Before we continue with anymore episodes, I'll do a couple of side stories!
Disclaimer: Mage of Hope doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh series, only the OCs!
"Chazz, quit moving so much!" scolded Fontaine as her patient was attempting to get out of bed...again. It's only been a few days since he was admitted to the infirmary for some injuries he refused to testify on where he got them.
"Aw, come on! I'm feeling better already! I can even bend my leg and all!" complained Chazz, stretching his supposed leg, which was placed in a cast.
"Even so, you're required one more day of bed rest! And you're not leaving until tommorow!"
"Screw that! That's nothing that's stopping me from going out that door right now and-"
"Hey, Chazzy!~" sang Jaden, entering the infirmary with a basket in her hands.
"...On second thought, never mind. I'll happily stay here for the night."
Fontaine sighed, placing a hand on her head. "Finally! Jaden, I have other duties I have to attend to as a teacher, so would it be alright with you if you stayed with Chazz for tonight? You can leave right in the morning afterwards."
Jaden nodded. "Sure! No probs! Hehehe!~"
Once Fontaine collected all of her belongings and left the infirmary, Jaden pulled up a chair and prompted up right next to his bed with a curious look on her face. "So...what do you want, slacker?" asked Chazz.
"Oh, I just wanted to visit ya! And now, we get to have our very first sleepover with each other! Yay!~ Oh, but we have to get Syrus and Chumley to make it an official sleepover!"
"Wait!" called out Chazz. "Let's...not. How about we have a...a...sleepover together?" He mumbled the last part out, looking away with a blush on his face, yet Jaden was able to hear the last parts of his sentence.
"Hmmm? But won't it be boring with just the two of us? Shouldn't we have more people?" asked Jaden.
"It's fine! How about next time? For now, we can call it a...welcoming sleepover ceremony? Whatever it is you want to call it," said Chazz, hoping that might convince her.
"Ooh! Then, that's fine! But, next time we have a sleepover, you have to join us! Got it? You have to promise!" Jaden demanded, being persistent.
"Fine, fine! If it'll convince you to have this two-person sleepover, then yeah."
In actuality, the only reason Chazz bothered to have this sleepover was to spend more time with him and Jaden alone. Okay, maybe the love duel was a bit of a fiasco and didn't go according to plan, but by bonding with Jaden some more, maybe he could learn a couple of things about her, like her favorite fo-Okay, it was sweets and fried shrimp, but perhaps some more information wouldn't hurt. Besides, Jaden might develop a bit of an interest in him!
"Yay! So, what do you want to do now, Chazzy? We could play games with each other! ...Er, I didn't bring any board games, but we could just play regular Duel Monsters!" offered Jaden.
"Yeah, sure. Just bring up a table, why don't ya?"
Complying with Chazz's request, Jaden spotted an unused table and brought it over; with the table being incredible light and having plenty of room. They placed their decks on the table and rearranged the cards before beginning to play.
About halfway throughout the duel, Jaden suddenly raised her hand. "Gotta pee! Don't do anything to my cards, Chazz!" She got up from her chair and ran out of the infirmary.
"But there's a bathroom right over-Aaand, she's gone," said Chazz. He glanced back at the entire field on the table, remembering that the only Monster she had out was apparently his current worst enemy.
Flame Wingman.
Just looking at the card made Chazz want to just rip it to shreds, but he knew that Jaden would be upset and likely never forgive him. Hell, the rest of the Elemental Heroes might go after his head if he did that, and dealing with one Elemental Hero was bad enough. Therefore, he did the one thing he could do; pound his fist several times against the card.
"Stop doing that!" yelled Flame Wingman, appearing in spirit form right in front of Chazz. "That hurts!"
Chazz, having gotten used to being accompanied by Duel Spirits, wasn't really surprised to see him. "Oh, don't be such a wimp. You've dealt with other attacks, so I'm sure a bit pounding won't hurt that much. Pussy."
"Don't push your luck. I may have morals preventing me from further hurting someone defenceless, but that doesn't mean I won't hold back once you recover."
"Yeah...About that, during our game we're playing, Jaden told me something really interesting. Something about her yelling at you about hurting me. Well, I did tattle on you, so it's to be expected you'd be in trouble."
Flame Wingman, not wishing to recall the terrible memory, felt a tick mark forming. "Yes...Well, that wasn't a pleasant memory to remember, thank you very much."
"You're welcome."
"I WAS JOKING YOU IMPUDENT BRAT!"
"So, what are you here for? You here to hurt me again?" asked Chazz, laying back against his bed with ease as well as a confident smirk Flame Wingman wished to wipe out.
"As much as I wish to, I can't. No, I'm here to warn you that if you do anything...intimate with Jaden, you will regret it."
"And I'm here to tell you that if you hurt me again, Jaden will be the first to know, and I bet you're the type who'll easily crumble to a simple scolding by someone you cherish most."
"Princeton..." growled Flame Wingman. "Are you threatening me?"
"I dunno, are YOU? Because, you're the one who started this whole war in the first place," countered Chazz, smirking widely. Payback was sweet after all. "And besides, I won't hurt Jaden. I mean, I'm not afraid to hurt girls, but that doesn't mean I like to. And although Jaden can be annoying-"
"YOU WILL NOT INSULT MY PRINCESS LIKE THAT!"
"Hey! She can be annoying sometimes and even you know it! Anyways, she can be...untolerable at times, but I'm not gonna punch her because of that." Chazz's face softened a bit upon thinking about Jaden and how he grew to like her.
Flame Wingman was seething with rage and wanted to chomp Chazz's head off with his demonic arm, or watch him burn to the ground, but he knew he wasn't allowed to use his powers in the human world unless absolutely necessary. But at the same time, he believed in Chazz's words, knowing he wouldn't harm her. He hated to admit it, but Chazz has...changed from an irritable prick to being one of the good guys, even if he kept some of his annoying traits.
"...I have other duties to attend to, so for the time being...I will be keeping an eye on you, Princeton." With that said and done, Flame Wingman vanished, leaving nothing but peace and quiet in the infirmary.
That is, until Chazz chose to smash his fist against the Flame Wingman card.
"OWWW! WHAT DID I JUST SAY?!" hollered Flame Wingman, reappearing once more.
"I'm back!~" sang Jaden, causing Flame Wingman to vanish back into the Spirit World, not wishing to see Jaden for fear of her scolding him again.
"...Wimp," muttered Chazz, crossing his arms.
"What was that, Chazz?" Jaden asked, walking back to her seat.
"Nothing. Let's just continue the game."
Jaden nodded and fished her hand into the basket she brought along, taking out a cookie before crunching on it with a delighted look on her face. "Mmmm! So good!~"
"Jaden, where did you get those?" Chazz had been meaning to ask her what the basket was for.
"Oh! These were made by Miss Dorothy! They're so good! And she told me to give them to you!"
"Then, why haven't you?"
"..." Jaden tried to avoid the question by slowly eating her cookie before taking another from the basket.
"HEY! I WANT SOME TOO!"
"BUT THEY'RE SOOOOO GOOD!"
In the Spirit World...
"I still can't believe he's still moping over what Jaden said," commented Avian, looking over to Flame Wingman, who was sitting at a corner with a depressed aura surrounding him.
"Granted, he did deserve to be yelled at, but I didn't think he'd be affected by this much," admitted Burstinatrix.
Some others walked up to Flame Wingman to comfort him. "There, there, Flame Wingman! You'll be okay! It's not that bad! Jaden's a forgiving person! She'll forget about this soon enough!" assured Lady Heat, patting him on the back.
"I guess we got a lucky pass, considering that we were kinda involved in the whole ambush, too," spoke Sparkman, looking at Tempest and Thunder Giant.
"Yeah, but to think he'd be upset by Jaden calling him a meanie," said Tempest. "Still, I can feel his pain...I'd be upset too if I were in his situation."
"Everyone would be upset, sure, because they're overprotective but that'd be a little childish, being upset by being called a meanie by our owner," said Burstinatrix.
"What they doing now?" wondered Wildheart, acting as the caveman-like man that he is.
"They're just...talking now. I think their game ended. And they're eating cookies," replied Woodsman.
"And then, I tried to make the cookies properly, and when I had Syrus eat them, he said they were good! Oh! And he had a green face!" giggled Jaden, telling tales of her cooking adventures to Chazz.
Chazz, swallowing his cookie, asked, "Uh...You ever wonder if it's because you're a terrible cook?"
"How mean!" pouted Jaden. "But...yeah, you're right. I guess my cooking skills are a bit...off."
Scoffing, Chazz crossed his arms. "You mean, awful! Everything you make ends up one disaster after another! Everyone else is afraid to tell that to your face because they're afraid of hurting you!"
"Chazz..."
"But...I guess your cooking skills have improved, so it's not always that bad..."
Jaden's face lit up from his compliment. "Chazz...!"
Flustered, Chazz shouted, "D-Don't get the wrong idea! I'm not complimenting or anything! I'm just speaking the truth! That's all!"
"Yup! I know!~ Still, thanks!"
"Tch...Whatever." Spotting some cookie crumbs near her mouth, Chazz wanted to point them out to Jaden, but got a better idea instead. He leaned forward and licked them clean with one sweep of his tongue before pulling back with a red face. "You...You had crumbs! That's all!"
Jaden, surprised by his action, simply laughed and smiled. "No probs! Thanks!"
In the Spirit World...
'Oh, no,' thought some of the Duel Monsters as they knew everyone else had seen what had just occured. As further evidence, they felt the others' powers spike up immensely from witnessing such a scene.
"Jeez, they're powering up!" exclaimed Hero Kid #2.
"Yeah!" agreed Avian."Their powers are going up! In fact, they're over-"
"Don't you dare finish that reference It's getting really annoying!" yelled Burstinatrix.
"I was going to say that it's over the charts!"
"Oh. Well, that's ok-"
"I mean, if we had to compare their powers by numbers, then it's probably over 9,000 or something."
"DAMNIT! I DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER REFERENCE OF THAT!"
Winged Kuriboh, having an idea of his own, flew up to the center of the room and started shrieking loudly to gain everyone's attention, eventually quieting them down as he began to explain his short, but effective plan.
"Goodnight, Chazz," yawned Jaden, noting how late it is as she slipped into the same bed as him.
...Wait, what?
"H-HOLD ON! WHY ARE YOU SLEEPING WITH ME?!" exclaimed Chazz, backing up against the wall with a face as red as cherries.
"Hmm? Why? Miss Fontaine told me to stay here for the night, and I'm obeying her orders! Besides, I can't sleep on the floor!" said Jaden, grinning.
"That's not what she me-" Chazz paused, thinking this over. This wasn't any sexual, but he could send her away right now. But on the other hand, he could let her sleep with him for tonight, and it'd be the closest he'd get to Jaden. Plus, if they got caught, Jaden could simply testify like the innocent girl she is. "...Alright, fine! You can sleep here for tonight!"
"Yay! Thanks, Chazzy!"
"Here!" Chazz tossed his pillow to her.
"Huh? Don't you need it, Chazz?" asked Jaden, tilting her head.
"No! Those who sleep without a pillow are...are cool! Yeah!" That was a poor excuse for Chazz to tell, since he couldn't tell her he simply wanted her to have the pillow.
"Oh! Okay!" Jaden threw the pillow back at Chazz's face, causing him to grunt in surprise. "Then, I'll sleep without the pillow!"
"No, dipshit!" cursed Chazz, pressing the pillow back into her face. "YOU take the damn pillow!"
"Gaah! Aah!" Taking back the pillow, Jaden pouted. "Alright, alright! Jeez!"
Then, Winged Kuriboh appeared out of nowhere, leaping onto the bed and bouncing up and down out of excitement. "Kuri! Kuri! Kuri kuri kuri!" ("Jaden! Jaden! I wanna sleep with you!")
"Awwww!" When it came to Winged Kuriboh, there was no way Jaden could ever resist the cute winged furball as she hugged him. "Of course you can sleep with us!~"
'Damnit!' thought Chazz. He knew full well what the little rascal wanted. He was trying to interfere between him and Jaden! He bet that Flame Wingman and the others were behind this and ordered Winged Kuriboh to check up with them!
Jaden lifted the covers so that Winged Kuriboh could pop right in. Afterwards, Winged Kuriboh snuggled close to Jaden, purring out of affection as Jaden smiled before closing her eyes, falling asleep within a few seconds.
Having seen this many times in movies, Chazz slowly moved his arm as he grew closer, wanting to wrap Jaden's waist and hold her in an embrace before he slept. Before he got the chance to, his hand was slapped away by Winged Kuriboh, who was glaring intensely at him.
That didn't stop Chazz though, as he made several more attempts afterwards. However, each time he did, Winged Kuriboh would always slap his hand away, preventing him from touching Jaden.
Eventually, Chazz gave up and turned to his other side, facing away from Jaden. Looks like he's got another obstacle to settle with.
Done and done with the short chapter!~ If you guys are curious, my other GX fanfic, Cherished Evolution, is up with a new chapter! Now, hope you guys had a nice 4th of July!~