Hold your tomatoes! *ducks away from the barrage of rotten fruit* I have a good explanation for why I haven't updated! See, my computer (the one that was holding the draft of this chapter) got a nasty virus that I tried to cure, and I crashed the computer. o.o Yeah, I'm stupid like that. So I had to save up money for a new computer (a laptop actually. *pets the little computer happily*) which took awhile since I don't have a REAL job. So after that, I realized that I had lost all my fanfiction files since I hadn't backed them up on a flashdrive, so I got a little down about that. Then inspiration struck and I got over that and now I'm updating because finals are over! Ta-da!
Anyway, here's the second chapter of The Franchise. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: If I owned YuGiOh, there would be less Heart-Of-The-Card speeches and more Yami Marik and Bakura. And Thiefshipping. Lots of Thiefshipping...
The Series Chapter 2
Ryou was the first to crack under the pressure of the glare, he looked around nervously at his stone-faced compatriots before blurting out the entire story. "It was these people who saw us burning books in your backyard and liked sparkling vampires and-" He was cut off by Bakura slapping a hand over his mouth, though it did little to control the damage that had already been done.
"Sparkling vampires? Oh! Twilight!" Ishizu's eyes lit up at the book's title. Smiling happily. "Edward is so dreamy..."
Malik and Marik's eyes widened. "Traitor!" Marik yelled, throwing a finger in her direction as Malik sniffled a bit. "That piece of trash doesn't deserve to exist in this or any other dimension!"
"Sister..." Malik whimpered, Marik cast an eye in his direction and reached instinctively for the Millennium Rod only to realize that it wasn't there. Ishizu was still staring off into the distance and hadn't made a movement since the book connection had been made. Noticing her lack of attention, Bakura stepped forward, hand still around Ryou's mouth, and snapped his fingers in her face. No reaction. His grin grew evil and a feeling of dread washed over Malik and Ryou.
"Mph mmph meph ma mmmmphm mmmph mmph." Ryou attempted to say. The three other males looked at him oddly and he tapped his fingers on Bakura's hand. Bakura drew back the limb and allowed the smaller albino a chance to speak. Ryou cleared his throat before beginning again. "Thank you, what I was trying to say was, 'I think she's a Twilight lover.'"
Malik and Marik blinked and looked over at Ishizu who had gone through a complete makeover in the short ten-second span of Ryou's hypothesis. Her typical white dress had been replaced by a smoke-gray skirt depicting Edward's face on the bottom left side and a shirt with 'Team Edward' scrawled in immaculate and dramatic cursive on the front. She wore a necklace with an apple charm on it and a hat with Bella on it, said hat was covered in buttons and pins and both of the Ishtar boys were astounded at what had happened.
"How did she..." Malik wondered aloud, baffled beyond measure as to how and why his sister had broken the very laws of physics with her costume change. Ishizu was known to strictly obey the laws of reality despite being the owner of the Millennium necklace and related to the blond bombshell known as Marik. Marik himself looked both frightened and ecstatic, giving him the appearance of having either a nervous breakdown or an epileptic seizure. A couple feeding ducks nearby had their eyes widen, and with a quick glance at each other backed away very very slowly before the psychopathic blond decided to take his confusion out on them in a rather violent way.
Bakura was the first to recover from the shock of the sudden costume-change. "Doesn't matter." He shrugged, "She's part of the other side now," He took out a wicked looking knife, sharp enough to split a hair lengthwise in its prime. Right now, it barely looked sharp enough to be used to cut a banana. "So we simply take care of her."
Ryou blinked. "Where were you keeping that knife?" He asked.
The long-dead thief glanced off to the side pointedly and would have pouted if he was capable. "I'd rather not say..."
This was met with two quirked eyebrows and a giggle. The giggle was met with a fist to the face.
As Marik rubbed his nose and whined, Ishizu moved for the first time in the past five or so minutes of dreamily staring into space. The only female Ishtar was suddenly up in Bakura's face, smiling excitedly. "You know," She began happily, rooting through a handbag that had suddenly appeared out of thin air. "With a little glitter, you'd look JUST like a vampire!" The Egyptian female looked up from the bag, holding aloft a jumbo-sized container of body glitter a proud gin on her face as she slapped a sizable glob on Bakura's arm as she linked their limbs by the elbows. She seemed oblivious at his struggling or the fact that he was attempting to cut off her head with a dull knife, though that soon turned into an attempt to hack off his own arm when the glitter began taking root.
Marik, Malik, and Ryou all looked on in horror as the process continued and Bakura's arm began to look as if it was home to several hundred thousand tiny supernovas. It became difficult to look away, not matter how much the three wanted to.
"It's ALIVE!" The thief king yelled, panicking, feeling the glitter move up his arm unbidden. "MARIK! HELP ME!" Ishizu clapped her hands together and rested her cheek against them with a smile as the yami proceeded to tug at their linked arms
"Just like Edward..." She murmured, apparently unable to feel the white haired thief clawing at her arm in attempt to get her elbow to uncurl itself from around his glittering arm.
"BACK FOUL BEAST!" Bakura yelled as the glitter moved onto his torso, shining through the blue and white striped shirt, Marik was shielding his eyes while Malik and Ryou were turning away from the glare, the blond yami stumbled back, tripping over a park bench in the process. Bakura took in none of this though, as he had finally managed to wrest his arm away from the zoned-out twihard. Noting that he was indeed free he bolted for the fountain, diving into the cold penny-filled waters as he attempted to wash off the glitter.
Luckily, the body glitter seemed to dislike water and let out a hiss, bolting from Bakura's body back into Ishizu's handbag. It didn't occur to the ancient thief that a living glob of glitter had just hissed and fled from the water, he was too occupied rooting around the bottom of the fountain for quarters, a Cheshire grin on his face.
As the glimmering faded, Malik, Marik, and Ryou had come up with a plan. Simply put, they'd flee and find their items. After that, well, no one said it was a GREAT plan...
The two blonds and the hikari whitenette dashed over to Bakura, who was stuffing his sodden and dripping pockets with change, Marik was the most physically fit, and thus lifted Bakura over his head and threw him into the opening door of a bus. Bakura hurtled through the air, not even slightly aware that he had just been thrown thirty feet and crashed into a portly bus driver. The remain three males piled into the bus, Malik immediately taking the wheel and stomping on the gas. The tires squealed on the pavement as the four made their escape.
Strangely enough, Ishizu hadn't moved except to take out a picture of Edward and skip over to the couple that had been recently feeding ducks.
Marik had his head out the window of the surprisingly barren bus, tongue flapping in the wind like a dog as he waved to people passing by and occasionally flipped one off. Bakura was counting his loot in the far back seat while Ryou clung to his seat for dear life. Malik simply focused on the road, eye twitching occasionally as they barreled down the street towards the Ishtar house.
A/N: And THAT'S the chapter. ^^ Thank you Enterprise D, Scrambled-Eggs-At-Midnight, cdcase, Jerex, lycan-song, and Charm and Strange for the wonderful reviews! I give you cookies with my most profound gratitude! *hands over cookies* Also an apology muffin to anyone I forgot to reply to. o.o *holds out a plate of muffins*
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