Yay! Another chapter!
Sorry about the LONG delay... (Have you noticed that I apologise in the beginning of almost every chapter? I think I'll just say: "I'm sorry I update slowly!" and leave it at that, huh?
Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own YGO. At all. Also, I do not own Aladdin. I DO own Kiara, though. YAY!
Kiara pulled a carrot out of her bag and stuck it onto her snowman. "Perfect!" she declared, grinning at her creation.
Bakura stared at it, rubbing his bare arms irritably. "What is that supposed to be?"
Kiara shot him a weird look. "Duh. A snowman."
"A…" Bakura looked at the jolly creation, which looked suspiciously out of place amidst the harsh set of the next scene, which Weevil was still putting the finishing touches to and raised an eyebrow.
"Snowman." Kiara patted him condescendingly on the cheek. "It's okay, dear, I know you were born in a desert."
Bakura growled and stomped off to sulk.
Kiara looked critically at snowman. Then she ran off, rubbing her hands excitedly. A few moments later, there was a crash, and a section of wall was run over by a giant steamroller. Kiara sat in the cab, cackling excitedly. She pointed the machine at the snowman, and opened the throttle. After crushing a mound of fake snow Weevil had spent an hour getting perfect, the machine headed for the snowman. Kiara whooped wildly as the snow figure got flattened, bits of fake snow flying up from the back end of the machine, burying Kaiba's hutch.
Kiara climbed awkwardly down and, once her feet were firmly on the ground, patted the machine fondly. "Man, I never knew how much fun steamroller-destruction could be!"
There was a muffled sound from the hutch. Kiara snickered, climbing back up into the cab. "Just a minute, Kaiby-waiby," she said sweetly, and then revved the engine loudly. "I need to put this away first." (1)
She skilfully manoeuvred the clunky machine against the wall, and then broke through it.
"Could you not have just gone through the old hole?" Tea asked.
Kiara looked at her, startled. Then she drove back into the room, and reversed out again through the original hole. Stopping the car, she nodded at Tea. "I wasn't sure, so I had to just check," she explained, starting the engine again.
Tea rolled her eyes and turned back to the game of poker Joey and Tristan had started. She was losing badly, but she clearly didn't realise this, as she was still smiling confidently.
Kiara drove off, the engine of the steamroller now making an odd 'putt-putt-putt' noise.
"HA! I win AGAIN!" yelled Joey triumphantly, displaying his cards and snatching up Tea, Tristan and Duke's matchsticks. They were using the matchsticks instead of chips because they had none, and instead of money because nobody was willing to play with it except Duke, and even then he didn't want to lose too much. Especially not to Joey, who was turning out to be either very skilled or extremely lucky.
"Aw, man," complained Tristan, flicking a matchstick at Kaiba's hutch. "I'm bored of this game."
"You just don't like losing to the Ultimate Poker Champion!" said Duke, rolling up his sleeves and collecting everyone's cards.
Tristan raised his eyebrows. "Uh, not if that's you. You haven't won once in all the time we've been playing."
Duke made a face. "Rub it in, why don't you?"
Tristan shrugged. "Well, if you really want me to, I'd be happy to – "
"Shut up."
Kiara came back, steamroller-less. She walked over to Kaiba's hutch, examining it from every angle. "Hmm…"
Then she whipped a big stick out of her pocket and stuck it under the cage. Using it for leverage, she swiftly made the hutch turn over, sending the fake snow flying into the poker boys. There came a wail from Duke.
"MY HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIR!"
Kiara ignored him, opening the hutch and pulling Kaiba from the wreckage. He said something foul and not worth repeating, and then jumped out of her grip.
"Right," Kiara said firmly, putting her stick back. "It's time for the next scene already. Joey! Yugi! GETONTHESET, right NOW!"
Joey got up obediently, brushing fake snow from his clothes. Kiara helped the once-again-tiny Yugi down from a pile of chairs, and then retreated to her chair.
"Places, everyone! We shoot in five, four, three…" She mouthed the "two" and the "one", and then gave the two a thumbs up.
While she was counting, Joey and Yugi helped Weevil to position the tower that Bakura had pulled off the palace and fired off to the ends of the earth. By the time Kiara's thumb came up, it was ready.
The pillar fell, crashed into the snowy wasteland, and rolled down the slope of snow. Finally, it came to a crunching halt. Joey emerged from a window, shivering and rubbing his bare arms.
"Abu?" he called, and then louder. "Abu!"
He began to stumble around wildly, looking for his friend. Eventually he happened upon a pile of snow that seemed to be… shivering.
"Oh, this is all my fault – I should have freed the genie when I had the chance."
He dug out a very blue Yugi, and cradled him inside his vest, trying to warm him up.
"Abu! Are you okay? I'm sorry, Abu – I made a mess of everything, somehow. I gotta go back and set things right."
Joey got to his feet as he spoke, his face taking on a determined expression. He started to walk through the thick layer of fake snow.
Kiara threw a shoe at Weevil. He let out a yelp, and then quickly switched on the wind machine, muttering sourly and rubbing his injured arm.
Joey got up, having been knocked over by the first, over-enthusiastic, gust of wind, and continued his walk, now not only fighting snow, but also a fierce wind. Suddenly, he felt something under his foot, and lifted it, kneeling to clear aside some snow. It was a thoroughly frozen Ed.
"Carpet!" he said, hope coming into his eyes. He tried to lift him, but Ed was stuck fast, trapped beneath the tower. Joey pulled with all his strength, but poor Ed couldn't budge.
An idea sparked in Joey's eye, and he began to dig at the snow around the tower and Ed. "Abu, start digging!" When Yugi dutifully obeyed, much less blue by now, he grinned encouragingly. "That's it!"
Finally, enough snow had been removed, and the tower began to roll again. Joey scooped up Yugi and began to run away. Stopping abruptly, he looked back, a calculating expression on his face, and then slid into place.
The tower rolled over him.
Mai and Serenity both looked aghast. Kiara waved a water gun at them, her face threatening, and they managed to swallow their screams.
The pillar had completed one turn by this time, and as it started the next ponderous turn, Kiara focused the camera on Joey and Yugi, who were left sitting in the patch of snow made by the window of the tower.
Cautiously, Joey looked up. He let out a breath in a relieved whoop. "Yeah! All right!"
He unwrapped the furry turban that was Yugi from his head and looked over at Ed. The carpet shot into the air, shaking off the snow like a dog would shake off water, and rushed over to pick them up.
"Now, back to Agrabah! Let's go!" urged Joey, and Ed complied eagerly. The trio zipped up the mountain, and off into the distance.
(1)Who says Kiara is a bad role model?
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