And here's chapter 3! Hope your curious as this chapter introduces one of the new enemies, who just to make clear is someone I made up so he ain't an original character. Hope you all continue to enjoy! ^_^
Chapter 3: Monsters become real!
Both Rena and Jaden now find themselves facing a new guy who just appeared and clearly ain't here to be friendly.
"Oh, no. This can't be happening. They shouldn't be able to cross over to here." Rena said, while trying to stay calm.
"Do you know who he is?" asked Jaden to her, but yet never taking his eyes off of the one who had appeared. He even had his dual disk out.
"Yeah, but Jaden you can't dual him!" Rena told him.
"Well, since he seems to think otherwise, I think I might as well squash him as a bonus for coming to this here so called dump." The guy then proceeded to spit at the ground.
"Jaden, I'm serious. You really-" she began.
"Chill, Rena. I got this. I've been in some pretty tough duals myself here. Including Shadow duals and a dual against the three Sacred Beast cards. I doubt this guy can pull off anything worse than that." Said Jaden, as he put his dual disk on his own arm and then took out his deck out of its deck holder he's always wearing and placed it in the slot on his disk.
"Though have you ever faced real dual monsters?" asked Rena nervously.
"Heh?" asked Jaden after having drew his hand of cards. The other guy hadn't yet though. And Jaden even noticed that the guy was still smirking.
"He can make his monsters solid!" Rena said.
"Too late now, girl." The guy said as he drew a card and smirked even bigger. "And so is your chance to save this kid. As I summon this here monster, Masked Dragon!" And then suddenly they both were facing a dragon and Jaden could see what Rena had meant. This monster was real enough to be leaving claw marks on the ground where it stood.
"Oh, boy. Uh, Rena? How do I dual him with his monsters being solid?" asked Jaden, not really showing that's he's starting to get a bit worried now.
When he didn't get an answer, he turned slightly to see her still there but her eyes were closed and light seemed to be glowing off her. "Uh, Rena? What are you doing?" he asked, puzzled.
One of her eyes opened and even that had a glow to it. "I'm concentrating. Trying to see if- Oh." She seemed to pause. "It seems I might not need to do anything after all." She said with a surprised look on her face. "Try summoning a monster."
"Well, if you say so." He then picked a monster from his hand. He then turned back to his opponent and examined his hand. He then realized that Neos had just appeared beside him.
"Jaden, try summoning me without any of the other cards." Said Neos.
"If you're sure, here goes nothing!" he said before placing Neos's card down on the field. "I summon, Elemental Hero Neos!" Then his monster appeared in a big gust of wind. And he definitely came out completely solid.
This left both Rena stunned and the other guy a bit surprised. "Well, well, well. Now this is a bit surprising and interesting. Who knew there'd be someone like this in this world." The guy seemed to actually get more excited about this. He even grinned. "Very interesting. You just might've made my day, kid. But lets see how far you can get with it though. Go, Masked Dragon! Attack!"
"Let's go, Neos!" said Jaden, just as Neos launched himself at the dragon. And they both collided with each other. Though the dragon didn't disappear, it did seem to have quite literally have been injured, but it didn't seem fatal, since it still kept fighting until Neos landed another blow to the dragon and it was destroyed this time with a gust of wind as it broke into many pieces of light and floated away. It took Rena all of her willpower not to let her tears show as she saw this. "Will you leave now?" asked Jaden, who was not in the mood to do his usual pose. He felt as if he hurt an actual creature and not a hologram and he wasn't happy about it.
The guy, who looked like to be in as much pain as his dragon did. Though he seemed to be trying not to show it. "You really shouldn't show mercy for your opponents. They would see it as a weakness or a sign of it and try to take advantage of it. I will leave for now, but remember this. I will be back and when I do, I will win! So enjoy the time you have left with the girl. Cause it will not last long!" the guy then raised his right arm up into to his side and it even began to glow before a hole in the air next to him. Rena noticed that it was the same type of hole as the one she had come through before.
~This isn't good. ~ Thought Rena as the guy soon went through the hole, but not without giving Rena one last look which was him smirking which also made her even more nervous. She knew that look anywhere and knew that it meant trouble.
"Well, that takes care of that, huh Rena?" asked Jaden as he turned around again and saw how scared she now looked. It actually surprised him a bit, since she didn't seem to be like this during the dual. Though at one point, Kuriboh had pointed out at the corner of his vision that just as Neos had beaten Masked Dragon, she looked like she was holding back tears of sadness. "Come on, Rena. The other students should be heading back to their dorms by now and are going to start to wonder where we went. And don't worry. I doubt that, that guy will be coming back anytime soon. Best to rest up beforehand, right?" he asked. He did want to ask her to see if she knew anything about the weird hole in the air the guy had disappeared through. Since she seemed to know what was capable of with making his monsters solid or at least make them seem like their real, since he himself wasn't ready just yet for that what with everything else going on.
She seemed to slightly come out of whatever train of thought or stopped being afraid after hearing what Jaden was saying. She now was looking right at him, whereas moments before she seemed to look right through him. "I'm not completely sure you're right about that, but you are right about needing rest. I just hope he doesn't come back too soon…" she said, looking pretty tired now.
"Okay, then. Come on, let's head to the dorm, then." Said Jaden before holding out his hand. Smiling in encouragement.
Rena couldn't help but smile back, though she definitely could not have expected what came next. The moment her hand made contact with his, her eyes widened and even went white at the same time as she was suddenly swamped with images flashing through her mind so fast that it got her dizzy enough to fall forward just into Jaden's arms even though he was caught off guard by her sudden collapse, he had managed to somehow catch her in time.
"Rena! Are you okay?" asked a now panicking Jaden since he didn't know what just happened. Just that she had suddenly collapsed forward after her eyes had suddenly turned white.
Rena then managed to somehow restore her eyes back to normal. And looked at him with more fear in her eyes then there had been before. And sadness. Which puzzled him even more so. "I'm so sorry… I won't let it be your fault… I pro…mise…" she then passed out, leaving a very confused Jaden to try to figure out what she meant and what should he do now.
"I guess for now I'll bring her back to the dorm since its closer. I hope it's not too serious." Said Jaden before picking her up and even noticed that she felt surprisingly light. ~Geez, when was the last time she ate! She almost feels as light as a feather! ~ thought Jaden in surprise as he carried her the rest of the way to the red dorm. Barely noticing how tired he himself is.
When he reached the dorm building, he saw both Syrus and Hassleberry running toward them which caused him to relax a bit, but he didn't expect it to be enough for him to then cause him to pass out there on the ground. Causing the other two to of course to then start panicking a bit too much in Jaden's opinion, but then again he himself didn't know what was going on either, so he didn't really blame them. That was when he had completely lost consciousness.
Sorry this chapter might not be as long as the last one. I wasn't sure how else to end this chapter and sorry if the battle scene might not of been that good. Trying to get better at that stuff and yes, I know it was different than the usual dueling styles. I'll try to explain it in later chapters as well as why Jaden was able to freely summon Neos without any sacrifices and as well as why he and Rena had both passed out not long after due to fatigue, but as for that last part you might get to find that out in the next chapter. Though who this mystery enemy is, you'll have to wait. Since another enemy of Jaden's is soon going to get an interest in Rena, but who is it? And what were those images Rena saw flash by in her mind? Find out soon. And I hope you at least are all enjoying the story so far! And also sorry! I meant to put this up sooner, but I couldn't find where I put the notebook that had what I had originally written for this, and could barely remember the rest so I had to make some new stuff up which sometimes takes me longer.
