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Legends of the Demon Duelist-Chaos Arc

Chapter 15: The Bath House Scandal

Daniel lifted his head just in time to see Midas King march into his office. "Is there something I can help you with?"

The professor's reply was to slam something onto his desk. "Just take a look at this!" He had a look on his face that was like a parent finding out some secret of their child's.

Daniel sighed and leaned in to look at the manila folder that was on his desk now. "And just what is this?"

Opening it, his eyes bugged out and he slapped the folder shut immediately. "What the hell are you showing me this for?" From the blush in his cheeks, the contents of the folder must have been something interesting.

"I found those during my search of the Osiris Red dorms! Now how about you explain why such things were in the room of your students!" Midas' finger came incredibly close to Daniel's face.

The half wolf-demon stood up and returned the point. "How about you explain why you were snooping around the rooms of the students that are my responsibility!"

Now they were both pointing at each other….and neither could really explain themselves.

Finally Daniel lowered his hand. "How about we try this? I'll see what I can find out and you see what you can find out. First to find out blows the lid on this scandal and takes the credit?"

"Are you implying that we should bet with a concern dealing with the students of this academy?" Midas quirked his lips slightly. If there was one thing he liked, it was a good bet.

Daniel nodded. "What's the matter King, don't think you can win?"

"We'll see." Midas turned and walked out of the office.


Ichigo sighed and sat back in his chair. "So let me get this straight dad. You got into a bet with Professor King, and the winner of the bet is he who figures out the parties responsible for this 'scandal'?"

Daniel nodded to his son, and then to Griff and Krieger. "And I need your help."

"Our help? What good are we going to do?" Griff asked.

"I need all of you guys because the evidence was found in this dorm and as students each of you are much less conspicuous than I could be." Daniel's hand came down to point at Ichigo. "You're the biggest key to my plan though. Only you can go where I need a pair of super-strength eyes and ears."

"Only me?" Ichigo didn't like where this was going.

Daniel nodded. "It's time to see just how much control you have over Luna's Blessings."

Ichigo paled, immediately understanding what his father was implying. "Whoa! Hang on a second, what are you talking about? If you mean what I think you mean then no way!"

Smirking, Daniel held up a single photograph and flicked it to Ichigo. "Take a look at this before you argue."

Ichigo caught the picture and glanced at it. His eyes widened and he brought his full attention to look at it. For a few moments he was silent, and then he crumpled the photo up. "That….that…"

Griff and Krieger shrugged to each other and then looked to Daniel questioningly.

Daniel's reply was simple. "Someone has gotten camera-happy at the Obelisk Blue girls' bath house. And one of their favorite targets for photography is…"

Ichigo cracked his knuckles and stood up. "Let's get this done. I want to meet this peeping tom, so I can rip his eyes out."

"But can you even use the power of Luna to turn into a girl anymore?" Krieger shut his mouth when Ichigo replied with a wilting glare. "Uh…never mind."

Ichigo took his deck out of his pocket and looked at it. "I know I can if I want to. And this is the only time I'm ever going to want to."

Daniel nodded and stood up. "I'll see you guys tonight. I've got to go make preparations."


Ichigo ran her hands through her hair slowly, remembering that her best chance to avoid being detected was to act natural. Then she remembered where she was going and all forms of focus disappeared. ("Umm….maybe I shouldn't be doing this.")

("Perhaps you would like me to do this instead?") Ahran's voice rang in her head. ("I don't have any fear of women.")

("What fear of women are you talking about?") Ichigo growled angrily. ("I don't fear women!")

("Oh really? I can understand that are trying to convince yourself otherwise, but the truth is that you are afraid. Don't worry, I'll help.")

Growling louder, Ichigo cut off her link to Ahran. "I'll show you right now I'm not afraid!"


Daniel looked down from his perch in a nearby tree and watched Ichigo head inside. "Now remember kid, don't blow your cover and don't let anyone get too good of a look at you. If they do then you'll probably be found out."

"I wasn't exactly planning on announcing that I am here," Ichigo's voice replied to him from the microphone hidden between her ears.


"So Eri, what's the deal with you and Ichigo?" Sammy ran a wash-cloth across her face and contently sighed as she sank into the hot water of the spring located inside the bath house.

Ashley nodded and slid in next to her roommate. "Yeah, I've been really curious just what you have been doing with him lately."

"It's none of your business, but…" Eri froze up and sniffed the air. "……I plan on killing him in a moment." She stood up and stomped out of the spring, eyes glowing red.


Ichigo didn't intend to remove her clothing. What she intended to do was find the person taking the photos and avoid the areas where she shouldn't be in the first place. Then a scent hit her nose and she flushed red. ("Eri…")

At the moment she was in a locker room that luckily was devoid of people. But from the smell that was about to change. ("What do I do? What do I do?")

Whether luck or a deity was watching over Ichigo was unknown, but in her moment of panic she slipped on a wet part of the tile and crashed to the floor just as Eri came in, effectively removing her from immediate sight.

Eri poked her head into the locker room and sniffed the air again. ("I can smell you…and that means you're going to die Pilkington.") Cracking her knuckles, she started to search the room. If Ichigo moved or made the slightest noise, she would detect him and then nothing would protect him from her wrath.

Ichigo felt cold. ("Death is upon me…she'll eventually come over in this direction and then I'm as good as dead.") A sudden inspiration hit her. ("Wait…if I…") Praying for luck, she made her move.

Eri turned the corner around a set of lockers and her eyes widened at what she saw. "What the hell?"

There was a green bush in between two rows of lockers.

Eri narrowed her eyes. "Now I know you're retarded. Do you actually think that camouflage is going to fool anyone? How did you get that bush in here anyway?"

The sound of a door on the other end of the room caught Eri's attention immediately. Growling, she snapped her claws through the bush and withdrew nothing but leaves. ("Damn it! I can't believe he fooled me!")


Ichigo had broken into a full run, cheeks bright red and eyes squeezed shut. ("I can't believe I fooled her!") She hadn't seen anything, and she had no intention of seeing anything either. ("Must…find…camera….quickly.") The sooner her target was located the sooner she could leave.

Then she broke through a pair of double doors. A wet and slippery floor greeted her and sent her sliding across cold tile. "GAH!"


Daniel winced at his "son's" scream and pulled the radio receiver away from his ears. "Damn it…what happened?" Trying to listen though, all he got now was static now. ("Oh boy…what fun…now I get to sit up in this tree and try to figure out what happened.")


Ichigo's head broke the surface of the spring and she gasped for air. "Oh man! Who put a…" The words spring rang in her mind and she didn't open her eyes, because her ears were detecting numerous gasps of surprise that were coming from all around her.

A normal boy would have probably snuck a peek just out of basic curiosity. Ichigo wasn't a normal boy though. For one thing, she had experienced what it was like to be on the receiving end of those kinds of looks, and she didn't like it. Secondly, her sense of honor said it was wrong. Finally, she didn't want to pass out from blood loss if she did break into a nose-bleed.

So eyes squinted shut she stumbled through the water, trying to find the tile so that she could get out of the spring and find her way out.

Then someone grabbed the collar of her jacket and lifted her up out of the pool. ("Oh no…")

"Now…" Eri, ignoring the confused looks all of the other girls in the room, pulled Ichigo out of the spring, along the floor and out of the room, into the hallway. "…I'm going to rip your head off."

Ichigo got down on her hands and knees, eyes shut tightly. Bowing her head, she whimpered loudly. "Please Eri; I have a good reason for being here!"

"Oh really?" The demoness flexed her claws. "For the sake of humor I'll hear you out."

"There's someone taking photos of the girls while they are in the bath house, and I'm here to try removing the camera and catching the crook." Ichigo whimpered louder and pressed her forehead against the floor.

Eri grabbed Ichigo and slammed her against the nearby wall of the hallway. "Don't you tell me any bullshit like that! Tell me the truth!"

"I am…" Ichigo wished she could run, but the chances of that happening were rather low.

Eri narrowed her eyes and her hand snaked out to tilt Ichigo's head up slightly. "Then why are you staring at my chest?"

Ichigo's eyes had been forced open by the impact against the wall, and for a few moments she had been staring at the toweled form of the demoness. "Uh….well…..I…."

Eri slammed her forehead against Ichigo's, forcing her eyes shut, and then dragged the half-demon out through the locker room and punted her, football-style, out of the entrance. "Die, you pervert!"


Daniel watched the air-bound form of his son disappear from sight and sighed. ("Wow…poor kid wasn't even in there for more than five minutes.")


Ichigo arched through the sky and came crashing down at beachside, her head stuck in the sand like an ostrich's. ("Owww….")

"I bet that hurt a lot didn't it?" A voice laughed out.

Removing her head from the sand, Ichigo looked at whoever had spoken.

It was a man in a brown leather jacket with a pair of wire-frame glasses on and a black pony-tail. "Hello there, you must be Ichigo Pilkington."

Paling, Ichigo hopped up and cleared the sand out of her ears. "Of course not. Ichigo Pilkington is this really cool guy that lives in my dorm."

Rolling his eyes, the man flicked a photograph to Ichigo. "Don't play games with me."

Catching it, Ichigo nearly gagged on her tongue. "What the hell? When did…" The picture looked like an overlap of Ichigo's male self standing in the same space as his female self.

"I know all about your secret. And that's why I took those bath house pictures. I planted them exactly where Midas King would find them and knew he would bring them to your father. After such, your father would ask you to go the bath house to find the culprit." The man smirked. "The camera was a one-shot, and isn't there anymore. In fact, I never even looked at the pictures I had taken with it. It was just a time-delay trigger." Holding up another picture, his smirk continued. "However, now I have the perfect leverage to use against you. I have more than enough proof to show that you and your male self are the same person, and considering that I now have photos of you in the girl's bath house…"

Ichigo paled even more. "Who are you?"

"My name is Jason Reynolds, a journalist of the strange and unexplained. And your story is one I want to know more about. All you have to do is duel me and I'll give you all evidence to both incidents…if you win of course."

Ichigo ground her teeth, but nodded. "Fine." ("I can't let those photos get to anyone! I'll not only have my secret out but I'll wind up kicked out of this school!")


A few minutes later the two duelists stood across from each other on the beachside, the moon illuminating their field nicely.

"Ready to begin?" Reynolds old-fashioned duel disk clicked into place.

"Always," Ichigo, who was back to his male self, turned on his own disk.

Reynolds- 4000

Ichigo- 4000

"Then let the challenger go first." Reynolds drew. Looking at the drawn card he threw it down. "Go Paparazzi!" (1200/1000) A man in a simple brown coat carrying an old-fashioned camera appeared on the field. "Now I discard one card from my hand to special summon the other two Paparazzi from my deck to the field!" Two more copies of the journalist monster reappeared on the field. "Then I set one card face-down and end my turn."

"A journalism deck…" Ichigo had heard that Industrial Illusions had created card sets based off of certain real life jobs, but he found it hard to believe someone would create a set based off of journalism. "Let me introduce your reporters to my team." He drew. "Go Cyber Shadow-Blademaster!" (2000/1600) A duel-sword wielding warrior in black armor appeared on his field. "Attack Paparazzi!" Nodding, the warrior leapt forward and slashed through the reporter with ease.

Reynolds tapped a button on his disk. "Impressive, but exactly what I expected! Activate continuous magic card Spin Control! This card activates when face-down on my field and a journalism monster is destroyed as a result of battle. All battle damage is done to you instead of me!"

Reynolds- 4000

Ichigo- 3200

"That isn't all though, because when Paparazzi is destroyed as a result of battle I can draw one card." Reynolds slid a card off of his deck and added it to his hand. "You need to be more careful what you do when there are members of the press around."

Frowning, Ichigo slid two cards into his disk. "If you're going to crack jokes at least make them funny ones. I set two cards face-down on the field and end my turn."

Reynolds drew. "That wasn't a joke. If you had been much more careful I'd never even have found out about your secret. For now I'm just setting two cards face-down on the field and ending my turn."

Ichigo drew. ("This is going to have to be a good turn. So far I'm off to a pretty bad start.") "It's time to start messing with your strategy! Activate Shadow Theft!" One of his two face-down cards flipped up. "This trap card only works while I have a Cyber Shadow in play. It will steal one face-up magic or trap card on your field!" Spin Control started to shimmer. "So I'll be taking the card that protects your life points!"

"Oh really?" Reynolds motioned to one of his now face-up card. "I discard one card from my hand to activate the magic card Sting Operation. This card triggers when you try to steal a card from my field. Not only is the stealing effect negated, but you will now lose 1500 life points!" Lightning exploded from the magic card and shattered Shadow Theft.

Ichigo bit back his screams as the lightning arched along his form for a few moments.

Reynolds- 4000

Ichigo- 1700

Reynolds shook his head slowly. "You're not very good. Then again, the media is a hard thing to defeat, wouldn't you agree?"

Ichigo coughed to clear the ozone from his lungs. "Yeah…I can see how it can be dangerous. However…" He slid two cards into his disk. "I set two cards face-down and end my turn."

Reynolds drew. ("You're not bad kid, but my career has been collapsing for the last few months. I need a new story to revive it.") "First I play Swords of Revealing Light!" Glowing green swords of light slammed down onto the field. "This card will prevent you from attacking for three turns."

Ichigo nodded slightly. "I understand…but I have the stronger monster."

"For now." Reynolds held up a different card. "However…" He opened his field magic card slot. "It's time to see how well this card works." Inserting it in, he felt the air around them warping. "I play Chaos Dimension."

"Chaos Dimension?" Ichigo narrowed his eyes as prismatic light spread over the field all around them. ("He has that card…the same card that Octavian played earlier?")

Holding up his hand, Reynolds revealed a white die. "Depending on the number rolled, we'll decide what effect I get." His eyes were glowing with the same prismatic light that hovered around them. Upturning his hand, he dumped the die to the ground. It bounced around crazily and then landed on a six. "No…"

Ichigo was about to ask what that meant, but his words caught in his throat as he felt pain spike through him. Gasping for air, he clutched at his throat and collapsed to the ground.

("Rolling a six…means the effect of Chaos Dimension transfers to my opponent.") Reynolds ground his teeth as the card flew out of his field magic card slot and landed inside Ichigo's field magic card slot.

Ichigo slowly came to his feet, eyes glimmering prismatic instead of hazel. "You…" His lips curled slightly into a dark smile. "…are not going to enjoy what I will do to you in reprisal for trying to blackmail me."

He dropped the white die to the ground, which had found its way to his hand. The die bounced around and stopped on a two. "Now I draw two cards every turn and draw one right now." He slid a card off of his deck and added it to his hand. "Now go ahead and continue your turn, human scum."

To be continued…