Disclaimer: Come on! If I owned any of this awesome crap would you actually have to read it? Don't you think you would be watching this on T.V or something? Now let's continue this story before this disclaimer becomes the story.

A/N- I know in the show that all the dorms eat separately. Too bad. :p I didn't feel like doing that in my story. Not very cannon, I know.

Anyways, I want to apologize to you guys. I know, it's been so long since I've updated. I don't need anyone to send me on a guilt trip. I feel bad too. I hate it when someone starts a story and doesn't update. Oh and I was to apologize to Sora especially. I want to say sorry because I have to take out the part in which I added her in the story. I'm sorry, but that just won't make sense with the new plot-line. I want those two to fall in love on their own. Without any help : ) I'm really sorry. Please forgive me! I may consider putting you in again at the end though ; ) Keep reading.

"It's lunch time," Jaden yelled, running off towards the lunch room. Now, we all know that the Jaden Yuki everyone knows and loves has a thing for food. But something held him back. Possibly, either the urge to bring May with him or the look on May's face that said "What the hell is going on?" Whichever one it was, it caused Jaden to stop and say,"Come on May. The food won't get eaten on its own, will it?"

May rolled her eyes but accompanied the other brunette anyways. The others watched bemusedly as the two left.

"Did he actually not run today?" Alexis asked, staring at the couple-who were not yet a couple but were just walking together- in awe. May was sure bringing a lot of miracles to the school, and to everyone's lives.

"Um…Do you think we should head off for lunch?" Alexis asked, looking at everyone. Chazz was immediately by her side. He took her hand and put it around his own arm and then walked off. "Help me," she mouthed to her friends. They all grinned and shrugged.

"Oh the traitors!"

"Did you say something sweetheart?"

"Call me sweetheart again, Chazz, and you won't see tomorrow ."

"Right...Babe."

"Race you," May said, winking and running off towards the lunch line. Jaden, momentarily shocked, laughed as he ran to catch up with her. The two ended up being first in line, with Jaden in the front and May in the back. Even after May had gotten a head start Jaden's longer legs paid off, and also the fact that he worked out. How did you expect him to be able to lose all that fat when he ate? He wasn't anorexic or anything if that's what you all were thinking.

After getting their trays, the duo sat at the table looking at their food. Jaden was feeling a bit uneasy…He didn't want to look like an idiot in front of May…Oh well. The two started digging into their food at the same time. At first, Jaden was surprised at May who was eating just as fast as he was. But, he smiled to himself-if you call your lips quirking upwards with your mouth open being and filled with food smiling- and continued eating.

Alexis opened the cafeteria doors with what looked like a jujitsu move. Chazz stared at her "strong" arms admirably. Her temper lifted, slightly, when she saw Jaden sitting at a table with May. Both were eating noodles in a shockingly fast pace. Alexis started reciting the steps of 'what to do when someone chokes' in her head. Someone was going to get something stuck in their air pipes. But surprisingly, it wasn't May or Jaden.

"Alexis! Help! I've choked on a stale fortune cookie! I need a mouth-to-mouth whatever it's called," Chazz said, his voice hoarse. He was currently on the floor holding his neck. Alexis stared at him in disgust.

"I know you hate your life, but you didn't have to use a fortune cookie to do suicide," she said stepping over his legs and towards May and Jay. Chazz then fainted.

"Hey May. Hola Jaden," Alexis greeted. The two stopped their eating. But only May had enough manners to wipe her mouth with her napkin.

"Phey wexy," Jaden said, starting to eat again. After knowing Jaden for so long, she could translate the…"Words"…He was saying. It meant: "Hey Lexi!"

"You two might want to finish soon. We have to go looking for those shadow-idiots." May suppressed a snort while Jaden silently chuckled.

"Of course they're idiots. I mean who wants to engulf the world into darkness. What the heck do you gain?" Alexis questioned looking up at the ceiling.

"Who is she talking to?" May asked, raising an eyebrow. She knew full well who Lex was talking to. Satan of course! Jaden decided not to answer the question. So the rumors were true! Alexis was at an insane asylum over the break! He'd have to tell Atticus about it.

"Never mind," she said, sighing." Well, since you both have clean plates-sparkling clean, I might add- we should go and investigate now." May and Jaden got up from the table, leaving their trays, and following Alexis.

May felt nervous butterflies erupt in her stomach. So, she was about to go with the others to find idiots trying battle students to get their souls and rule the world. Best. Adventure. Ever. It's not as if May didn't ever save the world or anything. Oh, she did it numerous times with Ash, her brother Max, and all her other friends. But right now, she didn't have them with her. Sure she had friends here, but she still felt uncomfortable.

Especially around Jaden Yuki.

As if sensing her nervousness, Jaden sent her a conciliating smile. She returned it, but her tension only decreased by a little bit.

The trio walked and walked until they were at the entrance of the Academy-which they were going to use as an exit.

The brisk air hit May, Jaden, and Alexis like a ton of bricks. There were a few clouds in the sky, but the sun was shining brightly. Even though it didn't exactly make them warmer-or that's what they thought- it kept their mood cheery. I mean wouldn't you rather go hunting for shadow people with the sunlight aiding you. Then you'd at least have the hope of the shadow person melting, which is exactly what May wanted. Except, she was going to use her Pokémon for the cooking. To be specific, Blaziken would be the chef of this disgusting meal that nobody would eat, but would be jovial about anyways.

The trio walked towards another group of people, which May noted, were the keeper of the keys.

"Okay, so we're all here?" Crowler said looking over the group. He cast may a sharp look indicating that he acknowledged her presence. Her presence would prove to be quite important in the future.

"Alexis and Zane, you go to the west of the school. Professor Banner and Chazz, to the east." Apparently, and evidently, Chazz had found his way to the group. He claimed that it was Alexis' sweet scent that led him here. Like always, he was ignored. Or at least his statement.

"Jaden and May, to the North. And the rest of you come with me," Crowler ordered.

"Who made him the boss?" Chazz asked Atticus. Atticus shrugged and went off with Crowler.

May and Jaden walked to the Northern part of the school. They could smell the salty beach air hit their faces.

"The only reason a shadow 'idiot' would come here would probably be to relax." Jaden chuckled lightly and looked around the area. In front of them, the sea was spread out, as if inviting them with open arms to jump in. The two had to resist the urge as they investigated a bit more.

Next to the vast expanse of water was something that looked like a jungle even though it was only a forest. It was filled with exotic animals-or so May and Jaden thought from the sounds.

"Why don't we investigate over there?" May said, pointing to the forest. Jaden followed May's gaze and saw the jungle. But then, he saw a black blur hide behind a tree.

"Perfect," he mumbled getting his duel disk ready. May looked at him, a bit confused.

"Did you see something?" she asked. It seemed that Jaden was the only one who saw it.

"Yup, and I have a feeling that it knows that we know it's there."

"Care to run that by me again?"

"Did you spot anything yet?" Alexis asked looking around the lighthouse. It was a particular area she had come to know well. She used to come here everyday ever since she lost her brother to the shadows. But, now he was back so she didn't have a reason to come here anymore. Or did she?

Alexis looked at the teen next to her who returned her gaze. She never came here alone though. One of Atticus' good friends-Zane- came with her to the lighthouse as well. She enjoyed talking with him about her brother. He always knew which words to use to comfort her. When her brother had come back, she was happy, but that's about when she realized she wasn't the only one who had sibling problems.

Syrus and Zane. Brothers who loved each other dearly-and still do, but they just didn't show it anymore. Zane regarded his brother as some kind of burden who was non-intelligent. Syrus regarded his brother as a cold bastard with no emotions. Well, he wasn't right about the emotions part for sure.

"Not yet, but they should be around here."

"It's quiet," Alexis said, closing her eyes momentarily, taking in the peacefulness around her. Zane sent her a raised eyebrow, but couldn't stop his lips from quirking upward.

"Too quiet Lex," he said, emphasizing on her pet name.

"Shush Zaza." Zane raised another eyebrow. Alexis giggled quietly, mentally smacking herself for making such a stupid name. Zane, on the other hand, was very amused.

"Zaza. What an erotic name," he said smirking. At Alexis' indignant gasp he chuckled.

"I cannot believe you just said-" but she was cut off short as she spotted something black on the top of the light house. Zane took notice of her abrupt silence and suddenly seriousness took over his face.

"Let's go," was all he said before he ran to the lighthouse entrance. Alexis followed him, wondering what happened to him all of a sudden. He was joking around then all of a sudden the serious face comes in. Alexis sighed to herself.

"Stop right there shadow-idiot!" Jaden ordered. May raised an eyebrow and looked at the shadow idiot. He was wearing all black with...Sunglasses? She didn't know that idiots were in on the latest fashions...Interesting.

"What are you here for? The emo convention?" May said, eying his attire with disgust. Jaden rolled his eye, but he couldn't stop an amused smile from capturing his lips. Girls always talked about clothes at times when you'd least expect it.

"I wouldn't be talking little girl."

"If she's a little girl, than you're straight," Jaden said, trying to defend May and get a laugh out of her at the same time. And it worked! May let out a giggle that she tried to muffle with her sleeves. Soon Jaden joined her in this laughter madness. The Shadow idiot could only watch them. Jaden was the first to compose himself.

"You two won't be laughing when you get a load of this," the idiot said before laughing manically. From behind him, three more blurs came out. They were shaped as wolves, but were all black and were wearing some kind of weird sunglasses too.

The two teens narrowed their eyes.

"You sure you can take care of them May?" Jaden asked, a little concerned for his friends well-being. She winked and said,"Totally."

"Glaceon! Take the stage," May yelled as she threw a Pokéball in the air. Out came Glaceon who did a few flips in the air but landed on it's feet lightly.

(A/N- Sorry guys. I'm not ending the story here but I'm not good with duels. Not kidding. You probably would stop reading the story if you saw me write duels. But I'll describe what Glaceon does. )

::Lets pretend that Jaden won the duel but the shadow idiot is still alive::

"Ha! And that's game," Jaden said as Flame Wingman attacked the idiot's last monster. May raised her hand up to him for a five-which he returned.

"You may have one the duel, but your precious friend here hasn't been finished with." The idiot licked his lips causing May took a quick step back. Jaden narrowed his eyes at the idiot for looking at May like that.

May suddenly felt determined again as she ordered:" Glaceon, ice beam at the wolf to the left." Glaceon aimed an ice beam at it and it hit not only one of the wolves, but all of them. Then, all of a suden, the idiot and the wolves all disappeared.

"Wait! That made no sense! They can't have been that weak!" May said, a bit bewildered that they left so quickly. Jaden looked at the ground where the idiot was standing on before and found some sort of dark pendent. It had a darkish purple crystal in the middle and the string it was attached to was navy blue.

"Something tells me he didn't leave because he lost, but for another reason," Jaden said as he pocketed the dark pendent.

Zane and Alexis reached the top of the lighthouse. They looked to find the shadow idiot there, but something was wrong. The shadow idiot grinned at them in a wolfish manner, but he dissapeared in a blink of an eye.

The last words that they heard from "it" was," I'll see you two some other time. Muahahaha."

"I hope the others are having better luck," Alexis said to Zane. He only nodded as he surveyed the area, looking for any types of clues. But all he found was a puddle of black goop.

'Um...Black pee?'

"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that get's on everybody's nerves, and it goes like this. I know-"

"ATTICUS, SHUT UP!" Crowler and the others yelled. Atticus cringed and sent them all sheepish looks. But then, from the corner of his eye, he spotted something. No, it was not a shadow idiot, but something else.

"It looks like a pool of blood. Almost fresh," Bastion observed. Since he had his handy dandy camera and a plastic bag with him he quickly took pictures of the sample. However, when he tried to spoon it into the plastic bag, the bag and spoon melted.

"What could this mean?" a voice said from behind them, scaring the crap out of them.

"Chazz! Professor Banner!" Bastion exclaimed clutching his heart! Chazz raised an eyebrow at this.

"Who were you expecting? Lord Voldemort?"

"Something like that."

Chazz sent him an odd look before speaking to Crowler." We didn't find anything except the same black goo you guys found." Crowler nodded.

"I see. Black goo you say?" Sheppard asked. He sighed for what seemed the umpteenth time today.

"Oh and we found some kind of pendent too." Jaden handed the pendent, that he put in his pocket, to Sheppard who examined it for a minute then put it in his drawer. After locking the drawer, he turned to the group, giving them a weak smile.

"Well done everyone. Now we're a bit closer to solving this mystery. Unfortunately, we still don't know what that goo is or why the shadow riders left so soon."

"Um...Excuse me Uncle, but I don't think they were the shadow riders. The two 'things' Jaden, me, Alexis, and Zane saw looked the same. There wasn't anything really major about the two," May stated. Sheppard looked thoughtful for a moment.

"You may be on to something May," he said smiling."But, for now, we must rest up. Good night everybody!" With that, everyone left for their dorms.

"So May...You think those Shadow idiots were the minions and not the Shadow Riders?" Alexis questioned. May nodded.

"You know. I'm pretty sure you're right May," Zane said. " But we still have to find a few things before we do anything..."

"Yeah, yeah. Now come on guys! I'm famished!" Jaden said before running off towards his dorm for dinner. The rest could only laugh, but what they all didn't notice was someone watching them, or at least May.

'Just you wait May. You'll be out of this dump faster than you can say death'.

A/N- I know I know. You all are either really surprised or you really hate me. You know the funny thing? This took me only two days to write and get Beta-read while I had like a 4 month Writer's Block...

Hehehehe

But I'll try and update once every week, but I usually might get delayed.

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