Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay... Lots of stupid homework. I have two tests tomorrow so its honestly a miracle that I could find time to post.
I really don't know how to feel about this chapter. Its pretty dark and really scary. The characters kind of took over and it flowed really well so I kept it. The ending isn't nearly as dark as it sounds, believe me I don't want to write such a dark story quite yet. I'm hoping you guys will like it but I would totally understand if you guys didn't. So on with the chapter!
Who knew glowing caused so much panic?
North Academy is about to get interesting
SPOV
I didn't really care who saw me on the way to my class. I was so lost already that I had absolutely no other options other that to use my gift. People were going to see it next period inevitability. My next class was a critique class so I looked for purple, green, red, and a bit of blue mixed in with a bunch of monster spirits of course. I wandered with my eyes a bit looking through all the classrooms until I found the right mix and Blair's mostly pink aura indicating the correct classroom. I couldn't wait to see her and I was glad to have someone I knew in a class.
I ran as fast as I could safely until I got to the outside dueling grounds. It looked similar to a bunch of outdoor basketball courts without the hoops obviously. One side was painted a bright red and the other was a deep royal blue color with clean white lines. I looked around to see who was in my class, and I was mostly pissed. I saw Blair, which was amazing, but at least three people from the slut squad were here, including Kari. I internally groaned until I saw Ruby Carbuncle here. My eyes got wide and I seriously though I might puke. Jesse was in this class and I was either going to die of embarrassment or I was going to get ripped apart by Kari, both of which were not exactly fun in my book.
When I surveyed the people a range of expressions were on peoples' faces. Some looks were ones of pure hatred that mainly belonged to the slut squad. Most though were ones of indifference. I was glad that they couldn't care whether I was here or not and that they still had not figured out who I was. But then I was his face. It appeared to be strained, forced even. I didn't understand why Jesse could hate me so much after only knowing me for what, twenty-four hours? His feelings for me appeared to be on a yo-yo, going from attachment to annoyance to slightly romantic feelings to just being plain uncomfortable around me. To say the least I am thoroughly confused by teenage boys, especially Jesse.
"Hi, I'm Sage Arone. I'm new here and I got lost on the way here. I'm sorry," I said to the teacher as I looked down at my feet in an effort to hide my rising blush.
"Don't worry about it. I was just going over the basic school rules but with your status you'll be able to figure them out. My name is Dr. Kemp Smith and welcome to our class. Would you like to observe or duel today?" the professor said with a voice that hinted at concern.
When I looked up I was immediately taken aback by pure fear. He was muscular to say the least but he was easily two feet taller than me. His hair was a midnight black and pulled into a braid in the back. A thick yellow headband wrapped around his forehead and leather bands on his biceps. His entire outfit indicated that he was a professor from the Ra Yellow dorm and if it weren't for his goofy smile I would have though he was going to full on crush me. (AN: for his hair think of Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist with a bright yellow headband and black hair)
"I think I'll watch today if you don't mind," I said as the relief washed over me. I might actually be able to postpone my humiliation so that it wasn't in front of Kari, at least for the first time.
I sat down next to Blair who had a big smile on her face and began to watch one of the matches going on. A Ra girl was getting her butt kicked by a Slifer Red boy. To me, the ranks meant nothing other than a way to identify people. I personally could point out a few people that were either over or under ranked. I watched as their life points steadily moved down to zero. I put on my sunglasses so I could get some more insight into the duelists' minds, as well as their cards.
The Ra girl had the perfect combo with her Umi card that would make her win but she didn't play it. Instead she brought back a penguin solider card from her grave, using monster reborn, and destroyed the boy's Gladiator Beast Hoplomus and Gladiator Beast Bestiari opening up the field for a direct attack. Unfortunately the boy's face down changed that. Mirror force activated and her life points went down to zero. Her aura purple aura was so blue tinted that I almost couldn't keep mine from going to the same color. At least she was fully committed to her deck and her duels. It was almost heartbreaking and I knew if I didn't as much practice walling others as I did now, I would be bawling too.
I couldn't help but notice Jesse's heavy presence behind me. I couldn't be obliged to deal with him right now. So when he said something about the duel in my general direction I just ignored him. The only thing he can be called is conflicting and I just have too much to deal with now.
Then it was time for critique of this duel. Some boy that wasn't paying attention praised his Slifer friend to no end and didn't even say one thing about the cards. A slut squad girl didn't say anything nice about either one of them and just said that she could beat either one. Blair actually gave some good critique on the beginning of the duel and then it was my turn.
"Next time try sacrificing your mermaid knight on the field to summon the Levia-Dragon – Daedalus in your hand. Then tribute your Umi card to destroy all the monsters on his field. Your monster would have had enough Attack points to lower his life points to zero and you would have won," I said without thinking twice. I realized then that no one else but the Ra girl should have know what cards she had in her hand.
I could feel the stares boring into my head and I knew then and there people could figure out who and what I was. I wish I had the power to control time because I wish I could have been a regular person for more than twenty-four hours. I turned my head slightly to see a dumbstruck Blair next to me. From what I could sense without my eyes glowing was the same expression on everyone's faces.
"How the hell could you see that? How did you know what my cards were?" the Ra girl asked first.
I decided that I might as well tell/show everyone who and what I was before people started to get panic attacks or worse, come up with their own theories. I took a deep breath, removed my glasses and turned to face most of my classmates. Their faces ranged from dumbstruck to angry to mildly bored (Kari). I let my eyes cross over and glow a bright white. Green tints instantly commanded the group of students but I could feel a strong black aura with an undercurrent of green. I few people even took a step back and a couple had the nerve to pull out cameras. Great, now I have to do damage control. I always hated when people made things more difficult than they needed to be.
"Put the cameras down! If I find one picture, you're dead! I am Sage Arone the true psychic duelist. I have the gift of aura reading. I can read minds, sense people's emotions and I'm a pro duelist. Back off or we're going to have problems." I decided to give a bit of a show. When people fear you, they don't mess with you. I didn't want any problems and if fear was a reliable method, so be it. I wish I didn't have to do it this way but I didn't really have a choice. My life at North Academy was already shattered and there is nothing I can do about it.
Everyone backed away from me then except Blair. I couldn't understand why her aura was more of a yellow green but I could not care. She was the first person that even had friendship cross her mind after I told people what I was. I could tell that Blair honestly cared about me and we were going to be real friends.
I could feel myself begin to cry with all the emotions stirring in my mind. I had just shown people what I was and they were scared. People were honestly scared of me and I just felt like I deserved to have people hate me. Almost like I was too broken to be liked. It was too much for me to bear and I collapsed. I could feel myself being caught by not one but two people. The last thing I saw was two fully yellow auras looking at me before I fainted.
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When I woke up, it felt like my mind was detached from my body. The room I was in was just a bright white blurry haze. I could see Jesse with his face in his hands and Blair screaming at him about something. Her arms were up in the air and her face was a bright red. Everything was so blurry and I couldn't make out what they were saying exactly.
"Tell…stupid…like her. Damn it!" and other streams of disjointed sounds came from both of them. I was way too out of it to even try to keep up with the conversation. I must have been given some morphine or something because I just screamed at both of them. I barely remembered screaming after I did so. The both looked at me like I was insane but then their expressions changed.
Jesse looked manic while Blair just looked relieved. She came to sit by me and run her fingers through my tangled hair. Some feeling had come back to me and Blair's finger just felt soothing and my eyelids began to flutter. Keeping consciousness was really hard with her doing that so I pushed her away. I couldn't go back to sleep like that and keep my dignity so I forced myself awake.
"Sage, can you hear me?" Blair asked in a concerned tone.
"Yeah, what the hell happened? Why is he here? Did I faint? Crap, I feel terrible." I said in a dry cracked voice.
"What I'm about to tell you isn't going to be music to your ears. Can you handle it?" I nodded and she continued, "After you told the class off and stopped floating, you fainted. Jesse and I caught you and we brought you back to the nurse's office as fast as we can. When we got here though you started flailing and freaking out. Nurse Jacey had to sedate you to even get you into a bed. You started mumbling a lot of stuff in your sleep and not all of it is stuff you probably wanted us to know so we'll try to ignore it until we hear it from you but we seriously need to talk to you," Blair said in a rush and a few tears came out of her eyes. If I talked about what I've done in my sleep I was actually done for. Then people wouldn't talk to me and I would be an even bigger freak. I wished that didn't do some of those things but back then I didn't have my wall. I had only done those things to escape falling into the vortex of my sight but it wasn't that simple.
"What did I talk about Blair? Should Jesse hear this or not? Did the nurse hear me?" I asked my voice half pleading and half dead monotone.
"He needs to be here. You said some stuff about him that we need to talk about too. The nurse didn't hear but I'm not sure if I should tell her what you said. I hate to say this but I'm sacred for you Sage," a few more tears leaking from my friend's eyes. All I wanted to say was don't be but I couldn't honestly say that. I knew what I did was wrong but sometimes I could help it. I came to North Academy to get away from it but I guess that isn't possible. My past haunted me wherever I went and there was nothing I could do about it.
"What should I start with?" I asked not nervous because I already knew what their reaction would be and what they would want to hear about.
"The knife Sage, tell us about the knife." Jesse whispered to me grabbing my other hand and stroking my face.
Like I said before, its totally not as dark as it sounds and all will be revealed in the next chapter so don't fret! The big duel will be not next chapter but the one after that. I need some more time to design Sage's deck so thats the only thing holding me back. Review and I will write! Thanks again.
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