Titan

Dr. Crowler was currently in his office, attempting to come up with a plan to get rid of Jaden and Ryan.

'What to do, what to do. There must be something I can do to get rid of those two, I'd even settle on just getting rid of one of them.' He thought.

Crowler had been trying to think of an idea over the past few weeks without success.

'Think Crowler, I wish I could just make them run away from Duel Academy as fast as...wait, that's it, scare them away, but how?'

Crowler sat down and started to work out a plan to scare one of his most despised students.

'I can't do it myself. I'll have to hire someone to do it.' He thought as he began to search the Internet for the perfect person for the job.

After some time Crowler found just what he was looking for, a man claiming to be a shadow duelist who says he'd take any job for the right price.

'Perfect, just what I needed.' Crowler thought as he sent an email to this man.

Over the next two days Crowler and the man discussed the job by email, after Crowler agreed to pay the man three month's worth of his salary they agreed to meet face to face.

It took the man the rest of the week to get to the island and when he did it was night time and Crowler was waiting at the docks for him.

"Excellent you've arrived, come we have many things we must discuss." Crowler said.

Crowler sneaked the man into his office, then pulled a picture out of his desk.

"This is your first target Jaden Yuki. I want you to scare this boy out of ever wanting to pick up a deck of cards again." Crowler said.

The man took the picture of Jaden and examined his target.

"Very well, give me forty-eight hours and the job will be done." The man said as he left Crowler's office.

The next day Jaden was sitting in a tree looking through his deck when he heard a voice.

"You should get down from there, you might hurt yourself." Jaden looked down to see Alexis standing below him.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." Jaden said standing up. However, as he did the branch he was on suddenly broke and Jaden fell to the ground. Alexis then ran over to him.

"Jaden, are you alright?" She asked, panicked.

Jaden looked up at her.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." He said. Alexis extended a arm and helped him to his feet.

"Just be careful from now on. You could have really hurt yourself." She said.

What neither of them noticed was the man watching them from the trees.

'Interesting, it seems I've found my bait.' The man thought as he started to follow Alexis.

Alexis was having a normal day after seeing Jaden in the tree. She met up with Jasmine and Mindy, then spent the rest of the day with them.

When it started to get late, Jasmine and Mindy headed back to the dorm and Alexis said she'd catch up with them later.

Once she was alone Alexis picked some wild flowers and headed to the abandoned dorm. When she reached the dorm, she placed the flowers at the gate.

'Rest in peace Atticus.' She thought. Suddenly someone grabbed her arm and placed a damp cloth on her mouth.

Alexis breathed deep out of shock and immediately felt dizzy as her vision darkened and she passed out.

The next morning Dr. Crowler was in his office getting the papers ready for his lesson today when he heard a knock on the door.

"Come in." He said. The door opened and the man he had hired walked in.

"So, have you dealt with Jaden yet?" Crowler asked. The man pulled out an envelope from his coat.

"Not yet, make sure he receives this. And come to the Abandoned Dorm at 10:30pm, you can pay me there when it's over." The man said as he passed the envelope to Crowler, then left the room without saying a word.

During class Crowler was so distracted with the thought of getting rid of Jaden that he failed to notice Alexis was missing. After class, Crowler quickly left the room and made his way to the boy's locker room before anyone else. He slipped the envelope into Jaden's locker. However, as he was leaving he didn't notice the envelope fall out of Jaden's locker and land on the floor.

Back in class Ryan was gathering his belongings. He noticed Jaden had fallen asleep again as Syrus and Chumley tried to wake him up.

After turning around he saw Jasmine and Mindy, then approached them.

"I have a question for you." Ryan said.

Turning to him, Mindy smiled while Jasmine frowned.

"What is it?" Mindy asked happily.

"I never saw Alexis in class today. Where is she?" Ryan questioned.

"Why should we tell you." Jasmine coldly answered.

"Hey, he was only asking." Mindy said. Turning to Ryan, Mindy answered his question.

"Alexis didn't respond when I knocked on her door today so maybe she's sick. But don't worry, I'm sure she's fine." After that Mindy and Jasmine left Ryan by himself.

When Ryan got to his locker to change his shoes, he noticed there was a envelope on the floor. After picking it up, he saw that there was no name on it so looking around to see if anyone was nearby he opened the envelope and read the contents.

Jaden, if you want to see the pretty blonde girl again come to the abandoned dorm on the north side of the island at 10pm, bring your deck and duel disk.

After reading the letter, Ryan heard Jaden, Syrus and Chumley heading towards the locker room and tore it in half before tossing the remains into a nearby bin before leaving.

Over at the abandoned dorm Alexis slowly regained consciousness. The first thing she noticed was how dark it was, she couldn't see a thing and the next thing she knew was that both her hands and feet were tied up and that she had been gagged.

Struggling against her restraints Alexis realized she was inside a box of some kind and had no way to escape. After a few minutes she heard movement outside the box. She could hear someone walking around and dragging something heavy into place.

Eventually the sounds stopped and Alexis waited in the box. Hours passed and Alexis was getting both hungry and thirsty. Whoever had kidnapped wasn't bothering to give her food or water and she began to fear that she might die in this box.

Back at the blue boys dorm, Ryan was putting his duel disk on before inserting a deck into it. It was 9:30pm and he started to head to the abandoned dorm.

'Sorry Jaden, but you have no idea where the abandoned dorm is. I will handle this.' He thought.

After getting to the abandoned dorm, Ryan immediately went inside. It was as quiet as the last time.

"Alright, whoever left that letter, come on out." Ryan demanded.

Suddenly he heard a voice come from a nearby door.

"Ha ha ha, come Jaden and face me in a game of darkness." He followed the voice through the door and down some stairs. Ryan was led into the basement and upon reaching the bottom was shocked by what he was seeing.

The basement was covered in strange symbols that looked like they were part of some kind of occult ritual. The largest of these symbols was in the middle of the room with burnt out candles circling it. Propped up against the walls of the room were several old wooden coffins.

Standing on the far side of the room was a large man with his back to Ryan. He was wearing a long black coat and black hat.

"Welcome Jaden, are you ready to fall into darkness." The man said as he turned around, the top half of his face was covered with a silver mask.

When the man saw Ryan he was immediately shocked.

"Wait you're not Jaden, who are you." He said.

"Where's my friend?" Ryan asked, interrupting him.