Part two, enjoy!
Disclaimer: If YuGiOh GX was mine, I wouldn't be writing this little thing we love to call fanfiction, now would I? Therefore, I do not own YuGiOh GX.
Claimer: Anything and anyone who ISN'T in the anime YuGiOh GX or just plain YuGiOh is mine. Get it? Got it? Good.
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Jaden's POV
I couldn't believe it. Then again, I doubted anyone could believe what we were seeing. Yugi Mutou, the King of Games, was standing in the infirmary door as if he did it every day. Mark jumped to his feet and stared at Yugi in shock.
"Yugi! What are you doing here?" Mark asked. Yugi looked at him and smiled.
"Well, I originally came here to give a speech to the academy but Chancellor Sheppard called me and asked me to come and give you guys my opinion on Mel," Yugi explained, his deep voice resonating off of the walls. Chazz jumped to his own feet and pointed at Yugi.
"Wait just one minute. You're Mel's old teacher?" Chazz asked, flabbergasted. Yugi looked at Chazz and smiled; he nodded.
"Sensei actually, but yes. I did teach Mel the art of Duel Monsters when she was younger," Yugi explained. We all stared at Yugi in shock. Suddenly, something clicked in the back of my mind. I slammed my fist onto my hand.
"Now I remember where I heard Mel's name from!" I exclaimed. Everyone turned to look at me confused.
"Where would that be mate?" Jim asked. I looked at him.
"I read it in a book!" I said. If people were shocked by my outburst, they nearly had a heart attack when I said I read a book. Chazz looked at me, his eyes not believing.
"You read a book?" Chazz asked. I looked at him.
"Yes, Chazz. I read books," I said. Chazz shook his head side-to-side slowly, his eyes closed.
"I want to see this book you speak of," Chazz ordered. I bent down and scooped up my bag. I reached inside and pulled out the biography on Yugi that my mom gave me for Christmas a few years back. It was hard cover but the binding was falling apart because of constant use. Chazz snatched it out of my out stretched hand. He opened it and flipped through the pages.
"Well I'll be damned, it's an actual book! There's pictures…or pop ups!" Chazz said. I narrowed my eyes at him as everyone else started laughing. I grabbed my book back and flipped open to a page; the corner of the page was almost torn off because of my constant dog-earing of it. I ran my index finger down the page, trying to find the one entry that I read a million times. When I found it, I read it out loud.
"During his brief years away from the dueling world, Yugi took on a student to teach them the art of Duel Monsters. How the child was chosen has never been released to the public but Yugi did offer us this clue during his interview:
'My friends and I were just riding around town, just watching some street duels. That's how I found my student. She lost her duel but she didn't care, still wearing a smile on her face. Everyone around her obviously liked her and her attitude and that's why I chose her. She also carried a glow around her that reminded me of my early dueling days.'
The girl Yugi took on was Melanie Paige Little. She now attends HereRosé Academy…"
Everyone listened patiently as I read the entry and when I closed the book, Adrian spoke up.
"You remembered her name from that one line?" Adrian asked. I sighed and placed the book back into my bag.
"Mel is in the book a bit more but that's the place where she is first introduced. The book is Yugi's biography, not Mel's," I explained. Adrian nodded. I looked back at Yugi. He was looking at me with a raised eyebrow. I knitted my eyebrows together.
Suddenly, Winged Kuriboh appeared and flew over to Yugi. He began nuzzling his cheek and chirping happily. Jesse and Chazz looked at me in confusion. I laughed nervously. Alexis looked at me confused but I just smiled at her. Yugi laughed and pet Winged Kuriboh.
"It's nice to see you too, Winged Kuriboh," Yugi said. Now everyone in the room looked confused and they all looked back at me. I just smiled and kept my mouth shut. Winged Kuriboh flew back to me and perched himself on my shoulder next to Alexis.
"Well, now that all of that is out of the way, could you please tell Chancellor Sheppard to agree with Mark and I to send Melanie to Domino City Hospital," Miss Fontaine said. Yugi looked at her and then back at Mel. He walked over to her bed, taking only three strides. He looked down at her and then at Marron.
"Did it do this to her, Marron?" Yugi asked his voice like steel. Marron's eyes narrowed, seeming to darken, and he growled.
Yes. I'm positive, Marron insisted. Yugi nodded his head slowly. His arms folded across his chest and Yugi stared down at Mel's face. Jesse looked up at Yugi.
"What are you two talking about?" Jesse asked. Yugi shook his head.
"We're not the ones to tell you the tale," Yugi said simply. Jesse's eyes narrowed slightly but he didn't say anything. Yugi continues to stare down at Mel. Marron trots across Mel's chest to place himself in Yugi's line of site. He stares up at Yugi with a hard, yet pleading, expression. Yugi pulls his arms away from his chest and places his hands on either side of Mel's face. His fingertips slowly run down her cheeks and down her neck. His expression shifts slowly, from expressionless, to horror, to anger, and then quickly back to nothing. Yugi pulls his hands back and shoves his hands into the pockets of his pants.
Mark get's visibly annoyed with Yugi and takes a step toward him, pausing when Yugi raised his head and looked at him over his shoulder.
"We don't have time for you to take your sweet time, Yugi. Tell us now what she should do," Mark said. He looked annoyed but sounded desperate. Yugi sighed and turned his entire body around so he was looking at all of the adults in the room. Suddenly, I felt like a kid. It made me uncomfortable and I slouched against the couch. Alexis looked at me curiously but I never shifted my gaze from the adults.
"If you guys take Mel away from the island and to Domino City…she'll die a mile away from the island-" Yugi paused for a moment "-give or take," Yugi finished after a moment. Every stared at him in shock but Marron smiled triumphantly.
That's about what I felt Yugi, Marron said. Yugi nodded his head. Alexis leaned forward; the legs of the couch we were on squeaked. Yugi turned to look at us while the other adults simply looked at each other.
"Does that mean that if Mel stays on the island then she'll live?" Alexis asked, a little hope underlying her voice. Yugi's eyes clouded over and he shook his head.
"For a week at best, give or take again, but after that Mel's body will begin to slowly shut down. After that there is no way to reverse what has been done and she'll die about three days after her body has begun to shut down," Yugi explained; his tone was bleak, lacking emotion. Alexis slumped a little and leaned back against the couch. My arm, which was still lying across the top of the couch, slid down and pulled Alexis against my side. My hand ran up and down her arm soothingly. Marron nodded again, his ears flat against his head and his tail between his legs.
Once again, Yugi, you are with me on your estimates, Marron muttered hopelessly.
"I don't believe any of it!" Miss Fontaine suddenly yelled. Yugi turned to look at her. Marron also stood up on Mel's chest. His ears perked up and his teeth bared slightly. Mark was slumped in a chair, his head in his hands; his fingers were weaved with his hair on top of his head.
"What don't you believe?" Yugi asked. His jaw was tight. Miss Fontaine looked at him.
"I don't believe any of it! I'm positive Melanie can survive the transport. You guys are being ludicrous," Miss Fontaine said. Everyone was staring at her. I couldn't believe what she was saying. This was completely out of character for her. Then again, the life of a student was in the balance. So I suppose she would be stubborn when I came to that. Yugi obviously didn't like that though, because, his jaw tightened more.
And he snapped.
"Believe it or not be my guest but if you take Mel off this island, she will DIE!" Yugi snarled. Everyone started at him in shock. Miss Fontaine took a step back. Yugi sighed and relaxed his aggressive position. He reached up and pinched the bridge of his nose between his index finger and thumb of his right hand. His left hand folded across his chest and his hand rested underneath his right elbow.
"Joey's going to have a field day with this. I'm turning into Kaiba," Yugi muttered. Despite the tense atmosphere, I couldn't stop the laugh that escaped my throat. Soon Alexis was laughing, and then everyone in the room was laughing, even Yugi.
Yugi Mutou, turning into Seto Kaiba? That'd be the day!
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