Thank you guys so much for helping out! You guys really are the best! Prizes and rewords for everyone! You all truly deserve it. And as a special thank you to you all, I now present to you Chapter 20 of Access the Dimensions! This story has taken such a crazy turn, I'm just as confused about this then my original plans! Whatever they were back then. Anyway, I hope you all had a wonderful week. I didn't have one really. But I will explain at the end of the chapter. I don't want to get into that right now. And besides, that is not what you are here for. Now on to the disclaimers!
Disclaimers!: Yu-Gi-Oh ZEXAL and the Yu-Gi-Oh! Franchise doesn't belong to me at all. You already know that I own Alesia, Jenny, and the other OC's of this story. In fact, the made up cards mentioned in this story also belongs to me. But do you know what else that doesn't belong to me? The Plot! Need I remind you all about the plot twist?
LAST TIME ON 'ACCESS THE DIMENSIONS'!:
Alesia meets another one of the ZEXAL World's inhabitants named Cameron Clix, who decides to take her picture before he leaves to commence his plans, to catch other Numbers. When Kari catch's on, Jenny finally awake's from her strange ordeal before heading off to support Alesia in her duels.
A Middle School student from the Academy named Dexter, challenges our Alesia in a duel for not one heart piece, but for two. Leaving Alesia to make a choice, she finally accepts the conditions of the duel and won. However not without Dexter refusing to admit his lost, and ran away with Alesia's winning heart pieces. While on a chase, Jenny and Alesia lost sight of him. But the events from the anime finally takes place, as Kari has ordered Alesia to check on Yuma as he duels, while she attempts to stop the aircraft from crashing. With the poor Tori inside it, Jenny decides to catch up with Kari so that she can get her answers from Kite. But will he be willing to answer them?
Chapter 20: From the eyes of the Deceiver S01-20
I ran as fast as I could to get to where Yuma and Astral was at all cost. With the way that these plot twist are going, anything could happen. In a way I was somewhat glad that Jenny finally wanted to take responsibility to help out. But still, there was something about the whole thing that was off.
"…And on your next turn, you'll bring out Utopia!" I gasped when I finally caught up to where they were. Sure enough, Cameron was dueling Yuma, and the situation is about to get worse. "Yuma! Astral!" I called out to them. Astral was very shocked to see me at first. "Alesia…"
"Hey Alessy, what are you doing here?" Yuma asked concern. "What do you mean by that? I came here because you needed my support! And, in case you've didn't know already…" I pointed to the sky before continuing. "We have an airship that's going to crash very soon, if we don't do something about it!" You can hear the voice of Cameron chuckling at my reaction. I turned to him was a serious look on my face. "What the hell is so funny?" I asked him dangerously. "You, my dear Alesia…" He opened his eyes to look at me with a demonic look. "Did you honestly think that I didn't anticipate this moment a long time ago, hmm? Why do you think I took your photograph earlier?"
Yuma and Astral gasped and looked back at me concerned. "He took…" Astral started before Yuma finished for him. "…your photograph!?" I gulped at them and shifted a bit uncomfortably. "Yeah…, that was early in the afternoon. Sorry that I didn't say anything. I was…"
"You were so concern about the well being for your friend Jenny, that you simply neglected the idea that something like 'this' was going to happen today. I'm I right?" Cameron guessed true. "Hey wait a sec, how did you know about all of that Cameron?" Yuma question. "Yes…'how' indeed…" Astral said behind Yuma.
Cameron smirked finally and turned to me. "It was all so simple. As you already know. I can predict the future by the powers of my Number card. Anything that the photos reveals is what the future shall be. And there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. As for you Alesia, I knew because the Number cards have told me about you. How you came into this world, what powers you possess, and the goals you have in store for us." He chuckled at this. "Though I got to admit, you most certainly did a bang up job and trying to 'save the world'. When in fact you did absolutely nothing to contribute!"
"Alright, that's it Cameron! Enough with the hero shamming, will yah? It's time to get down to business and duel." Yuma said determinedly. "But Yuma, what if there is going to be another plot twist that will occur?" Astral asked unsure. "Enough with the worrying over that Astral; as long as Alesia is here with us, everything will be okay." He told him reassuringly.
Yeah, but that is what I am worrying about. And now the Numbers Card's know about me and where I came from? Just what in the world is going on!
Jenny's POV
The airship was really in deep trouble. I caught up with Kari finally as she finally realized that I was here. "Jenny, Thank God that you are here. How was Alesia when you saw her? She really didn't look so good." Kari asked concerned as she parked her motorcycle. "She's okay, Kari. Alesia threw up a few minutes ago after some creep stole her heart pieces that she won." I explained to her, yet I was still so pissed at that. Kari looked at me in shock. "What?! How did that even happen?"
So I told her exactly what went down between Dexter and Alesia. How he challenged her to a duel, he won a lot of heart pieces and dared her to wager two instead of one, Alesia winning the duel and he ran like the coward he really is and left. "And that is how Alesia threw up." Kari looked disturbed by this, but nonetheless was upset that that creep would even dare to do something like that to Alesia. "Unbelievable! I hope that these tournament committee people will catch that thief and handle the job. Alesia deserves a big break after all of this!" Kari commented in anger, and I nodded at her. And I couldn't agree more.
We entered the building that was monitoring the ship and went to the top floor of the bridge. "Hey! Who the heck are you two ladies? Can't you not see we are in the middle of an emergency here?" One of the stationed assistants said wary that we were trespassing you might as well say: 'government property'. "Uh, Hello! That's exactly what were here for?" I told him sarcastically. Man these guys are total idiots. It's no wonder why no one is handling this situation properly. I thank the heavens that Kari is able to use her head, and is not just some pretty red head who can't think for a hill of beans!
Kari was explaining the situation to the Supervisor of the aircraft, as he began explaining the situation at hand. The left engine was very bad, and it was about to get worse. Why? Well, now that is pretty obvious. The right engine have already exploded and no one is able to stir the aircraft as it is! The smoke inhalation of the pilots cause them to be knocked out, and now all the people that's inside were in a complete panic, had that not been anymore then that before. Kari was pretty confident that she was able to help take care of the problem, so basically I just let her handle with all of the technical stuff, while I suddenly received a call from Alesia.
I picked up my Duel Gazer and answered it right away. "Whatever it is that is not important right now, it can wait." I told her. "What the heck do you MEAN it can wait? Nothing can wait, Jenny! I need to know where is your location." Alesia's scolding voice started up again. I sighed at this, as I was just reminded how much of a worried wart Alesia is. "I'm fine, Less. I'm here with Kari at the HQ that pulls the strings for this whole arrangement."
Suddenly I felt some type of sting on the side of my neck. It was pretty weird, as I knew that it wasn't a mosquito bite or something like that. It was more like a strong pinching like feeling, and I felt a bit light headed. The moment that I had said 'string', everything got a bit hazy there. "Jenny?" Alesia questioned worriedly. "Yeah, yeah, I'm here Less…"
My POV
"Whatever you do, keep me posted from where you are. Over and out." I told her as the duel was still going. Except now that Cameron wasn't taking his eyes off of me, and he seemed pissed. "I know all about your greatest fears, Alesia. And to be honest I just can't wait for them to swallow you whole…" he said as a purple aura was surrounding him immediately. The power of Number 25 was just too strong. Yuma was able to out smart Cameron as the duel was now about to be over, since Yuma transformed Utopia into Utopia Ray!
"…Go, Utopia Ray! Finish this duel with Raising Sun Chaos Slash!" Yuma declared as the now Chaos Number did his job and ended the duel by destroying Force Focus once and for all. Cameron was forced back by the impact as his life points were gone. When he slammed onto the ground, Yuma was declared the winner and the AR system shut down. I took off my Duel Gazer as I rushed over to Yuma.
"You did it again Yuma!" I said excitedly for him and Astral. "Yeah, but the best part is, is that you were there cheering me on, Alesia." Yuma said with a smile towards me, and then suddenly we almost forgotten about Cameron and the airship! The Number that possessed Cameron has now ceased it's control over him, as the number '25' disappeared from his right check and the card floated towards Astral. Astral caught the card and then Yuma and I returned back to the situation at hand. "Tori, Kari, how are things with the airship? I defeated Cameron in a duel, so things should be back to normal now, right?"
I frowned at this, as this was the major scene that I was talking about! "No, Yuma! The engine for the airship has not stabilized at all. The ship is still descending way to fast! If it get's anywhere close to one of these buildings, Tori and the other people will crash!" Kari said in a panic. Both Yuma and Astral gasped at this as we saw the airship doing just as what Kari had spoke.
"Oh my God…, please help these people…" I muttered until my connection with Jenny disappeared completely. "Hello Jenny? Jen are you there? Answer me Jen." Now I was beginning to panic. "Jenny!" Yuma turned to me in concern. "What's going on over there? Who are you talking to?" he asked. I looked over to Yuma and explained to him what was going on. "It's Jenny. I can't get a hold of her on the other line. She was supposed to remain on the line until…"
We suddenly heard the sounds of a Jet passing by, and when Yuma and I looked up we were shocked to see who has finally come to save the day. "Look Yuma…" Astral said alarmed. "…It's…"
"It's Kite!" I said finishing Yuma's unsaid speech, as Kite caught a glimpsed at us and then rushed in to stop the crashing airship. And just like in the anime, he was able to do it on time, as Orbital push it full throttle on his truster's. The airship landed safely, but it was indeed a hassle now that part of that street is destroyed.
Within a few minutes Yuma, Astral and me were there with Tori who safely exited the ship and she came over and gave me a hug. "Oh, Alesia, I was so scared!" I smiled at her and hugged her as well until we let go of each other. "Its okay Tore, you made it back here safely in one piece." Kari and the rest of the group were talking amongst each other, even when Cameron took another picture. But this time, it was a picture with Tori and Yuma in it. I remember how it looked, and it was so beautiful. You can really tell that those two really belong with each other in a way. I'm not saying that they were made for each other or something. But the fact that their personality is a right match and even though they are different, Tori believe's in Yuma. And is the type of person you want to be paired up with, someone who believe's in you no matter what.
By the way, part of this episode changed a bit, somehow.
"Oh please, Yuma. I only did it because if I hadn't the tournament would be ruined. See you at the finals, if you can make it there." Kite told him with an attitude, as he completely avoided me and glided out of the area. I was then shocked as I noticed that Jenny was still not here. Where could she have gone to? I was getting worried so I had pulled Kari to the side, while Tori and Yuma were talking to each other.
"What's up, Alesia?" Kari asked concerned. "Kari, Do you know where Jenny is?"
Jenny's POV
I know that Alesia had told me to stay put until things get better. But what the heck! Kite was about to show up, and if I miss this chance to follow him and not get my answers, things are not going to turn up the way I want it to!
Suddenly the sound of a Jet went pass by me, and I halted to look up at the sky to see the one person I needed to see. Kite was heading towards Heartland, and that means that he has already completed his mission.
And now its about time I completed mine! I thought to myself in a smirk before rushing to catch up with him. Then as I continued to look up at the sky to see what he is doing, he suddenly pauses in mid air with Orbital. Almost like he was saying something to him. Then he went in a different direction, and before I knew it, he was out of my sight!
"Crap! He's getting away!" I ran towards the last direction that he was headed to, and that was to the left. As I went, I realized that I was back in the same pack where I had found myself passed out yesterday. "Now…, where did that Number Hunter go?" I asked myself casually.
"First you were eavesdropping, and now you're stalking me? You must love playing dangerous games, Jennifer Spencer." The voice of Kite made me froze in fear, before I whipped around to punch him in the face, but he easily blocked it somehow with his left hand. He looked down at me very serious and you can tell in his eyes that he was in no mood. "How the hell did you do that?" I questioned him surprised. I was a black belt in Karate back in the real world, and then I had stopped taking classes when I started High School. So you can imagined how I must feel about all of this.
"Well, now that is quite simple. You should know by now how I trained to become a duelist. So why don't you take a wild guess?" He told me with an attitude before examining my stance. "I take it that you're a black belt in martial arts? Seeing how fast you were able to attempt at punching me…" he gloated.
My eyes grew wide at his quick observations of me. "H-H-How did you know?" I was stuttering now. And I had never stuttered before. That was all Alesia back in Elementary. He finally smirked at this. "I took lessons. Not all training that Heartland put me through was all bad." He dropped the smirk and forced me backwards by using all of his strength that he used to block my fist, and pushed me a few feet. He narrowed his eyes at me and Orbital looked on suspiciously.
"Now tell me — why were you following me earlier?" He demanded. Damn, he caught on to me. "And don't you dare lie and say how you weren't. Because I picked up on your signal the moment you made a move. Now answer the question." Orbital joined in now. "Yeah! A…Answer his question!" Kite turned his eyes towards Orbital as if telling him to 'shut the hell up now, or I'll dismantle you right now.' Orbital quickly remained silent.
"Orbital…leave…" Kite ordered to him without loosing eye contact with me. "B…B…But sir…" Orbital wanted to protest. "NOW!"
"Eeep! Leaving, I…I'm leaving!" Orbital quickly left at top speed as he was dodging trees and bushes so he wouldn't get caught in it or crash into one, while animated smoke appeared from it. I was shocked at Kite's actions. "Hey, whats the big deal? He could have stayed if he wanted to." I wondered. "It's none of your business on how I handle my robot's affairs. And you still haven't told me why you were following me. Do you really think that I'm going to go easy on you, or grow scared all of a sudden because your Alesia's friend? Well, your dead wrong about that!"
I folded my arms being on my 'tough chick' side. "You wanna know how come, skinny boy? It's because I want answers." Kite raised a brow. "Answers? Answers for what?"
"Answers as to what the hell is going on between you and Alesia." I spoke dangerously. He gave a look of confusion. "I don't know what in the world are you talking about." He countered. "Oh really? Do you honestly expect me to believe that you really don't know what's going on? Spear me the act, Kite!"
Now that I said all of that, Kite was getting really irritated by this. "You think I'm act—ting? I just told you that I seriously don't know what you are trying to say."
"Oh okay, Kite, let's play dumb here. I already know about your involvement with Alesia, and how you REALLY feel about her." I pointed it out in his face. He was surprised at my statement. "E…Excuse me?! Just where did you get that whole idea from?!" He belted out on me. "How do you think? Alesia told me EVERYTHING!" Now he was shocked. "Everything? Look. I don't know what is really going on. But all I do know is that I have no feelings for your friend, you GOT that?" he said very irritated for some reason, and I could help but smirk at this in front of him.
"Ah, so I guess I'm not the only one who picked up on this ploy, hmm?" I teased a bit to see what his reaction was gonna be. "Enough games, Jenny! If you chased me all the way out here just for this, then you are wasting my time. I don't have time for any of this nonsense. So I suggest you go back to little Alesia, before you get hurt." I looked at him dead in his eyes. "Is that a treat?" I challenged. "Only if you want it to be. Now step out of my way."
Kite attempted to move from me, but all I did was block him. He was getting irritated every single time I did. "Are you mad or something? Step out of the way, Jenny!" I smirked at him. "Just answer this one question, and one question only. And then I will let you pass." He folded his arms across your chest and looked at me sternly. "What is it?" He asked begrudgingly.
"Why did you give Alesia that look before we left that day I came here?" Kite looking very confused by what I was talking about. "I never gave any look…"
"Yes, you did. You gave a look to her when she finally told you about you hurting me, and how she will never forgive you. And then you had a heartbroken look on your face." I explained to him. But all he kept doing was stare at me in silence. I could see the uncertainty in his eyes. There was something there, I just know it. But he is just too stupid to admit it to himself. I really don't want Alesia getting involved with this guy. But with Hart's fate on the line because of their father's stupid decisions, Mr. Heartland plotting no good along with him, the bad guys seeking the power of Eternia and al,l is just way to much for Alesia to handle right now.
"Look, at this point I don't care if you are in love Alesia." I finally told him. He looked at me astonished at my answer. "What?!" He asked surprised by this before he was ready to protest, but I held my index finger near his face and he stopped immediately. "But you sure as hell better stay AWAY from her. There is already someone else who is more suitable for her, then YOU." Venom was already seeping out in my voice. Kite caught on to it and then narrowed his eyes at me challengingly. "Allow me to take a wild guess. This so-called 'person' is Reginald Kastle, right?"
Being stunned, I couldn't hold back my shock anymore. "W-What?" He still looked at me sternly. "You heard me." He began walking closer to me and I couldn't help but move back away from his advances. "I already know about that loser. He told me all about it when we first dueled. Made me believed that he had a Numbers card all along, until I forced him to spill the beans."
I felt myself being forced back into a large tree until he stopped and cornered me. Damn, I won't be able to escape! "So I don't know where the heck you got this idea that I'm 'In love' with Alesia from, dear Jenny. All I know is that I had never planned the way things did for her to get mad at me." He answered.
Now I was shocked by this statement. "What do you mean, you never 'planned' it?" I demanded. "And don't give me that B.S excuse that Mr. Heartland forced you to." Kite pulled away at my accusations. "But it's true! He did force me to do it. I had told him that I was not going to do that, but then said that he will find somebody else who will. And I don't have a clue of what that person could have done to Alesia, had I not stepped in at the last minute. So which do you prefer Jenny — Someone else hurting her, or me making sure that she doesn't?"
"Well, you sure did a bang up job in hurting her feelings!" I said sarcastically. "She trusted you Kite! She believed in you even when both her mother and I warned her to stay away from you." Now Kite looked at me confused. "Her mother?" I nodded. "Yeah, and she's highly pissed. I think she may want to snuff you after what you did to her daughter!" He seemed a bit uncomfortable but relaxed a bit.
"I can't change what happened in the past. But one thing I do know is that I need to clear things up with Alesia somehow. And I can't do it with people like you getting in the way, Jenny!" I raised a brow at him. "So you really want to apologize to her?"
"I just said that didn't I?" He questioned smugly at me. I sighed in defeat as I thought about it. "Don't worry. I won't get in Reginald's way concerning Alesia. He can have her. And besides, I don't date teenage girls. Not interested in it any ways…" He said as he left me in the middle of the park alone, and the next thing I know is that he is suddenly gliding his way out of the park and back towards the direction of Heartland.
I sighed as I see his fading form disappeared in the sky. I shook my head at this before turning around to walk away.
I got the answers I need. Kite is in love with Alesia. He just doesn't know it yet. But as long as he does keep his distance from Alesia after his so-called 'apology',then fine. I'll 'stay out of it' for now…
My POV
Okay in case people end up forgetting what happens after that last episode. Allow me to bring you up to speed. "Oh no! If Astral isn't around, then Yuma is going to be doomed, and then I'm gonna be kicked out of Heartland City for good!" Flip kept whining dreadfully, and Tori couldn't help but look on at the duel with worry on her face. "Oh Yuma…"
'Oh Yuma' is right. You see,apparently Flip had gotten himself into some trouble while we were away. And even though I haven't been able to get in contact with Jenny, ever since Kari told me that she somehow just disappeared when she wasn't looking — things just weren't in my favor today:
Cameron takes a picture of me…
I was challenged into a duel…
Lost two of my winning heart pieces…
Got myself sick somehow…
Jenny disappears to who knows where…
Flip get's into serious hot water…
And now Yuma has to bail him out of it by dueling both Dextra and Nistro…!
Sheesh, can this day not get any worse?! I thought to myself, until finally Yuma's key was reacting strangely. And then suddenly I felt myself being pulled into some type of portal or some kind. I yelped in surprise as I was sucked in, and this caused Tori and Flip to be alarmed.
"Agh! Alesia, where are you going at a time like this?!" Flip yelled out in anger. "Uh, Flip? I don't think Alesia left on purpose!" And she couldn't have been more right about that guess. "What in the world?!" Nistro asked in shock. But for Dextra she was worried as hell. "Oh no…Alesia! Where are you!" She cried out. "Alesia?" Yuma said still grasping what happened.
"Alesssssssssiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaa!" Yuma's echoing voice suddenly woke me up. I was in some type of void that was so similar to being inside the Emperor's Key. I moaned in pain when I realized where I was.
She's here.
She is here!
Number 96!
It's the human child…
The human…
Human!
Alesia…
The one with the power is here!
All of these whispers were echoing in the background, as I had no idea of where this was coming from! I never felt so trapped and scared at the exact same time. I kept moving backwards as I tried to check in with my surroundings.
"What the hell is going on?" I gasped for air, as I suddenly was feeling nauseous again. Until I had gotten this strange chill coming from near my neck. "What brings the lovely real worlder back in my domain, hmm?" I immediately pulled back as I recognized the voice that belonged to Number 96, and I bolted out of there. If I could!
I screamed when suddenly I felt something wrapped around my ankle and then landed on the ground hard, as black tentacles surrounded me from all angles, and pinned me down further. I struggled to get loose but the one wrapped around both of my wrist together tightened even more! "Damn it! I can't get loose!" I said in frustration. "But of course you can't get loose, Alesia. I made sure to learn my lesson from last time." 96 said with a devious smirk on his face.
The look of horror spread across my own face, as I realized that he was here all along. "What brought you back into the Emperor's Key?" he asked curiously. "Geez, I don't know, the same as everything!" I told him sarcastically, but then he tightened his grip with the surrounding tentacles on my arms, wrist, waist and ankles. He now was hovering over my body. "Now dear Alesia, must I remind you whom you are speaking to? You're talking with one of the most powerful Numbers card in Yuma and Astral's possession. And I don't take too kindly for disobedience."
I gasped and shivered when I felt one of the tentacles encircling around my legs. I was beginning to panic further when his face was closer to mine. He smirked when he noticed the fear in my eyes, and my heartbeat was pounding every second without haste!
I was truly wondering where on earth was Astral when you really needed him!
"I can see the fear in your eyes, Alesia. Whatever had happened to that brave little girl now, hmm?" He lifted up my chin so that he can really see them. I gulped, as my panicking wouldn't stop there. "What is it that you want from me?" I asked him scared out of my mind! But all he did was smirk before his face were seemly closer and our nose's touched. "Come now, you really don't have a clue Alesia? I told you before that I would get my hands on you, now didn't I?"
My eyes went wide and then he suddenly pulled up my shirt and this caused me to scream even further. He licked the side of my face and I couldn't help but felt the tears come out as I closed my eyes. I tried so hard to activate my powers, but nothing was happening! You can hear him chuckle at this. "My, my, this simple display of weakness is just too sweet to resist, I love playing with my little toy." 96 attempted to pull off my shirt until he suddenly contorted in pain as he yelled before he slider back away from me immediately, when you see a slash mark on his right arm. His tentacles were cut as well and I was now free from his grasp!
"Alesia!" The voice of Astral came towards me from behind, as I suddenly began coughing and gasping in pain and fear. When I looked up, I can see Number 39 hovering over us before landing in front of me. "Utopia!" I cried out surprised. He turned around briefly before paying attention to Number 96. "You impudent fool…" he growled sounding very pissed that he couldn't have his way with me. "How dare you spoil my fun!"
"Astral…" I said barely as I felt a pair arms of a very warm touch around my arms and waist, and then I realize that it was Astral holding me from behind. "Alesia, Are you all right? Did he hurt you?!" he asked alarmed and concerned. I nodded before breaking into tears and I sniffed. He frowned at me, and began wiping my tears away. "I'm sorry, but I don't know how can I help console you Alesia." Astral apologized. I was just grateful that he finally came to me in time. "Aww, poor Astral is trying to bond with the real worlder. How quint…" 96 snickered in front of us.
"Number 96! I will not allow you to assault my friend while she is in my domain!" Astral said as he pointed an accusing finger at him. Then suddenly a whirring sound appeared along with red ripples. Astral gasped when he realized that Yuma was in danger. "Yuma!" He looked down to me determinedly as he finally took hold of me somehow and lifted me into his puny and thin arms. Yet he does have strength it them! "Come Utopia! Yuma needs our help!"
We suddenly took off, as Astral held me in his arms and flew into the air to get away from 96. "Oh no you don't Astral! Give me back my toy! I shall absorb you and her power together! But not until I have my fun!" 96 declared before chasing behind us! He summoned his true form 'Dark Mist', and the chase began…
I tried so hard to calm myself down and was glad that Astral and Number 39: Utopia was here to save me. Who knows what Number 96 would have done. But something had grabbed hold of Astral's leg and he looked back in horror, as he realized that it was caught under the pull of Number 96's tentacles.
"Utopia!" Number 39 looked down to us, and Astral somehow was able to lift me up. "Here, take her! Go to Yuma and get Alesia to safety!" Astral demanded. "Hurry!" Number 96 didn't seem too happy about that. "I won't let you escape with my toy Astral! Dark Mist, grab hold of the human girl and stop Utopia!" As Number 96 had ordered, Dark Mist attacked Utopia. But Utopia grabbed hold of me gently and defended himself immediately. I screamed from all of the impact and what is going on, and suddenly after hearing Utopia cry in pain. He leaped up into the sky, before he secured me safely in his giant hand. In least then three-seconds we were zooming in light-speed through a large portal.
I want to inwardly cry out as this was way to fast for any human being to be traveling! But at the end of the tunnel there was a huge light that blinded me. My body felt numb and I blacked out as soon as it hit us.
"A…less…" I hear someone say, but I couldn't make out exactly who. "Alesia! Wake up, Alesia!" I opened my eyes as I felt my body move again. When I see who was holding me I was shocked to see who. "Nistro?" I called out weakly. "Hey there, take it easy will yah? You just got back a few minutes ago." The red hot headed man spoke with a slight smile on his face. My eyes went wide with what he revealed to me. "A-A-A few minutes ago?"
Nistro nodded back in response until someone else spoke up. "Alesia, please tell us what happened!" Dextra asked alarmed upon seeing me. When I looked into her eyes, I saw worry in them. I must have freaked everybody out when I passed out. I came to a conclusion that something must have happened to me during the duel. Oh no, the duel! How could I have forgotten about the duel! Yuma, Tori, Astral and Flip looked at me all worried. Until Astral began explaining to Yuma about what happened. He was shocked at all of the information being brought on to him about me.
"What did ja'say?!" Yuma burst out in anger. "What? How bad is it?" Flip asked in a panic. Yuma turned to me with the same shocked expression. "Is this true?! Number 96 had assaulted you?" Tori and Flip looked just as shocked now. "He did what?!" Tori asked horrified at the response.
However Nistro and Dextra was confused. "Hey, the heck is going on here? What on earth are they talking about?" Nistro demanded. Dextra looked towards me concerned. "Alesia? This Number card. Just what exactly is going on?"
I sighed and explained just the same way that Astral did for the sake of privacy, as I really don't want everybody knowing what really happened in exact detail. It's already scary as it is. Nistro and Dextra was utterly speechless. "I…I don't know what to say, Alesia. That is…it has to be impossible. A Number card can't do that! Can it?" Dextra asked unsure. "You have no idea what kind of power Numbers can really do. Some are benevolent like Yuma's Number, and the rest are often brutal, sadistic, and cunning. They reflect the darkness in peoples hearts, and becomes their greatest desires in the wrong light."
Nistro helped steady me before letting walk on my own. I turned to face him. "Thank you Nistro." Nistro looked a bit taken back by my politeness and slightly blushed. "Its no big deal, really." Dextra couldn't help but give an endearing smirk towards our way. Couldn't blame her though, his reaction is pretty cute. "So wait, does this mean that Flip can stay in the tournament?" Tori asked hopeful. I looked back at the Duo, who then changed there whole attitude.
"Since Yuma have defeated at least one of us…" Nistro started. "You mean both of you." I corrected. "WHATEVER! Both, fine! Flip get's to have one more chance. And I mean ONE MORE CHANCE. But the next time we catch him doing something utterly despicable like this again, there won't be anymore mercy from us!" I turned back to Flip and placed a hand on my hip. "Flip…" I looked at him sternly. He began to panic and got on his knees.
"I swear I won't do it again, Alesia. PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!" He begged. "Flip, calm down. Alesia isn't going to hurt you." Yuma pointed out amused by this. Flip quickly lifted up his head. "Really?"
"Yeah, I won't." I smiled for a bit before turning back serious. "And you better not even think about doing this again, though or the next time, I will not hold back!"
"Gahhh! Yes, Alesia —I won't do it again." Flip said in dread. Nistro and Alesia looked pretty satisfied with their work. Until an employee from Heartland had contacted Nistro and Dextra. "Um, Mr. Nistro and Ms. Dextra — we found a possible match for this person who violated the code of conduct sir." It was a male employee who spoke.
I was very curious as to who that employee were talking about.
"Good, we'll be right over there. Hold him while we take care of some private matters." Nistro ordered. "Understood. Over!" The conversation ended and then Nistro turned to look at Yuma. He told him about how the next time they duel, how he is going to win. And Yuma agreed to do so. Both Nistro and Dextra turned to me. "We need for you to stay put for a moment while Dextra and I handle a situation here." Nistro said seriously. "Until then…" Dextra said lastly as Nistro and her vanished by teleportation. My eyes went wide when I saw it , and I still couldn't believe that they could do all of that without magic or something like that. But hey, it is the distant future.
"Well, now that all of that stuff is settled. What is going to happen now, Alesia?" Tori asked, as suddenly we hear someone's voice calling out to us. "Hey there!" When I turned around to see who it was, I was shocked and pissed at the same time.
Seriously Jenny? WHAT—THE— HELL?!
After all this time that I have been looking for her, she now decides to show up? I told her to stay put with Kari while I handle the situation with Cameron, and what does she do? Disappears while I have no way of knowing where is was! I really didn't know how to react to all of this.
"Hey, sorry that I didn't get in contact with you Alesia, I was so busy trying to figure some things out that I…"
"Stop…enough Jenny." I told her sternly and began walking away from her immediately. Yuma and the others were kind of surprised to see what was going on between her and I. But why should I hide the way how I feel? "But Alesia…, what did I do wrong? Other then running off…" Jenny asked desperately. I didn't look back to her, but I had stopped midway from walking when she did ask me that question. And I only had one thing to say to her."You know what Jenny? There is no 'I' in 'Team'. And that is exactly what I thought we were when we had both agreed that I would help out with Yuma, while YOU were assigned to assist Kari!" Yuma frowned when he heard the rising anger in my voice. "Alesia, please take it easy. You just went through a frightening ordeal. I don't think it would be wise to stress yourself over what happened earlier." Yuma said regretfully. I bit my lip remembering everything that just happened while inside the key.
Jenny suddenly came around me to the front, and looked at me shocked by the news. "What frightening ordeal? What the hell happened to you, Alesia?!" I just gave a stubborn look to her. "Why the hell should I tell you? You were the one who suddenly disappeared on me!" I lashed back. "Hey guys, can you please stop? You two shouldn't be arguing like this. You two are friends right?" Tori hoped to quench the anger Jenny and I were inhabiting towards each other. But when she and I get into it, we usually don't stop.
Jenny turned over to Tori with a pissed off look on her face. "Why don't you just stay out of it, Tori!" Tori shuttered back and shivered with fear and sorrow, before Yuma came forward to protect her. "Hey! What's the big idea, Jenny? Tori didn't do anything to you, she just doesn't want any of you two fighting each other! Look at you two, you both act worse then how I mistreated her earlier." He explained. "Yeah, I have to agree with Yuma. I just met you today, and already I'm starting not to like you Jenny. Why are you acting this way towards Alesia?" Flip asked. "Yeah, what's the big idea with you doing a disappearing act on us huh?" Yuma questioned further.
But Jenny was taken back with how many of the characters are actually defending Alesia in this argument. "Do you have any idea of how worried Alesia was, when she had found out that you were gone? She even went to my sister, just to try to figure out what had happened. So I don't think you have to right to start bossing people around." Yuma finished. Man I hate to say this, but I am actually very glad that someone had went ahead and spoke up about this…
Everyone else was quiet and I just couldn't help but wanted to get out of there now. I rushed to get away from everyone, as they kept calling for me to 'come back'. I just didn't want to talk to anybody any more. That was when suddenly I felt something slip out of my pocket. I didn't do anything about it as I knew that it wasn't something important. Maybe it was just my imagination.
Walking towards the city I felt that I should take a breather at the park. I didn't want to be around anybody right now. And after that huge fight Jenny and I had before, I really felt like our friendship was becoming really strained ever since she came to the ZEXAL World. And to be secretly honest. As much as I'm glad to have a familiar friend around, I would have really appreciated it if Jenny could have just stayed home, and not get into this whole mess further. But no…, that whole entire plan would had been totally fine. Had it not have been for… "Hey Kid!" I hear Nistro's voice and turned around when I saw that he and Dextra has finally came back. "Hey, is this the punk who stole your heart pieces?" He asked as he suddenly lifted up Dexter in the air holding him towards me. Dexter looked like he gotten beat up or something! "Oh my God, Nistro! What the hell did you do to him?" I yelled out in horror at the sight. Nistro frowned at my reaction. "What? What did I do? Didn't you say that you wanted us to find the guy for yah?"
Dexter looked up at Nistro immediately. "Huh?!" He questioned shockingly. "That's right. You heard correctly you scoundrel. We found out about your little stunt that you have been playing recently. From two other victims, if I'm not mistaken." Dextra pointed out with her 'matter-of-fact' voice, and arms crossed.
"Hmph! And it looks to me like you will most certainly won't be doing this again!" Nistro belted out which cause Dexter to flinch. "Please, Nistro, I just want my heart pieces back. That's all…" I begged them. Dextra and Nistro frowned towards my direction before Nistro sighed exasperatedly. "Aw man! All right, all right!" Nistro dropped Dexter to the ground has he stumbled to get away from the big over sized duelist. "You better give Alesia back all of her heart pieces she won from you, little punk!" He narrowed his eyes at him. "And you better make it snappy!"
Dexter rushed over to me in a flash as he suddenly empties out all in his pockets for the heart pieces he wagered me. "H-H-Here! I won't do this again! Please don't sic 'him' on me!" Dexter as fast as he could the moment the he just dropped the heart pieces into my hands. I was shocked behind measure, here.
"Hey! Get back here you punk. I'm not finished with you!" Nistro attempted to follow, until Dextra held him back.
"That's enough, Nistro…we'll get him again next time around." She narrowed her eyes at the direction of where Dexter headed. Nistro gave an attitude towards this and pulled back. "That rotten punk…" he muttered. "Any way, Thank you guys for doing this big favor for me. I never would have guessed that you two went out of your way to find that guy." I told them bashfully. "It was no biggy. Just making sure that the Duel Carnival runs smoothly is all." He said in the same manner as me. Until Dextra cleared her throat. "Well, why we would love to stay and chat, Alesia. Nistro and I still have other duelist that we must defeat, and track down any other cheaters out there who could be breaking the rules. But be warned Alesia. For the next time, Nistro and I won't be able to bail you out of another dilemma. Mr. Heartland is bound to get suspicious of our involvement with each other like this sooner or later."
"Yeah, I wouldn't attempt to get on his ugly side if I were you, Kid. He may seem like a push over, but he isn't like what he appears to be like in that anime show of yours. So you better keep your head down, and be out of the radar why you still can." Nistro also commented. I nodded towards them gratefully. "Thank you again, Nistro and Dextra. For the good advice you've given me. I'll do my very best to not get in the way. I hope to see you both at the finals." I told them with a smile.
"And the same to you…" Dextra spoke for both of her and Nistro, while she gave a charming smile, and Nistro clicked his teeth before giving off a heroic smile my way with a wink. And both of them teleported together.
The day was about to be over as I see that the sun had already set in the sky. I yawned before looking up at the clock to see what time it was. About 5:45pm to be exact. I sighed and I walked back to the same direction to where I have left Jenny, Yuma and the gang. I should really apologize to Jenny for yelling at her. She didn't need to be treated that way, even though she practically did the same to me.
"I never would have thought that I would see you around these parts of town, Alesia." The voice of Shark ringed in my ears, until I turned around to see he was behind me. But the look that he was giving me, was really different. "Oh hey there Shark, what have you been doing lately?" I asked trying to strike up a conversation. He shrugged before turning his attention back at me. "Oh, just the usual — Dueling some twerps down at the Bay area." He snorted. "Tore them up like the little fishes they really are." He said with a confident attitude.
"So what about you? Win any duel's lately?" I nodded to him and shown him my completed heart pieces. He gasped in shock. "No way! You won that many heart pieces, already?!" Shark looked up to me with an excited smile. "This is great! Now you have made it to the finals!" I nodded once again, but this time I smiled at him. However that smile was short lived when I finally realized about something. "Hey wait a minute Shark. Weren't you angry at me before, when I had ignored your protest about me joining the tournament?" I asked curiously.
Shark looked at me surprised that I would ever bring that up. He sighed at me regretfully and looked down on the ground in shame. "Yeah…, I was pretty much upset at you for doing it. Even when your friend Jenny told me not to be."
"Please don't talk about her." I requested suddenly. But Shark picked up on it right away. "How come? Did something happen between you two or something?" I nodded to him, and frowned sadly. I avoided looking at him. "Yeah, Me and Jenny got into a fight." I explained. "About what?" He asked shocked that she and I would ever got into one. "Well, I don't know if you heard lately. But when the airship was about the crash, Jenny suggested that she go with Yuma's sister Kari to try and stop it while I help support Yuma in his duel against another Numbers Holder named Cameron. Yuma won the duel as well as the Numbers card, but when I tried to keep in contact with Jenny, she hung up the phone on me on purpose. All without explaining why she did it."
Shark leaned on one of the trees. "That doesn't sound like your friend at all." He noticed right away how I shifted uncomfortably. "Yeah, well neither did I — until I got to meet up with Kari, who then explained to me what really happened. Jenny ran away right in the middle of the airship being rescued and never spoke a word to no one about where she was going. Even after I told her not to go anywhere."
"You can't control what people do, Alesia." Shark explained. "I know but…" I tried to protest, but he cut me off short. "Look. I get the fact that you are only trying to protect Jenny from danger. But Alesia, you have to always remember something. In the end, you have to be more concerned about YOU." He finally told me. But the pain stricken feeling inside my heart just wanted to cry out in pain. How could I let this happened? Jenny was supposed to be my friend, and now this? My eyes got real watery like and I couldn't help but want to wipe them off my face! That was until Shark grabbed my arm securely before pulling me towards his direction.
He stopped when he hugged me afterwards. I was just too stunned to move away from him. "Shark…" I called out his named surprised. But all he did was shushed me into silence. "Don't speak…, I hate seeing you cry like this…" My eyes widened by this statement. "What…?" I asked a little taken back at his confession. "I…I don't know why do I feel this way about you like this, Alesia…"
Then suddenly I felt Shark move his right hand up to my cheek and cradled it. And when I see him looking down at me, I couldn't help but wonder what could be going through his head right at this moment. "Shark…?" I asked again even more frightened then I have ever been. But I truly can't say wither or not this was more scarier. Especially with how close his face was coming towards mine!
Jenny's POV
I really owed everyone an apology, especially Alesia. I mean, I can't believe that I was acting like such a jerk. Heck, I just met one of the character's 'Flip' and now even he is starting not to trust me! I just went ahead and told off Tori all while after she was so kind enough to bother to try and ask her mom about me staying with them! Agh! Could this day not get any worse for me?
"Shark…"
I gasped when the voice I just heard sounded just like Alesia's voice. That sounded just like Alesia! "Don't speak…, I hate seeing you cry like this…" This time my eyes widened in recognizing the next person who spoke. And this person sounds just like Reginald. What the hell is going on here? So I had followed the source of the sound, and then I came up towards a path way under a bridge. I gasped again, and hid behind some stones that made up the bridge, and saw that Shark and Alesia were indeed together. But this next scene really took the cake.
"I…I don't know why do I feel this way about you like this, Alesia…" He tells her. Okay, now my heart is pounding like crazy. What is going on? Why is Alesia here with Shark? And why is he holding on to her like that? Did she and him planned this or something? Nah, Alesia doesn't have the smarts to pull this one off, no matter how inexperienced she was with romance.
I see that Shark held Alesia's face, and the way that she looked was fear written all over her face. How any of this have happened in less then 20 minutes was beyond me! What I wanted to know was, WHAT THE HELL WAS THEY THINKING? This looks like a scene from something you only see in movies! Not to say that it doesn't happen in real life. But who would be stupid enough to pull this one off?
"Shark…?" Once again Alesia's frightened voice echoed in my ears as I see something that I would have never would have thought I would ever see happen to my friend. Is he gonna do what I think he is gonna do?
Surely enough Shark moved his head closer towards Alesia, as she looked helpless to do anything about what was coming. And then something inside my heart felt like it wanted to break. I can't believe that I'm actually seeing this! I bit my lip, and then felt the need to get out of here. I was a bystander anyway. Tears began to swell up my eyes, as I moved back only to step on some loose branches that must of fell off of a tree.
When I looked back, I never would have felt so embarrassed then when Jesse Carmichael went ahead and asked me out on a date!
My POV
So many things were running through my head, when I wanted to escape out of Shark's grasp on me. And as our noses finally touched, him and I widened our eyes when we heard something step on what sounded like a branch. Shark pulled back immediately from me, to turn around and saw what gave us the fright.
"What is it…?" I couldn't help but ask, even though we were in an awkward situation here. "I think I may have found your reason for being here." He couldn't help but continue to stare in one direction near the bottom of the overpass. And then I gasped loudly when I see why!
"J-J-J-JENNY?" That's right, the one person I had no intention of seeing at the moment was there — staring at me and Reginald as if this was all part of a big scandal or something. And she just happened to discovered the biggest one in all of Otaku history. Whatever that may be. But when I recognized the look on her face, I couldn't help but realized what the problem was, as I finally remembered them. "Jenny…" I wanted to say. But all she did was bit her bottom lip and turned around before running out of the area.
I panicked, and wanted to explain to her what was really going on! I tried to reach her but Shark pulled me back. "Jenny! Jenny please wait!" Shark pulled me closed to him until I banged against his chest. "Alesia, don't!" He warned me. "Let her go…, there is nothing you can say or do that will change her mind on what she saw." He lastly explained.
I couldn't help but turned back to face him sternly. "What do you mean by that, huh?!" I demanded. "Do you not realized what she thinks of us now?!" All he did was continued to look at me sternly. "Then let her. I don't see what the heck is the big problem here Alesia. And besides, you were the one who said that you two got into a fight earlier, remember?"
"For all you know she may wanted to apologize to me! Me, Reginald!" I argued back. "It wouldn't have made a difference if she did. If she doesn't change, she is still going to be the same 'friend' that will let you down, the one who will continue to lie and hide things from you, someone who is going to HURT you again." I felt so confused. I understand where Shark was coming from, but I still can't help it if I just want to patch things up with Jenny. I mean…, she's still my friend…
I hear him sigh at me, and looked towards the direction that Jenny went. "And besides, what was with the water works anyway…" I looked at him really shocked. He really doesn't know when a girl is heartbroken does he? "You mean to tell me that you don't know?" I asked shocked. He now turned by to me in a confused expression. "Don't know what?" He asked nearly irritated.
I sigh at this before shaking my head disappointedly at him. Seems so… I ran my fingers through my hair and looked back at Shark sternly at him. He looked at me a little frightened for what I am about to tell him.
"Shark. There is something that I need to tell you…about Jenny…"
Jenny's POV
I ran out of there as fast as I could. I didn't want to be there in that place anymore. No where near Alesia, no where near Shark, no where near anyone. I just wanted to be alone! That was when I heard the voice of someone giving away an evil laugher. "Well, well, well. Looks like somebody is left heartbroken."
I stopped immediately and turned around to see that Quattro was smirking evilly at me. "What the hell do you want?" I asked bitterly. "Aw well. I was just happen to be taking a little walk around the city." He told me nonchalantly as he was paying attention to his playing with his fingers on the left, picking through his nails. Until his eyes shifted towards me cunningly. "That is…, until I came across running into you, Jenny."
"Enough with the bull sh…" Quattro cut me off. "Ah, ah, ah…" he said with a scolding finger. "Careful with the language…" He said sarcastically like. "F*** you!" This time his face turned dangerously serious, before he used his powers to knock me back onto the ground. I grunted in pain as I just realized what he just did to me.
What the hell…? Not again…
But I didn't have to react to this on time, as Quattro's foot had stopped erupt at my feet. And when I looked back up, I saw his now not so friendly face staring down at me. I gulped and was about to say something until he grabbed my arm tightly and forced me to get up, even when I protested in pain! "Vetrix has ordered me to retrieve you now. So you're coming back home with me…" He said dangerously. When I looked at his face, he never changed at all. His serious face really scared me now.
Oh crap… I dreaded inside of my mind, before a portal had opened up in front of us. I struggled to get loose as he was pulling us towards it! "No! Stay the hell away from me! Let me go…,Quattro!" Suddenly I felt a strong pull as our bodies was becoming materialized as pixels and particles in the air. I screamed all for the hell of it knowing that no one could hear my cries.
And it was then did I realized that Kite Tenjo was telling the truth. My mouth has gotten me in serious trouble that I now have no idea how to get out of.
I realized that none of this was ever a game…
There you have it guys. Chapter 20…
Well I have to admit that this was actually pretty good so far. Thank you to the person who finally voted for my new story title. I hope that everyone else follows suit. So tell me what you think of this chapter. And let me know if it meets your expectations. Now that Jenny and Alesia aren't on good terms anymore, do you think they will make up and still be friends? Or now they are enemies?
Later!
~Sapphire100