Prophecy
Disclaimer: MURFY DO DA! HA!
"When legend becomes reality,
Three warriors of ancient monsters will rampage the earth,
Of light, dark, and element.
Look to the Heavens,
They will come from there…"
Chapter 9 – Field Day Troubles
The next few weeks passed until May arrived and even after that, nothing special happened. The leakage of the Shadow Realm was still not found, though positive it was somewhere in Domino City. For more trivial matters, Jennie and Jackie remained oblivious to Joey's and Teá love and Erica continued to be oblivious of Bakura's shy ways around her. Yup. Normal days.
Today, though, compared to all of the other humdrum days, was an all day Field Day on a hot, but breezy Saturday.
"I can't wait until the one-half mile relay!" Erica yelled, some startled students looking at her weird.
Jennie agreed energetically and Jackie squeezed his stress ball. Erica saw this and laughed, patting her male friend on the back. "No pressure, Jacko! We're just here to have fun!"
Jackie suddenly screamed, threw his poor, crushed stress ball into the stands, and ran off to some corner of the track field.
"Uh…that went…well." Jennie said, shocked at Jackie's momentary insanity.
"Come on! Let's figure out in who we're versuing!" Erica smiled. Then she sprinted to the charts that would tell who they were going against. Jennie chased after her friend.
Later, Jackie came back to the two girls. Tired, but blew off his nervousness by running around like an insane monkey (including the part in waving your arms above your head). Then he saw the girls' faces. Jennie was glum and Erica was angry.
"What's wrong?" Jackie asked.
Jennie sighed heavily, but Erica ranted, standing up, "Seto Kaiba and his pathetic team! Why did he have to join the relay? Because he wanted revenge for me beating him in the chess game! THAT BIG MORON! He knows we have no chance against him since he was the one that can beat our ass! And I swear he wants to sabotage us or something! But we'll show him! We'll show that we can beat him and his stupid team! And guess what! He HAD to join the jumping thingy and the balloon fight! Just to beat me! ME! IN MY OWN GAME! Who the hell does he think he is! I'll show him, that gargantuan monster!"
Finally, Erica sat down, huffing and puffing. Jennie said after, "We have to versus against Kaiba, Devlin, and that track runner from gym."
Jackie smiled freakishly. "Yeah, I noticed. Now, wait here while I run around like a total idiot again."
Again the boy ran off screaming his guts out, brushing past a confused Teá. Thinking that she might be some help the students went over to the two sitting girls and asked what was wrong. Before Erica could rant again, Jennie pushed her over, distracting Erica.
"We have to versus against Seto in the relay." Jennie replied. Joey and the others came along, too.
"You're kidding!" Joey said, disbelieving. "Against Kaiba?"
Erica nodded and glared at Jennie for pushing her over.
Then the intercom shouted, "Team A and C, report to the relay track in five minutes. Thank you."
"LET'S BEAT SOME KAIBA ASS!" Erica hollered.
Jennie took a deep breath and smirk evilly. "Yeah, and maybe we can add another sign on his back!"
The male friend of the duo popped out of nowhere, punching the air. He joked, "And we'll put something on him to match!"
The trio laughed and walked off, spirits anew.
"Do you think they'll be okay?" Yugi asked.
"Pretty much." Tristan shrugged and responded. "They're pretty hard to beat, you know."
Joey ran and yelled over his shoulder, "Come on, guys! Let's go and cheer for 'em!"
After warming up for three minutes, Jackie got up and pointed at Devlin. The two other girls looked up and saw that the man with long, black hair was being cheered on by his female fans. He was calmly waving at them with his charming smile. Seto was nearby, rolling his eyes.
"Lech." Jennie muttered and rubbed her legs even harder.
Erica simply chuckled and did some jumping jacks. However, the track runner came over, bothering all of them.
"Can't wait to be versuing ya in this challenge!" the teen boy said, with a tinge of an Irish accent.
Jackie did arm circles and said with good humor, "Glad to hear. And oh, if you're planning to spy on us, there's no need. We have no strategy whatsoever."
The boy looked shocked and stomped off, angry.
"How'd you know he was going to sabotage us?" Erica asked, eyes innocently confused.
"Someday you'll learn, Erica…" Jennie hinted, eyes glittering with mirth.
The girl simply pushed her friend off the bench. The track lady blew her warning whistle, signaling for the runners to take their places. Telling the woman to stop blowing her damn horn, the competitors ran to their spots. Jackie was first with the track runner, Jennie was second with Duke Devlin, and Erica was third with her arch nemesis, Seto Kaiba. The gun boomed, and the race began.
"Come on, Jackie!" Teá yelled.
Joey whooped loudly with Tristan and Yugi anxiously watched Jackie run, unfortunately with the track runner in the lead. Soon, Jackie reached Jennie, completely blown out. Then Jennie ran off, already catching up with Devlin.
"Yo, Dukey-boy!" the girl bark "Have you seen my back?"
"No!" he replied.
"Then watch THIS!" With that, Jennie flew forward with a burst of energy, steadily going past Duke.
Practically flying, Jennie gave the baton to Erica and rolled on the ground. She yelled, "If you don't win this, I SWEAR I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"
She crawled onto the stands with Jackie and the others. Bakura suddenly appeared, back from his standing long jump. His face was flushed from running to them. "Erica and Kaiba are neck to neck!"
"Do you really think you can beat me?" Seto panted.
Erica wheezed out, "I don't think I can win. I WILL win!"
The girl shoved forward during the turns and with a final cry from the spectators, the girl beat the man by an inch. Then they both tripped and fell onto the grass in the sidelines, breathing heavily as if there was no tomorrow. Jackie rushed to Erica's side and lifted her up, swinging her around. Jennie jumped on both of them, making the laughing duo fall onto the grass again. Erica, however, caught sight of Kaiba, still lying down on the lawn. She got up, walked toward him, and sat down next to the gasping man.
"I haven't felt that rush ever since…hm…I have no idea." Erica said.
"Which proves that you are simple-minded fool." Kaiba snorted.
The female snapped, "Oh shut it, you stupid oaf."
"Make me." Seto laughed briefly before he sprinted off to the next field.
Smiling, Erica chased after the "Ice Man" leaving a very confused faction behind. Did Seto just…laugh?
For the next three hours, Erica and Kaiba versed each other competitively, doing what ever to beat the other. In the high jump, Seto won, though that was because his rival ran off to chase ducks. Later, Erica fought to do her high jump and had to be dragged away by Tristan and Joey. Other than having a food fight with the Yu-Gi-Oh gang, the only event in which everyone was allowed to participate in was the water balloon fight. It would last for two hours and everyone could have as much balloons they wanted. Only most of the high school girls stayed out of the fight, but the trio had no problem getting wet. After all, they DID attack each other with Super soakers and garden hoses.
Erica bounced the water balloon into the air and saw Teá hanging onto every word Jackie was saying. He was teaching her how to avoid most of the water balloons.
Chuckling, Erica heard him say, winking, "But don't expect me to protect you. I may be the one to hit you with this balloon first."
Jennie walked over to her female friend and whispered, "Does Teá like Jackie or is it the other way around?"
Erica simply laughed and walked away. Abruptly the starting gun banged and the air was covered with airborne balloons. Jennie and Erica immediately ducked, knowing that boys would try to get them discouraged first. Then Erica threw a balloon at Jackie and Yugi. Surprised, Yugi laughed, but Jackie bombarded Erica with water bombs. Falling to the ground, the balloons whizzed over her head.
"HAH!" she mocked victoriously, when Jackie temporarily ran out of balloons. Suddenly something wet splashed on the back of Erica's head. Spinning around, she spotted Seto sneering.
"You'll pay for that, Kaiba!" she yelled.
Then she spotted Jennie placing several balloons behind Seto. Holding a thumbs-up sign, Jennie ran off so she wouldn't get wet. Instantly she knew what her friend planned. Running at Seto, Erica noticed he didn't move an inch and couldn't just jump at him. There was only one option. Continuing to dash, Erica all of a sudden stopped in front of him, head low. Then Erica raised her head, eyes big and sparkly.
Making herself blush, Erica looked up at Kaiba's eyes directly and said bashfully, "I like you, Seto dear."
Bewildered and face red, the CEO took a step back, slipped on the balloons behind him, and fell backwards into them, water bursting like a tsunami. Shocked, Seto glanced at the girl who was laughing with Jennie, leaning on Erica for support.
"SUCKER!" they chorused.
Angry, Seto fumed off to get dry, but when he turned, Jennie and Erica laughed even harder. Jackie joined in, laughing as hard as the other two girls. Apparently, on Kaiba's back, was a sign saying, "My whole back is wet, my underwear is showing through, and guess what? I'M PROUD OF IT!"
This time the sign was unreachable and no matter how much Seto tried to reach it, he ended up looking like an idiot going around in circles (also showing his underwear through the soaked clothing). This only made it worse because now everyone was laughing. Furious, Seto went back into the school.
"That…was…SWEET!" Erica roared.
Jackie agreed and Jennie collapsed on the ground still laughing. Eventually, the balloon toss continued and finally the balloons ran out. Everyone went to the bonfire at night to dry up after that. Jennie was sleeping, Jackie was talking with Yugi, and the others were chatting about the embarrassments of the century, Kaiba being at the top of the list. Erica, though, was helping Bakura dry his long hair. Pity that he was the target for most water balloon warriors. Draining the water from Bakura's hair, Erica slapped his hand away whenever he tried to do it himself.
"Please, it's all right! I can do it on my own-OW!" Bakura said, massaging his red hand.
In a commanding tone, Erica scolded, "Boys just leave their hair wet and get a cold! I won't let that happen!"
Bakura sighed and blushed when he felt Erica brush her hand across his bare neck. Shuddering, the albino instinctively covered his neck with his hands. Whacking him on the head, Erica snapped again, saying that he got a cold already. After braiding his hair, Erica looked at Bakura's face and started to laugh.
"You look like a girl!" she choked.
Embarrassed, he tried to take the band off his hair that held the braiding, but Erica did something to it and it wouldn't come off. This only made Erica laugh even more. Giving up, Bakura faced the fire hoping that the glow would hide his red face.
"Sorry about that, B.K! It was just so funny!" Erica apologized.
Then she started to fiddle with her ribbon for first place in the relay. After a moment of silence, Bakura glanced at the girl next to him. Her eyes flamed like amber and were distant as if she was in another world. She looked so... Bakura blushed and looked back into the fire.
While the two were having some "quality time," Jennie had jolted awake, feeling something strange overcome her. Silently Jennie got up, walked out of the school's boundaries, and looked around. There was nothing strange at the moment, but why were the streetlights off? It made everything seem so dark. Something clanked heavily at the road corner. Jennie spun around and stared hard into the dim night, she saw nothing. Another noise, this time it was closer.
"Anybody there?" Jennie called.
A swaying figure appeared out of the darkness and it was humming a strange tune. It started to spin, arms out, giving the person the appearance of a top. Lifting an eyebrow, Jennie watched the person come closer until he was right there, dancing around her.
"Round and round we spin and flow. Spin and spin and down we go!" the person giggled.
Jennie observed the happy human. He was wearing a tuxedo (who in the right mind would wear a tuxedo in the summer?) that was in a rainbow with a bow that could match a clown's. His top hat was also in a multitude of colors and a great amount of bushy hair surrounded the person's face. He had the biggest, probably the craziest smile Jennie had ever seen. His pupils were behind swirly-eyed glasses and he swung around a candy cane cane. The only thing that seemed right was his white gloves.
"Uh…you need to go to an asylum, buddy?" Jennie asked, eyes following the dancing man. Something was wrong about this...
"No, no, no!" he laughed freakishly, taking Jennie's hand into his own. "We shall dance!"
"Get away from me, ya weirdo!" the girl hissed, snatching her hand away. To add to her remark, she kicked the person in the shins and backed away.
The man twirled and swayed his cane back and forth as if she was a small child about to be scolded. "You should know better than to kick random people, little girl!"
Jennie twitched. "WHO YOU CALLIN' LITTLE, YOU FREAK OF NATURE?"
The swaying cane stopped moving and the man pointed the cane's end at Jennie's face. She noticed that it was hollow and made of metal. It smelled like it was burning.
In a sudden deep voice, almost like the Terminator, he shouted gleefully, "BURN, BABY, BURN!"
Fire burst out of the cane and nearly burned off Jennie's head if she hadn't turned and scrambled away. While Jennie ran from the scene, she saw the person happily swinging the flaming flame torch of doom around, causing havoc to various things. Wondering what to do, she caught sight of a garbage can lid.
"Okay. Step one to defeating a maniac holding a candy cane that can shoot fire…" Jennie stopped, making a weird face. What kind of scenario was that?
Shaking her head, Jennie held the lid in front of her and ran forward. Wincing at the heat from the fire, she quickly blew the incoming flames out of her way and slashed the garbage can cover at the man's arm that held the staff. Luckily the stick flew out of the person's grasp and skittered into a corner. Unfortunately, however, the man grasped the can lid and bashed it against Jennie's head.
Seeing stars, the girl staggered away and barely heard the mad man say, "You made me lose my stick! I like my stick! Ooo! I have another idea! MAGIC SHOW!"
Jennie blinked and saw the man take off his top hat. He tapped it once with his fingers and looked inside it. Smiling happily, he took out a white, large bunny that was the size of a garbage truck.
"Go my, Mr. Snuffy-Kins! Feel the air through your all mighty teeth!" the man shrieked.
The rabbit sniffed the air innocently and caught sight of a very confused Jennie. Suddenly it roared, showing fangs that was as big as herself. Screaming, the girl ran away as it tried to chomp at her head. Tripping over the same garbage can that had given its lid, she saw rotten carrots on the top. Holding her nose, she held the carrots up high. The rabbit stopped, looking curiously at the treat.
"You want carrot?" Jennie wheezed out.
The bunny nodded.
"Then get the carrot!"
The teenager threw the vegetable at the dancing man. Almost immediately the rabbit ran the other way, stampeding toward its creator. Giving out a squeak, the man held the hat's opening at the rabbit. A huge vacuum appeared, sucking in the bunny and everything else inside. Jennie desperately clung onto a pole and waited until the person set his hat onto his head.
"Hm…You're lotsa fun! Maybe tricks are too much." he wondered to himself.
Jennie glared at the man. "Stop playing around! What the hell do you want from me?"
The ballet male jumped around and said bluntly, "What else? Exodia cards."
'Of course,' Jennie thought, rolling her eyes.
"NOW TIME FOR MY LASER VISION!"
"WHAT!"
The man took off his swirly-eyed glasses and red beams came out of his eyes, causing more disaster than the flamethrower.
"MWAHAHAHAHAHA! FEEL MY MIGHT OF DOOOOOM!" he bellowed insanely.
Jennie ran out of the way as the laser beams followed after her foot falls. Rolling behind the school wall, she desperately looked inside her pockets if she had her deck. With a yell of victory, the girl jumped out of her hiding spot, and brandished her cards like a shield as it strangely deflected the laser beams. Noticing that his attacks were having no effect, the crazy person put his glasses back on and squinted at the golden cards in Jennie's deck.
"MINE!" he screeched suddenly.
Zooming forward with incredible speed, the monster of the Shadow Realm took off his white gloves, revealing dead looking claws. Too fast for the human eye, the zombie hands went through Jennie's own, grabbed the deck, and pulled it away easily. Then he took his other hand and placed it on Jennie's throat, squeezing tightly.
Grinning like a boy with his new toy, he commented, "You know, I normally I wouldn't have been able to touch this, but with my hands, it's easy peesy! Daddy will be so happy!"
Jennie couldn't believe how cold the man's hand was. It was making her whole body feel cold. Other than that, there was no oxygen coming into her lungs. Franticly looking all over the place for a weapon that she could reach, she saw the discarded candy cane cane that the man had dropped before. Glaring at her opponent, she quickly kicked the person in the shins and pulled away, reaching for staff. As the man hopped up and down from pain, Jennie took the cane and looked for a button. There was nothing to activate the flamethrower.
"There's nothing you can do now, my pretty." the man snickered happily. "That toy only works if it's in my hands!"
Jennie cursed under her breath, but held the weapon steady like a bat. "Well, mugging the physical way always works. HIYAH!"
With quick crash, the end of the candycane stick and the man's head connected, and Jennie continued to bash the staff against the man. As the monster crumpled to the ground, the girl was relieved to know that there wasn't any blood or wounds. He was just unconscious. Taking her deck away from the man's frosty hands, she flipped through it, wondering if she had a specific card for the job.
"Jesus, if I wanted the job done, why didn't I just take a pipe and be done with it?" she mumbled.
With a look of satisfaction, she took out a trap card and set it on the man's head. "Well…what should I say right now? Oh, yeah. DON'T YOU EVER COME BACK OR I'LL POKE THIS NICE STICK INTO YOUR RAINBOW HAT, TOO!"
After that, the man with the swirly-eyed glasses vaporized. A solitary card spun on the ground. Picking it up, she saw the exact image of the man with his description:
Considered the most insane monster in the shadow games, it carries numerous weaponry under its tuxedo and its smile. However its most dangerous weapon is its hands. If touched against human flesh, in a matter of minutes they not only die of suffocation, but hypothermia. Having no care for humans or its own kind, it will do whatever illusion or trickery to get to its goal.
The card quickly vanished into dust from Jennie's hands after she had read the description. Shivering from the sudden cold throughout her body, she threw the candycane cane into the garbage can and walked back into the school. There were her friends and the bonfire to warm her up.
But there was one question in her mind as she smiled at her companions' concerned remarks about her haggard look...
'If we have trouble with the minions, then what'll we do when the real deal comes?'
(A/N: Whoa. Little serious moment there. Anyway, I never really expected for the chapter to end that way. It was going to be much longer with the crazy man manipulating Jennie's mind that she had no friends and all that load of crap. I thought it was going to bore you readers to death and Jennie wouldn't really succumb to that bull so…yeah.
Um…also, don't mind the randomness that I had in this lame-o fight. I was high on sugar at the time and also had an author's block. So what do you do when you have an author's block? RANDOM PLOT! YEAH!
Gah, excuse my endless babbling and I like to thank all the wonderful reviewers who are DarkHand27 who's been with me from chapter 1 , Jennie yes, she's the person I modeled the Jennie in the story after. BE PROUD, Atem's Queen of the Nile love your stories , and carolsi13 W00T! A NEW REVIEWER! CELEBRATE! . Thank you all and I may be able to update again soon if you review right away. Thanks to you all.
Oh, another thing. The candycane flamethrower idea was from the little kid down the street pretending that he was a power ranger. Personally, I think it's the smartest weapon ever known to mankind. laughs Nevermind, nevermind. Just press that nice purple button at the bottom.