Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

The Beginning of Destiny

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh, its spin-offs, or its games, just the main character and the extras I throw in.

It was now another day at the Academy and Aeris was walking by herself this time. After hearing the confession from a boy she considered to be her boyfriend yet now that was up for debate. She can still remember what went on yesterday as if it just happened.

Flashback . . .

"Hey Aeris." Will greeted back, "I suppose you are wondering why I called you here?" When he received a nod as an answer, "Before I tell you anything, I need you to promise me that you won't tell anybody what I'm about to tell you, and relax, it's nothing bad."

Aeris released the breath she didn't know she was holding. When Will said it's nothing bad, he meant it with every last letter, "Okay Will, I promise."

Will was feeling a little nervous about this, but he knew it had to be done since they both knew that relationships are built upon trust coming from both side. "Aeris, my real name is Will Walker, the Crimson Duelist."

Aeris wasn't sure how to respond before she broke out in a laugh, "That's a good one. You sound better then those impersonators who . . ." She started saying, until she noticed the look on the boys face, one that a lot of people get to see when somebody starts to doubt him, both inside and outside of a duel, "Wait, you can't be serious!"

"Does it look like I'm laughing?" Will asked, before getting ready to do what needed to be done, "Aeris, name two things the Crimson Duelist is well known for, beside his dueling record."

"Well he is known for having some kind of mark on his back that glows every now and then, but nobody could seem to figure out what its suppose to mean." Aeris said, until she noticed that Will was turning his back towards her.

Will turned his head, while lowering his jacket, "You mean something like?" He asked, just as a red light started to shine through his black shirt. After the light died down, Aeris got a good look at what was shining through it and couldn't help but gasp. It looked like some kind of dragon, with its head meeting its tail, and the wings sticking out on the top. "I know that people like to use shirts with some kind of dye that makes it glow, so if you want to see for yourself, go right ahead."

Aeris decided to take him up on that offer. She placed her hand onto his back and started to blush like crazy from how firm and well built he felt. After feeling around the image, and not feeling the presence of dye or any other kind of indication that he was a fake.

"Are you convinced yet or are you planning to give me a massage in the process?" Will asked, causing the poor girl to jump back when his voice brought her back from la-la-land. The light died out completely just as Will placed his jacket back on.

"How are you doing that?" Aeris asked.

"I'm not really sure myself." Will answered, "The only thing we can figure out is that it is a very unique and powerful birthmark considering some of the extras it comes with." He then turned around to face her, "So what is the other thing that the Crimson Duelist is known for?"

"Well he is known for having the only card that they say is match to Yugi's Egyptian God Cards." Aeris said.

While listening to this, he pulled out a card from one of his decks, and showed it to her, "Is this the card?" He asked.

After recovering from the shock, thanks to the sound of snapping fingers, "So you really are him." Aeris said, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"Let's just say the love is there, just that it took awhile for the trust to catch up completely." Will said, "Before, I met girls like you, shy, insecure about themselves, that they built up my trust only for me to find out that they were pawns for the popular girls so that way they could toss the girl aside just so they could take their places. That's why I didn't tell you right away, because I didn't want to go through another one of those." He then looked deep into her eyes, "I wanted to see if you were somebody who follows their heart, not the crowd."

"How do you mean?" Aeris said, while slowly understanding what he was saying.

"To put it simply, I wanted to see if you were more like Alexis or her two little friends." Will said, before he started to walk away, "I'll leave you alone to decide how you would want to handle the truth about me."

Flashback end

Aeris had trouble sleeping that night. She understood a little bit on what he was saying about being careful when it came to trusting her completely, and now in a way, he was testing her to see what she would do now.

A hand came out of nowhere to grab her shoulder and she nearly jumped out of her skin. She turned to be greeted by Alexis, who had an amused look on her face, "Relax Aeris, it's me, not the President of the Zane Fan Club." Alexis said. When she noticed the redhead's mood, "What's wrong?"

Aeris turned towards the entrance just as Will walked through it, "Can I talk to you in private?" She asked her friend.

"Sure." Alexis said, while leading her towards an empty classroom. She caught the glimpse of what Aeris was looking at and was curious as to what Will had to do with this. Her PDA beeped, indicating that she just got mail. She picked it up to notice that it was from Will:

Hey Alexis,

Just to give you a heads up, if one of the lines from Aeris's mouth are 'Will told me a secret,' then relax because I told her one of mine. Yours is still safe as long as you want it to be.

Will

Alexis gave a curious look at the email, but just shrugged it off and placed her PDA back into her pouch. "So what's bothering you?" She asked.

Aeris shook her head, "Will told me a secret he has been keeping since he arrived on the island." She said.

Now Alexis's eyes went wide at this. 'How in the world does he do that?' She asked herself. "And judging from your tone, it must be something pretty major if it's got you this confused." She said, "Is it something he would want you to share with anyone else?"

Aeris shook her head, "No it's something that he doesn't want anybody to know right away." She answered, "In a way, it's one of those secrets that once revealed, would bring all kinds of attention."

"Good or bad?" Alexis asked.

Aeris thought about the answer very carefully, "Think the attention Zane gets, but only about a thousand times worst probably." She said, "And you know how much Will tries to keep away from the spotlight as much as possible."

Getting a good idea of what the magnitude of this secret is, "And I'm guessing he's giving you some space to decide what you would want to do next?" Alexis asked.

"Yes, and I'm still confused because I've never been put on the spot this badly before." Aeris said, "I don't know what I should do."

Alexis could sympathize with her friend. "Have you thought about going to Chancellor Sheppard and talk to him about your problem?" She asked, getting a surprised look from the girl, "Don't worry, I'm pretty sure he already knew about Will's secret way before he showed up here.

"I'll probably do that." Aeris said, before getting ready to leave, "Thanks for the advice Alexis."

"No problem." Alexis said. When she was alone, "I wonder if this secret of Will's is something Zane already figured out."

Administrative Office

Jaden walked up to the front desk, "Excuse me, I need to challenge somebody to a duel." He said.

"Here, you must fill out one of these forms." A lady's voice rang out.

Jaden is sitting at one of the empty desks, filling out the form, "Man, you have to fill everything out in triplicate." He said, while putting in the necessary information.

"My, my, do my eyes deceive me or do I see Jaden Yuki actually filling out a duel request?" Crowler said, just as his hand came out of nowhere, and grabbed the paper before Jaden could even blink. "Now let's see who you are trying to challenge." He broke out laughing when he seen the name, "Zane Trunsdale." He started ripping the form up as he said "Zane is too busy to duel somebody with the likes of you."

While Jaden was looking horrified, Will popped out from behind Crowler, "How come?" He asked, scaring the doctor to death.

"Yeah, how come Doc?" Jaden asked.

"Because he doesn't have time to deal with inferior duelists such as you." Crowler said, not enjoying the fact that this Ra has the nerve to stand up to him.

"Considering the fact that both me and Jaden defeated you in a duel, wouldn't that make you an inferior as well?" Will asked.

This caused Crowler to start boiling over to the point where steam was starting to come out of his ears, "Silence you, or else I'll . . ." He started shouting out, only to be stopped when Will crossed his arms and gave him a look that clearly challenged him by asking 'Or else you'll do what?"

Seeing that Crowler was not going to say anything else, "Anyway, Jaden, do you know where Syrus is?" Will asked his friend, as they walked out of the room, "I heard from Chumley that you and him had a practice battle that didn't end well."

"That's one way of putting it." Jaden said, as he started to explain what happened last night.

Crowler was left standing their, looking like he was about to self destruct on the spot. It was bad enough that he had to deal with Jaden's bragging and laidback attitude, yet it was even worse because Will was one who wasn't afraid to stand up to him and from what he experienced and heard, had the skills and cards to back him up.

Slifer Dorms . . .

Syrus is sitting his room, looking down at the floor as if hoping that it would open up and swallow him whole. He had trouble sleeping because ever since that practice duel, he kept picturing how badly he will do in this upcoming duel and how he would be the one responsible for getting his best friend suspended, especially if Zane was chosen to be one of their opponents.

He could still remember how everything went. From him making his first mistake by sending his Patrolroid against Jaden's Elemental Hero Avian without using its special ability to check the facedown card first, to refusing to use Power Bond to help bring out his Steam Gyroid due to his lack of self-confidence, which resulted in him getting defeated in the end by his friends Elemental Hero Thunder Giant and Elemental Hero Burstinatrix.

Right now the only thing he thinks he can do is runaway. He leaves a small note on Jaden's bed and walks out the door.

Jaden enters sometime later, with Chumley by his side, after his failed attempt to try for a pick up duel at the Obelisk Dorms. They looked around until Jaden found the note and read it. "Oh no!" He yelled out.

"What's wrong?" Chumley asked.

"Syrus is going to try to run away." Jaden said, while dropping the note, "We better find him before he makes a big mistake he might really regret."

They split up to cover more ground. When he came to the top of one hill, Winged Kuriboh appeared in front of him, "What is it Winged Kuriboh?" Jaden asked his partner. It made some noise, "You found Syrus?" It gave a small nod before pointing towards a certain direction, "Lead the way."

After being lead towards one of the hidden docks, Jaden found Syrus getting ready to leave on what appeared to be a poorly constructed raft.

Pier

Alexis is walking towards the lighthouse, just as the sun is sinking into the horizon, greeting Zane who was busy staring off into the distance, "Hey Zane, how are you?" She greeted her friend.

"Fine." Zane greeted back, "Has there been any news about your brother?"

Alexis gave a small sigh, "Nothing new yet." She answered, "Although Will was kind enough to give me an old picture he found at the old dorms."

Zane gave her a brief look, "So Will was there at the dorms as well?" He asked.

"Yeah, and Chumley too." Alexis said, "Although I wonder why only Jaden and Syrus were the only ones picked up by the squad."

"Was Crowler one of the people passing judgment?" Zane asked.

"Yes, according to the Chancellor he was." Alexis said.

"Then that's why," Zane said, "Crowler would never turn you in because you are an Obelisk and the best female duelist on this island. Chumley he doesn't care much about because he is repeating a year. Will on the other hand is more dangerous because he is a powerful duelist with plenty of decks for any occasion."

"And Will wouldn't be afraid to try and put Crowler on the spot to the point where he would have no choice but to drop all the charges." Alexis said.

"This is why Crowler chose my brother in the first place, because Syrus would lose hope as soon as something goes wrong." Zane said.

"Speaking of which, I think you need to lighten up on Syrus." Alexis said.

Before they could continue their conversation, a commotion could be heard from the other side of the pier. They ran off towards the source to watch as Jaden jumped onto Syrus's raft, only for it to fall apart just as he landed.

"Help, help, I can't swim!" Syrus yelled out, while struggling in the water.

"And you built a raft to help get you over the ocean!" Jaden yelled out, "Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense!"

Chumley came running down the dock, "Hang on guys, I'm coming!" He yelled out, just before he jumped in.

When the water cleared, all three realized that they were still in shallow water. Will came walking down the dock, with a stoic look on his face. "Are you guys going to get out of the water now or should I call the lifeguard and tell them I found three dopes trying to drown themselves in shallow water?" He asked.

"Don't worry, we'll be out soon!" Jaden called out, while all three were feeling really embarrassed.

Will look up to see that they had company. The three followed where he is facing to notice two figures watching the whole thing. One of them being Alexis, the other is somebody Syrus didn't really want to see, "Zane." Syrus said, becoming even more depressed.

"So, have you finally decided to give up yet?" Zane asked straight out, making his brother feel worse.

"Not when his friends are around to drag him back, he won't." Will said.

"Yeah!" Chumley yelled out.

"Zane, I challenge you to a duel." Jaden called out.

"What, Jaden I hope you know what you're doing." Syrus said.

"Fine, I accept your challenge." Zane said, "It's been awhile since I went slumming."

"Watch it Zane." Will called out, "Don't forget where Yugi started out from."

"Point taken." Zane said.

After finding a place by the hangers, it was already nightfall. Zane and Jaden have their duel disks at the ready, while their little audience watched from the side.

"This should prove to be an interesting duel." Will said.

"How do you mean?" Chumley asked.

"Considering their dueling styles, it would be a test to see how well they do against each other." Will explained, "Jaden with his many fusion combinations of Elemental Heroes versus Zane who tries to bring out his most powerful Cyber monsters to try and finish the duel as quickly as possible."

"How do you know about Zane's deck?" Alexis asked, "I don't think you've ever seen Zane in a duel before."

"I seen him defeat some Obelisk who was more full of himself." Will answered.

Jaden decided to get this duel started, "I'll start things off." He said, as he drew a card. "I play Elemental Hero Avian in the attack position and place one card face down."

"My turn." Zane said, as he drew a card from his deck, "I play Cyber Dragon." A giant metallic snake appeared onto the field."

"Wait a minute, how are you able to summon a high level monster without sacrificing a lower level monster?" Jaden asked, as this is his first time seeing one.

"Thanks to it's special ability, if my opponent has a monster out on the field and I don't I can summon it right out of my hand." Zane explained, before pulling a card out of his hand, "I play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your facedown card." A strong spiral of wind came out of the card and destroyed it's intended target, "Now attack and destroy that monster." His monster did what it was told and destroyed Avian, bringing Jaden's life points down to 2900, "I play Different Dimension Capsule," what looked like a Sarcophagus rose from the ground, "I then place a card from my into it and it get's removed from play. After two turns, it destroys itself and the card goes straight to my hand." When the capsule went back into the ground, "I end my turn."

"Oh man, I knew this was a bad idea." Syrus said, "Now Zane will defeat Jaden and Jaden won't be able to perform and it's all because of me."

"Don't count Jaden out yet, Syrus." Will said, "No matter how this duel turns out, Jaden is not going to stop doing his best when it comes to a duel."

"He's right Sy," Chumley said, "This is Jaden we're talking about here. He wouldn't give up dueling for anything in the world."

"My turn." Jaden said, pulling out a card from his deck, "I play Polymerization to fuse Elemental Hero Sparkman and Elemental Hero Clayman to bring out Elemental Hero Thunder Giant." The monsters appeared onto the field, only to disappear into a small vortex to reveal something stronger, "And when he gets summoned, he destroys all my opponent's monsters who original attack points whose attack points that are equal to or less then his own." Zane's Cyber Dragon is destroyed in the process, "And since that was just his ability, I'll have him attack you directly." When the monster brought Zane's life points down to 1600, Zane didn't even flinch from the attack, "You could at least kinda flinch." Jaden said, with enthusiasm.

A small smile appeared onto Zane's face, "Thanks, you're a pretty good duelist as well." He said.

Syrus was surprised by this, since Zane hardly showed any emotions ever.

"Anyway, I'll place a card facedown and call it a turn." Jaden said.

Zane drew a card, "I play another Cyber Dragon," He said, "And I play Monster Reborn to bring out the Cyber Dragon from my graveyard." When his field had two of his creatures on it, he pulls out a card, "I activate Polymerization to fuse my two dragons to summon the Cyber Twin Dragon." When the two monsters became one, "Attack Cyber Twin Dragon." He ordered, "And my monster can attack twice in one turn."

Chumley and Syrus were shaking, "Oh man, if it attacks twice, then unless Jaden can pull himself out of this, he's finished." Chumley said.

Jaden had something else to say about that, "I activate the trap, A Hero Emerges, you have to choose a card from my hand, and if it's a monster, I get to summon it to the field, and since I have only one card in my hand, I bring out Wroughtweiler in defense mode." When both monsters were destroyed, bringing his life points down to 2500, "When Wroughtweiler is destroyed I get to bring an Elemental Hero and a Polymerization from my graveyard to my hand." The smile returned to Jaden's face, "Man, your chill. Not worrying, not even flinching. You are good." He said.

Zane's smile got a little bigger, "You too, Jaden." He said, "And you're pretty good as well considering that you know not only how to play a card, but also how to use one as well."

Syrus eyes went wide after his brother said that, 'Wait, that's what Zane told me when he stopped that duel I had with that bully.'

"I draw." Jaden said, "I summon Elemental Hero Bubbleman, and when he's the only monster on the field, I get to draw two cards." When he looked down, he notices that he drew two cards that saved him from his exam duel. 'Sweet, I just drew Winged Kuriboh.He really helped me through with my duel against Chazz, but first.' "I play Polymerization to fuse Clayman with Bubbleman to summon Elemental Hero Mudballman in defense mode." When the monster got into a defensive position, "I place a card face down and end my turn." Jaden looked down at the card, 'Alright, next turn, I'll bring out Winged Kuriboh, and all I have to do is activate Transcendent Wings, to bring out Winged Kuriboh LV10 and I win the duel.'

"Alright, with Mudballman in defense mode, Jaden still has a chance." Chumley said.

"Guess again." Will said.

"Why do you say that?" Syrus said.

Being the one who knew Zane the longest, "Because Zane is about to bring this duel to a screeching halt." Alexis said.

When Zane drew his card, the capsule returned and the card he released flew into his hand. "I play De-Fusion to turn my dragon into two again." He said, "I then play Power Bond to fuse my two Cyber Dragons with the one in my hand to bring out Cyber End Dragon to the field." When the three headed, winged beast appeared onto the field, "And since I used Power Bond to bring out my monster, it's attack point are doubled, but I lose life points equal to that monsters original by the time I end my turn. Now attack Cyber End Dragon." He ordered, "And my monster does damage to your life points despite what position your monster is in."

"Oh boy." Jaden said, just before his monster got destroyed and he got sent flying back from the blast.

"Jaden!" Both Syrus and Chumley yelled out as they ran towards their friend.

"Are you alright Jaden?" Syrus asked.

Jaden was laughing like crazy. "Man that was the greatest duel ever." He said, "I can't wait for a rematch."

Zane's smile grew some, "I'll look forward to it." He said.

After seeing the exchange between his friend and his brother, he understood what Jaden was trying to do, "Jaden, I'm sorry for trying for runaway. I was just afraid that I might become more of a burden." Syrus said.

"Don't worry about it, Sy, we'll do great." Jaden said, being his ever cheerful self.

"I hope so." Syrus said, "I want to be your partner for this duel."

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Jaden asked, as he got back up onto his feet, "Let's head back and get to work on your deck." He said, before taking off running towards the Slifer Dorms.

"Hey Jaden, wait up!" Syrus called out, trying to catch up with his friend.

"Oh come on guys, do we have to keep running everywhere?" Chumley called out, while trying to keep up.

Will just shook his head, "Never a dull moment with those three." He said, before walking off, "See you two around."

When it became just two of them again, "Well, what do you think, Zane?" Alexis asked.

Zane gave her an honest smile, "I think my brother picked out some good friends."

Here is the latest chapter. Sorry if some parts of the duels and a scene or two seem a little off, since this was written mainly from memory. I tried finding the episode on YouTube, but they didn't have any English versions of the entire series. Read and Review.