~A Few Days Later~

Syrus, Jaden, and Chumley were sleeping peacefully when...

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The sound of explosions caused them to wake up and fall out of bed.

The trio looked up and saw that Bastion was behind the explosions that woke them up. "*growls*Bastion! I don't care if you're my friend, you don't ever wake up a werewolf with explosions!" Syrus said as he got up and chased after Bastion. Jaden and Chumley just stared at the door for a few moments before they went after them.

When they were outside, they saw Syrus chasing after Bastion.

"Does Syrus chasing after Bastion have to do with those explosions that I'm pretty sure the whole island heard?" Chazz asked when he left his room and walked up to them. They nodded their heads before they went to pull Syrus back in his room.

Chazz then went to talk to Bastion.

"Can you not do stuff that'll cause Syrus to werewolf out? Like those explosions from this morning. We're trying to get the rest of the school to trust him again, not ruin it even more." He said to Bastion. "I know. I wasn't thinking clearly with five Shadow Riders still out there. I was worried that one of us would be held hostage like in two shadow duels." He explained. Chazz nodded his head in understanding. "That's understandable. Especially since Syrus was a hostage both times. That and what happened to him during Zane's shadow duel." Chazz said.

They all then got ready and trained until it was time for school.

As they had class, they noticed that there were hardly any students.

After a few minutes, the group went to look for the mission students.

They kept walking until they came to a coliseum.

They went inside and saw all the students that were missing, plus Crolwer, all working on the coliseum. They were even more surprised to learn that the one behind this whole coliseum was an Amazon warrior.

When they heard growling, they turned around and saw a pair of...

"Tigers?!"

One was a male tiger with scars, with one permanently closing one of his green eyes. He wore a collar of some kind with four matching ankle cuffs on his legs.

The other was a tigress with snow white fur and black stripes that looked like snowflakes in a few places. Her eyes were as blue as ice. Around her neck was a stainless steel necklace with diamonds and sapphires and a matching diadem headband, two golden wrist bands and two golden arm bands.

While the male tiger went after the others, the tigress stayed in front of Syrus. She then started walking towards the werewolf

Syrus backed away from the tigress until is back was literally against the wall.

Something inside Syrus told him what to do, so he decided to listen to it.

Smoke appeared around Syrus and when it cleared, he was now a full-fledged blue-silver wolf. He was growling at the tigress. Seeing Syrus turn into a full-fledged wolf caused her to run. And something inside Syrus caused him to give chase to her.

He chased her out of the coliseum.

The others watched it happen.

"We have to find a way to help Syrus control his werewolf instincts at times like this." Jaden said. The others nodded their heads in agreement.


~Two Days Later~*Syrus' POV*

I have been chasing the tigress for two days.

We both only stopped to eat, drink, sleep, and...well...I don't want to say it.

I ran after the tigress until she came to a stop.

I skid to a stop before I could run into her.

The tigress stood there for a few minutes until smoke appeared around her.

When the smoke cleared, standing in the place of the tigress was a teenage girl the same age as me covered in fur, with eyes, and jewelry that matched the tigress's. She had long black hair that was in a high ponytail. She wore an ice blue crop top shirt, blue jean shorts, and knee-high ice purple lace-up boots. I blushed at how beautiful she was.

"It seems that Tania has lost her second duel against one of her friends." She said as I returned to my werewolf form. "Tania? Is that the name of the third Shadow Rider?" I asked her.

She nodded her head. "Yes. I'm Tiff the white were-tigress. Tania's tribe took me in, ten years ago. So when she came here, I followed her." She introduced herself to me.

"Syrus Trusedale. A werewolf." I said to her as I leaned against a tree.

There was something about Tiff that made me not want to do the whole 'Fighting like cats and dogs' thing with her now that I've seen her in her humanoid form. My tail was wagging as I continued to look at her beauty.

"What are you going to do now?" I asked her.

She shrugged shoulders. "I guess I could stay here, go to Duel Academy. I could go Pro." Tiff said after a few minutes. "Then come on. I'll show you the way. Then we can go to Sheppard's office." I explained to her.

I then led her to Duel Academy.

As we headed towards Duel Academy, I kept on glancing at Tiff.

She was so beautiful! I've never seen anyone like her all my life. My tail kept wagging as we headed towards Duel Academy.

'Why do I feel this way around Tiff? I don't even feel this way when it comes to Dark Magician Girl.'