Episode(s): 5 – 6
"Alexis, where are you going?" asked Rose as she noticed Alexis walking out of her room. Rose was going to her room after talking to some of the girls about an assignment for one of their classes.
"It'd nothing," said Alexis as she looked away.
"Alexis?" asked Rose as she walked up to her.
"It's just," started Alexis as she told Rose about her brother missing and how she was going to the abandon building.
"I'll go with you," said Rose, shocking Alexis.
"You don't have to!" said Alexis.
"No, but I know you need someone, and I don't mind being that someone," said Rose with a smile. Alexis smiled back at her and the two left.
The two girls walked to the abandon dorm, when they heard voices. The two girls walked toward the noise when Alexis stepped on a branch.
"Ahhh! SO, WHAT'S THAT!" screamed Chumley and Syrus. Jaden shined his light in the direction of the noise, only to see Alexis and Rose.
"Hi Rose, Alexis," said Jaden with a normal voice while Chumley jumped on his back and Syrus held onto his arm.
"Rose! Alexis! What are you two doing here?" asked Syrus.
"Funny, we should be asking you the same thing," said Alexis as the two girls walked to the boys.
"We heard about abounded dorm and wanted to check it out," said Jaden.
"Well that's not very intelligent," said Rose as she stared at the boys. "Kids have been disappearing around here."
"Oh, come on! That's just some urban myth," said Jaden with a smile.
"No, it's not. Believe me, I know," said Alexis. "Why else would they make this building completely forbidden?"
"If they catch you here, they will expel you," said Rose as she stood next to Jaden.
"Yeah, so why are the two of you here?" asked Jaden as he smirked at the girls.
"I have my reason, that's why!" yelled Alexis, scarring Jaden and Rose. Since Rose was next to her and not expecting it, she jumped into Jaden who grabbed her around the waist and pulled her to him.
'She didn't have to scream,' thought Rose as she looked at her friend.
"Wow, Alexis. No need to snap," said Jaden as he let go of Rose, "We just came here to look around, but we will stay out of your way, don't worry about it."
"It's just that," started Alexis as she looked away. She then started to walk away as the others looked at her.
"It's just that, what?" asked Syrus.
"One of the kids who disappeared here, was my brother."
'Oh, that explains the rose,' though Jaden as he looked at the rose in front of the gates. 'But why is Rose here?'
"If Alexis' brother really disappeared, then the rumors aren't really rumors," said Syrus. "I say we go back, Jaden."
"Yeah, well, I say we go in!" said Jaden as he and Chumley started to walk in.
"WHAT!?"
"See you in a few, Syrus!" said Jaden with a laugh. "Don't disappear on us."
"Disappear!" Syrus freaked out as he ran after the other two. "Wait up!"
"We should go back now Alexis," said Rose as she and Alexis watched the boys leave.
"Yeah," she said as the two turned around only to have someone appear in front of them. The two girls looked up and the man smirked at them. The two screamed and then all went silent.
~Sometime Later~
"Mmmmhh," moaned Rose as she started to wake up.
"Rose?" asked Alexis from nearby, "where are we?"
"On a hook, dangling, baiting your friends into my trap," said a male voice.
"Jaden," whispered Rose in shock.
A bright light then went off, causing the two girls to scream before they knocked out.
~Sometime Later~
"Rose! Alexis!" yelled Jaden as the boys got to where they heard the screams come from. They saw both girls inside of coffins.
"They can't hear you. They're far away locked in the shadow realm," said a male voice.
"Who's there?" asked Jaden as the fog picked up. They watched as a man came out of the fog.
"Your worst nightmare come true," said the man.
"Oh, give me a break," said Jaden with annoyance.
"Then let me prove it to you, in a shadow game."
"We need to get the girls back," said Syrus in concern.
"Yeah, hand them over right now or you'll be sorry!" said Jaden in anger.
"The only way I will free them is if you beat me in a shadow game," said the man.
"He's not looking at me, is he?" asked Chumley.
"Look, I'm not afraid of dueling you, but shadow games don't exist," said Jaden.
"The others didn't believe in the shadow game either, but they were soon convinced, for you see, when you lose in a shadow game, you don't just pay with your life points, you pay with your soul," said the man.
"So, you're the one behind all those disappearances," said Jaden. "Well, you're not getting us, especially the girls!"
"Unless you win, they're mine forever, and so shall you be," said the man with a smirk.
"Like I'm going to let some perv get what he wants," said Jaden in anger as he turned to Chumley to get a duel disk. "Get your game on."
"Shadow game, that is!"
"Just hang on girls, I'll get you two out."
"DUEL!" said the two males.
~After Jaden Discovers the Truth~
'We're not playing in the shadows, he's playing with my mind!' thought Jaden as he stood up. "Well no more! I've got this shadow game scam figured out."
"Did he just say, 'shadow game scam'?" asked Chumley.
"What's he mean?" asked Syrus.
"I mean," started Jaden. "My soul isn't on the serving plate anymore!"
"Huh?" said the two other guys.
"Let's keep going! My turn!" said Jaden as he drew a card.
'What's happening? Why isn't he scared anymore?' thought Titan.
Jaden used his attack to stop the allusion on the field.
"So, what? You still haven't stopped this!" said Titan as he showed the boys his Millennium Puzzle.
"You should be carful what you wish for, you just might get it!" said Jaden as he threw one of his cards and destroyed the item. This caused his body to reappear.
"Alright Jaden! You got your body back!" said Syrus in happiness.
"I never lost it," said Jaden as he turned his head to smile at his friend. "This whole shadow game was just a big fake."
"Huh?" said his friends.
"It was all just hypnosis. A whole lot of smoke and mirrors to make me think that I was losing my soul. This guy is a complete sham," said Jaden as he pointed at Titan. "I mean he's probably some out of work carnie!"
"I'm not out of work," said Titan. "I can get my job at the fair back anytime I want!"
"Yeah, and I'm sure that you could. And I'm sure that, that paper millennium item goes over well with the kiddies."
"No! Be quite! Its real! I'm real!"
"You're a sideshow phony!"
"You fool! You forget!" said Titan in anger as he then smirked. "The girls."
"Rose and Alexis," said Chumley in concern.
"That's right!" he laughed. "Imprisoned in the shadow tomb. Their souls are festering in the dark creases in the nether world! That proves that this millennium pendent is real! What do you have to say to that!?"
"Besides that you're a big dunce?" asked Jaden with a laugh.
"Huh?" said Titan in shock.
"You see, all of the millennium items were sketched on the inside of this dorm," said Jaden with a smirk. "And yours would be called the millennium puzzle, not pendent. You don't have the girl's soul, you never did! So, hand them over and hand over all the other kids you snatched your pedophile!"
"Other kids? Pedophile!? I don't know what you're talking about," said Titan in annoyance. "And because of your earlier carnie comment, you can find your friends by yourself!"
Titan threw down a smoke bomb, covering himself to make his escape.
"No way in hell! You are not getting away that easily!" yelled Jaden as he ran after the man, not noticing that the statues he ran by began to light up until all their lights hit the middle forming the all-seeing eye.
"Wow!" said Jaden in shock and awe. "How did you do this trick?"
"I didn't" said Titan in shock.
"What the fuck!?" said Jaden in shock as the wind picked up around them. It then condensed and sealed them inside of a shadow ball.
~After the Real Shadow Duel~
"Jaden!" yelled Syrus.
"You okay?" asked Chumley as the two ran to their friend.
"Never better guys!" said Jaden with a smile and a wave.
"What happened in there?"
"Ahh!" they all scream as the shadow ball started to get smaller and electricity shot out of it. They all fell to the ground to try and get away.
As the ball got smaller, it started to suck in more air, causing the coffin hold Rose to slowly slide down.
'Shit!' thought Jaden as he jumped on it to stop it from moving.
"What a cool trick!" said Jaden as he clapped. "What do you guys think he does for encores?"
"You don't think that was the real deal?" asked Syrus in shock.
"Nah. It was all just mirrors and smoke machines, just like I said. Though, I'd give my entire deck to know how he did it. I've never seen anything like it."
"They're still asleep?" asked Chumley in surprise as he looked at the two girls.
"Lets take them out side," said Jaden as he picked up Rose in his arms, carrying her bridle style.
"Right," said Chumley as he picked up Alexis.
'I feel like a prince saving his princess,' thought Jaden with a light blush as they started to make their way to leave the dorms.
~After Walking Some Distance From the Dorms~
"Huh?" said Rose as she opened her eyes.
"Well, good morning sleeping beauty," said Jaden with a smile.
"Where are we?" said Alexis as she woke up and looked around and saw the three boys. "What are you doing here?"
"Hold on, what kind of a thank you is that?" asked Jaden with a laugh and gave the girls a closed eye smile. "We're here because we had to find the bad guys, win the duel, and rescue the damsels in distress."
"Yeah! That strange man snatched us!" said Rose as she looked at the boys.
"That's right!" said Jaden as he reached into his pockets to take somethings out. He handed a card to Rose and a frame to Alexis "We found Rose's card and this."
"My brother!" said Alexis in shock as she looked at the picture. "This is the first trace of him I've seen in a long time."
"That's right," said Jaden as he moved closer to Rose as she was sitting between him and Alexis. "I brought it to let you know that we want to help you look for him. After all, we can't have you girls getting locked up in anymore tombs, searching for him with just the two of you."
"You really were worried about us, weren't you?" asked Rose as she smiled at Jaden, causing him to smile more.
"Uh oh, Suns up," said Jaden as he and the boys stood up. "We better get back before they notice that we were gone."
"By girls!" said Syrus.
"See you later," said Chumley. The three then started to run away.
"Oh, and if anyone ask, we were never here!" said Jaden as he continued running.
~Later after Class~
"Jaden!" called Rose as everyone cleared out for the end of the day.
"Hey Rose," said Jaden after he nodded at Chumley and Syrus to go on without him. He smiled at the purple haired girl.
"I never got to thank you for saving me," she said with a smile as the two stood near one of the status.
"No problem! I will always be there to fight for my friends!" said Jaden as he smiled with his eyes closed.
"Well, I still need to thank you."
"You don't have to-" started Jaden, but he was cut off by the feeling of something soft on his cheek. He opened his eyes to see Rose leaning in and kissing his cheek.
"Thanks Jaden," said Rose with a light blush as she turned and ran back toward the Obelisk Blue dorms.
"She kissed me," mumbled Jaden as his face turned red and he started to smile widely. "Best day ever!"