'Why?' Jaden thought as he sat on his bed in the room he shared. He left the waiting room doorway after hearing what they had been talking about. From when Beth asked about duel monsters opening portals to Jesse and his friends telling everyone what had happened in the other dimension and the Dark World. He was just happy they lied about how they got home.
Jaden groaned as he ran his hands through his hair before leaning back onto the hospital bed, lying so his body lying sideways of the bed, think back as to this situations was slightly familiar. 'I just hope we all get out of here together. On my watch non of my friends are going to be left behind this time. That includes Yugi, Yusei and Yuma. But I know I can't do this alone this time. I'm gonna need to be open with them and let them help me. But after that dream, what if it wasn't a dream? What if it was a memory? Or even a glimpse of what could happen in the future? Ah I don't know! This place is just so messed up. How can I tell what's real and what isn't? And how can I make sure what happened in my dream doesn't happen to everyone? Syrus, Hasselberry, Chazz, Jesse...Alexis?'
Jaden was suddenly snapped out of his thoughts when he heard someone groaning. He sat up and looked behind him, at the door. He was a man in a brown long coat and hat walking past his room, holding his side. He then turned and faced Jaden. His eyes showed pain before collapsing on the ground. Jaden quickly ran over to the man and knelt down next to him.
"Hey, mister, are you okay?" Jaden asked as he shook the man slightly. Just as he went to stand up to get Akiza when the man suddenly grabbed hold of Jaden's hand. Jaden looked down at the man and knelt back down again. He then moved the man slightly so he was on his back to check for any injuries. As the man turned over Jaden saw the result. There was nothing.
Suddenly the man grabbed hold of Jaden and held his against his chest, making sure he couldn't escape. Jaden was about to start yelled but was stopped when the man covered Jaden's mouth with his hand. Then he looked ahead of the hallway and saw a shadow like creature floating towards him. He looked a little bit like that Astral guy. The shadow creature smiled.
"Well, he was easy to capture." The creature said. Jaden heard the man holding him laugh.
"Brron defiantly gave him a bad nightmare to keep him away from his friends." Jaden's eyes suddenly widened. Brron? He was here? He quickly began to shake his head to get the hand of his face. It thankfully got off.
"Who are you?" Jaden asked the shadow creature in front of him while still trying to escape. The creature smiled.
"For now, I'm you." Before Jaden could ask what it meant the shadow creature suddenly jumped towards Jaden. He suddenly felt like his body was being taken over along with his mind. He had no control over what was happening. He felt his mind become foggy, his body become weak, his eyes become heavy to the point they closed. The man slowly let go of Jaden's body slightly just in case it didn't work.
His eyes then opened with a evil grin spread across his face. He turned to the man. "The boy is weaker than I thought."
"Why do we need this kid anyway, we could of taken the soul from here easily." The man said as he and 'Jaden' stood up.
"You know why, Sayer. He said that he wanted to bring Jaden's body with us because it will be to our advantage." 'Jaden' said.
"What advantage?" Sayer asked.
"We will find out." 'Jaden' told him. "But first, let's leave this note for his friends." He said as he walked over to the bed and set a note down onto the bed. "That way they know where to find the body." 'Jaden' and Sayer then left the room, not realising there was 3 pair of eyes watching them.
Akiza was standing outside of the hospital in the fresh air, watching the wind blew in the trees, thinking about last night. How her worst fear my be her reality. 'How is he here? Why is he here? Was that really him last night? Is it true everything he said?'
She is suddenly scared out of her mind when a hand is placed on her shoulder. Akiza quickly spins round to see its Yusei. He was standing behind her to her left with a slight look of concern on his face. "Oh, hey Yusei." She said as she looks away from him and back to the open area.
"Hey, you okay?" He asked her as he stood next to her. She nodded.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Yusei knew she was lying but didn't say anything about it.
"So what happened last night?" He asked her. She slightly tensed at the thought of her dream but tried to not make it noticeable.
"What do you mean?" Akiza asked, not turning to Yusei.
"You know what I mean, Akiza." Yusei told her. "You're dream. What happened?"
"I don't want to talk about it, Yusei." Akiza told him. Yusei sighed and said nothing, not wanting to push her, so stayed standing there by her side in silent waiting for her to tell him when she was ready. They stood there quiet watching their surroundings, the tree's, the leafs, the grass, just what ever would move. They stayed quiet for about 2 minutes before Akiza let out a small whisper.
"He's back." Yusei turned to look at her.
"Who?" He asked.
"Sayer." She said. Yusei's eye's widened slightly at the shock of hearing that mans name. The same man that has haunted Akiza for so many years. "I saw him last night. I was walking down the hallways when I saw him. He said that he was the one that helped me control my abilities. I told him that he was using me to hurt people, but he said they were tests." She told him in a quiet voice, not looking at him. Yusei then turned his body so he was facing her. She looked down. "He said I'm going to lose control."
"Akiza," Yusei said as he turned her body so she was now facing him. "you are not going to lose control."
"But what if I do?" She whispered.
"Then I will be here to help you, we all will." He told her.
"You'll end up hurt." She said. Yusei shrugged.
"Then I end up hurt." He said. "As long as I help you in the end, then that's all that matters to me." Akiza looked up to him with tears forming in her eyes. He pulled her into a hug, letting her body lean on his own. "I won't let him hurt you again." despite the pain he felt through his body he kept it hidden to comfort her in this moment.
Yugi slowly walks into the waiting room, where everyone was sitting down. Tea looks over to Yugi first and quickly stands up.
"Yugi." She called out running over to him, giving him a hug. Joey and Tristan were right behind her after hearing his name. Each of them hugged him before all sitting down.
"You okay man?" Joey asks him as they both sit down next to each other on one of the settees in the room. Yugi nodded.
"Yeah, just a bit weak." Yugi told him.
"Do you remember what happened?" Tristan asked him.
"I was walking down the hallways when Atem must of sensed someone coming. We decided to switch. Then something hit him over the head. I couldn't see who attacked us as they were wearing a hood over their head." Yugi explained.
"We think we know who it was so don't worry about that mate." Jim told him. Yugi nodded.
"Then what happened?" Crow asked.
"One of them held him so he couldn't get away, the other took out this wristband and placed it round Atem's wrist." Yugi told them.
"What did this wristband look like?" Axel asked.
"It was silver and had a blue circle that turned a orange like colour when placed on Atem's wrist." Yugi told him. The group of 8 all sighed, knowing the same thing. "Why?"
"Don't worry about. Carry on." Alexis told him.
"I suddenly started to feel weak, and I could see Atem was as well because his body started to go limp. That when he took the wristband off and cut Atem's hand. They placed his blood in a small vile before running off." Yugi explained. As he finished the story everyone began to think why this happened.
"So they defiantly used a bio-band. We know that for sure now." Hasselberry said.
"But do you guys really think they could be used to open a portal?" Yuma asked. Yugi quickly looked over to him.
"To open a portal?" Yugi repeated. "How?"
"We think that with certain items a portal could be opened." Beth told him. Yugi looked confused.
"But why would they need my blood?" Yugi asked.
"Not your blood Yugi," Tristan said to him, "Atems."
"That makes sense." Yugi said. "With the power he has then his blood alone will properly be able to open a portal."
"Not just his blood." Beth told him. "They will need other objects as well."
"We just have to make sure they don't gather them." Shark said. He then looked over to Yuma. "So keep that key safe Yuma."
"Don't you worry." Yuma said has his hand surrounded the golden key round his neck. "I'm not letting anyone take Astral away from us again."
"Hey, where's Yusei and Akiza?" Yugi asked. "And Jaden?"
"Akiza went outside earlier, Yusei followed her." Leo told him.
"I wonder what those two love birds are up to." Jack commented.
"As for Jaden he's in his room resting." Alexis told him. "Had a bad night last night."
"But isn't past like midday?" Syrus pointed out. "Jaden wouldn't still be in bed at this time."
"He's properly being lazy, the slacker." Chazz commented, only to be punched in the arm by Blair.
"You do have a point Sy." Jesse said. "Jay would have been awake by now at least."
"Boss! Boss! Boss!" Everyone looked over to the door to see three small looking creatures running into the room. It was Chazz's Ojama monsters.
"What do you three idiots want?" Chazz asked as he turned his head away from the trio.
"Hey that's a bit rude, don't you think?" Tori said.
"Its Jaden!" Ojama yellow yelled.
"He's gone!" Ojama green yelled after. Everyone suddenly began to panic.
"What do you mean he's gone?" Axel asked.
"Exactly that. We were wandering the hallways and then we saw this man." Ojama blue explained.
"Wait, what man?" Beth asked as she stood up and walked over to them. They looked up at her.
"Well he was wearing a long jacket." Yellow said.
"And had a hat on." Green said.
"I think Jaden called him Mayor." Yellow said.
"No, wasn't it Sailor?" Green said as he looked over to his brother.
"No, it wasn't that." Blue said.
"Do you mean Sayer?" Luna asked with an afraid voice.
"Yes, that's it." The Ojama trio said. Luna, her brother and friends eyes all widened.
"Who is Sayer?" Beth asked.
"Someone you do not want to mess with." Leo answered.
"But what happened to Jaden?" Blair asked with a panicked tone. "There's no way he should of known this Sayer guy. They're from two different time lines."
"Well there was this other guy that looked like a shadow." Yellow told them.
"And he walked into Jaden." Blue said.
"96." Yuma said. "It must of been him."
"When did this happen?" Shark asked.
"Just now." The trio said. Suddenly all of Jaden's friends rushed out of their seats and out of the door, heading straight for Jaden's room. Everyone else quickly followed behind.
Jesse was the first to reach the room, followed by Axel and then everyone else. Jesse walked over to Jaden's bed and picked something up. It was a piece of paper. "What's that, mate?" Jim asked as he walked over to Jesse.
"A note." Jesse said.
"What does it say?" Alexis asked.
"'If you want your friend back he will be in a cave where secrets are reviled.'" Jesse read out.
"A cave where secrets are reviled?" Bronk repeated.
"What does that mean?" Yuma asked.
"It mean's they're gonna try and tear us apart." Beth said. Everyone looked over to her. "Get some stuff together. We're heading out."
In the hide out where each of the enemies sat, they waited for the allies and new comer to walk in. Bakura groaned. "Ahh, what is taking them so long?"
"Patients, Bakura." The leader said. "They will be here soon."
"Well how soon?" Bakura asked. "And how much longer till we can attack them?"
"That time will come when we assemble all of the needed objects to create the portal." The leader told him.
"So what do we need this Jaden kid for?" Devack asked.
"He has amazing power." Paradox told him. "I have seen it for myself."
"You should have seen when I dueled him." Brron said while laughing. "The anger he had when he sent his own friends to the stars." Brron then began to laugh hysterically.
"I never saw power from him." Viper said. "Only a attitude for winning and his friends safety."
"He certainly didn't care about his friends when I dueled him." Brron said before laughing again.
"What's with all the laughter?" The allies looked over to the entrance to see Sayer and 'Jaden' walked into the room.
"Ahh, you have returned, and with the boy." The leader pointed out.
"He was all by himself, seem's that nightmare Brron gave him did the trick." Sayer said. Brron began to laugh again.
"Haha, it should off. I did after all kill his friends." He said as he carried on laughing. Viper the walked over to 'Jaden' with a bio-band. Jaden held out his wrist as Viper went to place it on but the Leader quickly stopped him.
"Wait. Number 96 is still possessing him. You will only take his energy, not the boys." The Leader told him. Viper nodded. Suddenly Jaden's body fell to the floor as Number 96 hovered over his body.
"Well, he was a easy catch." Number 96 said as he flew away from Jaden's body and looked down at the unconscious teen.
"Well done." The Leader said as he walked over to Jaden's body. "Once we take his energy and his soul we will move him to the cave. The group will have no trust in each other in no time."
'Where secrets are reviled'. Anyone have any idea as to what that means? Or better yet, what secrets are being hidden in the group? You shall find out in the next couple of chapters.
I just wanted to say sorry for the late update. As everyone knows it was Christmas a couple of days ago, and everyone knows what happens on the Christmas holiday: shopping. That's right, I been very busy shopping for my friends and family, plus spending time round my friends house before Christmas, then having Christmas day, then visiting my sister Boxing day.
Yeah, I won't bore you with my life. Just know that I have written the next chapter and chapter 23 is being planed.