Episode 14: Glimpse of the Past

Me: Hey, folks, due to the fact I couldn't think of a dif type of filler episode-

Jaden: or because you were too stupid to think of anything...

Me: THATS IT! *begins typing on keyboard*

Jaden: *screams in agony as he vanishes*

Zack: What the! What did you do?

Me: I wrote him out of the show, that's what.

Zack: O_O You sick Bast-

Me: *holds finger over delete button*

Zack: ...nevermind.

Me: Goodboy. Anyway, since I can't I'd thought I'd at least do some fillers of Jaden and Zack's past. Everyone likes to hear that right?

Zack: Not even in your dreams...awww crap wait!

Me: *types*

Zack: *same thing as jaden*

Me: Enjoy the ff. OR YOUR NEXT!

8 Years ago...

"Happy Birthday!" The family all said to the twins. at the time, the two had just turned eight years old. The two smiled as their mom took a picture of them, before blowing out the cake together. Both of them were particularly excited for this birthday. There was one thing they had most wanted on their birthday list, and today, they both had that special feeling that they were going to get it.

About half an hour after the cake, about all the party guess had finally left. The mother was cleaning up the garbage and leftovers, the dad was cleaning dishes, and the so called two party boys were cleaning their faces, due to the inevitable food fight they started shortly after filling up on cake. However, at the same time, both boys were a bit saddened. Even after going through presents, none of the packages had what they wanted. Don't get them wrong. They did get alot of other things they liked and some more, but it considering that their certain "special" gift went unheard of, it kind of disappointed them a bit.

"Oh boys, that reminds me. It's laundry day. Go to your room and get any clothes that are dirty." Their mom said with a smile.

"Ok mommy." They both replied as they ran up first. As soon as he heard them reach the tops of the steps, their father chuckled a bit as he turned to his wife.

"You got them the cards didn't you?" He said. The wife just giggled as she threw away the last of the trash before tying it up.

"Why not? They were asking for it the most on their birthday list." She commented. Their dad looked back up at the ceiling before he looked back at their mom.

"When do you think they're going to find out?" As if on que, a high pitched scream was heard from upstairs.

"Ahhhhhh!" They screamed. But it wasn't a scream in fear, no, this was a scream in delight and excitement. The next thing they heard was trampling above the steps, running down stairs, then jumping to their mom as they hugged her tightly. "Thanks mommy!" They both said excitedly. Their mother simply giggled again as she kneeled down and hugged them back.

"Ohh your welcome, but don't forget to thank your father too." She reminded. Both boys nodded as they ran other to their dad, doing the same thing.

"Thanks daddy." They both said in unison, as the father hugged them back while chuckling.

"Your both welcome. Have fun with them." He said to the both of them, rubbing their hair.

"Will do." Jaden said as he began run upstairs.

"See ya." Zack added as he ran right up after them. Their dad simply chuckled a bit before looking back at his wife.

"Say, why did you tell them to thank me anyway?" He asked curiously.

"Cause you paid for them."

"Woohoo!" Zack said, jumping on the bed as they opened there decks.

"I can't believe they actually got em!" Jaden said, sharing the same amount of excitement. Both of them looked at their cards in amaze, happy to see their wish finally came true. Ever since they heard of Yugi Muto becoming the next king of games, they always wanted to follow in his footsteps. What's more, they were even in more excitement as they heard about how he had just recently entered another tournament, one that Seto Kaiba had set up himself. Zack took out his deck box, which to his excitement, was the Spellcaster's Command Starter Deck (yes im aware it's a 5d's starter deck, but c'mon now, they have fricken synchro's at this point, what'd you expect?, while Jaden recieved a Warrior's Triumph Starter Deck.

"Man this is awesome!" Zack said, looking at the cards before looking at his own brother. "Let's duel right now!" Zack said in excitement and anxiety.

"Good idea!" Jaden said in agreement as he took out his cards. They both also took out a duel mat and set it to their side of the field, eagerly placing their decks in their place as they both looked at each other with determination, drawing five cards.

"Let's duel!" They said in unison.

Jaden: 4000

Zack: 4000

"..."

"..."

For the next full minute, both duelist looked at their hand. There was something that was on the back of their mind that they just realized something, looking back at each other as if thinking the same thought.

"Maybe we should read the rules first?" Zack suggested, not knowing how to even play duel monsters.

"Agreed." Jaden replied, not knowing how to play either. Jaden rummaged through his deck for a few moments until he finally found the rulebook. He opened it curiously as he scrambled through the pages. "Ok here we go, umm lets see...Ah, here we go. Step one is to decide who goes first, so-"

"I'll go!" Zack said excitedly as he already drew his card. Jaden just sighed a bit as he continued reading.

"Anyway, once per turn you can summon a monster card so...try it out." Jaden commented.

"Ok! I'll summon Dark Red Enforcer in defense mode." Zack said as he placed his card on the field, except horizontal.

"Ok, another thing, actually there's two problems with what you just did." Jaden responded, getting confusion from Zack.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"First off, monsters in defense mode are suppose to be placed sideways on the field, not straight. Secondly, your monster's level is too high for you to summon your's." Jaden replied as he looked back at the rulebook for further instructions. "It says to summon a monster 5 or 6, you need to sacrifice one monster you already have. And for a level 7 or 8 monster, you need two sacrifices." Jaden said, looking at the card for a moment, then back at the rulebook, unaware of Zack's somewhat worried expression.

"I don't like the way sacrificing sounds..." Zack muttered. Jaden appeared to be mumbling to himself as he read the instructions a bit aloud to himself before nodding.

"Ok, I think I got it. You need to summon a level four or lower monster from your hand." Jaden said. Zack blinked a bit as he got the messages as he looked back to his hand. To his disappointment, he was level-four-less.

"Awww, I don't have a level four monster." He complained.

"No sweat, it's just practice remember?" Jaden reminded with a warm smile. Zack nodded as he looked at more of his cards.

"What are these purplish cards?" Zack said, inadvertently showing him one of the trap cards he had, which was magical cylinder. Jaden looked at the card more closely before looking back at the rulebook, flipping through page after page. He finally let out a sigh of relief as he suddenly found a page.

"It says here they're trap cards." Jaden answered. "According to this, they're used to counter different moves your opponet uses. So like this one, if I attacked, you can activate this one to counter it somehow, depending on the effect." Jaden said, before looking at the card. He studied it for a few seconds before looking back at the book. "There we go, according to the card, if I attacked, you could send the attack points back at me." Jaden added as he handed the card back to Zack.

"Cool! I'm placing it face down then." Zack said as he put his finger to his lip as he went into thought. "What do I do now?" He asked.

"If you have no more moves to play, you have to end your turn." Jaden said. Zack nodded as he smiled.

"Ok, your turn." He said.

"Sweet, let's see now." Jaden said as he picked a card up, only to look at it in surprise. "Woah...Hey Zack, check out this card I got." Jaden said, motioning his brother to come look with his hand. Zack looked at him a bit curiously as he did as he was told, scooting out of his chair as he went over to his brother's side. He, too, looked surprised as he suddenly saw the card Jaden was starring at.

What had surprised the two most was the look of the card. According to the box, the entire deck was supposed to be compromised of warriors. But this card wasn't labled in the box at all. In fact, it looked nothing like a warrior. It had spiky white hair, the wings of a strange demon, what appeared to be a dragon's tail, and in the middle of it's forehead, there was a third eyeball.

"Wow, what is it?" Zack asked curiously.

"It says it's name is...Yubel." Jaden said as he took a closer look at the card. "Something's not right here." Jaden commented as he looked over at the box. On the back of the box was a list of names of every card Jaden should expect within the deck. But said card wasn't in the deck at all. It wasn't even mentioned in duel monster's history. Zack looked at him curiously as he looked over the box.

"What isn't Jay?"

"This card isn't listed here. I don't even know if it's suppose to be out yet." Jaden replied, looking over the card before he grinned. "Ah well, more for me" He said as he giggled.

"Your lucky! It's probably a manu...uhh...manu-uhh...what's it called again?" Zack asked, not knowing how manufacture was pronounced.

"You mean making?" Jaden asked.

"Yeah, that word! It's probably a making accident." Zack replied, although not even having the right word he was looking for. "Anyway, let's get back to dueling." Zack said, eager to learn more on how to play.

"Agreed." Jaden said as he looked at his card, then eyed one in particular. "Hmmm wonder what a plus sign means?" Jaden questioned before looking at the guide.

"Ohh I know!" Zack said, raising his hand, determined he knew the answer. "It's a plus sign right? Maybe you get to add something to it." He said in a semi know and unknown tone.

"Ehhh close. It says it's an equip card, you can use it on either player's monster. Unlike normal spells, it says you can have them working on the monster the entire time unless the equiped monster or the equipment is destroyed. So in this case..." Jaden paused as he read the cards effect. "Fusion Sword Murasame Blade, I equip it to a warrior type monster, and it gains 800 attack points!" Jaden said surprised.

"Awww 800? That's not fair." Zack whined. Jaden simply chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Hey, least you still got your trap card right?" Jaden reminded. Zack blinked as the realization hit him before looking back down at his side of the field.

"Oh yeah."

"And I think I'll summon Armed Samurai - Ben Kei in attack mode (500/800)." Jaden said, laying the card face up and straight on the field. "And I equip the equip card to it. So now it's 1300."

"Ha! Hold up!" Zack suddenly interrupted, flipping his card upside down. "I activated a trap, so now you lose life points equal to attack, right?" Zack said, asking just to make sure he remembered correctly on how to use them.

"Well, you did remember to wait till after I did something. Only problem is you can't use it yet." Jaden replied. Zack just blinked a bit conufsed to him.

"What? Why not?" He asked.

"It says in it's effect. You have to wait till I attack, so you can't activate it yet." Jaden explained as he showed Zack the card he was talking about.

"oh, well then I'll set it back face down. Do you attack yet?" Zack asked Curiously.

"Sorry, but your probably gonna get mad at me for this. I activate the magic card Giant Trunade." Jaden said, holding up the card.

"What does it do?" Zack asked.

"All spell and trap cards on the field go back to their owner's hand. So you have to bring your's back, and I have to bring mine back." Jaden replied. Zack moaned again as he took his card off the field. "Normally I would too, but since I can just requip it to my monster anyway, I think I'll just keep it on the field. And his special effect kicks in." Jaden commented, causing even more questions for Zack.

"What special effect?"

"If it is equipped with any equipped cards, it can attack equal to the total number of equip cards I have attached to it." Jaden responded. "So I'll attack you twice, so you lose...ummmm..." Jaden paused for a moment as he went into thought. "How Much do you lose?" he asked. Zack simply shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know, I'm no good at multi-stuff." Zack answered. Jaden simply leaned his head on his hand as he tried thinking for a minute.

"Huh, didn't think this game would involve so much math. Hang on, I'll be right back." Jaden said as he jumped from his chair, running out of the room. At the time, Zack simply sighed a bit as he looked around the room. One thing he did hate was whenever he and Jaden were playing something, once in awhile Jaden would have to leave, whether it involved the game itself, or if he just needed to get something. However, his attention shifted as he turned to look at Yubel, who was laying face up on the floor.

"He must've dropped it when he ran out." Zack suggested to himself as he hopped from his chair to pick it up. He looked at it curiously with a nice calm smile. "I don't care how she looks, I like her." Zack said to himself for a minute. Awww how sweet. A voice suddenly said within the air. Zack suddenly screamed as he ran out of the room, dropping the card as well. "Ahhh!" He screamed as he ran.

"Ok, thank's for the calculator mommy, I'll bring it-" Before Jaden could finish his sentence, he looked ahead as he saw Zack running towards him.

"Jaden!" He said, with a hint of panic in his voice.

"What's wrong?" Jaden asked as he eased his shoulder's trying to get him to calm down.

"There's ghosts in the bedroom!" Zack replied. Jaden just raised an eyebrow at the remark. Last time he was ever this worried was when he was six and a sspider dangled down on his head when he was taking a bath.

"A ghost?" Jaden repeated, before groaning as he rubbed his eye. "Zack, you didn't watch that poltergiest movie again did you? Mom and dad say not to watch it for a reason." Jaden asked, knowing his brother would have watched something like that.

"Yes, I watched it, but I know it was the real thing!" Zack said assuringly as he grabbed Jaden's hand. "C'mon, I'll show you." Zack said as he ran back to their room."

"Woah, hang on, let me go!" Jaden yelped as he was helplessly being dragged down the hall by his brother.

"No time! Ghost!" Zack stammered again, not even letting go as he walked up the stairs, causing Jaden to bump his face onto each and every step. Why did we have to have a twenty step staircase. He said to himself, not being the first time he was dragged through the stairs, altohugh the first time was down the stairs compared to being up. After a few seconds, Zack finally opened the door as he helped Jaden up to his feet, then hid a bit behind him as he looked over his shoulder.

"It came from near the table." Zack said as he pointed with his finger. Jaden sighed to himself as he knew talking to Zack with reason was not going to help. He walked over to the table, looking everywhere around the room to see if there was a possibility of a ghost. It's not that he would believe such a thing, but on the off chance that Zack was right about it, he didn't even want to miss a glimpse of what this ghost looked like. He finally came to sa stop as he was right at the table.

"Ok, I'm here, so where is it?" He asked as he loked abck at Zack. Zack simply looked aroudn the room for a few seconds before back at Jaden.

"I don't know, I was just talking to myself while looking at Yubel, and-"

"Wait, what about Yubel?" Jaden interrupted. Zack walked over to the table as he showed Jaden the Yubel card.

"I was talking to myself about how this card looked, and suddenly a ghost talked to me." He stated.

"You sure it wasn't the card itself?" Jaden joked, unaware of how right he was.

"I'm serious...or maybe it was Yubel." Zack said, switchign his options as he realized Jaden did have a point. The voice did sound feminime and Yubel was the closest girly thing they had in the household, aside from their mother.

"Oh, sure, you know they do say if you pay really close attention to a monster card, they talk!" Jaden teased. Zack just blinked to him in surprise.

"Really?" He asked as Jaden nodded in response.

"Uh huh, let's see if I can hear her too." Jaden said, putting the card to his ear. To Zack's surprise, Jaden began making humming sounds as if in agreement every few seconds.

"Uh huh...uh huh...ohhh I see..." Jaden said, pretending the card was talking to him.

"Well? What'd she say?" Zack asked, as Jaden grew a mischevious grin.

"She says I need to obey here." He replied in a creepy tone as he started to limp over to Zack in a way that scarred him. Zack began to shiver a bit in fear as he began to back away step by step.

"So uhh..."Zack gulped as he continued, "w-what does she want?"

"YOU!" Jaden screamed as he suddenly began to chase after him.

"Ahhhh!" Zack screamed as he suddenly ran out the door in fear. "Mommyyyyy!" He cried out running downstairs. TAs soon as Jaden heard him run downstairs, he burst out laughing as he fell over to his back.

"Oh man, I can't beleive he fell for that!" He yelled as he laughed with his eyes closed. He laughed for a full two minutes before he began to run out of breath. He was laughing so much there was almost tears in his eyes. He wiped away any of the watery stuff that would form the tears in his eyes as he sniffled, opening his eyes too. But as he did, his pupils narrowed as his eyes widened in fear. Yubel, looking like the closest thing he's ever come into contact with as a ghost, suddenly appeared above him, crouching as her feet were on the ground as she looked directly at him. The entire room was silent for a few moments before she closed her eyes happily.

"Hi there." Was all the time she had to say anything. As soon as she did, Jaden jumped into the air freaking out, suddenly running out of the room as well.

"Ahhh ghosts!" He yelled in fear. Yubel simply chuckled to herself as he watched him run, before deciding to put her spirit back into the card.

"Maybe it's best if I wait till their older." Yubel said to herself, knowing it was going to be a long time before either of them were old enough to know about their ancient past...

Me: Well I think thats a good enough spot to stop there, what do you guys think? *looks over to jaden and Zack but then remembers they're gone* Oh yeah I deleted them...oh well, I'll put them back tomorrow. Sorry if It seemed short, but I thought it'd be nice to get some background history put together here. Anyway, please rate and review. Next Chapter will be Zack vs Chazz, and yes, the ep takes place during the same time the whole monkey thing happens, and after the ep where chazz duels bastion and all. Either way, enjoy!