Hey guys so this is my rewrite of my story 'The Dream That Changes Everything' (I know I'm using the same title so what?) Hoepfully i got rid of my old plot holes and grammar mistakes. Please review and tell me what you think and tell you friends!
All Joey could see was darkness. "Hello? Anybody there? Where am I?" Joey called out into the darkness.
"Hello Joey." A strangely familiar voice whispered in return. The voice came from no specific place but from all around him which scared him slightly. "Do not be frightened. My name is Juno, and I am one of your past selves. There is much to explain, but I have very little time to tell all that you must know. But first I must warn you of the danger to come." The voice began to fade at the end of the sentence.
"What do ya mean? What danger? What do ya mean 'past self'?" Joey called out.
The voice laughed lightly before replying "Always asking questions. We are very much alike. But to answer one of your questions; I have come to warn you about what will happen when you awaken from this dream. When you awaken you will notice two very important things. The first is there will be an object floating above your head most likely glowing. Don't panic when you see it. It is the Millennium Scale. This Scale will make your life very dangerous and you must not let your friends know that you are the one who owns it. Do whatever you can to make sure they don't suspect you're the true holder. If they are to figure out that you are the keeper of the Scales things will get…. Confusing to say the least. And that gets me to what I also want to warn you about when you awaken….." The voice faded completely and the darkness surrounding Joey began to turn into a very, very bright white.
"Hey what else did ya' wanna tell me about? Hey wait ya stupid ghost!" Joey called out but he woke up before Juno could answer.
Joey sat up in bed gasping. As his breathing and heart rate began to go back to normal, he reflected upon his very strange dream. He was used to hearing about Yugi's and Ryou's weird dreams, but you could expect them to have weird dreams since they were keepers of thousands of years old relics from Egypt and both of theses items held ancient spirits. So yeah, you could expect a level of weirdness from their dreams. Joey's not so much.
He kept his eyes closed and sighed, "Joey it's just a stupid dream. It doesn't mean anything except that you need to see a shrink. Wait- what's wrong with my voice?"
What he heard when he began speaking worried him. His voice, his speech pattern, everything about his voice had changed completely. His voice was much higher than it had been yesterday when he'd gone to sleep. And his Brooklyn accent had completely vanished and now his voice sounded British, sorta like Ryou's. He shook his head and told himself that he was still half-asleep, so he must be mistaken.
He opened his eyes and what he saw made him rethink his earlier statement about it just being a dream. Above his head floating was a glowing Millennium Scale, just like the ghost voice had said. Well, shiznit.
Joey stood up careful not to hit his head on the Scale. When he was on his feet, he grabbed the scale from the air and watched as the glowing stopped and the scale shrank to a quarter of its original size, and Joey saw the scales looked like they were attached to a choker, like the type of necklaces he'd seen Tea wear from time to time. He sighed and put the scales on his bedside table. He'd figure out what to do once he'd showered and cleared his head
When he got to the bathroom he looked at himself in the mirror and let off a very girly shriek. What he saw staring back at him was enough for him faint, but thankfully he didn't, yet.
Standing in his bathroom staring back at him through the mirror was a girl that looked like him.
She had voluminous golden hair, a thin curvy figure, long slender legs, and amber-colored eyes with hints of emerald in them. He turned around to see if anyone else was in the bathroom until he realized that the girl that was in the mirror was him. He gulped and looked down and saw that he-she was right.
HE was now a SHE. Joey started to panic her eyes growing big and somewhat tear-filled.
Why couldn't her life for at least a while be normal?! Yugi had only just gotten over his depression over the Pharaoh passing over to the afterlife, and now this happens?! Joey punched the wall to stop the tears from growing in her eyes. She needed to stay upright and not fall apart. She needed a plan
"This must have been what that stupid ghost wanted to tell me in the dream. I can't believe this is happening!" She yelled. "Now what am I supposed to do? That stupid ghost or whatever said to not tell anyone, even Yugi and the guys, that I own the Scale! What am I supposed to do?!" At least I don't live with Dad anymore. She thought ruefully. The one upside to the whole disaster.
She had moved out of the apartment that she had shared with her dad at the insistence of her friends, and she'd used some leftover money from Serenity's surgery that Joey had put into an account for emergencies. Joey had never been more thankful for finally giving in to their demands than right now.
She needed to come up with a plan about somehow telling the guys that she was no longer a he and that she had a weird dream of epic proportions. All without telling them about the Scales sitting on her bedside table.
Suddenly, she heard a faint knocking at her door. She stiffened thinking it was the gang. Of course, they would be here to walk with her to school like they do every day. She slowly walked to her door where the person was still knocking. She made no sound as she put her eye up to the peep hole and peered out to see who was knocking on her door. She stiffened even more when she saw who it was.
On the other side of the door there was her mother, the woman who abandoned her as a child leaving her with an abusive alcoholic father, knocking on her door on possibly the worst day ever. Typical, her day could only get worse, couldn't it?
"Joey," Her mother's voice shook her out of her thoughts, "I know you're in there. I already checked your school, and your friends say they haven't seen you since yesterday. Open this door right now. We need to talk about what Juno told you." Joey's eyes widened as she heard what her mother said.
Her mother knew what Juno said which mean she probably knows about the Scale and about her being a… a… a… girl. Joey breathed in a gulp of air mentally preparing herself for what she was about to do and opened the door to look at her mother. There was her mother looking exactly as she did when she had last seen her at Serenity's operation.
"Well don't just stand there. Juno said not to let anyone know about the Scale but since you already appear to know more than you should I'm going to talk to you. But, if you don't get into this apartment in five seconds I'm going to slam the door in your face and never talk with you again." Joey said as she stared into her mother's eyes.
Her mother nodded and walked through the door and into the apartment. Joey closed the door and followed her mother.
When they reached the living room, Joey brushed past the other woman to go to the kitchen. She may be a girl now but that didn't change her appetite or the way her mother had treated her as a child. So why should she act differently on either front?
"So mother what has made you come to your disgraceful son's- wait make that daughter's humble abode? It couldn't be because you missed me and wanted to have a mother to daughter talk with me." Joey turned around to look at the woman who gave birth to her and then ditched her with an abusive father.
Her mother appeared to be shocked at her tone of voice but she said "I came because Juno also came to me in a dream, as I know she did to you. She wanted me to tell you everything that she has told me about. I had hoped that this day would never come, though." Her mother's eyes widened when she realized that she might have said a very dangerous thing. She was right.
Joey's eyes hardened as she stared at her mother, and she scoffed saying "Of course you don't! The screw up son, well now daughter, that was in a gang and almost caused your precious Serenity to stay blind forever by being late to her operation, even though I paid for the operation! No why would you want to breathe the same air as me let alone talk to me! Well news flash Mom!"
Her mother flinched from the way Joey called her mom.
"I don't want to talk to you either! And the only reason you aren't still outside is because you may know information I need, and after this little talk you are going to leave and guess what you are never going to see me again because I'm going to be leaving! I can't see my friends because Juno told me that I would cause more danger or something and now I have to move out of this apartment and change my name because no girl has the name Joey! So either you tell me what you came to tell me or leave!" Joey walked out of her kitchen her hunger now gone instead being replaced by anger and sat on the couch in her small living room.
"Joey, I realize that what I said may have sounded like I never wanted to talk to you, but it actually means that what Juno has told me is that since you have changed back into a girl your life will be very dangerous, and I don't want you getting hurt Joey! You're still my child, and I worry for your safety!" Her mother threw her arms around Joey and started crying. Joey sat stone still. She was still going over what her mother had just said. When her mother stopped crying, Joey pushed her away ignoring the hurt look sent at her.
"Mom," Joey was giving her a don't-you-dare-lie-to-me look. "What did you mean when you said that I've changed back into a girl?"
Her mother gulped audibly and said in a very shaking voice "That's part of what I was going to tell you."
Joey gave her a motion to keep going with her story. "When you were born, you were born a girl, but after you were born Juno appeared to me in a dream and said that to keep you safe she had turned you into a boy. She said that your destiny was a very dangerous one and that if you were revealed as the keeper of the Millennium Scale before you were ready to face this destiny so she changed you into a boy and hid the Millennium Scale far away so that it sense you and go to you. Soon after this I had Serenity and I just couldn't be with your father anymore. Juno knew of my plans and told me to bring you along with Serenity and I."
"I didn't want to. I at that time blamed you because before you were born your father was a nice man, but when you were born that all changed and I blamed you so I left you with him. Juno didn't like that and she told me that Serenity was going to be blind and the only way to save her eyesight was the operation. When you got the money for the operation she tried to convince me that meant you didn't do anything. I didn't listen to her I just saw it as a showing of guilt and blamed you more. Then you didn't show up to the operation and I got angry. Then when you did the sorrow in your voice showed me that you really didn't do it. But, I didn't take you away from your father because now Juno was showing me visions of your destiny and I….. I couldn't take the thought of what was happening and I saw that you no longer needed me."
"When you were a child you needed me, and I ruined any chance of you needing me after that when I abandoned you. You had your friends to help back you up, and they were so closely intertwined in your destiny that if I were to remove you it would have shattered everything else that was to happen. You needed to bond with the others of the spell. The other hikari's needed to know that you would be by their side during this battle because you are the main player here. You have the strongest powers of them all. Juno has told me this much. She refuses to tell me more because I abandoned you. I hope you can forgive me Joey." Her mother gave her an apologizing look.
"Mom I can't pretend that you didn't do what you did. It happened end of story. You left me with him, and you blamed me for what appears to be everything that's happened to our family. But if you didn't leave me with him I wouldn't have met anyone I know now, but I also wouldn't have gotten into a gang. Everything would have been different if you hadn't been so petty. But, I forgive you mom. You did what you thought you had to do even though it was completely wrong and now you are apologizing. Many people don't have the amount of strength it takes to do that, so I forgive you for." Her mother tackled her in a hug and Joey hugged her back briefly before gently pushing her away and saying
"Now mom what am I supposed to do? I can't let my friends know I have the Scale, but they'll be coming here to check on me since I missed school and I'm going to be missing school for the rest of my life as Joey Wheeler cause I can't go anymore. But I have to go to school so I can graduate and go to college. So mom what am I supposed to do?" She looked at her mother for guidance, and Joey's mother fully realized what she had ruined for herself.
"Well Joey you always could go under your real name Juno. I named you Juno before you were turned into a boy where I got you a new birth certificate and named you Joey. You could enroll in school with the name Juno and we can un-enroll Joey Wheeler. I also have a um… a sort of trust fund that you can use that's under the name Juno Wheeler that your grandparents set up and gave me custody of until you were ready that you can live off of if you want. But if you don't want to do that you could move in with Serenity and I. She's always asking when she can see you." Her mother was really trying to help her by offering to let her move in with them, but Joey wasn't ready to deal with her mother 24/7 right now she was still processing all that she had learned.
"Mom thank-you for the offer of moving in with you but I don't think now is the best time. I mean if my dangerous destiny is going to come to pass I don't want either of you hurt if something comes after comes after me. I also can't take the trust-fund it's your money at the moment." She smiled at her mother.
Her mother smiled with shaking her head slowly. "Always loyal and proud. Something I've found to admire about you Joey, but please think of the trust fund as a very late birthday and Christmas gift, okay?" Joey opened her mouth to say no but her mother beat her to it. "You do know Joey that I'm not going to let you say no, right? Before I came here I transfer the ownership of the account to your name so now legally you own it." Her mother smiled at her and Joey laughed.
"You did think of everything before you came here didn't you? Thanks mom." She hugged her mom, and they both walked to her door where her mom told her to call her if she ever needed anything to call her. As Joey walked her out of the apartment and too her car when she promised her she would do so.
Joey walked back to her apartment but as she neared the stairs that lead up to her floor she heard a loud talking come from behind her. She turned around and saw Yugi, Tristan, Ryou, and Tea walking into the apartment building's lobby. Her eyes widened in fright; they couldn't see her; she had to get back to her apartment quickly!
She rushed up the stairs until she made it to the top floor, where her apartment was. She sprinted to her door, and just as she managed to get through her door and close it her friends made it to her floor. She chain-locked, dead-bolted, and locked the door handle before leaning against the door. She slid down the door and waited for her friends to knock on her door.