Marik thought it was going to be an ordinary day: go to school, goof off while the ever absent teacher leaves the students unsupervised and on the off chance that there is a teacher pretend you have walked into the wrong classroom and spend the rest of the day hanging out on the roof. Honestly, it's like the school does not even care what the students do. If Odion Had not filled their apartment with Gummy Bears he would just stay home all day.
However this day was a bit different than most, although it started out like any other. Marik walked to class as usual, looking at the windows to see his extremely sexy reflection then frowning because his dark blue school uniform did not adequately show off his gorgeous body. He then simply sighed and ran his fingers through his sandy blond hair and continued walking. He spent most of his classes zoning out. In second period the teacher dosed off while giving a lecture, during lunch a guy hit on Marik thinking he was a girl despite his uniform. Then when Marik left for his next class did he notice something out of the ordinary. Marik walked into the classroom to see a rather interesting group of kids playing a card game at their desks.
"Man, I lost again." groaned a blond boy with a thick Brooklyn accent as he dropped his head on the table.
"Face it Joey, you suck at this game," said a small child with blond, black and red hair that defied gravity. Is he even old enough to be here? , "I beat you and ended this game in less than ten minutes."
"Don't these games usually take hours?" A girl with short brunette hair who was standing behind the child asked
"Yeah, this game was boring 'cause it was so short and uneventful, Normally they're boring because they take hours and get incredibly tedious," The blond responded as he leaned back in his chair, "Why did we ever play these games before we had complex machinery to turn these cards into giant slow moving monsters."
"Maybe we should try playing something else." suggested another boy with pointy hair and a voice that sounded strangely like Barney the Dinosaur.
"Shut up Tristan, That's crazy talk." The blond snapped back. Suddenly the brunette girl looked up and noticed Marik watching from the doorway.
"Humina, humina humina. Hello gorgeous!" She shouted.
"Nyeh?" the blond grunted as he looked over his shoulder to see what caused her reaction. The girl then immediately ditched the table where her friends sat and ran over to Marik.
"Um hello." Marik said uneasily, as it appeared he was about to gain a new fangirl. As if he did not have enough of those already.
"I'm Tea," she said and turned slightly to her friends who were now walking up behind her, "These are Yugi, Tristan, and Joey," She said gesturing to each.
"I'm Marik."
"Nice to meetcha." Joey said casually.
"You must be new here. Is it your first day?" Yugi asked
"What the frig are you talking about? I transferred here weeks ago." Marik said scowling
"Really? I haven't seen you around here before." Yugi responded
"Yug, we've all been absent for two weeks." Joey interjected, "The only reason we're here today is 'cause the truant officer finally caught up with us."
"Oh yeah." Yugi said and turned back to Marik, "It's too bad that rich people are exempt from the law, otherwise you would get to meet Kaiba too."
"He's probably off making something like another blue eyes white dragon ride for his amusement park." Tea commented.
"You'd think someone would have sued him by now, seeing as he didn't make Duel Monsters and doesn't have a copyright claim." Yugi noted.
By now Marik was feeling out of the conversation and would gladly leave the group. However as soon as he took a step back Tea grabbed on to his wrist and yanked him back towards the group. As he struggled to get away from the horny girls grasp he noticed the conversation had shifted to that of a children's card game. Yugi even pulled out his deck and was looking through the cards. When Yugi noticed Marik's displeasure with the current situation he tried to bring him back into the conversation by showing him some of his cards.
"This is my favorite card, the Dark Magician, it's super special awesome, and Tea's, the Dark Magician Girl." Yugi said as he pulled the cards out of his deck.
"Actually, my favorite card was the Magician of faith." Tea Corrected
"No, no. You love this card." Yugi insisted
"Hah! Everyone knows Dark Magician Girl is better than Magician of faith." Joey laughed, "Right Marik?" he asked for reassurance from his new acquaintance.
"How should I Friggin' know? I've never even played Duel Monsters." Marik scoffed and at this Yugi immediately dropped his cards and the entire group gasped in an over-the-top anime reaction.
"YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED DUEL MONSTERS BEFORE?!" Yugi Shouted, "You poor deprived kid! We need to get you to my Grandpa's game shop immediately." Yugi took Marik's hand and dragged him out the door.
"You're going to skip school just to get me to play a children's card game." Marik asked.
"Oh, it's no big deal; we do it all the time." Yugi said as they ran down the hall with the others following behind.
"You think that they would've expelled us by now." Tristan added as they headed out the front gate.
It was not long before Yugi and his friends managed to drag Marik into the game shop, with Tea and Yugi tugging on his arms the entire way while Tea rambled endlessly about the kids at school and her various fanfictions.
"Grandpa!" Yugi called to a gray haired man wearing a bandana as soon as they entered the game shop, "I met a kid who has never played card games. We must change him." He said, adding the last part rather darkly while pulling Marik up to the front counter.
"Well hurry up and make your purchase, I need to go by a coffin for my funeral." The old man croaked.
"Grandpa, you're still alive." Yugi stated
"I am? Dammit!" he groused, before turning to Marik, "Well, what a pretty girl you are. Take your top off and I'll give you a discount."
"Grandpa!" Yugi shouted in a reprimanding tone before turning to Marik, "I'm sorry he's not usually like this –"
"Yes he is" Tea cut in.
"Anyway," Yugi said before looking back to his grandfather, "Grandpa, this Marik. He is not a girl…I think." He finished with a quick glance to Marik.
"He isn't?" Grandpa asked in mild disbelief before adding anyway, "Take your top off and I'll give you a discount."
"Stop asking customers to strip or we're locking you in the basement again," Yugi threatened before turning to once again apologize to Marik, only to see that he had actually took his shirt off.
"You didn't actually have to take your shirt off." Yugi said.
"A body this gorgeous was meant to be flaunted. Do you see this midriff?" Marik responded while pointing to his well-toned stomach.
"Holy cow, look at those abs! What did you do, swallow a washboard?" Yugi gasped.
"Humina, Humina, Humina." came from Tea and her hand shot forward.
"Hey, you can look, but don't touch!" Marik snapped jumping back and pulling the jacket of uniform back on, before quickly looking around for an excuse to ditch the annoying girl. When he glanced out the window he noticed the sun was hanging rather low in the sky and it was getting rather late.
"Oh, Crap in a bucket! I need to get home before Ishizu kills me." He shouted before running out the door.
"Wait, at least give me your phone number before you go!" Tea said following after him.
Marik ran down the street with Tea in hot pursuit. Stopping occasionally only to look for a place to hide. When he heard the brunette girl's footsteps getting closer he quickly ducked into an ally way. However, he did not get very far before being knocked down by a generic thug like character.
"Gah." Marik yelped as he received a quick kick to the stomach.
"Don't move, or we'll beat you up with heavily implied violence" the man said as a few more thugs gathered around.
"Has my extreme sexiness caused you to attack out of pure jealousy? Because that tends to happen a lot." Marik asked as he looked over his shoulder at them.
"No, we've been waiting in this ally way to steal duel monsters cards from whoever walks by." He grunted.
"But I don't have any cards. I was too busy running away from a fangirl to buy any."
"What!?" He yelled hoisting Marik into the air, "What kind of freak doesn't have children's trading cards with them at all times?! You don't belong in this city!"
"Let go! Get the ever loving frig off of me!" Marik howled, "I command you to release me at once."
"Oh, no!" Tea gasped upon finally catching up with Marik "Joey! Tristan! Come help, Gorgeous McStudMuffin is in danger!" She shouted as she immediately started running back to the game shop. Within a few moments the rest of the friendship crew showed up.
"Don't worry Malik, my voice gives me super strength!" Tristan said before he and Joey lunged forward, while Yugi and Tea stood back and watched.
…[One 4kids fight scene later]…
"Okay, your safe now Marik." said Joey, who was looking a little worse for wear from all of the implied violence.
"You-You helped me?" Marik asked looking over to the group.
"Of course we helped you, we are friends and friendship is the most important thing ever!" Tea shouted, "As your friends we will always protect you."
"Really? I thought –" was all Marik was able to say before being cut off
"Also you're drop dead gorgeous and I want you to be my sex slave in the near future." Tea said quickly.
"Yeah, I get that a lot." Marik said, stepping back slightly "Well I better get home, Ishizu will be wondering where I am." And with that he ran off not stopping until he got home where he immediately locked the door to keep him safe from street side thugs and rabid fangirls.