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SF4E: "Sweet! I'm so glad people like this... I just need to catch my mistakes before I post."

Syrus: "May I guess the future pairings?"

SF4E: "Sure."

Syrus: "Jalen/Antaria," twitch "Kiara/Michael, Eyealon/Cole, Severus, Tara/Wyatt, and some slight Raven/Jalen, Eyealon/Wyatt, and Tara/Cole..."

SF4E: suddenly laughing.

Syrus?

SF4E: quoting Chazz "'What's he got that I don't got!'" quoting Syrus "'A Career, personality, oh! And a good looking little brother!'"

Syrus: "Enough with the quoting! And that's from the episode where Zane and Aster face off for the first time."

SF4E: "Quick Question."

Syrus: "What?"

SF4E: "How come Zane's hotter than you?"

Syrus: turns red "TYLER!"

SF4E: "Okay, okay, time for the disclaimer!"

SF4E: Disclaimer: I do not own YGO GX. PLEASE R&R!

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Chapter V

Haunted

Class: The Next Day

"How is she doing?" asked Kiara curiously.

"She's avoiding everyone." Jalen sighed before continuing. "I'm worried about her."

Jalen and Kiara looked at Antaria, who was sitting by herself in a corner, looking terrified and upset. Everytime someone tried to approach her, she would quickly flee to solitude. Her amethyst eyes concealed the deepest sadness that Jalen had ever seen.

Jalen was beginning to feel feelings he had never felt before everytime he looked at Antaria. Confusion, temptations, fear, self-conciousness, and even nervousness. Jalen had never felt any of these emotions towards any of his other crushes. Deep down, he just wanted to tell her, hold her, truly become her Knight in Shining Armor. Antaria was his princess, trapped by the evils of reality. Forbidden to live a life she desired. Kiara saw Jalen lost in thought and she decided to leave him be. Jalen's golden brown eyes still staring at Antaria, who's eyes were closed as she looked down.

"I want to save her." he whispered to himself. "I wonder what psychological trama she faced?"

Antaria finally looked up as she remembered how her catatonic attacks came to be. Her sadness overwhelming her.

Flashback: 5 Years Ago (This is a little weird... and I still despise these things! Grr!)

The deep blizzard pounded against the treehouse window of Antaria's hideout. Finally, she got enough courage and opened the door. Cold stung her face as she made her way through Domino Park. The wind swirling snow around her. She froze as she spotted a movement out of the corner of her eye.

"Who's there?" she asked in a scared voice.

She saw another moment and she suddenly felt fatigue strike her. She then collapsed... A dark cloaked figure apporached her. He looked at her with dark violet eyes and picked the ten-year-old girl in his arms. Slowly, he took her to a house on the outskirts of Domino. He entered it and placed the girl down, talking to himself.

"So, the old memories have come back to haunt me." he said sickly. "Another haunting of my past... the very Oracle, that I almost recieved purity, from's daughter. I will never forget her mind... or her eyes. The glow of purity within them... it lives within this child." The man removed his clock, revealing the Shadow Assassin's worst enemy, Sartorious. He lifted Antaria's chin and examined her face. You could see her father's features. "Ahh... the father is revealed. Yes, the very boy that brought back the little monster." Sartorious smirked. "Syrus Truesdale..."

Antaria began to stir, but she then became unconcious once more.

"I must hurry." Sartorious realized. "The information I seek is within this child."

Sartorious then entered Antaria's mind. She mentally became alert. Inside, the power of Antaria emerged and she fought Sartorious back, forbidding him from entering her secrets and mind. He then grew angry, grabbing Antaria's limpless body and shaking it while trying to invade her mind.

"NO!" she screamed mentally.

"YOU WILL LET ME HAVE WHAT I WANT!" Sartorious thought angry. "I shall not be defeated by the Children of Antaria again!"

"Leave... me... ALONE!" Antaria cried in her mind, her body glowing amethyst and blue.

Sartorious let her go in alarm. Some of his powers locking into her mind. Antaria awoke quickly, screamed, and fled. She continued to flee until she was safe at home. Her mother and father holding her and learning what the stranger had done to their daughter...

End of Flashback:

A/N: Twist again! Just like Tama recieved her powers form Sartorious, Antaria recieved some mental problems from him!

Antaria shook her head and looked at her friends, leaving her alone like she wished for them too.

"But, that wasn't the end." she said quietly.

Flashback: 3 Years Ago

"C'mere, Antaria." Tara said, grabbing her twelve-year-old cousin's hand.

"Where are we going?" Antaria asked.

"You'll see!" Tara exclaimed.

"Tara!" Antaria cried, laughing.

They left the schoolyard and turned into the Kame Game Shop. Antaria's amethyst eyes widening at all the duel monsters posters and all the cards. A man with white hair and hazel eyes was behind the counter, smiling at the customers and answering the phone. Tara looked around in awe and spotted a poster of two elven warriors battling.

"Tara..." Antaria said suddenly, she had been looking out the display window. "It's him..."

Antaria's breathing became shallow and wheezy. Tara whirled around and saw no one.

"Who?" Tara asked.

"Sartorious..." Antaria whispered, before she clenched up. Her eyes tightening shut and she collapsed to her knees.

"Antaria!" cried Tara in horror. She turned to the white haired man. "Please, call the paramedics!"

"Triston!" the man called, a tall man with spiked brown hair and brown eyes appeared.

"I'm on it, Bakura." Triston said, he rushed to Antaria and scooped her up in his arms.

"Please, hurry!" Tara sobbed, terrified.

"It's going to be alright..." Bakura coaxed after he called 911. "Can you give me your parent's number?"

Tara did so, soon she was sitting in the back of an ambulance with Antaria and Triston...

End of Flashback:

"When I came to, I had no clue what happened." Antaria said to herself. "I heard them talking... because of what that creep did to my mind... They said..."

Antaria couldn't bring herself to say it. They said she had faced psychological trama and would always have anxiety attacks of fear... but they never expected her to start progressing worse and go into catatonic attacks either. Antaria's bottom lip trembled as she put her head in her hands. Her mind racing and she remembered when Eyealon and Tara started the chants to bring her out of the attacks.

Flashback: 2 Years Ago (This is getting extremely old too quickly...)

"Pillow fight!" Eyealon cried, she smacked Tara in the face.

"Ow! Eyealon Eileen Truesdale!" Tara shrieked.

"Astara Rosalind Princeton!" Eyealon shot back.

"WHAT!" Tara yelled.

The three thirteen-year-old girls were at Tara's mansion for Tara's 13th Slumber/Birthday Party. Tara's parents, Tamara and Chazz, had taken Tara's younger brother, Carter, to the movies as his special little reward. Leaving the girls alone. Antaria was sitting on Tara's mammoth sized bed and watching her cousins trying to kill each other.

"Antaria, are you alright?" Tara asked after a few more beatings.

"No..." whispered Antaria.

"What's the matter?" asked Eyealon.

Antaria didn't answer as her amethyst eyes rolled back inside her head. Tara let out a cry of alarm and Eyealon and her snatched hands. Climbing onto the bed and surronding their cousin. They began to chant.

"We're loved, we will always be loved. When one of us is safe, we are all safe. We're sisters, we'll always be sisters..." they chanted in unison, fear was not kept out of their voices as they continued to chant even more hastily. "We're together, we will always be togther. When one of us is confused, we all are confused. We're sisters, we'll always be sisters..."

Antaria's eyes flickered open and she weakly joined into the chant. They didn't stop as they hugged one another and hoped that this would all fade away like the morning dawn...

End of Flashback:

The bell rang and Antaria stood up. Slowly gathering her things and looking around the empty classroom. She looked around again and was surprised to see Jalen's desk not completely cleared. Curious, Antaria made her way to the desk, her boots padding against the floor. She was surprised to see a note adressed to her and a single amethyst rose lying on the desk. Antaria opened the note and read Jalen's neat handwriting.

Antaria,

Friendships grow, Friendships die

I saw the tears falling from your eyes

A true friend never leaves, without saying goodbye

I will be your friend forever and ever under the endless skies...

Please, Don't Leave

Jalen

"Jay..." she whispered, picking up the rose and smelling it.She then put it behind her ear and began leaving the classroom. She looked over her shoulder before leaving it completely and whispered. "My haunting will not stop my heart..."

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Alexis: "Aww, how sweet..."

Phoebe: "I didn't know your son was a sweetheart, Lex!"

Tama: "That was really something..."

Tyler: "My daughter's in love..." sigh "Jalen is such a sweetie."

Stacey: "Wow. I can't believe the son of Jaden wrote that."

Alexis: "Hey!"

Kalai: "Girls, let's not start an arguement."

SF4E: in horror and confusion "Why are you all here!"

All: "Mom's meeting."

SF4E: collapses

Tama: "Hey, Ty, yours and Alexis' child might elope."

Tyler: almost has a heart attack "What about Chazz? I don't think he'll put up with that!"

Tama: "Yeah, neither would Syrus..."

Phoebe: "So, we're all agreed for Paige's B-Day party?"

Everyone Except Phoebe: grumbles "Yeah, yeah..."

SF4E: revived "What hit me?"

Tama: "Life."

SF4E: "Anyway, please Review..."

Tyler: "5 or more reviews please!"

Alexis: "Does my brother have any children?"

SF4E: "Maybe..."

Alexis: "What're you hiding?"

SF4E: quickly "Nothing!"

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