Raventhedarkgoddess: TAKE THREE! Now I'm pissed at whoever reported this story and got it removed, it's not INTERACTIVE, you ass!
Chapter One: Wanna Bet?
A very tired Yugi Muto stretched both arms up into the air in the backseat of the rented van the entire gang was currently riding in. "It's been a long few weeks," he said to no one in particular.
"We've taken another tournament, Yugi," said Yami, smiling at him from the seat next to him. Lately, a strange occurence had made it so that the Yamis were in seperate bodies from the hosts unless they were dueling or going through a tough time and in need of support.
"You really beat everyone out, Yug. Me included." Joey ruffled his own dirty blonde hair, trying to act like a good sport. His voice held a bitter edge, however, which Mai picked up on.
"Going to take it to heart, Wheeler?" Mai asked sarcasticly, both eyes straight ahead on the road. The noise of the others was starting to get to her, however, and she was driving in more of a circle pattern than anything else between the two lanes.
"Ignore the barking mutt, Mai. He's just mad because he didn't make it to the last round," sneered Kaiba, his face reveling dislike.
"There are several of us who didn't, Kaiba. Quit bragging about getting your ass kicked," Bakura said, putting an end to Kaiba's speech before it began.
"Hey, my big brother did fine. Don't listen to them, big brother. They're just mad because you beat them," Mokuba said, trying to reassure Kaiba in his small voice.
"He did fine if you like losing all the time," Malik replied vaugly, looking over at his Yami, who was messing around with his spikey hair in the mirror, causing Mai to swerve once again to see the truck passing her.
"I have to agree with Bakura," Ryou said, ignoring the pain in his left shoulder from smacking off the window so many times.
"Quiet before I kick your Brittish butt!" Warned Kaiba.
"Leave my vessal be," said Bakura. "I still need him even with my own body, you do realize.
"Shut up. You're all fools, you know that?" Marik quit staring at himself vainly in the mirror and turned to face the fight instead.
"Now, can't we all quit fighting?" Tea threw her brown hair away from her eyes and stared at the group, trying to figure out why her friends insisted on fighting each other all the time.
"Yes, please quit," Serenity agreed. She looked at all the boys with her soft grey eyes, hoping she could con them into being quiet.
"We're all just a bit tired from dueling. No one means it, Serenity." Ishizu's soft voice floated up from the back of the van. She was carressing her deck between her hands as she spoke, happy to have finally defeated Kaiba this time around.
"Ya, Serenity. Don't worry," Tristan said in a low voice. Maybe Serenity will think more of me now, he thought to himself.
"YOU didn't even duel, and you're acting just like the rest of us, Tristan?" Duke glared at him. "One would think that cheerleading would be a bit less stressful than dueling."
Tristan lost his temper. "Wanna GO?" He yelled, flexing his arms and holding up both fists.
"YA!" Duke shot back easily. Grabbing Tristan around the head, he pushed his head back into the seat so that Tristan's head made a quiet noise on the padded headrest.
"Oh, shit! Did he mess up my hair?" Both Tristan's hands went up, feeling to make sure that his hair was in the correct postition. Everyone else preformed a collective group sweatdrop.
"Aren't we all friends here? I thought we were, going into this tourney, but losing creates no hard feelings, right?" Yugi looked around at all his friends, hoping for a response to his yelled question.
Joey continuted to glare across the way at Kaiba and Marik. "Yug, why do you even bother?" He asked, his voice caught in a snarling growl.
"Because we could all be best friends if we didn't fight so much," Yugi responded, trying to keep his voice mellow.
"I thought I was the one who was supposed to be friendship happy, so I'm going to agree with Yugi," Tea said sweetly and stupidly.
"Why do you care so much, anyway?" Yami asked Tea. "Yugi can fight for what he belives in without your interferment."
"Baka Pharaoh, your vessal is the most obnoxious kid in the world," Bakura said with one hand on his millenium ring.
Yami looked over with anger in his face. "Who asked you, tomb robber?" He thundered.
"Well, I think he's right! Fighting is fun, it brings out the evil in the world, it..." Malik was cut off.
"I don't need the assistence of someone with such girly hair!" Bakura said cleanly.
"That's it, my hair is NOT girly!" Malik thundered.
"My Yami has a point..." Ryou admitted under his breath.
"Your hair is just as girly!" Marik pointed out, shutting down Ryou's comment.
"SHUT UP! I AM TRYING TO DRIVE!" Mai's voice cut over everyone else as she deperatly tried to resist the urge to turn around and throatle everyone making noise.
"Quick Mai, left," Ishizu hollered loudly, so that Mai jerked the steering wheel the whole way around to make the quick curve in the road. Various shouting, cursing, and groaning was heard as heads smacked off other heads, seats, and windows and seatbelts dug into shoulders. Mai ignored the cursing, biting into her lower lip to keep from yelling back at them that next time they could drive their own damn van.
"Owww..." Serenity cried out, having rammed off of the headrest and then the window hard when Marik had run his head off of hers.
"You okay, sis?" Joey turned to her to check the side of her head, one hand running itself lovingly through her hair, the other near the already forming bruise.
"Ya, thanks, Joey." Serenity smiled adoringly at her brother.
"Gee, look at the sibling love." Marik taunted them both.
"What's wrong with caring about your siblings?" Mokuba asked, his voice shaking with a little bit of hurt and anger.
"It's pointless, that's what!" Marik shot back, his voice rising carefully above everyone else's, causing silence to fall.
"I feel really hurt now..."
"I'm sorry he said that, sis." Malik gently touched Ishizu's arm.
"Nothing's wrong with it. These idiots just don't know anything about it," Kaiba said feircly. "Just ignore him, Mokuba."
"Hey, only a few people here are idiots!" Duke shot back loudly. I hate being thought of on the same scale as Tristan, he added to himself.
"Unless you all want to be stuck in America forever, feel free to come out of the van." Mai tossed her blonde hair over her shoulder and scowled at everyone as they fought, her violet eyes hiding all of her feelings about driving and the pain of her pounding headache behind her annoyed look.
"AHH! We have to catch the plan in fifteen minutes and my hair is still messed up!" Tristan leaned into a side-veiw mirror, trying his hardest to make his hair look normal. No one else could see any difference in how it looked.
"No one cares about your hair!" Bakura snapped, jumping from one foot to the other in the deep snow all around them, attempting to keep warm.
"Hey, at least I don't look girly!" Tristan shot back, hoping to end the converstaion with a simple shutdown.
"ALL OF YOU, SHUT UP!" A sudden voice cut over and through all the arguing, quickly causing everyone to fall silent and look over at the shivering, red-faced Serenity, who's normally mellow eyes were now full of a strong surge of anger. Everyone's faces held an idenical expression: Shock at Serenity's sudden yelling.
"Sis..." Joey began, his voice soft.
"Don't 'sis' me! Let's just catch the plane and go home!" She calmed down slightly. "I'm sorry, Joey, but my head hurts, I'm cold, and everyone just won't quit." Serenity started to sulk toward the building and everyone followed.
"Don't feel badly, Joey. She's just under the weather," Yugi tried to point out, unsure why he even bothered lying to himself.
"Sure hope you're right," Joey mumbled with an indecisive shrug as they followed the others into the lobby.
In the Airport...
Mai set down a large stack of tickets on the counter before the long-nailed, grey-haired, blue eyed female receptionist. "We're on the plane to Domino City, Japan," Mai said in a haggered voice, trying to ignore Marik and Bakura caught up in some petty argument behind her.
"Are you crazy, kid? We had to cancel that flight till tomorow morning." She looked at Mai, her eyes halfway between amusement and anger.
"WHAT?" Duke thundered.
"Sorry, kids. There's a big hurricane right in the middle of both flight paths to Domino." She looked at Duke as if daring him to complain anymore.
"Thank you anyway." Mai managed to keep her cool as the group walked over and sat in the waiting area.
"You THANKED her? We have no hotel Mai. Not exactly something to thank her for," Joey snapped.
"Could go find another one?" Duke asked.
"Duke, every duelist in the country just found out that they can't go home until tomorow. We won't find anywhere." Yugi sighed.
The grey haired old woman turned to them. "Kids, you can stay here the night. No other flights leave, so I'm locking you in. Is that okay with you? Without waiting for an answer, she shut and locked the door.
"That will be fine." Yami said to the shutting door.
As soon as the old woman's footsteps faded away, Bakura rounded on Yami. "FINE? WE ARE LOCKED IN AN AIRPORT AND ALL YOU CAN SAY IS FINE?" He roared.
"It'll be fine," Tea crooned.
"This is way creepy! We're going to leave, aren't we, big brother?" Serenity asked as she clutched to his arm.
"And go WHERE? That van was a rental, so they'll be here to pick it up tonight." Mai looked out the window at the falling snow.
"Face facts, guys. We are stuck here." Ryou said, ending any further argument.
"It's not as bad as we think..." Ishizu muttered by way of comfort.
"No, it's worse," Kaiba snapped loudly at her.
"We'll be fine, big brother, won't we?" Mokuba asked.
"No, we won't," Malik taunted.
"It'll be okay, Serenity." Joey whipered softly to his sister as he stroked her hair.
"No it won't. Hell-Sent demons will be here at midnight to devour you, Serenity Wheeler." Malik continued to taunt her in his freaky voice.
"WHOA! Hey, that's enough. YOU had better shut up! You are being nothing but annoying, and not helping this situation at all!" Serenity stared him straight in the eyes, waiting for his retaliation.
"Why? Gonna hurt me if I don't?" Malik hissed back.
"I bet you wouldn't put up with me for more than a day! Niceness might kill you!" She shot back, her headache and her sudden annoyence at Malik making her voice hint at her irritance.
"Speaking of a bet, why not prove it here and now?" Mai asked slowly.
"Care to...explain a little more?" Kaiba looked up from where he was sitting on the floor in vauge intrest.
"What are you sceaming now, Mai?" Joey asked.
"Well, the shipping room has a camrea. So what if we shut both of them in there and had them stay the whole night? We could bet on who asked to be let out first, and the one still standing would win." She looked around at the others for suport.
"Intriging" Ishizu mumbled.
"I like that idea, big brother." Mokuba said warmly to Seto.
"I'm game. I'll kill you with my niceness!" Serenity annouced, shocking them all.
"What makes you think I will even involve myself in this stupid game?" Malik snapped back.
"Fine, have it your way. You're just a big chicken who can't fly but is trying anyway. You're hair is your ruffled feathers from trying so hard." Serenity stuck her tounge out at him.
"Okay, that's it. I'm gonna win." He looked her straight in both eyes.
"Rules. No killing or harming each other. I think anything else is fine." Mai ended her rules sweetly and took bets on both. Between
Yugi,Joey,Yami,Tristan,Tea,Duke,Ryou, and Kaiba there was a total of 100,100,999. (Most from Kaiba) Malik,Ishizu,Moukba,and Bakura had bet 6,000 on Malik.
"I'll be colecting and keeping all money until the end." Mai took the money from everyone.
"Are you sure about this?" Joey asked his sister. "You don't have to prove anything.
"I'm going in." With that, Serenity and Malik walked into the room, unaware of how long a night could truly be.
I understand that some of you have read this before, but it got removed. So please reveiw again.