I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX!
Hey everyone! I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas this year! 2014 is about to end which is sad to see but let's all hope 2015 will be just as good or better! Anyway, sorry that this took so long to do guys. School is hell (I've been saying this a lot but it's true) and when I finally had time to look on this, I decide to watch anime instead but can you blame me? Anime is amazing! But back to the topic at hand. This is the Christmas special (if you want to call it that) chapter. Though fair warning before you guys start reading this. My brain was jumping from idea to idea so some part might not make sense at times but I was to lazy to try and make everything make sense. Oh well, I will try to make the next chapter better. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy some of this at least.
"I can't believe everyone left for winter break. The campus feels so empty now." Jaden mused to himself. The Slifer Red was staring out of a window, watching the snow fall with a bored expression on his face.
"What the heck are you mumbling over there, Jaden?" Haou questioned, glancing over at his twin from where he laid on his bed. "You're idiot friends are still here. Why I don't know but really, I don't care." Haou's golden gaze turned back to book he was in the middle of reading out of boredom too. "Why don't you go bug one of them instead of me?"
"Because bro; Chumley in the middle of a phone call with his parents and Syrus is spending some time with his brother. So why can't I spend time with my brother?" Jaden asked him. "After all, isn't the point of winter break to go on home and spend time with your family?"
"Like we should be doing if our parents didn't cast us out for being monsters?" Jaden flinched at the venom tone that Haou used to say every one of those words. "Yeah I thought so."
"And now I remember why you hate Christmas time, Haou." Jaden sighed running a hand through his hair. "Fine have fun when the Ghosts of Christmas past, present and future come to visit you. I, for one, am not going to be bitter and instead going to get presents for everyone; even for you, Mr. Grinch."
"Jaden, you're broke. How are you going to get presents for everyone?" Haou asked as Jaden was about to open the door to leave.
"I'm one of the twin kings of the Gentle Darkness. I think I can make up something in just a couple of days." Jaden answered him before he left.
Haou just sighed and rolled his eyes. "The idiot has the brain the size of a walnut but I guess his giant heart makes up for it. Jaden truly is the meaning of the Gentle Darkness itself." He mused to himself before turning his attention back to his book…or tried to anyway until guess who decided to pop out?
"If Jaden is the heart of the Gentle Darkness then what does that make you, Haou?" S.S. questioned appearing against the doorframe with his arms crossed.
"The strength, power, and everything else." Haou answered not even looking up from his book. "Shadow, where's Magician?"
"Christmas shopping for all I care." The fiendcaster replied rolling his eyes to show just how much he cared about his sister. "She said something about finding you the ultimate gift this year. I bet five bucks it's going to be a dead animal with its skull taken out. Hopefully she won't even show up until Christmas is over. Now that will be the best gift ever."
Haou made no comment to that but he did sigh from it, thinking it was a waste of her time but hey, if it made her leave him alone then she could do whatever she wanted. Though, he still had to deal with Shadow Sorcerer who like him didn't really enjoy Christmas that much.
"But in other news…" Shadow continued as a sinister smirk formed on his face. "I found something that I think your going to enjoy, Haou."
"Magician in a pit of fire?"
"Oh I wish but no. Something even better than that."
Now that made Haou glance up from his book and closed it at the same time. "Well I got nothing better to do." The dark king admitted, standing up from his bed. "This just better not be a waste of my time, Shadow."
"Trust me, my lord, it won't be." Shadow Sorcerer smirked.
…..
"I can't believe we were about to duct tape everything to the ceiling." Kia said in awe with a giant grin planted on her face as she and Amber high fived each other. The blonde tomboy Obelisk was staring at the display that once was Dr. Crowler's office. Pretty much everything of his was now tapped to the ceiling: books, pens, his desk and chair, you name it; it was up top.
"It's official; duct tape solves everything." Amber smirked before she and Kia burst out laughing at a job well done. "This is why you shouldn't give two insane people bad grades."
"Or be one of the first people to leave the island for winter break." Kia added in a laughing fit. "And leave the keys just lying around."
"I think we should get a reward for this, don't you think, Hope?"
"Amber, we been through this a million times now, I would like it if you would call me Kia but I let this one side just because I'm in a too good of a mood from this." Kia told her before she smiled. "But sure, I think we deserve a reward for this master piece we created."
So after leaving Crowler's office in its duct tape state, Kia and Amber ended up going to the card shop. Today was its final day open before Ms. Dorothy went off on winter break as well.
Speaking of the card shop owner, she just came out of the back room with a tray of hot chocolate, heading over to the two British girls.
"Here, fresh on the house." Ms. Dorothy smiled as Kia and Amber each both took a glass.
"Thanks Ms. Dorothy and thanks for not closing just yet. I hope we aren't causing you any trouble?" Kia asked her before she took a drink from the hot chocolate.
"Oh it's no trouble at all, Kia. Just think of this as a thank you present from me to you and Jaden for being such wonderful customers." Ms. Dorothy replied before she suddenly started to look around. "Speaking of that boy, where is he? I thought you two were stuck to each other like glue most of the time?"
Yeah….about almost two months ago…. Kia thought sadly, placing her glass on the table before lowing her eyes. Ever since she saw Jaden kinda lose it during when they saved Wheeler from that group of scientists, Kia just couldn't get that image of Jaden's eyes out of her head. She keep telling herself she was just seeing things and her mind was playing tricks on her but the last time she thought something like this was when she found out her Dustons were actually real and she could speak to duel spirits.
But this was different; she saw Jaden's kind, sweet, chocolate brown eyes slowly change color and appearance into that of a demon's. Plus just the angry look that went perfectly with that orange and green glow his eyes held made Kia froze in place for a second and she will freely admit that just in that small moment, she was actually afraid of Jaden Yuki. The Jaden Yuki that she wouldn't freely admit to have grown a small, if you wanted to call it that, crush too.
"Hope over here has been avoiding him." Amber answered the owner of the card shop since Kia was taking forever to answer it herself. "I think she just too scared to be around him…"
Kia froze at that, believing Amber had figured it out until….
"….since I'm always around with a camera ready." Amber finished causing Kia to anime style fall to the ground.
"Yeah that's totally it." Kia said hoping that it sounded believable. Well it had to be since Amber believed it and good thing too since that girl had really crazy ways to make a person tell the truth: one which would be annoying the person to death until they snapped and told her the truth. Yeah, Kia sure knew how to pick her friends alright.
Yeah friends….one of which I been avoiding because I'm somewhat scared of him now. Kia thought sadly as she slowly got back to her feet but she stopped suddenly when she noticed something under the table. "Huh what's this?" She mused as she reached out and picked it up. It turned out to be a monster card with a picture of a brown furball with small angel like wings on its back.
"Winged Kuriboh;" Kia read the card's name out loud.
"Winged what now?" Amber questioned as she quickly took the card out of Kia's hand before she noticed her. "Oh my god, it's fluffy!"
"Hey give me that!" Kia exclaimed as she stole the card back from Amber who only just pouted in response. "Finders keepers."
Amber raised an eyebrow at that. "You want to keep that? No offense, Hope, but wouldn't that card mess up your whole deck."
"Not for me," Kia replied looking back at the little winged monster whose fur color reminded her so much of her favorite Slifer's hair style. Well Christmas is coming up…and Jaden does deserve to get something….and I can't keep avoiding him forever from something I'm pretty sure my mind just tricked me into thinking…
Making up her mind, Kia turned to Ms. Dorothy and asked.
"How much for this little guy?"
…..
"You sure are going overboard for this year, Jaden." Yubel said looking over her soul partner's shoulder to see what he was working on now. "So what are you trying to make anyway?"
"A Duel Monsters card," The Slifer answered smiling from pride of his artwork. "Oh yeah, this is going to turn out great! I'm sure she's going to love it!"
After his little fight with Haou, Jaden took it upon himself to get gifts for all of his friends. With the help of his Elemental HEROES, Jaden was able to make a week's worth of grilled cheeses for Chumley and get a poster of the Dark Magician Girl for Syrus. He even was able to get a few more dragon cards for Amber's deck. Jaden also wanted to get gifts for Alexis, Bastion, and Masika but they all left for winter break and as for Zane, Jaden truly had no idea what to get him. So all that left was Haou, which he had to deal with figuring out a present for his brother later and….
"I take it that's for Kia right?" Yubel questioned making Jaden pause in his coloring of the Duel Monster's card he was making.
"Yeah," Jaden admitted before he glanced out of the window of his dorm, noticing how the snow had slowly stopped over time. A sad smile formed on Jaden's face as he glanced back at the card. Even if she's been avoiding me, I still want to give her something. He thought thinking back to the past two months where when he tried to talk to her, she would pretend to not have heard him or just flat out ignore him to the point where Jaden figured out that she was avoiding him. Jaden didn't know what he did to get this type of treatment from his partner in the dark side but he hoped he could fix it from what he was making for her.
"Jaden," Yubel spoke once more, snapping Jaden out of his thoughts. "Are you okay? You'll been spacing out a lot lately."
"Yeah, I'm fine." Jaden replied turning his attention back towards his guardian. "I just got a lot on my mind that's all. After all, Christmas is just right around the corner and I want to make it one that everyone here won't forget."
Jaden looked back down at the card he was in the middle of coloring now and his smile returned. "I just hope this can fix whatever I did to mess up our friendship, Kia."
"Speaking of the devil…" Yubel mumbled just as someone knocked on the door.
Jaden blinked at that as he stood up from his chair to stare at his front door. He knew it wasn't Syrus or Chumley since after all this was their room too and he knew that it wasn't Haou since he always just walked in here without even knocking first.
Jaden quickly hid the card design he was working on and changed his eyes back to brown as he walked over to the door and opened it up to find standing on the other side of it was Kia.
A long period of silence hanged in the air as the two just stared at each other, not knowing what to say to the other after two months of being apart. Though after a while, Kia was the one who decided to break the silence.
"Uh….hey Jay…." The blonde said in an awkward tone.
"Hey Kia," Jaden replied sounding just as awkward. "Uh…..what brings you here to the snowy white red dorm?"
"I….uh….I was just in the neighborhood and well…." Kia bit her lip to get herself to stop talking from how stupid she was sounding. For crying out loud, Kia, man up! She yelled out herself in her head, hating this awkwardness that she placed the two of them in from her own paranoid. Stomping on her own foot, Kia forced herself to say what she came here to say. "Look Jaden, I know you have noticed that I been avoiding you and I have been and I feel like a selfish idiot for doing that. My head wasn't on right for these past two months and I came here to say I am sorry and if there's any way I can make it up to you then just say the word, pal." But as soon as Kia finished saying all of that, she just sighed. "Oh who am I kidding? I bet you hate me now, don't you?"
"Hate you?" Jaden questioned blinking in surprise at her last sentence before a small smile formed on his face. "Funny, I thought all this time, I did something stupid and made you hate me."
"Me? Hate you?" Now it was Kia's turn to blink. "Jaden? Why would you think that? You're the nicest and funniest guy I know. Why would I hate you?"
"Because I'm an idiot."
"Then I'm an idiot too for being friends with you." Kia crossed her arms over her chest and stuck her tongue out at him like some upset child.
Jaden laughed softly at that. "You're tongue going to freeze like that in this weather."
"Well to bad if it…." Kia paused for a second as she tried to move her tongue but couldn't. "Crap! It really did!" She exclaimed sounding really stupid with her tongue hanging out like that.
Jaden couldn't help himself any longer and burst out laughing and it didn't take long for Kia to join in on the laugher fit when she got her tongue unfrozen.
"Jaden, remind me of this moment the next time I decided to do something stupid and ignore you." Kia told the Slifer, raising a fist.
"Deal," Jaden agreed as he bumped his fist with hers. "Dark Side partners?"
"Dark Side partners, partner." Kia smiled before it quickly twisted into a smirk. "Well now that we're on good terms again, you have got to see what Amber and I did to Dr. Crowler's office! We gave it an amazing makeover!"
…..
So a few days later after Jaden and Kia restated their friendship with each other, it was now Christmas Eve. It was snowing over the academy island once again giving it that quiet winter night feel or at least the illusion of it anyway. However in reality, an Obelisk Blue with long, straight brown hair and glasses was running for his life through the forest. Whatever he was running from was unseen but whatever it was, it must have terrified this guy since his eyes were wide with panic and fear.
"Help! Help!" The male Obelisk screamed dashing through the shrouded by darkness and snowy forest. I can't believe this is happening! He thought. I can't believe he came alive and took my friends! "Please, someone help!"
…..
"Hey guys, you know what the best part about Christmas Eve is?" Jaden asked.
"The fact that you only have to wait less than 24 hours until Christmas morning?" Kia guessed.
"Nope, the Christmas Eve parties!" Jaden exclaimed. "And how do we party?!"
"By dueling!"
Currently, the dark side partners, along with Chumley, Syrus, Banner, Pharaoh, Amber, and against his will like always, Haou were all in the meal hall of the Slifer dorm and like Jaden said, they were having a little get together for Christmas Eve. Jaden and Syrus were in the middle of having a duel. Banner, who was holding Pharaoh, and Chumley were sitting beside a small grill, cooking something. Kia and Amber were also having a duel but since Jaden and Syrus were taking up all of the room, they were playing the card game the old fashion way on one of the tables and as for Haou, he looked to be trying to take a nap, resting his head on his forearm.
"Yeah this is the life! No school for a few more weeks and more time for dueling!" Jaden burst out.
"Yeah and more cafeteria food for us too," Chumley added.
"Yes, which makes you wonder why all we been eating are marshmallows." Banner pointed out.
"Well, we already ate all of the grilled cheeses."
"We?" Banner questioned raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, don't drag us down into your grave, Chum." Kia told him.
Pharaoh watched as the marshmallows on the grill grew bigger until they exploded with a pop, startling the cat.
Amber laughed at that. "Scaredy cat….pun intended."
Haou just yawned out of boredom. Oh how he wished he could just fall asleep right now but he knew that no such thing was going to happen anytime soon.
Though suddenly, he was wide awake when he sensed someone heading their way.
He wasn't the only one since Jaden paused in the middle of his next move when he felt someone right outside the dorm.
Immediately afterwards, there was a loud crash, forcing Jaden and Syrus's duel to shut down and causing everyone, besides Haou, to leap to their feet as the Obelisk from before crashed through the door and was now lying on the pieces of shattered glass and wood, looking half dead.
Haou narrowed his eyes right away at this. "Shadow, go scout the area." He ordered his monster in a whisper.
"And miss the fun of seeing this guy suffer?"
"Shadow,"
"Fine Supreme King," The fiendcaster's presence was gone after that.
"You look like you've seen a ghost." Jaden spoke, walking over to the boy when he noticed the fear that glowed in his eyes.
"I….I have…." The boy groaned.
"Uh….what are you talking about?" Kia questioned coming over to stand next to Jaden.
"Jinzo! The dueling card!" The boy gasped out.
Now that made Jaden go silence and made Haou narrow his eyes even more.
'Do you think?' Jaden asked Yubel.
"A crossover yeah: a spirit who wants to escape the Duel Monster Spirit World or the Shadow Realm and take physical form in the human world." Yubel explained. "No telling what kind of damage he can do if he gets one."
"Uh Professor Banner, I think you might want to call the school nurse. This guy has caught a really bad case of the crazies." Amber spoke.
Banner walked over to look at the student. "I know you, you're Torrey. You were in my Para-Dueling Class."
The Obelisk, Torrey, nodded looking up at the Slifer Headmaster. "Yeah, that's right, Professor Banner." He said before he grabbed Banner's leg. "And everything you said about duel spirits being real was all true!"
"Better make that the school's therapist." Amber corrected herself, getting her a punch in the arm by Kia.
Banner knelt down and placed his hands on the shaken Obelisk shoulders. "Just calm down, Torrey, and tell me everything that happened from the very beginning."
"Yes, Professor;" Torrey mumbled before he started explaining what happened. "A while back, I told some of my friends about your class and how that under certain conditions, duel spirits can come to life. Well, we started to try and create those conditions, even though the Academy forbids it."
This place forbids spirit calling? No, scratch that; how does the Academy even know about summoning spirits anyway and just how many secrets is this place keeping altogether? Jaden wondered thinking back to Abandoned Dorm and its connections to the Shadow Games.
"We did it a couple of times but nothing happened." Torrey continued. "Until a few days ago….maybe it was because we used our bed sheets as robes, or that we used Dr. Crowler's bath candles, but, anyway, this time something was different. You see, we all put our hands on an Ouija Board and said the incantation: 'From vapor to flesh, wind to a roar, come, Jinzo, from the Land of Yore' then immediately afterwards, a book from one of the selves fell and the Ouija Board spelled out, 'Give me three and I'll be free'. We thought he meant cards!"
"Idiots," Haou grumbled under his breath. "You all deserve to die."
Banner frowned. "Oh dear me, mere cards alone won't satisfy Jinzo's appetite. This is just awful."
"So wait, what did the three mean, Torrey?" Syrus asked.
"It meant people."
"People?!"
"Yes and the worst thing is that we had already agreed, before we knew better."
"So what happened to your friends?" Kia asked getting more tense every second.
"They're both gone." Torrey answered shaking from fear. "I looked everywhere but it's like they just vanished. First it was one then the other and now I just know it's going to be me next!"
"Are you sure they didn't just leave for winter break?" Amber suggested. "You might just be overreacting over nothing."
Torrey shook his head. "I hoped but when I called their parents, they had no idea where they were. I don't even think they could have made it home anyway. After all, when I tried to leave the island, he was there on the boat, waiting for me. There's no escape from him!"
Well, he should be safe here at least. Jaden thought. After all, he and Haou were both here and any duel spirit had to be stupid to challenge the Lords of Gentle Darkness.
"Not true, Jaden." Yubel said appearing right next to him, looking ready to fight if she had to. "If he's desperate enough, he won't care who gets in his way."
"Oh he's desperate oh right." Shadow Sorcerer confirmed, appearing beside Haou with a smirk. "This should be fun to watch."
Suddenly, the lights went out, shrouding the whole room in darkness.
"Hey! What just happened here?!" Amber yelled.
"Jinzo has come for us!" Chumley screamed.
"Relax, everyone, maybe it was just a fuse going out." Banner suggested.
"Fuse nothing. Where the heck are Jaden, Haou, and Torrey!?" Kia questioned eyes widen when she noticed the two Slifers and Obelisk were all missing after the lights went out.
Everyone blinked at that, trying to get their eyes adjusted to the darkness, but when they did, they all noticed that Kia was right. The three boys were missing.
"Oh no!" Syrus gasped. "Jinzo has them!"
…..
"Damn it; where did he run off to?" Jaden stopped in the middle of the forest, breathing heavily to catch his breath. He looked around, trying to sense where Jinzo had run off to with Torrey.
"Jaden, I know you want to save this guy from being Jinzo's next meal but even if you do find him, what are you going to do?" Yubel questioned him. "You might be a King of the Gentle Darkness but even you can't break deals between humans and spirits. This is why I told you to wait before you decided to charge off when Jinzo appeared and took Torrey to who knows where."
"I know you're right, Yubel, but I can't just let Torrey die! It's going to be Christmas in a few hours and I'm going to make sure they will all be spirit free for it." Jaden told her before he turned away when he sensed a large amount of power building up.
"That's not good." Yubel mumbled, sensing the power gain as well before she followed after Jaden when he took off towards it.
Letting their senses guide them, Jaden and Yubel found themselves at a fenced off area with tall metal towers rising up at each corner with wires and generators lining the fence.
"Huh, where are we?" Jaden wondered looking around.
"Looks like central power station." Yubel guessed. "Jinzo must have come here to absorb more power."
"Well I don't see Jinzo anywhere but I do see Torrey." Jaden said, seeing the now unconscious Obelisk lying on the ground at the other end of the station. "Torrey, you're safe now."
Jaden must have jinxed it since as soon as he said that, purple electricity crackled around the area, keeping the king and his guardian away from getting close to Torrey before Jinzo appeared out of nowhere. He looked just like he did on his card: a tall humanoid in a green and yellow body suit with lighter green shoulder plates, a pink head that was covered by a green mask, and glowing red eyes. However, he was still a spirit from the looks of it since his whole body was see-through.
"None of you are safe!" The trap destroyer monster stated.
Yubel narrowed her eyes. "He's using the electricity of the supply station to keep himself in the human world until he can have Torrey's soul; how clever of him."
Jaden growled at this as he step forward. "Alright, funs over, Jinzo. As one of the twin Kings of the Gentle Darkness, I order you to let Torrey the others go and return back to your world!" Jaden hated having to use his title for things, mostly when he had to order someone around, but he didn't have any other choice at the moment.
"Fool, you might be our ruler but even you can't break the laws of the Spirit Realm." Jinzo proclaimed. "This human made a deal and I'm merely fulfilling it. You have no say in it!"
Now Jaden was getting ticked off. "Fine, if you need a third soul so bad then take mine instead!"
"Jaden…." Yubel glanced at her soul partner in disbelieve to what he was saying.
"How interesting; you're willing to sacrifice your soul and power to me to save one pathetic human? How brave and how stupid, Supreme King." Jinzo spoke.
Jaden narrowed his eyes at that, looking just as mad as Haou would be if he was called that. "Don't call me that." He growled.
Jinzo eyed him. "Very well for I can't accept your offer even if I wanted to. Your soul is already claimed in another deal."
"What the heck are you talking about, Jinzo?!" Jaden was seriously getting close to snapping at hearing that.
"Jaden, he's talking about your soul bond with me." Yubel stated causing Jaden to blink then stare at his guardian.
"What?"
"Our soul bond would be count as a contract or a deal in the Spirit World. Since I'm using your body as a host in correct terms, you have excess to my powers." Yubel explained not meeting his gaze. "So because of me, you can't do anything to help him."
Jaden was left speechless at that. So I really can't do anything? I just have to stand back and watch as someone life is taken away from that all because I'm so powerless from being too powerful?!
"How pathetic, Jinzo, running off just when you're about to be caught and now you do something as cowardly as this? And you call yourself a duel spirit."
"Haou?" Jaden blinked once more when he heard and saw his brother standing there at the entrance.
"What am I? Invisible?" Shadow Sorcerer appeared next to Haou with a ticked off look on his face. "Actually don't answer that." After saying that, Shadow drew one of his daggers and pointed it at Jinzo. "As much as I would love to see humans getting their souls taken, we have some unfinished business to take care off, buddy."
"Unfinished business?" Yubel questioned before she realized what he meant. "Wait, you knew about this and you didn't tell me?!"
"You never asked, lover." Shadow replied with a smug look on his face.
"Shadow, if we weren't in this type of situation, I would murder you right now."
"I like to see you try, sweetheart."
"Shadow enough." Haou told him before he turned his attention back to their real problem. "You know something, Jinzo, I truly don't care if you take this human's soul or not. He should die for being the idiot that he and his friends were for summoning you. Then we can all move on with our lives and act like this never happened."
"Haou…." Jaden started but was cut off when his brother continued speaking.
"But if I do let you go through with your plans then I would have to hear the never ending complaining of Jaden over here and that's even worse than death. Plus…" Haou narrowed his eyes. "I don't like spirits that think they can do whatever they want. It's really quite annoying to be honest and it doesn't help your case that you ran off when Shadow and I first found you absorbing that human's soul." Haou paused as he thought back to a few days ago when Shadow told him about finding something interesting which turned out to be Jinzo. "So you know what? Screw it." Haou activated his duel disk. "Unlike Jaden, I'm not tied down by any stupid soul pack but if you think I'm going to let you have my soul then you even more stupid then I thought."
Jinzo, who reminded silence since Haou appeared, laughed darkly at that. "So a duel now is it?"
"So you're not as dumb as you look huh? Yes, a duel. If I win, you let that idiot along with the other two go so I don't have to deal with Jaden's complaining and part time rages and if by some small chance that you end up winning, you can have the soul of the Supreme King and become the most powerful duel spirit ever." Haou explained making Jaden's eyes widen and Yubel stare at him like he was insane. Shadow, on the other hand, look overjoyed.
"Oh this is going to be fun." The fiendcaster smirked.
"Haou, are you crazy?!" Yubel asked him, making the darkness ruler glance over at her. "Do you know what you're risking here?"
"Yeah I do and this is how much I care about what you think about this." Haou turned his attention back to Jinzo.
"Not that I'm complaining much but why?" Jaden questioned staring at his older twin like he grew a second head and it was the one that has been talking this whole time. "Haou, this isn't like you. You don't risk your live to save others."
"Yeah well, it's Christmas Eve and I feel like being nice." Haou glared over his shoulder at his younger twin. "Got a problem with it?"
"Uh….no?"
"Good now shut up."
"Well….that's one way of being in the Christmas spirit….I guess…." Jaden, though, had to smile a little since he was pretty sure that Haou was trying to be nice even if it was just because it was the holidays. Still, he couldn't help but worry about his twin. Now don't get him wrong, he knew that Haou could kick any human's butt but facing off against a duel spirit was something totally different.
Haou took a few steps forward as Jinzo spoke once more. "I should be sustained long enough by this electrical limbo for a match. First I'll beat you, then I'll consume you, and finally, I will be full again with the powers of the Gentle Darkness!"
Haou said nothing to that as he drew his opening hand.
(Haou: 4000 Jinzo: 4000)
Five large holographic cards, which served as Jinzo's hand, appeared in front of the duel spirit. "Let's begin this now. First, I summoned Malice Doll of Demise in attack mode." A creepy wooden doll with blonde hair in overall appeared on the field with an axe in his hands (Atk: 1600 Def: 1700).
"A wooden voodoo doll? How terrifying." Shadow stated unimpressed.
"Next, I'll play the spell card, Ectoplasmer." Jinzo continued as another card appeared on his field. "This fiendish spirit allows each player to sacrifice a monster on their field at the end of their turn. Then, half the monster's attack points is dealt to the opponent as direct damage."
Haou didn't even so much as flinch as a white serpentine that appeared from the Doll of Demise flew right through his crest.
(Haou: 3200 Jinzo: 4000)
"That's your turn? All you manage to do was hurt yourself. Now with no monsters on your field, you're doomed." Haou drew from his deck and looked at his hand. "I summon Infernal Hellhound in attack mode." The black fur, red eyes, hellhound appeared on the field with a growl. (Atk: 1000 Def: 600) "And my dog isn't just for show. He's special ability makes you take 500 points of damage one per turn. Let him have it, boy."
The hellhound growled as he let loss a fireball at Jinzo, burning away his life points.
(Haou: 3200 Jinzo: 3500)
"Now attack Jinzo directly." Haou ordered as his hound then charged at Jinzo, hoping to bite the spirit but all it did was pass right through him.
(Haou: 3200 Jinzo: 2500)
"I place three cards face down." Three face downs appeared behind Infernal Hellhound. "Now, because of your Ectoplasmer card, I have to give up my hellhound but not without taking away another 500 of your life points."
The spirit of Infernal Hellhound rose up from his body before he charged at Jinzo once more and this time was able to bite him right in the arm, causing Jinzo to growl.
(Haou: 3200 Jinzo: 2000)
"Nice, Haou was able to take out half of his life points in one turn. Now let's just hope he can finish Jinzo off during his next turn." Yubel said but as she turned to look at Jaden, she started to worry when she saw how tense Jaden looked. "Jaden?"
"This is sickening; destroying your monsters at the end of each turn just to damage your opponent." Jaden closed his eyes.
"I know you don't like this, Jaden, but this is the way of the Shadow Realm and you should know this by now." Yubel told him.
"I know, Yubel." Jaden sighed as he forced his eyes open to continue to watch this match. "But that doesn't mean I have to like it."
"Fools, you think a puppy dog can destroy me?" Jinzo growled as another card appeared in front of him. "You will still lose. Since Malice Doll of Demise was sent to the graveyard by the effect of a continuous spell card, he is automatically resurrected." The wooden doll returned to the field in attack mode. "And next, I summon Emissary of the Afterlife in attack mode." The spirit added as a creepy reaper monster carrying a scythe appeared (Atk: 1600 Def: 600).
"A voodoo doll and the grim reaper? Now I'm just waiting for the vampires and the werewolves to show up." Shadow chuckled.
"You'll been spending way too much time with your sister, Shadow." Haou sighed.
"Since you have no monsters out, I can attack you directly. Go my monsters!" Jinzo ordered as both of his fiend monsters threw their weapons, axe and scythe, at Haou.
"This is so predictable it's not even funny." Haou mumbled as one of his face downs rose up. "I play Fires of Doomsday which lets me summon two Doomsday Tokens in defense mode." He explained as two ghost-like tokens appeared on the field, taking the hits from both attacks.
"Clever boy but cleverness can only take you so far. Have you forgotten about the effect of my Ectoplasmer?" Jinzo questioned as Malice Doll of Demise was rendered spiritless once more and its white serpentine spirit flew right at Haou.
"Like I said, predictable. I play my trap card, Barrel Behind the Door." Haou's second face down rose up. "Since I'm about to take damage from a card effect, Barrel Behind the Door lets me send that damage right back at you."
Like it was changing its mind, the spirit of Malice Doll of Demise turned right back around and flew right through Jinzo instead.
(Haou: 3200 Jinzo: 1200)
"You curse some mortal." Jinzo growled as he ended his turn with a face down.
"Tell me something I don't know." Haou replied, drawing his next card before activating his final face down. "I activate Sinister Yorishiro. With this continuous trap card on the field, if I happen to normal summon a level 5 or higher fiend type monster to the field, I can summon it without tribute. In other words, I can now summon my Evil HERO Malicious Edge to the field without having to make a sacrifice." Haou's ace monster appeared on the field with an evil smirk (Atk: 2600 Def: 1800). "Now attack Emissary of the Afterlife with Needle Burst." He ordered.
Malicious Edge grinned wickedly as he jumped into the air and struck the reaper down with his needles.
(Haou: 3200 Jinzo: 200)
"Foolish mortal, by destroying Emissary of the Afterlife, we are allowed to add one level three or lower normal monster from our decks to our hands. I choose Thousand-Eyed Idol." Jinzo stated before the card was added to his hand.
"I choose my Elemental Hero Burstinatrix." Haou added the female HERO to his hand. "Though I don't see the point. You are your own undoing, Jinzo. By using Ectoplasmer, you sealed your fate. All I have to do is get rid of my Malicious Edge and you take 1300 damage. I have this duel won."
"You would think so, Supreme King, but I always have a backup plan. Behold my Emergency Provisions spell card." Jinzo face down rose up. "By getting rid of my Ectoplasmer, I gain 1000 life points and stop you from getting rid of me."
Haou narrowed his eyes at that as Ectoplasmer disappeared from the field and Jinzo's life points rose back up to where they were before Malicious Edge's attack.
(Haou: 3200 Jinzo: 1200)
"And he was so close to." Yubel sighed.
"At least no more monsters are dying." Jaden pointed out with a sigh of relieve.
"Fine you got lucky this round, Jinzo." Haou placed a face down. "But next turn won't be the same."
"Oh how I couldn't agree with you more." Jinzo chuckled after seeing what he just drew. "With the card that I just drew, my resurrection is all the more closer!"
"Should have destroyed him when I had the chance." Haou grumbled under his breath.
"First, because of its effect, Malice Doll of Demise returned to the field." Jinzo's creepy friend returned to the field once more.
"That thing is really over staying its welcome." Jaden mused.
"And now, I summon Jinzo - Jacker in attack mode!" Appearing on Jinzo's field was the monster that looked like a downgraded version of himself but with electric wires coming out of his back (Atk: 800 Def: 2000).
Shadow Sorcerer laughed darkly as soon as he saw the monster. "That's your all powerful turn around card? Your baby brother? This is getting better every second."
"Looks can be deceiving, foolish spirit." Jinzo stated as he sent Jinzo – Jacker straight to the graveyard as soon as he was summoned. "For you see, by tributing Jacker, his special ability can take effect: an effect that will destroy you. Now I can add a certain card from my deck to my hand and then take a look at your set card."
"What?" Now that surprised Haou as his face down was revealed, which turned out to be Mirror Force.
"As I expected: a trap card." Jinzo laughed darkly at that. "And since it is a trap card, I can now summon…" The card that Jinzo added to his hand from Jacker's effect was turned over to reveal that it was-"Jinzo!"
Jinzo disappeared from where he was standing as electricity began to go crazy as it dance across the field from the nearby towers before striking down at the card. Appearing from it was none other than Jinzo himself but he was no longer a spirit but a fresh and blood duel monster (Atk: 2400 Def: 1500).
Haou just stared at the now real spirit before he facepalmed. "Did he seriously just summon himself?" He mused. "Why am I not surprised by this?" The gentle darkness lord just shook his head. "Nice try, Jinzo, but your efforts are pointless. Malicious Edge still has more attack points then you do….." Haou quickly paused at that as he turned to look at the other monster Jinzo had on his field. "Wait…unless….crap…." He groaned.
"You guessed it, Supreme King. I play my Gift of the Martyr spell card. By sending my Malice Doll of Demise to the graveyard, I gain his attack points until the end phase!" Jinzo laughed as he absorbed his wooden doll's spirit, making his attack point grow (Atk: 2400-4000 Def: 1500).
"4000 Atk points?!" Jaden gasped.
"Son of a bitch." Haou cursed at himself for getting to cocky. Now he was stuck since because of Jinzo's effect, he couldn't play trap cards so his Mirror Force was left powerless.
"And now I attack your Malicious Edge." Jinzo declared before unleashing a ball of negative energy that flew across the field and struck the Evil HERO, causing him to shatter but Haou still didn't flinch as he was pushed back from the force of the attack.
(Haou: 1800 Jinzo: 1200)
"This is bad." Yubel mumbled when she noticed that Haou's legs up to his chest had turned transparent and seemed to shimmer.
Jinzo laughed once more. "Having this duel was a wonderful idea. It's much more fun enjoying something slowly, tasting it instead of taking it in all at once and it sure does feel good. The powers of the Gentle Darkness are amazing!" He ended his turn with that which meant his attack points returned to normal (Atk: 4000-2400 Def: 1500).
"He's taking Haou's life force with each life point he loses." Jaden's fits tighten at his side.
"And if he ends up losing too much…." Yubel started but was cut off.
"Would you two be quiet over there?!" Haou snapped at them. "I can't even hear myself think!"
"And there's the snap." Shadow chuckled when Haou glared at him. "So are you finally going to summon me? I'm getting bored just standing here."
"Shadow, shut up." Haou growled at him, drawing his next card. "I summon another Infernal Hellhound in defense mode." A copy to his first hound appeared kneeing (Atk: 1000 Def: 600). "And just like the first, he deals you 500 damage once a turn." The newly summoned hound blasted out a fireball at Jinzo, burning away some of his life points.
(Haou: 1800 Jinzo: 700)
"Now I activate Double Spell. By discarding a spell card, I'm going to play one of yours: one called Emergency Provisions." Haou sent Dark Fusion to the graveyard to play it. "Now by sending my two trap cards to the graveyard, I gain 2000 more life points." Haou sent Mirror Force and Sinister Yorishiro to the graveyard and his life points rose back up.
(Haou: 3800 Jinzo: 700)
"I end my turn at that." Haou finished.
"That's all? Wow Haou, you must be trapped since that was pathetic." Shadow stated which once again got him a death glare from his master.
"I agree with the spirit, that truly was a pathetic turn but you're going to need those extra life points." Jinzo said as another card appeared in front of him. "I summon Spirit Caller in attack mode." He said as a robed old man appeared on the field (Atk: 1000 Def: 1000). "And now I'll have him attack you're Infernal Hellhound."
Spirit Caller's eyes turned red as he let out a loud moan that destroyed Infernal Hellhound.
"And now I'll be attacking you directly!" Jinzo let loose another ball of negative energy that went flying straight at Haou. The darkness lord braced himself as he took the full force of the attack.
(Haou: 1400 Jinzo: 700)
Okay….that hurt a little bit more than I thought it would. Haou thought but he didn't let it show on his face. This guy is really starting to annoy me now.
"Finally I'm going to equip myself with the spell card, Amplifier." Some kind of metal looking hat appeared on top of Jinzo's head. "With this, I'm no longer bound by my own special ability. Now I can use any trap card that I please so I'm sure you can guess what this face down will be." He laughed as a face down appeared on his field.
"If I have to hear you laugh one more time, I'm going to lose it." Haou mumbled as he drew his next card and smirked at what he got. "Hey not bad; I play my Graceful Charity spell card. With this, I can draw three cards and then discard two in return." Haou drew his three and then got rid of the two he didn't need. Then when he saw what he had left in his hand, his smirk widen. "Okay its playback time."
"So are you finally going to summon me?" Shadow asked sounding bored.
"Shadow, again, shut up." Haou growled at him before he held up a card. "I play Dark Calling. With this, I can fusion summon an Evil HERO fusion monster by banishing Elemental HEROES from my hand or graveyard. So I'm banishing Elemental HERO Avian and Elemental HERO Wildheart, which are in my graveyard because of Graceful Charity, to summon out Evil HERO Wild Cyclone!"
A sound gust of wind blew around the field as the two HEROES fuse together to create their normal fusion's dark counterpart (Atk: 1900 Def: 2300).
"And now I'm going to equip Wild Cyclone with Eternal Reverse and finish this off with the field spell, Evil City." A green veil formed around the Evil HERO as the field changed to that of a ruin city. "Evil City raises the Atk power of all the Evil HEROES on my field by 1000 points." Haou explained as his dark HERO's power went up (Atk: 1900-2900 Def: 2300). "Now attack Jinzo and end this!"
"No!" Jinzo cried as Wild Cyclone cut him down a size, destroying him. "I will not let it end this way!"
"Uh course you wouldn't." Haou grumbled sensing Jinzo's spirit moving to somewhere else.
"Oh he wouldn't." Jaden mumbled sensing it as well and all he could do was hold back a growl as he watched as Torrey, who appeared to be conscious, stand up.
"He would." Yubel sighed as Torrey turned to face them with glowing red eyes.
"You foolish Gentle Darkness wielder! You think you can get rid of me that easily?!" A Jinzo possessed Torrey exclaimed. "My form might be gone for the time being but my spirit isn't! I activated my face down! Spirit Barrier! Since I still have my Spirit Caller on the field, I take no battle damage! I'm still in this!"
"No, no you're not." Haou stated as he pointed at Wild Cyclone. "Wild Cyclone is equip with Eternal Reverse which effect makes it so I can select one of your face-up spell or trap cards and set it face down once per turn. This duel is over."
"What?! This can't not be!" Jinzo yelled as he watched as his trap was forced face down once again which meant he would take damage from when he was destroyed. "NO!"
(Haou: 1400 Jinzo: 0)
"This is why you don't mess with the best." Haou stated before he suddenly had to cover his eyes as a bright light engulfed the whole area.
…..
"Jaden….Jaden….oh for crying out loud Jay, get up!"
"Haou….five more minutes….it's Christmas Eve." Jaden groaned throwing an arm over his face.
"Okay, its official, he's stoned."
"Amber, you're not helping!"
"Sorry Hope but he looks stoned to me."
"Again, not helping!"
"Jaden, I really think you should get up. They are worrying about you." Yubel said in his head, which made Jaden uncover his eyes to see what she was talking about.
And he was met with a slap to the face.
"Ow!" Jaden groaned in pain, placing a hand on his cheek from where he was hit. "What the heck?"
"Oh….you're awake….uh sorry Jay. I didn't know how else to wake you up."
Jaden blinked at that voice, knowing it all too well, as he sat up to make sure. Yep he was right. It was Kia and Amber was with her.
"I still think you should have kissed him awake." Amber was saying to Kia. "You could have done a reverse Sleeping Beauty."
Kia went red in the face at that. "That's it. No present from me this year." She told her before she turned her attention back to Jaden who look plain confused….well more so then usual.
"Uh can someone tell me what's going on here?" Jaden asked looking around and noticing that it was still night time and he was lying on the ground in the power supply station.
"You know something, Jay; I could ask you the same thing." Kia said getting this seriously angry look on her face that make Jaden flinch back. "What the actual hell happened to you and Haou?! One second, we're getting attacked by Jinzo and then the next, you and Haou are gone with Torrey! I thought Jinzo took you guys too! Do you know how worried I was you, idiot!?" Kia had to pause a second to caught her breath before she started yelling again. "You have some explaining to do, young man!"
"Uh….." To be honest, Jaden was left speechless from that. He never seen Kia act so seriously before….well to him anyway. He was kinda used to her snapping at Haou for him being a terrible brother but now she was angry at him for worrying her? Well that's a first. In a way, he kinda found it a little bit funny but he did his best to keep a straight face.
"I'm not getting any younger here, Jaden! Start talking."
"Well….you see…there was…." That was it. Jaden couldn't keep a straight face any longer and burst out laughing.
Now that made Kia calm down for a second and blink. "What's so funny? I'm seriously worried over here and you're laughing?!"
"Yeah;" Jaden laughed.
After a while of stating at him like he was crazy, Kia soon broke and started laughing as well.
"And people call me crazy." Amber mumbled staring at the two duelists like the cracked.
"That's because you are, Amber." Kia told her once she was able to talk again.
"So how did you guys find this place anyway?" Jaden asked since even with his powers, it took him a while just to find Jinzo.
"Well after you and Haou disappeared on us, everyone pretty much panicked for the first ten minutes or so before we calmed down and decided to break into groups to look for you guys. Amber and I ended up in one while Syrus, Chumley, and Banner in the other. We pretty much looked for you guys for a half hour or so before this sudden flash of light went off. It was pretty bright so it wasn't hard to miss so we all ended up heading towards it and ended up here finding you, Torrey, and two other Obelisk out cold." Kia explained. "The boys ended up taking the Obelisks back to the Blue dorm and me and Amber stayed here, trying to get you awake for pretty much an hour. Boy you can sleep."
Jaden nodded to all of that before he suddenly looked around when he noticed that someone was missing. "Wait….where is Haou anyway? He should be here."
"Correction, he was here. As soon as we all showed up, he was pretty much gone." Amber told him with a shrug.
"Yeah that sounds like him oh right." Jaden sighed with a shake of his head before he looked up at the sky. "It's still pretty dark out….what time is it anyway?"
"Well its past midnight so….it is Christmas now." Kia answered.
"Christmas huh?" Jaden mused before his eyes widen when he remembered something. "Oh crap…" Jaden jumped to his feet as he took something out of his blazer pocket and held it out to Kia.
Kia blinked at that. "Huh? Uh what's this?"
"A Christmas present….well it was going to be your Christmas Eve present but with the whole Jinzo problem, we didn't get to exchange gifts. Might as well do it now." Jaden said with a smile.
"True," Kia agreed as she too took something out of her jeans pocket and handed it to him. "Here, I hope you like it."
"I'm sure I will." Jaden smiled as they both took each other gifts and opened them.
As soon as Jaden opened his, he was met face to face with a brown furball with wings in spirit form. "Kuri!" The monster cried.
"Wow…" Jaden said as the monster spirit landed on his shoulder.
"Jaden met Winged Kuriboh and Winged Kuriboh met Jaden." Kia smiled. "I found him in the card shop and his fur reminded me of your hair…" Jaden raised an eyebrow at that. "Hey, don't question it, Jay! Your hair is a Kuriboh!"
Jaden smiled at that before he chuckled a bit. "We think too much alike."
"Why's that?"
"Just open your gift."
Kia raised her own eyebrow at that but still opened her gift and to her own surprise, she was met with a little spirit of her own. It looked a bit like Winged Kuriboh but this one was purple with a white face and bright green eyes. It also looked to have a rainbow on top of its forehead.
"That's Rainbow Kuriboh." Jaden smiled as the monster he created with his power of the Gentle Darkness flew around Kia's head a few times before it rested itself down on the top of her head like her hair was a nest. "I think he likes you."
"Kuri!" Winged Kuriboh agreed nuzzling into Jaden's neck.
"Hey Kuriboh, that tickles!" Jaden laughed.
"Oh really now?" Kia grinned evilly at that.
"Kia, I know what you're thinking and don't!"
"Too late, everyone tickle him!"
So while Jaden, Kia, and the two Kuriboh monsters were busy playing around, Amber decided to leave them alone so she wouldn't spoil their fun. That was until she came back holding a mistletoe over their heads.
…..
"I still can't believe you left Jaden alone with that girl that you hate so much." Shadow mumbled glancing down at his master from where he was sitting on a tree branch. "Didn't you say you didn't want them to be together?"
"It's Christmas…until the day's over, I let him enjoy himself." Haou sighed closing his eyes, pushing his back against the tree he was sitting against. "As for me, I'm going to sleep the rest of the night."
"Wow, it must be Christmas since you are way too nice tonight….for you anyway." Shadow Sorcerer commented before he couldn't help but ask. "So what are you going to do about Jinzo anyway?"
"Target practice;" Was all Haou answered with as he opened up one eye to look down at the card that he was holding. He reclosed his eye with a sigh as he threw the card into the air for it to only get cut in half when Shadow drew one of his daggers and stabbed right through it.
"So long Jinzo…." Shadow smirked staring at the two halves of his card before he looked up at the moon in the sky. "….and a happy new year."
Well guys, I hope you all liked this chapter somewhat. The next one is going to be the Fiance duel and boy that's going to be crazy. And before anyone says anything, yes I did say Jaden wasn't going to have Winged Kuriboh in this but then I was like, screw it, and decided to add the little guy in along with Kia having her own because why not?!
Anyway, it might not be October anymore (sadly) but I like doing these questions so I'm going to continue doing them. So for this chapter's question, out of all the GX opening and endings, which song was your favorite? Mine is Teardrop hands down because of how sad it is the deeper into season 3 you get. And just the Spiritshipping scenes...I think I might just cry now. Okay guys, I'm going to go listen to Teardrop now so I hope you guys enjoyed this and look forward to the next chapter! Darky out!