Hello, again.

First off, I'd like to say that I'm sorry to those that were wanting actual duels. That type of mentality has lost some serious traction with me, I'm afraid. I'll still try and make them, but sooner or later, either the duels are going to be relatively cut off completely, or this story is being remade with something else replacing Yugioh. I'll try and keep up with this, but it might not go so well sooner or later. Just a heads up.

Although, if someone ends up wanting this story themselves, then the biggest thing that we'd need to do is figure out a replacement for Bella. I'M KEEPING HER!

As for this chapter, I'll stick to it having Alexis be the target, like in canon. Bella will be watching it play out for the most part.

I don't own Yugioh GX or Fairy Tail.

Ugh, seriously?

"I may seem a bit extreme for some," said Erza, looking at the tennis matches going on before them, "but even I wonder how sports connect to a card game."

Bella agreed with that, having opted out of playing to make things fair, but had no idea why anyone though a card game was similar to actual sports like tennis and basketball. Of course, Mindy overheard.

"It connects to everything! Taking tur-"

"Save it for someone who's dumb enough to believe it!" Bella interrupted, not wanting to hear what was to her an excuse. "Same goes for you, teach!"

A few moments later, Bella noticed Jaden accidentally knock the ball off course and towards Alexis' head. But before she could even get up to stop it, another got in the way and deflected the ball, which hit a passing Crowler instead. She sweat-dropped at that. "...I just stick to staying back this time. The coincidentally timing on that is kind of creepy to me."

"Agreed." was the collective voice of Fairy Tail. Too many times did something happen at least near them, and Crowler was in the right place to be involved. While they didn't quite like leaving others to deal with it, but they were wanting to change things up a bit and break the streak.

They were rather surprised when Crowler was rather civil about things and asked to speak to Jaden in private, which got a concerned look from Bella. I know things have gotten better, but that doesn't mean he's safe to be around. You better keep away from my friends, ass.

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"...you want to run that by me again?" asked Bella in what could only be described as a deadpan/monotone/annoyed combo tone. "Who's the boy that is in charge of the tennis team?"

Jasmine, Mindy stopped in confusion at her reaction before Jasmine answered. "Uh, Harrington Rosewood. Why, you know him?"

Bella's eyebrow twitched in anger before she blew up in anger. "THAT PERVERTED BASTARD IS HERE OF ALL PLACES!? WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO STOP TRUSTING ROSEWOOD?!"

Alexis and her two friends quickly backed up in fear, just as running was heard a little ways off. Syrus eventually came into view, and he was scared of something else at that moment.

"Bella!" he cried upon noticing her. "You got to help me! I don't know what happened, but Jaden's stuck training with the tennis team captain thanks to Crowler!"

"Because of the ball from earlier?" Alexis asked, getting a nod from Syrus.

"Only it was the captain that hit the ball at Crowler. Not Jaden!" he told them.

Next thing any of them knew, Bella was replaced by a dust cloud, which they had no idea of how it happened. All they really knew was that Rosewood was pretty well dead if Bella wasn't stopped.

As for Bella herself, in her anger she ended up taking longer than normal to actually find the tennis court, which ended up with her running into Crowler, which made her remember the part about Jaden.

"Alright, bub, before I deal with Rosewood, start talking." demanded Bella. "Just what were you doing with falsely punishing Jaden?"

Crowler stepped back and waved frantically to try and placate the girl. "No, wait! It's only to do a job I asked of him. Some words came up about Rosewood and Jaden was in the perfect place to do something about it. The 'punishment' is just really to help him to verify for me."

"You could've just called for me." said Bella. "I am a pretty high-class bounty hunter after all, so this isn't the first time I've met his perverted ass."

Crowler chuckled sheepishly, having managed to forget that possibility. However, one thing that kept it from being too big of an issue was the fact that their shared past wasn't a good one, so she wasn't the first idea on his list.

Bella sighed in frustration. "At any rate, I need to get to the tennis courts and deal with him once and for all."

With that, she ran off again, only this time actually managing to make it to her destination. She found Jaden dueling Rosewood while Syrus, Alexis, Jasmine, and Mindy were off to the side watching. But she didn't quite care about that.

"ROSEWOOD!" she shouted, stomping forward as they all turned to her. Said boy turned and paled white from seeing her, remembering their past encounter which didn't go well for him.

"B-b-b-b-bella!" he stuttered, stumbling back in fear.

"Oh, so you remember me." she said sweetly to him. "Do you happen to remember just what I said the next time I caught you in a situation like this?"

He tried to run, but Bella was too quick as she knocked him down and drug him off, leaving four blank stares, one dumbfounded stare, and a surprisingly confused Duel Monster (if any of them were to notice).

Jaden then cried out, "Come on! Really?! How many damn times is she going to end up getting in the way of duels?!"

However, unlike the other times his duels were interrupted, this time actually gave him a return response to his aggravation, in the form of a high-pitched scream of "MOMMY!" before pained screams started sounding.

"I think you're probably better off this time, Jaden." said Syrus, wincing with everyone.

Jaden nodded. "Might as well let Crowler know that the rumors he heard are correct."

"Rumors?" Alexis asked, a bit suspicious about what was going on.

"Yeah." he told the four. "You weren't the first he tried to go after. However, the only reason there isn't any actually hard evidence is that while here, he has yet to find a way to get away with it. His few targets have managed to be smart enough to not risk themselves. Crowler just asked me to find out the full truth from the inside."

Alexis and her two closest friends paled a bit at the implications, not needing to hear anything further. Although that didn't mean much in regards to the fact that the screams were still going, and they weren't going to forget them any time soon.

Please let me know what you think. But try and keep questions about updates to a minimum, please? I'm trying to do a form of rotation with all my stories, so I won't be quite able to do updates all that often.