A/N ughh school is such a killer it took me forever to actually get something done so I could update this... and then after break I have finals... *groan* I am NOT looking forward to that.
Jetravenex: ugh anyways I am so tired, even though my faithless regrets hasn't been on recntly here she is to say the disclaimer for me.
My faithless regrets: i really can?
Jetravenex: course
My faithless regrets: okay ^.^ jetravenex doesn't own bakugan and I think she's the greatest writer ever.
Jetravenex: stop it your making me blush XD
Chapter 19
"Oh man we're finally here!" Jenny cried as she hopped out of the car. She clasped her hands together as she surveyed the large building in front of them, her magenta hair blowing in the breeze. She twirled back around to see Viki with a bemused expression on her face as she clambered out of the limo followed by Jewls and then Jet whose eyes were focused on the ground.
Said brunette also didn't fail to notice the curious stares they were receiving. She flashed a glare at some of the onlookers, who quickly turned around and began to whistle innocently. Jet grunted and then followed the other girls in.
"Wow, this place is HUUUGGGGEE!" Fireblick declared as he hopped out from Viki's pocket. He twirled around as he surveyed their surroundings. "Boy this place sure is packed."
Jet grinned. "Yup, this place is packed tighter than a can of sardines!" She flashed a meaningful look at Viki who let out a groan and rolled her eyes at her friend.
"I thought we swore to forget about that." Viki muttered through gritted teeth. Jewls noticed this and began to look at Jet and then Viki a look of confusion plastered on her face.
"Why, did something bad happen?" Jewls placed her hands on her hips. "Cause sardines are just gross they're all icky and slimy and blech."
Jet chuckled. "Apparently when Viki was little she and her mother went to the aquarium and-
"Jet! Cut it out!" Viki snapped her eyes ablaze with anger.
Jet on the other hand held up her hands in a helpless gesture. "Hey I'm just sharing the story, it's not like it's my fault that you decided to go swimming with the fishies."
Viki turned beat red and then she clench her fists and gritted her teeth. Jenny and Jewls stepped back fearfully while Jet just stood there smirking calmly.
"Why you! You know what you should've left me and went off to join your boyfriend!" Jet frowned at this her blue eyes reflecting her confusion. "You're both obviously meant to be!"
Jet's eyes narrowed dangerously. "I turned him done for a reason, what that reason is, I don't have to tell it to you!"
The two continued to glare at one another; Jenny and Jewls glanced at each other and then back at the two quarreling friends.
"Hey, you know what I have an idea!" Jenny said raising her hand into the air. "Let's like split up, I'll go with Jet, and you can go with Viki Jewls, that way we can get a lot more shopping done!"
Jet and Viki turned their backs on one another and folded their arms across their chests.
"I don't have a problem with that." Jet said flashing a dirty look back at Viki. Viki glared back at her.
"Me neither." Viki walked over to Jewls and grabbed her arm before she dragged the girl away in the opposite direction of where Jet was facing.
Jet snorted in response to her friend's actions. "Whatever, come on Jenny lets go." Jenny glanced back at Viki's back, before she raced off to catch up to Jet who had begun to walk off towards a handful of small shops.
Jet paused at the window of a certain shop to study a black jacket that was in the window. Jenny walked over and studied it for a moment.
"You like it don't you?" Jenny said tentatively looking up at Jet. Jet shrugged.
"Nah, it's actually too flashy for me, too much silver embroidery." Jet replied, as she began to walk away from the shop.
"Oh, I see." Jenny mumbled sparing a glance back at the jacket before she hurried after Jet once more. Sheesh does that girl have super speed or something? Jenny wondered as she found herself panting and out of breath when she finally managed to catch up with Jet. "Jeez, you…got to….pant…slow down…..can't… pant …keep up…" Jet chuckled slightly and smiled weakly.
"Sorry I keep forgetting that I'm a bit faster than most people." Her smile broadened. "One of the rewards of being a cross country runner I guess."
Jenny stared at her. "Isn't that hard, all that running I mean?"
Jet shrugged and held up her hands in a helpless gesture. "I suppose it was when I started out, but after getting though it once, it's just natural to me now I guess." Skylord hopped up from Jet's shoulder onto Jet's head. "trying to get a better view eh, Skylord?"
Skylord let out a huff. "It's not like it's my fault that all these people are so ungodly tall I want to actually be able to see something." She turned around and began to bounce up and down. "Oh oh jet what about that store?" Jet turned and stared up at one of the department stores.
"Adrianna's?" Jet said, looking toward her bakugan as she dropped back down onto her shoulder. Skylord bobbed her head.
"Yeah let's go there,"
"Uh, you can count me out guys." Jet turned to look at Jenny.
"Huh, why?"
"Um well you see..." She bit her lip. "After being kidnapped I'm a little afraid of going into a store like that, it tends to be a place where Goth's frequent." She looked down as she wrung her hands together worriedly.
Jet just shrugged in response. "Eh, it's okay me and Skylord will just go in, why don't you wait for us by the food court okay?"
Jenny brightened a little. "Thank you Jet!"
Jet just smiled, in response before she turned back to look at the store. "Well, let's take a look and see what it has to offer." With that said, she walked into the store.
"Oh wow Viki that scarf really goes well with that outfit!" Jewls said clasping her hands together. Viki grinned as she twirled around and struck a pose.
"You really think so?" Viki asked she was wearing a pair of blue jeans, with a sleeveless black shirt; the scarf they were talking about was a fire red color.
Jewls just grinned and nodded enthusiastically. Viki twirled around to study her reflection in the mirror.
"Hmm, it does look really nice." Viki said as she felt the scarf soft fabric.
"When we gather up your clothes from the fitting room we'll ask Fireblick!" Jewls suggested. "And I really think you should get that white sweater it goes so well with it."
Viki chuckled as she took off the scarf and tossed it aside. "Now I'll be the judge of that!" She picked up the sweater and put it on over the black top.
The two continued to laugh as they both switched off putting on different sweaters and outfits
However both of them were too caught up in their clothes to notice two shadowy figures creep over to the bench where Viki's brawling gear lay and then come back out carrying a small bag with something wriggling around inside.
"Oh wow!" Jet said her blue eyes widening in shock. It turned out that Arianna's was a whole lot bigger than she'd originally thought. There were shelves full of knickknacks, and racks full of dark colored clothes. Jet continued to glance around taking in her surroundings. Jet smiled slightly. "I could see why this would be gothic heaven."
On her shoulder Skylord sighed. "Ah, nothing like a little gloom and doom to make a darkus bakugan feel right at home."
Jet chuckled as she went over to one of the racks and began to look at the clothes. As she sifted through the clothes for a while she let out a disappointed sigh, Skylord who had turned her attention to focus on her reflection in the steel bar that held up the clothes perked up and hopped back onto her master's shoulder.
"Hey that was a really disappointed sigh jet-jet," Skylord stated. "Something the matter?"
Jet sighed and let the skirt of one of the dresses slide from her hands. "Oh it's nothing really…it's just that, well, these clothes…are just a tad too dark for me."
"Then why be a darkus brawler?" A voice behind her made Jet jump and whirl around to face a boy who looked to be about a year older than her. He chuckled slightly at the startled expression on her face. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you there." He grinned at her. The boy wore baggy jeans, black shoes, a dark blue t-shirt, atop his head sat a black cap and jet could see a little bit of blond hair poking out from under it. His sapphire blue eyes met hers and jet blushed ducking her head away.
"How'd ya know she's a darkus brawler?" Skylord asked suspiciously floating up to the boys face, her red eyes seeming to gleam slightly.
The boy just shrugged. "You'd have to be a total idiot, not to figure it out." He gestured to Skylord. "Darkus bakugan usually means for a darkus brawler." He turned back to Jet. "And excuse me for asking once again princess, but, why be a darkus brawler if you're scared of a little darkness?"
Jet didn't speak, rather she turned away. Her eyes fixed on the ground.
The boy let out a sigh. "Fine, don't tell me." He folded his arms across his chest.
Jet let out a weary sigh. "It's because…" She had begun to wring her hands together. She closed her eyes. "A while ago my dad, went..to work…and he never came back.."
(Flashback)
"Meredith! It's starting!" A younger Jet said bouncing up and down on the coach the TV remote gripped tightly in her hands. "Come on I don't want to miss it!"
"Ugh, hold your horses Jetty!" An older girl with black hair that was put up in a high ponytail came running into the room carrying a bag of popcorn. "Hot! Hot!" She raced over to a bowl that was set on the island in the kitchen and dropped the bag into the bowl. "Ack that's stuff hot." Her sister sucked on her sore fingertips. Then she opened the bag and dumped the popcorn into the bowl.
"Come on sissy it's starting!" Jet cried bouncing a little more.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Meredith said picking up the bowl and brought it over to where Jet was sitting. "Okay move over, you don't need to take up so much of the couch!' Jet just grinned and scooted over. Still bouncing up and down eagerly. "Seriously Jet, what is it about bakugan that makes you act like such a kid?"
Jet shrugged. "Dunno. But come on I wanna watch!" Jet said.
Meredith rolled her eyes as she flicked on the TV and the show came on.
"Ugh hopefully that masked freak won't show up."
Jet turned on her sister her eyes wide. "Who, Masquerade? But sissy he's like THE best villain EVER!"
Meredith let out a good natured grunt but otherwise said nothing.
As they watched the show Jet squealed in delight when her beloved masked blond appeared.
When they finally reached the commercials Meredith turned and stared at her little sister shaking her head slightly.
"Jeez sis you really have to calm down, he is after all just a cartoon character." Meredith leaned back in her seat and moved her arms behind her head using them as a makeshift pillow.
Jet turned to look at her, her eyes stretched to the size of dinner plates. "But sissy he's not a cartoon character!"
"Okay fine he's a-" Meredith's voice was cut off by the doorbell being rung. Meredith lifted her head and looked in the direction of the door. "Hold that thought Jetty." She rose up from her seat. "I'll be back," She looked back at her sister and grinned. "Dad probably forgot his key."
Jet grinned. "Dad can be so forgetful." She said she shifted her head back to the TV.
Meredith walked into the living room, and when the doorbell rang again she picked up her pace. That was weird, her father usually only rang the doorbell once, he jokingly had said it was his secret code to get in. Their older sister Sirriah was out with their stepmother so it couldn't be them.
Curiosity piqued she grasped the handle unlocked the door and opened it to reveal her father's partner.
"Um, Detective Simmons can I help you?" The man had his eyes fixed on the ground.
"Meredith… There was… a car accident…and…Meredith I'm truly sorry…" He held out a brown cowboy hat towards her and tears prickled her eyes. "He's gone…"
Meredith grasped the hat in her hands and she crumpled to the ground a sob escaping from her throat quickly turning into high pitched wails.
This startled Jet who abandoned the TV and rushed over to see what was causing her sister's distress. Only to join her on the floor tears flowing from their eyes, wails of grief tearing through the silence of the night.
"Hey you got really quiet all of the sudden." The boys voice startled Jet back to reality, she lifted her head to look into his blue eyes. He held up his hands defensively. "I'm really sorry if I offended you…"
Jet wiped away a couple of tears that had begun to spring from her eyes. "No… It's alright it just brings back painful memories."
The boy was silent for a moment before he nodded. "Well at least your father cared for you and didn't-" His voice trailed off as he realized he'd let his emotions show. He grinned weakly. "I suppose we all have to let the skeletons out of the closet at some point."
Jet just nodded weakly in response. Then she looked down at her watch and her eyes widened. "Oh crap! I have to go meet up with the rest of the girls!"
Th boy chuckled. "Of course, don't keep the waiting."
"You're right I should go." She turned to leave. "Thanks-oof!" Her reply was cut off by a yelp as her foot caught on something sending her falling forward. She shut her eyes bracing for a jarring impact only to feel string hands grabbing her from behind and helping her up.
"Careful, wouldn't want you to break that pretty face of yours." The boy said releasing her shoulders as soon as she was standing upright again.
"Ugh, I really have to watch where I step." Jet muttered shaking her head. "Oh well, thanks again!" She cried as she took off running, careful to avoid anything that might send her falling face first towards the ground.
As soon as the boy knew she was out of earshot he chuckled evilly. "No, thank you." He chuckled as he opened his hand to reveal the darkus bakugan he held within it. He shoved her into the pocket of his jeans and walked out of the store. "Now to find those two idiots."
A/N hehehe poor Jetty that actually made me cry a little just writing it. Originally that wasn't in there but I saw an opportunity and i decided I'd take it, so I got a little more of jet's past thrown in there and I introduced Jet's sister.
Don't ask why jet calls Meredith sissy, It's what I catch myself sometimes doing to my younger sister. eh I just think its cute.
XD evil things are to come... and the brawlers will finally make an appearance very soon *rubs hands together eagerly*
Anyways you peeps want more updates than you'd better REVIEW! Or skylord will hunt you down and eat you!
Skylord: I will *growls*