Kind of a short chapter.
Disclaimer: Yet again I have to say, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX.
Ukumo: Sex, sex, sex, sex, SEX!
Hayato (sweat drop): What's wrong with her?
Nami: She gets like this sometimes.
Ukumo: BUTT SEX!
Chapter Twenty-One: Dark World
Jaden awakens to find himself in a world completely different from what he was expecting. Medieval European paved roads and buildings constructed of stone surrounds him.
The city itself seemed ruined, as if someone had laid waste to it.
Alexis, Atticus, Nico, Chazz, Bastion, Ed, Jade, and Syrus all awaken to a similar sight.
"Where are we?" Alexis asked.
"I definitely wasn't expecting to see this." Chazz says.
"Could this place have been transported here too?" Bastion says aloud.
Ed dusts his trench coat off, "Where is everyone? It's like a ghost town in here." Ed says.
"It looks like someone attacked it." Jade says.
Suddenly a boy runs out of a nearby building, startling Jaden and the gang. Jaden runs after the boy, his friends right behind him.
"Wait up Jaden!" Syrus says, lagging slightly behind.
"I've got to ask that boy something." Jaden shouts back.
The boy finally stops and backs up against a wall, looking terrified. A red monster comes into view, staring the boy down. "Hmph, your not a warrior, your just a kid. I have no business with you, so I think I'll get rid of you." The monster identified as Scarr, Scout of Dark World says.
The red monster pulls out a sword and tosses it at the boy. The boy puts up his right arm with a duel disk on it that deflects the sword from him, which activates his duel disk.
"So you want to duel?" The monster asks as a duel disk materializes on it's arm. The boy cries as he falls to his knees, "I don't want to die!"
Hearing the boy's plea Jaden rushes towards him but Ed rushes passed Jaden and stands in front of the boy. "I don't know who you think you are but I can't stand bullies!" Ed declares, his left hand clenched into a fist.
"I'll be your opponent!"
"Another kid?" Scarr says sounding surprised.
Alexis and the others catch up to the scene that is currently unfolding. "What's going on?" Alexis asks.
Jade takes a step forward, "Ed?"
"Stand back Jade, you know how I feel about bullies, I'll end this on my first turn, I promise!"
Jade looked hesitant for a moment, all of this seemed so unreal and very dangerous, but she understood Ed's feelings perfectly. She nodded briefly, "I'll keep you to that promise."
Ed smiled briefly, activating his black and red duel disk, "Come on! Bring it!"
Scarr laughs, "Do you really want to die that much?"
Ed looks at him confused, "Die?"
"You didn't know?" Scarr questions as he activates his duel disk. "Duels here are attached to your life, once your life points reach zero, your life ends."
"What!" Ed exclaims in surprise as he looks at his life point counter, displaying the number 4000. 'If I lose...my life ends?'
Jade was suddenly worried again, along with everyone else. "Let me duel him!" Jaden suddenly says.
Scarr chuckled, "It's too late now, once a duel starts, you can't stop!" Scarr draws six card from his deck, starting the duel.
Scarr: 4000/Ed: 4000
"I summon Archfiend Soldier(1900/1500) in attack mode, next I play the spell card Quick Attack, which allows my monster to attack this turn!"
Ed blocked the monster's attack with his duel disk, though he still took damage.
Scarr: 4000/Ed: 2100
Ed quickly drew his sixth card, wanting this duel to end as quickly as possible. "I activate Polymerization to fuse Lord of Dragons(1200/1000) and Divine Dragon Ragnarok(1500/1200) from my hand to special summon King Dragun(2400/1100) in attack mode!"
"So he runs a dragon deck?" Chazz asks.
Jade shakes her head, "Not just any dragon deck."
Chazz looked at her confused, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Now I activate his special effect, once per turn I can special summon a dragon type monster from my hand, and I choose the legendary Red Eyes Black Dragon(2400/2000) in attack mode!"
"He's got a Red Eyes too?" Atticus exclaims in shock.
"I'm going to win on my very first turn, just like I promised." Ed says , his voice full of conviction.
Scarr looks at him as if he was stupid, "I'll still have life points after this turn."
"No you won't, I play the spell card Inferno Fire Blast! Red Eyes now deals 2400 points of direct damage!"
"Inferno Fire Blast!"
Scarr is burned by the burning hot flames of the attack as his life points take a major hit.
Scarr: 1600/Ed: 2100
"I told you, I'll still have life points, destroying my soldier still won't be enough."
"Looks like this guy miscaculated, what an idiot." Chazz says.
"Hey, I heard that!" Ed shouts back, "I'm not done yet. I tribute my Red Eyes to special summon Red Eyes Darkness Dragon(2400/2000), since I have two dragons in my graveyard it's attack increases to 3000!"
Scarr takes a few feet back, "It's...it's impossible!"
"Dragun! Smash through his Archfiend! Red Eyes, finish this!"
Scarr screams in agony as the red hot flames burn his body until his life points deplete to zero.
Scarr: 0/Ed: 2100
Scarr turns into particles of light which fly off into the sky. "So he wasn't lying." Ed says as he watches the remains of his rather weak opponent disappear.
Ed turns to the boy, "What's your name?"
"Kyle!" A gruff voice calls out. A man with long blonde hair and blue eyes wearing European style armor stands over Kyle. "I thought I told you not to go out on your own."
The boy looks down, "I'm sorry Captain Freed."
"Captain Freed?" Ed mirrors as he looks back to Jaden and the others, giving him equally confused expressions.
Original World (Ayato's Dorm)
Hayato sat his red and black backpack on Ayato's unused bed. He unzipped it and took several sheets of paper with strange equations on them.
"What are you doing?" Kazama asked from the doorway of the room.
Hayato studied the various equations scribbled on one of the sheets of paper, holding the top two edges of the paper with his index fingers and thumbs.
Kazama and Akari wondered why he was holding the paper in such a peculiar way. "You hold things like an idiot." Kira replied from across the room, beating Kazama to the punch.
Hayato shrugged, "Yet I'm the smartest one here."
Anna sighed, "Can't we all just along?"
"Anyway, if my caculations are correct, Ayato can be in any of the possible twelve dimensions."
Akari arched a brow at him, "And how do you know that there are twelve?"
"I could be wrong, but that doesn't happen too often...just trust me on this one." Hayato replied.
"I'll trust you when you tell me what your hiding." Kazama says.
Hayato blinks several times, "Hmmm...I think I'll go to bed now."
Everyone in the room sweat drop.
"Good night." Hayato says as he grabs the blankets from Ayato's bed, ready to lay on the mattress. He looks at it for several seconds before asking, "You and Ayato didn't...you know...on this mattress, did you?"
Akari's face instantly turned red, "Well...no."
Hayato nods, "Thanks." He hops into the bed and makes himself comfortable, pulling the blankets over his body.
"I'm kinda tired, I think we should all get some sleep, you can ask me questions when I wake up."
Kazama was about to protest until Kira cut him off. "Let's just do what he says, he gets like this when he's sleepy, trust me, I know."
Kazama thinks about what she says and nods, the guy was seriously acting weird at the moment, and Kazama had enough weird stuff going on already.
Dark World (Underground Cavern)
"So that monster was apart of Zure's army?" Jaden asks.
Freed nods, "Now that it has been defeated Zure is sure to notice. What you did only put us in more danger."
"Well I wasn't about to let the kid die!" Ed shouts at him, "Aren't you supposed to be a warrior! What kind of warrior talks like that!" Bastion and Chazz both struggle to stop the teen from venting his rage on the knight.
"I am only thinking of the good of the people." Freed says.
Jina, Kyle's sister, nods her head in agreement, "That's right! Anybody who tries to leave here ends up getting killed by the Dark World monsters."
Jaden walks up to Freed. "Were looking for someone named Jesse Andersen, he's about my age and wears blue and white clothes."
Freed shakes his head, "I haven't seen anyone like that."
Jaden turns towards the various residents of the secret hideout, "Has anyone seen someone named Jesse?" But everyone shakes their heads. "I see, then we'll have to go back out to look for him."
"We need to calm down and think for a bit Jaden, our lives are in danger." Alexis says.
"I know that." He replies firmly.
"Even knowing that, your still willing to go into a duel where your life is on the line?" Chazz asks.
Jaden nods, "If it'll get me one step closer to saving Jesse, then yes."
Jade looked at Jaden worriedly, 'Please don't do anything reckless.'
Suddenly a woman runs in, "We've found a warrior!" Several people carry the man to a nearby bed. Kyle and Jina look up, "Father!" They say in unison.
Jaden and the others crowd around the man. The man turns toward Freed, "I'm sorry...I was able to escape but...well not in the best of shape."
"Just hang on." Freed tells him.
"Our people...there still alive...at the detention camp in the suburbs...a little ways from...the village." The man says weakly.
"Is someone named Jesse there? He wears blue and white clothes." Jaden asks eagerly.
"There is someone there around your age that I didn't recognize."
Jaden's eyes light up with excitement, "It must be him!"
The man known as Laz groans as he turns towards his son and daughter. "Kyle, I want you to become...an excellent warrior, like Freed. And protect...the village." With his last words the man's body becomes particles of light and disperses.
Kyle and Jina begin to cry as Jaden turns toward Freed, "If we work together I know we can save Jesse and your people Freed!" He exclaims.
Freed closes his eyes, "I must stay here."
The remaining villagers look at Freed with surprised expressions on their faces. Ed nods, understanding, "You have to stay here and protect your people, right?"
Freed smiles, "You must be a true warrior." Ed smirks in response, looking smug, "That's right." Jade rolls her eyes at his actions.
"I understand too, but I'm definitely going." Jaden replies as he walks out of the room. Bastion and Alexis follow Jaden. "What do you intend to do?" Bastion asks.
Jaden stops in his tracks, "I'm going to save Jesse."
"But if you go now, there's a chance that you'll reveal this secret residence to Zure's army. Besides, we don't even know if Jesse is really at the detention camp." Bastion informs the Hero duelist.
"Don't rush so much, we need to gather more information." Alexis adds.
Jaden closes his eyes as he slams the side of his fist into the nearby wall. "I got it!"
Ukumo and Nami gaze upon the building known as Duel Academy, "I can feel an energy that's very similar to Ayato somewhere around here." Nami says as she runs a hand through her blue hair.
Ukumo nods, "It's really close, as a matter of fact I think it's-"
"Right behind you." Hayato finishes for the girl as she and Nami turn around to face him.
Hayato yawns and stretches. He looks at the two girls sleepily, "Don't you know what time it is? Some people are trying to get some much needed sleep."
"Who are you?" Nami asks. "Yeah, your energy signature is very similar to Ayato's, and I know for a fact that he doesn't have a brother."
Suddenly Kira, Kazama, Anna, Hikari, and Akari come through the clearing. "Why did you call us here?" Kira asks as she glares at Hayato.
Hayato turns to them, "We've got company."
Kira looks at the two girls, "Who the hell are they?"
Akari glares at them, "Members of the XIII Order."
Kazama frowns, "I've met one of them before."
"I think we should get out of here." Ukumo says quickly, "We know where that energy was coming from now." Nami nods in agreement, "Your right, I think we should go."
Hayato frowns as the two girls suddenly look panicked.
"What the-! Why can't I teleport!" The busty blonde asks no one in particular.
"Someone's stopping us?"
Kira walked up to Hayato throwing him a sleek silver duel disk as she put one on her right arm. Hayato catches the duel disk, "Why don't you stay a little longer?"
Ayato awoke to find that his entire head was soaked. He looked up to see the same burly man that led him to the V.I.P section holding a bucket.
"Savannah wants to speak to you." The man said roughly.
Ayato looked around, he had absolutely no idea where he was at. Everywhere he looked there were stone walls. Chains hanged from the ceiling, the shackles that they were connected to were currently around Ayato's wrists.
He was dangling in the air, his toes barely touching the floor, he noticed that he was only wearing his black jeans and nothing else. He shook his head, trying to clear it.
"Where am I?" He asked, feeling slightly weak for some reason.
"Your currently underground. My estate is above us." A sensual voice that Ayato recognized answered. Savannah came into view, smiling at him.
"What do you want?" Ayato asked.
Savannah cupped Ayato's face with her hand, "Someone to stand by my side." She said before letting his face go. She let one long slender finger travel down from his chest to his abdomen. Ayato held in his breath. "A lover." She said.
"That's not going to happen." Ayato said.
Savannah's smile dropped into a frown, but it happened so quickly Ayato wasn't entirely sure he had seen it. She turned back to one of her servants, "Knife."
The man reached into his pocket and pulled out a small knife, giving it to the woman. "I want to show you something." She said. Ayato's eyes were fixed on the knife in the woman's hand.
She slowly pushed the tip against Ayato's skin, causing him to gasp. The tip broke skin as Ayato started to bleed, the woman instantly pulled the knife away. As soon as she did Ayato stopped bleeding.
The woman raised a brow, "Even for a vampire you heal incredibly fast, especially considering you haven't had any blood yet."
Ayato looked at her as if she was crazy, "Vampire? What are you talking about?"
The woman quickly slashed Ayato's side with the knife, causing him to yell in pain. The wound closed just as fast as the first one did, very little blood escaping from it.
The woman laughed at Ayato's astonished face, "Do you believe me now? What you drank earlier was my blood, and when a human drinks a vampire's blood, they become one."
Ayato's eyes widened in horror. "I'm...I'm a vampire now?"
The woman handed the knife back to the man. "I'll be back later, I think I want to try something with that hair stlye of yours, after all, your mine from now until death."
Savannah and the man left Ayato all alone to contemplate his new future.
Cut this chapter in half just for the cliffie, heh heh! Please review!
Next Time: Jaden keeps on moving forward, with no concern for the consequences and Hayato and Kira finally showcase their skill!
Until next time I'm out!