The Creation of all things(One of a kind.) Chapter 4. *LOCKED*

It was getting really late, after saying goodbye to Drystan, Mike and Sofia, Andrii set off back to the Ra Yellow Dorm. It was cold out and the walk was long, he could see his frosty breath reflecting off the lights outside the academy building. He got to the forest and followed the walkway through towards the Ra Yellow Dorm. He though back to this morning when he met Drystan.. He really should have offered to let him stay with Andrii, "nevermind" Andrii thought to himself. The Forest was usually nice and peaceful to walk through but at this time of night, that peacefulness was tense, he slightest sound of a twig breaking beneath his feet or a rustling in the trees sent shivers down Andrii's spine. It had been a long day, he was tired, he just wished he was home

Andrii stood there shocked. Before he could even attempt to activate his duel disk towards this creature he had disappeared. Unlike Drystan this character was certainly a part of 'The Creation' the 3rd one he'd seen. Andrii checked his watch. (one of the many items he'd been given as a thank you from the President) It was 10:00pm that mean't there was only around 2 hours before this threatened attack was going to commence!

He raced back to the Main Academy building in hope of finding his friends, but they had gone in the time it had taken Andrii to leave and come back. "Damn!" He said, he had to warn someone. This certainly wasn't a risk worth sleeping through! That's when Andrii suddenly thought, "Of Course! The Chancellor!"

It took Andrii a while to remember where the Chancellor's Office was located, but when he arrived there he got a flashback of the last time he was here. That was when he was given the Spirit Card and was warned about all this in the first place, He pulled it out. Still Blank. Andrii didn't know what he expected to happen and he put the card back in his deck... If only he'd listened to the Chancellor when he was first warned.

He knocked on the door, hoping someone would respond. It was late, he doubted it

Andrii took a second to compose himself.

"Nor should you Chancellor" Andrii said assertively "They're coming again tonight. Creation. One of them approached me." Andrii remained calm despite the severity of the situation. "Within dusk 2 more of my members shall make their journey to once again lay waste to GXDA" Andrii repeated. "It's not safe here. After what happened in the City" Andrii remembered the death toll of the past events "We need to evacuate the academy! Even if we defeat them, the damage they can cause, it's unrivaled" Andrii stuttered during that last part, he decided it may not be best to tell the Chancellor what he saw earlier on today, the great power resonating off Mike, it wasn't his news to share.

Mike walking around the campus near the main building ponders his new Sage Art power. It was an awesome power that could defeat all of Creation, but he couldn't shake how Andrii and Sofia were too stunned to even speak to him. He was beginning to think that his friends saw him as some kind of monster,

Mike sighs. Then his stomach begins to rumble. Mike stretches out his arms and yells to himself. "Ahhhh, No sense in worrying about this on an empty stomach." He says before darting off to the cafeteria. Normally he would try to find a place in the city to eat but many businesses are still closed after the recent attack.

Mike walks into the cafeteria and notices a sign that read "Pizza Tuesday". The Slifer Red heart skips a beat. His mouth drooling he grabs two empty trays. He then begins to fill each tray up with every type of pizza imaginable. Pepperoni, Pineapple, bacon, beef, supreme, meat lovers you name it and its most likely on his tray.

Mike then finds an empty table and sets his food done. The Slifer Red begins to slurp each slice of pizza piece by piece.

So the Chancellor knew!
What was going on at this academy, so many unanswered questions. Andrii didn't know who to trust anymore.
He nodded and left the office. He shut the door and leaned up against it rubbing his eyebrows. He was in to deep.

That's when it happened.

Andrii didn't know if it was that he was tired, or if it was real, but suddenly his deck felt warmer than usual, surprisingly warm, like an unknown energy was building up inside. Andrii tensed, he tried to take off his duel disk, but it was too tight, he couldn't unloosen it. Just as he was about to call for help from the Chancellor, the energy in his duel disk exploded within. That's when he heard the reminiscent sound of crows and then. a Dark spiral came out of his duel disk and started separating into 3 spirals. Andrii looked intensely at the Dark spirals. They reminded him of something. They then started to take shape. Andrii couldn't believe it, it was Shura! Wait, another one was Bora! and the final one was Gale! These were his monsters! Andrii drew the top 3 cards from his deck. Shura, Bora, and Gale. He couldn't believe it. He felt faint, but then the birds gathered around him, almost breathing new life into Andrii. They then took flight, darting down the corridor. Andrii ran after them. What were they telling him?!

Drystan was left to his own devices, he found some sleeping quarters in the academy building.
He tried to sleep but it wasn't easy. It had been a long day, to think yesterday he woke up in Avalon and now he was..... well he had no clue where he was. He pulled out his deck of cards and looked at Merlin. The card moved, it was like the image on the card was 3D almost as if he could see what Merlin was doing all the time, his entire deck was like this. He looked back at Merlin. "What do you know, my friend. We need you." Drystan said to the card. It was then that he heard commotion going on from outside his room, he rolled out of bed onto his feet and opened the door to see Andrii running randomly through the halls almost like he was chasing something that wasn't there.

Drystan followed without bringing any attention to himself.

The birds eventually stopped at the cafeteria.
It was 10:45pm, if Dusk was 00:00 that left only 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Andrii joined the birds outside the cafeteria door, what did they want? He looked at their faces, each one nodded as they caught eyes. Andrii tried to touch them, but they werent real. Just a figment of his imagination? But why did they bring him here?

He looked theough the glass in the door, it was slightly tinted so it was hard to make anything out. Wait.. was that? Was that Mike?!
What was seriosuly going on? Andrii took a minute to stop. He thought back to the day in Kiev when he first found the 3 cards. They had been with him ever since, if they truly were some sort of spirit, then he trusted them 100%. But Mike, he knew he was a magician, but that was no cheap trick. He thought back to the moment that Mike summoned that power. The way that the man next to him just jumped anticipating the blast. The fact that the chancellor knew what was happening the whole time...
He thought back to the time he was kidnapped in Russia, forced to train under a strict regime, it's almost like Mike was forced into a very similar predicament. But surely Andrii grew stronger because of it? Sure, but if it wasn't for Igor (an M16 agent) being there to save him, then things could have certainly went differently.
He couldn't trust anyone, but Shura was here, Gale was here, Bora was here. He had to find out. He pushed open the door.

"Hey Mike.."

Mike slurps down his final piece of pizza as Andrii walks in.With pizza sauce on his cheek and pizza stuffed in his mouth Mike makes a weird mumbling noise in reply to Andrii greeting the young magician.

Andii still holding onto the door, debated leaving immediately but the birds flew past him and behind Mike. Mike didn't seem to notice them, maybe he was going crazy? No, he needed to find out what was going on. He continued walking towards his table. "Mike, this isn't no joke." Andrii said forcefully. "I hope you haven't forgotten what happened only a few days ago?! Yeah well it's happening again tonight and you have some explaining do. Like what the hell was that earlier today, what on earth is going on?!" Andrii's built up anger was being released, Mike didn't seem to take the situation as seriously as he should have done. Andrii knew that without Mike there is no way that they could defend themselves again. And where was Zane?! He hadn't seen him since the night of the disaster

As Drystan was following Andrii, Drystan saw Andrii stop outside some room, he seemed to be staring at the wall, as if something was there that Drystan couldn't see. Drystan hid inside an alcove, watching as Andrii stood there, doing nothing. Eventually Andrii opened the door and went in. 'Mike'? What where they doing? Drystan followed, leaving a slight crack in the door so he could peer in and listen. Even if they noticed the door was ajar, they wouldn't know who was on the other side

The Slifer Red begins to become concerned seeing the expression on Andrii's face Mike swallows rest of the pizza in his mouth as quickly as possible. Mike begins choking as he didn't chew thoroughly. As Mike catches his breath he says. "What are you talking about? What do you know about a new attack?"

Aporia had eavesdropped on the conversation the others had... he saw this as an opportunity to get card energy and carefully hid himself - awaiting the arrival of the creation

Andrii shakes his head as he watches Mike make a fool out of himself. He glanced at his watch. 10:50. still an hour to go. "I'll tell you, but first you need to explain yourself, and everything else that's been going on. First we receive these blank 'spirit' cards" Andrii pulls out his card. "Then there's an attack on the city, you seemed to know exactly what was happening... Like it had happened before, but it was real damage, they literally used cards for damage... Like how is that possible?! And then in the duel when you won. They combined to one? To then separate again?! Then earlier today.. In the field, that Professor you were with, that glow that came off of you, the explosion! And the chancellor knew all about it... What is really going on here?!" Andrii was passionate and forceful, but not angry. He wanted to believe that Mike was completely innocent, but something dodgy seemed to be going on. And he needed to know what it was!

Sofia was in the bathroom, still with all her bags.
She had taken them with her as she was planning to leave GXDA but after seeing Andrii's and Knight. Drystan's entertaining duel, she felt a need to stay and learn even more.
However that meant that she'd have to sleep in the Slifer Red dorm tonight, never mind, maybe it was worth it. She would have the added incentive to learn and improve more. Well, it had been a long day, she'd better go and get some rest. She'd need to speak to Mike tomorrow and make sure he was alright. She left the bathroom and set off through the halls. She turned the corner and saw Knight. Drystan peeking through a door. "What are you doing?!" She asked

"Shh" Drystan said, putting his fingers to his lips. "Something's going on... Look" He gestured for Sofia to come over.

Sofia, intrigued went over and leaned in, underneath Drystan through the crack in the door. It was Mike and Andrii, what were they talking about? She remained quiet and watched on

Mike sighs. He had hoped to take the burden of fighting Creation himself and leave everyone else out of the fight, but it looks like its becoming more and more unlikely. Mike's facial expression completely changes and becomes much more stern. "Andrii I'll tell you everything I know. It's not much but maybe it will help."

Mike begins recounting his days before coming back to GXDA. "Well before I came back to GXDA I was studying abroad in London to learn from the great entertainment duelists abroad. After awhile everything was good and I learn a lot. But one day Despair the creepy looking emo guy with the electric wire in his duel disk and another member of Creation who acted like a kid attacked me saying I had some bounty or whatever. I nearly lost my life, but thankfully Zane was also studying abroad and saved my life. We proceeded to come back to GXDA and informed the Chancellor where he gave us those blank spirit cards. I quite don't understand their significance yet but Creation is after those cards and me for whatever reason. After while everything was quiet so i thought the Chancellor was wrong about them coming to after the cards and me and that when Despair and that other guy attacked. "

Mike begins to clench his fist and shaking in anger as recalls what happens next. "I also don't exactly know anything about that night besides the fact they were after me and those cards. I had no idea they would resort to such statics. ." Mike has a tear in his eye. "I'm sorry, all those deaths are my fault. If I never came back all those people would still be alive."

Mike then shakes his head and composes himself. "I will have to atone for my sins after I stop Creation. But to answer your questions about me and Professor Stein in the fields. Him and the Chancellor believed I had the unique ability to use something called Yugiohshu and Sage Dueling. I don't really understand it much myself to be honest. But I was able to unlock a power force during my training with Stein. And I plan to use this power to bring an end to Creation myself."

Mike then stares at Andrii with a fiery passion. "If you see a member of Creation come tonight. Run. I will stop them myself."

Andrii listened as Mike retold the events, he grew sympathy for Mike. He had nothing to do with anything, he was just a pawn in the much larger game that was going on like himself. "Despair... So that's his name, but Mike relax. We've seen 3 different members of Creation so far, and they're bound to have a leader. You can't take 4 on by yourself, together we will be stronger. 2 Each!" Andrii replied enthusiastically

After Sofia, heard this she opened the door and walked in, Pulling Drystan in behind her. "Make that 1 Each! We're a team Mike, no matter what's going on! We will be stronger together!" She said passionately

Mike couldn't help but to let out a loud obnoxious laugh. He truly loved and cherished all his friends in GXDA. Mike then stands up with a fierce look on his face. "Together we will bring an end to Creation!"

Mike then turns to Andrii with a determined look in his eyes. "Now its your turn to speak up. Tell us everything you know about an attack tonight. We stop them together and prevent another tragedy that like that happen in town."