The Strangeness Begins...
Disclaimer- I do not in any way own the manga/anime Yugioh. A few of my friends and I are just a wee bit too obsessed, but that is a different story.
In all my stories I add myself, my friends, or original characters based on me in all of my stories. However, it isn't Mary Sue, but sometimes people interpret it that way. So if it seems that way to any of you, then DO NOT FLAME ME!!!!! (Constructive criticism only, please). If I get a name, place, or a card wrong, tell me, but otherwise, I don't have time for people yelling at how much they don't like it. And finally on with the fic...
Chapter 1
I was a boring spring day, and two girls were sitting in the living room. The very small, dark haired girl made her move.
"Guardian Angel Joan and Blue Eyes' attack you directly! And that, Clare, would be the end of your life-points!"
"Alright, not that is so not fair! You have three Blue Eyes, and I only have one!" Clare whined.
"You'd be a lot better if you'd concentrate." Her friend rationalized. "Wadda ya say? Best outta 20?" she teased. But just as she shuffled her deck so they could duel again, the doorbell rang.
"Gaaa, who is it now? It better not be ninja rat!" Clare said angrily. Ninja-Rat is the nickname that she gave her ex-boyfriend Fabian, who was always trying to have sex with her even though she insisted that it was over between them.
"Oh no, it is!" Clare said opening the door.
Her friend's groan of "oh, God" reverberated into the hallway
"What the hell do you want?" Clare asked the jerk.
"Oh you know what I want..." he said going to kiss her.
"Get the hell off me! Besides Sam is here." Clare yelled at him.
"Oh yea, your little bodygaurd." He snickered.
"Excuse me?" Sam said raising an eyebrow. "Clare can take care of herself, loser. And even if she couldn't, she could still take care of you"
"If that's the case, why does she need her midget to talk for her?"
Fabian had crossed a very dangerous line...
Sam marched over so she was face to face with Fabian (well, face to chest... but that's beside the point)
"Fabian, we both know you don't wanna test Me." she said in a deadly serious voice as she glared at him with all her might.
"And if you insist on insulting me, have the guts to say it to my FACE, you pathetic worm."
"I can't believe I dated you." Clare said finally.
"Dated? You still are." He said grinning and nudging to upstairs.
"Hell no!"
"Don't you DARE!" Sam shouted. She grabbed Clare's wrist as if to tug her away/
"Come on, you can send the little puppy dog home..." Fabian said in a sly voice.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!"
At that moment, Clare had to hold Sam back, because if she let go of her friend it would be the end of her ex (not that tht would be a bad thing) However, it seemed that Clare had turned into a complete different person, and now punched Fabian hard.
"Don't you dare do OR say anything like that to me again!"She said in a British voice.
Fabian and Sam both looked confused.
"I've changed since I went to England asshole." She said.
Both of them stared at her in disbelief. She usually used her British accent when they were acting, but this was different. It was like the accent was perfected, and not only that, she seemed to have a totally different personality.
"Clare?" Fabian said finally getting up.
"No, my name is Miercoln. I'm taking over for now on when you try to hurt her." She said glaring at Fabian.
"Miercoln? What the heck? Clare, you go schitzo or something?" Sam said half joking, more than half freaked out voice.
Sam's observation wasn't far from the truth. Unbeknownst to everyone (Clare included) she now had a duel personality. Sam and Clare had Law/Psychology in school, and they already knew about multiple personality disorder.
"Ok, enough acting" Fabian said uncertainly.
"Fabian, get the hell out!" Sam said yelling at him. "Now! You've done enough to her."
"No, I've got a better idea..." 'Clare' said with a strange face. She chanted something under her breath. Suddenly, the room turned into a park.
"What the..." Sam said astonished.
"Ok, what's going on?" Fabian demanded.
"Ahh!" Clare exclaimed. "What happened? The last thing I remember is that I was holding you back, and then now we're in some park..."
"YOU don't know, YOU went all crazy and muttered something under your breath and now we're... somewhere, in some park"
"UH... We're in Domino" said a dumbfounded Fabian, who was looking at a sign.
"Oh, shut up, how dumb do you think we..." then Sam saw the sign too. "What the hell?"
After a few moments of astonished silence "Ok... Fabian, we're going to find Yugi, Joey, and the others. You go jump off a bridge." Sam said leading Clare toward the park exit. However, to their dismay, Fabian followed. "Now who's the puppy dog?" Sam smirked.
"You're not leaving me alone in a strange place like this!"
"Scared the big bad rare hunters will steal your precious cards?" Clare said, recovering from her shock.
"Shut up! That's impossible." he said with his old smirk.
"As impossible as us being magically transported to Domino?" Clare said. And then, after a pause "Hun, you are way too much like Kaiba."
"Alright Kaiba and Mai stop arguing, and lets go find Yugi. Or at least his Grandpa. SOMEBODY who knows what the heck is going on. They'll know what to do..." As if on cue, they saw the gang walking to the turtle game shop.
"Ok, there they are... hun... now how are we going to tell them who we are and find out what's going on." Clare said to Sam. However, she was too preoccupied with actually seeing Joey.
"Joey!!!!" she squealed.
"Oh god." Clare said putting one hand to her forehead.
"I'll talk to them." Clare's other personality said.
"UM, escuse me, but um... well... um..." she got tongue-tied, and Clare was back...
"Oh jeez, I'll take care of it..."Fabian said, now going to them. "Hi, I know it's going to sound bizarre, but for some reason we were just in Clare here's living room, and then we suddenly were in Domino Park." He said.
Now all of them were staring at them blankly.
"You're characters in a TV show where we're from.' he attempted to explain.
"Nice job idiot."Miercoln said now taking over for Clare.
"Now I know that all sounded all jumbled up, but it's true. For some odd reason we came from a different world or something..."
"Hold up, different world?" Joey asked.
"Yes, and in that world, we know who you all are... Joey." She said grinning.
"Say what!" Joey said taken aback. However, now Sam, out of shock, was glomping Joey.
"Uh... who are...wait... I remember you..."
"You do?" Sam said; torn between shouting 'AWESOME!' and 'how?"
"You... remember...me?" she asked in shock.
"Sam! I missed you!" he said now lifting her up and hugging her.
"Joey, are we missing something?" Tristan asked, still confused.
"She's my twin sister! They sent her away when we were kids, and I thought I'd never see her again!"
"Twin sister?" Sam exclaimed in confused elation.
"Lucky!" Clare exclaimed.
"Runs in the family!" Sam laughed, nudging her 'brother'.
"I don't know what we can do for you guys, but do you want to come with us to my grandpa's store? Maybe he'll let you see his super rare card with us."
"Rare card?" Clare and Sam asked together.
"Yea and I wanna get hooked up so I can get started." Joey said.
"Started?" Sam said now looking worriedly at Clare.
"Great..."Clare said under her breath. "I think I know where in the series we came in..."
"Hey!" Fabian said suddenly while they were walking to the Game Shop. "I still have all my old cards!"
"We still have our cards?"Clare said. She looked in her bag and found the many decks that she owned. Also making sure she still had her one Blue Eyes. "Good. It took me a long time to get that polymerization and all those cards... but I STILL don't have three Blue Eyes! No fair!"
"Blue Eyes? Blue Eyes White Dragon? But there was only four..."Yugi started.
"Where we come from the Blue Eyes isn't really rare" Sam said. "I have three, Fabian has four, and Clare has one."
"Wow, that's amazing." Yugi said.
They arrived at the game shop and everyone hustled in. Sam and Clare were eyeing the door nervously, waiting for unpleasantness personified (aka: Seto Kaiba) to make his grand entrance.
"Hello, can I help you..."Grandpa said.
"Oh, joy, Here comes Johnny Sunshine..."Sam said sarcastically under her breath (she couldn't resist the Joey quote)
"If you can't it certainly wouldn't surprise me..."
"Idiot." Clare whispered.
"Not that it's any of your business, but I came to see the card."
"Hey, are you into duel monsters too..." Joey began.
Sam couldn't take being in the same room with Kaiba any longer" Get out idiot." All the people who didn't know Kaiba stared blankly at her.
"I beg your pardon? How dare you speak to me like that you little pipsqueak! Do you have any idea who I am?!" he seethed.
"Hey! You can't talk to my sister like that!" Joey raged, fortunately, he was interrupted by Clare.
"Yeah we know who you are..."she said struggling to restrain Sam (small, but mighty!). "You're a spoiled rich brat, wannabe duel monster's champ who has no life and no friends, let alone a girlfriend. Go snog your briefcase, that's the closest you'll get."
"Oh! That was awesome Clare!" Sam said in admiration. "Couldn't have said it better myself why can't you talk to Fabian like that?" Sam said high-fiving her.
"Fabian?"Kaiba said now looking around, and spotting him." Impossible! He went away before we went to the orphanage!"
"Don't tell me he's related to you." Clare said.
"I had a brother named Fabian... a twin brother..." He said.
"Aw, how adorable. Asshole twins meet again after years apart. Why don't you go and have your big reunion party at Kaiba Corp, and leave us alone." Clare said.
"Not until I see that card..."Kaiba said.
"NO!" Clare said angrily. "You already have three of them. You don't need another one."
"So it is a Blue Eyes White Dragon..."
"Not that it's any of your business! And whether it is or not, you're not getting your greedy little hands on it!" Sam said joining Clare in protecting the card, arms crossed sternly.
"Leave...NOW!!"Clare demanded.
"Very well, but I will get that card despite all of you."Kaiba said storming out the door.
"What are you standing there for idiot?" Miercoln said, taking over yet again. "You belong with him, GO!"
"What no kiss first...?" Fabian began.
"OUT!" she said punching him.
"Whoa, I blanked out again... at least Kaiba's gone."
"Yeah..."Sam said.
"Ok... what just happened here?" Yugi asked.
This was going to be a long story...
One might say they believed the story immediately and were calm and reasonable in their reaction to it. But then, that would be one of the grossest falsehoods ever inflicted on mankind
"Magic?! I hate magic!" Joey said.
"You only hate it because Tea beats you with it all the time." Tristan said.
However, Clare stomped her foot on Tristan's.
"OW!" he yelled.
"You deserve it." She said snickering. "Listen, I know this all sounds crazy, but believe me, we're not lying. We know for a fact that Kaiba is an ignorant, selfish, self-centered, rich boy, idiot bastard who only cares for himself and..."
"Ok Clare, you said enough hun." Sam said, but she grinned widely. "Wow, I think we got a Kaiba-hating competition going on don't we?"
"Alright, well I guess we gotta figure out where you two are gonna stay." Yugi said, but then his Grandpa interrupted.
"You can stay here if you want, you know, just until we find out where you can stay."
"Thanks." Clare said.
"Uh, I wanna catch up with Sam, would it be alright if I stayed too?" Joey asked.
"Why can't she stay with you..." Yugi began, but Joey, Sam, Tristan, and Clare interrupted.
"NO!" they said together.
"I don't want her staying with me and my dad." Joey said.
"Alright then. You can all stay, but I don't know for how long." He said. "I guess I'll have to get you both enrolled to Domino High." He said leaving them in Yugi's living room to talk.
"Great... the uniform..." Sam whined.
"Uniforms PERIOD!!!" Clare whined.
The next day, Sam and Clare had their first day at Domino High. They were surprised to find out that Alex James, Clare's friend, and Raen, who was Sam's friend, who was VERY random.
"Raen!!!" Sam said as she glomped her.
"Sam...JOEY!!!!!" she said as she disregarded Sam's glomp in order to glomp Joey.
"Uh... ok..." Joey said confused.
"Hun, will you please leave him alone!" Clare said. Then she whispered, "You know he's taken."
"I don't care! He's Joey!" Raen said embracing him.
"Why doesn't anyone hug me?" Tristan whined.
Clare proceeded to stomp on his foot. "Because nobody likes you!" she grinned, and high-fives Sam.
"Will you geeks keep it down? Some people are trying to study." A very unwanted voice coming from the corner of the room said. It was none other than Seto I have a pole shoved up my... Kaiba.
"Give it a rest moneybags!" Sam said staring warningly to him... then she noticed someone else in his corner. "So you two have a beautiful family reunion at Kaiba Corp?" Sam asked Fabian.
"Actually we did." He grinned. "Hey Clare, why don't you sit over here..."
"NO!" Clare said knowing perfectly well what he was going to say. "IT...IS...OVER!!!"
"Aw, come-on..." he said now standing up and walking to Clare, making Kaiba roll his eyes at his "love"-stricken twin. "Why do you have to be like that? You know you like it when..."
"I like it when you back off." Clare said. "I wouldn't go for you again in our other world, and I will NEVER go for you now that you are an arrogant, rich boy brat just like him over there."
Kaiba, who was studying a book, just rolled his big blue eyes at this comment. He didn't care what these geeks had to say... But he did go to look at the action. Ever since he saw this Clare, he had a strange attraction to her... He (as the ignorant rich boy that he is,) had no clue. It was probably hate and repulsion, so he just went back to studying his book.
"Oh, don't be like that..." Fabian said as he was going to kiss her... "OUCH!!!"
At that moment, Miercoln had come through, and just did a wrestling move called the "backbreaker."
"Where did you learn that?"
"From watching the WWE asshole. Now go to your sulking corner and STAY there!" Miercoln said.
"GO CLARE!" Sam exclaimed clapping her hands.
Before anything else could happen, the teacher walked in, so they had to quit it for a while. During class, when the teacher's back was turned, Fabian gave Clare a note.
It read: "Can't we just kiss and make up tonight? I mean I have money now! I can bring you anywhere, and..."
Clare could not read the rest of the letter, because it sickened her. Miercoln took over, and wrote..."If you want to go out with me, than beat me in a duel. Your place, the same time that Yugi duels Kaiba. No later."
She passed the note back, and he wrote back replying, but also saying that he will "lay" her that night.
Miercoln grinned to herself, and said to herself..."Right... get past my sphinxes and we'll see."
Instead of going to the game shop, Sam and Clare told the gang a head of time Kaiba is dueling Grandpa. So they all go strait to Kaiba Corp after school. Fabian knew that this was going to happen, so right after school, they went strait to Kaiba Corp to duel the old man. Kaiba, being the pompous rich boy that he is, decided to duel him with both of them, so that the two Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragons could go against him, creating his situation worse.
"Wait... We're STILL too late?" Sam asked.
"FABIAN!" Miercoln exclaimed.
"Oh, hello honey. Ready to be beaten by me so that we can get this duel over with?" he said with a lot of overconfidence.
"I'm not you're 'honey' and you..." she said suddenly turning to Clare and going up to Kaiba. "Give me that..." she said grabbing the Blue Eyes so that he didn't have a chance to rip it up. "This belongs to Yugi's grandfather, and I can't bear to see ANY blue eyes white dragons to be ripped up. So duel Yugi in order for this card to be ripped." Clare said.
"Again... GO CLARE!!!" Sam exclaimed.
"Shut up Chihuahua!" Kaiba said to her.
"YOU!!!" Sam and Joey said about to attack Kaiba together.
"Hold on..." Miercoln said taking over once again. "Yugi has to duel him first so that Grandpa can get better. You can do what you want AFTER the duel."
Miercoln had a very strange sense about her when the subject was Kaiba. They sensed this from the first time they met with Kaiba. Whenever Clare had to talk mean to him, Miercoln would not take over, but with Fabian, she protected her. This was unusual, because split personalities usually take over whenever they are in trouble. Anyway... on with the duels.
Kaiba and Yugi's duel went the same way as in the episode, but Fabian and Miercoln's had one key difference; it was shorter. Instead of all the talk, they had less talk.
"So, whose rules are we following? Ours or theirs?" Miercoln asked.
"Theirs, but you can suggest some things if you want sweetheart." Fabian replied.
"I'm NOT your sweetheart, and we can start with 2000 life points, and no cards are illegal." Miercoln said annoyed.
"Alright, then lets go baby."
"Your place, you start." Miercoln said as she drew five cards.
"Hey! I'm right here with Joey! So we're rooting for you and Yugi." Sam exclaimed standing with her brother giving her the thumbs-up. Miercoln smiled as Fabian did his first move.
"Ok, I play Lord of D..."
"Do you HAVE to explain every damn move? Just put the cards down, and I'll know what they are dumbass."
"Fine." He said as he put Lord of D. on the field in defense mode. Then he grinned and put "White Dragon Ritual" on the field. And Special summoned Paladin of White Dragon in Attack mode. He grinned. "Looks like I'm getting laid tonight."
"Not if I have anything to do with it idiot." Miercoln said. She drew her card. "Perfect." She smiled. "Well, say good-by to you're Paladin. I'm not even using a spell card." She said as she brought up her Guardian Angel Joan card, and attacked Paladin, destroying it. "And thank you, because Joan gives me more life points whenever I destroy a monster with her." She smiled as her 2000 life points went up to 3900 points.
Fabian had an angry look on his face.
"Aw, what? Did I just disturb your strategy love?" she mocked. As she put a card face down. "Go on darling." She smiled.
"WOW! GO CLARE!!!" Sam exclaimed. However, she wondered how her "other personality" was so good at dueling when they usually are just a different side of a person."
"Fine." He said as he drew a card angered by the fact that his life points are only 100 since she decided to make it 2000 life points to start with. "You'll just have to take it up with my blue eyes than. Seto's right... this heart of the cards stuff is bogus."
"So you're taking after Mokuba now? Calling him Seto?" Miercoln said as her life points only took 200 points of damage. "And by the way that dragon is beautiful you know." She smiled at the hologram.
"Just make you're move." He said still angry at the amount of life points that he has left.
"Well, aren't we testy Mr. Kaiba." She smiled as she picked up another card. "I'm gonna use this card... than elegant egotist, and now I have Harpies Lady Sisters... but I'm not stupid... I'm putting my girls in defense mode. Go on love." She said sarcastically.
"What's she doin?" Sam said to herself as Joey was trying to cheer on the losing Yugi.
"You know, that was very stupid of you." He said grinning. "You're just afraid aren't you?" he said as he attacked his blue eyes to her Harpies.
"Afraid of what? You're beautiful Blue Eyes?" Miercoln asked drawing a card. "Well, I have one too if you didn't realize." She said putting her own blue eyes on her side of the field attacking his so that they both do not have a Blue Eyes, but none lose life points. "Go on hun."
"Wow Clare! Where have YOU been...? Hey, Yugi won already. All we gotta do is get you to win."
"Yea! Take that Rich boy!" They heard Joey exclaim.
"Yes, but you forget that I own four." Fabian said ignoring the comments. "I won't lose like him, because you don't have Exodia. Only Yugi does."
He said as he used Kaiser Sea Horse to take 1700 points of direct damage from Clare's life points.
"Wonderful, I just have 2000 left now." Miercoln smiled as she picked up a card. "I can't do anything at the moment, so go on." She yawned.
"But now I'm bringing all my Blue eyes out so that I have Blue eyes ultimate. But I don't have Shining at the moment, so since I want to attack you with that, go on my love." He smiled.
She drew a card, and then smiled. "I'm playing this..." she said rising up her "reload card."
She put all her cards back in her deck and took out four more cards. She smiled. "I'll use this magic card...pot...of...greed." she said smiling wider with each word of the card. She drew her two other cards, and smiled at her deck.
"Why thank you 'heart of the cards.'" She said winking at Yugi who was watching the duel.
"And this is where the fun begins. I'll say what is going on, so that you don't get confused." She added grinning very widely.
"I will put one card face down, and play pyramid of light."
"I knew it! Clare's gonna kick some butt!" Sam exclaimed.
"How's that?" Joey asked.
"She's gonna use her favorite cards... other than blue eyes that are... the Sphinxes."
"Next, I am going to pay 1000 life points to summon Andro Sphinx, AND Sphinx Teleia. Than pay 500 more for Theinen the Great Sphinx. Now I'm using my trap card gift of the Mystical Elf... I love her, cause now I can pay 500 more life points, so that I have 6500 attack points to my sphinx, so say goodbye to your blue eyes ultimate, and your life points... you really should have waited until you actually had 'shinning.'"
Her sphinx attacked him, and won.
"What... wait... you won?"
"Yea Clare!!!!!!" Sam exclaimed as she came back down.
"Wow... uh... what just happened? Last I remember we were coming into Kaiba Corp..."
"Your other personality kicked some serious butt against Fabian." Sam said glomping her.
"I did?" she asked.
"Yep, now let's get out of here, because I don't wanna stay in this place forever." Sam said leading them all out of Kaiba Corp. "Ya know, it was even funnier to see Kaiba's face in person with Exodia."
"Gee, wish I could've seen it." Clare said laughing with the others. The lives of Clare, Sam and Fabian will never be the same again...
