Reading back on my story I have noticed many mistakes XD where I mixed up character names and forgot a letter, word or two XD I just wanted to apologize for that, too late to change it now but oh well :3 onwards with the story
Chapter 12 The Victorian Institute
The Victorian Institute's size paled in comparison to that of their Academy, but it was still a quaint and elegant
school. The entrance had a huge metal gate that was wide open. There were, of course, many girls bustling
around the courtyard of the school. Their school uniform was very elegant; all the girls wore tall boots that
reached their knees, a short skirt with a belt, and white long sleeved collared shirts with a scarf. However the
uniform varied in colors, probably according to what house and dueling status they had.
"Wow what a nice school!" Bastion exclaimed.
"Yea it is," Jaden nodded as they stood at the gates.
"Wow and look at all the pretty girls," Chumley literally drooled. They were about to enter the school when
they were stopped by three of the students.
"Where do you think you are going?" one of them said holding out her hand to Jaden and his friends 'in a stop
right there gesture'
All three of them stood there going' uhhh' they had no idea how they were suppose to get in.
"Is there any chance we might be able to see the school," Jaden chuckled nervously.
"What for?" one girl with her hair in a short blonde bob held back in a headband asked, sticking her nose in
the air.
"Yea this is an all girls school and guys are prohibited from entering school grounds," the other girl with
glasses, freckles and orange hair in two braids said.
"Unless of course, they are here for a duel," the green hair girl, whose hair was tied to one side in a spiky style,
said holding up her duel disk daring one of the boys to take them on.
"If we beat you then will you let us pass?" Bastion asked.
"Maybe," the freckled one teased.
"Alright you're on!" Jaden accepted immediately.
"Do we have time for this Jaden?"
"I can never turn down a challenge and you know that," Jaden grinned.
All three girls activated their duel disk and put their decks in perfect sync.
Jaden Bastion and Chumley did the same thing, then said at the same time
"Let's duel!"
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Meanwhile, back at the Academy at Jaden's dorm, Syrus had gotten a little visit from Zane who was looking
for him Jaden and Bastion
"They are where?" Zane asked Syrus again.
"They went over to the mainland, they went to the Institute," Syrus replied nervously in the presence of his
older brother.
"Now we have to go find them," Zane sighed.
"What for?"
"Because the principal wanted to talk with them personally about the incident now they are really going to be
in big trouble now," Zane said crossing his arms.
"Uh.. um I can tell Mr. Sameshima everything he needs to know, please don't get Jaden
and Bastion in trouble,"
"Plus they left school grounds without permission, only Bastion had permission to leave,"
"Oh, well, ma..maybe they'll be back soon?" Syrus said hopelessly.
"We'll have to take a boat now and go find them,"
"Oh? Can I come with you please? I promise I won't be any trouble," Syrus pleaded. He didn't know why
but all of a suddenly he felt the need to go to the mainland, maybe because Bliss was there? He just had to see
her again.
"No," Zane said bluntly, "I want you here when I come back," and with that, Zane left the dorm.
Syrus slumped on his bed. 'Jayden was right,' he thought. 'Now I regret not going with them, I mean I.. I
don'twant tosee Bliss again but then again, I just gotta see her again'
Syrus angrily tossed himself on the bed and stuffed his face in the pillow. Then he sat upright hugging the pillow
tightly against his chest thoughtfully for awhile. 'There is no way I'm letting everyone go to the Institute and
handle this problem without me.' He got up from his bed and went over to his desk, grabbed his deck, duel
disk and some extra money with him.
"I'm going with you Zane, no matter what! I'm not going to be left behind," he said aloud, before hurrying out
the door.
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"Alright, get your game on!" Jaden shouted as he drew his first card.
It was a three on three match right outside the school gates. Students flocked to the dueling scene to see what
was going on, and to cheer on their classmates. The blonde girl's deck was a candy based deck. All of her
cards had something to do with chocolate or sweets, cards Jayden never saw before like; Carmel Cats, a
duplicating card that was activated whenever it was destroyed, or Pepper Mint Peep a card that looks liked a
woman dress in white and red stripes and a giant candy cane as her weapon. Even though her deck was filled
with sweetness she was ruthless. Chumley did most of the damage and took her out first with his Koala deck.
However, the freckled girl took out Chumley with her canine deck; her deck was made up of all sorts of
canine dog-like creatures of many elements; metal, water, electric, stone everything.
"How'd you like that Koala boy!" she taunted once Chumley's life points went down to zero. All the students
cheered when she took him down. Although she had taken a beating from Bastion and Jayden who tried to
protect Chumley, she still remained confident. Chumley sighed in disappointed when he lost, Jaden was still
going strong but Bastion seemed a bit nervous as he lost more life points than he anticipated.
"Cybernetic Cerberus attack Bastion's face down card!" The red head commanded.
With a giant ball of black electricity Bastion's face down card was destroyed and he lost more life points
down to 1200.
"Hang in there buddy," Jayden encouraged.
It was kind of hard for Bastion to concentrate, especially since a bunch of girls were gathered around cheering
for their fellow school-mates. He's just wished they'd all shut up, but he couldn't block them out and was
started to lose his confidence.
"You can do it Bastion!" an unfamiliar voice yelled.
"What?" Bastion said as he looked up in confusion.
Bastion looked up from his hand and searched the crowd to see who it was that knew his name and was
actually cheering him on.
"Huh?"
"Hey look over there Bastion!" Jaden pointed out.
They hardly recognized her but soon saw that it was Jessica, jumping up and down behind a bunch of girls
waving her hands in the air to Bastion.
"Oh my gosh, that's.. that's Jessica over there," Jayden said.
Bastion gazed at Jessica in shock, ' she's.. she's cheering for me?' he thought.
"Come on Bastion show her what your made of! Yea! Go! Go! Go! Don't give up!" She cheered again,
ignoring the evil stares the other girls were giving her for cheering for the guys.
"Hmm looks like you got a fan huh Bastion?" the freckled girl said sticking out her tongue.
Bastion suddenly felt a burst of euphoria sweep through him and he turned to his opponent again.
"I'm not going to let you beat me!" he said drawing a card from his hand.
In about 2 turns Bastion had also wiped out the freckled girl, but he had taken out two opponents and was too
weak to hold out against the green haired girl, who took him out right after he beat her red headed friend. The
green haired girl had a very earthy deck with monsters based off floral elements. Jayden had a few obstacles
and traps he almost fell for, but eventually he beat her.
"Awww I lost," she whined.
"It was a great duel though!" Chumley said trying to cheer her up a bit.
"Yea it really was you guys sure are talented," Jaden said.
"You really think so?" .
As they chatted Bastion looked for Jessica again, he didn't have to look long when she presented herself after
the duel was over.
"Wow Bastion you were awesome," she smiled.
It was kind of a shock to see Jessica because she looked so different; she was dressed more femininely, her
long slightly wavy raven hair reaching to her lower back, not to mention her chest no longer looked flat like a
boy. Her uniform was white long sleeved color shirt and black scarf tied around her neck, she also wore a
black plaid skirt that was above the knees and tall black boots.
"Jessica, we need to talk," he demanded jumping straight into the issue
"Yea I know I was expecting you," she smiled putting her hands on her hips.
"Uh you were?"
By this time Jaden and Chumley joined them to hear what was going on.
"Yea, you told Jaden the other night over your PDA you were going to be traveling super early by boat so
don't sleep in,"
The guys all exchanged 'wtf' looks.
"How…?"
"Oh I hacked into the school's server," Jessica said like it was no big deal flipping some hair out of her eyes.
"What?" Jaden blinked.
"Yea, you see I went to the school's website and used a special program I designed to trace the server, and
from there I traced the server to main uplink which lead me directly to school's main computer via satellite
which links all of your PDA's together and through that I able to trace your conversations,"
All the guys gave each other dumb looks again, they obviously had no idea what she was talking about.
"Well anyways, we need to talk, wanna come see our school?" Jessica offered.
"Uh.. sure" Bastion accepted reluctantly.
"But Jessie boys aren't allowed in the school," the green haired girl said when she came over.
"Oh? Well they'll be with me so it won't be a problem Rachael," Jessica assured her.
"How do we know this isn't a trap?" Chumley asked.
"How you know is isn't," she winked. "Oh and by the way I suggest you take off your academy jackets,"
"Oh right," Jaden agreed quickly taking off his jacket.
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Jessica showed the guys around the school grounds, many of the girls gave them odd looks while others
pointed and giggled, some even gave flirtatious winks at the guys.
"Wow this is the best dueling academy ever," Chumley drooled.
"Uh huh…" Jaden agreed not even paying attention to what Chumley was referring to.
The school had an elegant courtyard with a huge fountain in the middle and the pavement ran though a beautiful
and well-kept lawn with flowers. The school looked, as the name suggests, Victorian. Jaden was awed by
how elegant and artsy it looked.
"It was a set-up," Jessica said.
"A set up?" Jaden repeated finally coming back to reality.
"Yea, I'm just sorry we didn't figure it out sooner," Jessica continued. "You see we, meaning Kaylee, Bliss
and myself were just pawns for Keiko's own personal revenge,"
"Revenge," Bastion repeated.
"I mean your school wasn't all bad as she portrayed it to be, honestly. Keiko had some sort of personal
grudge against the school or someone in it and she brain washed us to make us believe something else, you see
Keiko is the head of the Institute along with her sister Megumi. Although I talked to Megumi about it and she
agreed that your school use to discriminate against girls like us but that was a long time ago, and since then our
schools have come to a compromise,"
"But then why didn't you explain to Megumi what was going on? I mean if she wasn't so keen on the plan to
sabotage our school why did you go ahead?" Jaden asked.
"Megumi was out of the country for a few months so we didn't get to talk to her, Keiko was in charge while
she was gone and insisted that, that was Megumi's wish also." Jessica stopped by a bench and motioned to
them to sit with her.
"How come you only found out now!" Bastion yelled.
"Well I spoke to Megumi and explained what happened recently, I wasn't able to get in contact with her
before, but she gave me the whole story,"
"What about Kaylee and Bliss?" Jaden asked.
"Well I haven't told Kaylee, I feel that she's too close with Keiko and wouldn't believe me if I told her,"
"What about Bliss?"
"I honestly haven't seen Bliss around all that often, I haven't had a chance to explain to her,"
"Great, so what do we do now," Chumley asked.
"Well I gotta wait for Megumi to come back in a few days then we'll be able to sort it out. Listen guys I'm
sorry I really am if I had known before I wouldn't have taken part," Jessica apologized.
"Hey, it's not your fault it's Keiko's fault you didn't know otherwise," Jaden said standing up willingly
accepting her apology.
"Yea, that's great but what about our school data we're not going to get back are we?" Bastion said.
"Oh I have a back up," Jessica said twirling her hair between her fingers.
"You do! No way!" the guys exclaimed.
"But there is one little problem.."
"Huh? What"
"It's in the school's system I would need to copy it back,"
"Well isn't hacking into stuff your specialty or something? Couldn't you just get it back?" Bastion asked
"Well the school designed a security system so complex that they ensure they made it full-proof even from
me," Jessica sighed.
They all looked at each other for awhile, feeling like they had their back to the wall.
"Well I think you guys better go, if Kaylee sees you guys she'll report back to Keiko," Jessica urged.
"Are you sure there is nothing we can do?" Jaden asked.
"Nope, not for now but if you guys stick around for awhile you might have to explain to Megumi what
happened and speak on be-half of your school,"
"Oh alright, we'll leave it in your hands I guess Jessica," Jaden said.
"How do we know we can trust her Jaden?" Chumley whispered.
"I don't know I just got a feeling she's telling the truth," Jaden replied.
"Hey if I need you I'll pm you on your PDAs, ok," Jessica winked.
They looked at her suspiciously.
"Or you guys can stick around here and get caught? Hm?"
"Well since you put it that as let's go guys," Jaden said as he chuckled nervously.
They all turned to depart the school grounds, Chumley and Jaden were in front so they didn't notice when
Jessica ran up behind Bastion and whispered something in his ear.
"Hey wanna go out with me?" Jessica whispered.
Bastion blushed and stuttered. "Wha..what"
"Meet me at the café across the street, Rio Blue at 7 tonight ok I'll be waiting," Jessica whispered seductively in his ear.
Before Bastion could decline or reply she broke away and began to walk towards a bunch of girls who all ran
up to greet her, all he could do was stutter in confusion.
"Hey man come on," Jaden called to Bastion.
'Wow what was that all about?' he thought shaking his head and running back to catch up to his friends.
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Lol I love Jessia she's so seductive and sneaky but at the same timea computer genius girl who has good looks. I really don't like stereotypes you know? Computer nerds suppose to be dorky looking people with glasses or freckles or weird hair styles. No I decided to make Jessica look almost like a beauty queen with a lot of brains. Anyways I'm starting to see how personal I'm getting with this story. I made the story as I said before to take out my anger on why Duel Monsters is mostly portrayed as a boy game. I mean come on! All the Yu-gi-Oh merchandise are for boys / but I like yugioh just as much as any 11 year old boy.I cry. Oh well :o until next time.