Okay, here's the fourth chapter! There's not much for me to say other than the fact that this is going to be short and is sort of a filler chapter for the story. Almost like a little tiny bit of background since it might help clarify some things without giving too much away; though I understand if it still seems a bit confusing.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yugi-oh 5Ds or its characters or its' content. I DO own my O.C. Chrystal and this story's plot.
Only a Nightmare
"Stop! Stop! I'm not…I'm not a monster!"
Gasping, the girl shot up into a sitting position on her bed. Looking at her alarm clock, it told her that it was only six thirty-five a.m. Wide-eyed, she looked at her hands in fear as she was shaking uncontrollably. She was drenched in sweat as her hair stuck to her face like glue. Trying to catch her breath, the girl drew in her knees into her chest and wrapped her arms around herself. Burying her face between her knees and chest, she groaned, 'Ugh, not again…'
'It was only a nightmare' she reminded herself, 'it never happened, or at least the last half never did…'
Removing her blanket, she swung her legs over her bed and clutched her head. Still trying to keep her composure, she headed to the bathroom, deciding that a shower would help make her feel better; maybe. After dealing with her morning routine, the girl was trying to decide whether to wear makeup or not. Deciding that she would just wear mascara for the day, she reached for one and was about to apply it when she found herself unwilling to look at the mirror. Realizing how silly it sounded that she was afraid to look at her reflection; she shoved her fear aside and laughed at herself. 'What am I so worried for? It was just a nightmare, and most nightmares hardly ever come true. Besides, the Dark Signers are gone now; there's nothing to be worried about.'
Taking a deep breath, she raised her head to look at the mirror. She was relived to find that what she saw was a young woman around the age of seventeen with black hair and vibrant emerald green eyes with a small jagged-shaped criminal mark on the corner of her left eye and a dot-shaped criminal mark above the arch of her left eyebrow. Laughing at herself on how ridiculous she had been acting, she rolled her eyes and applied her mascara.
After having calmed down, she walked out of her bathroom and back into her bedroom. It was quite large. Her bed was across from her bedroom door and was in the middle of the room with the headboard resting against the wall. Other than the door that led to the rest of her apartment, she had a rather fair-sized walk-in closet as well as the spacey bathroom she had just walked out of. The other things in her room consisted of a simple black-colored vanity table, but she often used it as a desk for her work if she didn't feel like using the countertop in the kitchen or the coffee table in her living room. On the left side of her bed was a waist-high bookshelf in which she kept a fair amount of books and a thin photo album. On the other side of her bed was a black wooden night stand that matched her vanity table (honestly, she hadn't realized it until a friend of hers mentioned the simplicity of her room) which consisted of a lamp and her alarm clock. Next to her bathroom door, there was a smaller version of a flat-screen TV attached to the wall. She also had two laptops sitting on her vanity table. One was for work and the other was for personal use.
Heading downstairs to make breakfast, she walked down the staircase and into her kitchen which was actually conjoined with her living room; much like the standard Tops apartment condominium.
Her kitchen was sleek and classy, and had all the essential appliances. There was a sleek silver-gray two-door refrigerator, a matching metallic-silver* toaster, a large sink of the same color, a microwave, some cabinets that stored plates, bowls, cooking pots, baking pans, and silverware, and a stove and oven. In addition, there was also a coffee maker, but she only used it when she wanted coffee.
After making breakfast, she headed to her living room. It was simple and there was a large sliding glass door that led to a large balcony that allowed her to view a part of the City as well as Satellite. The balcony was large enough to fit some small potted plants, a round small-sized table with chairs, and still have room for about three other people. The living room had a long, comfy sofa and two armchairs on both sides and a small low table in the middle. There was a large flat-screen TV embedded into the same wall that connected to the sliding glass doors.
As she turned on the TV, Chrystal sat on the sofa and placed her food down on the table. Flipping through some channels, she finally got to the news. On the screen, it showed a woman with strawberry blonde hair and a man with short dirty blonde hair. In the corner of the screen, it read; '7:00 AM'.
"Welcome to New Domino City's news channel. I'm Jamie Smith and this is Brad Howard bringing updates on…"
Chrystal only paid attention to the weather part of the program, until she heard something about a bridge. Turning up the volume a little more, she was quite happy that a certain bridge was getting some attention. Her mind was actually elsewhere though and a frown graced her face as she thought about that horrible reminder of what could have happened. She just couldn't shake off the nightmare that couldn't seem to take her hint to take a hike...and hopefully get lost along the way.
"The building of Daedalus Bridge is still continuing, in favor of Rex Goodwin who passed away a few months ago. The builders still have a long ways to go, but we can tell that they are determined to finish it so that Satellite and the City can finally be reunited once again. This bridge will not only change the lives of those who live in Satellite, but here in the City too. The bridge is a symbol of hope and new beginnings for many…"
Chrystal had laughed when the newscaster said, "builders" because she knew who she had been referring to. She laughed because she just could not see a certain blonde with violet eyes and large capital 'A' earrings getting dirty while working on the bridge (even though she knew he was working his hardest, she still couldn't help but laugh every time she thought about it). It was more likely that he'd shout orders and have his 'As King, I do not do labor' kind of attitude. This would probably cause him and a certain red haired Blackwing duelist to argue, leaving a certain raven-haired duelist to pick up their share of work.
There was a reason why the newscasters never revealed the identity of the builders because as many supporters as the bridge had, there were just about as many who were against it. And well, her friends had already survived a threat to their lives just months before, so if those who were against the building of the bridge were willing to do anything to prevent its completion and found out who they were; the guys would have to put it on hold until things settled down. She knew that she would never hear the end of it from the guys because she knew that none of them would be very happy about it, including herself.
Turning off her TV, she got up after finishing her breakfast and decided that she should get going; she also had to make sure the twins were up and ready so that they wouldn't be late to school.
While knocking on the door of the twins' apartment, Chrystal waited for Ruka to open the door. Ruka was most often than not the one to greet her in the morning because her twin brother was always frantically searching for something of his whenever she arrived.
"Oh, hi! Good morning, Chrysta-nee!" greeted Ruka, as she opened the door. "Good morning, Ruka. Hey Rua!" she replied as she walked in and noticed a blur of blue and green run from upstairs through the kitchen/living room of the apartment and back.
"Hey, Chrysta-nee!" replied the blue-green blur.
"Is Rua still running around looking for his hair tie again?"
"Yeah, how'd you know?" replied Ruka.
Chrystal reached over to the rack by the door and plucked a black hair tie from one of the rungs it had been hanging on. Laughing; she said, "Because it's right here." When the little blue-green blur came back down again, the blackette was playing with it and said, "Looking for this?"
Gasping, the blue-green blur, now just a boy who needed something to tie up his shoulder-length teal-green hair, ran over to the two girls. "You're a lifesaver, Chrystal!" said Rua, while tying his hair up. "Where'd you find it?"
"Right here." replied an annoyed Ruka, who answered instead.
"Oh, whoops. Forgot I put that there." said Rua.
"Why would you leave it there?" she asked.
"I don't know. I was in a rush the other day. I guess I had forgotten it here."
"Ugh. Rua! We're lucky Chrysta-nee showed up and found it in time or else we would've been late!"
"Yeah, well, we would've found it sooner or later!"
"Rua! Ruka! Please stop arguing or we're all going to be late." The older girl interrupted; trying to get them to calm down.
"Sorry." they both said in unison.
"Don't apologize to me, apologize to each other."
"Okay. I'm sorry I snapped at you, Rua." said Ruka.
"Yeah, and I'm sorry that I yelled at you too, Ruka." said Rua.
"There. Now let's get going." said Chrystal, satisfied with finally getting them to stop arguing.
When the trio got outside of the building, the oldest of the three headed to her D-Wheel, which was in its reserved parking space. Her D-Wheel was built by her and Yusei a little while back after the Enforcers had split and gone their separate ways and before Jack had stolen Yusei's Stardust Dragon card, his first D-Wheel, and somehow escaped to the City.
It was small and had a glossy silver-metallic sheen with a tint of sky blue making it look as if it were made of ice and snow. It had thick golden streaks with thin silver ones outlining it. Its windshield was bigger and wider than most. Underneath was a screen that could connect to other D-Wheels that were listed on its contact list, which acted sort of like a phone's contact list but with D-Wheel ID numbers instead or to a certain Sector Security officer who has been recently promoted to the City and who also turns out to be her sort-of-boss. In front of the screen though, was her own custom duel disk that she made herself, with a little help from Yusei of course. (That guy was a genius whenever it concerned anything mechanical). It was pearl white and had a silver trim with a red orb-like jewel in the middle. It had a similar structure to the standard duel disk.
Chrystal didn't drive the twins to school because there's not enough room on her D-Wheel for the three of them; therefore, the twins walk to and from school every day. It's actually not that far, but when you're late, it is. The main reason why the older girl looks after these two is because she had helped Ruka wake up when she had fallen into a coma when she and Rua were very little, but Chrystal would say that it was Rua who was the one to get through to Ruka more than she had. Ever since then, their parents had entrusted the strange girl with psychic abilities to look after their two children since she didn't have a family or an actual home to go back to at the time. Plus, they kept insisting that they were in her debt so she had no choice, not that she minded, but they wouldn't have taken no for an answer anyway.
"Alright, stay safe you two!" said Chrystal, as she revved up her D-Wheel.
"We will!" The two replied in unison again.
"Don't do anything crazy while on the road, okay big sis?" said Rua.
Laughing, Chrystal said, "Rua, you make it sound like I'm a horrible driver."
"That's because you are!" said a smiling Ruka.
"H-hey! You two are so mean. When I get back home tonight, I'm so telling your parents that you two are bullying me!" she replied, whining like a little kid. After a couple of seconds the three all burst out laughing.
Between laughs, Chrystal said, "Okay. You two need to get going. I'll see you both later, alright?"
"Okay." The twins replied.
"Bye!"
"Bye!"
As she watched Rua and Ruka walk away towards the direction of their school; the Duel Academy, Chrystal couldn't help but smile. She loved those two very much, as if they were her own siblings; and, maybe that's exactly what they were now. She wouldn't ever dream of deliberately hurting them. And then she remembered.
'Stupid nightmare, why don't you go away!?'
Shaking her head to rid herself of her anxiety, Chrystal revved up the D-Wheel again and drove towards the Sector Security Bureau HQ Building.
A/N: Okay, did any of you like this chapter? I know that the last couple of chapters were kinda dark, (Idk, maybe? Kind of doubt it though), but it was a nightmare after all. In addition to that, you all were probably a little confused, but that was the whole purpose really. Dreams are like that, they're confusing and don't always have to have a legitimate reason in order for something to happen...or something like that lol don't listen to me xD
Oh and before I forget, please do tell if she's turning out to be Mary-Sue-ish in any way. And one last thing, I've changed up the POV's so now most likely it'll only be in third person limited from now on with some occasional switching. Please review and don't forget to send in the constructive criticism. :) Thank you! (:
*Thanks to SakuraMiharu for the constructive crit.
