Time to do some time-traveling since nothing interesting happens here. School passes on Zane gets perfect grades blah blah blah, the third year with the highest grades decided to challenge her best friend because she didn't want to challenge the Kaiser so the two boys watched the duel and finally decided the duel was worth crap. Enter: Duel Academy 2nd year!

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On our plane to Duel Academy, Atticus sat next to me this time wide awake. He prodded me.

"What now, Atticus?"

"Isn't the new Obelisk Dorm finished yet?"

"No, remember it was postponed?" It was true, a rare tropical storm of some sort decided to pour down and a lot of time was spent on repairing the site.

"Oh yeah, great. We can stay in our old rooms for a couple of months." After a few hours of brief conversations, we had finally reached Duel Academy. They should really find a faster way to get here. I don't mind the wait but Atticus sure did. We gathered our luggage which was only our uniforms and clothes. I carried just an average luggage back. Atticus looked like he had just move in.

"What did you bring?" I asked him.

"Just some extra clothes." He stumbled under the weight. Uh, for Atticus sake I grabbed a sack. Maybe this could hide my face till we get to our dorms.

I dropped my load near my door and we both slid our card keys. Atticus's door opened right away. Mine didn't. I twisted the handle. Nothing happened. I guess Sheppard was right, this dorm is getting old. Atticus noticed my problem. "Hey, what's up, Zane?"

"My key won't work. Figures, the lady gave me the wrong card data. I'll be right back." I sprinted away from the hall to the main building for my right key.

The lady at the front desk noticed me and tilted her glasses.

"Yes, Mr. Truesdale?" she said expecting some kind of serenade of a sob story. Screw that.

"You gave me the wrong key." I said handing my card to her. She examined it apologized and dianled out the right one.

I ran all the way back to Obelisk Dorm trying to avoid as many groups of people as I can. What I saw was completely unexpected. Atticus was lying on the floor. It looked as if Atticus decided to walk down a dark alley in New York singing the Barney Song. I knelt beside him. He was still conscience.

"Atticus, talk to me. What happened?"

"I couldn't stop him, he just, just snuck up on me then took it." Okay he was not making sense at all.

"Who snuck up on you? Took what?"

"I don't know who.. But your deck. He took your deck." I looked at my own bag, my stuff was strewn everywhere. Wait a minute wasn't my deck in my pocket? I slapped my hand on my side to check. It wasn't there. That's right, I took it out during the plane flight so I wouldn't risk any nosy students going through my pockets just in case if I dozed off.

I went through all my stuff. Atticus was right, my deck was gone. I helped him up, but Atticus avoided my eyes. "I'm sorry, Zane I could've been paying more attention…"

"It isn't your fault. I got the right key we can let Sheppard know in my room." He nodded and I unlocked my door. It was a nightmare. My curtains were ripped up. My window was cracked. Broken glass littered my floor and my TV was practically split in two. Atticus was just as horrified. I wretched open my closet for my spare uniforms. Red plaint was splattered all over them. Black spray paint spelt wrong phrases all over my furniture. I checked my bathroom. The sink was ripped up. The mirror had broken. The toilet bowl had been cracked open and water leaked everywhere. In the midst of broken glass I found a slip of paper that held only three words.

DoWn wItH kAiSeR

The note wrinkled in my hand. I frowned but truly rage was burning inside of me. Who would do this. Atticus snatched the note from my hand and mouthed the words. "What kind of sick, twisted fiend would do this?" he asked.

"A lot of sick, twisted fiends. Obelisk has top-security, how did this person get past it?" Atticus shrugged. He didn't know and neither did I.

"Let's go to your room, Atticus. We'll inform the counselor of this." Atticus agreed and careful not to hurt ourselves we walked to his room. I dialed Sheppard's office number.

"Hello? Counselor Sheppard."

"Counselor, it's Zane Truesdale."

"Oh what's up Mr. Truesdale?"

"Someone broke into my room and decided to have a little fun."

Sheppard's voice turned stern immediately. "Hm? What type of fun?"

"Vandalism, Counselor. And thievery. My deck has been stolen."

"Is that so? We'll send someone down to investigate and we'll inform the school of the missing-"

"No, just have this place cleaned up. I don't want any publicity and whoever stole my deck probably wants me to pay ransom for it. I have most of this under my decisions, Counselor." Sheppard argued against my request but finally he gave in.

"Very well, we have no spare Obelisk Rooms. Where will you stay?" Atticus started pointing at himself.

"I'm staying with a friend of mine who just lives across from me."

"Okay, and I apologize Zane for the inconvenience."

I hung up.

Atticus was searching my dismantled drawers in my wrecked up room. "Nope, no other notes or clues here!"

That's weird if this person wants to face me why just leave three words that have no real meaning? There's only one way to make sure and it may seem stupid but heck, worth a try.

"Atticus, do you have any citric acid with you?"

"You mean a lemon? No. You should check the café."

Convenient. I ran to the cafeteria for a lemon and back. Don't ask me for details but I'm sure I looked ridiculous holding a knife and a lemon why running very fast. At least at the sight of the knife no one crossed my path.

I took a seat at Atticus's desk and sliced open the lemon. Atticus was looking over my shoulder. I switched on the lamp even though it was board daylight. Carefully, I squeezed some juiced onto the note. I waited a minute for the light bulb to heat up then I pressed the note to it. I waited, Atticus waited… Nothing until very slowly words appeared…

If you want to see your deck again, meet me at the edge of the forest. Bring no one.

Signed, Anonymous.

This person made a very big mistake. But I had to admit they were very clever into planning. First they hacked into the Obelisk Security Computer to disable the alarms. Then they mess up the room database to give me the wrong information on a card to create a diversion to steal my deck. But why would anyone go through so much trouble? What did they want with me?

"I'm going alone, Atticus." He argued. "What are you going to do? You don't even have your duel deck with you. Who knows what they've got planned. How do you know these people are honest, who knows what they've already done to your deck?"

"I don't know and I don't think they are, but leave this to me. I know just what to do."

"Fine but I'm watching from here." Atticus pointed at the window. I sighed and nodded.

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Okay I lied, I really didn't know what to do. Maybe I should've let Sheppard tell everyone about the theft... No, I'm taking care of this on my own. So edge of the forest, eh? It seemed like forever when I reached there. Everyone was at the welcome parties. Big Secong year treat. Brilliant, Spectacular, fantastic. Don't you wish you were me.

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I know this chapter is a little short I'm having limited time on the computer, Review!