Sandwich Thief

Jaden was walking to the cafeteria with Syrus in tow.

"You know Sy, I've got a good feeling today." He said.

"Why, what do you mean?" Syrus asked.

"I'm just saying. I know I'll get the golden eggwich today." Syrus smiled.

"Jaden, they only put one of those in the basket a day, what makes you so sure you'll get it."

"It's just a feeling." Jaden said.

As they were walking the school's speakers turned on and they heard Crowler's voice making a announcement.

"All Obelisk Blue students report to classroom 4B immediately."

"What do you think that's about?" Syrus asked.

"Who cares, I want to get to the cafeteria before someone gets the golden eggwich." Jaden said.

Once they reached the cafeteria they quickly purchased a mystery sandwich each then sat down with Chumley who was eating a grilled cheese sandwich. Jaden unwrapped his sandwich and bit into it only have a disappointed look on his face.

"Yuck, I got lettuce and cucumber. What about you, Sy."

"I got tuna." Syrus said, sounding quite happy.

Jaden looked at the mystery sandwich box.

"I wonder who got the golden eggwich today." He said.

"Actually, no one's got that sandwich for the past ten days." The three turned to see Ms. Dorothy, a plump woman with brown hair and glasses who ran the cafeteria and card shop.

"What do you mean, did the chickens stop laying golden eggs?" Syrus asked.

"No, I've been making the golden eggwich but no one's been getting it even when there's no sandwiches left." Dorothy said.

"Wait but that means, SOMEONE'S BEEN STEALING THEM!" Jaden shouted so loudly that everyone in the cafeteria looked at him before returning to their meals.

"Jaden, there's no way to prove that's true." Syrus said.

"Actually I think he's right. Every morning when I come it, it looks like someone has been there before me." Dorothy stated.

"That's evil, who would steal our sandwiches." Chumley said.

"And how are we supposed to stop them?" Syrus asked.

"I've got it. A stakeout, we all camp out in the cafeteria and when the thief comes in we can catch him red handed." Jaden said.

"That's brilliant, I'll set up somewhere to sleep." Dorothy said.

"So, are you coming Sy?" Jaden asked.

"Sure I'll come, what about you Chumley." Syrus said.

"Of course, I couldn't live knowing someone was stealing such a heavenly sandwich." Chumley said.

"Great, I'll go see if anyone else wants to come." Jaden said before running out of the cafeteria.

Jaden ran down the corridor when he saw Bastion walking towards the cafeteria.

"Hey Bastion are you busy tonight?" Jaden asked. Bastion looked confused.

"Why, what's the matter?" He asked.

"Well someone's been stealing sandwiches, so me and the guys are having a stakeout to catch whoever is doing it." Jaden explained. Bastion thought for a second.

"Well I don't have anything to do today, and I am pretty curious who would steal sandwiches. Okay I'll join you." He said. Jaden smiled.

"Great, see you then." He said before leaving to see if he could find anyone else.

Jaden continued to look for anyone else to join the stakeout. As he approached classroom 4B, he saw a lot of Obelisk students leaving. Among them, Jaden could see Alexis with Mindy and Jasmine next to her.

"Hey Lex, you got a minute." Jaden said. All three of them turned to Jaden. Usually Jasmine would hate for a boy to talk to Alexis, but ever since Jaden saved her from Wheeler she had warmed up to him.

"What's the matter Jaden?" Alexis asked.

"Me and the others are planning a stakeout tonight to find out who's been stealing sandwiches, you want to come." Jaden said. Alexis sighed.

"Sorry Jaden, but Dr. Crowler gave all of Obelisk Blue extra homework, so I'm too busy." She said. Jaden looked disappointed.

"Well okay then, maybe next time." He said.

As Alexis and her friends left Jaden saw Ryan leaving the classroom as well.

"Hey Ryan, do you want to-"

"You're out of luck with me as well." Ryan replied before heading in the direction of the library.

All of the Obelisk students had left the classroom leaving Jaden by himself.

'Well I guess that's everyone I can ask. I'd better get back to the others.' He thought, heading back to the cafeteria.

Later that day Jaden, Syrus, Chumley and Bastion were all in the cafeteria playing poker. It had gotten dark and most of the other students had probably gone back to their dorms by now.

"Full house, looks like I win." Bastion said showing everyone his cards. At that moment Ms. Dorothy appeared from the kitchen carrying a tray of food.

"I thought you guys might be hungry, so I made some rice balls." She said.

Everyone looked up to see a stack of identical rice balls.

"Thanks Ms. Dorothy, what's in them?" Syrus asked.

"Well some are apricot, some are crackers and the rest of salmon, but you'll have to guess which one you'll get." Dorothy said.

Everyone took a rice ball and began eating.

"I got salmon." Jaden said happily.

"I got apricot." Syrus said with a smile.

"Crackers for me." Chumley said.

"I appear to have gotten salmon." Bastion said.

"Crackers, same as Chumley." Dorothy said.

After another hour of waiting Syrus and Chumley were starting to fall asleep.

"Do you really think the thief is going to show up?" Bastion asked. Before anyone could answer, they heard a loud noise nearby waking Syrus and Chumley up.

Everyone remained silent as a large figure entered the room and started looking through the sandwich basket. Just as the figure chose a sandwich Ms. Dorothy turned on the lights and everyone saw that the figure was a very muscular man with long black hair and was only wearing a pair of tattered old trousers.

As soon as the lights were on the man ran full speed out of the room.

"Quick everyone after him!" Jaden shouted. The group chased the man through the school and out the building. The man then started to run to the forest.

The group continued to chase the man through the forest until they reached an open area with a cliff and waterfall. Everyone saw the man climbing the cliff already halfway up.

"STOP DAMON COME BACK!" Dorothy shouted. The man stopped climbing and let go of the cliff, falling down and landing on his feet.

"Ms. Dorothy, you know this guy?" Jaden asked. Dorothy nodded.

"His name's Damon Taizan and he knows better than to steal." She said.

"Yes, but me practice drawing, so me be better duelist." Damon said.

"What? What's he talking about Ms. Dorothy?" Jaden asked.

"I don't know. Damon was a student at the academy last year. He used to always buy mystery sandwiches but he was always so unlucky at it, then halfway through the year he just disappeared. I never knew what happened to him." Dorothy said.

"Me not just bad sandwich drawer, me bad card drawer too, so me live here, become close to nature and learn to draw better." Damon said.

"So why did you steal the golden eggwich?" Jaden asked.

"Final test, draw eggwich, me finally good drawer." Damon said.

"But Damon you can't live out here forever, you have to come back." Dorothy said.

"No me live here, be better duelist." Damon said.

"Okay, but how's living out here going to make you better at drawing?" Jaden asked.

"Live here, be better duelist." Damon said.

"Okay, how about you and me duel and if I win, you have to come back with us." Jaden said.

"And if me win?" Damon asked.

"Then I'll admit you're right and live out here with you." Jaden said. Everyone was shocked.

"Jaden, what are you doing?" Syrus asked. Jaden smiled.

"Don't worry, I've got this." He said.

"Me accept, but duel disk was broken long enough." Damon said.

"Hey, he can use mine if he wants." Chumley said. Damon nodded and Chumley passed him his duel disk. Damon then pulled a deck of beaten up looking cards from his tattered trousers and inserted them into Chumley's duel disk.

Jaden activated his duel disk and the duel began.

"I'll go first." Jaden said. "I summon Elemental Hero Prisma in attack mode and end my turn."

Elemental Hero Prisma ATK 1700 DEF 1100 LV4 LIGHT Warrior.

Damon started his turn.

"Me activate Smashing Ground, destroy monster with lowest defense." Prisma was destroyed. "Now me summon Masked Sorcerer attack mode and attack directly."

Masked Sorcerer ATK 900 DEF 1400 LV4 DARK Spellcaster.

Jaden LP 4000 - 900 = 3100

"Masked Sorcerer deals damage me draw a card." Damon said as he drew a card. "Me end turn."

Jaden drew his card.

"I summon Elemental Hero Heat in attack mode. It gains 200 attack points for every Elemental Hero monster I control including itself." Jaden explained.

Elemental Hero Heat ATK 1600 DEF 1200 LV4 FIRE Pyro.

Elemental Hero Heat ATK 1600 + 200 = 1800

"Now I attack with Heat." Jaden said. Masked Sorcerer was destroyed. "Then I place one card face down and end my turn."

Damon LP 4000 - 900 = 3100

Damon started his turn.

"Me activate Hammer Shot, destroy strongest monster." Elemental Hero Heat was destroyed.

"Me summon Tenshin attack mode and for level 2 monsters Tenshin gain 400 attack."

Tenshin ATK 800 DEF 100 LV2 LIGHT Fairy.

Tenshin ATK 800 + 400 = 1200

"Now me play Double Attack. By discarding one monster, a monster with lower level can attack twice." Damon said as he discarded Airknight Parshath. "Now Tenshin attack you twice."

"Not so fast I activate A Hero Emerges. Now you have to choose one card and if it's a monster I get to summon it, but if it's a spell or trap it goes to the graveyard." Jaden said. Damon closed his eyes and thought.

"Me chose card on your left." He said. Jaden had a look of horror on his face as he sent his Miracle Fusion to the graveyard and Damon's attack continued.

Jaden LP 3100 - 1200 = 1900

Jaden LP 1900 - 1200 = 700

Jaden started his turn.

"I activate Polymerization fusing Sparkman and Clayman to summon Elemental Hero Thunder Giant. Now I activate it's special ability, by discarding a card I can destroy a monster with less attack than Thunder Giant's." He said as Tenshin was destroyed. "Now Thunder Giant can attack you directly."

Elemental Hero Thunder Giant ATK 2400 DEF 1500 LV6 LIGHT Warrior.

Damon LP 3100 - 2400 = 700

"I end my turn." Jaden said. Damon looked at his deck.

'I can win this. I just have to draw Fissure, I must draw Fissure.' Damon thought. He drew his card and looked at it to see Millennium Shield.

"No, this isn't what I needed. I thought all that training paid off." Damon said.

"Hey, nice to hear you talking like a normal person. So was that whole Tarzan voice just an act." Jaden said.

Damon looked at Jaden in panic.

"No I talk, I mean me talk normal." He said. Everyone looked at Damon clearly not convinced by his act.

"Aw forget it, I place a monster in defense mode and end my turn." He said.

Jaden drew his card and smiled.

"Just what I needed. I summon Elemental Hero Bubbleman in attack mode and now my Thunder Giant will attack your monster." He said. Thunder Giant destroyed Damon's Gear Golem the Moving Fortress.

Elemental Hero Bubbleman ATK 800 DEF 1200 LV4 WATER Warrior.

Gear Golem the Moving Fortress ATK 800 DEF 2200 LV4 EARTH Machine.

"And now Bubbleman can attack you directly." Jaden said. Bubbleman attacked Damon.

Damon LP 700 - 800 = 0

Damon fell to his knees.

"I can't believe it. All this time living out here and it didn't help at all." He said as tears formed in his eyes. Ms. Dorothy approached him.

"Damon this is no way to learn how to draw. You have to come back, I'm sure there are people who miss you." She said. Damon wiped his eyes and nodded.

"Okay, I could really use a shower and a new shirt because living out here really got me ripped." He said.

The next day Jaden was in the cafeteria with Syrus and Chumley when they saw Damon. Damon was now wearing an Obelisk Blue uniform.

"Hey Damon, you want to see who can get the golden eggwich first." Jaden said.

"Sure." Damon nodded.

The two bought a mystery sandwich each and Jaden was the first to take a bite only to look disappointed.

"I got tuna and sweetcorn, what about you." He said. Damon bit into his sandwich.

"It's chicken and bacon." He said.

"So neither of us got the golden eggwich." Jaden said.

Ms. Dorothy who was nearby started to laugh.

"Sorry boys, but the golden eggwich is already gone." She said.

"What, who got it?" Jaden asked.

"That girl over there." Dorothy said, pointing to Alexis who was talking to Ryan.

Jaden sighed.

"It figures, even after everything that happened I still can't get that sandwich." He said.