..::: Unexpected
by: Asa
Pairings: Joey x Asayo (OC, duh! ^_^;;)
The Point?: I'm sorry I did this, but this is a vampire fic.. Please don't hate it already! Give it a chance!!
Archive: Why would you want to? Um, just ask, okay?
Asa's Random Before Thoughts: Okay, already to chapter five. And it's only been a couple days, lol. I think this is the most I've written in a row for one story. I even put my novel on hold! Sheesh! Anyway, I'm sorry I'm doing this, but there will be some dueling in the next chapter or so, I hate it but it must be done. Kinda. _
Yay, I'm drawing again! And I'm somehow better! lol, I think I might upload them sometime.
Warnings?: Nopers.
..::: 5. Real - Part One
Jou's feet pounded against the hard dirt and leaves as he dashed through the humid forest, searching all over for Asayo. He'd been looking all day, his stomach ached from hunger, and he was sure he'd lost her.
'I lost her..' he thought, slowing down to a brisk walking pace.
'I lost her, and now I'm lost in the woods.'
Jou growled and made fists in his hair, dropping down onto his knees in frustration.
"Damn it!" he shouted, pulling at his hair forcefully. He kept pulling until he hollered in pain and let go, a few small tears finding his eyes and spilling down his face.
Jou was sobbing when the cold rain started to fall, stinging his back. Why did everything happen to him? Why was he so emotional? He still had small traces of his depression, and being lost in the storm when the sun was going down didn't help at all.
Jou dragged himself to his feet and stumbled ahead, his legs stiff and irritated from running most of the day. He looked around in a crazed frenzy, panic filling him as the sun set further and it got darker.
The rain fell harder, colder.
He broke out into a run, darting through as branches whipped him and puddles dampened his hope.
Frogs and crickets had already started their symphony of croaks and ribbits.
"Ow!" Jou howled as his foot connected with a rock, sending him fleeting toward the ground. There was minimal friction as his body slid across the mud, sending him crashing into the large, strong trunk of a tree. He groaned as his vision became blurred and disappeared all together as he lost consciousness, slumped below a powerful tree with wide-spread branches and needles that kept most of the rain from touching his skin.
Everything was dark, he couldn't see a thing, he felt like he was floating in an abyss.
"Jou?" a voice asked, Asayo, but from which direction he could not tell.
"Asayo?" he called, looking around him and seeing only black. Time seemed frozen.
"Jou! Where are you?!" she shouted, and again he could not tell which direction it came from.
"I'm.. right here! Asayo! Help me!" Jou pleaded, turning around in circles and still seeing nothingness.
"Jou, just hold on, I'm coming!" her voice faded, leaving Jou in a feeling of loneliness. Then everything faded again.
"Well look who's coming to.." a low snarl greeted Jou as his eyes fluttered open and he clutched his head, raw from a split in the center from the tree accident. He winced and sat up, realizing he was in a dimly lit cave.
"Who's there!?" Jou called, not recognizing the voice at all. The tall, thin figure of a male emerged from a shadow, the arms crossed over the chest. His dark hair fell into his face as his sapphire eyes stared into Jou's.
"Why, only the person who dragged you out of the rain. The name's Kray, but I'm not interested in talking." he sneered, watching as Jou discovered the dueling platforms he had awoken next to. He groaned, stumbling to his feet.
"You! You kidnapped me to duel, didn't you!" he shouted, really not in the mood for a duel. In fact, he wasn't sure he cared all that much about it anyway. It was only a game.
"Perhaps, but you owe me for saving your life and I want to duel you for all your star chips!" Kray exclaimed, pointing toward Jou's wrist with the nearly filled dueling-gauntlet adorning it.
Jou sighed, pulling himself up onto his platform and retrieving his deck from his pocket. He could hardly think straight, how was he supposed to win this thing?
"Kray.." another mysterious voice called, a robed figure stalked in from the front of the cave with an animal at his side. A snarling, bared-teeth wolf.
"Ahh!!" both young men shouted, Jou the loudest since he was closest to the mouth of the cave.
"To increase the stakes a bit, how about this. Whoever loses gets fed to this wolf and his pack?" a raucous laugh echoed, Jou gulped and glanced down at the wolf, who was pacing around the platforms, growling.
"This can't be real!! …I can't lose!" he cried to himself, swiftly gaining the inspiration to duel his hardest. Kray lowered his head, set down his deck, and drew five cards. Jou did the same, and the duel was on. The robed figure stood close to the shadows near the back of the cave, seemingly enjoying what he had just done.
"I'll go first! I play Sword Hunter, in attack mode!" Kray placed a card down in front of him, and in a flash and glitter of lights, the hunter stood before Jou menacingly on the field.
"Alright then… eh.." Jou drew a card, Type Zero Magic Crusher, and looked at his own hand. The only card he had in his hand that could defeat the Sword Hunter was Skull Knight, but it was a fusion monster and he needed Tainted Wisdom and Ancient Brain to make it, not to mention polymerization. He had Ancient Brain in his hand, but it wouldn't do him any good until later.
"I place this monster face down in defense mode, and two cards face down." Jou set his cards, confident in his defensive plan. Kray drew a card, looked over his hand, and grinned.
"I place one card face down and attack your defense card with Sword Hunter!" he yelled, the hunter stalking forward.
"Activate trap! Castle Walls!" he flipped one of his trap cards over, activating the Castle Walls card, increasing his Queen Bird's defense to 2500.
"Not so fast!" Kray shouted.
"Activate trap! Reverse Trap!" he flipped over his face down card, negating the effect of Castle Walls. Still, the hunter approached.
"Ahhh!" Jou groaned as Sword Hunter sliced through his Queen Bird and his attack points increased to 2650.
"What!?" he screeched, Kray snickered.
"Sword Hunter gains two hundred attack points every time he destroys a monster, didn't you know?" he rolled his eyes, gesturing to Jou.
"Your move."
Jou drew, it was polymerization.
'Just one more..' he thought, slipping the card into his hand. He still had a card down on the field, but he needed to build up his defense until he got something he could use.
"Heh. I place this monster in defense mode, and one card face down." Jou did as he said, then looked at Kray expectantly.
"Defense won't get you anywhere. I place this monster in defense mode, and attack with Sword Hunter!"
"Tsk-tsk. Defense won't get me anywhere, huh? Activate effect! Hane-Hane! Return Sword Hunter to Kray's hand and lower his attack points back to 2450!"
"Hmm, not a bad move, but it won't stop me for long." Kray chuckled as he drew his next card, reminding him of Kaiba slightly.
"This is it, your end is near."
