Jack Frost Ch 4
I opened my eyes and suddenly, I was in the middle of the park, much like before the journey. I looked around, everything was the same before and after I made the wish. I thought Scooby had just teleported me back there so that I'd stop crying over Yusei's dead body. I still had some tears on my face from when I witnessed his death. I wiped them away and sighed. I stood up and began walking to some random direction. I didn't care where I was going, I was starting my new life as a ghost. I then shivered a bit from the bitter cold as I walked out of the park...
Cold...
My eyes widened with complete shock when I noticed how cold it was. When I was basically a ghost, I could not feel the temperature in that world. I was basically a neutral temperature thru out it all. But right there I felt...cold. It was almost as if I were back in the real world. I had to make sure though. I pulled that same magazine out of my coat pocket and looked at the cover. On it was a the picture of Yusei Fudo and nobody else.
I started chuckling a bit, I looked at the world around me, I was smiling like an idiot but I did not care, I was back in the real world. Everything seemed bigger and better than what it actually was but I did not care. However as I was looking around I saw Scooby standing behind me who appeared to be staring at me with a rather happy expression. I was kind of surprised considering she normally had a rather bitter personality throughout most of our little trip.
"You got me back here?" I asked her. She just licked her paw as any normal cat. I didn't know if she could or wanted to talk or not but I just smiled at her considering I know what she did. I ran over to her and made an inviting gesture using my hand. She looked at me curiously.
"Come on, I'm giving you a home." I said in the most welcoming voice I could. The cat got closer to me.
"Meow!" Scooby replied. I smiled and turned around and we started walking. Eventually we started running back to Poppo Time. I looked around the world, just glad to be back home, The once cold isolated feeling of me walking in the city at night suddenly felt bright and lively. I didn't care about any other problems, I was back home.
After a while of running me and Scooby got in front of the door to Poppo Time. We stopped a bit to catch our breath but we recovered quickly. I rang the doorbell and took a deep breath to calm myself down a bit in anticipation for whoever was going to answer the door. The time it took for someone to come was almost a bit unbearable considering how much I wanted to see them again. Eventually though the door opened with Yusei answering it. He looked at me rather astonished which I don't blame him for.
"Jack?" Yusei asked me. I wrapped my arms around him no doubt catching him off guard. He looked at me like I was some sort of assailant.
"Jack! What the..?" I let go of him and kept a warm almost idiotic smile on my face. It was wonderful to see him alive and I just could not control myself.
"Sorry It's just, I feel better now." I said rather excitedly.
"I'd say! What the hell happened out there?" He asked me, somewhat chuckling from the chaos. I knew I couldn't tell him the truth as he would never believe me as much as I would love to tell him.
"Well I thought to myself what I could do for the future and it seemed to add up. Also..." I pointed towards Scooby who was sitting proudly by the door.
"I made a new friend." Yusei knelt and petted Scooby on her head, making her purr. I smiled at Yusei's kindness towards her. Also it meant I could delay me having to go further into explaining myself for just a little bit longer! However then, I heard someone walking in and I looked up to see who it was. Mikage Sagiri, I looked at her with a bit of awe, she was in wonderful condition in contrast to the alternate universe.
"Jack?" She asked surprised. I just smiled and stood up. However I could not control myself and I ran over to her and wrapped my arms around her like with Yusei only a lot more...romantic shall we say. Though like Yusei she was also shocked looking at me rather nervously with blush appearing on her face.
"J-J-Jack?" I looked into her beautiful golden eyes as she looked so surprised at me. It was wonderful to see the kindness in her eyes in comparison to the bitter cold Mikage from that other world.
"I feel a lot better now, just rethought some things. Anyways..." I looked away from her, a bit shyly. Mikage looked at me still curious, blush even began to build on my face. I looked back to her and took a deep breath.
"Mikage...I really like you, I want to make you happy. Be there for you, you can say I'm going too far but you know me...no bars held." I told her a bit nervously. Mikage's eyes widened and she covered her mouth. Even Yusei was looking at me shocked. How could they not, I just confessed to her after I just came back from calming down from a outburst.
"Jack seriously? What did we miss?" He asked me. I turned to him while still holding onto Mikage.
"Just went out to rethink some things and found a cat. Nothing more." Yusei sighed and smiled at me with a bit of worry. I don't blame him. I looked back at Mikage who began to have tears fall down her cheeks. I looked at her worriedly, the smile on my face disappearing.
"Mikage are you..." On closer inspection however, she was also smiling. I just looked at her confused then. Was there something wrong?
"Yes...It's just...I really like you too Jack. I would love to be your girlfriend." I smiled warmly at her again and we hugged tighter. It felt great to wrap my arms around her, especially after being in a world like that. I began to recall when I tried to wrap my arms around the alternate Mikage to no avail. Finally I could make someone feel warm and happy with an embrace. After a while though we separated. However, I noticed on the table behind her two presents were sitting there, one big box with holes in it and a rather small one. In fact, that big box was the present I planned on giving to her. Mikage picked them up and passed the small one to me while she picked up the one I was going to give to her.
"You missed the gift exchange so I got our gifts ready for when you came back." She told me in that sweet, honey-coated tone. I blushed a bit and looked downward in embarrassment. Mikage giggled at my moment of blushing.
"Thank you..." I told her shyly. We opened our presents and I opened mine quicker in curiosity. Inside was oddly enough a necklace. It was a one with a bright white crystal in the shape of a dagger hung onto a golden chain. Mikage looked away almost as if she were ashamed of it.
"I'm sorry if it's bad, I made that in one day so..." I kept my smile and put it on.
"I love it, no need to apologize." Mikage looked at me surprised before returning to her smile, somewhat blushing as she continued to open her present. When she finally finished she poked her head inside.
"Awwwwww..." She exclaimed. The woman put her hands in and carefully lifted up a small blonde tabby kitten. The kitten meowed and stretched. It looked at Mikage and yawned before licking her gently on her nose.
"Her name is Jasmine. I honestly did not know what to get you so I got you a kitten." I said while rubbing the back of my head. Mikage looked at me with those glistening eyes.
"Well I love it. Thank you so much." Mikage gently put the kitten on the floor and Scooby walked over towards her. The black cat had a look of curiosity on its face.
"Hey Jack, where did you get your cat?" Yusei asked. I just chuckled.
"Long story." I knelt on the ground and Scooby looked at me with her wide eyes.
"Take care of her now, protect Jasmine like a sister, okay?" Scooby walked closer to the kitten and gently licked her on the head.
"So come on Jack, the rest of the group is still here, we stayed just to wait for you." Yusei told me, I turned to him rather shocked.
"Even after my outburst, you still waited for me?" Yusei nodded while smiling in the same warmly manner as I did a while ago.
"Of course man, you are our friend. Now come on!" Yusei said as he ran into the living room. Me and Mikage walked together along with the cats inside as well.
While walking into there I thought that those problems I heard earlier didn't matter and that I was going to fix them. Sometimes you need a kick in the ass like that to really wake up and take a look around. I apologized to everyone that night and I promised them that the future was going to be different for everyone.
and it looked great.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! As always let me know what you thought and special thanks to Scooby82101 for checking over this and for letting me use her OCs Scooby and Jazzy. Thank you so much everybody!