Prophecy
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"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 15 – Talk, Fight, Talk
After arriving back home from their little adventure with the Shadow Realm in order to rescue the Kaiba brothers (Jennie drove) and got a sound scolding from Tien-Xiang, Jackie and his uncle lifted the Kaiba's into a single guest room. Bakura just watched Jennie get the medical supplies while Erica was cooking food for the weakened patients.
A short time later, while Erica was upstairs to take care of the victims, everyone else talked in the library about what happened.
"So you're telling me that Seto's house turned out to be a full out enemy base for the Shadow Realm?" Tien-Xiang said with uncertainty.
Jackie and Jennie nodded. Bakura yawned.
"What puzzles me is that why does the Leak appear in Kaiba's mansion of all places? And why drain the Kaibas of energy?" Jackie inquired.
Tien-Xiang paced back and forth in the room and muttered, "The Leak may have formed in Seto's house since he kept opening portals."
"The human is partially right." Bakura said with boredom. "Not only because of Kaiba's portals, but it is also because he used to be the High Priest in Ancient Egypt. His spiritual power is still strong so his house is the ideal place to grow quickly. Besides, his house is sufficient enough to hold a huge monster."
Jennie questioned, "What about the Kaiba's themselves? Why did they look half-starved and weak?"
"The Realm was feeding on Kaiba's magic. Human batteries, to be simple," the yami said casually.
Jennie, Jackie, and Tien winced visibly.
Then Yami Bakura continued, "Of course, if we had waited a day longer, the victims would have become shriveled mummies by the time we would save them."
Jackie turned pale. Jennie kicked Bakura under the table and shrieked, "Stop it! That's not funny, you know!"
Bakura cackled evilly.
Erica leaned back on her chair and sighed. The two boys had somehow eaten their food while unconscious, had been bandaged up, and were now sleeping peacefully. Why did she feel like something was missing, though? Maybe it was the house's usual hubbub or Seto's glare. The tomboy sighed again.
The little raven-haired boy stirred and frowned with concern. He seemed to be having a bad dream. Quietly, Erica moved the stray strands of the boy's hair away and put her cool hand on his forehead, petting it gently. Mokuba slipped into a peaceful slumber once again.
Erica looked at the two Kaibas and smiled. They looked so adorable sleeping side by side. Then the door creaked open and her two friends crept inside the room. The trio moved to a corner, Jennie and Jackie explaining about the Shadow Realm issue with Erica.
In the middle of the talk, Jennie suddenly gasped. Alarmed, Jackie and Erica looked at her.
"What's wrong?" Erica asked, lifting an eyebrow.
Jennie moaned, "I forgot about our school books!"
"Oh, yeah…We left it at the evil mansion," Jackie said to himself.
"Then we'll buy the new texts tomorrow or something," the dark brown-haired girl shrugged.
Jennie whacked Erica the upside of her head and snapped, "Stores are closed tomorrow, you dimwit!"
Erica hissed back, "Yeah, well, I can't leave the Kaibas alone!"
Tien-Xiang appeared at the door and held up his car keys. "I'm going to the store and dropping off the albino afterwards. Anyone need anything?"
The Jennie and Jackie looked at each other. Then the duo ran out the door and the garage door slammed open downstairs.
Confused, the uncle gave a puzzled glance and winked, "Well now, I have two bodyguards to protect me from the yami!"
Erica chuckled as Tien went down the stairs. Then Bakura appeared out of nowhere and kissed her on the cheek. He ran off before the tomboy could throw anything sharp at him. Furious, she stomped back into the room and swore revenge to the sick yami.
Jennie and Jackie didn't come back to the house until it was night time, while Tien-Xiang was back at his work again because of some kind of emergency. The two were tired, hungry, and cranky. Erica didn't know what happened on the way back, but the duo was giving each other vicious glares. The tension finally exploded over dinner when Jackie and Jennie fought over the last toasted potato.
"Give it, Teá-lover!" Jennie yelled.
"I called dibs on it! BACK OFF!" the hacker bellowed.
The two were fighting to the death with their chopsticks. Erica was looking on uncertainly, still eating. While the braided-hair girl and the hacker boy were poking each other with their eating utensils, Erica just bent over and took the potato herself. Jennie and Jackie stopped fighting and angrily watched the girl happily (and innocently) munch on the crispy potato.
"What?" she said, after swallowing it.
Suddenly the two started to rant about the other to Erica in fast tones, insults, glares, and pointing fingers included.
After five dizzying minutes, they suddenly stopped screaming, looked at each other, and shouted defiantly, "I AM NOT!"
Erica blinked. "Uh…what?"
Jennie pounded her fist on the table and pointed accusingly, "He vandalized on the text books and got me in trouble by the staff and I got kicked out! It was the only manga store on the whole block!"
Jackie gritted his teeth and tattled, "Jennie pushed me into the street and almost got me run over!"
"And he left my wallet on the road to get trampled and wreaked!"
"You almost got me killed!"
"Well, I said I was sorry!"
"I did, too!"
"No, you didn't!"
"Yes I did!"
"Liar!"
"Hag!"
"Son of a-"
"SHUT UP!" Erica barked.
Jennie and Jackie glowered at each other, but stayed silent.
"Look," the tomboy reasoned, swallowing her food, "Jackie always writes on books and we all get kicked out, but we don't care. We tried to kill each other more than once for good fun, and I lost your wallet twice, Jennie. So what's the big idea? We always did those things and we never got mad at each other! Why now?"
Jackie and Jennie pointed at each other, "He/She made me have a date with Teá/Joey!"
At first Erica stared and actually stopped eating. Then she started to laugh, harder and harder each second. Finally, she stopped when she started to choke. Erica raced to the kitchen and came back with a glass of water.
Trying to look serious, she coughed and asked, "Then why didn't you just say no?"
The two teenagers looked down and turned red.
"We…we didn't want them to be sad…" Jackie drifted.
Erica shook her head and muttered, "Then that's your own fault. Not each others."
The dinner ended in silence after that.
When Erica entered her room after attending the patients, she saw Jennie reading a comic book on her bed.
"Jennie…I want to go to sleep and reading on my bed is no help…" the tomboy sighed, collapsing onto the sofa.
Her friend slammed the book closed and stared hard at Erica.
The dark brown-haired girl blinked. "What? Is there something on my face?"
Jennie shook her head and asked out of the blue, "What would you do on a date?"
"Oh, I don't know!" Erica snorted. "I've never been on a date so how should I know?"
"Seriously."
"Hmm…well…I would probably get to know the person better…Hey, does this have anything to do with your date with Joey?"
"No!"
Erica gave Jennie a look.
"Well…yeah. But I don't wanna go!"
"Then put him off!"
"I can't do that! Would you do that to a guy if he suddenly admitted his love for you?"
"I guess not. Then just reject him gently so he gets the idea and backs off."
"Reject gently? Where the hell did you get that? Oprah?"
"Ugh, I don't listen to those shows. You know I hate them."
"Jeez, ever heard of sarcasm?"
Erica's door opened and Jackie sat on a chair between the two girls. Smirking, he commented, "In your case, Jennie, sarcasm is hard to make out."
The two girls grinned and went to more serious things.
"How do we get the Shadow Realm out of Kaiba's house?" Erica asked.
Jackie shrugged. "Tien says that we have to defeat the leader. If we do that, then the Shadow Realm will go back to its…well…'home' and stay there for a while. A long while."
"That's not going to be easy, though. Just fighting its minions was hard enough," Jennie smartly said.
Then Erica sat up from the couch and thought out loud, "Talking about minions, we haven't seen those guys outside the base for some time."
"It is because the Shadow Realm needs as much energy as possible to completely overcome all the yamis, you three, and this city. Its next goal would probably be the world," a mysterious voice concluded. The trio turned to see Tien-Xiang at the door.
The three teens welcomed Jackie's uncle into the room and smiled happily when he came in with their new text books.
Then Erica looked up from the books and asked, "The whole world? Why?"
Tien-Xiang put a hand to his chin. "Probably to have immortality, freedom, and to cause havoc on the living. You know the rest when you watch the anime shows."
"When can we attack the Realm?" Jennie inquired.
"It would be best if done in the morning or mid-day. That's when the Shadow Realm is the weakest," the uncle answered.
Jackie looked at his relative. "Will we…you know…get hurt? Like, really badly?"
Tien-Xiang's face darkened with concern. "I didn't say it would be safe, Jackie, but Yami Bakura told me that he would protect you three…or at least Erica."
Erica sniffed disapprovingly and angrily muttered, "That's exactly what the evil yami would do. Sick jerk."
Everyone laughed and silently decided to get off the subject as they all looked inside the books for any vandalizing.
A/N: Ah, that was a lot of dialogue. I hope you readers didn't get bored. Anyway, the next chapter should be interesting since Jackie and Jennie is going to be on a date. Also, since Erica is all home alone with Seto, who knows what will happen! (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) How's that for a chapter review? (laughs and dodges someone's shoe)
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