A Christmas Dilemma---------------------------------------Read and Review
Yugi awoke one morning just before the sun rose, and after rubbing the sleep from his eyes he changed and looked out the window. Domino City was still quiet, and far off in the distance, the horizon was beginning to turn silver as the sun was beginning to rise. Yugi turned and noticed that this was the last day of school before the Christmas break.
"Today is the day." Yugi bellowed "Christmas is coming-Yahoo!"
Yugi began to jump across his room, but when he felt a stir in the puzzle, he stopped, for his cheerfulness awoke Yami, and he came out of the puzzle a little dazed.
"What, what's gong on, what's happened?" Yami rubbing his eyes, then looking around
Yami then looked at his Hikari all confused
"Oh Morning, your up early aren't you" Yugi smiling sweetly
"Well, I thought something happened, and who are you to talk, you are too" Yami
"Well, yeah" Yugi turning to his wall mirror to look himself over
"Any reason why?" Yami curious went up beside him" The sun is just coming up"
"Today is the day I get to give my friends their Christmas presents.-He smiled-Today is the last day of school, we'll be having a vacation for awhile, for winter, so were giving all our presents today" Yugi said as he was fixing his hair. (Though it was still the same old style)
"Winter vacation? Presents?" Yami repeated
"Yep" Yugi said as he grabbed a bag filled with wrapped boxes and his book bag
"So, then what?" Yami expecting that there'd be more to the conversation
"Well, then we get to come back here and put up decorations" Yugi said excitedly then left the room and headed downstairs to say goodbye to his grandfather.
Yugi walked to school and during that time Yami was in his puzzle.
"Decorations? Christmas?" Yami thinking aloud to himself
Yami was sitting in a thrown like chair thinking about how excited his Hikari was.
Yami had never heard about Christmas, but he had seen decorations before, and wondered what type of decorations his Hikari needed for him to celebrate his Christmas. Still not only that, but he needed to get a present for his Hikari, so now he had two problems- he needed to help with the decorations, and he needed to get his Hikari a present. Still he knew this Christmas thing must be a good thing, judging by how excited his Hikari was.
After thinking this, Yami went up a sideways staircase into a dark room. This room wasn't a room he visited often in his chambers, in fact he really hadn't visited it at all, for in this room were boxes of old relics that he was buried with when he died over 3000 years ago. Inside these boxes were old Egyptian artifacts, though they needed cleaning, he hoped that this was similar to what Yugi may need.
He looked in some other boxes, and many of these artifacts were strung up together, they had little pyramids and Egyptian cat like ornaments, there were a few gold rings and gold jewelry all lined up next together like little Christmas bulbs.
"Perhaps he can use these" Yami "For something"
Then he noticed more boxes crammed together in the center of the room all stacked up forming an odd pyramid.
"What else is in here, and why didn't I notice these before?" Yami going toward the center of the room
Yami then began to look in the other boxes, but the others weren't like the other boxes he had looked at. Inside were jewels and ancient book spells the old priests had used to perform curses and ceremonies. It looked like a treasury after he had dumped everything out and onto the floor. Yami then became a bit disturbed.
"Something is missing" Yami
During this time Yugi had made it to school
"Hi everybody, today is going to be a great day" Yugi said with a big smile
"Hey Yugi" Ryou
"Good morning, I think so; I had been looking forward to this day for months" Malik
"So have you guys decorated yet?" Yugi tossing his book bag in his seat beside Ryou
"Yes, I fixed up the apartment last weekend" Ryou smiling and watched Yugi carefully place his gift bag on his desk
"No" Malik said bitterly "My sister said it was too early"
Yugi walked over to the other two
"Oh?" Yugi said a little down
"Well (Malik grinned mischievously) that was till I told her that since she said I couldn't, I would let Marik do it….You should have seen her face"
Malik was laughing his head off
The others smiled, but could imagine her face in shock
"She let me decorate all I wanted to then." Malik "So I put up the lights, the tree, decorated with holly everywhere inside the house, I then set up the table, and put up the ornaments with lights on all the windows and…."
Little did they know that class had started and they were so into their conversation that they didn't realize they were speaking Egyptian
"I know that it is the last day of school, but break hasn't started yet!" Teacher
!- The three of them
"And we are taking English so silence your native tongues" Teacher
"?"- The three were confused at this, but they took their seats anyway
"Sheesh" Ryou looking to Yugi and then to Malik the other two had the same pissed off look on their faces as Ryou did, and slump back in there seats to watch the teacher finish attendance.
Five minutes later
At this time the teacher turned her back to the class and began to teach.
Bakura and Marik took this as an opportunity to come out in their ghost like forms
(What the hell was she talking about?) Bakura to Ryou
(I guess I was speaking in Egyptian to Yugi and Malik again) Ryou to Bakura
(So) Bakura
(So, if I do it again I could get into trouble) Ryou to Bakura
(Why?) Bakura
(She doesn't like not being able to understand what we say) Ryou
(Then I guess it is too late then) Bakura
(What do you mean?) Ryou
(Well, just that all the Egyptian teachers I know are dead so her luck ran out when they did) Bakura beginning to laugh
Ryou put his head on his desk and had this exhausted look on his face.
(What the hell is he so happy about?) Marik to Malik
(Well the holiday is drawing near so maybe..) Malik looking at the ghost Bakura but addressing his answer to Marik
(Like he knows what holiday it is) Marik
(Maybe he does) Malik to Marik
(I doubt he even knows what to do for the holiday, He hardly even remembers the what day it is to remember what this up coming Holiday is even about) Marik glared at Bakura who was still laughing his head off (Still on a more important note what was she hollering about?)
(I didn't realize the class started and I was talking to Yugi and Ryou) Malik confessing
(It's still early so what was the big idea) Marik
Malik then put his head on the desk and didn't answer Marik
Yugi was observing both Ryou and Malik and could understand why they were exhausted. Sometimes their Yamis just didn't understand, and lately they have been taking more energy to hold back. Yugi then thought how the last time he tried to suppress Yami back he was knocked out for a week. Still to keep Yami from worrying he told him he was just sick.
(Malik what's wrong?) Marik going around the other side of the desk knocking the student in front of him off their seat and onto the floor.
"Ouch" Student
"What's going on over their?" Teacher
"Oh boy" Yugi closed his eyes and just sighed
Yami took this moment to come out of his puzzle to see what the entire ruckus was, for he felt Yugi's attitude change from Happiness to normal and now there was a large bang.
(What's going on?) Yami to Yugi
Still Yugi didn't even get a chance to answer, Yami saw the Priest and the Thief and it was all over.
"What are you doing here" Yami to Marik and Bakura
"Well, this may be too much for you to understand, but you see, we live in these little golden items and we go wherever they go and…" Bakura
"Shut up Cocky bastard!" Marik turning to Bakura and giving him a nasty glare "Don't answer for me"
"Why you ingrate" Bakura turning on Marik
"That's enough" Yami calling fourth his dark energy stopping them in their place
Still suddenly their Hikari's had grown exhausted and since their Yamis had been growing stronger, as well as their shadow power, it was taking more and more energy trying to contain them from acting up. Lately their little energies have become more and more spent, and it would make them feel more and more sleepy as the day went on. Lately they had been falling asleep in class but today they couldn't fight their Yamis and they passed out onto their desks
"!" Yamis who then took over their bodies so they could rest
In Yugi/Yamis soul chamber
"Yugi what is it? What's wrong" Yami upset and worried "Yugi?"
Still Yugi was passed out and could not answer him.
"What did they do to you?" Yami getting all pissed
Yami's millennium symbol showed up on his forehead and he awoke on Yugi's desk bearing the symbol only visible to Bakura and Marik. As the three of them awoke the symbol vanished.
"Thief what did you do" Yami to Bakura
"I didn't do anything; still what did you do to Ryou" Bakura
Then they turned to Marik, who it looked like his handiwork.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?" Yami and Bakura together
"Nothing, I take it there must be another force at work here" Marik to them
"THAT'S ENOUGH WHAT DID I TELL ALL OF YOU" Teacher
They jumped in their seats; they noticed she must've heard them.
"No more native talk! and stop interfering with class" Teacher
"If you don't want anymore native talk then once you learn it, it won't be a problem" Bakura to the teacher
"Silence and go to the board." Teacher pointing to the writing on the board "Go"
Bakura go up from his chair and marched up to the board and looked at the writings. He had seen writing like this before, done by his Hikari, still the only time he paid any attention to this writing was when he'd sneak in somewhere and read the warnings on the walls like he did when he'd break into a tomb or Pyramid. So he was used to writings being on walls, still he had to be honest and didn't know what the entire writing said.
"Now recite to me what the poem says and read it to the class" Teacher
"So do you want me to recite a poem, or read it to the class?" Bakura wanting clarification
"Don't be a smart ass!" Teacher who was beginning to get pissed off at him for talking back "Recite it"
"Well, alright" Bakura
Bakura went into the row were Yami was in and he saw the Pharaoh sitting there with a smug look on his face almost as if he was saying "Amuse me" So orders were orders.
Bakura cleared his throat and began to recite a poem-
Upon a morning the sun shown bright
Till midday came.
Ra hid his face and the light
And thus curiosity came.
Into a guarded treasure
What was there was now gone
What could be, but true pleasure?
As he left and sang a song.
By and with the grace of Ra
Never captured and never will be
And now a King he became like Ra
Forever and forever he will be.
"…" Teacher "How is that relevant to anything?"
There was a loud crashing noise, and everyone looked back. Yami had gotten up and his chair crashed onto the floor.
"Damn you! And may Ra curse you, you damn thief, you took it didn't you, Curse you to Hell" Yami hollering at Bakura
"Well I liked the poem" Marik kicked back and put his feet onto his desk bemused by the show he was watching "I need popcorn"
The teacher was just looking from Yugi to Ryou confused as all hell
"What are you accusing me of now" Bakura in a bored like tone, and he just folded his arms like he was used to this
"Admit your guilt NOW!" Yami commanded "Judgment will not be swift!"
"He does have style" Marik folding his arms "And a coke, a coke would be nice.
"If you two are done, I would advise you, if you are going to cause trouble at least do it in a language we can all understand" The teacher
"?" The three blinked and Yami then sat down
"I understood" Marik with a big smile on his face
"Sit down Ryou" The teacher in an exhausted tone
Yami just glared at Bakura as he walked to his seat and sat down.
"Well Yugi what do you have to say to his poem" Teacher
Yami got up and walked to the front of the room, everyone could feel his anger for it filled the room and those who knew not what they were feeling just looked at him. Yami went in front of Bakura's row and began to recite a poem as well.
Strike and twist, bend and break
For screams is all that's to be heard.
The pain and anguished wont be fake
A lesson there is to learn
Treasure with treasure
Each grander then grander fare
Come near again and they'll be Pain beyond compare
For us three as we know That there is pain, even worse than death.
The teacher didn't know what to think. Still being that this wasn't aimed at her, she didn't say anything. Hell she couldn't understand it anyway. Still Marik and Bakura grasped that message real well. To this Yami sat down and just glared at the two of them.
"Well, that was fun" Marik beginning to smile
"Oh shut up" Bakura looking at him with a death glare
"What was that" Teacher putting a hand to her head
"A poem from one person to the other" Yami
"You do realize that was long ago" Bakura to Yami an arm on the back of his seat
"Where is it now?" Yami glaring at him
"Hell if I know, In a museum I guess" Bakura stretching and kicked back in his seat again
"…" Yami thinking about it then turned to him to give him a death glare "Damn you"
"Oh well." Teacher "Now for math"
The next class hour went pretty good now one really said anything. Still some students would pass Marik, Bakura, and Yami a few glances as though expecting them to start something.
They took notes and then the teacher made an announcement.
"Alright put the stuff away and take out your pencil for the Exam" Teacher
"What!" Marik
"An Exam, it's like a test but harder" Bakura
"I know that" Marik (I can't do this stuff, I don't even know the whole writing style) To Yami, and Bakura
(That can be a problem) Yami to the others
(Sucks to be you) Bakura
"SHUT UP THIEF" Marik
"Here you shut up" Teacher hitting him in the face with the exam "I want silence"
"I don't care what you want" Yami under his breath
They took the exam and while taking it the teacher monitored everyone's expressions.
Marik was smiling during the whole exam and that looked strange in and of itself.
Bakura looked like he was thinking hard and he'd rub the pencil to his forehead till something came to him. Then he'd smile and jot it down.
Yami didn't even spend twenty minutes on it he got up handed it in face down, went to his seat and just stayed there glaring at her.
So after five minutes of looking at him glaring at her she got up and began to write some other stuff on the board though she could still feel his eyes on her every move.
(You would to think he'd expect me to curse him or something) The teacher to herself
(Try it and Die) Yami
The teacher broke her chalk and it rolled away from her.
(I am hearing things) The teacher to herself
The teacher stepped out of the classroom and fifteen minutes later she came back in, just as everyone was starting to hand in the tests.
Finally everyone had turned in their tests and the teacher then announced they will be watching a video on the history of Christmas.
The Yami's actually enjoyed this video as it helped explain what the whole Christmas thing was. The Yami's learned a lot from this video and was actually thankful for being able to watch it.
After the video was the last class of the day for after this class was lunch and after lunch was the gift exchange and the Winter break party for the students and staff.
"Well I think we will end the day with Chemistry" Teacher
The whole class groaned
"What the hell is that?" Marik
"You mix all sorts of things together and make them explode" Bakura
"I don't need to mix stuff together to get that affect" Yami
"That's besides the point" Bakura
"Show off" Marik
"Let's stay away from the chemicals today" Teacher (I wouldn't let them near the chemicals) "I am going to teach you about the mathematics version of the chemistry and balancing out the equations"
She then wrote more stuff on the board
"Curse her, and her math" Bakura
"She must like this stuff" Marik
"…"Yami
After looking at the symbols and equations on the board the three of them honestly could not make heads or tails of it. So they figured instead of complaining they'd take notes the way she was and have their Hikari's explain this stuff later. Once they are rested.
After a half hour
The lunch bell rang
"I didn't do it I swear" Bakura getting up from his seat
"Oh Shut up" Yami hitting him with his notebook
Bakura picked it up and saw inside that everything done that day was written in complete Hieroglyphics.
"I see, so you don't know the language either" Bakura showing Marik and then handing it back to the Pharaoh
"I see, that you try to come up with a conclusion and like always its wrong" Yami
Yami opened the notebook from the beginning and flipped through all the pages.
"Yugi has been writing all his notes in Hieroglyphics from the beginning the only time he makes and exception is on tests. So by his other notes I was able to understand what they were doing and I actually passed the test, with ease" Yami smiling and walking away from them.
"Oh shut up!" Marik and Bakura
The three were speaking in Egyptian the whole time and after yelling at them the teacher just gave up. She watched them leave the class together and then she slump into her seat.
The three Yami's went to the roof top were they sat on the floor and closed their eyes for it was time they checked on their Hikari's.
Unfortunately they were still passed out and resting, so they couldn't ask them how they were.
Joey then came up on the roof top and kicked open the door.
"Hey Yugi I got Lunch" Joey
"Well lucky you" Bakura glaring at him (Here come the cheerleaders)
"Hey it's the holidays, I have lunch for you guys too" Joey handing them all the food
"Why weren't you in class" Marik curious but still in a mean tone
"I am-on the committee with the others-were fixing up the festival-and I figured hey fixing up is better than trash patrol-so I said hey count me in" Joey in-between bites
"We didn't want the whole life story" Bakura biting in his sandwich
"Then don't ask" Joey rounding on him
"I didn't" Bakura taking another bite
"Hey, who let you guys out anyway" Joey noticing the attitudes and tossing his wrappers in the trash can as though shooting baskets
"You talk as though we were put away" Marik
(You should be) Bakura to himself, though Yami picked this up and just smiled
"Hey, where's Yugi, and they others, you guys aren't out during school" Joey
"They needed a rest" Bakura
"Pharaoh?" Joey questioning if he was telling the truth
"There asleep, they'll be up when their rested" Yami still he wasn't happy about admitting this
Everyone finished their lunch and as lunch was ending everyone began to head back to the classroom where they were to have their gift exchange, then go to the festival. Only they were pulled aside by the teacher.
"What is this" The teacher showing the three tests to the Yami's
They all noticed everything was in Hieroglyphics all three were.
Still before they could answer their Hikari's took over
"Sorry about that I will fix it" The Hikari's
"Do it now" Teacher
The Hikari's fixed their tests and looked everything over.
When each of the Hikari's looked at their tests they all groaned and sat in their seats Ryou had to redo everything as did Malik. Still they had to control themselves from laughing.
#'s 1-7 was just choosing a-c and well the majority of them were right as they just had to choose between 3 letters. They did choose and write the letters right but for the last 13 problems, here came the hieroglyphics.
#8 When will the pole align itself 50 degrees?
Marik wrote when the stars align with the moon in October it will cause the Sun to shift and thus a 50 degree angle with then form.
Malik understood why he wrote it but the answer was still wrong so after doing some brief calculations he was able to come up with the answer.
Bakura wrote when the sun rises off the cliffs the pole with align briefly thus casting a necessary shadow to make the escape.
Ryou just moaned and started his calculations.
Yami wrote When it is 3p the shadow rotates 30 degrees. This was the right answer only since it was in hieroglyphics he just had to correct the writing
Since they only had five minutes they had to rush a bit, still they corrected it and then they handed it in and then joined the others at the exchange.
Once outside her door they began to walk down the hall and once out of everyone's ear shot Ryou and Malik began to tell the answers that their Yami's had chosen.
"Well it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be" Ryou
"Hah, for question 10 Marik wrote, It will be done as the moon covers up the ninth house of Ra and the ceremony that will be held in September" Malik putting a hand to his head
"Well he was a priest, mine put after the shadow is cast and the clouds hide the light of the moon" Ryou
"Well, Yami didn't do all that bad, really" Yugi added as the others cast him glares
Still all of them gave a huge sigh and they headed to the gift exchange.
To be continued...I post quicker with Reviews
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