Happy Halloween! Or in my case a funeral day. One of my schoolmates committed suicide because her dad found out she was dating. And so… thanks to her, we got our Halloween party canceled. We had to do homework instead, why the hell did she choose this day to commit suicide, she could just choose another day. *sigh* Well, anyway, enjoy!
"We've searched the forest, the volcano and the main building and we still haven't found Rei. If she isn't in any of those places, where is she?" Chazz grumbled. In the past hour, they had searched the whole main building, now they were starting to search the Obelisk Blue and Ra Yellow dorms.
"Chazz, shut up! I told you not to say anything unnecessary." Alexis looked up from under the sofa.
"Stop it guys. Arguing isn't going to do anything to help us in the search." Jesse said turning around from the cupboard.
"Sure, like poking in cupboards and looking under sofas is going to help." A voice replied behind them.
Jesse froze and turned slowly back around. Emerald eyes met gold.
"I let you guys have more time to find Rei and you spend your time here? Nice time management." Jaden said sarcastically.
"Jaden. Aren't you supposed to do something? Didn't I tell you not to talk so much? You'll eventually give something away." Haou appeared and narrowed his eyes at Jaden.
"I can at least talk to them, right?"
"Jaden, just do your thing. Damn it." Haou said dangerously.
"Fine..." Jaden mumbled. Sometimes, Haou was really annoying. He turned back to the gang. They had gathered around and watch Haou and Jaden with curious glances.
"Okay, back to business, I'm sure you know I gave you more time. But I think it's time to end this little present." Jaden interrupted them.
"What! But it was only 15 minutes since you last appeared!" Chazz exclaimed. Jaden had appeared in the Obelisk dorm a while ago and jeered at their slow searching.
"I don't care, my game, my rules. That's what you always did back then, Chazz." Jaden said shrugging of that comment.
"You- You-…" Chazz spluttered, his face was beetroot red, his hair sticking up like after being struck by the lightning. As he advanced slowly on Jaden.
Jaden still looked impassive, a screen rose in front of Chazz and he slammed into it. The screen showed Rei with two stones supporting her. One stone disappeared and the rope holding Rei up taut. And Rei cried out in pain.
As Syrus watched Rei, he noticed that a few boxes were lined up along a familiar wall behind Rei.
Then it dawned on him, "That is the storage room in the Slifer Dorm. People say the place in plain sight is also the safest place."
Jaden looked surprised, "It took you long enough to realize that. Well, you'll still have to go and save her in half an hour. And I can't guarantee that no one will challenge you to a duel." And vanished.
"Well? What are you guys waiting for? Let's hurry and find Rei as soon as possible." Jesse yelled while running to the door.
**Outside the Slifer Dorm**
The gang was standing outside the Slifer dorm, it had an eerie feeling. Despite the warm weather, they all had goose bumps.
Jesse shivered slightly, "Let's go inside before our nerves wreck." And they slowly trudged inside.
Once they were all inside the door, the door slammed behind them. And lights were switched on.
All of them blinked their eyes furiously, trying to adjust to the light. When they could finally see...
A huge room that seems to have no boundaries appeared in front of them.
Syrus blinked his eyes in confusion, "This isn't the Slifer Dorm's storage room."
"Yeah, and it doesn't even look like a storage room either!" Chazz retorted.
A huge maze rose into the room before them. And Jaden appeared sitting on the steps next to them. He waved his hand dismissively at the huge maze before them, "Rei is in the center on it. See if you can get to her in half an hour time. There will be monsters trying to stop you." He smiled wickedly, "Oh! I forgot, this will be like the Dark World. You lose, you die. So try not to lose before facing me or Haou.
Chazz swung his fists at Jaden, but it passed right through him and he stumbled right through Jaden. Jaden reappeared sitting on the air lounging gracefully. "Do you know this is just a holographic image and you won't hurt me a bit? Thanks to Duel Monsters, Seto Kaiba invented his system. And thanks to him, I'm sitting in the maze while watching " ?
Chazz scowled, "Why don't you come in person instead of sending those images?"
Jaden smiled, "I'm just going to sit in the maze and wait for you to come by. Then, I can beat you to a pulp. Well, you should get going, you wouldn't want to find Rei died, would you?"
Jesse nodded, "This point I agree with you. We are going to save Rei and you!" And rushed past him, the others following his lead.'
**10 minutes of useless wandering**
"We've been walki- I mean wandering for 10 minutes already, how are we going to find Rei at this point?" Chazz grumbled.
Alexis signed, "Chazz, stop grumbling. I think this is the fourth or sixth time you've grumbled about something this day."
"Yeah, you love grumbling so much. Instead of parrot seed have they been feeding you grumbling seeds? Atticus teased.
The others burst into laughter, even Axel and Zane had a small smile on their faces. Meanwhile, Chazz was looking really really embarrassed.
"Ok, I'm sorry I have to interrupt this happy moment, but we've got a problem." Axel said, still smiling. He pointed ahead to a crossroad, "We don't have much time, we need to split here."
"But we had several crossroads before this, why now?" Syrus asked confused.
"Since Jaden said there would be monsters, I wanted to lower the chance of someone being killed." Axel explained. "But there's not much time left so we'll have to risk it."
"Oh joy." Chazz grumbled.
"Chazz" Alexis warned, her voice rising.
"We'll split into two groups, the first one will consist of me, Jim, Chazz and Jesse. The second one will consist of Hassleberry, Syrus, Zane and Alexis. When you come across a crossroad, split into half and each choose a route." Axel said, pointing at the tunnels. "If you find a dead end, backtrack and try meet up with the others. You understand?"
The others nodded and each group chose a route.
"Well, let's go." Axel announced.
**Syrus' group**
The group's route seems have no end, you could practically see it was growing longer and longer by their eyes. As they walked on, the sound of rumbling seemed to get louder and louder, until they reached a crossroad and Hassleberry stopped and said, "I'm sure I've heard that kind of sound before."
"Well, what do you think it is?" Alexis asked.
"I remember hearing it back in Year 2, but I don't remember exactly where." Hassleberry frowned, his brows puckered in concentration as he tried to remember when he had heard the sounds. "I think it was when-"
He was cut off when Syrus yelled, "Run!" with a look of horror on his face. Hassleberry looked up and saw a huge blue machine with a drill and evil looking red eyes rushing towards them. His eyes widened before spinning around and ran towards the other way with Syrus, Alexis and Zane behind him.
"What is that thing?" Alexis gasped as she ran at full speed, "It doesn't look like a monster!"
Hassleberry shouted back at her, "I remember now! The rumbling sound we heard just now was from that machine. It's like one of those construction machines that drills holes in, I remembered it back when Chazz constructed his own private dorm."
"Now you've mentioned it, I think that one was one of the monsters Yugi Moto faced up against in one of the duels with the Paradox brothers. I forgot what it's called." Alexis said frowning, "But, I think it was pretty tough to beat."
"Great! Now what should we do?" Syrus yelled on top of his lungs, "Please tell me someone has a good idea, I don't want to die here!"
Hassleberry spotted another crossroad ahead of them, "I've got an idea, but we need to do this really carefully, or one of us could end up died."
Syrus nodded his head desperately, "Anything to get rid of that thing."
"Then listen carefully."
Well, I'm finished. So hope you like it, I'm sorry if it was a bit short, I tried to finish it quickly so I could post it up today. Anyway, review!