(Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, in case you haven't noticed. I don't own
Yugi, Bakura, Joey, Tristen, Tea, or any of the other characters aside from
my own. I don't own any of the duelling cards aside from my own. I don't
own any terms relating to anything that's not mine. Get the picture? I hope
so.)
(OOC: I know it sounds pretty Mary-Sueish at the beginning, but it WILL get better! The millenium sphere is not the same kind of millenium item belonging to Yugi or Bakura. It's actually one of three millenium portals that exist in our world, and the owner does not necessarily have a Yami because of one. The 'little voice' is the item itself talking, and it has no way of taking control of one's body.)
(OOC: EERRRRRRRGH!!! Stupid italics not working!!!! sorry .! You'll have to pretend the //'s are italics, instead)
Alyz raised one eyebrow, taking a sip of coffee. She pulled a long strand of red hair back behind one ear, examining her two cards thoughtfully. She had been making her deck of Yu-Gi-Oh cards for the last two hours. Now it was down to the last two cards, and she was torn between the Roaring Ocean Snake (2100/1700), or a magic card called Sword of Deep-Seated (which raised a monster's attack and defense points by 500).
Alyz sighed, taking another sip. It was almost midnight, and she was still undecided. "Hell with it!" she said, throwing both cards into her stack. She shuffled it once for good measure, drank the remainder of her coffee and headed downstairs to put her mug in the dishwasher.
"Ahem!" she heard her mother say. Alyz plastered on a large, false smile, turning around and slipping the dishwasher closed behind her back.
"Hey, mom..." she said. Her mother frowned. She had the same auburn hair as her daughter, except that while Alyz' was long and curly, her mother's was short and considerably straighter. They both stood at 5'6", although Alyz insisted that she would yet grow taller than her mother. They both had the same pointy nose and large amber eyes. Alyz' mother was plump with age, but her daughter retained her slim, attractive figure.
"Was that a coffee mug?" her mother demanded. Alyz grinned helplessly.
"Um, no... I mean, yes! It was a coffee mug... but I wasn't drinking coffee! It was.... uh... l-l-l-llllemonade! That's it, I got thirsty and decided to have a nice cup-er, mug-of lemonade!" Alyz grimaced as she realized how stupid she sounded.
"Alyz! How many times have I told you to stop drinking coffee? It's very bad for you! And especially before bed! How are you supposed to sleep not that you're all pumped full of cafiene?!" her mother shouted. "Fourteen year old girls should not be drinking coffee! How many people your age do you know that drink coffee?"
Alyz rolled her eyes. "Mom, everyone my age drinks coffee!" she protested. Her mother scowled and folded her arms angrily, shaking her head. "Go to bed! And if that caffiene keeps you up all night long, let it be a lesson to you!" Alyz sighed, slowly trudging back upstairs. She flopped down on her bed, closing her eyes slowly. Then she opened them again and got up so that she could get changed into her pajamas. After she had changed, she went back to her bed, but something caught her eye. Something on her desk was glowing with a faint silvery aura. She swung her legs over the bed, then walked over to the desk cautiously.
Rummaging through piles of paper and stacks of old homework that her seventh grade math teacher still thought her dog had eaten, Alyz searched for the source of the strange light. Finally, she withdrew a small silver ball, about two inches spherical. Alyz picked it up, realizing that it was bound to a chain of sterling. Alyz picked it up, and was surprised to find it weighed as though it was a lead brick.
"Where did this come from?" Alyz asked herself, turning it over in her hands. She noticed a strange marking on it. It was a large eye, of chiseled diamond. It was in the style of an Egyptian heiroglyph. It was from this symbol that the glow seemed to be radiating from.
"It is kind of pretty, though," Alyz said, placing the chain around her neck. The glow subsided. "Strange," she mumbled. Alyz shrugged and went back to her bed. "It looks kind of like the millenium eye on Yugi's puzzle," she mused, thinking of her favorite TV show.
/It's not a puzzle. It is the millenium sphere, and it is connected to the portal./
Alyz started. Who said that? And what was a millenium sphere anyways? "Well apparently, it's whatever this thing is," she said to herself with a chuckle. "It would be great if this was an actual millenium item from Yu-Gi- Oh. I wish I could live in their world, and play duel monsters and stuf," Alyz laughed out loud. "Hah! That would be great!"
She crawled into the covers, closing her eyes and smiling. She ran her fingers over the sphere, which was resting heavily on her chest. "I could drink all the coffee I want!"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Ouch," Alyz said. Sitting up, she felt cold earth beneath her, and a rock was jutting out of the ground where she had been lying. She was surrounded by tall coniferous trees, in what appeared to be a forest. "Where the hell am I?" she asked out loud.
/On the other side./
Other side of what? Alyz stood up shakily, brushing off her long, mint green coat. Coat? Hadn't she gone to bed in her pajamas? Looking down at herself, Alyz gasped. She was wearing clothes she had never seen before; a navy-colored halter top with a low V-neck and dark flared blue jeans. The only item she was wearing was the necklace, 'millenium sphere', she had found on her dresser.
"What the hell?!" she exclaimed, thrusting her hands into the pockets of the coat. But her right hand felt somehow different. She held it up to look and found that she was wearing a blue glove framed with a metal cuff.
Her left hand found in its possession the deck of duelling cards she had been sorting out only a few hours ago. The cards looked slightly different, but they were definitely hers. "Now, this is beyond freaky," she said, looking once more around her. Though it had been in the middle of the night when she had fallen asleep, it seemed to be early evening here. "Wherever 'here' is," Alyz muttered angrily. This place was not somewhere she had ever seen before.
Suddenly, it hit her. This was all a dream. All a strange, realistic dream in which she had been transported into another world. "The Yu-Gi-Oh world, judging by my deck and the glove," Alyz reassured herself. "It's only a dream, and I'm bound to wake up sooner or later." She hugged herself fiercely, protecting her body against the icy breeze. She had never had a dream like this before.
/It's not a dream. You were brought through the portal./
"Excuse me," a British voice asked. Alyz spun around, facing a boy about her age. He had long, nearly white, hair that reached his mid-back. He wore a yellow sweater and jeans. A golden ring encrusted with the millenium eye hung from a chain around his neck.
"Bakura!" Alyz exclaimed. Bakura gave her a strange look.
"How do you know my name?" he asked. Alyz smiled. It was odd, but she felt strangely attracted to the lanky-looking figure.
"I watch you on the TV, five days a week."
Bakura's look did not change. "You watch me on TV?"
"Yes, on Yu-Gi-Oh. It's my favourite show," Alyz said, toying impatiently with the sphere. All her other dream characters seemed to know why she knew them. This dream really was different. "Must have been the caffiene," Alyz said under her breath.
"Caffiene?"
Alyze stared at Bakura. He really didn't /look/ like a dream character. But, then again, none of them really did. "Um, yes. Sorry, my name is Alyz. I know it sounds like 'Alice', but it's actually spelled with a 'y' and a 'z'."
"Excuse me, then, Alyz, but what is that around your neck?" he inquired, pointing towards the sphere. Alize took it in her hands, examining it.
"I don't really know. I found it last night," she said, truthfully. Bakura nodded, but it didn't look like he had heard what she had said. He was staring intently upon the sphere, and his fingers were reaching towards it. Alyz felt uneasy, although she didn't know why. Suddenly, Bakura reached out and grabbed the sphere, yanking it fiercely. The chain did not break, and Alyz was jolted forward. Bakura's eyes gleamed with something that Alyz couldn't quite describe.
"Give it to me!" He said in a different voice. He grabbed her arm with his other hand. Alyz tried to pull back, but his grip was too strong.
"Let go of me!" Alyz shouted. Bakura pulled on the necklace, and Alyz felt the back of her neck burn as the chain cut into it.
"Give me the portal!" Bakura repeated angrily, his fingers pressing harder into her arm. Alyz screamed. Kicking him firmly in the shin. She finally broke from his grasp, falling backwards to land-
/Open!/
-safely in her bed at home. It was night again, and Alyz was back in her pajamas. The sphere was still around her neck, but her deck was back on her dresser. She sat up in bed, pouring sweat and panting ferociously. Her neck burned and her arm ached.
Alyz rubbed the back of her neck tenderly, closing her eyes as the pain slowly subsided. What a nightmare! Never had Alyz dreamed of anything so vivid, so painful... and that little voice in her head, that was unusual.
"Mom was right," she said, flopping back down onto her dampened sheets. "That'll be the last time I drink coffee before bed!"
(OOC: I know it sounds pretty Mary-Sueish at the beginning, but it WILL get better! The millenium sphere is not the same kind of millenium item belonging to Yugi or Bakura. It's actually one of three millenium portals that exist in our world, and the owner does not necessarily have a Yami because of one. The 'little voice' is the item itself talking, and it has no way of taking control of one's body.)
(OOC: EERRRRRRRGH!!! Stupid italics not working!!!! sorry .! You'll have to pretend the //'s are italics, instead)
Alyz raised one eyebrow, taking a sip of coffee. She pulled a long strand of red hair back behind one ear, examining her two cards thoughtfully. She had been making her deck of Yu-Gi-Oh cards for the last two hours. Now it was down to the last two cards, and she was torn between the Roaring Ocean Snake (2100/1700), or a magic card called Sword of Deep-Seated (which raised a monster's attack and defense points by 500).
Alyz sighed, taking another sip. It was almost midnight, and she was still undecided. "Hell with it!" she said, throwing both cards into her stack. She shuffled it once for good measure, drank the remainder of her coffee and headed downstairs to put her mug in the dishwasher.
"Ahem!" she heard her mother say. Alyz plastered on a large, false smile, turning around and slipping the dishwasher closed behind her back.
"Hey, mom..." she said. Her mother frowned. She had the same auburn hair as her daughter, except that while Alyz' was long and curly, her mother's was short and considerably straighter. They both stood at 5'6", although Alyz insisted that she would yet grow taller than her mother. They both had the same pointy nose and large amber eyes. Alyz' mother was plump with age, but her daughter retained her slim, attractive figure.
"Was that a coffee mug?" her mother demanded. Alyz grinned helplessly.
"Um, no... I mean, yes! It was a coffee mug... but I wasn't drinking coffee! It was.... uh... l-l-l-llllemonade! That's it, I got thirsty and decided to have a nice cup-er, mug-of lemonade!" Alyz grimaced as she realized how stupid she sounded.
"Alyz! How many times have I told you to stop drinking coffee? It's very bad for you! And especially before bed! How are you supposed to sleep not that you're all pumped full of cafiene?!" her mother shouted. "Fourteen year old girls should not be drinking coffee! How many people your age do you know that drink coffee?"
Alyz rolled her eyes. "Mom, everyone my age drinks coffee!" she protested. Her mother scowled and folded her arms angrily, shaking her head. "Go to bed! And if that caffiene keeps you up all night long, let it be a lesson to you!" Alyz sighed, slowly trudging back upstairs. She flopped down on her bed, closing her eyes slowly. Then she opened them again and got up so that she could get changed into her pajamas. After she had changed, she went back to her bed, but something caught her eye. Something on her desk was glowing with a faint silvery aura. She swung her legs over the bed, then walked over to the desk cautiously.
Rummaging through piles of paper and stacks of old homework that her seventh grade math teacher still thought her dog had eaten, Alyz searched for the source of the strange light. Finally, she withdrew a small silver ball, about two inches spherical. Alyz picked it up, realizing that it was bound to a chain of sterling. Alyz picked it up, and was surprised to find it weighed as though it was a lead brick.
"Where did this come from?" Alyz asked herself, turning it over in her hands. She noticed a strange marking on it. It was a large eye, of chiseled diamond. It was in the style of an Egyptian heiroglyph. It was from this symbol that the glow seemed to be radiating from.
"It is kind of pretty, though," Alyz said, placing the chain around her neck. The glow subsided. "Strange," she mumbled. Alyz shrugged and went back to her bed. "It looks kind of like the millenium eye on Yugi's puzzle," she mused, thinking of her favorite TV show.
/It's not a puzzle. It is the millenium sphere, and it is connected to the portal./
Alyz started. Who said that? And what was a millenium sphere anyways? "Well apparently, it's whatever this thing is," she said to herself with a chuckle. "It would be great if this was an actual millenium item from Yu-Gi- Oh. I wish I could live in their world, and play duel monsters and stuf," Alyz laughed out loud. "Hah! That would be great!"
She crawled into the covers, closing her eyes and smiling. She ran her fingers over the sphere, which was resting heavily on her chest. "I could drink all the coffee I want!"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Ouch," Alyz said. Sitting up, she felt cold earth beneath her, and a rock was jutting out of the ground where she had been lying. She was surrounded by tall coniferous trees, in what appeared to be a forest. "Where the hell am I?" she asked out loud.
/On the other side./
Other side of what? Alyz stood up shakily, brushing off her long, mint green coat. Coat? Hadn't she gone to bed in her pajamas? Looking down at herself, Alyz gasped. She was wearing clothes she had never seen before; a navy-colored halter top with a low V-neck and dark flared blue jeans. The only item she was wearing was the necklace, 'millenium sphere', she had found on her dresser.
"What the hell?!" she exclaimed, thrusting her hands into the pockets of the coat. But her right hand felt somehow different. She held it up to look and found that she was wearing a blue glove framed with a metal cuff.
Her left hand found in its possession the deck of duelling cards she had been sorting out only a few hours ago. The cards looked slightly different, but they were definitely hers. "Now, this is beyond freaky," she said, looking once more around her. Though it had been in the middle of the night when she had fallen asleep, it seemed to be early evening here. "Wherever 'here' is," Alyz muttered angrily. This place was not somewhere she had ever seen before.
Suddenly, it hit her. This was all a dream. All a strange, realistic dream in which she had been transported into another world. "The Yu-Gi-Oh world, judging by my deck and the glove," Alyz reassured herself. "It's only a dream, and I'm bound to wake up sooner or later." She hugged herself fiercely, protecting her body against the icy breeze. She had never had a dream like this before.
/It's not a dream. You were brought through the portal./
"Excuse me," a British voice asked. Alyz spun around, facing a boy about her age. He had long, nearly white, hair that reached his mid-back. He wore a yellow sweater and jeans. A golden ring encrusted with the millenium eye hung from a chain around his neck.
"Bakura!" Alyz exclaimed. Bakura gave her a strange look.
"How do you know my name?" he asked. Alyz smiled. It was odd, but she felt strangely attracted to the lanky-looking figure.
"I watch you on the TV, five days a week."
Bakura's look did not change. "You watch me on TV?"
"Yes, on Yu-Gi-Oh. It's my favourite show," Alyz said, toying impatiently with the sphere. All her other dream characters seemed to know why she knew them. This dream really was different. "Must have been the caffiene," Alyz said under her breath.
"Caffiene?"
Alyze stared at Bakura. He really didn't /look/ like a dream character. But, then again, none of them really did. "Um, yes. Sorry, my name is Alyz. I know it sounds like 'Alice', but it's actually spelled with a 'y' and a 'z'."
"Excuse me, then, Alyz, but what is that around your neck?" he inquired, pointing towards the sphere. Alize took it in her hands, examining it.
"I don't really know. I found it last night," she said, truthfully. Bakura nodded, but it didn't look like he had heard what she had said. He was staring intently upon the sphere, and his fingers were reaching towards it. Alyz felt uneasy, although she didn't know why. Suddenly, Bakura reached out and grabbed the sphere, yanking it fiercely. The chain did not break, and Alyz was jolted forward. Bakura's eyes gleamed with something that Alyz couldn't quite describe.
"Give it to me!" He said in a different voice. He grabbed her arm with his other hand. Alyz tried to pull back, but his grip was too strong.
"Let go of me!" Alyz shouted. Bakura pulled on the necklace, and Alyz felt the back of her neck burn as the chain cut into it.
"Give me the portal!" Bakura repeated angrily, his fingers pressing harder into her arm. Alyz screamed. Kicking him firmly in the shin. She finally broke from his grasp, falling backwards to land-
/Open!/
-safely in her bed at home. It was night again, and Alyz was back in her pajamas. The sphere was still around her neck, but her deck was back on her dresser. She sat up in bed, pouring sweat and panting ferociously. Her neck burned and her arm ached.
Alyz rubbed the back of her neck tenderly, closing her eyes as the pain slowly subsided. What a nightmare! Never had Alyz dreamed of anything so vivid, so painful... and that little voice in her head, that was unusual.
"Mom was right," she said, flopping back down onto her dampened sheets. "That'll be the last time I drink coffee before bed!"