Jess Was Made During A Time Where I Felt Most Females Disliked Me For Simply Being Alive. Being A Lightskinned

Jess was made during a time where I felt most females disliked me for… simply being alive. Being a lightskinned black female wasn’t fun. Girls especially disliked me and I had a hard time relating to them because of their bullying. Eventually, I found out that it wasn’t even my fault, but several factors I can’t control. From this, I made a character who’s entire personality revolves around disliking my main character for something she can’t control. Obviously, it starts as a simple hatred because Jess can’t have the boy she likes due to him liking Cassie, but I eventually turned it into Jess dealing with insecurities of her own and feeling undesired. I struggle with that as well, but not to the degree I have Jess experiencing it. Ultimately, Cassie and Jess become very good friends who work well together, they keep things real between them and have one another's back knowing each other’s downfall.

Sometimes I search for couples online to see happy people to void all the sad of the world.

Ren is a fabrication I made when I was in middle school to cope with loneliness. I would talk to him in my head as if he were truly there since no one else would even look in my direction. I had a lot of fun and he became a big part of my life, so much so that I began to turn to him more than I did my own family. Ren is more or less myself, but he doesn't have crippling anxiety. He's brash, honest and truly himself with no reservations about the world around him. Usually, his character is one of my most interesting since it's me if I wasn't born with most of my issues.

I made this a while ago to match the boys and the chibi BGs they got.

An era passed me by and I started to grow into another person, my former self had always been there and she always will be here, but things were changing and it was time to move on.

I finally have a place to post this. A while back I made a AU for my original story A Fourth Dimension Reality, and I really wanted to share it for some reason, so now I can, yay~

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A Fourth Dimension Magic Club: The Lost RaggleDoll

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The old halls of the Magic Academy were filled with students walking to their various locations within the building. The lunch hall was presently empty aside from a group of five, everyone else had left for the day, but the group remained and spoke to each other…

“What do you mean you lost it?” Larson, one of the summoners of the group, spoke to his fellow summoner.

“Look, I was trying something last night and I guess he must have gotten distracted by something and ran off, but good news! I can summon a Black Hawk!” Cassie, the other summoner of the group, said.

“Oh? How well?” Jax, the researcher, spoke.

“It only stayed for a few minutes, but I’ll get better I swear!” Cassie declared.

“I haven’t seen a Black Hawk in a while,” Gast, the ghost, said while he shivered at the thought of the demonic creature.

“Black Hawks?” Mandy, the witch, opened her spell book, “I wonder why I can’t have that as a familiar.” She pondered.

“Because Black Hawks aren’t tamable.” Jax explained, “they serve a purpose and without one they won’t listen to the one who summoned it.”

Mandy understood the explanation, but couldn’t help the disappointment she felt.

“Are you all dense?” They all looked to Larson, “aren’t you all forgetting about the lost RaggleDoll that might be tearing up the school?”

Cassie looked off.

“How long ago was it?” Jax asked in an attempt to start somewhere.

“Hmm… I can’t remember.” Cassie said. Her head turned up as she tried to remember the time, “oh, it was…” She trailed off.

Larson sighed at her indecisive tone.

“Well,” they looked at Gast, “Cassie came back to her dorm around midnight last night.”

She snapped her fingers, “that’s right, did we talk?” Cassie asked the ghost.

“Yeah, but you were really tired. I guess you weren’t really zoned in.” He explained.

“Then it was midnight!” Cassie restated.

Larson rolled his eyes, but Jax took out his pocket watch.

“Okay, it’s twelve in the afternoon right now,” he put it away, “so that means it’s been gone for half a day.” Jax set his book onto the table. He flipped to the end pages that were mostly empty and found his entry on the creature: RaggleDoll. “You know the most about it, so what else can you tell me?”

Cassie threw her hands up to roll the sleeves of her baggy robe out of the way, “well, he’s not usually temperamental. He only does things when I tell him to.”

Larson interjected, “Yeah, like the time you sicked that thing on your teache-”

“I didn’t do that!” Cassie spoke over him.

“But it does work with your thoughts, right?” Cassie confirmed Jax’s presumption, “so,” he wrote as he spoke, “I think it’s safe to assume there might have been something you wanted to do last night.” Cassie nodded, “can you remember what?”

“Yeah, I was trying to summon a Black Hawk because I read somewhere if you summon one on the dawn of a solstice it’ll turn into a Phoenix! So I was preparing last night.”

“Because it’s close to Christmas,” Jax said, “okay, then I think we should go back to the spot where you went. There’s a huge chance it’s still there waiting for December twenty-second!”

“You think?” Cassie seemed awestruck, “aw, he really is connected to me!” She was gushing over the thought of the creature.

“And that confirms you did send that thing after your teacher.”

Cassie ignored the comment, “come on then, let’s go and find my baby!” Cassie got up and stood behind Mandy, “can I ride your broom with you?”

Mandy smiled and got up, “but only us two, you boys will be fine following?”

They all got up.

“Of course, let’s just hurry up and get there.” Larson formed his own forbidden book.

“Then we’ll see you there!” Mandy winked and casted her broom to levitate. She got on it and Cassie jumped to sit behind her. They went up into the air where they took off for the exit of the lunch hall.

Larson, Jax and Gast all walked to the door leading them outside and Larson opened his book. There, he summoned his Galaxy Fox and waited as it grew in size to tower over the trio, Larson hopped onto his back and spoke.

“Got Cassie’s sent?” The fox gave a confirming whine, “good, now follow them.” The fox made no sound, but turned its head in the direction where Cassie and Mandy went.

Jax and Gast got on its back and then it took off to catch up with the flying pair…

It wasn’t too much later when the group arrived in the area where Cassie was last at. Cassie got off the broom and looked around the area.

“Oh, my little Raggle, I can’t believe he just ran off like that.”

Mandy went over to her after shrinking her broom. “You really didn’t notice when it ran off?”

“No,” Cassie faced Mandy, “it might have been because he wasn’t really moving when we were out here. So I figured he was tired and went back inside his scroll.” Cassie pulled her bag to her front and dug through it, “his scroll is in here though.”

“Then that at least means he’s out here somewhere.”

Cassie agreed and looked behind Mandy seeing the trio catching up to them. When they arrived, Larson’s fox went over to Cassie and started shrinking to a normal sized fox.

“Wo-woah!” Jax managed to jump off before the fox shrunk completely.

Gast, on the other hand, didn't move in time and fell on his face. Larson just effortlessly landed anticipating the shrinking. The fox was now no bigger than a puppy as it happily jumped on Cassie. Enjoying the attention, Cassie giggled while playing with it.

“Good boy!” Cassie rubbed his head and crouched to pet it.

“Return!” Larson said and the fox whined.

Cassie pouted to Larson before returning her attention to the fox. “Don’t worry, we’ll play later!”

The fox seemed to cheer up at that and went back to Larson at his command.

“It’s still shocking to see a summoner at all, let alone one who can summon light and dark creatures.” Cassie looked to Mandy, “I guess you really do care for all these creatures.” Mandy smiled.

“Of course!” Cassie declared, “that’s why we have to find my Raggle!”

“This the spot you were at?” Larson asked.

“Pretty much, it was this area.” Cassie confirmed.

“Now, where would he have gone?” Jax asked.

Gast got himself up and joined the rest of the group. “This place is pretty big, are you sure we’ll find him?”

“No,” Larson said, “but that’s where you come in.” He faced Gast, “that thing’s a creature of the dead. That means you should be able to ask some ghosts if they’ve seen him.”

“It’s not a thing!” Cassie went over to Larson, but he ignored her.

“I-I mean, I’ll try…” Gast took a deep breath. He went over to a tree and touched it.

As he worked, Cassie went in front of Larson, “you know, this is why your book is sealed. Because you don’t respect the creatures you summon.”

Larson side-eyed Cassie. “These things are here to listen to me. I don’t have to respect any of them.”

Cassie fumed at the notion, but shook her head, “whatever…” She looked over to Gast and saw another ghost floating out from the tree he was in front of.

“Why are you disturbing me!” The ghost's shrill voice yelled.

“Puh-please, we just want to a-ask you something.” Gast said, the ghost waited, “um… have you seen a little small creature around here? It has a rag over its body and is very small.”

Cassie ran back to Jax and easily took his book from him. She found the page with the RaggleDoll entry and opened it.

“It looks like this!” She said holding the page for the ghost to see.

“Hmm, I have. Weren’t you with it?” The ghost asked Cassie.

“Yes, but I think he ran off when I wasn’t paying attention.” Cassie explained.

“Well, keep a better eye for your pets,” Cassie nodded to the scolding, “but, I believe I saw him in the clearing, past the Living Tree.” Cassie beamed, “now, don’t disturb me again!” The ghost then vanished into thin air.

Mandy put her hands on her hips, “Gast couldn’t have found a less annoying ghost?”

Jax just smiled at the comment. He went over to Cassie and took the book off her hands. “We should get looking.”

Cassie didn’t wait very long before she ran off on her own leaving everyone else to walk to the area.

“Raggle!” Cassie yelled as she ran, “where are you? I know you’re hungry, because I’m starving! Let’s get something to eat!” She called out to it again once she was in the clearing. Cassie got the Living Tree and stood in front of it, “where could he have gone…?” She stared at the tree for a while. Her eyes narrowed as her gaze never broke from the tree.

“This place is way too open for us to have not seen it already. I say that ghost doesn’t know what it saw.” Larson complained once they all reached the clearing.

“Got any better ideas?” Mandy asked.

“Yeah, let’s just summon a Scouter.” He suggested.

“And risk getting the RaggleDoll hurt, if not killed?” Jax said.

Larson said nothing.

“Guys?” Cassie got their attention, “I don’t think this is the real Living Tree.”

“Huh? What are you talking about?” Larson walked up and stood beside her.

“I managed to get a branch off here one time and it doesn’t feel anything like the one I have. See?” Cassie took Larson’s hand and placed it on the tree’s trunk, “it feels fake.”

Larson’s eyes narrowed. “I think she’s right.”

“Guys, that’s nothing to joke about.” Mandy stated.

“You should know, feel for yourself.” Larson stepped out of the way and Mandy stepped up placing her palm on the tree.

“No way… this isn’t good. What happened to the real one?” Mandy asked herself.

“We’ll have to report this to the headmaster.” Jax said.

“But not before we find my Raggle!” Cassie brought the task back to the surface. As Cassie spoke, the tree began to shake.

“What the-?” Gast stood defensively.

The tree kept shaking until they could see something emerging from its trunk. The shaking grew in intensity until they started to hear thumping. One spot was being hit over and over. On one last hit, the RaggleDoll they were looking for shot out from the hole it created, emerging from the tree.

“Raggle!” Cassie gasped and went to grab it. She caught it in mid-air, but her robe got caught on something. “What’s that?” her RaggleDoll tore at the white fabric until she was free and Cassie harshly fell to the ground. She tumbled, but held onto the RaggleDoll until she finally stopped.

However, the group that was still in front of the tree grew defensive as someone else emerged from the newly made entrance.

“You had to return here! That could have been mine!” From within the tree, a black figure started to climb out. They were blocked by a large hood, but they could all tell he was less than stable.

“You can’t have him!” Cassie got to her feet and let her RaggleDoll drop beside her where it was ready to attack, “why did you take him?” Cassie asked.

“Because, you don’t deserve to summon creatures of the dead! That belongs to our class!”

“Really? You’re just a little upset because I can summon him?” The hooded figure said nothing, “don’t be such a loser. You killed an important landmark over that?”

“Look, we won’t hurt you, but you’re gonna have to answer to killing this tree.” Jax stepped up and said.

“As if I would let the likes of you take me!” The hooded figure threw his arms up and out from the robe’s sleeves came all types of creatures. Cursed vipers, zombified plants, and demonic statues all came out and attacked her.

“Are you serious!” Cassie said backing up as she avoided the onslaught of attacks. Her RaggleDoll followed her as it protected Cassie from anything she might have missed. Cassie threw her robe on the statues, temporarily tangling them. She kicked the snakes away from her feet and the RaggleDoll kept the plants away from her by swiping at any roots that grew near her. Cassie got herself steadied as she looked at the creatures, now it seemed she was cornered.

“You’ll have to try harder than that! Sun’s Ignis!” Mandy waved her wand producing fire as she set the plats ablaze.

“Just give up, please.” Gast spoke as from below him, ghosts rose up and took control of the statues making them break themselves apart.

“There’s no use fighting us.” Jax threw a chain out that wrapped around the heads of the vipers and made them writhe in pain before disappearing into thin air.

“What? No, you can’t destroy them!”

“Watch yourself moron!” Larson summoned the forbidden Vitiated Pegasus that charged straight for the man and kicked its hoves into his chest. He flew back and the Peagasus was quick to pin him.

“Is he down?” Cassie asked, walking over.

The person was struggling, but he couldn’t move and wasn’t going to.

“Seems like it.”

“Alright, let’s get him turned in. I got my Ragglebaby back so we can go home!” Her RaggleDoll jumped up into her arms and she it gave a loving hug.

“I bet you would just want to leave,” Cassie looked to Larson, “that tree is still dead and you know what that means.” Larson stared at Cassie, she looked off.

“No, I actually don’t.”

Larson gave her an irritated look as he went for her and grabbed her now exposed arm. “Don’t play dumb!” Larson then went into her bag and pulled out the branch she had taken from the tree.

“No! That was mine and this tree will take years to be that powerful again!”

“Doesn’t matter,” Larson let go of her arm, “they’ll eventually find out that you have this. So get over it.” Larson walked over to Mandy, “you gonna bring that tree back to life?”

“Oh no, I’m not trying to be sent to any head witch meetings. I like doing my own things as a regular low class witch.”

Larson shrugged and stuffed the branch in his pocket. “Then bag this guy and let’s get back. We gotta tell them about the tree.” Larson directed.

Cassie ran to Larson’s side and walked with him. “Lars please! You can’t let them have my only branch!”

Larson glanced over with a smirk. “Looks like you should have been smarter and taken two.”

“Ugh! Don’t pull that here! You know I couldn’t take anymore. I’m not trying to get in trouble!” They walked off loudly together as Cassie continued her vocal assault.

The rest of the group just watched before turning their attention back to the hooded individual, “well, who wants to restrain him?”

“I’ll take him, ‘cause someone’s gotta stay around that Pegasus and I don’t want it to be me.” Mandy said walking to the hooded person.

“Well come on Gast, help me out here.”

“M-me?”

“Yes you. Come on, it’s just a little Pegasus.”

“I can handle creatures like the ones Cassie specializes in, but real things…” he looked off, “o-okay, let’s just hurry this up.”

Jax chuckled at the reaction and they both went up to handle the Pegasus while Mandy trapped the hooded figure inside of a bottle and went to join the pair that had already left off…

The old halls of the Magic Academy were filled with students walking to their various locations within the building. The lunch hall was presently empty aside from a group of five, everyone else had left for the day, but the group remained and spoke to each other…