Disclaimer: I, Vampiric Dragonrider, Do not own GX or its characters, or anything else you might see. I only own my OCs, and if you use them without me knowing, I will hunt you down and give you lice, itchy icthy head-lice.

Chapter 1

"Hey, Echo," Said the teal haired, green eyed Jesse to the young girl with short black hair and grayish-black eyes that was complemented with pale skin. Echo was standing in for Adrian Gecko, while another guy, Ignatius "Iggy" Fulton, stood in for Axel. There was supposed to be a girl from Dolphin Academy, which was on Dolphin Island, California, USA, but Echo hadn't seen her yet. She could only guess that she locked herself up in the room that no one answered or opened.

"Hey, Jesse. What's up?" Echo replied. They were heading into the sun on a ship, and Echo and Jesse were enjoying the last minutes of daylight by watching the sunset. It really was beautiful, tinting the nearby clouds pink and ice cream orange.

"I'm so bored. There is absolutely nothing to do on this ship, since they prhibited dueling on board!"

"Amen to that." Echo was wearing her favorite outfit, with a medium black skirt that fluffed out when she spun, black gloves, and a noon-sky blue top. The top had short sleeves that flared out, and had the signature, upside-down pentagon of the Duel Academy uniforms, but inside of it were curves pointing down all the way to the end, and three going the opposite direction at the bottom. The whole curves thing represented her name, Echo.

"Since we can't duel, d'you think we could see each other's deck?" Jesse asked, looking straight at Echo, making her blush. He was wearing a purplish-white shirt with a blue vest -- his favorite outfit, he said.

"Don't see why not. Here. Be careful with it! it's the only one I've got," Echo said to him.

"Ditto," Jesse replied, handing his over in turn.

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The girl lied on her bed in sorrow. She had left everything she knew for dueling: Her sister, her brother, her pet cat... Her brother cared for them all, as he was the oldest and she had no parents to account for. Since he had graduated college, he was the only thing keeping her sister and her out of the Orphanage. She shivered as she remembered her parents' death.

A simple tuck in at night was the most exciting thing that had happened to her that day. The little girl sighed happily, hugging Shadowpelt, her black cat, close to her. This was the mysterious girl's little sister.

Just as she was drifting off, she heard a window break. Shadowpelt leaped off her bed and scurried out the semi-closed door. The little girl suck out of her room, scared of what she might find. She met up with her siblings, who all then went to their parents' room, for that was where they heard the glass break.

The girl's sister, her elder by four years, peeked through the door of their parents' room. They all heard a gunshots as her sister quickly pulled her head in, motioning for her brother to pull out his cell phone. He whipped it out and dialed 911. They all hurried outside as they heard the assumed person start to ransack the bedroom. They knew he had a gun, and probably a knife too. The sister right then and there, unbeknownst to her siblings, swore vengence on her dead parents...

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Echo sighed The Academy had come into sight a few minutes ago, but since the sun had set, they had stopped for the night. They would reach the island tomorrow and around 10:00 AM, if they set sail at sun-up. Now all she could do was stare at the dot in the distance in want. The stars shone unlike anything she's ever seen, living near the city and all. Echo couldn't stop looking at them either, and ended up sitting in a beach chair so that her neck wouldn't hurt so much.

She heard a noise and sat up. A girl stumbled out of the doorway to the bedrooms down below. She had long, lavenderish hair that hung down to the middle of her back and silver eyes. The eyes weren't even gray, or cold blue, but Silver with icey blue flecks. She spotted Echo and turned right around, only to trip and fall into the arms of Jim "Crocodile" Cook.

"Careful there, sheila!" He said, smiling good-naturedly. Shirley, his crocodile, was fast asleep in his room.

"Oh, I-I'm sorry!" the girl said, blushing a very nice scarlett.

"No harm done," Jim confirmed. "Now, would you mind telling me your name? You haven't shown your face to the daylight, now!"

"Oh! My name is Selena!" the girl said, taking a step back from Jim as to be comfortable. She's a little boy-shy, Echo could see now. "Selena Orestes! As for why you haven't seen me, I've had terrible jet-lag and I've been sleeping through the entire DAY! What did you say your name was?"

"I didn't, but for future reference, its Jim." Jim smiled again, and Selena gave a shy smile back. Then, she turned toward Echo.

"Now that I'm on a roll, what is your name?"

"Echo." Echo gave a friendly smile. "What brings you out here at night?"

"Oh, I've always loved the night more than the day. Bad habit, 'm'afraid."

"That's perfectly alright."

"Do you have any siblings at the school, Echo?"

"No, but i DO have a cousin! You'll see him tomorrow. He's kind of hard to miss, really," Echo replied to the girl, winking. "I'll give you a hint: His name starts with a 'C.'"

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Vampiric Dragonrider: Thank you for reading and please review! It will get more exciting, I promise... And by the way? I'm going to call my self "Vamp" to save me the sake of writing Vampiric Dragonrider the whole time.

Echo: You're so lazy.

Vamp: Shut up, Echo, or I'll kill you off in the next chapter...