Title: Prelude to What is Stolen
Genre: romance, hurt/comfort
Rating: T for language, mild violence, and suggest themes (might go up)
Pairings: JohanXJudai (spiritshipping)
Summary: Judai couldn't be happier. Johan has proposed to him! But just when Judai thinks that life can't get any better, Giese Hunter returns from God knows where and seeks revenge on the two. Yubel swears to protect Judai and Johan from the man that once worked for her, but will Yubel's strength alone be enough to stop the hunter and his new found powers? Giese decides to get revenge on Johan by stealing Ruby! Judai blames himself and goes to get Ruby back! But is this exactly as Giese planned? What will they do? Can Yubel help?
Me: Chapter three of "Prelude to What is Stolen"!
Lucy: So, Johan and Judai are engaged, and now, the story is starting to heat up! So we hope everyone will enjoy this story and not flame us, please, because we are trying our hardest!
Me: This chapter is important, but yet again, we are nervous about having it up!
Lucy: Please enjoy!
Chapter Three: Return of the Madman
Judai took one last sweep of the room with his eyes and then vanished into the hall, closing the door behind him, but not locking it. He made his way back down to the party ever so slowly.
Back in the dorm room, Johan's deck box was hanging open, and the card that held Ruby Carbuncle's spirit was hanging out, the little duel spirit sleeping tightly and comfy inside.
Somewhere in the distances of Duel Academy, near the abandoned dorms, a huge stream of lightning cracked from the ground. The ground cracked apart, and a hand tore itself free.
A body dragged itself up after the hand came, using the roots and the door to the abandoned dorms to keep itself up. The body was coated from head to toe in thick muck and disgusting Lord-knows-what. The body shuddered and shook with the cold, and thick hands wiped away mud from the body's face.
The body belonged to none other than Giese Hunter.
However, he looked different.
His amber-brown hair was a lot longer and shaggier than it had been before. His eyes were more narrow, his features a bit more wicked, and the underneaths of his eyes were lined with black. His clothes were black with soot to the point where they were forever that color. His hands were covered in dirt and muck.
The Duel spirit hunter glanced around and realized right off that he was back in Duel Academy. He sighed and rubbed the dirt out of his face and leaned back from the hole that had formed.
Giese had spent the majority of the last two years being tortured by various Duel spirits. Those that he had entrapped over the years came to take their revenge on him.
The hunter glanced around and took in the familiar surroundings.
He felt different for some reason. His body burned with a strange sensation that he remembered feeling when the Duel spirits were fighting and torturing him.
Giese shakingly rose to his feet and stared down at the hole in the ground. His hands tingled for some reason. Giese looked at his hands and then up at the sky.
"Well well," he said. "What have we here?"
He glanced down at his hands again, and then to the abandoned dorms. He eyeballed the loose door and noticed how the wind was swaying it gently from side to side.
He smirked and looked down, seeing strange sparks on his fingertips.
"I wonder..."
The Duel spirit hunter threw his hand towards the loose door of the abandoned dorms and summoned the strange feeling inside his body to the tips of his fingers.
The loose door flew off its hinges and went in the direction that the hunter willed. It struck the ground and snapped in half. Giese smirked and tried his new powers on a tree, and the tree ripped from the ground and landed a good twenty feet away with a loud snap. The hunter cackled and looked at his hands.
"I don't know what this is," he said aloud. "But I think I'm going to like it."
The hunter sat down and looked at his hands, flexing his muscles and letting the magic that he had gained from the Duel spirits surge through his body while he pondered.
Within an hour, Giese had created a bunch of minions out of shadows. He wasn't sure exactly how it had happened, but he had managed to transforms a bunch of shadows and tree branches into a few minions who were now standing near him, motionless as dolls. They only moved when he willed it.
The hunter glanced around and drew in a sharp breath.
He had used whatever magic he had gained to create a tent near the abandoned dorms, where he would wait. There was only one thing that he wanted more than anything.
To get revenge on the one who had banished him to that damned place.
"Johan Andersen," Giese said, leaning back against the wall of the abandoned dorms. "He's the one who defeated me and sent me there. I would take it out on Cobra, but he's been killed, or so I hear."
The hunter frowned and remembered a certain brunette he had seen.
His hand went to his jaw and he rubbed it as a phantom pain returned at the memory of the brunette. "That little punk, if I recall, was very precious to Andersen and to that damned spirit, Yubel," he said.
One of the doll-like minions moved. "What was that, sir?" he asked.
"Nothing," Giese snapped. "Just an old memory is all." The hunter closed his eyes and tried to think of a way to exact his revenge. He didn't want something that was so obvious, but he didn't want something so completely unlike him either.
A smile snaked across his lips.
"I have an idea," Giese said, standing up and turning to his minions. "One of you go and see where Andersen's deck is. There's a little friend of his that I'd like to see again."
Me: Oh no! The bastard is back! And after being trapped away for so long, Giese has acquired some powers from the Duel Spirits that attacked him and made him vanish!
Lucy: And what is the full extent of the evil plan that he's come up with?
Me: If you all want to find out what it is, then please review on the chapters, and we'll update as soon as we are able to! We hope to see more reviews on this story!
Lucy: Please review nicely and we shall update as soon as we are able to!