GX: It doesn't mean Generation X

by J.Y. Chung

So apparently, God has a sick sense of humor to send me to Japan and play children's card game while trying to save the world from Mary Sues, Gary Stus, and an evil bastard that is trying to take over the world with three God-Cards Rip Off. Also, I have to do this while teaching children's how to play said card games. Oh, and did I mention that he changed my gender?

10. I Should Probably Stop Smoking Weed

Julia's POV

"...so yes, you can chain Mirror Force and Negate Attack together because of the context of the effect is being stated as."

I was in front of the webcam, teaching my other class that was back in the Church. Surprisingly, this was my idea; I did want to give the other kids at the orphanage some chance to come here to Duel Academy, so why not teach them as well? At least I don't have to worry about driving across Japan to teach each children individually. All I have to do is just walk back from my room to the class and back.

Oh and to those that are a list bit curious on who that girl was that replaced Willowe...well guess the fuck what? It was freaking Willowe! Only, it wasn't!

Am I confusing you? Don't worry, that's what I thought when I saw the video of her changing. Trust me when I say that it was crazy. How crazy was it? Ever watched one of those Discovery Channel videos of those plants growing at x4 the speed or something like that? You know, the one where it starts with a seed and the seed get's destroyed from the inside before spurting out roots then stuff happens you know?

Imagine something like that, only on a human body. No, nothing bursted from her stomach like a Xenomorph from Aliens or something like that. Don't you worry. It's more of the line of...well actually, the best way I could summarize it is that she was...well shrinking.

Especially in the boobies.

Tits. You will be missed.

As I watched the kids take their notes, I passed a hand through my hair, sighing gravely.

So there was a few complication while we were trying to decide on what to do with the not-Willowe-but-was-Willowe-a-while-ago girl.

Remember how I mentioned how I know how to break, or at least unconsciously know how to break the fourth wall? Notice how I rarely do for the last two chapters? Well I might as well do it now because it's so freaking hard to write this part of the chapter.

There's really nothing you guys really need to sweat about, I was going to explain to you guys just why this "not" Willowe is staying here on this island. Basically this whole section was going to be a total flashback in two point of time. This was how I was going to work it: in one point, I'd go all Jesus like and flash up back to one point of the week where the girl kept coming to my room.

Basically, and not surprisingly, this "not" Willowe was extremely different from Willowe. Where Willowe was more confident in what she believes in and how she should achieve that goal is to do whatever it costs, this girl was much - and I do mean much - more shy than when I first met Sarai. Trust me when I say this girl is shy, she makes Sarai's first encounter look like Sarai had a stomach cramp or something.

Absolutely no confidence in herself, which is a damn shame cause if she was, she would have at least been a bit more tolerable when I talk with her. At the moment? She's just reminding me just how much difficult Sarai was during the first few months. So yeah, the first thing I need to do with this girl is to make her build up her self-esteem.

Another thing that this girl was different from Willowe was her damn personality. It was like someone flipped on an off switch for Willowe. She's nothing like the cocky and attitude-filled Obelisk blue. Rather, this girl was extremely modest in what she does and in fact passes all other credits to someone else. Which, once more, pisses me off to no end. If I compliment you, you should be taking in that complement, not hand it to someone else like hot potato.

Where was I? Oh right, how I was going to explain the flashback. In any case, this girl kept coming to my dorm because she's being constantly harassed by most of the boys and girls of Obelisk. They're not dumb you guys. They're able to connect some parts of the points. They knew that the moment Willowe vanished, this new chick replaced her. They're thinking that this girl has something to do with the exiled Willowe, and are keeping their distance away from her.

That and they're straight up picking on her. Thankfully none of the students that I taught during my years here in this world joined in the bandwagon, but they didn't really associated with the gal. Oh damn, I realized something. This whole time I've been talking about this girl, and you folks have not the foggiest idea of who the hell she is. Well lemme tell you guys who this girl is- oh wait, my mind is meticulously cooking up a sick and a kick-ass new idea.

Ok so I'll introduce her later into the explanation.

Now you guys are wondering, what the hell is going on here? Well this is what's going on right now. I had two mg of Pineapple Grenade and right now I'm high as a mother fucker. So excuse me while I write this part of the chapter high like a mother-fucking king. In any case, we have a more impressing issue at hand.

Why this girl was coming into my room.

So during her stay here, she was being harassed and shit- and the only one that she could really go to without actually being swamped over by dudes of the opposite sex, were either the Osiris Red or the Ra Yellow Girl Dormitory. The Not-So-Willowe made the smart decision of staying in the Ra dormitory rather than in the Osiris. Why?

...seriously, you want me to explain why she's not going to the Osiris dorm? You guys are actually asking me to explain this shit to you? Seriously? Haven't you guys noticed- shit, sorry. This is my high-mind talking to you guys at the moment.

If you guys either haven't watched the Yu-Gi-Oh GX series or just chose out a Yu-Gi-Oh GX fanfiction from this site, or just plain stupid because you've been ignoring this whole Osiris/Obelisk tension in my story, here's how it goes down. Osiris are like peasants and the Obelisks are the nobles. Osiris are treated like trash while the Obelisks are treated like royalties. Osiris are considered dumb in many people eyes, while Obelisks are the best of the bests. Want me to go on?

So yeah, it's either that or here. Like I said, no brainer in where she would want to stay at.

Now, at first, you guys could probably tell that I wasn't on the right foot when I treated her like shit. I didn't give her my utter most attention and she probably knew. So what the hell happened? Well one word would probably answer the questions to all question: Melody.

That girl didn't bothered to know where she came from, nor did she care about the rumor that surrounded the Obelisk gal. She just began to talk with her. It was Melody that came to my room and told me to clean up my act and start acting like a mature teacher and counsel the girl.

That gave me a reality slap there. That and if Melody, who was the one that was going through all this shit, was giving this girl a chance, then why the hell won't I? I mean, this whole story was made to the point that I'm the more rational amongst the faculty- so why change that?

After that debacle, I managed to get this girl to talk with me, and during those weeks of just talking with the girl, I managed to question how the hell did I came to take care of her.

Now this was the part where I would connect Flashback 1 with Flashback 2 where the whole faculty member just came together and discussed on who this mysterious girl was. Well, with Fonda's skills and connections, she was able to get her identity. Veronika Krasinski: a.k.a one of the students that went missing for the past three years. Now, like you guys, I was like 'dafuq?' Well lemme just start by saying that it was a hella lot easier to just go through this story as a dude then as a chick.

This whole shit began three years ago when some Obelisk blue students, both dudes and chicks - in quantifiable numbers- just vanished like some sort of Houdini shit. No explanation, and no clues of where the hell they vanished off to. The last place they've seen them was a dormitory, now abandoned because of this incident. Also, because there is a chance that the students might come back out from the dorm, it was demolished - which was a dumbass logic, if I might say so.

Anyways, finding her was a miracle; because once she woke up, she would be able to tell us exactly what the hell happened with the other students. Well, as you could tell from the first flashback, it didn't work as well as we thought. Now how was I going to hop back to flashback one? Well that was how. I was going to end Flashback 2 with that statement: "It didn't work as well as we thought."

We would hop back to Flashback 1 and go on with the explanation of how her shyness went in the way of extracting information from the student. So it was our duty to make her feel at least somewhat comfortable enough for her to talk.

Yeah, with how the school is reacting around her? Good luck with that. Honestly, they should have just taken my suggestion and just send her back with her family. Instead, we gave the Krasinski family a video message. It was rather simple and short: "We found your daughter, but we can't send her back because of this bullshit and that bullshit."

We didn't say bullshit, but to make this story at least somewhat funny to some people I decided to paraphrase what I had to say with the word bullshit. Because nothing's funnier than to use bull's excrement as a slur.

So back to Flashback 1. Flashback 1 would show me just talking to the girl and we would have a one night stand.

…yeah I was shitting you with that last part. Nah, it was just the usual consolation and shit; but the last part of the statement? Change that to the girl crying her eyes out because she misses her family. Yeah, it sucks to be that girl.

"Ms. Chung?"

Oh shit, how long was I breaking the fourth wall? I didn't mean to ignore these little gremlins like that. I checked the time and silently cursed to myself. "Right, for homework, just write up a list of +3 chains you can use with various of cards. I'm not going to ask a lot, just five ways to make a +3 chain. Anything goes."

With that, I turned off my webcam before shaking my head. I'm seriously loosing it. I mean, I literally wasted a full five minutes just breaking the fourth wall. This is bad. I know how much I said that I was bat-shit crazy. But it's suppose to be a secret between you and me. If these other bastards find out I just zoned out like that...yeah I could probably die in embarrassment. With that statement said, I'm probably going to see a review here or there about how much I'm a hypocrite.

"Damn it all." I muttered as I pulled out a blank paper and pen, before jotting down some notes on my next lesson. Seriously, you guys are the only one that knows I'm this fucking lunatic. No one else knows. Not even my friends. I would put on this false mask of a "nice guy" like some sort of sociopath. I blame...

...Schumann?

I stopped my next lesson plans half-way, listening to the rather somber music echo in the Ra dorm. I put my pen down, and walked out of my room to notice that I wasn't the only one that noticed the music. The girls of my charge were quickly scampering out of their rooms to find the source of the music. Following behind, I noticed professor Sartyr outside of the Ra's dance studio, along with some dudes.

Oh right, I forgot to mention how different my story is going to be with some of the other fanfic here in this website. See, in my fiction, each dorm has a little 'something' to hold the dorm "looking awesome." In the 'lowest-low' Osiris Dorm, they have an actual hot-spring as well as a mud bath. Go figure, the 'worst' class has one of the best things that any tourists would want to go to.

For the 'high-class' Obelisk Blue dorm? It's a goddamned castle, use your fucking imagination what the fuck they would have. If you guessed something that involves with the Classical era's aristocratic society -with the exception of the lack of hygienic back then- well then bing-fuck-go.

So what do we have? Our dorm is known as the 'resources' dorm. Meaning our dorm is the 'Utility' dorm. If you're into science, we have a science lab. If you're into computer engineering, we have a computer lab. If you're into art, we have a studio for that.

To summarize our dorm: If you want to do something, we probably have it.

So it's no wonder to see various of students outside of Ra to come to our dorm to do something. Hell we sometimes invite the Osiris Dorm to our game room for a sesh of Dungeon Dice Monsters {something I have yet personally get into}.

Anyways, back to the matter at hand, nearly all of the Ra students were surrounding the dance studio, where the song was echoing from. Probably another Obelisk Blue that forgot to turn down the volume. Seriously, how the hell can someone dance in there with that music booming? Especially from John Schumann, who the hell listens to that shit...

...ok I do, but still! Teenagers have short attention spans, they wouldn't last for long with this shit. So who the hell is? I looked at the Spanish Professor who was rather distracted with the tenor singing in the song. So with the power of mah authoritah, I made my way to the front of the room- holy shit it's Willowe!

I mean, Veronika.

She was in a dark leotard and white leggings as she- fuck me, can girls even stretch that far? Seriously I've seen ballerina having these insane flexibility but this is just ridiculous. Though I really shouldn't be that surprised. She's...pretty small. I mean, compared to most girls- especially myself- but damn this girl is just thin. Apart from her legs, she was relatively small. Her magenta hair in a bun, her face looked rather smaller than how it was.

...that or it's just my high talk right there.

Luckily for you readers, I've taken the history of dance, so I know a few of what these ballerina does- pfft like hell I do. I never took that class seriously, so you'll have to excuse me while I butcher the ballet techniques with my shitty ass stories. Or not, I mean I could probably skip this whole section and just- Jesus! How the hell can you stand on your toes like that!?

The song slowly ends as another song took place. This was rather modern and- HANG ON A DAMN MINUTE! This is from my Ipod!

...don't question me on how I brought my Ipod here in this world. I just did. Damn it! It's for plot convenience. I'm too lazy to go and revise this damn story again. I mean it took me a whole freaking week to fix up the first chapter, I'm not going to do that shit again unless the situation calls for it again (which will be never).

Anyways, the song that changed Schumann's super somber rendition of "Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai" was...oh listen to that! Another fucking sad song. Wanna know what's worse? This one is in Korean! So I know what the hell this sobbing bastard is saying. God why are Korean's so melodramatic? Why can't you guys be like that one Bieber kid? Why can't they be like that little adorable little fart and just sing about something that doesn't involve with drama and shit- oh wait they did, it's called K-Pop.

Now I could write out a shit load of lyrics onto this part of the story, while showing a small description of how Veronika is dancing, but I don't wanna. So once again, by the power of mah authoritah, I'm going to skip towards the end and just say that everyone was applauding-

"Eep!" Veronika squeaked, realizing that she had an audience of Ra Yellow watching her, and cheering for her impromptu dance.

"That was amazing!"

"I didn't knew she was a ballerina!"

"Encore! Encore!"

The usual shit whenever people are astounded by something out of this world. I dunno, use your freaking imagination. Veronika stared at the crowd before he picked up her bag and affects before coming through the door. Not the best moment for the girl. I shook my head as she was mobbed by students around.

Willowe would have just taken it all and make a bigger bitch for herself. Veronika on the other hand was having none of that shit and was at the pont of hyperventilation.

"OK THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT!" I clapped my hands loudly, breaking up the crowd as I made my way to Veronika. "Give a girl some space!" Soon, everyone gave some room for the shellshocked Obelisk as I crossed my arms.

"Really? You saw everyone at the door, and you thought it would have been smart to take them head on?" she blushed.

"I-I thought if I said excuse me..."

Jesus Christ, she's more dangerous than Willowe in terms of easily forgiving her and shit. Maybe the OC that gal sent me was probably a sue...

...just in case.

"What was you're childhood like?" Veronika blinked as I escorted her away from the crowd. As much as the question was out of the blue, the ballerina nevertheless answered. "I-I was rather doing all of what I could do. I-I'm not as great in more general field of study, s-so I try and participate in more of the artistic style of life. S-Such as doing ballet, playing the piano, a-and painting."

"No abusive parents?"

Veronika gasped. "Why would they be?"

"Are they rich?"

"W-Well, we're ok. W-We're not royalty in any way-"

"Anything particular happened while you were a kid?"

"A-Apart from being kidnapped a-and living a life of some p-prima donna? Nothing really."

Hm...still not convinced.

"What pet do you have?"

"Dog."

"A wolf?"

"Close, one three-year-old Siberian Husky."

Siberian Huskys are rather rare for someone to have...

"What's his name?"

"Tali."

She's not a sue. I confirmed. Anyone who names their dog the quirky quarian engineer from Mass Effect is definitely not a sue.

"I-Is there a reason for these questions?"

"Nope." I shook my head, "Just curious."

---

Later that Day
Third Person POV

In the Ra Yellow dorms, Bastion sighed as he looked up from where he laid on his bed. Today's events had him exhausted and somewhat happy. After Melody's duel, they jumped right into some of the problems that she encountered during Ms. Chung's class. They also went over some hypothetical scenarios on what to do if they had so-and-so cards to counter Willowe's card. After which they had a pop-quiz. Usually confident, Ms. Chung's class kept him on his feet; to be honest, it excited him that there's a class that would constantly challenge him.

Studying and visually testing if he could use Rolle's theorem in his latest deck, his thoughts were quickly interrupted when he heard something tap lightly outside. Blinking, the English duelist kicked up off his bed to search around his room for the source of the noise. He was about to return back to bed when he saw a tiny pebble bounce off of his window.

"What in the world...?" he muttered as he walked to the window before unlocking it-

"Get back!" instinctively the British teen did as something orangish-red blurred leaped into his vision. The perpetrator was wearing white and blue as she grap hold of the edge of the window. She looked down at the fallen teen and laughed.

Bastion gapped as Jenny gave him a single wave. "Sup?"

"T-This is the second floor, how did you-"

"I climbed up a tree and threw whatever was in my pocket at you're window. The rest was history." Jenny told the Ra as she slid into the room. The Obelisk duelist looked around and whistled. "Dang, Bastion. Are you some sort of mad-scientist?"

"I beg your pardon?" The duelist asked as she points at one on the left wall. "Some of these formulas on the wall are pretty complex for a fifteen year old focused on Duel Monsters. I think I see some parts of statistics on here."

"Not just statistics," Bastion explained, instantly changing into lecture mode while showing the Obelisk formulas written on other sides of the room. "You see, I find that statistics, geometry, mathematics we use all of them in our daily lives. Whether we're predicting when the next sprinkle will splash around the yard, or how many times you'll hit home runs, or just how high the chance you'll be able to predict when the next card would be drawn."

"You know, I never thought of it that way," Jenny said to Bastion, as she looked at every inch of the room. "So do you have a formula for everything?"

Bastion smirked, "I'll show you."

He pointed to the wall his desk was up against, quickly explaining how Ms. Chung's Chain lecture followed a specific derivative formula from Calculus. Jenny watched as he points out how Conditional Independence was related in giving him the precognitive style of able to find out what card the deck will allow him to draw and such. He was about to continue with the tree diagram and it's statistical draft allows him to see how the duel would commence before stopping suddenly.

Now ladies and gentleman, lemme just say that Bastion isn't just some sort of stereotypical English; this guy is outrageously smart like most Asian mathematicians. Although most women love an English accent, and would hit on anything that has an English accent, Bastion was rather the opposite. In fact, he was rather ignored for most of the time. Being called a nerd and other derogative terms, he was outcasted for most of his teenage life (which is like three years). Consider that while this guy was living in Japan, where something out of the norm for these people is a big no-no, let's just say that his English accent and intellect wasn't the only thing he was ousted for.

So when a girl (a rather pretty looking one) starts to talk to someone who hasn't talked to the fairer sex for a while, he did what most normal boys would do in his scenario. He began to stammer and blush like an idiot.

"W-Why are you here in the first place?" Jenny, however, didn't respond as she flopped onto the Ra's bed and snickered. "I'm hiding!"

"H-Hiding?" Bastion questioned as the Obelisk was, strangely enough, observed the grandfather clock in his room. Following her gaze, he heard Jenny whisper a countdown. Starting from 10.

"...3...2..."

Meanwhile, BACK IN THE OBELISK CASTLE
...not better than a tool shed.

Torimaki didn't knew any better when he saw a gift box wrapped neatly ontop of his bed. So it was to his dismay when, upon opening the box, an obnoxious green odor rose from within. He dropped it with an incensed wrinkle on his face. Fortunately for him, he wasn't the only one that was suffering this.

"Aw, nasty!" Torimaki said, holding his nose. "What the heck did they do to our jackets?!"

"Oh man, I'm going to be sick!" Mototani said, backing away from his box that he found in the bathroom.

"This is disgusting!" Another said in his room.

Soon enough, in matter of seconds, every Obelisk freshman ran outside of the castle as the east wing of the Obelisk castle was smelling like rotton egg and shit.

Back with Bastion and Jenny

"...you know what, I don't want to know." Bastion finally summarized as the Obelisk observed the formula on the ceiling.

"So what does that formula do?" The rather mischievous minded girl asked. Seeing as though that Jenny wasn't going to act like the girls he was used to be bullied by, Bastion continued with his lecture. "Over there is formula for trap cards using the idea of Complementary Event."

He swung his hand to point to the right side of the wall and ceiling, "Over there is for spell cards and using the Marginal Distribution, I observe to see if the magic cards in my need are necessary in the long run."

His hand swung again this time pointing to the wall with the window. "And that's… well you get the idea. In here I've cracked the ability to beat almost every card ever made..." He scratched his head. "Hypothetically speaking."

"Still that's pretty impressive," The sunset haired duelist complemented as Bastion once more blushed from the praise.

Jenny giggled. "You're red like a tomato B.T.W'bs."

He stuttered as Jenny quickly changed her attention from the Ra mathematician and back to the room around him. "In any case, from the looks of things, your running out of room to make that hypothesis into fact." Jenny pointed out as Bastion closed his mouth, his blush quickly vanishing with a few coughs. Looking around, he realized that Jenny was right. Every corner of his room was just filled with formulas. On the left and on the right, there was nothing but formulas, theorems, and laws.

"W-Well, looks like I'll need to erase all this then." Jenny gapped. "You're going to erase all of them?"

"It's not like I'm going to miss them." He explained, still obverting his eyes away from Jenny. "Once I worked them out, they're embedded into my mind. I won't forget them."

Her crystal blue eyes gazed upon the rather timid Ra before he sighed out with his back at her. "B-Besides, there are more strategies and techniques ready to be burrowed out from other formulas. I can't stop with the same formula for every duel, otherwise they'll be exploited by other duelists."

Toying with her green ribbons, Jenny listened quietly as he explained his reasoning. Before long Jenny grinned as she hopped off of his bed. "Mind if you had some help?"

"W-What?" Bastion wasn't expecting that. For that response, Jenny scoffed. "Oh come on, you think you can do this by yourself? Seeing how there's one bed here, there's no one to help you."

"I-I have Professor Sartyr and Professor Chung-"

"Yeah, but they'll be busy for most of the days. What, you think that a girl can't help you? Is that it?" The English duelist quickly shook his head. "N-No! I mean, it's not unbecoming of a woman to do so-"

"Bastion?" He silenced himself as Jenny gave him a look. "Just say yes."

"I-I..." Seeing as though he won't be getting out of this situation, Bastion just dropped his head in a defeated manner. "O-Ok, yes, you can help."

The Bastion had to walk back and forth from the tool shed (YUSH!) to his dorm. In half an hour, the two set out to whitewash the walls of Bastion's dorm.

Hey check it out, I'm Michelangelo," Jenny announced. "Behold! As I paint on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel!" She dramatically cried while standing on a step ladder. Though Bastion was worried about her safety, he couldn't help but to laugh at the joke. "Once I'm done up here, I'll work on the statue of David on the left room!"

"Be careful now Madame Michelangelo." Bastion called out, "We wouldn't want the Creation of Adam being incomplete now." Jenny snorts. "Oh don't you worry about it! I'm a professional at thiiiiiiiiiiii-" Bastion's heart leaped as Jenny lost her footing and her hold on the brush.

Luckily for Jenny, she simply fell onto his bed. Bastion on the other hand...

"Oh my god, Bastion!" The brush went flying right onto Bastion's face. "I am so sorry!"

Bastion sighed as he pulled the brush off his face. "I-It's alright, are you alright Jenny?"

"I'm good." She apologetically told the Ra as he pulled a clean rag off of his chair. Getting some of the wet paint off of his face, he looked at Jenny, who was rather looking guilty.

"Listen Jenny, I'm not mad at you." He began as he took a step. "I was just- Woah!" the moment Bastion took his second step, the Ra accidentally slipped, the rag flying into the air.

Luckily for Bastion, nothing was broken around him or in him. Jenny on the other hand...

"Bastion..."

That we rag that Bastion used, landed right dab smack on Jenny's head. Droplet of paint stained on her blue skirt as the Obelisk gave him a rather devious look.

"You do realize, that this means war," The Obelisk finished, in mock anger.

"J-Jenny please, it was just an accident!" But Jenny was already picking up a paint bucket and getting ready to throw it.

"W-Wait!" Bastion pleaded. "I'm not armed…!" Jenny threw the paint at the Ra but Bastion ducked and the paint covered the wall behind him. Bastion, quickly picked up the mop and tried to dab it onto Jenny, who quickly rolled away from the attack. The Obelisk burst into laughter.

"Oh, funny is it?"

Jenny taunted the Ra with the classic Neo 'come over here' hand wave.

It was pretty much a paint war after that.

---

After a ceasefire, the two finished painting Bastion's room and after cleaning up themselves, Bastion invited Jenny to the Ra Yellow cafeteria where they saw Dimitri, Brier and Melody eating together; the only one new in the clique was a very large, heavy set Ra who was almost as tall as the hall ceiling of DA and almost as a third wide of the hallway there. "Hello there." Bastion greeted his friends.

"Oh hey Bastion!" Melody greeted back.

"What's up, Bas'?" Dimitri, with a ridiculous sporadically arranged taper-like and unrealistic hairstyle, also greeted with a Brooklyn accent. "And I've seen you brought one of Ms. Chung's kids here!"

Jenny blinked. "Sorry, but Ms. Chung's kid?"

"People are saying that you and few of the other freshmen students here were personally tutored by Ms. Chung." Brier explained as he got up and outstretched his hand. "We haven't met, I'm Brier Kohara. The Joey Wheeler impersonator is Dimitri Kagurazaka and the big guy next to me is Beauregard Ohara."

"Nice to meet yah." Dimitri greeted Jenny as Beauregard gave her a rather reserved nod, though he did flash her a small smile. "You already know Melody Hikarii, a.k.a the Willowe Slayer!"

"Don't call me that!" Melody snapped as she rolled her eyes. "After beating Willowe, that's what everyone's been calling me lately."

"Well, at least it's better than being called Ms. Chung's kid. It almost sounds like I'm Ms. Chung's daughter or something." Jenny joked, and to her joy Melody giggled.

"Speaking of which," Brier politely interjected, "Not that Obelisks aren't welcomed here, but what's the occasion for your visit?"

"Jenny offered to help out in painting my dorm room, so I'm treating her to dinner." Bastion informed them. Brier blinked, Beauregard shook his head while Dimitri began to laugh. Melody was giggling as Jenny, to her own shock, found herself actually blushing.

"Jenny?" Bastion noticed how she was rather quiet and was quickly weary of what the problem was. Did they went a little too far with the paint battle? "Are you alright?"

"I-I'm fine!" She affirmed as Beauregard shook his head again.

"Not even a week and you're already bringing her out for dinner."

"Please," Bastion scoffed. "It's courtesy for someone to offer something in return for their help."

Brier motioned his hand going over his head, while giving a sound effect of a car passing by. Melody found herself shaking. "Bastion. I know you're not much of a girl's guy, but you can't be serious about not seeing what you're doing to her at the moment."

"Which is what?"

"Jenny," Dimitri was instantly cut off by -surprisingly- Beauregard. "Why don't you grab some food and join us?"

"Yeah, it's seafood day, we got fish and lobsters!" Melody added. Immediately, Jenny stormed over to the buffet line and grabbed an assortment of foods; yes, I said foods. She brought a cart to the table as dishes filled with various foods were on each level of the cart. She brought two cups of coke before sitting down in front of the four Ras.

"Don't mind if I do!" Bastion chuckled as he went to get his dinner, not witnessing Jenny chowing down her first meal. Then second. Then third. On the fourth dish, Melody and the others were learning something shocking about Jenny Rose McBride: She could eat.

Not in the sense of a normal human being, though. Her method of eating, her speed, and the sheer quantity of food that she could put away was nothing short of staggering. But what amazed the four the most was her cleanliness and her manners! She ate like a tiger gorging on a fresh freshly killed buffalo, but she was a tiger with class!

Where…where does it all go?" Melody asked with a quiet, subdued horror in her voice. "Does…does she have a black hole in her stomach?"

"I don't know, but I'm glad we're not paying for her food." Breir announced. If this was a restaurant, Jenny's bill would already be approaching the hundreds of thousands of yen.

Wiping her mouth with a napkin, Jenny actually stopped to breathe. "I've always been a big eater; my mother likes to say because my brain has a ridiculous energy requirement." With thousands of pranks being made on the fly, as well as DA's lectures, and sports, it's no wonder that Jenny was hungry all the time.

Dimitri whistled. "Can you even taste the food?"

"Yeah! To be honest, I'd rather have this than to have those fancy 5 star meal back in the Obelisk dorm!" Jenny said happily. "I don't think I ever had such a good time eating!" Jenny said as she cut some fish up and forked them into her mouth. "Know what? You guys are alright."

"Is that so?" Bastion asked bringing over his lobster dinner. "But I'm sure it's not all that much better than the Obelisks."

Jenny shook her head, "Trust me, the closest thing we have to fried fish are those Canadian Salmon. It might sound good, but it doesn't even compare to just grilled snappers" Jenny cracked.

"Wow, I'm surprised you think like that!" Melody said, astonished at the comment. "This academy's got you living like kings and queens, so I thought you'd never get tired of that life style."

"Oh trust me when I say this, it's pretty boring after the first week passes and there's nothing to do. In the end, you have to find a way to pass time."

"By the way." Dimitri-Joey said. "What were you doing in Bastion's room in the first place?"

"Let's just say, Obelisk is going to be stinkier then before." Jenny replied mysteriously as Bastion shook his head.

"Are you serious?" Brier asked hopefully; being one of the kids that was constantly bullied here by the Obelisks, anyone that tries to put them down is a friend to him anytime.

"It's true." Everyone turned to the newcomer of the conversation. Ms. Chung glanced over at Jenny, who was sheepishly scratching her head.

"Jenny, I received an interesting call from Crowler, saying that the Freshman class smell like shit. Do you know anything about it?" Julia asked sweetly, as the Ras instantly looked at the embarrassed Jenny with something that relates to respect.

"They shouldn't have stolen Melody's deck in the first place." Melody looked rather surprised at this, but shrugged. Informed by the other girls that Ms. Chung had taught, it's not a surprise to see Jenny react harshly to this. Still it was really nice of her to do something like this...

"As much as I'm proud of you to get back at those assholes that made Melody miserable for quite some times, I can't let this one slide. You do realize that right? I'll have to contact your parents about this, after which I'm expecting you to tell Fonda about what you did, she'll decide what punishment you'll be receiving." Jenny pouted as the Ra Mistress sighed.

"Oh well, C'est la vie." Jenny surrendered, Bastion shook his head. "Was that the reason why you hid here?"

"Part of it." That made him blink.

"Another part was to see you." That brought Bastion back out of his funk as he blushed madly.

"M-Me?"

"Yeah," Jenny nodded, "You're not just some Ra duelist. You're a Ra duelist whose mega-smart. I mean, it's like you were taught by Ms. Chung as well as us. Not only that, but you're really easy to tease." Jenny gave him wicked smile as his blushed reddened even more. "Which makes this whole thing even more fun."

"Alright Jenny, that's enough. Stop teasing the socially-awkward British guy and get back to you're dorm. I'll write you up a slip so you can get pass the checkpoint."

Finishing the last of her macaroni, Jenny neatly piled all her food-free dishes back onto the cart. "Well guys, been nice talking to you all, we should do this again sometimes!"

"You should bring the others!" Melody added. "It'd be nice to see how everyone else is doing." Jenny nodded, before looking up at the still flushed Bastion and grinned. "Hey, thanks for letting me help you out with your room. If you have anything else you need..."

With a wink, Jenny laughed as she pushed the cart to the kitchen, leaving an exasperated Julia, four amused Ras and one glowing red Bastion.

Next Morning

"All right everyone, be seated!" Dr. Crowler said, cutting off any noisy conversations. "Class is now in session. Now can anyone tell me the three types of cards in Duel Monsters and their categories? How about you, miss Rhodes?" Alexis nodded and stood up.

"Duel Monsters cards can be grouped into Normal, Effect, Ritual, Fusion, and the Trap and Spell cards that can also be monsters or summon token monsters. Trap cards can be grouped into Normal, Continuous, and Counter Traps. And Spell cards can be grouped into Normal, Quick-Play, Field, Continuous, Equip and Ritual Cards." Alexis addressed to the entire class.

"Perfect," Crowler said, with a firm nod. "Of course, just knowing what card type isn't going to be enough. I'm hoping to those that are taking Ms. Chung's class won't forget about those categories. Otherwise, we'll have one very unhappy Ms. Chung. I would rather have my students not crying thank you very much."

Everyone laughed at the statement as Crowler looked around for his next student to answer one of his mini pop-questions.

"Hmm, now whose next?" The doctor directed his attention to the lower seats, eyeing the Osiris' until he found a perfect candidate; let's see if he's been studying up with Julia.

"Mr. Truesdale!" His voice caused the little, light blue-haired boy to jump to his seat. "I hope you've been reading up on Field spells. Because I'm going to quiz you on it again." Syrus gulped before Crowler continued on, "Now answer me this Mr. Truesdale, Field spell cards can be removed from the field; list some ways to remove them."

"Uh…to a Field Spell… I think one way to remove them…is to play another field spell?" Syrus started stammering and shaking, trying to avert his eyes from the class.

"Poor Syrus, I remember having stage fright whenever I perform my magic shows…" Melody mumbled. Some of the other students that were in also groaned at Syrus's plight.

"Even pre-duelers know the answer to this one, ya Osiris Slacker!" One of the Obelisk students taunted causing most of the Blues to laugh out loud. Alexis was shaking her head at everyone laughing. Jenny were glaring at the Blues that dared to laugh, and Sasha was covering both hers and Ace's nose from the horrendous stench that lingered the room. Kia was busy dosing off while Chazz was silently observing the younger brother of the famed Zane Truesdale.

"Wait, I know this one!" Syrus whined over the laughter.

"Relax, Sy..." Jaden said, trying to calm him down. "You totally got this one!"

"And you did." Crowler said, quieting everyone down in shock. Including Jaden. Syrus actually got a question right?

"You are correct, one way to remove a field spell is by playing another field spell. However, remember this, there are some field spell that shouldn't be destroyed." Crowler opened his deck case and revealed a rather interesting card to the class. Putting it on the overhead, the image of Geartown was shown to the class, only it's effect to be covered by his hand.

"Take for example, my Geartown. Mr. Truesdale, would this benefit me more if this field spell were or weren't to be destroyed?" Syrus looked at the card nervously as he looked at his friends. Unfortunately for him, the only person that was close to him was Jaden and Chumley. Both of whom we're equally confused about the question.

"I-I..."

"I'm not grading you Mr. Truesdale, I just want to know if it's good or not good for this card to be destroyed?" Syrus gulped. Well when you put it that way.

"I'm going to say no?"

Crowler nodded. "I would assume that would be your answer. Thank you Mr. Truesdale, you've been a wonderful volunteer." Syrus immediately sat down. "Now normally, field spells would be more beneficial if they stayed on the field. This is the more logical decision and I'm glad that Mr. Truesdale answered in that direction in mind. However, there are some situations in where destroying a field spell may not be the best idea." This caused the Freshman class to pay a bit more attention to Crowler as he removed his hand to reveal Geartown's effect.

"For example, my Geartown. It's effect is that while it is on the field, I can bring out a high level monsters normally with one less tribute than required for an Ancient Gear monster. So say if I had Ancient Gear Golem in my hand, instead of tributing two monster I can tribute one and it's ok." He then points at the end of the effect.

"However, it's the destruction effect that many duelists consider of letting me keep this on the field rather than gone. When it is destroyed, I can special summon one monster with Ancient Gear in it's name from my hand, deck or Graveyard. In short, Geartown is my searcher, my rule breaker and my Monster Reborn."

Putting his card away Dr. Crowler nodded to the awestruck students in his class, "Mr. Truesdale, don't be upset that you didn't pick the right answer. That is the purpose of this class, to make sure you don't make those mistakes again." Syrus gave a shaky nod as Crowler continued with his lecture.

"Wow...after taking Julia's class for a month, it looks like Crowler is like any other professors here." Syrus murmured, feeling a bit better that he was able to answer the question without looking like an idiot. "I mean, sure he's still strict, but he's not too bad."

"See where I'm coming from?" Chumley pupped in, "Once you get your act together, Crowler tends to respect you more for giving a reasonable answer then giving him a half-assed one." The Koala duelist sighed, "I mean come on Sy, last month when he asked you about what a field spell was, all you told him was that it was 'the thing that affected the thing'. What teacher wouldn't get mad at that?"

The younger Truesdale blushed, remembering how he botched his first question by giving an answer that really wasn't an answer. Jeez what was he thinking? "A thing that activated a thing?" Might as well just told Crowler the truth: he didn't know.

"Now enough about field spells, how about quick-play spell cards..."

---

In another time, in another universe. Crowler was still a douchebag and was told off by Jaden Yuki. In reaction to this, Crowler writes a fake love letter to Jaden, only for Syrus to get it and- you know what? I think I'll just say Canon and everyone will know what happened. So Canon.

Everyone gets where this is going? No? Don't worry, just watch episode 3 of Yu-Gi-Oh GX and you'll understand. In any case, that's what happened in one of the world. In this world however it goes off slightly different from usual.

In this world...let's just say the Jaden pissed off one particular Obelisk Blue during Sartyr's class. This Obelisk Blue doesn't really liked to be pissed off. This Obelisk Blue doesn't discriminate when she attacks. This one however is talking like a hanar, and this one believes it should stop right now before the Mass Effect community latches onto my story like a life line for more Mass Effect references.

Anyways, the Obelisk is Jenny.

What made Jenny a not so happy Jenny? Well...

oO0 Jesus POWA! 0O0
oO0 FLASHBACK TO POINT OF INTEREST MOFOS! 0O0

Dear Mom and Dad,

We've been at Duel Academy for six weeks now and I've learned a lot. I've grown to like my dorm but I can't stand the ranking system. Bastion, the duelist whose probably more smarter than half of the Obelisks here, was put into the Ra dorm. There's nothing wrong with it, just that there's this really annoying kid back in the Academy who keeps referring to him as Number 2. How arrogant can a guy get?

She looked up for a moment and sighed. Despite the homeliness of her dorm room, she couldn't help being a little homesick. Jenny wanted to see if everyone back home was alright, including her older bro... Sasha then walked in, wearing a blue bathrobe and was holding a towel.

"Hey Jenny. Want to head down to the swimming pool?" the free-spirited duelist asked. Jenny took a moment to ponder on the question, before smiling. "Race you to the pool!" she replied, hoping off her bed before rushing out of the room.

The girl, as well as the puppy on her head, blinked at the rather quick Obelisk that fled the room, before she quickly returned. Scratching her head, she went to her drawer and pulled out her bathing suit.

"Can't swim without these." Sasha laughed as the sunset-haired duelist rushed back outside.

oO0 Hold on now hommies, we ain't done with this Flashback 0Oo

Jaden ran into the locker room, panting as tried to catch his breath. First he got on a bad start with Ms. Chung (thankfully Chumley backed him up), and now he was late for gym, seeing as the locker room was empty…save for one person looking through their locker. "Looks like I'm not late then!" He cried exuberantly as he rushed through the hall-

Jaden blinked as he saw sunset-colored braids. The person, in response, glanced over at Jaden, and froze.

"Um..." Jaden began, "I don't think I know you. Have we met before? I mean, I should probably know a dude from somewhere-"

Jenny Rose McBride, a very headstrong and confident girl with a bit of a temper but with a big heart, screamed.

"Jen!" Sasha rushed in, her bathing suit soaked and wet. "What's wrong! I heard you scream."

It took Jaden that very second, seeing Sasha in her one piece swimsuit, to realize that this was not the boy's locker room.

"Jaden," Sasha slowly began. "What are you doing in the girls' gym…more importantly, why are you in the girls' locker room?" Jaden's expression changed. Nervousness began to kick into overdrive as he slowly stepped away from the locker hall.

"I-I'm sorry, I-It was a mistake!" He squeaked before rushing out of the lockers.

---

Which we now land here. Within the Girl's Obelisk Blue Dormitory, Jenny was writing furiously on a paper, gritting her teeth at the events that happened earlier that day. "How dare that asshole humiliate me like that!" She grunted to herself, "Not only did he saw me changing, but he thought I was a guy!" Slamming her pen down she placed the paper underneath the lamp.

"A mistake huh?" Jenny darkly muttered as she pulled the now dried work in front of her as she folded the paper neatly. "It'll be the last mistake he'll ever make." Jenny grinned as she looked at the envelope; its topmost flap now sporting the makeshift seal that kept it closed…a pink heart.

Let this be a lesson for you bros and hoes. If you ever call a chick a dude, about 83% of those chicks will be pissed as fuck. Some percentage of that 83 are bat-shit crazy, like me. So lesson 101 in talking with girls, don't ever say to a girl how she looks more masculine than feminine.

It's common sense bros. Something that Jaden Yuki lacked in this season.

---

Later that night, Bastion was heading back to his dorm, getting some cooking ingredients for Professor Sartyr and a few books to study on some integrals and how it would help him find which effect monsters would be more suitable in his deck. He was making his jolly way back when...

"Syrus?" He noticed Syrus running off somewhere, with a big, happy grin on his face. "What in the world is he doing...?" Bastion, though more sensible and smarter than the average teenager, was somewhat curious to see what made the Osiris Red rather happy. So, by scientific curiosity, Bastion decided to follow him and observe this strange phenomenon.

But as soon as he caught up, the Ra instantly regretted it. Syrus was already in a rowboat heading off to the girls' dorm. "That...can't be good." he muttered. Girl's dorm is strictly forbidden for the opposite sex to simply wander into. They not only need the headmistress' permission to go there, but also the permission of the headmaster to even go. Seeing as how Syrus wouldn't be the person to do something like that-

"Veroooooooo~nika! I'm cooooo~ming for you, my darling!" Syrus sang while he was fully unaware of Bastion watching him afar, listening to what he had just said.

"...that's definitely not good at all." Veronika has been wanding in and out of the Ra dormitory, and from weeks of observation, there is absolutely no chance in hell that she would have written this kid a love letter. Bastion mentally pictured what would happen if Syrus arrived at the dorm...

Eeek! There's a pervert in the dorm!

W-Wait I was given a letter by you, Veronika-

PLEASE! GET AWAY FROM ME!

He shuddered immediately. Yeah this was definitely not good at all. Rowboat halfway, Bastion paced around. What the hell should he do? Should he chase after the Osiris and be punished himself. I mean, he could just walk away and forget about this whole incident ever happening-

"Shame on you!" From his right, little angel Bastion popped into existence; glaring at the bigger Bastion. "You row right over there right now, and rescue Syrus this instant!"

"I-I don't know." The British teen murmured. "I mean, what if I get caught?"

"Bah, don't listen to that annoying little tweety." on his left shoulder, little devil Bastion popped on. Chilling on the teen's shoulder with a cigar and tea. "Listen here ol' chap, just leave the bloody fucking Yankee and go back to the Ra's dorm. Watch the game, have some of Sartyr's Shepard pie. Today is Shepard Pie Wednesday, with lemon tea!"

...well lemon tea does sound pleasing after a hard day of work-

BANG!

"GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!" Bastion screamed, witnessing the angel side of him cap the devil with a glock. "Oh my god, I thought your suppose to be my light side! How can you just-"

"SHUT UP!" Bastion was now deathly afraid as his angel side pointed his glock at his temple. "Now get your limey ass over to Syrus!"

"L-Look here now, we can resolve this peacefully and-"

"MOVE!"

Bastion wasted no time back up to the boat, with his hands up in the air as the angel followed behind, gun still aimed at his temple. "A-Alright, just take it easy now." He appeased the angel as he got into the boat. "Oh bloody hell, this can't get any worse."

"Hey you!" A voice called from behind him. It was one of Chazz's friends, Torimaki. That and the god awful stench fouled the air. "What're you doing over here in Obelisk territory, Ra reject!?"

Bastion was about to answer, only to see his angel pop next to Torimaki. "I-well um..." His eyes widened when angel-Bastion pulled out his glock and aimed at the Obelisk. "I-I was about to observe the water. M-More specifically, the rippling effect of how the row would-"

Bastion really did wanted to explain the situation more calmly, but how could he when he sees his angel pointing a gun at a student?

"Speak up!"

"W-Well, ripples somewhat relates to the cause and effect of Duel Monsters! I-I'm trying to see if m-my hypothesis..."

Angel-Bastion clocks the gun.

"Oh dear god, please don't kill him." Torimaki glared at the Bastion, luckily for the Ra the Obelisk misinterpreted the last word as "him" with "me".

"Tch." He spat, "You're not worth the effort." with that, the stinky Obelisk marched away from the Ra. Leaving a rather relief Bastion and an ill-tempered angel-Bastion.

"Yeah you better walk away, you piece of shi-"

"In any case! Lets go save Syrus!"

---

While Bastion was getting to Syrus, the Freshman Osiris made it to the girl's campus where he was thought he was going to meet Veronika at. Little did her know, Jenny was hiding in the bushes in that designated spot, cannon camera in hand.

'This will be perfect, thanks to that faux love letter I wrote!' Jenny thought, going over the plan in her mind. 'I'll just wait here for Jaden to come around while he searches for Veronika. And when the time's right, I'll snap a picture of him, creating evidence that will get him expelled!' But he quickly saw his plan go down the toilet when he saw a different Osiris enter the girls' campus.

"Veronika!" Syrus called out. Jenny eyes bugged out seeing him here.

"What the heck is Syrus doing here!" Jenny screamed. Her yelling ended up attracting some trouble, if you were a male that is...

"What's a boy doing here!?" A girl called cried out, alerting the other girls. Jenny, realizing that there's an advantage on her side of the court quickly joined in with the masses.

The guy didn't have a chance as a crowd of angry girls in their pajamas surrounded him, tied him up and brought him into the dorm for questioning. Well, as much as she hates to admit it, she's going to do Jaden a favor and get rid of this kid; Syrus is seriously way too dependent for one's own good.

---

"A love letter from Veronika?" Sasha skeptically asked after hearing Syrus's explanation. She also brought the girl in question to confirm it. "I don't know, there's a lot of thing that I can believe but this sure ain't one of them."

"Just ask her, it's true!" Syrus replied, winking at Veronika. The said girl quickly looked away from his direction.

"Syrus," Kia quietly interjected, "If Veronika really did write this letter, then she wouldn't have asked you to come here."

"W-Why not?" Jenny groaned. As much as she hates to admit it, there are some stereotypes on the Osiris dorm that holds true. "It's in the memo that was handed to us on the first day."

"M-Memo?"

...seriously.

"You mean to tell me," Mindy - the raven-haired girl with brown eyes - felt a heavy migraine creeping in. "You haven't read the memo?"

"Oh boy..." Jasmine, a rufous-haired girl with dark grey eyes, muttered. "Ok here's the 411 kid, in order to come here you need both the headmistress and the headmaster's permission of the said dorm to come in. Ra and Osiris might be lenient towards that policy, but Obelisks aren't."

"We're the head honcho of the whole system. Of course the policy would be more enforced in our dorm rather than anyone else here." Alexis interjected as Sasha walked over to the captured Osiris.

"In any case, the issue stands that you came to the Obelisk Girl's dorm without permission. That enough can get you kicked off the island-"

"But I didn't come here without reason!" Syrus protested, pulling out the letter. "See! Read this, and everything would make sense!" Alexis took the note as she and the other girls looked over it. She then handed it over to Veronika who looked over the content before staring at Syrus. Sympathetically.

"Syrus, this isn't my hand writing." She finally stated.

"So you don't love me?" He asked. The girls, with the exception of the kind-hearted Veronika, groaned at his persistence.

"Hey, hold on!" Jasmine interrupted, looking over the front of the envelope. "This note's addressed to Jaden Yuki!" And for emphasis, she pointed it out to the little guy, disappointing him.

"Aw, I can't even get a fake love letter?" The young Osiris complained.

"...that's actually pretty sad-"

"WHERE THE HELL DID YOU COME FROM!?" Everyone screamed as Haleigh literally popped into the conversation out of nowhere. The blond lolita looked at the Osiris and back at everyone else.

"Are you guys really going to kick out someone as pathetic as him?" Syrus dropped his head, as an invisible arrow struck him in the chest. The arrow was labeled: "Pathetic"

"I mean, he's not worth all that trouble. I mean, he's probably a useless hostage at this point."

"Worthless" and "Hostage" was stabbed in as well.

"Well," Kia quietly infiltrated. "What should we do with Syrus then?"

Suddenly, Jenny's devious mind quickly clogged in.

---

Angel-Bastion felt a vein popping out from his head as he witnessed this...ugh, he couldn't even say it. It was technically his fault, but still. For a rowboat to not have a oar. That was not good at all. At this rate, they'll never rescue Syrus-

"Um...Bastion?" The holy lord had heard his plea? Both Bastion and Angel-Bastion turned to the newcomer, and blinked when they saw Jaden Yuki on a boat. With oars.

"What are you doing?" The Ra looked at his own boat, and his wet arms.

"I saw Syrus going to the Obelisk Girl dorm, so I planned to follow him; however..."

"Where are your oars?" Jaden asked as Bastion slumped. Ah, looks like that was the problem. "Well hop on, I just got a message from the girl's dorm that they got Syrus." With a nod, the Ra hopped onto the boat and helped Jaden row to the other side of the lake.

Over at the girls' side, the girls was waiting, now with all of them in their uniform attire, and a tied up Syrus for Jaden's arrival.

"Here he comes!" Mindy called, seeing a boat slowly row closer to them. Sasha noticed however that Jaden wasn't alone. To Jenny's shock and worry Jaden pull up to shore and walked up to the girls...with Bastion behind.

"Hi, Jaden..." Syrus greeted, glumly.

"Hey, so what's going on here?" Jaden asked. "I ran into Bastion saying that you wandered over here."

"Well, to make the long story short, I'm a complete loser." Syrus replied. Jenny bit her lips, this was definitely not part of the plan-

"Your friend here, trespassed into the girls' campus." Jasmine said. The sunset haired duelist quickly turned her attention to the girl that said that. Shit, they think that Bastion is part of the-

"I told you," Syrus interjected. "It wasn't like that!"

"Now that you're here, you're both trespassing, too!" Mindy added, ignoring Syrus's comment.

"That's right, so if you wanna win your freedom, you'll have to beat Jenny here in a duel!"

...oh damn it.

"We'll be expelled, if you turn us in!" Syrus cried.

...Oh double damn it.

"It's not gonna happen, Syrus." Jaden assured him. "You got a deal, Jenny! Let's throwdown!"

...Oh triple damn it.

---

Let it be known that Jenny has no problem kicking Jaden out of this school. Bastion on the other hand...he didn't do anything in the first place. He probably wanted to stop Syrus or something...

"Get your game on, Alexis." Jaden challenged.

...and suddenly her sympathetic side was just kicked out of the house.

"Jaden." She snapped her deck into her duel disk. "I hope you're ready for a beat-down, cause it's game time."

Jaden: 8000
Jenny: 8000

"I'll let you go first," Jenny waved over as Jaden drew. "I summon Elemental Hero, Wildheart in attack mode!" from the depth of the lake, a dark-skinned, muscled man in a loincloth flew out of the river. With a giant sword on his back, a chorus of singers sounded off with a loud, melodious "WILDHEART!".

Elemental HERO Wildheart
Attack: 1500
Defense: 1600

"Next I'll equip my monster with Cyclone Boomerang! To increase my Wildheart's attack by 500!" A large twister appeared from the woods as it weaved its way to the new hero. As it approached, it slowly disappeared to reveal a huge boomerang spinning around and around before Wildheart reached up and grabbed it.

Elemental HERO Wildheart
Attack: 1500 +500 = 2000
Defense: 1600

"I'll set one card facedown and end my turn...!" Jenny looked at the weapon on Wildheart and frowned. She can't attack him. If she did... the Obelisk duelist drew. So what if she'll take a few chip damage from the attack, at least she'll get rid of that set card. "I summon Jain, Lightsworn Paladin in attack mode!"

In a flare of radiance, an androgynous female paladin appeared. She was clad in white armor with a cape that was white on the outside, red on the inside and carried a shield and a glowing white sword.

Jain, Lightsworn Paladin
Attack: 1800
Defense: 1200

"Lightsworn?" Jaden wondered as Jenny smirked. "Yes, and it spells bad news for you! Attack Elemental Hero Wildheart! Blade of Light!"

Jain charged in with her sword at her side...

"Okay, what's the special ability?" Jaden wondered, seeing a weaker monster come after him. Jenny smirked. "When Jain attacks, she gains 300 ATK during Damage Step, too bad you set the whole thing up for her already."

Jain, Lightsworn Paladin
Attack: 1800 + 300 = 2100
Defense: 1200

Jain gave away no emotion unlike her summoner as her blade began to illuminate brightly. She then drove the blade into Wildheart before, painlessly, driving it out of the warrior. The Hero fell to the ground as the Lightsworn flicked the blood off of her blade.

Jaden: 8000 - (2100 - 2000) = 7900
Jenny: 8000

"Not so fast! I activate Cyclone Boomerang special ability! You see, when this card and Wildheart are sent to the Graveyard, all Spell and Trap cards on the field are destroyed and for each one destroyed, you get dealt 500 points of damage!" The two facedown cards on Jaden's field instantly shattered as the remnant of those shards began to rain down onto Jenny.

Jaden: 7900
Jenny: 8000 - 500 = 7500

"Not bad," Jenny muttered as she sets down one card facedown. "Hopefully, you have something better to back you up though, I'll end my turn with one card facedown." Jenny then points over to Jain. "Now, the other effect of Jain activates making me drop the top two cards of deck to the graveyard..."

"A self-milling deck?"

"I say it's appropriate for me to do..." The Lightsworn duelist said as she dropped the top two cards of her deck. "After all, this deck is more powerful the more I mill my deck." She smirked as a monster card slipped out of her graveyard. "Like this! I activate Wulf, Lightsworn Beast's effect! When it's sent to the graveyard from the deck, he's instantly summoned to the field!"

From behind, A white warrior appeared with the head of a wolf. With a howl, the hybrid soared before stabbing his staff into the ground, next to Jains. Speaking of Jain, her's as well as the warrior wore armor similar to one another.

Wulf, Lightsworn Beast
Attack: 2100
Defense: 300

"Two monsters with 2100 attack points!" Syrus cried as Bastion observed the match

"That's not all," The Ra duelist interjected, "With her Lightsworn monster's ability, she can continue to mill deck like these in order to special summon monsters like Wulf whenever they're sent to the grave."

"Not sure if I can do something about that..." Jaden murmured as he drew. "But I sure know how to get rid of them! I activate the field spell card Skyscraper!"

Underneath the lake, buildings of every sides burst out underneath. In the center, behind Jaden, a skyscraper stood formidably. "Now with this card on the field I can start with my counter attack! First I activate the spell card The Warrior Returning Alive! This card allows me to bring Wildheart from my grave back to my hand!"

Pulling the card out he then exposed three cards to Jenny, "Now I'll use Polymerization! To fuse my Elemental Hero Wildheart and Necroshade in order to bring out a new hero!"

Jenny watched in disgust as a new monster appeared in front of her. Most of the girls can't blame the Lightsworn duelist. It had blood-red flesh, huge shoulders, and bone armor covering a little bit of its body. The fiend did something that even revolted the ever stoic Haleigh as it's body opened up and absorbed Wildheart inside.

"That...was nasty." Kia summarized as Necroshade began to molt.

"Come on, everybody hands up! It's the hero's come back you've been waiting for! Throw up your hands and count down! " The figure slowly formed, as Jaden finished his summoning monologue.

"Fusion Summon: Dance in the Night in 3,2,1 Elemental Hero - Necroid Shaman!"

Ever watched one of those Kabuki shows? Ever heard of one of those Kabuki shows? Imagine a Kabuki like actor on the field right now. Got that in your mind? Now lets fix up his appearance. The mask was more likely painted onto his face rather than be it a real mask. His red hair might be a wig, but let's just say that it's pretty damn red for someone who has red hair. Now no top. He has no shirt, just pure muscles and tattoos. Tattered pants, and bronze gauntlet with greaves. This kabuki was rather a savage looking kabuki.

That, my friend, is Necroid Shaman.

Elemental HERO - Necroid Shaman
Attack: 1900
Defense: 1800

...too bad his attack points are rather shitty compared to the other E-Heroes. I mean damn, he looks so badass yet his attack power is just ridiculously normal compared to someone like Wingman or something along the lines.

"Now hold on, I'm not done here just yet! I activate Necroshade's effect from the grave! While he's in the grave, I can summon a level 5 or higher monster from my hand without tributing any monsters on my side of the field! So come on out! Elemental Hero Bladedge!" From the moon itself, a golden armored being flew down at mach speed. Using it's large gold blades protruding out of its arms and legs as wings, he glided down to the field.

Elemental HERO - Bladedge
Attack: 2600
Defense: 2300

"So what," Jenny shrugged. "You summoned two monsters in one turn. One of which could destroy one of mine, big deal, don't see what you're so darn happy about."

"Well since you asked, I activate Elemental HERO - Necroid Shaman's effect!" The shaman hero was already hoping around over the place like a kabuki dancer, expertly maneuvering around his shakujo. "See while Necroid is on the field, I can send one monster on your side of the field to the grave! So I'll be sending your Wulf back to the grave!"

Jenny gasped as Necroid teleported in front of Wulf. Like a mortal kombat fatality, Necroid grabs Wulf by the head, then with a level of brutality that would make one lose their dinner, rips it right off of his head. Body disintegrating, Necroid holds the wolf-head in the air with a native-american like battle cry.

"Wait, that's not all! Once that's finished, I can bring one monster from your grave back to your field! And I chose Wulf, but he'll be set in defense mode!" Outstretching his hand out, a body began to form underneath Wulf's head.

This time, Syrus did throw up. Veronika excused herself from the scene.

"Joshua, seriously?" Haleigh muttered, glaring at Josh's computer screen from inside the monitor.

"Now Skyscraper's effect kicks in! When an Elemental HERO battles a monster with attack points higher than it's own, it's attack power increases by 1000!"

Necroid backflipped back to his shakujo, and with an Apache battle cry, an ectoplasmic like energy began to armor the shaman monster.

Elemental HERO - Necroid Shaman
Attack: 1900 + 1000 = 2900
Defense: 1800

"Now let's not forget about Bladedge now!" Jaden points over at the gold armored Hero. "I know what you're thinking, 'He looks pretty sharp!' and you're right! He's so sharp, when he attacks a monster in defense mode, the difference between his attack points and the monsters defense points act as points dealt to you as damage! Bladedge, show Jenny how you got your name, Slice and Dice attack!"

Bladedge blurred in a gold mass as he rushed at Wulf-

"I activate my trap card, Lightsworn Barrier!" Jenny's trap activated as a crystallized shield blocked Bladedge's attack; however it did pierce through and almost nicked Wulf's cheek. "When a Lightsworn monster's attack, I can drop two more cards to negate the attack!" The Lightsworn duelist dropped two more cards from her deck as Bladedge retreated.

"I can still go after Jain! Necroid Shaman, go get her!" With that ever badass apache battle cry, the hero created two ectoplasmic tomahawk and threw the two at the paladin.

"Lightsworn Barrier, activate again!" Jenny dropped another two cards as the tomahawk was deflected by the crystal shield. "And look what went to the graveyard this time, Lightsworn Sabre! It instantly equips onto a Lightsworn monster of my choosing granting it 700 ATK! And Jain needs some added muscle, don't you think?"

Jain's sword transformed into a sleek rapier which she proudly wielded.

Jain, Lightsworn Paladin
Attack: 2100 + 700 = 2800
Defense: 1200

Jaden groaned. Great, he was hoping he would have been able to put Jenny down a little on this turn, looks like it didn't work out as well as he thought it would have. Not only that, but he has no cards in his hands to protect his two monsters. "I'll end my turn right there."

"I draw!" Jenny drew. "It just gets worse for you, I summon Ehren, Lightsworn Monk!"

A black woman wearing the same plate armor appeared, but with a red battle dress and white boots. She also wielded a white staff which she spun around with precision before taking a battle stance.

Ehren, Lightsworn Monk
Attack: 1600
Defense: 1000

"Next I activate the spell card, Mystical Space Typhoon! This allows me to destroy Skyscraper!" The city that once stood proudly behind Jaden quickly was blown to debris as massive winds tore down the building; brick by brick.

"Now let's get some of these guys out of here! Jain, attack Bladedge!" the Paladin made quick work of the Hero as she sprinted to the armored hero. Even with him heavily coated with gold, it stood no chance at Jain as she stabbed the rapier through the armor like cake. The Hero groaned before falling back into the lake.

Jaden: 7900 - (2800 - 2600) = 7700
Jenny: 7500

"Next I'll attack your Shaman with Wulf!" Wulf, not forgetting what the Shaman did to him, returned the favor. Decapitating the Hero with one swipe of his claws.

Jaden: 7700 - (2100 - 1900) = 7500
Jenny: 7500

"Jenny and Jaden are tied now!"

"Not for long," Bastion corrected the Osiris as he watched Ehren kick up her staff.

"Now attack, Righteous Blitz!" With no monsters protecting the E-Hero Duelist, Ehren charged in and struck Jenny's opponent in the guts.

Jaden: 7500 - 1600 = 5900
Jenny: 7500

"Looks like you lucked out for now." The Lightsworn duelist says. "I'll end my turn, with Jain's effect forcing me to take two cards from my deck and Ehren to drop three, for a total of five."

"Oh man! Jaden is really lagging behind!" Syrus cried, "If he loses this match, then we'll all be expelled!"

Bastion now realizing the situation was much more dire then it was, was starting to sweat a bit. Jaden noticed how the two were somewhat worried and grinned. "Don't worry, I got this under control!"

"But Jaden, you have no monsters and..."

"Trust me Sy!" He gave the smaller Osiris a nod before looking at his deck. "My turn!" Drawing, he smiled. "When I have no other cards in my hand and this is the only guy in my hand, I can special summon him onto the field! I summon Bubbleman in attack mode!" slapping the card onto his duel disk, a cape-wearing Hero dove out of the lake, whom immediately aimed his water hose at the three Lightsworn monsters.

Elemental HERO - Bubbleman
Attack: 800
Defense: 1200

"And, since he's the only monster on my field, I'll use his special ability and draw two more cards from my deck!" He drew his cards and grinned. "Alright now I'll activate the spell card Fusion Recovery, to bring Polymerization and Blade Edge back from my grave into my hand!" Getting the two cards, Jaden looked at his pile before grinning. "I'll set one card facedown, and end my turn with that."

"Jaden! Please tell me you have a plan!" Jenny shook her head. Jeez, Syrus needs to have more faith in his friends.

"Don't worry Sy, I got this!"

"Then it's my draw!" Jenny drew. "I set one monster in defense mode and attack your Bubbleman with -"

"I don't think so! I activate my quick-play spell card, Bubble shuffle!"

A spell was shown with bubbles dancing around. Jenny's eyes widened.

"Oh no!"

"Oh yeah! For those who don't know what it does, then here's how it goes. I put my monster and your monster both in defense mode, then I get to sacrifice Bubbleman to bring out another monster!" Jaden explained. "So I'll put Jain in defense mode while sacrificing Bubbleman in order to bring out a familiar hero!"

Back in a golden flash, Bladedge stood next to Jaden as Ehren made a screeching halt. Jenny glared at the Osiris before setting a card facedown onto the field.

"My turn!" Jaden drew and grinned. "Awesome! I play the magic card Monster Reborn, to bring back Elemental HERO Wildheart in attack mode!" With a gust of wind, Wildheart appeared side by side with Bladedge. With a nod, the two stood ready for the next phase.

"Finally I activate Polymerization! To fuse Elemental HERO - Bladedge and Wildheart into a new warrior!" The two were already on it, as they leaped into the vortex above.

"Hack and slash, this hero will do. Slice and dice, he'll do it flawlessly. Cut down the evil that obscures the hero way!"

With a flash of lightning, a figure dropped down from the vortex. To be specific, it was a hero that looked like Bladedge who took off most of his armor, leaving the helmet, right leg armor and the left arm blade. He also carried a larger version of Wildheart's sword.

"Fusion summon! Bring it, Elemental HERO - Wild Edge"

Elemental HERO - Wild Edge
Attack: 2600
Defense: 2300

"B-But Jay! It's not enough to take out Jain!" Jaden smiled as he revealed his last card. "Not for long! I equip Wild Edge with Big Bang Shot! Not only giving Wild Edge the ability to peace but it increases his attack power by 400!"

Elemental HERO - Wild Edge
Attack: 2600 + 400 = 3000
Defense: 2300

"Now I'll activate Wild Edge's effect! Once per turn, he can attack all monsters on your side of the field!" Wild Edge went for his sword, the aura of Big Bang Shot flowing down from him like a waterfall. "Now let's clean up Wild Edge! Attack Jain!" The poor paladin didn't have a chance, as the massive sword cut through the rapier, armor and all.

Jaden: 5900
Jenny: 7500 - (3000 - 2800) = 7300

"Next up, Wulf!" The beast's staff was cut in half, as the warrior tried to block an overhead attack, only to be split into halves.

Jaden: 5900
Jenny: 7300 - (3000 - 2100) = 6400

"Ehren is up next!" The darker skinned monk luck was worse as she tried to flee, only to be caught by the foot. Throwing the monk into the air, Wild Edge grabbed her own staff and placed it into the ground. The scene was bored into everyone's mind as Ehren was impaled by her own staff, dying gruesomely.

Jaden: 5900
Jenny: 6400 - (3000 - 1600) = 5000

"J-Jaden?" Syrus called out hesitantly, "Y-You ok?"

"Ok?" Jaden looked at his friends, rather befuddled at the question asked. "Of course I'm ok, why wouldn't I be?" recalling Ehren's death, Bastion had to worry about Jaden as well. Everything that Wild Edge did...it wasn't normal.

For Jaden to actually take this all in so... apathetically...

"Anyways, let's take care of that facedown monster!" Jaden cheerfully called out as Wild Edge calmly walked over to the facedown. Pulling out his bloodied cleaver, he stabbed the facedown. Blood spurted from the card as a pitiful whine echoed.

"I activate my Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter effect!" Suddenly the blood solidified into spikes, some of which impaled into Wild Edge as a spirit of a small white wolf cub growled, before both vanished off the field.

Jaden: 5900
Jenny: 5000 - (3000 - 100) = 2100

"When he's flipped, he can destroy one face-up card on the field; at the cost of milling three more cards to the grave!" Jenny sent three cards away to the grave. "Next I'll activate my facedown, Call of the Haunted- oh god." Jenny, or anyone else for the matter, had to watch what they needed to watch. Ehren was literally pulling herself off her own weapon as she pulled her self off the bloodied pole with a audible "squish".

"S-Seriously," Mindy whispered, "What is up with this duel?"

"Is it just me," Jasmine whispered as well, "Or is this more explicit than usual?"

Alexis and the others really did want to find the answer to that question, but seeing as though their morning breakfast was trying to find a way to get up out of their body, they wisely closed their mouth and took in deep breaths. It's almost over. Don't worry about it. The hologram will shut off and everyone will go along their merry way and forget about this.

"Right," Jaden began slowly, still not seeing what the issue was as he set one card facedown. Jenny drew and sighed in relief. Finally it's going to be all over.

"I'll activate Monster Reborn! In order to bring out Bladedge from your grave!" Bladedge emerged underneath the lake below as he crossed his arms over, waiting patiently for his next order. "Next I'll sacrifice Ehren in order to summon Gragonith, Lightsworn Dragon!"

Celestia dissolved into light that reformed into an immense noble white dragon, with a mane of golden hair, white angelic wings and clad in silver and gold armor. A single glowing horn crowned its head, shining with energy.

Gragonith, Lightsworn Dragon
Attack: 2000
Defense: 1600

"Now I know something's up if there's a cool looking monster on the field." Jaden said bracing himself for the news of the dragon.

"Here's what's up: Gragonith gains 300 ATK/DEF for every Lightsworn monster with a different name in the graveyard!" Jenny explained. "As you know about the 4 Lightsworns before him that you've seen during the duel, I have more for you to see, 4 more!"

Images of Jain, Wulf, Ehren, and Ryko appeared behind the dragon. Then there was a beautiful blue-haired angel, a small white cat with long thunderbolt tassels on its ears, a black haired warrior with a large battleaxe and a blonde woman in a white dress carrying a scepter.

"The three others are as follows: Celestia, Lightsworn Angel; Rinyan, Lightsworn Rogue; Garoth, Lightsworn Warrior; and Shire, Lightsworn Spirit." Jenny finished. "With 8 monsters in the grave, my dragon gains 2400 attack and defense points!"

Gragonith, Lightsworn Dragon
Attack: 2000 + 2400 = 4400
Defense: 1600 + 2400 = 4000

"Now attack Gragonith, Nova Purge!" Gragonith unleash the light from its maw as it struck Jaden with a blast of powerful light full force.

Jaden: 5900 - 4400 = 1500
Jenny: 2100

"Now Bladedge use-"

"JADEN YOU'RE FACEDOWN!" Bastion cried out. There was not a chance in hell he was going to get kicked off of this island! Not a damn way in hell!

Not noticing the look of betrayal on Jenny's face, Bastion watched as Jaden blinked and laughed.

"Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that card! I activate the quick-play spell card, Flute of the Summoning Kuriboh" With a tiny melody echoing outside, a tiny fur ball of a creature with even tinier wings showed up. Bladedge cut the fur-ball into sashimi, but something kept the HERO from continuing his attack towards Jaden.

"It's Winged Kuriboh's effect; when he gets destroyed in battle, I suffer no more battle damage for the rest of the turn." Jenny cursed before setting two cards facedown.

"I'll end my turn right with Gragornith milling ability; sending the top three cards from my deck to the grave." Suddenly Gragonith's attack power grew once more. Looks like Jenny discarded another Lightsworn monster to the grave.

Gragonith, Lightsworn Dragon
Attack: 4400 + 300 = 4700
Defense: 4000 + 300 = 4300

Jaden nodded as he drew. "First I'll activate card of Sanctity, this allows us to draw until we have six cards in our hand." The two did so as Jaden looked over his hands and grinned. "Now lemme start by activating Graceful Charity! While I have to discard two cards to the grave, I get to draw three."

Six cards in his hands once more, Jaden smiled. Now everything was in play. "First I'll activate O - Oversoul! This card allows me to bring one normal Elemental HERO monster from the grave to the field! I choose Elemental HERO Sparkman!" Jaden played another monster card, and what appeared was another strange looking human appeared on the field, this one dressed in yellow and blue garb with a curved blue helmet.

Elemental HERO - Sparkman
Attack: 1600
Defense: 1200

"Then I activate H - Heated Heart! This card allows me to boost Sparkman's attack power by 500!" Flame consumed the Electrical hero, however to some of the audience's surprise, Sparkman was actually embracing the flames.

Elemental HERO - Sparkman
Attack: 1600 + 500 = 2100
Defense: 1200

"Next, I activate E - Emergency Call, to bring one Elemental HERO from my deck to my hand, and I choose Burstinatix. Which I'll summon onto the field!" From a column of red flames a gray-skinned woman in a rather revealing red body-suit appeared and landed on the field.

Burstinatrix
Attack: 1200
Defense: 800

"Is there any reason for you to do all this?" Jenny asked, somewhat bored with this match. All Jaden is doing is stalling for some time. There's no way he could destroy her 4700 Gragonith.

"Yup! Just lemme finish the alphabet here by playing R - Righteous Justice! Check this out! This card allows me to destroy Spell or Trap Cards equal to the number of"Elemental HERO" cards I have on the field." Jenny gasped as her two set cards vanished. She soon shook it out and got back to the game.

"You still haven't done anything to my dragon. So what if you managed to get rid of my set cards? I'll just wait for my next turn to kick you guys all off this island!"

"I don't think so! Because I activate HERO Flash!" That made her blink. "HERO what?"

"HERO Flash!" Jaden grinned as four spell cards popped out of the grave. "By removing "H - Heated Heart", "E - Emergency Call", "R - Righteous Justice" and "O - Oversoul" from my Graveyard, I can special summon 1 "Elemental HERO" from my Deck. So come on out Avian!"

As he placed the card vertically on the field, a green bird man appeared next to Burstinatrix and Sparkman. Jenny looked at the last card in his hand. "So what, you going to fuse them together to make some sort of new fusion Elemental HERO?"

Jaden laughed. "Nah, don't need to~" He said as he points at his three HEROs'. "See, when HERO Flash was played successfully, all "Elemental HERO" I have on the field can attack directly."

"What?!" Jenny exclaimed as Avian, Burstinatrix, and Sparkman were preparing to finish this battle once and for all.

"So guys." Jenny gasped as Jaden gave her a smile. "Let's give her some love!" Avian launched himself in the sky and he shot barrage of feathers from the air. Burstinatrix got up close to the Obelisk before blasting a fireball face-up. Sparkman was the most flashier of the two as he back flipped multiple of time before shooting jet of lightning at the defenseless Jenny.

Jaden: 1500
Jenny: 2100 - (1000 + 1200 + 2100) = 0

Alexis, Mindy and Jasmine were stunned, but their level of stupefy was not even close to what Haleigh, Kia and Sasha were feeling. "J-Jenny lost?" Sasha whispered as Kia was pinching herself to make sure that she wasn't seeing things. In the end, the girls weren't too sure if what just happened had happened.

Syrus cheered, Bastion took a deep breath - relieved that the two were safe - while Jaden just pointed two fingers at Alexis. "That's game!"

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"Well, you know the rules I win so we get off free." Jaden said.

"All right, all right, we'll keep quiet about this." Jenny was unusually silent as Alexis replied to the three. "If you ask me, we should turn all of them in anyway," Jasmine, who looked liked she was ready snitch, said. Sasha shook her head. "You know the rules Jasmine. A promise is a promise."

"Just go on and get out of here."

"Of course," Bastion murmured as he grabbed the rows. Then he paused, "You know… you're an amazing duelist Jenny." That caught her attention as the sunset haired duelist looked at the Ra with wide eyes.

"You… think so?" Jenny asked surprised at the compliment.

"That's right and if there's one thing I like more than anything else, it's the opportunity to challenge myself to a strong duelist." Jenny blushed as Bastion waved the two Osiris over to the boat.

"Well, see you around." And with that, Bastion rowed away from the dorm with Syrus and Jaden in tow.

"Well..." Sasha muttered as everyone watched the three go further away from the dorm. "You have to admit, Jaden is a force to be reckoned with. Right?"

"...Jenny?" Sasha looked around, and realized that Jenny was no where to be seen.

---

"No..." she whispered as she threw her deck onto the desk.

"No!" Picking up one of the vases that was on a furniture, she chucked it at the wall. The sound of china shattering woke nearly everyone up.

"NO!" Finally the girl picked up the chair and threw it against the glass door.

Looking at the carnage around her, Jenny began to giggle uncontrollably. "He's here..." She whispered as her giggle exploded into laughter. "That guy! He's here! He was here the whole time!"

She laughed.

And laughed.

...and laughed.

Until her voice was gone, she continued to laugh. Ignoring the worried, and the incessant, knocks on her door she got onto her bed and giggled.

"He's here brother..." Jenny whispered. "The one with the golden eyes...he's here..."

Though the whole night, every girls in the dorm couldn't help but to shiver as Jenny's haunting giggle echoed.

"Jaden Yuki..." The memory of Jaden's eyes flashing gold for an instant constantly replayed in her mind.

"...you're finished."