Water.

Dangerous and beautiful.

But the feeling is indescribable despite temperature.

The feeling of hot water running down on one's skin feels nice and relaxing after a day of training and schoolwork.

Hibiki loved the feeling of hot water on her skin, after a duel with Jesse and her training the other day brought tense and sore muscles to her as she scrubbed and washed her body to rid of the stink of sweat and the tenseness in her body as she turned the water off and stepped out of the washroom to dry off and get dressed after a hard day of school.

She walked over to see Jesse emptying a bag full of booster packs onto her floor as she hung a towel over her chair and began opening some packs before chills began to run up her spine and she stopped midway of opening one pack.

"What's wrong?" Jesse asked as Hibiki got up and cracked her knuckles and walked over to her window. "Dunno, why don't you ask...." She paused as she opened the blinds.

"THE PEEPING TOM OUTSIDE MY DORM?!?!" She shouted as she slammed the door open as she and Jesse began to chase the person outside her dorm as she began to pick up speed and almost caught the person by the back of their vest and nearly tripped on a few rocks on the way before losing whoever was outside her dorm.

Hibiki then began running in the direction where she thought the Peeping Tom was before seeing the West Academy champion, Axel Brodie looking at something before looking at Hibiki who was catching her breath after running fast as she was as Jesse caught up to see Hibiki catching her breath.

"Sorry...to...bother you...I need to sit down." Hibiki said as she walked over to a large rock and sat down on it.

She watched Jesse asked Axel about if he saw anyone run in the direction he was looking and Axel remained silent, she knew that Axel wasn't the one who was spying on them.

But the big question was who?

Who was spying on them?

"C'mon Jess, it's late and we should rest up for tomorrow." Hibiki suggested as they walked back to her dorm, she had the feeling of Axel watching her as she dared not look back.

~ᒪIᑎᗴ ᗷᖇᗴᗩK~

The next day, everyone was in Crowler's class wondering what was going to be today before Sheppard began to speak up about special guests joining in as they all saw two girls and a man Hibiki knew well as she contained her excitement.

"Please welcome Chris Yukine, Tsubasa Kazanari and Genjuro Kazanari." He said as they all introduced themselves as Hibiki ran up and hugged Chris who was trying to push her off.

"Get...off me...dummy!" Chris said as she finally pried Hibiki off her with Tsubasa's help.

"Any how, Ms. Yukine will be monitoring the Slifer Red students and Ms. Kazanari will be monitoring the Obelisk Blue students on their progress for today." Sheppard said as Hibiki went back to her spot with Jesse as Viper gave a speech about survival duels.

Then Bonaparte asked what happens if the student doesn't have enough duel spirit for the duels.

"Then, it will result in a lower rank but if kept up will result in expulsion!"

Everyone gasped including the special guests as both teachers ran over to the Chancellor and started to complain if this was the right thing.

Hibiki stopped listening to what they said as her instincts tell her something was up as she realized that she hadn't call Miku in a long time as they were all dismissed.

Chris and Tsubasa also received a Bio Band with the same bad feeling in their gut just by a guess to know what these will really do, Chris managed to take a picture and send it to Elfinien to see what it was.

Genjuro wandered off somewhere.

~ᒪIᑎᗴ ᗷᖇᗴᗩK~

Axel trained on the same tree like before as he enjoyed the quiet and the ways of putting himself in danger.

All thanks to his father's training of course along with...

"Yo!"

Speak of the Devil....

"It's been a long time since I've seen you, last time I saw you, You were this small, up to my knee." Axel opened his eyes to see his step-uncle Genjuro, who taught him combat up close and when to learn from mistakes.

"..." He remained silent knowing that he was being watched from afar as Genjuro pouted. "What? No 'Hello' or 'Hey'?" He said as Axel chuckled before stifling it.

"Hey, Viper isn't around so it's okay to express emotions." He said as a dark voice spoke up.

"I am." Genjuro turned around fast and jumped as Axel straightens up quickly.

"I'm gonna go." Genjuro said walking away from the two getting a bad feeling about what was going to happen.

~ᒪIᑎᗴ ᗷᖇᗴᗩK~

Hibiki punched the fixed punching bag Hassleberry fixed as she gave one more upper cut and broke it again as she laughed nervously before checking her phone and saw no messages from Miku as she got her pale yellow towel and wiped the sweat off before grabbing her yellow sweater and began walking somewhere to call Miku.

After three rings, it went straight to voicemail.

"𝐻𝑖 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙, 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑦. 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝐻𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑘𝑖 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑓 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒."

Hibiki sighed as she began to say her message to the voicemail hoping Miku would understand.

"Hey Miku, it's me Hibiki, I'm sorry if I haven't been able to call you at any chance, you know how it is with saving the world, so, I promise to call you back, bye." Hibiki hit the red button to end the call on her phone as she turned it off before checking the time to see how late it got before dressing into something comfy other her uniform she brought with.

Her instincts flared as she placed her shirt on before she looked at the mirror in the corner to see that it was just Jesse as she slowly turned around to see him with a serious look.

"Syrus is in trouble and Ms. Yukine is dueling Axel." Hibiki finished dressing as she began to run where she can sense Chris's energy as she saw the duel going on and she could see the life points Chris has left.

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Chris sang as she fusion summoned her ace monster by activating her spell card as burst of red flashes blinded everyone before revealing a dragon with Gatling guns on each arm and the head.

{𝙶𝚊𝚝𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚗}
𝙻𝚟: 𝟾
𝙰𝚃𝙺: 𝟸𝟼𝟶𝟶
𝙳𝙴𝙵: 𝟷𝟸𝟶𝟶

As Chris tossed three coins into the air by activating Gatling Dragon's effect to see what she got as she saw two heads and one tail.

Everyone watched as everyone of Axel's monsters were destroyed before Chris ended the duel with a win and Hibiki successfully saved Syrus from his doom.

Both Chris and Axel fell after the duel, like something sucked their energy from them but for Chris is was much painful to her.

Hibiki could feel the pain going through her as if that this wasn't just an accident but on purpose, she helped Syrus up before grabbing Axel and Chris and hauling them on her shoulder before running to the nurses office as fast as she could with the weight on her.

Hibiki could only think of one thing...

This...was just he beginning of something darker besides the Shadow Riders or the Society of Light...

This...was much darker...