The Millenium Scarab
Chapter 4
Joey leaned back on his bed. Never in his life had time gone by so slowly for him. Yugi had promissed to call him as soon as he talked to his Yami about the Millenium Scarab. It shouldn't take that long to get a few facts on a little trinket!
He wondered what it was like to be Margaret right now. She must so be confused...unnaturally weak-bodied...doing things she can't remember afterward...all because of a little pin that her mother's friend gave her. It must be hard. Poor girl.
The phone rang. He sprang up and dashed to the phone.
"Yugi?"he said as scarcely as he had picked up the reciever.
"Hi Joey."said Yugi's voice on the other end of the line.
"What's up? Did you get the information?"
"Yeah. I tell you,it's gonna knock your socks off!
"As you know,five thousand years ago,a big war broke out in Egypt because of the Shadow Games. Well,there was a girl who took part in that war. She was in love with power,and most of her power was from the Shadow Games. You could almost say they were like drugs to her. She was going to stop at nothing to protect them.
"She traveled through Egypt for years,killing those who stood in her way and absorbing their life forces with some kind of...evil magic that she gained from the Shadow Games. It was mostly because of her that the Pharoh chose to take action.
"When she got the word that the Pharoh was going to banish the Games,she attacked him in a blinding rage,trying to kill him. But he wasn't as easily struck down as her previous victims. He evaded her attack and knocked her out. When he sealed the Games away,he also imprisoned her in an Item;the Millenium Scarab. Instead of sending it with the other Millenium Items,the Pharoh ordered for it to be locked deep in the palace,hoping that it would never fall into mortal hands and release the evil spirit within."
"But now it's in the hands of an innocent girl."Joey thought out loud,"Wow. To think that there's actually an eighth Millenium Item that no one knew about before!"He thought about that one thing;a Shadow Magic that allowed the evil girl to suck up life force. That must have been what was happening to Margaret that makes her so weak!
"Thanks,Yug'!"he said,"And give Yami my thanks too!"
"Sure."Yugi replied,then yawned quietly,"Listen,I'm really tired and I think I'll turn in early. 'Night,Joey."
"'Night,Yugi. See you tomorrow."
***
Joey got up extra early the next morning. He ate an unusually quick breakfast and left at seven,ariving at school at seven-thirty,twenty minutes earlier then he usually arrived. He sat on the steps and waited. He was determined to tell Margaret about the Scarab today,no question about it.
At about seven fourty-five,people started ariving,talking,laughing,joking and just plain having the time of their lives. But where was Margaret? Wouldn't she be here by now? She wasn't sick,was she?
Seven-fifty. At last,a car pulled up to the front of the building. The back seat door opened and Margaret stepped out. She didn't normally ride to school,did she?
He heard her mutter "Thanks for the ride,Mom. Bye!" before closing the door,then she swung her backpack over her shoulder and went toward the building. Then she saw Joey standing there,waved at him,and went toward him.
"Hi,Joey."she whispered.
"Hey!"Joey said as he jumped up,"How are you feeling?"
"Not so hot."she replied,"I was so exhausted this morning,there was no way I could have walked."
"I'm sorry to hear that. Listen,there's something I wanna talk to you about. You know that pin you wear? Well,it--"Joey was abruptly cut off by someone screaming from across the hall.
"Hey Margaret! I see you have a new 'friend!' When you gonna hurt HIS feelings?! You know it's gonna happen sooner or later,you mean,evil girl! You don't even deserve to have friends!"It was Catherine,the biased girl from the other day. Joey felt Margaret shaking beside him. The Catherine's words were cutting through her like a knife.
"Hey man,leave her alone! She's had enough!"
"Shut the hell up!"
"Cut it out! You're gonna make her cry!"
"Well,she deserves it after she talked about me behind my back!"Joey rolled his eyes and whispered to Margaret.
"Listen,you go on ahead to class. I'll take care of this."Margaret complied and continued down the hall. Joey turned on Catherine.
"Tell me,did you actually HEAR Margaret talking about you."Catherine looked at him as if it was a stupid question. He didn't see why. It was perfectly reasonable to ask.
"No..."
"Then how do you know she was?"
"David told me."
"David who?"
"David Lawrence. He's in my fifth period History class."
"How do you know this 'David' fella o' yours was tellin' the truth?"
"You're wasting my time,buddy."Catherine snapped and pushed past him.
"Not everyone tells the truth all the time! Think about that!"Joey shouted after her. Well,that seemed half pointless. But at least not completely pointless. Now he had the guy's name. David Lawrence. Fifth period History class. He decided he should give this guy a talking to and see what that does. But meantime,he should talk to Margaret.
Joey raced to the classroom just as the warning bell rang. He saw Margaret sitting in the back,her face burried in her arms. She was definetly crying at this point. He grabbed the tissue box from the teacher's desk and went over to her.
"Hey."he said quietly,gently nudging her on the arm,"You gonna be ok?"Margaret looked up. Her eyes were starting to turn red,and tears had soaked her face.
"I think so."she replied in a voice sounding more hoarce then usual,"Thank you for sticking up for me,Joey."
"What're friends for?"Joey smiled as he sat backwards at an empty desk and pushed the tissue box towards her,"Hey,not for nothin',but I wanna ask you somethin'. This 'David Lawrence' that Catherine was talkin' about,what's with him? Do you know?"
"He's Catherine's boyfriend."
"She's got a boyfriend? That bitch?"
"Yeah. They've been going out since Freshman year."
Her boyfriend...hmm...that opened new possibilities as to what's going on. Maybe David is jealous of Margaret and is trying to get Catherine to steer clear of her. Or maybe it's a coverup strategy;he's telling people these things and then blaming 'the new girl' for them,in case someone lets it slip what he or she heard.
The teacher's voice snapped Joey back into reality. Quickly he patted Margaret on the shoulder and went to his seat.
***
The final bell rang at last. Everyone pushed there way out the doors to their lockers. Joey was deliberatly slow in packing up. He crammed the last book into his bag at the same time Margaret finished packing. He stood up and quickly went to her side.
"Howdy,pardner!"he said,faking a western accent. Margaret giggled.
"Hey cowboy."she answered,"What's up?"
"Oh,nothin' much. I was just wond'rin' if I could walk ya home?"Margaret smiled.
"Sure,Joey! I'd like that!"
Joey and Margaret collected their books from their lockers and were soon outside. Meanwhile around the corner of the school,Bakura leaned against the wall,watching the two as they walked by. He listened intently as they got closer.
"An' then the other Kuriboh turns around an' says 'Hey,that's not a Dark Magician! This is a Dark Magician!'"Margaret laughed as Joey finished his joke. They were just about to turn the corner. Bakura slipped behind a nearby bush(A/N:I haven't seen the side of Domino High,so I'm assuming that there's a small garden next to the windows.)as they walked by. Then,just as they passed him,he sprang out and lunged at Margaret from behind.
Almost faster then Bakura could see,Margaret whipped around and struck him in the face with a right jab. Startled by the swiftness of her attack,he stumbled back and fell on the grassy ground.
When he regained his composure,he looked up at Margaret. She was leaning over him with a sort of evil glare in her eyes. Joey noticed the look as well.
"Oh shit..."
Bakura quickly wiped a streak of blood away from his mouth as he staggered to his feet. Margaret gave him no time to recover further, though. A kick went to the knees, another right jab, and then she stepped forward and slammed her elbow into the side of his head. Bakura dropped like a stone.
"Stay away from me, Bakura," she hissed before another kick sent him into unconsciousness.
Joey just stood there gaping at the crumpled heap on the ground that was Bakura. Then he looked at Margaret. The dark glint in her eyes had left. She was back to normal. She looked at him briefly,then let out a small sigh and collapsed,landing in Joey's arms.
Several other people had massed around the former battle field. Several "what happened's?" and "oh my god's!" were heard when they saw the unconscious Bakura and Margaret.
"'scuse me. Pardon me. Sorry,excuse me."was heard way in the back of the crowd. Yugi and the others were pushing their way through to the front. Yugi,being naturally small and skinny,was the first to emerge. He looked at Bakura,then looked at Joey,who was still holding the limp girl in his arms.
"What happened?"Tea exclaimed as she made her way toward them.
"It was her,wasn't it?"Yugi asked grimly. Joey nodded. Yugi could only sigh and shake his head sadly.
"Are you ok,Bakura?"said a girl from History class as she helped a newly- awakened and shaken Bakura to his feet.
"I think so."he answered,rubbing his head where Margaret had hit him,"What happened?"
"It was the ring."Joey muttered. That was all Bakura needed to hear to know what happened. His Yami must have tried to make a grab for Margaret's Millenium Item.
"We'd better get Margaret outa here."Joey said as he lifted her into a carrying position.
To be continued...wow!!! Long chapter for once!!!
FYI:What Catherine was saying about not deserving to have friends because sooner or later I'm going to hurt them,someone actually said this to me. She assumed, being the teme (Japanese insult) she is, that I treat everyone the way I treat her,not getting it through her head that I'm treating her that way because she's a biased,hypocratic bitch. And that's not all she's done to me,but I'm not going to go into great detail about what else she's done. The problem is I have to tolerate her because she hangs out with my lunch friends. *sigh* Life is going to be so much easier in Junior year when she'll be outta school.
Anyway,more FYI:There really is a guy named David at my school. I don't know his last name,and he's not going out with the girl Catherine is based on(whose real name I'm going to keep a secret),but he's a real bastard. He's physicly,emotionally and on some occations sexually obnoxious to me and a girl who sits next to me in class,and that in itself is bad enough,but what really made me want to kill him was the time he shouted at me from a school bus window to get my attention and gave me the finger. Sometimes I think that he and "Girl X" would make a great couple :P I'm going to stop ranting about my real life now.
Two more things before I go. First,I rated this PG-13 because I knew there was gonna be some bad stuff. But I've begun to notice how much language I've slipped in here. Should I bump up the rating to R? I honestly think language isn't as big a deal as what I was really worried about(the rape in the first chapter),but it's up to you guys.
Second,thanks to my friend Rowan,AKA Rini-Chan,for writing the fight scene for me ^_^
Review please! Ja ne,minna-san!
Chapter 4
Joey leaned back on his bed. Never in his life had time gone by so slowly for him. Yugi had promissed to call him as soon as he talked to his Yami about the Millenium Scarab. It shouldn't take that long to get a few facts on a little trinket!
He wondered what it was like to be Margaret right now. She must so be confused...unnaturally weak-bodied...doing things she can't remember afterward...all because of a little pin that her mother's friend gave her. It must be hard. Poor girl.
The phone rang. He sprang up and dashed to the phone.
"Yugi?"he said as scarcely as he had picked up the reciever.
"Hi Joey."said Yugi's voice on the other end of the line.
"What's up? Did you get the information?"
"Yeah. I tell you,it's gonna knock your socks off!
"As you know,five thousand years ago,a big war broke out in Egypt because of the Shadow Games. Well,there was a girl who took part in that war. She was in love with power,and most of her power was from the Shadow Games. You could almost say they were like drugs to her. She was going to stop at nothing to protect them.
"She traveled through Egypt for years,killing those who stood in her way and absorbing their life forces with some kind of...evil magic that she gained from the Shadow Games. It was mostly because of her that the Pharoh chose to take action.
"When she got the word that the Pharoh was going to banish the Games,she attacked him in a blinding rage,trying to kill him. But he wasn't as easily struck down as her previous victims. He evaded her attack and knocked her out. When he sealed the Games away,he also imprisoned her in an Item;the Millenium Scarab. Instead of sending it with the other Millenium Items,the Pharoh ordered for it to be locked deep in the palace,hoping that it would never fall into mortal hands and release the evil spirit within."
"But now it's in the hands of an innocent girl."Joey thought out loud,"Wow. To think that there's actually an eighth Millenium Item that no one knew about before!"He thought about that one thing;a Shadow Magic that allowed the evil girl to suck up life force. That must have been what was happening to Margaret that makes her so weak!
"Thanks,Yug'!"he said,"And give Yami my thanks too!"
"Sure."Yugi replied,then yawned quietly,"Listen,I'm really tired and I think I'll turn in early. 'Night,Joey."
"'Night,Yugi. See you tomorrow."
***
Joey got up extra early the next morning. He ate an unusually quick breakfast and left at seven,ariving at school at seven-thirty,twenty minutes earlier then he usually arrived. He sat on the steps and waited. He was determined to tell Margaret about the Scarab today,no question about it.
At about seven fourty-five,people started ariving,talking,laughing,joking and just plain having the time of their lives. But where was Margaret? Wouldn't she be here by now? She wasn't sick,was she?
Seven-fifty. At last,a car pulled up to the front of the building. The back seat door opened and Margaret stepped out. She didn't normally ride to school,did she?
He heard her mutter "Thanks for the ride,Mom. Bye!" before closing the door,then she swung her backpack over her shoulder and went toward the building. Then she saw Joey standing there,waved at him,and went toward him.
"Hi,Joey."she whispered.
"Hey!"Joey said as he jumped up,"How are you feeling?"
"Not so hot."she replied,"I was so exhausted this morning,there was no way I could have walked."
"I'm sorry to hear that. Listen,there's something I wanna talk to you about. You know that pin you wear? Well,it--"Joey was abruptly cut off by someone screaming from across the hall.
"Hey Margaret! I see you have a new 'friend!' When you gonna hurt HIS feelings?! You know it's gonna happen sooner or later,you mean,evil girl! You don't even deserve to have friends!"It was Catherine,the biased girl from the other day. Joey felt Margaret shaking beside him. The Catherine's words were cutting through her like a knife.
"Hey man,leave her alone! She's had enough!"
"Shut the hell up!"
"Cut it out! You're gonna make her cry!"
"Well,she deserves it after she talked about me behind my back!"Joey rolled his eyes and whispered to Margaret.
"Listen,you go on ahead to class. I'll take care of this."Margaret complied and continued down the hall. Joey turned on Catherine.
"Tell me,did you actually HEAR Margaret talking about you."Catherine looked at him as if it was a stupid question. He didn't see why. It was perfectly reasonable to ask.
"No..."
"Then how do you know she was?"
"David told me."
"David who?"
"David Lawrence. He's in my fifth period History class."
"How do you know this 'David' fella o' yours was tellin' the truth?"
"You're wasting my time,buddy."Catherine snapped and pushed past him.
"Not everyone tells the truth all the time! Think about that!"Joey shouted after her. Well,that seemed half pointless. But at least not completely pointless. Now he had the guy's name. David Lawrence. Fifth period History class. He decided he should give this guy a talking to and see what that does. But meantime,he should talk to Margaret.
Joey raced to the classroom just as the warning bell rang. He saw Margaret sitting in the back,her face burried in her arms. She was definetly crying at this point. He grabbed the tissue box from the teacher's desk and went over to her.
"Hey."he said quietly,gently nudging her on the arm,"You gonna be ok?"Margaret looked up. Her eyes were starting to turn red,and tears had soaked her face.
"I think so."she replied in a voice sounding more hoarce then usual,"Thank you for sticking up for me,Joey."
"What're friends for?"Joey smiled as he sat backwards at an empty desk and pushed the tissue box towards her,"Hey,not for nothin',but I wanna ask you somethin'. This 'David Lawrence' that Catherine was talkin' about,what's with him? Do you know?"
"He's Catherine's boyfriend."
"She's got a boyfriend? That bitch?"
"Yeah. They've been going out since Freshman year."
Her boyfriend...hmm...that opened new possibilities as to what's going on. Maybe David is jealous of Margaret and is trying to get Catherine to steer clear of her. Or maybe it's a coverup strategy;he's telling people these things and then blaming 'the new girl' for them,in case someone lets it slip what he or she heard.
The teacher's voice snapped Joey back into reality. Quickly he patted Margaret on the shoulder and went to his seat.
***
The final bell rang at last. Everyone pushed there way out the doors to their lockers. Joey was deliberatly slow in packing up. He crammed the last book into his bag at the same time Margaret finished packing. He stood up and quickly went to her side.
"Howdy,pardner!"he said,faking a western accent. Margaret giggled.
"Hey cowboy."she answered,"What's up?"
"Oh,nothin' much. I was just wond'rin' if I could walk ya home?"Margaret smiled.
"Sure,Joey! I'd like that!"
Joey and Margaret collected their books from their lockers and were soon outside. Meanwhile around the corner of the school,Bakura leaned against the wall,watching the two as they walked by. He listened intently as they got closer.
"An' then the other Kuriboh turns around an' says 'Hey,that's not a Dark Magician! This is a Dark Magician!'"Margaret laughed as Joey finished his joke. They were just about to turn the corner. Bakura slipped behind a nearby bush(A/N:I haven't seen the side of Domino High,so I'm assuming that there's a small garden next to the windows.)as they walked by. Then,just as they passed him,he sprang out and lunged at Margaret from behind.
Almost faster then Bakura could see,Margaret whipped around and struck him in the face with a right jab. Startled by the swiftness of her attack,he stumbled back and fell on the grassy ground.
When he regained his composure,he looked up at Margaret. She was leaning over him with a sort of evil glare in her eyes. Joey noticed the look as well.
"Oh shit..."
Bakura quickly wiped a streak of blood away from his mouth as he staggered to his feet. Margaret gave him no time to recover further, though. A kick went to the knees, another right jab, and then she stepped forward and slammed her elbow into the side of his head. Bakura dropped like a stone.
"Stay away from me, Bakura," she hissed before another kick sent him into unconsciousness.
Joey just stood there gaping at the crumpled heap on the ground that was Bakura. Then he looked at Margaret. The dark glint in her eyes had left. She was back to normal. She looked at him briefly,then let out a small sigh and collapsed,landing in Joey's arms.
Several other people had massed around the former battle field. Several "what happened's?" and "oh my god's!" were heard when they saw the unconscious Bakura and Margaret.
"'scuse me. Pardon me. Sorry,excuse me."was heard way in the back of the crowd. Yugi and the others were pushing their way through to the front. Yugi,being naturally small and skinny,was the first to emerge. He looked at Bakura,then looked at Joey,who was still holding the limp girl in his arms.
"What happened?"Tea exclaimed as she made her way toward them.
"It was her,wasn't it?"Yugi asked grimly. Joey nodded. Yugi could only sigh and shake his head sadly.
"Are you ok,Bakura?"said a girl from History class as she helped a newly- awakened and shaken Bakura to his feet.
"I think so."he answered,rubbing his head where Margaret had hit him,"What happened?"
"It was the ring."Joey muttered. That was all Bakura needed to hear to know what happened. His Yami must have tried to make a grab for Margaret's Millenium Item.
"We'd better get Margaret outa here."Joey said as he lifted her into a carrying position.
To be continued...wow!!! Long chapter for once!!!
FYI:What Catherine was saying about not deserving to have friends because sooner or later I'm going to hurt them,someone actually said this to me. She assumed, being the teme (Japanese insult) she is, that I treat everyone the way I treat her,not getting it through her head that I'm treating her that way because she's a biased,hypocratic bitch. And that's not all she's done to me,but I'm not going to go into great detail about what else she's done. The problem is I have to tolerate her because she hangs out with my lunch friends. *sigh* Life is going to be so much easier in Junior year when she'll be outta school.
Anyway,more FYI:There really is a guy named David at my school. I don't know his last name,and he's not going out with the girl Catherine is based on(whose real name I'm going to keep a secret),but he's a real bastard. He's physicly,emotionally and on some occations sexually obnoxious to me and a girl who sits next to me in class,and that in itself is bad enough,but what really made me want to kill him was the time he shouted at me from a school bus window to get my attention and gave me the finger. Sometimes I think that he and "Girl X" would make a great couple :P I'm going to stop ranting about my real life now.
Two more things before I go. First,I rated this PG-13 because I knew there was gonna be some bad stuff. But I've begun to notice how much language I've slipped in here. Should I bump up the rating to R? I honestly think language isn't as big a deal as what I was really worried about(the rape in the first chapter),but it's up to you guys.
Second,thanks to my friend Rowan,AKA Rini-Chan,for writing the fight scene for me ^_^
Review please! Ja ne,minna-san!