A few days after Yuki's promotion match, Dr. Crowler could be found in his office after his final class had concluded. "How dare that Slifer Slacker make a mockery of me in front of my own class. It'll be the last mistake he makes at this academy. Tucking away the letter he had written in an envelope, Crowler picked up a hand mirror before applying red lipstick and kissing the envelope.

"Ah, the big kiss-off!" He said, before bursting into a fit of laughter.

Yuki having just gotten out of gym class with the rest of the Ra's when he saw Jaden running down the hallway. He waved to get Yuki's attention, and looked completely lost. "Must be running late to class again."

"Hey Yuki, where are the locker rooms?" Jaden asked, jogging in place.

'Yup, he's definately running late again.' Yuki chuckled, pointing down the hall. "Down the hall, it's the first door to the left."

"Thanks Yuki, I'll catch you later!" Jaden ran off, not realizing that he had dropped his pda.

"Hey, Jaden hold up-aaaaaaaaand he's gone." Yuki sighed, and shrugged picking up Jaden's pda. "Well I guess I'll give it back to him tomorrow."

As the Slifers started class with Fonda Fontaine, who was not only the academy's gym teacher, but also the head of the girls dorms, Crowler snuck into the locker room with the letter he had written. He placed the envelope on a pair of shoes he believed to be Jaden's before sneaking out.

As class started for the Slifers, they were currently one short seeing as Cyrus was running late. "Lousy girls gym. Why did they have to make the signs so small?"

Panting slightly, Cyrus reached his locker. "Oh, guess Jaden's still using my locker… huh? What's this?"

Cyrus picked up the letter, and his eyes went wide when he saw the SWAK mark. "This isn't Jaden's … Someone's written me a love letter!"

"From the first moment I set eyes on you, I've been in love with you. Meet me at the girls dorm tonight so I can give you a big kiss. Endearingly, Alexis Rhodes!?" Cyrus' eyes went wide as he read the name on the false love letter.

That same night found Cyrus in a small rowboat, heading across a large lake with his destination being the girls dorm. "Here I come Alexis."

At that same time, Crowler who was wearing a black outfit as camouflage had broken the lock on the front gate of the girls dorm with a pair of bolt cutters. He was almost giddy with anticipation. "Perfect, thanks to that fake love letter Jaden will show up here looking for Alexis, but all he'll find is trouble. Once he arrives, I'll snap a picture of him breaking one of the biggest school rules, and with the proof I'll need, he'll be expelled."

While all this was going on, Fujin and Alexis were enjoying the large hot spring that was available to them, having been joined a short while ago by Jasmine and Mindy.

"With the rate he's going, Yuki will be an Obelisk soon." Alexis said while sinking ever deeper into the hot water.

Fujin smiled at hearing that. "I said it before his promotion match. If there's anyone who deserves to rank up, it's him."

"Oh, not calling him 'Yu' this time?" Mindy asked teasingly, lightly nudging Fujin's arm which caused Fujin's cheeks to flush pink.

Outside, Crowler was waiting for Jaden when he heard footsteps approaching. "That's it Jaden, walk right into my trap like the Slifer Sap you are." However Crowler's plans were dashed when he saw just was approaching.

"Alexis?" Cyrus called out.

"That's not Jaden, that's that field spell nitwit!" Crowler growled, unfortunately drawing attention to him.

"What's a boy doing here?" Another girl called out. Which alerted the others in the spring.

"I'm not a boy, I'm a man- I mean, forget it!" Crowler made to run for it, but lost his footing and fell into the water. Fortunately for Crowler, the outcry hadn't exposed him, but Cyrus who had no time to act as he had been quickly surrounded.

"A love letter from Alexis?" Mindy asked, her arms crossed.

"Y-yeah, it's true, just ask her." Cyrus replied.

"Uh hello? Alexis is really tall, and you're really short." Jasmine said, not believing Cyrus' explaination one bit.

"Lex is also an incredible duelist." Fujin said, giving Jasmine an irritated look due to her remark. "And unfortunately Cyrus, you don't fit that bill."

"But it is true." Cyrus explained, producing the fake love letter. "Here, read it."

Alexis frowned, taking the letter before letting out a sigh that was a mix between amusement and irritation. "Cyrus, my name isn't even spelled right."

"Woah, hang on." Jasmine said, reading the letter. "This letter is addressed to Jaden Yuki."

Cyrus hung his head in defeat. "So I can't even get a fake love letter…"

"Now I feel kinda bad." Fujin said.

"Sorry Cyrus." Alexis folded the letter.

"I don't buy this…" Mindy frowned. "He could have written this as an excuse to come here."

"So what should we do with him?" Jasmine asked.

"Girls, just what's going on down there?" Everyone looked up to see Ms. Fontaine looking over the balcony. Thinking quickly, the four girls stuffed Cyrus out of sight. "Alright, what's going on?"

"We're sorry Ms. Fontaine." Alexis apologised. "We'll try to put a lid on things."

"I should hope so. It's after midnight, and I have pilates in the morning." Ms. Fontaine said before heading back to her room.

"Okay, so what do we do now?" Jasmine asked, looking back to where they had hidden Cyrus.

"I'll tell you what we do, we'll use Cyrus here as bait to see if Jaden is as good as we think he is." Alexis said with a smirk on her face.

Yuki had just finished up an assignment for Professor Satyr who was head of the Ra dorm, when he heard ringing. Believing it to be his own pda, Yuki was surprised to find it was Jaden's that was ringing. Yuki shrugged, thinking he could tell whoever it was that Jaden had dropped his pda, but all Yuki found was a recorded message.

"We have your dorm mate Cyrus. If you want him back, come to the girls dorm now. Alone." Whoever had recorded it, had heavily distorted their voice.

"Cy? Okay, hang on little buddy, I'm on my way." Yuki said, grabbing his deck and duel disk.

Crowler surfaced for air, having somehow gotten out of the girls dorm, and dove into the lake for added cover for some reason. "Well this is perfect. You try to expel one student, and the whole world turns against you…" Crowler growled, before he saw someone rowing a boat across the lake, but it wasn't Jaden. "What the…? Why is Yuki here?"

Yuki stepped out of his boat when he reached the opposite shore to find Alexis, Fujin, Jasmine, and Mindy had Cyrus tied up.

"Yuki? What are you doing here?" Cyrus asked. "Where's Jaden?"

"Jaden was running late to class, he bumped into me wondering where the locker rooms were and ended up dropping his pda when he ran off." Yuki explained. "So I ended up getting the message instead of Jaden. So… what's all this about?"

"Well long story short, I'm basically a big loser…" Cyrus hung his head.

"Your friend was trespassing on the girls dorm." Jasmine explained.

"And let me guess, it's off limits to the male students?" Yuki asked, already knowing the answer.

"Yeah, and now that you're here Yuki. So are you." Mindy said.

"Mindy's right, so if you and Cyrus want your freedom, you'll have to beat me in a duel." Alexis said.

'Well well, an Obelisk versus a Ra. This should be interesting.' Crowler thought to himself. As Yuki and Alexis rowed out to the middle of the lake on different boats.

"Ready Alexis?" Yuki asked, activating his duel disk.

"Ready."

"Duel!"

Yuki-LP 4000

Alexis-LP 4000

"Ladies first." Yuki offered with a friendly smile.

"My, what a gentlemen." Alexis said as she drew her sixth card. "Etoile Cyber rise!" A female monster in red clothing who resembled a ballerina appeared gracefully on Alexis' field. Atk-1200 Def-1600. "And I place one card and end my turn."

"My turn then." Yuki said, and his eyes widened in shock when he realized he'd grabbed his spellcaster deck.

"Something wrong?" Alexis asked frowning.

"No, I'm good." Yuki replied. "Okay, I'll summon Maha Vailo in attack mode." Yuki's light skinned, blue armored spellcaster rose in front of him. Atk-1550 Def-1200.

"Hold on." Alexis began slightly confused by the monster Yuki had summoned. "I thought you only ran a dragon deck."

"Nope." Yuki smiled while shaking his head. "I've had this spellcaster deck for years. And now I'll give my monster the equip spell Black Pendant!" A magnificent set of black opals draped themselves over Maha Vailo, increasing its attack. "Also, thanks to his effect, my monster gains an additional 500 attack for each equip spell!"

Maha Vailo Atk-2550

"Now, I'll attack you with my monster! Maha Vailo attack Etoile Cyber!" Yuki ordered, as his monster charged its attack.

"Not so fast! I have a trap Doble Passe!" Maha Vailo's attack bypassed Etoile Cyber, and hit Alexis directly.

Alexis-LP 1450

"And now since your monster attacked me, my monster gets to attack you!" Alexis said, and Etoile Cyber kicked Yuki in the stomach.

Yuki-LP 2800

Yuki groaned. "Oh man, I don't know what was worse. Falling into that trap, or the fact your monster wears heels."

"You impressed yet?" Alexis asked, as Yuki set two cards face down on his field.

"Impressed? You're amazing!" Yuki said, as he got back to his feet.

"You're cute, too bad I have to crush you." Alexis smirked as she drew her next card. "Now where were we? Oh, I'll summon Blade Skater, and then I'll use Pollymarization and fuse my two monsters to summon Cyber Blader!" The two monsters merged together creating a monster with blue hair and a red visor. Atk-2100 Def-800. "And then I'll play the spell card Fusion Weapon."

A red and black trident appeared on Cyber Blader's right arm. Atk-3600.

"Oh not good…" Yuki groaned.

"Not for you anyway." Alexis smirked. "Cyber Blader, attack!"

A beam of electricity blasted Maha Vailo to pieces.

Yuki-LP 1750

Alexis-LP 950

"What happened? Why did my life points go down?" Alexis asked confused.

"It was my Black Pendant equip card." Yuki replied. "When it's destroyed, you take 500 points of damage."

"He's really good." Fujin said smiling.

"Yeah…" Jasmine admitted. "I wonder what else Yuki's gonna bring out."

"Okay, my draw…" 'This isn't good, I'll need a good draw now, or I'll lose the duel.' Yuki drew his new card, and smiled. "Okay, I play Pot of Greed allowing me to draw two more cards." And Yuki's eyes widened in shock. "I special summon Palladium Oracle Mahad!"

The spellcaster summoned looked exactly like Mahad had 5000 years ago, the only difference was the lack of his Millenium Item, and the staff in his right hand. Atk-2500 Def-2100.

"Then I'll activate one of my face down cards, Magical Dimension!" A gold sarcophagus appeared behind Mahad, and he vanished into it. "Now by sacrificing one of my monsters, I can special summon another monster. Rise, Neo the Magic Swordsman!"

A warrior in regal looking armor, a dark cape, long sandy blond hair and a sword appeared from the sarcophagus. Atk-1700 Def-1000. "And thanks to my spell cards effect, I can now destroy one monster on my opponent's field!"

Alexis' eyes widened. "But that means…"

"Your Cyber Blader is toast." Yuki smirked, as Cyber Blader was also sucked into the sarcophagus.

'Ready parter?' Neo asked, looking over his shoulder at Yuki.

"Ready. Go Neo, attack directly!" Yuki ordered, and Neo raced towards Alexis, slashed his sword down diagonally.

Alexis-LP 0000

"Alexis?" Mindy asked, completely shocked at the results of the duel.

'I thought I had him, but he managed to stay ahead of me the entire duel.' Alexis thought.

"Well, I won so we get to go free." Yuki said, his duel disk deactivating.

"A deal is a deal." Alexis smiled.

"I'm sorry about what happened, but that was an amazing duel Alexis, you're really good." Yuki smiled shaking her hand. "Maybe we could hang out again sometime. You know, without the threat of expulsion on the line."

"Absolutely Yuki, I'll definately be coming after you for a rematch." Alexis smiled.

"You're on." Yuki smiled, as he began to row away with Cyrus.

'Even if I did win, I never could have turned those two in. This place is a lot more fun with these guys here.' Alexis thought.

"Okay Cy." Yuki chuckled, as they reached the opposite bank and got out of the boat. "Think you can get back to your dorm without getting into more trouble?"

"Yeah." Cyrus laughed, before Yuki handed him Jaden's pda.

"Can you give that back to him?" Yuki asked, also laughing.

"No problem, see you Yuki." Cyrus waved, before the two headed back to their respective dorms.