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Zane's Dream
Zane found himself standing in a courtyard, hidden in a flourishing rose bush. The smell of the love flower filled his nostrils, and made his heart swell with tension as he strode over to the tower were his beloved awaited.
"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and my beloved is the sun." Zane quoted, stealing a few lines from everyone favorite love story, as he scaled the balcony.
"O Adored, Adored! Wherefore art thou Adored?" The sweet voice of Zane's beloved called out the window to him.
"I am here dear beloved," Zane called as he crawled over the window, and ambled over to his beloved to delivered love's first kiss. She stood in a moonlit corner of the tower chamber, in a blood red dress, with a black veil covering her face. He strode over to her and slowly lifted her veil to find……
Jo's Dream
Jo found herself in a chamber filled with mid-evil furniture, including a bed and dresser, based in moonlight. She was dressed in a blood red silk dress, with a black veil covering her face. The vile was dark enough to prevent her from seeing peoples faces, but not dark enough to keeper her from seeing everything. She turned to face the window where she knew her adored waited below.
"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and my beloved is the sun," the voice of Jo's adored flowed though the pane.
"O Adored, Adored! Wherefore art thou Adored?" Jo called beckoning her adored to her side. She glided over to the corner of the room, where the moonlight was brightest, to await the arms and kiss of her adored.
"I am here dear beloved," her adored called to her as he ran over to her side. The black veil she wore kept her from seeing his face, but she knew that that dilemma would soon be resolved as he slowly lifted her veil, and she met his eyes only to find……
Dreams mixed together
"Jo!!!"
"Zane!!!"
"What are you doing here!? My beloved is supposed to be under this veil!"
"Well, my adored is supposed to be the one lifting my veil, and now you've gone and gotten your grapy hands all over it.
"Shut-up ice queen!"
"You shut-up robot!"
"You know they say the more two people fight, the more they really care about each other," a third, very familiar, voice called over the bickering pair.
"Atticus," they both asked with bugged out eyes as they stared at the romance loving surfer.
"The one and only," the brunet answered.
"Why are you dressed in a diaper and wings?" Jo asked with inquiry written all over her face.
"Because, I'm cupid and I here to bring you two love birds together."
"What!!!" Jo screeched. "Me and Zane together! Are you crazy? Do you want the world to end?"
"No, what I want is for you two to fall in love with each other."
"Ya, well I want you in pants!" Zane bawled.
"Well to bad," Atticus declared as he placed one of his heart shaped arrows in his bow and aimed it at the underground duelist. "Now brace yourselves, you're about to be filled with an amount of love and gooeyness that even the 60's would have considered a whopping."
"Now hold on a minute there," Zane said while backing a way.
"Ya, think about what you're about to do," Jo cringed.
"Fire," Atticus shouted as he let the arrow fly.
End of Dreams
"Ahhhhhh," Jo screamed as she tumbled out of bed. It took her a moment to realize that she had been awoken from her slumber by the phone. She reached up to answer the phone, unsure if she would answerer it like any normal person who received a call at 6:00am on a Saturday would or in a voice that was total grateful for being awoken from a very wired dream.
"Hello," she answered in a voice that came out in a sort of grateful growl.
"Yes, this is Anna, the manger of the Tag-Team Tournament, here to deliver a wake up call to all our contestants."
"Wait contestants? What in the world….
"Please, report to the downtown dueling dome no later than 7: 00am. Thank you and have a great day," the recording snapped off.
"Stupid recording," Jo muttered as she got up. "Why in the world would anyone think I'm in the Tag-Team Tournament?" Jo asked herself as she stared the coffee maker. "Well I guess the only way to find out is to go down there and kill the person responsible for it," Jo decided as she stepped into the shower. I also have to kill that dream Atticus. She thought as she stared to wash her hair. I mean seriously, me and Zane a couple!!! Ha, what a ridicules idea, but would it be so ridicules? I mean Zane is H-O-T-T hot…Wait no, Zane and me is a stupid idea. I can't fall in love with him. I'm not the type of person who falls in love. Love and me is like, is like, is like ….chocolate and cheese. We just don't go together.
Jo stepped out of the shower, did her make-up, and changed into another of her many pitch-black outfits. I guess I should also apologies to Zane, the stupid robot. After all, he has no idea why I can't cross in front that graveyard. Jo thought as she stepped out of her door and headed off to the dueling dome.
Meanwhile across town in Zane's apartment….
"Atticus Eugene Rhodes I'm going to kill you," Zane shouted as he jerked out of bed. "What?" he asked as he looked around and realized he was still in bed. "Thank goodness, it was just a dream." A stupid, disturbing dream, but a dream nonetheless, Zane thought as he looked at the clock. Well it's only 6:00am so I can go back to sleep for a few more hou….
"Ring, Ring, Ring," the phone interrupted his thoughts.
Who in the world would be calling at this hour, Zane thought as he answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Yes, this is Anna, the manger of the Tag-Team Tournament, here to deliver a wake up call to all our contestants."
"Tag-Team Tournament? What are you tal….
"Please, report to the downtown dueling dome no later than 7: 00am. Thank you and have a great day," the recording interrupted his question.
"Irritating recordings," Zane muttered as he decided to get out of bed and go down to the dueling dome to find out what the hell was going on. Who in the world would sign me up for the Tag-Team Tournament? I didn't even no about it until Atticus told me about…Wait a minute Atticus that infuriating, pain in the ass; I bet he had something to do with this. When I get down there and find him, I'm going to make him wish he were never born. Plus, I also have to get him back for that dream, Zane thought as he climbed into the shower. What was up with that dream? Me and Jo…that has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I mean Jo is beautiful and her green eyes are gorgeous…Wait hold it, do not go there Zane. Jo is Jo, the ice queen. And love is definitely not for me. Zane contemplated as he headed out the door now fully dressed.
Over at the Dueling Dome...
"So you really think that Zane and Jo will show?" Hassleberry asked as he watched the door.
"Of course they will," Atticus nodded with confidence. "Zane has never been one to back a way from a challenge, and Jo doesn't look like the type to walk a way from a fight either."
"Are you sure?" Syrus asked unsure. "Zane has never really been one for tournaments."
"Have a little faith Sy," Jaden said as he patted his back, "I'm sure your brother will come. There is nothing to worry about."
"Thanks Jay," Syrus said as he smiled up at his best friend.
"Ya," Chazz said with a smirk, "the only thing we have to worry about is how we are going to keep Zane and Jo from killing Atticus when they find out he was the one that signed them up for this."
"Don't be ridicules Chazz," Atticus brushed off, "I'm way too sneaky for either of them to figure out that I was the one that…"
"Atticus Eugene Rhodes I'm going to kill you," Zane shouted for the second time that day as he spotted the group and stormed over to them. "Did you really think that I wouldn't figure out that you were the one behind this?"
"Behind what?" Atticus asked trying to look innocent and failing horrible. "I not the one who singed you and Jo up for the Tag-Team duel."
"Right and I'm the Easter bunny," Zane said with an eye roll and a sneer. "Really Atticus, how clueless do you think I am? This whole incident reeks of your meddling scent."
"Really," Atticus asked while smelling himself, "I thought I smelled like my pineapple shower gel?"
"Ohm Gosh, how in the world was I ever friends with you," Zane signed while rubbing his forehead. "Listen I don't know what you plan on accomplishing with this stupid plan- I mean seriously Jo and me partners in a Tag-Team- but you had better get out of here before Jo finds yo…"
"WHERE IS HE? WHERE IS THE PINEAPPLE SMELLING FREAK?" Jo shrieked. "Aha, there you are," she said as she spotted Atticus and the rest of the gang.
"You had better run," Zane hissed.
"Where do you get off," she shouted as she walked right up in to Atticus's face. "Why in the world did you sign me and Zane up as a team? I mean do you want the world to end? Do you?"
"Not particularly," Atticus said. "But how in the world did you figure out I was the one that signed you up? I can understand Zane figuring it out, but how did you?"
"I went to the information desk and asked Anna who I was paired with and who had dropped off the forms. After finding out that it was a brunette dressed in a Hawaiian shirt it wasn't hard to figure it out."
"While I guess you both are just to cleaver for me," Atticus said with a sneaky smile, "not that either of you could have gotten along long enough to actual win this contest."
"Atticus, you idiot, I'm the one that taught you about reveres physiology! Do you really think that Jo and I are going to fall for it?" Zane asked.
"I thought it was worth a try," Atticus signed. "Aww, come on Zane it will be fun. Do it for old time sake."
"Old time sake is over rated," Zane glared, "and if you think that we are going to play along with you little gam…"
"We'll play your game," Jo interpreted.
"What?" Zane stammered as his head shot around to start at his underground counterpart.
"Well it obvious that Atticus signed us up for this contest because he has some kind of plan, and it's better to walk in to a trap, knowing it's a trap, then to avoid it all together."
"I always thought it was better to avoid traps all together," Jaden questioned.
"Not always," Jo explained, "sometimes it's better to go into a trap and face it knowing it's a trap –or in this case a scheme-then to walk away from it only to have another trap formed to get you later."
"But he knows that we know," Zane argued.
"Yes, but we know that he knows that we know what we know," Jo snapped back.
"But he knows that we know that he knows that we know what we know!" Zane bickered back.
"Are you sure these two are soul mates," Chazz asked as the whole group sweat dropped as the underground duelist continued to care on with their spat "because they seem more like a pair of pro wrestles then duelist."
"Cupid you have got your work cut out for you," Alexis smirked.
"Ohm Gosh, the only reason you don't want to do this, you robot, is because I want you to!" Jo snapped.
"Wrong ice queen, I am going to do this because I actually think your right! If we don't do this now then Atticus will never leave us alone!" Zane screamed back.
"Well good!" Jo yelled back.
"And another thing, I'm tired of being mad about last night; I prefer our normal wired wise cracking relationship, so let's stop fighting right now!"
"Fine, fights over."
"Good."
"Good."
"So I'll meet you at the café for lunch, at noon. That should give us enough time to wipe the floor with a few duelists," Zane said.
"Sounds good, you can buy me that pieces of cake you own me." Jo agreed back.
"Alright, I'll see you there," Zane said as they both walked out of opposite ends of the dueling dome.
"What just happened?" Syrus asked as the whole group stared at the space the bickering couple had just been standing in.
"What just happened is that I just realized that Zane and Jo's relationship is going to be very kinky," Atticus said.
"What!" Syrus yelled as he stared at Atticus in horror.
"Don't worry little blue," Atticus said with a smile, "it will be good for you brother to be with a girl."
"Oh and one more thing," Jo said as she came back into the dome and marched up to Atticus. "This is for being responsible for my 6:00am wake up call," she shouted as she stomped on his foot with her heavy black boot. Jo then turned and marched once again out of the dome with a smirk on her face, as she saw and herd Atticus scream in pain over his hurt foot.
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Wow, this is the longest thing I have ever typed. I hope you guys liked reading it (it was kind of suppose to be a transition chapter that helped to start some things up). I would like to thank Kaiseress and Spirit of Water – Aqueria for reviewing chapter 4. I was really worried about how Jo was coming off as an OC. I tried really hard to make sure she wasn't a Mary Sue. Please tell me what you think of this chapter (reviews really help inspire me) and anything you would like to see happen. I'm open to all ideas. Thanks for reading.
