A/N: Wow! Thanks for reviewing everyone! All names for fan girls will be used, if not in this chapter, then definitely in a future chapter! ;D Right! Now on with the story!
Chapter 2: Taking over the Island
Syrus stared up into the tree with confusion.
"Um, Jaden, why are you sitting in a tree wearing nothing but a towel?"
Jaden jumped slightly, nearly losing his balance, and then looked down,
"Oh, hi, Sy! I'm hiding from the fan girls."
"Fan girls? The only person on the Island who has fan girls is Atticus, so why are you hiding from them? What's the point?"
Jaden sighed and adjusted his position on the branch so he could talk to Sy more easily without having to get down,
"They aren't Atticus's fan girls; I don't think they're even from the Academy! These girls are crazy! Maybe even to the point of suicidal! They mobbed me and some of them even have managed to steal Chazz's jacket!"
"They actually stole his jacket? Wow! I thought that was impossible! You've been trying to do that ever since he got back from North Academy but they succeed in just one try?!?"
Sitting on his branch, Jaden looked rather put out at the mention of this,
"I know. And now they've been chasing me all over the Island along with Winged Kouribo!"
"Gee, you're lucky, Jaden. I wish I had fan girls… but they're always after someone else. I mean, I can't even get a fake love letter, let alone have a fan girl after me."
"Cheer up, Sy. Give it some time. I'm sure by Third year you'll have tons of girls after you."
Syrus looked a little hopeful,
"You really think so?"
Jaden shrugged,
"Sure! Why not? But for now, just be glad these girls aren't after you! They're scary!"
"I sorta wish they'd come back so I could meet them."
"Oh no! Sy, don't say that!" Suddenly the ground began to shake slightly and there was the rumbled of dozens of pounding feet. "ACK!!!" Jaden scurried higher up into the branches of his tree and a denser section of foliage. "Quick, Sy! Climb up! It's safer up here!"
But Syrus wasn't listening, he was watching in amazement as the first of the fan girls breeched the top of the hill. They stopped for a minute and scanned the scene below them. Sudden, one of them began to bounce up and down waving one arm wildly and pointing.
"There he is! There he IS!!!" she squealed excitedly. All the girls let out a gleeful cry,
"SYRUS!!! WE FOUND YOU!!! WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU EVERYWHERE!!!"
Sy's eyes lit up and he spread his arms wide,
"Ladies!" The girls rushed forward and picked Syrus up, carrying him on their shoulders. He had a grin on face a mile wide. "I've got fans!!!"
"WE'VE GOT SYRUS!!!" they yelled and began to run back in the direction they had come from as Jaden watched from his perch in horror.
"It'll be alright, Sy! I'll save you somehow!" he called after their retreating backs.
"Don't worry about it, Jaden! I'll think of something!" Sy called back quickly. One of the girls was patting him on the head and admiring his aqua-colored hair,
"We love you, Sy," she said. Sy grinned dreamily,
"This is the life!"
(outside, back at the Slifer Red Dorm)
"Ugh! I'm probably never going to say this again – but why does the Slacker have to be so short?!?" grumbled Chazz as he inspected his new attire. He'd only been able to grab a few things before another group of fan girls had turned up to strip Jaden, Syrus, and Hassleberry's dorm room as well and Chazz had beat a hasty retreat out a window before he could be spotted. Now, since he'd only managed to grab some of Jaden's clothes not Hassleberry's (which might actually have come closer to fitting him), he was wearing a pair of gray-white pants the legs of which only came to half way down his calves, one of Jaden's spare red jackets which was also too small so several inches of his wrists were sticking out from below the cuffs, and the black towel still wrapped around his waist to hide the fact that, on him, the pants turned into extremely low riders and exposed more of his boxers than he cared for the world to see. Unfortunately, he hadn't managed to grab a shirt before making his quick getaway. His dueling deck, which he had managed to save, was stuffed in the right hand pocket of the jacket. From somewhere to his right, Chazz heard one of the fan girls still outside calling,
"Have any of you seen Bastion?"
"No!" the others inside chorused back. Someone yelled, "Try the Ra dorm again, Lena! I think that's where Noire and Allie are!"
"Good idea! I've been calculating his most likely courses of actions as soon as he found out we were on the Island and he must have come up with a formula to help him avoid us! Maybe it's still in his room!" The fan girl turned around and whipped out a cell phone and a graphing calculator as she ran, her short brown hair flying out behind her and bright blue eyes sparkling behind her glasses,
"Hi, Noire! Lena Cooper here! Is Allie still with you? …Good. Where are you? ...Even better! Listen, I've got a formula I need you two to look for in his room…."
Chazz folded his arms across his chest and raised an eyebrow as he watched the fan girl run off. That was weird – verging on the point of disturbing. He ducked behind a trashcan as the fan girls stampeded out of the Red Dorm, all of them carrying piles of 'treasure' which they had excavated from the unfortunate dorm room. Chazz began to run in the direction opposite of the one the fan girls had gone in.
"Hey, Boss. Whatcha doing?" asked Ojama Yellow, popping up next to Chazz's shoulder as he ran.
"What do you think I'm doing?!?" he snapped, in no mood to deal with the Ojamas right now.
"Huh… stealing Jaden's clothes?"
Gods, I hate duel spirits sometimes!
"So, am I right, Boss?"
Correction – all the time!
(back to the tree where Jaden had taken refuge from the fan girls)
Jaden slithered out of the tree as best he could without losing his towel and looked glumly in the direction that the fan girls had taken Syrus. This was not good. How was he ever going to get Sy back now?
"Sarge? Hey, Sarge!" Jaden turned to see Hassleberry running towards him, waving.
"Hey, Hassleberry!"
The other boy skidded to a halt next to him,
"They got you, too?"
"Yeah," Jaden nodded, pulling his towel up higher around his hips. "And Sy." He added, glancing sideways at Hassleberry and then did a double take. "Hassleberry, what are you wearing?!?"
Hassleberry grinned proudly,
"Ya like it? After those section eights stole my uniform I grabbed a bed sheet and made myself a toga!"
"Neat! There wouldn't happen to be anymore bed sheets left in our dorm room, would there?"
Hassleberry rubbed the back of his head thoughtfully,
"I dunno. We could check."
As they started to sneak back towards the Slifer dorm Jaden suddenly asked,
"Wait, why do you still have your bandana if you got mobbed?"
"It's ma bandana, Sarge," he replied simply, touching the cloth wrapped around his head protectively.
"So? The fan girls are crazy. They even managed to steal Chazz's jacket and everybody always thought it would take nothing short of murder to separate Chazz from that jacket."
"It's my bandana, Sarge," Hassleberry repeated. "Nobody touches my bandana."
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After being diverted from their original course, Jaden and Hassleberry found themselves wandering around in the vicinity of the Ra Yellow Dorm without a fan girl in sight. They both let out separate sighs of relief.
"That was close. I was sure we had been spotted for a minute there when we were in the woods by the Lighthouse!" gasped Jaden as he tried to catch his breath. Hassleberry nodded in agreement,
"Too close. I told you abandoning cover there wasn't a good tactical maneuver!"
"Oh, hello there!" a voice hailed them from their left. Both boys jerked up, nearly sprinting for dear life in the opposite direction until they caught sight of who it was.
"Oh, hi, Bastion! What are you doing out here and why haven't the fan girls stolen any of your clothes yet?" asked Jaden, waving at the approaching Ra Yellow student. True enough Bastion appeared to have been completely untouched by the fan girls. Bastion smiled proudly,
"I mapped their movements and created a formula to predict their most probably courses of action."
"Wow! Really?"
"Yes and my calculations this time only have a 0.1 margin of error so I've been able to avoid all the fan girls! We should have about ten minutes before they get here." Just as he said this, however, their was a familiar rumbled and the ground began to shake with the pounding of fan girl feet. Bastions face went pale,
"Of course, I have been known to occasionally err in the past…."
Three fan girls suddenly burst into the clearing. They let out a cheer as they spotted Bastion,
"Bastion! I knew we'd find you once we came up with a counter formula! I'm Lena!"
"I'm Noire!"
"I'm Allie!"
"WE'RE YOUR BIGGEST FANS!!!" they cried in unison.
"And I want to marry you!" added Lena excitedly, beginning to bounce up and down.
"Got to run, see you later Jaden! AAAH!" And with that, Bastion turned on his heel and sprinted away into the woods. The three fan girls flew past Jaden and Hassleberry in hot pursuit.
(outside the Obelisk Blue Dorm)
Zane adjusted his white and blue jacket to a more comfortable position as he stepped outside. He'd been hearing yelling all morning and finally curiosity had gotten the better of him and he was going outside to see what all of the fuss was about. Hmm. He surveyed what he could see of the campus from the bottom of the Blue Dorm's steps. That was odd. There didn't appear to be anyone around. Just as he was about to turn around and head back inside a girl popped up in front of him.
"Zane! I found you! I'm Meil and I love you!" she lunged forward and hugged him hard around the waist.
Zane froze. The girl smiled at him brightly, arms still wrapped around his middle, large eyes glittering with delight,
"Girls, he's over here!" Suddenly an entire battalion of fan girls materialized around him, all bouncing happily up and down,
"WE LOVE YOU, ZANY! NOW WE CAN SPEND THE REST OF ETERNITY WITH YOU!!!" Working together the fan girls picked up the still paralyzed Zane and began to march away from the Obelisk Blue Dorm.
(in Dr. Crowler's office)
From his window, Dr. Crowler watched the chaos unfolding below. He smiled to himself, he was safe up here in his office. None of the fan girls had even thought of going after any members of the faculty yet. This was all very amusing – especially watching Jaden Yuki getting chased all over the Island by a bunch of insane fan girls. Behind him Crowler heard his office door swing slowly open.
"Dr. Crowler?" asked an unfamiliar voice behind him.
"Yes?" Crowler replied without turning away from the window.
"Dr. Crowler, I'm your biggest fan!!!" the voice behind him boomed. Crowler whipped around and suddenly found himself facing six feet five inches of solid muscle all of which belong to one young man who couldn't have been more than twenty. The bodybuilder smiled broadly and happily at him, blushing with the delight of finally being able to meet Dr. Crowler. Crowler finally found his voice,
"GAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"
(back to outside the Slifer Red Dorm in the clearing just in front of the woods)
From their perch on a tree branch, Pharaoh and the ghost of Professor Banner watched as a group of fan girls charged by chanting,
"WE'VE GOT SY!!! WE'VE GOT SY!!!" as they hefted a very happy Syrus Truesdale above their heads. Another group of angry fan girls were chasing after them yelling,
"GIVE HIM BACK!!! GIVE HIM BACK!!!"
Banner sighed,
"It is times like this, Pharaoh, that I am very glad that I'm a ghost!"
A/N: Ooo… much longer chapter:D I don't think I've ever updated something so quickly before! The offer I made at the end of the previous chapter still remains standing and will for the entirety of this fic! So if you want to name a fan girl and who's she's after, just drop me a line! Also, I'd love to hear any suggestions ya'll have for other mischief the fan girls (and fan guy) could get into! Hope to hear from you!