Chapter Eleven – Jaden Versus Link

Link sat in the dorm room with his elbow on the table, and his chin in his palm. He looked lazily out a window of the Ra Dorm. Now, Link was sharing a dorm with someone called Jarrod, and he wasn't very talkative, which pleased Link to the bone.

He already knew enough people! Zane Truesdale was one of them. Link still despised Zane deeply, but he often kept the urge to punch him in the face down to the ground. Everyone who knew Link well knew he wouldn't hesitate to start a fight. Not exactly that he liked to fight, but he likes to let people know 'Don't mess with me or my sister or you will be sorry'.

For example, a day walking home from the Hyrulian School, some boy who Zelda use to date poured the water of his water bottle all over her and she flipped! So, Link decided to pin him to a wall and demand him to apologize. The guy couldn't break himself free either; not even a little!

He apologized, but to Link, it wasn't enough.

"Mean it!" He screamed at him holding him down.

Then the guy said it what seemed millions of times and almost started to cry. Link told him he was too weak and let him go run to his mommy.

Sure, you definitely showed that lowlife. Majora told him as he read his thoughts and memories, that is why, Creator, why you should join my side. Together, we could be great; unstoppable, indestructible, and so much more.

'I won't ever even think about joining you.' Link thought bitterly.

…Majora kept silent.

Since he didn't reply, Link let out a long sigh and looked at the green grass outside. The sun was covered by a little black cloud. The wind blew scarcely, if any at all.

After a while of observing what was outside the dorm, Link decided to join it. He walked slowly out of it and onto the beach's shoreline. Syrus and Hassleberry were both there.

The two were laughing at something. Then Hassleberry said something, but Link didn't hear. Syrus laughed even harder and Hassleberry slapped his own knee.

'They look like they are having a blast.' Link thought, smiling.

He didn't understand why, but he felt very smiley now that he wasn't the only one who knew about Majora.

'I guess…it is just the pure joy of knowing I have friends that stick by me and actually don't feel intimidated by me.'

Link now understood unison more than ever.

"Hey Link!" a happy voice yelled behind him. Link turned around and saw a brunette in a red jacket smiling and looking very cheerful.

"Yeah, Jaden. What is it?"

"Let's duel!" Jaden said loudly.

"Duel? You and me?" Link asked.

"Yeah! I wanna see what you can do close-up and…whatever." Jaden shrugged.

"Uh…alright. Get your deck, I guess." Link also shrugged.

"Sweet!"

Jaden ran off like a mad man with glee and went to his dorm to get his deck. Link, on the other hand had his deck with him in his inside-jacket-pocket. A duel disk, though?

Zelda sat with Alexis and was having a friendly talk with her.

"I've always loved to have an older brother. I mean by age, because Link will act like he's so much older by getting rid of pests that I call ex-boyfriends." Zelda laughed.

Alexis laughed with her, "Yeah, I bet. I've always wondered what it was like to have a brother that usually always acted his own age."

"I guess we both have strange brothers." Zelda laughed.

"Totally and utterly."

"Those words mean the same thing."

"Exactly." Alexis said simply.

A short silence surrounded the girls, until they simultaneously both burst out laughing.

When they were done, a voice yelled, "Zelda! Can I borrow your duel disk?"

The two both knew it was Link. Zelda held out her duel disk which looked exactly like Link's other one, and waited for him to come and take it.

"Are you gonna duel someone?" Alexis asked as he came closer.

"Jaden Yuki." Link replied.

…Alexis has GOT to see this!

In fact the whole academy had to see it. The insecure Hylian against the best duelist in the school; it was major!

Link had been on the left, and Jaden to the right.

"Duel!"

"I'll go first, if you don't mind." Jaden drew his standby phase.

"Not at all." Link replied.

"Cool. I summon Elemental Hero: Sparkman in ATK!" (1600) "and I place a face down to go."

"I summon Arbiter Poe," (800), "And I place a card down. Your go." Link smirked.

"Why didn't he do anything?" Chazz asked annoyed. "He could've blown that Sparkman outta the field in no time."

"Jay has a facedown; Link knows that and is probably looking his way around it." Syrus said.

"Well, the Arbiter Poe isn't going to do any good on that." Zelda explained.

"Yeah, only 800 ATK points…" Bastion thought aloud.

"Uh…alrighty then." Jaden drew his card.

He paused as he looked at his deck again.

"I play the spell Polymerization, and fuse Sparkman with Elemental Hero Clayman to make Elemental Hero Thunder Giant!"

"Thunder Giant, attack that Arbiter Poe."

Link stood his ground and waited for Thunder Giant to get a little closer and pulled a trap called Floor Master.

"Floor Master takes your Thunder Giant and sends him right to the grave. Sorry, buddy." Link smiled slightly.

"Well!" Jaden snapped sarcastically, "I'll play two face downs and end my turn."

'Three face downs,' Link thought as he drew a card.

The card he pulled was called Death Sword. It was a very helpful card.

'Problem solved.' Link smiled.

"I summon the trap card, Death Sword, and he isn't very nice to your cards there. He wipes out them all, you can't resummon them, and you also can't prevent this from happening." Link explained.

Jaden froze in disbelief.

"Well, dang!"

"I also summon another Arbiter Poe and the field-spell Arbiter's Grounds." Link said. Six gold pillars with chains hanging from them surrounded the duelists then.

"Cool. My go." Jaden said as he took his standby phase, "I play the spell Pot of Greed, so I draw two more cards…the perfect two, also." Jaden smirked.

"I summon Elemental Hero Bubbleman to the field. Here's a twist, I get to draw two cards if there aren't any other cards on the field and thanks to you, you got that covered. Next, I equip the spell Bubble Blaster! That gives my Bubbleman an extra 800 points, too." (1600) Jaden explained.

"Wow…not twisted enough…" Link teased.

"Try this on for size: attack Bubbleman!" Jaden pointed to the Arbiter Poe, which suddenly split to four.

"Inny, Minny, Miney, Moe…which one is real?" Link smirked.

"Dang, that kid is real confident, huh?" Hassleberry told them.

"He can be." Zelda replied.

"He better be careful. If he gets too cocky, he'll end up losing." Syrus added.

"Right now, Jaden is losing…" Chazz rolled his eyes at them.

"Watch it Princeton." Zelda warned.

"Or what? You'll spray me with pepper spray?" Chazz coaxed.

Zelda paused and looked Chazz in the eye. "I have an insecure brother…don't make me use him."

"Okay…Bubbleman, attack the one to the very left…no right! Uh…random?" Jaden mentally crossed his fingers.

Bubbleman then attacked the Poe that he went right through and Bubbleman bounced back and hit Jaden directly.

"You could've said something about that!" Jaden yelled with a weird smile on his face and scratching the back of his head.

"Jaden, if you pick the wrong one, Bubbleman will attack you." Link told him.

Jaden scoffed. "You're late!" he laughed.

Jaden was now down to 1600 LP while Link was still full.

"Alright, now. I lay down a facedown."

"Awesome, Draw!" Link looked at the card he just drew and put it with the rest of his deck.

"I play the spell, Jar of Avarice, and I draw 2 cards."

'Volvagia and Sonata of Awakening,' Link thought.

He looked down at his deck and thought for a long moment.

"He sure is taking his sweet time." Alexis commented.

"Yeah. People will do that." Syrus interjected.

"I sacrifice both of my Poes, to summon The Twilit Fossil: Stallord from my hand." (2400)

Link ordered Stallord to attack Jaden's Bubbleman, but only his Bubble Blaster was destroyed. "My go!" Jaden yelled and he drew his card.

"I play the card Bubble Shuffle, so I can put your Stallord in DEF, and keep Bubbleman in ATK while I summon another Elemental Hero. I choose, Elemental Hero Burstinatrix!"

Now Burstinatrix, attack that Stallord!" Jaden commanded.

Since Stallord was only destroyed in DEF, Link took no damage, and Arbiter's Grounds was also destroyed since there were no monsters on the field of Link's side anymore.

And now, Bubbleman, attack Link directly!"

"Finally! Jaden actually got to him." Chazz complained.

"Well, the kid is good." Zane spoke up.

Once again, Zane giving props, surprised Syrus by much. And this time, it wasn't only Syrus. It was Zelda, Atticus, and even Link would've been.

"Good job." Link smiled at Jaden.

"Thanks, man! I am so tired now, but I am having so much fun!" Jaden told him.

"I know what you mean." Link agreed.

"My turn…" Link thought, "I summon Death Armos," (1200) "and lay down a face down. I'll leave it at that."

"Leave it? Clearly Link can--" Chazz started.

"Jaden's face downs…" Hassleberry reminded.

"He's a thinker. He really gets this down quick." Syrus said.

"True." Zane agreed.

"Alright then, I summon Elemental Hero Avian and a Polymerization! I'll fuse Burstinatrix and Avian to create Flame Wingman!" (2100)

"Now I'll use his special ability on your Death Armos."

"Wrong! You won't because Death Armos can only be destroyed one way and one way only. A monster with a light attribute and more ATK points then 1200."

Jaden was silent.

"Really?" He asked astonished.

Link nodded.

"Dang…then…I guess I'll pass."

"Yes, now my go. I summon Volvagia, if I sacrifice 400 LP." (2400)

"Now Volvagia, attack Flame Wingman."

Jaden was left with 1500 LP and Link was current with 2800.

"This is getting close." Zelda said.

"It sure is…" Zane added.

R&R

Sry for the cliffhanger I am tired, it is like almost 3 in the morn, so I go sleepy time then write l8r. :D