Two sides of the Gentle Darkness

by DarkZorua100

What if Jaden and Haou were really twins at the beginning of GX? What if they both knew about their powers of the Gentle Darkness? What if Jaden and Yubel's souls were already fused together at the beginning? GX retelling; R&R!

5. Double Smack Down

I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX!

(So after pretty much forever, chapter 5 is up! And can I just say that I think I just messed up this whole episode's plot. Oh well, at least you guys can't say that didn't change this one bit from the anime XD. Also we got another OC in this story that was made by Tigerzaley. Plus I'm having a hard time deciding who I want Jaden to end up with in this story so if you guys can drop a review on who you want Jaden to end up with (Yaoi or not) then that would be great! There's not much more I can say about this since I'm disappointed in myself since again, I missed this episode up but I'll let you guys be the judges of that. R&R!)

A week after Jaden duel with Alexis, a fleet of ships and air planes cruised through the ocean. "Well men," The captain said to his crew. "It's been a long journey and it seems like everyone's been after us but we finally arrived at our destination. Now, full speed ahead; this is the moment we've been waiting for, the moment Duel Academy gets their new rare cards!"

…..

To say Haou was tired would be an understatement. The Gentle Darkness ruler might be a night owl but not getting much sleep night after night could take its toll on someone. He was just too stubborn to give up on his hunt for that dark energy source he been feeling since he arrived at the island. He gotten close to finding it a few times but when he thought he had it, it would just disappear like it was taunting him. Haou swear he was close to losing his mind any day now but he already knew for a fact that someone lost it long before he did.

Currently, Haou was leaning against a wall in Jaden's room, watching Syrus as he was praying to a poster of Slifer the Sky Dragon with a white headband on his head with three Monster Reborn cards tapped onto it. Haou knew people did crazy things when they were nervous about tests but this took the cake for him.

"Please, please, please; let me pass this test." Syrus prayed to the sky dragon. "I don't want to be stuck in this red jacket forever….not that there's anything wrong with red. I mean, it looks great on you, Slifer. I wanna be in Ra Yellow! Please give me a chance!"

Haou rolled his eyes at this pathetic display he was watching before he turned his attention back to his deck. The only real reason the older Yuki twin was in here was to make sure Jaden was up and uh course, the younger twin was still in his bed, snoring like crazy. So Haou just decided to wait until his brother woke up or if Syrus was dumb enough, which he was, to try to wake Jaden up and watch the fireworks happen.

In the meantime, Haou was continuously drawing the top five cards of his deck just to see how his drawing skills were doing. Almost in every draw, he would get his ace card, Dark Fusion, which didn't surprise him since he had three copies of them in his deck and the fusion material monsters he needed to unleash some serious hurt onto his opponents.

*Ring!*

"Slifer!" Syrus screamed as he fell backwards out of the desk chair he was sitting in.

"Alarm clock idiot;" Haou told him, rolling his eyes once more before he glanced over at the said object which was right next to Jaden's head. "And not all that much of a surprise, Jaden sleeps right through it."

"Uh man," Syrus groaned as he crawled over to Jaden's bed and started to shake the sleeping brunette, lightly, to get him to wake up. "Jaden, wake up; the tests are today and we don't wanna be…."

Haou smirked at what happened next.

"Wrong!" Jaden yelled, smacking Syrus in the face and knocking the poor guy to the ground. "Because I played a trap!" Jaden turned over since he was in the middle of one of his dream duels.

"That's why I use a blow horn to wake him up." Haou said with a small dark chuckle. Though he was happy to see Syrus get smacked, he was even happier that Jaden was dream dueling in his human voice instead of his spirit voice or they were both dead.

Syrus groaned at that as he sat up. "Why can't he ever just sleep in defense mode for once?!" Haou raised an eyebrow at that, guessing this wasn't the first time the bluenette tried to wake up his younger brother.

"Duh Syrus;"

The small Slifer looked up to see Chumley looking down at him, head propped up on his arms. "You shouldn't be walking him up at all! Let him get some more sleep. It'll be good for him and it'll make our day a lot easier. Get what I'm saying?"

"Chumley, I don't get anything you say." Syrus replied.

"And before you say anything else, choose your next words carefully." Haou warned the older boy.

Chumley swallowed nervously at that as he said; "Look we have two different exams today which are first a Written Test and then our Field Test. The Written Test shouldn't be much trouble but our Field Test has us paired up against other students from the same dorm and I don't wanna duel against one of the guys that beat Dr. Crowler."

"And people call me Mr. Selfish." Haou said shaking his head. "You won't be dueling against Jaden. If anything, they're pair him up with me since I'm the only one that can make him break a sweat in a duel. Now if you two don't want to be added to my death list then you better leave my sight now."

That was all it took for Syrus to dash out of the room while Chumley hid under the covers like a scared little child.

…..

"You know you could at least try to be nice to my friends, Haou, instead of making them scared for their lives." Jaden said as he and his brother were walking to the Academy building since for once they were pretty good on time though Jaden kinda wanted to smack his brother upside the head for pulling him by the arms onto the cold floor just to get him up. It also didn't help his mood when he found Chumley curled up into a ball on his bed because of Haou and his death note threats.

"I'll be nice to them when they grow a brain but since that's not going to happen anytime then no, I won't be nice to them; just like I'm not nice to anyone else besides you and Yubel and that's just when I'm in good mood." Haou replied before he fully looked at Jaden when his younger twin mumbled something under his breath. "Pardon, what was that now?"

"I said you're mean to everyone beside your own family and Masika." Jaden got punched, hard, right in the arm. "Ow, what was that for?!"

"I told you a hundred times now. I don't like her. I respect her as a person and that's even more then I can say for almost everyone on this island but if you say I like her or even implied it one more time then you're getting more than a sore arm, Judai." Jaden blinked at that as his brother stormed off.

"Wow you really made him mad if his calling you by your real name, Jay." Yubel said appearing next to her partner.

"I guess but what's been up with him lately? He's been acting different ever since we arrived at the island; I first thought it was just because of Masika but when she's around, he's in a good mode instead of bad but now…"

"He's been sneaking out after midnight;" Jaden looked at Yubel after she said that. "I didn't want to alert you since I thought it was nothing serious. I just thought he was taking midnight walks and was tired afterwards and that was making him snappily but…."

"Even when his tired, Haou not threating my life since he knows I'm joking;" Jaden pointed out as his eyes changed to brown. "Just tell me again when he sneaks out and then maybe we can find some answers." He said as he started walking to the school building again.

….

Haou yawned as he leaned back in his chair, watching as other students were thinking their brains out as they tried their hardest to pass the Written Exam. It took Haou about five to ten minutes to finish his and he didn't even have to study. Now he was just waiting for the time to pass by so he could get the Field Test over and done with so he could get back to important matters: finding the dark energy and taking it for himself.

"You really are selfish, aren't you? Aren't you going to share any of that beautiful energy with little old me? I mean after all; we're best friends for life, Haou."

Haou glared at Magician. The Fiend Spellcaster had appeared not to long ago and was currently lying down on top of his desk. "You're not little, you're old as heck and we're not even friends, Magician. You're my servant and if you don't start acting like it then I'm feeding you to the demons in hell." He warned her, not to loudly so no one would look at him like he was crazy.

Magician rolled her eyes. "Well I feel so loved. Thanks, you're highness."

"Don't call me that." Haou growled at her which got him a few glances from the students who were sitting next to him before they choice to turn their attention back to their test.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. That's Yubel's thing." Magician giggled darkly as she looked over her shoulder. "Well isn't that cute; the fool is talking in his sleep."

Haou raised an eyebrow at that before he noticed that Syrus was fast asleep with his head lying on top of his test. The bluenette Slifer was also mumbling the answers or what he thought were the answers to his test in his sleep. "He pulled an all-nighter." Haou said plainly as he shook his head at the pathetic display until he noticed his brother walking into the classroom and stopping to stand next to Syrus.

"I didn't know this was an oral exam, Syrus." The bluenette woke up with a start before he noticed that Jaden was talking to him.

"You're here;" Syrus said smiling.

"You two want to keep it down?!" The two Slifers looked up a few seats above them to see Chazz looking down at them with hate filled eyes and annoyances right on his face. "Some of us plan to pass this test."

"Sorry Princeton but you failed a long time ago when you thought you could pass. You kinda need a brain to pass tests. Unless you brought one without anyone knowing about it then good luck;" Magician said which made Haou chuckle. Yeah he didn't like Magician in any shape or form but he had to agree with her that Chazz was an idiot.

"Hey, I always plan on passing….it just doesn't end up that way." Jaden argued with the Obelisk.

"Oh Jaden;" The argument was cut short when Banner called to the brunette. "Why don't you come down here and get your exam."

Jaden let out a sigh of relief since he thought he was in trouble for a second before he turned around and called; "Be there in a jiff!" He then started down the steps to the front of the class.

"Well as much as I love to continue spending time with you, Haou, I must be taking my leave as of the moment. See you later, sweetly." Haou was so close to murdering Magician for that but he didn't get the chance as she disappeared.

And just in a few minutes after getting his test, Jaden and Syrus were both asleep leaning against each other to stay sitting up. Also outside the classroom with the door clacked open a little, Crowler was spying on Jaden with a devilish smirk.

You might be able to dream your way through the Written Exam, Jaden, but when your Field Text starts, it'll be nothing but a nightmare! He then chuckled darkly to himself.

Crowler mustn't have been paying much attention to Haou since he didn't notice the older twin was glaring at him. Now what is that cross-dresser up to this time? He wondered forcing himself to stay in his seat instead of getting up and murdering Crowler right here and now. Yeah, he was still mad about the whole fake love letter thing.

After about another ten minutes or so, Banner cleared his throat and said; "Alright children, the Written Exam is now over. Now please walk, do not run to get in line for your new rare cards."

"They're here?!"

"Oh dear,"

And with that, a mob of students ran out of the classroom, trying to be the first ones to get the new cards. Soon, the only people that were left were Jaden, Syrus, Haou, and Bastion who was trying to shake the two sleeping boys awake. Haou just stayed in his seat since he had no need for new rare cards. His Evil HEROES were as rare as they could come and just as powerful.

It didn't take long for Syrus to wake up crying. "Oh I blew it, didn't I? I'm a complete failure."

"Sy, if they were grading on melodrama, you would get an A." Jaden said with a yawn as he raised his hand and opened his eyes only to blink a few times when he noticed that they were the only ones left in the classroom beside his brother who was sitting a few rows above them. "Uh where did everyone go? Please tell me we didn't sleep through the whole day!"

"No, just the whole class, Jaden; as for where everyone is, they're all at the card shop trying to get the new rare cards that arrived not that long ago to upgrade their decks for today's Field Test." Bastion explained.

"What?! New cards?! Why didn't anyone tell us?!" Syrus asked from surprised while Jaden still looked shocked but not all that surprise as Syrus was.

"Because everyone wants the best cards for themselves;" Bastion answered once again.

"So why aren't you getting some?" Syrus questioned.

"Please, one errant card in my deck would totally throw it all off."

"Mine wouldn't!"

"So then let's go!" Jaden said as he stood up from his seat. "There's nothing better than getting new cards and making new friends." Sure he loved his Elemental HEROES like family but Jaden always loved to add new cards to his deck so they could become part of their family too. The ruler of Gentle Darkness then looked above to where his brother was at. "Hey Haou, you want to join us?!"

"No," Haou answered plainly as he stood up and walked out of the room.

Jaden frowned at that. "Partly pooper," He mumbled before he looked at Syrus and he grinned. "Well let's get going, little buddy." He then took off running towards the exit before Syrus followed right behind him. "Thanks for the tip, Bastion!" Jaden called to the Ra before they were gone.

….

At the same moment that Jaden and Syrus were running to the card shop, a large group of students were already there, banging at the steel door. All of them were hoping to get at the cards before anyone else. However, one of them, a female, was standing off to the side, watching the other students with a look of disbelieve at how they were acting.

The girl had blond hair that was in a small spiked pony tail which was pulled back through the back of the baseball cap she was currently wearing. In her hair, where her pony tail was, was a circle clip that had a spiky mouth and round eyes like a pumpkin. The baseball cap she was wearing was dark grey and black in color with a design of a word that was spelled in different language other than English. She had pale paper white skin, grey eyes, and peach lips. She was also wearing a black tank top, an Obelisk Blue jacket and nary blue shinny jeans.

Now normally, you would have just seen this girl by herself but she wasn't alone; sitting on her shoulder while talking to her was this little green cube monster with a green tail, one eye in the middle of its body, and some kind of horn on top of its head/body.

"I don't get you humans sometimes, Kia." The green monster said to his master as he watched the other students as they went crazy trying to get to the new cards. "Don't they understand that their just scaring the Duel Spirits that live inside those cards that they want?"

The girl, Kia, nodded in agreement before she spoke with an English accent. "I know what you mean, Green; I'm a little freaked out myself and I'm just standing here." She sighed a little as she shook her head. "Don't some people realize that it isn't the card that makes you a great duelist but it's them themselves?"

"Oh children!" The mob turned around and Kia and Green, as she called him, looked over to see the captain from the ship walking over to them with the brief case that held the new cards. "Looking for these?!" He asked holding up the case which made the students burst into cheers.

Kia smiled at this just as another monster spirit appeared on her other shoulder. Like Green, this monster was in cubed shape with a long tail but this one was red, had two eyes and two long eyebrows that made it look like he had horns and sharp looking teeth.

"Well it's about time; I was getting bored from just standing here." The red fiend monster spoke.

"Yes because you're the one that's just standing here with monster spirits appearing on your shoulders every five seconds, Red." Kia said sarcastically with a laugh. "And just to tell you guys; I putting you people on a dieted. You're getting fat."

"Hey, this is our normal shape!" Green defended.

Kia shook her head at this with a small chuckle as she turned her attention back onto the captain.

The metal door to the card shop opened up a crack and the captain bent down to enter. "Then come and get them."

The metal door then opened up all the way and the brief case was on the table and opened. However, everyone in the crowd was shocked to see that the brief case was empty.

"What going on!?"

"Where are all the cards?!"

Even Kia was surprised to see that they were all gone in just five seconds.

Next to the now empty case was a counter girl and a man in a long black coat. "You know the rules, first come first serve." The counter girl, Sadie, said which made everyone jaw drop.

"And I was here first, so I took every one of them." The black coat guy added. With that, the crowd of angry or disappointed students started to go away. Kia, however, just stood there in shook and anger.

"What kind of bull crap is this?!" Red yelled as he climbed to the top of Kia's head so he was standing on the very top of her baseball cap. "Hey buddy! You can't just take all the cards like that! My buddy Kia here wanted to get some of those!"

"Red, you're just wasting your breath. He can't hear you." Kia mumbled as her hands tighten into fist at her sides. Yes, she didn't like it how people went crazy at trying to get their hands on some of those cards but after seeing the disappointed looks on some of the students' faces; she was kinda temped to hit this guy who took all the cards for himself.

She almost actually did that as the said black coat man walked right pasted her and bumped shoulders with her. "Oh sorry, miss." The man apologetic before he continued walking off to somewhere.

Kia said nothing as she looked over at her shoulder, the same one the man bumped into her, and the very same one that Green was standing on but he wasn't standing on it anymore; the same cube fiend was hanging on for dear life since the force of the bump to a monster of his size made it so he lost his footing. "Don't worry, buddy, I got you." She picked him up and placed him back on her shoulder.

"I don't like that guy." Green said gasping for breaths. He might not have been freaking out on the outside but he was screaming his lungs out on the inside.

"Same here, Green, same here;" Kia agreed.

….

"Come on Syrus, let's make tracks." Jaden said over his shoulder to his friend as they closing in on the card shop but he soon stopped and so did Syrus when they noticed something that was way off. No one was at the card shop. "We have to….get in line?"

"Where is everyone? They couldn't have run out of cards already, could they?!" Syrus looked like he was about to burst into tears at that.

"No, they were all taken." Jaden and Syrus both turned and were surprised to see a blond hair girl wearing a baseball cap sitting on top of table, that was in the corner of the shop, with her legs over the side, holding an open can of coke in hand.

"Uh excuse me, miss, but what do you mean they were taken?" Jaden asked walking over to the girl who was taking a drink from her soda before she placed it down on the table.

"I mean they were taken; all of them by this one person in a black coat." The girl, Kia, answered. "No other student was able to get any of the rare cards since he took every single last one of them."

"What happened to everyone's fair share?" Jaden questioned with a frown from hearing that.

"I guess the idiot didn't know about it or didn't care one bit in the least." Kia shrugged. "Not like we can do anything about it now."

"I for one think we should hunt the dude down and tie him to a tree until he hands over the cards." Jaden looked around where he heard that, thinking it was one of his spirits but he was taken by surprise when noticed a Red Duston monster had appeared on the girl's shoulder.

"Oh my god, it's so cute!" This time, Jaden knew it was one of his monsters since Knospe appeared on his shoulder to stare at the tiny fiend creature. "Jay-bear, can we keep it?!"

"Hey! I'm not cute! I'm a dangerous beast!" Red Duston even tried to roar to prove his point but it only turned into a meow sound.

"Hey Sy," Jaden spoke to the bluenette who looked up at him. "You want to check to see if they do have any more packs of cards left at the front counter?"

"Well I guess I could." Syrus replied before he took off.

After making sure that Syrus was gone, Jaden turned to look back at Kia and at the same time, they both said; "So how long have you had a Duel Spirit." They both blinked at that. "You can see mine too?!" Again they both blinked since they were somehow stuck speaking at the same time. Once more, they were both about to say someone at the same time again but they both stopped themselves and started laughing.

"I don't get it; what's so funny?" Red Duston questioned.

Kia was the first one to stop laughing as she said. "Well you just turned my bad morning into a good one. I thought I was the only person on the island that could see Duel Spirits."

"Nope and I'm not the only one. My older twin brother, Haou, can see them too." Jaden replied with a smile as he held out his hand. "The name's Jaden by the way."

"Kia Macy;" She replied smiling back as she shook hands with him. "And I guess you already met Red over here."

"I'm Knospe!" The plant monster joined in on the introductory.

Kia laughed at that as she looked back over at Jaden. "So is she the only Duel Spirit you got?"

Jaden shook his head. "My whole deck is filled with spirits. Some of them just like to show up in duels and others like Knospe here like to show up whenever she wants to but I don't have a problem with it; Knospe like my little sister. What about you? Is Red the only one you have?"

"I have six spirits. Red here and my other monster Duston, Green, are the ones that like to appear out of nowhere to keep me company. My other three are just shy and the last one is to giant." Kia chuckled at that.

"So how long have you been able to see Duel Spirits?" Jaden asked.

"What are we playing now? 20 questions?" Kia asked making Jaden chuckle.

"I guess we are." He answered as he took a seat next to her on the table.

"Well I guess since I got my Duston deck. I was just walking down a street one day and I heard some voices calling for help. So I continued to follow the voices until I found these little guys thrown away in a trash can." Jaden's eyes widen at that. "Yeah, it wasn't pretty and till this day I want to find who did that to these little guys." Kia's eyes looked to be gazed over for a second like she was in deep thought before she looked back at him and her smile returned. "And what about you?"

"I was born with the ability." Jaden answered before he looked away and his eyes flashed to Yubel's for a second. How could someone just throw away their cards like that?! There not just pieces of paper; living breathing creatures very souls are in them! He thought.

"Well isn't that just nice." Jaden snapped out of his thoughts before he looked back at Kia. "Look over there." Jaden did what she asked and looked straight ahead to see Knospe was now playing tag with not just Red but a green version of the first Duston.

Jaden smiled at this.

…..

"Okay, so we checked here, here, and here about ten times now and we know for sure that the dark energy source never appears in these areas." Haou said marking off those spots on a map of Duel Academy that he so happened to have found. Those areas he crossed off were the Academy Building, the Dorms, and the docks. "Now we know for a fact that the source always appears and then disappears from these places." Haou circled the forest, the beach, and around the cliffs of the island. "And the only places we haven't checked yet are the rest of the forest and the volcano." He placed squares around those two areas before Haou leaned back in his desk chair and sighed as he closed his eyes.

Magician rolled her eyes at all of this as she looked over at her dark master from where she was laying down on his bed. "I find it funny how you think I'm paying attention to what you're saying let alone caring about any of it." She smirked as she waited for his snap of a reply but when she didn't get one, Magician raised an eyebrow. "Hey sweetly pie, you listening?" She knew she was going to get snapped at for that one but again, she didn't get a reply which made Magician worry a little as she got up from her place on his bed and walked over to Haou. Magician looked at his face from over his shoulder and she let out a small sigh of relief when she just saw that Haou just collapsed from exhaustion before she shook her head. "Poor fool; working himself until he drops just trying to find some more power."

Still Magician had to watch Haou for a few seconds as the dark lord slept. She always knew he was handsome, proud, and strong just like any warrior let alone the King of the Gentle Darkness should be but just watching him at this very moment, Magician knew very well that Haou was only human even if he did have some unhuman like powers and acted like a demon to everyone; even to her but Magician was used to it. It was kinda like a game to her, a dance if you may, where she tried to annoy him and Haou tried to not lose his cool but Magician always ended up winning. The very rare times, like now, where Magician would drop her dark evil witch act was the only times where Haou would win; even if he was sleeping.

Just as Magician was about to move Haou over to his bed, she stopped when she heard a small knock on Haou's locked door. She raised an eyebrow since there was no way it couldn't have been Jaden since the brother to her master would have just opened the door or tried to since it was locked. So she poked her head through the wall and an evil grin formed on her face when she saw who it was. "Oh she's going to love this sight." The Evil HERO chuckled as she unlocked the door before she disappeared back into Haou's deck.

Meanwhile on the other side of the door, Masika was standing there, feeling unease as she was kinda hoping Haou wouldn't answer even if he was in his dorm. Why am I here again? She thought blushing some of her hair out of her face before she looked down at her hands and noticed she was holding the note card that was attached to the black flower she got that was in the envelope that Jaden handed to her that he said was from Haou. Oh yeah, now I remember. She sighed as a small blush started to form on her face. I came here to thank him and I'm not backing down now even if I'm a little shy about all of this. So once again, the Atlantean duelist knocked on the door and was surprised a little when the door cracked open a little. So he is home? She guessed since the rules stated that all students must have their dorm rooms locked if they were going out. Masika slowly opened the door and peeked inside and what she found inside the darker twin's room made her jaw drop.

Haou was here all right but the Gentle Darkness ruler was fast asleep in his desk chair. His brown hair was a bit of a mess and his sunglasses that he always wore were also lying on top of his desk.

I should leave. Masika told herself but her body wasn't listening to her and neither were her eyes since she was staring at him like crazy. But he looks so peaceful; like an angel….well a fallen angel in his case. She thought noticing for the first time how tense Haou always looked even when he was in a calm mood but now, he finally looked relaxed.

"Well it looks like she's enjoying the view." Magician said smirking as she appeared next to Haou with a blow horn in her hand. "Now for the fun part." She held the horn to Haou's ear and pushed the button.

Haou's eyes snap up as he woke up with a start and he fell out of his chair. "What the bloody hell, Magician?!" The dark king snapped at her; anger flashed in his golden eyes as he glared at the female fiend, not even noticing Masika was standing there in the doorway.

"Oh so that's what that this button does." Magician said before she giggled. "My bad and just to tell you, your highness, you have a visitor." The fiend spellcaster then quickly disappeared before she got the full wrath of her master.

"Uh Haou…"

Haou's eyes suddenly changed to brown when he heard that voice and he slowly turned his head and his eyes widen when he saw Masika was standing there in his half way open doorway with a cross between a confused and freaked out look on her face. Oh F my life right now. He thought as he quickly stood up from where he hit the floor.

"I know my first question should be 'are you okay?' but you're eyes…?"

F my life hard; Haou thought trying to think of some lame cover up that maybe she'll believe but before he had the chance to, Masika continued.

"I didn't know they were an amber brown color." Masika finished with a smile surprising Haou. "I thought yours were a chocolate brown like Jaden's but I guess you two had to look a little different in appearance right?" She giggled a little.

I must be dreaming….I have to be… Haou thought as he tried to speak but no words come out of his mouth and he mentally smacked himself in the head for his off behavior at this moment. For calling out loud, he was known for his dark, cool, and jerk like personality but now he was acting like an idiot going on his first date with a cute girl. Keep it together, Haou! You're far from being stupid, you're not on a bloody date and you're don't like Masika! He yelled at himself in his mind.

"Hey Haou, are you okay?" Haou looked back over at Masika who was looking at him with a worried look on her face.

"I'm fine," The dark king was barely able to say as he walked over to one of walls in his room and started banging his head against it.

"Hey, what are you doing?!" Masika ran over to him and pulled him away from the wall before he could hit his head again. "Are you trying to give yourself brain damage?!"

"Yes," Haou answered honestly looking away from her gaze.

"Well don't! Are you insane?! That can really hurt you!" Masika told him before she added. "And I should know; I ran into more walls then I can remember from my clumsiness."

Haou just pushed her away from him as he walked over to his desk and put his sunglasses on. Masika frowned at that. "I don't see why you try to hide your eyes, Haou. There's nothing wrong with them."

That you know about. Haou thought before he looked back over at her. "So, is there a reason why you're here or do you normally like to break into boys' rooms when you think they're not home?"

Masika felt a small blush come on from that comment. "For your information; your door was unlocked and I'm here because of you!" Haou raised an eyebrow at both of those as Masika held up a note card. "I just wanted to come here to say thank you for the flower and the note."

"Flower and note? What the heck are you talking about?" Haou questioned crossing his arms over his chest.

"The flower and note you gave your brother to give to me." Masika answered frowning as she held up note card up and read it; "Getting black flowers is usually a negative romantic message; getting one, however, means a powerful romantic gesture with a hint of mystery."

Haou swore he saw red after he heard all that. "What the freak did I just say to the no good son of a bitch? I told him to drop it and instead he decides to play cupid?" He growled under his breath, not knowing this happened about a week ago. Haou then glanced back at Masika. "Excuse me, Masika, but I'm going to go murder my brother now." Before Masika could say anything, Haou grabbed his duel disk and stormed out of the room.

…..

"So Jaden, why does Knospe call you Jay-bear? I can get it if she called you Jay-bird or better yet blue jay but bear?" Kia questioned as she and Jaden were now taking a walk along the beach that was under the cliffs of the Slifer dorm.

Jaden chuckled nervously at that as he rubbed the back of his head. "Well it's kind of an inside joke. During Halloween one year when I was seven, I decided to dress up as a bear with wings on my back and Knospe's mother, Poison Rose, called me a Jay-bear and that name kinda stuck with Knospe." He laughed. "Lesson learned? Never mix customs or else you get stuck with nicknames. But I don't care, I kinda taken a liking to the name also."

"Oh, I just guessed it was because she thought you were a teddy bear. Also…." Kia smirked as she held up a tape recorder. "Blackmail,"

Jaden's eyes widen at that. "You wouldn't dare."

"Try me….Jay-bear." Kia smirked before she was then taken by surprise as Jaden tackle her to the ground and pinned her there on the sand.

"I tried and I won." Jaden grinned, looking down at her.

"Not quite; I should warn you, Jaden, I fight dirty." Jaden raised an eyebrow before he got what she meant when Kia head-butted him. Jaden flinched back from the sudden pain in his forehead and using that small time she had, Kia somehow flipped them over so she was on top and had Jaden pinned to the ground.

"Ow, jezz girl, you hit hard. I think I meant have brain damage now." Jaden said with a laugh to show that he was only just joking.

"You're the one that started it, Mr."

"You're the one that made the recording!"

"Oh yeah but you did know I was only joking about the blackmail, right?"

"Now you tell the guy."

"Are you two done yet?" Kia looked over her shoulder when she heard that. Jaden already knew who that voice belonged to but he still raised his head to see Haou standing there, a few feet away from them, with his arms crossed over his chest.

"Hey bro," Jaden smiled as Kia got off of him and he stood up. "What's up?"

Haou didn't reply; instead he glanced over at Kia. "Who's she?"

"She goes under the name of Kia and I'm one of your brother's new friends." Kia answered staring at Haou for a few seconds before she raised an eyebrow. The dude looked like Jaden alright and sounded a little bit like him too but the way he dressed and acted was nothing like his twin.

"Good for you; this is how much I care." Haou waved her off before he glared at his brother. "Judai, I have half the nerve to beat the living day lights out of you from where you stand." He threated which took his brother from surprise.

"Hey wait a second, Haou, why you mad at me all of the sudden?" Jaden questioned. "If this is about this morning…."

"Black flower," Haou growled at him and Jaden shut up after he heard that.

"Well I hate to be the one to say I told you so, Jaden, but I told you so!" Yubel exclaimed in his mind. "We'll have fun running for your life."

'Thanks Yubel,' Jaden groaned back at her in his head before he started to take small steps back when Haou was walking closer to him. "Listen Haou, I know you're mad and all but I was only…."

"Shut up," Haou warned him and just as he took another step towards him, he suddenly stopped and took a flinch step back when he felt something knock the breath out of him for a few seconds. He raised his hand and placed it on his right cheek. Someone just punched him right across the face and he didn't even notice it coming until the blow connected.

"Yo!" Haou glanced over to see Kia was standing there with one of her fist raised. "What is wrong with you?! What kind of brother beats up his younger one?!"

"Stay out of this;" Haou warned her rubbing his cheek for a few seconds before he lowered his hand to his side.

"Kia, I think you better listen to him." Jaden agreed with his brother. "Look I made a stupid mistake and I can handle my brother's wrath."

"Jaden, shut up!" Kia snapped at him which made the younger twin flinch back before she turned her gaze back onto Haou. "Look, I might not know what the heck is going on between you two but whatever happened, I'm sure Jaden was only trying to help and even if he did do something that gave you every right to be mad at him, that still doesn't mean you can beat him up! You're brothers for calling out loud! Family for god's sake and family doesn't beat each other up over something as stupid as a black flower!" Kia stopped to take a breath as she glared at Haou who looked unfazed by her words but she could only guess since those sunglasses he wore to cover his eyes made it hard to tell. "But since my words aren't changing your mind in the least." Kia took out her deck from its holder and inserted it into the duel disk she was wearing on her arm. "How about a duel than? If I win, then you forgive Jaden for whatever he did and if you win, then you can beat me up instead for that blow I did to your face."

Jaden's eyes widen at that while Haou just stared at her. "And why should I agree to something like that when I can just walk right past you to my brother?" The darker twin questioned.

"Well it's nice to know the great Haou Yuki is scared and back down from a challenge from a girl that by the way dealt a hard blow to not just his face but to his pride then." Kia smirked when she saw noticed the way Haou was trying to hold back a low dark growl from coming out.

"You're dead, girl." Haou growled at her as he took out his own deck and placed it in his duel disk. "I can't wait to see my fiends tear you to pieces."

Kia raised an eyebrow at the way his voice suddenly changed but she chose to ignore it as she turned on her duel disk. "Game on then;"

(Haou: 4000 Kia: 4000)

Why does every time Haou duels against someone, I'm always the one that has to be sitting at the sideline, hoping nothing bad happens? Jaden wondered as he looked from his new friend to his brother who looked ready to rip Kia to pieces. And unlike his duel with Masika, I don't think Haou going to allow her to do anything.

"It's worse than that, Jaden." Yubel stated appearing next to him with her arms crossed over her chest. "Take a look through my eyes at Haou."

Jaden didn't question her as his eyes changed to Yubel's and he glanced over at Haou. His eyes widen when he saw the large amount of dark energy that was coming off of his brother. "I thought we release most of that black energy out of him?" He whispered.

"We did but somehow, Haou found more dark energy and it's corrupting him again." Yubel frowned as she looked over at Haou. "First sign of a Shadow Game starting, I'm pulling the plug on this match."

"Since you're such a gentleman, I'll go first." Kia said drawing and a large grin appeared on her face. "I'm playing my House Duston in defense mode." The ground started to shake a little as a giant house started to rise up from the sand behind Kia. The house was silver in color with rocks around it and wires and it also had purple windows (Atk: 0 Def: 1000). "I'm also going to throw down a face down and end my turn. Now let's see what you got."

"Against a giant doll house? This shouldn't take long." Haou drew his card. "Since I have no monster's on my field, I can special summon my Evil HERO Infernal Prodigy in attack mode!" Appearing on Haou's field was a fiend that had bat like ears and wings on its back, red eyes, and a long tail that kinda looked like Flame Wingman's (Atk: 300 Def: 600). "And since he was just a special summon, I'm going to sacrifice him to summon out…"

"Go Duston Roller!" Kia yelled as her face down rose up and a huge paint roller appeared out of the card and rolled right over Infernal Prodigy, covering the fiend in some kind of yellow green fluid. "Thanks to this handy like trap, you're monster that you were about to sacrifice isn't going anywhere. This trap prevents you from using you're Infernal Prodigy as a tribute to summon out a higher level monster and you can't use him as fusion material either."

"Kia just shut down Haou's way of summoning out my guess Evil HERO Malicious Edge onto the field on his first turn." Jaden looked over at Kia in awe.

"Not only that, she left Haou with a weak defense since he can't change his battle position to defense mode either;" Yubel added but once she looked back over at Haou and noticed he had a smirk on his face, she started to worry.

"Do you really think that one little trap card of yours can really protect you?" Haou questioned.

"Well it's doing its job isn't it?" Kia replied who was also getting a little worried at seeing that smirk on Haou's face but she tried her best to not let it show.

"Well think again then; I'm playing I-Infernal Ice!" A spell card appeared on Haou's field that had a picture of a red I in the middle of it. "With this, I just have to send an Evil Hero from my hand to the graveyard and you're trap card's effect is canceled and then it's destroyed." Haou took a card from his hand and sent it to his graveyard and right after he did so; Kia's trap card started to freeze as it turned into ice before fire appeared around it and destroyed it.

"Crap," Kia bit the bottom of her lip. "Well I guess I have to look on the bright side of things; since you destroyed Duston Roller, I can take a Duston monster from my deck and add it right to my hand." Kia took out her deck and did just that.

"Yeah but it's not going to be doing you any good now. Now where were we? Oh yeah, I'm going to sacrifice Infernal Prodigy to summon out Evil HERO Malicious Edge in attack mode!" The prodigy fiend was engulfed in darkness as it was replaced with Haou's icon monster (Atk: 2600 Def: 1800). "And you know what the best part about him is? If you have a monster on your field, I can summon him with only one sacrifice. Oh and before I forget, he can deal piercing battle damage." Kia's eyes widen at that as Haou smirked. "Now attack her House Duston with Needle Burst!" Malicious Edge grinned like the devil as he jumped into the air and threw needles at the house and destroyed it.

(Haou: 4000 Kia: 2400)

"That'll teach you not to get into other people's business." Haou smirked as the smoke from the attack started to clear away but to Haou's surprise, Kia was still standing even from the damage she took from Edge's attack.

"Nice ability;" Kia grinned. "Now let me show you mine." Right after she said that, two monsters appeared on her field and what took Haou even more by surprise was that two monsters appeared on his field also.

The two monsters that were on Kia's field was Green Duston and the other one was a Duston monster too but this one was yellow that had a long tail, quicksand looking eyes and a nose that formed into two antennas. On Haou's side of the field were Red Duston and a blue Duston that had a long tail and quicksand like eyes like yellow but this one had a long curved horn in the middle of its head and unlike the other Duston, this one's body wasn't squared shape. Kia's monsters were in defense mode while Haou's were in attack mode (Atk: 0 Def: 1000 X4).

"Okay, what the heck just happened here?" Jaden wondered out loud and though Haou wasn't saying anything, he was wondering the same thing also.

"What just happened was that Haou destroyed House Duston. When it's destroyed and sent to the graveyard, I can special summon any Duston monsters of my choice from my hand and/or deck to anywhere on the field, but I must special summon an equal number of monsters on each side. So I decided to summon Green and Yellow to my side of the field and since I'm a nice person, I'm letting you use Red and Blue for a bit." Kia explained before she added with a smirk. "Oh and just to give you a heads up, Duston can't be used for fusion and/or special summon so I just took out two of your monster card zones."

"Two annoying little fiends that have zero attack points and I can't even use them for anything?!" Haou growled in annoyance at that. "Whatever, I still got Malicious Edge on my field and you got two worthless monsters too…"

"Hey! My Duston are anything but worthless! You take that back right now!" Kia snapped at him.

Haou just rolled his eyes at that. "Fine, I'm just going to change you're 'not worthless' monsters into defense mode and I'm ending my turn with a face down."

Kia bit her lip again just so she wouldn't start cursing like crazy at the dark ruler. How in the world is this jerk and Jaden brothers? She wondered as she drew. "I'm summing White Duston in attack mode!" The second to final member in the Duston family appeared on the field. This one was white with a tail, had no mouth, and a half ring on top of his head (Atk: 0 Def: 1000).

"Attack mode? You know if you want to give up then just tell me so I don't have to waste my time dueling you." Haou spoke getting a glare from Kia.

"You didn't let me finish, asshole." Kia rolled her eyes as she took a card from her hand. "I'm playing the equip spell card, United We Stand, and I'm equipping it to White." A wave of energy appeared around White as his attack points went up (Atk: 0-2400 Def: 1000). "With this card, White gains 800 more attack points for each monster on my field."

"I know what the card does but in case you didn't know; you're short by a few points if you were hoping to destroy Malicious Edge." Haou shook his head.

"Maybe but not for long; I always have a backup plan ready so I'm going to use another equip spell, Megamorph!" Haou watched as a stone appeared in front of White and fit into his little half ring hole (Atk: 2400-4800 Def: 1000). "Since you have more life points then I do, White's attack points are double and now he's the strongest monster on the field. Now let's put all that power to good use and destroy Malicious Edge!"

Haou didn't so much as flinch as he watched the tiny white monster somehow picked up Malicious Edge and threw him head first to the ground.

(Haou: 1800 Kai: 2400)

"Wow talk about a comeback for Kia. I think Haou finally met his match, Yubel." Jaden said to his spirit partner.

"I don't think so, Jaden. Now that Kia's life points are higher than Haou, White Duston points go down by a lot." Yubel explained as she pointed to the tiny monster just to prove her point as his attack went down (Atk: 4800-1200 Def: 1000). "And knowing Haou that face down of his isn't something good."

She was right since Haou was activating it. "I'm playing my V-Vicious Vengeance trap card. Since one of my monsters was destroyed, I get to destroy one of yours."

White Duston burst into flames as he was destroyed along with the two equip spells that were on him. "You son of a bitch;" Kia mumbled.

"And it gets better too. Now I get to take an Evil HERO from my deck and add it right to my hand but you get something out of all of this too; you get to draw a card." Haou explained as took out the Evil HERO that he wanted while Kia drew her card.

"I'm just going to end my turn with two face downs then." Kia ended as a two face downs appeared on her field.

"V and I?" Jaden's eyes widen when he guessed what Haou was paying on doing. "Oh no,"

"If Haou plays E and L then it's game over for your friend, Jaden." Yubel said as she gazed over at Haou who was making his move.

"I'm going to play Pot of Greed which lets me draw two more cards." Haou started as he drew two more cards before he held one of them up. "Now I'm going to play Dark Fusion. With this, I'm going to fuse Elemental HERO Sparkman and Elemental HERO Clayman together to summon out Evil HERO Lightning Golem in attack mode!" The two good heroes appeared on the field before they swirled together and a dark version of Elemental HERO Thunder Giant appeared. This giant of a monster was blue with thunder bolt shoulder blades and red stones on his chest and on the back of his hands (Atk: 2400 Def: 1500).

"That monster doesn't scare me." Kia said glazing up at the golem.

"Oh he doesn't? Maybe he will now since I'm going to equip him with E-Evil Energy!" The golem grinned evilly as a dark aura appeared around him and his attack points went up (Atk: 2400-2900 Def: 1500). "This card gives an Evil HERO monster 500 more attack points along with the ability to deal piercing battle damage." Haou explained before a dark grin formed on his face. "Now I'm going to activate Lightning Golem's special ability. Once per turn, he can destroy a monster on your field."

Kia's eyes widen at that as the golem held up his hand over Green and destroyed the Duston as lightning appeared around him. "Green!" Kia yelled as her monster screamed as he was destroyed. "Crap and thanks to his effect, I have to take a spell or trap card that's on my field and add it back to my hand." One of Kia's face down disappeared off the field.

"That's not even the worst part. Lightning Golem still has his normal attack. Go! Destroy Yellow Duston with Hell Lightning!" Haou ordered as once again, the golem monster shot out a way of lightning that destroyed the other Duston who screamed in pain.

(Haou: 1800 Kia: 500)

"Not Yellow too!" Kia groaned. "Still, when his destroyed, I get to take back a monster from my graveyard and add it back into my deck." She did just that before she played her face down. "I'm now playing, Damage Condenser! With this, by discarding one card from my hand, I get to summon a monster from my deck whose attack points are equal to or lower to the total damage that you just dealt to me. So just by getting rid of this little card," Kia sent a card from her hand to the graveyard. "I'm summoning out my Goblin King in attack mode!"

"Say what now?" Haou was kinda taken by surprise as the king of goblins appeared on the field (Atk: 0 Def: 0). "Oh crap…"

"I take it you know what his effect is then? Goblin King gains 1000 points for each fiend type monster that's on the field and I count a total of four of them so far." Kia grinned as one of her act card's power went up (Atk: 0-4000 Def: 0-4000).

"I can't believe I'm saying this but I think Kia might just have a chance at betting Haou. Almost all of his monsters are fiend types and the only ones that aren't are the Elemental HEROES he uses to summon them with." Jaden mumbled as he looked over at Kia. "Remind me to duel her when I get the chance."

Yubel didn't say anything to that as she looked over at Haou. He only needs to play one more card and then he'll win the duel. She sighed as she shook her head at the thought before she gazed up at the top of the cliffs that the two fiend type duelist were dueling under to see Masika standing there, watching the duel also. How long has she been standing there?

"I'm end my turn." Haou growled in annoyance.

"Why thank you; you really are a gentleman." Kia said sarcastically as she drew and grinned. "I'm first going to play my Double Attack spell card so my Goblin King can attack twice this turn. Now attack his Lightning Golem!" Goblin King roared as he punched the golem and destroyed it.

(Haou: 700 Kia: 500)

"Now with the effect of Double Attack, Goblin King is going to attack Red Duston but before he does…" Kia looked over at her Red monster that she let Haou use during this duel. "You okay for taking one for the team, pal?"

"I'm always one for taking one for the team! Now hit me with your best shot, Kia!" Red replied with a smirk like he was happy to die just to see Haou lose.

"Well you heard the little guy, Goblin King attack!" Once again, the king threw out a powerful punch right into Red's face and destroyed the little guy.

"Good, you just gave me a monster card zone back by destroying your own worthless monster." Haou spoke.

"My 'worthless' monster has an effect you know. He deals 500 points of damage to its controller when he's destroyed." Kia retorted.

(Haou: 200 Kia: 500)

"Now since two fiend type monster left the field, my Goblin King losses some points but his still strong enough to take out the 200 life points you have left. I'm just going to throw down a face down and end my turn." Kia said as one last face down appeared on her field while her Goblin King's points went down (Atk: 4000-2000 Def: 4000-2000).

"Finally, I draw." Haou said but Kia cut him off before he could continue.

"Sorry but I'm going to play my trap card, Battle Mania! I can only activate during your Standby Phase, Haou. Now all face-up monsters you control are changed to attack mode and you cannot change their battle positions this turn. Oh and all your monsters must attack this turn too." Right after she finished explaining her trap card, Blue Duston rose up to stand on his tiny little legs.

"You mean this duel going to end now? Finally Kia, this guy was scaring me;" Blue said before he cried a little as Haou glared down at him.

"You didn't have to play that trap card of yours. I was going to finish this duel anyway this turn." Haou stated as he held up the card he just drew before he flipped it over so Kia could see it. "I'm playing my L-Living Luck spell card. With this, I can special summon an Evil HERO monster from my graveyard right onto my field and I'm picking one of my least favorite ones, Evil HERO Magician!"

"But I never sent that card to the graveyard!" Kia spoke.

"You didn't; I did. You remember when I played I-Infernal Ice and I had to send an Evil HERO to the graveyard to make it work? Yeah guess who?" Haou rolled his eyes right after he said that when he heard the annoying giggle of the female fiend.

"Yeah, I knew you didn't just throw me away for nothing, Haou. You need me." Magician smirked as she appeared on the field (Atk: 2500-3000 Def: 1800).

"I need you to shut up since I brought you back just so I could activate this card here; my E.V.I.L. Ritual!"

Jaden's eyes widen like crazy at that since Haou didn't play the card that he thought he would to win this duel. Instead, he played something much worse. "I thought we took that card out of his deck!"

"Haou must have put it back when we weren't looking." Yubel replied as she disappeared.

"When I have E-Evil Energy, V-Vicious Vengeance, I-Infernal Ice, and L-Living Luck in my graveyard; I can add this card right into my hand and then use its effect. So by removing those four cards from play, I can summon something that's going to be you're destroyer. I'm summoning Evil HERO Ruler…." Before Haou could summon his great beast, Yubel appeared behind him and hit him so hard in the back of the head, it knocked him out cold and Haou collapsed to the ground.

Kia blinked a few times as the duel shut itself down. "Uh…..what just happened?"

…..

"Haou, are you freaking insane?! Don't you remember what happened the last time you tried to play Ruler?! He can corrupted you or even destroy you! And you're not even paying attention to a damn thing that I'm saying!" Yubel hissed at the Gentle Darkness king who had his back to her.

Currently, Haou was laying down on his bed back in the Slifer dorm. Yubel was in the room with him too, yelling at him like crazy for doing something so stupid. Jaden and the girls were at the dorm too but in Jaden's room as the other ruler of the Gentle Darkness was trying to come up with an reason that sounded believable as to why Haou collapsed all of the sudden which was really hard to do since Kia could see Duel Spirits and might have seen Yubel knock him out.

"Look Yubel, can you care to yell at me when my head isn't pounding at the moment?" Haou groaned while he held an icepack on his head. "It's bad enough that you gave me brain damage but absorbing my darkness doesn't help either. I been to hell and back just in this one day so can I get a break here?!"

"Oh I love to, your highness, but I have two more thing to say first. Why was there so much dark energy coming off of you? And how high were you when you thought it was a good idea to put Ruler back into your deck?! Care to make a statement, Haou?" Yubel asked narrowing her eyes at him with her arms crossed.

Haou made no comment and Yubel was about to snap at him again for that but she stop herself when the door to Haou's room opened up and Jaden walked in, pulled up a chair, and sat down with a sigh of relief before he glared at Haou with just as much angry that Yubel had in her eyes.

"I hate you at the moment, Haou. You know how much I hate lying and I have to continue doing it when you decided to do something like this." Jaden proclaimed making Haou glance over at his brother.

"Jaden, I'm sorry okay."

"If you were sorry then you wouldn't keep doing this!" Jaden retorted actually making Haou flinch back a little from his brother's sudden anger. "You just don't get it, Haou!" Jaden stood up so quickly from his chair that he made it fall backwards. "I hope I gave you something to think about. Now if you don't mind, I got to go take the Field Test and try to think of a reason why you're not taking yours. Let's go, Yubel." With that, Jaden left the room, slamming the door shut behind him.

"He hates me, doesn't he?" Haou asked looking at Yubel who was taken by surprise by his question.

"Haou, Jaden loves you so he worries to death about you. He's just mad at you since he thinks better of you and knows you're a good person who just makes stupid choices. But mostly, he's mad at himself since he thinks he was the one that caused all of this just because he was trying to help you." With that, Yubel disappeared since she couldn't be too far away from Jaden or bad things will start to happen to their shared soul.

Haou just sighed after Yubel left as he sat up in his bed. I might have my pride but Jaden and Yubel are right. I do make stupid choices. He thought as he glanced over at his desk to where the map he had early was at. Well I can start making things right with him but fixing one of them. He placed the icepack down on his bed as he stood up and walked over to his desk. He stopped next to his desk so he was looking right down at the map. Haou narrowed his eyes at it as he picked it up and rip it into pieces before he threw it into the trash.

"So long, power; I won't need you until the time comes." He mumbled before Haou quickly turned around when he thought he heard something growling behind him but when he check to see so, there was nothing there. "Yep, I do have brain damage." Haou shook his head as he went to lie back down on his bed.

However, outside Haou's window, those three shadows that were watching him while Jaden and Alexis were having there duel were once again watching him; all of them growled since their master just gave up on finding them. Not only that, another shadow was watching him but this one had a smirk on his face.

…..

Meanwhile, during the time when Yubel was yelling at Haou, Chazz and his followers were walking around the school building as they told him what happened at the card shop early today.

"We couldn't get you a single one, sorry Chazz." Raizou said to their leader.

"You know what's sorry? You two; but it doesn't matter because there's not a single duelist at this school who can beat me no matter what card they carry." Chazz spoke in annoyed tone.

"Unless that duelist happened to be Jaden or Haou Yuki;" The three Obelisk Blue students stopped when they heard someone talking. They all looked up to see a man in a long black coat and hat who was standing at the top of the stairs.

"Who are you?" Chazz asked in annoyance.

"Somebody who thinks you despise the Yuki brothers just as much as I do."

"That's him! That's the sticky fingers who took all of the rare cards!" Taiyou said pointing at the man.

"Rare cards, what rare cards? Oh you mean…these cards?!" The man spread his jacket open to reveal row after row of the new rare cards that he took.

"Wow, talk about having a card up your sleeve."

"Okay enough of this! Tell me who you really are now or do I have to come up there to make you?!" Chazz snapped.

"Oh you don't recognize me, do you Chazz? Well, how about now?!" The guy threw off his hat to reveal that he really was…

"Crowler!"

"You looked a whole lot better covered up." Chazz said which made Crowler face faulted.

"Well I know something that will make us all look better. I want you to be Jaden's field test opponent and I want you to use these new rare cards to do so, Chazz." Crowler explained.

"But we're not in the same dorm so I can't be his test opponent." Chazz pointed out.

"Well you leave that to me, Chazz. Just make sure you use these rare cards to beat him so badly that he'll get kicked out of this place." Crowler said before he burst into evil laughter.

….

"Yubel, do you think I was too hard on Haou when I snapped at him?" Jaden asked as he was walking onto his field for his Field Test since he was somehow one of the first people to be taking theirs.

"You had every right to be angry at him, Jaden. I hate to see either one of you two sad but Haou has to remember from time to time that most of his actions hurt you along with other people. Don't worry about it. Let's just go on in there and you'll have fun dueling like you always do. Then we can worry about what to do with Haou afterwards." Yubel told him with a smile.

Jaden smiled back. "You're right, Yubel. I'm going to walk onto that field and I'm going to…" As Jaden made it to his dueling field, he did a double take to make sure he was on the right one or not since he saw who his opponent was. When he noticed he was, his eyes widen and he gasped; "Wait hold on a second; I'm dueling an Obelisk and it's Chazz!"

"That's right, Jaden." Crowler confirmed with a smirk who was standing there to make sure everyone was in there right places. "Since you always talk such a big game, I decided to pull some strings for you so you got the challenge you deserved." Crowler then pointed at Chazz. "So congratulations, you'll be dueling one of the top ranked students at the school. What an honor! I sure hope you were able to snag a lot of today's rare cards so that your deck's up to snuff. What's wrong? Aren't you going to thank me?"

"Uh….thanks?" Jaden didn't know if he should be really happy to finally get to finish his match with the male blue or be surprised since he was dueling Chazz out of all the people.

Meanwhile up in the stands with all the other students, Syrus, Bastion, and Alexis were sitting together. Alexis was frowning at this since she knew that this was a clear trap and so did Bastion.

"This is bad." Syrus said.

"Leave it to Crowler to put Jaden against Chazz. Why am I not that much surprised?" Alexis asked with a sigh as she shook her head.

"This is clearly a trap." Bastion said before he added; "Only a cavalier fool would agree to this."

"I'll do it!"

Everyone in the stands gasped at Jaden's answer.

"All right, Chazz, get your game on." Jaden said with a grin as Yubel appeared next to him. "It's time we finally finished what we started in the Obelisk Arena and time for me to pay you back for what you did to Flame Wingman."

"Indeed, and in front of the whole school too so everyone can watch." Crowler said smirking once more when he thought about how badly Jaden was going to get destroyed.

"Yeah, watch you get slammed by me." Chazz said with a smirk of his own as the two boys inserted their decks into their duel disk and turned them on as Crowler ran out of the way.

(Jaden: 4000 Chazz: 4000)

"Well you know the old saying, Chazz; the non-jerk goes first. Here goes something." Jaden said drawing. "Sweet, I'm playing Elemental HERO Woodsman in defense mode!" A large man with green skin with his entire right side made out of wood appeared on Jaden's field kneeing down (Atk: 1000 Def: 2000).

"Finally back in the action!" Woodsman exclaimed as he glanced over his shoulder at Jaden. "You want me to use my special ability, Jaden?"

"That would be great, Woodsman, thanks." Jaden smiled before he looked at Chazz. "During each of my Main Phase 1 when Woodsman on my field; I can add one Polymerization from my deck or graveyard to my hand." Jaden grinned in Chazz's face as he did just that. "I'll end my turn with that."

"You really think your Treeman stands a chance against me?" Chazz asked.

"Woodsman and yeah, I think he can." Jaden answered.

"Well you might want to change your mind after I play this!" Chazz drew and smirked. Appreciate the rare cards, Crowler. "Fresh off the presses, meet Magical Mallet!"

Jaden blinked at his card. "Uh what's that?"

"A redo; all the cards in my hand that I don't want, I put back in my deck then I shuffle and redraw the same number of cards;" Chazz explained.

"A rare card on the first draw?" Syrus gasped.

"And a very dangerous card at that; now Chazz will be able to pick exactly which cards he wants and which he doesn't." Bastion added.

"That's not even the worst part." The three heads turned when Kia and Masika come over and took a seat next to them. "Chazz is looking for something in his deck and whatever he's looking for can only mean trouble for Jaden." Masika continued with a frown, worrying about Jaden.

"Hey, if Jaden is as good as his brother then Chazz shouldn't stand a chance against him." Kia reassured the bluenette girl with a smile.

"I'm sorry but you are?" Bastion asked looking at Kia.

"A friend of Jaden's;" Kia answered before she turned her attention back onto the duel.

"I didn't even get to the best part." Chazz said redrawing from his deck and showing Magical Mallet again. "You see, Jaden, I get to shuffle Magical Mallet too! So if I drew it again, which I just did, I can play it again and again and that comes in handy and you know why?"

"No but I bet your going to tell me, aren't you?" Jaden asked with a groan while Yubel chuckled.

"It comes in handy when I'm looking for this! V-Tiger Jet, sharpen your claws for attack mode!" A yellow mechanical tiger that was shaped like a fighter jet flew onto Chazz's field (Atk: 1600 Def: 1800).

Kia let out a groan. "Oh no, please don't tell me his using a Union deck."

"And there's a lot more where that came from! Check out the magic of Frontline Base! This lets me summon a Level 4 or below Union monster during each of my turns and I just so happen to have one in my hand, W-Wing Catapult!" Appearing next to the machine tiger was a blue jet platform (Atk: 1300 Def: 1500). "Gentlemen, start your engines and merge!"

The two monsters took off into the air as Catapult revealed two missile launchers before Tiger Jet landed on top of it. Thruster units appeared on the back of the two machines as the formed into one (Atk: 2000 Def: 2100).

"All right, the VW-Tiger Catapult!" Chazz exclaimed as he welcomed his new monster onto the field. "But wait, I'm not done yet because he still has his special ability."

"Oh give me a break." Jaden muttered. "This isn't going to be good."

"Isn't this guy's turn going to end sometime this century?" Syrus questioned.

"By sending a card to the graveyard, I can force one of your monsters into attack mode!" Chazz sent a monster to the graveyard and Woodsman was forced against his will to stand up.

"Uh Jaden…" Woodsman said with a panic tone.

"So after this Heat Seeking Blitz from my Tiger Catapult, your life points are toast!" The Union fusion monster fired off missiles which destroyed E-HERO Woodsman.

(Jaden: 3000 Chazz: 4000)

Crowler saw all of this going down from the viewing box where he was watching with Chancellor Sheppard. "My goodness, looks like Jaden can't play with the big boys after all. I guess he's not as good as he thinks he is."

Sheppard made no comment as he just stared out the window.

"I'll finish up with one card face down." Chazz finished as a face down appeared on his field.

"About time, I'm not getting any younger over here." Jaden said drawing. He looked over at what he got and what else he had in his hand at the moment. "Hey, this just might work." He grinned as he played the card he just drew. "I'm playing Graceful Charity! With this, I get to draw three cards from my deck but I have to discard two of them in return." He drew his three before he took two cards from his hand and played them in the graveyard but not without saying a goodbye first.

"Oh yeah, someone up there loves me for sure." Jaden said since he just got an amazing draw before he took another card from his hand and played it. "I'm playing the spell card, Miracle Fusion! This card is just like Polymerization but I can take Elemental HERO monster from my graveyard and use them to summon out something even more powerful. So I'm going to remove from play my Elemental HERO Heat and Elemental HERO Burstinatrix that are in my graveyard because of Graceful Charity to summon out Elemental HERO Nova Master!"

Appearing in a burst of flames like Jaden's other fire heroes was one in a black suit with fire colors armor on. He had a total of four spike shoulder blades, two on his arms, flame color cape and was wearing a mask that left his orange eyes showing that also had an orange gem in the middle of it (Atk: 2600 Def: 2100).

"And Nova here can really turn up the heat on this match and I'll prove my point right now! Nova Master, attack VW-Tiger Catapult with Nova Star Shower!"

"As you wish, my king;" Nova Master obeyed as he fired off a fireball but this one was in a form of a star as it came right at the Tiger Catapult and destroyed it.

(Jaden: 3000 Chazz: 3400)

"Jaden just took back the lead!" Syrus cheered.

"Chazz still has more life points, Syrus." Alexis pointed out.

"Still with that VW-Tiger Catapult off the field, Jaden's got one least thing to worry about." Kia said with a smile.

"Now thanks to Nova's ability, when he destroys a monster, I get to draw one card from my deck. Pretty sweet huh, Chazz?" Jaden grinned as he drew. "I'm going to end my turn with a face down card."

"Lucky shot, slacker, but luck won't save you from this! I'm playing Monster Reborn to bring my VW-Tiger Catapult back to the field in attack mode!" Chazz's winged machine reappeared.

"Well Chazz just threw all your hard work away for nothing." Yubel mumbled.

"Now that's he's back; let's start round two!" Chazz said as he summoned a monster that was a blue machine with a spike ball for its bottom and two cannon barrels for shoulder (Atk: 1800 Def: 1500). "Well the real question is, are you ready for round two, Slifer Slime? Well as you can see, my X-Head Cannon is and thanks to the magic of Frontline Base, so is Z-Metal Tank!" A yellow tank cruiser appeared alongside the first monster (Atk: 1500 Def: 1300).

"Wait, X and Z?" Syrus questioned. "That can mean only one thing."

"Now I play my face down card, Call of the Haunted, and in case you slept through that class as well, it lets me bring a monster back from my graveyard and I choose…" A red metallic dragon appeared on Chazz's field with a roar (Atk: 1500 Def: 1600).

"It's him!" Syrus gasped.

"He has it!" Bastion confirmed.

"I hate Union decks." Kia mumbled.

"That's right; it's Y-Dragon Head! I discarded it with my Tiger Catapult's special ability and now I'll combine them to create the XYZ-Dragon Cannon!" The three monsters flew up as they attached themselves together with X being on top, Y being in the middle, and Z at the bottom (Atk: 2800 Def: 2600).

"Now Chazz has two monsters out with over 2000 Atk points each." Bastion spoke.

"Yeah but Jaden will find a way to take them down, right?" Masika asked which no one answered to.

"But wait, Jaden, there's more." Jaden raised an eyebrow as Chazz continued his move. "Actually less, you'll see they say that two heads are better than one but I would have to disagree especially when the one in question is the ultimate VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon!" The two machine monsters join together and transformed until they turn into something that looked humanoid but it mostly looked like one of those Power Rangers' Megazords (Atk: 3000 Def: 2800).

"V-Z makes your Nova Master look like a tiny little flame now or at least he did." Chazz said as Nova Master disappeared from the field.

"Nova Master!" Jaden gasped before he glared at Chazz. "What did you do to him?!"

"Oh I'm sorry; didn't I mention V-Z special ability? He allows me to remove one card on your side of the field once per turn." Chazz chuckled. "And if you think that's impressive, wait until you see his attack, an attack that will strike your life points directly!"

"Jaden…" Yubel looked over at her partner,

"I got it cover, Yubel, with this! I play Half or Nothing! Here how it works, Chazz, you get to choose to continue your attack but your monster's attack points are cut in half for this battle phase or you can just end your turn all together. So what are you going to pick?"

"Do you really have to ask, slacker, I'm continuing my attack!" Chazz answered as his monster's attack points were cut in half (Atk: 3000-1500 Def: 2800).

"Well this is going to hurt." Jaden mumbled as he was blast from the humanoid machine attack to the ground.

(Jaden: 1500 Chazz: 3400)

The crowd gasped.

"Jaden, are you alright?" Yubel asked as Jaden slowly got back to his feet.

"Aww, what's the matter, Jaden? Are you having test anxiety?" Chazz taunted. "I knew a scum like you didn't belong at this academy but don't worry because it will all be over soon and then I'll destroy your brother next!"

Jaden's eyes flashed to Yubel's for a second from annoyances as he stood up. "No way, Chazz, I still have a whole army of vicious monsters in my deck, ready to get at you. This isn't over; it's only just barely started." Jaden drew and a wide grin appeared on his field. "Okay, I take back what I said. It's game over for you."

Almost everyone in the crowd gasped at that.

"You must have hit your head when you hit the ground, slacker, since you have nothing in your worthless deck that can save you now." Chazz replied.

"Say my cards are worthless again and I might just have to sick my brother on you but since I'm a nice guy, I won't; but let's get back to our match, shall we?" Jaden grinned as he held up to copies of the same card. "I'm playing Polymerization times two! So I'm going to fuse Elemental HERO Clayman with Elemental HERO Knospe and then Elemental HERO Avian with Elemental HERO Sparkman to summon out Elemental HERO Gaia and Elemental HERO Great Tornado!"

The two groups of monster fused together until two new fusions appeared on the field. The first one was a giant, even taller than Thunder Giant himself, who was wearing black armor with red gems over his body and red eyes. Connected to his arms were cannons of some kind (Atk: 2200 Def: 2600).

The second HERO was green with yellow strips and was wearing black cloak that covered all of his left side. The monster had yellow eyes and a yellow jewel in the middle of his forehead (Atk: 2800 Def: 2200).

"So you summoned a statue and a human bumblebee? Like they can do much, my Dragon Catapult Cannon still has more fire power then both of your monsters." Chazz chuckled.

"Okay, I don't know about you guys but I'm punching this guy in the face." Great Tornado said.

"Ditto," Gaia agreed.

"You two can do that in a few seconds but like Chazz said, we're going to need a little more fire power. You two mind showing everyone your special abilities?" Jaden asked.

"Gladly," Both fusion answered together as Gaia ran up to Dragon Catapult Cannon, grabbed it, and his red gems started to glows as Gaia's attack points went up while V-Z went down (Atk: 2200-3700 Def: 2600) (Atk: 3000-1500 Def: 2800). Right after that happened, Great Tornado let out a strong gust of wind that lowered the machine monster attack points even more (Atk: 1500- 750 Def: 2800).

"Hey, what happened to all my monster's points?!" Chazz asked.

"Gaia and Great Tornado happened. When Gaia's summoned, he can halve the attack points of one of your monster's and added the same amount that they lost to his attack points. Great Tornado has the same effect besides adding his lost to his gain." Jaden shrugged. "Oh well, what are you going to do?"

"I know what I'm going to do; I'm going to tear that Dragon Catapult Cannon to pieces!" Gaia yelled as he picked up the once powerful beast and threw it to the ground and destroyed it.

(Jaden: 1500 Chazz: 450)

"And I'm going to do something that all of us wanted to do since we met Chazz." Great Tornado flew over and punched Chazz right in the face, sending the boy to the floor in defeated.

(Jaden: 1500 Chazz: 0)

"He did it!" Syrus cheered happily at the end of the duel.

Crowler looked ready to break the see through glass he was leaning against. "Impossible! Now with all the rare cards I gave Chazz! This can't be happening!"

"Rare cards, what exactly are you talking about, Crowler?" Chancellor Shepherd asked the teacher with an eyebrow raised.

"Uh…nothing…I…uh….have to go grade some tests;" Crowler said before he started walking away.

Shepherd laughed at Crowler's back before he looked back down at Jaden who was waving to the crowd that were cheering for his victory as his two monsters shook their heads at him before they disappeared.

"Now that is game," Jaden said to Chazz who was standing back up with a growl. "Unless you want to duel again;"

"Oh we will, slacker." Chazz hissed at him before the fallen blue started walking away.

"Jaden, that was awesome!" Jaden looked over to his little group of friends, that he made so far during his time at the academy, who were running over to him. Jaden smiled at them as he gave a thumbs up.

"That was well done, Jaden." Chancellor Shepherd said over the loudspeaker. "Never in the history of our revered academy has a Slifer ever dueled an Obelisk at these exams. Not only did you hold your own but you won! Your courage against overwhelming odds is…inspiring. It is with great pride that I grant you the promotion to Ra Yellow. Good Job!"

The crowd of Jaden's fans cheered at that.

"Ra Yellow? Wow, you're the best, Jay." Syrus said as he hugged the taller guy.

"Well I do what I can." Jaden replied with a laugh and a smile.

"Good show, Jaden, allow me to be the first to welcome you to the Ra dorm." Bastion said offering a hand for Jaden to shake.

"Thanks Bastion," Jaden said shaking hands with him.

"You really earned it, Jaden; I just wished Haou saw your match." Masika said which made Jaden look over at her.

"Don't worry about it; he already knew I was going to win if he knew I was facing against Chazz." Jaden told her before a thought came to him. So if I'm going to Ra, who's going to look after Haou?

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Later that night, Syrus and Chumley were in their room at the Slifer dorm. Syrus just finished telling Chumley what happened at today's exams and Syrus looked like he was about to burst into tears after he finished.

"Hey Syrus, if you're going to mope around then can you at least make me a grilled cheese?" Chumley asked which made the bluenette sigh.

"I just thought Jaden would at least say goodbye to us, that's all." Syrus mumbled from where he was sitting at the desk.

"Why would I say goodbye?"

Syrus almost fell out of his seat for the second time today when he heard that and he and Chumley looked over at the door to see Jaden was leaning against the doorway. The small boy quickly stood up from surprised. "Jaden?! What are you doing here?!"

"I wanted to say congrats on passing your field test. Also in case you've forgotten…I live here! Sure, Ra Yellow is nice with its clean sheets, lack of cockroaches, and those spiffy blazes but without you guys, it's just isn't home. Besides, I don't look good in yellow." Jaden added that last part as a joke.

Syrus sniffed at that before he dove and hugged Jaden with tears falling down from his eyes.

"Hey! Easy Syrus, you're getting my jacket soaked!" Jaden yelled looking down at his crying friend.

"I thought…I thought I lost you forever! Now, I'm never letting go!"

Jaden sweated dropped at that. "Chill out, Syrus, now come on! Get off!"

"Please Jay, just a couple more hugs!"

"It's not the hugs. It's the water works!"

Chumley just laughed at this show while Jaden was trying to get Syrus off of him.

"So you're really staying, Jay?"

The sound of that voice was all that Jaden needed to be able to pull Syrus off of him so he could face the doorway where his brother was standing. "Yep, you can't get rid of me that easily, Haou." Jaden said with a grin.

"Well that's good to hear, Jaden." Haou replied as he started to walk back to his room and Jaden had to blink a few times when he thought he saw a small smile form on Haou's face.

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E-Evil Energy-Equip Spell-An "Evil HERO" gains 500 attack points. During battle between the attacking monster and the defense position monster whose Def is lower then that monster's Atk, inflict the difference as battle damage to your opponent. Picture: A dark pruple E with a black background.

V-Vicious Vengeance-Trap Card-When one of your monsters is destroyed this turn, destroy one of your opponents monsters and then take a "Evil HERO" monster from your deck and add it to your hand. You opponent draws one card. Picture: A black V with a dark purple background.

I-Infernal Ice-Quick Play Spell-When your opponent uses a trap, spell, or monster effect; send a "Evil HERO" from your hand to the graveyard to cancel that effect and then destroyed that card. Picture: A red I with a icy blue background.

L-Living Luck-Spell Card-Select one "Evil HERO" that's in your graveyard and special summon it to the field. Picture: A grey L with a white background.

E.V.I.L. Ritual-Ritual Spell-When you have E-Evil Energy, V-Vicious Vengeance, I-Infernal Ice, and L-Living Luck in your graveyard; you can add this card right to your hand from your deck. By removing from play the four side cards from above, you can special summon one "Evil HERO Ruler" from your hand or deck. Picture: The four sides cards from above lined up to spell "Evil" with the shadow of a monster in the background.

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