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'blah' means thoughts
SLIFER DORMS, MORNING
Zane had been awake for awhile, just laying there thinking. Then, he heard something from the bunk below him. He leaned over to hear better. Suddenly, a hand sailed up and hit him in the ear.
"I reveal my face down! Transcendent Wings!"
Zane rubbed his ear. "I guess all he does is duel monsters." He carefully climbed down the ladder and left the room.
OBELISK DORMS, MORNING
Syrus was awoken by someone pounding on his door. "Zane! Get up!"
Syrus groaned. 'It's Crowler.' He covered his head with the pillow.
Crowler opened the door and saw his number one student still in bed. "Zane, why-" He was cut off when a pillow smacked him in the face. He was sputtering when the pillow fell off. 'Zane was probably up all night. I'll leave him alone.'
Syrus breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the door click.
AN HOUR BEFORE THE DUEL
Syrus saw Zane standing on the docks. As he approached, he noticed Zane would once in awhile rub his ear.
"Jaden played a trap card, didn't he?"
"No, he played a spell card."
"Sorry I didn't mention about that earlier." Syrus scratched his cheek.
"I hope you didn't do that in front of anyone else."
"Nope! Just Bastion!" Syrus said in a chipper voice.
Zane sweat dropped and held out the earpiece. "Here, Sy."
"Oh, thanks." Syrus put the earpiece in after noticing Zane had the radio transmitter hidden on the inside of the jacket.
"C'mon, Sy. We need to get to the arena."
Zane and Syrus walked to the arena together. When they entered the arena, Zane walked to the stands behind his brother. He ignored Jaden's calls of "Sy! Over here!"
Syrus shook his head slightly as he walked to his end of the arena.
"Zane. Just the person I wanted to see." Crowler walked up to Syrus. "I'm sorry about waking you up this morning. I should have realized you had stayed up last night studying. Please forgive me!"
"Very well." Syrus nodded.
Crowler walked to the center of the arena. "This is a promotion duel between Chazz Princeton and Zane Truesdale!"
"Prepare to duel and lose, Zane, because I will Chazz you up!"
"Duel!" they chorused.
"I'll start." Chazz drew a card. "I play Armed Dragon Level Three in attack mode and one card face down."
Syrus drew a card and Zane looked at his hand. "Play the Cy-"
"I play the Cyber Dragon in attack mode."
"Play Mystical Space Typhoon to get rid of his face down."
"I play the spell card Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face down. Now, Cyber Dragon, attack Armed Dragon Level Three. Strident Blast."
Chazz lost 900 life points.
"Don't get ahead of yourself, Sy."
"My turn." Chazz drew a card. "I play Monster Reborn, so come back to the field, Armed Dragon Level Three!" Chazz's card came back. "But it won't be here for long. I sacrifice Armed Dragon Level Three for my Armed Dragon Level Five!" His Armed Dragon Level Three was replaced by the Armed Dragon Level Five. "Attack Cyber Dragon!" Syrus lost three hundred points. "Now, I sacrifice Armed Dragon Level Five for my Armed Dragon Level Seven."
Syrus drew a card. Zane looked at Syrus's hand. "Play Monster Reborn. Then fuse all three Cyber Dragons together with Power Bond and attack his dragon."
"I play Monster Reborn to bring back my Cyber Dragon. I activate the magic of Power Bond to fuse the Cyber Dragon on my field with the two in my hand to create the Cyber End Dragon. Now, Cyber End Dragon, destroy his Armed Dragon Level Seven with Super Strident Flame."
Chazz – 0000
Syrus – 3700
While Syrus and Chazz were dueling, Bastion was sitting in front of his computer screen. He was trying to come up with a cure.
"Maybe this card will work," Bastion said as he typed in a card's name. The card popped up on the left side of the screen while 'Soul Exchange' remained on the right side of the screen. "Hmm." He compared the two cards. "That just might work. However, finding the card might prove troublesome." Bastion left his dorm to tell Syrus his findings. Bastion walked to the Obelisk Blue Dorm with great news. He spotted three Obelisks, all of whom saw him. "I need to speak with Zane."
"Why?"
"That is between Zane and myself."
"Well, Zane usually doesn't waste his time with Ra Yellows."
At the point, Syrus was walking toward the dorm. 'I think I'll relax before I visit Bastion.' When he arrived at the entrance, he saw Bastion and the three Obelisks that pushed his brother yesterday. 'Zane really needs to talk to those three.' Out loud, he said, "Bastion. Just the person I wanted to see. Let him in."
Bastion followed Syrus into the dorm. "I have come up with a solution to that problem you presented to me."
Syrus could hardly contain his excitement. "Excellent. You can tell me more in my room." The two of them walked to Zane's room.
Once Syrus closed the door, Bastion said, "I feel I should warn you that this cure might take awhile to implement." Seeing that Syrus was confused, Bastion said, "This situation was caused by 'Soul Exchange,' right? Well, then to reverse this, the card 'Soul Reversal' is needed. That is why it might take awhile."
"No, it won't!"
"It won't?"
"I've got that card in my deck. Well, Zane's got my deck, but you know what I mean."
"Very good."
"Go tell Alexis to get Zane and I'll stay right here."
Bastion nodded and left to find Alexis. It took him a few minutes, but he found Alexis exiting the Obelisk Dorm. "Alexis."
"Hey, Bastion."
"Syrus told me to tell you to get Zane."
"Huh?"
"I found the cure for their infliction. They need to duel using the card 'Soul Reversal,' which is in Syrus's deck. You need to tell Zane that Syrus wants to duel tonight in Zane's room."
"All right, Bastion. I'll tell him." Alexis pulled out her PDA and contacted Zane. "Hey, Syrus."
"I'm alone, Lex."
"Zane, meet me at the dock. Now."
"All right." Zane turned off the PDA. Alexis did the same. She looked over to say something to Bastion but he was gone. She shrugged her shoulders and continued walking to the dock. Once she got there, she waited.
Zane started walking toward the dock and saw Atticus walking in the same direction. "Atticus." Atticus turned and saw a boy with sky blue hair running toward him. "How have you been? I haven't seen you around lately."
"You wouldn't see me around a lot, seeing as we are in different dorms, Syrus."
'Shit. I forgot.' Zane started thinking fast. Fortunately for him, Alexis was waiting on the dock and saw Zane talking to Atticus.
"Hi, Atticus! Hi, Zane!"
Atticus looked around as they joined Alexis on the dock. "Where's Zane?"
"Right in front of you, brother."
"Uh, sis, you need to get your eyes checked."
"No, Zane and Syrus had a duel and Syrus used the spell card 'Soul Exchange.' Instead of working properly, the card exchanged Zane's and Syrus's souls. So this is Zane."
"Do you still have it?" Atticus asked.
"Yeah," Zane replied, unenthusiastically.
"Can I borrow it?" Atticus's eyes traveled over to Alexis's body.
SMACK
"I wouldn't want your body if it was the last one on Earth!" Alexis exclaimed.
"But you'd probably want Zane's," Atticus whispered.
Alexis blushed. "I called you two down here for a reason. I felt like Atticus should know what happened to his best friend and to tell Zane that Syrus want to duel tonight in your room."
"Why does Sy want to duel?"
"Bastion found a way to fix this. You and Syrus have to duel again, but you have to use the card 'Soul Reversal."
"But, Lexi, that card isn't in Syrus's deck."
"He said it was." Zane pulled out Syrus's deck and went through it, looking for the spell card. After about a minute searching, he found it. "C'mon, Zane. Let's go. Sy's waiting for you."
"All right." Zane walked to the Obelisk Blue Dorm with Alexis on his right and Atticus on his left. While the three of them walked to the dorm, Jaden saw them.
'Sy's been spending a lot of time with the Obelisks in the past twenty-four hours.' Jaden sighed. 'I'll ask him later.'