Author: Cornelia Fox
Beta: Kuro Ookami Hatake
Title: Dark Forces of the Light
Prequel
Gentre: Angst/Romance
Rated: T+
chapters: 1 out of 3
Main Pairing: JadenxChazz/ChazzxJaden
Summary: Chazz wants to finally beat Jaden. That is why he joins the Society of Light. Jaden wants Chazz back that's why he decides to act even if it changes the fate of the world. [AUish][Shonen ai]
A/N: I'm back after years of hiatus and humbly present my first story of this fandom to you. definetly needs more of this pairing.
This is actually a prequel to a story I might start. So, please tell me your thoughts on this.
Big thanks goes to my beta reader Kuro Ookami Hatake who did the job very well =D
Chapter one
I'll catch up to you, just you wait
I can do it, yes I can
It will be MY victory!
So, in order to become stronger,
to finally beat you,
I'll see you on the other side....
Chazz
Jaden with a big fat grin plastered all over his face. Another grinning Jaden. Another Jaden, but now with an angry look on his face. Jaden determined. Jaden sad. Jaden happy. Again Jaden grinning... or was it a smirk?
Chazz paused for a moment, looking intently at the picture of his rival.
No, he was definetly grinning. Again. Chazz looked at the next photograph.
One could say that Chazz had a stalking problem. He on the other hand would say, that his problem was the boy on those photographs.
Jaden…Jaden…Jaden..…
Chazz's eyes narrowed dangerously, before he threw the photos against the wall that held the rest of the pictures, watching as some of them glided down his desk. He was very pissed.
Suddenly Chazz stood up and banged his fists forcefully against the wooden desk. The chair he had sat on a few seconds ago screeched and fell with a loud thud to the floor.
"WHY CAN'T I JUST WIN AGAINST THAT LOSER!!!", he screamed.
He turned and kicked away the chair, which flew against his kingsized bed and broke into two pieces.
He panted heavily and glared at the shards of wood on the floor. The room he was standing in, his own personal room, was stuffy and dark. But none of this mattered to him - he just saw the many faces of Jaden Yuki. They were hanging on his wall, like posters of pop idols would hang in a normal teenage girl's room. However, Chazz Princeton was not normal; But neither was Jaden Yuki. He was his rival. His goddamned rival who possessed more luck than any actual capability for duelling. Chazz knew that he was better than Jaden...but why wouldn't he win a single duel against the Slifer red then?
Chazz huffed and defeatedly leaned against the edge of his desk and stared off into space.
Jaden Yuki had occupied his every thought since day one. He just couldn't get the out of his head. And before he even knew it, the chirpy Slifer had turned into some sort of obsession for him. He just couldn't figure him out! Even though Jaden was so simple minded, this one point –said point being that he kept losing to said Slifer duelist- was a mystery he could not solve and no matter how hard Chazz trained and tried he always got the same result. He. Fucking. Loses. Again. And Again. And…
And then that Aster Phoenix just came by, babbled something about destiny and fought Jaden like he was no real opponent. And Jaden fucking lost!
Chazz should be happy to see the boy finally lose, but he wasn't. It just made him even angrier! Why? Because it wasn't Chazz who swept the ground with him - it was someone else! It did not matter who - it WAS SOMEONE ELSE and NOT HIM!
Chazz gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, pinching his nose in order to calm himself.
And now Jaden is depressed, and claims he can't see his cards anymore and therefore can't duel anymore. Chazz snorted. Oh, please!
And his friends were all over him, fussing and being their annoying selves even more than they usually were. Jaden is this, Jaden is that. Oh, poor Jaaaden-baby. Chazz could scream with fustration!
This day, unable to listen the Slifer slacker's friends being dumb, he escaped to the cliffs; and low and behold, he ran into the sulking brown haired boy.
Chazz had tried his best to cheer up the sullen boy, he really, really did. But the Slifer seemed to be miles away. He could not reach him, and he knew the boy just needed a thorough kick in the ass, by being duelled by the great and superawesome Chazz Princeton, and the problem would be solved on it's own.
But Jaden ignored Chazz, yes, Chazz was being IGNORED by that unworthy little brat, who was actually a bit taller than him, and walked away mumbling something about "Yeah, maybe later". 'Later, your ass!! ' He should have screamed, but he hadn't. Instead the ex-Obelisk had stared wide-eyed after him,eyes full of anger and ...were those pangs of pain?
Chazz opened his eyes, finding them moist, the fact resulting in angering him all the more. Oh no, Chazz Princeton is SO not going to cry over that slacker!
At that moment, Chazz heard a loud bang of a door being shut brutally, but too much force was used on it, causing the door to bounce open again.
The black-haired boy straightened up a little.
Jaden?
Chazz stalked out of his room and looked at the other end of the terrace and he had been right: Jaden had come back from wherever he had been, his door just a little opened. He tiptoed to Jaden's door and looked inside of it, hearing Jaden mumbling something and actually seeing his back as he seemed to look for something.
"I have to go away from here..." Jaden said to himself. Chazz's eyes widened a little. He had to what...?
"...There's no one who I can duel anyway..." Anger flared up inside of Chazz as he heard this and he backed away from the door, not stopping until he felt the cool metal of the black rail on his back.
'Th-that bastard!' Chazz thought, seeing red. 'Jaden you arrogant bastard! FINE! Just LEAVE then if you don't see any worthy opponents anymore!'
Chazz turned around and ran like a wounded dog, not seeing to were he was actually going.
Jaden thought he heard something and stepped out of his room, seeing Chazz's quickly retreating back.
'Chazz...?'
xXx
Later that day ,Chazz was sitting with the others, just being silent and trying to keep his mind blank as possible. If he didn't, he was sure his thoughts would resolve about Jaden again. He paused in his thoughts as Syrus' shaken cry of Jaden being gone missing slashed through the peace. Chazz stood up slowly his eyes narrowing. So the slacker had really done it...
Chazz shook his head. No, this was not a solution! He had to find Jaden before he even tried to get off the island and force some sense onto him.
So he ran off with the others, searching until late in the night...
'You can run, but you can't escape your problems.' He thought bitterly. Yeah, he understood Jaden's situation, only because it once had been his own and he knew from personal experience that it was not a good idea to run away. The problems would still haunt you and would not get solved on their own.
Those nasty monster spirits, those Ojama brothers, appeared and annoyed the hell out of him again, saying something about him being deep and him just being sad, that he was missing Jaden. He ignored them and took out his anger verbally on the innocent Ojamas.
That was when he heard that fateful voice...
"Trust them, they need to know. They mean well. It's not often that monster spirits communicate with people. But when they find someone they trust they can be quite loyal…you have a gift, Mr Princeton."
Chazz looked up and saw a strange man clad in white with long, violet hair pooling behind his back. The man had a strange, calm aura around him and the ex-Obelisk was instantly on his guard.
"How do you know my name? ", Chazz asked sharply.
The man laughed evilly and didn't even blink.
" Because I have a gift as well. I am known as Sartorious and I travelled quite a ways to meet you." All the while he was talking he stared at Chazz with unmoving eyes. Chazz felt weird.
"Yeah? And why do you wanna meet me?" Chazz asked defensively.
"Simple. I could use someone like you. Someone with the power to talk to monster spirits."
Chazz felt very good suddenly. Well, he WAS very good and yeah…
"It's one of my talents.", he said sure of himself with his raspy voice.
"Impressive...talent AND confidence." Sartorius grinned like a maniac.
"You better believe it!"
"Tell you what, I have an idea, why don't you show me what you've got? Perhaps I'll sign you on as my client..."
Chazz was instantly interested. He could get to Pro League in no time if he had a good manager! What? He managed Aster Phoenix? Phoenix had beaten Jaden. And Chazz did the rest of the calculation. Maybe this was his key to finally winning against Jaden! Well, he knew he could of course beat Jaden without even breaking a sweat…
Yeah, right.
So Chazz started battling Sartorius, successfully ignoring the Ojamas, and pushing Jaden into the farthest corner of his mind.
Once he dueled against THE CHAZZ he would forget all about that stupid Aster Phoenix.
….
Why was it so hard to battle that maniac? Really, could he get any creepier? And What was that awful feeling in the pitch of his stomach?
He had never ever felt this helpless before. It was even worse than against Jaden. Was he really that bad? Didn't he stand a chance against anyone?!
Chazz shook his head. He was being brainwashed! This had to stop! He HAD to focus!
He looked up at the Sartorius' spinning card.
This card will spin until you say stop. If it stops right side up then I can destroy every monster that is on your side of the field. But if it's upside down, you get to destroy all of my monsters.
"Alright STOP!!!"
Chazz began to understand that feeling. It was fear. He was so afraid he couldn't think clearly anymore. Why do the suroundings spin this much and since when?
The card stopped the wrong way again. AGAIN!!!
Sartorius started to laugh "I know what you fear the most : FAILURE" and Chazz's monsters were destroyed, instantly.
Chazz's eyes grew wide. Failure? Who had taught the bitterness of failure all the more than he had already known?
'Whose stronger than me?'
Instantly a picture of a grinning Jaden came into his mind. Chazz shivered.
"Together you and I will walk into the light…to conquer Jaden.", Sartorius whispered.
"I don't know!", Chazz howled confusedly like a wounded wolf. What he meant was he didn't know what to do. His mind didn't work right anymore!
Half of Sartorious' face cried and the other grined evilly, like one of those masks in the theatre. Was it just his imagination? Was he imagening things? What the hell was wrong with him?
Again, a picture of Jaden popped into his mind. He wished that he would win…Just once. Why couldn't he? Since Jaden defeated him the first time his life had turned upsidedown. He had destroyed his relationship with his brothers. He -
"...There's no one who I can duel anyway..."
Chazz's eyes widened. Pangs of pain crashed inside of him, his throat constricted and his lungs didn't seem to have any air left. He was in pain. In great pain. He wanted to win. But he couldn't. What gods hated him this much so that he had to endure this terrible life?
"Alright! Help me! Show me the light! ", he cries. And what was said was done. Sartorius' monster The Hangman grabbed him by the ankle and lifted him upways, his life points decreased to zero.
The Ojamas cried for him, Sartorius laughed and he himself screamed at the top of his lungs. His last thoughts floated around Jaden, before those thoughts were replaced by thoughts of the light.
He was reborn.
He didn't know, but his resolve broke at the same time as Jaden Yuki left the island, leaving behind everything he had once loved , never once looking back.
'I'll be back soon. I promise.'
End: Chapter one; review, please!