Post by Azuregos on Mar 27, 2013 23:35:03 GMT 10
It was a rainy night and the thunder struck loudly and the whole of Duel Academy could hear it. Alexis was standing in front of a dorm what looked like it was abandoned for a long time. Alexis stood in front of a statue and stood there for about a minute before she put a rose by the statue.
"Be at peace brother, wherever you are." Alexis said frowning. She turned around to and started to walk away from the dorm.
Meanwhile at the red dorm, Azuregos, Jaden, Syrus and Chumley were currently telling scary stories depending on the level of the drawn card.
"I went out into the woods, and underneath the full moon, I see a path leading to a cavern that seems… abandoned!" Syrus said taking his turn.
"Oh really?" Jaden asked interested. "And then what?"
"Then at the back of the cavern I see a mysterious lake. So I go in to look very carefully. 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 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! AAAAAHHHHHHHH! HELP ME, NOT THE WATER, ANYTHING BUT THE WATER!" Apparently Syrus had gotten too much into his story.
"Water's not so scary," Jaden said.
"Even dirty swamp water?" Syrus sighed, "You're right, only a chump would be afraid of a story like that," he said unaware that Chumley had taken a position in the far corner of the room.
"Still, good story," Jaden said picking up a four star monster called Earthbound Spirit. "Mid–level scares for a mid–level card." Apparently, the rules were you had to tell a scary story depending on the level of the monster was. He then drew a card from the deck. "But me, I hope I can get a high number card…" But the card Jaden drew was Sinister Serpent, a weak one star monster. "Oh…"
"Lucky…" Azuregos said.
"Yeah you lucked out. You don't have to scare us at all with that low card." Chumley walked back to the table.
"Well, I think I have a story that might do the trick," Jaden said putting the card down. "Actually, it's more of a memory. Back when I was a little kid, I used to hear sounds, but I only hear them way late at night. I think I was dreaming, but then… I heard them… they sounded like voices, but not ones that I recognized. I would go into the playroom to investigate but when I did, there was nothing there at all… except my cards."
"And…?" Syrus urged.
"And that's the end of the story." Syrus and Chumley groaned.
"Hey, at least the story fit the level." Azuregos replied
"That's true." Syrus agreed.
"But want to hear something strange?" Jaden asked. "Lately, I started hearing them again."
Azuregos shrugged as he drew his card, which turned out being a two star monster card.
“I’ll be right back,” Azuregos gets up runs outside up to his room, leaving the others confused. 3 minutes later Azuregos re-enters the room “Ok here is the strange thing I can tell you basically when we first arrived here at the Academy in my room I found this strange box on the desk.” Azuregos places the box on the table in-front of them.
“Wow what’s with all the strange dragon carvings on this,” said Syrus, just before Jaden interrupted
“Hey Azuregos this symbol looks exactly like the symbol on your arm.” Jaden says while pointing at the box.
“Wait what mark on his arm,” Syrus asked
Azuregos lifted up his sleeve revealing the blue dragon symbol, “Like I told Jaden; Syrus I have had this symbol since I was born.” They then look at the same symbol on the box
“Ok that is freaky,” Chumley said
HA–HA–HA–HA–HA, hey I want to get in on the fright fest!" a voice said from behind Jaden & Azuregos.
"GYAH!" Azuregos, Jaden, Syrus, and Chumley, suddenly got scared with latter being in the corner of the wall and the former two jumping from where the sound came from. It was only Professor Banner and Pharaoh though.
"You… you just did," Azuregos said.
"Yeah, we're kind of on the edge of our seats here," Jaden added.
"Or at least we were," Syrus added. Chumley was back to the corner again, cowering. Everyone relaxed again. "But since you're here, why don't you draw a card. The tougher it is, the scarier your story has to be."
"Well that sounds easy enough. Let's see." Banner drew a card. It was the Five Headed Dragon!
"Level 12?! Guess we are doomed guys" Azuregos gasped.
"I think I'm going to bed now," Syrus said immediately.
"HA–HA–HA–HA–HA! What is wrong? Don't you want to hear about the Abandoned Dorm at the end of the island?"
"Abandoned Dorm?" Everyone asked.
Banner pulled up a chair and sat down. "Yes. No one talks about it, but there was once a special dorm set at the edge of the forest. It was shut down when several students mysteriously went missing."
"Where did they go?" Syrus gulped.
"Well that's the mystery of it," Banner replied. "But rumour was it had something to do with Shadow Games."
"The Shadow Games?" Syrus asked.
"Thanks, you can stop now," Chumley pleaded from behind another table.
"You see, children, Shadow Games are duels that are played with powerful mystical items.” Banned said
“Millennium Items right?” Azuregos replied
“I have heard about them but it’s not true,” Jaden interrupted
HA-HA-HA! Yes that is what most people say, but I find that most stories, well they generally need to come from somewhere
Pharaoh yawned. "Well, I guess that's my cue to get back home." Banner left out the door.
“Later.” Everyone replied to Banner as he left
"You know, I did see a scary looking building one time in the forest." Syrus said.
"Sweet," Jaden said. "Then you're going to lead us tomorrow night."
"What do you mean us?" Chumley threw in.
"It'll be fun," Jaden said. "We might even find out what happened to all those missing people."
"Jaden, didn't you even hear what Banner just said?" Azuregos asked a bit angry.
"Oh relax Azuregos." Jaden waved off. "If it makes you feel better, we'll be careful when we go there."
"Well, you guys can go. I'm not getting in trouble on the first year." Azuregos said.
Unknown to them, Dr. Crowler heard the entire thing from outside. "This is just the opportunity I've been waiting for," he said excitedly to himself. "I think it's time the Shadow Games make a comeback, Millennium Items and all." He walked away thinking of just the person to enlist…
In a dark alleyway in Domino City, a duel was just about done with one of the participants scared out of his mind. "Okay, you win, just take whatever you want and go!"
"What I want," the metal masked man in a trench coat wearing a duel harness similar to Crowler's but the tray on his sleeve, said "Is your soul!" He held up a gold–coloured upside down pyramid with a single eye at the centre. It suddenly started glowing gold as the opponent protested again…
"Please show some mercy! Let me go!"
The man just looked on emotionlessly as the pyramid's light spread out. "Some mercy? What is that?" The gold light turned white as the opponent screamed and fell over, scattering the cards in his deck. "Rest in peace; in the Shadow Realm." At that point, his cell phone rang and the man opened it up. "Speak." The person on the phone spoke some details. "Duel Academy, tomorrow night… I'll be there." He hung up the phone and smirked.
The next day during class, Azuregos, Jaden and Syrus slept the day away as Banner was giving the lecture with Crowler peeking in to the classroom. 'This will be the last time you two sleep in class, Slifer Slackers!' Crowler thought. 'But you'll have your real lesson… on the Shadow Games!'
Later that night, as it was only about 9:00 at night and the moon was full, Crowler stood alone on the docks next to the lighthouse, waiting. After a while, he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw a person in black standing a few feet away from him. It was a tall man in a black trench coat and a wide brimmed hat, Crowler looked back to the man, "So you're the one they called the Shadow Duelist?" he asked.
The tall man smirked, "My opponent's call me many things, but most of them are hard to discern through their shrieks of terror. What's the job?" he asked as a fog appeared around them.
Crowler smiled as he informed him of the work, "I want you to frighten two people so intensely, they'll leave this island and never come back!" He then provided a picture of Jaden and Azuregos to the man. "Are you up to the challenge?"
"Of course I am!" The shadow duelist replied. "I never turn my back on a challenge."
Crowler then tries to get behind the shadow duelist, except that the shadow duelist was always keeping in front of Crowler. “Oh my, my, you are good.” Crowler said quite surprised
"I am better than good and I’ll prove it and not by just scaring these two but by banishing the two of them to the Shadow Realm!" The fog disappeared, taking the hired man with it. “Well if you insist,” Crowler left satisfied.
In the forest near the Abandoned dorm
"I can't believe I'm doing this," Azuregos muttered under his breath. The four students walked through the forest heading towards the Dorm that Banner told them about.
"Chill man," Jaden said looking for the dorm. Azuregos rolled his eyes and continued walking with the others. When they finally saw the dorm Azuregos spotted a rose lying next to the gate, while Jaden teased Syrus.
A branch suddenly cracked scaring Chumley and Syrus, while Azuregos and Jaden both shown their torches at the location where the branch cracked.
"Alexis?" Azuregos said. Alexis then had shown her torch at the group wondering what they were doing here.
"What are you guys doing here?" Alexis whispered harshly.
"We heard about the dorm and wanted to check it out," Jaden cut in.
"What are you doing here Alexis?" Azuregos asked. Alexis turned away from the group before she told them about her brother and how he disappeared.
“One of the students, who vanished here, was my brother.” Alexis said sadly, before turning back to the group.
"You know you guys could be expelled for being here," Alexis said a bit calmer. The other's shrugged except Azuregos whom kept on glancing at the abandoned dorm and the rose near the pillar. Before watching Alexis leave the area.
"We'll be fine," Jaden said as Chumley & Syrus followed him. Azuregos just stood at the entrance for a while, “Damn it; wait up guys.” Azuregos runs after the others.
Alexis stood at a tree nearby any watched the group enter the abandoned dorm, ‘I hope Timothy knows what he is doing.’ Just as she turns to leave the shadow duelist appears in front of her, before grabbing her and making her black out.
Inside one of the rooms of the abandoned dorm the group was looking around “This place is sweet, you know a little paint, a couple of cardboard boxes maybe a throw rug and we could so totally move in here.” Jaden said with a happy grin on his face.
“What are you kidding; this place is worse than the Slifer dorm. I mean what’s all this stuff on the walls.” Syrus said a bit scared
“Do you think it has something to do with the Shadow Games?” Chumley asked nervously
“Azuregos don’t get too close,” Syrus panicked
“Relax guys it’s just images of the seven millennium items,” Azuregos then shown his torch to his left and saw a picture on the wall, “And that is a picture of someone I have never seen before.” Azuregos walks over to the picture and removes it from the wall.
Somewhere else Alexis wakes up noticing her hands are bound “Huh where am I?”
“Ha, Ha on a hook dangling, baiting your friends into my trap.” The Shadow duelist said
“Timothy” Alexis said worried, before the shadow duelist’s millennium puzzle glowed causing her to scream.
Azuregos, Jaden, Syrus and Chumley all hear Alexis scream, “That sounded like Alexis,” Syrus said before Azuregos turned and start running in the direction of her scream “Hurry up you guys, this way.” Jaden, Syrus and Chumley follow Azuregos to a room where they shine their torches and notice a card on the ground.
Azuregos walks over to the card and notices that it’s Etolie Cyber one of Alexis main cards. “This is Alexis’ card.” Azuregos said worried then Chumley calmly says “Well there is only one way she could have gone.” Azuregos looks down the corridor before walking down it with the others.
They all arrive in a room and see Alexis in a coffin of some sort, and the shadow duelist rises up out of the fog. “I am your worst nightmare come true.”
Azuregos pulls out his duel disk, “Oh give me a break you freak.”
The Shadow duelist then replies “Then let me prove it in a shadow game.”
Azuregos activates his duel disk, “Shut up and let’s duel.”
The shadow duelist gets angry at how Azuregos is behaving towards him, “Enjoy your time in the Shadow Realm when you lose then.”
“Now for my first turn I summon Inferno Queen Archfiend, now that this monster is out every monster with Archfiend in its name then gain 1000 ATK points.” Azuregos replies a bit annoyed “Just remember to pay the life points during each of your standby phases.” The Shadow Duelist laughs “No I won’t not when I have this spell card Pandemonium.” The field then changes to look like a cavern with skeletons on the side and a small lava pool in the centre.
“I know what you’re thinking; your little friend’s fate is all but sealed. Well your right.” The Shadow duelist says while pointing at Alexis as the coffin lid closes and is dragged underground.
“Alexis” Azuregos yells shocked, from watching that happen, then he faces the Shadow Duelist, “That was a big mistake, now my turn I draw.”
Azuregos looks at his hand for a while
Cards in his hand are – 2 x Axe Dragonute, Monster Reborn, Top Runner, Waboku, Magical Stone Excavation.
“Ok first I summon Top Runner in ATK mode,” Azuregos says as he places the card down and the robot with the medal appears on his field. “Next I activate the spell card Magical Stone Excavation, by discarding two cards from my hand I can bring a spell card back from my graveyard, and I think I will bring back the one I just sent there. And I end my turn with a face –down.”
“Not that you will have a chance to use it for I summon Terra King Archfiend in ATK mode, now you have two deadly Archfiends to contend with, and thanks to special ability of the Inferno Queen, the Terra King’s ATK points automatically increase by a 1000 making him an even more fiendish force to be reckoned with.”
“Now Terra King attack his Top Runner with Locus Storm Barrage,” the shadow duelist said. The Terra King opens its belly and all these locus bugs fly towards top runner while Azuregos was laughing. “I activate my trap card Waboku,” Azuregos said as he revealed his trap, as three women in robes stood in front of top runner and blocked the Terra King’s attack.
“Fine I end my turn.” The Shadow Duelist said angrily
Azuregos draws his card “Good cause now I am going to make you feel a lot of pain.”
Jaden looks at Azuregos worried “Dude calm down, no need to get so angry.”
Azuregos looks at Jaden and nods “Thanks Jaden, anyway first I summon Axe Dragonute to the field then I tune my Top Runner with Axe Dragonute in order to Synchro Summon the mighty Red Dragon Archfiend.”
The red dragon appears on the field and roars. “And like you said before for any monster on the field with Archfiend in its name they gain 1000 ATK points due to your Inferno Queen Archfiend, which increases my Red Dragon Archfiend’s ATK to 4000, but I am not done yet next I activate the magic card Monster Reborn to bring back one of my Axe Dragonute, but he won’t be here long for now I banish him in order to summon the Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.” Axe Dragonute appears on the field before getting enveloped in the lava from the centre of the field which shoots up into the air gaining two red eyes staring at the Shadow Duelist before the lava is blasted away revealing a large black metal dragon.
“And thanks to Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon’s special ability once per turn I can summon a dragon type monster from either my graveyard or my hand, and I think I will bring back my other Axe Dragonute.” Axe Dragonute then appears next to the Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.
“Wait time out, I am out of here.” The Shadow Duelist says a bit scared looking at all the monsters on Azuregos’ side of the field. The Shadow duelist backs up causing a millennium eye symbol to appear on the floor which lets out a large blast of dark smoke and encases both Azuregos and the Shadow Duelist inside.
“What did you do?” Azuregos demands from the Shadow Duelist.
“I don’t know I have never been here before, uh what are these?” The shadow duelist starts to panic as these little black ooze creatures start to jump on him and go down his throat.
Azuregos watches as some approach him when suddenly his dragon symbol on his arm starts to glow scaring the ooze creatures away from him.
‘Oh my gosh could this actually be a real shadow game.’ Azuregos thought to himself as the Shadow duelist got back up but with red eyes and seemed more evil.
“Now the real shadow game begins!” The shadow duelist exclaimed
“Yeah well it’s still my turn so I attack your Terra King Archfiend with my Red Dragon Archfiend.” Red Dragon Archfiend fires a fireball at the Terra King Archfiend blowing it up and inflicting 1000 points of damage to the shadow duelist.
Azuregos: 4000
Shadow Duelist: 3000
“Now I’ll have Axe Dragonute ATK your Inferno Queen Archfiend.” Axe Dragonute runs over to the Inferno Queen and swings its axe cutting the Inferno Queen Archfiend in half before it exploded and dealt 100 points of damage to the shadow duelist.
Azuregos: 4000
Shadow Duelist: 2900
“And due to Axe Dragonute’s special ability if it attacks it switches to DEF position. Now I’ll have Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon ATK you directly with Molten fire blast.” Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon flies into the air and fires its fireball from its mouth at the shadow duelist causing 2800 points of damage.
Azuregos: 4000
Shadow Duelist: 100
“I end my turn.” Azuregos says looking happy that the duel is almost over.
Meanwhile outside the Shadow Duel orb
Jaden looks at the orb “I wonder how Azuregos is doing since we can’t see what is happening.” Chumley quickly searches through his bag and pulls out his PDA and looks up the current duel, “Hey Jaden, Syrus looks like Azuregos is winning.” Jaden and Syrus turn to Chumley and look at the PDA and see that Azuregos is still on 4000 life points and has 3 monsters out, while the Shadow Duelist has only 100 life points and no monsters.
“Sweet Azuregos has this duel all wrapped up.” Jaden excitably exclaims
Back inside the orb
“Nice moves kid but not good enough for I draw and I activate the spell card Dark Hole which destroys all your monsters.” Shadow Duelist says as a large black hole appears and sucks all of Azuregos’ monsters into it. “Now I activate the spell card Monster reborn to bring back Terra King Archfiend, but he won’t be around for long for now I sacrifice him in order to summon the Skulled Archfiend of Lightning.” A monster that looks exactly like Summoned Skull appears on the field. “Now Skulled Archfiend, attack him directly!” Azuregos braces himself as he is hit by lightning.
Azuregos: 1500
Shadow Duelist: 100
Outside the Orb
Syrus and Jaden gasp while Chumley looks on shocked. “Did you just see that, the shadow duelist guy made a major comeback just like that?” Chumley said a bit worried
“Well we can’t give up on Azuregos just yet.” Jaden said as positive as he could. “He will figure out how to beat this monster.”
Back inside the orb
“Damn it, how am I meant to bet that monster?” Azuregos says as he draws his card
“Ok I activate pot of greed which lets me draw two cards.” Azuregos draws his two new cards
The two new cards are White Stone of Legend and Kaiba Man.
“Ok I summon White Stone of Legend in DEF and end my turn.” Azuregos says as a White egg appears on the field.
“What a waste of time, trying to defend yourself from the end.” The shadow duelist says while he draws.
“Now I attack your White Stone with my Skull Archfiend.” The shadow duelist exclaimed as the Skull Archfiend charged up lightning and fired it at the White Stone destroying it.
“The moment that White Stone of Legend is sent to the graveyard I can take a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my deck and place it in my hand.” Azuregos takes a Blue-Eyes White Dragon out of his deck then shuffles his deck.
“I put one card face-down and end my turn,” the shadow duelist says
“Ok my draw,” Azuregos says as he draws his card
“For my first move I activate the spell card Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face-down card.” A typhoon of air appears with electricity and hits the face-down card revealing that it was mirror force before destroying it.
“Now I summon Kaiba Man to the field, and then I tribute him in order to summon my Blue-Eyes White Dragon.” Azuregos says as Kaiba Man appears on the field before getting enveloped in white light and a dragon appears in his place.
“Now let’s end this Shadow Duel, Blue-Eyes White Dragon attack his Skull Archfiend of Lightning.” The Blue-Eyes White Dragon charges up its attack and fires the blast at the Skull Archfiend destroying it and taking out the rest of the shadow duelist’s life points.
Azuregos: 1500
Shadow Duelist: 0
Suddenly all the black ooze monsters jump on the Shadow Duelist dragging him under them and a hole opens up behind Azuregos. “Ok I guess this is the way out.” Azuregos dives out the hole and lands outside the orb surprising everyone else.
“Azuregos you’re ok.” Syrus happily exclaimed
“Yeah I am fine Syrus, wish I could say the same for the other guy.” Azuregos says as he turns around and watches the orb get smaller before it exploded into little particles
“Wow that guy must have had some need magic tricks, since I doubt that was a really shadow game.” Jaden calmly says not noticing the look on Azuregos’ face.
Azuregos walks over to the coffin which is open again and picks up Alexis and starts to carry her out of the Abandoned Dorm while following Jaden and Syrus.
Once outside Azuregos places Alexis down against a tree and they wait for her to wake up. While waiting Azuregos walks over to another tree and climbs up and sits on one of the branches, thinking about the duel.
‘I can’t get my head around this, how is it that that duelist was affected by the shadow realm yet I wasn’t and what does this dragon symbol on my arm have to do with this.’ Azuregos thought.
Syrus walks over to Azuregos “Hey Azuregos Alexis is waking up.” Azuregos looks at Syrus and jumps down from the tree and walks over to the others. Alexis opens her eyes and notices the group, “Morning sleepy head,” Jaden says.
“What happened?” Alexis asked
Jaden replies “Well you were captured by a strange duelist and he claimed to have started a shadow duel with Azuregos and he did a lot of cool tricks by creating a dark sphere.”
Alexis looks at Azuregos standing behind Syrus and Chumley “You dueled that guy to save me.”
Azuregos nods “Yeah I did Alexis and I only just won that duel it was too close, also….” Azuregos walks passed Chumley and Syrus and kneels down next to Jaden and Alexis. “I found this; I believe it’s a photo of your brother.”
Azuregos hands Alexis the photo and she looks on happily, “Atticus, thanks Timothy.” Azuregos and Jaden both get up and notice the sun rising, “Oh no its almost sunrise, we better get back to our dorm before they know we are missing, cya later Alexis.” Jaden says as Chumley and Syrus both run with Jaden back to the dorm.
Azuregos helps Alexis up to her feet “Well I guess I’ll see you in class tomorrow.” Alexis nods before giving Azuregos a kiss on the cheek “I guess so, see you tomorrow then Timothy.” Alexis then runs back to the Obelisk Blue Girls Dorm, while Azuregos runs back to the Slifer Red Dorm.
Upon arriving at the Slifer Red Dorm Azuregos notices another person walk back into their room, but spots a black dragon symbol glowing on their leg, just as the symbol on his arm starts to glow. Azuregos then heads up to his room and falls asleep on his bed.
Next Episode: The day after the rescue of Alexis, everything seems to be normal, the friends thought they weren't caught or seen, they were wrong! Men in black come to their dorms and take them to Sheppard's office where they set up challenges for the 3 boys: two tag team duel one for Syrus and Jaden, and a tag team duel for Azuregos and another Slifer Red of Azuregos’ choice. If any of them lose, they will get expelled! Jaden isn't worried, but Azuregos has to find a duel partner in Slifer Red that can help him win his tag team duel, else he will be expelled!Yet why is there a rumor of another Slifer Red with a Blue-Eyes White Dragon Deck?.
"Be at peace brother, wherever you are." Alexis said frowning. She turned around to and started to walk away from the dorm.
Meanwhile at the red dorm, Azuregos, Jaden, Syrus and Chumley were currently telling scary stories depending on the level of the drawn card.
"I went out into the woods, and underneath the full moon, I see a path leading to a cavern that seems… abandoned!" Syrus said taking his turn.
"Oh really?" Jaden asked interested. "And then what?"
"Then at the back of the cavern I see a mysterious lake. So I go in to look very carefully. 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 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! AAAAAHHHHHHHH! HELP ME, NOT THE WATER, ANYTHING BUT THE WATER!" Apparently Syrus had gotten too much into his story.
"Water's not so scary," Jaden said.
"Even dirty swamp water?" Syrus sighed, "You're right, only a chump would be afraid of a story like that," he said unaware that Chumley had taken a position in the far corner of the room.
"Still, good story," Jaden said picking up a four star monster called Earthbound Spirit. "Mid–level scares for a mid–level card." Apparently, the rules were you had to tell a scary story depending on the level of the monster was. He then drew a card from the deck. "But me, I hope I can get a high number card…" But the card Jaden drew was Sinister Serpent, a weak one star monster. "Oh…"
"Lucky…" Azuregos said.
"Yeah you lucked out. You don't have to scare us at all with that low card." Chumley walked back to the table.
"Well, I think I have a story that might do the trick," Jaden said putting the card down. "Actually, it's more of a memory. Back when I was a little kid, I used to hear sounds, but I only hear them way late at night. I think I was dreaming, but then… I heard them… they sounded like voices, but not ones that I recognized. I would go into the playroom to investigate but when I did, there was nothing there at all… except my cards."
"And…?" Syrus urged.
"And that's the end of the story." Syrus and Chumley groaned.
"Hey, at least the story fit the level." Azuregos replied
"That's true." Syrus agreed.
"But want to hear something strange?" Jaden asked. "Lately, I started hearing them again."
Azuregos shrugged as he drew his card, which turned out being a two star monster card.
“I’ll be right back,” Azuregos gets up runs outside up to his room, leaving the others confused. 3 minutes later Azuregos re-enters the room “Ok here is the strange thing I can tell you basically when we first arrived here at the Academy in my room I found this strange box on the desk.” Azuregos places the box on the table in-front of them.
“Wow what’s with all the strange dragon carvings on this,” said Syrus, just before Jaden interrupted
“Hey Azuregos this symbol looks exactly like the symbol on your arm.” Jaden says while pointing at the box.
“Wait what mark on his arm,” Syrus asked
Azuregos lifted up his sleeve revealing the blue dragon symbol, “Like I told Jaden; Syrus I have had this symbol since I was born.” They then look at the same symbol on the box
“Ok that is freaky,” Chumley said
HA–HA–HA–HA–HA, hey I want to get in on the fright fest!" a voice said from behind Jaden & Azuregos.
"GYAH!" Azuregos, Jaden, Syrus, and Chumley, suddenly got scared with latter being in the corner of the wall and the former two jumping from where the sound came from. It was only Professor Banner and Pharaoh though.
"You… you just did," Azuregos said.
"Yeah, we're kind of on the edge of our seats here," Jaden added.
"Or at least we were," Syrus added. Chumley was back to the corner again, cowering. Everyone relaxed again. "But since you're here, why don't you draw a card. The tougher it is, the scarier your story has to be."
"Well that sounds easy enough. Let's see." Banner drew a card. It was the Five Headed Dragon!
"Level 12?! Guess we are doomed guys" Azuregos gasped.
"I think I'm going to bed now," Syrus said immediately.
"HA–HA–HA–HA–HA! What is wrong? Don't you want to hear about the Abandoned Dorm at the end of the island?"
"Abandoned Dorm?" Everyone asked.
Banner pulled up a chair and sat down. "Yes. No one talks about it, but there was once a special dorm set at the edge of the forest. It was shut down when several students mysteriously went missing."
"Where did they go?" Syrus gulped.
"Well that's the mystery of it," Banner replied. "But rumour was it had something to do with Shadow Games."
"The Shadow Games?" Syrus asked.
"Thanks, you can stop now," Chumley pleaded from behind another table.
"You see, children, Shadow Games are duels that are played with powerful mystical items.” Banned said
“Millennium Items right?” Azuregos replied
“I have heard about them but it’s not true,” Jaden interrupted
HA-HA-HA! Yes that is what most people say, but I find that most stories, well they generally need to come from somewhere
Pharaoh yawned. "Well, I guess that's my cue to get back home." Banner left out the door.
“Later.” Everyone replied to Banner as he left
"You know, I did see a scary looking building one time in the forest." Syrus said.
"Sweet," Jaden said. "Then you're going to lead us tomorrow night."
"What do you mean us?" Chumley threw in.
"It'll be fun," Jaden said. "We might even find out what happened to all those missing people."
"Jaden, didn't you even hear what Banner just said?" Azuregos asked a bit angry.
"Oh relax Azuregos." Jaden waved off. "If it makes you feel better, we'll be careful when we go there."
"Well, you guys can go. I'm not getting in trouble on the first year." Azuregos said.
Unknown to them, Dr. Crowler heard the entire thing from outside. "This is just the opportunity I've been waiting for," he said excitedly to himself. "I think it's time the Shadow Games make a comeback, Millennium Items and all." He walked away thinking of just the person to enlist…
In a dark alleyway in Domino City, a duel was just about done with one of the participants scared out of his mind. "Okay, you win, just take whatever you want and go!"
"What I want," the metal masked man in a trench coat wearing a duel harness similar to Crowler's but the tray on his sleeve, said "Is your soul!" He held up a gold–coloured upside down pyramid with a single eye at the centre. It suddenly started glowing gold as the opponent protested again…
"Please show some mercy! Let me go!"
The man just looked on emotionlessly as the pyramid's light spread out. "Some mercy? What is that?" The gold light turned white as the opponent screamed and fell over, scattering the cards in his deck. "Rest in peace; in the Shadow Realm." At that point, his cell phone rang and the man opened it up. "Speak." The person on the phone spoke some details. "Duel Academy, tomorrow night… I'll be there." He hung up the phone and smirked.
The next day during class, Azuregos, Jaden and Syrus slept the day away as Banner was giving the lecture with Crowler peeking in to the classroom. 'This will be the last time you two sleep in class, Slifer Slackers!' Crowler thought. 'But you'll have your real lesson… on the Shadow Games!'
Later that night, as it was only about 9:00 at night and the moon was full, Crowler stood alone on the docks next to the lighthouse, waiting. After a while, he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw a person in black standing a few feet away from him. It was a tall man in a black trench coat and a wide brimmed hat, Crowler looked back to the man, "So you're the one they called the Shadow Duelist?" he asked.
The tall man smirked, "My opponent's call me many things, but most of them are hard to discern through their shrieks of terror. What's the job?" he asked as a fog appeared around them.
Crowler smiled as he informed him of the work, "I want you to frighten two people so intensely, they'll leave this island and never come back!" He then provided a picture of Jaden and Azuregos to the man. "Are you up to the challenge?"
"Of course I am!" The shadow duelist replied. "I never turn my back on a challenge."
Crowler then tries to get behind the shadow duelist, except that the shadow duelist was always keeping in front of Crowler. “Oh my, my, you are good.” Crowler said quite surprised
"I am better than good and I’ll prove it and not by just scaring these two but by banishing the two of them to the Shadow Realm!" The fog disappeared, taking the hired man with it. “Well if you insist,” Crowler left satisfied.
In the forest near the Abandoned dorm
"I can't believe I'm doing this," Azuregos muttered under his breath. The four students walked through the forest heading towards the Dorm that Banner told them about.
"Chill man," Jaden said looking for the dorm. Azuregos rolled his eyes and continued walking with the others. When they finally saw the dorm Azuregos spotted a rose lying next to the gate, while Jaden teased Syrus.
A branch suddenly cracked scaring Chumley and Syrus, while Azuregos and Jaden both shown their torches at the location where the branch cracked.
"Alexis?" Azuregos said. Alexis then had shown her torch at the group wondering what they were doing here.
"What are you guys doing here?" Alexis whispered harshly.
"We heard about the dorm and wanted to check it out," Jaden cut in.
"What are you doing here Alexis?" Azuregos asked. Alexis turned away from the group before she told them about her brother and how he disappeared.
“One of the students, who vanished here, was my brother.” Alexis said sadly, before turning back to the group.
"You know you guys could be expelled for being here," Alexis said a bit calmer. The other's shrugged except Azuregos whom kept on glancing at the abandoned dorm and the rose near the pillar. Before watching Alexis leave the area.
"We'll be fine," Jaden said as Chumley & Syrus followed him. Azuregos just stood at the entrance for a while, “Damn it; wait up guys.” Azuregos runs after the others.
Alexis stood at a tree nearby any watched the group enter the abandoned dorm, ‘I hope Timothy knows what he is doing.’ Just as she turns to leave the shadow duelist appears in front of her, before grabbing her and making her black out.
Inside one of the rooms of the abandoned dorm the group was looking around “This place is sweet, you know a little paint, a couple of cardboard boxes maybe a throw rug and we could so totally move in here.” Jaden said with a happy grin on his face.
“What are you kidding; this place is worse than the Slifer dorm. I mean what’s all this stuff on the walls.” Syrus said a bit scared
“Do you think it has something to do with the Shadow Games?” Chumley asked nervously
“Azuregos don’t get too close,” Syrus panicked
“Relax guys it’s just images of the seven millennium items,” Azuregos then shown his torch to his left and saw a picture on the wall, “And that is a picture of someone I have never seen before.” Azuregos walks over to the picture and removes it from the wall.
Somewhere else Alexis wakes up noticing her hands are bound “Huh where am I?”
“Ha, Ha on a hook dangling, baiting your friends into my trap.” The Shadow duelist said
“Timothy” Alexis said worried, before the shadow duelist’s millennium puzzle glowed causing her to scream.
Azuregos, Jaden, Syrus and Chumley all hear Alexis scream, “That sounded like Alexis,” Syrus said before Azuregos turned and start running in the direction of her scream “Hurry up you guys, this way.” Jaden, Syrus and Chumley follow Azuregos to a room where they shine their torches and notice a card on the ground.
Azuregos walks over to the card and notices that it’s Etolie Cyber one of Alexis main cards. “This is Alexis’ card.” Azuregos said worried then Chumley calmly says “Well there is only one way she could have gone.” Azuregos looks down the corridor before walking down it with the others.
They all arrive in a room and see Alexis in a coffin of some sort, and the shadow duelist rises up out of the fog. “I am your worst nightmare come true.”
Azuregos pulls out his duel disk, “Oh give me a break you freak.”
The Shadow duelist then replies “Then let me prove it in a shadow game.”
Azuregos activates his duel disk, “Shut up and let’s duel.”
The shadow duelist gets angry at how Azuregos is behaving towards him, “Enjoy your time in the Shadow Realm when you lose then.”
“Now for my first turn I summon Inferno Queen Archfiend, now that this monster is out every monster with Archfiend in its name then gain 1000 ATK points.” Azuregos replies a bit annoyed “Just remember to pay the life points during each of your standby phases.” The Shadow Duelist laughs “No I won’t not when I have this spell card Pandemonium.” The field then changes to look like a cavern with skeletons on the side and a small lava pool in the centre.
“I know what you’re thinking; your little friend’s fate is all but sealed. Well your right.” The Shadow duelist says while pointing at Alexis as the coffin lid closes and is dragged underground.
“Alexis” Azuregos yells shocked, from watching that happen, then he faces the Shadow Duelist, “That was a big mistake, now my turn I draw.”
Azuregos looks at his hand for a while
Cards in his hand are – 2 x Axe Dragonute, Monster Reborn, Top Runner, Waboku, Magical Stone Excavation.
“Ok first I summon Top Runner in ATK mode,” Azuregos says as he places the card down and the robot with the medal appears on his field. “Next I activate the spell card Magical Stone Excavation, by discarding two cards from my hand I can bring a spell card back from my graveyard, and I think I will bring back the one I just sent there. And I end my turn with a face –down.”
“Not that you will have a chance to use it for I summon Terra King Archfiend in ATK mode, now you have two deadly Archfiends to contend with, and thanks to special ability of the Inferno Queen, the Terra King’s ATK points automatically increase by a 1000 making him an even more fiendish force to be reckoned with.”
“Now Terra King attack his Top Runner with Locus Storm Barrage,” the shadow duelist said. The Terra King opens its belly and all these locus bugs fly towards top runner while Azuregos was laughing. “I activate my trap card Waboku,” Azuregos said as he revealed his trap, as three women in robes stood in front of top runner and blocked the Terra King’s attack.
“Fine I end my turn.” The Shadow Duelist said angrily
Azuregos draws his card “Good cause now I am going to make you feel a lot of pain.”
Jaden looks at Azuregos worried “Dude calm down, no need to get so angry.”
Azuregos looks at Jaden and nods “Thanks Jaden, anyway first I summon Axe Dragonute to the field then I tune my Top Runner with Axe Dragonute in order to Synchro Summon the mighty Red Dragon Archfiend.”
The red dragon appears on the field and roars. “And like you said before for any monster on the field with Archfiend in its name they gain 1000 ATK points due to your Inferno Queen Archfiend, which increases my Red Dragon Archfiend’s ATK to 4000, but I am not done yet next I activate the magic card Monster Reborn to bring back one of my Axe Dragonute, but he won’t be here long for now I banish him in order to summon the Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.” Axe Dragonute appears on the field before getting enveloped in the lava from the centre of the field which shoots up into the air gaining two red eyes staring at the Shadow Duelist before the lava is blasted away revealing a large black metal dragon.
“And thanks to Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon’s special ability once per turn I can summon a dragon type monster from either my graveyard or my hand, and I think I will bring back my other Axe Dragonute.” Axe Dragonute then appears next to the Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.
“Wait time out, I am out of here.” The Shadow Duelist says a bit scared looking at all the monsters on Azuregos’ side of the field. The Shadow duelist backs up causing a millennium eye symbol to appear on the floor which lets out a large blast of dark smoke and encases both Azuregos and the Shadow Duelist inside.
“What did you do?” Azuregos demands from the Shadow Duelist.
“I don’t know I have never been here before, uh what are these?” The shadow duelist starts to panic as these little black ooze creatures start to jump on him and go down his throat.
Azuregos watches as some approach him when suddenly his dragon symbol on his arm starts to glow scaring the ooze creatures away from him.
‘Oh my gosh could this actually be a real shadow game.’ Azuregos thought to himself as the Shadow duelist got back up but with red eyes and seemed more evil.
“Now the real shadow game begins!” The shadow duelist exclaimed
“Yeah well it’s still my turn so I attack your Terra King Archfiend with my Red Dragon Archfiend.” Red Dragon Archfiend fires a fireball at the Terra King Archfiend blowing it up and inflicting 1000 points of damage to the shadow duelist.
Azuregos: 4000
Shadow Duelist: 3000
“Now I’ll have Axe Dragonute ATK your Inferno Queen Archfiend.” Axe Dragonute runs over to the Inferno Queen and swings its axe cutting the Inferno Queen Archfiend in half before it exploded and dealt 100 points of damage to the shadow duelist.
Azuregos: 4000
Shadow Duelist: 2900
“And due to Axe Dragonute’s special ability if it attacks it switches to DEF position. Now I’ll have Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon ATK you directly with Molten fire blast.” Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon flies into the air and fires its fireball from its mouth at the shadow duelist causing 2800 points of damage.
Azuregos: 4000
Shadow Duelist: 100
“I end my turn.” Azuregos says looking happy that the duel is almost over.
Meanwhile outside the Shadow Duel orb
Jaden looks at the orb “I wonder how Azuregos is doing since we can’t see what is happening.” Chumley quickly searches through his bag and pulls out his PDA and looks up the current duel, “Hey Jaden, Syrus looks like Azuregos is winning.” Jaden and Syrus turn to Chumley and look at the PDA and see that Azuregos is still on 4000 life points and has 3 monsters out, while the Shadow Duelist has only 100 life points and no monsters.
“Sweet Azuregos has this duel all wrapped up.” Jaden excitably exclaims
Back inside the orb
“Nice moves kid but not good enough for I draw and I activate the spell card Dark Hole which destroys all your monsters.” Shadow Duelist says as a large black hole appears and sucks all of Azuregos’ monsters into it. “Now I activate the spell card Monster reborn to bring back Terra King Archfiend, but he won’t be around for long for now I sacrifice him in order to summon the Skulled Archfiend of Lightning.” A monster that looks exactly like Summoned Skull appears on the field. “Now Skulled Archfiend, attack him directly!” Azuregos braces himself as he is hit by lightning.
Azuregos: 1500
Shadow Duelist: 100
Outside the Orb
Syrus and Jaden gasp while Chumley looks on shocked. “Did you just see that, the shadow duelist guy made a major comeback just like that?” Chumley said a bit worried
“Well we can’t give up on Azuregos just yet.” Jaden said as positive as he could. “He will figure out how to beat this monster.”
Back inside the orb
“Damn it, how am I meant to bet that monster?” Azuregos says as he draws his card
“Ok I activate pot of greed which lets me draw two cards.” Azuregos draws his two new cards
The two new cards are White Stone of Legend and Kaiba Man.
“Ok I summon White Stone of Legend in DEF and end my turn.” Azuregos says as a White egg appears on the field.
“What a waste of time, trying to defend yourself from the end.” The shadow duelist says while he draws.
“Now I attack your White Stone with my Skull Archfiend.” The shadow duelist exclaimed as the Skull Archfiend charged up lightning and fired it at the White Stone destroying it.
“The moment that White Stone of Legend is sent to the graveyard I can take a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my deck and place it in my hand.” Azuregos takes a Blue-Eyes White Dragon out of his deck then shuffles his deck.
“I put one card face-down and end my turn,” the shadow duelist says
“Ok my draw,” Azuregos says as he draws his card
“For my first move I activate the spell card Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face-down card.” A typhoon of air appears with electricity and hits the face-down card revealing that it was mirror force before destroying it.
“Now I summon Kaiba Man to the field, and then I tribute him in order to summon my Blue-Eyes White Dragon.” Azuregos says as Kaiba Man appears on the field before getting enveloped in white light and a dragon appears in his place.
“Now let’s end this Shadow Duel, Blue-Eyes White Dragon attack his Skull Archfiend of Lightning.” The Blue-Eyes White Dragon charges up its attack and fires the blast at the Skull Archfiend destroying it and taking out the rest of the shadow duelist’s life points.
Azuregos: 1500
Shadow Duelist: 0
Suddenly all the black ooze monsters jump on the Shadow Duelist dragging him under them and a hole opens up behind Azuregos. “Ok I guess this is the way out.” Azuregos dives out the hole and lands outside the orb surprising everyone else.
“Azuregos you’re ok.” Syrus happily exclaimed
“Yeah I am fine Syrus, wish I could say the same for the other guy.” Azuregos says as he turns around and watches the orb get smaller before it exploded into little particles
“Wow that guy must have had some need magic tricks, since I doubt that was a really shadow game.” Jaden calmly says not noticing the look on Azuregos’ face.
Azuregos walks over to the coffin which is open again and picks up Alexis and starts to carry her out of the Abandoned Dorm while following Jaden and Syrus.
Once outside Azuregos places Alexis down against a tree and they wait for her to wake up. While waiting Azuregos walks over to another tree and climbs up and sits on one of the branches, thinking about the duel.
‘I can’t get my head around this, how is it that that duelist was affected by the shadow realm yet I wasn’t and what does this dragon symbol on my arm have to do with this.’ Azuregos thought.
Syrus walks over to Azuregos “Hey Azuregos Alexis is waking up.” Azuregos looks at Syrus and jumps down from the tree and walks over to the others. Alexis opens her eyes and notices the group, “Morning sleepy head,” Jaden says.
“What happened?” Alexis asked
Jaden replies “Well you were captured by a strange duelist and he claimed to have started a shadow duel with Azuregos and he did a lot of cool tricks by creating a dark sphere.”
Alexis looks at Azuregos standing behind Syrus and Chumley “You dueled that guy to save me.”
Azuregos nods “Yeah I did Alexis and I only just won that duel it was too close, also….” Azuregos walks passed Chumley and Syrus and kneels down next to Jaden and Alexis. “I found this; I believe it’s a photo of your brother.”
Azuregos hands Alexis the photo and she looks on happily, “Atticus, thanks Timothy.” Azuregos and Jaden both get up and notice the sun rising, “Oh no its almost sunrise, we better get back to our dorm before they know we are missing, cya later Alexis.” Jaden says as Chumley and Syrus both run with Jaden back to the dorm.
Azuregos helps Alexis up to her feet “Well I guess I’ll see you in class tomorrow.” Alexis nods before giving Azuregos a kiss on the cheek “I guess so, see you tomorrow then Timothy.” Alexis then runs back to the Obelisk Blue Girls Dorm, while Azuregos runs back to the Slifer Red Dorm.
Upon arriving at the Slifer Red Dorm Azuregos notices another person walk back into their room, but spots a black dragon symbol glowing on their leg, just as the symbol on his arm starts to glow. Azuregos then heads up to his room and falls asleep on his bed.
Next Episode: The day after the rescue of Alexis, everything seems to be normal, the friends thought they weren't caught or seen, they were wrong! Men in black come to their dorms and take them to Sheppard's office where they set up challenges for the 3 boys: two tag team duel one for Syrus and Jaden, and a tag team duel for Azuregos and another Slifer Red of Azuregos’ choice. If any of them lose, they will get expelled! Jaden isn't worried, but Azuregos has to find a duel partner in Slifer Red that can help him win his tag team duel, else he will be expelled!Yet why is there a rumor of another Slifer Red with a Blue-Eyes White Dragon Deck?.