Time Passes 3

Yarden perked up as he heard noise coming from not far away, grunting and heavy breathing and the sound of the rapid pitter patter of feet on the ground.

'Thank fuck, this means things won't last much longer.' he mused. And then he could get back to class and asleep.

Or well, since he had already skipped class maybe he could just return to his room and claim to be sick? He was practically Crowler's new golden boy and the man would go out of his way to make sure he wasn't in trouble.

Actually, thinking on that thought reminded him of what would happen once Crowler took over next year. And the fact that he would be trying to promote students to fame achieving heights to promote the schools reputation and his own.

Ignoring the crap with the Light of Destruction, that might be worth taking advantage of. 'Wait, if I kick Aster's ass first in a duel, will that mean Jaden won't get the Neo Spacians?' Yarden blinked as the thought came to him.

That could be a problem. Because from what he'd learned since arriving here, while kind of shit to use normally, that didn't factor in here, not really and they really increased the weight class that Jaden could punch at as far as spirit shenanigans went.

Also, Neos was totally needed for all the crazy powerful monsters would fuse with it to make later. Rainbow Neos, Neos Wiseman, Divine Neos. Jaden would need that kind of power later down the line to deal with Darkness or Nightshroud, or whatever he called himself.

'Could I take care of him through Atticus?' Yarden wondered. He doubted it. Jaden sealed off his soul in a shadow game and he still just came back. Darkness was basically a concept really.

He honestly wasn't sure who was stronger, Zorc Necrophade or Darkness. And he was sure Darkness couldn't measure up to the Light Of Destruction.

"Hey look, over there, in the bushes!" Alexis suddenly spoke up, breaking the discussion between Jasmine and Mindy below and Yarden from his thoughts, "Something's moving!"

Yarden gleefully put that crap out of mind for now. There was no point thinking on it right now after all, not when he lacked the fire power to walk up and punch them in the nose after all.

"Chazzy?" Mindy perked up and looked at the bushes.

"Yeah it's gotta be," Jaden grinned, happily changing the subject, "Games over scrub boy, time to come on back and face the music."

"Let's just get this over with and head back," Jasmine rolled her eyes and took lead walking forward to the bushes, "I'm soo done with this nonsense."

Alexis grunted and followed behind her, while Syrus just shrugged and fell in line with the rest.

'..Wait...wait now that I'm seeing this happen, are you people stupid?' Yarden's jaw fell. Why the hell in all that was holy in the land of dragons and busty magical girls, did they seriously believe that Chazz Princeton, Chazz the rich brat born with a golden spoon in his mouth would be rustling about in the bushes deep in the jungle?

You'd think at least Alexis would be more thoughtful in regards to danger after the Titan incident.

'Am I, me of all people, seriously gonna have to lecture people on common sense?' Yarden literally gaped. This really was an absurd world.

...Honestly, he could nip this in the bud right now and put an end to it. But you know what? They totally needed this. At least to hammer in some more common sense into their empty heads.

Maybe one of them getting kidnapped by a monkey would actually let them develop a danger sense?

Or not and he could just win some brownie points playing the big damn hero. Either way, he came out ahead. 'All I do is win.' Yarden nodded.

As they got closer to the bushes, a brown and grey blur shot out towards them and they froze up. Screams of shock erupted from the mouths of Jasmine, Mindy and Syrus as the blur bowled them all over.

Except Jasmine.

She found herself hoisted up into the air by their mysterious assailant. Who was a monkey decked out in technologically advanced gear, a helmet covering its head and some form of chest plate over its torso.

Yarden had to resist the urge to jump down and put an end to this nonsense here and now. Instead, he just continued observing as Wheeler turned and bounded back through the bushes and jumped into the trees and began swinging away one handed, carrying Jasmine in the other.

'You know now that I think about it, Wheeler is fucking strong.' Yarden realised. Monkeys were not that strong to his knowledge. Nowhere near actually.

What the hell did they do to that monkey when experimenting on him?

"...Well it was a close resemblance but that wasn't Chazz." Alexis stared after the fleeing monkey in a daze.

As she spoke, the sound of heavy panting echoed and a trio of men came running into the clearing they were in. Two large heavily muscled men in dark suits and sunglasses, one carrying some form of rifle while the third was an incredibly short squat man not much taller than Syrus with heavy dark hair and a beard of the same make.

"Tch, he's gone," one of the dark suit wearing men clicked his tongue, the bigger of the two in fact. He was so large he could give Titan a run for his monkey, "What now?"

"After him obviously!" the shortest man barked and they chased Wheeler into the bushes and through the forest.

It took the group of teens a moment to realise what was actually going on and they shot to her feet, "Did that monkey just kidnap Jasmine!?" Syrus shouted in shock, "And what the heck! Who were those guys!?"

"No idea, shady though," Mindy commented and looked up into the trees where Jasmine's screams were still echoing, "It's what she always wanted though, some guy to sweep her off her feet."

Alexis gave her an odd look before shaking her head, "Yeah, some guy, probably Yarden nowadays, not some monkey!" the blonde retorted before chasing after them herself, "C'mon we have to go save her!"

Mindy blinked, "Oh right!" she gasped in realisation and followed the blonde.

"Oh man, do we have to?" Syrus trembled fearfully.

He was forced to run after them when Jaden grabbed his shoulder and dragged him along with him, "No backing out now Sy!"

"Damnittt!" Syrus' defeated wail echoed almost as loudly as Jasmine's screams of terror.

Yarden shook his head as he hopped lightly through the trees above, "Zane should really show that guy how to work out, it'll do wonders for his confidence once he puts on a little muscle." he mused.

"Too bad Yarden didn't come along, we could really use him right about now!" Alexis complained from the front as she struggled to catch up.

'Yeah well maybe you'll listen to me speaking sense in the future.' he rolled his eyes as he easily caught up to her. He made sure not to overtake her though.

Why? Because running as wildly as she was provided him quite the view in that short skirt and the way her voluptuous chest heaved and bounced with each deep breath as she ran.

And it was times two as well with Mindy along.

This was even better than the physical education classes.