Love, Lust, and Lolicons
Authorship: Avery Likelytale (who plays MapleStory, which is the world's awesomest game. Ever.)
Author Notes: After a bit of browsing, I have deduced that anyone can write fanfiction. Even me! So here it is. I'll use dub names because they crack me up (& I'm a bit of a hypocrite...)
Caution: Contains ChazzxZane. And dub names. And possible spoilers? I don't know how far dub GX is (it's too much trouble to watch when I can be playing MapleStory...cough.)
1. Chazz Gets a Letter
The day was bright and happy, the sun beaming down upon Duel Academy. Students were enjoying the coming of summer, basking in the warm and cloudless day. The sound of teenagers splashing in the ocean echoed through the empty air.
For Chazz Princeton, it was anything but a bright and happy day. He cursed the weather. He wished it would be gray and raining, to reflect his gloomy mood.
He lay on the roof of Duel Academy, on his back, watching a seagull make circles across the sky. The obelisks that were part of Duel Academy's tacky decorations stabbed into his field of view, framing the blue expanse with pointy tips.
Rain, dammit, he thought. Rain!
Asking for rain on a day like this was a ridiculous thought, but Chazz cared not. He still felt cold inside, thinking of what had happened yesterday...on a day just like this...
If he turned slightly, he could see the lighthouse. There, standing with a serene beauty that made his heart stop, was Alexis Rhodes. The light breeze played with her long, blonde hair as she stood, talking happily with Zane Truesdale. Yesterday, she had been alone...
Yesterday, he had decided to confess something to her. This was how he always imagined it:
"Alexis! Alexis!" He shouted, dashing over to the lighthouse where she stood alone, as lovely as a goddess of joy.
She turned to face him, and gave a small smile. "Hi, Chazz."
"Alexis...I..." Panting, Chazz held out the envelope in his hand. It had taken several agonizing hours...no, days, for him to write the letter that resided within the envelope. "Please read this!" He begged.
She took the envelope from him, and, still smiling, opened it. It took her scarcely a minute to read the words--it was a short letter, after all. A short letter, but the most difficult one Chazz ever had to write.
"Chazz...," she said, breathless.
"Yes?" Please be yes! Please be yes!, his mind screamed.
"I love you too!" She shrieked, and then she kissed him and they snogged and it was wonderful, and then they got married and had lots of kids and all that lovely stuff.
This was how it actually went:
Well, the first part was basically the same. "Alexis! Alexis!" He shouted, dashing over to the lighthouse where she stood alone, as lovely as a goddess of joy.
She turned to face him, and gave a small smile. "Hi, Chazz."
"Alexis...I..." Panting, Chazz held out the envelope in his hand. It had taken several agonizing hours...no, days, for him to write the letter that resided within the envelope. "Please read this!" He begged.
She took the envelope from him, and, still smiling, opened it. It took her scarcely a minute to read the words--it was a short letter, after all. A short letter, but the most difficult one Chazz ever had to write.
"Chazz...," she said, breathless.
"Yes?" Please be yes! Please be yes!, his mind screamed.
"I'm sorry, Chazz," she said. "But...I don't feel the same way. I'm so sorry." She began backing off, looking cautious, and maybe a little scared.
"Oh," he said blankly. "Oh", for that was all he could say. Her words still hadn't completely registered with him.
"Chazz...I...I like someone else. I'm really sorry." Alexis was now pressed up against the lighthouse, and she glanced from side to side. It was obvious that the situation was as difficult for her as it was for him.
"Who?" Chazz said, in the same dull voice.
"Uh...Zane," Alexis said. "I've liked him for the longest time."
"Oh."
"Uh...bye, Chazz. I'm sorry..."
So she wanted him to go away. That was fine. He turned around dully, feeling like all of the life had been vacuumed out of him, and gave a half-hearted wave. "Yeah. Seeya."
After he had put a sufficient distance between himself and Alexis, he ran all the way back to his little tent. He kicked open the tent flap, threw himself inside, grabbed his pillow, and began tearing at it, as roughly as he could. "Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!"
He spent the whole night cursing the gods and ripping up his furniture. By the next morning, when the anger had subsided, he escaped before anyone could see him and ran to the Academy roof, which was where he waited now...
"Hey, Chazz. Snap out of it!"
Chazz shifted slightly, and saw, walking up to him, Atticus, Alexis's brother. Well, at least it wasn't Jaden.
"What's wrong?" Atticus said, lifting up his goggles. He was wearing a wet suit and dripping with salt water, and by his side was a surfboard. "Oh, don't tell me--I already know. Alexis told me everything!"
"Did she?" Chazz said in a deadened voice.
"Yeah!" Atticus said. "Poor you, man." He threw himself by Chazz's side and placed a soaked arm around Chazz's shoulder. Chazz winced as the cold water seeped through his coat, but Atticus seemed not to care.
"Look, Chazz," Atticus was saying. "Everyone suffers disappointment in love once in their lives. Heck, even me! Cheer up, Chazz. You're just not Alexis's taste. She likes guys who are taller than her."
"I'm taller than her!" Chazz said, indignant.
"Not by much," Atticus said. "You know, tall like Zane," and he gave a wink.
Chazz groaned. "Oh yeah. That guy."
"Yep, that guy," Atticus echoed. "King of Duel Academy, Alexis's love interest, every great and wonderful thing a guy could be! You never stood a chance against him."
"Thanks a lot," grumbled Chazz. He drew his knees up to his chin and pondered, sulkily.
"Hey, don't you want, you know, revenge?" Atticus asked.
"For what?"
"You know--don't you want revenge on Zane? For stealing your darling's heart?" Atticus gave a teasing wink and prodded Chazz in the back. Chazz scowled.
"I thought about it. But then I decided it was pointless. I mean, beating Zane in a duel isn't going to make her love me."
Atticus looked impressed. "Wow. You're more mature than I thought."
Chazz gave Atticus a sulky look. "What'd you think I was--a baby?"
"Ha ha, sort of," Atticus said. Then, suddenly, he began fishing down the neck of his wet suit. Chazz regarded him suspiciously, wondering what Atticus was up to. "Speaking of Zane--ta-da!"
And from within his wet suit, Atticus produced a damp, crinkled, folded piece of paper. Chazz took it wordlessly and opened it. Words were penned on the paper--words that were now dripping and running over each other--but the letter was still legible.
Chazz--can we talk? Meet me at the lighthouse tonight. I'll be alone.
Chazz glanced at the signature line: --Zane.
He looked up at Atticus, who shrugged. "I don't know what it's about. He just gave it to me and told me to give it to you."
"Do you think..." Chazz swallowed hard. "Do you think it's about...Alexis?"
"Maybe," Atticus said. "She told him about, you know, you, yesterday, too."
Chazz groaned and rolled over, so that he was facing away from Atticus, and facing the lighthouse, where Alexis and Zane were chatting happily. "I bet he's going to tell me to stay away from his girl."
"Zane?" Atticus said. "Nah. He's more mature than that! Besides, Alexis isn't 'his girl'--well, not yet, anyway."
"Not yet, eh?" Chazz grumbled. He watched Alexis and Zane again. They seemed awfully close--closer than friends? He couldn't tell. He could see her laughing, him smiling. Lucky Zane..lucky bastard. I wish I were him...
"Well, Chazz, gotta run. Good luck with Alexis!" Atticus, laughing, slid down the roof and landed effortlessly on the ground below. He ran toward the sea, throwing the surfboard ahead of him and catching a wave. Chazz watched Atticus surf for a while, then slid down the roof himself.
He set off toward his own dorm, the letter from Zane crumpled in his hand. Despite Atticus's assurances, Chazz had the nagging suspicion that he was not going to escape from the meeting by the lighthouse tonight without a few bruises--or broken bones.
Author's Notes: This story disregards episode 47, the love duel. It takes place after the "Shadow Riders" arc...and stuff. In fact, this story disregards much of the GX universe altogether. So blech. I should quit trying to place it on a timeline.
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