Inner Demons
Authoress' note: Hello! How's it going? For the record, the title is a bit of a spoiler. If you can figure out why… I'll let you know. But that will be in the chapter the spoiler applies to. Anyway… I got the idea for this story from the song Haunted by Evanescence. Hope you enjoy it! I don't own GX, Evanescence, or anything else I mention. No flaming, please read and review, and constructive criticism is appreciated.
Kirara Glitter-Chan signing off! (I'm getting bored with doing references)
P.S. I'm sorry to say that we will not be updating Love At Duel Academy for a while. Aki is at camp, and will not be back for a while. However, when she is back, I'll see what I can do. Luna's Creatures will be updated soon. Immured will be after I update Luna's Creatures.
P.P.S. I'm starting this at 2:00 in the morning… something is wrong with me….
Chapter one (Jaden's POV)
I awoke in the morning on a cold, dirty floor. That would be completely fine and normal if I was in my Slifer dorm, but I wasn't. I was in the abandoned dorm's common room. It gets even stranger. I wasn't wearing my jacket either, and I was lying face down on the floor. I felt weak too – like I had been doing something strenuous.
None of this made any sense. The night before, I had gone to bed at ten o' clock- in my dorm. And how did I lose my jacket? More importantly, why was I so weak? Gym hadn't been particularly rough yesterday. Did someone pull a prank on me or something?
I rose from the dusty, cracked floor of the abandoned dorm slowly, noticing a freshly drawn white pentagram on the floor. What? I thought, taking a step back. Who did this?
I backed away from the symbol painted on the floor and ended up finding my jacket. It was covered in dirt and thrown into the corner. This is some prank they pulled on me. I thought, trying my hardest to convince myself it was a prank. But I knew better. This couldn't have been a prank. No one at the Academy had enough of an attention span (and very few had the brains) to plan a prank like this. It had to be real.
I grabbed my jacket and ran out of the abandoned dorm as fast as my legs would carry me. I knew that no one was going to be guarding the old dorm – most students were afraid of the place and didn't dare go. It took what seemed like forever to reach my dorm. When I did. I pounded on the door, yelling for Cyrus.
"Cyrus! Open up! It's me!" I yelled. I knew that if I was caught I would be expelled, but I was too scared to care. Cyrus opened the door and dragged me back into my dorm by my arm.
"Jaden, where did you go?" He asked, immediately putting me into the spotlight. Shit.
"Apparently to the abandoned dorm. What happened?" His face turned red with anger. I counted it down in my head. 5…4…3…2…1… I thought, preparing for his explosion.
"What happened? WHAT HAPPENED?" He snapped, right on cue. "I'll tell you what happened! You woke up at exactly midnight and said how 'the night was calling you' and how you 'didn't have time for a mere mortal like me'. What the hell is up with you? You even shoved me into the wall! I still have a bruise!"
"Cyrus…I-I…I don't know what happened. I just…I just woke up in the dorm. I thought someone played a prank…." I was trying to reason with him, but I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was beyond reasoning. Or common sense for that matter.
"A PRANK? You better not have been pranking me!" He screamed in my face. He was red all over with malice in his eyes. He was like an angry animal; ready to attack whatever came it's way.
"Cyrus, that's not what I meant!" I once again tried to reason with him. "I don't remember what happened! Cyrus, I don't know what happened, but I'm sorry!" His anger stopped in its tracks. Suddenly, he seemed worried.
"You have no clue what happened? But you definitely weren't sleepwalking. You were so alert." Cyrus was about five seconds away from running around screaming for help. I had to do something, or he would go crazy.
"Cyrus, lets just forget about it. I probably just hit my head or something. Maybe I had some bad food. It's probably nothing." He seemed to be calmed down, but I knew that Cyrus didn't really believe me.
"All right," He sighed. "But if anything happens, I'm getting someone to look into this. This was not normal."
"Nothing is normal at Duel Academy. I thought you realized that by now." I retorted, causing Cyrus to laugh through his nose. That was an interesting sound.
The rest of the day was relatively… normal. And when things are normal at Duel Academy, something is wrong. Of course, I preferred the abnormal normalness to what happened after class. I was just doodling down little symbols (I wasn't even looking at what I was drawing) when the bell rang.
"Jaden, what are those?" Bastion asked, pointing to the symbols I had drawn. At first, I was about ready to say 'I don't know'. But then… something happened. It's like this knowledge entered my subconscious, telling me what every single symbol meant.
"I think they're some new language," I commented as more of the mysterious knowledge entered my mind. "This one means 'water', and that one means 'life'."
"Jaden… I've never heard of this language." He stammered, his voice losing its usual confidence. "Can you tell me the name?"
I don't know what exactly came out of my mouth next. It was some strange, hissing word. I didn't know what I said, but I knew what it meant. "Words Of The Dark"… that's the translation.
"Jaden… what was that? Was that even a word? Look, I don't know if this language is real or not, but you shouldn't go talking about it, understood? Keep in to yourself. Because I can guarantee you that people are going to think you're crazy if you start talking in it."
"I know what you're saying," I replied. "But I have no clue what I just said. This has been popping in my head just now. I don't know what this is. This is getting weird… even for Duel Academy."
Bastion's eyes widened. "Meet me at lunch in my dorm. We need to figure out what's going on." Of course, I agreed. Something was definitely up, and if anyone was going to be able to help, it was Bastion. He WAS the smartest kid in school, after all.
At lunch, I stuffed my face (as usual), and met Bastion in his dorm, like he told me to. "Good to see you could make it," He said sarcastically. I frowned at the comment. This was really not a time for jokes.
"Had to clear suspicion with Cy. He's sure something's up, and unless there is, I don't want him freaking out." Bastion nodded. I guess that meant that he understood.
"Well, let's get right down to business. When did this start? Give me a full explanation."
"Well… it all started this morning. I woke up in the abandoned dorm, and there was a pentagram scraped into the floor. My jacket was in the corner of the floor." Bastion started to type at his usual super fast speed.
"The pentagram? Was it facing with two points up or one point?" I thought about it for a moment. I ran out of there too fast to know which way it was facing. I didn't see the point of it either, but if Bastion was asking, it probably had some significance.
"I don't remember. Let's head over to the dorm and check." Bastion agreed, and we took the long walk from the Ra Yellow dormitories to the abandoned dorm. When we finally got there, Bastion took out a bunch of fancy equipment from the gigantic backpack he insisted on bringing. I had wondered why he was so insistent on carrying it.
"Do you know which way you were facing?" I pointed to the exact spot that I was at. It had the pentagram in all it's chalk white glory. The first thing that we noticed was that the star symbol had two points up. I could already tell that Bastion was panicking. "Oh dear lord," He muttered to himself.
"What's wrong?" I asked. He was making a cross on himself with his hands. I didn't know that he was religious.
"The pentagram, when pointed with two points up is a sign of either Wiccan Second Degree Initiation, or…." He trailed off, but I knew what he was about to say. This could have been potentially evil, hence the sudden, out-of-character religious behavior.
"I don't know what happened. I just woke up here. Maybe someone else drew it." He shook his head in disbelief.
"Could be. I won't tell anyone about this, but watch your back, okay? Because whatever is going on is not going to be pretty when it reveals itself." I knew, even back then, that Bastion was right. I just didn't know how right.
Authoress' note: So this is the end of Chapter one. As a warning, in chapter three, I'll be introducing a new OC named "Ana". Really like that name for some reason. Can't explain why. This story has been commented on by a lot of people who saw the plot summaries. But I probably wouldn't have written this next chapter if it weren't for the encouragement of my close friend, Bookfaerie. I was feeling really down after I got a nasty flame comment from a reviewer (he/she has never posted a story, so I can't call them a writer) on my story Immured. I find that kind of odd, as I think I did a pretty good job on that story. Sure, it has some plot holes, but it's pretty good. Whatever. I don't really care anymore about the flamer. But I was feeling unsure about my writing. I felt sort of like Jaden probably did when he couldn't see his cards: purposeless. But Bookfaerie broke me out of my stupor. As my thanks, I would like to dedicate this story to Bookfaerie, for all of her support. I know you don't like GX, Bookfaerie, but I don't write many other fanfictions, so here it is! I hope you enjoy it! And thanks to Bookfaerie once again for all of the support!
Kirara Glitter-Chan signing off!