Yeaa another update. We're coming close to the conclusion just gotta think it up soon XD lol. I'm not a very good writer; I tend to come up with the story as I'm writing it.

Chapter 14 Trouble

It poured and it rained for the rest of the afternoon. Not very heavily but still continuous, and it didn't look like it was going to let up till later that night. Bliss sat on the chair near the window sill of her door and watched the gray skies and the water shower down upon the ground, tears streamed down her face as she kept thinking; thinking about Syrus and what she had done to him. Just thinking about… everything.

"Hey you bullies leave him alone, he… he's new here don't give him a hard time," he said

"Hey thanks for sticking up for me back there," she said

"Please don't tell anyone… ow,"

"I promise I won't, uh.. let me help treat those wounds, they look pretty bad?"

"Thanks Syrus.."

"But you know Syrus I'm right here, and you… you will always have me," " … you will always have me,"

"Bliss please tell me what's going on"

"Bliss how can you do this? To the Academy? And to me? Why did you lie to me Bliss I thought you loved me,"

"I'm a horrible person.." Bliss sniffled holding her face in one of her hands sobbing.

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Meanwhile Syrus was just walking alone in the rain dripping wet, he couldn't care anymore.

'Oh well I guess that's that, might as well go back to the Academy,' he thought staring blankly at the ground.

"Syrus! Hey Syrus is that you!" he heard someone call. He looked up half-heartedly to see Bastion and Chumley running towards him.

"Woah Syrus what happened to you?" Chumley asked in shock to see Syrus walking around in the rain.

"Oh nothing, ehehe I guess you guys were right I should have came with ya," Syrus said really forcefully trying to smile.

"How did you get here?" Bastion asked.

"Oh.. well I kinda snuck inthe boat Zane Alexis and Chazz came on. They decided to come over to look for you guys,"

"Woah! They're here too!"

"Yup and they're looking for you guys,"

"Aw man we gotta find Jaden before they do!" Chumley gasped already running in an aimless direction but Bastion grabbed held of Chumley's jacket collar, preventing him from going anywhere.

"Have you seen Jaden around anywhere Syrus and where are Zane and the others right now?"

"Hmm I think Zane Alexis and Chazz are staying at some hotel with the principal, they're also going to try to investigate and find out the truth,"

"Hmm which reminds me where are we staying?" Chumley asked.

"I'm sure I can find us a place to crash, first of all let's get out of this rain, Syrus you're soaking wet come'on," Bastion ushered them all to find shelter someplace.

"Ok," Syrus smiled, pretending that nothing was wrong.

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"Wow this is so cool I never knew I had a sister," Jaden said smiling at Rika.

Jaden went to Rika and her mom's apartment to shelter from the rain. Jaden was sitting on the sofa in the living room with Rika whilst her mom was in the kitchen.

"Yea I'm so glad I have you as a big brother Jaden," Rika smiled.

"Yea," Jaden said playfully ruffling her hair.

"Well I don't think I need to explain everything you could kinda figure it out, but I'm glad that Rika could meet her brother," the lady smiled.

"Yea," Jaden nodded.

"So.. you go to an Academy to learn about duel monsters right?" she said.

"Yes I do, it's the best school ever!" Jaden exclaimed.

"See mom, Jaden's going to a Duel Academy I wanna go to the duel academy too!" Rika exclaimed.

"Well, I don't know," she sighed.

"Please mama,"

"If you really love Duel monsters and you think you can make it then ok I guess," she shrugged.

Jaden frowned a bit, 'It's quite obviously she doesn't like duel monsters very much,' he thought.

"Big brother, teach me about Duel monsters please, please," Rika pleading tugging at Jaden's jacket.

"Ok ok," he grinned.

They both sat down and talked a bit about Duel monsters for the rest of the afternoon. Jaden was so excited about his new sibling discovery he had temporarily forgotten about the rest of the guys. They were playing a simple duel together, no fancy gadgets or holograms anything just the cards.

"Aww no you're going to beat me," Rika cried.

"How do you know that?" Jaden asked.

"You have 2000 life point and I'm down to 100, I quit there is no way I'm going to win," Rika cried again bowing her head in defeat.

"Hey don't talk like that! It isn't over till you hit 0, even if your opponent has 5000 and you have 50 you're still in the game and you have to keep playing like the odds are the same, even if they seem like they're not,"

Rika shook her head again in defeat.

"Come on! You just gotta finish you still have a chance to come back!" Jaden encouraged again. Just then his PDA began to beep; it was Chumley;

Jaden! Where the heck are you man! Alexis Zane and Chazz are here and they looking for us, we're gunna be in big trouble now! Wherever you are we're staying at the Kindle Inn in town, wherever you are you better get your but down here fast, we'll wait for you. Chumley

"I'm sorry Rika I got to go," Jaden said putting his PDA back in his pocket.

"Will you come back soon Jaden dear?" Rika's mom asked.

"I sure will!" Jaden exclaimed happily.

"Aww Jaden please stay a little longer," Rika pleaded.

"Don't worry I'll come back tomorrow k," Jaden said half way out the door.

"Ok bye Jaden!" she waved again as Jaden closed the door behind him.

Jaden ran down the apartment stairs and into the streets. 'Aw man I can't believe I almost forgot, I gotta find them soon' Jaden thought.

"JADEN!" he heard someone yell from behind him, Jaden was afraid to stop but he knew who is was and was afraid he'd never hear the end of it if he ignored them.

"Jaden wait up! There you are!"

"Hi Alexis," Jaden chuckled nervously.

Alexis panted a little bit trying to catch her breath.

"Jaden what the hell were you thinking leaving the Academy?"

"Well I'm suspended remember so technically I can do whatever I want except attend classes," Jaden grinned light-heartedly.

"Jaden I'm serious!" Alexis scolded a bit.

"Well I thought that maybe if I could try and fix what I started then maybe everyone wouldn't be so hard on me and my friends, that's all,"

"Well and what if you aren't able to fix it, this is way over your head Jaden," Alexis argued following behind Jaden who was continued walking down the city sidewalk.

"I will, don't worry,"

"Jaden, the principal himself went over and talked to the head-mistress of the school and she claims the Institute had nothing to do with it, we've got our backs against the walls Jaden cause we don't have any proof that the Institute did it!"

"Don't worry Alexis we'll think of something," Jaden said. Suddenly he heard her start to sob behind him.

"How can I not worry Jaden… the Academy as we know it may just completely shut down and all of us will have to find other dueling schools to attend," She cried clenching her fists at her side, looking down to the ground.

Jaden turned around to face her, "Alexis…"

"Everyone I have known I will never see them again and I'm afraid I won't even beable to see you ever again Jaden," Alexis gasped at the last phrase she said; would Jaden interpret it the way she meant it? She felt a slight blush come across her nose.

"Don't worry Alexis, I promise everything is going to return to normal, I just have a feeling and before you know it we'll be back at the Academy hanging out like nothing ever happened," Jaden smiled again reassuringly.

'I guess not, figures as much' Alexis's thought wiping away some of her tears.

"Don't cry Alexis," Jaden said again placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"Ok," she sniffled quickly trying to recover.

"Don't tell Chazz and Zane we're here just yet ok, I got to go back to the hotel cya!" Jaden waved off before rushing down the streets in the rain, not even waiting for Alexis to respond.

"Uh.. Jaden…" Alexis muttered as she watched him run off. She sighed and shook her head, 'Jaden, why is he always getting in trouble..?"

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"Jessica you traitor what do you think you're doing! Trying to mess up our plans?" Kaylee shouted.

Jessica moaned a bit and held her aching side; she was pushed against a wall with great force by Kaylee who cuffed her fists in anger, Keiko was also watching her intently.

"You've got what you wanted Keiko now just leave the Academy alone," Jessica coughed a bit.

"No.. not yet, I wanna make sure the Academy is out of our way once and for all! I'm going to use up all of our school's treasury and buy up all the shares of the Academy and that way I'll be in control of the running of the school completely!" Keiko grinned.

"We don't need those pesky Academy students trying to get in our way, thanks a lot for betraying us Jessica," Kaylee said standing above Jessica who was crotched over in pain.

"Open your eyes Kaylee! Keiko is deceiving us!" Jessica shouted.

"Put her away! I want everyone who is a threat put away until I can buy all the shares, once the shareholders know the school is currently handicap they won't be so hard in convincing," Keiko said as Kaylee tied Jessica up with a rope.

'Oh no this is bad,' Jessica thought as Kaylee tied a handkerchief over her mouth. Jessica tried to squirm free but couldn't as Kaylee dragged her to her feet and walked her over to a closet near the room they were in.

"Sorry Jess," Kaylee apologized, without sincerity, as she put Jessica in the tiny room and closed the door. Now Jessica sat all alone in the dark, no where to go and no way out.

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It continued to rain for the rest of the day into the night. The town was still dark and dreary at 7:45pm in the evening but Bastion still waited. He was at the café Jessica said she was going to meet him, he didn't even know why he showed up? Why did she want to hang out with him? He sat at a table near the window so incase Jess showed up he could wave to her, but she didn't. But he waited and waited…

"Would you like some more tea," the waitress asked him.

"No thanks I'm fine," he nodded.

Now it was 9:30pm and it was clear that she was not going to show up, he already waited 2 and a half hours. 'I guess she must have forgotten,' Bastion thought sadly. He went outside in the rain and looked around still hoping that maybe she might coming running around the corner yelling, "Sorry I'm late!" but that was only wishful thinking. 'Figures, she was just messing with me, I'm so dumb,' Bastion thought. He checked his PDA, no messages either. He figured he might as return to the hotel, but on his way back he couldn't help but feel a bit uneasy. 'I don't know it doesn't seem like Jessica to skip out on a date… ha did I say date? But still something doesn't seem right.' Bastion thought. Suddenly a figure jumped in front of him.

"Woah!" he cried nearly stumbling backwards.

A girl with short red hair, some of which almost completely covered her right eye, wearing blue dueling institute uniform showed up.

"Kaylee!" Bastion yelled remembering who it was.

"That's right and I'm here to challenge you to a duel! If you win the Institute will come clean about the scandal," she challenged, already activating her duel disk.

"And if you win..?" Bastion asked taking out his as well.

With that, a smirk came across Kaylee's face.

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"I'm sorry I can't give out the information of our guests," the lady from across the check-in counter said as she shook her head.

"Please mam' I need to know if a Misawa is here, I'm in their party and I'm running a bit late," Jaden said. It was about 10:00 by the time he found his way to the Inn, he was sure they would stay up and wait for him to arrive.

"Well I do have a guest staying here who registered under the name Misawa.."

"Yes, Yes that has got to be him, can you call them for me please!"

Jaden waited patiently for the lady to call their room, after waiting for awhile she hung up the phone and said,

"I'm sorry there seems to be no one in the room,"

'Impossible! But what about Syrus and Chumley? Where are they?' Jaden thought. 'Something's not right'

whoops everyone's gone :O I know some of you guys are thinking how the heck does Rika come in? But lemme tell you she is really important and she could either make or break the story :O. Until next update.