Longer Summary:
FYI, yuletide means having to do with Christmas. And Christmas means, aside from the birth of our Lord, gatherings, decorations, gifts, joy, love, festivities, charity, carols, celebrations, and feasting. It also means there's a lot going on. This year, Bakura is organizing a big Christmas play happening at Domino High, Yugi wonders what he'll get for Tea, Ishizu and Marik think there's going to be some big trouble at Kaiba's downtown Holiday Parade, Joey and Serenity have a crazy idea, Yami is cooking the Christmas feast, Rebecca and Mokuba are about to do something drastic, Mai's throwing a big party, and it looks like Domino City is in for a white Christmas-a REALLY white Christmas. This story is my gift to all Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction readers, so you should just accept the gift and read it! And please review, because that would be a really nice present from you all, in return. That is, anyway, what Christmas is all about.
I dedicate this story to Kazuki Takahashi, who created Yu-Gi-Oh!!! (And he owns it , not me.)
Glossary
Kame-Turtle
Niisama-big brother
Baka-Japanese for idiot or fool
Onegai-Shimasu-what you say before you play a game
Ro-Sham-Bo-like Rock-Paper-Scissors
Marik-the hikari
Malik-the yami
Bakura-the hikari
Ryou-the yami
yami-it's a noun, mind you
Yami-the spirit of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle
Some "before" notes:
I think it started like this.
First, I became obsessed with Yu- Gi- Oh.
Then, I imagined a imaginary TV series about the funny adventures of the characters.
Then, I imagined a Christmas special. I decided to write it out, and this is the story!
1. The Yamis and the hikaris have separate bodies, and they do not have any such thing as a "mindlink."
2. They got separate bodies earlier in my imaginary TV series, so there was a time when they were not separated. In the story, that time period is occasionally referenced.
3. I'm making it so that Yugi's school is from Monday to Friday. Plus, I put almost everybody in that school, even people that don't really go there!
4. This story is silly sometimes, so don't expect every single thing to make perfect, logical sense.
5. I watched the dub, and I was used to "hikari" Bakura and "hikari" Marik being called... Bakura and Marik. So I needed to call their yamis something different. Malik is the name I gave to Yami Marik, and Ryou is the name I gave to Yami Bakura. It may not make sense to you, but whatever.
6. This story is very, very long.
7. At this point, I've written 11 chapters and part of Chapter 12. So expect fast updates at first, but when we get to chapter 12, the updating schedule will be unsteady. I have, like, pointless school stuff to do...
8. I needed a set of dates to use, so you and I both could keep track of time in the story. I used December 2005 for the dates. Why? Well, I am very slow at writing this story. I started writing it at the end of November 2004, and then, in December 2005 I joined a forum for the first time, and I released my story there, and I changed the 2004 dates I had used to 2005. And I just kept it like that, and didn't change the dates for 2007. Besides, I think it works out well that in this story, Christmas Eve is on a Saturday and Christmas is on a Sunday.
And now...our feature presentation!!! You'll laugh, you'll cry...and you'll review! Hopefully.
It was wonderful. More and more people were putting up Christmas decorations. Children and teenagers alike talked on and on about what they wanted for Christmas, and what they thought they would get for Christmas, which hopefully were not two different things. Carols in increasing numbers were being played on the radio. All of Domino City seemed to be in a good mood, laughing and cheerful. Of course, that was before the blizzard came.
Yuletide Yu-Gi-Oh!!!
By Sachiko
Holiday 1: And the Winner Is...
"Good morning, Domino High!!!!" said an overly cheerful Vice Principal, over the intercom.
The students groaned. "Good mor-ning, Miss Hins-ley," they all said.
"Today is Monday, December 5, 2005, and don't you forget it!!"
"Does she have to say that every day?" Tristan complained.
"Apparently, yes," replied Duke.
"Now, a very important announcement: The person we've chosen to be in charge of this year's Christmas play is...Ryou Bakura!"
Lots of the students who entered the sweepstakes said, "Awww!" Ryou Bakura said, "WHAT???!!!!!" He didn't even enter!!!! He didn't want to manage the play!!! It was a very hard, very stressful job. Now let me tell you about the play. It is not just a Domino High (a class or drama assignment) play. It's open to teenagers at the school and at the youth at the church who used the school as an auditorium. Since there was no time for auditions, parts were chosen at random. That's not good, but the pastor thought, for some reason, that the students and youth at the church were mostly very smart, so they would be able to handle it. Anyway, Bakura figured out that his jerk of a yami, Bakura Ryou, entered him into the contest by using their easily confusable names, knowing he wouldn't want to do it.
"...and he did this just to ruin my life!" Bakura said, in study hall at the end of the day. He had a copy of the play.
"I'm sorry, Bakura," said Yugi. (Kaiba isn't with them.)
"Thanks, Yugi...but I still don't think I can do this...It's so much to handle..."
"Don't worry!" said Tea. "We'll help you do it! Won't we, guys?"
No one said anything or looked enthusiastic.
"WON'T WE, GUYS?"
"Sure." Yeah." Whatever." "Okay." "Uh-huh."
"I'm sorry. I couldn't help but overhear your conversation," said Miss Hinsley, who had just come up to them. "It's gonna be hard to help Bakura when YOU GUYS have been chosen to be in the play."
The gang, including Bakura, just stared.(You see, the kids in the play were chosen at random!!!!!!!)
"Here's a list of the parts." She dropped a list of parts and the people who were supposed to play them and several copies of the play on Bakura's desk, since he was the manager of the play and the table their desks made had no center. "Have a nice day!" she said, before walking out of the classroom.
"Who am I?!? Who am I?!?" everyone was saying. "Hold it, hold it, everybody! I'll read out the parts," said Bakura.
Bakura read the parts out loud, with great fear.
"I'm playing the innkeeper..."
"They're making you be the innkeeper AND the manager of the play?" asked Duke.
"Yeah."
"Harsh.
"I know.. anyway, the narrator is Miho Nosaka..."
"Miho?" said Serenity. "You mean 'Ribbon'? Uh-oh..She's kinda shy..."
"Don't worry, sis. She'll be fine," said Joey.
"Angel Gabriel is...Marik Ishtar."
There were laughs. Marik said,"What?!?!? I don't wanna wear some stupid angel costume!!! That's for girls!!"
"There are 4 shepherds. Shepherd 1 is Mai Valentine..."
More laughs. Mai said, "Didn't they say they were gonna have live sheep? I'm not so sure about getting near them. Who knows where they've been?!" Joseph and Mai were disappointed that they couldn't play Joseph and Mary.
"Shepherd 2 is Serenity Wheeler..."
"Oh, yes!! I would love to work with the sheep! They're so adorable!!" Duke and Tristan were now hoping that they could be shepherds, too.
"Shepherd 3 is Joey Wheeler..."
"Yes!" Joey whispered. He was happy to be with both his sister and his crush. He stopped smiling, though, when the others looked at him and giggled. Duke and Tristan were nervous now.
"And Shepherd 4 is Duke Devlin."
"Yes!" whispered Duke. "Aww!" said Tristan. Laughs.
"King Herod is Ushio Tashiki."
A few of them laughed, but there were more little gasps. What a coincidence!!!
"Herod's servant is Ishizu Ishtar..."
"Ishizu's not gonna like that. ...Um, you can go on, Bakura," Marik said.
"Okay, there are three Wise Men. Wise Man 1 is Tristan Taylor..."
"Well, I am wise, you know." "Riiiiiiight." Joey said. Laughs.
"Wise Man 2 is Seto Kaiba..."
"And Kaiba's not wise!!!" declared Joey. Everyone laughed except for the nervous Yugi...
"And Wise Man 3 is Yugi Moto..."
"Well, we all know that Yugi is wise!" said Tea with a smile. Everyone agreed. No one seemed to notice that Yugi was sad!!
"...which would leave Yami and Tea to play Joseph and Mary. Congratulations, you guys!" There was some clapping, because the parts were chosen at random between the school and the church!!!!
Can you say Coincidence of the Century?!!
Tea blushed, mostly because she was embarassed, though, and Yami smiled. Also, Yugi scowled, but again, no one seemed to notice!!!
'Oh, great...' he thought.
Bakura passed out the copies of the play and everyone started chatting. Joey looked at his lines in disgust. "Man, this stinks!!! I only say five words in the entire play!!!"
"That's because that's all you can handle," said Duke. Marik laughed.
"Who are you?!!!" said Tristan to himself, reading Shepherd 3's lines.
"I'm Joey," said Joey, frowning in confusion.
"That's your line, dimwit!!" said Tristan.
"See what I mean?" said Duke, smirking at Joey.
"Keep that up and you're not gonna be able to see!!!" retorted Joey. Serenity glared at him and he said, "UH... for a split second because you'll blink because everybody has to blink sometimes. Heh heh..."
"Lame," Duke said and then he blinked (because everybody has to blink sometimes.).
"And you, please don't insult my brother like that." said Serenity.
"It'll never happen again," said Duke hastily.
"Yes it will," muttered Tristan.
"Shut up."
When Yugi got his, he quickly scanned to see if there were any scenes where Joseph and Mary kissed. "Phew!" he said quietly after he finished. "No-"
"Ahahaha. Look, guys," said a grinning Mai to Tea and Yami, holding up the play. "There's a scene where you guys-"
"KISS?!" Yugi said in alarm. "Where?!!" He saw Mai, Tea and Yami staring at him, and said, "Uh, I mean, I was just curious."
"Right there! " said Mai.
Awkward silence. Destiny. Yami and Tea stared at their theatrical destiny.
Luckily, Joey broke the silence by butting his head into the conversation. "I couldn't help but overhear, did you see anywhere that Shepherds 1 and 3-"
"NO!!" The four shouted.
And that's the first chapter of a very long epic tale. I'll update very soon, because a lot more is going to happen!!! I will also include the script of the play that the Yu-Gi-Oh characters are participating in. But that's coming along with the chapter where they first rehearse the play, which is later.
Again, Merry Christmas!!!