Chapter 8
~dream sequence~
Standing upon a large volcano, the red haired teenager looked around, she didn't know why she was upon this large mountain, how she had even gotten up here. Kneeling down slightly to see the lava only 30 feet away from her form, she could see a dark shadow inside the thick liquid, not wanting to venture down, she stood back up.
"what's going on? This seems different to my previous dreams…. I swear I'm going crazy…." Suddenly the strong voice from before entered her ears, "Our Master… is here…" blinking she stood tall not afraid, and determination showed on her face, "What master! Why do you keep bringing me here?"
Again, it spoke but not giving the answers she wanted, "Our master, the time is coming close… our power…. Will help you on your quest…."
"Who's this master? What quest? Will you Fracking answer my questions for once…" suddenly the volcano began to tremble, and lava began to spit out up to her feet, stepping back slightly, she felt her left foot slip off the edge. Heat from the place was felt all over her skin, and the hair on the back of her neck began to stand up. Out of nowhere the lava began to form into some type of Dragon. Covering her face from the intense heat, she could feel sweat dripping down from her forehead.
"OUR MASTER NEEDS US!" it shouted and ripped forward towards her, consuming her form with the lava.
~End of Dream Sequence~
Shoot up in bed, her breathing rather ragged, and red hair sticking to her forehead, Claudia tried to catch her breath, looking around the room light seeped through the curtains into the dorm room she shared with two other males, Jaden Yuki and Syrus, she hadn't found out his last name and was going to respect his reasons for not telling her.
Her eye's landed on the digital clock she installed onto the wall a few days ago and her eye's widened slightly, "OH CRAP!" quickly jumping from the top bunk and onto the floor with good reflexes, she heard snoring coming from behind her, noticing the brown haired boy still asleep in bed. "JAY WAKE UP! WERE LATE FOR CLASS!" at the moment of her screaming the house down trying to gather clothing for the day, Jaden shot up in bed. "Wha? Late for wha?"
Throwing a pair of jeans and his jacket at his head, making him more alert in the situation, "Get up fuzz ball, Were late for class and it's exam day today!" After Serveal times of both Syrus and Jaden walking in on her changing, Especially the day before when she was trying to take a shower and Jaden just ignored the keep out sign, walking in and caught her taking a shower, she had enough of just trying to keep the boy's out, so long as she was wearing a vest and underwear she wasn't bothered about the boy's being in the room.
She had grown close to love both of them as brothers, and they felt the same back, they both had become her best friends at Duel Academy, and became the Slifer Trio. So right now she was trying to hope into some black skater jeans, that held three chains on the belt, and Jaden trying not to laugh as he threw on his own pair of jeans.
"Hey calm down, were only 15 minutes late!" Giving him a death glare, to shut him up, "Oi burger breath! You're the one who kept me up all night going over your Elemental hero deck trying to throw in new monsters! This is all your fault!" hopping across the room trying to get her converse on, Claudia tripped over the desk and hit the floor.
"Yo man, chill out for a moment, we can always take your car instead of running all the way to class, after the other day in Gym I know you don't like out doors…" That was true, Claudia had realised that Gym class there was just like any other school, and she had grunted on how many laps Professor Crowler made both and Jaden run. She knew Crowler hated her from beating him in a duel and how she kept giving him the grandma comments.
"Yeah well, not only do we have an exam today, but I remember somebody saying they wanted to head down to the card shop as new packs are in today!" When them words left her mouth, Jaden shot up from where he was sitting, "Oh bro you are right! We better jet then….or do you need to do your girly make up?" Throwing him her bag while picking up her wallet and key's she shook her head, "No time I'll do that later at lunch, lets move bro we're taking my bike today."
With that both ran out of the slifer dorm and jumped onto Claudia's Ducati, she kick started the engine, "Hold on tight!" And with that he did, just as she revved the bike and set off.
Claudia was so focused on getting them to the school, halfway there, Jaden spotted an old woman trying to push a truck up an hill, he tapped on the girls shoulder and pointed, quickly skidding to a halt just behind the woman, making her jump in fright, she took off her helmet and looked to the woman, "hey you're Dorothy the shop owner right? What's wrong?"
The woman held her face, "I just received today's shipment of duel monster cards and on my way up back to the shop my van broke down…" Gritting her teeth looking up at the school which was still a 5 minute drive away, then down at the clock they still had 10 minutes to get to class on time, that was when she felt Jaden get off the bike, "I'll help you push it ma'am,"
"Oh your such a kind boy Jaden, I just don't know what went wrong, the engine suddenly over heated and then the van just broke down…" kicking the stand down and getting off the bike, Claudia walked to the hood of the van and lifted it up, She looked over the engine and gave a slight nod, "I can fix it, but it's going to be a rush job since I don't have the proper tools, see here…" she pointed to a box near the front, "Your radiators cracked causing it to overheat and break down, it should last you up until you get to a garage though…I just need 10 minutes.." with that Claudia began working to fix the Radiator, quickly, Jaden and the shop owner stood back watching her work amazed on how she could fix such a thing at such a young age.
Once she was done, she stood back wiping a hand on her forehead, "There done, I've filled it up with some water too I had on me but like I said you should take it to a garage and they will fix it better than I can since I don't have the right part on me for it." The woman smiled and gave Claudia a hug, "Oh my you two are such life savers, now I can get these cards to the store before the big exam today, thank you both so much! Here I don't have much on me but take these" she handed them both a booster pack each before getting into the van. "Good luck today kids!"
Claudia looked to her friend and they both high fived each other, "Awesome Claud! you just keep rocking more and more! But…. Aren't we forgetting something?"
Claudia blink and realised while looking around, she noticed the time on the big clock held onto the school, "Shit! Were defiantly late for class now!" both of them jumped onto the bike, and sped past the card shop woman who waved at them, Jaden tried to wave back but almost fell off the bike.
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Both teenagers managed to reach the classroom and was lucky that it was Professor Banner teaching them, the teacher that held a love for his large cat just looked to them, "My Jaden and Claudia care to explain why you are both late?"
He had noticed a black mark on Claudia's forehead but kept a smile on his face, Jaden spoke up, "as we was heading in Professor Banner, the shop owners van was broken down on the side of the road, Claudia was able to fix it but it took some time causing us both to be late." Giving a slight nod he turned back to the class, "Take a seat please, we are just about to go into quick spell magic cards." Both teenagers made their way to their usual seats next to Syrus who was watching them. Claudia couldn't resist and gave him a slight bump on the head.
"Why didn't you wake us up this morning?" the smaller teenager of the trio shrunk back slightly, "I tried but I couldn't get both of you to wake! You both snore way too loud and sleep like a rock! But was that true? You stopped to help someone?"
Jaden nodded holding a thumbs up, "Yup! Claud is not only a genius with computers and that, but she's also a wiz at mechanics! I couldn't tell the difference with the van's engine after she had fixed it." Claudia couldn't help but smile at her friends, "Well I couldn't just leave her there, and I took mechanics back in my old school….when I actually was able to go to class." She rubbed her arms slightly.
Both boy's had seen markings on her back and ribs from when she was abused in previous foster homes, but she said that she was over it, and the markings made her a much stronger person, even though each scar she held, held hatred for the person who gave them to her, but what made her life better was the friends and family she had now.
She had also told them about the reoccurring dream she was having, Syrus tried to blow it off from the cheese she kept eating at dinner, but Jaden had said to her that he could hear the voices of duel monsters, and the fact that winged Kuriboh was his friend. It made her feel slightly better that she wasn't going crazy from hearing voices and slipped about the fact that she'd been locked up in an institution for 4 months.
It had brought the three teenagers closer together as friends, Jaden was furious with her best friend Steven Jinks, ever night she tried to call him and every night he found her on her bed, in tears for the fact he wasn't answering his phone, Jaden had gone as far as calling the man himself and left a threatening message for upsetting his friend.
That same night Claudia had spent at least two hours in both Jaden's and Syrus arms crying her heart out about her fear of abandonment, and that's when Syrus announced that she was his best friend, which made Jaden say the same thing, causing her to start crying again but for different reasons. Now the Trio was tighter than ever "Yeah, well you should be proud of yourself Claud, glad to have you as a best friend Sis" he fist pumped hers, and they sat back listening to professor Banners lecture, in which at the end both Claudia and Jaden fell asleep with.
When lunch rolled around, the Trio was sat in the courtyard, bantering on at each other, "So Claudia what did you get in that booster pack the shop owner gave you this morning?" Asked Jaden, blinking her brown eye's she had almost forgot and reached into the pocket of her waist coat. "I don't know I never opened it."
Quickly tearing away at the foil, she pulled out 5 brand new cards, she handed one to Syrus, "Here, I don't use Roids peanut, Jaden I think this will help your Winged Kuriboh…" she handed him a magic card called Transcendent wings, he let out a grin, "Thanks Sis, this will help nicely…"
When she got to the last card, she could have sworn she felt a surge of electricity run through her body, her mouth suddenly went dry as she stared at it, "w….wow…" both of her boy's looked over and Syrus eye's widened, "Cyber Dragon? Wow that's a very rare card Claudia! I only know of one person who runs that deck."
She had heard his words, but her mind suddenly went back to the dream she had that morning, the shape of the dragon on the card, was the exact shape in the lava… down to every detail, "Cyber Dragon huh? Who's this person that runs them?"
She noticed her little friend looking down at the ground, and his knuckles went white from gripping his black dress pants, out of the three Syrus was the only one that followed the school uniform rule, Claudia had tried to change his style but he kept refusing, but before he could say anything a voice entered her small pierced ears.
'Our master…. Has found us….now she must complete us….'
Quickly shaking her head she looked around but no one else had seemed to hear the voice, looking back at the card, she could have sworn it went 3D, rubbing her eye's slightly, careful not to let her bracelets scratch them. "Well then, I never thought about Cyber Dragons… I mean I love the current deck I had but I feel like there is another that is more for me than my Utopia…"
With that the rest of the school day went by fairly quickly, every time Claudia had chance she was looking over the card to the point where she stayed behind after school and went up to the roof, she didn't know why but she wanted to be alone for a while so Jaden and Syrus said they would meet her back at the dorms.
So here she was, one hand holding onto the fence looking over the vast school grounds, her eye's was gentle just like the sun set in the distance. She pulled the card out of her pocket and looked at it again.
'why do I feel so drawn to you Cyber Dragon…. What is it that you need?... now that I know it's you that's haunting my dreams…'
Nothing but the wind had answered her question, until she heard footsteps behind her, turning around she saw the teenager that originally placed her in Slifer red. Holding the card close to her chest, "Zane… what are you still doing here so late?" She hadn't spoken to him since the duel with Chazz, and dropping him off at the Dorms.
"I come up here sometimes to clear my head from a busy school day, why are you up here Claudia?" his eye's wandered to the card she was holding and walked slightly closer, making her back up slightly to the fence, thankfully it was there otherwise she may have slipped off the edge. Letting out a sigh and turning back to the sunset, "I've just had something on my mind all day, hey… have you ever felt drawn to something?"
Letting silence take over for a moment before looking to the card in her hand, she noticed his eye's slightly shocked for a moment before looking over to the distance, "Yes I have, but it's not a strong connection I have with it. I see you managed to get your hands on a Cyber Dragon… Very good I suspect that what you are speaking off are the voices?"
Snapping her head to him slightly, causing her hair to be ruffled in the wind, "How did you?"
"I hear the voices too… but I know the voices are not meant for me…. They are meant for me to search for the person that is their true master." He pulled out his deck from his pocket, making the red haired girl's eye's widened, there sitting on top of the deck was a Cyber dragon. So that's the name Claudia was trying to remember all day, Syrus must have mentioned it was Zane that ran the only Cyber Dragon deck in the school.
"What about dreams?" Zane shook his head, "I've never had them enter my dreams, but I can hear the voices of them, I do know that their master is somewhere in this school, and Claudia I believe that person… maybe you." Standing back slightly shocked, "Me? Yeah ever since pulling the card today I've been drawn to them and really interested in running the deck I love any type of machines… well apart from ancient gears."
He let out a smirk on his face, "what would you say if I told you I could help you obtain the deck?" curiosity spread across her face, making her drawn to Zane, yeah sure she had dreamt about the boy a few times, some wild fantasy's that she wasn't going to mention but now he was offering to help her with a machine type deck, Cyber dragons none the less. "What's the catch?"
"it's quite simple, you tell me how you was able to counter Chazz Princeton's deck last week" licking her bottom lip, as her mouth went suddenly dry, looking at his deck she could hear the voices again, now she was close to a complete deck they was running wild inside her mind, "it will be hard to gather all the right cards mind you, but while you build the deck, I can train you with mine."
He held the deck out for her, and her left hand slowly reacted in reaching out for the deck, the instant her finger tips touched the deck, a powerful surge of electricity ran through her whole body, making the sky go from orange to a dark blue and lightening hit the grounds, every time each lightening dropped, shadows of Dragons appeared all around them.
"Cyber Dragons huh, Alright Zane… I accept please train me on using this deck!" he looked to her in the eye's and saw she was serious. Giving a slight nod they shook and with that the deal was done.
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And that is all for this chapter, I know it's a lot shorter than the previous one but what's going to happen now that Zane has agreed to train Claudia in Cyber dragons?
How will Syrus feel about this connection?
And Claudia's been having sexual dreams about Zane?
Curedream90~ and ArticDragonSlayer over and out
