The Never Ending Story
Chapter One
Before we begin the ficcie, I wish to do a character introduction, as it is important to know who the girls are, so, when doing skits, Rose will be my character. Also, daemons are souls that are on the outside of the human body taking the form of an animal that best describes the human it is bound to (ex-if your daemon is a seagull, that means you ain't the prettiest thing around, but are able to survive anywhere with a bit of food and company). And touching another person's daemon is a gross violation of etiquette. It's kinda hard to explain…you'll see…YOU WILL ALL SEE!
Chazz- You. Are. INSANE.
Rose- (looks offended) No, I'm not Zane. Are you okay in the head, Chazz?
Kekeikho- (snorts) Of course he's not.
This is KeeKee, Rose's older twin sister, an original character designed by minimuffin-on-acid. She had long black hair and bright blue eyes, and a violent temperament…Her daemon takes the form of a miniature black dragon with red eyes, and his name is Moonshadow (nicknamed Mshad in skits). Rose had long red hair, and bright green eyes, and the mind of blonde. Xiara (name changed from Kirjava) is also a miniature dragon, but one with gold scales and red eyes, and a sapphire jewel in the middle of her forehead. Rose barley missed getting into Obelisk, but she will settle for Ra yellow for the moment. Kee is of course in Obelisk. Relations? They are adopted. Anyway, I have written this fic long before I deemed it time to post it (500 freaking pages people! And I ain't even done!). Oh, and one more thing, I like reviews. Lots of them. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!
Chapter One "Beginnings" (The story starts with Rose, but Kee comes lata)
"Everyone, we have a new student joining us today. Please welcome Rose Eragona, of Ra Yellow." Prof Banner said while Rose stood nervously at his side. They were at the bottom of the arena like classroom, all the students taking their seats and settling in. Bastion already had his notebook out, ready to take notes. Syrus was trying to wake up an already sleeping Jaden, who was snoring audibly. Chazz was leaning back in his seat arrogantly, feet propped up, chair tilted. He was about as disinterested as he could be. Chumley was fishing in his bag for a spare grilled cheese he tucked away.
"Um, hi…" Rose waved shyly and gripped her shoulder bag tighter, turning her knuckles white. She didn't do well in the center of everyone's attention, it made her self conscience. She heard Xiara contact her, voice easily heard inside her head.
Rose, is everything okay? she sounded concerned. Rose sighed, thinking her thoughts to convey them to her daemon.
Yes, I'm fine, just a little nervous…
Want me to come down?
No! You can't be discovered! Just stay in our room.
As you wish and Xiara left Rose's mind, leaving her to fully concentrate on not making a fool of herself.
"So, Rose, do you have any interests you like to share with the class?" Banner asked, encouraging her to speak. Rose gulped and started to nervously twist a piece of her bright blood-red hair.
"I like to surf in my spare time……and I like to draw…"
"Really? What do you like to draw?" Banner asked, interest peaking. Rose bit her lower lip, relaxing slightly.
"Duel Monsters…and landscapes of my homeland…"
"Where is that?"
"America." Rose smiled shyly, tugging her uniform shirt to unwrinkle it.
Banner adjusted, "Your hair and eyes suggest that you would be Irish."
For the first time, Rose smiled truly. "Actually, I'm German, although my sister looks a bit Japanese."
"Really? Have you ever been to Germany?"
"No, I haven't."
Banner turned to look at the semi-interested students, "Are there any other questions for Miss Eragona?" The entire class was silent. "Okay, then. Rose, if you could take the seat beside Mr. Misawa…Bastion, could you raise your hand so our new student can find you?" Bastion raised his head from reading his Alchemy textbook, and raised his hand as he was told. Rose looked up when he did, and their eyes met for the first time. Apple green gazed into storm gray. Damn, doesn't he look like the smartass of the century? She thought, wrinkling her nose slightly, but then gave herself a mental slap, I don't even know him! Maybe he's nice…
Rose walked forward, stepping up the stairs one by one to avoid tripping, shifting her should bag slightly. The empty seat was on the edge of the row she was on, while Bastion was the second seat in. Rose sat down and fished a notebook and a pen out of her white shoulder backpack, as well as her textbook. The lesson had already started by now, and Rose had no idea were they were. She looked at the boy beside her, Bastion, and decided to ask him where they were. Biting back her extreme shyness, she whispered semi-inaudibly to catch his attention.
"Um…..excuse me…"
Bastion looked up from his note taking and looked at the inquiring redhead.
"Yes? Are you wondering where we are?" he asked politely, a small, reassuring smile on his face. Rose nodded, twisting a piece of her flame red hair nervously: she didn't trust boys that well. Bastion glanced over to the page he was on.
"Page 124, chapter 13."
Rose nodded and mumbled her thanks as she flipped though the pages of the largish textbook. The lesson kept her interested enough not to gossip with her daemon, which is what she normally did at her old school. And she liked Banner as a school teacher, but she hadn't met his little friend yet…Near the end of the lesson, Rose felt something furry brush past her bare legs.
"What the-!" She looked down to see a very fat cat rubbing sensually against her. Banner looked up from the book he was reading to the class, eyes widening under his glasses when he saw his cat.
"Ah, Pharaoh! I see you met our new student!" He beamed. Rose looked at him, and back at the purring feline. Smiling, she leaned down to scratch him on the ears. Purring even louder, Pharaoh leapt into her lap, curling up in preparation to take a nap. Now the class was staring at her again, whispering. Rose blushed, her cheeks only a shade lighter than her hair.
"Well, this is odd, he's normally not that friendly to strangers, but he seems to like you." Banner noted. Pharaoh just yowled in response, and snuggled closer to his new bed, er, friend, much to the amusement of the other students. Even Banner chuckled
"Ok Pharaoh, you can see Rose later. She's in class right now."
Pharaoh yowled again, and put his paws on her shoulder. Then, all a sudden, his claws swiped off a flesh colored bandage covering her left cheek.
"Hey!" Rose yelped, covering her left cheek with her hand, while jumping to her feet. But the cat already ran off back to his master, bandage still stuck to his paw. Banner narrowed his eyes at his cat's behavior, although no one saw that behind his glasses.
"Pharaoh!" he chided, picking up his cat to remove the patch from his paw. Tossing it in the trash, Banner looked up to see Rose sill covering her left cheek with her hand, blushing redder than the tomato as the class started to laugh. I'm such an idiot…Rose bit her lower lip. Banner raised an eyebrow, confused as to why she was still covering her face.
"Is there something the matter, Miss Eragona?"
Rose gulped, and sweat beaded on her forehead.
"Um…..I just have a bad cut, and its not quite healed yet…May I please go to the nurse's office?" She practically begged. Banner just nodded,
"Of course you can."
"Thank you…" Rose got out of her seat and ran up the stairs two at a time, clearly in a rush. I wonder what that was about…Bastion thought, and then he shrugged. It was none of his business, but he could help but to feel curious about the new girl. Well, she was in his dorm…so he wouldn't have a choice but to get to know her. New students were normally jumpy, so maybe he should be nice?
Meanwhile…
"That's a rather nasty scar dear. I can imagine why you would want it covered." The nurse said, while opening various drawers to find an appropriate sized bandage. Rose had removed her hand from her face so the nurse could get an estimate on how big a bandage was needed. The only flaw in Rose's features, the one she was trying to hide, was a cross shaped scar on her left cheek (the story on it later…). It had a nasty habit of bleeding whenever she felt upset, angry, and any other negative emotion that her brain could think up.
"Here you go, Rose." The nurse said while handing her another bandage.
"Thank you…" Rose accepted the bandage and using the mirror behind her, put it on, making sure it covered it covered the ugly X shaped scar. There was about five minutes of class left, so when Rose made her way back to Banner's classroom, everyone was deep in conversation. That is, except for Bastion. He was way into his book for Rose's tastes, and she wrinkled her nose slightly. I like to read too, but doesn't this kid have any friends?
Taking her seat beside him, Rose was surprised to see Bastion put his book away back in his backpack. Leaning back in his seat slightly, Bastion decided to introduce himself to this strange red head.
"Hello there. I assume from your uniform that you are in Ra yellow, like myself?" He spoke formally; accent flowing richly in his words. Rose blinked, and found herself blushing again: she had a thing for English accents.
"Uh…yes! Yes I am! Please to meet you!" she said, hold out a manicured hand to shake, eager to be friends. Bastion smiled and accepted her hand to shake.
"So, uh, what kind of dueling deck do you have?" Duel Monsters being the only topic she could think of at the moment.
"I have six, actually, one for each element."
Rose went wide eyed, she never heard of people doing that before.
"Cool! I bet it's hard to figure out which one to use whenever you duel!"
"Not really, I analyze my opponent and use their weakness to decide what deck I should use."
Rose gave him what appeared to be a challenging smirk.
"I'll betcha you can't beat me!"
Bastion cocked and eyebrow
"Is that a challenge?"
"You bet!"
"Alright. We'll duel after school in the courtyard."
"Your so on!"
RING!
"Class dismissed!" Banner called as the students gathered their stuff. Rose glaced down at her schedule to find she had Dr. Crowler's class next.
Oh Joy.
Rose-Well, I don't think that turned out so bad…
Kee- You freakin changed it from what you wrote! What the heck happened to the six foot falling dresser?
Rose-(huge smirk on her face) That comes later…
Chazz- (wrinkles his nose) You made me out to look like an arrogant fathead!
Rose-That's because you are.
Jaden-Yep, she has a point, there Chazz.
Chazz-(fuming) Who asked you, slacker!
Syrus-………?
Zane- (Leans back on Rose's couch) Why am I here, anyway?
Rose-Cuz you are a part of this fic.
Zane-Oh joy…….
Kee-Oh, don't even complain…
Mshad-Yeah…
Xiara-I think Truedale had the most fun in this fic…
Rose-Anyhoo, just read and review, k?
Chazz-(yelling at Jaden) YOU SLIFER SICKO! GIVE THAT BACK!
Jaden-(runs by with a bag of chocolate flavored marshmallows) NEVER!
Rose-What's so sick about a bag of chocolate flavored marshmallows?
Bastion- --' You don't wanna know…….