Chapter 9

Author's Note: It seems this 2-day Update is working wonderful. I might do sometimes daily update, but that is rare. I will try post em earlier, cept sometimes i only get to work on them late. This chapter has no action, however it explains alot to what is going on(Kinda) and you learn who is the evil guy.

Key...must...find it Thought Tyriel as he ran. He started to pant as he slowed down. He stare directly as the sun was setting. Then he realized he was on top of a cliff. The sun was gigantic as he noticed where it was going down, he saw the beach, but more importantly he noticed two people were there. Alexis and Zane. No... thought Tyriel. Must focus on getting the key, and nothing else. thought Tyriel as he started walking through a path leading downwards. He got down towards the beach. He slowly walked towards Alexis and Zane.

"Greetings." he said. The two of them turned around. Alexis smiled as she rushed to hug him.
"Tyriel! You are alright!" she said while hugging him.

"Yeah, I am fine." he said as she stopped hugging him.

"Hello Tyriel. " said Zane as he looked at him. "What happened?"

"Umm, ran into an old ...acquaintance." said Tyriel with a hint of rage in his voice.

"Acquaintance? Are you kidding? He almost killed you!" Alexis shouted.

"I know, but he didn't, and he wont any time soon. Which reminds me, do you have my key?"

"Oh yea!" said Alexis as she pulled the key from her pocket. "Here you go."

"Thank you...If I lost this..." said Tyriel as he wore it.

"It means a lot to you huh?" said Zane

"You have no idea." said Tyriel. "Well its nice talking to you guys, but i have to go" Tyriel started walking.

"No you don't. I am sure you can stay" said Alexis. Tyriel stopped walking. However, he felt different, he didn't feel the same attraction he always had to be with her, something was wrong. He started to walk away. "Tyriel c'mon!" shouted Alexis. At that point, Tyriel started to run.

"So who they get to replace Crowler?" asked Jaden to Christy.

"Eh, Professor Banner is taking over for now." said Christy.

"Oh, so how's Rescue Cat?" asked Jaden. She smiled. She still remembered that day.

It had been a rainy day, most people were in their dorm, however one certain girl was outside, sitting in the ground letting the rain fall on her. If you first saw her you wouldn't know she was crying, with most of the rain falling, her tears had mixed with the rain. Then, as if from nowhere, someone was running. She turned her head to see who it was, to see soaking Jaden.

"Hey c'mon its pouring." said Jaden to the girl, as he tried to get her to move. But she wouldn't budge. "What's the matter." said Tyriel as rain poured on him. However shoe wouldn't answer. Desperate, Jaden pulled her, and dragged her to under a tree. The rain poured on the leaves, and protected them from water, at least to a certain extent.

"Leave me alone." said the girl

"No." said Jaden as he sat down. " What's wrong?"

"My cards...they were stolen." said the girl as she stared down.

"Its okay, we can get them back. " said Jaden in his positive mood.

"No, the thieve threw them away, and they are gone for good." said the girl as she started to cry a little.

"Hey don't worry, it will be fine promise. I am sure Chancellor Shepard will help you, maybe this will too." said Jaden as he handed her a card. She looked up, all teary eyes and all she stared at the card. It was Rescue Cat.

"Wow, its so pretty." said the girl as she dried her tears. "Thank you."

"Hey, no problem. What's your name?"

"Christy, you must be Jaden" she said.

"Hello?" said Jaden as he looked at her. She didn't realize she was daydreaming again.

"Sorry, just daydreaming. The kitty is doing great." said Christy with a smile.

"You are worse than me" said Jaden with a smile.

"I bet Crowler would disagree." said Christy.

"Probably, c'mon lets go." said Jaden.

"You can't." said Christy with a frown.

"Why not?"

"Because if you both leave, then the nurse will go nuts. You just have to wait until she comes back, however I gotta go. Bye Jaden." she said as she flashed a smile at him.

Later, Tyriel reached Bastion's room. Like always, it was empty. He entered and slowly sat down. He knew what he had to do. He pulled his deck from his pocket and took out Shadow Magic Lord- Hadriel. He put his key on the card then twist it and Hadriel came out.

"Okay you got some explaining to do." said Tyriel.

"You were the one dueling, i think you should explain." said Hadriel.

"Who cares? I won, that's all that matter, now tell me who he is." demanded Tyriel.

"Demanding a tad are we?" said Hadriel.

"Seeing the past, realizing who destroyed it and finding him causes that kind of response. I am sorry, but Hadriel, did you disabled my mind ability to read that portion of the past, and most things earlier?"

"Yes, I had too. That event shaped you, to who you are. I don't think you would want to know what it was. But i suppose i was wrong."

"Yeah, so tell me who is that cloaked figure."

"He is the shadows." said Hadriel.

"You are joking." said Tyriel.
"No. I am not" said Hadriel in a serious tone. "He was my best hunter."

"Hunter?"

"Yes. About 2 decades ago or so, there were many people fighting for the Millenniums Items. It was all very equal, however there was something that disturbed this. A young kid named Bakura received the Millennium Ring, and released an evil spirit. This evil spirit took no time waiting to finding other Millenniums items. He eventually took the Millennium Eye from Pegasus, and Shadi, your father, felt the disturbance. He went on the journey to find whoever was responsible for it. " Tyriel clenched his fist for a moment "I also felt the disturbance, and I sent someone to find him. Someone with the mind, the skills, and the deck to do it. His name is Magnus. I sent Magnus to find him, it took him several years, but eventually he stopped Bakura, and captured the Millennium Eye. However, after he achieved that, the spirit ran away in hiding, he hasn't been found till this day. Magnus, on the other hand, was corrupted by the power the Millennium Eye gave him. Eventually he wanted more power, and I denied it to him. He lost contact with me after that. Then several Tomb Guardians started to disappear, soon only a few people were left. Including Shadi, however Shadi's is impossible to destroy being the fact of his ghostly method. However, somehow that didn't stop him. He somehow defeated Shadi's and the rest of the Tomb Guardians, all except for you."

Everything was quiet for a moment. Tyriel was speechless. He had not realized how much damage Magnus had caused. He knew he had hurt him, he had no idea he had destroyed so many lives and soul. Then suddenly the door opened and a "Hello?" came out. Hadriel aimed his staff at the door.

"No don't!" said Tyriel quickly.

"What's going on?" shouted Bastion.

"I guess I should explain. Hadriel, this is Bastion, Bastion this is Shadow Magic Lord- Hadriel." said Tyriel. Bastion was shocked.

"But-but that's a card!" stammered Bastion.

"Not just any card- I think we better explain eh Hadriel?" said Tyriel.

"I suppose." said Hadriel as he sighed. "Better take a sit Mr.Bastion."

"You should probably start with the accident at Kaiba Corp." said Bastion.

"Well you might not understand most of it but okay. Now what i am about to tell you must keep secret. 'kay?"

"Alright."

"Anyhow, what happened at Kaiba Corp. was the product of too much meddling with the dead." said Tyriel

"What do you mean?"

"Well as you know, Maximillion Pegasus' wife is dead. He has been mourning for a while and has looked for a way to bring her back. About the same time the evil spirit was released, Pegasus made a card that had his wife's picture as the art. He wanted to use the Millennium Items"

"Millennium what?" interrupted Bastion.

"More of that later. Anyhow, he wanted to obtain more Millennium Items and then use Kaiba Corp. as a way to make a hologram, but instead of a hologram it will be the real Cecilia. However his plan failed, and he lost the Millennium Eye. Several years later, Seto Kaiba made a business agreement with Pegasus. Pegasus could be allowed his experiment, if Pegasus created a certain card in the name of Kaiba, thus the creation of Kaibaman began. Anyhow, Pegasus still needed shadow power then came in Yugi Motou. With his God Cards, he could power that up, however there was some other strings Pegasus had to pull for Yugi however that's a different story. So they set the god cards in certain panels, and then they powered up the card and the transfusion, using Yugi's Millennium Puzzle to connect to the Shadow Realm, and the god cards to power the connection. The experiment... failed. What it did was cause an imbalance within the shadow realm by inflicting certain aspect of our world, because of that, Me and Hadriel were on a search for the only item that could possibly solve this, and set balance to the Shadow Realm once more. That item being the Millennium Scale." finished Tyriel. Bastion however was still very confused.

"Shadow Realm? Millenniums Items? I am still lost there." said Bastion.

"Sigh... Hadriel, we will finish our discussion later." said Tyriel.

"Agreed. Tyriel try to avoid Magnus okay?"
"Okay, with that Millennium Eye, its kinda easy to track me though" said Tyriel. Then Hadriel grabbed the Millennium Key and put it facing Tyriel's forehead. Then he twisted the key as if it to use, but he twisted it the other way. They key glowed for a moment then stopped.

"That should stop him from reading your mind, its locked away. But try to avoid him okay?"

"I will try."

"Farewell then." said Hadriel as he faded.

"So are you going to explain?" asked Bastion.

"Okay here goes, the shadow realm..."

The night was dark as Jaden slept in his dorm. The nurse eventually came and he could leave. As he was sleeping he suddenly opened his eyes. Then the same Egyptian eye symbol that appeared on Crowler appeared on his face. Jaden smiled, a sadistic twisted smile as he closed his eyes once more. He knew a big duel was coming, he wasn't about to miss it.