I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX!
(Fiancéshippers, I hope you're happy after this chapter since I'm so tired after writing this. Just to warn you guys, I don't think this one turned out very good since the duel kind sucks if you ask me. Let's just say I hate tennis cards now. Plus, I kind wanted to hit my head off to the side every so often. Now don't hate me for saying this, I like Fiancéshipping and all but Soulshipping and Spiritshipping will always be my favorite so maybe that's why I didn't really like writing this. Oh well, I hope to do better since it's going to be the Gem-Knights Vs. Yugi's deck next time!)
Chapter 12: Courting Alex
A few days after the Slifer girls and the Obelisk boys saved Wheeler from the mad scientists, we find our heroes in gym class once more but instead of playing basketball and baseball like last time, all the girls and boys were all playing tennis and Jayla hated every second of it. She didn't like basketball either but at least she was somewhat good at it. Tennis on the other hand was a nightmare. She and Sylvie were paired up as a team and they were playing again Jamie and Mitch. The ball was hit back and fore and every time Sylvie went to hit the ball, she looked like she was about to wet herself from panic. Finally, Jayla asked the one question that she was dying to ask for a while now.
"Come on, would someone tell me what tennis has to do with dueling?" Jayla asked with a frown.
"Jayla, tennis has a lot in common with dueling that I'm surprise on how you don't like it. Taking turns, thinking on your feet and the more you play…." Mitch paused on explaining this to her as he hit the ball that was coming at him and hit it towards Jayla. "….the better you'll do." He finished.
"Well in that case…" Jayla leaped into the air and hit the ball with a powerful strike but since she had really bad luck when it comes to playing sports, the ball was hit at a really bad angle and went flying at one on the neighboring courts and it was about to hit someone in the face. "Alex heads up!" She yelled which got the Obelisk Blue attention. However before the ball got even close to him, someone got into the line of fire and deflected it away from him and towards someone else…
That person happened to be Dr. Crowler.
"That's Dr. Crowler…." The headmaster of the Obelisk Blue said to Miss Fontaine just as the tennis ball came right at him and nailed him right in the eye, knocking him down to the ground.
Alex blinked in surprise at that. Crowler has really bad luck when it comes to sports. He thought since he heard about what happened with the basketball from Jayla. He then looked over to see who blocked the shot from hitting him. It was a girl with short brown hair dressed in a Duel Academy tennis uniform like everyone else was. "Uh thank you for that;"
Jamie and Mitch put their game on pause to come over to see if their friend was okay. "Dude, you almost got creamed, are you okay?" Jamie asked.
"Yeah, would you like me to help you to the nurse?" The girl asked facing a grin which made Jamie and Mitch stare in awe. They were both thinking the same thing; this chick was hot.
"That's okay, thanks." Alex replied politely while trying not to raise an eyebrow at his friends.
So this is Alex Rhodes? People weren't kidding when they said he was handsome. The girl thought entranced by the boy that she just saved with a deep large blush on her face.
"Uh do you need me to help you to the nurse?" Alex asked since he didn't get a reply for a while.
The girl giggled at that. "No, it's just…I've know you from Obelisk Blue, I seen you around." She grabbed one of Alex's hands. "Not that I ever had the chance to talk to you…" She quickly let go of his hand when she realized what she was doing." Let alone to touch you…" She laughed nervously before she turned around. "Anyway, I better get back to my match…" She started too walked off. "Um…what was the score…love.….something I think?"
The three boys just stared as she went off back to her court. Jamie and Mitch were still having their 'I'm in love' moment while Alex was kindly freaked out. He thought that after Crystal left then people would stop hitting on him but he guessed wrong. He just pushed those thoughts to the side when Jayla and Sylvie come running over to him.
"Alex, I am so sorry!" Jayla apologized. "This is why I don't play tennis."
Alex chuckled from that. "It's fine, Jay. No one got hurt…well…maybe besides him…" He pointed behind them and the two girls eyes widen when they saw Crowler coming over to them, steaming with anger.
…..
"I'm really, really, really, really, really sorry. How's that?" Jayla asked bowing as she apologized to Dr. Crowler. They were both in the nurse's office right now since Crowler had to get treated for his black eye and he forced Jayla to come along to for her punishment.
"Nope… that's still not a good enough apology." Crowler fumed as Miss Fontaine swung his head over to her so she could douses his black eye with a bag of ice. "A little harder next time, some of my vertebrae are still intact!"
"You know Dr. Crowler, I saw what happened, and technically Jayla wasn't the one that hit you with that ball." Miss Fontaine stated. "If you don't mind me say;"
"Well I do mind!" Crowler retorted not calming down in the less. "Because Jayla was the one that started it! I saw the whole thing with my own two eyes!" Miss Fontaine gasped at that which made Crowler correct himself. "Well one eye;" Fontaine sweat dropped.
"Ugh…cyclop…" Jayla said under her breath which made the two adults look over at her.
"Care to repeat that, you Slifer slime?" Crowler snarled as he held up a hand to his ear.
"Look if you're gonna punish me, how about I promise to quit tennis? I don't even like it." Jayla offered which just made the doctor smirk as he stood up and walked over to her.
"Don't like tennis, huh? Well then I can't think of no better punishment for your crime then." Crowler stood in front of Jayla with a finger pointed at her. "I'll make you play and under the tutelage of the captain; she'll whip you into shape in no time."
"Come on, I said I was sorry!" Jayla replied which made Crowler get right up in her face.
"Oh yes and you will be."
…..
In the boy's locker room, Alex had just finished changing out of his gym clothes and was putting them in his locker. He then grabbed his Obelisk Blue jacket that was hanging inside and threw it on.
"Hey Alex!"
Alex looked to his left to see Jamie and Mitch coming up to him, both of them back in their Obelisk uniforms also. He raised an eyebrow since his friends were grinning like crazy. "What did you guys do this time?" He asked.
"Well since you only think of Jayla as a friend…" Mitch rolled his eyes. "We decided to take matters into our own hands and found out who that cute tennis girl is for you."
Alex banged his head against his locker door. "Oh not again…"
"Anyway, this girl is Harriet Rosewood as in Rosewood Sporting Goods and they got stores everywhere!" Jamie continued. "Plus she's a 3rd year Obelisk Blue!"
"Yep, great for her;" Alex replied as he walked out of the locker room to stand outside. His friends followed him out as they continued to take about this girl.
"Great? An older woman that's both rich and a hottie? That's not great, Alex, that's girlfriend material so go out there and get her!" Mitch told him.
"Guys, I'm not looking for a girlfriend right now. I just want to get good grades and work on my dueling." Alex sighed. "Plain and simple;"
Suddenly, Sylvie ran past them, looking super flustered. "Oh man, oh man, oh man!" She was dashing back and forth across the hallway. "Where's the lousy tennis team?" The three guys were just staring at her weirdly until Sylvie stopped in the middle of the hallway when she saw them and started to jog in place. "Alex, do you know where the tennis team meets?"
"Out on the courts, Sylvie;" Alex answered. "What on the earth is wrong?"
"What's wrong? Everything's wrong?!" Sylvie replied as she took off running down the hallway again.
"Care to explain better, Sylvie?" Jamie questioned making Sylvie back track to answer.
"It's the most unfair thing ever! Dr. Crowler's making the tennis captain boss Jayla around as punishment for hitting him with that ball!"
"Why's that the most unfair thing ever?" Jamie asked.
"Because the captain was the guy who really hit Crower!" Sylvie yelled as she took down the hall again.
"Who's the captain?"
…..
"Service!"
Back at the tennis courts, we find Harriet Rosewood putting Jayla through a giant workout as she kept serving tennis balls at her with amazing speed. Jayla always had to catch her breath after she hit a ball back as she continued to run from one side to the other. After she finished hitting ten, she fell to her knees gasping for breaths.
"I thought we were….going to be playing tennis…not….running…speed drills…" Jayla quickly stood back up as another ball come right at her. "Man, this girl doesn't lighten up." As she went to serve it back, she tripped over a stray tennis ball and groaned in pain when her back hit the ground.
"Come on, Jayla, no pain no gain!" Harriet told her with a grin. "You gotta hustle to build those muscles! You need to sweat to become a threat! If you don't pick up the pace, you'll never win the race!"
"Okay Harriet;" Jayla replied as she sat up. "You can lay off the sports clichés; I get it, I get it."
"Hey, there's no letter 'I' in the word 'team', Jayla!" Harriet said making some kind of weird sports pose. "That's the very first rule in tennis!"
"Really, even when you're playing singles?" Jayla asked.
"Moving on; I think it's time for you to work on your forehand and backhand. I think 100 stocks will make tennis more your racquet." Harriet laughed at her own joke which made Jayla groan again.
Sylvie, Jamie, and Mitch were all watching this from the sidelines.
"I get it, this girl is nuts." Sylvie pointed out with a frown. "The clichés, the crazy practicing…"
"You know, she is a bit obsessive." Jamie added.
"I still find her cute….a little strangle but cute…" Mitch said which got him a punch in the shoulder from Jamie since Alex wasn't here to do so.
Meanwhile, Jayla was continuing her crazy practice and after she hit three balls back, she collapsed to the ground. "Well, at least I'm done…with the first ten." She groaned hating every last second of this.
Alex, who was now standing next to the court, picked up a tennis ball with a sigh.
"Oh hey Alex;" Mitch said when he noticed his friend had finally appeared.
Harriet turned around at that and smiled when she saw Alex walking up to her. "Hey there, sorry I'm sweating this much. I've just been kicking this girl's…" She stopped herself when she noticed Alex just flat out walked right pasted her and over to Jayla.
"You look like you could be doing better." Alex said with a grin which made Jayla chuckle a little as Alex helped her back to her feet. "I guess you were right. Tennis isn't your thing. Anyway, you won't believe what I just heard, Jay. On my way here, I ran into Professor Banner and he told me someone spotted Chrystal."
"No kidding? Well where is she?" Jayla asked.
During the conversation, Harriet was standing just a few feet away and she was so burning mad about all of this, it looked like a flaming aura had appeared around her. "A bench warmer like Jayla talking to a guy like Alex?!" She grumbled. "No way!" She stormed on over there to break this up. "HEY TIME OUT!" Jayla and Alex both looked over at the now pissed off tennis captain. "You can't talk to a first class person like Alex! You can't even return a Bucky-whip with some topspin so stay away from my Prince Charming!"
"Prince Charming?" Alex face palmed at that while Jayla just blinked.
"Listen Jayla, I'm warning you! Just step away from the handsome boy before I go athletic on you!"
"Chill out, pal, we were just talking." Jayla said before she looked back at Alex. "So, you were saying, Alexandrite?"
"Alexandrite?!" Harriet got right in the middle of them which made Jayla freak out. "What is that, some kind of pet name?! What's it mean?! Where's it come from?!"
"….inside joke you wouldn't understand…" Jayla answered.
"Sure, you like me to believe that, wouldn't you?" Harriet replied with a crazy grin on her face. "Well, I don't. I don't believe anything that you'll say. Which is way, this little huddle is over."
"Great then, so beat it." Jayla said with a little anger in her tone since she was kinda being reminded of the people that made fun of her in her childhood from this girl.
"No way, buddy. Know your sports; when a huddle is over, you make your play, and you don't run away." Harriet told her.
"I get it. You want a tennis match, right?" Jayla asked with a small groan. She might hate this sport but she always accepted challenges.
"No way, I want a duel. Winner becomes Alex's fiancée!"
"Wait what?!" Alex blinked a few times, hoping he didn't hear what he thinks he just heard. He heard about guys during these kinds of things but for Harriet to make a challenge like that really did make this girl nuts. "Fiancée?!"
"I love weddings and all but arranged ones?" Sylvie mumbled.
"Yeah and Alex doesn't look to happy about this either." Jamie added.
"Well…I don't know about the stakes." Jayla started before she got a grin on her face. "But I never back down from a challenge! You got it, Harriet, let's throw down!" Alex's eyes widen at that.
"Well here we go." Jamie said with a sigh. "Why am I not surprise?"
"And if this girl duels as well as she plays tennis then it'll be rough going for Jayla." Sylvie informed.
After the two girls got their duel disks and decks from their lockers, we now find both of them on either side of the tennis court while the others were still watching from the side lines.
"Oh right, are you ready?" Harriet asked as both of their duel disk actived.
"Yep and willing;" Jayla responded. "Get your game on!"
(Jayla: 4000 Harriet: 4000)
"So two girls are dueling for your hand in marriage? Kinda backwards but this is going to be exciting." Mitch said which got him a glare from Alex.
"No one is getting married, Mitch." Alex told him with his arms crossed. "The only reason that I haven't left yet is to see if the rumors are true that Harriet is as good as Zane."
Sylvie's eyes widen at that. Those are the rumors? Oh man, if Harriet is as good as my big brother then she mustn't duel like she plays tennis; she must duel even better!
"Service! First…." Harriet started the duel as she drew. "I'm going to throw a spell card at you, Service Ace!" A spell card with a picture of a tennis court with someone getting shot by a beam of light appeared.
"A spell card already?" Jayla asked confused.
"You got that right and just like a power serve, it's going to make you sweat. Here's how it works…" Harriet picked a card from her hand and held it up. "I pick a card and then you'll have to choose if it's a spell, trap, or monster. If you guess right, your fine but guess wrong; well then you'll get serve with a stinging of 1500 points of damage."
"So I just guess?" Jayla put on her thinking face before she decided on what she'll choose; "Already, it's a spell card?"
"You'll sure? You can still change your mind, you know?" Harriet asked making Jayla rethink her choice.
"Then wait! I switch my guess and say that's a trap card." Jayla replied.
Harriet chucked at that as she flipped the card around to show that it was Mega Thunderball; a monster card. "It looks like we found another thing that you're bad at, huh?" Jayla sweat dropped at that with a groan. "Anyway, now I'll put this card away." She removed the Mega Thunderball card from play. "And let loss the big serve! Service Ace! Good luck retuning this shot, pal!" A shot of light come from the card which took away 1500 points from Jayla's life points.
(Jayla: 2500 Harriet: 4000)
"15 love and I'll place this card face down to end the set. You're serve;" Harriet said as a face down appeared in front of her.
"Yeah and I better make it count." Jayla said drawing from her deck. Harriet got no monsters on her field but that face down of hers got me worried. Oh well, a good defense is a good offense and I know just the Knight to do just that. "I'm summoning Gem-Knight Sardonyx in attack mode!" Her beast human like knight with the sardonyx chain mace appeared in attack mode (Atk: 1800 Def: 900).
"So that a Gem-Knight huh?" Harriet yawned, unimpressed.
Sardonyx growled at that which made Jayla look at him. "Just ignore her, Sardonyx." She told her knight making her warrior less tense. "How about you show her how impressing you are by attacking." Sardonyx nodded with smirk as he threw his mace right at Harriet.
"Don't think so, rock for brains." Harriet countered as her face down rose up. "I actived Receive Ace! This trap card negates your attack and then deals 1500 points of damage to your life points." Harriet's trap card blew a large gust of wind that sent Sardonyx's mace flying back right at them.
(Jayla: 1000 Harriet: 4000)
"That's 30 love but I do have to pay three cards for the trap I just played." Harriet sent the top three cards from her deck and sent them to the graveyard.
"Well I think I'm just going to throw down a face down and end things for now." Jayla replied as a face down appeared.
"Boy, you are lazy aren't you?" Jayla made no comment to that as Harriet made her move. "Hey pal, that's fine. It makes things a lot easier for me. I'll play Smash Ace! It lets me flip the top card on my deck and if it's a monster…"
"Let me guess, I get nailed right?" Jayla guessed.
"Hey, you're starting to get the swing of things huh? And you will be getting swung at." Harriet drew her card and smirk as she flipped it over to show that she drew Mystical Shine Ball. "Oh yeah a monster;"
"Someone up there really hates me." Jayla mumbled.
"Well someone up there loves me but uh course, most people do." Harriet smirked as she said; "Now get ready for Smash Ace and for the last of your life points to go bye bye." Another beam of light was about to take out the rest of Jayla's life points but the Gem Queen had other plans.
"Sorry Harriet but I learn from my mistakes so I'm going to play my face down, Pyroxene Fusion!" Jayla's fusion trap card rose up. "With this, I can summon out a fusion monster to protect me so I'm going to take Sardonyx here and fuse him with Gem-Knight Amber that's in my hand to summon out Gem-Knight Prismaura in attack mode!" Gem-Knight Amber appeared on the field before he was fused with Gem-Knight Sardonyx and out came Jayla's knight of Prismaura (Atk: 2450 Def: 1400).
"What was the point in making that move? It still won't stop my attack." Harriet's Smash Ace attack was just about to hit Jayla but it disappeared once Jayla sent a card to the graveyard. "Hey, what's going on here?!"
"It's really simple; once per turn when Prismaura on the field, I can send a Gem-Knight card from my hand to the graveyard and destroyed one face up card on your side of the field. So by sending my Gem-Knight Alexandrite to the graveyard, your Smash Ace is destroyed and my life points are saved." Jayla explained.
"Wait Alexandrite…wasn't that the nickname you call…..oh…" Harriet growled when she just figured out what Jayla just did there.
"Yep;" Jayla grinned as she looked over at Alex. "Thanks for saving my butt, Alexandrite." She said which made Alex's face go a deep dark red.
"Knight in shining armor huh?" Jamie asked with a grin.
"Went to save your Gem Queen huh?" Mitch added also grinning at this.
"Shut up," Alex said as he looked over at Harriet to see what her next move will be but she just ended her turn after that.
"Now how about we make things a little bit even around here?" Jayla said as she drew and smirk. "Prismaura, how about you show Harriet why you're the king of the court around here?" Prismaura nodded as he ran up to Harriet and attack her direct with his lance.
(Jayla: 1000 Harriet: 1550)
"Way to go, Jayla! You've almost tied up!" Sylvie cheered making Jayla flash a peace sign at her.
"One lucky shot;" Harriet said as she drew and smirked. "I think it's time we turn this duel into a real tennis game. I give up 550 of my life points…."
(Jayla: 1000 Harriet: 1000)
"…So I can play this, Deuce!" A spell card with a picture of a tennis score board appeared with both sides saying 40 each.
"Another spell card?" Jayla questioned since she didn't get what Harriet was trying to do anymore.
"That's right but I bet you never heard of this one before. I can only active it if we both have 1000 life points. And here's how it's works; for now on, we can only attack with one monster during our Battle Phase and life points don't matter. You win by being the first one to do damage to the other twice in a roll. Oh and your Prismaura's effect can't destroy this card so good luck if you were playing on trying that." Harriet explained.
"Wait, so now it's just a straight head to head match now?" Jayla blinked at that.
"Right, I told you that this card would be like a real life tennis match. I guess we already know who's going to win this." Harriet grinned. "And now, I'm going to summon out the Big Server! The reason his serve is so big is because he can attack your life points direct!" A man dressed tennis clothes with a tennis racquet for a hand appeared on the field (Atk: 300 Def: 300). "Now Big Server, attack with spike serve!" Harriet's only monster threw a spike tennis ball into the air and sent it flying right at Jayla.
(Jayla: 0/2 Harriet: 1/2)
"And that's one point for me. Oh and by the way, the Big Server has another special ability that lets me take Service Ace from my deck and add it to my hand. You'll get a new card too but it won't matter. I mean, let's face it. There's no way that it'll be as good as this one. How could it be? Now drew you card." Jayla said nothing to that as she drew from her deck. The card she ended up getting was Gem-Knight Fusion. "Oh right and now, I'm serving up the spell card Service Ace. You remember how it works right? You chose the cards type and if you're right, your good."
"Yeah and if I'm wrong, I'm a goner." Jayla finished. And if I do guess wrong then that will be two hits in a row.
She only has a one in three chance. Sylvie thought with a frown.
It all comes down to this. The game, the set, the match; Jayla, for the love of everything god, please get this right. Alex thought.
Well, I hope I guess right. Jayla sighed before she answered; "Oh right, I guess you drew a monster card."
Harriet was surprised at that as she flipped the card over to show it was Mega Thunderball again. "You got it."
Jayla grinned at that. "Sweetness!" She exclaimed while everyone else on the sidelines cheered. Alex just smiled a little as he let out a sigh of relief.
"Oh yeah, tell me you're still in this after I play this. I going to use Giant Racket and equip it to Big Server." A giant red tennis racket appeared on Big Server's back. "So are you still in it?"
"To win it," Jayla answered with a grin. "I can take that server guy down."
"Maybe but you won't be able to do it on your first try. See, when a monster is equipped with Giant Racket, it has a onetime power that allows it to turn any battle damage to zero."
"Wait and since your Deuce only allows me to attack with one monster per turn, I won't be able to destroy it! Big Server can't be beat with one attack!" Jayla just stood in shock at that.
"Your right and as you can see, you're not in it! You're not all over it! You're just about to lose it!" Harriet yelled making Jayla grow annoyed a little again.
Not as long as there are still cards in my deck. I believe in my Gem-Knights and I know they won't let me lose to someone like Harriet. "Well here I go! Draw!" Harriet just stood there with a smug look on her face since she already knew she had this won. "Sweetness!" Jayla said which took Harriet by surprise. "The ball is in my court now since I'm going to active Prismaura effect. I'm just going to send one Gem-Knight from my hand to the graveyard and I think I'll destroy that Giant Racket of yours!" The racket on Big Server's back soon disappeared like it was never there.
"So what? Even if you do attack my Big Server and get a point; it won't matter. I'll just summon out another one during my next turn and attack your life points and win the duel." Harriet pointed out.
"That would be the case but I have to thank you, Harriet, for giving me the card that I need to beat you right now." Jayla replied which shocked the tennis captain.
"What are you talking about?!"
"When you played Big Server's special ability and let me drew a card; you said that it wouldn't matter. Well guess what; it does matter since I'm going to play Gem-Knight Fusion! I'm going to fuse my Gem-Knight Tourmaline that I just drew with Gem-Knight Prismaura who's already on my field to summon out Gem-Knight Topaz in attack mode!" After the two monsters fuse together, Jayla's golden topaz knight with a black cap appeared on the field (Atk: 1800 Def: 1800).
"What was the point of during all of this? It still won't change…"
"Topaz can attack twice per turn." Jayla said plainly making Harriet's eyes widen. "Topaz, if you would do the honors?" The golden knight nodded as he attacked and destroyed the Big Server with his twin-bladed tonfa.
(Jayla: 1/2 Harriet: 1/2)
"And now, time to finish this." Jayla said as Topaz glanced over at Harriet, making the tennis girl's eyes widen even more as the golden warrior attacked her and ended the duel.
(Jayla: 2/2 Harriet: 1/2)
"Well I guess that settles that." Jamie spoke.
"Oh right, she's getting married!" Sylvie cheered but after she realized what she just said, her eyes widen. "Oh I mean…someday she will….maybe…" She went quiet hoping she wouldn't get hurt from Alex but the said Blue didn't say or do anything.
Harriet fell to her knees and shock. "This can't be…"
"Yeah, that's game!" Jayla said as her Gem-Knight Topaz disappeared from the field.
"But he was my soul mate, my dream guy, my future boyfriend!" Harriet stood up and ran out of the room, crying buckets while Jayla just stood there and watched in confusion.
"Wow, you really had to work for that one, Jay." Sylvie said as she, Jamie, and Mitch come up to her.
Jayla scratched the back of her head, sheepishly. "Hey, no pain no gain."
"Speaking of gain…" Jamie and Mitch shared a look before they both grinned as they both looked behind them at Alex who just stood there.
"Well Alex, I guess I'm your Fiancée." Jayla said as she walked over to him.
"Jayla going thought with this?" Sylvie questioned.
"So…what does Fiancée mean anyway?" Jayla asked Alex while everyone else fell to the ground, anime style while Alex just chucked at that.
"It means friend…" He answered as he started to walk off. "…at least for now, Jay." Jayla blinked at that as Alex left the room without another word.
