Hello, again.
First off, an apology to those that actually want to read this story. Sorry about the whole issue with my holiday decision. Readers didn't really seem to even notice this one after 'Blood Storm,' 'Were'mon,' and 'Dark Side of Justice' got rolling. So at the very least, I was starting to doubt keeping this one up was a good idea. Among other things. But since I was wrong, I'll be trying not to disappoint.
This time, storywise, will be some simple explanations. A few things need to be address among the characters in order for anything to really progress among them.
As for the disclaimer: If anyone thinks that I own anything besides the OC and the main idea, then I have no idea what your doing on this site. I don't own Yugioh GX or Fairy Tail.
It's time you all learned.
"Indeed." Pegasus said, stunned. "I knew about you more than just about anyone else here, and I still was surprised by the power of magic. But I think we should probably do something about Bella-girl real quick."
No confusion came up when they immediately heard a groan come from the downed girl, only it sounded a lot like Bella instead of Bell.
"What the hell?" she said, picking herself up as she rubbed her head. "What the fuck did I do?"
"You spent some time as Soul-Bell, Bella-girl, and somehow got drunk from broccoli." Pegasus told her.
"Wha-" Bella was cut off as she suddenly felt a lurch in her stomach. Then a few more. Quickly running to a nearby trashcan, she didn't need to show the others what was wrong when they heard her retching while bent over it, understanding.
Once she calmed down, she asked "Would somebody mind explaining just what the fuck happened after I passed out in that cage? And please start with why Mighto Baka is hearing with a teen girl as a bodyguard instead of his usual ass-suits."
Of course, Crowler, being a sycophant to people like Kaiba, exclaimed "His name is NOT Mighto Baka! IT'S SETO KAIBA! S-E-T-O, SPACE, K-A-I-B-A!"
"WELL F-U-C-K, SPACE, Y-O-U, creepazoid, now beat it! The adults are trying to talk." answered Bella, not wanting to deal with the man at that time.
Seto and Abigail stepped forward. "Might as well allow Abigail here to explain things regarding us. Whatever she doesn't know, Mr. Yuki and Truesdale can explain instead. As for me," He then walked over to Crowler and the Chancellor. "We need to have a private chat."
As Kaiba went off to speak to the two men, Bella and the rest got out of the arena for a semblance of privacy, although she had to be helped a bit by Jaden. Bella was still feeling some of the effects of her episode.
As he sat her down by the wall, Jaden asked "You gonna be alright now?"
She nodded. "Yeah, I should be good like this. Already starting to feel it wear off."
"Alright." Jaden said, standing up. "So, you mind explaining about your other personalities?"
Bella snorted a bit. "That's the first thing you ask about? Well, either way, good place to start. It's pretty standard for what they are, on a base level. The issue is what each represents: different ways that I could've snapped from my time as a lab rat."
"What?" Abigail asked, both concerned and shocked.
"You heard me." Bella said before continuing. "Bell, the timid artist, represents me being afraid to the point of absurdity. The only thing that keeps her steady is drawing-"
"Oh, that reminds me." Syrus interrupted. He handed her the sketchbook and pencils. "Here's the sketchbook and all."
"Thanks, shrimp." Bella answered, taking them. "Looks like you got affected by Fairy Tail as well, huh? Anyways, back to what I was saying, if she can't draw, let alone hold onto said materials for it, then she's gonna scream powerful enough to make metal basically bend over and a-" Abigail suddenly smacked Bella across the head, saying "We going to be having words about your language, young lady, mark my words."
Bella just flipped up her middle finger, which proceeded to get her another smack. "You still get what I mean. Next we have Soul-Lock, the one who took my title as an actual name. She's what would happen if Baker managed to break me of all emotion and reason. About as blank as a black hole, and far more dangerous. She has no qualms of shattering bones to just incapacitate someone, while I've stuck to things like breaking their noses. And all with a body devoid of any emotion whatsoever."
The description of Soul-Lock's personality sent a shiver down everyone's spines. That devoid of emotion? Even a robot had more.
"Next one isn't quite as bad, but Soul-Maul's as bad. Not sure which one's worse to deal with." Bella continued. "Soul-Hunt is just really if I didn't get a chance to become anything beyond a simple feral. By the way, Lock comes out as needed, Bell comes out after Soul-Maul, the final one on the list, and Hunt is just really whenever I get pissed off. And I do mean pissed off, like when we got the uniforms." She growled at the memory. "I HATE dresses AND skirts. Period!"
"That explains why you never showed up in uniform." Jaden said, not the only one sweat-dropping from her apparent anger.
"A white dress was also the only thing that Baker really allowed her to wear." Lucy added in. "Ultimately, it's a case of 'the more I can go against what Baker wanted, the better.'"
"...Let's go with that. And considering that Bell was out, you must've come across Maul. She's basically me if I snapped period. Out of the four, she's sadistic insanity incarnate." Bella finished.
This time, Bastion, Jaden, Syrus and Chumley shivered visibly, remembering back in the Abandoned Dorm.
Zane then spoke up. "Mind telling us anything about how you got your own unique abilities, like that eye of yours?"
Bella and the mages started at that. "How do you know about that?"
Zane then surprised the others by actually looking a bit sheepish. "I kinda ended up seeing it as you were heading over to your dorm."
She groaned upon hearing that. "Great. My curse is out."
"Why do you call it a curse?" Zane asked.
"What else would you call it if you got superpowers, as well as a supercomputer for an eyeball, at the cost of becoming part zombie and having your asshole of a tormentor fucking gouging out your eye from it's socket while you're completely aware?!" Bella proclaimed, getting angry.
Zane raised his hands and back up a bit, while the others were left for words at what they just heard.
"That's right. Illian Baker fucking killed me, and then reanimated my damn corpse to use as his lab rat. He then tortured me just about any way he could, trying to turn me into his personal weapon." By then, Bella was starting to tear up. "And I remember pretty much every damn minute! Including when I woke up from the reanimation, without any real memories period-I even had to relearn how to use my body correctly-, only to see him laughing his damn head off as he pushed the bodies of my mother and father into a fucking furnace!" Now she just let loose on the waterworks. "He enjoyed every second of torturing me, always saying how he would prove my parents wrong about his research by using me, how he would show that his 'genius' wasn't to be denied."
That was when she couldn't speak anymore, as the memories of all those years flooded back to the forefront. Abigail sat down and embraced her in silence, everyone knowing that it wasn't a good idea to speak at that moment.
After a few minutes, she calmed down enough to say "If it wasn't for Fairy Tail, I honestly would've tried to kill myself for good years ago." which finally made them understood just how bad she had suffered at Baker's hands. Even the still unnoticed teachers Banner and Fontaine didn't bother trying to hold back.
She had it even worse than Erza/No wonder she seems to hate the world. Was the general consensus of thoughts throughout all of them.
"Isabella." Abigail began, somehow managing to keep herself together well enough. "I'm certainly grateful to Fairy Tail for being there for you as long as they have been. I daresay it would've crushed both you and Al if you committed suicide. But now," She moved the younger girl to face her. "with you found, all that's left is him. And I promise you, I will do whatever it takes to get you two to be a family again."
Bella couldn't help but smile a bit at that, before leaning back into Abigail.
"You know, I just thought of something." Bastion suddenly piped up, getting everyone's attention. "What would Albert's face look like when he learned that it was his sister that brought him back? I'd say it would be one for the scrapbook, Abigail."
That got a round of chuckles, lightening the mood. At least until Chazz decided to try and break up the group in order to get to Abigail. However, he didn't quite make it before Bastion punched him in the nose, Jaden hit him in the stomach, Alexis kicked him in between his legs, and Zane picked him up and tossed him in a side room and closed the door.
Bella just simply looked at them, then said "Fairy Tail would've been a lot faster, but would've left him in the hospital. It's only because they are stuck in separate cards that they have yet to start a guild-wide-bar-brawl ever since they got into this world."
That got the group laughing from the randomness of it, while Banner and Fontaine just decided to spell out the situation as Bella's friends just acting as impromptu bodyguards on Abigail's behalf, which none of them knew was actually true.
For the record, to help, I'll be focusing more on 'Secrets of the Heart' mainly because that's the easiest source of information for the main story. It'll be easier once I'm done with that. But I will be still working on this and the others. I'm just working straight from Harry Potter PoA (the book) for 'Secrets of the Heart.'
Please let me know what you think. But try and keep questions about updates to a minimum, please? I'm trying to do a form of rotation with all my stories, so I won't be quite able to do updates all thatoften.
