Summary: Finally the year is over, and everyone goes back to their families for the summer break. Zane has dueling competitions to attend to, and invites Alexis and Atticus as his guests. This was supposed to be a relaxing vacation, but crazy fangirls, and jealous boys await them around the corner.

Alexis: 16

Zane: 17

Atticus: 17

Doyle: 16.5

Other characters: around the age of 16

Disclaimer: First of all, I have no reason why I'm putting this there. I've seen lots of other stories with these things so I figure might as well put it here just in case. Better to be safe than sorry. I don't own any chracters, although I might add some of my own from time to time. Oh, and Doyle is mine.

Summer Break, I think not!

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The roaring of the plane made Alexis's eardrums pop, and she swallowed to rid herself of the strange sensation.

Beside her was her brother, Atticus, and Zane. Recently, Zane and Jaden had just dueled for Zane's grad. match. The duel had ended in a tie, and both duelists had competed well. But now Zane was leaving Duel Academy and everyone was going back home for the summer break. While boarding the plane to go back to Domino City, Zane had given her and Atticus invitations to come with him on his dueling tour around the world.

Zane would get his final decision as soon as she and Atticus had called their parents.

At the moment, the plane was in the air, soaring high, the powerful turbines blowing wind behind them. The window was blocked by the cover, but Alexis grabbed the bottom of the cover and pulled it up to gaze out the window.

Clouds were passing by, and Alexis had a clear view of the high skies, for she wasn't placed near the noisy area of the wings, unlike poor Jaden, Syrus, and Bastion. The blue skies were bright with the light of the sun, and several of the clouds looked like duel monsters. Alexis's gaze shifted from the window to the lit-up seatbelt sign which shut off with a 'bleep'.

Then, the voice of a flight attendant began to speak overhead, "It is now safe to remove your seatbelt and turn on electrical devices." From behindAlexis she could hear relieved sighs from Jaden and the others.

Jaden jumped up and streched, "Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet." Alexis rolled her eyes and sighed at the Slifer's behavior. She then heard Syrus jump to his feet and try to pull Jaden down to avoid have attention drawn to them. Alexis couldn't resist a smirk and turned her head to face Zane who was sitting next to her, "Are you sure you wouldn't rather be on a private plane?"

Zane looked at her from through his shades, then lowered them slightly, "No." he muttered.

Once again Alexis smiled cockily and turned back to face the window and clouds, "Alright, but you're going to get noticed, I'm telling you this." She warned him. She heard a grunt and chuckled.

Then, she regretted her action, "Well, I'll just leave you two alone then. Okay Lexi?" Alexis turned her head and saw her brother smirking at her and Zane with a strange gleam in his eyes, that she didn't quite like. "Later!" Atticus grinned and left walking through the narrow aisles. Alexis frowned and unbuckled her seatbelt and reached underneath the seat in front of her to grab her bag.

Now it's at times like these that I wonder if he really should havecome out of that coma.

She sifted through the blue bag to look for something to read, or something to doodle on for the long flight home. There were her duel cards, her dueling gloves, and a brush. After she had passed those items she finally found a small book which on the cover read: Lights of Tomorrow.

There was a bookmark sticking up from about halfway through the thick book. Alexis fingered over the pages and opened the book into her jean-covered lap and pulled out the mark. Her eyes scanned over the pages, and she began to read.

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A couple hours later she heard footsteps approaching where she and Zane were sitting. Reluctantly, she pulled her head from out of her book and looked at who was coming. Her brother's brown head, she could identify from anywhere. It was the one following him that interested her.

Atticus stopped in front of the triple seat and looked at his sister and best friend.

"Hey Lexi, Zane, look who I found." Came Atticus's energetic voice. Alexis sighed and put the bookmark back in its spot and closed the thick book. She looked up at Atticus and the person who stood next to him.

It was a teenager, about her age, and his hair was jet black and his bangs hung about his face, framing it. His eyes were green and large, and he was wearing a tan shirt with jeans on. Zane nodded, awknoweledging the presence of this stranger while Alexis gave Zane a look and stood. She bowed slightly and looked at her brother, "Is this another one of your schemes?"

She glared at Atticus who chuckled and looked innocent, "Why, no! I'm offended, why on earth would you think that! Lexi, I'm appalled. This is Doyle Maraku. He's an old friend, remember Alexis?"

Alexis looked at Atticus then to Doyle and cocked her brow, "Can't say I do. Nice to meet you Doyle."She sat back down and prepared to re-open her book when Atticus grabbed her arm and hoisted her back up on her feet. She yanked her arm back and glared at her brother, "Atticus!" Her brother smiled and turned to Doyle, "Say, why don't you give Alexis a tour of this place? Zane can go too."

The Obelisk girl resisted stomping her foot angrily, "Atticus, no!"

Her brother pouted, "Oh, c'mon Lexi. Please, Zane's going too, right Zane?" Zane gave Atticus and look and grumbled, "No." Alexis sighed and sat back down giving that said: 'You wanna challenge me?'

Apparently Atticus got the hint and steered his friend in a different way, changing the subject and leaving Alexis and Zane alone.

Doyle turned around and looked at Alexis strangely, in a way that sent shivers up and down her spine. He grinned and winked, then walked away with Atticus. Alexis shuddered and opened up her book only to find that she could no longer concentrate on the words typed in front of her.

The image of Doyle kept on flashing in her mind until she couldn't take it anymore.

Thoroughly annoyed, Alexis sighed, slightly aggrevated and shoved the book back into her bag. She stood up and moved past Zane and started walking down the aisle. Just as she was passing by she felt a hand grab her wrist, "Where're you going?" Zane asked her.

She leaned down and whispered, "Somewhere, I need to get something outta my head." Zane obviously took that as an answer and released her. There were not too many people on this plane, this was a first-class seat so she didn't recieve too many glances. There was a bathroom at the end of the aisle, so she sped up. Alexis grabbed the handle, opened it, then stepped inside the smaller room.

She turned towards the sink and turned to knob, releasing the stream of cold water.

Alexis's hands moved underneath the water and let the water fill all the way up to the brim of her hands. She leaned down and closed her eyes, then splashed the cool liquid on her face. She continued doing that until her face was slightly numb. Feeling refreshed, Alexis wiped her hands on a towel and dried her face. Alexis then opened the door once again and left the room.

Her face was numb, but at least the thoughts of Doyle were leaving her head.

As she walked through the aisle Alexis stole a glance at an open window, it was night already. Strange how time flew. Alexis saw Zane's blue head peeking over the seats and she walked over to where her seat was and slid into it.

Zane pulled his glasses down once again and looked at her, "That took a while." Alexis blinked and looked at him, "Really? I didn't notice." She said back to him. Outside of her window Alexis could no longer see clouds because they were so high. Instead, she actually saw stars glittering in the sky, twinkling and winking at her and the passengers.

All of a sudden, Alexis became aware of the heavy weights upon her lids, and she stifled a yawn.

She was startled to hear Zane murmur to her, "You should get some rest. We won't be getting there for at least another couple hours. I'll wake you when we're there." Alexis smiled sleepily and nodded, "Thanks Zane." She whispered back.

With that, Alexis fell asleep, her head slightly tilted back against the head of the seat.

Zane was quiet and observed her for a few moments, then clicked off the overhead light above Alexis and turned off the light above his own seat. His blue gaze drifted to the window-side and watched the white stars gleam as if getting ready to greet the new day.

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Golden eyes opened slowly, to feel the sensation of grinding on the seat.

At that moment Alexis had bolted awake, startled by the feeling of waking up exactly when the plane was landing. Alexis looked around, the window shield was closed, and Zane was looking at her, "Huh, I was about to wake you up." Next to him Atticus peeked over, "Guess not though, huh?" The Obelisk girl smiled, "Yeah." She agreed.

Soon, the plane stopped and screeched to a halt. People waited quietly in their seats until the voice of the captain was heard over the intercom, "We have arrived in Domino Airport. Thank you for flying with us and have a nice day." WIth that, the intercom died, and people started to get up from their seats while murmuring to temselves or others.

The Duel Academy Gang remained in their seats, eyes facing downwards, waitinguntil most passengers on the plane had left.

Finally, nearly everyone was gone and flight attendants were beginning to walk up and down the aisle-ways picking up stray cups that had been dropped. It was then that everyone stood up, and Alexis grabbed the back of Atticus's collar to keep him from walking over to a pretty black-haired woman. Jaden, Bastion, and Syrus came up from 2nd class and Jaden let out a huge yawn and stretch.

"So, let's go!" Jaden called cheerfully.

Everyone sighed at his happy attitude but followed the Slifer who apparently refused to change out of his beloved red blazer much to everyone's dismay.

Flashback

Everyone was sitting in the courtyard glaring at Jaden.

"Give it up Slifer, you're just going to attract attention to yourself, and that blazer isn't helping." Chazz Princeton snapped at a brunette who had his arms crossed in front of him. "And I said no Chazz. I'm not taking this off." Jaden protested. Alexis sighed, "Chazz is right Jaden," She paused as Chazz had a cocky grin on his face, "As much as I hate to admit it." Then Chazz inwardly cried.

"You know how paparrazzi are Jaden, they don't give up until they've gotten what they want. Plenty of people already know that this is Zane's last year, and thanks to ATTICUS," Alexis glared at her older brother who chuckled sheepishly, "The reporters, and fangirls are going to be flocking around the airport."

During this interesting conversation Zane was quiet and leaning against the tree.

Jaden simply pouted, "But this is my best memory from Duel Academy!" He whined and clutched his blazer tightly.

Everyone sighed in exasperation, they all had known it would be hard to convince Jaden. Just not this hard. "Let him be." All jumped at the sudden voice. They looked at Zane who was looking back at them. "Zane?" Syrus questioned. Zane took in a deep breath and released, "I said he's fine."

They all looked at one another, but didn't argue with the Obelisk. Jaden jumped up and prepared to wrap his arms around Zane, "Oh thank you! Thank you thank you thank you thank you!" Everyone stared wide-eyed at Jaden who was about to clamp onto Zane whose expression was... well... not one that you'd ever like to see, especially coming from him.

"You touch me and you're dead Jaden." Zane warned. Everyone stared at Zane's statement. Never before had they heard something like that come from the cool, calm, and collected King of Obelisk.

Jaden backed away immediately and sat on his butt. He chuckled and waved bye-bye to the King of Obelisk who was apparently none too happy.

End Flashback

Zane turned to Jaden and pointed to the bag that Jaden had slung over his shoulder, "Alright Jaden, our part of the deal?" Everyone looked confused and at Jaden who sighed sadly. The Slifer reached into the bag he had and pulled out a simple red t-shirt.

Bastion cocked an eyebrow, "Uh, deal?" He questioned.

No one answered him as Jaden left for the bathrooms to change into the red shirt he had brought with him.

Several minutes later, out came Jaden wearing the t-shirt and prancing down the aisle. Chazz rolled his eyes in impatience, "Are we ready yet?" He snapped at everyone. Jaden punched the air above him, "Ready!"

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They were about to walk out into open territory, when Zane stopped abruptly with Alexis and Atticus right next to him. "Big bro?" Syrus asked, cocking his little blue head. Zane reached into his pocket and pulled out a folded up base-ball cap and slapped it on Syrus's head, covering some of his sky blue hair. "Oh." Was all the little guy said.

That being done, Alexis peeked over the corner to check for something. She looked back at Zane and whispered, "Alright, the next crowd is coming." In return Zane nodded and waited.

The rest of them were as just about as clueless as Jaden with the word fiance. "Ready," Alexis started, then, as soon as a wave of people began entering the terminal the whole gang pushed into the crowd, keeping their heads low, except for Syrus, and their gazes down.

All around them they could hear the screams of fangirls shouting, "Zane! Where is he? Hellooo! Zane sweety! ZANEY!"

Each time a new nickname was made up Zane cringed and tried to sink as low as he was able. Atticus turned back to the group and said quickly, "Scatter!" And scatter is what they did, Alexis went with Zane,Jaden with Syrus, Atticus with Bastion and Chazz, to make sure they didn't tear each other apart.

Alexis and Zane barged through waves of people, desperately hoping that neither of them would be noticed. Thankfully, their wishes were granted, and they had at last made it to the entrance/exit of the Domino City Airport. Alexis settled herself against a wall, "So now...we wait." She said. Zane nodded and tried his best to hide his face behind his coat-collar.

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A/N: Alright. This'll continue as long as people like it. Hopefully I can draw in more AlexisxZane fans, or, Oceanshippers, or Royalshipping, or whatever you feel like calling it. XP

Next Chapter: Hopefully by next Friday

-PurificationArrow