"Jaden! Where are you?! Jaden!" screamed Blair.
"Why didn't that slacker go to the stadium?" asked Chazz.
"It was probably a diversion." said Detective Sellers. "Apparently our kidnapper is more intelligent then I thought."
The park was the last place Jaden's tracking dot had been signaling before it stopped. They found it smashed in the middle of the park.
"Damn… He could be anywhere by now."
"Master, he's regaining consciousness."
"Give him restraint."
"Yes sir."
"AAAAAAGHHHH! WHERE AM I!?!"
The last thing Jaden remembered was losing consciousness in the park, he awoke to find himself strapped down to a table with the robotic kidnapper staring him right in the face.
"You!!! Where's Alexis!?!"'
"Sorry Mr. Yuki, but you're in no position to be making demands."
"Where the hell am I!?"
"Oh yes, sorry that I had to knock you out, but this location must be kept a secret, and I didn't have a blindfold on me."
"Would you mind telling me why on God's green earth you kidnapped Alexis and now me?!"
"Why the answer to that is simple slacker. I kidnapped her because you don't deserve her, and now I've kidnapped you so I can prove it."
"Who the hell are you and what are you talking about?"
"Well I do suppose I owe you an explanation."
When the kidnapped took off his mask it wasn't what Jaden expected. The kidnapper was roughly the same age as him, only with wavy badly combed bright red hair, a freckled face, and a pair of rather expensive looking glasses.
"Okay… I can't put my finger on it… But I'm sure I've seen you somewhere."
"You have, we both went to the same school. My name is Billy Jobs, I recently inherited my father's company Omnitech Industries, and I was an Obelisk blue the whole time I was a student at Duel Academy."
The difference in dorms never stopped Jaden from meeting people at Duel Academy. Yet the only time he remembered seeing this person was at the graduation ceremony.
"If we went to the same school then why haven't I ever heard of you?"
"Because while you were busy slacking off and showing off to the whole damn island, I stayed in my dorm room and studied like a good little nerd. You probably would have seen me in class if you hadn't slept through all of them."
Jaden could tell that this guy had a grudge against him, though he didn't know what crime he had committed.
"What do you want?"
"Well let's see slacker, I have so much already; A big house, a huge inheritance from my father, a billion dollar company, most people would say I've got it made. But there is one thing I don't have, something that I want more then anything else in the whole world… But you're trying to take that thing away from me."
Suddenly Jaden understood where this was going.
"You can't have her."
"Can't I?"
"I asked her and she said yes, so I suggest you find someone…"
"You don't deserve her!!!"
"And you do?"
"I've loved her ever since the moment I laid eyes on her that day I first stepped into the Obelisk dorm. I worked my butt off studying and getting good grades to impress her. I even built marvelous inventions like this suit I'm wearing. I deserve a goddess like her! You are nothing but a filthy Slifer red slacker who slept in class and cheated in every duel you've ever played!"
"I've never cheated at anything in my life." said Jaden.
"If I want a cock and bull story I'll listen to the new United States President's inauguration speech again." said Billy "Cheating is the only way a person like you could have defeated the Sacred Beasts, the Light of destruction, and so forth! Cheating is how you first caught her eye, it's how you beat Dr. Crowler, something even I've never been able to do! And I'm going to expose you as the total fraud you are, and when I do Alexis will see the error of her ways and marry me instead!"
"Jaden, you have to go through with this." said Yubel.
"What?!"
"He's caught up in his own little world, he isn't just going to let you and Alexis walk out of here."
"Okay… Alright Bill, but if we're going to duel can you untie me first?"
"I wasn't talking about just dueling."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean a heptagathon, one night seven events that will prove once and for all that I'd make a better spouse then you. Dueling is only one of those events."
"What kind of events?"
"I don't know, it's been arranged so that it's a fair fight, if I'm going to win Alexis' heart it will be fair and square, not like the way you won it."
"This guy's getting on my last nerve." thought Jaden.
"Don't worry Jaden, you'll get your chance." said Yubel
"Shall I remove your restraints?"
"Sure…"
"Very well."
Billy pressed a button and Jaden was no longer bound to the table. Billy then put his mask back on.
"Down the hall fifth door on you left. See you in five."
Billy left the room without saying another word. Jaden got off the table and left the room. What he saw shocked him.
"Whoa…"
He was on the second floor of a very expansive room with a view of the floor beneath him. But the most shocking thing of all was that walls of the room were lined with paintings of Alexis and various other forms of art that depicted her, but the most bizarre thing of all was a nine foot golden statue of what appeared to be Alexis dressed like angel with wings in the center of the room on the floor beneath him.
"Chazz was right, this guy is insane."
He glanced at his watch and saw that it was almost midnight. He also looked outside the window and saw that the house was on an island somewhere.
"Well there goes any plans for escaping." he thought. "Wait a minute…"
Jaden checked to see if the GPS tracker was still on him, it wasn't.
"Damn, there goes any hopes of a rescue."
"Fifth door on the left slacker, I didn't kidnap you to show you my house." said Billy's voice over an intercom.
Jaden went over to the door and opened it. The room was completely black except for a light overhead.
"Is this a joke?"
Suddenly the room shot upwards, Jaden came out into a blazing light.
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Tonight we shall witness the grand spectacle of two men fighting for a woman's love!"
When Jaden could see again he saw that he was in a huge outdoor stadium on the island, he was on one side and Billy was on the other.
"Just you wait slacker… I'm going to show the whole world that you're just a big fat fake, and then Alexis will fall for me for sure…"
(To be continued)
Can Jaden win 4 out of 7 of these crazy contests?
Things start to get interesting in
Chapter 5: Let the games begin