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Chapter 4: Dark World Arrises!
The next few weeks were utter torture for Terry. She was either at school, being bugged by the school teachers, going to practice after school, to just watch her team mates duel(cause she refused to duel any extra then she needed to), or at home, where her mom got on her back about how she didn't like the idea of dueling. Her free time during lunch, and walking to and from school was wasted on being nagged by Julia,Oscar and Alein. She couldn't get a break from nothing. She especial didn't want to be bugged early in the morning on weekends either, but some people never got it through their heads.
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"Teresa..." she heard someone call softly. She rolled over and groan. "Come on Teresa..." She then found herself standing. There was this bright light in front of her. She felt strong powers and very drawn to them. She was about to take a step forward when she fell flat on her face, followed by her red sheets.
"Teresa, the phone," her mother called. Terry tossed her head up, throwing off the sheets, and allowing her hair to free fall into her eyes.
"I won't hold the phone forever!" her mother warned sounding irritated. Why is she in a bad mood?, she wondered silently, freeing herself from the tangled mess. She rubbed her eyes with one hand and used the other to open her bedroom door. She took the steps slowly, one by one, until she was standing on the same level as her mother.
"Here you go," Jennifer sighed, shoving the phone in her face. Terry snatched it and brought it up to her ear.
"What do you want?" she snapped, plopping herself onto a nearby chair.
"Hey, I'm sorry to call you, but its an emergency!" It was Julia, who sounded very panicked on the other end.
"An emergency to you is someone buying the wrong hairspray," Terry growled. "I told you, I will not help you with anything you need help with. I am not the helping type."
"Well I hope you'll help me when I need it," her mother snapped folding her arms.
"Don't listen to my conversations!" Terry shouted, getting up. "And I shouldn't even be having this one. I'm hanging up!"
"No please!" Julia pleaded. "It's for the sake of the team! Just please come to my house! Everyone's coming. Bye!" With that, the line went dead. Terry huffed angrily and hung up the phone. Everyone huh?
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"You look perfect!" Julia cheered, clapping her hand rapidly. Oscar blushed, and lowered his head.
"Why'd you make me this?" he sighed.
"Even though your not officially on the team, it's like you are," she shrugged.
"Hey, what about me?" Alein asked folding her arms, chewing hard on a piece of gum. She was being prep today.
"Uh, yours isn't done yet," Julia said. "It will be soon." Oscar was wearing an original school uniform. His blazer was black, edged with purple, and had the Zeta emblem on the left side. His dress shirt was blue, and the collar folded overtop the blazer, with a tie tucked under. His pants were neatly pressed and black, with blue and purple stripes down he side.
"I especially like the back of the pants," Julia grinned. Oscar shamefully turned around, and "ZETA" was spelt out in big bold letter on the butt of the pants.
"I think it's cute too," Alein nodded in agreement. "I like yours too."
"Thank you," Julia grinned happily, spinning around a few times. Her shirt was purple with blue stripes on the short sleeves and made of cotton with the Zeta emblem on the left side. Her skirt was past knee length, and black, with fancy purple lace on the ends, as well as down the sides. The back of her skirt across the butt also said "ZETA".
"Where do you find time for this stuff?" Cody asked, coming out of the bathroom, adjusting his vest. It was black with a few purple and blue stripes criss-crossing, and a Zeta emblem. It was over a blue T-shirt. His pants were black jeans, with purple stitching down the sides. With, of course, "ZETA" across the butt.
"Not bad," Julia nodded in admiration. "I got the dimensions pretty good."
"Not with mine you didn't," Andrew sighed, coming down the stairs from the upstairs bathroom. The sleeves on his blue jacket were way too long. It too had a Zeta emblem, and black cuffs. Underneath he wore a plain black muscle shirt. His paints were black jeans as well, except there were flame designs on them made from purple stitching. His visor had "ZETA" written across it, as did the butt of his pants.
"Oh, shoot!" Julia sighed. "Looks like I'll need to trim it, a few inches. Here, give me it." He was more then happy to take it off and hand it over.
"Why would you go through all this trouble?" Cody asked. "We already have school uniforms."
"Well, you have to admit the uniforms are blah!" she found a pair of scissors and sat down on the couch next to Alein. "I wanted us to go with some style, not just with good dueling skills."
"When is your first duel anyway?" Oscar asked, fixing the sleeves of his blazer.
"Next Monday," Andrew answered, watching Julia go crazy with the scissors, then grabbed a needle and thread.
"A week from tomorrow?" Alein gasped. "Why that is like so awesome! You nervous?"
"And why would we be?" Cody laughed. "It's not like we have the school's entire reputation on our shoulders."
"But you do," Oscar pointed out. Cody shook his head, and rolled his eyes. Oscar just shrugged and grabbed a bag of chips out of no where. He happily began to chow down, oblivious to the mess he was making.
"All done!" Julia announced, holding up Andrew's fixed jacket. "Try it now." Andrew looked over at Cody doubtfully, who just shrugged. He took the jacket and slipped it on, surprised to find it fit perfectly.
"I know I'm good," Julia grinned. "I wonder where Terry is."
"Knowing that girl, she probably won't show," Alein sighed.
"Oh, well, I'll just bring her her clothes tomorrow," Julia shrugged.
"Or later on today. We're suppose to have another practice this afternoon," Cody remembered.
"Why does she even bother showing up?" Andrew asked. "She doesn't even duel."
"At least she's staying dedicated," Oscar shrugged, finishing the last of his bag.
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It was finally the afternoon, and Terry was making her way to Zeta School's Gym, where they were suppose to be having another practice. She didn't understand why she even went. It's not like she dueled or anything. She'd much rather go down town and duel. Compared to down town, the dueling club was a tea party. She'd rather be where the big leagues were. Even past down town, all the way to Duel Academy.
The School of dueling, resting on a large private island. Ever since she built her deck and became a really good duelist, she dreamed of walking up those giant steps to the main doors, ready to take on anyone she had to, to make it to the top. But her dreams came to a crashing halt when...When did they come to a halt? For all she could remember, her mother always forbid her from going to duel Academy. When it came time for the School Entry Duels, she was heart broken and became rotten about everything...or was she bitter before then? Nothing made sense. Things didn't even seem to add up.
She was beginning to feel incomplete, but the feeling went away when she was punched in the shoulder.
"Jerk!" she shouted, turning around, swinging her arm ready to punch whoever hit her. She was hoping she'd catch him off guard and hit him square in the face, but her fist pounded the palm of a defensive hand.
"Still have reflexes I see." It was Jurel.
"Don't touch me again you scum!" Terry warned, pulling her fist free of his hand. Candy was standing next to him, sucking on a big blue sucker, that made her lips turn color.
"Oh, I'm so scared," he pretended to sound afraid. "Those are some real fighting words."
"Don't talk to me!" she warned, and made her way towards the school again, but Jurel and Candy were in close pursuit.
"Where ya goin'?" Jurel asked, shoving his hands into his pockets.
"None of your business," Terry snapped.
"Guess we'll just have to follow you and find out," Candy smirked, sucking harder on her sucker.
"You jerks will do no such thing," Terry ordered, and quickened her pace.
"You can't get rid of us that easily," Jurel laughed. Terry didn't reply and kept on walking.
"Why do you always push people away?" Candy asked, pretending to sound concerned. "We're your friends..."
"You are not my friends!" Terry shouted.
"Still holding grudges?" Jurel laughed. "You need to learn to let the past go."
Let it go? They used her to steal and sell rare cards, then left her hanging when she was caught. These too were idiots if they thought she would forget what they did. They never cared about her, they only pretended too, like they are now.
"You guys are really full of it to think I'm going to be nice to you," Terry snapped. "I don't want to be bother by you guys anymore, and I want you to leave me alone!"
"Raising your voice ain't gonna solve nothin'," Jurel smiled.
"Is there a problem here?" The three of them stopped in there tracks as a limo pulled up in front of them with Andrew's head sticking out of it.
"Why don't you just keep on riding rich boy," Candy spat. "This matter doesn't concern you."
"Well, you messing with our teammate!" Julia shouted stepping out of the car on the other side. "Mess with her, and you mess with us!" She could barely look over the limo. Jurel and Candy began to laugh there heads off.
"You must be kidding me," Jurel laughed. "This petty rich boy, and that short girl are on your team? Talk about pathetic."
"Why don't you pout your deck where your mouth is?" Cody shouted stepping out next to Julia.
"I'm not stupid enough to keep one," Jurel snapped.
"Well at least they have the brains to keep a deck in one piece!" Alein shouted, pulling Andrew out of the way and sticking her head out the window. "Get lost you freaks."
"You calling me a freaky, you preppy puss?" Candy asked, rolling up her sleeves.
"Preppy puss?" Alein gasped. "That is like, the stupidest insult I've ever heard! You-"
"If you guys are trying to stick up for me, you're doing a pretty pathetic job of it!" Terry interrupted. They all stared at her in disbelief. "I don't need your help for the last time. Now lets get this hour and a half practice done already." She marched angrily around the limo, and finished the walk to the school that was right across the street.
"We'll meet again," Candy warned, pointing threateningly at Alein as Jurel pulled her away.
"I'll be waiting," Alein stuck out her tongue.
"I swear," Oscar sighed, still sitting in the car. "I do not get Terry at all."
"I know, eh?" Alein agreed.
"It's not like anyone can get her either," Cody whispered to Julia, who couldn't help but giggle.
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"So who should duel first?" Cody asked, putting his hands behind his head, and leaned back in the stands. They all sat around him, while Terry sat not too far away. She liked to sit alone.
"I'm like, getting really bored of watching you guys all the time," Alein whined. "So, I wanna duel someone." No one said anything.
"Cody'll duel you," Andrew finally spoke up.
"I'll do what?" Cody shouted, falling backwards into the next row of seats.
"Awesomess!" Alein squealed, jumping up from her seat. "Come on Cody!" She gleefully skipped down the aile stairs and onto the gym floor.
"I hate you man," Cody groaned, and sluggishly walked out onto the floor. Terry sat up in her seat.
"You guys ready?" Julia asked.
"Yup," Alein grinned, turning on her duel disk.(ALP 4000)
"I guess," Cody sighed sliding his deck into the disk.(CLP 4000)
"DUEL!"
"Ladies first?" Cody offered.
"Sure," Alein smiled, drawing her sixth card. She then slapped it down on the Duel Disk without hesitation. A violet and beige alien burst from the ground in front of her. He had large claws and sharp teeth. (ATK 1800)(DEF 1000) "I'll summon Alien Warrior in attack mode, and I'll play "A" Cell Breeding Device,and I think I'll add a face down." A tall cylindrical device rose slowly from the ground, filled with bubbling liquid and a few of those A-Counters.
"Gross," Julia pretended to gag.
"Your turned," Alein grinned, cocking out a hip. Cody rolled his eyes and drew his next card, adding it to his hand.
"Zure, Knight of Dark World, come on out!" As he lightly placed a card on the field, a mutated man with a long purple, with a long double edged sword spun out of the ground.(ATK 1800)(DEF 1500) He gave a large sinister grin, and held his sword out in front of him, pointing at the Alien.
"Oh wow!" Alein cheered. "Our monsters are like, both purple! That is like, so cool!" Everyone lowered their heads and stared at her blankly.
"I'm beginning to agree with Cody," Oscar sighed, bitting a burger. "She really is an alien."
"Where'd you get that?" Julia asked bewildered. "A minute ago you didn't even have any food." Oscar just shrugged and took another bite.
"I'll end my turn," Cody announced, not placing another card down.
"Alright!" Alein cheered. "My Breeding Device can now take affect!" An A-counter shot out of the machine, and attached itself to Zure's arm.
"What the?"
"During each of my Standby Phases I get to add an "A"-Counter on one of your monsters," Alein grinned, drawing a card. "I'll now summon Alien Mars!" An alien with three tentacles beamed down out of no where, with red circles on his head and chest. (ATK 1000)(DEF 1000) "Alright, now Alien Warrior, attack Zure."
"But they'll both be destroyed," Andrew said thoughtfully. "What is she-" (ATK 1500)
"Hey why'd Zure's attack points go down?" Cody demanded, as his monster was destroyed by the effortless swing of the Alien's mighty claw. (CLP 3700)
"It's my Alien Warrior's effect," Alein rolled her eyes, as if she was really annoyed. "During the battle phase, a monster battling an Alien and is attached with an A-Counter loses 300 attack points. So he lost his points, and like, lost the battle."
"I don't like her today," Julia sighed, folding her arms.
"I don't like her any day," Andrew shook his head, looking extremely irritated. "I don't get why she follows us. She never use to bother us."
"Not much we can do though," Oscar shrugged, after finishing the remains of his burger.
"Now Alien Mars, attack him directly," She cheered, excitedly. The alien floated over to Cody and slapped him in the face with one of its tentacles. (CLP 2700)
"Ouch," Julia winced. "That's gotta hurt."
"Why'd he have to slap me?" Cody complained, cushioning his now swollen cheek.
"He doesn't like you," She shrugged. "I'll end my turn with another face down."
Cody growled and drew, immediately placing it down on the field. "Come forward, Scarr, Scout of Dark World!" A four-legged beast sprung from the ground. It seemed like a grey creature covered with red armor, with a tiny squiggled knife in his hand. (ATK 500)(DEF 500)
"What a weak monster," Alein snorted. "What do you plan on doing with that little weakling."
"Nothing right now," he answered. "But I am going to activate Dark World Lightning!" Storm clouds suddenly appeared over the two duelist. A strong breeze whipped through, blowing everyone's hair.
"What are you doing?" Alein whined.
"This allows me to destroy one of your face down cards," He explained. A bolt of purple lightning then struck Alein's first face down card.
"Waaaaaaaaah!" She cried. "You're so mean!" Cody only shook his head.
"Now I need to discard a card from my hand," He slipped a card into the graveyard, and the ground before him broke up again.
"HUH!?" Everyone leaned forward in surprise, except for Terry. A skeletal man with purple muscles now stood next to Scarr. (ATK 1600)(DEF 1300)
"Meet Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World," Cody smirked.
"How did he get there!" Alein shouted, looking stressed, as if she couldn't keep up with what was going on.
"By discarding Beiige to my graveyard by a card effect, I was able to summon him to the field," He explained. "Pretty cool huh?"
"Really cool," Oscar agreed, lifting a giant pretzel covered with mustard into the air.
"OSCAR!" Julia shriek.
"What?" He jumped up, thinking something was extremely wrong.
"You have to quit with the magical food appearing out of no where thing!" She cried. "You're going to become obese!"
"I'm not yet," he shrugged, shoving half of it into his mouth.
"OK, Beiige!" Cody shouted. "Attack Alien Mars!" The man charged forward, his knife-ended staff gripped tightly in both hands. With one swipe, he shattered the alien into tiny pixels.
"WAH!!" Alein wailed, tears flooding down her face.(ALP 3400)
"Oh, quit crying!" Cody growled irritated. "You are so annoying!"
"And I'm not going to go easy on you anymore," She sniffed, whipping her eye. "Now end your turn!"
"All done," He snapped. Alein stuck her tongue at him immaturely, and drew a card, as an A-counter flew out of the machine, attaching itself to Beiige.
"Good thing you didn't destroy my other card! I'll now activate it,Interdimensional Warp!" The card flipped up revealing a picture of a person with an A-Counter on them, and spinning arrows behind them. Beiige then let out a roar, as he was pulled to Alein's side of the field.
"What are you doing?" Cody demanded.
"I'm taking your monster and giving you mine," She smirked, sticking out her hip. "Sorry buddy, but I need to give you to that bad boy so I can win." Alien Warrior, nodded, and ran over to Cody, giving him an evil glare.
"Why is she taking his when its weaker?" Oscar asked, tilting his head to the side.
"She obviously has a trick up her sleeve," Andrew sighed. "Pay attention. People don't pull stupid stunts like that unless it has a meaning behind it." Oscar shied away, surprisingly still with a piece of his pretzel.
"Now, I'll tribute your pathetic monster, and summon my ace!" She cheered. Beiige shattered, replaced by a growing fog on Alein's side of the field.the entire gym went dark, and the ground began to shake. Julie screeched, and grabbing onto the nearest thing, which was Oscar. She was squeezing him so hard, his was was beginning to turn blue. If he hadn't choked, she wouldn't have eased on her grip. Andrew straighten himself up as a loud roar echoed through the room. Even Terry became interested. It was becoming more interesting.
"Meet...!" Alein shouted as the fog grew. "Cosmic! Horror! Gangi'el!" A humongous alien then emerged from the fog, as tall as the gym's high ceiling. Julie and Oscar were now both cringing, and holding each other tightly. It was hard to describe the creature, but it had large tentacles sprouting everywhere, with long claw-like things in the front. (ATK 2600)(DEF 2000)
"Damn," Terry laughed. "I'd like to see him get passed that."
"He will," Andrew snapped. "He always does."
"That's a level 7!" Cody objected. "How can you summon a level seven with only one tribute?"
"Since it was your monster, I only need on to summon him," she sneered. "I know I'm good." Cody rolled his eyes. "Now, Gangi'el, I can activae his ability. Once per turn I can add an A-counter to a monster." An A-counter was spit out of his gigantic mouth, and attached to Scarr. "Now, destroy his little weakling of a monster!" With the giant claws, it tore up Scarr. He stood no chance against the giant beast, and what was worse was that he lost 300 life point due to the A-counter. (CLP 300)
"YAY!" Alein cheered. "You're going to lose!" Cody didn't look to hopeful.
"Come on Cody!" Amdrew shouted. "You can do this! You still have Alien Warrior on your field!"
"Please turn the lights on," Julia whispered, still clinging onto Oscar.
"I'm so scared, I'm not even hungry," He shuddered.
"Your turn, loser," Alein giggled, holding an "L" up to her forehead. Cody drew his next card, and hope crossed his face.
"I'll play Dark World Dealings!" The card he held out began to glow.
"And how is that suppose to help you?" Alein asked.
"We both draw a card, then discard one," he explained, doing just that.
"Maybe he's doing that discard a monster by effect, and summon thing?" Oscar guessed.
"That might be it," Julia nodded. "There shall be light!"
"Shut up and watch," Terry hissed. Alein did the same.
"Now what?" she shrugged.
"Now...," Cody smirked. "I bring out my ace." The ground broke in front of him allowing a rainbow of light to break through the darkness. Julia and Oscar cheered, jumping to their feet.
"What?!" Alein shouted.
"I discarded him by the effect of my spell card, now i can activate his ability by summoning him to the field," Cody announced. "Please welcome Reign-Beaux! Overlord of Dark World!" A giant fiend emerged slowly from the opening in the floor. Black, and giant horns, with four rainbow jewels on his chest. Giant wings sprouting from his back, and a mighty staff in his hands. At the sight of the attack points, everyone's hope melted, except for Andrew's.(ATK 2500)(DEF 1800)
"Yes!" He cheered. "He's got this in the bag!"
"Are you blind?" Julia shouted. "he's 100 attack points short. He'll never win!"
"Just watch!" Andrew shouted back.
"HAHAHAHA!" Alein squealed. "He's not strong enough to defeat my monster!"
"He is with his ability," Cody corrected. "Since I special summoned him the way I did, i can either destroy all Trap and Spell cards on your side of the field, or..."
"My monsters?" She squeaked, shrinking down.
"Exactly!" he grinned. Reign-Beaux's staff began to glow, and he swung it at the giant alien. It was wrapped in a shell of rainbow light, before it caved in on itself, crying out in defeat.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Alein was slumped on the floor, crying.
"Now that your fields empty, I can have both my monsters attack you," Cody grinned in triumph. Reign-Beaux didn't hesitate in surrounding Alein in a sphere of light, draining her life points. (ALP 900) Alien Warrior was more reluctant to attack, and only tapped her on the shoulder to take away the remainder of her life points. (ALP 0) the holograms faded, and the lighting became normal again.
"YAY!" Julia cheered. "It's bright again."
"I knew I'd win," Cody smiled. "That was a short battle, but you did A good job."
"Hmph," Alein pouted, and stomped up toward the exit. "I'm never speaking to you again!" She slammed the door behind her.
"Watch tomorrow, she'll say she was just upset and being a little over dramatic, but never meant a word of it," Oscar sighed. "She's so weird."
"And your one to talk," Terry mumbled under her breath.He didn't catch on to what she said.
"I think we should rest up the next week, not worry about dueling," Andrew suggest.
"Good idea," Cody agreed, walking up the stands. Terry got up, and began to walk toward the exit.
"Where ya going?" Oscar asked.
"Nunya," was all she said, before disappearing out into the hallway.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Julia asked, scratching her head.
"Suppose we'd better get going too," Oscar shrugged. "No need to stay here any longer."
"Or, we could duel," Andrew suggested. "Break doesn't start 'til tomorrow."
"Sure," Cody grinned, and they two friends, raced back down to the gym floor.
"What did she mean by Nunya?" Julia was still pondering this, while Oscar started eating a bowl of noodles.
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That night Terry dreamed. she dreamed about something out of the ordinary. Something she never thought was even thinkable. It was horrible, and wonderful at the same time. But when she woke up, she couldn't remember a second of it. She sat awake most of the night after that, shuffling through her deck. she didn't understand anything anymore. Every time she tried to think about her foggy past, she somehow deluded it, and it became even foggier. her dream had something to do with it. If only she could remember. She began to feel incomplete, hollow with out a meaning, but the feeling suddenly was swept away, and she was over come by sleep again. She shrugged, and put her deck away, hoping to receive more sleep.
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The little creature felt Terry's presence. That all it ever felt. The beat of her heart, the warmth of her body, the thoughts on her mind. Everything she went through, it did as well. its soul-purpose was to prevent her from remembering. Remembering her past. For her past would bring a downfall. A downfall that was unknown, yet known to happen. I could be the downfall of his master, or of her own existence. Who knew? Certainly not it. Day after day, year after year, it watched over her, protecting her from her destiny.
Even though it knew it, sometimes it felt like its identity was Terry herself. Every emotion, every thought, every form of speech was shared with it. It had no true identity, so it sometimes got lost, and thought it was terry herself. But its master was always there, to keep it focused on its job. its soul-purpose. It never thought or acted on its own, only what was order of it. And that was to keep the horrors and wonders that could happen to the worlds through this one child. This one heart.
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The next day, Terry, was exhausted. She managed to fall asleep again, but it seemed like she didn't receive enough. She opened her locker, and managed to get her stuff out for her first class before Julia found her, but it wasn't enough to avoid her completely.
"Terry wait!" Julia called, when she tried to duck away.
"What?" She growled, staring down at her.
"I was wondering," she said. "What did you mean by 'Nunya'?"
