When Jaden Woke up that morning, Chumley was still snoring, and Syrus was already awake eyeing his cards on the bedside table.
"Mornin' Sy…" Jaden said half asleep. Syrus jumped at the sudden voice and snapped his head around.
Relieved it was only Jaden, Sy said, "Hey Jay. What are you doin' up so early? That's not like you."
Jaden sat up with his eyes still closed and a terrible bed-head, stretched and yawned. "Are you implying that I'm lazy?" He asked.
"Uh…" Syrus stammered. "Well…I-I…Ummmm…" Syrus was lost in his words.
"It's okay Sy…I know…anyway, how early is it?" Jaden asked looking out the window on the left side of his bunk. It was still darkish. Not too dark, the clouds were blocking the sun, so it would probably be like that all day.
"It's close to 5 AM." Sy told him. Just then, Jaden heard a familiar chant. He looked behind him, and saw a faded brown fur ball with huge green eyes.
Kuriboh. What's the matter buddy? Jaden asked Kuriboh telepathically. He took it as warning. Kuriboh tried to tell him something. Then he remembered the constellation.
"That thingy!" Jaden exclaimed wide-eyed.
Syrus turned to Jaden with a very confused look on his face; he realized Jaden was talking about the spiky heart.
"The constellation?" Syrus asked Jaden.
"Yeah…Kuriboh--" Jaden didn't finish his sentence until he looked at Syrus and told him, "I don't know what it is. Something or someone is coming and they are connected to it in some weird way. Kuriboh warned me." Jaden said mostly to himself.
"Huh? Someone's coming? You mean like a new student? That's a warning? And from Kuriboh, too?" Syrus wasn't following Jaden well.
Chumley made a loud snort and rolled over halfway opened one of his eyes. "Would you ladies keep it down a bit, maybe?" He then yawned and closed his eye again.
The room fell silent, until a loud beeping noise went off over and over again. Jaden fell out of his bed, and so did Chumley who landed on Jaden. Syrus on the other hand only jumped a little and humored himself by watching Jaden struggle from trying to get Chumley off him.
"Dude! Get off me! How can you still be sleeping?!" Jaden yelled. They all then heard a loud bang on the door. When the door opened, there was Chazz. He looked very displeased and tired.
"Would you stupid Slifer Slackers shut up and let a guy get a little sleep?!" He yelled, and slammed the door. Now Chumley wakes up.
"Huh? Who died?" He asked suddenly wide awake.
"DUDE! GET OFF ME!!!!" Chumley heard someone yell he then looked down and saw Jaden.
"Oh…oops. Totally not licious. Sorry Jay." He said as he got up.
"Geez…would it kill you to lose a little weight?" Jaden asked still laying on the floor face-down.
Sy and Chumley both shrugged and got dressed along with Jaden, and they started their day. Thank goodness for them it was Friday. If Jaden didn't get any info on the constellation today, he could have two full days to ask around. He was bound to get something or ANYTHING by then; it was three days of asking and if he had to, he'd even go to technology for help. That never let him down.
Then he remembered he was going to ask Zane, but never got to it. I could just do it now, He thought.
Jaden pushed his way through crowds and tried to reach Zane who was standing on the side of the east hallway reading.
"Zane! Zane!" Jaden called. Zane heard his name twice, so he looked him revealing his usual emotionless face. When Jaden got to Zane, he stared at him for a moment, watching him catch his breath for a moment.
"Jaden." Zane stated.
"Have you…" he inhaled and exhaled. Inhaled again and exhaled as he said, "ever seen this weird spiky heart lookin' thing in the stars?" He inhaled again and from then on he was calmer.
"I can honestly say," he said, "I have never seen it."
"Do you know what it is, though? At least a small idea? Something?" Jaden asked hopefully.
Zane shook his head negative. Jaden looked at their feet and hesitated; he started to walk away until Zane said, "But..."
Jaden perked up not exactly smiling but looked his way and rushed over again. "There's a 'but…'? You know something?" Jaden asked.
"I already told you I don't know of it, but I have heard of it." He paused. "It has different shades of color right?" Zane asked.
Jaden shook his head positive widely, so hard his immovable hair seemed to flop around grinning manically.
"That what you seek it very dangerous." Zane explained, and wiped Jaden's smile right off his face. "It is a legendary card that is supposed to be secret. It's called the Majora's Mask."
Jaden narrowed his eyes and looked back up at Zane in slight confusion. "If it's a secret, why are you telling me, and how do you know about it?"
"I have read a lot…" Zane explained, "And--" he trailed off, thinking of how to tell Jaden. This was one of the first times he had trouble explaining anything to anyone.
"Someone told me a long while back about a heart shaped mask with various of colors, and--" he was stuck again, but got back on track, "it's just a card that is so incredibly strong, if it wanted to, it could wipe out the world. That card has a mind of its own. Or…so I have heard. I am not positive…at all, but I cannot doubt that person." Zane explained as the last bell rang.
He looked up and back at Jaden. "Just so you know, I don't repeat myself to the same person, so don't ask again." Zane commanded and passed Zane.
"Jaden…come!" Someone from behind cried. "You must meet two new people."
Jaden turned around and saw Chancellor and Crowler. Jaden followed them both into Chancellor's office and saw two blonde kids, a boy and a girl, both in red.
"New kids?" Jaden guessed.
"Precisely" Chancellor said.
They both turned around in their chairs to see Jaden standing in the middle of the room. The looked at each other simultaneously and hesitated. The girl looked down and the boy looked back at Jaden. He smiled at the kid, but he just stared as if he was unaware of what to do. "Don't be shy introduce yourselves!" Chancellor encouraged.
"Yes…do so." Crowler managed without thought.
"I'm Jaden Yuki…" Jaden smiled. The girl looked back up at him and she stood up. She walked towards Jaden slowly and smiled back. She tilted her head forward as if to bow maybe?
"I'm Zelda…Zelda Hylia. This is my little brother--" Zelda started but was interrupted by her brother.
"Younger…not little." He then stood and made his way to Zelda and Jaden. "Link…"
"Link and Zelda?" Jaden repeated. Zelda nodded positive.
"Cool! Are we sharing a dorm?" Jaden asked Chancellor. "Well, Zelda is moving to Obelisk when she gets her chance, and Link will maybe transfer to Ra, we aren't quite sure. But until then you may share dorms…except for you Zelda, you can have a dorm to you're self since you are the only girl in Slifer now." Chancellor explained.
"Yeah...they don't seem much like Slifer Slackers." Crowler said. Link looked down on him and shot him an icy glare so cold it seemed as if the earth's core froze, and stopped.
Zelda clutched Link's shoulders and brought him in front of her and mumbled in his ear for a minute. Link then looked a lot annoyed.
"Jaden…I want to thank you for letting my brother in your dorm with him since he probably isn't going to say anything." Zelda said disappointed in her brother.
"It's cool."
Zelda smiled and nudged Link.
"What?" He asked harshly.
"Smile." She said quietly like it wasn't supposed to be heard but she was too angry to keep quiet.
He gave a sarcastic crooked smile for a split second and went back to his gloomy self.
"He gets better after a while I promise." Zelda said.
Jaden smiled back at her and looked at Link who was almost as tall as Zelda. I guess that's why he prefers younger over little, Jaden thought.
"I'll take good care of him, I promise!" Jaden said grinning and motioned them to follow him and take them to the Slifer dorms.
The whole way there, Link kept his eyes on the ground; Zelda watched Jaden, and her brother. For a moment she thought he was really just sad being so far away from home, but he looked to the side with his eyes and then turned his head. When Zelda saw his face, he seemed perfectly fine; he even almost smiled, not quite there, but almost. She opened her arms and Link moved slowly into them and they hugged each other both thinking how much they are going to miss home, but they knew they were going to make the best of Duel Academy.
After a few minutes, they had let go by then, and a dirty yellow building with a red roof a bright windows came to their view.
"We have an empty dorm up there, if you want to go in there and crash. Link we go this way."
"Night Zelda." Link said as he waved to Zelda.
"Bonne nuit." Zelda replied.
Jaden stared at Link for an answer hoping he would talk. "It's French for 'Good Night'." He explained.
"She knows French. That is so cool." Jaden said. Well c'mon I want you to meet our roommates!" Jaden exclaimed.
Inside the dorm was a three-person bunk bed, and two other people: The skinny, short blue-haired kid, and the fairly chubby black-haired half person, half building. (Implying he was huge)
"Hey guys! This guy's new! His name's Link and his sister lives a few dorms left and up away from us!" Jaden explained.
"Licious!" The chubby one exclaimed, "Say…you wouldn't happen to have any grilled cheese on ya, would ya?"
Link shook his head negative.
"Oh…well anyway I'm Chumley."
"And I'm Syrus. Truesdale! " The blue-haired kid exclaimed.
"So Link…where you from?" Jaden asked.
Link thought a moment before answering and said, "Hyrule."