That midnight both Jet and I were asleep in our separate beds. It was pretty cold, but that's to be expected around here. Then I sat up, my hair sticking out and my eyes half asleep. "I need h2o."
Throwing the covers off I climbed out of bed, wearing my blue pajamas. As I went to the kitchen for a drink of water, I heard a creaking sound from the dark. "Hm?" I asked, still half asleep as I poured water into my glass. When I looked, however, I saw two pairs of red eyes appear from the darkness, making my eyes widen.
"AAAAHHHHHHH!!" Jet heard, making him shout as well before he sat up with wide eyes. He ran down the stairs in a huge hurry and yelled my name.
"Amet where are you!?" Jet shouted, only for me to attack him, thinking he was the monster in the dark. We both began fighting each other and it wasn't long until the parents came, turning on the lights. Finally Jet and I saw each other. He was holding me in a head lock and I was about to bit his wrist.
"What in the world?" Joey said with a sweatdrop. Jet and I both jumped and took a step away from each other. It was then I saw that the mysterious glowing red eyes were gone and that I had dropped the glass. It's pieces were on the floor along with some spilled water.
"Why are you two up?" Mai asked, clearly upset that her beauty sleep was interrupted.
"S-Sorry, Mai. It's my fault," I apologized with a cheesy grin. "I went down to get a glass of water and I guess I scared myself in the dark."
Joey nodded before turning to his own son. "And what's your story."
"I uh, heard her scream and I thought there was a robber," Jet lied, scratching the back of his neck.
"Teens these days," Mai said with a sigh. "Just clean up this mess and get back to bed. It's the middle of the night for cryin' out loud," she said, turning around to head back to her bedroom.
"Uh, what she said," Joey said, quickly following her into the other bedroom and shutting the door. Jet and I blinked and looked at each other.
"Okay, Amet, what really happened?" Jet asked me with a baffled look.
I went to get the dustpan so I could clean up the glass. I bent down, beginning to sweep it up. "It's like told your parents. I went to get a drink of water. But out no where I saw these red eyes starring at me."
"Like from the woods?" Jet asked, getting some paper towels for the spilled water.
I nodded, throwing away the glass. "It's scared me, I guess. And you coming down screaming at me only worsened the situation."
"Sure blame me," he said with a sweatdrop.
I threw out the rest of the broken glass into the garbage bin and I took my left strip of yellow hair behind my ear. "Just help me finish cleaning up so we can get back to sleep. Remember we're meeting up with Jaden tomorrow."
"Oh yeah," Jet said with a skeptical tone. And just like that the kitchen was all cleaned up. The both of us had returned to bed to sneak in a few last minute hours of sleep. If only waking up was a more easy story to explain.
Breathing in and out slowly, I heard the sound of a pile of snow fall from a pine tree branch, waking me up. However when I opened my eyes, I found Jet sleeping in front of me, a little too close for my own taste.
"Oae! JET!!!"
Obviously, he woke up to that. But he responded a bit more differently than me. "Hey what are are you doing in my bed?" he asked drowsily.
"You mean my bed!" I retorted.
"No, you're in my bed," he said rather calmly. "My sheets are blue. Yours are green. Like, over there, yeah..."
I turned my head, seeing my bed empty. A sweatdrop appeared on my face. "Oh."
"So let me ask the question this time. What, are you doing, in my bed?" Jet asked.
"You expect me to know the answer to that?"
"Hello lady you're in my bed! I think you'd know how you got yourself over here!"
"Well maybe you put me here!" I blamed, storming off the bed and into the bathroom.
Jet sat up with a profound lost look. "What?" he said, scratching his blond hair. Actually I knew I went over to his bed. In the middle of the night after the kitchen incident, I got scared sleeping alone in my bed so I went over to Jet's. But like I'd admit it.
--
"We're heading out again!" Jet called to his parents once I jumped out through the door, snow gear and all. Rushing ourselves, we ran to find Jaden's cabin again. It was daylight, so all of the nightmares of night would be gone for a few hours. Although, it was snowing lightly now. I had my three cards packed into my belt's card holder, too.
"Yo Jaden over here!" Jet called out. We saw in a distance Jaden shoveling snow outside the cabin he was staying in.
He turned his head around, seeing us. "Hey! You guys made it!"
Jet and I stopped in front of him. "Good morning, Jaden," I greeted.
"Mornin', Amet," he replied, placing his hand on my head. "Jet."
He nodded in return.
"So what is it you wanted to show us?" I asked, full of curiosity.
"Here, go inside," Jaden told, picking up his shovel. Together we went inside the cabin and removed our snow-drenched jackets, leaving them to dry.
'Bhuri! Bhuri!' chirped the winged Kuriboh, appearing beside me.
I smiled at it. "Good morning to you, too, Winged Kuriboh."
Jet sent a strange glance as he saw me greet space. 'I know Amet's gifted with all this stuff, but sometimes she just scares me.'
"Looks like my Winged Kuriboh has taken a liking to you, met," Jaden remarked.
"Meow," purred Pharoah, playing with my socks.
"Morning to you, too, Pharaoh," I added, greeting the cat.
"Let's talk," Jaden said, starting off. "You can communicate with your monsters, can't you?"
"She does every day," Jet said with crossed arms, making me glare at him.
"It's true," I said, turning back to Jaden. "But I can only hear small sentences. I can't really communicate with them."
"Then that's what I'm here for," Jaden said. "Before you leave, I'm going to teach you how to communicate with your cards."
"Really?" I grinned. "Aweeesome."
"Is that it?" Jet sweatdropped. That news was what Jaden wanted to share with them? "Yesterday you made it seem so serious."
"Hm? Oh yeah the important thing I wanted to show ya," Jaden said, taking something out of his pocket and throwing it to us. I caught it in my hands. Opening them, I saw a golden ball with that eye symbol. The Millennium Eye!
"WHAAAA?!?!?" Jet jumped. "WHERE THE HECK DID YOU GET THAT?!?!?"
"Eh, Pharaoh found it one night when I was camping out," Jaden shrugged, placing his feet up on the coffee table. "He was trying to eat it, but I was able to get it back."
Another sweatdrop appeared on my head. 'His cat tried to eat a Millennium Item?'
"That night I had this weird dream," Jaden began. "Something told me that thing was called the Millennium Eye, and that I should guard it until the rightful owner comes."
"And how'd you come to the conclusion that it was me?" I asked.
"In the dream that voice told me that the owner would be a person who could talk to duel spirits, just like me," Jaden said. "You seem to fit the picture pretty well. Plus you're Yugi's daughter. Who else should be the owner of such a weird object?"
"Um, thanks?" I said, looking down at the Millennium Eye.
Jet sighed. "Hard to believe you're an adult, Jaden."
"I know right?" Jaden grinned with a peace sign. "So Amet, do you have your deck with you?"
"Only three cards," I admitted, looking to the side. "I had to leave my deck at home so I could come here."
"What a weird bargain," Jaden remarked. "No matter. Lay 'em out."
I placed my Scapegoat, my Night Wing Sorceress, and my Magician's Valkyria on the coffee table.
"Interesting cards," Jaden remarked, taking a look at them. "Not a deck, but I can work with this."
"What are we doing?" I asked with a look.
"A little thing called a test," Jaden said, taking out a blindfold with a mischievous grin. "I never did like tests myself, but I guess in this case it's for a good cause."
"Like grades aren't a good cause?" I said with an embarrassed look.
--
"Are you sure about this?" I asked, feeling the blindfold over my eyes stern and tight. I couldn't see a thing.
"Sure I'm sure," Jaden answered confidently. "Now for test one, on the table I put down a deck of playing cards. I need for you to listen to your duel spirits and try to guess as many cards as possible." 'Just like what I did with Kaiba.'
"Now this I'd like to see," Jet smirked.
"Now remember, Amet," Jaden spoke up. "It's not all about just concentrating and focus. You have to listen your heart, too." ' Okay, listening....'
'The Queen of Hearts,' said my Magician's Valkyria.
"The Queen of Hearts," I repeated, flipping over the card, still blindfolded. I heard Jet gasp.
"She got it," he said in disbelief, making me smirk.
"Try more," Jaden encouraged.
"8 Clovers. 6 Spaids. King of Hearts, 9 Diamonds. Hey what's the joker card doing here?" I continued guessing all of the cards right with my monster's help. Jet couldn't help but feel amazed by this astounding discovery.
"Now this is freaky. How is she doing this?" Jet asked.
"She's getting help from one of her three cards," Jaden said with a grin. "Looks like she passed test one."
"You mean to say there's a test two?" Jet asked, feeling uneasy.
"Duh."
"4 Diamonds. Jack of Spades. Ace. 1 Heart."
"Okay test passed now you're just showin' off," Jaden said, taking my hand and pulling me off the couch.
--
"Couldn't I have at least removed my blindfold?" I asked, feeling Jaden holding my shoulders from behind. "Where am I going, anyway?"
"A very tall balance beam."
"A what?" Suddenly I felt Jaden's grip leave. "H-Hey! What am I doing?!"
"Jaden don't you think this is a bit, extreme?" Jet asked, looking up. The balance beam was the side of the tree, soft snow at the bottom if I were to fall off.
"It's all apart of test two," Jaden said, jumping down and arriving beside Jet. "Amet will have her monsters guide her across the balance beam in safety."
"Are you sure this isn't hazardous?" I asked, feeling sweat come down.
"Half the stuff I did at Duel Academy was hazardous," Jaden told. Is that supposed to encourage me or something?
"Well, here going nothing," I said, taking my first step. I prayed to the heavens I wouldn't die yet.
"Be careful!" Jet called up to me.
"What do you think I'm doing?!" I shouted back. I mean, duh I'm trying to be careful. Like I have a choice? I felt myself leaning to the right about to fall off, but then I felt this strange fuzzy feeling at my leg. "Scapegoat...?" They pushed me back into balance and I continued walking forward with their help. It wasn't soon till I found myself progressing halfway across the balance beam.
"So where does she go at the end?" Jet asked.
Jaden blinked, looking at the end of the balance beam. "Hm. Good question."
Jet's eyes widened as he saw me near the end with no particular end to stop in. "Amet hold on!"
"Wha?" I said, putting my foot forward but feeling no balance beam underneith. I began to loose my balance and I fell over, screaming. Luckily I was caught by Jet. Or rather, he caught me in his arms but we both fell afterward. We collapsed into the snow with an 'oof!'.
"That was too close," I groaned, lifting part of my blindfold covering my right eye.
"I'm gonna hate test three," Jet added.
--
"I'm gonna enjoy this," Jaden said, picking up a small amount of snow in front of the cabin, forming a snowball.
A couple feet away, I stood still blindfolded. "Explain the plan to me again?" I asked unsure.
Jaden sighed. "It's simple. Jet and I will throw snowballs at you. You'll just have to rely on your duel spirits for help in dodging each and every one of 'em."
"That's what I thought you said," I swallowed. Why should I be nervous? I mean, I trust my thee cards. And it's just snow after all.
"I don't know about this," Jet said hesitantly, holding a snowball in his hands.
"But yet," Jaden whispered. "This will probably be the only time that you'll ever be allowed to throw a snowball at the girl against her own will."
"Hm, good point."
"So ya ready, Amet!" Jaden said, taking aim like a professional baseball player.
I tightened my fists. "Yes!"
'You'll be just fine, Amet...' said my Night Wing Sorcceress. I nodded, feeling small gusts of wind blowing towards me. 'Left.'
I bent towards the left, hearing a snowball whoosh past my side.
"Whoa!" Jaden laughed. "She dodged it!"
Jet breathed a sigh of relief. "Good grief."
"Come on take a shot at it," Jaden encouraged, getting something from the shed beside us.
Jet looked at me and then threw his snowball. Taking the warning from my monster, I was able to dodge it by moving to the right. Jet smiled.
"You're doing great, Amet!" he called out to me.
"Well let's see her try this on for size," Jaden said, suddenly appearing with some machine contraption of some sort.
"W-What is that thing?" Jet asked, somewhat freaked out by it's sudden appearance.
"It's a snowball machine," Jaden grinned, making Jet sweatdrop.
"What's he say?" I asked nervously. Did he just say, snowball machine?
'Heads up!'
I heard the said machine start to fire. My monster instructed me in all these directions so I could dodge each one. It was getting pretty tiring if you asked me.
"This is outrageous," Jet said with swirly eyes.
"But you gotta admit this whole thing is pretty sweet," Jaden chuckled, shoveling snow into the slot in the machine for more snowballs. "I bet you two are never bored back in Domino."
"No, we're not," Jet answered truthfully. Jaden smiled at the boy before resuming shoveling snow for the machine.
Well there's the new chapter.
Sorry ifi it's pretty borring. I think this thing was just something to stall for a while.
Anywaizzz, Im almost done with project. Now to do other project.
Gah, I hate this week. I've experienced my first 'stress' week. Now I know the meaning of needing a vacation. All I have to worry about at the moment is studying for my physics test and I'm good. Anybody get physics? It's like studying how many bricks does an entire buildings have, memorizing all the formulas and what not. Geez.
Besides that good night, and thanks for reading once more.