"I'll take two," said Rikku as she tossed two cards on the table. Wakka
slid her two more from a deck, and she examined the cards she held in her
hand. "Oh poop," she moaned. "I hate Poker."
"You should learn how to display a proper Poker face," said Auron, smugly holding his own five cards. "You don't have to have good cards to win Poker. It's all in the bluff."
"Easy for you to say old man," said Tidus. "You got a pair of glasses. Most people don't allow others ot play this game wearing anything that covers a part of their face." Tidus was seated at a table with several of his friends in his house in Zanarkand. Rikku, Auron, Lulu, Wakka, and Tidus' girlfriend Yuna were all playing cards with him, quietly around the table. Yuna was actually sleeping on Tidus' left shoulder.
"I'd like to see you try to remove these glasses," said Auron.
"Tidus," said Wakka, "you're party's getting kinda boring ya?" Lulu quickly elbowed him in the side, an indicator that he was being rude.
"Sorry," said Tidus. "I got no ideas...Anyone else got anything better to do?"
"Let's at least finish the game on hand," said Auron. He laid down his hand, revealing four Aces and a Jack of Hearts. "Can anyone beat this, or do I win again?"
"Oh crud!" shouted Rikku. She pounded her wrist once on the table. All she could get was a pair of twos. Everyone shushed her as Yuna stirred slightly, turning to grab onto Tidus and make him into a more suitable table. She nuzzled closer to him.
"Don't wake sleeping beauty over dere," said Wakka. "She gets a bit cranky when you wake her up rudely."
"Sorry," replied Rikku, flushing lightly red. "It's just that I'm no good at this stinkin' game. Please tell me someone at least beat Auron...Anyone?" Everyone else tossed their cards on the table. No one came close.
"And Auron wins again," said Wakka.
"New game," said Lulu. "I'm gonna teach you all about Black Jack. First of all, Auron, please remove all the Ace cards from your sleeves so that everyone has a fair chance."
"What?" asked Rikku. Auron slid three cards out of his oversized sleeve and threw them at the table.
"All of 'em auron." Auron glared at Lu, and he finally, yet regretfully, tossed a few more cards from his other sleeve. "Thanks," said Lulu. "Now the object of the game is simple. Even a simpleton like Rikku can catch on to this game."
"Hey! Stop making fun of me," complained Rikku. "It's not my fault I'm ditzy." Lulu began shuffling the cards, while everyone remained silent. "Alright, now. The the deal is you have to get a combination of 21 from the cards you're dealt-
-Crash!-Crunch!-
The door to Tidus' apartment burst in as two people came through it, and they rolled on the floor, both grabbing for what appeared to be a handgun. "Gimme the gun Maxwell," commanded one with short, wavy brown hair and Prussian-blue eyes.
"No," said the other. He had brown hair also, tied in a long braid that would probably reach to his ankles if he were standing erect. "Gotta kill me first," he joked.
They rolled around more as everyone watched in amusement, fear, and confusion. "Believe me...Duo...Nothing...would make me...happier...than to kill...your sorry ass."
-Click-Click-
The two boys looked up quickly to see a beautiful female pointing two guns at them. She, too, had brown hair. They stopped and slowly stood up. "What are you doing in my boyfriend's apartment?" she asked. She was now pointing a gun at each of them.
"Well I was just playing with my friend here and-
"Playing?" asked Yuna. "It looks like he was trying to kill you."
"Nothing, I reiterate, would make me happier than to kill Duo here," said the other boy. "He stole me gun...Nobody...touches my guns, ever." They heard some ruckus down the hall outside the room. Yuna looked past them and lowered her gun for a moment. The so far nameless boy raised a new gun to point at her, and she raised her guns again.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" said Wakka.
"Looks like we got us a Mexican Standoff here," said Auron. Yuna was pointing a gun at Duo Maxwell and the other boy, and this other boy was pointing a gun at Duo and Yuna.
"Also, I normally don't allow women to point guns at me as if to threaten me," he said.
A new person suddenly appeared at the door, and after half a second of observing the scene, dove onto Heero, tackling him and holding him face down on the floor.
"Get...off me...Chang," he said under his attacker.
"Just shill out Heero," said Chang. This Chang was a Chinese boy of the same age as the other two with short, black hair in a small pony tail. "I'm sorry for all the ruckus," he apologized to everyone. "Heero, if Duo ever dies, I want to at least play a role in it. You hod, I kill?"
"How about the other way around?" asked Heero as Chang took Heero's guns and helped him to his feet.
"Deal," said Chang. He walked over to Duo and held him from behind.
"WuMan," he struggled. "What are you doing?"
"Whoa!" yelled a blonde from the door. Behind him was another boy, now five in total, whose brown hair covered half his face. "WuFei! Heero! CALM DOWN!" Everyone stopped and looked at him as if almost fearfully, and everyone's guns were lowered.
"But Duo-
"I know!" shouted the blonde boy. "Duo took your gun! He's being obnoxious! What else is new?! Get over it!"
"Quatre, are you okay?" asked the boy behind him. "You seem a bit stressed."
"Stresses?! Me?! You must be joking! I'm fine! Perfectly calm!"
"More like high as a kite," muttered WuFei under his breath. Duo burst into laughter, and WuFei let go of him. No one else laughed, and the other people in the room were too stunned to know what was going on in the room where, just seconds before, they had been playing cards.
"Will anyone tell me what's going on?" asked Tidus. Quatre stopped breathing heavily, and his face returned to its normal happy expression.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry," said Quatre. "I hope we didn't harm anything."
"Just my door," said Tidus, "and maybe a chunk of sanity."
"What sanity?" asked Auron.
"Bite me granpa," replied Tidus.
"Trowa here can fix it," said Quatre, motioning to the person standing behind him. "He's our handyman afterall."
"I'll get to work then," said Trowa. He lifted the door and placed it in the frame. He slowly backed away, almost expecting it to fall as everyone carefully watched. "Nobody sneeze...There, good as new." He turned to face them.
-Crunch-Krack!-
The door crushed Trowa into the floor. "Trowa?!" exclaimed Quatre. He bent over and pulled the fallen boy out from under the door and helped him to his feet. "Trowa, are you okay?"
"Trowa?" he asked. "Is that my name? Where on Earth am I? Who am I?"
"Oh God," said WuFei. "Not again. Dammit Trowa, that's the third time this month that you've forgotten your friggin' identity. Why won't you just die from one of these blows to the head and do us all the favor?" Heero raised a new gun and pointed it at Trowa.
"I can remedy the situation at hand," he said. "It only takes one of these bullets after all. I'd be more than happy to do the honors."
"Where'd you get that?!" asked Tidus.
"What?" questioned Heero.
"The gun. How'd you get that gun?" Everyone surveyed Heero. He was wearing only a green tank-top shirt and some tight shorts, nothing else. "That's like, your fourth gun. How the hell do you carry these things? It just, doesn't seem possible man. Where do you keep them."
"God only knows where," said Duo. Heero reached over and whacked him on the back of the head.
"Nobody dies," said Quatre, reaching over and pushing Heero's fourth gun down. "Maybe I should just take this, just in case." Quatre took the gun and hid it away in his clothes.
"Hellooo," said Rikku. All the pilots' eyes shifted to her.
"Hello cutie," said Duo.
"Yeah. Hi. We still don't know who you are and why you're here, and how you're going to fix our friend's door."
"My name's Chang WuFei. The idiot here who started this mess is Duo Maxwell. The guy with the guns is Heero Yuy, the psycho with blonde hair is Quatre Winner, and the guy who just forot his name for the umteenth time is Trowa Barton."
"Barton? So my name is Trowa Barton?" asked Trowas to Quatre. Quatre sat him down at one of the chairs.
"Yes dear," said Quatre. "Your name is Trowa Barton. You pilot a mobile suit called Heavy Arms and are our friend."
"Is he...gonna be okay?" asked Lulu.
"It happens all the time," said Quatre. "His mind will be back to normal within the hour."
"Thanks for the concern," said Trowa hapily.
"Right," said Tidus. "Well, welcome to my home. We were just about to play a game of cards, when you guys interrupted us. I'm sure I'm going to regret this later on, but would you like to join us in our little party?"
"Party?!" asked Duo with glee. "Yeehaaw! Party time!"
"You shouldn't have asked," said WuFei. "I guess now we have no choice."
"Um, Yuna?" asked Tidus. Yuna looked over at him questioningly. "Can you...holster the guns? They're makin' me kinda nervous."
"Oh," said Yuna. Smiling, she stuffed the two pistols away and walked over to his side. "Sorry."
"Well it looks like we've got too many people to play cards now," said Lulu. "Let's see, we've got...eleven people here."
"Definitely too many people," said Wakka.
"The more the merrier I say," said Rikku gleefully.
"How about a movie?" asked Auron.
"Moviiieeeeee!!!" shouted Duo, clapping and squealing like a giddy school girl. "I love movies.!"
"I like romance," said Quatre.
"I'm all for it if people die in the movie," said Heero.
"I'm into suspense and thrillers," said WuFei.
"And action," said Duo rapidly, "plus some comedy." He vigorously nodded up and down as everyone else watched him. Tidus couldn't tell if he was drunk, high, stoned, or all of the above.
"I like mystery," said Trowa."...I think."
"Then I have the perfect movie," said Yuna gleefully. She walked out of the room and returned a second later with a DVD in hand. "THE MUMMY satisfies all of your movie preferences."
"How did I know she was gonna pick dat one?" asked Wakka sarcastically.
"We watched that one last time," said Lulu lightly.
"I like this movie," said Yuna.
"We've all seen is a bajillion times Yunie," complained Rikku.
"I haven't seen it," said Duo innocently. Yuna quickly turned and stared at him as though he'd committed a horrible crime.
"Uh oh," said Tidus. "Yeah, we all know where this is going right?" His friends all nodded as Yuna continued to stare at Duo blankly. "Yuna?" asked Tidus. "Come on dear. It's time to watch your movie...Helloooo. Anybody home?"
"You haven't seen THE MUMMY?" she suddenly gasped. "That's just...horrible. What kind of sick, mentally deprived child are you?"
"Believe me," said Heero. "You're much better off not knowing. Besides...I haven't seen THE MUMMY either."
"Then we have to watch it," said Yuna. "Quick! To Tidus' living room!" everyone filed into another room where Tidus' large television and stereo set were, which was equipped with state of the art surround sound."
"You should learn how to display a proper Poker face," said Auron, smugly holding his own five cards. "You don't have to have good cards to win Poker. It's all in the bluff."
"Easy for you to say old man," said Tidus. "You got a pair of glasses. Most people don't allow others ot play this game wearing anything that covers a part of their face." Tidus was seated at a table with several of his friends in his house in Zanarkand. Rikku, Auron, Lulu, Wakka, and Tidus' girlfriend Yuna were all playing cards with him, quietly around the table. Yuna was actually sleeping on Tidus' left shoulder.
"I'd like to see you try to remove these glasses," said Auron.
"Tidus," said Wakka, "you're party's getting kinda boring ya?" Lulu quickly elbowed him in the side, an indicator that he was being rude.
"Sorry," said Tidus. "I got no ideas...Anyone else got anything better to do?"
"Let's at least finish the game on hand," said Auron. He laid down his hand, revealing four Aces and a Jack of Hearts. "Can anyone beat this, or do I win again?"
"Oh crud!" shouted Rikku. She pounded her wrist once on the table. All she could get was a pair of twos. Everyone shushed her as Yuna stirred slightly, turning to grab onto Tidus and make him into a more suitable table. She nuzzled closer to him.
"Don't wake sleeping beauty over dere," said Wakka. "She gets a bit cranky when you wake her up rudely."
"Sorry," replied Rikku, flushing lightly red. "It's just that I'm no good at this stinkin' game. Please tell me someone at least beat Auron...Anyone?" Everyone else tossed their cards on the table. No one came close.
"And Auron wins again," said Wakka.
"New game," said Lulu. "I'm gonna teach you all about Black Jack. First of all, Auron, please remove all the Ace cards from your sleeves so that everyone has a fair chance."
"What?" asked Rikku. Auron slid three cards out of his oversized sleeve and threw them at the table.
"All of 'em auron." Auron glared at Lu, and he finally, yet regretfully, tossed a few more cards from his other sleeve. "Thanks," said Lulu. "Now the object of the game is simple. Even a simpleton like Rikku can catch on to this game."
"Hey! Stop making fun of me," complained Rikku. "It's not my fault I'm ditzy." Lulu began shuffling the cards, while everyone remained silent. "Alright, now. The the deal is you have to get a combination of 21 from the cards you're dealt-
-Crash!-Crunch!-
The door to Tidus' apartment burst in as two people came through it, and they rolled on the floor, both grabbing for what appeared to be a handgun. "Gimme the gun Maxwell," commanded one with short, wavy brown hair and Prussian-blue eyes.
"No," said the other. He had brown hair also, tied in a long braid that would probably reach to his ankles if he were standing erect. "Gotta kill me first," he joked.
They rolled around more as everyone watched in amusement, fear, and confusion. "Believe me...Duo...Nothing...would make me...happier...than to kill...your sorry ass."
-Click-Click-
The two boys looked up quickly to see a beautiful female pointing two guns at them. She, too, had brown hair. They stopped and slowly stood up. "What are you doing in my boyfriend's apartment?" she asked. She was now pointing a gun at each of them.
"Well I was just playing with my friend here and-
"Playing?" asked Yuna. "It looks like he was trying to kill you."
"Nothing, I reiterate, would make me happier than to kill Duo here," said the other boy. "He stole me gun...Nobody...touches my guns, ever." They heard some ruckus down the hall outside the room. Yuna looked past them and lowered her gun for a moment. The so far nameless boy raised a new gun to point at her, and she raised her guns again.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" said Wakka.
"Looks like we got us a Mexican Standoff here," said Auron. Yuna was pointing a gun at Duo Maxwell and the other boy, and this other boy was pointing a gun at Duo and Yuna.
"Also, I normally don't allow women to point guns at me as if to threaten me," he said.
A new person suddenly appeared at the door, and after half a second of observing the scene, dove onto Heero, tackling him and holding him face down on the floor.
"Get...off me...Chang," he said under his attacker.
"Just shill out Heero," said Chang. This Chang was a Chinese boy of the same age as the other two with short, black hair in a small pony tail. "I'm sorry for all the ruckus," he apologized to everyone. "Heero, if Duo ever dies, I want to at least play a role in it. You hod, I kill?"
"How about the other way around?" asked Heero as Chang took Heero's guns and helped him to his feet.
"Deal," said Chang. He walked over to Duo and held him from behind.
"WuMan," he struggled. "What are you doing?"
"Whoa!" yelled a blonde from the door. Behind him was another boy, now five in total, whose brown hair covered half his face. "WuFei! Heero! CALM DOWN!" Everyone stopped and looked at him as if almost fearfully, and everyone's guns were lowered.
"But Duo-
"I know!" shouted the blonde boy. "Duo took your gun! He's being obnoxious! What else is new?! Get over it!"
"Quatre, are you okay?" asked the boy behind him. "You seem a bit stressed."
"Stresses?! Me?! You must be joking! I'm fine! Perfectly calm!"
"More like high as a kite," muttered WuFei under his breath. Duo burst into laughter, and WuFei let go of him. No one else laughed, and the other people in the room were too stunned to know what was going on in the room where, just seconds before, they had been playing cards.
"Will anyone tell me what's going on?" asked Tidus. Quatre stopped breathing heavily, and his face returned to its normal happy expression.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry," said Quatre. "I hope we didn't harm anything."
"Just my door," said Tidus, "and maybe a chunk of sanity."
"What sanity?" asked Auron.
"Bite me granpa," replied Tidus.
"Trowa here can fix it," said Quatre, motioning to the person standing behind him. "He's our handyman afterall."
"I'll get to work then," said Trowa. He lifted the door and placed it in the frame. He slowly backed away, almost expecting it to fall as everyone carefully watched. "Nobody sneeze...There, good as new." He turned to face them.
-Crunch-Krack!-
The door crushed Trowa into the floor. "Trowa?!" exclaimed Quatre. He bent over and pulled the fallen boy out from under the door and helped him to his feet. "Trowa, are you okay?"
"Trowa?" he asked. "Is that my name? Where on Earth am I? Who am I?"
"Oh God," said WuFei. "Not again. Dammit Trowa, that's the third time this month that you've forgotten your friggin' identity. Why won't you just die from one of these blows to the head and do us all the favor?" Heero raised a new gun and pointed it at Trowa.
"I can remedy the situation at hand," he said. "It only takes one of these bullets after all. I'd be more than happy to do the honors."
"Where'd you get that?!" asked Tidus.
"What?" questioned Heero.
"The gun. How'd you get that gun?" Everyone surveyed Heero. He was wearing only a green tank-top shirt and some tight shorts, nothing else. "That's like, your fourth gun. How the hell do you carry these things? It just, doesn't seem possible man. Where do you keep them."
"God only knows where," said Duo. Heero reached over and whacked him on the back of the head.
"Nobody dies," said Quatre, reaching over and pushing Heero's fourth gun down. "Maybe I should just take this, just in case." Quatre took the gun and hid it away in his clothes.
"Hellooo," said Rikku. All the pilots' eyes shifted to her.
"Hello cutie," said Duo.
"Yeah. Hi. We still don't know who you are and why you're here, and how you're going to fix our friend's door."
"My name's Chang WuFei. The idiot here who started this mess is Duo Maxwell. The guy with the guns is Heero Yuy, the psycho with blonde hair is Quatre Winner, and the guy who just forot his name for the umteenth time is Trowa Barton."
"Barton? So my name is Trowa Barton?" asked Trowas to Quatre. Quatre sat him down at one of the chairs.
"Yes dear," said Quatre. "Your name is Trowa Barton. You pilot a mobile suit called Heavy Arms and are our friend."
"Is he...gonna be okay?" asked Lulu.
"It happens all the time," said Quatre. "His mind will be back to normal within the hour."
"Thanks for the concern," said Trowa hapily.
"Right," said Tidus. "Well, welcome to my home. We were just about to play a game of cards, when you guys interrupted us. I'm sure I'm going to regret this later on, but would you like to join us in our little party?"
"Party?!" asked Duo with glee. "Yeehaaw! Party time!"
"You shouldn't have asked," said WuFei. "I guess now we have no choice."
"Um, Yuna?" asked Tidus. Yuna looked over at him questioningly. "Can you...holster the guns? They're makin' me kinda nervous."
"Oh," said Yuna. Smiling, she stuffed the two pistols away and walked over to his side. "Sorry."
"Well it looks like we've got too many people to play cards now," said Lulu. "Let's see, we've got...eleven people here."
"Definitely too many people," said Wakka.
"The more the merrier I say," said Rikku gleefully.
"How about a movie?" asked Auron.
"Moviiieeeeee!!!" shouted Duo, clapping and squealing like a giddy school girl. "I love movies.!"
"I like romance," said Quatre.
"I'm all for it if people die in the movie," said Heero.
"I'm into suspense and thrillers," said WuFei.
"And action," said Duo rapidly, "plus some comedy." He vigorously nodded up and down as everyone else watched him. Tidus couldn't tell if he was drunk, high, stoned, or all of the above.
"I like mystery," said Trowa."...I think."
"Then I have the perfect movie," said Yuna gleefully. She walked out of the room and returned a second later with a DVD in hand. "THE MUMMY satisfies all of your movie preferences."
"How did I know she was gonna pick dat one?" asked Wakka sarcastically.
"We watched that one last time," said Lulu lightly.
"I like this movie," said Yuna.
"We've all seen is a bajillion times Yunie," complained Rikku.
"I haven't seen it," said Duo innocently. Yuna quickly turned and stared at him as though he'd committed a horrible crime.
"Uh oh," said Tidus. "Yeah, we all know where this is going right?" His friends all nodded as Yuna continued to stare at Duo blankly. "Yuna?" asked Tidus. "Come on dear. It's time to watch your movie...Helloooo. Anybody home?"
"You haven't seen THE MUMMY?" she suddenly gasped. "That's just...horrible. What kind of sick, mentally deprived child are you?"
"Believe me," said Heero. "You're much better off not knowing. Besides...I haven't seen THE MUMMY either."
"Then we have to watch it," said Yuna. "Quick! To Tidus' living room!" everyone filed into another room where Tidus' large television and stereo set were, which was equipped with state of the art surround sound."