Ok, I should be updating "To Protect What's Precious", but this Idea's been floating around my head for a while so I figured I'd give it a shot! Oh what the hands write before a turkey coma…
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
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The Mind is a Fragile Thing
Chapter One
Yubel glared across the arena at that boy. That hateful boy that succeeded yet again from separating her from HER Jaden. Well this was the last time!
As the boy was looking up at that cursed Dragon opening the portal, Yubel made her move. Jesse gave a choked cry as he felt a clawed hand clasp around his throat. He looked up into enraged turquoise-amber eyes.
"You! This is your fault! You took my Jaden away from me!" She screamed. The bluenette shook his head, squirming futilely in her grasp. Yubel was distracted by a painfully familiar voice.
"Jesse! Hang on!" She looked over to see none other than Jaden, struggling against the portal's force, ignoring the cries of his friends to make his way over to Jesse. "I won't leave you here, Jesse!"
"J…Jaden…" The boy in her claws gasped out, still keeping up his useless struggling. Yubel's grip didn't budge. Jesse's face broke into a nervous sweat as his captor's lips twisted into a smirk, catching a small glimpse of her fangs. This couldn't be good…
"I know just what to do…" Yubel's free hand moved to the top of Jesse's head, tangling her fingers in his messy teal hair.
"Yubel!" Jaden cried, "Let him go!" He was closer now, struggling against the pull of the portal with all his might. There wasn't much time.
"I will give Jaden a message… and show him the true meaning of pain…" Her grin was boarderlining insanity and Jesse struggled harder. Jaden was only ten feet away.
Seven feet.
"After all…" Yubel's grip on his hair tightened. "That's the best way to show him the extent of my love…"
Six feet. the wind from the portal was strengthening. He had to make it to Jesse in time.
Five feet.
Yubel's hand glowed with a harsh orange light and Jesse felt as though a thousand red-hot needles were piercing into his skull. He screamed in pain.
"Jesse!"
Four feet.
The European in her grasp jerked and thrashed, but she kept hold of him with ease, his shrieks like music to her ears. After all, his pain was Jaden's pain. And when she was done, it would prove to her brunette that his love for the boy, whether he realized it or now, was nothing compared to her love for him.
Three feet. The portal began to close. Time was up.
The boy fell limp in her claws as her hand ceased it's glowing. She smirked. It worked.
Two feet.
Before Jaden could take another step, Yubel startled him by throwing her captive at him, Jesse colliding with him, causing him to lose his stance. The portal sucking them in. the Slifer quickly grabbed a hold of his friend to prevent them being separated again. He didn't know what Yubel did, but he wasn't giving her a chance to do anything more!
He pulled his friend close to his chest as the portal sucked them in, one hand holding Jesse's head to his chest, the other around his slim waist, securing his grip. The last thing the brown-eyed teen heard was Yubel's insane cackle, her gaze piercing through him as they were engulfed by the portal.
They were going home.
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Someone was shaking him. Jaden groaned slightly as he opened his eyes, unaware when he had fallen into unconsciousness.
"Jaden!" Nurse Fontaine stood over him as he lay in the grass… wait, grass? Jaden sat up and looked around. The sea was back, the sand was gone, and the single sun shone brightly in the monster-free sky. They were home.
"Home!"
"We're home!"
The students were cheering, celebrating the end of their imprisonment in that alternate dimension. Hassleberry currently had Syrus in a big bear hug, relieved his upperclassman was alive and well after the "Duel-Zombie" situation.
Jaden's thoughts drifted from his two best friends to his new best friend. Those last few moments before they were sucked into the portal… had he succeeded? Or was it all a dream while he was knocked unconscious? In a panic, Jaden whipped his head around, searching for his blue-haired companion. Something shifting I his lap snapped his gaze down. He sighed in relief when he spotted the North Academy transfer student still curled up against him, alive and breathing. It wasn't a dream.
Jaden gently moved some hair out of Jesse's face as the bluenette opened his eyes.
"You awake Jess? We made it… we're back home." Jesse looked up at him, and Jaden knew instantly that something was wrong. Jesse's gaze was unfocused, and he stared up at him as though he didn't recognize him. "Jesse?"
Said European sat up against Jaden and looked around, bewildered. Something was definitely wrong.
"Jesse?"
"Dirty…" Jesse spoke softly. More to himself as though Jaden wasn't there. His green eyes fell down to look at himself and he frowned. "Dirty and… all over me…" His voice grew more and more distressed. "Dirty… dirty… dirty…"
Jaden's eyes widened in alarm as the confused bluenette began brushing at his shirt and arms, as though trying to brush something off. Whatever he was seeing wasn't going away and his motions become more and more frantic, beginning to claw at himself.
"Jesse, stop!" Jaden cried, grabbing a hold of Jesse's wrists. "What's wrong with you?"
"No!" The blue-haired teenager recoiled, struggling weakly in Jaden's grip. "No! Bad! They say… the trees say they hear the sirens burn!"
Jaden blinked. He hadn't a clue what Jesse had just said. "Jesse, what are you talking about?" But the other didn't seem to notice him as he curled into himself and continued to babble.
The brunette's mind snapped back to when Yubel had Jesse in her claws, him screaming, her hand glowing… He hadn't noticed the tears building in his eyes until they slid down his cheeks and fell into Jesse's hair.
"Jesse…" Jaden let go of his emotions and pulled Jesse's shaking form against himself, doing his best not to cry and distress the bluenette further.
"Oh god, Jesse what did she do to you?"
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Ok, I should warn you now this MAY be a strange story. What happened to Jesse will be revealed in the next chapter, if you haven't figured it out yet.
Please tell me what you think!
Till next time!
