Hello my fellow readers, writers, and people who have been waiting for an update I'm back with another new chapter. In this chapter Akiko is about to turn her back on the other guardians so she can try to save Haruko from the shadow realm. I can't think of anything else to add to this author's note but if I do by the time I'm done writing this I'll add it in at the end of this chapter.

So without further ado let's get this show on the road

"Talking"

"Thought"

"Yelling"

Harry's P.O.V

I was walking toward my dorm room along with the rest of the gang because I had finally managed to convince Chancellor Crowler to allow the guardians of the millennium items from different dorms to stay in obelisk blue dorm. Just as I was about to go into my room which was after everyone else's I noticed that it looked like Akiko was sneaking off.

I said to Alexis "go ahead and wait for me I'll be back soon" and she said "okay I'll be waiting for you" and I ran down the hall to where I had seen Akiko sneaking around the corner. Just as I turned the corner I saw that she was half way down the hallway from there and I walked up behind her and said "what are you doing."

She said "uh I was going to the dining room to see if there were any leftovers" and I said "dinner ended about 3 hours ago and not to mention the dining hall is the other way." She shouted "Fine you really want to know what I was doing I was going to challenge Marik to try and get Haruko back." I said "normally I would try to stop you and I am now unless you can beat me in a duel."

She said "very well if that's what it takes to get Haruko back then I will" and she activated her duel disk and I summoned mine onto my arm and activated it and loaded my deck up. She said "you go first" and I said "Very well I summon one monster face down on the field and place one more card facedown and end my turn."

She drew and said "I summon lion alligator in attack mode now attack his facedown monster" and I said you walked right into my trap card shadow spell. This card stops your monster from attack or changing its battle position as long as it remains on the field." She said "I end my turn" and I drew and said "I activate the spell card lightning vortex which at the cost of one card in my hand I can destroy all your monsters that are face up on the field.

Next I activate the spell card dark magic curtain which allows me to special summon a dark magician from my deck at the cost of half my life points" and my life points dropped to 2000 and dark magician came out. "Next I activate the spell card bond between teacher and student which since I have dark magician out on the field I can special summon a dark magician girl from my deck.

Now I flip summon my aroma jar which each end phase I gain 500 life points and it can't be destroyed by battle or card effects since I flip summoned it. Now dark magician attack her life points directly" and her life points dropped to 1500 and I said "dark magician girl attack her life points directly and finish this" and her life points dropped further to 0 and my monster disappeared.

I said "just from that duel I know you're not ready to face Marik because the Akiko I know would have been able to last longer than 2 turns against me. If you can't defeat me you have no chance of defeating Marik considering he's more powerful than I am." She then said "if he's more powerful than you how do you plan to defeat him."

I said "the Egyptian gods gave me a special deck that has the power to defeat his so long as all three of the god cards are in the deck at the same time." I could tell that she was having a hard time dealing with Haruko being sent to the shadow realm. In fact it reminded me of joey during the battle city tournament when Mai has been sent to the shadow realm.

I said "since I won the duel you have to wait to try to defeat Marik until I say it's okay" and she said "whatever" and she walked past me toward her dorm room which was the furthest from mine. I walked behind her and as she got in her room I walked back all the while knocking on the other holder's doors and when the opened it I said "meeting in my room."

As soon as everyone was there I said "from what Akiko just tried to do one of us will have to stay up in order to stop her from trying to defeat Marik in the middle of the night." Jaden said "I'm not sure I totally agree with this" and I said "why is that" and he said "well if one of my closest friends hell even Syrus were sent to the shadow realm I would be going and trying to defeat whoever sent him there."

I said "yes but would you be able to make rational choices with your dueling if Syrus had been sent to the shadow realm" and he said "well I guess not I would probably be acting recklessly." I said "that is exactly my point because with the duel I just had with Akiko she lost within 2 turns so she is defiantly not ready to face Marik.

So I'll take first shift which since there's 5 of us with 8 hours before we have to go to class that means each shift will be an hour and a half each. So who wants to go after me" and Alexis said "I will" and I said "okay after Alexis" and Jaden said "I will." I then said "okay who is after Jaden" and Syrus said "since I'm rooming with Jaden it'll be easier for him to wake me us so I'll do it."

I said "that leave the last shift for you Bastion" and he said "very well" and I said "Meeting dismissed now everyone out so we can start watching at the end of the hall." I headed to the end of the hall and was facing the way that my room was and after about 20 minutes I thought "wait I can use magic so why not make a chair."

I conjured a wood chair with a cushion on it and took a seat and not a moment later I saw someone coming down the hall. I thought for a moment that it was Akiko but as the figure got closer I figured out that it was actually Crowler. He said "what are you doing out here in the halls this late Harry" and I said "I'm making sure Akiko doesn't do anything reckless while the item holders are sleeping."

He said "well tell me exactly what you're afraid she'll do" and I conjured another chair for him and said "you want to have a seat" and he said "okay" and he sat down and I said "Well as I was heading back to my dorm room after training the others with dueling in the shadow realm I saw her walking down the hall.

I instantly thought the worst and went after her and it turned out my suspicions were correct she was heading to duel Marik to try to get Haruko's soul back from the shadow realm." he said "what's so bad about that" and I said "since Haruko's soul has been banished to the shadow realm her dueling has gotten close to that of a 7 year old playing the game for the first time."

He said "how so" and I said "she lost a duel to me in 2 turns when with all the duels I had with her during training it took her much longer to defeat me" and he said "well what would you do if you were in her shoes." I said "I would probably go after Marik" and he said "so what's so bad about Akiko doing it."

I said "because she's a guardian of one of the millennium items and with each millennium item Marik gets his hands on his power grows so we can't risk it." Crowler then said "then the answer is simple let Akiko go duel Marik but have her give you her Millennium item first" and I said "she's the only one on this island that can harness the power of the millennium items."

He said "so basically her life is valuable here" and I said "yes seeing as how she's the one whose held the millennium ring so far." He said "Well it's up to you" and he got up and walked to his room and I destroyed the chair and looked at my watch. I saw that my talk with Crower had passed the time considering I only had 2 minutes left and I walked back to the room and saw that it was time for Alexis to guard the hallway.