Chapter 2
Messing Up
In the streets of Paris, France, a group of musketeers ride on horseback, riding back to the musketeer headquarters. At first the leader of the group sings and is soon followed by his fellow men.
All for one, hey!
All for one and one for all!
Musketeers sing
All for one and one for all
As the group cross a bridge and enter musketeer HQ, you could still hear them sing the ways of the musketeer.
If you dare to
Cross our path, prepare to fall
'Cause we'll fight you
All for one and one for all
And all for all and one for all
And all for one and alllllllllllllllllll
All assembled together, all musketeers of the HQ salute to their captain. Ushio, captain of the musketeers salutes them back with a stern expression on his face. From that moment on, the musketeers then began their training.
So, if you think you'd care to
Kick some derrière, you
Know that as a musketeer, you'd be so fearsome
If you believe you're manly
Come and join our family
Soon we'll make sure you're a musketeer
Having to watch them train from the window, the three best friends watch with admiration. "Just look at them, someday we will be out there with them. I just know that we will become one of them." said Yami as he, Bakura and Marik continue to watch the musketeers spar each other.
All three of their hearts racing, Marik reply when he and Bakura exchange glances, "I'm so excited I can't wait for that day to come!"
Nodding, Bakura added as the two glance back outside and continue to dream, "Yeah, me as well."
All for one, all men of honor, hear my call
Musketeer sing all for one and one for all
All for one, hey, all for one and one for all
All for one and (he hey (at same time))all for one and all for one
And all for one and one for all
And all for one and alllllllllllllllllllll.
all for one and one for alll.
And so, with the musketeers training outside, the three best friends get going on their chores in the basement as janitors with Yami wiping windows, Bakura fixing the water pipes and Marik mopping the floor. Looking at his reflection in the window he had just finished wiping off, Yami said with a smile to his friends, "Yes, we're janitors today, but we'll be musketeers tomorrow."
Seeing Yami's precious possession on a near-by shelf next to the pipes he was fixing, Bakura reached for the hat and tosses it over to his best friend like a Frisbee. "Here Yami."
No need to look, with his reflexes, Yami catches the hat and settles it on his head with a smile. "Thanks, Bakura. Do you guys remember the time that Arthos and the royal musketeers gave me this hat? They even autographed it!" Turning to his best friends, Yami lifted one part of the old hat up and showed the albino and light blond the four names written on that special spot. Even though the hat is old and the red feather had seen better days, Yami had always cherished it since it lead to the start of their shared Musketeer Dream.
"Yeah, I will never forget the day they saved us from those bandits." Marik said and Bakura nodded. "Besides, I do believe that the musketeers could use a guy like me." Although, as the three spoke to each other, Marik had accidentally knocked Yami's window cleaner into the bucket full of mop water, making the water not the right kind of soapy water. After dunking the mop into the bucket and wiped the floor, he realized that the floor was not getting clean with his mop water.
Turning toward his albino friend, Yami said, "What about you, Bakura?"
"Just like Marik, I believe that warriors like the musketeers would need people like me that are daring!" Bakura reply. But then, not paying attention to his work, Bakura had tightened the pipe too much, making it make a tightened pipe sound, making Bakura a little surprised so that he doesn't cause the pipe to explode.
Up a few levels of the HQ, Ushio is up stairs, getting ready to take a shower he's been waiting for the whole month. Back in the basement, Marik, being the one to be a very insane a few times, had grabbed a pile of rags to clean up the wrong soapy water without noticing that a piece of sandpaper was laying among the the rags and with the way Marik hurried back to the floor before having to empty out his bucket to get the right kind of soapy water, the sandpaper flew from the rag pile to Yami's pile of window wiping cloths.
Picking up the sandpaper without thinking, Yami used it on the window. But then, once he held the sandpaper away from the window to not only see the cleaner off the window, but there were a few scratches on the glass. Realizing his mistake, Yami glanced around for the scratch remover. Seeing the jar on a high shelf, Yami did his best to get it when Bakura had started to wrestle to pipes and Marik slipped on the wet floor from the pipes that had started to spurt water everywhere.
With Marik trying to catch is balance unsuccessfully, he slammed right into the shelves that Yami was trying to get the needed jar to fix the window of those scratches, making the shelves shake so hard that it caused the one jar to fall. But even though Yami was able to catch it before the jar hit the ground, Marik began to slide around the room again, running into Yami and the two slipped and skidded around the room on the extra soaked floor and when the two rammed into Bakura, all three had the pipes pop from the wall and up the higher levels of the HQ, causing Ushio's shower to go through every floor until it landed in the basement, where all three of the boys are in a tangled mess with the pipes.
Seeing the mess that the boys had caused, Ushio glares at them, making the three boys salute to him. However, being mad about the mess they made in the basement, Ushio roughly took Yami, Bakura and Marik to the laundry room where huge piles of musketeer uniforms lay all against the walls and up to the ceiling. With steam coming out of his ears after throwing the three boys into the room, Ushio bursts at the boys. "I am so sick and tired of you three messing up everything! I leave you for ten minutes and I always come back to a disaster."
Being the first to recover, Yami said with a cheerful smile, "Sorry Captain Ushio. We've been working on our teamwork so that we could become musketeers."
At the word musketeers, Ushio burst into laughter at the thought of the three screw ups being musketeers. After Ushio had finally calmed down, Yami continued, "You see, the three of us have had this dream that if we work hard enough, you would make us into musketeers."
Giving them a serious look, Ushio says, "There are three things wrong with that. One..." Pointing to them, he started at Bakura, remembering how the boys only survived because of him stealing "You're a thief! Two..." to Marik since what he does is to protect himself and his best friends since their childhood, "You torture too many people!" and lastly to Yami, "Three...You are just too small. I could never recruit you three into musketeers even if my beloved France depended on it!"
The last thing that the captain did before leaving them to do laundry was take Yami's hat and roll it into a small tight ball. With him laughing as he tossed the rolled up hat onto the floor next to Yami, Ushio leaves the room after slamming the door shut, making the piles of uniforms fall on top of the dreamers. Having to have managed to retrieve his hat before the clothes had fallen on top of them, Yami, Bakura and Marik all glance at each other, feeling shattered that maybe they may never become musketeers by the captain.