Jaden Yuki sat under the midnight sky, staring at the stars. Winged Kuriboh was there, too. They both were making constellations out of the stars.
"Look Kuriboh, the big dipper." He said as he pointed to the four stars in a square shape and three stars coming from the top-right corner.
Kuriboh replied making his little Kuriboh noise. He pointed to the sky and said it again. "Oh I see." Jaden said. There was a picture of a strange heart-shaped item with spikes coming from it by the crescent moon, and when they looked really hard, they could tell it meant something.
Inside of the shape were different colored stars; shades of blue, yellow, pink, white and a few others. Before Jaden could see the rest, he heard footsteps coming his way. He turned back, and Kuriboh disappeared behind him.
"Hey Jay," Jaden's friend and roommate, Syrus said.
"Hey there Sy," he replied with a grin from ear to ear. "Check out what Kuriboh --" Jaden stopped when he looked up, and he saw the shape was gone. He stood up and arched his eyebrows wondering where the stars went.
"What did your Kuriboh do? Are you okay Jaden?" Sy asked worried.
"Yeah…It's just…well --" Jaden cut himself off scratching his head very confused. "Kuriboh found a picture out of the stars, and it was shaped like a heart with spikes coming from it is was right by the crescent moon…It was there a minute ago…now it's gone."
"Jay? You're starting to freak me out over here." Sy stated.
"Nah…But it seemed like it was talking to us…like it was alive trying to say something. But oh well! It's sleepy time! C'mon Syrus." Jaden said and patted his friend on the back and walked back to his dorm. Yeah maybe that's it. I'm just tired…no Kuriboh saw it too. He felt it too. What in the world was that thing? What could it mean? I'll ask Bastian tomorrow, he knows everything.
"Hey Chumley, I have grilled cheese, if you can beat me to the kitchen, I'll give em to you." Jaden teased. Syrus was already in the kitchen eating breakfast.
"Grilled cheese? I'll eat it; you know I'll eat it!" He replied back believing Jaden's lie.
"Let's go to the kitchen and I'll give em all to ya!" Jaden then sprung off running full speed toward the kitchen. Of course he beat Chumley there. But when Chumley finally made it, Jaden had no sandwiches for him.
"Where…are…my…grilled cheeses?" Chumley asked bending over and panting heavily.
"Sorry bud, I don't got any. But you get to eat breaky, see over there is Syrus, c'mon," Jaden said and signaled his arm for Chumley to come over.
"Hey guys." Syrus said quietly as usual, eating slowly. Naturally, Jaden dug in his food like he'd never seen it before and scarffed it all down in minutes.
"Did you tell Chumley what you saw last night?" Sy asked.
"No…not yet." Jaden said solemnly. "But I can draw a diagram! Ya know…show him what it looked like."
"What looked like what? I'm not following you guys." Chumley said blankly.
"It was a spiky heart. My Kuriboh spotted it." Jaden explained.
"'Licios!" Chumley exclaimed. Jaden explained everything to Chumley from the big dipper to the speaking constellation.
The class bell rang, and Jaden brought out his black pen to draw eyes on his eyelids pretending to be awake while he was sleeping in class. Jaden didn't catch much of anything during class except that he had homework along with the rest of the class explaining how a trap can be deflected or something like that. Jaden was all sleep as usual.
In the hallway, he's caught up with Bastian Misawa and had the chance to ask him about the spiky heart.
"Hey Bastian! So last night I saw something real strange in the sky. A picture; it was a heart with spikes and it was noticeably colorful." Jaden started.
"Jaden it could have been your imagination, you can make all sorts of things from the sky…like say, a sort of card…but it isn't real…"
"But wait…you didn't let me finish—"
"You didn't let me finish either." Bastian pointed out.
"Would you just listen?" Jaden yelled. "Anyway…It wasn't my imagination, because Kuriboh saw it too. When Sy came, it disappeared. It looked like this." Jaden said holding out a picture of a colorful heart with yellow blue pink and purple spikes coming from it. But it wasn't accurate or well illustrated.
"You expect me to be able to know what this is. I can't even read it." Bastian said to Jaden who hung his head low after hearing what Bastian had said.
"Never mind Bastian…Never mind." Jaden then walked away from Bastian and went to Alexis. Yeah Alexis…she knows things, and if she doesn't her brother might. Atticus is pretty smart when he wants to be.
Alexis was with one of her two friends, Jen. "Hey Jen! Alexis…do you know what this is?" Jaden asked holding the inaccurate illustration of the constellation.
"What is that?" Jen asked.
"That's what I need to know, Alexis…anything?" Jaden replied.
"If this is some kind of message, I say absolutely not. I'm not doing the same thing to you that I did to Chazz." Alexis said, her arms folded.
Chazz! That's it! Maybe his Ojama brothers saw the thing! Wait…what is she talking about…Oh!
"Oh! No Alexis! I saw this last night in the stars, Kuriboh found it first." Jaden exclaimed.
Alexis stood puzzled. "Never mind. I'll see you around okay?" Jaden said and left in a flash.
"What was that about?" Jen asked. Alexis shrugged her shoulders indicating that she doesn't know.
Chazz was in his dorm room, practicing his cards, when he heard a loud knock on his door and an annoying voice that he wished he never had to deal with. "What do you want you Slifer slime?" Chazz yelled at him.
"Did you see something odd last night?" Jaden asked.
"No…you were no where to be found." Chazz insulted.
"I meant outside in the sky? Did your Ojama brothers see it?" Jaden asked ignoring Chazz's rude remark.
"A shooting star? How is that odd?" Chazz asked.
"No it was in the stars…a picture and—shooting star? Really too bad I missed that." Jaden said.
Chazz finally got up from his desk and opened the door so he could look at Jaden. "A constellation? You're asking me if I, or my cards saw a constellation. Sorry you Slifer slacker, I have no earthly idea what you're talking—" Chazz was interrupted by Jaden giving him the diagram.
"What…Is this?" He asked, "No, wait lemme guess, your O so special constellation? Sorry, but the Chazz never saw it. Now go away." He said giving him back the diagram and slamming the door in his face.
OK…old plan, Atticus may know what it is. Jaden thought. He walked steadily down the steps and across the field hoping to find Atticus by the beach, which he did. He was surfing, and schmoozing on girls.
"Hey Atticus, you have a minute?" Jaden asked.
"Sure." He said.
"What is this? Do you know? Any possible idea?" He asked.
"No…never saw it in my life. Do you not know what it is?" he asked
"NO! That's why I asked you! This is way more difficult than I thought it was going be." Jaden said and walked away.
"Zane might know, he's pretty smart too." He thought aloud.
Jaden would have been able to reach Zane on time, but Crowler caught him first. "What are you doing? What is that?" Crowler asked taking the diagram.
"Do you know what it is?" Jaden asked hoping for a yes.
"Indeed. I do. It's a terrible drawing…you have homework, I'm sure." Crowler added.
"Sure. Can I just talk to--" Zane, no. Chancellor…he'll know if anybody, right? "Chancellor?"
"For what?" Crowler raised his brow.
"So I can ask him if he knows what that is."
"Fine. Make it quick you Slifer."
Jaden let himself into Chancellor's room and asked him if he's seen it anywhere. Or knew what it was.
"Nope…I'm sorry boy. I've never seen it in my life."
Jaden hesitated. "Thanks anyway." He said.
Later that night, he and Kuriboh stood under the stars again, waiting for the picture to come back. They decided it wasn't coming, and went back to sleep. Or tried.
Jaden couldn't sleep too well. He was up thinking the same thing over and over.
What was it? What could it mean? Why did it disappear? How was I the only one to know of it? What was it? What does it mean? Where did it go? Why doesn't anyone else know about it…I wonder if anyone else did see it.