I AM GOING TO KILL ATTICUS! HE WILL NOT LEAVE ME ALONE!
"Hey beautiful!" he says winking at me and I feel like losing my lunch.
Oh! My name is Annie Tanning, I am a brunette that is shoulder length and goes in front of my left eye, and I have crystal blue eyes. I have tanned skin and I am 5'8" in height.
I have a sister that is two years younger than me. Her name is Amanda Tanning, she has green eyes, curly blonde hair that goes to small of back, and is tan skinned. She is 5'6" in height as well.
We both are in the Obelisk Blue Dorm, are popular, and one of the top duelists in our dorm. But nothing like Alexis Rhodes who is the Obelisk Blue Queen.
So… back to me about to beat the crap out of Alexis' big brother Atticus.
"Leave me alone Atticus! I WILL NOT GO OUT WITH YOU!" I yell at him and run. Just run anywhere to get away from him!
Then while I am still running I run into someone and I fall backwards and land on the ground hard. So does the person I run into because I hear a grunt as they hit the ground, but it sounded like a boys grunt. OH LORD! Please say its not Atticus!
When I sit up and rub my forehead I open my eyes to a hand extended out. I grab onto it and then I am pulled up by the same person. So I close my eyes and pray that it is not Atticus and then I open my eyes to see that the person I ran into was Jesse Anderson. The boy from North Academy who has an accent and is another version of Jaden Yuki in everyone's opinion because they act exactly the same and share the same interests and everything. I blush because I never told anyone except my sister that I kind of have a crush on him.
"Why were ya running?" he asks in his accent. I turn even redder, but he doesn't notice. Thank goodness!
"Running from Atticus….. again." I mumble that last part and look down as I blush more.
"Why?" he asks confused.
"He won't leave me alone! He keeps flirting with me! I just want to slap him sometimes!" I say twitching a bit. He puts his hand on my shoulder and I then feel his warm touch through my Obelisk Blue Uniform and I relax. He doesn't notice that he is making me feel better, but I think its better he doesn't know for now…..
"Just take a deep breath…" he almost whispers, but I still heard it and take a deep breath. He smiles that ridiculous smile that would make you want to punch him, but it just made me smile back at him. Then he did something that I did not expect…..he hugged me close and tight. I blushed and hugged him back. I rested my head on his shoulder and relaxed a lot more. My legs felt like jell-o, but I did not care. All I heard was the ocean and his breath in my ear. I smiled to myself and I think he smiled as well. Then we heard a noise in the trees and jumped apart. I noticed he was blushing as well as I.
The noise that we heard were people talking. They emerged from the bushes. They were Alexis, Jaden, Syrus, and Hassleberry. They noticed us standing there just a few feet apart.
"Hey Annie!" says Alexis smiling.
I smile back with a red face. "Hey Lex!"
She comes up to me and grabs me. She then starts dragging me to the Obelisk Blue Dorm with the boys in tow.
"Why are we going to our dorm?" I ask curiously.
"Well Amanda was worried about you so we started searching for you. So since we found you we have to take you back to her." she says.
I hit myself mentally for not telling my sister that I was going out for a walk and she was now worried. I looked down in shame as she dragged me back to my little sister.
When we got back to the dorm my sister burst from the doors and ran to give me a hug. She tackled me in it instead. So I fell on the ground with my sister squeezing me to death in her death grip.
I coughed a bit because I couldn't breath. "Amanda!" I yell and everyone hears me.
"Oh! Sorry Annie!" she says and stops squeezing me to death and gets up.
I start coughing like crazy and breathing like crazy. I was still on the ground. Jesse came up to me and helped me up. I blushed as he took my arms and pulled me up. He then all of a sudden hugged me, but it was not a death grip and he did it right in front of everyone. I turned as red as a tomato. Hassleberry and Syrus' mouths were hanging open and Alexis and Jaden looked like they just got slapped in the face, while Amanda was smiling like crazy.
I turned an impossible shade of red and it was the brightest you have ever seen. I looked at Jesse's face to see that he too was as red as I was.
Then we heard the worst noise ever. ATTICUS SINGING!
I saw Alexis twitching, while I had the impulse to strangle him!
When he came out of the bushes singing he stopped singing and looked at me. He then smiled. I AM GOING TO KILL HIM!
"Hey beautiful!" he says again and everyone around me looked like they were going to get sick including Jesse who was still holding me close.
"DON'T SAY THAT!" I practically yell as I try to strangle him and Jesse holds me back by having a hold of my waist, which made me blush while I tried to strangle Atticus.
"Don't do it!" he says and he seems to be struggling to keep a hold of me. When I stop struggling Jesse is still holding onto my waist and I am really tired. Atticus just smiles and brings out a camera and snaps photos of Jesse and I so try to kill him and Jesse lets me this time. So he starts running and I run after him to beat the crap out of him and grab his ukulele to bust it over his head which I do and he passes out.
I throw the broken ukulele to the side and walk back to the others with the camera and an unconscious Atticus.
"What did you do Private Annie?" asks Hassleberry with wide eyes.
"Hit him over the head with his ukulele." I say.
They stare at me like I am crazy, but Alexis just smiles.
"I've wanted to do that for a long time, but never did. You know he's going to be bawling his eyes out since you broken his precise ukulele. Right?" says Alexis smiling.
"Yes! But I do not care. It would be nice to see him cry once in a while." I say and everyone agrees with me.
So we carry him to his dorm room and take his broken ukulele and put it next to him. Then when we walk out we all listen to hear him wake up and start bawling about his broken ukulele.
"WHY!" he says as we all start cracking up outside his room. Then Chazz comes around the corner and starts coming up to us.
"Run!" says Alexis so we all bolt for it. So we look around the corner as Chazz knocks on Atticus' door and Atticus opens the door and starts yelling at Chazz about breaking his ukulele.
We all just start laughing like crazy again. Then Destiny Fox my duel spirit that I can see comes out.
"Destinyyyy." she says.
"I know Destiny. It's a bad thing to laugh at Atticus, but it is pretty funny." I say to Destiny not thinking that other could be listening.
"Destiny." she says as she kind of laughs too.
"I knew you would agree Destiny." I say. Then Destiny laughs a little more and disappears.
I turn to see Jesse looking at me. "You can see duel spirits?" he asks.
"Yes." I say blushing, but I then frown. "I feel like the only one that can."
He smiles that smile that I love so much. "Your not. I can too and so can Jaden." he tells me. I smile at him and he smiles back then I hear gagging next to me and look over to see my sister gagging.
"Ew! You two are gross!" she says still doing a little gagging. I just glare at her and she shuts up. But I was blushing when she said that and I looked to see that Jesse was also. I looked at Alexis, Jaden, Syrus, and Hassleberry to see that they were starring at us, so Jesse and I jumped apart a few feet blushing furiously.
"Do you two like each other or is it just me?" says Jaden. We all face palm because he has noticed something for once. But he hasn't noticed Alexis' feelings for him. Moron! HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT FIANCEE MEANS!
"Um…." we both say and look at each other with red faces.
"Private Annie your face has been red the whole time your around Private Jesse." he stats. I turn even redder.
"Ya! You two have been red faced all day and you were missing for a long time sis." says Amanda. I turn a really bright shade of red now.
"Jesse also talks about you a lot Annie." says Syrus. Jesse gets redder now too.
"Hey! Annie does the same thing when it comes to Jesse!" says Amanda smiling at Syrus. I turn an impossible shade of red now. Then I had this impulse to punch my sister too.
So I tried and was held back by Jesse from around my waist. I kept struggling to strangle her and she just stood there looking at her nails.
"Why won't you let me get my sister Jesse?" I ask struggling and turned around to find his face extremely red and he was an inch away from my face.
"Well she didn't do anything." says Jesse a centimeter from my lips now and I heard footsteps running away as we got closer.
When our lips were touching we started kissing and then we started making the kiss deeper. It was amazing and I did not want to stop kissing him, but we had to come up for air so we could breath. So we separated slowly and when we had parted we both were bright red and we were both smiling. I heard a camera go off and both of our heads turned to see Mindy and Jasmine with a camera.
"MINDY! JASMINE!" I yell and they run away. Then we hear familiar footsteps coming our way. Dr. Crowler. So we started running for it and ran out of the Obelisk Blue Dorm with him yelling after us. When we reached the Slifer Red Dorm we stopped to breath and when we looked up we saw everyone there. They were all grinning and Atticus was there and so was Chazz who was drooling all over my sister and she looked about to punch his lights out which was probably going to happen in five… four… three… two… one… BAM! He was hit over the head with my sisters fist and then he was out! Oh ya! Aster was there also and he laughed as my sister hit Chazz. He also smiled at her and she blushed bright red.
"So…. What happened?" yells my sister and everyone turns to us.
"You already know! You were about to gag!" I say glaring at her. She starts doing her little act where she pretends to die and I am the only one that knows she is not dead.
So everyone starts worrying about her and then I tell them she is acting and she jumps up and yells at me. "You spoiled it!" she says. I see Aster snicker and Chazz hyperventilating. My sister then slaps Chazz.
I start cracking up and Jesse laughs too. He grabs me around the waist and I wrap my arms around his neck. I heard my sister gag again! So we looked up to see her a little green. Then she yelled. "You two are cute, but EW!"
Then I yell back at her. "You'll soon be like me!" I say and she looks like she blushes and looks at Aster. SHE LIKES ASTER! Black mail!
I smile evilly and she looks at me and then she sees my smile and knows what I am going to do. She then does something I did not expect.
"Please don't tell him!" she says out loud and everyone looks at her to find out who she's talking about, but everyone looks at me including Jesse who is still holding me close.
"I'M NOT SAYING ANYTHING! I WILL NEVER BETRAY MY LITTLE SISTER! Well she did beg so I am not going to say." I say and everyone is still looking at me.
"Tell me." says Jesse in my ear and everyone was looking at Jesse as he did and I blushed bright red.
"Fine….its Aster…" I whisper in his ear and he smiles. Now everyone is looking at Jesse and I.
"NOT HAPPENIN'" we both yell and Amanda breaths a sigh of relief.
"But!" I say and she flinches. "YOU HAVE TO TELL HIM IN FRONT OF EVERYONE HERE!"
"NO!" she yells.
We both smile at her and then she looks down in shame. Chazz looks like he is about to have a party. Aster for some reason he looks a little red in the face. HE LIKES HER BACK!
Then she turns to a red faced Aster and looks up at him. "I like you…" she says to him and everyone around her looks like they are going to die. Chazz looks crestfallen and Aster smiles and kisses her right in front everyone.
Mindy and Jasmine take photos, while Chazz looks jealous and everyone else looks happy.
Then we hear Dr. Crowler coming this way and they part and everyone looks at him as he comes around the corner smiling.
"Miss Tanning and Miss Tanning your mother and father are here." he says and then steps out of the way to show us our parents standing there.
My mother was smiling her bright smile as always and my father was laughing at our expressions.
"MOM!" I yell and stop holding onto Jesse and go hug her.
I hear my sister yell too. "DAD!" she yells and runs to hug our father.
When we are done hugging them we let go and our father kisses our foreheads right in front of everyone. Then he pulls out his iPod touch and hands it to me.
"To listen to music when you are lonely." he says and then I go through the play lists and stumble upon "You Make Me Feel" by Cobra Starship.
"You finally got the song dad!" I say and hug him.
All of our friends come over and so do our new boyfriends. Wow that sounds weird!
"Hello!" says our father smiling.
"Hello!" says everyone and I see Jesse and Aster smiling.
"I hear your grades are great and your dueling well." says our father to us.
"Yep!" I say smiling and popping the "p".
"I remember when you two came home from horse camp and you two were so dehydrated that you were exhausted." says my mother.
"Mom!" I say embarrassed. Everybody looks at us. We look at each other.
"Mom! No more embarrassing stories, please!" says Amanda.
Our mother just keeps smiling. "Well do you remember when Annie fell asleep in one of our chairs at fair where she woke up having a hand print on her face?"
"Yes!" I say embarrassed. "I was the one with the hand print on my face!"
"And you are my little monkey!" says our mother hugging Amanda. Amanda blushes in embarrassment, but I snicker.
"So how are your dueling skills?" asks our father smiling. "Because I want a duel Annie."
My mouth drops open in disbelief. "I haven't dueled against you for years now dad!" I say.
"So….get ready to duel!" he says bringing out a duel disk and I do as well.
"Let's duel!" we yell.
Dad (4000) Annie (4000)
"Ladies first!" I say pulling a card. It is my little friend Destiny Fox.
"I play Destiny Fox and lay down a face down. That ends my turn!" I say putting Destiny Fox in attack mode AP (600) DP (800). Then I lay down my face down.
"My turn!" says my father pulling a card. "I play Magic Magician in attack mode and I attack your Destiny Fox!" Magic Magician AP (1500) DP(500)
Magic Magician was coming at Destiny Fox fast. "I play my face down!" I say activating the card. "Change of Destiny! It changes the destiny of the game by making the attacking monster stop and it ends the battle faze. It also ends your turn!"
My father just smiled at me. "I end my turn."
"My turn!" I say pulling the card. "I summon Destiny Magician!"
Destiny Magician AP (1000) DP (600)
As Destiny Magician is summoned I see Chazz and Atticus drooling because she is wearing barely any clothes. She has red eyes and black hair with a black and red dress that cuts off at her thigh and she holds a long silver staff that has a circle at the top that has a blood red ruby in the middle.
"Go Annie!" yells Jesse and everyone looks at him weird.
"Thanks!" I say and blow a kiss at him and he blushes and I see his duel spirit Ruby laughing. I also see everyone else snicker. I just glare at them and some of them shut up.
"Annie! Is that your boyfriend?" yells my mother and Jesse and I turn bright red. "He is cute!"
"Mom!" I yell.
"But sweetie!" she says.
"MOM!" I yell turning as bright red as ever. "WHY DO YOU ALWAYS EMBARRASS ME?"
"Well sweetie! I always know how to make you mad and embarrass you!" she says and then smiles. "I would not be a good mother if I didn't know my daughter!"
I look down in shame. "Sorry mom…"
"It's okay sweetie! You have always been so defensive when it came to certain subjects." she says.
"I know…" I say. "Now back to the duel! I play polymerization! I combine Destiny Fox and Destiny Magician to summon my favorite monster and most known monster….. DESTINY DRAGON!"
I play Destiny Dragon and this giant white dragon comes out of nowhere and it has black eyes that look like they will know your destiny.
Destiny Dragon AP (3000) DP (2200)
"ATTACK MY FATHERS MAGICIAN DESTINY DRAGON!" I yell and Destiny Dragon attacks and destroys Magic Magician.
Dad (4000-1500= 2500) Annie (4000)
My father cringes a bit because I didn't tell you this, but I am psychic…
My father is psychic also, but he is more powerful than me. Nobody at Duel Academy knows that I am psychic except my little sister who is also psychic. People I have dueled only thought that it was a little tingle in their body, but it is my psychic powers inflicting real damage. I had it under control then, but when I don't I can hurt people.
"You need to use your powers more!" says my father. "You need to know that you are special and not hide it from the world! You need to fight through the pain!"
I have tears running down my cheeks by now and everyone is looking at me and asking me what the matter is. It is rare for me to cry and my sister knows that I will only cry when I feel defenseless and can't take it anymore.
Tears are falling from my eyes and my mother looks like she is also going to cry and my sister does also. "I CAN'T TAKE THE PAIN! I CAN'T KEEP THEM UNDER CONTROL! I DON'T WANT TO HURT ANYBODY!" I yell as I fall to my knees crying.
"Shaun!" yells my mother at my father. "Stop this! She can't take it! She was never meant to be like you and she never will be!"
"If you want me to be a monster! Then I will be!" I yell as I stand up and smile evilly my eyes glinting with evil. The wind picks up and then I hear my sister yelling at me to stop. Then I remember my friends and how they always are there for me and then my eyes glaze over and I lose my feelings of how I should be a monster. Then I remember the kiss….the kiss Jesse gave me and I smiled. Then I heard his voice yelling at me. I look at him and tears fall from my eyes as I remember that my feelings for him are so great that I would protect him and the fact is that my feelings are so strong that I would never hurt him. The wind goes back to normal and I look at Jesse and let the tears fall.
"Why did you stop?" asks my father looking confused.
I just look at him and tears are still falling from my face as I tell him why.
"I can't hurt Jesse…." I say and my voice cracks at the end. "I love him…" I mumble after that as the realization hits me and I didn't think anyone would hear me. I look at Jesse as thousands of tears fall from my face. Then I see him mouthing something that I did not believe I was seeing or witnessing.
I love you.
When he does that I smile and instead of tears of grief I start crying with relief and joy. Then I mouth back one thing.
I love you too.
I thought he would do nothing, but he just smiles that goofy smile that I love.
Then I turn back to the duel wiping the tears from eyes and putting back on my serious face. "I am going to win this! For myself and for all of my friends!" I say. "I activate my spell card Winged Rebirth! It allows my monster to attack again with half its attack points which means you are going to be hit with a big 1500 points in damage!"
Destiny Dragon attacks my father directly and he lost 1500 points of damage.
Dad (2500-1500= 500) Annie (4000)
My father this time flies back a few feet and hit's a tree.
He then rises and smiles at me. "You have changed from the girl that always lost to her father to a woman with the strength to take care of herself! You are now realizing your potential and using what is a gift that is rare, but in your bloodline is not. It happens every generation and you are a child of two great bloodlines!" yells my father. "You are the strong princess that you were born to be!"
"No!" I yell realizing what he was talking about. My sister Amanda also yells.
"It can't be!" she yells and Aster looks at her worried. "We never knew who we were meant to be because you never told us! You always said that we would find out when we grew up! You told us we were special!"
"You are!" says our mother. "Now beat your father!"
"I will!" I say. "I lay down a facedown and end my turn! Your turn!"
"Okay! My turn! Draw!" he says and draws a card. "I play Magic Moral! It lets me summon a monster for each monster in your graveyard. That makes two because you sacrificed Destiny Fox and Destiny Magician to summon your dragon! So I summon Magical Princess and Magical Queen!"
When my father summoned out Magical Queen she looked like my mother! It can't be! Then when Magical Princess was summoned she looked just like….me.
"NO!" I say looking at Magical Princess. She had short brown hair that went in front of her left eye like my hair and crystal blue eyes, but she was wearing a different outfit. She wore a long blue dress that was sleeveless and she had silver rings on her hands and she wore the silver necklace I always wear! She also had something that I couldn't believe….she was wearing a silver tiara that had a giant sapphire in the front.
Destiny then came and popped up on my shoulder. She looked at me worried.
I had tears running down my cheeks in a river again. "I am okay Destiny!" I say trying to reassure her, but she shook her head in disbelief.
"Destinyyyy!" she says.
"Your right! I am not!" I say and everyone looks at me weird because I am talking to a duel spirit that they can't see, but Amanda, Chazz, Jaden, and Jesse don't because they can see her.
Magical Queen AP (2000) DP (1500) Magical Princess AP (1500) DP (800)
"Magical Princess gains 500 attack points for every monster on the field and in the graveyard!" says my father.
"No!" I say because that means she will gain 2000 attack points!
Magical Princess AP (3500) DP (800)
"Magical Princess attack my daughters monster!" says my father.
So Magical Princess attacks and punches my dragon sending it to the graveyard and I fly back until I make contact with the Slifer Red Dorm. My father is very powerful and it hurts!
Dad (500) Annie (4000-500= 3500)
I slide to the ground and I hear all my friends yelling my name. Then I did something my father wouldn't expect me to do…. I stood up and limped back to my spot. I hadn't realized yet that my left arm was bleeding and so was my right leg.
My mother was in tears. "What have you done to our daughter?" she yells at my father.
"She has just felt what real power feels like and she took it. She then overpowered it with her strength to continue! She is my first born and very powerful child! She is going to be great some day, but first she needs to beat me!" says my father.
"NO!" yells my mother. "She is hurt and will faint if she loses anymore blood!"
I look at my mother and smile. "I can take it mom. I have for many years and I will finish this duel before that has come to pass. I will defeat father because I have the strength to continue and finish this before I faint or worse….die." I say and when I say that last part my mother looks like she is going to not be able to take it.
"You can't die!" yells my mother. "Your one of my babies and your sisters wouldn't know what to do without you! They love you and I love you too!"
"Love you too mom!" I say and smile. "I always will even through bad times! I hold onto your love and use it to keep me going and not to do anything! I will live and I know it!"
As soon as I said that something happened. I started to float off the ground by a bit and I kind of started freaking out because I am terrified of heights. Then I felt this warm feeling on my left arm and right leg and I looked at them as they healed right in front of my very eyes. Then I drop to the ground and I land on my feet. I am not in pain anymore and am back to normal.
"Sweet!" I say looking myself over laughing happily. Then I smile wider. "Thank you for destroying my dragon! I can use its special ability now… I can remove Destiny Dragon from play and then I can destroy one monster on your field… THEN WE BOTH LOSE HALF OF ITS ATTACK POINTS!"
My fathers eyes widen in disbelief. "It can't be!" he yells.
"Yes! It can! I DESTROY MAGICAL PRINCESS!" I yell pointing at Magical Princess. "THEN WE BOTH TAKE 1750 POINTS OF DAMAGE!"
"NO!" yells my father as he is hit with 1750 points of damage and he flies back against a tree again.
"YES!" I yell as I get hit with 1750 points of damage and I hit the Slifer Dorm again.
Dad (500-1750= 0) Annie (3500-1750= 1750)
Then I stand up again as the duel ends and I smile triumphantly. "I win." I say.
My father stands up dusting himself off and he smiles. "You win. I am proud that you could take all that and win with all the pressure I put on you and you came out triumphantly." he says smiling at me proudly.
Then something weird happens I start wobbling. "I'm tired…." I say before Jesse comes and catches me. Then he picks me up bridle style and I fall asleep in his arms. I feel safe, so I should get to rest for a bit finally.