AN: This is my first Yu-gi-oh! GX story, so be nice on the reviews. Despite what you may think, throughout the entire story, I did not make up any characters at all. Any characters you do not recognize, except for maybe any unrecognizable cards, come from a book called the Necronomicon, which I have tried my best to stay true to while also trying to stay true to the anime.
Enough chatter, here's the tale of the Necronomicon...
Necronomicon
Chapter 1: Ravings in Arabic
There was no sign of future misfortunes as the day's mostly uninteresting events transpired on that Friday afternoon in Duel Acadamy. The students were within the classroom and it was Dr. Crowler who was currently teaching, his subject at the moment being "Creating Effective Deck Themes".
"Now as you all should hopefully know by now, most of the well-known duelists in the world, like Yugi Mutou and Seto Kaiba to name a few, have a set style of play," spoke Dr. Crowler as he stood in front of the class, his eyes most often landing upon the Obelisk Blue students that he favors so much. "A theme often refers to the monsters used in a deck, but it sometimes refers to the type of win you try to obtain in your duels. As a refresher, can anyone tell me the different ways to win a duel?"
In an instant went up the hand of a Ra Yellow in the class, namely Bastion. Dr. Crowler, with an unnoticable frown on his face at the fact that an Obelisk hadn't raised their hands to the question, spotted the upraised hand. "Since no one else is willing, Bastion, go ahead and answer." It did not take long for Bastion to stand where he sat, a traditional custom in schools such as this.
"There are two common-used ways of winning a duel. One of them is by reducing your opponent's Life Points to zero by either attacking with monsters or using the effects of various cards. The other common method is to deck out or your opponent, so that he has no cards left in his deck during his draw phase." Bastion was about to become quiet at this moment when he remembered one other thing to add. "The lesser-known way to win a duel, the Instant Win method, is by holding all of the Exodia Pieces in your hand or by having the word 'FINAL' spelled out in your Spell and Trap zones by use of Destiny Board and the Spirit Message cards in the proper order." As he sat back down, he recieved glares from some of his fellow students, mostly the Slifers Reds except for a few, while being looked upon by Dr. Crowler with slightly widened eyes.
It was a bit obvious that even the professor wasn't expecting Bastion to remember about the Instant Win method of victory.
"You are absolutely correct, Bastion. There are plenty of ways to achieve victory, not including the methods used for instant wins, which are very few. The most common themes for victory by reducing your opponent's Life Points to zero is the Beatdown and the Fusion, each of which has various sub-themes, many more than I have the time to list. Certain themes, however," revealed Crowler with a slight sigh, "require vast amounts of luck to even barely win a duel. Take the traditional Elemental Hero deck---what the! Jaden Yuki, sit back down this instant!"
His eyes had landed upon a suddenly-riled student sitting among the Slifer Red students, namely Jaden, who was not only the Ace of Slifer Red, but also the student Crowler despised so much. He was held back by a large, koala-faced student, Chumley, from behind with a little help from a usually-shy kid, Syrus. It seems that, had he not been pinned by his friends, he would have jumped over the desk in front of him and a couple of students to get to the Obelisk Blue professor.
"You take that back about the Elemental Heroes, Dr. Crowler!" Jaden roared in anger. If he never had before returned Crowler's hatred for him, he does now. A slight smile appeared upon Dr. Crowler's face. It seemed he had finally hit upon Jaden's one weakness, his attachment with the monsters that he duels with.
"I'd suggest you sit down and calm yourself before you land in something worse than detention, mister. I was about to say why Elemental Hero decks usually never work well in a high-level duel, too." Looking up at the clock, Crowler made a mental growl as he realize that class time was up. "But that will be explained another time. Class dismissed, enjoy your weekend!" It was then that Crowler had noticed that Jaden, though his two friends had released their grip on him, had calmed down just enough to keep from litterally attacking the professor.
Crowler made a mental note to treat Chumley and Syrus just a little bit better for saving him from a rather nasty situation. He's seen Jaden duel and he does NOT want to see if Jaden could fare well in a fist fight, because the dear professor knew full well that he, himself would not last long in such a fight.
"And Jaden, I expect to see you in detention. 5:00 at the front of the school, mister. You'd better thank your friends for saving you from being expelled." Jaden stormed out of there before Chumley and Syrus could even think about following him as Crowler watched him with narrow eyes.
Oh, how he wanted to get rid of the slacker...
"I can't believe he had the nerve to insult my deck like that, even after I beat the Sacred Beasts with them!" It was obvious to everyone that Jaden was angry, even those who only knew him for his fame could tell he was angry. It caused quite a stir in the conversations around Duel Academy, especially sine this was the first time Jaden ever really acted out of anger in public. Usually, it was only among his close friends, or amongst the other Key Keepers during the times of the Shadow Riders, that he had ever gotten angry.
Unfortunately, he was also scaring Syrus, who was walking next to him.
"Um, Jaden? I...I'm going to go to the library to look something up with Bastion. See ya later." And with that, Jaden saw Syrus bolt off at a speedy walking pace, making him realize just how badly Syrus was afraid of him in this state, forcing the hot-headed Slifer to calm down even more.
"Whoops. Syrus, wait up! I need to work on a report that was due yesterday!" And with that, Jaden ran after Syrus, easily catching up to him.
The two Slifers entered the library, which was filled with all sorts of books about dueling, as well as other books filled with various topics in mind. However, there was not a single book in the school about magic. The owner of the school, Seto Kaiba, made certain of that himself.
"Alright, I'm going to find something that's going to make my report much easier to write. See ya, Syrus."
"See ya, Jaden." With that, the two friends separated into different directions within the huge cavern that is the Duel Academy library, with Syrus finding Bastion doing a little studying of his own. "Hey, Bastion!" With his name called out, the Ra Yellow duelist looked up toward Syrus with a smile.
"Hello, Syrus. Where's Jaden or is he doing his usual 'wait-until-after-due-date' routine?" Syrus simply nodded to this.
"Yeah, that's Jaden. I'm just trying to get at least one thing done on time this year." While looking at Bastion, Syrus noticed a glow just past him, coming from what looked like one of the books on the shelves. He took it as part of his imagination when Bastion started speaking to him.
"How is Jaden? I don't blame him for getting angry like he did, though I'm glad you and Chumley held him back. I made the mistake of doing some sparring exercises with him one time while I was practicing Tai Kwan Do." Bastion flinched, giving Syrus a rather good idea of what may have happened at the time.
"He's still angry, although I also think he's calmed down a little bit. Admittedly, I'm scared of him while he's angry like this." Syrus spotted the glowing book on the shelf once more and this time he got a better look. It was an old book, rather archaic in nature. "I'll be right back. I want to see something." Syrus started walking up to the book, not knowing what tugged him to it. One thing was for certain: he felt like he had to have it, no matter what it was.
When he was close enough, he saw that the book was not in a language he could read, but in one he could recognize, the Arabic language. "I didn't know they had Arabic books here." His hand placed upon the spine, he then gasped as he became suddenly able to understand the meaning of the title: Necronomicon. Seeing if this was a fluke, Syrus opened up the book to a random page, which he suddenly felt to be his biggest mistake. The whole book was in Arabic and, somehow, little Syrus was able to understand its words. It spoke of demons from beyond the stars and of seven spirits known to the book's writer as the "Lords of the Old Ones". The two he caught mention of were Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurath.
Syrus immediately closed the book and placed it back on the shelf before running to find Jaden or Bastion, which ever he got to first.
He found and nearly mowed over Jaden in his fear.
"Yikes, watch it, Sy! What's up?" Looking back toward where he saw the glowing book, he noticed that the glow wasn't there anymore.
"Um, nothing now..."
What was that wierd book? And why could I understand it?
Dr. Crowler waited outside of the school near the front entrance, a book in his hands about how a pair of duelists ended up falling in love with each other after a duel.
"That slacker is late once again. Oh, well. At least it'll give me time to actually finish this book." He soon looked up, swearing that he heard foot steps and almost believed that they were Jaden's.
The footsteps instead belonged a man in a black hooded robe, his face covered in darkness, since he had no face, and his eyes were like bright stars pitted against the night sky.
"I hear you have problems dealing with a student of yours. I could be of assistance to you." Crowler's eyebrows rose in interest at these words.
"You sound as if you are confident in what you are scheming, though I think you wish for something in return, am I correct?" A nod came from the faceless being as made certain that his skin was completely covered from the sun.
"Yes, I am certain of what I plan, I just require one service in exchange. One of your students has found a book containing dangerous magics within it, despite the carefulness that the owner of this school took to make certain that no such books came here and I am afraid that he will be using it to do as he pleases. For his safety and for the safety of this school, the book must be destroyed and the book keeper gotten rid of. Do this and I will do what I can to get rid of Jaden Yuki for you." Crowler looked at him in shock at the mention of the student he named. How did he know about Jaden?
But since the incident with the Shadow Riders, hardly anything phased him anymore and shook hands with the black-cloaked person, his hand revealing a slightly-clawed hand from the robes.
"You've got yourself a deal. Just what can I call you, anyway?" If he has a face, the unusual being would have smiled at this question, but his eyes seemed to express that fact clarly on their own.
"Just call me 'The Chaos That Creeps', dear Vellian."