Lost- Chapter One: Home Sweet Home:
Summary: Well, okay, I wouldn't exactly call being stuck in a place you know every nook and cranny of lost' in most cases but.. this isn't most cases. I mean, who could EVER call it that?
Story Summary: Anise Stepps, 15, odd girl out. Decent life, two friends who sorta' like her. Depressed mother, abusive father, rebel older brother. Should be straight A's, really smart, but has something nearer a D, another D, two E's, a B, and two C's. Not exactly the perfect life. She ends up in YuGiOh'! Now, failing school completely, bunking at Yugi's, Yami hates him, Tea thinks she needs a boyfriend, and Ryo's withdrawn and more than a LITTLE suspicious. This isn't of course getting into Tristan freaking out every time she's nearby, Joey thinking she's a total jerk, Kaiba spying on her, and an army of crazy goons after her life. Maybe it was better back home...
Projected Chapters: Uh... I dunno, 20?
Updates: Slow, painstakingly slow, but steady. absolute total minimum of one a month. I've officially sworn not to stop this one.. unless I get, like, five, telling me it totally sucks. Which I doubt. I do have SOME, though wanning, confidence in my writing ability.
Disclaimer: What web site is this posted on? See, That means you publish it free, you read it free, and it also means you're a fan of whatever your topic is! NOT the creator! I AM MAKING NO MONEY! I DID NOT INVENT YU-GI-OH! DO YOU HONESTLY THINK I'D LET THEM DO THAT TO MY MASTERPIECE WHEN TRANSFERRING IT TO AN ANIME! NO! Not that the Anime's all that bad, just that it's no where NEAR as good as the manga... -snickers- Yugi's not so inn-o-cent! Hehe.. naughty boy... Oh, and I got the via-shadow realm part idea sorta from Akkiko, and sorta by myself. It's hard to explain exactly, but..
Key:
Talking
...' thinking
/.../ light in mind link
/.../ dark in mind link
Jou - Joey (Wheeler)
Anzu - Tea (Mazaki(her japense last name.. I like it better...))
Honda - Tristan (Taylor)
Yuugi - Yugi (Motou)
other Yugi', Pharaoh - Yami
Ryo Bkaura - Bakura, Ryo
Thief Bakura - Bakura, Dark Bakura, Yami Bakura, etc.
Seto Kaiba - Seto (Kaiba)
OC(original Character) - Anise Stepps
OC2/Bad Guy - ?
A/N(author Note): Ya wanna know something annoying? When I'm roleplaying script/chat style with my friends, and my characters develop such a mind of their own, even I don't know what they're up to. Ya know? It's
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So? Did you get the manga? Janis asked in a hushed whisper. My conscience heavy, I slowly pulled them out of my backpack and handed them to her. The next two volumes of Gravitation. Yes! Awesome! she whispered, taking them and transferring them to her bag.
but it wasn't easy, I noted, glancing past her out the bus window. When would this day end? With a heavy sigh, I examined my friend'. The other, Nicole, had been absent today. More likely, she was skipping school again. Sneakily, as though someone would care, Janis pulled out the earlier of the volumes and began to read.
Quite honestly, I had liked Janis Moore and Nicole Smith when I first met them at the beginning of the year, but as the month rolled on, I've grown to hate them and how they use me. I'm well put to even believe they wouldn't care if I disappeared. In fact, I'd love to , just to show them how much they depend on me now.
Just as my thoughts began to turn bitter and violent again, the bus pulled up to my stop. With a grim smile, I waved good-bye to Janis and stood, lining up to leave the bus and head home. GOD, I HATE home!
Twisting the dulled, greenish-copper handle, I entered the sad shack referred to as home'. Good, no one's nearby,' I thought as I began the quiet ascent up the stairs to my room. All I had to do was finish my homework, go to bed and...
Anise, sweetie? Is that you?Damn. Mom's up.' With a heavy heart, I creaked open her bedroom door across from mine, so close yet so far, and smiled wanly. Hey mom. What's up?Oh, dear, could you please ask your father to come up here? she asked lightly, smiling a soft, but dim, smile from her bed. I nodded slowly.
Yeah, I guess, I replied, and retraced my steps to check if he was in the living room drinking himself to death again. He was, of course. The limp, grubby man, who may very well have been handsome in years long past, had his too long hair greasily covering his dulled brown eyes. Disgusting swine came to mind. Hey dad, mom wants you, I told him with dull annoyance. He glanced at me groggily, the whites of his eyes more red than white.
Tell her to F&!k off, he growled, and downed another quarter of a beer bottle. I grinned sadly at him, and headed back to my room, yelling the message to my mother before closing up my room and going to sleep.
Dad's busy, he'll be up in a few hours,
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It was a dream..
Anise knew this, but she didn't much care.. The shadows were grinning at her, and it was very unsettling..
Hello, dear Ms Stepps. Do you wanna play a game? the shadows breathed in their hate dripping voices. Anise turned around on her heel and began marching blindly in the opposite direction. When her eyes opened, she found herself face to face with a faceless shadow in a hooded black cloak. She could hardly stand the piercing look of the red eyes, amused, malevolent, but unthreatened, with the same sense of joy that a child gets when melting ants with his magnifying glass.
Bugger off, she snapped, making it grin with unmeasurable glee. Anise shuddered, suddenly wishing there was someone there to hang onto. A thin tendril of living shadow wrapped itself gently around her arm, materializing to form a darker form of a Yu-Gi-Oh Duel disk.
Aw, come on, just one game? It persisted, a similar object on it's arms. The background pulsed and writhed, unreal but alive.
That stupid Yu-Gi-Oh game? Not gonna happen. I haven't played that since Jacob went rebel on me, she drawled darkly, glaring. The thing's grin became a smirk.
Then I'll go first, and it drew it's hand. With it's smirk, it fed a card into the monster field face down, and nodded at her to move. Go or you forfeit, it said in a fake light tune. Anise's eye's narrowed, and she drew a card.
Fine, fine, whatever you say, she told the thing, making it smirk wider. She feed a monster face down into the disk as well, and added two to the magic/trap card zone.
With a smirk, the thing flipped it's monster into face up defense immediately after drawing it's card. The Princess of Tsurugi looked back at Anise. That's 1000 life points of damage to you for her special effect, it purred evilly, and Anise felt the nerve burning pain like white hot daggers pull down her left leg. Letting out a screech, she clawed at the shadows for something to support herself as the creature fell out of sight, but her nails dug into flesh instead, and there was a fierce hiss from whatever she'd hit. Firmly and brutally, her wrist was grabbed before it could dig any deeper, and twisted till she screamed louder and-
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Anise awoke with a start to a heavy banging on her door. The flimsy wooden frame teetered on it's hinges like it would fall to the ground in pieces in mere moments. Frenzied by her nightmare, she jumped up and swung it open, and her brother's fist collided with her face.
God! Jacob, oh, God! she swore, clutching the bleeding flesh. He looked almost apologetic for an instant, then smiled.
he said, lying through his teeth. Didn't see ya. Look, I came to tell you I'm leaving, moving out, the man continued, and Anise let out a strangled, frustrated gargle and spit out a rather nasty wad of blood.
About frickin' time. You've only been going on and on about it forever, she hissed. Her brother, Jacob Stepps, his once near beautiful black locks spiked and tipped red, his face bordering deformed with so many piercings, and more gothic clothes than the original Goths that were in France building stuff.
Well, maybe you'll see me after I'm famous. Later, he called like his stupid, crazy painful-dream interrupting self. With a stupid smile he waved to her and headed down the stairs. Anise growled. Her family SUCKED. And what little there was of it to CALL family was quickly falling apart. Ah well, whatever. Doesn't matter, right? Who needs a stupid seventeen year old brother, anyway? Who needs a drunken father, or a manipulative, bed ridden mother? Heck, who needs any of this?
Anise slammed her door and collapsed on her bed, letting the creeping shadows spread toward her as the sun set softly out her busted window and cold late-winter breezes blew harmlessly through her room, her now sore face cushioned against her pillow. The shadows crept closer, closer, bringing with them slow and painful sleep..
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The strong, well muscled hand reached toward the very edge of the portal that would take it into the other world, and stopped, right at the very limit.
Oh, go on. It's not gonna kill you, the master promised, the red-haired witch behind it's owner sighed, rolling her eyes. Besides, I wanna get this over with. Casting a stony glance at her, the blond elf brought up his other arm and passed them both through. As he scooped the girl up in his strong arms, tendrils and wisps of his very being sparked from his skin and armor, being stretched, stolen and absorbed into this world of light'. As though he'd been bit, he quickly withdrew the girl and his arms. The witch rolled her eyes again.
Oh, fine, so you lost a little bit of power? He was right, it didn't kill you, you're still perfectly fine. Now come on, her being in here is like us being out there. I wouldn't be surprised if she woke up bleeding with how slow you've been going today, the witch ranted. Her guardian merely adjusted the stirring girls wait and turned around in a few slow, deliberate steps. The witch shifted her broom to hang over her shoulder. Hurry up, now. We don't want to run into any of the other monsters. Remember last time Ryu-Ran caught us out here? We'd be dead if not for that Buster Rancher thing.., she droned. The guardian merely clinked on silently beside her, watching the girl as she dwelled in her dreams. Ever so vaguely, he remembered before he was dwelling in shadows, when he would have dreams. When sleep consisted of more than just another world of shadows..
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I think that's the end of the first chapter.. Review s'il vous plait! An' no flames, if ya can..
((Repost: Too many errors! I can't believe I didn't even spell check this! Augh! Well, I think I got them all. Leme know if you see any I missed, kaykay?))