Chapter 21: Visions
Jaden and I as well as Kate had packed our bags and we walked up to the boat returning to Duelist Academy. I would miss being there, but I got to go with Jaden and Kate. We'll have many adventures too as I know they will.
"Well Alexis, it seems that we're going separate ways for a while. I can tell you that the dorm's going to be pretty empty without you." Kari said to me.
"I know but you'll be fine. You'll have adventures of your own like we will. It's only two or three weeks, we'll be back soon. Well bye." I hugged Kari and she turned around and walked off.
"Bye Alexis, enjoy wherever you visit, take care of Kate and Jaden and don't get yourself into too much trouble." TK advised. "Jaden, show them all what you can do!"
"You bet!" Jaden said flashing his sign to TK. "I'm going to come back with at least 4 stars and then challenge our teachers there, and I'm sure Lex will too, and you guys can watch those."
Kate was staying in my boat, in the very bottom with her grandparents. Her grandparents were ashamed of themselves, where I saw nothing they saw a lot of disgrace but I had told Kate to try to get them to say good-bye.
"Alexis, I'm glad that you're going to be going off to bigger and better things but I'd like to inform you that it is going to be hard to accomplish your dreams with a little child running around, you have to…" I raised my hand.
"Sebastian, you don't think I know that it's going to be hard. It's a challenge. You don't see me worrying do you. We'll all be fine. We're going to prepare at my house for a few days, then we'll set off for places, we'll be fine. Just worry about yourself, bye." I said, I shook his hand and walked off.
"Very well Alexis, good-bye." I nodded and walked off.
"Hey sis, I'm coming home with you guys. I decided that I'm taking a week off from old DA to visit mom and dad. I heard that they've got the week off and they're happy to hear you're coming home."
"Whatever Atticus, that's good news, I guess. I have people who I'm leaving to say good-bye to, so bye." I walked off annoyed with my brother. He couldn't act a bit mature ever, could he?
"Hey Alexis, I heard you're not returning. Why is that?"
I sighed. "Chazz, I told you. Jaden and I are going Pro and we have to earn our stars before we can challenge big duelists so we're going off to find them. Well Bye."
"Wait Alexis, aren't you going to tell me where you're going?"
"I would Chazz but I really need to say good-bye to friends who know where I am going."
"Alexis!" He called.
"Bye Chazz."
"Don't leave,"
"I'm going, bye." I walked off, pathetic Chazz.
I walked over to our two first year duelists. "Hey Marcelo, Danny; I just wanted to say good-bye since I won't be seeing your for almost a month. I wish you both luck on all your exams and such. Also, Danny thank you for covering the news paper while I'm gone; I'm sure you'll do a great job."
"Thanks Alexis, I'll do everything I can to keep it going." I nodded.
"Bye Marcelo, good-luck with your duels and classes. I got to go, bye." I ran off, there was one more person I had to say good-bye to.
"I don't believe your leaving me Jay, after this many years of friendship, your leaving me for Alexis and Kate."
"A hem," I said to him.
"Sorry Alexis, did you want to say something."
"Pull yourself together Syrus, Jaden and I with the addition of Kate, Zane, Molly, Lisa and Atticus are all going to my house to prepare for our journey. We'll be back at the very most a month, but we got to go. Stop falling apart every time Jaden leaves you!" I yelled.
"A month?" Syrus was freaking out.
"Calm it Sy, we'll be back. We just got to do a few duels, and then we're back. I don't expect us to be gone for more then a couple of weeks, two really."
"Okay, I feel better already." Syrus calmed down.
"Well the ships are about to take off, we got to go Syrus, bye."
"Yeah bye Sy,"
"Okay bye Jay."
We got on the ship and boarded all our stuff made sure everyone got on the correct ships and we took off. Kate hadn't came up, but when the ship started moving she ran and crashed into me. "We're moving!" She was scared to death, poor child.
"It's okay, it's just a boat Kate. We're going to my house, my as Jaden says Palace. We're going to talk to my mom and dad and then go off and duel then Jaden and I go to school again."
"I do too?"
"Yep."
"Yeah!" She said cheerfully.
"Say good-bye to our friends," I told her.
"Bye everyone!" She had met all of her friends and waved to them all. I held her in my arms. "I don't feel well."
"Poor child, she's sea sick." I nodded. Molly picked her up and rocked her back and forth gently. Molly took her to the kitchen and made a dish for her, and told her to eat.
"I feel like I'm going to throw it up." She said.
"I know but if you eat this it will help settle your stomach so you feel better and can at least sleep." Kate nodded and ate the food and soon after fell asleep in my arms. I laid her in the lower deck beds, where she'd sleep.
It was nightfall and surprisingly Kate was still sleeping, she probably wouldn't sleep tonight. I was wrong she slept through the night; I was the one who couldn't sleep. I sat up on the deck walking around mindlessly.
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"Hey Lex, guess what?"
"What Jaden?"
"We did it, we fooled Destiny."
"And I'm glad we did." I said holding a month old child in my arms. I held her tight to my body and I really wanted to cry. "She's beautiful isn't she?"
"Yeah, she reminds me of somebody."
"Like you and me."
"Yeah, you're right she does." I laughed quietly not to disturb her.
"6 years was worth it to wait wasn't it?" I said in reply.
"Defiantly, I still don't see what you were so worried about, she was born almost a year after we were married, you thought you'd be pregnant at the wedding, that was hilarious to watch you and you freak out." Jaden said laughing on the floor.
"Yeah, really funny Jaden," I stood up and looked at her still sleeping. "She's a solid sleeper just like you. Yet, she'd have to, to live in this house."
"Anything bothers you, like her crying. I'm surprised that she cries."
"It's like it always has been, the moment we leave her she cries, so that's why we moved her in here." I said sitting in my bed and setting her in her crib to rest.
"You're right; I have a feeling that we've known that she'd be like this."
"Me too," I replied. I went into the bathroom and changed my clothes and came back out.
"You ready for her return tomorrow?"
"Of course, everything is just as she left it."
Jaden and I went to sleep in the bed and we slept to the sound of duel monsters which ever since Hailey was born we could hear. Jaden said he could always hear them which surprised me a little but I always wondered who he was talking to during his duels.
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"Alexis?" Jaden said, waking me up from my dream.
"Yeah, what?"
"I don't think it's healthy or safe for you to sleep leaning over the guard rail, you could have fallen over and drowned."
"I could have but we know the future and that doesn't happen. What am I doing out here anyway?"
"I don't know, when I came up for my snack you were here."
"Oh, I guess I must have fell asleep thinking again. Thanks for waking me up."
"No problem, but if you don't mind…"
"Yes, I'll make you a snack." He smiled and we walked to the kitchen so I could make him a snack.
"So what were you thinking about?" Jaden asked.
"The future, it was a vision more alike. If I was tired I would have gone to bed but I wasn't. I think it was a vision. Like I had before Hailey arrived."
"Oh, so what was it of?"
"It was when Hailey had returned after we tricked fate. You and I were just talking about something that was going to happen then you woke me up."
"Man, I wanted to know what happened."
"We'll find out in 6 years, don't be in any rush. It was well worth the wait."
"What did I look like?" Jaden asked.
"Like you accept a few years older, and so was I. I was around the same size but you were taller and you were still as skinny as ever, we looked the same only older."
"Cool, I like my body. It's so mine." I sighed; if that made any sense then I'd be happy.
We went downstairs to our respective sleeping quarters and fell asleep.
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I awoke to the sound of crying, I went over to the most likely candidate but it wasn't her. Who was it?
I went up and saw a little boy on the boat's deck, he looked quite familiar. He reminded me of the two children I would some day watch after.
"Darling don't go out there it's the middle of the storm, it's not safe come back!" A mother yelled at her child. The child crawled out to get a duel card and got it and sat on down and stared at the card. He was smiling the child seemed to be tiny, only 2 or three.
"Card!" He boy yelled enjoyably. "Jaden, no!" A girl with jaden's brownish-red hair ran out there and as the ship tipped he rolled toward the side of the ship and he was about to fall off she ran and caught him and was slammed against the ship's deck and was knocked out but she held the baby Jaden in her arms tight, as she could. After the storm settled the mother went and took the child by the hand and carried the girl to the room to be healed.
Flash "You now see the past Alexis, as easily as you can tap into the future you can tap into the past. Do you know who that girl who saved him was?"
"No."
"It was none other than her cousin, Molly. She was 8 at that time but she was always protecting him. That is why she protects him, she remember this. It's one of the reason she had tired hard to keep him away from dueling."
"Why?"
"You couldn't see it but Jaden has contact with duel spirits, and that one called out to him. His parents saw it as normal behavior a child going out on a deck and talking to things that are inanimate but Molly knew that Jaden and dueling would cause problems."
"Oh,"
"Yes, she worries about him. Do you know why they were on that ship?"
"No."
"They were returning home to the house there was where the chemical accident plant would blow leaving only those two alone."
"I don't want her anywhere where there is danger."
"Then don't, take her to the island that was abandoned years ago, the one that Jaden's parents lived on. That way she still was separated from you for a month."
"Thank you, but may I ask who you are?"
"You forget names easily don't you Miss. Rhodes."
"Ladle?"
"Yeah, the non existent as ever,"
"Sorry about forgetting about you; I bet it hurts." I said sympathizing with the poor person.
"No, I'm quite surprised you remember you name. That's a joke. I didn't think my name would be important enough for the time vortex to let you remember."
"You brought us so much understanding, of course you're important."
"Thanks, that's the most importance I've had for a while."
"So why didn't you tell me that I could view different events of time."
"Actually you're the first existent person to ever be able to; I'm surprised. Well time for you to awake." I nodded.
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"Another vision, I presume." Lisa said, sitting on her bed 4 feet away.
"How did you know?"
"Jaden told Zane that you've been having them lately, so I guessed that's why you were talking about these people, Molly, Jaden and a Laddy."
"Ladle,"
"Ah, so what was the vision about?"
"I was visiting the past, the night before Jaden's parents died. They were on a boat and Jaden crawled out on the deck in the middle of the storm to save a card, and he almost fell over board but Molly saved him."
"Oh, that is so sad; I don't think I could handle it if I had visions like that in my head." Lisa said.
"I'm having troubles with it too but It's okay. There is always someone there to talk it over with."
"That's good, so who do you plan on dueling first." She asked me.
"I don't know, wherever we land Jaden and I will both duel them, and that a way we'll be on equal terms."
"Good, oh and here; I forgot to give these to you and Jaden." She handed me two small flat boxes and opened them up. One already had a star in it the other was empty. "You both dueled pro league duelists and won and for that you get a star, that star was placed by your opponent and this one is Jaden's." She unpinned a star from her blazer and pinned it to the box case. "You deserve those, The one that Zane uses to pin his jacket was his first, he's extremely proud of it; that's why he wears it."
"Didn't he lose it once?"
"Yeah but he got it back when Aster Phoenix was arrested for using illegal duel monsters; that's why it's important."
"So these stars are very important?"
"You bet, the more you have the more people learn to respect you and your level."
"Wow, so we're like beginners now." She nodded.
"Well we're about to arrive, you better take care of that girl at meet us for breakfast."
"Knowing Jaden he's waiting beyond that door for Kate and I to come out so we can make dinner."
"Jaden seems harder to take care of then Kate." Lisa said.
"Sometimes he can be, actually, a lot of the time he can be." I answered.
I dressed myself and I handed Kate her clothes to change into. I came out and there was no Jaden, but had I really expected no one on this boat to have made food already, the answer was yes.
"I'm hungry!" I sighed, there was Jaden.
"I am too, where are the girls when we're starving?" Atticus asked.
"Lisa, why don't you make the starving duo, something to eat?" Zane asked.
"Yeah, you're a girl, go be useful and make us some food." Atticus demanded. Lisa smacked him very hard. "Ow, what was that for?"
"I could beat your butt in a duel any day so don't under estimate me!" Lisa said yelling at Atticus.
"Alexis, help me!" Atticus yelled crawling up to me.
"Atticus, get a hold of yourself or I'll have fun and beat you up myself." I said.
"I made breakfast." Kate said.
"Good job, I'm sure your uncle and your father will be happy to hear that." I announced, walking to the kitchen and waiting for dinner.
"Guys I see an island." Kate said at the top of her voice.
"That means we're about to arrive at my house." I said picking her up and spinning her around.
"Cool, yeah!"
"I'm sure your parents are in for quite a surprise." Jaden said.
"Yep, that is going to happen."
"My parents will get over it eventually." I said.
"Most likely they'll faint." Atticus added.
"But they'll be okay, I got to pack up, bye." I said jumping into the hatch and grabbing my bags.
"Lexy, you ready?" Jaden yelled down into the room.
"Almost, get ready to catch my bags." I warned him.
Jaden caught my bags and I jumped up onto the deck of the ship. "Okay, so are you ready for a little excitement?"
"Yep, I'm ready. What about you Kate?"
"Absolutely," Kate said.
"Good because everything is going to be extremely exciting." I added.
"Yeah!"