Chapter 1: Tarot cards
There have been many times that I have friends, but left me in the same time when they find a new person.
I never have a real friend since kindergarten, I am not sure if I am socially awkward or people are just jerks. I trusted them many times and I was hurt many times when they find a better friend than me.
When I was in 2nd grade, I met a girl. She is popular and pretty all the guys in our class is in love with her, I didn't realize until in the 5th grade that she just used me to cover her mistakes and give the blame to me. My reputation was broken and people started to make fun of me because they think I have a disorder or different compared to them.
After that incident, I learned not to trust anybody besides my family.
I moved to another school to start a new life, I tried to be open with people again. I met these two girls Chie and Paula time passes we got closer; we talked about their love lives. They have boyfriends while I stay single, but I don't mind as long I have friends.
One day Paula and Chie have new friends named Gin and Nikki. I tried to get along with them, but they never liked me. They think that I am bug to their friendship so they talk bad things behind me and tell it to Chie and Paula believing that I am a fake friend as they left me in the dark again.
Chie wants to mend our friendship again, but I avoided her because it will be never the same friendship again. They asked me if we can be friends again, but pretend to not be enemies in school.
Are they nuts?
They are using me to cover their faults again! It's just like how my previous friend did to me.
After that, I promised myself not to open myself to people again. There is no such thing as real friends.
You can't trust them!
It was 7:00 am in the Heartland city. This is placed in near future where people use robots to help their lives instead of real people and made their lives easier than previous generations. Obotos, a round shaped robot that are designed to clean and collect garbage are cleaning in the village.
"Tiru-chan, wake up!" A woman's voice yelled coming from the living room.
A young girl is sleeping in her room, in an awkward position while drooling. She opened her eyes as she slowly wakes up from her bed.
The girl's name was Mari Kotone. She is 13 years old with the height of 5'3.
Her skin is fair and her eyes are pink. Mari's hair is light blond as the girl's messy hair ends in her shoulder and her bangs are before her eyes.
Mari has no choice to wake up and get ready to school. Each morning she wishes that school never existed since she has no friends.
She goes outside her room as she goes to the bathroom and takes a bath. After, she goes back to her room as she wears her uniform. Mari tied her hair in twin ponytails to avoid her hair to become messier. She brought her bag to the dining room as she sits to the chair seeing the bacon and egg next to her.
Mari feels happy that she will eat her favorite breakfast this morning. She started to eat using the spoon and fork before her.
After fixing herself, she goes inside a white car owned by her mother. Mari's mother goes inside her car as she sits next to her daughter and started the engine. Mari stares her reflection in the car window outside thinking of the verbal insults will be thrown from her classmates again.
They made it to the heartland high school, a huge school where young people of heartland studies.
"Be a good girl, honey!" Ms. Kotone said as she kisses her daughter on the cheeks.
Mari told her mother about having no friends, but she doesn't understand what Mari's feelings since she didn't get bullied back then that much.
Ms. Emerald Kotone is Mari's mother. Emerald's hairstyle has the similar hairstyle that her daughter has; her hair is straight ending to her shoulders.
Emerald looked young and beautiful for her age, she gets attention from men and a lot of jealousy from other females. She stands at 5'2 with a slim body build. The woman has reddish hair and pink eyes.
Mari kissed her mother on the cheeks as she opened the car door, goes outside and slammed it. She sighed as she goes to her way to the classroom.
The classroom's door automatically opened as Mari entered inside. Mari's classmates stare at her like she murdered a person. The girl ignored it and walks to her chair.
Mari pulls a sketchbook from her bag and placed the sketchbook to the table. She pulled the pencil at the top of the notebook, flips the page as she started to doodle.
Mr. Kitano entered the classroom as he stands before the class. The class greeted good morning in a dead tone like they didn't have a breakfast and the class started.
Mari didn't give a care about school, specially studying. She continued to draw random things like face or a chibi.
After classes all the students rushed to the canteen. Mari stands up and gazed at her friend, Suichi's chair. She realized that Suichi wasn't at school as always. The girl turned around and goes her way to the canteen while carrying her lunchbox.
Mari goes to a vacant table; she opens her lunchbox as she uses her spoon and fork to eat. A group of guys stands before Mari, the middle is a redhead, and right is blue and left is green.
The blond haired girl looked up to them for a second and goes back at eating her lunch.
"Let's duel again!" Hideo raised his voice to Mari. He was defeated by Mari yesterday in a duel.
Mari placed his finger to her ear and shakes it as she looked up to Hideo. She sweats dropped with feels a mini heart attack in her heart. Hideo always bully Mari and he is one of Ryoga's followers before Shark was here in school.
"Uh sure..."
"Meet me in the basketball court after classes." Hideo gave the girl an intimidate stare as he turned around and left with his friends.
The blond sighed...
Mari goes to the basketball court as she saw Hideo friends sitting in the Comcast center with some students in the other seats. The girl goes to the middle of the court as Hideo is in the other side of the court.
"I am here!" Mari yelled
"I am not going to get easy for you this time!" Hideo shouted with anger.
"Whatever, let's begin this duel" Mari gulped.
"Alright, d-gazer set!"
The two clicked and affixed the D-Pad to their wrists.
ESTABLISHING LINK BETWEEN A AND B, the mechanical voice said, and the augmented surroundings rose up around the two. AR VISION, LINK ESTABLISHED.
"Duel!"
[Mari: 4000] - - - - - [Hideo: 4000]
"I'll go first" Mari, drawing a sixth card to her hand. "I set one face down monster and set two cards. End turn."
Hideo draws his card just as a face down card appeared on Mari's field. "I special summon cyberdragon in attack position!" He raised his voice as a silver colored robotic dragon appeared in his field.
"Next I discard one card to special summon the tricky from my hand." The redhead discarded a card as question mark shaped man with a blue cape pops in the field.
"The level five Cyberdragon and the tricky, overlay!" he said.
Each monster's form blurred, becoming orbs of glowing, luminescent light. They wove, dancing around each other in a spectacular light show, and traced the edges of a different type of portal.
"Exceed Summon! Rise, Aderus, the keeper of Armageddon!"
When the light dimmed, the creature that emerged could only be a victim of scientific curiosity. A fiend with pitch black angel wings and long skirt, he has red eyes and a sword with the same color as his eyes appear from a black whirlwind.
"I detach one overlay unit to destroy your face down monster!"
"I activate solemn warning. When a monster is summoned or a spell/trap or effect monster is activated I can negate and destroy it! But I'll have to pay 1000 life points!" Mari cuts Hideo.
[Mari: 3000] - - - - - [Hideo: 4000]
An old man appeared from the solemn warning card as he produces a beam from his staff and sends it to Aderus.
Hideo sneered "I normal summon Gene-warped warwolf in attack position!" A white fury beast with four arms appeared in the field. "Attack!" The redhead ordered his monster to attack Mari's face down monster. The warwolf smashes her facedown card.
"I set one card, turn end."
Mari draws a card from her deck and smiled. I guess she got lucky again this time.
"I summon Magical archer Lamour in attack position! Next I activate his effect, I will reveal one book of spell in my hand." A hologram before Mari showed torah book of spell in her hand. "I summon Magical summoner temper, and then I activate Grim books of spell. I can add one book of spell from my deck to my hand."
Programming a series of codes into her D-Pad, it found her wanted card, shuffled the deck and then placed it to her hand. During that time, the scout took the horn from its belt and then blew into it, the picture of her chosen card appearing for both players to view.
"Temper's effect activates I can tribute this card to summon a level five or higher monster from my deck." A hologram showed in front of Mari as she touched the Magical erudite Junon using her finger. The pink haired mini boss magician appeared in the field from green codes. She wears a huge white crown with a long strings each side of the hat. White bra and a long skirt with a matching boots and gloves with green as a sub color.
"Next, I activate magical dimension. I tribute Lamour to summon Endymion the master magician from my hand" A dark purple armored appeared from glitters and waved his staff. He has yellow highlights in end of his outfit.
"I activate Junon's effect, I will banish a book of spell card from my graveyard to destroy a card my opponent controls and I pick your gene-warp warwolf."
Junon nodded as she sent a beam to warped-gene warwolf.
"Magical erudite Junon, attack him directly!" Mari shouted,her monster sends another pink beam to Hideo.
"Trap card activate Dimensional!" Hideo yelled as his trap card showed from the field. "The attacking monster will be removed from play!"
"I activate torah book of spells! I will target one spellcaster and that card will be unaffected by the type I picked! And I pick traps" Mari interrupted as a huge green codes surrounded Junon making her attack freely.
The beam hits Hideo as he fell in the ground.
[Mari: 3000] - - - - - [Hideo: 1500]
"Endymion finish this duel!"
Hideo stands from the ground "Not so fast, I activate Sakuretsu armor! The attacking monster will be destroyed."
Mari cackled "I activate Gagaga shield, I equip this to Endymion and the equipped card can't be destroyed by card effects!"
"What the fu-"The beam cuts Hideo wiping his life points down to 0.
[Mari: 3500] - - - - - [Hideo: 0]
= WIN: MARI =
After the duel, the place turned into the normal school court. Mari and Hideo removed their D-gazer and d-pad. The girl placed her things back to the bag,
"You just got lucky this time!" Hideo shouted
Mari turned around as she carried her backpack. A boy rushed from the seat and chased the girl.
"Wait!" He shouted, it caught the girl's attention as the girl turned around. The 13 years old boy stopped before Mari.
"Hey, do you remember me?" he asked. The boy has light skin, red eyes, and black and red spiked hair that points out and upward with a yellow weird shaped necklace.
Mari scratches her head "Um...what? Do I know you?" she wondered
The boy gasped "You don't know me? I am the guy you dueled yesterday!" he raised his voice.
The blond haired girl pointed her finger to her chin and looked up. "Did I duel a guy yesterday?" she asked herself. She is forgetful.
The boy nodded "Yeah"
"Can you tell your name?" Mari questioned sweat dropped.
"I am Tsukumo Yuma! I am in your class!" Yuma introduced
"Oh you..." Mari pretended that he knows him "What do you need?"
"Can we have a rematch?" Yuma asked as a girl with green haired girl pulled his ears.
"Yuma how many times did I tell you to stop asking random people to duel? Why don't you practice first and avoid losing again?" The girl scolded as Yuma is moaning from pain on his ear.
A girl with two toned blue hair named Kasumi goes before Mari. "Don't mind him, he is probably just being immature again." She said
Mari smiled "It's okay, people can duel me any time." She replied back.
Kasumi turns back and goes back to her friends and helped Kotori to pull Yuma away. Mari giggled a second, but saddened after that. She wished to have friends like them and experience the fun of having friends.
It was 3:30 pm in Heartland. Mari stopped at the corner of the road, the traffic light turns into green as the cars stopped. Mari and other people crosses the road, she stopped and stared at a bookstore before her.
"In speaking of books...I should look for a tarot book tutorial for me." The blond haired girl said. She has a hobby on playing tarot cards, but she has no idea how to play the cards in the first place. The door opened automatically as Mari enters inside the bookstore.
The place is small, but has many amounts of books fit in each shelves. Mari continues to walk looking for the tarot section until she stopped to the counter. The clerk has dark reddish hair that tied in the end of the back of her hair and her eyes are green.
"Um...Where is the tarot book section?" Mari started
The young woman clicked a button and a map hologram showed before her.
"It's before you" she replied and pointed at the shelf after Mari.
Mari turned around and goes to the shelf where the clerk pointed. She noticed a strange golden brown looking book with a familiar mark with it; it was only the remaining book in the shelf. The girl touched it as she flipped it through pages.
Mari finds the book easy to use and some fun facts that make her want to buy the book. She turns the book around to see the price.
1000 yen
"Let's see how much money I have" The blond pulled her wallet from her pocket, she opened it. The pink wallet has only 50 yens inside.
"Fuck"
She placed her wallet back and sighed.
The taller clerk goes next to heartland student.
"You seem like to learn more about tarot cards..." the woman said
Mari faced the woman "Yeah" she nodded "Is this the last stock of the book?"
"Yes" The clerk simply replied
"Um...Can you read tarot cards?" Mari asked
"Yup, I am a tarot reader."
Mari winded her eyes "Really? Can you read me a card?"
"Why not?'
The two girls go back to the counter. The clerk placed a tarot deck in the counter as she started to predict Mari's future.
The results are unknown. Mari learned a little something on the tarot reading. The clerk rearranged her deck and kept it in her bag, Mari thinks that this woman is interesting so she keeps thinking of questions to ask.
"Miss...Do rarely have friends?" she asked
"Yeah, I only have few friends, but they are real friends."
"I am the same too..." she said in a happy voice "But I almost never have a friend..."
"Why?" The clerk concerned with a sad face.
"I don't get along with people well and my friend Suichi is always not in school..."
"I predicted your luck in the card's right, which means a good thing will happen to you." The clerk replied with a kind smile.
"I hope"
"In speaking of cards aren't you going to buy that book?" The clerk reminded
Mari winded her eyes "Oh nuts!" she scratched her hair "I want to buy this book, but I only have 50 yens..." she sighed as she placed the book on the counter.
The red haired clerk turns the book as she ripped off the price code.
"Why did you do that?" she snapped as she turned around to see if there are no people except them. "Someone might catch you!"
The clerk places the book in a plastic white and handed it over to Mari.
"Take it"
The blond winded her eyes "Wait what? You're giving this book for free?"
"What do you think I am doing? Giving the book right?" she said
"But someone might catch us! I don't want to go in jail in a young age!" Mari raised her voice
"Chill! There is no surveillance camera in the store and take this thing with you." She said dropping the red box inside the plastic
"You're too kind! But why are you giving this to me?" Mari wondered
"I see your perseverance in learning about tarot cards, that's why I am giving those things to you for free."
"What's with the box?"
"It's an item that comes with that book. It will help you learn more about tarot cards." The clerk explained
Mari smiled at the nice clerk, people like her are rare to find. "Thank you" she bowed as she rushed to the door, but stopped forgetting something.
She turned around "Hey, what's your name?"
"Hikari" The clerk answered
"Thank you, Hikari!" Mari smiled at her for the second time and run outside the store.
A/N: The chapter 1 of my story Endless friendship. I will only upload the chapter one in DA as a preview, the rest will be in my fan account. Tell me if there are errors or mistakes in the story, I am going to change it asap.
I am just wondering is my OC a Mary sue. Some people says its how you write it and some says it's the personality. I am confused _ The other ocs will be introduced in the next chapter. I am tired now so good night. Tell me what do you think in the story ^u^ Reviews are appreciated
In speaking of ocs, I am accepting ocs. Just PM me~