Alright, time for a filler chapter! And no, I don't mean the episode where Chumley duels his Dad. This chapter's gonna be more interesting...and increases Jaden's chances of who she'll end up with.
Disclaimer: Mage of Hope doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh series, only the OCs.
"Attention, students! May I have your attention, please?" announced Banner, who was currently stroking Pharaoh's back gently. "Before class ends, I have a special assignment for you all! It is a project between you and your chosen partner which will be easy and difficult at the same time!"
Many people groaned at the word "project." They knew something was up with this so-called project, and if Banner was the one assigning it, it wasn't a good sign, considering how...slightly creepy he can be at times.
Banner lowered Pharaoh to the ground before taking out a small hat filled with pieces of paper. "Now, I'm going to call your name, and if you hear your name being called, please come on down and grab a sheet of paper. You'll read the name of that paper out loud. I'll explain everything afterwards. First off...Alexis Rhodes!"
"Here!" Alexis stood up and went down the stairs before randomly grabbing a sheet of paper. "It says...Syrus Truesdale."
"Me?" The blue-haired boy pondered as more names were being called on.
Once most of the class had received their pieces of paper, only four people were left. "Daniel Miller!"
A spiky-haired Ra Yellow student rushed down and grabbed a random sheet of paper. "Um...Natalie Onway."
"I'm right here!" spoke the Obelisk Blue girl, raising her hand from the far back.
"Last but not least...Jaden Yuki!"
"Oh boy!" Jaden leaped down the stairs out of excitement, spotting only two pieces of paper left. She took one and read it for the whole class to hear. "Chazz Princeton! Cool!"
"What?!" Chazz stood up, his eye twitching at his name being mentioned by the Slifer slacker. He had placed the pieces inside his head about what this current situation was going to lead to; a partnership project! "No! Read the other paper!"
Jaden quickly picked up the last piece of paper, finding her name. "It...just says Jaden Yuki."
"Now, class! I know you're all wondering what's going on, so here it is!" announced Banner happily. "You and your named partner will be assigned an egg and will have to take care of it for one week! Think of it as a...pretest for when you become parents one day!"
A few complaints filled the room; the loudest being Chazz. No! He couldn't! Not with a careless partner like Jaden Yuki! He'll bet that Slifer slacker will drop the egg in just five minutes after the project starts!
"Squee! Oh my God! An egg project! And with my good friend, Chazzy!" giggled Jaden.
"Um...Jaden? You do realize the guy hates your guts, right?" reminded Syrus, sweatdropping. "Well...at least I have Alexis as my partner. I just hope I don't end up messing up the project for her."
"Oh, come now! I'm sure you'll be the perfect daddy for your egg!" Jaden assured, petting him on the head.
After everyone received an egg, Banner continued the explanation for the egg project as the bell rang. "Hold on, please! Now then, students. The rules are simple for this project. If you break or drop the egg, you get an automatic F. However, if you treat your egg with care, your grade will rise with a perfect A! Extra credit to those who decorate their egg or dress them up! I have placed my signatures all over the eggs to make sure you are not cheating! That is all, class!"
After the students flooded out of the classroom, Chazz was among the first to leave, or rather, stomp away. Not only was his partner Jaden Yuki, but a guy as well! He's the only person partnered with a GUY! Great, this day couldn't get much worse...
"Chazz!"
Oh wait, it just did.
Chazz turned around, expecting that he might see Jaden running towards him with the egg, but no one was there surprisingly. Thinking he was imagining things, he turned back, only to discover Jaden face-to-face with him.
"Hiya, Chazzy!"
"GAH!" Chazz tripped backwards and fell right on his bottom, staring up at the cheerful Jaden. "How did you get behind me so fast?!"
"Easy!" perked up Jaden. "I called your name, but I don't think you heard me, so I rushed past a few people and wanted to surprise you by hiding from behind you! Clever, huh?"
Chazz scoffed, rolling his eyes as he stood up and brushed any dust off his jacket. "Whatever. Later, dweeb."
"Waiiiit! You gotta help me take care of Jazz!"
The Obelisk Blue teen froze. "Wait, what?"
"Jazz! She's our cute new baby girl egg! I named her Jazz because of the combination of our names!" explained Jaden, holding out the egg in her cupped palms.
The egg Jaden named as "Jazz" had a couple of changes to its appearance. Obviously, Jaden was the one who drew all sort of cute accessories onto the egg, like stars or hearts. The face could be recognizable by the wide eyes and happy smile on the egg.
"Gah! Don't-don't you dare tell anyone about the egg's name! I have a reputation to uphold!" shouted Chazz. He has often heard that when a couple is together, they mix their names together, it's often a shipping, and he was not gay!
"No problem! Jazzy's so cute!~" squealed Jaden, rubbing her egg close to her face.
Chazz mentally gagged at the scene, having an irritated look right now. How could Jaden think that an egg was...cute? Granted, this was for the project, and decorating the stupid egg would make for great extra credit, but this was stupid!
"Hey, Chazz? Wanna hold her?" Jaden handed the egg over to Chazz, forcibly placing it in his palms.
All Chazz wanted to do was smash the egg now, but he knew the consequences of doing that. He simply handed the egg back to Jaden and crossed his arms. "Hmph! Whatever!"
"Chazz? Since we're gonna be parents to sweet little Jazz, how about we meet up in my room as a temporary home?"
"No! I'd rather die than ever step in a Slifer Red's dorm!" scoffed Chazz. "And we're not using my room, either!"
"Awww!" Jaden pondered for a moment, then gasped. "Ah! I know! Let's keep meeting up in the forest near the Slifer Red dorms! How about that?"
"Yeah, right! Like I'm helping you take care of that stupid egg!"
Jaden gasped, pouting angrily as she held the egg protectively to her chest. "Chazz! How could you say that about our egg?!"
"'Our?!' It's yours! I'm not helping you!"
"...Fine! I could easily break Jazz right now if I wanted to!" In truth, Jaden would never do that to her precious "baby" but she had another idea. "Or-or I could continue taking care of Jazzy, then when we turn in our assignments, I could tell Professor Banner how you never helped and get him to give you an F!"
Chazz's jaw dropped before he gritted his teeth. Jaden was just seconds away from being strangled. "You little son of a...!"
"So, if you don't want a failed grade, you'll help me, right?" Jaden giggled, grinning at the already-pissed Chazz.
"...I hate you. I hate you with all of my hate."
"Awww! You're so sweet!"
"I-You-I-Gah! Never mind!"
In the Spirit World...
"This is bad! Like, really bad!" cried out Hero Kid #2, frailing his arms and running around his two other twin brothers, Hero Kids #1 and 3.
"I know, right? If Sparkman, or Avian, or any of the team finds out about this, there'll be lots of chaos!" agreed Hero Kid #3. They had overheard and figured out about an egg project Jaden was involved in, and worst, Chazz was in it! CHAZZ!
"Dudes, it's simple!" spoke up Hero Kid #1. "If we keep this a secret, and we help out Jaden with the egg baby, she'll definitely fall in love with me! Plain and simple as that!"
"Hey, yeah! You're right!" Hero Kid # 2 said, nodding alongside his other brother. "...Wait, what do you mean she'll fall in love with you?! She'll fall in love with me!"
"Nuh-uh! Me!" shouted Hero Kid #3, waving his arms to gain attention. "I'm the youngest, so I'm the cutest!"
"No, I'm more handsome! Girls love handsome guys like me!"
"I'm more smarter than the both of you combined! It should be me!"
"No, me!"
"I'm cuter!"
"Who cares?!"
"What's going on?" demanded Sparkman, walking up to the three triplets with Wroughtweiler. Wroughtweiler tilted his head and went up to the boys, wagging his tail happily at the sight of the youthful boys.
"Oh, Jaden laid an egg."
Hero Kids #1 and 2 facepalmed at their little brother, Sparkman stood there in utter shock, and Wroughtweiler simply kept wagging his tail back and forth.
"W-what?!"
Hero Kid #1 sighed and started explaining everything from the top. Thankfully, Sparkman was...somewhat understandable and one of the calm-minded Heroes, though still fiercely protective of Jaden.
"I see. This is rather...troubling."
"Can you keep it a secret, Sparkman?" asked Hero Kid #2. "We all know what would happen if the others found out! Especially Flame Wingman!"
Sparkman nodded, agreeing at once. The city they lived in would burn if they told Flame Wingman and tried to prevent him from going out and burning poor Chazz to the ground.
A few days later...
"Jazzy! Jazzy! Jazzy!" sang Jaden, cradling Jazz the egg in her arms. "Awww! You're so cute, Jazzy!"
Chazz's eye twitched, watching the scene with utter digust.
For nearly a week now, the two of them have been meeting up in a secure forest spot near the Slifer Red dorms in order to help take care of the egg. During that week, Jaden had been obsessed with the egg; caring for it, dressing it up, and even going so far as to make a mini, wooden crib for the egg. How Jaden got a crib, Chazz will never know.
Worse, Jaden has been forcing Chazz to help her take care of Jazz in many different methods. For instance, she made him watch over the egg while she go grab some sandwiches for her and Chazz. Somehow, she managed to force him to dress up Jazz and sing lullabys to the egg. Who knew Chazz was a terrible singer?
Right now, Chazz was watching his rival trying, and obviously failing, to spoonfeed the egg some banana mush that acted as baby food. The egg now had wads of black string acting as its hair, and it was wearing a tiny purple dress.
"Awww! You're so cute, Jazzy!" Jaden cooed, wiping any parts of the mush off of the egg.
"Eggs. Don't. Have. Mouths!" reminded Chazz, still irritated about the whole project. "It's just a stupid egg! Just toss it in a fridge or something until tommorow when we turn that thing in!"
Jaden gasped dramatically. "Chazz! How dare you?! Jazzy isn't a thing! She's our baby! I'm the Mommy, and you're the Daddy!"
"For crying out loud, we've talked about this before! You can't be the Mom, and I'm no freakin' Dad! Even if this is for the stupid project!"
Jaden glared at the spiky-haired boy before quickly tending to the care of her egg, cooing at it and trying to tickle its rough skin with her fingertips. Seeing Jaden like this made Chazz want to smash his head against a brick wall, but at the same time...it was...kinda cute?
'What?! NO! Chazz Princeton does not know the meaning of 'cute!' Bleh!' thought Chazz, shaking his head, trying to get Jaden out of the picture. '...The sun was just getting to me! Yeah! That's it!'
Jaden yawned, her eyes droopy as she nodded her head back and forth, trying to stay awake. "Chazzy...I'm so...sleepy..." Her arms drooped to the side, lightly dropping the gg onto the soft grass before her head landed on Chazz's lap.
"Hey!" Chazz yelled, surprised to see her landing on his lap like that. Before he could even think of pushing her off his lap, he realized that she didn't have the egg anywhere! Luckily, he saw the egg right behind him, perfectly unharmed.
"Fried shrimp...Getcha game...on...Summoning Flame Wingman...Must rescue Princes fried shrimp..." muttered Jaden, snoring along the way as drool trailed down her lips and landed on Chazz's lap.
"Ugh! Gross!" Chazz didn't even hesitate to bash his fist onto Jaden's forehead, leaving a small visible bump.
A small whimper escaped Jaden's lips before she clinged onto Chazz's waist with both arms. "No...Mr. fried shimp prince...Don't leave me here..."
Chazz sweatdropped, not wanting to know what sort of dream the idiotic Slifer slacker was having. He scratched his head, unsure what to do.
There were two options he could try. One, he could easily push Jaden off his lap with ease, or two, he could just leave him like this. The first option was tempting, but...for some reason, Chazz just wanted to...touch Jaden's face.
Tenderly, Chazz touched her warm cheeks with his cold fingers, noting how soft her skin was. Were all boys skin like this? Chazz only used a little lotion on his face everyday, so his own skin wasn't exactly the softest of all. But...Jaden's...it felt almost like silk.
'Aaaand I have lost respect for myself,' thought Chazz, taking his head away before looking up at the blue skies for a soft of distraction. What was he thinking?! He wasn't gay! No, he must have imagined...Alexis! That's right! He was thinking of Alexis while touching Jaden! Yeah! He wasn't gay!
Yet...why did looking at Jaden made his heart beat and want to burst right there and then?
In the Spirit World...
"Damnit, this is all your fault!"
"It's not my fault! How was I supposed to know he was right behind us?!"
Inside the Elemental Hero HQ building, chaos erupted the entire place as innocent Duel Monster civilians tried to avoid the building and block out any sounds coming from the building.
Apparently, Flame Wingman found out about Jaden's egg project and was extremely outraged when he discovered Jaden's partner was Chazz of all people! The Fusion Monsters, Thunder Giant and Steam Healer were trying to calm him down along with the other Elemental Heroes.
And it was all thanks to one of the Hero Kids' big mouth.
"Flame Wingman! Calm down!"
"Here we go, again!"
"No! I can't let Jaden become a mother! Not that early!"
"It's just an egg project! She's not really a mother!"
"Still, my little Jaden can't be taunted by a boy like...like that! It'll be a bad influence for her!"
"I'm sure she's fine!"
The next day...
"You fried your own egg? Are you an idiot or something? F!" declared Crowler, writing down something in his clipboard. An Obelisk Blue girl and a Ra Yellow boy seemed down before walking away to their own desks.
Crowler wanted to part take in the grading of the egg projects; something he requested of Banner in order to see Jaden's egg result and fail her miserably. Unfortunately for him, Jaden and her partner had their egg completely unharmed, so they both had a perfect A.
"Hey, Syrus! How'd you do on your egg project?" asked Jaden, turning to look at her friend.
Alexis smiled, stroking Syrus on the head while showing the girl her own design of an egg. The egg was completely coated in colorful sparkles with a small blond wig, but nothing else to it.
"Syrus was a huge help in helping to take care Alicia, our egg. I'm sure he'll grow up to be a great father one day!"
Syrus blushed, glancing at his own two feet. "O-Oh, it was nothing! You did most of the work!"
"But you dressed up Alicia nicely! I'd say you did a good job, too! So, how about you, Jaden? I imagine Chazz was difficult to handle?"
Jaden nodded, smiling as Chazz simply crossed his arms. "Yup! Chazz was a little rough on the edges, and still a jerk, but we managed through!"
"Hey! I'm right here, you know!"
Syrus checked to make sure his ears were functioning correctly. "Um...Jaden? When you mean, he was...'rough on the edges,' what do you mean?"
"I mean, he's still stern and a jerk!"
"Oh...Uh...Ok...You slept in separate dorms, right?"
Jaden nodded. "Of course! Remember, I'm still a Slifer Red, and Chazzy is still an Obelisk Blue!"
"H-Hey! Don't go calling me around by that stupid nickname!" yelled Chazz, his eye twitching. "This was only a one-time partnership! Never to be mentioned again!"
"Alright, class!" announced Crowler, holding up a garbage bin. "Now that we've all graded your results, it's time to toss your eggs right in this trash bin!"
Most of the females, with the exception of Syrus, that have gotten attached to their eggs, started complaining and crying out, showing their affection for their baby eggs.
"Nooo!"
"Not my baby!"
"I love him so much!"
"You monster!"
"Now, now! The assignment's over, so there's no need to hold onto those stinky, rotten eggs!" called out Crowler right before an egg landed on his forehead. "...ALRIGHT! WHO DID THAT?!"
Although the culprit was unknown, everyone else quickly gained the same idea, as evident from the evil looks on their faces. They started propelling their eggs at Crowler one after another, all while Banner was standing around, happily doing nothing but watch.
"Aah! Cut it out! You'll all get detention before-Gah! I swallow part of-Gah! Pah!"
'Well, I gotta admit, at least something good did come out of it,' Chazz thought, a small amused grin on his face at the sight of Crowler being egged on.
Finished! Now, I gotta get back to my Tagforce fanfic, or any other fanfics I have! Read and review! A filler chapter today! Next chapter, the Paradox bros!