Yugi flipped through the radio stations trying to find a decent song. Yami
was busy doing, god only knows, in the other room. Yugi was halfway
satisfied when he found an american song, "kiss from a rose". Yugi hummed
along with it as he picked up his history book and sat down at his desk to
finish his work. He chewed on the eraser for a moment thinking. "I cant
do this...its so boring..." He said forcing himself to finish the last of
his paper anyway. "I need to go do something..." he said closing the
paper in his textbook.
Yugi groaned. Nothing...there was simply NOTHING to do. It was one of those days. He considered calling Jono and hooking up with him and Honda to go out and see what they could find, but thought better of it when he remembered Anzu was hanging with them today. Yami came in at that moment and walked over to Yugi. "Want to go out?" Yugi grinned. "You read my mind."
They strolled for a while just taking in the air and sunshine...it was a very nice day out. "How about we go to see the american sport....hmm...what did they call them...oh yes! 'Rodeo'." Yugi blinked. "What's a 'rodeo'?" Yami shrugged. I just heard it was happening today. Yugi nodded. "Why not...if nothing else...we'll figure out what a 'rodeo' is." he said grinning.
Yugi stared. "They're insane..." he said staring at a man clinging to a raging bull as it ran about the arena bucking and grunting, trying with all its might to fling the person from its back. Yami stared as well. Both winced when the rider was finally thrown, the bull nearly stomping on the man. "What kind of sport is this anyway?" Yami said watching as they prepared another rider...with another equally enraged bull. "One where you are supposed to get hurt?" Yugi said eyes wide and waiting for the next mauling.
Yami and Yugi couldn't pull their eyes from the show. "Ohhh...that looked painful." Yami said wincing and looking over to Yugi who was equally shocked. As the rodeo came to a close the so-called winners were given their prizes. "There was a winner?" Yami said blinking. Yugi shrugged. "The one who can still walk I suppose.."
"And now for our favorite part of the show! Some audience participation! If you're in seat 382, you're the lucky winner!" Yugi paled. "Eh heh heh...Yami....w-wanna switch me seats? I think the view is MUCH better from your seat." Yami blinked. "...you aren't in.." Yugi stood up slighly and tried to sneak out. "Oh Ra...he was..."
Now, it just so happened that Yugi had been spotted, trying to sneak out of the rodeo didn't help him. "Hey you're the winner aintcha?" Yugi coughed. "Oh..oh no...eh heh I was just...uh...I was looking at that seat...wasn't mine!" The rodeo clown grabbed his arm. "C'mon it'll be fun!" Yugi paled. "Uh...n-no thanks I'm all funned out...in fact...err...I could use a nice refreshing nap...or maybe uh...a last meal?" Yami stared, more shocked than anything. He found that his voice was simply too shocked, as was the rest of him, to work.
"Pleeeease! I r-really I'm fine...I dont think I uh..should be given such a great prize...a-an have to hog it all to myself! Really!" Yugi said tugging his arm trying any means he could think of to get the people who were readying a paticularly mean horse. "Oh its just old Molasses, he hasn't bucked in years...he's older than the hills kid!" Yugi calmed down a bit. "He wont kill me?" They nodded. "Not even a little."
Yugi, after much reassurance, had somehow found himself on the horse's back. This old horse...who hadn't seen much action in a while was very calm...Yugi calmed down a bit more. Yami stared at his hikari. "He's going to die..." he managed to force out of his highly unsure being. Yugi was just getting used to being on the horse when they opened the gate and rang a buzzer.
Everything was nice, calm and good...until something came over the horse that is...it froze in the middle of the arena and its ears tilted back. Yugi knew what came next. He lunged forward and became 'velcro-grip of the century' kid, grabbing the horse's neck, latching onto it and STAYING that way. The horse began bucking and freaking out far worse than any bull that had gone out there yet!
Yami ran down to the edge of the arena. "Yugi! Hold on tight!" Yugi was doing more than that, he was death-gripped to that horse. /Ooooh...I'm going to die! I'm gonna die!/ He yelped through their mental link. Yami was getting paler and more upset by the moment. //You wont die! Just DONT let go!// He stammered back. Yugi had his eyes cemented shut and he could feel the force the horse was hitting the ground with. /Bury me someplace pretty.../ He said in a panic.
The crowd, needless to say was in a frenzy. The clowns were doing everything to distract the horse and get it to calm down. Nothing seemed to work. It just continued bucking with unteathered rage. Yugi was sure that his very bones were rattling about. He wanted to scream, but he couldn't find his vocal cords, not that they would have worked.
Yami was gripping the rails so tightly that his knuckles were white. The workers at the rodeo wouldn't let him help try to save his hikari...he felt truly helpless. It was like the horse was on a mad killing spree after his Yugi...his hikari. What made it worse for the pharaoh...was that there was NOTHING he could do.
Yugi whimpered and felt his grip slipping. "ST-OO-P!! PL-EA-SE! Listen mister horse I have a f-family and I am too young to be trampled to death!" Yugi yelped as his grip was slipping. All the bucking tore his statement to shreds of a statement. Yugi felt himself being thrown about as the horse, as though understanding his pleads, began bucking harder.
Yami winced as he watched his poor hikari. So far nothing had hurt him...but he could only imagine the many gruesome endings Yugi could have at any second. It was like the horse was taunting the crowd. 'lets see how often you go riding cattle now?! want a piece o this?' It was a horror movie come to life.
The horse had managed to fling Yugi from the saddle, and he was now hanging solely from the horses neck. He was dangling from the side of a derranged horse that was out of control! Yugi tried to bounce up from the side of the horse back up onto its back. "oh god oh god oh god...." He chanted as he opened an eye, only to discover that he REALLY wished he hadn't. The horse was going to ram him into a post. "OOOH god OOOOH god!" He chanted louder.
Yami felt sick. "Oh Ra! please HELP him!" As if it were an answer to the pharaoh's prayers, Yugi somehow managed to find his way back to the saddle just seconds before the horse whizzed past the post. Yami sighed in slight relief. "Praise the gods..." he muttered shakily.
Yugi dug his heels into the sides of the horse trying to steady himself. "STOP!! STOP!!" he yelled at the horse. "I'm BEGGING you!" Yugi was once more flipped off the saddle by a paticularly fierce buck. "Oh no! Not again!" he yelped as the horse began speeding around the arena. Yugi saw Yami at one point...or maybe it was Yami...his vision was a bit blurry from all the bouncing. He saw the post again. It was like this horse was on a mission to hurt him! He flinched. "o-one....t-t-two....THREE!" He said propping his feet against the side of the horse and pushing himself off, letting go and skidding away from the hose JUST as it passed the pole.
Yugi felt like kissing the ground he laid on, even though he wasn't in any paticular feeling of comfort. He had sprained or twisted SOMETHING in that fall. He blinked as a thought wormed its way into his current state of mind. "where's the - -?" He looked up. "OOOH god!" He squealed and pushed himself up and, darted for the nearest fence. The horse had turned and was now charging full speed at him.
Yami was shaking badly, his hikari had managed to get off the horse without killing himself...but the horse intended otherwise. It was chasing him down! He watched the horse run after Yugi, it nearly would have trampled him, but Yugi turned at the last moment and skidded under a fence. "Yugi!" Yami shouted running over to his shaking hikari. Yugi looked up at him. "Oh....hiiii...." He muttered before passing out.
Yugi groaned. Nothing...there was simply NOTHING to do. It was one of those days. He considered calling Jono and hooking up with him and Honda to go out and see what they could find, but thought better of it when he remembered Anzu was hanging with them today. Yami came in at that moment and walked over to Yugi. "Want to go out?" Yugi grinned. "You read my mind."
They strolled for a while just taking in the air and sunshine...it was a very nice day out. "How about we go to see the american sport....hmm...what did they call them...oh yes! 'Rodeo'." Yugi blinked. "What's a 'rodeo'?" Yami shrugged. I just heard it was happening today. Yugi nodded. "Why not...if nothing else...we'll figure out what a 'rodeo' is." he said grinning.
Yugi stared. "They're insane..." he said staring at a man clinging to a raging bull as it ran about the arena bucking and grunting, trying with all its might to fling the person from its back. Yami stared as well. Both winced when the rider was finally thrown, the bull nearly stomping on the man. "What kind of sport is this anyway?" Yami said watching as they prepared another rider...with another equally enraged bull. "One where you are supposed to get hurt?" Yugi said eyes wide and waiting for the next mauling.
Yami and Yugi couldn't pull their eyes from the show. "Ohhh...that looked painful." Yami said wincing and looking over to Yugi who was equally shocked. As the rodeo came to a close the so-called winners were given their prizes. "There was a winner?" Yami said blinking. Yugi shrugged. "The one who can still walk I suppose.."
"And now for our favorite part of the show! Some audience participation! If you're in seat 382, you're the lucky winner!" Yugi paled. "Eh heh heh...Yami....w-wanna switch me seats? I think the view is MUCH better from your seat." Yami blinked. "...you aren't in.." Yugi stood up slighly and tried to sneak out. "Oh Ra...he was..."
Now, it just so happened that Yugi had been spotted, trying to sneak out of the rodeo didn't help him. "Hey you're the winner aintcha?" Yugi coughed. "Oh..oh no...eh heh I was just...uh...I was looking at that seat...wasn't mine!" The rodeo clown grabbed his arm. "C'mon it'll be fun!" Yugi paled. "Uh...n-no thanks I'm all funned out...in fact...err...I could use a nice refreshing nap...or maybe uh...a last meal?" Yami stared, more shocked than anything. He found that his voice was simply too shocked, as was the rest of him, to work.
"Pleeeease! I r-really I'm fine...I dont think I uh..should be given such a great prize...a-an have to hog it all to myself! Really!" Yugi said tugging his arm trying any means he could think of to get the people who were readying a paticularly mean horse. "Oh its just old Molasses, he hasn't bucked in years...he's older than the hills kid!" Yugi calmed down a bit. "He wont kill me?" They nodded. "Not even a little."
Yugi, after much reassurance, had somehow found himself on the horse's back. This old horse...who hadn't seen much action in a while was very calm...Yugi calmed down a bit more. Yami stared at his hikari. "He's going to die..." he managed to force out of his highly unsure being. Yugi was just getting used to being on the horse when they opened the gate and rang a buzzer.
Everything was nice, calm and good...until something came over the horse that is...it froze in the middle of the arena and its ears tilted back. Yugi knew what came next. He lunged forward and became 'velcro-grip of the century' kid, grabbing the horse's neck, latching onto it and STAYING that way. The horse began bucking and freaking out far worse than any bull that had gone out there yet!
Yami ran down to the edge of the arena. "Yugi! Hold on tight!" Yugi was doing more than that, he was death-gripped to that horse. /Ooooh...I'm going to die! I'm gonna die!/ He yelped through their mental link. Yami was getting paler and more upset by the moment. //You wont die! Just DONT let go!// He stammered back. Yugi had his eyes cemented shut and he could feel the force the horse was hitting the ground with. /Bury me someplace pretty.../ He said in a panic.
The crowd, needless to say was in a frenzy. The clowns were doing everything to distract the horse and get it to calm down. Nothing seemed to work. It just continued bucking with unteathered rage. Yugi was sure that his very bones were rattling about. He wanted to scream, but he couldn't find his vocal cords, not that they would have worked.
Yami was gripping the rails so tightly that his knuckles were white. The workers at the rodeo wouldn't let him help try to save his hikari...he felt truly helpless. It was like the horse was on a mad killing spree after his Yugi...his hikari. What made it worse for the pharaoh...was that there was NOTHING he could do.
Yugi whimpered and felt his grip slipping. "ST-OO-P!! PL-EA-SE! Listen mister horse I have a f-family and I am too young to be trampled to death!" Yugi yelped as his grip was slipping. All the bucking tore his statement to shreds of a statement. Yugi felt himself being thrown about as the horse, as though understanding his pleads, began bucking harder.
Yami winced as he watched his poor hikari. So far nothing had hurt him...but he could only imagine the many gruesome endings Yugi could have at any second. It was like the horse was taunting the crowd. 'lets see how often you go riding cattle now?! want a piece o this?' It was a horror movie come to life.
The horse had managed to fling Yugi from the saddle, and he was now hanging solely from the horses neck. He was dangling from the side of a derranged horse that was out of control! Yugi tried to bounce up from the side of the horse back up onto its back. "oh god oh god oh god...." He chanted as he opened an eye, only to discover that he REALLY wished he hadn't. The horse was going to ram him into a post. "OOOH god OOOOH god!" He chanted louder.
Yami felt sick. "Oh Ra! please HELP him!" As if it were an answer to the pharaoh's prayers, Yugi somehow managed to find his way back to the saddle just seconds before the horse whizzed past the post. Yami sighed in slight relief. "Praise the gods..." he muttered shakily.
Yugi dug his heels into the sides of the horse trying to steady himself. "STOP!! STOP!!" he yelled at the horse. "I'm BEGGING you!" Yugi was once more flipped off the saddle by a paticularly fierce buck. "Oh no! Not again!" he yelped as the horse began speeding around the arena. Yugi saw Yami at one point...or maybe it was Yami...his vision was a bit blurry from all the bouncing. He saw the post again. It was like this horse was on a mission to hurt him! He flinched. "o-one....t-t-two....THREE!" He said propping his feet against the side of the horse and pushing himself off, letting go and skidding away from the hose JUST as it passed the pole.
Yugi felt like kissing the ground he laid on, even though he wasn't in any paticular feeling of comfort. He had sprained or twisted SOMETHING in that fall. He blinked as a thought wormed its way into his current state of mind. "where's the - -?" He looked up. "OOOH god!" He squealed and pushed himself up and, darted for the nearest fence. The horse had turned and was now charging full speed at him.
Yami was shaking badly, his hikari had managed to get off the horse without killing himself...but the horse intended otherwise. It was chasing him down! He watched the horse run after Yugi, it nearly would have trampled him, but Yugi turned at the last moment and skidded under a fence. "Yugi!" Yami shouted running over to his shaking hikari. Yugi looked up at him. "Oh....hiiii...." He muttered before passing out.