The Digital Gate: Thanks for reviewing and correcting me , as my friend would say, "Oopsie, I made a po-" Moving on.

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh GX, only Meinumon

Chazz and Suzy stood on opposite sides of the field, both out of breath. The duel had been raging on for ten minutes and counting. Neither side showed signs of giving up. The score was 1800 LP(Chazz) and 2100 LP (Suzy), and it was Chazz's move.

Chazz glanced at his hand, then at his opponent. He couldn't understand it. He had studied her moves during her duel, yet this time she was using none of them. Every move was completely different from her earilier duel. Even the cards. Whats going on? Did she change cards? Does she have different decks like Bastian does? He glanced at his hand again. Well, regardless of the cards, I need to think of something... His eyes flashed from the cards in his hand, to his field, and back again, trying to think of something he could do.

"Relax."

Chazz's head jerked up to glare at the person who had spoken. "What?" he asked.

Suzy calmly folded her arms across her chest. "I said, relax."

"And why should I listen to you?"

"I never said you had to; it was a suggestion."

Chazz's glare darkened, but before he could speak, someone else interrupted.

"Is one of you Shuichon?"

Heads snapped to see who had spoken. Chazz, Suzy, Bastian, everyone. Including Chumley, who turned his head rather slowly. Syrus's eyes widened in suprise. "Big brother?"

"Big brother..?" Suzy looked confused, first glancing at Syrus, then at his brother. Syrus nodded. "You two look nothing alike..."

"I take it you're Shuichon?"

"Yes..."

"Suzy, this is Zane. Zane, Suzy," Jaden quickly introduced, then turned to Zane and asked, "What're you doing here? And why are you looking for her?"

"The Chancellor wants to test her for something," Zane replied.

"He can wait!" Chazz snapped.

"I was ordered to bring her immediately."

Suzy looked slightly amused. After all, she had only accepted to duel in order to test out a deck that she had made on the trip to Duel Academy to take her mind off of things. "Are you that keen on finishing the duel?" she wanted to know. "Because if you are...here." She placed her hand over her deck, indicating that she had given up. The holograms slowly disappeared, as Suzy turned around and followed Zane. Chazz was looked thunderstruck.

"Get back here! We haven't finished the duel!" he shouted.

Suzy turned around. "I surrendered. So technically, we did finish it. Later."

Even though Suzy had surrendered, Chazz still wanted to finish the duel. But since Suzy kept refusing, he resorted to something else: arguing with her. They bickered day and night, for no reason whatsoever. And the fact that Suzy had been upgraded to Ra Yellow the first day didn't help, either.

Flashback

"Suzy, we've studied your dueling skills and we've decided to move you to Ra Yellow." The chancellor announced. Suzy had just finished dueling another official, which was why Zane had brought her in the first place.

"But there are no girls in Ra Yellow.. Shouldn't she be in Obelisk Blue?" Zane asked.

"I know. But she isn't good enough to be in Obelisk Blue. So instead, she'll live in the girl's dorms but be in Ra Yellow. As for the uniform, we don't have any girl's ones. Do you mind if we give you a boy's uniform?"

Suzy's face, which had been tense, relaxed. "No, not at all," she replied. "Just one question: Why didn't you place me in the dorm before?"

"Because you weren't up to the standards and because we thought you might duel better if you weren't in front of all the students." Suzy didn't say a word, but a faint blush was creeping up her cheeks.

"If you have no more questions, you may go now. We'll call for you when we have your blazer ready."

Suzy bowed before leaving through the door.

End Flashback

And now, they were arguing again.

"No, dogs don't eat tomatoes!"

"Well how would you know? You're not a dog!"

"I'm not, but you are!"

"How much longer are they going to keep this up?" Alexis muttered.

Beside her, Jaden shrugged. "Don't know. And how they got to dogs eating tomatoes, I have no clue."

"They always do this. Start at a subject, then get way off track." Alexis toyed with the grass absentmindedly. She had planned on asking Jaden a question, but she couldn't remember it now, thanks to Chazz and Suzy.

Bastian finally stood up. "Okay you two, stop." Both Chazz and Suzy closed their mouths, but kept on glaring at each other. "Don't you have anything better to do?" he asked.

"I was supposed to meet Dimitri, but this fool," here she jabbed her thumb at Chazz, "made me forget where to meet him."

During the first week that Suzy spent at Duel Academy, she had managed to make friends with the school dueling copycat. How, nobody knew. One day they didn't know each other, and the next day they were the best of friends.

Alexis jumped up. "Oh, that's right!" she cried, "I was going to meet Zane by the lighthouse to ask him a question about homework! See you!" With that, she had dashed off.

Jaden watched her run off, her hair reflecting the sun's rays. "Zane, huh?" he grumbled, "Why is it always him?" He didn't mean for anyone to hear, but Suzy caught hold of every word. Thoughtfully, she turned and watched the setting sun.

Suzy entered her room. Lopmon was snoring on her bed, his floppy ears spread wide.

She smiled to herself and was about to move him when something blue caught her eye. It was her digivice. And it had found a Digimon. "Lopmon, wake up, and hurry! It's him!"

Chazz was walking back to the boys dorms when he saw something white flash on the hill above him. He glanced up and caught sight of someone he recognized. Suzy!
"Show yourself!" Suzy commanded, standing in a digital field with Lopmon by her side.

"Why should I? You already know who I am..." The voice, cold and chilling replied.

Suzy gritted her teeth. Lopmon stepped up. "Why are you here?"

Cruel laughter answered. "Well..it's obvious isn't it? Do you know how long it took for me to find you? Out of all the places in the world, you had to choose here. Is there a certain reason why? Scared for you family? Or is it that you want to ruin someplace else?"

Suzy froze up. Lopmon gave her a terrified glance, then turned back and shouted, "Well if you think you can beat us so easily, show yourself already!"

"I think I will.."

Behind a tree, Chazz waited, holding his breath, his legs frozen up. He had followed Suzy here, only to see her with some sort of chocolate rabbit before the fog closed in.

He heard them speaking. Suzy's voice, one that he couldn't reconize, and once that sent shivers down his spine. Every word they said, he didn't understand.

It seemed as if that Suzy held a secret from everyone, a dark one. All he could do was wait.

The Digimon emerged from the shrouds. A bushy tail sprouted from behind. His fangs glistened in the faint light, dark piercing eyes sought out his enemies. Finding them, he grinned, eyes glinting. Blood-red wings covered his back. Claws that even tigers would envy sprouted from his paws. Pale fur wrapped his entire body. "Long time no see," he greeted.

Suzy's fist clenched. "Meiunmon."

"I see you remember me."

"Kind of hard not to."

"I see. In any case, before we start, I'd like to meet your friend that you brought with you." Meinumon settled on his haunches and waited.

Bewilderment sprung on Suzy's face. "What? You already know Lopmon." Next to her, Lopmon bobbed his head in agreement.

Meinumon rolled his eyes immpatiently. "Not him."

"Then who?"

Sighing, Meinumon got to his feet. "Ganjigarame!" Thin cords shot out from his tail and towards a tree. Both Suzy and Lopmon watched it with puzzled expressions.

Somehow, Chazz knew that the 'friend' was him, he began to run, to try and get out, but was stopped. Cords caught him and he was pulled into the open.
Suzy's eyes widened is suprise and disbelief. "Chazz..?"No...not him...
TBC