What really happened in the duel...

He pointed at Yarou his eyes narrowing on him, Dracoia swung his sword once more before pointing it towards him.

"Now attack" He commanded and Dracoia leapt into the air. The blade of his sword turned to a bloody red before he swung the sword. The red blade flew towards Yarou before exploding into thousands of blood coloured spears.

They flew towards him at an incredible speed. He screamed as he watched them fly towards him.

"Hit the lights" Rox muttered to one side.

The duel arena lights suddenly shut off. Screams of alarm echoing through out the darkness. But to Yarou those screams were unheard.

He blinked and looked round. He realised now what had happened. Time had stopped. The lights were still on. In a few moments they would be shut off shielding the arena from whatever would happen to him now.

Yarou looked out towards Rox. He already knew Rox was unaffected and neither was Dracoia. But Dracoia had still held back. The spears were mere inches away from piercing his body.

"You are now going to talk who sent you?" Rox asked his voice now violent and dangerous.

"Bite me" He let out a scream of pain as a spear went through his leg.

"I can be more persuasive" He called out his arms crossed not caring that he was still bleeding from earlier.

"Go to hell you son of a bitch!" Yarou yelled another spear pieced through his other leg, another two through both arms. Yarou roared in agony more spears rising above his body ready to plunge down.

"Talk" He commanded his eyes narrowed threateningly "In here you won't die I can put as many holes through your body as I like…now talk…"

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And that was how Yarou was now locked up with bandages around his arms and legs. He had fainted when time had restarted. No one was allowed to question his injuries. He sat hand cuffed to a chair. That same day he had been taken off the island and thrown in a cell.

"I should have let him kill me Rai…"

He looked up as someone entered his cell. His eyes widened. A man wearing a white and black striped outfit was in the door way. His heart began to beat faster as the figure approached.

"Oh god no…please anything but that…"

The figure merely smirked as he kept walking forward before grabbing Yarou by the neck. He raised his other hand to Yarou's face revealing a scalpel.

"Eye for an eye they say" He chuckled into Yarou's ear before he sank the tip under the skin of his face.

His screams were left unanswered. The figure had already killed every security guard on patrol. Bodies hung, sliced up, broken or even ripped in half. But this wouldn't reach the newspapers.

The only people who would know about this would be the detective and clean up crew to get rid of the mess. They would be the ones who investigated the mass murder.

But two other people knew about what happened. Maxamillion Pegasus and Queen Axiss stood outside the cell that Yarou was supposed to be kept in.

"Their sick…" Axiss choked as she looked at the cell, not one part of the cell was not painted red, not one part of it did not drip with scarlet blood.

And as for Yarou? He sat exactly where he had been. Handcuffed to the chair he had been unable to escape from. But there were a few things missing. Like for instance both of his legs, a kidney, his heart, his lungs, his intestines.

But that despite its gruesomeness this was not what caused Queen Axiss to shudder or Maxamillion Pegasus to sweat nervously. It was the fact that Yarou's face was missing.

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Alexis hadn't been present for Rox's duel. Sure she would miss out seeing one of the mysterious duellists in action, but this was far more important. The memorial plaque of James Henzo, a beautiful silver plaque grafted onto a marble stone with a sea serpent wrapped around it. Duel academy had gone out of its way to create it, Crowler had told everyone on the day it was built.

"Our students are our life when one falls we feel a little less alive"

It was an arty quote but appropriate. A crowd of duellists watched as the memorial was placed in a special area of duel academy island, a strip of land that cut through the sea like a rock bridge.

And that was why she was here with Gale, dressed in her normal uniform and a jacket. They were their to pay their respects. Six months had gone by and despite how many times Alexis had talked to Gale she wouldn't accept it.

"It is my fault Alexis" Gale mumbled her red hair covering her eyes as she looked at the memorial plaque with a face of stone. Every time she saw it she felt pain, but she had to keep doing this.

"Gale it's not your fault that that boy is dead" Alexis called out a pang of irritation in her voice, they went through this every time. Gale would arrive with her, she would look at the memorial and apologise to James Henzo before insulting herself.

"Yes it is my fault he's dead" She muttered bitterly her fist clenched. The moment was running through her head again and again.

She would arrive at Duel Academy with a warm smile around her chatty friends. She looked through her cards and met new people. She would learn from her piers how a boy named Atticus was the heart throb of the school, then later learn it for herself as she saw the long brown haired teen walk past. She would sigh along with her friends. She would tell them she was just going to have a walk around the school corridors.

She would smile as she would see the Duel Arena and watch with delight as the holographic monsters came to life. She would walk along the corridors taking it all in.

She would walk down one and see the puppet, at the end of the corridor, waiting for her, watching her, preparing for her.

She would scream in terror and make a break for it but immediately be knocked down by the second attacker. The stone grey skinned Mario laughing maniacally as he held her down. She would scream but fear was taking her voice away as the puppet circled above her it's badly drawn face giving off a mocking aura.

"Your heart…it's so young…it would taste so good…" Mario would whisper and let the puppet pin her arms down while he would start to lift her woolly pink sweater her grandma knitted for her. She would final scream a new fear entering her.

And then that boy would arrive. James Henzo would throw himself at the attacker his pale orange hair blowing about his eyes wide with fear but burning with anger. He would kick away the puppet and tell her to run.

She would, but not without stealing a glance back at James Henzo. Where she would watch as the puppet would knock him to the ground.

She would then run as fast as possible. She would find Crowler yelling her fear tainted words at him. He would call the other teachers at once. They would all follow her.

They would turn the corner. And she would scream as loud as she could as they found the body of James Henzo with no arms or legs. Mario standing over him with his heart in his hand and the puppet circling James Henzo's body with its mouth chattering away with a wooden clunking sound.

They would then disappear into the shadows before anyone could do anything.

And she would stare into James Henzo's, blank dead eyes.

"And the rest of the school thinks it was me" Gale laughed with a chuckle her voice strained with tears. Six months and she still cried. It hurt so bad that a boy she didn't even know had gone and saved her life at the expense of his own.

"They don't" Alexis said as she walked to Gale's side looking at the memorial with a small frown, "I don't think it was you, my friends don't think you did it-"

"But as for the rest of the school they all think I killed him" She interrupted throwing her head back and laughing the tears running down her face, "They all want me dead cause I'm a cold murderer it's why I can't get any sleep, make any friends and it's even the reason why I'm still a slifer red" She gestured to herself forcefully showing the red uniform.

"I've won all my matches but they won't move me because they hate me" She called out with another laugh of hatred, "And I deserve it all"

Alexis let out a sigh. She couldn't convince her no matter what she said. She had tried too many times and failed, "Come on let's go back"

Gale nodded before laying down a rose on the memorial. She kept her eyes on the ground.

"You know a friend of mine blamed himself for someone's death you know" Alexis spoke quietly as they began to walk away from the memorial, "He blamed himself, he wouldn't eat or sleep properly and he said he wanted to die"

Gale looked sideways at Alexis the glum look still on her face, "And what did it mean to you when he said that"

"It broke my heart" Alexis replied, she never glanced at Gale "Just know that it does the same to someone else when you say that"

Gale fell silent as they kept walking.

But this silence did not last. A cold shiver ran down Alexis's spine as she felt the wind pick up. She looked round and saw a grey fog coming towards them, a very fast moving grey fog.

"Gale…run" Alexis whispered. Gale looked up at her before back at the fog. Her jaw dropped and her face twisted up into fear.

"No…not again…" She whispered before the two of them ran as fast as they could towards the island. The mist caught up in seconds swirling around them like a fierce storm.

They stopped running unable to see the land in front of their eyes, "Gale don't scream…" Alexis whispered to her.

The mist vanished, they now could see that the sunny sky had been replaced with storm clouds that blocked out the light. But that wasn't important. All they needed to know was one thing.

They were surrounded.

Gale bit into her tongue so hard that she felt blood trickle out of it. For now surrounding them and taking up the whole of the bridge. Were rotten corpses and they were all stood up.

"Zombies…" Alexis whispered trying to keep strong as she looked at the moaning hideous corpses that moved around them slowly. Their flesh green and brown and clothes tattered. Some had no mouths, some had an eye missing, some had an arm or a leg broken in a horrific way. She felt sick as she saw one of them with its rib cage torn open revealing his organs to the world.

"Part..."

A voice called over the Zombies and they began to part down the centre to reveal their master. A man with shaved white hair and mismatched coloured eyes was grinning at them in a sick way. He had a huge built up body and was dressed in white and black striped clothes, he had his hand on one of the Zombies shoulders.

"Hello you lovely ladies" He called towards them running his tongue over his lips as he waggled his eyebrows.

Alexis shuddered in disgust, "Who are you? What do you want?"

"You'll get no answers from me girl" He chuckled, "But maybe this boy here would be of use?" he asked placing both hands on the zombie's shoulders.

He dwarfed the Zombie. The Zombie was barely half his size, he could have been a child when he was alive.

"Wake up child" he spoke into his rotten ear. The zombie's head snapped up yellow eyes wide.

And Gale screamed.

"James Henzo" Alexis whispered her eyes wide with shock as she looked at the boy. His face and head were perfectly intact; his hair had dulled a colour and looked like in it. His arms and legs however weren't his own, one arm looked as if it had belonged to an adult man while the other was a shorter arm looking like it belonged to a child. His legs were the same size but one of them was broken. He swayed a little his mouth opened slightly. There was a hole in his chest where Mario had ripped out his heart, a hideous unfilled hole that dripped with rotten blood.

"James…" Gale whispered tears running from her bright eyes "James I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm so so sorry"

The zombie pointed towards them. Its fingers clicked. The zombies began to close in around them.

"Gale" Alexis whispered alarmed as she looked around.

Gale paid no attention, "I'm so sorry James I'm so sorry please I'm so so sorry"

"Gale! Run!" Alexis yelled before grabbing her wrist and pulling her with her as fast as she could.

They ran for the opening in the zombie horde towards James Henzo and the strange sick criminal. They were going to be able to make it so long as they could split up at the last second.

But that wasn't going to happen as the criminal looking man behind the Zombie James Henzo suddenly jumped over him. He held out both arms before punching both girls square in the stomach.

They let out a strangled gasp of pain. Alexis fell back on the floor clutching his stomach. Gale almost lost balance but the brute reached forward and grabbed her by the neck.

"You've got a pretty face like her…I want to cut it off you" He spoke into her ear as he raised her off the ground. She tried to scream as she kicked and struggled. He reached into the pocket of his black and white striped trousers and took out a scalpel. He raised it to her face, she tried to scream but his grip was too tight.

"Don't struggle I don't want your body just your face" he whispered in a sick reassuring voice before he grinned his eyes widened in a maniacal look.

"H…he..lp…" she choked the blade lowered to the side of her cheek.

And then the brute let go giving a yell out pain as he fell to his knees. Something had just hit him in the back of the head. Alexis's eyes widened as she saw who had just thrown a rock at their attackers head.

"Syrus?" she murmured in awe.

Sure enough Syrus stood just a few metres behind James Henzo with a rock in his hand, his eyes narrowed on the attackers.

"Leave them alone" he called out his grip tightened around the rock as he pulled his arm back, "I can throw this next one pretty hard too"

The brute got to his feet slowly the scalpel in his hand. He turned towards Syrus, there was a twitch in one eye, "You…little…fucker"

Syrus threw the next rock but it never met its target. The brute moved extremely fast. He had already dodged the rock and appeared before Syrus, "This is for trying to save that red head of yours" he spoke.

Syrus looked up at him his eyes wide behind his the glasses that almost dropped off his nose. He was about to speak before he felt the brutes fist in his stomach.

"Syrus!" Alexis cried out in fear her hands over her mouth. She could see what had happened. The brute hadn't hit Syrus he had stabbed him.

Syrus looked down at the scalpel now embedded in his stomach; he felt his body tense up with shock. He couldn't breath.

Gale was on her knees her eyes wide as she watched Syrus fall to his knees. He had saved her just like James and now he was going to die, "I…I'm sorry…Syrus" she spoke her eyes filling with tears.

Syrus looked towards Gale a little smile teasing the side of his mouth, "It doesn't matter…if I die here…maybe…maybe they'll make a nice plaque for me too…and you'll lay flowers out for me" he managed to smile at her before looking towards Alexis.

"Alexis...run" he called out before the brute punched him in the face. He fell backwards off the scalpel. The brute chuckled menacingly turning back towards Gale.

"Where were we…" He began.

But he was interrupted again. A bolt of lightning hit the ground next to them. The ocean around them turning a colour of red, the clouds in the sky turning purple and the dirt below them a cold blue.

"The shadow realm?" He asked in a whisper, "James? You summoned the shadow realm?" he asked looked towards the Zombie who was now staring at Gale its eyes narrowed.

"I see…good boy…" The brute chuckled before he began walking away, "Gale is it? Do you have your deck on you?" he asked looking over his shoulder "I believe James Henzo here wants to challenge you"

Gale looked from the Brute to James her mouth open in shock, "But…I don't…I can't…"

"If you don't we'll kill you" The brute called back as he continued to walk away.

"I'll duel him" Alexis called out "I have my deck!"

The crowd of Zombies turned towards her. The brute stopped, "I think that won't satisfy him"

"If I lose you can kill us both!" She yelled out getting to her feet. Her stomach felt bruised and it was painful to breathe but she didn't let that bother her, "Just give me a duel disk!"

There was a silence. The zombies looked from James Henzo to the brute. James Henzo was still staring down Gale.

"Get James and that girl a duel disk" The brute ordered, the zombies began to shuffle about before two of them walked forward to each of them with a duel disk.

Alexis tried not to look at the zombie that carried hers as she pulled out her deck from her jacket. She took the duel disk from the zombie quickly before strapping it on her arm.

Gale was still looking up at James. She looked back and fourth from him to Syrus who lay very still behind him. His nose was bleeding and the wound in his stomach was getting blood all over his yellow uniform, but he was breathing.

James had now strapped the duel disk on his arm and began to walk forward. He motioned to a nearby zombie who walked forward with a limp. He punched the zombie causing it to let out a groan of pain before its mouth opened. His arm shot out and ripped out the lower jaw of the creature before shoving it backwards. He now had what he needed, a tongue which he immediately tore off and put into his mouth.

"Let's begin" he called out. His tone was filled with the chorus of a thousand other voices.

"The rules are that if you lose you die, if you give up you die and finally you both duel with 4000 life points…" The brute called out before turning back to them, "Enjoy" he called out before he took a few steps back into a dark vortex that had appeared. In a few moments he disappeared.

"James…why are you doing this?" Alexis called out as she looked at the undead boy.

"I hate this…" he replied as he drew five cards "I hate death…I hate how I had life…I hate how it was taken away…I want it back…I don't want to be remembered in death I want to be remembered alive" he looked back at Gale who was crawling slowly towards Syrus.

"I saved her but I lost my own life…how is that fair!" He yelled out at Alexis his rotten fist clenched "And that's why I'm doing this! Because I want life back and I don't care how I get it!"

Alexis looked at him her eyes softened "I know it's not fair and we want things to be different but-"

"Save it!" He yelled out before slamming a card down on the activated duel disk, "Your words mean nothing!"

Alexis's life points: 4000

James's life points: 4000

"I play the Light House that Guards the Abyss!" He called out and a card with a black and white light house on it appeared. The same light house rose from the ground in front of him. (0/2000)

"I play a face down card and end my turn"

Alexis drew five cards before looking up at the light house. She didn't understand why he had played such a card in attack mode, but she wasn't going to just wait and find out.

"I summon my Blade Skater in attack mode!" The ground before her lit up before a purple woman appeared with blades on her arms and ice skates. (1400/1500)

"I play Torrential Tribute!" he called out and the same blue force erupted from the middle of their rocky battle field. The light house fell down under the strain of the power while blade skater was simply swept away.

"Well that was a good move but the problem is that I'm prepared" Alexis called out "I play my Cyber Angel ritual card and sacrifice my Cyber Gymnast to summon Cyber Angel Idaten!" (1600)

An eruption of light appeared on the field before the rock below them turned to a silver colour. A woman with a strange futuristic helmet on and pink coloured skin appeared on the field in front of Alexis.

"And she has an effect that allows me to bring one spell card back from the grave so I'll bring back my cyber angel ritual card!" Alexis called out before adding a card to her hand.

"Then I'll play one card face down" she called out before placing a card face down on the field.

James didn't say anything as he drew a card, "My turn and I activate the effect of my destroyed light house"

A beam of light suddenly appeared on the field around James. Alexis let out a groan of discomfort as she shielded her eyes.

"With this…I can immediately summon to the field any Zombie monster from my deck so long as I halve my life points" James called out, his skin began to peel of his legs as the effect took place chunks of flesh falling off his legs.

James's life points: 2000

Alexis's face twisted up before her eyes widened as the ocean water around them grew fiercer, and then she remembered. James was an ocean duellist. Since when did he use Zombie cards.

"Wait since when did you start using Zombies?" She called out.

"When I died my deck died with me…" James called out before water from the ocean suddenly splashed over the land in front of him, "Now I'm going to summon my Ghost Ship of the Damned Abyss"

A huge wave suddenly built up by the side of them before a huge cruise ship emerged from the water. It was a huge metal structure with bloody patches all over it, but what stood out was that on the front of it was a huge metal skeleton as a figure head.

(2700/0)

"What is that?" She called out stunned as she looked at the haunted cruise ship. The skeleton raised its metal head and laughed in a threatening manner.

"This guy has the ability to summon four more monsters to the field so long as he doesn't attack and I can't attack you directly" He called out before slapping down four cards "So I now summon Undead Merman…"

A zombie merman dived out of the waters and onto the land. His skin was grey and the lower half of his body looked like it had been sown back onto his upper half. He held a trident in his right hand (1600/0)

"My Abyss Guide…"

A small rowing boat appeared out of another wave and a small rowing boat appeared on the field next to the merman. In it was a dark hooded figure that didn't reveal his face. (1500/600)

"My Skull Cannon…"

Another wave broke on the surface of the rock battle field and a skeleton dressed in a pirates uniform appeared next to a huge metal cannon with a skeleton's head on the end of it. (1800/1000)

"And finally my Death Swipe Captain"

One final wave broke on the surface of the land before a zombie with blue skin dressed in a sea captain's uniform. It had rapier swords for hands and a wooden leg. (2300/300)

"What's the point of all this?" She called out as she looked towards him "None of them have any attack power to rival my angels attack power and plus you have only one card left in your hand?"

"Well first off you should know that my Abyss Guide allows me to look through your hand and discard any magic card I chose" Alexis panicked as the Machine Angel Ritual card in her hand forcefully escaped her grip and flew into her graveyard.

"And finally this one card can help me because it's called the Ocean Anger card" he slapped down the magic card before smirking as a magic card with a picture of a stormy ocean with a skull like head hidden in the waves appeared.

"This makes all the cards on my side of the field and yours get instantly destroyed and for every one of them you lose 400 life points" A huge wave suddenly began to build at the end of the rocky platform.

It rose into the air above a skull like face appearing in it. Alexis barely had time to swear before it came crashing down on all of them.

She had barely anytime to react as it came crashing down on her. She was thrown hard against the rock. She felt her bones crack with the force of the wave. She let out a cry of pain that was gargled under the water. She choked; she began to kick out fighting against the water.

Her hands met with solid land and she was thrown forcefully onto its surface. She coughed and spluttered on her hands and knees. Her body was racked with pain, one of her ribs were cracked maybe more, her shoulders were definitely hurt somehow and on top of all of that she had swallowed far too much water.

She looked onwards. James Henzo still stood in the exact place he had always been standing, his rotten yellow eyes narrowed on her. His body drenched with water and his field empty.

Alexis's life points: 1600

"Wait…where's Gale and Syrus? Are they safe?" She called out before coughing up a huge mouthful of salt water. Her eyes stung, she felt ill.

"Their fine…" he muttered. Sure enough Gale and Syrus were behind him. Gale had taken off her red Slifer jacket and was now holding it to Syrus's wound. She looked over towards Alexis giving her a reassuring nod.

"You may want to know that Ocean Anger also has one more effect and it's that I'm able to summon a water type monster from my deck so long as the level stars of all my destroyed monsters are more than double that of the card.

He searched through his deck before drawing a card "Which means now I summon the monster Cthulhu Leviathan" he called out before slapping the card down.

There was a roar on the horizon before a huge hole opened up in the waters next to the rock platform. Alexis turned and reeled as she watched a terrifying creature emerge from its center. It was like a creature made from sea weed that had a dragon like head but with no eyes and there were tentacles coming from its chin. It had huge arms and its fingers were also tentacle like. Its skin was rotten and grey; it began to haul itself out of the water landing behind James. (1000/1000)

"This guy gets 500 attack and defense points for every water type monster in the graveyard so since I have five water monsters and my light house is an earth type he has 3500 attack power" The monster roared lifting its head back as more tentacles sprouting from the bottom of its jaw. (3500/3500)

"Now since you have no monsters on your side of the field and my Ghost Ship's effect is still in play I have no choice but to end my turn"

Alexis looked up at the monster. She was still on her knees; she tried to get up slowly but screamed in pain as she felt her ankle give way and break. She was in no condition to continue but she didn't have a choice.

"I…I play stray lambs which allows me to play two sheep tokens" She called out fighting the tears that threatened to break out from the pain as two sheep like creatures appear on the field in defense mode. (0/0)

She couldn't have done anymore she only had a few cards in her hand. Two monsters, one that needed to fuse with blade skater to actually get a result, a polymerization that was now useless and a ritual monster, but because of the effect of the undead merman she couldn't summon it anyway because she lacked the card to do so.

And on top of all that she was hurt, she didn't want to move anymore than she had to.

"You're going to die" he spoke as he drew a card "By the way I should have mentioned my monsters other effect…every time I draw the card gets immediately sent to the graveyard so I now can discard my Zombie Mermaid to the graveyard" He placed the card in the graveyard before looking towards her.

"And this raises his stats by another 500 points" (4000/4000) He looked at the sheep tokens before pointing towards one of them.

"Attack" The beast's tentacles lashed out at the sheep slicing it in two, "This is hopeless…your dead…all that crap you said now has no meaning because no one will be around to remember it"

Alexis drew a card slowly propping herself up on one leg.

"Your going to die and be like me…people will cry when your gone…you'll probably have a memorial like me" He continued "You'll miss out on all the joys of life…you'll never graduate, you'll never find true happiness, you'll never grow up, get married or have children"

She tried to block out the words. She wanted to get up but the pain was too fierce.

"You'll never be able to be with the people you love ever again"

Her eyes widened at that point. Something snapped inside her head. The words were unleashing something powerful and hate filled. Her body now ignored the pain as she rose to her feet. She glared across at him her eyes burning with anger filled tears.

"You…evil…hate filled…brat!" She yelled out before drawing a card forcefully, "We cried for you! We mourned your death! You were this schools loss! People wept for you! Gale has hated herself ever since you died and blamed her for your death!" She yelled at him before slapping down a card.

"We hated how you had been taken away! Jaden hated it too! And the result of that was he killed the same person who killed you! He hated himself! He wanted to die! And I couldn't take it! I didn't want to see Jaden hate himself so much!" Tears were running down her face "And now you come back and you want to kill us! The people whose lives are in so much pain because of your heroic act! You're no better than the guy that killed you!"

James's eyes widened as he watched Alexis stand up straight. She must have been in a world of pain. His eyes narrowed on her, "What would you know! What would you know about death! You don't know how bad it feels!"

"I don't but I know that in death you could look on your grave knowing that you saved a life and you were loved by so many people!" She yelled at him, "So why don't you think about all of that on your way back into death! I play pot of greed to get me to draw two more cards!"

She drew two more cards before slapping one of them down "And now I play my ritual sanctuary card!" A wedding chapel suddenly materialized behind her "With this card I can bring a ritual spell card to my hand like another of my angel ritual cards so long as I discard a spell card from my hand like Polymerization!"

She discarded the card before searching through her deck "Now I play Machine Angel Ritual! And I'll discard my Etoile Cyber, Cyber tutu and my last sheep token to bring out my Cyber Angel Dakini!" Three monster spirits suddenly began to form in front of her into one monster, a woman with four arms, blue skin and orange armor. She held two swords in two of her hands while she held a staff in the other two. (27002400)

"And this makes it so you have to destroy your monster!" The woman twirled her staff once before shooting a giant blue beam from it which made a hole in the centre of its chest. It fell to the ground hard before slipping into the water. It's blood drenching the rock surface.

"Now it's your turn!" She yelled out the fire burning in her eyes as she pointed to James who was now looking at her stunned.

"But…I'll die…" he spoke quietly stunned his yellow eyes wide.

"Stay that way!" She yelled out and her Cyber Angel jumped into the air above before bringing down the swords.

There was a pause as the monster landed in front of James. He blinked twice.

"Sorry" was all he managed to say before his body fell to pieces in front of her, his body parts were then swept away by the sea.

Alexis then collapsed to her knees as she felt the pain she had been repressing for so long suddenly flare up. She let out a cry of pain before weeping. She wasn't crying because she had killed, maybe it was because the pain was just too fierce. She knew the reason but managed to get a hold of herself and look towards Gale and Syrus.

Gale still held the jacket to his body; her back was turned away from the duel.

"Gale I won" she called out but kept crying.

Gale got up slowly before looking towards her. She was afraid she was going to be looking at James Henzo's dead body but instead just saw Alexis. She gave a sigh of relief before running to her side and helping her up.

"How's Syrus?" she asked in between breaths.

"He's alive…" she spoke looking at the floor "But he's still hurt…no thanks to-"

"Gale" Alexis groaned silencing Gale "…I'm hurt…please just drop me near Syrus and call for help"

Gale said nothing until they got to Syrus, but they found out they weren't alone. Someone was stood over Syrus, wrapping something around his waist.

"Hey get away from him!" Alexis yelled the stranger got to their feet before looking towards her.

"You need help getting back to duel academy…" The figure murmured before looking towards them.

As the storm clouds cleared away from the sky the face of one of the mysterious duelists appeared, he had spiky hair and was wearing a smart blazer but under it he wore spiky gloves and dog tags.

"Hello again…I'm Rale" he spoke before picking up Syrus "He's lost some blood but he'll be fine and as for you I don't want you moving with those broken bones of yours"

"I'll be fine I can make it so long as Gale helps me" Alexis said with a slight tone of annoyance in her voice.

She didn't mean to take out how she was feeling at the time on Gale or Rale but what James had said back then had just made her snap. She now knew that she couldn't mourn James Henzo like everyone else.

After all

Now she was the one who killed him.