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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: Strange Ties
Characters: Juudai, Johan, Camula
Word Count: 328||Status: One-shot
Genre: Humor, Friendship||Rated: PG-13
Challenge: 31halloween: prompt #29, vampire
Summary: [one-shot, 31halloween, prompt #29, vampire; Juudai, Johan, Camula] Juudai's noticed something about Johan's voice. Something he never thought of before.
"Hey, Johan?"
Johan glanced up to where Juudai sat across from him, flat on his back on the couch, legs folded over the back of it, going through his old school PDA. "What?"
"Say something for me." Juudai's gaze flicked over for a moment before he looked back at the screen.
Johan blinked a time or two. "Excuse me?" In the years he'd known Juudai, he'd been asked several strange questions. This one definitely ranked in the top five for weirdness.
Juudai didn't move or look away from the screen. "Say something. Say something like 'I summon Vampire Bat!'"
The question moved up to the top three. "Why do you want me to say that?"
"I want to see if I'm right about something. Go on, say it. Nothing's going to happen, trust me." Juudai gave him another look, curiosity burning in the depths of his eyes. Johan shrugged; what was it going to hurt?
"I summon Vampire Bat!" Just as Juudai promised, nothing at all happened, except for Juudai grinning wildly.
"I was right!" He swung himself straight on the couch and turned the PDA to where Johan could see it. "Watch this."
A video played, showing an elegant pale-skinned woman dueling against Professor Chronos. And indeed, one of her monsters was Vampire Bat. But something else caught Johan's attention.
"She sounds...almost like me." It wasn't perfect, but close. Enough so Johan could see why Juudai'd wanted to hear him say it. "Who is she?"
"Camula. She was the last of the vampire race. Wanted revenge on humans because we killed all of her people." A brief flicker of sorrow moved through Juudai's eyes. "I had to beat her to save Kaiser and Chronos-sensei and she lost her soul because of it."
He shook his head for a moment before a half-smile touched his lips. "Maybe you're related to her? You don't like your meat bloody, do you?"
Johan found a pillow and smacked Juudai with it.
The End
First Note: In the original Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh GX, Kanako Irie provides the voices of both Camula and Johan Andersen. If you listen, you can even hear the similarities.
Second Note: I originally posted this back in October 2012, but now am reposting these ficlets separately instead of as a collection, in order to have each listed under their proper character and rating.