Uh yea, not repeating my disclaimer speech.
"Are you ready for the plan?"
"Yes, master."
"Good morning class. Clear your desks of all things, except a pen. We're having a pop quiz, seeing as not many of you participated yesterday…"
Crowler was answered with complaints and groans that went ignored. His eyes were directed towards the Slifer Red section, where a certain student had been missing for quite a while.
"Where is Jaden Yuki?" The class had quieted down at hearing this, and even though Crowler had asked this question every day since they found him missing, the students couldn't help but be silent, probably guilty because of any bad behavior that he had to endure because of them.
Syrus glanced at Hassleberry with worry. Jaden had been missing for a long time, and Syrus was afraid he had lost to another duelist and had gone on some journey to figure out what happened…
Of course the possibility of that happening again was zero to none, and so Syrus forgot the thought and went back to worrying about Jaden's disappearance.
It had been over two weeks since he's been gone, and his friends were doing their best to cover it up, using the excuse that Jaden had a terrible sickness and could not even lift a finger, let alone come to class.
Of course, when Crowler went to inspect Jaden in his room (as well as give him a large pile of homework that he knew Jaden wouldn't do anyway), he found the truth.
Jaden was not in his room at all.
This caused chaos among the faculty, wondering over his disappearance and questioning his friends, who had to admit that they knew nothing.
Alexis had also been missing for a week, but she came back, refusing to talk to anyone except Atticus, and she didn't even talk to him that often. Many had tried questioning her, thinking maybe she knew what happened to Jaden, but she ignored them completely, her eyes devoid of emotion and her face impassive.
Crowler sighed at the silence, and proceeded to give out the quiz, and was doing so until the doors opened, revealing a concerned looking Sheppard, and another figure behind him. The two slowly walked down, the unknown figure not revealing his face, although there was something so familiar about him…
"Ahem. Students, I am here to introduce a… new student." No doubt all the attention was placed on Sheppard now.
He looked behind him, glancing at the new student, and looked back at the large crowd of students who were willing to postpone taking the quiz. "This is Takeshi, a transfer student from, where did you say you were from?"
The boy's face finally came to view, earnings gasps among the many students there.
"No way…" Chazz whispered, not believing his eyes. Syrus, who was sitting in another part of the room, was more shocked than ever.
"Jaden?" He cried out, bringing the attention to him. "Takeshi" looked up, his eyes darting towards the direction of the sound, and glared at the small blue-haired boy.
"Excuse me?" Syrus sighed when he heard the voice. It was deeper than Jaden's, but then again, he could have been faking it.
And… and maybe the hair is a wig, or it's dyed! Syrus thought as he stared at the boy's black hair. And his eyes… they have to be contacts. Syrus looked away when the same pair of onyx eyes stared back at him, empty and emotionless.
Jaden seems so… heartless… this isn't like him…
"Um… yes. Well then. Be polite to Takeshi here. Crowler, please go on with your lessons." Sheppard glanced once more at the impassive Takeshi, suspicious of his real identity, but left.
"So… Takeshi, what brings you here?" Crowler said frowning, completely suspicious of this new "transfer" student, thinking it was Jaden.
Takeshi didn't even bother to look at Crowler, making it seem as if he wasn't worthy enough to talk to. "My old school didn't give me what I needed."
"Look at me when you're talking you disobedient-"
Takeshi looked at Crowler's face, wearing a look that had many scared. He scoffed, and walked towards the Obelisk Blue section, climbing the stairs and reaching the top, where he found a seat and sat down.
"And why, pray tell, are you sitting in the Obelisks sections you Slifer slacker!"
Takeshi raised an eyebrow.
"Are you colorblind? My jacket is undoubtedly blue, so I put two and two together, something you seem to not be able to do."
Crowler glared at the boy with all his might, while Takeshi remained unaffected.
"How dare you, you impudent child! Stop pretending, and sit down in the Slifer section!"
"Why should I?"
"Because Takeshi- oh wait! You're not Takeshi are you, Jaden?"
Everyone's eyes landed on the boy in the back, sitting in the Obelisk Blue section without a care of Crowler's anger.
"Why does this school insist on calling me that?" Takeshi said, his voice deeper than usual and his head bowed. "First your Chancellor." He ticked off one finger. "Next, little boy blue in the front." He ticked off another. "Now, you."
He growled under his breath.
"Why don't you all get a life and stop calling me that!" Mindy, sitting two seats away from him, gasped at what he said, especially how he said it. His voice was much, much deeper, as if he was some… some monster from a horror movie. Mindy squirmed away unnoticeably.
Or tried to.
Crowler, dropped his hold on the quiz papers, shaking in fear, before regaining some sense and picking them up hurriedly and passing them out.
"Begin!" He said loudly. He quickly walked (ran) over to his desk, trying to hide the fear that "Takeshi" had placed in him.
Takeshi smirked at the reaction he was able to bring out, and quickly glanced at the paper in front of him. Reading it over, he filled out the answers quickly and looked at the people surrounding him.
In front of him were a few boys who had down a few answers, and had a bit of trouble with the other questions. He looked to his right without making it obvious, and saw a black-haired girl. He smirked again, knowing he scared her.
The doors opened behind him, gaining the attention of many. A blonde girl walked in, her face impassive, while she went down the stairs, gave a note to the transvestite (the name he had dubbed for Crowler) and sat down next to him, not even taking a glance at who was next to her.
Ten minutes later, Crowler collected the quizzes, and immediately, complaints of how they failed were being shouted out into the room.
Takeshi growled under his breath, and that got the blonde girl to notice him. He glanced at her without knowing, and his insides froze.
Could it be… could it be her?
"I'm sorry?" She asked emotionlessly.
"No, no. It's nothing." Takeshi responded.
Alexis usually wouldn't care, after Jaden … died, her world went crashing down. But something told her to look at this guy.
And when she did, her eyes widened, allowing shock to be the first emotion she's shown in a while.
Jaden?
She regained her composure, and walked out quietly when Crowler allowed them to.
How can Jaden be alive… when I haven't even started the spell yet?
She walked faster as she spotted her brother, but stopped before he could see her.
Could Atticus have known what went on… he did before. But…
How did he know?
She ran towards her room, intending to get her book, not noticing a figure following her.
Soon Alexis… you will be within my Master's grasp.
Ok. So I haven't updated in quite a while. Forgive me. I've been busy, and I didn't know how to start this… even though I have it planned out till chapter 7/8. After then, I'll just go with the flow. I'm good at doing that.
And sorry it's short, that's why I hate planning… not sure how long it will be when I post it.
(I do the whole date thing at the bottom to remind myself when I updated, and even though I can find it out on the Internet, I don't have complete access to the Internet 24/7)
Date Updated: April 16 (It would have been sooner, but ff decided to annoy us all and wouldn't let me update it.)