Chapter One: Robbed
Another school day at Domino High had come to a close. Save for a few teachers who'd stayed behind to catch up on some work and a couple of janitors, the school was completely empty and the hallways and classrooms in complete silence.
Except, that is, for class 2B's room, where four kids were on cleaning duty.
"Geez, why in de world did we hafta get cleanin' duty on a Friday?" Joey groaned, scrubbing the blackboard clean of all remainders of chalk.
"Calm down, Joey, it's not all that bad," Yugi commented, sweeping up dust and tiny scraps of paper from the floor into a dustpan which Téa was holding.
"Yeah, at least we're not on mop duty," Tristan said, wiping off the windows. "Then we'd be scrubbing the hallways of this entire floor for half the afternoon."
"Well, we could've been outta here in seconds if we'd just zapped de place clean."
"Joey! You know we can't do that," Téa said, dumping out the dustpan into a trash bin. "What if somebody walked in and caught us zapping around the room?"
"Besides, I think we're done," Yugi said, leaning on the broom and glancing around the classroom.
"Finally," Joey said, dropping the scrubbing brush into a bucket of soapy water.
Once the cleaning supplies had been put away, the four of them picked up their bags and starting walking down the hallway towards the exit.
"Man, what's de point of havin' dese magic powers if we can't even really use dem widdout freakin' out over somebody catchin' us?" Joey moaned.
"Joey, we're supposed to be using them to protect this world from evil, not so that we won't have to actually do some work on cleaning up the classroom," Téa said.
"Besides," Tristan said, putting one hand around Joey's neck, "you could use the exercise once in a while."
"Right, like I don't get enough of dat while I'm fightin' evil magic beings," Joey said, rolling his eyes.
All of a sudden, as they were about to walk outside of the school door, a loud, piercing shriek filled the air. However, the scream was far from an ordinary scream of shock or terror; it made everyone wince and cover their ears, and the nearby glass windows shattered into thousands of pieces.
Once the scream finally died down, Tristan yelled, "I think my hearing's shot!"
"WHAT?" Joey yelled.
"I SAID, I THINK MY HEARING'S SHOT!"
"WHAT?!"
"What was that scream?" Yugi cried, running outside towards the sound of the shriek.
"See?!" Joey yelled as he and the others ran after Yugi. "Plenty a exercise!"
Outside, they found that one of their fellow students was lying on the grounds outside of the school, unconscious. His backpack was lying on the ground next to him, and on top of it lay an open wallet. Yugi got down onto his knees and gently shook his shoulders. "Wake up!" he said urgently.
The student slowly stirred and sat up. "What happened? Can you remember?" Yugi asked.
"Uh…well…I can remember that I was walking home when this pretty girl suddenly appeared in front of me. She opened her mouth and let out a scream and…that's the last thing that I can remember." The student looked over at his backpack and quickly picked up the wallet. "Aw, man!" he cried, sifting through it, "she took all of my yen!"
"Will you be alright?" Téa asked as the student grabbed his backpack and stood up.
"Yeah, I'll be fine," he said. He started to walk away, muttering "How could she take all of my cash?"
Once the guy was out of earshot, Yugi looked back at the other three. "A woman whose shriek can make people unconscious?"
"Hey, dat reminds me of someting…" Joey said. "Dere was an article in de paper today about guys bein' robbed all over Domino. Dey've all been knocked out by what dey said was dis one woman who apparently could scream really loudly."
"Since when do you read the newspaper?" Téa asked, looking a little shocked.
Joey glared at her. "I don't do it for fun! I deliver dem for my job! I actually gotta work in order ta get myself a couple a yen, ya know!"
"Guys, I think it's time for another meeting down at Domino's docks," Yugi said. "If there's a woman out there who's screaming men into unconsciousness and stealing from them, then that's definitely something we need to take care of."
"Another crazy adventure, here we come," Tristan said, rolling his eyes.
