Notes: I haven't written Yugioh in a long time, then I found my first ex girlfriend's profile. And I decided to watch Yugioh again. Then I decided to write for it again! Crazy huh? And I wondered what would happen if Seto appeared at Duel Academy. This happens before the whole Society of Light thing blew up.
The Society of Light gives me the creeps. ZOMG they remind me of the kids who used to pick on me in middle school!
For Fate VII, the original Elemental
"WHAAAAAAAT? He's coming /HEREEEEE???" Syrus cried in alarm.
"yeah, something about a shadow duelist stalking Yugi and his friends so they're going to hide here for a couple months. In SLYPHER dorm." Bastion emphasized.
"Well, to hide a superstar, use a slacker! Yugi's stalker will never DREAM of looking for him in Slypher red." Alexis snickered. "HEEEEY!" She waved to Jaden. "Jaden over here! You're late! You missed it!"
"Huh?"
"Yugi has a stalker, a shadow game playing stalker. And he and his friends are coming here to hide."
"/Hide?/"
"In Slypher dorm! Jaden you finally get to meet your hero!" Alexis beamed. "Where's Hassleberry? He promised me a match over lunch! We just have one more class period before then."
"What worries me is… who's going to take over for Banner?" Bastion asked. "We have his class next!"
"Dunno. But I guess we'll find out." Jaden said cheerfully as he sat down.
Chazz took the seat on Jaden's other side, the side normally not taken by Syrus. Jaden arched an eyebrow. "Chazz, that's different. You normally don't sit anywhere near me."
"So I can't sit where I feel like now? How lame." Chazz looked down at the group. "I just can't stand that stuck up Ra that sits next to where I normally do that's…" There was an uproar the instant the door opened.
"hello children." The man who entered the room next had platinum blonde hair, and a thick silky voice. It was none other than Maximillian Pegasus himself. "I'll be temporarily taking over for the late Professor Banner."
An angry cat hiss sounded from under one of the desks. "Someone please silence that cat." Pharoh hissed, darting at Pegasus' ankles and sinking his claws in. "OW! Stupid little."
"Sir, let me!" Alexis hurried down, carefully prying Pharoh's claws off Pegasus one by one. She started scratching Pharaoh behind the ears. "Come on Pharaoh, I know you think that's your place up there but you need to…" Pharaoh roooowed sadly and turned, running under Jaden's desk. The cat purred, twining between Jaden's legs briefly before planting himself firmly in Syrus' lap.
"Alright then, I'm told Professor Banner was quite the Shadow Duelist, and that last year you had some serious problems with Shadow Riders. So we will begin with an intensive look into Shadow Games past and present, this should only take three class periods to accomplish and then we'll get to the real meat. I want you to begin working on strategies, for in one week I'll also be taking each of you aside one by one in a simulated shadow game, you'll be dueling a friend of Yugi Mouto's with a /curious/ affliction. He's no King of Games, but Ryou Bakura is not a duelist to be provoked, as he can be extremely destructive when angry. You won't have to worry, because I'll release each of you after the game is over and have safeguards in place to make sure you lose neither your life or your soul, but be warned, in any shadow game, that is exactly what is on the line. The point of your classes under me this year is to try to get you to defend yourselves, none of the students getting this simulated shadowgame treatment will be first years, as I don't want to overtax them. Now, we have several student transfers to take care of. Children, come on in!"
Jaden blinked, the people filing in was like something out of his wettest wet dueling dreams. Okay so he didn't want Aster Phoenix hanging around, but Yugi, Joey, Seto, and a kid Jaden didn't know named Bakura had entered when Pegasus called. Behind all of them was Atticus, dressed in Obalisk blue but with his guitar slung over his shoulder.
"We have several famous transfers coming in. Not sure what Aster Phoenix is interested in, but Yugi Mouto, Joey Wheeler, and Seto Kaiba will be joining us for a month, along with mister Bakura. Please give them your warmest welcome. In addition Atticus is returning to finish out his final year at Duel Academy after a long Hiatus."
There was sound applause from several people. A couple of girls squealed about Atticus being 'so dreamy'. Yugi muttered in an aside to Joey and grinned a strained, forced grin. "Wow, doesn't look like there are many empty seats." He whispered.
"Who cares, a school that's all for dueling? THAT'S a lesson I could get into." Joey muttered.
Yugi lead the way up the rows of desks. Already he heard gossip as they went. But it was very different from the gossip he normally heard in class. Instead of calling him "weird" or "Famous yugi" or similar, their interests were much different.
"I can't believe /Yugi/ gets to be Slypher red. He's no slacker. If he wanted he could be in Obalisk right off the bat."
"Would you rather Obalisk blue snatch him up? Those Obalisks are always so elitist. Kaiba rubbed off on them."
"yes but Yugi /is/ Elite he's nothing like us reds. And why is SETO going to Slypher? He slumming it or something?"
"There's a difference between Elite and Elitist. Jaden is Elite, but he acts so easy going you'd hardly think he's the best in his year."
Yugi grinned, taking a seat next to Syrus. Jaden hissed quietly. "Yugi! Hey Yugi!"
Yugi hmmed, looking up at Jaden. Jaden held up winged kuriboh and gave Yugi a thumbs up. Yugi chuckled. Aibou, I'd take that as a thank you. Yami giggled to Yugi. Pegasus began to write on the blackboard. Jaden looked up, and realized that Seto had taken a seat behind them and to Hasslebury's left. The Bakura kid had taken a seat right behind him and was staring at him with a really REALLY scary stare. Joey had sat next to Aster, who was in turn next to Chazz. Jaden looked over to see how Chazz was taking being crowded. Chazz was glaring death glares at Yugi.
Jaden was starting to wonder if Chazz would challenge Yugi to a duel, and maybe that was why Chazz was glaring at him so. But then Jaden felt a hand on his thigh. Jaden blink, blink, blinked. Chazz had put his hand on Jaden's thigh, and was tracing circles on his skin that kinda tickled.
Pharoh meeeoooowd, but was slowly falling asleep in Syrus' lap. Pegasus was droning on and on. "To truly understand the Shadow Games one must have a basic knowledge of Egyptian Mythology. The Ancient Egyptians were the ones who first invented dueling using massive stone tablets."
Chazz's hand started to move up Jaden's thigh, Jaden's face started to twitch, but he didn't dare move. Chazz grinned with fake innocence as he started to grope Jaden, sliding a hand along his crotch and rubbing. Jaden tried to edge away, "Chazz what the hell are you doing?" He whispered.
"What? What am I doing?" Chazz hissed in his ear. "What are you doing?"
"In /class/ no less." Growled Jaden at Chazz in a low voice. "If you're going to molest me do it someplace where the INVENTOR of all duel monsters and the top three duelists of all time /can't see/ your hand trying to go down my..."
"Jaden Yuki is it? Something you'd like to share with the class?" Pegasus asked slyly.
"NO SIR!" Jaden blushed hugely.
"Well then, the Ancient Egyptians believed the soul had two parts, the Ba and the Ka. While many many monsters and spells are not humanoid in origin, in ancient times the very first blue eyes white dragon, dark magician and dark magician girl were formed by fusing the Ba and Ka of several human souls. It is believed that they were near and dear ones to the Pharaoh and High Priest, who died before their time due to illness and in the case of the Dark Magicians, murder, and so in an effort to save them these three famous Duel Monsters were born."
Jaden would normally find this fascinating, but Chazz was moving his hand northward towards Jaden's zipper. Jaden finally couldn't take it anymore, he smacked Chazz's hand. Chazz yipped.
"Mister Princeton, do you have something to share with us?" Pegasus asked sweetly.
"Uh, no sir!" Chazz said innocently.
"Focus on the lesson." Pegasus scolded. "Or I will make your detention a miserable experience in the Shadow Realm."
Chazz blushed hugely. "Thank goodness that's an idle threat." Yugi muttered. "He had his Millenium Eye taken away."
"Yugi Mouto, would you like to make a bet that I can't still send someone to the Shadow Realm? As the Shadowriders who attacked the school last year proved, the Millenium Items are not the only items with Shadow Game Capability. Each of the Shadow Riders had a special charm allowing them to initiate a shadow game, your homework, and yours alone, will be to find out what those items were from someone who was there. Mister Yuki, Mister Princeton, Miss and Mister Rhodes, Mister Misawa, perhaps you can school the King of Games in what went down last year?" Pegasus frowned. "Before he stepped down, Chancellor Shepard told me the entire story. In this class there are a number of duelists who have partaken in the forbidden fruit known as a Shadow Game. Those of you who have, don't think that you will be exempt from my little exercise, you'll be treated with even MORE scrutiny in my class because you have first hand experience in them, and because Chancilor Shepard expressed his concerns about school security to Seto Kaiba and myself before he stepped down. And Yugi don't think that you and your friends are the only ones here who have. Those games are common play here." Pegasus glared up at him.
Class ended on an annoying note, Pegasus had assigned them each a ten page paper on Dueling History. Though Yami promised Yugi he'd help him with the paper. Just before he would have left the class at the end of the period, Yugi felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Pegasus.
"Yugi, I don't want your pity, and I don't want your malice. I've lived my life in a far more pleasant fashion since I lost that eye. I lost a Millenium Item, and gained wisdom. You need never pity that. Now go. I'm sure Jaden is eager to catch up with you."
Jaden wanted to follow Yugi as the class let out for lunch, but Chazz followed him out of the class. Jaden growled, pulling Chazz into one of the janitor's closets. "WHAT the hell was that about?" Jaden demanded. "You want to embarrass me in front of Maximillian Pegasus and the top three duelists in the /game?/"
"Actually, it was about this." Chazz growled, pushing Jaden against the wall. Next thing Jaden knew, Chazz' lips were on his in a rough, demanding kiss. Jaden blushed hugely, his immediate reaction to return the kiss, meeting Chazz's demands more out of shock than anything else.
Chazz's hand moved to his hip, slipping his hand into Jaden's pants. "You have no idea how many times I've fantasized about doing this." He growled in a husky voice.
Jaden flushed hugely, "Really? Normally I'd be flattered but…" He bolted out of the closet screaming. "SYRUUUUUSSSS! ALEXIIIIIIIISSSS HEEEEELLLLLLP!"
Alexis was a bit busy, Joey had wasted no time getting to the dueling. He'd only waited as long as it took to bolt his lunch, watch Alexis and Hasslebury's duel come out in a tie, and then challenged Alexis to a duel. Jaden arrived on the scene in time to see Cyber Tutu kick Joey in the face, attacking him directly to end the duel. Joey even had a red mark on his face from the cyber tutu's footprint.
"nice try short stuff, but here, even the girls are tougher." Alexis beamed at Joey. "You were holding back, I could tell. I've watched nearly every one of your televised duels since Duelist Kingdom. You need to be as on the ball here as you were in battle city because at Duel academy, you are ONE of MANY. Almost everyone here right now is at least as strong as a regional champion. If not stronger. Syrus and Jaden even beat the Paradox brothers!"
"Don't feel bad Joey, Alexis did that to Chazz last week. Chazz is Jaden's rival, they fight well, like Yugi and Kaiba." Syrus said cheerfully.
"I should probably mention at this point that Kaiba and I pretty much had it out over who got to have….." Joey began but was interrupted by.
"SYRUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" Jaden wailed, running smack into Joey instead. "OOF! Oh sorry!" Jaden cried out. "major crisis here. SYRRUUUUS." He wailed, clinging to Syrus and looking left and right as if trying to evade a persuer.
"What happened now?" Syrus demanded. "Did Belowski get loose again?" Syrus still remembered the Moki Moki using Obalisk. Jaden had visited him a couple of times, but he was still not allowed out of his bubble.
"Much. Much Worse." Jaden groaned. "Chazz tried to kiss me!" Jaden whined.
"HE WHAAAAT?" Syrus and Alexis chorused, blushing hugely.
"He was pretty rough about it too. And he was groping me in Professor Pegasus's class!"
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAT????" The girls cried out. "Chazz is /gay?/"
Alexis growled angrily. "i'm going to KILL him! Jaden are you alright? I warned him to go easy about it but he's such a pigheaded little sonuva..."
One of Alexis' friends said. "Dude, that like, so makes sense. The only girl he's ever liked was Alexis, and she does to him every time what Cyber Tutu just did to Joey." One of Alexis's friends frowned.
Joey looked from one to the other. "That's what I was about to say, Yugi and Kaiba don't fight actually they…"
"Jooooeeeeey!" Bakura called, running over. "JOooooeeeey! You'd better hurry! Kaiba got into it with one of the……."
"YOU SAY THAT AGAIN AND I'LL SACK YOU!" Seto was throwing things at Crowler and Bonaparte, who fled where they'd cornered Seto and Yugi. Seto had been preparing to make out, he'd wanted to get Yugi alone for a little while and maybe have sex. "DON'T FORGET WHO SIGNS YOUR CHECKS! There HAVE to be three dorms! They SYMBOLIZE the Egyptian GODS! And you want to /please/ the Gods don't you? After all, the Gods will trample on people if they don't get what they WANT! NOW LEAVE ME AND YUGI TO MAKE OUT IN PEACE!"
Crowler and Bonaparte fled the thicket where they'd suggested to Kaiba that Slypher dorm get torn down. Yugi just stood there laughing. "Seto, I haven't seen that look on your face in awhile."
"Lets find someplace a little more private." Seto steered Yugi away, one hand around his waist in an extremely possessive fashion.
"Seto Kaiba is gay?" Jaden flushed. "With YUGI?"
"yeah, they've been together since battle city. I've been known to, aherm, join them on occasion." Joey coughed into his hand politely. "For a little bit of fun. But they go at it like rabbits if you leave them alone long enough. They're very devoted."
Jaden fainted. Hasslebury had been watching this display from the back of the group, eyes glinting hungrily as he watched the couple. But Jaden fainting concerned him. "Private?" He blinked in surprise, bending over Jaden. "Private are yew okay?"
Jaden's eyes were curlicued.
Bastion tried to help Jaden up. "I suggest we get him into the dorm. Joey, you wanted to know where we get extra cards here right? Soon as we have Jaden back in his dorm I'll show you where. Hasslebury help me with him please."
"I could help." Syrus frowned. "Poor Jaden, he idolizes Yugi, ever since the King Himself gave him Winged Kuriboh. You know that fluffball saved him during his entrance exams. In fact, I think that encounter inspired him."
"No offense Syrus, but even Yugi is taller than you are. And Jaden isn't exactly light." Bastion purred, hefting Jaden onto his back. "Hasslebury, run ahead and open the door to Jaden's dormitory."
"You don't seem phased at all that Chazz kissed Jaden." Syrus said to Bastion as he, Joey and Alexis headed up for Jaden's dormitory.
Bastion frowned. "Syrus do you promise not to be angry at me if I tell you something."
"Huh?" Syrus cocked his head cutely. "What would I be angry about?"
"Well, um… all last year. I was dating Zane." Bastion frowned. "We broke up when that Amazoness Shadowrider appeared. Zane got a little jealous. And your brother can get… pretty destructive when the green eyed monster rears its ugly head."
"SAY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?" Syrus was furious. "HOW DARE YOU GO OUT WITH MY BROTHER! Wait were you…… you weren't /shagging/ Zane were you?"
"Um, do you want a truthful answer to that?" Bastion asked. "Because before he was with me, Zane was 'shagging' Atticus. I found them at it soon after we broke up."
Syrus facefaulted. "Considering how conceited Atticus is, no offense Alexis, I'm surprised he tolerated him."
Alexis beamed. "I knew they were together Syrus. Zane was never interested in women, Atticus made him happy. Because he was so silly. If you had seen the way Atticus made Zane smile Syrus, you wouldn't be as upset as you are right now." Alexis said softly. "Don't feel bad Bastion, those two were meant for each other long before you arrived. I think you just salved Zane's wounds."
"Not like you, you're /in love/ with the Dark Magician Girl." Bastion sniggered.
"How could you be in love with a card?" Joey asked, blinking at Syrus in surprise.
"Oh come on, you never had a card crush?" Syrus asked. "it's the same as a cartoon crush."
"not really. Its kind of weird." Joey frowned. "The closest thing I came to a card crush was when I was stupid enough to ask Mai out. She kicked me, hard. Then ran off with her arm around Tea's waist. The two of them are going skiing while I get to go to dueling school."
Bastion set Jaden down on his bunk. "There we go." He left a note. Jaden, took Joey to meet Miss Dorothy, see you later. Bastion. PS: Next time, it might help if you put your head between your knees. It keeps you from passing out if you feel faint. Bastion read before he put the note next to Jaden's pillow.
"Alexis, mind having a talk with Chazz? This way Joey."
"No, he needs to work this out with Jaden on his own, I /will/ give him a warning though. That he freaked Jaden out so much he ran screaming all the way back to the dorm."
Miss Dorothy was very happy to see Joey. "Aaaah, Mister Wheeler. I'd heard you were visiting the school. Go ahead and pick a few boosters. And be sure to let Yugi and the other transfer students know they can come by any time they need more cards."
"Thanks Miss Dorothy, lets see… I think I've got enough on me for four of those tins at the back." Joey pointed to the booster tins Dorothy had just gotten the other day. "My sister Serenity collects the tins after I've got the cards. So I'll give them to her when I get home."
"My my." Miss Dorothy shook her head as she took the money offered her for the tins. "Is it true young man, that you dueled at Duelists Kingdom purely to save your sister's sight? I always thought that was so poetic!"
Joey blushed. "yeah, I wasn't very good. In the end Yugi gave me the prize money. Huuuh?" He blinked as a fifth booster tin was offered him.
"Give this one to your sister, on the house." Miss Dorothy bowed politely. "Such a chivalrous older brother. It's a pity Atticus doesn't treat Alexis the way you do your sister. Those two fight like a pair of cats all the time non stop." Alexis blushed. "oh I mean no offense dear, Atticus has dreams of stars in his eyes. You're the one who's got to keep him down to earth."
Meanwhile, Kaiba, Pegasus and Crowler gathered for a meeting. "FIRST of all. I don't want any more talk of tearing down Slypher. You tear that dorm down you can KISS duel academy goodbye. I'll fire you and convince Pegasus to be chancilor instead."
"Why I never knew you cared." Pegasus giggled.
"SHUT UP!" Seto told Pegasus. "Pegasus may be a total fucktard, but were we ever in a Boss and Employee situation at least I could rely on him to DO HIS JOB. And while he may get delusions of grandeur he knows better than to tear down a system that WORKS for him." Seto was furious with Crowler.
"However, despite its status as the weakest dorm the situation in Slypher is INTOLERABLE. They may not be the strongest dorm, but WEAK does not deserve FILTH. You are to RENOVATE Slypher. Don't give them total luxury, go for sturdy and homey instead of opulence but I don't want a single roach, leak, crumbling structure or RAT. The furniture will need to be replaced as well. Don't make the beds too comfy, those Slackers should be focusing on furthering their dueling skills, they can sleep in when they've worked their way up to the next dorm. I expect the nutritional value of their meals to go up as well. They should be eating at least as well as the Ra's, no luxury, just SIMPLE, wholesome food that will give them the energy to duel. If you do NOT do this in two weeks I will CHUCK you BODILY out of Duel Academy DO YOU HEAR ME????" Seto roared. Serves the bastard right for walking in on me and Yugi for such TRIVIA. Then he calmed.
"That cat of Banners concerns me, so he gets a proper bed to sleep in. Despite his disinterest in killing mice, with Pharaoh around I /doubt/ Slypher will need a guard dog, especially if he's brazen enough to claw Pegasus' leg. Further, Pegasus has checked the cat over with what remains of his telepathic ability after he lost the Millenium eye to Bakura, Pharaoh has an unusual ability to sense Shadow Game or Duel Monster related phenomena. This island is known for the cards here coming alive and attacking the students. Pharaoh will remain at Slypher to honor his professor banner. But I'm not FINISHED with the cat. Pegasus has also detected that he's somehow swallowed a spirit. So my technicians are working on something that will allow us to find out who that is. He or she may be of use. As soon as we can give Pharaoh a checkup we'll see who he's hiding. We'll decide what to do once we've figured out what he's swallowed, if its a human spirit we can take steps to make him or her comfortable. If its a duel spirit we can put it in a card where it belongs.
"Now I am going to bring you both to the reason why I'm here." Seto replied. "my fathers old friend, a doctor who specializes in Dueling related injuries has called me saying that Zane Truesdale, an alum one year out from the Academy has been seriously injured. His injuries aggrivated what we think might be an underlying genetic condition. He's requested permission to bring him here for his care. So we will be adding a new medical wing to the main building, we'll call it the Truesdale Triage Wing in honor of the Alum who will be its first inhabitant. Ordinary illnesses will continue to be the province of the nurse who works here, however, Dueling related injuries including casualties from Shadow Games will be brought there, along with any life threatening injuries. And unfortunately Zane's condition is both. Gregory is having trouble identifying what's wrong with him, but whatever it is, there's a good chance that he won't survive it unless we can find out what it is. Gregory has eliminated all conventional illnesses and infections, and believes it's a genetic ailment. Either way, its likely Zane will never Duel again, if he even survives. He deserves our sympathy and our care as we are his Alma Mater. I've asked a boy from Ra to bring Zane's brother Syrus and his friend Hasslebury to the nursing wing. Pegasus and I will deal with this. Crowler, I want you begin making preparations immediately."
"Yes, sir! I'll get Bonaparte on it immediately."
"All of these changes will be announced at an assembly in three hours. I've also been planning on having a Duel Community month, which will be announced by Pegasus at the same time. Pegasus, come with me."
As they left the office Pegasus giggled and said to Seto. "Of course Kaiba boy, my my you've grown some balls. Could it be that Yami is wearing off on you?"
"Perhaps, or perhaps I'm learning to do things a little differently than how my old man would have done them. A true man doesn't just have balls Pegasus, he has a heart." Seto turned to Pegasus, "You'd like Gregory, he's got a twisted sense of humor. Back when my father was so cruel to me and Mokuba, Gregory was the only one of his friends who showed any protective interest. He'd hide it by saying that as the family Physician he had a responsibility to make sure we were safe and healthy, but I could always tell from the sadness in his eyes, he considered himself more of a father to us than our adopted parent."
"Aaah, you've grown up quite well Kaiba boy. Though something tells me you were never a happy little boy were you?"
Seto snorted. "maybe thats why I've taken such an interest in Zane, he reminds me of myself a little."
