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Chapter Three – Calling for Help
Of course trying to find help for Yugi was harder than anticipated. They couldn't just go up to a therapist and say 'I have a friend who is obsessed with a Pharaoh who, 4 months ago, was living inside his head'. That would make them sound stupid and possibly get Yugi admitted to a psychiatric ward. So that ruled out going to the professionals which left... well who? That was the question, who did they know who would possibly be able to help them. But there had to be someone.
Joey continually racked this brains as he watched Yugi, translating Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the school library. He was unaware of it but as he thought he was staring angrily at Yugi. Of course Yugi was aware of this and was not doing anything about it but he had to admit that he could not concentrate on what he was trying to translate. He was practicing basic words so that he could completely translate what the Tablet of Lost memories had written on it. But how could he concentrate on learning to translate these hieroglyphics when Joey was continuously staring at him.
"Joey, stop staring at me!" Yugi hissed.
Joey stirred and looked at him.
"What?"
"Stop staring at me. I am trying to work."
Joey stood, knocking his chair over which banged on the floor loudly. He was in no mood to deal with Yugi. After all he was trying to find help for Yugi so the last thing he wanted to do was fight with him. With a last glare at Yugi, Joey stormed out of the library. Leaving Yugi who returned the glare but more half heartedly before turning back to the translation.
Joey strolled out of the school, it was the end of the day but he knew that Tristan and Tea would most likely be at the nearest fast food restaurant. As he had thought in the nearest Burger World, Tristan and Tea were sat eating a burger each. Joey pushed his way through some of his classmates and sat down next to Tea.
"What's the deal, man? I thought you were supposed stay with Yugi until we figure out some kind of help we can get him." Tristan said.
Joey groaned, angrily.
"I don't have the patience to deal with him. We just need to find help for him so he will not be like this any longer."
"I want the normal Yugi back," Tea sighed, putting down her half eaten burger, "What was he doing this time?"
"Oh, he was translating words from that Ancient Egyptian writing."
Tristan shook his head.
"He was doing that earlier when I was with him, what he is trying to achieve anyway."
Joey sat back and folded his arms, shrugging. Silence fell between them as they tried to think of anyone who would be able to help them. Surely, there had to be someone somewhere who could help them. It had to be someone who they all knew and trusted, also someone who had known Yugi while Atem had been here, maybe also someone who knew about Ancient Egypt. The answer was so close to them but they could not quite figure out who would be the answer. They began to discuss what kind of person or people would be best to help them help Yugi. A lot of 'Yeah' and 'hmm' came from their discussion which lead to another silence. But this one was short lived as Tea almost leapt to her feet.
"Guys, I've got it!"
Joey and Tristan stared at her.
"We should go to see Ishizu and Marik, I'm sure they would know what to do."
"Great idea Tea, call them." Tristan agreed.
Joey rolled his eyes at Tristan.
"Seriously dude like Tea causally has their number on her phone."
"Actually I do.." Tea replied, blushing slightly.
Tea received a look from Joey which made her blush even more. She pulled out her phone and searched through the numbers until she found the telephone number. As the phone rang Joey went and brought himself some chips. Joey returned to find Tea in deep conversation with the phone. In between munching on the chips he heard bits of the conversation. Tea was describing what Yugi was doing to whoever was on the other end of the phone. Tea eventually hung up and informed the others that they were going to see Ishizu and Marik on this coming Sunday. Sunday could not some sooner for Yugi's friends.
Sunday rolled around with a cool breeze and a rather disgruntled group of teenagers. It had been hard enough to keep up with the amount of work that they had to do along with a very annoying Yugi. Their patience was beginning to run low, he was still going on and on about how he was going to translate the Tablet of memories. All of them shared the hope that Yugi would just snap out of this but that seemed to becoming more and more like wishful thinking.
So, they took the journey to the other side of town where the Ishtar's lived. Ishizu, Marik and Odion had moved here after the pharaoh had left as they were now free to live a normal life. The journey actually didn't take them that long and before they knew it, they were knocking at the door. Ishizu answered and lead them through to the living room where they found Marik and Odion. After the usual greets and enquiries after each other the topic turned to Yugi. Joey, Tristan and Tea explained in a lot more detail, what was going on, then they given over the phone.
"So, Yugi has basically not doing anything but researched about the Pharaoh." Ishizu said.
They nodded.
"All he ever does is read those flaming books, make notes, read and make notes. It goes on and on." Joey said.
The Ishtars fell silent as they thought about what they had just heard. This was a difficult situation and was going to be hard to solve. No one had seen this coming and maybe even the pharaoh wouldn't have seen this coming. But maybe a complex situation could just have a simple solution.
"Has anyone tried just talking to him?" Marik asked.
"Yes, but he just doesn't listen." Tristan sighed.
"Well, why don't I try?"
Everyone looked at Marik.
"Would you?" Tea asked, her face lighting up.
Marik nodded, and they spent the rest of the morning coming with ideas of places where Yugi was most likely be. Then with a few locations in mind Joey, Tristan, Tea and Marik set off to head back to the other side of town where they found Yugi in the local library. Tea, Tristan and Joey wished Mark good luck as they watched him walk towards a lone table where Yugi was sitting surrounded by books.
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I hope you enjoyed that! :D
Will Marik succeed in his attempt to talk to Yugi?
Find out next Saturday.. Haha that's sound so much like film trailer xD
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