AN: Okay, I should have said this in the first chapter. I had gotten this idea before I FINALLY managed to watch the Shadow Rider episodes on the net. By the time I actually watched it, I looked at my story and commenced headdesking many times. Of course, I have a problem with having my stories take place BEFORE set-in-stone events in a cartoon, so...
Forgive me if I'm no longer true to the characters because of the conflict caused by this story and the Shadow Riders series.
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Necronomicon
Chapter 2: Lovers of the Winds
It was true that there were underground cavers on Duel Academy island. After waiting an hour for a no-show on Jaden's account, Crowler found himself walking though one of the cavern passageways with a steamed look on his face.
"That shows you for expecting that slacker to show up to detention. I wonder...what the?" He found himself in one of the largest cavern rooms under Duel Academy, where he found the strange figure from before, the Chaos That Creeps, standing amongst a circle of candles with blood on the floor, old and dried blood. This was a site of rituals long past, which was evident by the strange markings on the wall, markings he could never even begin to describe.
He heard the robed figure uttering words in a strange language as strange feminine spirits appeared around the black-robed figure, the only traits of his showing, being his empty, black face with star-like eyes and slightly-clawed hands.
The spirits were white in color and appeared as beautiful, angelic maidens that were ready to be wed. Crowler had a hard time trying to resist the spell cast by their looks, but he managed it, realizing that there was something more to these creatures than meets the eye.
The chanting ceased and tthe Chaos That Creeps looked up toward Dr. Crowler with his startlit eyes.
"Vellian, I have but a simple question to ask. This Jaden Yuki that you have difficulties with, do you by chance know any of his weaknesses?" A smile appeared upon the professor's face at that moment.
"It seems that he is extremely attached to the monsters he uses in his deck, the Elemental Heroes. It would be well worth all the headaches I've had to deal with to see the boy emotionally scarred before leaving this place." A nod came from the Chaos the Creeps before pointing toward one of the spirits and uttering a few words, turning her into an exact double of the Elemental Hero Burstinatrix.
"Considering what I am planning at the moment, this would be an excellent form for this one to take. Now go, my Lovers of the Winds! You know what you must do!" And with that, the ghostly ladies disappeared as they phased through the cavern ceiling, each one with an objective in mind.
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Syrus was in deep shock.
The old, Arabic book he had discovered in the library was laying on his bed under the covers he had moved to try and go to sleep.
"I didn't check that book out, so why is it here?" Picking up the book, he noticed that it opened up on his own to a page that showed an image, shown somewhat as a branch and somwehat like the pattern in a proof of geometry, having angles and circles set in a precise relationship, that glowed in the moonlight that remained in the room. Some of the text in the book was also highlighted as well, which he read out loud to himself.
"Know you that Yog-Sothoth is the gate and the key, but the Elder Seal is the lock. Created by the Elder Things in the war against Cthulhu and his spawn countless ages prior to the making of man, it has the power to prevent the passage of the Old Ones or their children when placed upon any threshold." Syrus looked up toward above the door and windows and realized that the sign would be really noticable if he placed them where suggested.
Instead, he pulled out one of the cards in his deck, the Steamroid, and drew the image on a small section of the card before placing it underneath his pillow, which already helped him feel more at ease.
"I just hope this works and that I get a good night's sleep." Putting the book out of view in his backpack, Syrus finally went to sleep, though he had no idea what was going to happen during the night hours.
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Three Lovers of the Winds, one of them being the Burstinatrix double, entered a room in the Slifer Red dorms, each one set to target a different boy in the room. Two of the three entered the minds of their targets, the Burstinatrix double in Jaden and the other in Chumley, but the one that was to target Syrus was repelled.
There was something about him that the spirit deemed horrible about his energy as well as the fact that he looked too young to have any real fun with. She flew off before she had done anything with this news, wondering if her master would know anything about it.
However, Jaden and Chumley weren't as safe from the spirits as Syrus was...
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"Where am I?" In his dream, Jaden had found himself in a different world, a world full of monsters that normally have 1000 ATK points or less and the E-Heroes that he loved to use in his duels. He spotted a Bubbleman or two as well as a Bubbleman Neo hosing down a burning building with their individual Bubble Blasters while seeing three Avian flying up and getting the monsters that were trapped in the top floor of the tall building. "Look at the all the Elemental Heroes...I wouldn't mind living in a place like this."
"Would you, dear Jaden?" He immediately turned around at the voice and gasped as butterflies started filling his stomach so to speak. It was the Elemental Hero Burstinatrix and she looked more beautiful in person than in the hologram in his opinion. Normally, he was incapable of going head-over-heels for anyone, not even Alexis, but there was something about this Burstinatrix... He couldn't help it. It had become love at first sight.
"Yeah...yeah, I would. Especially to be with you." He didn't even know what was going on with him, and for once, he didn't care. He just wanted to be with her, with Burstinatrix. Even if she was just a card at home.
Then the unexpected happpened, she kissed him most gently on the lips in a teasing manners, and he was instantly hooked by it.
"Would you come with me? I wish to show you something..."
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Syrus woke up to the sounds of moaning directly above him, which he wasn't too happy about. Sleepily scurrying out of bed, he looked up to see Jaden shaking in his sleep, though he appeared to have a smile on his face.
"What kind of dream could he had that make him do this? Somehow, I don't think it's related to dueling...whoa!" All of a sudden, Jaden starts tossing and turning in his sleep, the smile still on his face. It's almost as if what ever was happening in the dream was soemthing he was enjoying. "Jaden, you're really scaring me right now." By some miracle, Syrus had managed to go back to sleep after getting back in the bed, but not before muttering, "Maybe I should use earplugs like Chazz is..."
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"What! What do you mean?" Syrus was in the Chancellor's office and in a state of total shock by the news he had heard.
"We don't know what's going on, but it seems that whatever's going on has affected every male student except you. We are moving all of the affected to both of the Obelisk Blue Dormitories, since there is nowhere near enough room to place them all in the hospital wing, while all other students are rooming in the Ra Yellow Dormitory. As the only unaffected boy, you're going to have to have your own in in the Ra Yellow dorm." Syrus just stared at him, not knowing what to say.
"What's going to happen to Jaden---"
"We're doing what we can to reverse the damage, but we can't seem to find a cause for their changes in the students' behaviors. You have no idea how shocked I was when I heard that Jaden had actually turn down a duel against another student," spoke Chancellor Sheppard with the tone of alarm in his voice. Looking out behind him toward the window at the slightly-cloudy sky above for a moment, he looked back toward Syrus. "Also, since most of the students here are indeed boys, class will be cancelled until we can figure out what's going on. You may leave now." Giving a proper bow to the Chancellor, Syrus ran out of the room in his shock.
"Oh, man. What did I do that no one else did?" He then flashed back to last night, when he made that unusual symbol on his Steamroid card before putting it under his pillow. He pulled it out and looked at it again. The symbol, which was drawn to blend into the picture, was now glowing. It was as it was protecting him from something. "I wonder if this symbol has anything to do with it."
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"You were repelled by one of the students!" The Chaos That Creeps was angered by this news. One of the lady spirits had returned to the underground cavern, speaking to him in an odd language that only he could understand, a language more complex than even the Japanese language is.
Listening carefully to her, he held out his hand and a flame appeared in his palm until it began to hold a certain shape, making it look exactly like Syrus.
"Is this what he looks like, my dear?" A nod came from the spirit before disappearing at the wave of her master's clawed hand. Looking down upon the flame, he threw it at a nearby mirror on the wall, a mirror about the same size as him. With a few words chanted, an image of Syrus sitting alone in his room in the Slifer Red dorms appeared, causing his eyes to dim in anger.
"So this is the one who remained unaffected...I think it's time my new servant was put to good use if it is this boy that is now the Keeper of the Necronomicon."
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Syrus was sitting at the desk in his room in the Slifer Red dowm alone, looking upon what had been left behind, namely Jaden's Elemental Hero deck. He was still in shock by what the Chancellor had told him, especially about Jaden.
"What could change you so much so suddenly that you would actually turn down a duel, Jaden," he asked to himself as he thought about his brunette friend. It was only yesterday that the energetic Slifer could duel all day without tiring of it and now...
He knew Jaden could sleep soundly, but even he will wake up after 12 hours of sleep. He's has never known him to sleep for 24 hours or more, not even when he was in the hospital after dueling Nightshroud.
It was then that he saw light coming from within his backpack. Opening it up, he saw that the tattered book, the Necromonicon, was glowing again. Still frightened by it, he carefully reached for and held it in his hands when the book opened itself up once more, another section of text glowing, which he read aloud.
"The lover of the winds is beautiful to behold. She comes in dreams with her white arms extented and her long and gloosy hair rigin about her head, her smile sewwt wiht orange blossoms, and her eyes deep wells of reflected starlight. A gown of the finest transparent silk adorns her slender body. Her fingers, neck, and wrists are bejeweled. What man whole in body could resist her allurements?"
He read the rest of the glowing text silently before his eyes widened in shock.
"What! If this is true, just about everyone's in danger!" Slamming the book shut, he tossed it onto his bed before grabbing his duel disk, his deck and Jaden's deck, then running out the door.
The book had bounced on the bed when thrown, causing it to open to the same page.
"She induces the nocturnal emission of semen during sleep, and feeds upon the oder and heat of the seed, bearing away a portion of its vitality with which to engender monsters in her womb, for these become her servants, and since they are possesd of a portion of material vitality, they are capable of tangible acts."