There are some days in your life that you think are just as ordinary as any other at first. Yet their true significance isn't revealed until later. I know this to be true myself because I remember such a day in my life. It was the day that turned out to be one of the most important in my life. It was the day I first met him.

It was the first day of our second year at Duel Academy, and Jaden had already been challenged to a duel by a new student. Some things never change, right? How wrong I was about that. Little did I know that this was the start of everything changing for me.

When we arrived on the scene of the duel, I got my first look at Jaden's opponent. He had an average build and height, maybe a little shorter than some other boys his age. His longish hair was a striking shade of silver, coming down at the ends and parted in a way that somehow looked well on him. The features of his face were like those you would see on a male model. He had high cheekbones along with perfectly symmetrical proportions of every other part of his face. And his eyes were a lovely shade of dark-blue. To top it off, He was wearing a white suit outfit complete with a black dress shirt underneath the jacket and a white and blue tie. It was an odd combination, yet he somehow managed to pull it off. But if he was a student, then why wasn't he wearing a school uniform for one of the houses? And why wear such formal attire here in the first place? It was like a detail that stood out in a "What's Wrong with This Picture?" game.

Normally, I didn't let myself be affected by a boy's looks. That didn't mean that I didn't notice them at all, but for some reason, this was different. There was something almost angelic about this boy's appearance. That was the best way I could describe it. But it wasn't just that. I somehow had the feeling that I had seen him somewhere before. But wouldn't I have remembered it more?

"You can call me A.P." The boy had said when he introduced himself to Jaden. It seemed such a strange and simple name for someone who stood out as much as him. Nevertheless, I tried to push the growing suspicion out of my mind and focus on the duel instead.

If A.P. had seemed unusual in terms of his appearance, his dueling skills sure weren't anything remotely similar to that. His first move was only to summon the ridiculously weak Ojama Yellow monster card. (No offense to Chazz, who would actually use strategy when it came to these cards.)

But it wasn't long after that when things started to get weird. Slowly, the "What's Wrong with This Picture?" game started to make more sense. It was like a puzzle that was slowly filling in its pieces. Yet at the same time, I got the feeling that there was still a whole lot more. A.P. started playing ridiculously good, bringing out the powerful Archlord Zerato fairy type monster among his field spell, The Sanctuary in the Sky, to destroy all of Jaden's monsters.

Archlord Zerato's graceful angel wings along with how the area had been transformed to resemble the gates of Heaven itself only added to my earlier observation of how this boy had looked angelic. I must have been staring with my mouth hanging open a little, because at the moment, A.P.'s brief glance towards his and Jaden's audience focused on me. It was for less than a minute, but he flashed what looked like a somewhat amused grin towards me. I couldn't help it; my face heated up for a moment in reaction.

It was after the duel following Jaden's somewhat surprising victory that more details fell into place. A.P. was actually Aster Phoenix, world-famous celebrity pro duelist. I must have probably remembered his face from a duelist magazine or TV commercial. Yet he had come here to duel Jaden with a makeshift deck of random cards thrown together from a few packs. It didn't make sense. And yet I still remember how I wondered briefly if I was missing something else here, if Aster would come back. How I had blurted out to Jaden that I thought Aster was cute without even knowing what had made me want to say that in the first place. At the end of the day, none of it had made any sense, so I was able to put it all out of my mind easily enough. It wasn't until much later that I would find out just how important Aster would become to me. For this was the day that my angel had fallen into my life…