"I think that's just about the strangest dream you've ever told me about,
Alyz." Niya said, staring blankly at her friend. Alyz nodded, taking a
large bite of her sandwich.
"That's because It's the strangest dream I've ever had.," Alyz said through a mouthful of cheese and balogne. It was the day after the night of her disturbing dream, Monday, and Alyz had just relayed it to her best friend, Niya. It was lunch break.
"That Yu-Gi-Oh crap you watch... it's seducing you into a state of obsessive hypnotic subconsciouness," Niya said slowly, sticking her face very near to Alyz's. She looked at her intently. "I will have to reawaken your conscious mind... You're geting sleepy... very sleepy..." Alyz shoved her friend playfully.
"You stupid kid," she said. "Do you even know what 'seduce' means?"
Niya laughed. "Sure I know what it means. It's what I've been trying to do to the new kid since he moved here. He's toasty, Liz... Really really toasty."
"Come on, Niya! If you only focused some of your stalking powers into your homework, you probably wouldn't have a C-minus in just about every subject!" Niya crinkled her nose, showing distaste. She was never one for school, she always had something 'better to do' then study. She was completely boy-crazy, and most of the boys were just as crazy for her. She had shoulder-length, perfectly straight, gorgeous golden blonde hair that she loved to toss over her shoulder flirtatiously. Her crystalline sapphire eyes were constantly glimmering with mischief. She was very loud and obnoxious, not afraid of anything. Alyz greatly admired her friend's outgoing personality. Alyz was always the shy, uncertain one; rarely outspoken, rude, or disobedient in any way, and when it came to boys, Alyz rarely recieved a second glance, whereas Niya commonly recieved a third, or fourth, or fifth...
"Well just because /you/ spend all your time poring over the dictionary doesn't mean /I/ should, too!" Niya retorted, flipping her hair in that oh- so-perfect way. Alyz punched her shoulder in mock anger.
"You might learn something from the dictionary... like how to spell all those two-letter words you have troubles with!"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Alyz stared brainlessly at her blank sheet of paper that afternoon in Math class while Mr. Kingston droned on mechanically about combining like terms. She knew she should be taking notes, but she felt completely braindead. Not understanding a word that was said, Alyz began doodling mindlessly in her notebook.
She jumped when someone beside her poked her shoulder. She spun to see the boy sitting next to her. He had short black hair and dark eyes. "Excuse me," he whispered. Alyz nodded. "My name is Ray, I'm new here." Alyz smiled. /Niya was right,/ she thought, /he is pretty hot./
"I'm Alyz," she replied.
Ray gestured to Mr. Kingston, "Is he always this boring?" he asked. Alyz stifled a laugh.
"I'm afraid so. It's like he never stops... I never have any idea what he's talking about," she said. Ray smiled.
"Raymond! Alyz! Which of these are like terms?" Mr. Kingston shouted suddenly.
"Uh..." Alyz stuttered.
"Negative two-"L" and sixteen-"L" Ray said. Mr. Kingston raised his eyebrows suspiciously.
"Well, it seems that one of you was listening," he said. "Alyz, you can stay after school until you can recognize like terms from this list!" Mr. Kington held up a page full of algebraic numbers. Alyz groaned softly.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Kingston," Ray spoke out. "I was just asking her for a pencil, I guess I distracted her. She doesn't deserve a detention."
Mr. Kingston pondered over this. "Well, since you're new I'll have to assume that you are not familiar with the class rules. I'll let you two off the hook this time, but don't let it happen again!"
Alyz stared at Ray. He smiled at her warmly, then resumed his notes. Alyz shrugged, then rested her head on her hand and continued to doodle.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Trudging down the busy downtown street, Alyz adjusted her backpack, which was extremely heavy with math books. "I need a break," she sighed. "I think I'll stop at Casey's on my way home."
Casey, a plump old man in his late fifties, owned a collectables shop, right along Alyz' route home. She stopped there so frequently after school, Casey knew her by name as his best customer. He would often show Alyz any new shipment he got in even before he shelved it, usually at a discount price.
The bells rang as Alyz pushed the door open. "Hello, Alyz!" Casey said from his post behind the counter. "Back for some new cards?" Alyz cringed. She really did want to buy some more Yu-Gi-Oh cads, but she knew that it was probably not the best thing for her to do if she wanted to get rid of her nightmares.
"I'm not sure..." she said, toying with her necklace. The sphere was glowing faintly.
"Oh, come on, I just got a new shipment. There's ten brand new cards in this set. You'll be the first one in town to have a pack!" Casey winked at her mischieviously. Alyz fondled the sphere, contemplating whether or not to buy a package.
"Well...she said, as her curiosity mounted. I guess it couldn't hurt..." Casey smiled, then motioned for her to follow him into the back room. He removed a wad of packaging tape from a medium-sized box and began to pry the flaps open.
"They just came in this morning, straight from Japan! Ahah! Now, you can take your pick out of these," Casey said. The box was brimming with booster packs. Alyz reached for one.
/Not that one!/ the little voice said. Alyz pulled back in alarm. /Take the package two to the left of the first one you tried./ Alyz didn't move. She had thought that the voice was a part of her nightmare, yet here she was, listening to it in the middle of the day in Casey's shop. /You have to trust in-/
"-The heart of the cards," Alyz finished. Casey was staring at her strangely. Alyz smiled weakly, then put her hand out again. This time she picked the package two to the left of the original package she had reached for. /I can't believe I'm listening to little voices inside my head.../ Alyz thought beseechingly. Casey grinned, taping the box back up and resuming his post behind the counter. Alyz followed him into the main part of the store and handed him the money for the cards. He shrugged and gave it back to her.
"Consider it a gift for my best customer," Casey said with a smile.
"Thank you very much," Alyz replied. She slowly opened the package, and slid out the nine cards inside. "Hmmm..." she said, looking through them. She already had the Despell card, Hibikime, Ocubeam... "Hey, it's Harpy's Lady!" Alyz exclaimed. "This is Mai's best duelling monster; maybe it will help me out, as well." Then she found Man-Eater Bug, a card that would destroy any monster on the field when flipped. She passed the next three cards, which were relatively uninteresting, then paused at the last card. It was a holographic Crystal Moon Phoenix (2500/2100), a large bird silhouetted against a glistening jewel-like moon.
"It's aptly named, isn't it?" someone said behind her. Alyz turned to find no one other than Ray standing right behind her.
"Were you looking over my shoulder?" she asked, somewhat mystified to find Ray in the shop. She always thought that she was the only person her age who still played 'childish' games such as Yu-Gi-Oh.
"Um, yeah," Ray said, blushing. "You collect Yu-Gi-Oh cards?"
Before she could answer, there was a blinding flash of silvery light from the sphere, and Alyz found herself staring at Joey instead of Ray. Joey blinked twice.
"What the--? Where did you come from?"
"What is it, Joey?" another voice asked. Alyz looked to see Yugi, Tea and Tristen slightly behind Joey. Alyz closed her eyes and shook her head fiercely.
"This isn't happening!" she yelled. But deep down, she knew that it was happening. She was back in this world, with these people she thought were fictional, wearing these clothes that she didn't own, and Alyz knew that this wasn't a nightmare.
/It was the portal.../ the voice said. /The portal brought you through.../
"What's not happening?"
"Who is it?"
"Where did she come from?"
Alyz's head swam as they surrounded her. She felt so light-headed. Here she was, somehow transported into the Yu-Gi-Oh world. How could it have happened? Was it really the sphere that had brought her through, as the little voice had told her? Or was this still some strange kind of dream? /Maybe I'm hallucinating.../ Alyz thought. /Maybe I'm schizophrenic.../
"Who is it?" a familiar voice repeated. Alyz eyes became focused for a moment. Someone was aproaching her. He narrowed his eyes upon reaching where she stood.
"Alyz?" he asked.
"Bakura!" Alyz screamed, jumping back. She backed up several steps, before her heel was caught under a tree root and she was flung backwards. Alyz let out a sob on her way down, before a large rock silenced her.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Alyz?" Alyz opened her eyes slowly at the sound of her name. "I think she's awake!" someone said with a rather familiar accent. Alyz moaned, rubbing the side of her head. A large bump had grown there, and it throbbed in tune with her heartbeat.
"I wonder why she ran away from you, Bakura," a female voice said.
"I don't know. I don't even know how I know her! I just remember her from somewhere..." Bakura replied. Alyz sat up slowly, taking in her surroundings. She must have blacked out after hitting her head on that rock. She was still in this strange world.
"Are you all right?"
Alyz stared into Bakura's eyes. He was crouched next to her, and he looked genuinely concerned. Alyz knew this wasn't the same Bakura that had attacked her last night. Retaining eye contact, she nodded once. Bakura smiled. "I'm sorry for frightening you," he said. Alyz smiled back weakly.
"Where did you come from?" a new voice asked. Alyz turned. Yugi stood next to Bakura.
"Uhh..." Alyz stuttered. What should she tell him? "I don't know," she lied. They would never believe her if she said she came from some kind of parallel universe.
"Uhuh," Joey said, unbelieving. "Now, seriously, where did you come from? I almost walked into you back there!" Bakura held up one hand.
"I don't think she does know where she came from," he said. "This reminds me of the dream I had last night. A girl named Alyz appeared in the woods and--" Bakura stopped, closing his eyes in concentration. "And she had a millenium sphere."
"What?" Tristen asked.
Alyz stared at Bakura for a moment, then withdrew the sphere from her shirt. The eye was still glowing faintly. "My sphere..." she said quietly. "Maybe it really did open a portal."
"What?" Tristen repeated.
"A portal between worlds?" Bakura asked softly. Alyz met his gaze.
"How did you know?" she whispered. His ring glowed as if in an answer.
"I..." he stuttered. "I don't remember."
(OOC: Now how was that for cheesy?! Ya ya i know, it's lame, but I had to have them being all surprised that she just appeared out of nowhere.)
Please review and tell me what you think!
~Kris
"That's because It's the strangest dream I've ever had.," Alyz said through a mouthful of cheese and balogne. It was the day after the night of her disturbing dream, Monday, and Alyz had just relayed it to her best friend, Niya. It was lunch break.
"That Yu-Gi-Oh crap you watch... it's seducing you into a state of obsessive hypnotic subconsciouness," Niya said slowly, sticking her face very near to Alyz's. She looked at her intently. "I will have to reawaken your conscious mind... You're geting sleepy... very sleepy..." Alyz shoved her friend playfully.
"You stupid kid," she said. "Do you even know what 'seduce' means?"
Niya laughed. "Sure I know what it means. It's what I've been trying to do to the new kid since he moved here. He's toasty, Liz... Really really toasty."
"Come on, Niya! If you only focused some of your stalking powers into your homework, you probably wouldn't have a C-minus in just about every subject!" Niya crinkled her nose, showing distaste. She was never one for school, she always had something 'better to do' then study. She was completely boy-crazy, and most of the boys were just as crazy for her. She had shoulder-length, perfectly straight, gorgeous golden blonde hair that she loved to toss over her shoulder flirtatiously. Her crystalline sapphire eyes were constantly glimmering with mischief. She was very loud and obnoxious, not afraid of anything. Alyz greatly admired her friend's outgoing personality. Alyz was always the shy, uncertain one; rarely outspoken, rude, or disobedient in any way, and when it came to boys, Alyz rarely recieved a second glance, whereas Niya commonly recieved a third, or fourth, or fifth...
"Well just because /you/ spend all your time poring over the dictionary doesn't mean /I/ should, too!" Niya retorted, flipping her hair in that oh- so-perfect way. Alyz punched her shoulder in mock anger.
"You might learn something from the dictionary... like how to spell all those two-letter words you have troubles with!"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Alyz stared brainlessly at her blank sheet of paper that afternoon in Math class while Mr. Kingston droned on mechanically about combining like terms. She knew she should be taking notes, but she felt completely braindead. Not understanding a word that was said, Alyz began doodling mindlessly in her notebook.
She jumped when someone beside her poked her shoulder. She spun to see the boy sitting next to her. He had short black hair and dark eyes. "Excuse me," he whispered. Alyz nodded. "My name is Ray, I'm new here." Alyz smiled. /Niya was right,/ she thought, /he is pretty hot./
"I'm Alyz," she replied.
Ray gestured to Mr. Kingston, "Is he always this boring?" he asked. Alyz stifled a laugh.
"I'm afraid so. It's like he never stops... I never have any idea what he's talking about," she said. Ray smiled.
"Raymond! Alyz! Which of these are like terms?" Mr. Kingston shouted suddenly.
"Uh..." Alyz stuttered.
"Negative two-"L" and sixteen-"L" Ray said. Mr. Kingston raised his eyebrows suspiciously.
"Well, it seems that one of you was listening," he said. "Alyz, you can stay after school until you can recognize like terms from this list!" Mr. Kington held up a page full of algebraic numbers. Alyz groaned softly.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Kingston," Ray spoke out. "I was just asking her for a pencil, I guess I distracted her. She doesn't deserve a detention."
Mr. Kingston pondered over this. "Well, since you're new I'll have to assume that you are not familiar with the class rules. I'll let you two off the hook this time, but don't let it happen again!"
Alyz stared at Ray. He smiled at her warmly, then resumed his notes. Alyz shrugged, then rested her head on her hand and continued to doodle.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Trudging down the busy downtown street, Alyz adjusted her backpack, which was extremely heavy with math books. "I need a break," she sighed. "I think I'll stop at Casey's on my way home."
Casey, a plump old man in his late fifties, owned a collectables shop, right along Alyz' route home. She stopped there so frequently after school, Casey knew her by name as his best customer. He would often show Alyz any new shipment he got in even before he shelved it, usually at a discount price.
The bells rang as Alyz pushed the door open. "Hello, Alyz!" Casey said from his post behind the counter. "Back for some new cards?" Alyz cringed. She really did want to buy some more Yu-Gi-Oh cads, but she knew that it was probably not the best thing for her to do if she wanted to get rid of her nightmares.
"I'm not sure..." she said, toying with her necklace. The sphere was glowing faintly.
"Oh, come on, I just got a new shipment. There's ten brand new cards in this set. You'll be the first one in town to have a pack!" Casey winked at her mischieviously. Alyz fondled the sphere, contemplating whether or not to buy a package.
"Well...she said, as her curiosity mounted. I guess it couldn't hurt..." Casey smiled, then motioned for her to follow him into the back room. He removed a wad of packaging tape from a medium-sized box and began to pry the flaps open.
"They just came in this morning, straight from Japan! Ahah! Now, you can take your pick out of these," Casey said. The box was brimming with booster packs. Alyz reached for one.
/Not that one!/ the little voice said. Alyz pulled back in alarm. /Take the package two to the left of the first one you tried./ Alyz didn't move. She had thought that the voice was a part of her nightmare, yet here she was, listening to it in the middle of the day in Casey's shop. /You have to trust in-/
"-The heart of the cards," Alyz finished. Casey was staring at her strangely. Alyz smiled weakly, then put her hand out again. This time she picked the package two to the left of the original package she had reached for. /I can't believe I'm listening to little voices inside my head.../ Alyz thought beseechingly. Casey grinned, taping the box back up and resuming his post behind the counter. Alyz followed him into the main part of the store and handed him the money for the cards. He shrugged and gave it back to her.
"Consider it a gift for my best customer," Casey said with a smile.
"Thank you very much," Alyz replied. She slowly opened the package, and slid out the nine cards inside. "Hmmm..." she said, looking through them. She already had the Despell card, Hibikime, Ocubeam... "Hey, it's Harpy's Lady!" Alyz exclaimed. "This is Mai's best duelling monster; maybe it will help me out, as well." Then she found Man-Eater Bug, a card that would destroy any monster on the field when flipped. She passed the next three cards, which were relatively uninteresting, then paused at the last card. It was a holographic Crystal Moon Phoenix (2500/2100), a large bird silhouetted against a glistening jewel-like moon.
"It's aptly named, isn't it?" someone said behind her. Alyz turned to find no one other than Ray standing right behind her.
"Were you looking over my shoulder?" she asked, somewhat mystified to find Ray in the shop. She always thought that she was the only person her age who still played 'childish' games such as Yu-Gi-Oh.
"Um, yeah," Ray said, blushing. "You collect Yu-Gi-Oh cards?"
Before she could answer, there was a blinding flash of silvery light from the sphere, and Alyz found herself staring at Joey instead of Ray. Joey blinked twice.
"What the--? Where did you come from?"
"What is it, Joey?" another voice asked. Alyz looked to see Yugi, Tea and Tristen slightly behind Joey. Alyz closed her eyes and shook her head fiercely.
"This isn't happening!" she yelled. But deep down, she knew that it was happening. She was back in this world, with these people she thought were fictional, wearing these clothes that she didn't own, and Alyz knew that this wasn't a nightmare.
/It was the portal.../ the voice said. /The portal brought you through.../
"What's not happening?"
"Who is it?"
"Where did she come from?"
Alyz's head swam as they surrounded her. She felt so light-headed. Here she was, somehow transported into the Yu-Gi-Oh world. How could it have happened? Was it really the sphere that had brought her through, as the little voice had told her? Or was this still some strange kind of dream? /Maybe I'm hallucinating.../ Alyz thought. /Maybe I'm schizophrenic.../
"Who is it?" a familiar voice repeated. Alyz eyes became focused for a moment. Someone was aproaching her. He narrowed his eyes upon reaching where she stood.
"Alyz?" he asked.
"Bakura!" Alyz screamed, jumping back. She backed up several steps, before her heel was caught under a tree root and she was flung backwards. Alyz let out a sob on her way down, before a large rock silenced her.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Alyz?" Alyz opened her eyes slowly at the sound of her name. "I think she's awake!" someone said with a rather familiar accent. Alyz moaned, rubbing the side of her head. A large bump had grown there, and it throbbed in tune with her heartbeat.
"I wonder why she ran away from you, Bakura," a female voice said.
"I don't know. I don't even know how I know her! I just remember her from somewhere..." Bakura replied. Alyz sat up slowly, taking in her surroundings. She must have blacked out after hitting her head on that rock. She was still in this strange world.
"Are you all right?"
Alyz stared into Bakura's eyes. He was crouched next to her, and he looked genuinely concerned. Alyz knew this wasn't the same Bakura that had attacked her last night. Retaining eye contact, she nodded once. Bakura smiled. "I'm sorry for frightening you," he said. Alyz smiled back weakly.
"Where did you come from?" a new voice asked. Alyz turned. Yugi stood next to Bakura.
"Uhh..." Alyz stuttered. What should she tell him? "I don't know," she lied. They would never believe her if she said she came from some kind of parallel universe.
"Uhuh," Joey said, unbelieving. "Now, seriously, where did you come from? I almost walked into you back there!" Bakura held up one hand.
"I don't think she does know where she came from," he said. "This reminds me of the dream I had last night. A girl named Alyz appeared in the woods and--" Bakura stopped, closing his eyes in concentration. "And she had a millenium sphere."
"What?" Tristen asked.
Alyz stared at Bakura for a moment, then withdrew the sphere from her shirt. The eye was still glowing faintly. "My sphere..." she said quietly. "Maybe it really did open a portal."
"What?" Tristen repeated.
"A portal between worlds?" Bakura asked softly. Alyz met his gaze.
"How did you know?" she whispered. His ring glowed as if in an answer.
"I..." he stuttered. "I don't remember."
(OOC: Now how was that for cheesy?! Ya ya i know, it's lame, but I had to have them being all surprised that she just appeared out of nowhere.)
Please review and tell me what you think!
~Kris