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(Another chapter done and guess what everyone? School is out! So hopefully, I'll be getting a lot of chapters out for my stories for you guys to read during the break. Now for this chapter, let's just say some crazy crap does down in this story and if you think that either twin is OOC then that's because of the Abandoned dorm and it's dark energy that affects the twins and speaking of affects...Haou kinda...snaps a little...yeah, I'm evil but then again, I love this guy when his evil! He's my third favorite villain from Yu-Gi-Oh GX and the only two people that are higher then him are Yubel (let's face it, she's amazing when she's evil and mad) and Yohan/Jehu (hottest thing to ever have happened to Yu-Gi-Oh and his mad! Thank you, Yubel!) Okay, I'm going off track so let's get to chapter 6! Read, review, and enjoy everyone!)
Deep in the forest at night, Alexis Rhodes was walking through the trees until she stopped at an old run down dorm that had a "Do not enter" sign at the front of it. The Obelisk Blue sighed as she just stared at the dorm for a few minutes. People were forbidden to go here since so many students have gone missing from this place but that didn't stop Alexis from coming. She placed down a rose that she found next to the broken old gate and mumbled;
"Be at peace brother, wherever you are…"
…..
Meanwhile at the Slifer Red dorm mess hall, we find Jaden, Haou, Syrus, and Chumley were all sitting around one of the tables telling ghost stories for the night since none of them didn't feel like going to bed…well Chumley did but Jaden kind forced the older boy to join in along with his brother who gave Jaden a piece of his mind beforehand so Jaden let Haou sit at a different table so he wouldn't hit him upside the head again.
The Slifers fixed up a deck of random monster cards and they had to tell a scary story based on what the level of the card was. Right now, Syrus was close to finishing up on his story while Jaden and Chumley listened. Haou looked like he was trying to ignore him but he was secretly listening in on this.
"I went out into the woods and underneath the full moon, I see a path leading to a cavern that seems…abandoned." Syrus said which made Jaden grin since he was finally getting to the good part.
"Oh really? And then what?" Jaden asked interested.
"Then at the back of the cavern, I see a mysterious lake. So I go in to get a closer look and under just the right angle of light, at the very bottom of the lake beyond my reflection, I see a rare and powerful card. Naturally, I went to get it since who wouldn't want to really good card? But when I reach out for it….an arm shoots out of the water, grabs me, and begins to pull me into the lake!" Syrus then started acting out like he really was drowning. "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! NOT THE WATER! ANYTHING BUT THE WATER!"
"Water not that scary, Syrus." Jaden pointed out.
"Not even dirty swamp water?" Syrus asked before he sighed. "You're right, only a chump would be afraid of that."
Haou glanced over his shoulder at that when he noticed Chumley had taken a position in the far corner of the room from fear.
"Still, good story; mid-level scares for a mid-level card." Jaden said as he held up the card that Syrus drew which was Earthbound Spirit who was a level four monster. "But for me, I hope I get a high level." Jaden drew the next card from the deck but unlike the times when he drew and got the card he needed to turn his duels around, he got a level one monster which was Sinister Serpent.
"Ah, you lucked out; you hardly have to scare us at all with that low level card." Syrus said as he was secretly relieved that Jaden wouldn't be telling a scary story. He had Haou for a brother after all so who knows what he could come up with in a few seconds. Syrus's eyes then widen for a second when he remember that Haou was in the room with them and that his turn was next.
"Alright, I think I have a story that can do the trick." Jaden said as he leaned his head on his forearms. "Well it's more like a memory really. When I was a kid, I used to hear noises but I'd only hear them late at night. Every night, I would go check to see where they were coming from but there was no one there except my cards. But one night, something different happened."
"What happened?" Syrus and Chumley questioned while Haou glanced over at his brother and shot him a warning look.
"I learned something very important. I can see dead people." Jaden finished in his spirit voice which took Syrus and Chumley by surprise as they both freaked. Syrus fell out of his chair onto the hard wood floor and Chumley ran to a corner and hugged the wall. Jaden laughed. "Guys, I'm just joking."
Haou shook his head. "Jaden, I think you just gave them nightmares for a few days."
"Hey, I can't help it that I'm a master at scaring people." Jaden replied with a grin as he leaned back in his chair.
"HAHAHAHA! Can I join in on the fright fest?" Professor Banner said loudly as he appeared behind Jaden, causing the Slifer to fall out of his seat from surprise. Haou chuckled at this.
"You just did!" Jaden exclaimed as he climbed back into his chair. "Give a guy some warning next time before you give him a heart attack, Banner!"
"Master of scaring people? More like the master of being scared." Haou chuckled which got him a fake glare from his twin.
"So what's all the commotion about anyway?" Banner questioned.
"We're telling scary stories." Syrus explained who was once again sitting in his chair along with Chumley. "But since you're here, why don't you draw a card, the tougher it is, the scarier it has to be." He only added that last part since he was terrified to see what Haou would come up with.
"Well that sounds easy enough." Banner drew his card. It turned out to be the Five Headed Dragon and it had the highest level possible!
"That's a level 12 monster!" Jaden said in awe and from excitement.
"I think I'm going to go to bed now." Syrus said and Chumley nodded as he got up from his seat to go hide in the corner again.
Haou just raised an eyebrow at the chances of drawing that but he was kinda curious to see what Banner could come up with.
"But don't you boys want to hear about the abandoned dorm?" Banner asked which made Jaden raise an eyebrow in wonder.
"Abandoned dorm?" Jaden asked.
Banner nodded as he pulled up a chair to seat down in. "They were actually four dorms at this place but nobody talks about it anymore since they shut it down because several students went missing from there."
Syrus looked afraid to ask but he did; "Where did they all go?"
"Well that's the mystery but rumor was it had something to do with the Shadow Games." Banner answered.
"Shadow Games you say?" Jaden got a look of panic on his face when he heard his brother say that. Jaden didn't have to look at Haou to guess that he was smirking like the devil.
Why does it always end in the S.G. word or something having do with that? Jaden wondered as he tried not to worry so much. Since after the exams day when Jaden pretty much gave Haou a piece of his mind, his brother hasn't once gotten angry enough to the point where he would summon up the forces of darkness. Still Jaden didn't like the way Haou sounded so happy when he heard the S.G. word being said.
"You see children, Shadow Games are duels played with mystical items called the Millennium Items that made duels far more dangerous from what we know today. If you happened to have lost one back 5000 years ago, you would have lost your soul to the Shadow Realm." Banner explained.
"Oh come on; Millennium Items, Shadow Realm, all this can't be true." Oh Jaden knew very well that this was all true and this time, he got a real glare from his brother for saying something like that. Sure, Jaden and Haou had to protect their secret of being rulers of the Gentle Darkness but saying that the Shadow Realm wasn't real when you knew it was could only led to bad things to come.
Banner chuckled at that as he adjusted his glasses. "Well that's what most people say but as the saying goes, every story that is made has some truth to it." Pharaoh, who Banner was holding with him, yawned after that. "Well I think that's my cue to get back to my room, good night boys." Banner got up from his seat and walked out through the door.
"So I guess I wasn't seeing things when I saw a rundown old building that one day." Syrus mumbled to himself which made Jaden look at him with a smirk.
"Sweet so that means you can lead us to their tomorrow." Jaden said which made Syrus's eyes widen.
"What do you mean by tomorrow?!"
"What do you mean us?!" Chumley threw in from the corner.
Even Haou looked confused since he would have thought his brother wouldn't want anything to do with the Shadow Games and Haou would have been the one to force him to go instead.
"Oh come on guys, It'll be fun." Jaden said with a grin as he stood up. Yes he wanted to stay far away from that dorm if Haou wanted to go in there but after he heard the thing about the missing students, he kinda wanted to check it out himself. Plus, if this dorm did have something to do with the Shadow Games, Jaden wanted to see if he could find any more info about it. "Who's with me?!"
"Not us!" The two boys answered.
Haou smirked at this as he stood up. "I thought you never ask, Jaden, and I'm not joking about that either."
Crowler, who was 'conveniently' at the dorm right now, smirked after he heard all that. This is just the opportunity I been waiting for! I think it's time the Shadow Games made a comeback; Millennium Items and all!" With an evil plan forming in his head, he walked away to his dorm so he could call a person to help with his selfish plan to get Jaden and Haou kicked out of the school.
….
During the same night, in a dark alleyway in Domino City, a duel had just finished up and the duelist that lost looked scared out of his mind as he looked at the guy that beat him. The other man had on a metal mask and trench coat and had a duel vest similar to Crowler's but this one was darker looking.
"Okay, you win! Just take everywhere you want and go!" The scared man cried.
"What I want….is your soul!" The shadow looking man said as he held up a golden upside down pyramid with a single eye at the center of it in front of him. The pyramid's single eye then started glowing gold.
"Please show some mercy!"
"Some mercy? What is that?" Shadow man asked, emotionally, as the golden light from the pyramid got brighter and soon turned white which made the opponent scream before he fell over and his cards scattered out of his deck.
"Rest in peace; in the shadows." The man laughed darkly before he stopped when his cell phone started to rang. He answered it; "Speak," The person on the other side of the call spoke some details which made the Shadow man smirk devilish. "Duel Academy, tomorrow night…I'll be there."
"You mean, we're be there; right partner?" The shadow man looked over his shoulder to see another man standing there who was also in a long black trench coat with a demon looking mark covering his eyes from sight.
"Don't I always mean that? Come on, there might just be work for the both of us on this job."
….
The next day around 8:30 P.M., Crowler was standing alone on the docks next to the lighthouse, waiting for someone. The doctor was soon about to leave since no one was going to show up but he stopped himself when he heard footsteps coming from behind him. He turned around to find the shadow man from Domino City was standing just a few feet away from him. "So you've the one they called the Shadow Duelist?" He asked.
"My opponents call me many things but most of them are hard to discern through their shrieks of horror. What's the job?" The shadow man asked as fog appeared around them.
Crowler smirked at that as he held up pictures of the twin of Gentle Darkness. "I want you to frighten these two so intensely that they'll leave this island and never come back. Are you up to the challenge?"
"Of course I am. I never turn my back on a challenge. Neither does my partner."
"Partner?" Crowler questioned.
"His talking about me;"
Crowler screamed when he heard someone else join in on the meeting. He turned around to find the other guy from Domino City standing behind him with a smirk. "Who are you?!"
The other Shadow Duelist bowed with that wicked smirk still on his face. "They call me Deimos; nicknamed after the Greek God of Terror."
"Uh course, uh course…now who do I make this check out to? I never did caught you name." Crowler asked turning his attention back onto the first Shadow Duelist.
"Titan," The shadow man answered before he added; "And we're make sure these boys face the true terror of the Shadow Realm!" The fog then started to disappear taking the Shadow Duelists along with it.
….
"Well guys, we could think of this as being lost or you could think of it as us finding a few places we never knew about." Jaden said sheepishly as he looked over his shoulder at Syrus and Chumley. Haou rolled his eyes as he walked side by side with his twin.
Like Jaden had planned, the four boys had started their walk through the woods to find the Abandoned Dorm but so far, they weren't having much luck. Haou might have walked around this forest about a hundred times when he was looking for that dark energy but even he didn't know where they were and even if he did, he still couldn't say anything or else his brother would start asking questions.
"Well it could be worse, you know?" Chumley pointed out. "Well worse for Sy."
"For Sy?" Jaden questioned.
"We could find a large puddle of dirty swamp water…." Chumley taunted the smallest of the group.
Syrus glared at the older boy. "Hey! You shouldn't be talking, Chumley! You're the one who refused to take a bath last night because you were scared of the bath water!"
"I'm surrounded by idiots." Haou mumbled shaking his head making Jaden chuckle. "Jaden, you shouldn't be laughing. I was talking about you too."
"Hey!" Jaden exclaimed before he suddenly stopped when he noticed something. "Hey guys…check this out." Jaden aimed the flashlight he was holding ahead of him and it shined down on a rose that was lying on the ground in front of a run down old gate.
"Yeah but look at what's behind it." Syrus mumbled which then Jaden aimed his flashlight a little high until he noticed what Syrus was talking about. In front of them was a run-down old building with boards and debris everywhere.
"The Abandoned Dorm!" Jaden grinned since they finally found it.
"And it only took us about half an hour." Haou mumbled.
Chumley moved behind the others. "And it probably got lots of ghosts in there too."
"Relax Chumley…no one's here so there's nothing to be afraid of." Jaden assured him but that was soon proven untrue when a loud snapping sound came from the woods.
"What was that?!" Syrus asked before he hid behind Jaden along with Chumley.
Jaden turned to where the noise had come from and aimed his flashlight at the woods. He blinked a few times when he noticed it was Alexis and Masika who both looked just as surprised to see them here. "Hey guys, you can stop hiding. It's just the Alexis and Masika."
"I'm not one for asking stupid questions but what are you two doing here?" Haou asked mostly looking at Masika when he talked.
"Funny, we were about to ask you guys the very same thing." Alexis replied with a frown as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Well we heard about the dorm and wanted to check it out." Jaden explained for him and the others.
"Well you shouldn't have; don't you know that kids have a way of disappearing around here? Believe me, I know. Why else would the academy close this place off?" Alexis asked them.
"This place might be called the Abandoned Dorm but it's also called the Forbidden Dorm and it's called that for a reason, guys." Masika added in. "If any of the faculty catch you guys here then they have every right to expel you!"
"Okay, I get it about being forbidden but if it's so dangerous, what are you two doing here then?" Jaden questioned.
Alexis's face turned bright red. "I have my reasons, that's why!" She snapped.
Jaden flinched back from her sudden tone. "Whoa Alexis! No need to snap. We just came to explore the place and we'll stay out of you way the whole time." He promised her.
Alexis sighed at that as she shook her head as she walked a short distance away before she stopped with her back facing them. "Look, it's just that…"
"Just….what…?" Syrus asked hoping Alexis wouldn't snap at him.
"One of the kids that disappeared here….was my brother…" She finished quickly as Masika walked over to her and placed a hand on her friend's shoulder to comfort her.
Jaden was surprised to say the least before he looked over at the rose that was on the ground. That explains the rose…. So if Alexis's brother really was one of the kids that disappeared then the rumors about this place were true.
However, Haou was thinking of something totally different as he glanced at his brother for a few seconds. Truth be told, Haou wouldn't know what to do if his brother suddenly went missing. Okay scratch that, he would go into a blood filled rage until he could find him but Jaden was pretty much stuck to him like glue so Haou didn't have to worry all that much about losing him. Besides, even when he wanted to be alone, Jaden wouldn't let him and that was one thing that Haou loved and hated about his twin.
"We better go before it gets too late." Masika said looking over at the boys. "Just guys, don't do something stupid. That's all I'm asking of you." With that, she and Alexis walked off.
After the girls were out of sight, Syrus looked at the old building again in fear. "I say we go back, Jay."
"Well, I say we go in. Who knows, it could be fun." Jaden said with a grin.
"SAY WHAT NOW?!" Syrus shouted before he lowered her voice and added; "Have you lost your mind?!"
"Jaden never had one to begin with so what does he have to lose?" Haou pointed out before he started walking towards the dorm.
"Oh shut up, Mr. Comedian." Jaden said before he followed after his brother and soon, Chumley followed after the twins since he thought of safety in numbers. "Well see you later, Sy! Don't disappear on us!" Jaden called to the bluenette.
"Disappear?" Syrus started to panic at that before he took off after them. "Oh wait up!"
The two female Obelisks watched them from behind the trees as the group of four walked into the dorm.
"I sure hope they know what they're doing." Alexis said in worry.
"Don't worry, Alexis. I'm sure they'll be fine. I mean, after all, Haou with them and he won't let anything happen to his brother….I don't know about Syrus and Chumley though…but still." Masika said trying to reassure her friend with a smile.
Right at the moment, two figures appeared behind them and covered the two girl's mouths with theirs hands to prevent them from screaming as they quickly knocked the two Obelisks out cold and carried them off to start phase one of their plan.
…..
Back with the Slifers, the group was checking out the inside of the old dorm. Syrus and Chumley both looked freaked out and scared that someone was going to jump out at them any second now but Jaden and Haou were both sharing grins with each other every so often. This had to be one of the rare times where the Yuki twins both could agree that so far, this place was pretty awesome even if they did both have different reasons for liking it.
"You know something, guys? This place is pretty sweet! I mean with some fresh paint, a couple of boxes and a throw rug…we could so totally move in here!" Jaden said with a laugh which made his two friends look at him like he was crazy.
"You're kidding, right? This place is worse than the Slifer dorm!" Syrus said before he shined his flashlight at the walls. "What the heck is all this?" He then asked which Jaden, Haou, and Chumley turned to see what he was talking about. On the walls were a large amount of symbols and letters carved into it or painted on.
"Do you think this artwork has something to do with the Shadow Games Banner was talking about?" Chumley asked looking at the weird marks.
"Maybe or maybe someone that use to live here was just really bored and had lots of free time." Jaden joked before he walked up closer to one of the walls to look at it more closely. "Hey you know what? I think this wall shows the seven Millennium Items!"
"Ring, Puzzle, Scale, Key, Rod, Eye, and Necklace: Created to keep the ancient magic of the Shadow Games locked up forever." Haou mumbled before a light chuckle escaped him. "Yeah that back fired on them. You would have thought they would have looked into the future with the Millennium Necklace just to make sure that the items did their job." Haou went quiet when Jaden shot him a worrying look.
Jaden turned his flashlight towards another wall and he raised an eyebrow when he saw there was a photograph hanging there. "And that's someone I've never seen before…" He mumbled looking at the picture of a young brunette man wearing a senior year Obelisk Blue uniform. Jaden had to stare at the photo for a few seconds since the person kinda looked a little bit like Alexis. Could this maybe be her….?
"Hey Jaden, you might want to take a look at this." Jaden snapped out of his train of thought as he turned when he heard his brother speaking to him again. He noticed his brother was staring at one of the walls and from how calm his stance was, Jaden knew something was wrong.
Jaden walked over to stand next to Haou and looked up at the wall. Since the twins were rulers of the Gentle Darkness, it was pretty much self said that they could see in the dark but they had to bring flashlights just so Syrus and Chumley didn't think something was up. But since those two weren't paying much attention to them at the moment, Jaden glanced up at the wall and he almost did drop his flashlight just from the shock of what he saw.
On the wall was a picture of a shadowed figure dressed in black and gold medieval knight-esque armor with six tendril-like spikes, two jutting out of the armor's back and four jutting out of the shoulders, a headdress with a tall collar and a floor-length red cape. The person must have been a king since he had a black helmet that function as a crown. The helmet also had a faceplate connect to it which had a purple gem in the middle of it and two holes so whoever was wearing it could see. The faceplate was currently covering the king's face but Jaden and Haou already knew who it was. Jaden saw this person in his nightmares while Haou got remind of him every time he looked at himself in a mirror.
The Supreme King; The Gentle Darkness twins both thought.
….
Meanwhile, unknown to the Slifers, Alexis was in another part of the dorm and she was slowly coming to from being knocked out. She blinked a few times since her head was pounding like crazy until her vision cleared and she noticed she was in a coffin with her wrists and ankles tied together.
"Where am I?" She wondered out loud.
"Dangling on a hook; just waiting for your friends to fall into my trap!" She heard from a sinister voice.
"Jaden…" She mumbled before she gasped when she saw an eye opening up in front of her that started to glow.
….
Just like Alexis in another part of the dorm as well; Masika was coming too also and she was trapped in a coffin just like her friend.
"Huh?" She struggled to get herself free but it was doing nothing. "Uh oh,"
"Uh oh is right, girly, but don't worry; nothing bad is going to happen to you…yet anyway." Masika gasped at that when she heard a dark chuckle. "Now let's just wait and see if you're boyfriend decides to show up and save you."
"Boyfriend?" Masika questioned before an angry blush formed on her face. "Look pal, let's get one thing clear! Haou isn't my boyfriend! And second of all, let me go or else!"
"Or else what?"
"Well….I haven't thought that far ahead yet but still! You'll be sorry!"
"I highly doubt that."
Masika was about to snap but she instead gasped when an eye opened up which was part of a golden rod with spikes on top and just like what happened to Alexis, it started to glow.
….
"Hey, are you two okay? You both have been awfully quiet since we left that symbols and letters hallway." Syrus said looking at the twins of Gentle Darkness since neither one of them has said a word in a while.
Who could blame them anyway? Jaden and Haou just saw their past self in all his deadly glory on a wall of this old dorm. Between both of them, Haou looked worst since he knew for a fact that he was going to turn into that very person one day and Jaden felt sick to his stomach as past nightmares of the king resurfaced into his head. Even Yubel had appeared not to long ago to just to try cheer her kings up but even she couldn't turn their bad mood into a good one since guilt was eating her up inside since she was the one that created the Supreme King in the first place.
But all the thoughts of the evil king of darkness were soon erased when a loud scream ripped through the air.
"What was that?" Syrus cringed.
"It sounded like Alexis!" Jaden stated running towards the hallway where the noise had came from. Haou didn't have much of a choice so he followed after his brother and soon, they were joined by the other two Slifers until Jaden suddenly came to a stop in the middle of the hallway. He bent down and picked up something from the floor and held it up to show the others.
"This is one of Alexis's cards." Jaden mumbled in shock as he looked at one of her dancer cards from his duel against her.
"That's not all," Haou added as he bent down next to his brother and picked up another card that almost made Haou snap when he saw what it was.
The card was Poseidra, the Atlantean Dragon.
"That's Masika's favorite card." Jaden murmured as he stood up. "What the heck is going on around here?"
"Something not good;" Haou answered as he stood up as well just as another scream echoed through the building but this one was different and was coming from the other side of the old dorm.
"That sounded like Masika!" Chumley gasped.
"Oh man, Alexis and Masika?! What are we going to do?!" Syrus asked.
"I'll tell you what we're going to do. Haou, you'll take…" Jaden stopped himself and blinked when he noticed that Haou had vanished into thin air.
"Hey, where did your brother go?" Chumley questioned as he and Syrus looked just as confused a Jaden was.
"He went after Masika." Jaden stated while he mentally rolled his eyes. Yeah, you sure don't like her, bro. He thought before he said. "Come on guys; Haou can take care of himself so let's go find Alexis!"
….
Haou didn't know what came over him but as soon as he heard that scream and knew it was Masika, his body grew a mind of its own and he started running towards the source of it. "I'm never going to hear the last of this from Jaden when this is over." He mumbled to himself shaking his head with a growl as he ran faster.
"And you're never going to hear the end of this from me either, Haou." Magician chucked as she appeared, floating, next to Haou as he continued on running. "Well isn't this just cute; the king of darkness, running off towards somewhere that's a trap to save his future queen. How romantic!"
"I'm throwing your card into the volcano after this, Magician." Haou growled at her as he entered a middle sized room with symbols and other weird marking on the walls and floor but he wasn't paying attention to that since the first thing that Haou saw was Masika tied up in a coffin. She was unconscious but otherwise, she looked okay which made Haou let out a small sigh of relief before he shot a glare in Magician direction when she laughed at him.
"Finally you arrived. I was beginning to think that I would've had to make her scream again just to make you show up." Haou growled something under his breath when he heard that as a man wearing a black coat and a demon looking mask appeared from behind the coffin. "Now the real fun can begin." He chuckled as he switched on his duel disk. "I heard such little about you but I do know you like to duel with fiends. Let's see if the rumors are true."
"You kidnapped my…..friend…..just to force me into a duel?" Haou rolled his eyes behind his dark shades as he switched on his own duel disk. "You messed with the one person, buddy."
"Please call me Deimos." The man replied with a dark laugh. "Since I strike nothing but terror into my opponent's minds and bodies; now, I like you to meet the very first thing that's going to make you crying for your very soul…the Shadow Game itself!"
"Shadow Game huh?" Haou chuckled darkly at that. "You really did mess with the wrong person on that one, Deimos."
(Haou: 4000 Deimos: 4000)
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During the same time Haou ran into Deimos, Jaden and the others had made their way into an open stone room which also had strange markings on the floors and walls. On the other side of the room where the boys were standing was Alexis who was out cold in the coffin she was tied up in.
"Alexis!" Jaden yelled as his fists tighten as his sides.
"HAHAHA! She can't hear you! She's far away, trapped in the Shadow Realm!" A sinister voice laughed.
"Alright, who's there?!" Jaden demanded.
Appearing out of the fog that was surrounding the room was none other than the first Shadow Duelist, Titan. "You're worst nightmare come true." He said.
"Oh give me a break. I just saw my worst nightmare five seconds ago. How bad can you be?" Jaden questioned.
Titan chucked darkly at that. "Don't believe me? Then I'll prove it to you in a Shadow Game."
"Look buddy, I'm not afraid of dueling you so there was no reason for you to go and kidnapped Alexis like that. And F.Y.I., Shadow Games don't exist." Jaden swore every time he said that, he felt something breathing down his neck for saying something he knew very much was true. He should know, he seen Haou summon up so many of them in his life time. Well two life time's anyway.
Titan chuckled once more. "My foes didn't believe in the Shadow Games either but they were soon convinced. For you'll see when you lose in a Shadow Game, you don't just pay with your life points but you'll pay with your soul."
Yeah, I kinda already know that. Hello, King of Darkness over here even if it is Gentle. Jaden thought as Yubel appeared next to him with her arms crossed in annoyance. The Guardian and King both didn't say anything to each other but they were both thinking the same thing. This guy has no idea of the dangers this type of dark magic his trying to recreate can do.
Still, Jaden decided to play along just to see where this was going. "So you're the one that's behind the disappearances. Well this time is different; you won't take us or Alexis!"
"Unless you win, she'll be mine forever as 'will you be'?" Titan said making Jaden narrow his eyes with a growl.
"Already, get your game on then." Jaden said after Chumley handed him a duel disk from his knapsack. Jaden placed it on his arm and he inserted his deck before activating it. He glanced over at Alexis and mumbled. "Don't worry, Lex, I'll get you out of here."
"Shadow Game that is!" Titan corrected him, activating his own duel disk.
(Jaden: 4000 Titan: 4000)
Titan took his turn first as his sixth card shot out of his deck. "Prepare yourself, fool, to enter the Shadows! I summon Infernal Queen Archfiend in attack mode!" A boney female monster with blue hair, red eyes, yellow and black wings, single clawed hands and was wearing purple robes appeared with a screech onto the field (Atk: 900 Def: 1500).
"An Archfiend monster?" Jaden questioned.
"Yes and now that this card's out, each and every monster that has Archfiend in its name gains 1000 Atk points!" Titan explained.
"Oh!" Chumley gasped.
"Careful Jaden," Syrus warned.
The Queen of the Archfiend's glowed purple as her Atk points rose (Atk: 900-1900 Def: 1500).
"Uh yeah, I kinda already knew that; having a brother who knows everything about fiend based decks can do that to you. I also know that to keep those Archfiends on the field, you have to pay life points during each one of your standby phases." Jaden said grinning.
Titan chucked. "No, I don't." He said confusing the three Slifers. "Not after I play this, the field spell card, Pandemonium!" A flash of light appeared which made the boys cover their eyes from the brightness but when they opened them again, they were surprised to see the room around them changed into a disturbing room with bone statues of horrid monsters, bone-laced walls and to make things even more scary, there was a lava pool in the middle of the field now.
Jaden might not be the goth type but he had to say that this was a little bit cool, a little freaky maybe, but still cool.
"And this doesn't just change the scenery, it also changes the rules. Now I don't have to pay Life Points in order to keep my Archfiend on the field. Also, if they're ever destroyed outside of battle, I get to place another Archfiend of a lower level right into my hand."
This guy might be psycho but he sure knows how to play his cards right. Jaden thought knowing this wasn't going to be an easy win to save his friend. Still, if worse comes to worse, he still had his ace in hand, standing right beside him.
"I know what you're thinking." Titan said snapping Jaden out of his train of thought as he turned to the motionless form of Alexis. "Your little friend's fate is all but sealed and you know what?" He paused when he noticed that the coffin should have closed up and started sinking into the ground but instead, it just stayed where it was. Huh, what's going on!? Why isn't it moving?!
Jaden held back a small chuckle as he sent a wink towards Yubel who was standing by Alexis's coffin, making sure it wasn't going anywhere as she made vines around it to hold it in place. "Thanks for the save, Yubel." He said in his mind to her through their soul bond.
Yubel smiled and nodded in reply. "No problem, Jay, now kick his butt."
"Don't mind if I do." Jaden replied as he glanced back over at Titan who looked kinda in shock. "So, buddy, is your turn over? I kinda don't want to stand here all day you know? I do have a friend to save after all."
Titan shook his head at that with a growl. "Just go, you fool!"
"Well you don't have to be all mean about it." Jaden said drawing before he looked at his hand. I don't have any card in my hand at the moment that can beat 1900 Atk points but maybe…. Jaden thought over his move and nodded once he got it all planned out. "I'm summoning Elemental HERO Woodsman in defense mode!" The tree warrior from Jaden's second duel against Chazz appeared on the field (Atk: 1000 Def: 2000).
"…..What the heck am I looking at?!" Woodsman questioned as he looked at the Infernal Queen with a freaked out look on his face. "And I thought Yubel was freaky looking…."
"I'm standing right here!" Yubel snapped making Woodsman and Jaden chuckle nervously.
"Anyway, since it's my standby phase and I have Woodsman on my field, I can take a Polymerization from my deck or graveyard and add it right to my hand." Jaden did just that before a face down appeared on his field. "I'm also throwing down a face down and that's it for me."
"To bad you won't have a chance to use it." Titan said snidely as he drew before he played a monster in attack mode. "I summon Terrorking Archfiend!" Another Archfiend monster appeared next to the queen in a flash of blue electricity. This one wore a red king's crown, red eyes, and a red cape. He had the same wings as the queen and looked just as terrifying (Atk: 2000 Def: 1500).
"Now you have two vicious Archfiends to contend with and thanks to the special ability of the Infernal Queen, the Terrorking's attack points automatically increase by a thousand, making him an even more fiendish foe to contend with." Titan said as the same purple energy that was around the queen before appeared around Terrorking and made his Atk points go up (Atk: 2000-3000 Def: 1500).
"3000 Atk points!" Jaden gasped from shock.
"Why me?" Woodsman groaned.
"That's right and now I'm going to put them to good use. Terrorking Archfiend attack Woodsman with Locust Storm Barrage!" Terrorking's chest opened up and out come a swarm of locusts that were heading straight for Woodsman.
"Jaden, no need to alarm you or anything, but locusts eat wood!" Woodsman stated in panic.
"You're not going to get eating alive, pal, since I'm paying a trap, Mirror Wall!" A glass wall rose in front of Woodsman, preparing to activate its effect to protect the HERO monster. "When a monster on my side of the field is attack by one of yours, I can active this card and it can cut your monster's attack in half. So sorry but with this, your Terrorking's attack is going to drop down to 1500 and my Woodsman's defense is higher at 2000 so your Terrorking's going to be destroyed. But nice try though." Jaden grinned but that soon faded when Titan just let out a small chuckle.
"You really thought you could bait me into a trap? Look around you and tell me who's trapped?"
"Uh, what do you mean?" Jaden asked confused.
"What I mean is your trap won't work against my Terrorking! It simply activates his special ability, an ability that will determine out monster's fates by a way of chance." Titan explained as six different colored balls rose from the center of the lava pool and floated to his side. "You see, when he's targeted by an opponent's effect, Terrorking's ability gives me a gambling chance." He then pointed to the floating balls and Jaden noticed that each one of them had a different number on it from 1-6. He didn't like where this was going. "A number between one and six is selected at random and if it happened to be a two or a five, your trap is destroyed and Terrorking stays to fight on my side of the field while your tree is bug food. So let's spin the wheel of fate and see what happens, shall we?"
Fire appeared on one of the balls before it started to rotate from one to another.
"It's okay…the odds are way in Jaden's favor." Chumley reassured.
"Chumley, you flunked math!" Syrus reminded him.
"Nuh-Uh! I got a 54!" Chumley defended himself.
"Guys, you're not helping here!" Jaden exclaimed as he watched the ball of fire go around in circles. Jaden could only guess how tense he must have looked and it only got worse as the fireball slowed down…and stopped on number 2.
"2!" Titan said grinning while Jaden groaned. "It seems that chance has favored the Terrorking Archfiend; Mirror Wall is shattered! Locust Storm Barrage finish him!"
The wall that was once protecting Woodsman disappeared back into the ground, leaving the warrior of the woods wide up for the locust attack. Jaden covered his eyes so he wouldn't have to watch his friend being eaten alive by the hungry swarm of locusts that destroyed him.
"Son of a…." Jaden was cut off as Infernal Queen Archfiend attacked him directly with her single clawed hands.
(Jaden: 2100 Titan: 4000)
"Oh no," Chumley murmured.
"Jaden!" Syrus gasped.
"Well that could have gone better." Jaden grumbled before a grin formed on his face. "Well at least I'm safe."
"I don't think so." Titan said making Jaden raise an eyebrow.
"Huh?" The past king asked in confusion.
"At least not from this!" Titan said as he held up his golden pyramid as a blinding light came from the eye of it, forcing the Slifers to flinch from how bright the light was. "Now the Shadow Games have truly begun!" Titan said coldly. "Don't your life points seem utterly insignificant, now that it's your very life and soul at stake?"
Syrus and Chumley stared at the light of the pyramid, hypnotically, while Jaden was trying his best to not make a comment about how this was all fake.
Soon the light from the pyramid faded and when it did, Jaden noticed that parts of his chest and arm were partly gone. At least, that's what everyone else saw anyway. He, Yubel, and any other monster that Jaden summoned onto the field could perfectly tell that this was just an illusion.
Still Jaden decided to play along with this and said; "Hey my arm!" He gasped while Yubel looked like she was trying not to laugh from where she was guarding Alexis.
Titan chuckled. "It is the power of the Shadows; transcending the game, attacking your body." He explained as black fog began to roll in.
"The….air….getting tough….to breathe…." Chumley wheezed as he and Syrus put their hands to their throats, coughing.
"You are at the mercy of the night now." Titan said smiling sinisterly.
"I can't…feel anything…" Syrus whimpered.
"Treasure the numbness for it will not last. Soon, you will be drawn into the infinite chasm of eternal darkness where every waking moment will be filled with…"
"Oh give me a break here! You're making darkness all together sound like a bad thing! Darkness can be good you know!" Jaden interrupted with a snap and a growl. He hated people who talked about darkness like it was always the bad guy. Yes, the Supreme King sure did a heck of a good job of giving darkness a bad name but darkness was also what brought life to this world. Why couldn't people understand that was something that made Jaden sick to know about. Still, Jaden choice his next words carefully so he wouldn't give too much away. "Besides, how bad can it be? So what, back at our dorm, we got black out curtains so we could sleep in later. I'm not scared of the dark. It's great. I love it!" In fact, I'm one of the twin rulers of it. Jaden bit his lip just so he wouldn't add that last part.
Titan held up his pyramid up once more. "But your black out curtains don't possess the same mystical power as my Millennium item does." He said as it started to glow again.
"Oh no…trouble…" Chumley said frightened while Syrus just stared wide-eyed and mouth hanging open.
Jaden glanced over his shoulder at his friends. He wanted to say something that could calm them down without telling them this wasn't real but nothing came to mind. Oh man, I really hope Haou having better luck finding Masika then I am in this duel to save Alexis.
….
"So what should I use first to start things off?" Deimos wondered out loud with a smirk as he moved from one card to another in his hand. "I have so many options to pick from that I don't know which one to choose."
"How about you pick the one where I don't come over there and rip your head off from boredom?" Haou growled gaining impatient since this dude hasn't made his first move in over two minutes.
"Some people I know would be happy that I'm taking my slow time but those people are trapped in the Shadow Realm now; but if you really wish to lose so soon…I'm going to play a monster face down and that's all for me." Deimos said as a face down monster appeared on his field.
"You washed two to three minutes of my life I'm never going to get back and all you do is play a monster face down?" Haou mumbled something under his breath that sounded like a curse as he drew. "Fine, it's your funeral. I'm going to summon Evil HERO Infernal Gainer in attack mode!"
Appearing of Haou's field was a fiend warrior monster that was wearing red and black armor with super sharp claws. He wore a torn red brown cape that was held in place by a pink jewel with four long spikes on his back. He was also wearing a helmet with another four spikes coming out of it and had six red eyes (Atk: 1600 Def: 0).
"Now attack that face down and destroy it!" Haou order his monster as Infernal Gainer charged at the face down monster with his claws and destroyed it. The monster turned out to be some kind of grey reptile with big red eyes with tentacles for hands and feet (Atk: 300 Def: 800). "Next time at least give me somewhat of a challenge;"
"I would check the field if I were you." Deimos warned him with an evil grin which made Haou raise an eyebrow before he looked on the field.
"What the heck?!" Haou didn't what the heck was happening but as soon as he glanced at his Evil HERO, he saw what looked to be an a purple monster with red eyes, an elephant's trunk, and a long purple climbing onto Infernal Gainer's shoulder before it just stopped there before it started to suck on with it's trunk like a leach. "What did you do my Evil HERO?!" Haou asked glaring at Deimos.
"It's not what I did but what you did. For you'll see, when your destroyed my Alien Grey, it decided to leave behind a little friend; a A-Counter to be exactly, and since he was destroyed by battle when he was flipped, I get to draw another card." Deimos did just that before he glanced back at Haou. "So are you done?"
Haou grew tense at that as he looked at his monster one more time. I have no idea what an A-Counter is. Whatever type of deck his using isn't something I heard of before. A smirk formed on his face. Well this should be fun. "I'm just throwing down a face down and that's all she wrote for me."
"Then it's back to me then." Deimos said smirking after he saw what he drew was. "Uh perfect; just what I needed but first." The Shadow Duelist held up a card. "I'm play Corruption Cell "A"!" Another A-Counter shot out of the card and flew at Infernal Gainer, this one landing on his left knee. "This card lets me add another A-Counter to any monster on your field and just to continue with the theme, I'm playing the "A" Cell Breeding Device!" Appearing behind Deimos looked to be some kind of bleeding/clone machine that was making A-Counters. "During each of my standby phases, I can place yet another A-Counter on one of your monsters." One of the bleeding machines cracked open and out came another A-Counter that made its way over to Infernal Gainer and leached its way onto his crest.
Three A-Counters and yet none of them have done another to my Infernal Gainer? Just what the heck do these things do? Haou wondered.
"Now the real fun can begin since I'm going to play the field spell, Otherworld - The "A" Zone!"
Haou raised an eyebrow at that as a flash of light appeared before it dead down and Haou was somewhat taken by surprise when he noticed that they were now dueling in the middle of space on meteors.
"Now that are the pieces are in place, let's start the fun." Deimos said as he played a monster in attack mode. "I'm playing my Alien Dog in attack mode!" Appearing on the field looked to be an alien dog with bright green eyes. He had white and blue fur with a bone in his mouth (Atk: 1500 Def: 1000). "Now attack!"
"Uh I don't think you can do math right because if you could, you would see my Infernal Gainer has the higher attack points." Haou said.
"Not for long." Haou raised an eyebrow at that before he noticed the A-Counters that were on his monster were sucking the life out of him (Atk: 1600-400 Def: 0).
"Hey, what's going on here?!" Haou questioned as he watched his monster get destroyed by a dog.
(Haou: 2900 Deimos: 4000)
"What just happened were the Aliens. When a monster with A-Counters gets attack by an Alien, it loses 300 Atk and Def points for each Counter it has and thanks to my field spell, they also lose another 300 points." Deimos explained with a dark chuckle as he played a face down. "And since this after all is a Shadow Game;" He held up his golden rod. "You start losing yourself to the Shadows!" The eye in the center started to glow and within seconds, parts of Haou's arms and legs started to disappear.
Haou growled something under his breath. Oh give me a break; I'm so far losing to someone who making fun of the Shadow Realm. He glanced down at his deck and drew. He smirked at what he got. "I'm playing the spell card, Fires of Doomsday!" Two Doomsday Tokens appeared on his field before they burst into dark smoke. "Now I'm going to give up both of my tokens so I can summon out Evil HERO Magician in attack mode!"
"Yeah, you're so going to throw my card into the volcano, Haou." Magician said as she appeared with a laugh on Haou's field (Atk: 2500-3000 Def: 1800).
Haou ignored her as he said. "As long as Magician on my field, all monsters with Evil HERO in their name on my side of the field gain 500 attack points; even with your field spell, Magician still has enough power to destroy you'll puppy alien. Now attack!"
Magician rolled her eyes. "What not even a please?" Haou shot a glare at her. "Fine," She mumbled as she fired of a dark blast from her shaft that destroyed Alien Dog even when her points went down (Atk: 3000-2700 Def: 1800-1500).
(Haou: 2900 Deimos: 2800)
"And let's not forget about the Shadow Realm; since you lost points, you lose parts of your body too." Haou said as some parts of Deimos's body started to fade away. Sure Haou knew this was fake but he decided to play along with it until he got bored and that's when he'll turn this into a real Shadow Game but one that just hurt you, not one that takes your soul when you lose. He didn't need Jaden breathing down his neck again after what happened last time.
"It doesn't matter if I lose some points. You, the fool, have just fallen right into my trap." Deimos chucked making Haou stare at him. "I'm playing my trap card, Alien Brain!"
"Alien Brain? What the heck is…" Magician was cut short when a white head like monster with red eyes jumped onto her face with his tentacles wrapped around her head. Magician tried to pull it off but it was doing no good until finally she stopped as the Alien sat on top of her head, making it look like she was wearing a mask on some kind.
"Uh….Magician?" Haou questioned surprised as his Evil Hero walked on over to Deimos's side of the field, completely under his control. Haou swore he saw blood red as he glare over at Deimos. "What the hell did you do to her?!"
"Like I said before, you're the one who caused all of this by attacking my Alien Dog. When a monster on my side of the field is destroyed, I can activate this trap card here and take control of the monster that just destroyed mine as well as change it to a Reptile monster." Deimos explained as Magician's skin started to turn into scales as she became a reptile type monster.
Haou was silence for a few minutes from that before a black aura appeared around him. "…You'll so f-ing dead." He said as a pure evil smirk formed on his face, a smirk that didn't belong to him even when he was mad. "You want a Shadow Game? Well you just got one."
….
"It's you move but you better make it count or it might be your last." Titan said grimly.
Jaden looked at his hand as he thought; well this guy might be a fake but he sure knows how to duel. This should be a fun challenge. He smiled slightly.
Titan had a look of anger of his face. What's he smiling about?
"Okay Jaden, time to get your game on. Here goes something." Jaden said drawing before he held that card up. "I'm playing my Pot of Greed to draw two more cards." Come on something! He drew once more and a wide grin formed on his face from what he got. "Sweetness, I'm going to play Polymerization to fuse Elemental HERO Sparkman with my Elemental HERO Clayman to form Elemental HERO Thunder Giant in attack mode!" The giant of thunder that Jaden used against his duel with Alexis appeared on the field with blue electricity around him (Atk: 2400 Def: 1500).
As Thunder Giant appeared, he looked around the room before he glanced at Jaden. "Not to be rude, Jay, but why the heck are we in the underworld?"
"Field Spell," Jaden answered plainly before he added. "You mind shining some light on this place, pal?"
"I never thought I would hear you say that, Jaden." Thunder Giant replied as he held out his hands and shot lighting from his palms, aiming for Terrorking Archfiend.
"You're Terrorking is about to be turned into Burnedking thanks to Thunder Giant's special ability which lets him destroy a monster on your side of the field whose original Atk points are less than his own." Jaden said with a smirk but once again, that faded fast when Titan started to snicker smugly. "Uh-oh,"
"I activate Terrorking Archfiend's effect once again, Spin Roulette!" Titan declared.
The six different colored balls caught on fire again as began to spin around, rapidly.
"It just can't land on a 2 or a 5 again!" Syrus pleaded.
The fire started to slow down until he totally stopped…on number 5, stopping Thunder Giant's ability.
"Should have picked the queen;" Jaden and Thunder Giant both groaned at the same time.
Titan laughed. "I win again! It seems as though fate isn't on your side half the time! Now you'll play the price!" The lightning that was going towards Terrorking flipped around and instead towards Thunder Giant, blasting him to pieces.
"Oh come on! Not Thunder Giant!" Jaden growled something under his breath. I knew something bad was going to happen when I said I didn't believe in the Shadow Games. "Still, since Thunder Giant was a special summon, I can still play my normal summon." Not that I have anything in my hand that can go up against 3000 Atk points. "Oh well, I'm summoning my Elemental HERO Ocean in defense mode!" Appearing on Jaden's field was a warrior fish man or shark man in this hero's case. The new HERO had blue skin, a shark fin on top of his head, yellow eyes, and was holding silver trident (Atk: 1500 Def: 1200). "I'm also throwing down two face downs. Your go."
"Jaden, I hope you know what you're doing." Ocean said looking over his shoulder at his master.
"I hope so too, Ocean." Jaden replied before he looked at Titan.
"You really think you're fish stick can protect you?" Titan laughed at that. "Your destiny is already set, fool. Soon, my Archfiend deck will finish all your monsters and my Millennium item will finish off your soul." He said holding up his Millennium item.
"Look, are you going to talk the talk or are you going to duel?" Jaden questioned, narrowing his eyes a little in annoyance.
"If you really wish to be taken by the Shadows so soon then fine; Terrorking Archfiend attack with Locust Storm Barrage!" Titan ordered his monster as Terrorking's stomach opened up again and a swarm of locust went flying at Ocean.
"Talk about butterflies in your stomach." Jaden mumbled as the attack got closer to them. "Well it's a good thing I played a trap, Mirror Force! Say bye-bye to all you monsters in attack mode!"
"Totally-lishous and since this trap is targeting both of his monsters, he can't play Terrorking's ability!" Chumley cheered.
"Way to play, Jay!" Syrus cheered also.
Titan watched as a mirror panel rose in front of Ocean and blocked the attack of locusts from eating him before it redirected as flaming balls of locusts towards the King and Queen of Archfiends, destroying them. "How dare you!"
Jaden shrugged with a smirk. "How? Cause I'm daring, I guess." Yubel chuckled at that while Ocean shook his head with a amuse smile.
"Well let's see how daring you are after this." Titan taunted selecting a card from his hand. "I'm using Desrook Archfiend's special ability to resurrect Terrorking Archfiend by sending this card to the graveyard." He explained as he deposited the said card. "Say hello to a not so old friend." After Desrook went to the graveyard, Terrorking rose onto the field but back to his normal 2000 Atk points.
"Him again?" Jaden groaned.
"That's right and now I activate the effect of the field spell, Pandemonium. Its powerful magic allows me to draw a new Archfiend if any of my Archfiends are sent to the graveyard." Titan explained as a card slid out of his deck. "My new Archfiend can be as powerful but my Terrorking is packing more than enough power as it is. Now let's try this again; Locust Storm Barrage!"
"Will this storm ever let up?" Chumley complained.
"Go Hero Barrier!" Jaden exclaimed as his second trap card rose up and a blue shield appeared in front of Ocean and protect him from the attack.
"What?!" Titan gasped from shock.
"Did you really think I was going to allow you to destroy another one of my HEROs?" Jaden questioned. "Sorry but I don't work that way and neither does my trap. When I have an Elemental HERO on the field, I can negate one of your attacks."
Titan growled in annoyance at that. "Just go;"
…
Deimos had seen people get scared when they had a 'Shadow Game' against him but for once; he was the one to be scared a little when he saw that smirk on Haou's face and how his voice suddenly got darker. Still, he tried to look calm as he drew. "Well now that I taken control of your only monster, I think I'll end things and have her attack you direct!" The brainwash Magician raised her shaft and fired off her Dark Mystic Scepter Blast attack at Haou.
"You humans are so predictable that it's not even funny. Still I let you live for a few more seconds since I'm playing my Nutrient Z trap card. When I'm about to take 2000 or more damage, I gain 4000 life points." Haou didn't even flinch, let alone move at all, when the attack hit him.
(Haou: 2900-6900-3900 Deimos: 2800)
My attack almost brought him back to full life points! Deimos thought, holding back a gasp in shock.
"So are you done?" Haou questioned making Deimos flinch.
What the heck is happening to me? I had this kid on the ropes not that long ago and now I'm too scared to make a smart move. Deimos shook his head as he looked at his hand. Oh well, it he tries something stupid, I can just play my Negate Attack trap card. Deimos set that card face down and ended his turn.
"You attack and then played a weak defense?" Haou chuckled darkly at that as he drew. "You truly are pathetic so I'm going to end this match now." Right after he said that, the ground started to shake.
Deimos's eyes widen behind his mask. "What's happening?!"
"I don't know? You tell me. You're the Shadow Duelist. Oh wait, I forgot, you're a fake." Haou burst into evil laugher. "What's happening is that the real Shadow Game is beginning."
….
"You should have put up some defense." Jaden said with a grin as he drew before he pointed at Ocean. "I'm activating Ocean's special ability. During each of my standby phase, I can take an Elemental HERO that's in my graveyard or on my field and add it back to my hand." A card shot out of his graveyard and Jaden added it to his hand. "And I think I'm going to bring that monster right back onto the field. So how about we give Woodsman here a welcome back?" The warrior of the forest reappeared on Jaden's field in attack mode.
"Oh yeah! It's good to be back!" Woodsman cheered while Ocean shook his head from amusement.
"And that's not all; since I have Woodsman back. I can take back the Polymerization that's in my graveyard and add it to my hand but why wait to use it?" Jaden grinned as he held it up. "Ocean, Woodsman, its show time boys!"
Ocean and Woodsman nodded as they both jumped into the air and swirled together until what came from their fusion was a tall man with white silver armor with a red jewel in the middle of his chest. He had blue gems on each shoulder and one on top of his head. The man also had yellow eyes that were glaring daggers at Titan (Atk: 2500 Def: 2000).
"Meet Elemental HERO Terra Firma!" Jaden smirked before he held another card up. "But before you'll have a close up meeting with him, I'm going to play Monster Reborn to bring back Thunder Giant." A lightning bolt struck the field and after it disappeared, Thunder Giant stood in its place. "Now for the good part, I'm going to activate Terra Firma's special ability." Jaden glanced over at Thunder Giant who nodded in reply. "By sacrificing an Elemental HERO on my field, Terra Firma gains that monster attack points to add onto his!"
"Good luck my friends." Thunder Giant said as he dissolved into dust that went into Terra Firma's red gem.
"Don't worry, Thunder Giant, your strength will give me strength to take this guy down." Terra Firma stated as his attack points went up by Thunder Giant's (Atk: 2500-4900 Def: 2000).
"4900 Atk points?!" Titan gasped from shock.
"Yep just to take out that Terrorking of yours; Terra Firma attack and destroy Terrorking Archfiend!" Jaden ordered as his monster fired off a beam at the fiend that destroyed it and most of Titan's life points.
(Jaden: 2100 Titan: 1100)
Titan's right leg and left arm began to disappear just like Jaden's had when he lost life points.
"Look, parts of him are staring to disappear too." Syrus noticed.
"Think that could work on my waist-line." Chumley thought aloud.
"It matters not! I have another Desrook Archfiend and I just simply discard him to bring back my Terrorking Archfiend!" Titan declared. "There's no escaping him! Rise Terrorking Archfiend!" Titan discarded the selected card once again and in a wisp of black smoke, the King of Archfiends rose up from the dead.
"This guy is really overstaying his welcome." Jaden groaned as he took once last card from his hand and placed it in his spell and trap card zone. "I'm playing a face down and ending my turn. Now c'mon, do your worst!"
"You want my worst? You should be careful what you wish for because you might just get it!" Titan said smiling wickedly as he got a new card from his deck. "Especially when I have this card in hand! I'm playing my Checkmate spell card! So by removing an Archfiend monster from play, my Terrorking can attack you directly!"
"Say what now?!" Jaden gasped as he felt the claws of the Terrorking taking out almost all of his life points.
(Jaden: 100 Titan: 1100)
"And that's not even my worst! I'm now sacrificing my Terrorking to summon out the Skull Archfiend of Lightning!" Once and for all, Terrorking was sent to the graveyard but what replaced him was a monster that looked like Summoned Skull only it's color was darker and it looked more sinister-looking as it let out a screech (Atk: 2500 Def: 1200). "And I'll end my turn at that."
"Oh man, Jaden almost lost the duel in that very turn." Chumley said the fear in his voice was very clear.
"If Jaden doesn't find a way to take out the rest of his life points soon then it's game over." Syrus mumbled but soon his eyes widen when she saw Jaden falling down on both of her knees.
"Oh no; Jaden!" Both of the boys yelled as Jaden fell face first to the ground with a groan.
Look at him suffering; the poor fool can't even stand up. The Shadows are a powerful weapon indeed, even the ones in his own mind. If only he knew. Titan thought smirking mentally.
However, unknown to all of them, Jaden was just pretending to have collapse to the ground. The King of Gentle Darkness was trying his best not to burst out laughing at the moment but when Yubel started speaking to him in his mind, Jaden pushed all the jokes aside.
"Jaden, we got a problem." Yubel started.
'Yeah we do; I should be in Drama Club. I'm just this good at acting.' Jaden laughed before he got serious. 'Okay wrong time, what's wrong.'
"Haou;" And that one name was all it took for Jaden to snap out of his collapse state and stand up.
"Jaden! You're okay!" Syrus and Chumley exclaimed from relief.
"So you still can stand even after that attack?" Titan asked before he smirked. "Well it doesn't matter; the Shadows will have you during my next turn."
"Would you stop the act?" Jaden asked.
"Act?"
"Yeah it's really getting old. This isn't a Shadow Game and it never was one to begin with."
Titan looked nervous after he said that. "This is a Shadow Game! Why would I have a Millennium Item if it wasn't?!" He asked bringing out his puzzle.
Jaden took out a random card he had and threw it at his Millennium Item at a fast speed, breaking it. Once it was shattered, Jaden and Titan's bodies returned to normal.
"Jaden! You got your body back!" Syrus exclaimed from happiness.
Jaden shook his head as he looked over at his friends. "I never lost it to begin with. Like I said, this was a trick all along. Plus I don't think a real Millennium Item would have broken so easily. I don't even think those things can be broken. What are the made out of? Gold or something?" Jaden shrugged the question off before he looked back at Titan who looked to be in a panic state. "It's over, pal. So why don't you surrender and let Alexis go?" And then I have got to check up on Haou or something bad is going to happen. He thought.
"Yeah….no…" Titan said as he threw a smoke grenade onto the ground before he took off running the other way.
"It's always the hard way with you people." Jaden growled in annoyance as the duel shut itself down. "Oh no, you don't! Get back here!" He yelled as he went head on into the smoke. "You're not getting away that easy!" Yes, he had to find Haou as fast as he could but he couldn't just let this guy go free after all he did.
Suddenly, Jaden and Titan both stopped as a dozen beams of light appeared from all directions and merged together in middle of the floor, right between them. The light blew away the smoke bomb that Titan used and formed a huge glowing eye in the floor.
"Oh….crap…." Jaden mumbled as he looked down at the glowing eye, the symbol of the Millennium Items. "I knew I jinxed us."
"That's not it, Jaden." Yubel said reappearing next to him. "The Shadows are mad because they were impersonated by a con; a good one if you were human but as you can tell, we're not fully human. That or Haou snapped again."
"Well if I were them, I would be mad too." Jaden agreed as he glanced over at Titan who looked truly freaked out and scared to the point of wetting himself. "I can't believe I'm saying this but I kinda hope that Haou is the one that's causing this. At least with him, we can stop this."
Suddenly, a swirling vortex of smoke appeared around the two duelist and before either one could figure out what was happening, the smoke quickly covered the two males and it soon was replaced with a perfect giant sphere of darkness that was crackling with dark energy.
"Jaden!" Syrus and Chumley both gasped.
….
Inside the sphere, Jaden and Titan were trapped in a void of endless darkness. Titan looked even more freaked out while Jaden was looking around, waiting for something to happen. He had seen one to many Shadow Games to know that something bad always happens when you're not paying attention.
"What is this place?!" Titan demanded, the fear in his voice was as clear as day. "Where am I?"
"The Shadow Realm; the spirits of this place are either mad at you for impersonating them or my brother lost control again and we're paying the price." Jaden answered before he blinked a few times. He placed a hand to his throat when he noticed his voice had changed and Jaden could only guess that his eyes were now Yubel's.
He was proven right when Titan looked at him and the fear in him doubled. "What the heck are you?! A demon?!"
"I guess you can say that." Jaden answered before he turned when he heard a shriek and the first thing he saw was a large mass of black blobs. "What the heck?" He thought out loud.
Titan wasn't really lucky at the moment since the black blobs came at him first and they began to cover every inch of his body. "Jaden! Help me! Get them off of m-," He was cut off when the blobs launched themselves into his mouth, muffling his scream for help.
"Okay now that is just sick and not in the good kind of way." Jaden mumbled before he looked down at his own feet when he saw that the black blobs were now surrounding him. He would have had the same fate as Titan if Yubel didn't appear next to her soul partner and waved her wings to scare the blobs away. "Yubel, I never been more grateful to have you as a guardian angel;" Jaden said with a smile.
"Angel huh? That's a new one." Yubel replied with a small laugh.
"Jaden Yuki…."
Jaden looked back over at Titan and was surprised to see that he wasn't covered by the mass of blobs anymore but his voice was a lot darker and his eyes were glowing red from behind his mask.
"The Shadows pang for a soul….and only one will survive…" Titan started as he raised his duel disk and the army of black blobs formed a large circle around the two duelists to make sure that neither one of them was going anywhere until their match was over. "This duel will continue here in the Shadow Realm!"
"Well I should have guessed this was coming." Jaden mumbled as all their cards that were on their field reappeared. "I guess I have no choice but to end this now since it was my turn. Here goes; I draw!" Jaden declared as he drew and his eyes widen at what he got.
"Jaden, I know you don't like to….you know…but we don't have much time. We have to find Haou and I can't keep these blobs away from us forever." Yubel told him waving away the black creatures of the Shadow Realm once more as they tried to come closer.
"But Yubel…."
"No buts! You're eyes are already mine and the idiot over there is possessed. What else do you have to hide?! Just do it!"
Jaden sighed as he looked over at Terra Firma who reappeared on the field. He gave his master a nod to play the card which Jaden smiled a little and nodded back. "Okay, first I'm going to activate my face down, De-Fusion, to un-fuse Terra Firma and summon out E-Hero Woodsman and E-Hero Ocean!" The fuse monster de-fused into his two lower level counterparts, both in defense mode. "Now I'm going to sacrifice both of my HEROES to summon out Yubel in attack mode!"
Jaden's eyes brighten in color as Yubel disappeared as a spirit before she appeared on the field in all her glory (Atk: 0 Def: 0). "You're in for it now, pal, since Yubel has an amazing effect. I don't take any damage from the battles that she's in. Instead, you take all the damage that I would have. Now let's finish this up, Yubel!" Yubel and his eyes both flashed at the same time as Skull Archfiend of Lightning charged at them before he suddenly came to a stop.
"You forgot about my Skull Archfiend's effect. When he's target for an effect, I can render it if the roulette lands on a 1, 3, or a 6 and I'll win the duel; however, if it lands on a 2, 4 or a 5 then you win." Titan explained as his roulette started to spin once again.
"I guess it comes down to this and knowing my luck with this thing; I screwed." Jaden grumbled.
"Have some fate, Jaden, we're in our element now and I'm sure that it will back us up." Yubel said as the roulette came to a stop on number 2. "See, what did I tell you?"
"What? A two?!" Titan yelled shocked as his monster once again changed at Yubel but the she-devil used vines to protect herself as the damage she would have taken from the attack went right back at Titan through another vine.
(Jaden: 100 Titan: 0)
"NOOO!" Titan screamed as he was once again attacked by the army of blobs. He was slowly beginning to sink into the floor and was nearly gone from sight when he began to fight back after regaining control of his body. It didn't take long before he was totally gone from sight.
"Poor fool;" Yubel said and Jaden could only nod in agreement as he turned around to face Yubel since she disappeared on the field and was a spirit again. "Come on, we got to find Haou before something really bad happens."
"Yeah, but only one problem; how do we get out of here?" Jaden got his answer when Yubel pointed to a small crack in the sphere of darkness. Jaden sighed. "Uh course…."
….
Deimos stood in total fear as a ring of black fire circled around him and Haou, trapping them inside. "What…what's going on?!"
"What? I'm just making sure you don't go running off. I want to finish our duel." Haou chuckled darkly as he held up his signature card. "I'm playing Dark Fusion to fuse Elemental Hero Avian with Elemental HERO Wildheart to summon out Evil HERO Wild Cyclone in attack mode!" Appearing on the field in a blast of powerful wind was a warrior looking fiend with the green wings of Avian and some of his armor on him. The new monster also had on a red mask that covered his eyes from sight (Atk: 1900 Def: 2300). "Now I'm going to play the equip spell, Eternal Reverse, and give its effects to Wild Cyclone." A bright green aura appeared around the fiend. "Now once during each of my turns, I can choose a face up spell/trap card that's on your field and place it back face down and I'm picking Alien Brain!" As soon as that card was played face down, the alien thing that was controlling Magician disappeared and the female monster blinked a few times as she returned to normal...well as normal as Magician could be anyway.
"Uh what the heck just happened?" Magician questioned.
"Nothing happened; at least not yet anyway." Haou answered with another dark chuckle. "Now if you want to live Magician, get your ass over here now!"
"Again, no please?" Magician still went back over to his side of the field since she didn't like the tone that was in Haou's voice at the moment. It just didn't sound like him. Whenever Haou got like this, he went really quiet and dark but now he was acting like a complete psycho who enjoy seeing people getting hurt and wanted to see more of it.
"Now that I have her back on my field, all my Evil HEROES gain 500 Atk points once more." Haou said as his Wild Cyclone's power went up (Atk: 1900-2400 Def: 2300). "And just for the laughs, I'm playing E-Evil Energy to give my Wild Cyclone another 500 Atk points!" (Atk: 2400-2900 Def: 2300) "Now finish him off with Centrifugal Cyclone Slash!"
"Sorry but I have a trap! Go Negate Attack!" Deimos just stood there in confusion and fear when his trap card didn't rose up. "What's going on?!"
"Wild Cyclone is what's going on. When he attacks, you can't activate any spells or traps that are on your field." Haou's evil grin widen. "Say hello to everyone else that I sent to the Shadow Realm."
Wild Cyclone flew at light speed towards Deimos and attacked him with his wings. Since this was a real Shadow Game, a long, large, and deep cut had appeared on Deimos's chest and it started bleeding like crazy. Deimos screamed in pain as his life points dropped to zero.
(Haou: 3900 Deimos: 0)
As the match ended, Haou walked through the fire that was blocking their way out as both of his monsters disappeared back into his deck. The fire didn't do so much as hurt him let alone burn him. Deimos, however, wasn't so lucky since the black flames closed in on him and all Haou could hear was him screaming as the Shadows took him as their own.
Haou ignored it though as he walked over to the coffin that Masika was tied up in. He untied her before he picked her up, bride style, and started to carry her out of the dorm.
"Haou?" The said boy looked down when he heard Masika say his name.
"Yeah, I'm here." Haou replied with a small smile. It was like the Haou that just dueled in that Shadow Game never existed or was left behind after the duel ended.
Magician, however, had other ideas on what the heck just happened as she watched them from Haou's deck.
….
"I'm liking this less and less, Yubel." Jaden said as he ran from one hallway to another one after he was able to convince Syrus and Chumley to take Alexis and wait for him outside so he could look for Haou. "Where the heck can Haou be?"
"If I knew that answer; you wouldn't be running around like a rat in a maze….stop!" Yubel ordered and Jaden did just that. He let out a breath he didn't know he was holding when he almost ran right into his brother who was carrying a sleeping Masika in his arms who's head was resting on his chest.
"You're in a hurry." Haou said after a while.
"Yeah, I wonder why? Maybe it's because I was looking for you!" Jaden yelled making Haou raise an eyebrow. "Where the heck were you?!"
Haou shrugged. "Dueling to save Masika and you?"
"Dueling to save my own skin along with Alexis's! And in case you didn't know, it was a real Shadow Game!"
"And you survived;" Haou walked right pasted him after he said that and Jaden swore he felt some kind of dark evil energy coming off of him that wasn't there before. "You'll coming?" Haou asked looking over his shoulder at him.
"Uh yeah," Jaden replied before he turned around and follow his brother. 'Yubel?' He said in his mind.
"I know what you're going to say, Jay, and don't worry. I'll take care of it." Yubel replied and a small smile formed on Jaden's face after hearing that.
….
As the twins of the Gentle Darkness made it outside and met up with Syrus and Chumley again; Alexis and Masika, who the boys placed up against boulders, both were slowly starting to come too.
Masika was the first one to open her eyes with a yawn. "Where am I?"
"Well morning sleepyhead," Jaden said with a smile just as Alexis opened her eyes.
"Where am I? What are you doing here?!" Alexis demanded when she noticed she was surrounded by the four guys.
"Hey, now what kind of thank you was that?" Jaden asked taken aback by Alexis's question. "We're here because we had to find the bad guys, win the duels, and rescue the damsels' in distress."
"A king's work is never done." Haou sighed as he ran a hand through his hair while Masika giggled softly at that.
"Oh yeah, those strange man snatched Masika and me." Alexis remembered.
"But how did you know we were in trouble?" Masika asked.
"Well you two can scream pretty loud…." Jaden stopped there when Alexis shot him a glare. "Anyway, we found your cards and this." Jaden handed Alexis her Etoile Cyber and a framed picture and Haou gave Masika her Poseidra, the Atlantean Dragon.
"Oh this…is my brother. This is the first trace of him I've seen in a long time." Alexis explained as she stared at the photo with a sad look.
Jaden smiled a little at that. "I knew that he looked a little bit like you and after what you said last night, I just thought…well….what I'm trying to say is we want to help you find your brother, Alexis, and that's why we brought it to you. Plus, we can't have you getting locked up into any more tombs. I can't always be around to play the hero act with you."
"You were really worried about me, weren't you?" Alexis asked making Jaden go a little red in a face.
"Yeah Jaden, were you worried about the little lady?" Haou asked with a smirk, making Jaden's face go even redder and Masika giggled at all of this.
Before Jaden could answer, sunlight started appearing over the tree tops. "Uh-oh, sun's started to rise. We better get back before they notice we're gone." He said quickly.
"Bye girls;" Syrus said.
"See ya later." Chumley added.
"See ya in class." Jaden said as he and his pals started running off. "And if anyone asks, we were never here!"
Haou rolled his eyes before he glanced over at Masika. "Like Jaden said, don't get trapped or kidnapped again….though I wouldn't have a problem saving you again. It was kinda….fun….to be the hero…Evil HERO to be in correct terms."
Masika blinked at that as a blushed formed on her face as Haou followed after the others.
….
Sometime later in the day, at the Slifer Red dorm, Magician was busy watching Haou sleep since he stayed up the whole night during that Shadow Game; the Shadow Game where something….got loose…
"You mind telling me what happened to Haou, Magician?"
Magician rolled her eyes at that as she leaned back in the desk chair she was sitting in. "Sorry but I'm not in the mood to talk to boys."
"I am not a boy!" Yubel growled at her in pure anger and annoyance.
"No, you're a hermaphrodite, which is still pretty much the same thing." Magician shrugged. "But since your still part female, what's up, girl friend?"
"I'm not in the mood for your games, Magician; what happened to Haou?!"
"And I'm not in the mood for your bitching but I guess we can't all have what we want, can we?" Magician rolled her eyes again before she sighed. "Fine, what do you want to know?"