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Jaden was trembling and weak as she brushed a hand through her hair, staring at the card in her hand for a moment, only just taking it in. Her lifepoints were down to 700, that rarely happened to her in a Shadow duel.

Jaden made a quick decision as she closed her eyes before opening them a moment later, they glinted with steely determination. "I play the spell card Pot of Greed and draw two cards." she informed him, drawing the cards and grinning. "And if that's not enough I play Defusion as well, meaning that Burstinatrix and Clayman get to revert to normal." she stated, "And Attachment Dragon goes to your graveyard. And now I'll play Fusion Sage, which lets me add a polymerisation from my deck to my hand. Which means I can fuse My Clayman on the field and the Sparkman in my hand to create, the Elemental Hero Thunder Giant!" she yelled.

"And our attacks are equal! Meaning that I can destroy your Red eyes! It may destroy both our monsters but I can still attack with Burstinatrix." she declared as Brustinatrix attacked.

Jaden grinned at that, "And next I play Mirrage of Nightmares which means that during your standbye phases I can draw four cards, although during mine I have to discard the same number to the graveyard." she stated brightly, "And then I throw down a face down." she stated.

Nightshroud glared, "Whatever, my draw." he stated as he drew a card, and Jaden did as well, her eyes glued to him, "And mine as well." she reminded him when his eyes narrowed.

Nightshroud rolled his eyes at her, "Yeah yeah, just remember to discard the same number." he retorted, causing Jaden to smirk. "How about no." she stated lightly. "I play Emergency Provisions, by destroying one spell card on the field I gain a 1000 lifepoints, and by destroying my Mirrage of Nightmares I avoid it's discard rule." she informed Nightshroud.

The masked man scowled at that, "So you've avoided one Mirrages special effect, but you won't avoid this one princess," he sneered "I summon my Mirrage Dragon! Which means that you can't use traps during battle phases, now attack his Bursinatrix!" he ordered, the dragon attacking and making Jaden flinch, "I won't let you win." she groaned weakly as she forced herself to stand Nightshroud laughed at her pain. "Let me?" he asked incredulously, "My Dragon will defeat you!"

Jaden grimmaced to herself. Jaden drew a card and nodded to herself, "I summon Elemental Hero Bubble man!" she declared, "And I activate his ability, if he's out on the field alone I can draw two more cards, and I'll use the card silent Doom now, and I'll summon Sparkman back from my graveyard in defence mode, then I'll play the field spell card Fusion Gate to fuse my Sparkman and Bubbleman, who are on my field, with Avian, who's in my deck to create the Elemental Hero Tempest! Now Tempest! Attack Mirrage Dragon!" she ordered, grinning when Nightshrouds monster was destroyed and Nightshroud stumbled.

Jaden grinned, "And I'll lay a face down before ending my turn!" she declared. Nightshroud glared at her as the Lava started to writhe around him, "You didn't think that you could defeat my dragons so easily did you?" he asked cruelly. Jaden shrugged, "You never know, I could get lucky." she stated lightly, covering up her nerves.

"Well you didn't!" sneered Nightshroud, "I summon my Red eyes Black Dragon Chick! And then I sacrifice chick! Because his special effect allows me to summon his daddy from my hand!" he declared. Jaden groaned at that, "Oh, but I'm not through yet princess, because as much as my Red eyes is big now! Just watch him grow as I sacrifice him to summon my Red Eyes Darkness Dragon!" he declared, causing Jaden to stare in horror at the dragon, "And for every dragon you've killed my new dragon gains 300 attack points." he sneered

Jadens face paled as she realised how many attack points the monster would have, 4500. "Now my Darkness Dragon will attack and end this duel!" he declared. Jaden gasped out,"Not quite! I have a trap!" she yelled, "Go Negate Attack!" she yelled, causing Nightshroud to gasp in shock. "That's right! I've stopped your attack, and Negate Attack ends your battle phase so you can't attack me any more this turn."

Nightshroud scowled at that, "Oh well, I'll get you next time princess." he muttered.

Jaden sighed to herself as she drew a card and smiled to herself, "First off I'll summon a Wroughtweiler in defense mode, and I'll put Tempest into defense as well." she stated decisively.

Nightshroud laughed, "Is that all you can do?" he asked harshly. Jaden rolled her eyes, "Just make your move so that I can beat you!" she snarled.

Nightshroud smirked, "Ok then princess, I summin Spear Dragon in attack mode, now Spear Dragon! Attack that Wroughtweiler!" he ordered. Jaden glared as her monster was killed and she clenched her fist, "Bad move!" she told Nightshroud, "Every time he's sent to the graveyard his special ability activates, one that lets me fetch an Elemental Hero and Polymerisation from my grave and put them into my hand." she declared. And then her lifepoints went down again and Jaden finally did the one thing she'd promised her family she'd never do.

Jaden sepparated her mind from her body, meaning that she became completely numb to the pain, it was highly dangerous because it meant that she wouldn't be able to tell if she was pushing herself to hard for her body to take.

Nightshroud laughed, "Don't get ahead of yourself! When Spear Dragon attacks a monster in defense mode the difference in the monsters defence and it's attack, if it's greater, get dealt to you instead." he informed the girl. "Of course afterwards my Spear dragon has to shift to defense mode." he explained to the young girl.

"And now for the matter of your Tempest and his abilty to save himself by sacrificing one card on your field to the graveyard I'll get rid of the card on your field by playing Mystical Space Typhoon!" Jadens eyes widened in horror at that and Nightshroud smirked, "Now princess, just try saving your Tempest now!" he sneered, "Darkness Dragon attack!" he ordered his monster.

Jaden glared at him, her eyes narrowed as Nightshroud smirked "It's your move, if you have any strength left to make it." Jaden smirked at him, "I have pleanty of strength, I told you! I'm used to the Shadows, I know how to avoid the side effects." she stated confidently. Nightshrouds eyes widened in shock.

"And now it's my turn! I summon Elemental Hero Wildheart in attack mode, and next I'll activate the spell card Wild Half from my hand! And Wild Hald splits your Darkness dragon in half, litterally." she explained, as an identical monster appeared on Nightshrouds side of the field.

Nightshrouds eyes narrowed at that, "But your monster still isn't strong enough princess!" he yelled. Jaden grinned, "I'm getting for that, now I use Polymerisation to fuse Wildheart and Bladedge to created the Elemental Hero Wildedge! And his special effect means that he can attack all of your monsters at the same time," she stated proudly, causing Nighshroud to laugh.

"Your monsters still weaker than my Darkness Dragon." he stated smugly, causing Jaden to laugh, "I know, but I have a plan to correct that issue! I'm playing the field spell card Skyscraper! Whenever I attack a monster with higher attack than my Hero it'll gain 1000 attack points, now Wildedge, attack his monsters!" she ordered, causing his lifepoints to drop to zero and they were transported to just outside of the volcano, Jadens.

Nightshroud fell onto his hands and knees, trembling as the Shadows were sucked back to where they belonged, and then his eyes fell on Jaden who was trembling, as the bubble around her friends burst, sending them tumbling to the floor. Nightshroud rushed forward just in time to catch the young girl and sink to the ground with her, "Princess.. he gasped out, thank you." and then he collapsed as well, but not before Jaden took the mask off with a weak smile, "Atticus, Alexis' brother." she whispered, pushing some of her own magic into his body to make sure that he'd recover faster before she slipped into blissfull unconsiousness.

Then the others came rushing over to them, and Zane shoved Atticus' body off the young girl and pulling her into his arms gently, "Oh god... Jaden... wake up please." he gasped out, shaking violently as the others sunk to the ground next to them. Jadens eyes fluttered open for a moment and she weakly whispered, "It wasn't his fault, he was being controlled by the Shadows." and she pointed at Atticus' body, "I saved him." and then she was back out of it. Alexis frowned slightly as Zane picked Jaden up.

"Who is it?" he asked, his gaze falling on Nightshroud, and why did Jaden feel the need to warn us?" he asked as Alexis slowly rolled the boy over, her eyes widened in shock at the sight of her brother and she let out a startled sob, "Atticus!" she screamed, "Oh my god it's Atticus." and then she was hugging him, sobbing violently, "Jaden saved him," she gasped out, "She brought Atticus back." and her voice was filled with joy.

The others didn't notice the fact that Alexis had reffered to Jaden as a she, they were to shocked by the revelation. Zane stared down at the sleeping girls face, "I guess so." he whispered before shaking his head. "We need to get them to the infirmary." he stated decisively.