Chapter 31, The well.

Chazz woke up in his small room to the sound of knocking, "Who is it" groaned a very annoyed Chazz, "Chazz you need to hurry up or you'll miss breakfast" said Syrus's voice though the door.

Chazz moaned to himself, he didn't need to get up to know that breakfast would be nothing but rice, Chazz pulled himself out of bed and started to get dressed, Chazz's room at Slifer red was so small that he could hardly fit all of his possessions in it.

By the time Chazz entered the dining room Jaden was looking at Chazz's bowl of rice with hunger in his eyes, luckily Syrus was preventing Jaden from eating it, Chazz sat down, ate his rice, and then headed to class.

Today Professor Banner was teaching chemistry, he was just showing the class an experiment when Crowler suddenly entered to room, "Everybody stop what you're doing, this class is cancelled" he said.

Many of the students looked happy that class had ended early while others seemed more concerned on why it had been cancelled, "Dr Crowler is there something wrong" asked a confused Banner, "Everyone follow me to the main hall, Chancellor Sheppard will explain everything" said Crowler pretending not to hear Banner.

Everyone including Banner followed Crowler to the main hall, some of the student seemed worried they could see that Crowler was unusually worried about something.

They reached the main hall and found that the rest of the school was waiting for them, "This is the last of them Sir" said Crowler as he entered the room, "Good, everyone sit down I have something very important to tell you" said Sheppard.

Everyone sat down and Sheppard prepared to say something, "Everyone I have some very distressing news, someone is attempting to buy Duel academy from Kaibacorp" he said, the room immediately erupted in noise as everyone started talking at once.

"EVERYBODY BE QUIET" shouted Sheppard silencing the room, "As I was saying, someone is attempting to buy Duel academy, and if they succeed they will tear the academy down and build a condo on top of it" finished Sheppard.

As soon as Sheppard said this all of the students began to worry, some looked far more worried than others, "Chancellor this is a joke right, Mr Kaiba would never sell the academy" said a very worried Professor Sartyr.

Sheppard sighed "I'm afraid that they have offered Mr Kaiba a very large sum of money for the academy, far more that it's even worth" he said, at this point even the teachers faces turned to worry.

"However Mr Kaiba has made a deal with the buyers, if one of the buyers can defeat one of our students in a duel then Mr Kaiba will accept their offer" said Sheppard, at this point some of the students calmed down.

"Well that's hardly going to be a problem, Zane I suggest you prepare for the duel immediately" said Crowler, "I'm afraid that Zane won't be duelling, the buyers have already chosen their opponent" said Sheppard.

Everyone's faces turned back to worry as they waited for Sheppard to announce who would be duelling, "Chazz Princeton, the buyers have chosen you to be their opponent" said Sheppard.

At this point the looks on everyone's faces was a mix of relief and fear, they all knew that Chazz was one of the best duellists in the school although he wasn't the best.

"And I'm afraid there's more, as part of the deal Chazz is not allowed to have any monsters in his deck with more than 500 ATK points" said Sheppard, the whole room became silent.

"The duel will take place in three days, I suggest you all prepare for the worst" said Sheppard, "Chazz would you come to my office there's something you need to know" he continued.

The room began to empty as all the students returned to their dorms, Chazz followed Sheppard and the other teachers to the Chancellor's office, once they was all inside Sheppard sat down and pulled a remote out of one of his draws.

"Chazz your opponents would like to have a word with you" said Sheppard as he turned on a large tv that was hanging on the wall.

To Chazz's horror the faces of his brothers Slade and Jagger appeared on screen, "Hello little brother" said Slade, "You two, you two are the ones who are trying to buy Duel academy" said a very worried Chazz.

"Of course we are" said Jagger, "Thanks to you that school now stands as a symbol of Princeton failure, so it must be destroyed" said Slade.

Chazz was becoming more worried until he remembered something important and a smile appeared on his face, "You two seem to have forgotten something, nether of you have ever duelled before, even with a deck of weak monsters I can beat ether of you" he said.

Sinister smiles appeared on Slade and Jagger's faces, "Maybe you could, unless of course we use these" said Jagger as he revealed a familiar case filled with powerful cards, "Look familiar, these are the card that you didn't use during that School duel" said Slade, "Slade's going to be using all of these cards during your duel in three days, well see you then little brother" said Jagger as the screen faded to black.

"Chazz I recommend that you build a deck for the coming duel" said Sheppard, Chazz nodded and left the room, with Chazz gone all of the teachers turned to Sheppard.

"Chancellor we have to do something, this duel id clearly unfair" said Fontaine, "I'm sorry but the deals already been made" said Sheppard, "But Chancellor what will happen to the students if the school is torn down, some of them have nowhere to go" said Banner.

"I'm aware of that but there's simple nothing we can do" said Sheppard, at this point Banner left the room looking both angry and disappointed in Sheppard.

Chazz was walking down the hall, he could tell that everyone he passed was already worrying about the duel, "Hey Chazz, over here" said a familiar and very annoying voice, "Not you" thought Chazz as he turned around and saw Jaden running towards him.

"Hey Chazz I thought you could use some help getting ready for that duel in a few days" said Jaden happily, "Then maybe he should ask anyone besides you" said a voice from behind a corner.

Robin stepped from behind the corner closely followed by Zane, the two had been discussing what Chazz's chancers in the duel was, "The first thing Chazz needs to do is build a new deck for the upcoming duel" said Robin.

At this Chazz began to panic, "What's wrong, building a decks not that hard" said Jaden, "He's worried because he doesn't have any monsters that fit the criteria for this duel" said Zane.

Both Jaden and Robin looked shocked, "Chazz you do have monsters with less than 500 ATK points, right" asked Robin, "I only have one" said Chazz holding up his Ojama yellow card, "We're dead" said Robin.

"Aw come on guys, maybe we could give Chazz some of our weak monsters" said Jaden holding up his Winged kuriboh, "I wouldn't use that fur ball if my life depended on it" said Chazz.

Jaden put Winged kuriboh back in his pocket "Ok then do you two have ant weak monsters Chazz can use" he asked, "I don't have anything that he could use without a Cyber dragon" said Zane, "I have a few weak monsters that I don't use anymore, but not enough to build a deck" said Robin.

"Maybe I could help you children" said a voice, the three turned to see Banner walking towards them, "Really teach, do you have some cards Chazz could use" aske Jaden, "No, but I do know where he could find some" said Banner.

"Did you know that there's a well-hidden deep within the forest, it's rumoured that students throw their weak and unwanted cards down this well" explained Banner.

"Is this rumour even true" asked Robin with a hint of doubt in his voice, "Well no one knows, that's why it's a rumour" said Banner, "Well real or not, it sounds like our best chance, come on Chazz let's go" said Jaden as he dragged Chazz down the hall, much to Chazz's dismay.

"Wait, there's something else you should know" called Banner but nether Jaden or Chazz heard him, "Oh dear, I was going to tell them that there's also a rumour that the well is haunted by the spirits of the monsters that have been abandoned there" said Banner, Robin chuckled at this doubtful that that part was true.

A few hours later Chazz and Jaden was walking through the woods searching for the well, the two was carrying backpacks that they had filled with some supplies that they thought could be useful.

Along the way Jaden had started to sing a very annoying song and was now making Chazz very angry, "Man this guy's singing is terrible" said Ojama yellow who was sitting on Chazz's shoulder and covering his ears, "Jaden just shut up" shouted Chazz, "Aw come on Chazz, there's nothing wrong with a singalong" said Jaden cheerfully.

After almost another hour of searching Chazz and Jaden finally came to an clearing with an old crumbling well in the centre, "Do you think that's it" asked Jaden, "Well I don't see any other wells around here" said Chazz.

Chazz approached the well only for a translucent Skull servant to climb out and run towards him, Chazz was so shocked that he fell to the ground, "Chazz hold on I'm coming" shouted Jaden as he ran forced to help Chazz up.

Jaden pulled Chazz back to his feet just as the Skull servant reached them, however instead of hurting them the spirit just passed through them harmlessly.

"Wait a minute, why didn't that hurt" asked Chazz, "What did you expect, Skull servant hardly has enough ATK points to do any real damage" said Ojama yellow.

Chazz and Jaden recovered from the attack and looked down the well, the well was so dark that nether of them could see a thing, Chazz opened his backpack and handed Jaden a rope, "Ok, you hold the rope and I'll climb down" said Chazz.

Jaden held the rope and Chazz climbed down into the well, when he reached the bottom he pulled out a torch and turned it on, Chazz's eyes widened at what he saw.

The well was much larger that it had looked on the outside and it was filled with duel monster cards, but what got Chazz's attention was that he could see the spirits of all the monster cards in the well.

The spirits all seemed to be in a state of depression, some of them was curled up in the corners and there was others who appeared to be crying, most of the spirits didn't even notice Chazz's presence.

"Wow, this place is really depressing" said Ojama yellow, "Yellow is that you?" asked a voice, Yellow looked in the direction of the voice and saw Ojama green and Ojama black.

"Green, Black, what are you guys doing here" asked Yellow, "We was thrown down here years ago because no one wanted us" said Black sadly, "Come on, it can't be that bad" said Yellow.

"Trust me, it is that bad" said another voice, Yellow turned around and saw Ojama blue and Ojama red, "Red, Blue, you here too" said Yellow, suddenly a smile appeared on Yellow's face "This is great, the gangs all here" he said.

Yellow turned to Chazz, "Hey boss, I'd like you to meet my brothers, Black, Blue, Green and Red" he said, however Chazz wasn't listening he was to busy looking at all of the sad monster spirits that had been abandoned here.

By now most of the spirits had realised that Chazz could see them and they was all looking at him with curiosity in their eyes, finally Chazz placed his backpack on the ground and opened it up.

Yellow floated over to Chazz, "Boss is it ok if we take my brothers with us" he asked, at this point the spirits realised why Chazz was here, and they all looked at Chazz almost begging him to take them with him.

"Which of us are you taking" asked a very hesitant The unhappy maiden, "I'm taking all of you" said Chazz, all of the spirits was shocked by this, some of them seemed doubtful that Chazz was even telling the truth, "I'm not leaving any of you in this place" said Chazz reassuring the spirits.