Here's chapter five of my new Yu-Gi-Oh GX fanfic. So now it's a Halloween party that reveals more than most should. Pasts, fears, and maybe a bit more. When you duel this new transfer student be ready to duel against your worst fears. Egyptian Spirits v. Halloween
DISCLAIMER: ALL THE CREDIT FOR YU-GI-OH GOES TO KAZUKI TAKAHASHI AND SHONEN JUMP. I OWN ONLY SOME OF THE OCs AND THE DECKS USED BY THEM.
Duel V: Who's Afraid of the New Spook; The Scarab v. The Pumpkin
An eerie sensation began to creep over the academy as the night of Halloween drew ever so closer. Several students around campus had begun plans for the annual costume party and contests. Surprisingly enough even the Slifer red students were allowed to participate in the volunteer work without any insults. But what really made the icing on the cake was a new transfer student pending her dorm placement.
She was about as tall as Destiny if not a bit shorter, but still taller than Amun, but that ain't saying much. She had long black hair with orange highlights held up in pigtails, a long black dress, and a necklace with a design resembling a Jack O Lantern. All the students in the generic classes commented specifically on her height relative to just about everyone in the school disregarding Amun.
"She looks like what, five feet four inches?" one student said.
"So in other words she's really, really short." Another said in agreement.
After those words the new girl snapped and jumped up grabbing the two by their collars.
"I'm not short!" she said in a rage shaking the two students back and forth.
"She's got a point." Amun said from afar.
The girl tightened her grip on the two and looked right over at Amun.
"In relation to another person she could be considered about as tall as anyone else." Amun said propping his head up on his hand.
The girl dropped the two causing them to collapse in a heap. She walked over to Amun and seemed to be blushing calling Amun's attention. Amun looked up at her and kept a confused look on his eyes.
"There a problem?" Amun asked.
The girl raised her arm and placed it on his shoulder. Amun looked at his shoulder with the girl's hand on it and then back at the girl. Amun's looked stayed confused as he stood up at maybe five inches shorter than her. Amun quietly removed her hand and walked back towards the Slifer dorm.
Along the way the new student kept a watchful eye on Amun while following him all the way to the dorm. Amun stopped several times to find what he thought was someone following to find no one there. He paused momentarily and shrugged his shoulders arriving at the door. After entering Destiny, Jason, and Tao were seen decorating the dorm for a leg of the Halloween party's scavenger hunt.
"So how goes it?" Amun asked.
"Okay so far, but Tao's not pulling his weight." Jason said looking over at an overly depressed Tao.
"What's wrong with him?" Amun asked.
"Helps that I don't see a point in Halloween after the attack by an actual monster and having to do battle against an actual witch." Tao explained slowly stringing skulls. "Also, the whole premise for the holiday is pointless; people dressing up as something that they aren't so they can obtain unnecessary sweets and other junk."
"YOU TAKE THAT BACK!" the transfer student yelled out through the door skidding right in front of Amun and Tao.
"You must be Amun's stalker." Tao said rather frankly.
"WHAT?" she yelled out looking over at Amun.
"You weren't too subtle when you were following him on the way here to the point of border lining pathetic." Tao explained.
Destiny and Jason began chuckling to themselves as they went back to helping decorate. The transfer student saw the decorations and immediately lit up like a Christmas tree, or in this case a jack o lantern. Tao shuddered as the new girl began helping like a madwoman in decorating. After five minutes she was hardly panting after decorating most of the Slifer dorm herself.
"We didn't mean for you to it all by yourself." Destiny said bowing apologetically.
"It's no problem. By the way, I'm Locket Besquen." The girls said.
"So out of curiosity, why are you so interested in Amun anyway, I mean he's like thirteen." Destiny asked.
"Since when did I say I was interested?" Locket asked.
"Didn't have to, we're both girls so why someone like him instead of say Tao or Jason?" Destiny reiterated.
"I guess I like the feeling of somebody recognizing that in relation I'm not exactly that short." Locket said with a large smile.
"So you got a thing for short guys, huh?" Destiny asked.
"I guess you could say that, but out of curiosity what's with the kid? I mean a lot of people look at me and they think I'm this evil witch." Locket explained.
"First of all, don't say anything like that to Tao. Second, I still don't know a lot about Amun other than the fact he's studied abroad all his life in Egypt. Maybe he's used to seeing really weird things so in reality, to him, you're as normal as any other student here." Destiny explained.
"So I have to find a way to get to know him better." Locket said and started thinking. "Out of curiosity what were you guys doing exactly?"
"We were decorating for a Halloween scavenger hunt and our dorm was being used as part of the leg of the course." Destiny explained and then paused for a second and then the two smiled at each other. "You thinking-"
"-what I'm thinking?" Locket finished.
The two shook hands and went back to the dorm and finished decorating for the hunt…basically everything that was too high for Locket to reach. Amun stayed in his room with the lights turned off and stared at the ceiling. After several minutes he sat up with his eyes wide open as though he was in a nervous wreck. He quickly grabbed his deck and searched through it. After stopping at a certain card he sighed in relief and went to sleep for a quick nap.
"No one must know…" he said under his breath and then going to sleep.
After several hours Amun woke up just in time for the scavenger hunt to start. Ninomiya acted as the emcee and explained the rules.
"Each student will be paired with someone of the opposite gender. After finding a partner you will be given a list of what you must find, each list is different to keep things interesting. You must find all the items in order. There will be guides, aka students and staff who have volunteered to help with checking each list and disqualifying students should see it fit. The winners will receive a luxurious prize. The time limit is midnight, and for an added bonus each participant will stay in costume for the entire duration. Now find your partner and you will be sent out."
Many of the students went to similar people. Guys went to Reika (refer to chapter 3) wearing a generic witch costume, most of the girls went to Jason. Amun sat down in a large cloak with Hieroglyphics and sighed heavily when Locket appeared behind him in a dress with a pumpkin design on it and asked to be his partner.
"Sure, why not?" Amun agreed with a smile.
"Those two shrimps should be easy to take out." One of the students said when Locket heard them and snapped like she did earlier swinging them around and around while Amun had a sarcastic smile in the background.
Jason looked around in a suit of armor and found Destiny who was dressed like a queen who seemed to be looking for someone. Jason casually walked towards Destiny when she walked towards him but walked by him when she walked up to Tao, who wasn't in costume.
"Tao wanna be partners?" she asked with Jason fainting in the background.
"I don't see why you would want to, but fine." Tao said and then looked at Destiny's costume. "Cassiopeia, right?" he asked recognizing the costume.
"Yeah, I thought it would be nice to wear for Halloween and it looks like I was right." Destiny said.
The teachers began passing out the list while Amun smiled about the whole contest which made Locket smile as well. Tao had an indifferent look on his face while Destiny seemed excited about. Jason sighed heavily as he was forced to pair up with Reika. Ninomiya then shot a flare in the air beginning the contest sending the students out in frenzy chaos. Amun and Locket stayed in the same place as this was where their first destination.
The teacher approved them and they found the whole place empty. Amun placed his hand on the wall and motioned for Locket to give him her hand. Locket hesitantly gave him her hand and followed him while looking around to find the room completely pitch black. Locket giggled to herself making Amun look back.
"You really like Halloween, don't you?" Amun asked.
"Yeah, in Salem, Massachusetts you really learn to get into it what with the Salem Witch Trials taken place there. I guess there's always something to be afraid of but you just have to face up to it." Locket explained when she saw a solemn look on Amun's face.
"So out of curiosity how're you able to know your way around the dark."
"When I was six, I was trapped in the tomb of an ancient for three days. No one was coming for me under the pretense that I was dead so I found my own way out using the techniques that my dad taught me." Amun said. "Granted I can't get too angry about it. In those caverns were the forty cards that make my deck."
"Really? I made my deck out of cards that I made in this contest I won." Locket stated.
"For some reason I feel that no matter how you come into possession of your deck makes it all the more special to you regardless." Amun said with a smile.
The two began finding the items in each area and seemingly having a good time. Meanwhile, Tao had fainted after coming into close contact with a very realistic monster marionette with Destiny having to drag him back, and Jason and Reika completely in silence making no progress at all.
Back at the starting point all the students left conscious, so excluding Tao, the winners were declared as Locket and Amun. The two took the podium and the attendance applauded them and Ninomiya took the mic. Stroking his beard he looked at the two and gained an evil glimmer in his eye.
"For the prize, the two partners will duel each other for the prize to select the dorm in which they will be staying while the loser will stay in the red dorm."
"WHAT!" the two asked in unison.
The other students all let out sighs of relief so they wouldn't be forced into the red dorm. Amun looked over at Locket who began trembling and then lifted her arm to the sky.
"Let's duel, Amun!" she said pointing a challenging finger at Amun whose eyes dilated.
"Fine…" he said before letting his head down.
The two were led to a special dueling field made to look like a graveyard. Locket gained hearts in her eyes and ran towards the field in wild anticipation. Amun on the other hand became more and more nervous.
"Scared?" Destiny asked after setting Tao down.
"Yeah, for her…" he said solemnly and then leaving for the field.
Ninomiya started the duel and Amun had the first move.
"Alright, draw! Now I summon Egyptian Spirit Ammit (1800/100) in attack mode and play two cards face-down and end my turn. Your turn miss." He said as the alligator crossed beast took the field and roared at Locket.
"Alright, my turn! And I summon Black Cat (500/600) in attack mode as well. Next I activate the Spell card Ghost Fog to end my turn." Locket returned ending her turn as a spectral cat took the field as an eerie fog began to surround the field.
"What kind of a deck is this?" Jason asked standing next to Destiny.
"From the looks of it, a deck based around traditional symbols of Halloween" Tao said regaining consciousness. "More than likely her deck is based around the different monsters, animals, and spirits that are said to be rampant around this time of year."
Amun looked at her monster and scratched his head, "It has no ability and barely any attack points why place it in attack mode and with no face-down just that continuous spell." Amun shrugged it off and took his turn. "My turn, draw! Now I activate the Spell card, Ancient Ahnk! With this I can instantly increase the attack points of any of my Egyptian Spirit monsters by seven hundred." Amun explained as a large ahnk sent a fury of lights raising Ammit's attack points to 2500. "Now it's time to give that cat it shots, Soul Cruncher!"
Ammit jumped into the fog to attack but froze in midair. Amun, Tao, Jason, and Destiny looked with surprise while Ninomiya stroked his beard in approval.
"Whenever a monster attacks and I have Ghost Fog out, I flip a coin, and if it's heads your attack goes through, if tails your attack comes right back at you." Locket said snickering. "Now, Ghost Fog, activate!" she said flipping a coin.
The coin landed in the middle of the fog and Ammit jumped into the air as soon as it hit the grass. Amun gained a frightened face when the giant alligator flew towards him and crunched his own master dropping Amun's life points from 4000-1500.
"Looks like you lost that round." Locket said stating the obvious.
Amun slowly stood back up and looked at her with no fear at all. "I'll set to face-down cards and then I end my turn."
"You definitely are different from any other guy I've met." Locket said.
"How so?" Jason asked from the sides.
"Any other guy would tell you in a heartbeat that I was like a ghost or a demon just based on how I act when someone calls me short. But Amun, he treats me just like a normal person without worrying about my interest. He's probably been in my shoes a lot. From what Destiny he studied abroad at the University of Cairo. So other people must have thought that he was real short."
"That's not true. The only thing people ever called me was 'demon.'" Amun said gaining everyone's attention. "After I got out of that tomb I couldn't even go outside without wearing sunglasses for a month. To people I was like a living legend, but like a legend of the living dead. All I became to people was the kid who rose from Anubis' grasp." Amun said with tears beginning to appear from his eyes.
Locket smiled at Amun and threw a small pebble at his head. Amun looked up to see her smiling face as she pointed at him.
"No one here's allowed to get depressed. This is still a duel and we're going to finish it. And on my turn I summon the Blair Witch (1200/900) in attack mode." She said as a generic witch with pale skin took the field riding on a large pumpkin with two other pumpkins floating right next to her. "Next I activate the Field Spell card Pumpkin Patch!" as she placed the card in the hidden slot of the duel disk the fog around them then covered a large pumpkin field lit only by the moon. "This gives all my monsters an extra 1000 attack points so now my Blair Witch will attack your overgrown Nile reject with Flying Pumpkins!" the witch then shifted her wand by a few inches and the two pumpkins floating by her smashed into Ammit destroying him and leaving Amun's life points from 1500-1100. "Next, I'll end this duel with Black Cat and Feline Fury!"
The small cat then began to grow to about the size of a cheetah and jumped up about to slash into Amun when he fell to the ground and spoke out in a large voice.
"I activate the trap card, Lost in the Pyramid! When this card is activated I destroy all spells and traps on the field and bring one of my Egyptian Spirit monsters from my deck to my hand." He said as a large pyramid appeared out of the card and destroyed all the spells and traps and even conquered the pumpkin patch. Amun's card shot out of his deck and into his hand as Amun's eyes narrowed all the more. The cat finished its attack and dropped Amun's life points from 1100-600.
"So why was he so afraid to play that card?" Destiny asked.
"Try and think of it like this. Amun spent any number of times lost inside of any numbers of pyramids and locked inside the dark." Tao explained. "So more than likely he doesn't want that kind of reminder about the dark he saw in there."
"No" Amun said rising to his feet. "That dark holds no fear to me. The only part of being lost that scares me is what happened while I was lost. To see all of those things come towards you and then to find that they were your friends scares me more than anything."
Amun looked at the card he drew and his dilated and then he looked over at Locket.
"Tell me, what dorm would have picked if you had won this duel?" Amun asked.
"Slifer, so that way I can be with you." Locket said cheerfully.
"One more question, can you read these hieroglyphics?" Amun asked.
"No" Locket said. "No, I can't read them at all."
"They say on them, he who wears this garb shall take it upon himself to fulfill the wishes of others. That is the creed of the Scarab King." Amun explained.
"Then that means!" Tao thought to himself.
"On my turn I summon Egyptian Spirit Scarab (1700/0) in attack mode!" Amun called out as a large Scarab beetle with a large jewel on his head took the field and roared at Locket. "Next I activate its effect; when summoned I can send one of my other monsters to the graveyard to have this card's name counted as that monster. So by sending Anubis to my graveyard Scarab now counts as Anubis. Next I play Osiris' Second Chance to resurrect my Anubis (2800/2000) from the graveyard." The large jackal-headed monster punched through the ground and growled at the other two monsters. Now I play Scarab Crown! When activated and I control two monsters with the same name and one was originally Scarab the monsters attack points add to each other and only Scarab is allowed to attack. Scarab end this!" the large beetle was then shone in a crown shaped light raising its attack points from 1700-4500. "Finish this duel with Ruby Swarm!"
The ruby on the scarab's head broke into hundreds of other scarabs that swarmed over Locket's cat monster destroying in a frenzy of insects dropping her life points from 4000-0 in one attack. Locket stood there in a daze when the ruby repaired itself and the two monsters disappeared. Amun fell to the ground out of exhaustion and woke up the next morning.
The next morning Amun woke up and opened his door to find Locket standing right outside of it in her new Slifer red blazer with an enthusiastic smile on her face.
"Hi there, Amun! Want me to take care of you?" she said as she began walking into the room to find it already locked and Amun hiding at the base of the door.
"Okay, I won't lie, she's beginning to scare me a little now too." He said looking right in front of him as though talking to someone else who seemed invisible only to find a small transparent beetle looking right up at him.
Chapter five complete.
When a student seemingly from someone else's past Tao sees the potential in him to be the next subject of his interest along with all the others. The only question is will this reveal what the true point to all of Tao's plans are? Next time; Raging Winds Ahead: Tao v. Windragon Shiron.