Authors Notes: Nope don't pwn…er I mean own GX

Chapter 4: The Woes of Betrayal

Dawn had just risen over the small school that was perched atop of an Island. Peeping right through the Slifer red boys dorm room curtains.

Alan leaned back in his chair already wide awake and fully dressed nodding his head to his headphones, humming along to the beat playing through his hair. He was quite oblivious to a loud thud that sounded from behind him.

Aden on the other hand had decided to sleep with his head away from the window; the solar rays peering through the crack in the curtain hit Aden in the eyes. Causing him to roll over…

And right off the bed, landing with a loud thud. He groaned as he pushed himself up, his hair in a wild mess. "Oh boy…" he muttered to himself. "I hope this doesn't become a habit." He said looking over to the boy whom leaning way back was using his foot to keep himself up.

"Alan always was an early riser." Aden muttered to himself. He stood up and grabbed his school uniform. "Today is Saturday…gives me tomorrow and today to explore the island." He said aloud as he tossed his pajamas into the dirty clothing pile that had formed in the corner. He then slipped his black shirt over his head and tucked it into his pants then undid the left side, finishing the touch with his blazer and his deck box. He looked over at Alan who was still lost in his own world.

Aden sat down and slipped his shoes on, he looked back seeing Alan had unpacked most of his posters seeing a variety of Alien's propped up against the wall, Alan even hung a model of a complicated UFO hanging from the light. How Alan got that fixed up Aden would never know but he simply shrugged as he opened the door.

Alan looked over at the clock and turned around "Aden its time to get…hey where did he go?" he said his question changing. Alan looked around before going to the door seeing Aden walking off. "Hey wait up!" Alan said grabbing his deck box and his keys and wallet chasing after Aden.

Aden stopped hearing Alan's voice as he peered back seeing Alan locking the door and putting the items in their proper places. "Why did you leave me?"

"That's a nice, Good Morning Aden." Aden said to Alan as he started walking.

"Wha…Hey!" Alan said figuring out what Aden meant. He jogged to catch up once again to the Samurai duelist. "Wow..this place is a lot more…lively."

Aden looked at his friend then around, it was true students were about making new friends, and a few were flirting with the girls. Aden took a few mental pictures of girls he wanted to talk to, maybe get a cola or something in that area. His mind focused on the girls, not noting the actions of his companion.

"Mother ship to Aden…come in Aden…" Alan sighed before taking in a big breath. "ADEN GET OUT OF THIS FUNK!" Alan screamed in Aden's ear.

"Ow! Geeze Alan, what was that for?" Aden said rubbing his ear with his pinky.

"You were ogling again.."

"So?" He said as he looked over seeing Angel screaming at a few boys to get lost. "Good point lets go." Aden said as he hastily moved on.

"Heads up!" Aden heard as he looked over, only for a Frisbee to smack him on the bridge of his nose.

"Ow…alright who Frisbeed me in the face?" Aden asked looking around rubbing the sore spot while checking for blood, luckily he found one.

"Sorry bout that dude." A guy in yellow said as he looked over at Aden. "You alright?"

"Yeah, just peachy." Aden muttered under his breath, he looked over at the youth once he got feeling in his nose again, he held out his hand. "Aden Genesis." He stated simply.

"Roy, Roy Raphael," The youth said, he had long blonde hair that was tied into a ponytail. Aden found it really weird that his hair matched the schools yellow blazers. The boy had brown eyes, and stood about a half-a-foot over Aden, his blazer was difficult to tell the yellow seemed to have been bleached out on the left side except for various dots. "I'm a second Year Ra Yellow." He concluded

"Second Year?" Aden parroted. "That's cool-oof!" Aden started sarcastically only to receive a elbow by Alan.

"I'm Alan Matthews." Alan said as he held out his hand.

"Ah, you must be Ms. Matthews little brother." Roy spoke up, he looked down seeing Alan face plant. "She talks about you a lot."

"Great. . to. . .hear." Alan muttered, as Aden dusted his friend off.

"Well, since we met so wonderfully.." Roy said looking at the disk in hand. "How bout I give you a tour?"

"Sounds good." Both of the freshmen said, as they begun their tour looking at the various classrooms and noting the greatest hangouts for the classmen, while doing their best to avoid Angel.

"And here is the campus store." Roy said as he motioned the two in, following them as both gazed about. "Mornin' Jasmine." Roy said addressing the young lady behind the counter. Alan and Aden looked over in unison, only to see a female appearing in her early twenties. Long luxurious lavender hair that went down to her butt, the bangs were all folded on one side forming a cow lick that covered her right eye. She had an hourglass figure that gave way to her campus store uniform, the small green skirt and overalls'; resting under them is a bright pink button up short sleeved shirt.

"Wow…" Alan said openly gauzing at the female. Aden slapped his forehead, the female behind the counter waved.

"Welcome, I'm the owner of this place, Jasmine Hawk." She said smiling.

"Jasmine, meet Aden Genesis and Alan Matthews."

"Alan…Matt-OH you mean Trish Matthews brother." She said as Alan did another face plant.

"Why does everyone recognize me as HER brother, why can't she be MY sister?" Alan mumbled causing Aden to chuckle.

"Jasmine, can I get 6 packs please?" Roy said pulling out his wallet.

"You're just in luck…I got a new shipment in too." Jasmine said as she knelt down and came up with a few booster packs in hand. She set them down.

"Uh…Jasmine, I said six not nine."

"I know, but the three are free…" She looked over to Aden and Alan, "For a welcome to the new boys." She said wit ha cheerful smile.

"Thanks." Aden said he restrained Alan before he could give his 'I hope you will be beamed up with the mother ship too,' Speech.

"Don't mention it." She said with a smile as Roy paid for the packs Aden noted something as well.

"How does the currency work here anyway?" he asked Roy as they left the store.

"Ah…that is a good question, one I wish I thought I asked when I first arrived." Roy said as he sat on the grass holding out the nine packs fanning them out. "Take your pick and I'll explain," he said as the two took their pick of three, the three began to open their packs. "The currency here is not like normal money. Or money we are use to. You get your currency every two weeks, on a Friday in your last class. Now how you earn it, there are various ways, duelin' is one." He said as he rolled his head up trying to think of the ways. "You see if you get in an 'official duel' one where you have to be called into the arena you get twenty Duel Academy dollars, or twenty DA's as we call them." Roy said as he gazed at his nine cards. "Hot dog…a card I've been trying to get." He said as he took a card and slid it into his deck box, as he quickly looked at the other two. "then there is community work, the easiest way to get it. To do that you just go to your dorm headmaster, or Drake in your instance, and ask him for a chore, since the dorms are each assigned special topics. We the Ra Yellows…we take care of the gardens and lawns, while the Blues take care of nothing, they get the easy life. You guys I think you clean the campus classroom building, depending on how long you work depends on your payment, you get like eight or nine bucks per classroom."

Aden nodded showing he understood, he tore open his pack and looked at the cards, "Oh, This might come in handy." He said as he slid his new card into his deck box. He looked at Alan who already had gone through his three packs.

"I got nothing." Alan said with a sigh.

"You all are pathetic, not even able to defeat my deck." The group heard as they looked over, Roy turning around to look over his shoulder seeing a crowd. Aden and Roy picked up their packs and slid them into their pockets walking over and pushing their way through the crowd. Inside they saw a Obelisk Blue male standing tall with his arms crossed, and a Slifer Red kneeling.

"That's pathetic." The Blue boy said as the Slifer walked out. "Get this you Slifer Scum and Ra Rejects, you are nothing to me, and to prove that I am number one I'll crush you all, whose next?"

"Oh boy..someone better shut him up." Roy muttered as Aden nodded, "Glad you agree." Roy said with a smirk as he shoved Aden out into the middle.

"Hey!" Aden said looking back, he looked ahead and pulled out his deck shuffling.

"Another notch on the deck of Edward Hari." Edward smiled as he shuffled his deck and inserted it into his disk. "Hope you're ready to lose. You may start since your defeat will be unavoidable."

Edward- 4000

Aden- 4000

Aden quickly drew his sixth card and looked at it, he held it out to show Edward. "Six Samurai Zanji!" he called out when a ray from the sun shot down, causing a pillar of light, the warrior stepped out twirling his pike and holding it out ready for combat. (1800/1300) "I end with that."

"A warrior huh? Can't say I'm to stunned…but watch this." Edward called as he drew his sixth card seeing a spell card. "Perfect just what I wanted." He said aloud, he reached down into his hand pulling out another card. "I discard Puppet Plant from my hand." He said as he slid the card into his graveyard.

"Puppet Plant?" Aden asked as Edwards graveyard began to glow.

"Yes whenever I discard Puppet Plant, I can take control of a Warrior Type monster." Edward called out as Zanji's limbs were binded by vines that shot out from the graveyard , the warrior tried to resist the vines but was quickly overcome as he was lifted up and planted on Edwards field. "Now, attack him directly my Samurai!"

"Zanji fight it!" Aden called as the warrior leapt up, swinging its pike down upon Aden who cried out in pain.

Edward- 4000

Aden- 2200

"Now, I sacrifice your Zanji to play the spell card Linear Accelerator Cannon, this card sacrifices one card I control and you take half the attack points as points of Damage!" Edward smirked evilly as Aden was shot by the armor of Zanji's

Edward- 4000

Aden- 1300

"I'll toss a card face down and summon Gear Golem the Moving Fortress in defensive mode." He called as a machine with spikes and a thick metallic coating appeared, the gears crunching as the machine moved to defense. (800/2200) "Your move you Slifer Scum."

Aden had taken a knee when the cannon barraged him with Zanji's armor. Aden's hair covered his eyes, "Hope you enjoyed that…because I'm going to enjoy tearing you to shreds!" Aden shouted as most of the audience pulled back as Aden looked up, his eyes full of hatred and rage towards the boy who had stolen his monster. He stood up and drew, he looked at his card and quickly flipped it around. "Double Summon allows me to make two normal summons this turn, Meet Six Samurai Irou and Six Samurai Nisashi!" Aden called out as a pillar of dark fog and a whirlwind of pink rose pedals shot up the two samurai both stood the same look in their eyes. (1700/1200) (1400/700)

"Big deal, to bad they can't get past my Monster."

"Don't bet on it." Aden said as he pulled another card from his hand. "I play Book of Moon!"

"Hey that was mine!" Alan shouted looking at his deck. "Oh wait you gave me my Alien Warrior for it…never mind."

"This flips your monster face down, Irou take care of it!" Aden shouted as the warrior leapt up slashing the monster into nonexistence. "Nisashi double direct attack!" Aden shouted as the green warrior raised his blades and dashed forward vanishing in the wind, he appeared behind Edward slashing him in the back twice.

Edward- 1200

Aden- 1300

"Wow, blow for blow, but Aden used more resources to get Edward down to this level." Roy said as he observed the eyes of the boy. "What bugs me is why he's so ticked about this."

"Aden hates people having control of his monsters." Alan said looking at Roy.

"Ah…sentimental are we?" Roy said as he continued to observe the duel.

"Yep." Alan finished.

"So you get two lucky hits on me, think you're tough?" Edward said smiling. "You just ensured my victory."

"Not yet I haven't." Aden said as he looked at his cards. "I place a card face down and end my turn."

Edward drew the card out of his disk and smiled, pulling out two cards from his hand. "I discard my last two Puppet Plants to take control of both of your samurai." He said with a cold grin.

"Don't you dare!" Aden barked but it was too late the samurai both walked over to his side, "Unhand them!" He shouted.

"Don't think I won't, Irou attack!" He said as the brain controlled warrior leapt up aiming for his former master

"Sorry Irou but I got no choice." Aden said looking up at the monster his trap card flipping up, "I activate Return of the Six Samurai, this will revive Zanji in attack mode!" Aden shouted as the warrior appeared bursting through the ground.

"The battle is off…but I activate Assault on GHQ, I sacrifice your Irou, now you discard the top two cards on your deck." Edward said a full grin on his face.

"Fine." Aden said as he pulled the top two cards. 'Arg…Hallowed Life Barrier and my Necro Guardna.' He thought to himself as he slid the two cards into his grave.

"But don't think Nisashi isn't out of the loop yet…He'll join Irou." Edward said as he pulled out a card from his hand. "I play Ruthless Denial, at the cost of Nisashi, I can now force you to discard a card from your hand…and since you only have the one card, it goes bye bye." Edward said as Nisashi leapt up stabbing the card both exploding. "Your move." Edward said as a hole fell under Zanji's feet as he fell in.

Aden drew and looked at the single card in his hand. "I set a monster in defensive mode and end my turn." Aden stated calmly.

'Drat, if he keeps his monsters set, I won't be able to touch him..' Edward drew and looked at his card in his hand. "I discard my Marionette Mite to activate Monster Reincarnation, grabbing back Puppet Plant that ends my turn."

Aden drew and looked at his new card. "I flip up Crystal Seer." Aden said as the card spun and rose up, a gypsy like woman appearing with a crystal ball as it glowed, Aden pulled the top two cards off of his deck and inspected them. "She allows me to take the top two cards off my deck and select one putting it into the bottom." Aden said as he put his Card Trader back into his deck. "You left yourself open too." Aden said with a smirk. "I summon Six Samurai Yariza." He shouted as the ground shook, a pillar of rocks shot up then the rocks fell away as a warrior dressed in dark brown armor twirled his weapon around (1000/500) "Now Yariza direct attack." Aden shouted as the warrior leapt up slashing Edward.

Aden- 1300

Edward- 200

"No, I refuse to lose like this!" Edward shouted as he stood up and drew. "You won't win, I discard Puppet Plant to take control of your monster." He shouted as once again vines shot out grabbing Yariza, dragging him over. "Attack that Crystal Seer!"

"Hold on, I remove Necro Guardna from my grave to keep my monster safe." Aden said as he pulled his card out of his graveyard. "This negates your attack."

"But not this one, I activate my second Linear Accelerator cannon. This takes your monster and fires half of its attack points to you." He shouted as Yariza's armor was shot towards Aden's chest.

Aden- 800

Edward- 200

"Well if Aden draws a powerful enough monster..he wins." Roy said as Aden slashed a card from his deck.

"Alright, time to end this." Aden shouted as Edward gasped. "Six Samurai- Yaichi!" Aden shouted as a stream of water shot up from the ground the blue armored warrior knocked an arrow preparing to fire. (1300/800) "Take him out!"

"No!" Edward shouted as the arrow was fired. "It can't end like this!"

"Yes…it…can." Aden growled as the arrow pierced Edward through the chest.

Aden- 800

Edward- 0

"Ha, A Obelisk lost to a Slifer!" A Ra laughed as Edward fell to his knees.

"You won't live this one down…" another student said as the insults piled up, Aden turned and began to walk towards Alan and Roy just to walk straight past them, the fierce look in his eyes still.

"Um…Hey..I just remembered that I…gotta go tend to a garden." Roy said as he stepped away. "See ya later..Thanks for the fun day." He said waving and walking off.

"Right later." Alan said he looked at Aden and sighed. "Always did hate people controlling his samurai." Alan muttered to himself as he walked behind Aden following.

"I had the perfect deck…and yet that Slifer Scum still beat me." Edward said to himself.

"Well, gotta remember in this game there is no such thing as the 'perfect' deck." A boy said as he walked up, messy bleach white hair, and a Obelisk Blue uniform. A pair of headphones blared music. Edward quirked an eyebrow at how he could hear him. "Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go take a nap." The blue student said as he walked off, his eyes still closed as he ducked under a branch.

"How in the world?" Edward asked himself watching the mystery blue student vanish into the thicket.

At the Slifer red dorm, the two boys remained quiet as Aden sat at his desk looking through the cards, until a particular card caught his eye. He pulled it out and raised his eyebrows as he fanned through his deck searching for a slot to slide it in.

Meanwhile Alan looked on in pure fear of Aden lashing out. "Um…Aden…no need to be upset over it still I mean…you beat him easily."

"He shouldn't have touched my monsters Alan. I will not let my monsters become the victims of atrocities like that again." Aden said through his teeth fixing his deck up still.

"Very well…well, hopefully something good will come of tomorrow, Night Aden." Alan said.

Aden looked out the window to see the sun had already set. Aden nodded. "Night Alan." Aden replied back as he turned off his light and climbed up into bed.

Shout outs:

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