Prophecy
Jennie: Apparently, the author can't write the disclaimer today since she's outside her house, protesting that she owns Yu-Gi-Oh and can do whatever she wants with them. Ironically, she is being attacked outside by several squirrels, whom have plotted revenge against her ever since she was two. I warned her.
"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 13 – Realization
The trio grudgingly cleaned up their birthday party mess with absolutely no help and continued to do their jobs until three in the morning. Tired, the three still remembered their four week grounding and weakly climbed up to bed. Jennie was too tired to open her presents, Jackie was too tired to check on the Leak, and Erica was too tired to even to get out of her dirty clothes and into her pajamas. Unfortunately, no matter how exhausted Erica was, she couldn't sleep. She decided to go onto the balcony to observe the night sky just for the spite of it. She gazed quietly at the moon. Then, for some reason, Erica had the urge to quote Romeo and Juliet. Standing up straight, she raised one hand into he night sky and imagined that she had the moon on her palm.
"Oh Romeo, Romeo." Erica recited. "Wherefore art thou Romeo? 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Oh, be some other name! That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Refuse they name, which is no part of thee, take all myself."
Smirking at her romanticisms, Erica was about to go back into her room, until a familiar voice replied, "I take thee at thy word. Call me but love. Henceforth I never will be Romeo!"
Surprised, she went to balcony again and saw Bakura down below.
"Hello," he waved.
"EH?" Erica squeaked. "What are you doing here?"
After some tossing and turning in bed, Jackie decided to check on the computers at the last minute (he didn't want to be yelled at again by his uncle for shirking his job) until he heard some voices down the hall. Suspicious, he crept quietly up to Erica's room. Opening the door, he saw Erica talking to someone below. Nudging the balcony door open, he startled his friend, but recollected herself and pointed down. Jackie followed after her finger and saw Bakura.
"Oh! Hello, Jackie!" he smiled.
Lifting an eyebrow, Jackie asked Erica, "Why is he here at 3:30 A.M?"
She explained, "He forgot to tell me something before so he came to visit me."
Jackie stared at Erica, shrugged, and went back into the house. Closing the door behind him, he made his way down the stairs and into the basement. No one was in the room, so he settled into his uncle's chair and twirled around in it.
He knew that Erica was lying before, but he didn't exactly care. She was going to tell Jennie and him anyway. Then a beep, beep sound came from the Shadow Realm detector, invading his random thoughts. Stopping the chair, he looked at the computer screen and saw various yami spirits fading from the city. All but two vanished.
'That's weird…' Jackie thought. 'Maybe the yamis are sleeping…'
He noticed that the dot at their house didn't disappear and…one at Kaiba's house didn't fade away, either. Frowning, he moved the mouse to Kaiba's dot, showing complex data on it. Then he moved it again to Bakura's dot. More data. Jackie leaned back on the swivel chair. If what he was thinking was right, he had to tell everyone in the household about this strange situation. This was definitely not good.
"Thank you for not telling Jackie in why I really came." Bakura grinned.
Erica nodded and repeated in what the albino had said to her. "You came because for some reason, you felt like going here as if pulled by an invisible force."
"I thought that Jackie being extremely smart wouldn't believe in what I said." Bakura said, looking up at Erica. She wasn't looking at him, but at the sky.
"I believe you," she whispered. Suddenly she looked straight at Bakura and snapped, "Yami! I want to talk to you. Come out…NOW!"
A bright light engulfed the boy and the wicked Yami took place. Bored, he said casually, "What do you want, pesky human?"
Erica ignored this and said coldly, "I want an honest answer, Yami. Do you sense any Shadow Realm aura around Domino City?"
"What is the price?" he smiled mischievously.
"…What?"
"For me to tell you, you must tell me what I must have in return."
"Evil, conniving, blackmailing…FINE! I'll give you a kiss or something. I don't care."
"Fine. Yes, I did."
"Well? Anything more?"
"You simply asked if I sensed anything. Not where."
"WHAT! UGH! You cross-dressing, sick, evil, yami that not even nice enough to-"
"Alright now! No need to rant again like you did with Kaiba!"
"WELL?"
"So impatient. I have seen a strange black aura around Kaiba's house. Actually, the aura has completely covered his whole living quarters."
"Oh. That's not good. Do you think it's the Shadow Realm?"
"It may be."
There was a quiet silence after that. Erica started to whistle and tip-toed toward the balcony door. Suddenly she waved at Bakura and rant to the door. Surprised and angry, the yami jumped up, grabbed hold of the balcony railing and flipped over, landing in front of the escaping girl.
"You thought that you could run away without completing our deal?" he hissed.
Trying not to show panic on her face, she gave a silly emotion of 'you-got-me' and stuttered, "Well? W-what, er, what are you going to do? Send me to the Sha-Shadow Realm?"
Bakura walked closer to the backing girl and had a thoughtful look on his face.
"No…" he said quietly, eyes abruptly soft and gentle. "I have a better idea."
With that, he bent down and gently touched his lips against hers.
Erica didn't know what happened, but after that kiss, all she could see was darkness and feeling someone catching her as she fell.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Erica shrieked as she woke up from bed.
Looking around, she saw the sun outside her window and that she was in bed.
'Was it…all a dream?' she wondered. Then the door opened and Jennie came in, chucking bread at her.
"Get ready, sloth! We're late for school!" Jennie yelled, putting on her uniform. Then she ran out of the room, leaving the door opened.
Erica got up and slowly closed her door. Looking around, she searched for anything that proved her dream to be real or not. Seeing her balcony door unlocked, Erica took an intake of breath and panicked.
'Ohmigod. Ohmigod. Ohmigod. I never leave leave my door unlocked. Oh no. He did kiss me! Ohmigod. Ohmigod. Ohmigod…I HAVE TO WASH MY MOUTH!'
With that, Erica raced to the bathroom and spent twenty minutes brushing her teeth, muttering things about harassment, disgusting, and a lot of torture methods.
When Jackie and Jennie went up to Erica's room, they saw her still brushing her teeth and wearing her uniform jacket at the same time. The breakfast bread remained forgotten on the floor.
"What's with her?" Jennie asked.
Jackie stared at Erica, who was walking back and forth. "I have no idea whatsoever."
Later, when the three walked to school, Jackie was telling his friends about the shadow aura around Kaiba's house, but Jennie was the only one listening. Erica, however, was spacing out.
Then, with sheer irritation, Jennie turned around and snapped, "Out with it, you mumbling psychopath!"
Startled, Erica looked dazed and confused. Immediately concerned, the two friends asked what was wrong.
The girl was silent. After three minutes, Erica nervously looked at the ground and rushed out, "BakuracametoourhousetosaythathewantedtotellmesomethingandImadeadealwithhim sohecantellmewhatheneededtotellmeanditwastheevilyamisothatwhenIranawayafterhetold-methatashadowaurawasaroundSeto'shousehecutmeoffandkissedmeandIfainted."
Jackie and Jennie stared at Erica for a few seconds. Suddenly, Jennie fell over and shrieked with laughter. Jackie was still puzzled.
"The what-da-wha with the wha?" he imitated Erica.
Jennie was coughing and trying to breathe. Finally, she replied to Jackie, "Bakura came. Turned yami. Kaiba's house, Shadow Realm leak. B.K. kissed her for return of info. Fainted."
Now it was Jackie's turn to laugh. Jennie joined in after she got her strength back. Humiliated and angry, Erica glared at Jennie accusingly.
"Oh, I wouldn't be laughing! Joey likes you, blind one," she yelled, "and Teá likes you, Jackie! They were the ones who sent you the letters! They told me so!"
Abruptly, Jennie and Jackie stopped laughing and gaped at Erica. She realized her mistake and covered her mouth in horror.
"Um…uh…Forget what I said! You didn't hear anything!" Erica whispered. Apparently, it was a bit too late for that.
"Oh yeah? I heard that Seto Kaiba likes you!" the two snapped.
"WHAT! Oh shit, you have to be joking…"
The three groaned and dragged themselves to school. It was going to be a long day, now that they knew practically the whole cast of YuGiOh liked them.
In class, Joey blinked at the hunched up trio, who were talking in low voices. Looking baffled, he turned around and faced Tristan.
"Hey, Tristan," Joey bothered, shaking his friend's elbow. "Don't ya think that Jennie's a bit distant? She ignores me whenever I come her way."
Teá agreed to this with passion and blushed when Yugi and Tristan looked at the female with a slight scared expression.
"Maybe they just want to be alone." Yugi advised, putting away his bento box.
Suddenly Erica jumped up from her seat and shouted with defiance, "HELL, NO! I am not going! Not after I learned that sick secret! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"
Jennie and Jackie pulled her back down and whispered furiously. Erica seemed to calm down and listened to whatever Jackie was talking about.
"What was that about?" Teá asked. The others shrugged.
"Look. We're going with you to Seto's house. After all, we do need a basic blueprint of his house so we can get in without any trouble now that we know his house is in the very center of the Leak," Jackie assured the uneasy girls, who were giving each other nervous glances.
Jennie huffed and muttered, "I know that plan is fool proof, but going right into the enemy's territory is not my idea of fun."
"I know, but that's the only thing we can do right now-" Jackie sighed, but Erica seemed to be looking around, not listening.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Kaiba…" she said. "He…he didn't come to school, did he?"
Jennie rolled her eyes. "Oh, so now you're worrying about him? Relax. He sometimes doesn't come to school, remember?"
"Yeah, but…he came to school everyday ever since we came."
Jennie and Erica looked at Jackie. Then he raised his arms up in defeat and said tiredly, "Alright, alright! I'll call him on my cell!"
Then he took silver earphone from his backpack, put it to his ear, connected it to the glasses, connected the glass's wire to a small keyboard that he revealed from his jacket, and dialed Kaiba's phone. The other two waited and no one else seemed to notice that Jackie was breaking the rules on the "no cell phones". After a few minutes, he frowned and put the keyboard and wires away.
"Strangely, I got nothing. Home phone's not busy or even on. I called his company building and he wasn't at his office, but still at home," Jackie said, leaning on the back of the chair.
Erica looked at the ceiling and Jennie asked, "Do you think anything happened?"
"I don't know. We still gotta check it out, though. This doesn't change our plans," he answered.
"What about his cell phone?" Erica inquired.
"Presumably dead."
The trio sat in silence until the school bell rang, signifying the end of lunch and the start of class.
'I hope he's okay…' Erica worried.
Jennie pat her friend comfortingly and smiled.
…But somewhere in the midst of Domino City, an invisible barrier of black energy soaked up any electricity or physical strength. It was slowly getting bigger, a small mansion hidden deep inside, the inhabitants…trapped.
A/N: Mwahahahahaha…What happened to Seto Kaiba? Is he…(gasp) DEAD? (laughs) Sorry about that. I just had to say it. Anyway, I bet you're wondering what the hell the pairings are about now. It's pretty obvious with the Joey and Teá thing (Jackie and Jennie doesn't like them back; how sad…), but what about Erica? Well, I had issues with this character. In the end, I just decided to ditch Ryou and just have Yami Bakura and Seto. So…FORGET EVERYTHING ABOUT RYOU! He's not important anymore…He is…USELESS! MWAHAHAHA!
Candy does things to you. Be very careful.
Anyway, I didn't get as much reviews as I did before, but that's okay. I'm still very happy that someone's actually reviewing at all. Unfortunately, has just recently issued that authors can't respond to reviewers on chapters…which is total crap. First they say author notes can't be individual chapters, then no song stories, then no CYOAs, and then no second-person POV…What the hell! I understand about having no author notes on individual chapters and song stories, but CYOAs, second-person POV, and no response to reviewers? That's just bull! CYOAs are considered stories and so are second-person POVs! Perhaps responses to reviewers are a bit amateurish, but we need to say our thanks! (huffs angrily)
Bah. Well, you know what to do! Review please!