Duelists of Dark and Light

It's been a while since I've updated this story. So here's a short update.

Ch. 4:

When Shelen finally returned to the village it was raining. She ran through the pouring back to the Great Hall where duelists in training or duelists that aren't fighting or doing anything else would use their decks and play friendly duels to boost up their strategy and skill.

She pushed open one of the huge double-doors and walked in. Her hair had changed to a dirty brown color from the water and her clothes were sopping wet. Not an uncommon thing though, it seemed Domino rained a lot around spring and summer. She just hoped that the Shadow Prince guy was safe. Wait...Why was she concerned about the enemy? If he was gone then good. He was a terrible person.

She was brought from her thoughts as she neared the group from training.

"Alright. Where did Daren go wrong?" Shimon saked the class.

"I mistimed my reverse tumble." Daren muttered.

"Yeah. We noticed." Marik said sarcastically. Bakura and Crystal snickered. Daren glared at them.

"Right. Now where did Shelen go wrong?" Shimon asked. Shelen sighed it was to be expected that he would mention HER flaws.

"She showed up?" Crystal guessed.

"Didn't get killed." Marik added.

"Never where she should be." Bakura nodded in agreement.

Shelen snatched up the small plate left for her and grabbed a cup. Bakura tried to trip her once and nearly managed while Jazz sneered at her and scooted further down to make a point the other girl was not welcome. Shelen didn't care, she just sat at a lone table and stared at her food. All she had to do was act like she didn't care and they wouldn't have a reason to bully her the way they were.

"Thank you." Shimon said sarcastically, giving the three that had spoken a light smack to the back of the head with the book he was carrying.

"Now. You need to learn to live and breathe this stuff." He tossed the book on the table, "The Shadow Realm Manuel. Tells all you need to know about any monster we know of."

There was a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning. Shimon frowned.

"No attacks tonight. Study up." He told them before walking away.

"Wait...You mean READ?" Marik questioned.

"While we're still alive?" Crystal cried.

"Oh! I've read it at least seven times!" Kyla said excitedly, "There's this one monster that looks like a human and he uses these dark spells and circles! And then there's another one that-"

"Yeah. Sounds great." Jazz said sarcastically, "There was a chance I'd read that."

"But now..." Crystal looked bored.

"Ok. You guys read. I'll go kill stuff." Jazz stood up.

"Yeah...Like logs and helpless twigs." Bakura snickered. The others then followed suit. Shelen watched them leave then sighed and returned to eating. A while later the Hall was nearly empty. Shelen returned carrying a flashlight and opened the book to the table of contents.

"Duel Monser classification." She read, "Beast class, Human class, Magic class, Insect class, Dragon class..."

She flipped open the book to the 'Dragon Class' and skimmed through it.

"Blackland Fire Dragon. Not as dangerous as most but still extremely destuctive. This monster shoots blazing green-What the heck-Fire and attacks on the ground. Extremely dangerous. Kill on sight."

She turned the page and it revealed a black dragon with red eyes.

"Red-Eyes Black Dragon," She read, "Real creative title...This dragon is a class below the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Red-Eyes are the dark counterpart of Blue-Eyes and have the same abilities but are much more visious. Rare and extremely dangerous, kill on sight."

She flipped to the 'Human-class' and it revealed a man in purple magician armor with purple hair and a hat holding up a staff. Next to him was a girl with blond hair and green eyes in blue and pink magician armor holding a smaller more girly staff.

"Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl. These two human-looking monsters rarely fight seperately but when they do even then you don't have a chance. Using their dark magic as a defence and offence these two are at the top of the human-class monsters. Extremely dangerous, kill on sight."

She sighed and flipped to some more monsters. There were giant bug creatures, more dragons, more human-looking monsters like 'Mystic Elf' apparently a peaceful monster that didn't attack humans, and finally she reached the one called 'God-Class'.

'Could this be it?' She thought and flipped the page to the first 'God-Class' monster. It was one called 'Exodia the Forbidden One' a powerful monster that had not been awakened in centuries. The last time it was out the monster nearly destroyed an entire continent. Splitting the world apart into the different islands.

She next came across a giant blue monster a lot like Exodia. This one was called Obilisk the Tormentor. The next one was a halk-like dragon called the 'Dragon of Ra'. And finally she found it. The great Sky Dragon Osiris.

"Osiris the Sky Dragon. This mighty storm beast is king of dragon-kind. Only one person has been able to tame this beast. The legendary 'Shadow Prince'. Osiris is rumored to have a connection to the Millenium Puzzle. A rare, powerful object created by the three god monsters themselves. If the puzzle were to be destroyed Osiris would-"

She didn't finish. There was nothing else written that told her more. She frowned and closed the book.

"If the puzzle is destroyed then what will happen?" She wondered. She shook her head and stood then walked out of the Great Hall and ran to her house.

...

Seto glared ahead at the fog they were approaching. His duel disk was at the ready.

"Take us in." He told the captain, "To the Shadows Realm."

The ship they rode on-as anything else would alert the monsters of their approach-sailed into the fog. All was quiet and suddenly there was a roar and a flash of light, revealing the siloette of a Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

...

"So there's really nothing else on Osiris?" Shelen asked Shimon.

"No there isn't. Now focus!" Shimon snapped as a blast of web hit the wall near where Shelen was. She turned to see a giant spider monster coming at her fast. She yelped and ran as the bug slammed into the wall.

"Today's leason is about attack!" Shimon told the students.

The giant spider hopped up onto the pillars surrounding the arena with wooden fences also surounding them in a maze. The teens were running for their lives as the spider tried to hit them with webs.

"But hasn't anyone seen Osiris or the Shadow Prince while their sleeping?" Shelen asked.

"Nobody has met them and lived. Now get in there!" Shimon ordered.

"I know but hypothetically-" Shelen turned to see Marik and Crystal. Crystal was mouthing 'Get down!' and Shelen turned to see the spider. She hurriedly ducked down with them and Crystal gave the signal to do a sumersault. They each rolled to the other side but Shelen was never good at rolling and fell flat on her back, her duel-disk making a slight clang, alerting the spider. Crystal was about to throw a materialized axe but Marik got in the way and threw his weapon. Missing the spider completely.

Crystal glared at her friend.

"The sun was in my eyes!" He defended. Crystal rolled her eyes and they ran. The spider had then had enough and began to chase Shelen and Daren who ran from it as the maze was knocked down. Daren hopped onto a pillar and lost his balance when it was knocked down by the spider. He fell onto Shelen and their dueldisks got locked together accidentally. If it was any other situation Daren would have made this an oppertunity to secretly impress Shelen but this was life or death here!

The male duelist in training pulled on his dueldisk trying to dislodge it. Shelen tried to protest and say she could get it but Daren was too panicked. He finally ripped both duel-disks up, Shelen was sure something in her wrist snapped, and with a quick spell utned it into a hammer which he used to hit the spider causing it to become dazed and quickly scurry back to it's cage.

Shelen stood up and rubbed her wrist as Daren gave her a cold glare. She had just screwed everything up...Big time.

So there's chapter 4. The reason Shelen doesn't want to fight the shadow creatures anymore is because in a way Yami is one in this story.