ShadowSpirit: Hey everyone. Once again, thanks to all who reviewed for the reviews! I really do apologize for the length between updates...really. I just...am lacking in enthusiasm... Sorry. Don't worry, though; I'm not gonna give up on this fict! I shall continue! To the very end! And then some! Muwahahaha...

Ugh...I'm so happy school's finally out... I was seriously running on nothing these past few months. During my ACT the other day, I got halfway through then laid down and died.

As a side note... MICHAEL JACKSON IS SO FREAKIN' GUILTY!

(...Just needed to get that off my chest. Ra, that man is ugly...)

And I REALLY need a job. I'm so bored! I was so bored the other day, I watched freakin' Power Rangers! I really need something to do...

Random Person: Well then, UPDATE MORE! (throws rocks)

(Has a lump on head) At least I can now console in my newest Wolf's Rain DVD. Oh, and I redid Chapter One. It's practically the same, so you aren't missing much if you don't reread it; it just flows better now.


ShadowSpirit: So...Welcome to another day of Block-ness, Plot-Hole-ness, and utter incompetence.

Joey: What more could a person ask for?

Amber: Say, where'd Hao go?

Yami Marik: (is a bit charcoal-ish) He lit me on fire...

Shadow: I sent him back to the Shaman King studio. He's a hazard to the cast.

-Cut to Mankin studio. (Sorry for the digression, 'specially if you're not familiar with SK)-

Hao: JOIN ME OR DIE!

Horohoro: Um... Is there an option #3?

Chocolove: "Option 3"? Stuck in a tree! (Cough...bad Chocolove joke x.x)

Ren & Horohoro: (attack Chocolove for the utterly horrible joke)

Marco: The light of Justice shines brightly for the way of the Iron Maiden!

Lyserg: Our justice will smite you!

Ryu: (bawling) My poor, misguided Lyserg-chan!

Ren: Oh, get over him! (prods Ryu with toe)

Ryu: (cries harder)

Hao: (sets everything on fire) Muwahahah...

Yoh: Ack! (dodges flames) Why'd they hafta send him back! He's a hazard to the cast!

-Back at YGO studio-

Kaiba: So...who's in this next scene?

Shadow: (checks list) You, your brother, Yami, Yugi, and the Knights of the Round Table.

Marik: I hate playing Bedevere! Make someone else play Bedevere!

Shadow: Y'know what? I was just about to bring that up. I need you for the scene after this one, and thus decided to shift the parts around a bit.

Marik: (glomps) THANK YOU!

Shadow: So, Joey, you are now Bedevere, and Duke is now Sir Lancelot.

Joey: Lovely.

Duke: (with great gusto) I AM BRAVE!

Tristan: (dangles a loogie in Duke's face)

Duke: O.o (runs away, shrieking like a ninny)

Shadow: Heheh... Well, hop-to, people. Your public awaits. (to Joey) Here, you'll need this.

Joey: (takes what Shadow hands to him. It's a mustache that is quite literally five feet long) Um... Isn't this a bit, I dunno, over the top?

Shadow: Nope. Bedevere's mustache is very large.

Joey: But...but...(shoulders slump in defeat) Fine.


Scene is the same one as last time. Kaiba is leaning over the top of Le Castle de Crap, listening to assorted clanking, cursing, and thumping noises coming from behind a pile of rubble. There is a BAM, BAM, BAM, WHOP, followed immediately by some screaming and cursing that is hurriedly stifled by a sea of hushes and "Shh's!"

Kaiba started to climb right on down there to see what was going on.

Pity. If he had waited one more second, he wouldn't've had to expend the energy.

Creeeeeak... CRAAAAASH! WHAAAMPH!

"Uhhhhh... Ow..."

No more castle. Just a big pile of scrap metal and crumbled concrete. Kaiba's somewhere under it all. Mokuba is unconscious somewhere.

Yami pokes his head up out from the ditch he's hiding in. "Think we should see if they're okay?"

Joey, in the same ditch, shakes his head. "Naw. Unfortunately for me, Monkey-boy's probably alri—ack! Pthoo! Freakin' mustache! Keeps gettin' in my mouth..."

"I didn't have that problem," Marik remarks smugly.

Joey glares offstage, where Marik is sipping lemonade. "That's 'cause Shadow didn't make you wear the damn thing! It's not—pthoo—fair!"

Marik shrugs, grinning. "That's right!"

Shadow uses her Supreme Authoress Powers to pop up out of nowhere. "The mustache clashed with Marik's hair. I couldn't stand seeing it on him. You, on the other hand..."

"WE HAVE THE SAME HAIR COLOR!" Joey raves. His mustache flops everywhere.

"Oh, I don't care about your hair," Shadow says, waving a hand disdainfully. "Marik's is much prettier. You've got a shaggy mullet."

Joey can't believe this. "But... But when Marik gets all schizophrenic-multi-personality-like, his hair looks like Vegeta's hair on viagra!"

Yami Marik scowls. "I take offense to that."

Marik glares. "I don't even see how that could work!"

"Well, you could just...rub it on your scalp or something..." Amber says with a shrug.

Shadow frowns. "Amber, I think viagra comes in a pill."

"Feh, like I'd know! It's not like I hafta worry about—Why are we even talking about this?"

"Joey started it."

Joey smacks his forehead in exasperation. "Guys, it was a metaphor!"

"Actually, it was a simile. "Shadow folds her arms. "But anyway, this is pointless. The mustache stays. And someone please go make sure Kaiba's still breathing."

Amber, Bakura, and Yami-B go to help. Yes, Yami-B goes along. Well, he tries. Yami stops him. "Where do you think you're going, thief?"

Yami Bakura puts on a shocked expression. "Why, to help Kaiba, of course! Can't I do something good once in my life?"

"I highly doubt that. What's in your hand?"

Yami-B extends his hand and opens his closed fist. In it are several Band-Aids. Thoroughly puzzled (no pun intended), Yami gives Yami-B a queer look but lets him pass. Meanwhile, Amber and Bakura have located Kaiba's arm.

"Look! It's an arm!" Bakura exclaims, pointing.

"Thank you, Captain Obvious," Yami-B mutters, rolling his eyes.

"Hopefully, Kaiba's still attached to the other end," Amber says dryly.

"Just give it a pull." Yami-B grabs Kaiba's wrist and yanks not so gently.

"OWW!" goes Kaiba.

"Found him!" Yami Bakura exclaims happily. They dig the CEO out and prop him up. "How're ya doing, ol' buddy ol' pal?" Yami-B says mockingly and slaps him on the back.

"OW! Damn you, freakin' albino!" Kaiba answers. He's banged up and quite dusty, but otherwise okay.

"Gee, you look like crap, Kaiba," Amber says helpfully. "You've got all these little cuts all over you."

"I think I've noticed, thanks," he grumps.

"Here you go. Have some Band-Aids," Yami-B offers. Kaiba takes them and slaps them on.

"AAAUGH! HOLY FREAKING SHIT, AAAUGH!" Kaiba screams, frantically ripping the Band-Aids off his face. He presses his hands to his face for a few seconds, then looks up at Yami-B, eyes murderous. "What...the HELL...did you DO!"

"I don't know what on earth you're talking about, you spaz," Yami-B says innocently.

Kaiba shoves a Band-Aid in the tomb robber's face. "It feels like you put effing SALT on these!"

Yami Bakura pretends to think for a moment. "Oh yeaaaah... Now that you mention it, I think I did. So sorry about—"

He never finished his sentence. Kaiba jumped him before he got the chance. High-pitched and undignified squeals permeate the set as Kaiba beats the living tar out of the thief...

—One hour, three ice packs, 56 (unsalted) Band-Aids, 6 feet of Ace bandage wraps and a bucket of ice water (all for Kaiba) later—

"I think you need to do something about that temper of yours, Kaiba," Amber lectures. "You definitely overdid it this time."

Jess walks in, eating ramen. She looks around at the destroyed scenery and at a bandaged-up Kaiba. "What the hell happened here?"

"A building fell on me," Kaiba says, nonchalantly. "Then I got in a fight with Yami Bakura."

"Who won?" Jess mumbles through a slurp of ramen.

"See for yourself," Amber says dryly, motioning off to one side. Yami-B, apparently comatose, is in a hospital bed with an IV and iron lung on.

Jess gags and falls to her knees, hand over her mouth. Tears form in her eyes and she makes a sort of choking sound. Amber turns to Kaiba, quite disturbed. "Is she...crying!"

"Um...I think she's laughing..." Kaiba replies.

Indeed, Jess is laughing so hard noodles are coming out her nose.

Amber makes a face. "That's...disgusting..."

Eventually, Jess gets a hold of herself and climbs up off the ground. She is absolutely glowing through the noodles dangling from her nose. "Woo... That was great! I've gotta go find some Kleenex or something..." Jess starts to walk off. She looks at Yami-B once more and starts laughing all over again.

"Well...that made her day," Kaiba remarks. "I've never seen her so happy."

"Yeah...Well, better get back to the scene. This is taking forever!" Amber exclaims.

Five minutes later, everyone is where they're supposed to be. There's no castle anymore, so we'll improvise and use what's left of a chain-link fence as one.

"You want me to STAND on that!" Kaiba cries in disbelief.

"C'mon, just do it! You can handle it!" Amber coaxes. Kaiba grumbles and refuses to budge. Amber's eyes narrow. "GET on the FENCE, Kaiba!"

Far from appeased, Kaiba does just that. Mokuba has since woken up and now joins his nii-sama.

Joey, Duke, and Bakura roll a large and poorly-assembled wooden rabbit up to the fence, then they scatter and to return to Yami. Kaiba rolls his eyes, and he and Mokuba haul the rabbit over the chain-link fence.

Back in their ditch, Yami's lieges giggle over their success. Yami himself is skeptical.

"I still don't see how this will work, brave knights," Yami claims. "What happens next?"

Joey excitedly explains it. "Well, now, uh, Lancelot, Gallahad, and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French, uh, by surprise. Not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!"

Yami starts to nod, but halts. "Ah—Wait... Who leaps out?"

Joey stutters. "U-u-uh, Lancelot, Gallahad, and I. Uh, leap out of the rabbit, uh, and uh...um..."

Yami's head plops into his hands. "You...are a moron."

"Uh, well, see, if we built this large wooden badger..." Joey tries.

TWANG!

A shadow falls over the group. The wooden rabbit hurls towards them.

"AAAAH!" Yami screams. "RUN AWAY!"

"RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!" his knights agree. They scatter.

SMASH! Goes the rabbit.

Kaiba and Mokuba laugh uproariously and high-five each other. Except, Kaiba puts a bit too much force in his hand and sends Mokuba reeling off the fence.

"Aaaah! Nisamaaa!"

Thump...

"Mokuba!" Kaiba instinctively reaches out, and in doing so, loses his balance as well. He flails his arms, overcorrects, and falls down. Straight onto the thick, pointy wire.

"GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH...ahhhh...ah...ehhhhh...nnng..."

Everyone winces. Amber grimaces. "He'll never be able to have kids..."


ShadowSpirit: (is sitting on usual perch, the W.B.) So... What shall we try next?

Yami Marik: (comes in, carrying a box full of whip cream and some cherries) I've got an idea.

Shadow: (stares at the whip cream) I think I'm afraid of knowing what you plan to do with that...

Yami Marik: Yeah, it's gonna get a bit messy. (plops box down on W.B. next to Shadow and starts to shake up a can) Perfect!

Shadow: (fidgets and scoots away) Um... What the heck are you doing?

Yami Marik: (suggestively) Oh, you'll see. (maniacal smile)

Shadow: O.o

Yami Marik: (notices the look) What's that look supposed to...Ohhh I get it! You think I was... Heheh, my, have you got a dirty little mind.

Shadow: (looks away) ...Shutup.

Yami Marik: (laughs) Anyway, I figured that if we covered the Block with this stuff, Joey will eat it. Problem solved.

Shadow: Ohhh... Good idea!

Amber: But, if a nuke didn't work, then do you really think this will?

Tristan: Obviously you've never seen Joey at lunchtime.

Yami Marik: (leans closer to Shadow) And it there's any whip cream left over...(whisper, whisper, whisper)

Shadow: O.O (belts him over the head with her mellophone) Bastard...

Jess: (wanders in a few minutes later to find Shadow and a few cast members covering the Block with whip cream) I'd ask just what the hell is going on, but I don't want to know. By the way, anyone see my Dragon magazine?

Yami Marik: (wavers to his feet, a large bump on his head) Hm, not sure, but I did sacrifice a magazine a bit ago...

Jess: Did it have a dragon on the cover?

Yami Marik: Yeah...I think so. Offered it right over there. (points to the altar and the ashes on top of it)

Jess: (twitches) You BURNED my magazine!

Yami Marik: No silly, I sacrificed it.

Jess: (in a low, dangerous tone) Better hope you can run fast, freak.

Kaiba: Ooh, this is gonna be good...

Jess: I KILL YOU! (attacks)

Yami Marik: (leaping and running around set) You need a grammar lesson, girl!

Jess: You need to not burn my things! (throws a brick)

Yami Marik: (dodges brick) I didn't! I sacrificed it!

Jess: It's the same bloody thing!

Yami Marik: Is not!

Kaiba: (picks up brick) Cool. (chucks it at Joey)

Joey: Hey, a penny! (bends over, brick flies a foot over his head to smash into the wall)

Kaiba: (anime fall)

Jess: BURNED!

Yami Marik: SACRIFICED!

Jess: BURN-ED

Yami Marik: SAC-RI-FICED!

Jess: B.U.R.N.E.D!

Yami Marik: S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E.D!

Jess: And how does one sacrifice something?

Yami Marik: You set it on the altar and light it on fire.

Jess: Aha! You DID burn it!

Yami Marik: I didn't!

Jess: Then what do you call the "lighting it on fire" part!

Yami Marik: Hm...(ponders) Incineration.

Jess: (rolls eyes) So you incinerated my magazine?

Yami Marik: Yes. I did.

Jess: I KILL YOU!

Shadow: (thinking to self) Pay no attention... Pay no attention to the freaks... (continues to cover W.B with whip cream)


So, last week I went to Montreal and Quebec with my French class. It was really fun (Flaming Eskimo!), though there was waaaay to much bus ride, walking, and chicken.

One of the coolest parts was that I got Shaman King manga in French! They are much further ahead in Canada than in the US. I got volumes 24 and 25. It's cool because I'm learning French while having fun!