Chapter 5: Shadow Games Return Part 1
Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. I am so sorry about the wait. I got wrapped up in the other stories. I hope you like what I have and I will try to have the next chapter out sooner. Please Review and Enjoy.
It was late at night and on the far end of Duel Academy was the Abandoned Dorm a run-down building where nobody lived at least not anymore.
Walking to the front Alexis places a rose at the base of the gate where it said, 'Do not enter.'
"Be at peace brother, wherever you are." Alexis said.
The next day Takeru woke up in his new Obelisk Dorm room. Smiling he got up and stretched. "Man, this place is amazing."
Putting on his new blue blazer Takeru walks to the Obelisk Cafeteria to see it was like a 5-Star restaurant.
"Whoa, you got to be kidding me." Takeru said in awe.
"It's pretty impressive right?" Takeru turns to see Mindy standing behind him.
"Oh, Mindy good to see you." Takeru said nervously.
"You look good in blue." Mindy smiles.
"Thank you I have to say it's gonna take some getting used to." Takeru said looking around.
"Well you'll get used to it and if you ever want to hang out you have my number." She winks before walking away.
Takeru blushes slightly. 'Wow she sure is sweet…not to mention pretty.' Takeru thought.
During class Takeru sat up in his new seat in the Obelisk section.
"Wow Blue looks pretty good on you." Jaden said walking over.
"Thanks Jaden." Takeru smiles.
"Just don't let it go to your head like the other Obelisks." Jaden chuckles.
"Don't worry I won't." Takeru said.
"That's what I like to hear, hey we're telling Ghost stories tonight at the Slifer Red Dorm want to come over?" Jaden asks.
"Sounds like fun. I'll be there." Takeru said.
As class was about to start Seika walks in and sits next to him.
"Wow you really did it. I knew you had it in you." She smiles.
"Well I'm just glad my test grade was high enough." Takeru said.
"You remember how I promised you a reward if you did?" Seika asks making Takeru blush.
"Oh uh you really don't have to do anything." Takeru said nervously.
"Such a gentleman." Seika giggles when she gives him a small peck on the cheek causing him to turn bright red. "Congratulations."
Takeru shakes his head snapping himself out of it while Seika giggles.
'Not that I'm not liking this attention, but what's with all these hot girls interested in me?' Takeru thought as class started up.
That night after classes Takeru went to the Slifer Red dorm for the Ghost stories and it was Syrus's turn.
"I went out into the woods and underneath the full moon I see a path leading to a cavern that seems…abandoned. At the back of the cavern I see a mysterious lake. So I got to look very carefully and just under the right angle of light at the very bottom of the lake beyond my reflection I see a rare and powerful card. Naturally, I go to get it, but when I reach out for it…an arm shoots out of the water, grabs me and begins to pull me into the lake! AAAAHHH! Help me! Not the water! Not the water!" Syrus said actually pretending it was happening to him.
"Seriously water?" Takeru asks.
"Water's not so scary." Jaden said.
"Not even dirty swamp water?" Syrus asks as Takeru shook his head. "You're right only a chump would be afraid of a story like that." He said unaware that Chumley was in the far corner of the room.
"Still, good story." Jaden said picking up a 4-star monster Earthbound Spirit. "Mid-level scares for a mid-level card. Alright Takeru your turn."
Takeru reached for the deck and drew the level 5 Curse of Dragon. "Well I have a story, but I'm not sure if it'll work or not."
"Just give it a try." Jaden said urging him.
"Well this story starts with a Magician, he was amazing, everywhere he went he would put on shows and make everyone around him smile, but one day an accident happened. The Magician got involved with some bad people and used his magic to make people fear him and his duels were horrifying. If you lost the duel…you lost your life." Takeru said making Syrus and Chumley jump.
"Heh not bad Takeru." Jaden said.
"Uh does this twisted Magician actually exist?" Syrus asks in fear.
"N-No way Sy it's just a story." Chumley said.
'If only they knew.'
"Well my turn. I hope I get a high number." Jaden said but drew Sinister Serpent, a level one monster.
"Aww you lucked out. You hardly have to scare us at all with that low card." Syrus sighs.
"Well I think I may have a story that might do the trick. It's more of a memory. Back when I was a little kid I used to hear sounds, but I only heard them late at night. I thought I was dreaming, but then I heard them, they sounded like voices, bit not ones I recognized. I would go into the playroom to investigate, but when I did there was nothing at all…except my cards." Jaden said.
"And?"
"And that's the end of the story." Jaden said making Syrus and Chumley groan.
"Well you definitely nailed the level." Takeru said.
"Yeah, but the strange thing is lately I've been hearing those voices again." Jaden said.
'Hearing voices? Does he mean he can talk to cards too?' Takeru thought when they heard a laughter.
"I want to join in on the fright fest." Prof. Banner said startling everyone.
"You just did." Takeru said.
"We're kinda on the edge of our seats here." Jaden said.
"Or we were." Syrus said as Chumley was back to hiding in the corner. "But since you're here, why don't you draw a card the tougher it is the scarier the story has to be."
"Well that sounds easy enough." Banner said drawing a card revealing it to be Five Headed Dragon a level 12 monster.
"Oh boy." Takeru said.
"A level 12 monster." Jaden said in awe.
"I think I'm going to go to be now." Syrus said.
"But don't you want to hear about the abandoned dorm?" Banner asks.
"Abandoned dorm?" Jaden, Syrus, and Takeru ask.
"No one knows about it, but there was a special dorm at the edge of the forest. It was shut down after several students mysteriously went missing." Banner said.
"What happened to them?" Syrus asks.
"No one knows for sure, but they say it has something to do with the Shadow Games." Banner said.
"Shadow Games?" Takeru asks.
"Thanks, you can stop now." Chumley begged.
"You see children, Shadow Games are duels that are played with mystical objects." Banner explains.
"Millennium Items, right? Those are just stories." Jaden said.
"But I believe all stories have a bit of truth in them." Banner said when Pharaoh lets out a yawn. "Well I think that's my cue to get back to my room, good night."
As Banner walked out of the room Syrus pauses to think. "You know that might be the building I saw at the edge of the forest."
"Perfect, then you can lead us there tomorrow night." Jaden said surprising everyone.
"What do you mean tomorrow?" Syrus ask.
"What do you mean us?" Chumley and Takeru added.
"It'll be fun." Jaden laughs.
Outside the dorm Dr. Crowler heard the entire thing. "This is the opportunity I've been waiting for. I think it's time the Shadow Games made a comeback, Millennium Items and all." He said walking away to find the perfect person to enlist.
In a dark alley in Domino City a duel was about to wrap up with one of the participants looked horrified. "Okay, you win, just take whatever you want and go!"
"What I want. Is your soul!" A metal masked man in a black trench coat said holding up a gold colored upside down pyramid with a single eye at the center.
"Please show some mercy! Let me go!" The loser said as a bright gold light engulfed him.
When the light went away the opponent was on the ground. "Rest in peace; in the shadows. "As he was about to examine his opponent his phone rang. "Speak." The person on the phone spoke some details. "Duel Academy, tomorrow night…I'll be there." He hung up.
The next day during class Jaden and Syrus were sound asleep while Takeru was writing notes on Banner's lecture. Unaware that Crowler was peeking in on them.
'This will be the last time you sleep in on a class, Slifer Slacker! But you'll have your real lesson…on the Shadow Games!' Crowler thought.
Later that night Crowler stood alone at the docks next to the lighthouse, waiting. Turning to the side he sees the man in black walking over.
"So you're the one they call the Shadow Duelist?" Crowler asks.
"My opponents call me many things, but most of them are hard to discern through their shrieks of horror. What's the job?" He asks as a fog appeared around them.
"I want you to frighten someone so intensely he'll leave this island and never come back. Are you up to the challenge?" Crowler asks.
"Of course I am. I never turn my back on a challenge." He said.
"Uh yes well, who do I make the check out to?" Crowler asks.
"Titan. And I will make sire this someone faces the terror of the Shadow Realm." Titan said disappearing along with the fog.
In another part of the island Jaden, Takeru, Syrus and Chumley were traveling through the forest to the abandoned dorm.
"You know we could think of this as being lost, or you could think of it as us finding a few places where it's not." Jaden said.
"Why did I say yes to this?" Takeru groans.
"Well it could be worse. Well worse for Syrus anyway." Chumley said.
"Like how?" Takeru asks.
"We could find a large puddle of dirty swamp water." Chumley taunted.
"Shut up Chumley, you're the one who refused to take a bath last night because you were scared of the bath water!" Syrus glared.
"Well maybe if you cleaned it it wouldn't look so swampish." Chumley said.
"Maybe if you grew up and decided to take showers." Syrus said.
"I am so glad I never went to Slifer." Takeru sighs.
"Hey guys…check it out." Jaden aims his flashlight ahead to see a rose lying on the ground in front of a wall.
"Check out what's behind it." Syrus points.
"The old dorm."
"And probably lots of ghosts too." Chumley said frightened.
"Relax guys there's no one here." Jaden said when they heard a branch snap.
"What was that?!"
Takeru turns his flashlight to the noise and sees Alexis nearby. "Calm down everyone it's just Alexis." Takeru said.
"Alexis? What are you doing here?" Syrus asks.
"That's funny I was about to ask you the same question." Alexis said.
"Well we heard about the abandoned dorm and wanted to check it out." Jaden said.
"Well you shouldn't have; don't you know that kids have gone missing around here?" Alexis said.
"Aw come on it's just a myth." Jaden said.
"No, it's not. Believe me I know; why else would the Acadmey close this place down? If they find you here, you'll be expelled." Alexis warns.
"Ok so why are you here?" Jaden asks.
"I have my reasons that's why!" Alexis snaps.
"Whoa Alexis take it easy." Takeru said.
"Look it's just that…"
"Just that what?" Syrus asks.
"One of the students that disappeared was my brother." She finished.
Takeru and Jaden look to the ground. 'That explains the rose.' They both thought.
As Alexis walked away they both looked to the dorm.
"If her brother really did disappear then the rumors about this place are true." Takeru said.
"I say we go back Jaden." Syrus said.
"Well I say we go in." Jaden said shocking him.
"What?!" Syrus said as Jaden, Chumley and Takeru headed to the door.
"See you later. Don't disappear on us." Jaden said.
"Oh wait up!" Syrus said running after them.
From a nearby tree Alexis was watching them. 'I hope Takeru knows what he's doing.' She thought when a shadow came in and snatched her.
"Aaaah!" Alexis screamed.
Inside the dorm the 4 boys were checking out the inside of the dorm and it was just as bad as the outside.
"Ya know this place is sweet. I mean some fresh pain, a couple of boxes, maybe a throw rug and we could so totally move in here." Jaden smiles.
"Are you kidding? This is place is worse than the Slifer dorm! I mean look at all this stuff." Syrus said pointing his flashlight to stone carvings of the 7 Millennium Items.
"Do you think it has anything to do with the Shadow Games Banner told us about?" Chumley asks.
Takeru and Jaden walk up and examine the carvings.
"Takeru these look like the 7 Millennium items." Jaden said when Taker moves his flashlight to a wall where a picture of a boy was.
"And there's someone I've never seen before." Takeru said.
In another part of the dorm Alexis woke up in a coffin with her wrists tied together.
"Where am I?" She asks.
"Dangling on a hook, just waiting for your friends to fall into my trap." A Sinister voice said.
"Takeru." Alexis said when she saw a golden eye flash int front of her causing her to scream.
From their area in the dorm the boys heard it.
"What was that?" Syrus asks.
"That sounded like Alexis!" Jaden said as they ran down the hallway the scream came from. As they reched the bottom of the staircase Jaden bends down and picks something off the floor.
"This is one of Alexis' cards." Jaden said showing them Etolie Cyber.
"Well there's only one place she could've gone." Chumley said pointing down a darky hallway.
"Then that's where we're going." Takeru said
As the four of them enter a round room they find Alexis laying motionless in a coffin.
"Alexis." Takeru said when he heard a laughter.
"She can't hear you she's far away, locked in the Shadow Realm."
"Who's there?" Jaden asks as Titan rises from the fog.
"If you wish to save her you must first beat me in a Shadow Duel." Titan said.
"He's not looking at me is he?" Chumley asks.
Takeru steps forward and pulls out his duel disk. "I got this clown guys."
"You got this easy Takeru, there's no such thing as Shadow Games." Jaden said.
"My foes didn't believe in the Shadow Games either, but they were convinced right before they were sent away to the Shadow Realm!" Titan said.
"I bet he's behind the disappearances." Jaden said as Takeru stepped forward.
"Let's Duel." Takeru said.
"I think you mean Shadow Duel." Titan said activating his duel disk.
"Hang on Alexis I'm coming." Takeru said activating his duel disk.
Takeru: 4000
Titan: 4000
"Prepare yourself fool, to enter the shadows. I summon Infernalqueen Archfiend in attack mode!" Titan said summoning a bone covered creature in robes.
Infernalqueen: 900/1500
"An Archfiend deck?" Takeru said.
"Yes, and now that this card's out each and every monster that has Archfiend in its name gains 1000 ATK points!" Titan said as a purple fog increased his monsters attack points.
Infernalqueen: 1900
"You got this Takeru to keep his monster on the field he has to pay life points every standby phase." Jaden said.
"Hehehe no I don't. Not after I play this spell card Pandemonium!" Titan inserts a card causing a bright light to shine across the field blinding everyone. When they open their eyes they see bones of various monsters everywhere and a lava pool in the middle.
"And I thought this place was spooky before." Takeru said.
"And it doesn't just change the scenery, it 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 destroyed I can add another one right into my hand." Titan smirks.
'Great now this duel just got harder.' Takeru thought while Syrus and Chumley shivered in fear.
"I know what you're thinking, foolish boy. Your friend's fate is all but sealed." Titan said as the coffin holding Alexis is closed and disappears into the ground.
"Alexis!" Takeru gasps.
"That's not fair!" Chumley said.
"Give her back!" Jaden said.
"What have you done to her?" Syrus asks.
"The same thing I am going to do to all of you if you continue to pester and annoy me!" Titan scowled.
"Hey leave them alone! First you have to deal with me." Takeru drew. "I summon Defender the Magical Knight in defense mode!" The magician with the large shield appears and raises it in a defensive stance.
Defender: 1600/ 2000
"And I'll place one card facedown."
"Too bad you won't have a chance to use it. I summon Terrorking Archfiend in attack mode!" Next to Infernalqueen a large red Archfiend with a red crown on his head appeared.
Terrorking: 2000/1500
"Now you have two Archfiends to deal with and thanks to Infernalqueen's effect, Terrorking attack points increase by 1000 making him more fiendish than before." More purple energy surrounds Terrorking.
Terrorking: 3000/ 1500
"3000 points?!" Takeru said not believing how powerful it had gotten.
"That's right and now I'm going to use them. Terrorking attack Defender! Locus Storm Barrage!"
Terrorking's chest opens and a swarm of locusts flew out heading straight to defender.
"Not so fast! I activate my trap Magic Arm Shield! This changes your target to your Infernalqueen and with her gone so is your attack point boost!" Defender's shield changes shape and it extends towards Infernalqueen.
"You really think you can bait me into a trap? Look around you and tell me who's trapped." Titan chuckles.
"What do you mean?" Jaden asks.
"I mean your trap won't work on Terrorking. It simply activates his special ability, an ability that will determine your monster's fate by chance." He explained as 6 different colored balls rose from the lava pool. "You see when he's targeted by an opponent's effect Terrorking's ability gives me a gambling chance. A number between 1 and 6 is chosen at random and if it happens to be a 2 or 5 the trap is destroyed and my attack continues." Titan said as a flame moved from ball to ball.
"It's okay the odds are way in Takeru's favor." Chumley said in hope.
"You flunked math Chumley." Syrus reminded him.
"Nuh huh I got a 54." Chumley said.
"That's still a fail." Jaden said.
The flame slowed down until it stopped on 2 causing Titan to grin.
"It seems your shield is broken." Titan said as Magic Arm shield was destroyed. "Locust storm barrage!"
"I activate Defender's ability! By removing a spell counter he avoids being destroyed in battle this turn!" Takeru said as Defender blocks the attack.
"But your life points aren't safe." Titan said as the locusts attacked Takeru.
Titan: 4000
Takeru: 3000
"Quick thinking back there." Jaden said.
"Yeah with Defender still on the field his life points are safe." Chumley said.
"I don't think so." Titan said.
Takeru raised an eyebrow in doubt.
"Now the Shadow Game has truly begun! Don't your life point seem so utterly significant with your life on the line?" Titan laughs as he holds up his pendant and a bright light engulfs Takeru.
When he opens his eyes he looks to see shadows covering his body.
"What the heck?!" Takeru said in shock.
"It's the way of the shadows fool! Transcending the game and attacking your body!" Titan said.
Takeru growls as the shadows engulf the area around him and all his friends. "My turn! I activate Magical Dimension which allows me to sacrifice one magician on my side of the field for a higher level one. I sacrifice Defender for my Magician of Dark Illusion!"
Defender goes into a coffin and when it opens a Magician covered in shaodws appears.
"And that's not all my cards other effect lets me destroy one of your monsters. Say goodbye to your Terrorking!" Takeru said as a magical blast headed right for Terrorking.
Titan grins as the blast gets closer.
"This can't be good." Jaden said.
"I activate Terrorking's effect once again. Spin Roulette." Titan said as the flame moved around the balls once again.
"Oh no it can't land on a 2 or a 5 again." Syrus said.
"Fingers crossed guys." Jaden said.
Unfortunately, the flame stopped on a 5.
"Looks like I win again. I guess faith isn't on your side half the time. And now you will pay the price!" Titan laughs as the magical blast flies back and destroys Takeru's Magician.
"This is not my day." Takeru said.
"Takeru, hang in there." Syrus said.
'This is so not lishous. No matter what Takeru this shadow guy and his Archfiend Roulette destroys everything he does and this dark fog isn't exactly helping either. I mean all he wanted to do was save Alexis, but now he might not even be able to save himself.' Chumley thought.
"And without anymore monsters, you're next!" Titan said laughing evilly.
To be continued...