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"This is talking"
'These are thoughts'
"Wow! So magic actually exists?" Kiko gawped, a very smug looking Rain sitting next to her.
"That's right! And I'm a magic-user! Not many people are born with the gift, but I was one of the lucky ones!" Rain looked around at the charred walls and destroyed books and equipment, then to the hole in the garage door. She grinned nervously. "Still doesn't make it a natural talent though... Ishizu agreed to help me learn, but she's never around enough of the time, so I work alone. Not the best idea... but I can't help it!"
"That's so cool!" Kiko exclaimed, clapping her hands as she looked at the spell-books with wide eyes. "So Ishizu knows magic too? Cool! What about her brothers?"
"Brothers?" Rain thought, but brushed it off. "Ya, Marik's got magic. He's WAY better then me though!"
"Really? THAT little guy is better then you? Ha!" Kiko laughed, pointing at Rain.
"What's so funny?" Rain blushed lightly from embarrassment. She folded her arms and turned away from the other girl, pouting. "He's been learning it his whole life, of coarse he's better!"
"But he's like a third your age!" "...What?" Rain wasn't blushing anymore, she was just plain confused. "What Marik are you talking about?"
"Ishizu's little brother...?" Kiko said uncertainly, noting Rain's expression.
"How little?"
"I thought you knew her," Kiko huffed, folding her arms the same as Rain. "He's about five, why?"
Rain stood up and walked over to a bookshelf, stepping through an invisable magic barrier that protected it from her experiment accidents. She ran her finger along the spine covers as she spoke, "Ishizu's only brother is Marik, and he's much older then that."
"What?"
"I think I'm gonna have to investigate this..." Rain muttered, pulling out a very old spell book and leafing through the pages. "I think we may have a very BIG problem on our hands..."
"This old man, he played two. He played knick-knack on my shoe-!"
"Mokuba stop provoking them!" Seto snapped back at his singing little brother, eye twitching slightly in annoyance of the nursery rhyme. The group were sitting in a quiet part of the park, away from the sandpits and toys to avoid distracting the children. "This has been going on for two. Whole. HOURS! And I don't know how much longer I can take these irritating songs."
"Okay, okay! That it easy Seto," Mokuba held up his hands in defeat, looking back at Marik and Ryou, who had hidden behind him when Seto yelled, both of them clinging the other back of his shirt. "I think you scared them."
"Whatever..." Seto muttered, rubbing his temples. "Where could Yami have gone? He wasn't gone that long!"
"Seto, what're we going to do?" Mokuba asked, wincing slightly as Joey pulled his hair.
Seto looked back at his little brother and frowned slightly. He had forgotten he had four extra children to account for, so poor Mokuba had to keep an eye on every one of them. Ryou and Marik were presently clinging to Mokuba's side, Joey had found his way onto the twelve-year-olds shoulders and was pulling his hair while Mokuba had to keep a firm grip on Bakura's hand, who kept trying to break free.
Seto felt guilty when he realised how tiring it must be for Mokuba to take care of all of the children and keep them all entertained (though he felt that Mokuba was using the kids as an excuse to act so hyper). Sighing, Seto walked over to his brother. "I don't know..." he said in answer to Mokuba's question, reaching out and placing his hands under Joey's arms, lifting the five-year-old off Mokuba's shoulder's and placing him on the floor.
"Hey! Dat's not fair! Mokuba said it was ok!" Joey yelled in protest, stamping his foot.
"Quiet Wheeler..." Seto growled, trying to silence the child. Seto guessed by the way he tensed that Joey wanted to back away, but he was far to stubborn for that so he just narrowed his eyes and clenched his little hands into fists. "You said it was ok?" he asked Mokuba."
"Seto, just take it easy on him..." Mokuba said, using his one free hand to rub his head where Joey had been pulling his hair. "He's only a kid. It's easier just to keep him satisfied." he whispered so the others couldn't hear. Joey had trotted over to him again adn seemed to be trying to climb back up onto Mokuba's shoulders, which was difficult with all the other kids around the pre-teen. Poor Mokuba was weighed down.
"Joey." Seto said sternly, but it didn't seem to have any effect. Joey kept jumping up and down, trying to get Mokuba to help him. Growling, he was about to yell when he caught Mokuba's eye.
"It's easier just to keep him satisfied."
Seto groaned, all to aware of what had happened when he first yelled at the group of children; they'd dragged him to the shop and then to the funfair. But he knew Mokuba was right. And from the look his brother was giving him, Seto knew what he had to do.
Grumbling, Seto stepped forward and reached down, picking the young blond up off the ground, who began to protest. The small boy stopped, though, when Seto sat the boy on his shoulders, blinking in confusion at the CEO. "Mess my hair and you're dead."
"Wow! It's so high up!" Joey exclaimed, looking around him in what Seto could only place as amazement. He folded his arms and lay them on Seto's head, ignoring his warming mere seconds before. "What your mommy feed you? I wanna be big and tall like you!"
"In your dreams," Seto mumbled, holding onto the child's feet so he wouldn't fall off. Mokuba was a little surprised by Seto's actions, but he tried not to draw attention to it. "All right, which was will we head next?"
"Yami!" Yugi exclaimed when he was a mere few metres from the boy, causing Yami to jump and spin around. Yami caught Yugi as he latched his arms around Yami's shoulders, almost tackled both of them off the pier and into the water.
"Yugi?" Yami squeaked in shock, having been knocked back to he was sitting at the edge of the pier with his back to the ocean. He grinned and hugged Yugi tight, laughing gleefully. "I knew I'd find you! I knew it!"
"Yami I was so a-scared..." Yugi whispered, hugging Yami back just as tightly. He'd dropped the Millennium Rod a short distance away when he leapt at Yami, but he didn't even give it a second thought. "You came lookin' for me?"
"Ya silly! I missed you!" Yami laughed, standing up and pulling Yugi with him, who quickly latched his arms around Yami's torso in another hug. Yami laughed and hugged Yugi again. "I'm so happy you's not hurt!" he pulled Yugi away from him and held the other boys hands, bouncing in a circle and laughing.
Until Yugi bounced right off the edge of the pier and fell into the water, pulling Yami with him.
"Ah!" the two yelped before they hit the water. they were only under for a few seconds before they pulled themselves up, coughing heavily and holding onto the wooden pier to stay up. Yugi looked shaken, but Yami laughed. "Stupid!"
Yugi frowned. "Wasn't my fault!"
"You fell in!" Yami grinned playfully.
Yugi giggled at Yami's expression. "'Cause you spin-ed me around!"
"You pulled me in."
"You didn't let go of me!"
"No, you didn't let go of me!" Yami laughed, splashing some water at Yugi, who giggled and hit some water back at Yami's face. The children's high giggling caught someone's attention, though, and after a few minutes the children where stopped when someone came to the edge of the pier and looked down at them.
Yugi and Yami fell silent when they spotted the girl, tilted their heads and blinking twice at the same time. "Hi lady. Who're you?" Yami asked innocently.
"What in the world...?" the girl blinked in confusion, mouth hanging open. "Yugi? And... Yami?" she exclaimed, shocked.
Yugi blinked and looked at Yami, whispering though his voice was too loud to be hidden. "How does she know us?"
Yami shrugged then looked back at the girl. "Do you know my mommy? Is that why you know me?"
Téa felt like she was going to faint.
"So your saying that little Marik is actually older Marik but with a magic spell on him that made him little?" Kiko blinked in confusion at her own wonders, scratching her head. "So the other minis are the same?"
"You obviously aren't crazy on Duel Monsters or you'd know that Yugi, Yami, Joey, and Ryou are all Duellists. I don't know about Bakura, but from the sound of him I think he's that spirit Ishizu told me about..."
"Spirit?"
"Never mind. I think we need to find a cure..." Rain whispered, running her finger down the page of the book she was reading. It was written in old, Egyptian writing, much like the spell-book Yami had used to create the potion that had caused the group to turn younger, only much less worn. "This looks like the spell they used... It wasn't used often, seeing as it usually messed up, plus the fact it wasn't very useful. Whoever made the potion must have been really accurate; just a little to much of any ingredient could have you flopped on the floor as a lump of mush or something."
"So how do you fix it?" Kiko asked, looking at the page. She decided to stop once the confusing lines started giving her a headache.
"No problem! I can fix it!" Rain leapt up instantly and started darting around the room, gathering various items from shelves, boxes and tables, then lying them on the floor in front of her. "I know exactly what I'm doing!"
Kiko bit her lip nervously. "Shouldn't you wait for Ishizu to-"
"Your job, is to find me a chibi so I can make sure the spell works!" Rain ordered, throwing a few odd-looking herbs into a bowl, mixed them with a red powder, then put on a tripod stand and lit a fire under it. "Don't worry, they can't get hurt, the spell uses safe ingredients and it's really simple!"
"So you won't blow the place up?" Rain shook her head. "Well... I suppose I could go tell Seto..."
"Great! Go fetch me them chibis!"
Kiko sighed as she climbed out the hole in the garage door; sure, she had a lot of energy, but Rain was a little to ecstatic, even for her! Shrugging, she turned to head towards the Kaiba mansion, hoping that they would have returned home by now, but found herself looking down the street at Yugi and Yami.
The two boys were walking down the street on either side of Téa, the girl holding their hands in hers while they held ice creams cones in their free hands, smiling brightly at her and chattering noisily. Téa was hoping that Ishizu could shed some light on the situation, but before she could reach her house another girl raced in front of here.
"Oh my god! Where'd you find them?" Kiko exclaimed, staring from Yugi to Yami then back again. It was then she realised they were wet, but obviously not cold as they were eating ice cream and it was a very sunny day.
"Um.. Do I know you?" Téa asked, confused.
"Hi Kiko!" Yami exclaimed, waving with his ice cream in hand above his head, causing a few drops of melted ice cream to land on his face. Trying to see them he tilted his head, crossing his eyes when he spotted a drop on his nose.
"We were swimming!" Yugi exclaimed happily, smiling brightly.
"Ya! In da ocean!" Yami joined in, not paying any attention to the melting ice cream all over his hand. "It was so prettiful! But it was COLD!"
"Well... they seem to know you..." Téa muttered, looking up at Kiko. "I'm Téa, and I guess you're Kiko."
"Yup." Kiko nodded, still staring at the children. "So you found them at the ocean?"
"Ya, at the pier," Téa answered dismissively. "Look, I'm sorry, but I have to visit a friend in the house down there, if you don't mind."
"Ishizu? She's not in," Kiko smiled when Téa groaned, "Don't worry, there's someone else there who's working on a cure for the chibi's right now!"
"Really?" Téa looked up from the floor and smiled. "Oh, well that's good!"
"Ya! Come on chibi's, lets go!" Kiko cheered, darting off back to the house. Téa frowned at her enthusiasm, but followed at a walking pace. Yugi let go of her hand and trotted behind her next to Yami, who had finished his ice cream, and instead held Yami's hand when Téa looked worriedly at him.
"Are we sick?" Yugi asked, holding his ice cream out in front of Yami to share with him.
"I dunno," Yami answered after he took a small bit of Yugi's ice cream, "but if that's why everyone's nice to us, at least we got ice cream out of it!"
Yugi giggled and took a lick on his ice-cream cone, then held it back out to Yami, smiling. "Ya, guess so!"
To Be Continued
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