Title: Yugi's Adventures in Wonderland
Genre: romance, humor, supernatural, fantasy
Rating: T for language and violence
Pairings: YamiXYugi; BakuraXRyou; MarikXMalik; KaibaXJonouchi
Summary: Yugi Mouto, the childish and innocent wielder of the Millennium Puzzle, now a kind and gentle 18-year-old, is brought to a party full of CEOs, only to find out that he has been betrothed to a dunce of a CEO heir, the snooty, stuck-up son of Yugi's father's old friend. At his engagement party, he escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage, when he's truly in love with Yami, the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle who was given a body a long time ago, and is dragged down a hole after spotting an unusual rabbit and getting hit by a car he didn't see in the road. Arriving in a strange and surreal place called "Underland," he finds himself in a world that resembles the nightmares he had as a child, filled with talking animals, villainous queens, kings, and knights, and frumious Bandersnatches. Yugi realizes that he is there for a reason- to conquer the horrific Jabberwock and restore the rightful king to his throne. If he can't do that, he'll never return home to his dear sweet Yami, the true love of his life.
Me: Okay, guys! This is a story that many have been waiting for and we are hoping that everyone will like it!
Lucy: This is a Yu-Gi-Oh! story based off of Tim Burton's genius version of "Alice in Wonderland"! We saw the movie and we just had to do this story because it was just too awesome to pass up!
Me: We plan on updating quickly, so be expecting it!
Lucy: Here is the prologue, based very closely to the movie, as you shall all see soon!
Prologue
Yugi Mouto started awake. His heart was pounding. The room around him was dark. The only glimmers of light slipped under the door from the lights in the hall outside his bedroom, and a small fleck of light came from the box containing the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian item that his grandfather had brought him all the way from one of his trips. They cast eerie shadows on the walls of his pale blue bedroom walls.
He'd had that dream again. It was the same every time.
The tiny eight year old pushed back his heavy bedcovers. He shivered as his bare feet hit the cold carpeted floor. Sounds echoed from downstairs- the strong, comforting voice of his father and the answering guffaws of his fellow CEOs in the living room of the Kame Game Shop that Yugi's grandfather owned.
The pale curtains fluttered at his open window as Yugi pulled open the heavy bedroom door. He crept down the carpeted hall, a ghostly figure in his oversized white T shirt. A floorboard underneath the carpet creaked underneath him as he passed his mother's room.
Yugi froze, waiting for the stern word to send him back to bed.
Silence answered him. Another roar of laughter from the men downstairs. Either his mother had already fallen asleep, or she was pretending to. It couldn't be that late, Yugi hadn't been asleep that long, had he?
As Yugi hurried down the long staircase, the smooth wood of the banister felt like polished brass under his small hands. He stopped in the doorway of the living room, transfixed by the comforting sight of his father.
Charlie Mouto(1) stood near the window, dressed in the same gray suit that Yugi always saw him in. A circle of men; CEOs that Yugi didn't recognize; sat listening to him, captured by his ardor the way Yugi usually way. He spoke passionately about his new idea. Yugi was too little to understand it, but he knew that if his father believed in it, then it must have been something truly and absolutely wonderful.
Peering around the door, he recognized one of the faces in the crowd. It was the CEO Mr. Oshita, a dour, aristocratic man with none of Yugi's father's energy or life. Mr. Oshita's son, Gansley, was a pasty, stuck-up little boy with no sense of humor. Yugi thought he was horrific, but he tried to be nice to him. He thought that he would be a horrible person, too, if he had been raised by Mr. and Mrs. Oshita.
Instead, he had his father, who understood him completely. Yugi wrapped his hands around the small doorknob and leaned on the solid door, waiting for Charlie to notice him.
"Charlie," said Mr. Oshita. "you have finally lost your mind."
"This venture is near to impossible," agreed another CEO, his thin mustache twitching as he spoke.
Charlie Mouto smiled a grin that made Yugi feel warm inside. How could anyone disagree with his father about anything? Now that was near to impossible. If Charlie thought it up, then it was brilliant and possible.
"For some, it may be impossible," Yugi's father said. "Gentlemen, the only way to achieve the impossible is to believe in it."
Yugi pondered this a moment.
"That kind of childish thinking will ruin you, Charlie," said a man in an ill-fitting brown suit with strings of red mixed into the coloring. It gave Yugi a headache just looked at it. He wondered how someone could wear such a horrid color.
"I'm willing to take that chance," Charlie said, smiling. "Imagine it! We could spread Kaiba Corps' machinery all over. Imagine it! Trading posts in Denmark, Bangkok, America…"
He waved his arms, imagining the exotic and faraway places that they could stretch the business that they worked for; Kaiba Corp. It was a vast and productive business place that his father and the rest of these men worked for. His eyes glistened as he dreamed of the faraway ports, and his gaze drifted across the room and fell on Yugi. Immediately, he stopped speaking and crossed the room to him. The other CEOs turned and saw the tiny blond-red-black- child standing in the door in nothing but his father's giant, ratty T shirt. Yugi's father crouched beside him and put his warm hands on his son's trembling shoulders.
"That nightmare again?"
Yugi nodded, thinking of immaterial cats and a talking hare and a strange hatter and a king dressed in all white. Charlie took one of his son's hands in his larger one and turned to his guests with a kind smile.
"I won't be long, gentlemen," he said.
Yugi leaned against his father's shoulder as he carried him up the giant staircase. Yugi's mother would have scandalized if Yugi had shown up in the middle of the night during one of her parties with her friends. She would have sent him straight back to bed on his own. But Father understood him. He always understood, and he was always there for Yugi.
Charlie tucked Yugi back into his bed again and sat down beside him. "Tell me about it?" he asked, patting his son's hand.
"I was falling down a dark hole," Yugi said. "and then I saw strange creatures…" He stopped. It all sounded too strange to believe, but his father listened with a serious, attentive expression on his face.
"What kind of creatures?" he asked.
"There's a dodo bird, I think," said Yugi. "a rabbit in a waistcoat, a smiling cat-"
"I didn't know cats could smile," Charlie said.
"Neither did I," said Yugi, but he could see the bizarre smiling cat in his head as clear as day, as well as the smile left behind when the rest of the cat disappeared. He shivered. It was all so very strange. "There's a hatter, a king in all white, a queen… Oh, and there's a blue caterpillar," he said, remembering the puffy brown mushroom that the creature had been sitting on as if he had just seen it before him.
"Blue caterpillar?" Charlie asked gravely. "Hmmm."
Yugi gave him a worried look. "Do you think I'm insane, Father?"
His father felt his forehead, looking just like the doctor when he was checking for a fever. He made the doctor's "bad news" face and said, "I'm afraid so. You're insane. Mad. Bonkers. Off your rocker." Yugi frowned when he heard this. "But I'll let you in on a little secret," Charlie winked and gave his son a smile. "All the best people are."
Yugi couldn't help but smile back. He leaned against his father with a soft sigh.
"It's only a dream, Yugi," he went on. "Nothing can hurt you there. But if you get too scared, you can always wake up. Just like this." Suddenly he pinched Yugi's arm, not very hard, but it made him shriek with surprise. Laughing, Yugi pinched him back, and he laughed, ruffling his son's multi-colored star-shaped hair. "Exactly," he said. "You see? Nothing to worry about. It's only a dream, Yugi."
He kissed his son's forehead and slowly stood up.
"Good night, Father," Yugi whispered.
But as he listened to his father's soft footsteps going back down the stairs, a shivery feeling ran across his skin. He cast a distraught look over at the Millennium Puzzle, as if it had been the cause of all the trouble.
How could a dream be so real?
Me: So, when Yugi was little, he had nightmares that are exactly like what Alice had in "Alice in Wonderland"! (1) I know this probably isn't his father's real name, but we never see Yugi's father, so this is who he is!
Lucy: Okay, guys! This story will be updated along with "Seven Days to Suffer" and our other promptly! We're a bit nervous about posting this one so please don't be cruel and we shall update soon!
Me: To see what'll happen, read on!
Lucy: We plan on updating quickly, so we fear we won't get many reviews, but he are hoping to get as many reviews on as many chapters as possible, please and thank you all who read and enjoy this! If you don't like, don't read!