Ash Ketchum Attends Duel Academy

Field of Screams, Part 1

It was a dark and dimly lit night with a crescent moon hanging over a lake, and boat drifted across the dark waters covered in fog. A horde of flying bats flew over the boat. Inside was a coffin with it's lid creaking open and a woman with long hair and red lips sat up. The mysterious woman sat there in silent for a moment with a wicked smiled before a dark laugh escaped her lips...

"Ah." Jaden suddenly got up after waking up from that nightmare he just had. As soon as he sat up, he clutched his sides in pain.

"Jaden!" Syrus exclaimed from his seat next to Jaden's hospital bed. "Are you okay?"

"Oh man, weird dream." Jaden mumbled. "I saw a girl."

"A girl?" Syrus repeated.

"You must be feeling better if you're dreaming about girls." Miss Fontaine commented as she came into view.

"How is Nightshrou... I mean, Alexis' brother?" Jaden asked.

"Still unconscious." Ash answered his question about the condition of Alexis's brother in Fonda Fontaine's place.

During the next day, a lot of rumors were going on among the classes and dorms.

"Hey, did you hear about the vampire?"

"Vampire?"

"Dude! I saw her with my own two eyes! Or at least... my roommate did. She's got these gigantic fangs!"

"Wait! Are you saying it's a she?"

"I am so not kidding! It's a girl vampire!"

"But she better stay away from my boyfriend!"

The rumor became so popular, even Sheppard caught wind of it.

"Vampire!" Chazz freaked out.

"I'm afraid the rumors may not be rumors after all." Sheppard said.

"Please! It's a practical joke." Crowler scoffed.

"Is it a joke that led to Jaden ending up in the infirmary last night?" Ash asked his headmaster.

"Do you think she's a Shadow Rider?" Zane asked the Chancellor.

"Perhaps." Sheppard looked to his cohorts. "So listen, be on the lookout for anything strange."

The group nodded and left the office. Except for Crowler who had a nervous look on his face.

Later on, Chazz sat in his Slifer Red dorm room, his old Obelisk Blue uniform hanging on a hook nearby in plastic. He was going through the cards in his deck to rearrange it, in case this vampire lady came after him. "Let's see this vampire girl try to get the drop on the Chazz."

But unbeknownst to him, a bat was hanging from the rafters, looking down at him with red glowing eye.

At the same time, Bastion was going through his own cards, completely unaware of the bat watching him through the window.

In another part of the Obelisk boys' dorm, Zane was in his own room and rearranged his deck, unaware of the spying bat outside the window, just like the others.

"A vampire?" Crowler scoffed. "What's next? The Boogeyman?" He sat down at his office desk and wrote down some papers. "Who would believe something so ridiculous?" But just like his students, he's been watched by a bat.

Back in the infirmary, Alexis stood up from her seat and walked over to Syrus, who was still watching over Jaden. "How's Jaden?"

"He hasn't said anything since last night." He said sadly.