow has said something about Yusei being one of the smartest, which would stand to reason, for whenever I saw someone come up and ask the three questions, he would be one of the first to answer, quiet, and calmly. Yet whenever he spoke, it was almost like he was commanding for silence around him, and strength hidden behind those emotionless cobalt eyes.

Jack was arrogant, much like Chazz, but thankfully less annoying. He seemed like the strongest, but choose to only interfere in something that was his business, staying strictly out it if it had nothing to do with him whatsoever.

And Crow... Needless to say, he reminded me of Jaden. Both always cheerful, looking for a great time in dueling, just wanting a lot of fun, and from what I've heard, both great duelists. He proved to be a lot smarter than I originally thought, having a the brains to give out so technical information. He seems to know more than he lets on.

But this little bits of information would not satisfy me. I needed to analyze them more clearly and carefully. But oddly enough, they were hard to find, even with everyone free to roam about the island during this tournament. I would have to leave things up to chance that I would get to duel one of them.

Probability of dueling them today, with nearly half the island participants eliminated: 60%

So, I wander around the island, dueling my opponents and defeating swiftly and soundly. Hardly a challenge, really. Jaden could give me challenge, but our paths haven't crossed yet in this tournament. Neither have those other exchange students from other Duel Academy's, who I also seek to test out.

Annoyingly, I have yet to see anyone that I've actually been looking for.

Irritated, I sat down on a large rock, located near the volcano. I was supposed to meet my next opponent here yesterday, but the tournament was put on hold for dinner, and all duels were to resume this mourning. And my opponent was late. I had to wonder if it was Jaden.

Just then, I hear running footsteps, quickly heading towards me. I turn me head, a smile spreading across my face. Luck, though not scientifically not proven, had smiled upon me today. My opponent was a red head duelist wearing a Ra Yellow Dorm jacket, the "transfer student from America", Crow.

Panting, my opponent comes to a jarring stop a few feet before me.

"Man, sorry I'm late!" He apologized, once having gained his breath back. His eyes told me he was extremely eager to duel, once again reminding me of Jaden.

"No problem," I answered right away. "Ready to duel?"

"Heck yeah!" Crow shouted, sprouting a cocky smile, thrusting his arm out, activating his duel disk. "Let's do this!"

His excitement knew no bounds. It was almost contagious, slightly enveloping me in a frenzy of competitiveness, and excitement. It was slightly odd, usually only Jaden or Alexis, someone who was a true duelist to me, a strong duelist, who could actually excite me to this point.

I smiled back. "Alright, then. Let's see how well you can fare against my deck."

My Duel Disk activated on cue, in a position in front of me, it's power radiating from the gem-like decor at the top.

"Let's duel!"

Yusei's POV

Was it just me, or was everything around me growing oddly...silent?

Standing out in a jungle, where many creatures, including animals, bugs, birds circling overhead, this was not normal. I had just recently defeated my fifth opponent, who ran off angry, and then everything was a buzz with life.

Now, walking on top of a twig, causing it to snap, created what felt like a much louder sound than normal.

What was going on? Some up-coming storm, a natural weather disaster that would cause all the animals and insects to look for shelter?

I puzzled over this; being on a island like so, out on the middle of the ocean, some natural disaster would be chaotic. A true problem to worry over.

But since I had no evidence of this, I supposed I could go inside and check up on the weather on the computers. They were rather slow compared to what I am used to, but they work, and that's all that matters.

Finding all of this unsurprisingly disturbing, the silence of the jungle, I headed out of it.

Snap

I froze: I didn't make that sound. Looking down at my feet confirmed that. I glanced around. I saw nothing but leaves, trees, and vines hanging around limply. No signs of life either.

But something obviously made that noise.

Snap!

A much louder sound confirmed that something was here; clueless stumbling through the jungle perhaps.

Something was wrong here, but what?

I caught of a glimpse for a moment, it looked like a student. But it seemly disappeared further into the forest. Common sense said to leave the forest right away. Curiosity and suspicion said to follow it. Both had a point, both had a downside.

Curiosity eventually got the best of me, and I headed down the path deeper into the ever silent forest.

Mourning turned into noon, and there soon after, evening. Time almost literally, flew by.

I pushed forward, none the less. My legs could take this long walk, as comparing this to living in the Satellite, there was no challenge.

I did however, find all of this very odd. The further I went in, the longer from my destination than I had imagined it would be. There were still no signs of life, other than an occasional snap sound, ringing through out the jungle.

I ignored the constant beeping of my PDA. Another opponent was the last thing I planned on dealing with at this moment.

Out of slight boredom, I glanced at it, trying to find my location. But oddly enough, the signal seemed to be lost, despite how many times it kept paging me on my next opposing duelist. Irriatating, really.

In the end, I turned the PDA off, stuffing it in my pocket. I couldn't concentrate of my surroundings with it always beeping. A grave mistake I would later pay for.

Amazingly, I somehow reached the end of the path in a few minutes after turning the PDA off. The edge of a cliff.

The waves were crashing up upon cliff, the waves for some reason now fierce, angry, compared to this mourning's peaceful, and gentle ocean.

I stood near the edge, looking out upon the sea, the water spraying my face constantly, the wind whipping by my face. I frowned. Something felt off here, just as it had been in the forest. I realized it too late; what I was feeling, was a sense that something wrong was going to happen.

Just as I realized that, I felt a strong push to my back, unbalancing me to the force of it, and having not expected something like this.

I twisted around, determined to grab onto anything my arms could reach--- rocks, vines, part of the cliff. I managed to grab onto the cliff itself, and I looked up, determined to find out who pushed me, but once I did, it made my blood turn ice cold.

"...You?!" I shouted, my face displaying shock, too soon for it to show anger to being betrayed. He just smiled, walking up closer to the edge of the cliff, and me, leaning down to whisper something.

"Yeah, it's me. Your way too easy to fool."

But...that didn't sound like his usual self, no J---

Before I could finish my thought, pain erupted in my only hand that was holding onto the edge. He was crushing my fingers with his foot, putting an abnormal amount of strength behind it, causing so much pain.

Everything then fell into slow motion: My fingers gradually slipped, into there was nothing left in my hand but air. My body felt extremely heavy, falling down, down, as stared up, shocked, stunned, at the one I had once trusted. With horror, I recalled my dream.

Don't trust the one who's face seems most familiar. Not anymore than you would of a Earthbound God.

Too late, I thought, falling ever more, with time speeding up. I should have known better...

Duh Duh DUH.

Now is that a cliff hanger or what?! XD

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Now that I've come out of writers block, and have some drama to work with, updates might be easier to manage.

-Tenka