Ash Ketchum Attends Duel Academy

Duel Monsters Spirit Day

At the Slifer Red Dorm, Syrus was pushing a paint cart. "Alright, 20 feet long, 10 feet across... Gaaah!" Unfortunately, he tripped over some pink paint cans and crashed to the ground, covered in dust and chalk. "(Cough, cough) And two cans of paint to ruin it all!" He turned to Chumley, who was sitting on the ground, painting something. "Chumley, you're in the way of my duel arena."

"Art has its price." Chumley replied.

"Art? What do you mean?"

Chumley indicated the poster he just finished. It had the image of Des Koala and Des Kangaroo facing each other, equipped with duel disks. "I mean I'm drawing up posters to promote your big costume duel today. Lishus, huh?"

"Yeah, not bad." Syrus praised. "Of course, if you really want to draw in a big crowd, there's one more picture you should draw. A big glam shot of the Dark Magician Girl!"

"Hmm... Guess I could put her in the corner..."

"No! She deserves the whole poster!" Syrus demanded.

"But what about Des Kangaroo? And Des Koala?"

"Hello! They're not even real!"

"Neither is Dark Magician Girl." Chumley countered.

"Don't you ever say that, you hear me?! EVER!"

"Okay! Sorry."

"Now get to it! I've got to finish this field!" Syrus started gather the chalk powder into the paint cart. But he did it in such a hurry, that it caused a big smoke cloud. And this caused of course both of them to cough.

"Yeah, I would... if I could see!"

The floating orb of light passed by and eavesdropped their conversation. "A costume duel? That's perfect!"

Jaden, Alexis, Bastion, Ash, Zane and Atticus were hanging around the Slifer dorm thinking about what latter said yesterday at the abandoned dorm.

"So Professor Banner's missing, too..." Jaden said. "That's weird."

"And isn't it coincidental that he's gone after Atticus told us what happened?" Alexis added.

"I wish it wasn't true, but it is..." Atticus muttered.

"Yes, he led you to the Abandoned Dorm." Bastion told him. "Straight into the Shadow Realm."

"But we need to know why he did it..." Zane said.

"Could he be a Shadow Rider?" Ash asked out loud.

"Well, I got a question... What's Chazz doing?"

Everyone looked to Jaden's direction seeing Chazz walking around with a cat toy, making strange kissing noises.

"Yoo-hoo..." He grunted, looking around. "Come on, where are you?"

"Where's what?" Jaden asked.

"His mind, Jay." Bastion cracked. "Clearly he's lost it..."

Chazz growled. "I'm looking for Banner's cat; if we find him, we find Banner, duh!"

"Easier said than done." Ash sweat dropped.

Everyone gathered around the posters advertising the Duel event, adding to Chumley's poster, another had the Dark Magician and the Dark Magician Girl posing in with duel disks.

"So, costume duel huh?" Atticus asked.

"Looks like it since everyone's dressing up." Jaden said. "Sweet idea!"

"But who's dressing as Dark Magician Girl?" Zane asked.

"You do have someone, don't you?" Bastion asked.