-1Chapter 7: Afterparty

A/N: Sorry for the late update, AP has been dominating my life…pathetic I know.

As the students got up to leave the stage, all the people who had present were behind stage. Izual, Jaden, and Bastion started walking outside towards the crowd.

"Bastion! Man! I can't describe your presentation!" said Jaden, excited. Bastion smiled.

"Well, it's something I had wanted to try out." said Bastion as they merged with the crowd of people. "I liked yours Jaden… why a homosexual song though?"

"Why not? It's pure genius." said Jaden, grinning at Bastion as they walked.

"How is it genius?" asked Izual, from Jaden's other side.

"C'mon guys, think. You all know what the word homosexual means, right?" asked Jaden. Izual and Bastion exchanged glances.

"Um…remind us again." said Izual.

"Well, I broke it up. I recalled Homo was from the word Homo Sapiens sapiens, which means smart human. Then sex means gender, duh." said Jaden, then he stroke his chin. "I wasn't sure what the prefix "ual" meant, but I figured it was just added to make it sound cooler. So I figured, smart person about genders, so I thought. 'Hey, a person who can get women must be smart at genders.' So , doing two plus two and I got a homosexual song! Genius, huh?" said Jaden. Izual and Bastion looked in disbelief.

"umm….yeah…" said Izual,

"So what was up with your presentation, Izual?" asked Jaden. Izual looked at him.

"What do you mean?" asked Izual.

"I know I saw some sort of strange movie. You were there, and some other guy was there." said Jaden. Then Izual understood.

"I guess I should explain…" said Izual. "The reason why I'm here is not to become a master duelist."

"What?" asked Jaden. "Then why are you here?"

"Well, you see… what you saw was the moments before my life was wrecked." said Izual, in a casual tone.

"I'm very confused." said Jaden, as he scratched the back of his head.

"You see, Shade, the person you saw ther with me, and I are part of this group who stops this demon from out."
"Demon?" asked Bastion.
"Yes, demon. Her name is Lilith." said Izual. Then Bastion spoke up.

"Wait, I recognized that name. Isn't she a demon from Mesopotamian times, that attacked male children?" asked Bastion.

"Yes, she did that when she was weaker. She was eventually sealed away. A group was made to keep her locked away, and they have succeeded." said Izual. "There have been a few instances where she has escaped, but we usually stop her."

"Ah, she is an succubi, is she not?" asked Bastion.

"Well, actually, no. She posses some of the traits, but that's just her personality. She doesn't gain any energy from doing…those things." said Izual.

"So what exactly does she want with us here?" asked Jaden, still confused.

"Well, what you saw in the vision was her trying to get out. It seems Shade and I had triggered a power source that gave her enough power to come out, in a different form. Lilith, in her nature, uses sound waves to affect the mind. That's why everyone in the cult had this installed." said Izual as he pointed to the strange snail like swirly pattern in his hands.

"And those are…?" asked Jaden

"They can do certain sound waves of certain frequency. You see, there are twelve cranial nerves in the human body. One of the most intriguing one is the eight Cranial nerve, the Vestibulocochlear nerve. It's located in the ear, and it's responsible for sensing sound, rotation, and gravity. It's VERY essential for balance and movement. (A/N: Nifty fact, eh?) What Lilith does is send sound waves with different frequency to mess up the nerve thus produce illusions in your head, as well make you feel lost. What I have here…" said Izual as he pointed to his hand. "allows me to do the same thing. However, if I can out do her waves, I'll be fine. However, when Shade took some of Lilith's powers, his waves became A LOT stronger to the point where he can disrupt the very essence of matter, and actually phase through it. Long periods of times, like hours, of those waves can make ear bleeds and perhaps permanently leave the person without balance." Bleeding from the ears? Why does that sound familiar? thought Bastion.

"Very interesting, but you still haven't told what she wants from us." said Bastion.

"Well, what happened in the illusion was that she was trying to implant some of her power in Shade or I. Eventually, the blast was going for me, but Shade pushed me out of the way, and he got took the blast." said Izual, frowning.
"Why would she want to give her power like that?" asked Bastion.

"Because by doing that, she established a mentality on Shade. She made him her lackey, and he knows, however the worst part is that he can't do anything about it." said Izual.

"Why not?" asked Jaden.
"We are not too sure, we think the power is binding him. What she wants from here is-"

"…the three Sacred beasts. Where are they, Cherry?" said Shade, to the redheaded announcer girl. They seemed to be in a room, with only a door. In reality, it was the back stage room behind the door. As he walked closer, he examined her. She was wearing a black shirt with some blue jeans. She was lying against the wall, surprisingly not scared unlike most of Shade's victims.

"I could tell you where they are, but I'd gain nothing from doing so." said Cherry.

"Don't make me make you tell me where they are." said Shade as he walked closer to her. The room wasn't that big to start with, so he didn't have to walk much.

"What are you gonna do?" asked the girl. He grabbed her arms and he looked at her in the face with a grin…

"What can she do with those?" asked Bastion

"Those would grant her enough power to be summoned out, and seek havoc and mayhem." said Izual.

"Wow…what a story…How are you gonna stop Shade?" asked Jaden.
"I don't know. Shade is like a brother to me, even his sister…wait a minute, where are we going?" asked Izual, as he pointed to the dorms. "The dorms are in the other direction?" Bastion and Jaden smiled.

"Dummie. Every time after an announcement, we go to the beach, what we call the "after party". " said Jaden.

"Yeah, we just go to the beach, and they make big bonfire and stuff." said Bastion as they noticed they had arrive. It was essiantly what they had said. About four big bonfires, spread around the beach as everyone was swimming in the ocean with some music.

"I didn't bring anything to swim though." said Izual.

"Sure you did." said Jaden. "Check your pants." Izual looked at him weird then he checked his pants. They essentially had swim trunks under.
"But how?" asked Izual, amazed.

"I sneaked them early in the morning." said Jaden. Izual sigh.

"And the teachers don't mind?" asked Izual.

"They usually don't know, unless Cherry tells them."

"Cherry?" questioned Izual.

"She's the announcer girl. She's very good looking, and all the boys would be falling for her if she wasn't such a tattle teller." said Bastion, in a logical way.

"Oh…" said Izual

"Let's go!" said Jaden.

"But I…" stated to Izual but Jaden interrupted.
"Just come on." said Jaden as he dragged him and Bastion followed. "Who knows, you might get lets of fun."

"Or see Jasmine in a bikini." suggested Bastion as they mixed into the crowd. Izual removed his pant to reveal the dark blue trunks and took of his shirt, hiding the chain mail on it. He tossed it on a safe spot and went to the water.
"I can't swim…" said Izual as he finished and sighed. This is pointless he thought as he walked away. Meanwhile Jaden and Bastion were looking for people.

"A lot of people, can't even find Christy…" said Jaden, he spotted her talking with Alexis, near a bonfire. "Christy!" Christy turned around and smiled as he rushed to Jaden, and hugged him.

"Jaden! I don't know what to say…" said Christy as he looked at him, her eyes looking pretty with fire behind her. Alexis smiled as she decided to leave the two alone. Bastion shrugged his should and went around to the pool, calmly.

"Can't believe Jaden convinced me to go…" said Bastion as he walked around the beach. Izual sat at the top of the cliff, looking down at the people. He sigh as he looked at the big moon, with the stars around it. He smiled. Then he noticed someone sitting next to him…

Dr. Crowler walked to his classroom. "I can't believe I forgot those notes." said Dr. Crowler. "So slifer-like of me to do." Then as he opened the back stage door, he noticed to figures, kissing.

"What's the meaning of this?" asked Dr. Crowler. The two figures broke their kissing, and Shade looked at Crowler, with a grin.
"Dr. Crowler, I told you we would meet again." said Shade, sending sound waves at crowler so he could understand his latin. Then he focused more of the sound waves as they made everything look like something out of a jungle. He turned to Cherry. "Nice doing business with you." She seemed to be smiling, as he jumped back and phased through the wall. Crowler just shouted as he ran, ignoring the jungle. He was surprised as he crash into the "invisible" wall. As Shade faded out, the illusion disappeared. Shade started running until he got to what seemed like a tall building.

"Sacred Beasts…here I come." said Shade as he entered.

A/N: A lot of the stuff I said in the story is actually I true. I would recommend you guys to check Wikipedia for "Lilith" and some other terms. Although, Lilith never used sound wave power, but I liked the idea so…yeah.