[Chapter 5: Shadow Duelist, Part 1!]
Night Time!
Alexis stood in front of an old looking building with a robe across it's entrances with a no entry sign looking at the building before she placed a rose in front of a gate.
'Be at peace Brother?' Alexis thought, 'where ever you are?'
Banner's Class!
Misaki sat next to Jaden and Syrus who were sound asleep while they sat in Banner's class as she listened to him teach though about the whole class wasn't there which she found weird and a little creepy at the same, but at least this way she didn't have to set with other Obelisk blue students. Misaki looked at the clock on the wall and counted down the time before the bell rung which did not wake Jaden up, but scared the hell of Syrus making her feel bad for him. Misaki stood up and helped Syrus waked Jaden up before they headed off for their next class.
Night Time!
Misaki and Alexis were just starting to walk back to the Obelisk Blue Girl Dorm when she heard voices heading her way making her turn around and head back.
"Hey, check this out?" Jaden's familiar voice asked.
"Check out what's behind it?" Syrus' familiar voice asked.
"The old dorm," Jaden answered.
"And properly lot's of ghost, too," a third voice said.
"Relax guys there's no body here," Jaden said.
It was that Alexis stepped on a twig scaring the hell out of Syrus and Jaden's other roommate whose name Misaki learned was Chumly.
"Then what's that?" both Syrus and Chumly asked.
Jaden turned around and flashed his flashlight over and then well Alexis did the same.
"Oh," Jaden said with relief, "hi Aki, Alexis."
"Alexis, Misaki?" Syrus asked as he looked at them. "What you doing here?"
"That's funny," Alexis answered, "we were just about to ask you guys the very same thing,"
"We heard about the abandon dorm and wanted to check it out," Jaden told them.
"Well that's not very intelligent," Alexis said, "don't you know that kids have a way of disappearing around here?"
"Ah, come on," Jaden said, "that some urban myth."
"No it's not," Alexis told him, "believe me I know. Why else would the Academy make this completely forbidden? They catch you here and they'll expel you Jaden."
"Yeah sure," Jaden said like he didn't care. "Ok then." He looked at them. "So why are you two here?"
"I have my reasons that's why!" Alexis yelled at him.
"I just come with Alexis because she asked me, too," Misaki answered more calmly.
"Wow Alexis," Jaden said as he held up his hands. "Don't need to snap. We just came here to look around, but hey, we'll stay out of your way. Don't worry about it?"
"Look?" Alexis asked, "it's just that…"
Alexis stopped before she turned around and walked a bit back then stopped.
"It's just that what?" Syrus asked.
"One of the kids who disappeared here was my Brother," Alexis answered as she looked at the ground.
Jaden looked down at the ground at a rose that they saw when they walked up.
'Oh, that would explain the rose,' Jaden thought.
Well Jaden was looking at the rose Misaki placed a hand on Alexis' shoulder looking at her sadly before Alexis walked away from them.
"Alexis," Misaki whispered.
"If Alexis' Brother really did disappear here," Syrus started to say, "then the rumors aren't just rumors. I say we go back Jaden."
"Yeah?" Jaden asked, "well I say we go in."
"What?" Syrus asked.
Aki spun around to face them at that moment with a worried look on her beautiful face.
"Are you asking for a trouble Jaden?" she asked, "don't you know that the kids who went missing here get sent to Shadow realm?"
"That's a legend," Jaden told her, "the Shadow Realm isn't real."
"Jaden, I know what I'm talking about," Aki said, "I've been in so many Shadow Games that I've lost count after Battle City. My mind has even been sent to the Shadow Realm and how I'm still sane is a mystery to me."
Jaden looked at her like what she was saying wasn't true, but something in her emerald green colored eyes told him that it was. He then just shrugged it off and climbed over the robe with the other boy before he started to walk away.
"See ya in a few Syrus!" he called back, "don't disappear on us."
"Disappear?" Syrus asked, "oh. Wait up?"
'I hope you know what your doing Jaden,' Misaki thought as she watched as they disappeared inside the dorm fighting back tears that threaten to fall.
She then turned back around to head back to her dorm, but found her path block by a man in a mask. He held something up and a bright light shinned from it making her scream and the last thing she heard before she fall unconscious where her duel spirits screaming her name.
Jaden's pov!
Inside the Abandon Dorm!
Jaden, Syrus, and your other friend Chumly where looking around the abandon dorm that he thought was really cool.
"This place is sweet," Jaden said, "a little bit of paint, a couple of cardboard boxes, and maybe a throw rug and we can so totally move in here."
"But are you kidding?" Syrus asked, "this is even worse then the Slifer Dorm." He then pointed his flashlight walls. "I mean what's all of this stuff on the walls?"
Jaden and Chumly pointed their flashlights at the wall Syrus was looking at to see what was, but saw a lot of drawing of what looked like different items so Jaden walked up to it to get a closer look.
"Do you think it has something to do with the Shadow Games?" Chumly asked.
"Jaden, don't stand so close," Syrus called to you, "are you nuts?"
"Hey," Jaden said as he got a good at the wall to see seven different items with the eye in the middle of it. "I think this shows the seven millennium items. Cool." Jaden then pointed his flashlight over at the other wall saw a picture that it was of a boy who looked like Alexis only with darker hair and eye color. "Huh? And this shows some one I never seen before."
It was then that Jaden heard a girl scream, but it wasn't just any girl it was Misaki and that was something that he never wanted to hear. Jaden didn't know why, but when ever he saw her he would blush red and when ever she smiles at him his heart would skip a beat, but this just made his blood run cold.
"Huh?"
"That sounded like Misaki" Syrus pointed out.
"Let's go!" Jaden yelled seeing he was already running towards the scream. "Misaki!" It was then that Jaden, Syrus, and Chumly came to a room that looked like a living room and among the drag marks was a duel monster card, so he ran down the steps and over to before picking it up and turning it over to see that it was Cyber Hero Roll. "This is Misaki's card."
"Well," Chumly said making you look up at him to see him pointing to where the drag marks lead. "There's only one way she could have gone."
"Then that's the way we're going," Jaden told them as the fear inside of him started to wear it's ugly head.
As Jaden ran down the passageway he was hoping that nothing bad happened to Misaki because he were afraid of what Alexis might do if she ever found out that something happened to her and he couldn't help, but feel angry that this happened to her though the reason why was a mystery to Jaden.
"Misaki!" Syrus called out for her.
"Misaki!" Chumly called out as well.
It wasn't long till all three of them came to a dome like shape cave and across from them was a coffin and what they saw really made Jaden's blood run cold and the angry grow even more for inside the coffin was Misaki who appeared to be sleeping, but he weren't sure.
"Misaki?" Jaden asked, but she didn't answer nor did she stir.
"She can't hear you," a voice said, "she's far away. Locked in the Shadow realm."
"Whose there?" Jaden asked.
Jaden looked around to see mist creeping in and from the mist rosed a man who was wearing noting, but black and a mask with a duel disk.
"Your worst Nightmare came true," he answered Jaden.
"Oh give me a break?" Jaden asked as he rolled his eyes.
"Then let me prove it to you in a Shadow Game?" he asked.
Jaden really wasn't liking this guy because he had a feeling that he was the one who took Misaki and Jaden knew he had to get her back or Alexis just might have his head for letting her friend getting hurt.
"We've got to get Misaki back," Syrus said, "because there's no telling what Anna might do if she finds out."
"Yeah," Jaden agreed, "hand her over now or you'll be sorry!" Jaden then looked at Syrus with a raised eyebrow. "You mean that girl that has those Avenger Hero cards?"
Syrus only nodded his head with a sweat drop.
"The only way I'll free her is if you beat me in a Shadow Game," the man said.
"He'd not looking at me is he?" Chumly asked.
"Look I'm not afraid of dueling you, but Shadow Games don't exist," Jaden told him.
"The others didn't believe in the Shadow Games wither, but they were soon convinced," the man stated, "for you see, when you lose a Shadow Game you just don't pat with your life points, you pat with your soul."
"So you're the one behind all those disappearance," Jaden said in shock, "well your not getting us, especially Misaki."
"Unless you win, she's mine forever and well you be," the man told you.
"Alright," Jaden said as Chumly handed him his duel disk to him, so he put it on. "Get Your Game On."
Jaden activated the duel disk, so he can take this guy out.
"Shadow Game that is," the man said as he activated his duel disk.
Jaden look over at Misaki who looked like she was sleeping in the coffin.
"Just hang on Misaki," Jaden said, "I'll get you out."
"Duel!" the both of you shouted.
Jaden: 4000
Shadow Duelist: 4000
"Prepare you fool to enter the shadows," the man said as he drew his sixth card. "I summon Infernal Queen Arch Fiend in Atk mode."
A monster with only 900 Atk points appeared on to the field.
"An Arch Fiend monster?" Jaden asked.
"Yes and now that this card is out, each and every monster with Arch Fiend in it's name gains 1000 Atk points," the guy said.
"Careful Jaden," Syrus told Jaden.
"Uh, yeah, actually I already knew that," Jaden told him, "I also know that you have to pay life points to keep those monsters on the field on every stand by phase of your turn."
"*Laugh* Now I don't," he said which confused. "Not after activating the spell card Pandemonium."
The field changed into a field made out of bones.
"Pretty cool," Jaden said.
"And it doesn't just change the scenery, it changes the rules," the guy told you, "now I don't have to pay any life points for my Arch Fiend and if their every destroyed outside of battle I get to put another fiend tight into my hand. I know what your thinking your little friends fate is all, but sealed. Well, you right."
Jaden looked over to see the lid on closed on the coffin where Misaki was making his heart beet faster then normal while the bones opened up and dragged the coffin out of sight.
"Misaki!" Jaden called out to her.
"That's not fair," Chumly stated.
"Yeah," Syrus agreed, "what have you done?"
"The some thing I'll do to the both of you should you continue to pester and annoy me," the guy answered him.
"Hey!" Jaden called out to him, "just leave my friends out of this. My drew." Jaden drew his sixth card. 'I don't have any card that can go up against 1900 Atk points, but maybe.' "Elemental Hero Avian, I summon you out in Atk mode! And I'm going to throw down two face as well."
"To bad you won't have a chance to use them," he told Jaden, "cause I summon Terra King Arch Fiend in Atk mode!" Another monster appeared on the field with 2000 Atk. "Now you have two vicious Arch Fiend to attend with. And thanks to Infernal Queen's effect, Terra King's Atk point automatically increase to 1000, making him an even rare fiendish force to reckon with."
"3000 Atk mode," Jaden said in shock.
"That's right," he agreed, "and now I'm going to put them all to good use. Terra King Arch Fiend Atk Avian! Locus Storm Bourg."
"No way!" Jaden announced, "you've forgotten about may face down card Mirror Gate. This trap card causes our monsters to trap card. My Avian for you Terra King, so now all those 3000 Atk points are going to going to work for me."
{Me: I'm going to call the Shadow Duelist; Titan instead of the man and the guy.}
"You really thought you could lore me into a trap?" Titan asked, "look around and tell whose trapped?'
"What do you mean?" Jaden asked him.
"I mean your trap won't work against my Terra King," Titan answered, "now I simple active his special ability. An ability that leaves our monsters fate up to chance."
"Oh man," you mumbled.
"You see, when he's targeted by an opponent's effect Terra King's special ability get's me a gambling chance," Titan explained as balls with a number on each appeared. "A number between 1 and 6 is selected at random and if it happens to be a 2 or a 5 then your trap get's destroyed and Terra King Arch Fiend get's to stay and fight on my side. So let's spin the wheel of fate and see what happens, shill we?"
"It's ok," Chumly said, "the odds are way in Jaden's favor."
"You flank math Chumly," Syrus told him.
"No I got a 54," Chumly said stubbornly.
{Me: Uh, the last time I checked a 54 is a failing grade. Right?}
A circle of fire appeared before it only just like a flame a candle then it started to move from each ball with a number in a circle though to Jaden's horror it landed on a 2.
"2," Titan said, "it seem as though chance has favored the Terra King Arch Fiend. Mirror Gate is shattered. Locus Storm Bourg finish him!"
The locus Atked Avian and destroyed bring down Jaden's life points.
Jaden: 2000
"Well that stinks, but at least it actives my other trap," Jaden said, "Hero Single!" When the trap card lifted up an H was shinning in the sky. "When my monster's destroyed in battle this trap card allows me to automatically summon from my deck or my hand a monster with Elemental Hero in it's name. And I summon Elemental Hero Clayman! Def mod."
A monster made out of clay appeared onto the field.
"Way to duel," Syrus cheered.
"That Clayman should keep Jaden safe," Chumly said.
"I don't think so," Titan told them making you to look at him confused. "As least not from this." He held up an upside down pyramid with an eye in the middle that shinned brightly that it made Jaden cover his eyes. "Now the Shadow Games have truly begun. Don't your life points seem so insignificant not that your very life is at risk?"
Jaden looked down at his body to see that about most of it had disappeared.
"Hey, my arm," Jaden said in shock.
"It is the way of the shadows," Titan told Jaden, "transcending the game and Atking your body."
"Hey!" Jaden yelled in shock once again, "I can't move my feet."
"Of course not," Titan told Jaden again, "as shadow's fog rolls past you all well feel the darkness taking you into it's grip completely."
"The air," Chumly gasped, "getting tough to breath."
"You are at the mercy of the night now," Titan went on.
"I-I can't feel anything," Syrus said.
"Treasure the numbness for it won't last very long," Titan told him, "soon you all well be cast into an eternal casem were every waking moment well be filled with…"
"Oh, give me a break?" Jaden interrupted, "how bad can it be? So what? Back at our dorm we have blackout curtains, so we can sleep in later. I'm scared of the dark. It's great."
"But your blackout curtains do not wield the some kind of mystic powers as my Millennium Item does."
He once again held up that upside down pyramid with an eye in the middle.
"Wow," Jaden said.
"Oh no," Chumly mumbled, "trouble."
"It's your move, but make it count," Titan said, "it may be your last."
'Wow,' Jaden thought, 'a Millennium Item, shadow fog. Who could ask for a better challenge? Alright Jaden. Get your game on.' "Here something goes buddy. For my move I play…" Jaden drew your new card. "The spell card Pot of Greed! And I'll fuse this Elemental Hero with my Clayman on the field. Now say hello, too. Elemental Hero Thunder Giant! And I'll use his special ability which let's me destroy a monster whose original Atk points are lower then his. Now Thunder Giant let lose. Shack Blast!" Titan then started to laugh where confused Jaden once again, but him cought on soon enough.
"Uh-oh," Jaden mumbled.
"I active Terra King's special ability once again," Titan said as those number balls appeared in a circle once again. "Spin Roulette."
"Oh no," Syrus said in sadness, "it can't land on a two or a five again."
To Jaden's luck it landed on a 5.
"*Laugh* I win again," Titan gloated, "it seems as though fate isn't even on your side half the time and now you well pay the price,"
Jaden shield himself as your Thunder Giant was destroyed.
"This stinks," Jaden mumbled, "talk about really rotten luck."
"Jaden!"
"Now all of your monsters are destroyed and your next," Titan gloated again before laughing.