Chapter 4: A Lost & Found

It had been a week, I haven't seen Kari and T.K. and I'm beginning to get concerned. I decided to ask Jaden, Syrus, and Chumsley to come with me. I'm going to tell them in the morning.

"Hey wake up, wake up. I've found it. The entry gate to The Shadow Realm, I told Jaden to come. It will be us three. I can't put any more people in danger." She sadly looked at the ground. She was very sad and upset.

"Where's TK? Where is he Kari? Come on tell me!" I grabbed her and shook her back and forth.

"Darkness has him. Actually, I'm not going with you, Take Zane. He can…" She paused and looked sadly again. "Duel" What did dueling have to do with this. She knew I didn't know what she was talking about; why was she acting like this?. "You duel them, to save yourself. Then they take your soul and if you win you get the soul but if you lose, they take that soul and you get a Katea4.1 a voodoo doll. I found a box of them and well Alexis you know what happened to you're brother."

"So you're saying that TK and my brother are stuck in a key gateway. Where are there bodies? So you're not going so how will we get around and who knows how to duel them." I was scared and frightened.

"Jaden, Jaden dueled them once before, and saved someone you know, Alexis Rhodes. Jaden dueled at the Dorm back there a while ago and the first of the 7 killed are gone. There is 7 more of each to save. Your brother being one of them" I was not scared. I forgot that I had been there once before, I know that place. Jaden and I can do this. I just hope that the 7 remaining people can be saved.

There was a knock at the window. I just sat on my bed sadly. Kari walked over to the window. It was Jaden. He threw a pebble. I left the dorm but before I could leave I grabbed the box of Kateas, left the room, and went to Zane's room. I knocked, hopping not to bother anyone except Zane. I didn't, I woke up his whole dorm. They were about to challenge me to a duel when Zane stepped in. He told me he couldn't help me. I didn't know why he couldn't but I could guess I would find out. Jaden and I walked to the dorm. I read what it said on the wall about the Katea. It said something about the Kateas being a holding place for souls. It refers to it as the last resting place of bad duelists. The Shadow Realm is the darkest area of the Millennium Puzzle. It could hold souls that were lost and it was the center. They were scattered and now anyone could seal people's souls in the stone, Katea. It says that anyone who bothers the souls of those in the Katea will be over come and become slaves to its immense powers.

We walked on to the floor were Jaden had battled for my life once before. He still believes that he never did battle in the shadow Realm and he didn't. He battled in a Shadow Game. You had to lose to be in the Shadow Realm, and he won. I was saved and I am so glad I have friends like him to save me. I walked over to the gateway and then I woke up in the Shadow Realm. It was not time to give Jaden time to wake up. I shook him and shook him. He woke up with his normal glad to be here excitement. The box was on the ground next to me. It was glowing and it lead us into another room; it was the Valley of Darkness. I had read about this in the ancient book that they had discovered in Atticus'ss dorm along time ago. It was a slip of paper and a card; it said " Valley of Darkness". I thought he would be here but he wasn't then it was an earthquake. I fell down, and then a figure came out in the distance.

I knew who it was easily, it was Atticus; My lost brother who disappeared in his dorm. I guessed he would be the first to play with the shadow duels. He had to have lost when he first came here, or he wouldn't be trapped here. I was sad and scared. Evil is powerful and I just hopped that Jaden could win and my brother could go back to normal.

The duel lasted what it seemed to be many days. I sat there watching them duel Jaden was winning but it was very close. A Legendary Dragon Deck vs. an Elemental Hero Deck. It was an immense duel. I watched the duel and when it was finally over my brother's Katea changed into a pendant. My brother's soul was free and pure. He could return. That was the last of what I remember. I woke up and I was in my bed back at my dormitory. I looked around. Where was my brother and where was Jaden?!

"Alexis you're finally awake. I though I'd have to take you to the hospital too." It was Kari. "I was so frightened you haven't done anything or moved in a week."

"A week?! Where are Jaden and Atticus? Are they okay?" I was scared that something happened to them. "It was just an explosion at the end of the duel as the Katea disappeared and Jaden got the locket and that's it. That's all I remember".

"Well I have fair news and worst news. One, Jaden and Atticus are in the hospital, their bodies are in terrible condition but you aren't messed up near as much, badly but not as bad." I looked at myself; I was badly hurt. I could walk but it would take a while for the pain to go away. "Two, I read up on all about the Katea and the pendant Jaden had with him when they returned and I found out a lot."

I asked Mrs. Fontaine to take me to the hospital to see my brother, Atticus, and she took me. I went in and visited my brother. He was on an air oscillator. He probably wasn't use to the air so his heart couldn't survive very easily. I walked over to Jaden's room it was empty. I walked down the stairs when I found to the stupidity effect. Chumsley was caring Jaden out of the hospital and Syrus were just letting them leave.

"You are absolutely not taking Jaden out of this hospital. That's illegal and just completely stupid. He is in so much danger from that duel and you're not leaving." I was annoyed by their stupidity to take Jaden out of the hospital. I let them go only because Mr. Banner had come over to sign Jaden out of the hospital anyway. We also met up with Chazz and Bastian they had also tried to visit Jaden during his hospitalization. I was glad to get out of the hospital, all I could think about is the great chance Jaden and Atticus had of dying.

Everything was as normal as it could be than I received a call from the hospital. "Miss. Rhodes you brother is back to upstanding normal condition you can pick him up. He will still need more rest, good-bye." It was someone in the hospital, I was so glad my brother could come back to the Academy. Dr. Crowler brought Atticus back to the academy with a new plan to overtake Jaden of course. I was just as down as normal but then I saw him. I did nothing but sit and smile. I never showed people how I truly felt. I smiled at him. He walked over me.

"Hey Alexis, you miss me? Do you know who this Jaden character is? Dr. Crowler said he was an overconfident Slifer slack-off, who is a real trouble-maker. This Jaden seems like a great guy; beat a professional teacher's deck and other top level student." Atticus really wanted to know Jaden. I smiled bright. I nodded.

"Jaden's a really guy; everyone here is just jealous of his awesome dueling skills. He likes my dueling strategies. I was just over at his dorm. However, you really should get some rest. He is an obelisk level duelist he almost beat Zane, what an amazing duelist." I was quietly thinking about Jaden. We didn't have a normal relationship. We both admire the awesome attitudes and dueling abilities of the other. I was kind of different from other girls. I was the "Princess" of Obelisk Blue. I prize trophy for the best duelist in the school. I wanted freedom to hang around with anyone. I have solved family problems from the worst to the best. Like how Zane and Syrus use to despise each other. Then we have, well Jaden's inability to let Syrus be down and unconfident lead him to duel Zane and get Syrus' confidence back. Jaden and I make a great team.

I awoke to another knock on the door; I think I might install a doorbell just to add a little music into my wakeups. I opened the door.

"Alexis have you seen Jaden? I haven't seemed him since your brother and he left into the woods." It was Syrus he couldn't find Jaden! I ran and got dressed and ran down the stairs and across to the boys' dorm. I found Atticus'ss dorm. I ran in and no one was there. I feel on the ground, "Not again". What was I to do? I sat there for almost an hour. I walked out and back to my dorm, there was a girl a little younger than us.

"Hi I'm Amy, I know where Jaden is. He's in the Shadow Realm. Here this book will tell you everything. The book's called Dasios Uri Toed Cycladic4.2 or Soul Sell to how; Translation is How to sell soul. It's the same book as you found when your brother disappeared." It's all about how to get rid of people you hate, and kill them. It also explains how to get into the Shadow Realm. Your brother's soul is still in the Shadow Realm. You have his body and his body doesn't like Jaden winning duels for souls." Amy knew what she talking about. She showed us a page called "Discos jig tom sib"4.3 she said it meant story of a soul.

It was quiet a long story.

If a souled person enters SR. He has No Soul, if he loses the duel.

1.) If a person (A) who has a relation to the person (B), the soul is completely let free.

2.) If someone who has no relation(C) sets him free the soul is only partially there. He (A) seeks revenge, he has a partial soul. He then must be released by the non-relation person(C)'s true love that has a relation (B) to person than soul is free.

Jaden and I were both in big danger we were in problem 2 and I was (B) and he was (C). We had to solve the problem before Jaden is killed we can't save Atticus if Jaden's dead.

Three days later, Atticus showed up in his hospitalization state back at the house again. It was a week when I found Jaden. He was almost dead; I wish I could take everyone out of this. I wish the problem were simpler too. I tried to figure how I could get everyone out of the whole problem. I asked Amy and Mr. Banner they were the advisors of the SR problem. They said the SR was made so it was almost completely impossible it was complicated.