Kirei: Okay this is just gonna be a quickie.
Johan: She's gotta do something to make up for the Authoress Note she made.
Kirei: Quiet you! Anyway, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX nor all the OC but I do own the plot.
Reviewers Response:
Oak-chan: Well if you think its epic then was epic. And it seems like everyone's got it out for you, Oreo.
Orion: That's because they happened to catch me when I broke character
Yeah…that's so the case.
Chrisandersenyuki: Would go berserk? He's getting there…
ArrowTLC7:Orion: What the hell is up you people underestimating my intelligence? I'm smart ya know!
~~~~~AllHailEccentricness~AllHailEccentricness~AllHailEccentricness~AllHailEccentricness~~~~~
"Mou~ I wouldn't have agreed to this if I knew you were a slave driver, Johan!" Kyoko complained as she along with nearly all the others were sprawled on the ground. Bruises and scratches were abundant and standing over them was their temporary instructor and 'slave driver', "That was going easy. It's not that bad though you could just always just let me get Jazz on my own and we would not be in this situation."
Johan could not convince any of his friends to disclose the entrance of the lair and he couldn't use his WATCH since there was some kind of jammer over the place. With an annoying persistence, the companions undertook cram PAD studies. They didn't cover the paranormal creature and abilities stuff but rather the combative side of conjuring shields, healing, utilizing elements, enhance weapons/natural ability, and simultaneously cast and fight. And Johan- being the most experienced -had trained them after classes and kicked their asses for hours on end.
Lien argued, "There's no way you could take on all those things-"
"-Students-" the marksman interjected.
"whatever! There has to be hundreds in there and now way could you take them all even if you wanted to. Be grateful!"
"Yes, be grateful to people keeping me from finding my little sister that is hanging mortal peril with each passing second," Johan replied in an uncharacteristically satirical tone. He had been extremely irritable after his awakening and half-consciously has taken it out on his friends. The Obelisk knew they were only hoping for the best, but his anxiety and the disturbing things he had seen in his 'dreams' made him want to save Jazzlyn as quickly as possible.
"None of us are liking the circumstances either, Johan," Leon reminded him, getting back onto his feet. He picked up the scabbard to the sword that he borrowed from the Andersen twins' immense inventory. He held it out to the bluenette, "so how about we make a bet?"
"A bet?" was echoed by nearly all the students.
"Yes, a bet," the brunette told them, "Let's have a spar where we have to keep our weapon. If I win, you finish our lessons and allow us to go after Jazz immediately. And if you win…I will tell you the hidden location so you can pursue Jazz as soon as possible. Either way, we're making progress."
Before anyone could dispute, Johan took up a rapier, "Fine with me. Ready?"
"Let's go before I get jumped. Brimstones' essence reduce all from earth to ashes," The blade glowed as he went for an downward swing, which was blocked by Johan's blade. Metal scraped against each other before Leon reversed into an upward swing that was also met with the rapier. Both fighters backed off, "Ya know, Leo, I noticed that you're scary good with a sword."
Johan went on the offensive and assaulted with various thrusts and strikes. All of them were guarded against a black katana. Their blades met once more as the PAD noticed, "It's kendo, isn't it?"
Their swords parted yet again and they were both back into a stance. Johan held the rapier with only one hand while his companion used both for the katana, "If it weren't for the damn age requirements, I would be a 4-dan (1)."
The gunman whistled, "That's talent." He stepped back when he heard, "Rise from the underground, terra cudis." Johan jumped to miss the jutting pieces of earth that appeared out of the ground. He managed to land on the unaffected ground only to rush to block his attacker from behind, "Though I thought practitioners in Japanese martial arts fight fair."
"There is no such thing as 'fighting fair' in a fight," Leon said as he thrust near his opponent's face. Johan sidestepped twice before ducking and using the blunt end of his blade to hit the Osiris against the wall, "Well, let's step it up then."
He was going easy? everyone thought in their heads. The duelist groaned at the force of the slam, nearly losing his grip as Johan came quick with the rapier. The exchanges became flashes of light and the chink of blades. Everyone kept an eye on the time. 3 minutes had passed.
Johan quickly found nearly all his friends had talent in fighting. Leon was actually really good at using a sword and would probably be lethal in fighting if he learned. His speed made him hard to catch but he lacked in magic ability. However, the PAD couldn't understand how it was so usually low it was like…it was being repressed. Either way, Johan had to kick it up into high gear so he could win the location without endangering his friends again. He cast, "Disappear into darkness, luminescence vanishment."
Lights in the training room had gone off. Cries of surprise and struggles to find a source of light heard. No one could see. No one except Johan and maybe Sakura. Pressing his advantage, Johan struck with ferocity that kept the brunette on his toes. Leon was being pressed back when the silver-colored rapier nearly thrust at his abdomen. He ducked onto his back, and a clatter was heard. It wasn't heavy enough to be a sword but something definitely fell. The PAD didn't have time to ponder as he was startled by a pair of gold reptilian spheres, "Elements of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen combust and ignite!"
A flame was shot from his hand towards the orbs. A shift, like a dive or stumbling, was heard, "Damn it Johan, I know we said no fair fighting but you don't have to incinerate me!"
"Leo, that was you?"
"Who else is fighting you, bloody div?" was heard in the darkness. Green eyes turned to find the cerulean eyes of his opponent close to the ground. Johan assumed he nearly blasted the guy. The five minutes were nearly out and desperate to win the bet, Johan tried to make Leon drop his sword while still covered in the darkness. Yet, his desperation must've been guessed as his assailant held his sword at ready. They lunged forward when the PAD tripped over something on the ground. The bluenette landed ungracefully with a hard hit against the back of his palm forcing him to drop the weapon he held.
He lost.
The lights returned to the room. They couldn't see most of the fight but could definitely see the end result. Leon was on his feet with the katana on the side while Johan was flat on his back with his rapier abandoned next to him. The Osiris extended his hand to his fallen friend to his feet, "Yeah! The student become the master! "
"Actually," Leon scratched his head before squatting near where Johan had fallen. He grasped something in his hand and held it up. It was chains with thin crystal beads and at the end was a cross that was comprised of the same material as the beads (2), "that was dumb luck."
"Is that a rosario?" Johan examined the cause of his defeat. He ran his fingers across it. The PAD could feel within the item was magic. Not any simple one. It was complex and advanced to last for years. Was this the reason his friend's conjuring was so weak? Said guy put the Rosario back on his neck and tucked it back under his shirt and before Johan could ask about it, a phone rang.
La'Rae gave an exasperated sigh as she went rummaging through her stuff to pull out her cell phone, "Guten tag? Papa, ich wünsche Ihnen würde aufhören, mich jeden Tag…(German: Hello? Daddy, I wish you would stop calling me everyday…)"
The conversation continued for another few minutes. From what Johan heard, on the other line was La'Rae's father. He was trying convince her to reconsider going to North Academia and come back home. However, La'Rae refused, telling him not to worry about her so much and that promises she will not end up like her mother. After that she is exchanging a few consoling gestures before telling him good bye and to call once a week rather than everyday.
Some of the students understood the conversation but pretended they didn't. Johan was apart of that group. He always felt but never voiced that he thought his friends had some problem in their lives. They talked more openly after finding out the PAD's secrets. All of them had either one or neither of their parents. Everyone except Kayla, Rory, and Orion could see duel monster spirits and treated their cards like their family. They also felt that way about their friends, thus their insistence on helping to rescue Jazzlyn.
"So~ Since Leo won, our lessons are over! When can we go save Jazz?" Lien asked. Johan replied, "Tomorrow night. Midnight sharp. Anyone not there at that time will not come. Understood?"
Various retorts of agreement were his response.
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Only a few hours before the return to that hell hole, Johan decided to get some sleep in preparation for his long night to come. In his PAD outfit (3), a simple gray shirt with black pants and long-tailed jacket, the teenager collapsed onto his bed and set an alarm for 10 prior to their meeting time. With that he shut his eyes.
The teen half-hoped he would have a normal night's sleep. He also half-hoped he would be reliving the horrid memories in Jazzlyn's mind. By now he could only see what occurred in. However, engraved in his mind was the first time their minds linked. His thoughts and her were merged and he saw everything through her eyes. He felt all the torture to his twin's body
Johan had shivered at the thought even if he didn't experience it firsthand. Of something dragging her battered seal covered body onto a spell circle from the blood other students killed before he. They both felt blood slither on bare skin with hard stone underneath as Jazz's body was trapped in a paralysis. Temporary warmth from pulsating magic before it became agony. Like invisible knives slashed into their skin before stabbing through flesh and muscle and digging through the innards on purpose. It felt as if the soul and spirit-one's very essence-was torn from the body and shredded to bits before it was reassembled. Sewn back together by an amateur, uniting the essence with a monster.
The nightmare was his drive for rushing to find his sister. Jazzlyn was her twin, that was an undeniable fact. Yet, though it's only by three minutes, he was the older sibling and he felt overprotective about his sister. He hated to see much less know the pain Jazzlyn endured and it boiled his blood know that there was sick sonovabitch that was behind it.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Johan groaned as he sat up. It looks like he would be getting sleep tonight. It didn't matter. He was high on adrenaline and excited to put a bullet through a certain man's head. No one harmed Johan Andersen's family unless they had a death wish.
~~~~~AllHailEccentricness~AllHailEccentricness~AllHailEccentricness~AllHailEccentricness~~~~~
Kirei: Tired… so freakin' tired.
Johan: Well you're done now.
Kirei: Yeah~ Now…*collapses and is sound asleep*
Jazzlyn: Damn that was fast.
Authoress Notes:
1) 4-dan: This is apart of the ranking system of kendo pronounced '4th dan'. You start off as a 6-kyu and work up to a 1-kyu. Afterwards you would be trying for a 1-dan. However, to be a 1-dan you must be at least 14-years-old. The promotion then works by adding another year of training to the ones you already have (ex: 1-dan train for 1 year to become a 2-dan, then a 2-dan must train 2 years to be a 3-dan).
Bottom Line: Leon is only 15, meaning he's only a 2-dan but he has the experience of a 4-dan
2) In the picture of Cain, the necklace he is wearing is what I (poorly) attempted to describe: http:/www(dot)mangareader(dot)net/1573-48802-1/count-cain-godchild/chapter-10(dot)html
3) Check out my profile for what it looks like. Oh and any Black Cat fans? If so, Train is so f-ing hot!