Tales of the Wanderer: Heart of Chaos
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh or Kingdom Hearts
Enter!: Jaden Yuki
Woken up
Feel tired
Can't remember anything
My body is sore.
My heart is ripped.
What have I become?
Jaden, there is no hope
You cannot be one of us
No matter how hard you try,
You'll always be number two
The Dark Realm, Present Day
The Wanderer was completely puzzled. "There are two poems here."
Yugi nodded. "Yes."
"One of them was written by this Jaden kid, I can see that. But who wrote the second one?"
Yugi shook his head. "I don't know, man. I tried to find out who did, but my efforts were all in vain."
The two had now decided to stay in the tent for a while, because it was starting to get cold. The only light was coming from the flashlight the Wanderer had conjured up a few minutes ago. He was looking at another piece of poetry Yugi had obtained in his travels, because he thought it was important.
"So why is this Jaden kid so important? What's so great about him?"
Yugi looked up thoughtfully. "Because I wasn't the only one going through a life-changing journey. Three more journeys would bind many hearts together. One of those..was that of Jaden Yuki…"
The Wanderer wrote down Jaden Yuki's name, and once again his powers activated. Now he started writing at a fast pace, and his eyes glowed bright white. The scenery changed around them once more, showing a café in Venice, with a brown haired boy sitting at the table in front of them, eating a burger and fries. Yugi stopped talking at once and watched the story that was now connected to his memory…
It was a bright, summer day in Venice. The sun was shining, the children were happy and smiling, and everything was calm and peaceful. It bored the hell outta Jaden.
The eighteen year old Duel Academy graduate sat sulking in his seat, barely touching the fast food in front of him. He had grown accustomed to the life of danger and death that Duel Academy had brought him. Even if it had put all of his friends in danger.
Jaden sighed. Ever since he had fused with Yubel, his happy-go-lucky personality had all but vanished. Where had the time gone? Why couldn't things go back to the way they were? It just wasn't fair.
Just then, the Duel Spirit of Yubel showed up inexplicably next to him. I heard that, Jaden! Just because I'm a malevolent spirit doesn't mean I don't have feelings too!
Jaden smiled. I know that, he thought. I'm just really bored is all.
For one who gets in trouble a lot, you seem to be getting quite fond of it.
Nah, you got it all wrong. Jaden looked up at the cloudless sky and twiddled hair in between his fingers. "I just don't wanna blow my summer doing stupid stuff when I could be having fun."
"AHHH! Schizophrenic man!" A random girl on a motorcycle screamed in fear. Unfortunately, she had to take her hands off the handlebars to make this outburst. Therefore, she was unable to prevent her bike from hitting the tree in front of her.
CRASH!
"Oops!" Jaden sweat dropped and stood up. "That's the third time this week!"
You're lucky they don't arrest you here for things like that, Yubel remarked.
"Mr. Jaden Yugi! You are under arrest!"
In a matter of seconds, the Venice police that somehow understood English had surrounded Jaden.
"Wait, what?" Jaden was completely shocked. "What did I do?"
The chief officer took out his gun and pointed it at Jaden's head. "Shut up, Mr. Yugi! Don't try to use your status as the King of Game's relative to get yourself out of this?"
"Wait, what?" Jaden repeated. "My last name is Yuki, not Yugi! And Yugi is his first name, not his last!"
"DO NOT CORRECT ME, CONVICT!" A bullet entered his kneecap, and Jaden started rolling on the ground, screaming in pain. "You know it's against the law in Venice to distract hot girls on motorcycles by being schizophrenic!"
Jaden glared at the transparent Yubel. I hate you so much.
Yubel gulped. Oh…we're not in Japan anymore.
The scenery now changed to a prison cell about 1 block away from the café. That probably explained why the police were able to arrest him so quickly.
Jaden sighed dramatically and lamented over his present condition. "This is the worst day of my life!"
Winged Kuriboh came out of nowhere and talked to Jaden. "Kuri Kuri (At least you're not bored anymore!)"
"SHUT UP KURIBOH!" He tried to swat Kuriboh out of the way, but unfortunately for him, he was stupid enough not to remember that Kuriboh was a Duel Spirit who had no physical body whatsoever.
Yeah.
After his futile attempts to swat Kuriboh tired him, Jaden sank to the ground and closed his eyes. "It's gonna be okay, " he told himself. "This is a minor crime. I'll probably only be here a day and then he'll let me go."
Everything was fine. Or so he thought.
WHOOOOOSSSSSSSHH!
Just then, he heard a loud whoosing noise from outside. This disturbed him a bit, but he disregarded it. Then it came again.
WHOOOOOSSSSSSSHH!
This time, it was louder. Jaden started to panic. "What's going on?" he asked the guard.
The guard merely shrugged. "It's probably a tornado or something."
Jaden eyes popped out. "What? A tornado?" It wasn't very likely. "There are no tornadoes in Venice!"
The guard smirked. "What does a convict like you know about our weather patterns?"
Jaden ignored the guards and sat back in his corner. That was when the shaking started.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake uncontrollably. All of the prisoners, specifically Jaden and a heroin addict, started to tremble in fear. The guards took immediate action; that is to say, run away in fear.
"Tornado! Every man for himself!"
One by one, everyone outside the bars ran out of the room; the guards, the officers, and everyone else quickly left the building, leaving only Jaden and his addict friend to fend for themselves.
Jaden grabbed the bars in frustration. "No!" He started to tighten his grip and exclaimed, "What do we do now?"
"I say we get high!" The addict replied.
Jaden shook his head. Well, it looked like he was in this alone. "What do I do now Yubel?" He asked in hope.
Yubel reappeared once more. You need to call upon the power of the Duel Spirits by meditating. If you do, they will lend you your power and allow you the means by which to escape.
But we don't have time to meditate! This place is gonna blow sky high! Jaden thought.
Just trust me, aibou. Yubel placed a hand on Jaden's face and smiled.
Jaden felt much better. "I will." Reassured, he sat down on the floor, crossed his legs, and began to chant
"Oh, Duel Spirits, please here my call…"
With that, he breathed in and out, allowing the good vibes to enter his body.
"I need to escape this prison. Please, lend me your power…"
Yellow energy began to form around him, though not quickly enough.
"I will always be devoted to you, no matter what. I will not let you down."
At once, his body became infused with incredible powers unlike anything he had ever experienced. Yellow Duel Energy began to envelop his body and surround him in a yellow aura. All of a sudden, his Duel Disk appeared in his arm. When Jaden opened his eyes, he drew a card and was about to summon it when…
…the tornado crashed through the police station.
"This can't be!" Realizing he had no time, he placed the card on his Duel Disk. "I summon Elemental Hero -"
But he could not go any further, and his Duel Disk never registered the card in time.
The tornado began to suck everything in sight; the desks, the papers, the guns. Nothing was spared. The walls were not sturdy enough to prevent the dark winds, and eventually they were also absorbed in the dark storm. The heroin addict was freaking out, of course.
"No! And I was gonna get some PCP with my girlfriend in 3 hours! Why is the world so cruuueeeellllllllllllll?"
And then he was killed by debris, though Jaden was spared, for now.
Jaden clung onto the bars, even as the wind pulled on his arms and legs, trying to suck him up in the tornado. Squinting his eyes, he held on as tight as he could, all while chanting Yubel's name.
"Yubel! Save me!"
The familiar Duel Spirit appeared next to him. "Don't worry, friend! I will protect you no matter what!"
She assumed physical form and formed a wall of thorns around Jaden. The thorns started to produce electricity, and helped her deflect all of the debris coming in his direction. It seemed like nothing would stop them, but then-
A flying truck came and hit Yubel in the head.
"Gyahhh!" Blood began to ooze out of her cranium, and she grabbed her head in frustration. Unfortunately, by doing this, the thorns disappeared as well. "Noo!" Just as she was about to conjure up another wall, a stray knife stabbed her in the abdomen.
"YUBELLLLLL!" Jaden screamed in horror "NOOO!" It felt like someone had ripped his heart out. The noise of the tornado was deafened out by her terrible screams. Jaden could not breathe, let alone call out to his injured friend.
Yubel reached out her hand weakly, even as her body was floating in the winds of the tornado. "J..Jaden…" She feebly called out. "I…l..lo…"
But she did not finish. The wall debris came crashing from below her, and knocked her away by a great distance. Jaden started sobbing as he saw Yubel's corpse being lifted by the tornado – the dark storm of oblivion – into lands unknown, leaving her to her fate.
Unable to take the feelings of remorse and pain that he felt, Jaden let go of the bars.
He had given up. He had taken all the peace he had for granted, and now he would pay the price. So he watched in vain as the storm took him up high in the sky, above all the chaos and destruction below him.
And then he died, right on the spot.
The same girl who had gotten him into this mess in the first place was now floating in front of him holding a gun, and she was on a bicycle now, almost like the Wicked Witch of the East reborn.
Jaden grinned weakly. "Well, give me a blue dress and a dog and call me Dorothy…"
"This is for ruining my bike and robbing me of the time needed to get to safety, Mr. Crazy Nuts!" With that, she pulled the trigger, allowing the bullet to enter his head and blow his brains out.
Jaden's eyes grew blank, and his arms began to fall to his sides…
The Dark Realm, Present Day
"Wait, stop!" The Wanderer held up his hands, and the flashback ended. The scenery returned to normal, and Yugi was sweating at what he had just seen.
"So that was how it happened!" Yugi took a deep breath and breathed in a napkin.
"What does ANY of that have to do with the story?" The Wanderer was frustrated by now. "Do you WANT him to find you?"
Yugi shook his head. "No, but this is vital to understanding his plans!"
"Oh, yeah? How so?" The Wanderer walked out of the tent and motioned for Yugi to follow him, which he did. Once they were outside, and the air got a little warmer, he continued.
"You're telling me that one person dying has to do with your travels in other worlds! But he's dead? How is that going to influence anything?"
Yugi shrugged. "Who said he was dead?"
The Wanderer blinked. "What?"
"I never got to finish explaining what really happened to him. But what happened to him can't be fully explained until after I finish a crucial part of my story. Didn't you know that I am the Keyblade Master?"
The Wanderer's eyes boggled. "Go on…"
To be continued
