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that's why I'm in the underworld. ( But that's beside the point…please
R&R!
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I've always had dreams. Good, bad, some are just weird. But this…nothing that occurred again and again like this one…and nothing like the horror I have ever seen…
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Panting hard, I ran on an invisible road of darkness. I didn't know why I was running and I wasn't getting tired.
I heard a voice,
"You can't have her."
Spinning my head around to see where the voice was coming from, I yelled, "W-who's there?"
"You can't love light…you're the DARK magician…"
"Who are you?" I screamed into the darkness. "Leave me alone! I don't love any light!" Slowly, in a cold hissing voice the voice said, "You would like to think that wouldn't you? But if you do love her, then she will die." As the voice laughed, hard and coldly, I yelled, "Who? Who is it?" Then, a dark figure came out and stated attacking me! Dodging quickly, I sidestepped the figure that spun around and resumed attacking me. Finally getting fed up, I shouted, "Dark Magic Attack!" and pointed my wand at my enemy, shooting a ball of dark energy at her. Wait…her?
A split second before the attack hit her, I gasped as the figure turned into Jou. "Jou!" I cried as the dark energy hit her.
No scream
No cry
But as the energy hit her, a blinding flash lit the area making me shield my eyes. When the light finally faded, I looked up and almost cried out loud. Jou was lying on the floor on her side, her clothes ripped and blood was beginning to leak out of her body. "Jou!" I screamed running to her. Me. I had hurt her…looking at my wand for a second and throwing it aside, I cried, "Jou! NO! Hang on, I'm sorry! I'll help you!" But I knew I couldn't.
I was helpless…
Slowly I knelt down and gently picked her up in my trembling arms. "Jou…I'm sorry…I'm so sorry!" Feeling her weaken in my arms, and her eyes wide, and although a single tear streaking down her face, she forced a smile and whispered, "Dark…I'll always be with you…I'm your light." and then she broke like glass into a million pieces in my arms. "JOU!" I screamed.
I gasped my eyes wide with pain, and tears flying down. I was in shock. Trembling, I could hear my own gasps of pain and despair as more and more tears fell.
"Jou…"
My quivering arms still held their position where I had once held my beautiful Jounochi…
"Jou…!"
…My hikari…and then I killed her…I killed her!
"JOUNOCHIIIIIII!" I screamed into the darkness.
"Till death do us part."
That voice! That same voice, this time, evil, laughing, mocking my pain. "Shut up!" I screamed slamming my hands down into the ground, falling to my knees. "Shut up, you bastard! Come out!" Standing up, I shouted at the top of my lungs, "SHOW YOURSELF, COWARD!!!" As the voice laughed at my rage, I shook with anger, tears falling down my face. "Foolish boy." The voice laughed. "Not a clue why you two were never meant to be! Didn't you hear my warning before? You can never be together! Don't you see? She is the light, and you are the Dark. Light and dark do NOT fall in love. She is too pure to become dark, and you are already too far-gone to become light. If you admit your heart to the other, then, because you are the stronger, she will die in YOUR arms by YOUR hand!" I silently fell to the floor on my knees. Kill Jou? Me? It can't be…
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!"
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And I woke up.
I was drenched in cold sweat and my long hair that went down a few inches past my shoulders was sticky and wet. Not only my hair but my bed sheets were damp and clammy. I guess I must've screamed in my sleep or something, because the next thing I saw, Jou was standing over me in her long navy blue T-shirt and pajama bottoms, shaking me awake, her eyes wide with fear. She was gripping my violet pajamas in such a way that I never knew she could be that strong. I looked over and saw Celtic in light green pajamas holding one of my arms down and Gaia in a red robe holding the other…and Skull holding my feet.
Oh, what a lovely sight to see first thing in the morning.
Seeing that all the action was over, Skull smirked, got up, and left the room saying, "Nighty- night crybaby." And slammed the door behind him. I know by this afternoon, everyone will know I had a nightmare. Once he was gone, Celtic and Gaia freed my arms, so I grabbed Jou by the shoulders and stared at her. She was alive and she wasn't breaking into a thousand pieces before my eyes. A great wave of relief swept over me as Jou loosened her grip and asked, "Dark…" she asked my wide fearful eyes, her voice shaking. "Are you all right?" Shivering, I suddenly felt sick. I had just killed her a minute ago. Feeling weak, I fell into Jou's arms and buried my head into her shoulder. I guess Celtic and Gaia got the message to leave, because I heard a few footsteps and then my door opening and slowly closing.
"Jou…I…I'm sorry. I…I had this nightmare…I…" Feeling my eyes cloud up with tears, I pulled away and turned my head. "I…killed you." Feeling my shoulder shake, I felt angry hot tears fall onto my sheets and hands. "I…I killed you!" Then, going back to hold her again, I was held her for all it was worth, "I hurt you!" I sobbed. "You died in my arms!" Jou gasped and slowly, Jou slid her arms around me and gave me a reassuring hug. "Don't worry." She said. "Don't worry, it was a dream." "It was a dream…" I echoed trying to reassure myself. "A simple silly dream. And nothing more." Nodding, Jou gently laid me back down on the bed and sat up. "Are you going to be all right?" she asked. Nodding, I closed my eyes and tried to sleep as I listened to Jou get up and walk to the door.
"Jou?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks."
Hearing a pause and then the door quietly shut behind Jou, I rolled over and sighed feeling sleeps affects come upon me. What I didn't know was two things, one, was how very wrong I was about the dream being just a dream and two, we were being watched.
A/N: I'm changing to a 3rd person POV!!!
The next morning, Jou was pounding on Dark's door, behind her was Celtic. "Dark!" she cried. "Dark get up! This isn't healthy to sleep in this late! What if you have to go to a duel?" Celtic leaned against the wall and sighed heavily as the pounding continued. "That guy NEVER can get up on time." He said miserably. Jou nodded. "Yeah," then banging on Dark's door some more she called, "Dark Magician, you better get up or I'm gonna come in there after you! You need to wake up!"
Inside Dark's room, a groggy Dark slowly woke up to the pounding on his door. Moaning and groping for his clock, Dark managed to knock over several things on his night stand including a glass of water, a pen, a small pad of paper with scribbled love poems to a certain someone, his wand, and then with a loud, "BANG!" his clock. Slowly, Dark moaned and reached down to the floor and grabbed his clock bringing it close to his face. Looking at it through half closed eyes, he mumbled, "Hey, it's only half past two…" Not catching on, Dark slowly let the clock fall from his hands and pushed his head under the pillows, some of his shoulder sticking out. "I have plenty of time to sleep…" he groaned. "Sleep…"
But he never did because then the door opened. Dark groaned as he heard, "Wow Celtic, I didn't know you picked locks."
"I do it as a past time."
Turning her attention to Dark, "Dark Magician!" Jou's angry and annoyed voice said as grabbed his shoulder that wasn't hidden and shook him. "Dark! It's two o'clock in the AFTERNOON. WAKE UP!" Dark moaned and buried his head farther under the pillows. "Jou…I tired…go way…" he mumbled. Sighing heavily, Jou shrugged to Celtic who blinked back. Taking a quick look around, Celtic ran over to Dark's window, reached out and picked something up, and grinned evilly at Jou. Without saying a word, Celtic swiftly walked over to Dark and promptly dropped whatever he was holding onto Dark's visible shoulder. Then pulling a confused Jou back out of the room, he said, "Ok Dark, we'll let you sleep…for as long as you can." And he closed the door.
Outside Dark's room, Celtic snickered a bit. Jou, now more confused than ever asked, "Celtic what did you do?" Celtic smiled and said, "Well you know those…oh, the beetles that are three times the size of a regular beetle, are black, have two white eyes and have red spikes that look like the back of a toothbrush coming out of their backs?" Jou nodded not quite getting it yet. "Yeah the Red June Bug." She said. "So?" Celtic smiled as he watched the truth dawn on Jou, her eyes getting big and a shocked expression came over her face. "You didn't…" she began, but she never finished because then there was a,
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRRRRGGGGHHH!!!"
That was followed by a few more crashing sounds and cursing. Then, the door slammed open to reveal Dark panting hard, dressed, his hair not brushed and falling out if his hat, his wand in hand, and a death glare on his face. "…YOU…" he panted pointing his wand at Celtic. "YOU!" Celtic said nothing but laughed. In fact he was laughing so hard, he was sitting on the floor pounding on the wall behind him. Jou was laughing to, be she was leaning back on the wall, turned around so Dark should only see her shaking shoulders. Turning back around, Jou tried not to laugh at Dark's "accident". Then she opened her mouth as if to say something, but she quickly looked up at the top of Dark's hat and followed the tip of it down to just above his forehead. Dark sensed impending danger coming on so he asked, "What?" Jou said nothing but pointed to the top of his hat and smiled trying to force back laughter. Celtic also followed Jou's gaze and burst out laughing again. Dark had a sinking feeling as he slowly reached up and felt something like the bristles of a toothbrush move across his hand and onto his fingers. Realizing what it was, Dark's eyes grew big.
"AAAARRRRGGGGGGGHHH!!!"
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It was a nice day, so Celtic, Jou, and Dark all decided to meet up with Mystical and Gaia and take a trip to visit Magician of Faith in Tea's realm. Naturally when they got there, girls were swarming Celtic and Gaia and Petite Angel were all trying to pull them off him. Getting sick of the scene the girls were making by crying and wailing when Gaia or Petite pulled them off, (Gaia was doing most of the pulling,) Dark stole away to a small garden of Magician's of Faith's outside. It was really a well-kept garden. The flowers off all colors swayed back to him and the trees rustled softly as the wind blew between them. Sighing and looking up past the little trees at the blue sky, Dark sighed. It was beautiful, but it wasn't for him. He was the DARK magician and this place was obviously too peaceful and good for him to be here. The dream said so. But as he turned to leave, his ear picked up the sound of a song far away…or not as far away as he thought.
"I don't know…what words I can say…"
Dark blushed to himself as he felt his curiosity growing. Who was singing? It sounded familiar. Slowly, Dark began to walk forward to the voice…and was so entranced he nearly ran into a wall. Sighing at his own stupidity, he noticed a bench and a rock jutting out of the wall. Using them to pull himself to look over the wall, he only had enough lift to get his forearms and head over the wall to see. What he didn't know was that he was standing on a very unbalanced base that could fall any minute. Blinking down, he saw a figure sitting on a bench singing her song. Noticing someone was behind her, she turned around and gasped. Dark gasped too as he saw her face.
"Dark!"
"Jou!"
Blushing like she did, Jou cried, "Dark, I'm sorry! I hope I didn't bother you with my…er…singing." Dark could feel himself slipping, but quickly tried to regain his footing as he said, "N-no, Jou! I think you have a- WHOA!!!" That's when he lost it. "Oof!" he cried as he hit the ground, unhurt, but wincing all the same. "Dark!" Jou cried as she quickly ran to the wall. Dark looked up in amazement as Jou quickly appeared over the top of the wall and ran to his side. "Are you all right?" she asked urgently. Dark stared at her a bit and grinned. "Just my pride. But how did you get over that wall so fast? My, you're fast for a girl." Jou scoffed and shot back with, "Maybe you're just clumsy for a boy." She laughed. "But I'm glad to see you're all right." Reaching out a hand to help, Dark gave a light blush while reaching out to take it. But just before they touched,
"HELP ME!"
Dark and Jou quickly turned and looked up to see Celtic running away from a bunch of his fan girls, or girl monsters, chasing him and screaming, and heading right for them! Quickly, Dark swept Jou up in his arms and pushed him and Jou out of the way and twisted his body, resulting in Jou landing on top of Dark. "Help me!" Celtic screamed as he flew past, the fan girls not far behind. "Someone!" But the girls continued to chase him, screaming and leaving behind a dust cloud that was kicked up into Dark and Jou. Swiftly, Dark flipped Jou over so he was on top and yelled, "Close your eyes!" Quickly, Dark reached up with one hand to cover Jou's eyes and the other held her close as the dust flew in. One arm gripping tight to Jou, Dark shut his eyes tight and covered her head with his turning his head into her shoulder, feeling her hold his back tightly.
Once the dust settled, Dark slowly opened his eyes and pulled away from Jou a bit. "Jou," he gasped. "Are you ok?" Jou slowly fluttered her eyes open and looked around. "Yeah…I'll live." She said looking back at Dark.
"A-HEM!"
Jou and Dark quickly snapped their heads to the right to see,
Gaia and Mystical grinning back at them.
A brief silence swept over the four as Dark and Jou both felt a horrible sinking feeling and both blushed badly. Then, Dark and Jou both let each other go and like rockets, both shoved the other away from them. "Ahh!" Dark and Jou cried as they both landed in a sitting position on the ground looking away from each other. Gaia and Mystical both smirked as they watched the two steal glances at each other. Gaia smile softened as he said, "Can we please keep this at PG-13?" he asked. Dark and Jou both blushed again and nodded, not saying anything. Gaia nodded. "Good." Dark blushed and looked down, but then hear a snickering and a sound like nails on his armor behind his back. Turning around to see Summoned Skull laughing, Dark spun all the way around to face him. "What do you want Skull-head?" he asked. Skull said nothing, but just got up and ran away. Dark turned so his back was to Jou, looking at Mystical and Gaia, he asked, "What?"
Gaia and Mystical's eyes got wider as they saw what Skull did to Dark's back. Stifling a laugh, Gaia gasped and said nothing as he called over a photographer. Dark turned to Jou who was blushing even worse now. "What's on my back?" he asked. But Jou shook her head and smiled gently. Getting frustrated, Dark got up and tried to look over his shoulder, and that's when the picture was taken. It showed a close up of Dark trying to look over his back trying in vain to see what was on his back besides the fine layer of dust on it. For what Skull had done was write a small sentence on the back in the dust. It read, "I love Jounochi."
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I've always had dreams. Good, bad, some are just weird. But this…nothing that occurred again and again like this one…and nothing like the horror I have ever seen…
***
Panting hard, I ran on an invisible road of darkness. I didn't know why I was running and I wasn't getting tired.
I heard a voice,
"You can't have her."
Spinning my head around to see where the voice was coming from, I yelled, "W-who's there?"
"You can't love light…you're the DARK magician…"
"Who are you?" I screamed into the darkness. "Leave me alone! I don't love any light!" Slowly, in a cold hissing voice the voice said, "You would like to think that wouldn't you? But if you do love her, then she will die." As the voice laughed, hard and coldly, I yelled, "Who? Who is it?" Then, a dark figure came out and stated attacking me! Dodging quickly, I sidestepped the figure that spun around and resumed attacking me. Finally getting fed up, I shouted, "Dark Magic Attack!" and pointed my wand at my enemy, shooting a ball of dark energy at her. Wait…her?
A split second before the attack hit her, I gasped as the figure turned into Jou. "Jou!" I cried as the dark energy hit her.
No scream
No cry
But as the energy hit her, a blinding flash lit the area making me shield my eyes. When the light finally faded, I looked up and almost cried out loud. Jou was lying on the floor on her side, her clothes ripped and blood was beginning to leak out of her body. "Jou!" I screamed running to her. Me. I had hurt her…looking at my wand for a second and throwing it aside, I cried, "Jou! NO! Hang on, I'm sorry! I'll help you!" But I knew I couldn't.
I was helpless…
Slowly I knelt down and gently picked her up in my trembling arms. "Jou…I'm sorry…I'm so sorry!" Feeling her weaken in my arms, and her eyes wide, and although a single tear streaking down her face, she forced a smile and whispered, "Dark…I'll always be with you…I'm your light." and then she broke like glass into a million pieces in my arms. "JOU!" I screamed.
I gasped my eyes wide with pain, and tears flying down. I was in shock. Trembling, I could hear my own gasps of pain and despair as more and more tears fell.
"Jou…"
My quivering arms still held their position where I had once held my beautiful Jounochi…
"Jou…!"
…My hikari…and then I killed her…I killed her!
"JOUNOCHIIIIIII!" I screamed into the darkness.
"Till death do us part."
That voice! That same voice, this time, evil, laughing, mocking my pain. "Shut up!" I screamed slamming my hands down into the ground, falling to my knees. "Shut up, you bastard! Come out!" Standing up, I shouted at the top of my lungs, "SHOW YOURSELF, COWARD!!!" As the voice laughed at my rage, I shook with anger, tears falling down my face. "Foolish boy." The voice laughed. "Not a clue why you two were never meant to be! Didn't you hear my warning before? You can never be together! Don't you see? She is the light, and you are the Dark. Light and dark do NOT fall in love. She is too pure to become dark, and you are already too far-gone to become light. If you admit your heart to the other, then, because you are the stronger, she will die in YOUR arms by YOUR hand!" I silently fell to the floor on my knees. Kill Jou? Me? It can't be…
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!"
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And I woke up.
I was drenched in cold sweat and my long hair that went down a few inches past my shoulders was sticky and wet. Not only my hair but my bed sheets were damp and clammy. I guess I must've screamed in my sleep or something, because the next thing I saw, Jou was standing over me in her long navy blue T-shirt and pajama bottoms, shaking me awake, her eyes wide with fear. She was gripping my violet pajamas in such a way that I never knew she could be that strong. I looked over and saw Celtic in light green pajamas holding one of my arms down and Gaia in a red robe holding the other…and Skull holding my feet.
Oh, what a lovely sight to see first thing in the morning.
Seeing that all the action was over, Skull smirked, got up, and left the room saying, "Nighty- night crybaby." And slammed the door behind him. I know by this afternoon, everyone will know I had a nightmare. Once he was gone, Celtic and Gaia freed my arms, so I grabbed Jou by the shoulders and stared at her. She was alive and she wasn't breaking into a thousand pieces before my eyes. A great wave of relief swept over me as Jou loosened her grip and asked, "Dark…" she asked my wide fearful eyes, her voice shaking. "Are you all right?" Shivering, I suddenly felt sick. I had just killed her a minute ago. Feeling weak, I fell into Jou's arms and buried my head into her shoulder. I guess Celtic and Gaia got the message to leave, because I heard a few footsteps and then my door opening and slowly closing.
"Jou…I…I'm sorry. I…I had this nightmare…I…" Feeling my eyes cloud up with tears, I pulled away and turned my head. "I…killed you." Feeling my shoulder shake, I felt angry hot tears fall onto my sheets and hands. "I…I killed you!" Then, going back to hold her again, I was held her for all it was worth, "I hurt you!" I sobbed. "You died in my arms!" Jou gasped and slowly, Jou slid her arms around me and gave me a reassuring hug. "Don't worry." She said. "Don't worry, it was a dream." "It was a dream…" I echoed trying to reassure myself. "A simple silly dream. And nothing more." Nodding, Jou gently laid me back down on the bed and sat up. "Are you going to be all right?" she asked. Nodding, I closed my eyes and tried to sleep as I listened to Jou get up and walk to the door.
"Jou?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks."
Hearing a pause and then the door quietly shut behind Jou, I rolled over and sighed feeling sleeps affects come upon me. What I didn't know was two things, one, was how very wrong I was about the dream being just a dream and two, we were being watched.
A/N: I'm changing to a 3rd person POV!!!
The next morning, Jou was pounding on Dark's door, behind her was Celtic. "Dark!" she cried. "Dark get up! This isn't healthy to sleep in this late! What if you have to go to a duel?" Celtic leaned against the wall and sighed heavily as the pounding continued. "That guy NEVER can get up on time." He said miserably. Jou nodded. "Yeah," then banging on Dark's door some more she called, "Dark Magician, you better get up or I'm gonna come in there after you! You need to wake up!"
Inside Dark's room, a groggy Dark slowly woke up to the pounding on his door. Moaning and groping for his clock, Dark managed to knock over several things on his night stand including a glass of water, a pen, a small pad of paper with scribbled love poems to a certain someone, his wand, and then with a loud, "BANG!" his clock. Slowly, Dark moaned and reached down to the floor and grabbed his clock bringing it close to his face. Looking at it through half closed eyes, he mumbled, "Hey, it's only half past two…" Not catching on, Dark slowly let the clock fall from his hands and pushed his head under the pillows, some of his shoulder sticking out. "I have plenty of time to sleep…" he groaned. "Sleep…"
But he never did because then the door opened. Dark groaned as he heard, "Wow Celtic, I didn't know you picked locks."
"I do it as a past time."
Turning her attention to Dark, "Dark Magician!" Jou's angry and annoyed voice said as grabbed his shoulder that wasn't hidden and shook him. "Dark! It's two o'clock in the AFTERNOON. WAKE UP!" Dark moaned and buried his head farther under the pillows. "Jou…I tired…go way…" he mumbled. Sighing heavily, Jou shrugged to Celtic who blinked back. Taking a quick look around, Celtic ran over to Dark's window, reached out and picked something up, and grinned evilly at Jou. Without saying a word, Celtic swiftly walked over to Dark and promptly dropped whatever he was holding onto Dark's visible shoulder. Then pulling a confused Jou back out of the room, he said, "Ok Dark, we'll let you sleep…for as long as you can." And he closed the door.
Outside Dark's room, Celtic snickered a bit. Jou, now more confused than ever asked, "Celtic what did you do?" Celtic smiled and said, "Well you know those…oh, the beetles that are three times the size of a regular beetle, are black, have two white eyes and have red spikes that look like the back of a toothbrush coming out of their backs?" Jou nodded not quite getting it yet. "Yeah the Red June Bug." She said. "So?" Celtic smiled as he watched the truth dawn on Jou, her eyes getting big and a shocked expression came over her face. "You didn't…" she began, but she never finished because then there was a,
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRRRRGGGGHHH!!!"
That was followed by a few more crashing sounds and cursing. Then, the door slammed open to reveal Dark panting hard, dressed, his hair not brushed and falling out if his hat, his wand in hand, and a death glare on his face. "…YOU…" he panted pointing his wand at Celtic. "YOU!" Celtic said nothing but laughed. In fact he was laughing so hard, he was sitting on the floor pounding on the wall behind him. Jou was laughing to, be she was leaning back on the wall, turned around so Dark should only see her shaking shoulders. Turning back around, Jou tried not to laugh at Dark's "accident". Then she opened her mouth as if to say something, but she quickly looked up at the top of Dark's hat and followed the tip of it down to just above his forehead. Dark sensed impending danger coming on so he asked, "What?" Jou said nothing but pointed to the top of his hat and smiled trying to force back laughter. Celtic also followed Jou's gaze and burst out laughing again. Dark had a sinking feeling as he slowly reached up and felt something like the bristles of a toothbrush move across his hand and onto his fingers. Realizing what it was, Dark's eyes grew big.
"AAAARRRRGGGGGGGHHH!!!"
***
It was a nice day, so Celtic, Jou, and Dark all decided to meet up with Mystical and Gaia and take a trip to visit Magician of Faith in Tea's realm. Naturally when they got there, girls were swarming Celtic and Gaia and Petite Angel were all trying to pull them off him. Getting sick of the scene the girls were making by crying and wailing when Gaia or Petite pulled them off, (Gaia was doing most of the pulling,) Dark stole away to a small garden of Magician's of Faith's outside. It was really a well-kept garden. The flowers off all colors swayed back to him and the trees rustled softly as the wind blew between them. Sighing and looking up past the little trees at the blue sky, Dark sighed. It was beautiful, but it wasn't for him. He was the DARK magician and this place was obviously too peaceful and good for him to be here. The dream said so. But as he turned to leave, his ear picked up the sound of a song far away…or not as far away as he thought.
"I don't know…what words I can say…"
Dark blushed to himself as he felt his curiosity growing. Who was singing? It sounded familiar. Slowly, Dark began to walk forward to the voice…and was so entranced he nearly ran into a wall. Sighing at his own stupidity, he noticed a bench and a rock jutting out of the wall. Using them to pull himself to look over the wall, he only had enough lift to get his forearms and head over the wall to see. What he didn't know was that he was standing on a very unbalanced base that could fall any minute. Blinking down, he saw a figure sitting on a bench singing her song. Noticing someone was behind her, she turned around and gasped. Dark gasped too as he saw her face.
"Dark!"
"Jou!"
Blushing like she did, Jou cried, "Dark, I'm sorry! I hope I didn't bother you with my…er…singing." Dark could feel himself slipping, but quickly tried to regain his footing as he said, "N-no, Jou! I think you have a- WHOA!!!" That's when he lost it. "Oof!" he cried as he hit the ground, unhurt, but wincing all the same. "Dark!" Jou cried as she quickly ran to the wall. Dark looked up in amazement as Jou quickly appeared over the top of the wall and ran to his side. "Are you all right?" she asked urgently. Dark stared at her a bit and grinned. "Just my pride. But how did you get over that wall so fast? My, you're fast for a girl." Jou scoffed and shot back with, "Maybe you're just clumsy for a boy." She laughed. "But I'm glad to see you're all right." Reaching out a hand to help, Dark gave a light blush while reaching out to take it. But just before they touched,
"HELP ME!"
Dark and Jou quickly turned and looked up to see Celtic running away from a bunch of his fan girls, or girl monsters, chasing him and screaming, and heading right for them! Quickly, Dark swept Jou up in his arms and pushed him and Jou out of the way and twisted his body, resulting in Jou landing on top of Dark. "Help me!" Celtic screamed as he flew past, the fan girls not far behind. "Someone!" But the girls continued to chase him, screaming and leaving behind a dust cloud that was kicked up into Dark and Jou. Swiftly, Dark flipped Jou over so he was on top and yelled, "Close your eyes!" Quickly, Dark reached up with one hand to cover Jou's eyes and the other held her close as the dust flew in. One arm gripping tight to Jou, Dark shut his eyes tight and covered her head with his turning his head into her shoulder, feeling her hold his back tightly.
Once the dust settled, Dark slowly opened his eyes and pulled away from Jou a bit. "Jou," he gasped. "Are you ok?" Jou slowly fluttered her eyes open and looked around. "Yeah…I'll live." She said looking back at Dark.
"A-HEM!"
Jou and Dark quickly snapped their heads to the right to see,
Gaia and Mystical grinning back at them.
A brief silence swept over the four as Dark and Jou both felt a horrible sinking feeling and both blushed badly. Then, Dark and Jou both let each other go and like rockets, both shoved the other away from them. "Ahh!" Dark and Jou cried as they both landed in a sitting position on the ground looking away from each other. Gaia and Mystical both smirked as they watched the two steal glances at each other. Gaia smile softened as he said, "Can we please keep this at PG-13?" he asked. Dark and Jou both blushed again and nodded, not saying anything. Gaia nodded. "Good." Dark blushed and looked down, but then hear a snickering and a sound like nails on his armor behind his back. Turning around to see Summoned Skull laughing, Dark spun all the way around to face him. "What do you want Skull-head?" he asked. Skull said nothing, but just got up and ran away. Dark turned so his back was to Jou, looking at Mystical and Gaia, he asked, "What?"
Gaia and Mystical's eyes got wider as they saw what Skull did to Dark's back. Stifling a laugh, Gaia gasped and said nothing as he called over a photographer. Dark turned to Jou who was blushing even worse now. "What's on my back?" he asked. But Jou shook her head and smiled gently. Getting frustrated, Dark got up and tried to look over his shoulder, and that's when the picture was taken. It showed a close up of Dark trying to look over his back trying in vain to see what was on his back besides the fine layer of dust on it. For what Skull had done was write a small sentence on the back in the dust. It read, "I love Jounochi."
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