Ok, since the links to the illustrations didn't work out as planned in our last Episode, I'm going have to give written instruction instead. It may be a little inconvenient to you, the reader, to type it out, but trust me, after seeing the art; it will all be worth it. I give another big thanks to Coke head, the now official illustrator for this fanfiction and Author of A Futuristic Fairytale, a 5D's fanfiction of her own creation. Please read it and give her lots of reviews.
Anyways…the instruction for the pictures that are up so far…
Episode 1 Scene (Sidney in Pink Jell-O blob): type h double t p colon slash oo-kai-oo dot deviantart dot com slash art slash The-Star-Princess-129483418
Episode 2 Scene (Jack's attempt to kiss Sidney): Same as above, but after art slash, type Jack-s-Visit-129651262
Star Princess Gallery (a general link to all of them): h double t p colon slash oo-kai-oo dot deviantart dot com slash gallery slash #Legacy-of-the- Star-Princess
I hope this will work better. And now…I present to you…Episode six…
The wind was whirling around like a twister now. Sidney could feel her feet begin to lift off the ground. Jack could feel himself being pulled upwards. He finally let go and turned around to see he was not imagining things. Everyone could see her floating now, slowly going up a little higher every second.
Yusei ran under her. "Sidney!"
Sidney stopped whimpering from the pain of her marks and looked down at the ground underneath her. She had not realized until then that Jack wasn't holding her anymore. At that point, she started to feel calm, and the wind began to die down and fade away. Her body finally stood still, eleven feet in the air above.
"I'm just…floating…" She whispered.
'It's ok now, Sidney, you can come down!" Yusei encouraged her. Sidney swished at the air with her hand and kicked, trying to make herself move downward. All that caused was for her to turn upside down. She grabbed onto her skirt, her cheeks were bright red from embarrassment.
"Would you stop your fooling around and get down here?" Jack scolded her angrily. Yusei gave Jack a quick glare before turning his attention back to Sidney.
She used a free hand to try and propel herself down, but managed to spin herself around and cause her dizziness.
"Guys, I think I need help, I'm having trouble getting this to work…" She said squeamishly. Yanagi stared at her thoughtfully until her got an expression of discovery on his face.
"Sidney, have you tried 'thinking yourself down'?" The elderly man suggested, "It occurs to me that Luna and Akiza's powers were connected to the mind. Luna could travel to the Duel Spirit World and Akiza could manifest cards as real monsters and effects here…and it seemed to be connected to their minds. Try using your mind to bring yourself down."
"Use my mind…" Sidney repeated slowly. Ok, let's turn ourselves around and go down… She told herself over and over again. After a minute or two, she felt her body turn right side up; she eased her way down towards the ground.
"It's working! I can't believe I was right!" Yanagi jumped for joy. Jack smirked, and at that moment, he cut in front of Yusei to try catching Sidney in his arms. The teen took at second or two to just let herself float, but then gave a cheeky smile.
Forward, down to Yusei.
Sidney went right over him and landed in Yusei's arms. Jack didn't look around, trying to hide his jealous expression. The markings dulled and faded away as they had done before, but the pain was still there, especially in the shoulder where the wing mark had been glowing brighter than the others. It made Sidney begin to tear.
"Yusei…what's happening to me?" She questioned him worriedly. The duelist put her back on her feet carefully. Yusei wiped the tears from her eyes. She wanted to just bury herself in him, but restrained herself and just gazed at him longingly.
His expression was that of concern, but it looked more stoic than anything else to her. Then again, that's the way most people looked to her when their facial expression weren't as obvious to her. Her heart sank. Maybe he's not what she thought he was, after all…She thought.
"I think I understand now…" Yanagi commented, thinking carefully.
"Your signer marks showed up the first time when you fell, right? Maybe in order to activate your powers, you need to be emotionally stirred up…or maybe you just need to be in a dangerous situation with another signer…it may be both…it's hard tell."
The old man sighed. Jack put his helmet back on. "Have it your way then, but if Goodwin chews me out for leaving you here, I'm blaming you for it."
Sidney shook her head. "I'm coming! Just give me five minutes!"
Just then, Yusei brought her attention back to him. They were staring into each other's eyes. It was always hard for Sidney to look someone directly in the eyes, but she forced herself not to avert his gaze. It may be the last time she'll see him, she thought.
"Sidney, I may not know much about what's going on with you or what this all means yet…it will be dangerous, but I can promise you…if you need me, I've got you're back."
Sidney smiled. Maybe she shouldn't give up just yet, she thought. Yanagi peered at the two of them curiously, studying their faces and the way they moved and spoke to each other. He then got a peculiar smile, as if he knew something.
"Are you coming or not?" Jack yelled after as he sat in his Duel Runner, secretly fuming to himself that Yusei caught her and not him. She's so difficult.
Sidney finally said goodbye to them and got in the Runner behind Jack. She looked back at the road nervously; she wouldn't even have a helmet this time. As long as they just went straight home, she would be fine, she thought as she rigidly put her arms around Jack.
As the Duel Runner sped away down the street, Yanagi poked Yusei. He giggled to himself quietly, which perked Yusei up.
"What's so funny?" He asked him point blank. Yanagi couldn't contain himself.
"Oh nothing…I just find it so sweet…"
"What?" Yusei asked.
"What's so sweet?" Blister and Tanner just came out of the house.
"You guys were making so much noise, we looked out the window to see what was going on…and man…that was something else." Tanner regarded what had just happened.
"Now, what were you talking about, old Grandpa?" Blister cocked his head playfully. Yanagi blushed.
"I think someone's has a little crush on Yusei." Yanagi hinted coyly.
Blister couldn't stop himself from tittering. "Wait, you mean that girl we just saw float in midair… has the hots for Yusei?" Yanagi nodded affirmatively.
"If you mean she's head over heels, then yes!"
Yusei expression didn't change, but he could feel himself growing a tad swimmy.
"Hold on a second, guys… this is only the second time we've met!" Yusei interjected flatly.
"That doesn't mean she doesn't have an opinion of you at all. After all, you're quite a catch now that you're the new king of turbo duels…Then again…she didn't know that until the doctor told her, that's what you said, right?" Yanagi pointed out.
"So, then, what are you trying to get at?"
"Well, she's not half bad. Why don't you give her chance? The poor thing seemed like she was trying so hard to contain herself…"
"I don't have time to be chasing girls. I need to see my friends, and find out what Goodwin's planning to do with us." Yusei spoke sharply at Yanagi. Blister and Tanner looked at Yanagi, awaiting his rebuttal.
He gazed at Yusei pitifully.
"She's not just any girl, Yusei! You saw what happened to her. She doesn't know what she's doing or what's going on…She needs someone like you to have her back, Yusei. You promised her!" Yanagi folded his arms and huffed.
"I did…"
"Yanagi does have a point. If Goodwin's interested in her, she may be in over her head." Tanner sat down on the muffled couch and leaned his head on his hand.
"Feelings aside… she's got marks like all of you, and that means whatever Goodwin's plans are with you and the other signers…I can guarantee she's just as much apart of them as you are. Which means she is just as much in danger…if not more…"
"Don't worry about you're friends, Yusei. At least…well, you know what I mean. We've got it covered." Blister reassured him.
"Ok…I'll take your word for it…just don't hassle me about Sidney again."
…
Zigzix was jumping up and down like a maniac as Goodwin and Lazar reentered the lab after attending a post-tournament press conference.
Up on the screen were tons of data streaming in and a red light flashing at the bottom of the screen.
"It's amazing! Sidney's power is beginning to awaken! The energy she was giving off was incredible, the generator was going bonkers and…"
"What did your readings indicate?" Goodwin politely interrupted him.
"There was a massive increase in wind speed and air pressure, almost at tornado power! But…everything else in the surroundings seemed to be normal…so guessing that…I would say whatever power we were seeing was somehow affecting the wind."
"We did send Jack down to get her…maybe he can tell us if he saw anything." Lazar chortled.
"So, what are you going to do? Lock her up in her room? Arrest Yusei for kidnapping? I want to hear your sentence, Mr. Goodwin!"
"Neither, Lazar. I have something more interesting in mind…but I want to hear from Jack what happened before I can make any decisions."
"And Sidney?"
"Her side of the story may shed some light, but she may be dishonest about it."
"So, are you going to hear my offer yet?" Lazar poked at him verbally.
"If you're talking about what I think, it all depends on what we here from the two of them. We can't rush to conclusions."
"That's a pity. I was hoping you'd do something drastic like threaten to force Sidney to marry Jack or something." Lazar had always enjoyed pushing other people's buttons.
Goodwin stifled a laugh. "You're still going on about Jack's libido? I want to know the reasoning behind this new found obsession of yours, Lazar."
"I just think it's amusing that it's so blatantly obvious. And yet Sidney is completely oblivious…she has no idea even when it's staring her right in the face. Must be the autism, I suppose… If she's not careful, he might just sneak up on her one of these days…If you know what I mean."
"I think I do, but wish not to dwell on it…" Just then, Mina came in the room.
"They're on their way up. It'll be about five minutes."
"Good, we'll be waiting."
…
Sidney and Jack stood on opposites sides of the elevator. She had harms arms folded tightly across her chest as she pouted like an immature child. Sidney caught herself and tried to make herself look as cool as possible, like no matter what Goodwin decided it wouldn't matter. She knew that was a lie, but she felt it was her only way of coping with it.
Jack kept looking at her and looking away, back and forth his eyes wondered. Images started pouring into his mind. Fantasies and …Was he really going to let some strange girl drive him nuts like this?
Sidney noticed it was taking awhile for the elevator to reach the top floor. This made her more nervous. She remembered how he'd spoken about her to Yusei back at the garage, and her anxiety turned into irritability.
"Don't ever call me a kitten again, ok?" She suddenly blurted out. The teen looked away and watched the elevator climb higher and higher.
"What's wrong with that? I think it sounds quite appropriate…" Jack teased her. He looked over to her mischievously.
"It implies that I'm weak and helpless and can't defend myself…You know, that that I can make myself float…I wonder what else I'll be able to do…" She tried to avert to another subject. Jack was deeply amused by her naivety.
"What makes you think I was implying any of that?" He asked her.
"Because that is what kittens are…weak and defenseless and totally dependent upon others…" She stated argumentatively.
"…And… cute."
"…What did you say?" Sidney said amusedly.
Jack didn't respond.
"So you think I'm cute?" She prodded at him in a hopeful tone of voice. "That would explain why a lot…"
Jack recalled when he tried to kiss her at the hospital. Did she know? She didn't, all she had seen was him holding her hand tightly like he was worried about her or something.
"I can't believe I didn't see that coming…then again, I usually don't. But I especially didn't see this one coming…especially when you were acting like such a jerk to Yusei and the rest of us back there…"
Jack denied it. "That's not…I never said anything. You must be hearing things."
Sidney rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Just to let you know, I'm not interested in boys right now." She lied.
"So you're a lesbian then?" He found an opportunity to retaliate.
"No. I'm just not interested in anyone right now. Period, exclamation point, sharp sign!" She looked up to see they had almost reached the top floor.
"Is that so? Or, are you just dodging me? Why don't you prove you're not a lesbian…" Jack suggested, leaning in close to her. I may have trouble with body language and hidden meanings…but I can see that one coming from a mile away, Jack!
"I don't have to. Just the fact you even suggested that I need proof PROVES your maturity matches your style…out of date, and in need of a few touch ups." She referred to his blue and white daredevil themed attire.
And then, the elevator binged.
"You are now on floor 25 of the New Domino Science Building. Have a nice day!"
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That was my first attempt to inject humor into the story. Please remember to R&R, because I love reviews. It lets me know there are people reading my story.
Oh, remember how I wrote an opening theme in the prologue? In case you're interested in an ending theme, I recommend "Still Running" by Chevelle from the Punisher Soundtrack. Bad movie, good soundtrack.
We'll see you back here for episode seven. Tune in next time!
