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Yu-gi-oh! 5Ds after hours
Chapter twenty-five: Yusei and friends do Orchid Bay City
It was a lovely enough morning one day at the Atlas Penthouse located in New Domino City, a suburb of San Francisco, California. Three of the main guys who live at the penthouse, Yusei Fudo, Jack Atlas and Kalin Kessler, along with Kalin's talking dog best friend Dukey, were at the table, having breakfast. "Mmm," Dukey said after taking a sip of his morning coffee, "Nothing beats a mug of freshly brewed coffee in the morning. I can't think of a better way to start the day."
"Amen to that," Kalin remarked as he and Dukey both high-fived.
"You know, I'm surprised that Dukey is able to have coffee," Jack remarked, "I mean, he's a dog, right? Last I checked, coffee isn't something that dogs are allowed to have."
"Me being genetically enhanced covered that," Dukey remarked.
Sighing, Jack said, "At least that makes more sense than pretty much whatever Birdbrain comes up with."
"Oh, come on, Jack," Yusei said, "Ease up on Crow, why don't you?" At that moment, the guys could hear the front door open, and a few seconds later, the fourth member of the four main guys, Crow Hogan, came walking in, accompanied by a rather odd-looking man. The man had green skin, pointy ears (1), orange hair and an orange beard that were both very long, and the man wore light purple circular glasses that would be commonly associated with hippies, along with a long-sleeved purple sweater, dark brown pants that ended an inch or so above his ankles, and a pair of dark brown men's sandals. Oh, and the man was well over six feet tall; Yusei wouldn't have been surprised if the man was at least seven feet tall, if not a little taller than that.
Jerking a thumb at the guy who he just brought into the penthouse, Crow said to his roommates, "Dudes, I want you to meet my new friend Jeff the Leprechaun."
Giving Yusei a knowing look, Jack said, "You were saying, Yusei?"
"Not now, Jack," Yusei replied as he and the others all got up and went over to where Crow and the abnormally tall leprechaun were standing.
"'Sup, human bros?" Jeff greeted as the rest of the penthouse guys came over, "I bet that you weren't expecting to see me. Most humans couldn't even see the magical world until now."
"Actually, seeing a leprechaun is far from the weirdest thing that my friends and I have ever experienced," Kalin remarked, "Although I didn't know they could get so tall."
"Yeah bro, we aren't nothing like the short little guys you commonly see on cereal boxes and stuff," Jeff explained, "Anywho, your bud Crow here is one rocking dude. He's got some good stuff, if you know what I mean."
"I smoked pot with him," Crow translated.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, back up a minute," Yusei said, "Did you say something about a magical world of some kind?"
"Oh yeah, that," Jeff said, "Yeah, magical creatures and all that other business lives alongside humans, but the humans can't normally see the magical world because of three touchstones that maintain a veil that keeps knowledge of the magical world's existence from the humans."
"So how can we see you?" Yusei asked.
"Someone broke all three touchstones," Jeff answered, "The three touchstones are destroyed, the veil is gone, the humans are now learning about the magical world, and so-on and so-forth. Silver lining, the Te Xuan Ze is now capable of leaving Orchid Bay City."
"Orchid Bay City?" Jack repeated in a confused tone. Turning to face Yusei, Jack said, "Hey Yusei, Orchid Bay City is another suburb located here in San Francisco. (2) In fact, I took Carly over there a few days ago on a date because the theater over there was playing a movie that she was wanting to go and see."
"Alright then," Yusei said to Jack. Turning to face Crow and Jeff, Yusei said, "So what does all of this business involving Orchid Bay City, those three touchstones you mentioned, and that Tit Swan Shit whatever you mentioned have to do with humans being able to see the magical world or whatever you called it?"
"Well your totally chill bro Crow here said that he and the three of you are always good for a solid," Jeff remarked, "So I was figuring that the four of you can come with me to Orchid Bay City, talk to the current Te Xuan Ze, and agree to back her up in trying to fix everything. Or, failing being able to fix everything, at least try to get the human and magical worlds to get along with each other."
To the other penthouse guys, Yusei said, "Well Jack, Crow, Kalin? What do you guys think? Should we help out?"
"All I hope is that I don't die this chapter," Jack remarked as he, Yusei, Kalin and Crow proceeded to get ready to head out.
"No need to worry about that, Jack," Crow assured his blonde-haired friend, "You died in the last chapter, so you're guaranteed to live through this one." (3)
After a short drive, Yusei and the rest of the group arrived in Orchid Bay City, another suburb of San Francisco, California. Yusei even parked outside of a house that Jeff directed him to. "Dudes!" Jeff said in an amazed tone as he and everyone else got out of Yusei's Volkswagen van, "This is, like, the coolest vehicle ever! Where can I get myself one of these things?"
"You'll have to look around," Yusei replied. Pointing to the house, Yusei said, "You said that this is the place where that Szechuan Beef person that you mentioned earlier lives, right?"
"Ten-four, bro," Jeff said as he gave Yusei a thumbs-up, "All we have to do is walk up to the front door, knock on it, and ask for the Te Xuan Ze. She's this real cool awesome person that we can count on to help us figure out what to do going out from here." Jeff then proceeded to walk to the front door of the house that they stopped off at.
As the guys followed Jeff to the front door, Jack whispered to Yusei, "This Tennis Meat person we're looking for is a girl?"
"Apparently," Yusei whispered back while giving an indifferent shrug. The guys caught up with Jeff as he reached the front door. Jeff knocked on the door a few times, and waited a few seconds. Right when Yusei and the others all caught up to Jeff, the door was opened by an eight-year-old boy who looked like he had some sort of Asian heritage. He had slicked-back black hair, and he wore a long-sleeved shirt that had black sleeves and a red body with a blue fist lightning bolt symbol inside a yellow circle, blue jeans/pants, and brown shoes. The short Asian boy looked up at the guys and Jeff.
"Yo, Ray-meister!" Jeff greeted with a wave, "Is your older sister home, bro?"
"She's home, alright," the boy replied, "So's Ah-Mah, Monroe, and even Dennis if you're interested. But I don't think now's the perfect time for a social visit."
"I'm here on business, bro," Jeff replied. Jerking a thumb to Yusei and the others, Jeff said, "These guys here are good for a solid, and they can totally help with getting everything straightened out." The young Asian boy leaned to his side slightly to get a closer/better look at Yusei and the others before going back to looking up at Jeff.
With a skeptical look, the boy replied, "Are you sure?"
"We're one-hundred and six percent trustworthy, little dude," Crow said while giving the boy a double thumbs-up.
"A bit odd of a percentage, but whatever," the boy remarked casually as he turned around, "Well then Jeff and Jeff's friends, come on in. Oh, June's got her friends over, so things are even more chaotic than they would have been."
"Oh, come on now, young man," Jack said in a dismissive tone, "How bad could it be?" (4) As the young boy led the guys and Jeff into the living room of the house, they saw how bad things really are.
An Asian girl with long black hair with a reddish streak in it was running around randomly while screaming at the top of her lungs in a mix of frustration and mild worry. A pug dog was running around in circles while shouting in a Scottish accent. A girl with brown hair in a ponytail and she wore a long-sleeved brown shirt and greens pants was sitting on the floor in a fetal position, grasping at the sides of her heads as she just sat there slowly rocking back and forth, her eyes wide and saying nothing.
A white girl with blonde pigtails was repeatedly banging her head against the wall on the far side of the living room. Another girl, who was clearly a goth, was on her knees, with her hands held together as if she was praying, and looking up while saying the Lord's Prayer. A white boy who was one of those kinds of white guys who tries to act black was laying on the sofa while crying hysterically. A dark-skinned boy with dreadlocks was doing the exact same thing as the white boy, but he was doing it while sitting in a fetal position on a plush leather armchair. An Asian boy who looked to be the oldest kid in the room was leaning against the wall opposite of the headbanging girl, casually playing on a handheld video game system and acting like nothing wrong was going on whatsoever. (5)
As most everyone was freaking out, the young boy blew a whistle, making everyone stop mid-freak out and turn to look at him. "Ray-Ray?" the Asian girl said in a confused tone. Looking up and seeing the guys and Jeff, the Asian girl said, "What's Jeff and those four guys doing here? Also, who are those four guys?"
"Jeff brought them along, saying that they might be able to help us," the boy, identified as Ray-Ray, replied to the Asian girl. Turning around to face Yusei and the others, Ray-Ray said while gesturing to the Asian girl, "That there is my older sister Juniper, who's the current Te Xuan Ze."
"And what exactly does a Turtle Teeth do?" Crow asked.
"Te Xuan Ze," the Asian girl, identified as Juniper, said as she corrected the pronunciation, "Basically I'm responsible for protecting the magical world and maintaining balance between the magical and human worlds. With a sigh that sounded long-suffering, Juniper continued, "Although now that the veil that kept the human world from seeing the magical world is now gone, my primary role now is handling damage control, not to mention figure out how all three of the touchstones that maintained the veil were destroyed, which is the only way the veil masking the magical world from the human world could have been done away with." Gesturing to the guys, Juniper asked, "By the way, who are you guys?"
Gesturing to himself, Jack, Crow and Kalin in that order, Yusei said, "My name's Yusei, and these are my roommates and friends Jack, Crow and Kalin. Jeff recommended us to you because he became fast friends with Crow via smoking pot."
"…You did drugs with one of them?" Juniper asked when she turned to face Jeff, "Were you high when you came up with the idea of recruiting these guys?"
With a shrug, Jeff replied, "I'm probably still high right now."
"Same here," Crow said as he raised a hand.
Sighing, Juniper said as she facepalmed, "Fine, whatever. At this point, I'll take any and all help that's being offered. Just try not to make things worse, alright?"
"We'll try our best," Yusei replied in a sympathetic tone. Gesturing to all over the living room to the panicking kids, Yusei asked, "So, are these all friends of yours?"
"That's my little brother Ray-Ray," Juniper said while pointing to her little brother, beginning the long process of making the introductions. Pointing to the older Asian boy, Juniper said, "And that's my older brother Dennis."
Pointing to the girl with the single ponytail, the girl with the twin pigtails and the goth girl in that order, Juniper said, "Those are Lila, Jody and Ophelia." Pointing to the white boy and the dark-skinned boy in that order, Juniper said, "Those are Roger and Marcus." Finally pointing to the talking pug dog, Juniper said, "And that's Monroe."
"That's a lot of names to remember," Yusei remarked.
With a sigh, Juniper said in an indifferent tone, "At least I'll never be lonely."
"So, what are we going to do now?" Crow asked, "I mean, with you being the Tainted Queef, you should have the most know-how on how to fix this mess with the magic and whatnot."
"It's pronounced Te Xuan Ze, ya daft fucking bastard," Monroe snapped as he came out of his panicking and looked up at Crow and the others, "Also, who the fuck are you and what the fuck are you fucking doing here?!" (6)
"Jeff brought us to help," Crow replied while pointing to Jeff, who waved at Monroe when the talking pug looked over to him.
"Oh great," Monroe remarked, "That's just fan-fucking-tastic. We're going to go with the fucking recommendation of a dumb-as-fuck leprechaun who's high all the fucking time. We might as well bend the fuck over and let the rest of everything fuck us in our asses!"
"Wow," Kalin said to Monroe with a wide-eyed expression of shock, "The talking dog that I know is nowhere near as vulgar as you are."
"And you're a fucking piece of shit!" Monroe snapped back.
"Monroe, dude, seriously," Dennis said in an indifferent tone without even looking up from his video game, "You've got to chillax it with the cussing. If Ah-Mah hears you talking like that, then may God have mercy on you."
"Alright, here's the game plan," Juniper said as she gathered everyone around, "We wait for Ah-Mah to finish gathering everything we're going to need to investigate how the three touchstones were destroyed, we organize into three groups to go investigate each area where a touchstone was being kept, we gather evidence, figure out what happened and who was responsible if any, then we try to fix the three touchstones, restore the veil, and use Amnesia Dust on everyone who isn't supposed to know about the magical world."
"You're going to be needing a lot of Amnesia Dust for that one, sis," Ray-Ray remarked in a dry monotone, "Because existence of the magical world is now common knowledge all over the whole world." Giving his older sister a skeptical look, Ray-Ray said, "But if you already have enough Amnesia Dust for roughly seven-point-two billion some odd people lying around, along with a plan to use said Amnesia Dust, then hey, good for you." Ray-Ray then proceeded to give his older sister a slow, sarcastic round of applause while giving her a 'really?' kind of look.
Turning to look up at Juniper, Monroe said, "He's got a fucking point, Juniper. At this point, it'd be fucking pointless to try and get everything back to how the fuck it used to be. Our best course of fucking action from this point forward is-"
"Alright kids, I'm done!" an older woman's voice called out, getting everyone to turn and see an older Asian woman walk into the room while carrying a bunch of cool looking artifacts, "Now we can-" The older Asian woman stopped midsentence upon seeing Yusei and the other guys. "Who the fuck are these guys?" the older Asian woman asked while jerking a thumb at Yusei, Jack, Crow and Kalin.
"These are four humans that Jeff brought over to help, Ah-Mah," Juniper said. To Yusei and the others, Juniper said, "Guys, this is my Grandma Jasmine. Everyone called her Ah-Mah, though."
"Nice to meet you, ma'am," Yusei remarked, "I'm Yusei, and-"
"I don't give a fucking shit who the fuck you are," Ah-Mah interrupted, "If you're here to fucking help, then fucking help!" Ah-Mah then pointed for the guys to go stand in one of the areas of the living room before the process of dividing everyone up into teams was carried out.
The first group, which consisted of Yusei, Jack, Juniper, Ah-Mah and Lila, was heading over to the location of where the first touchstone was located, over at the local park. "Hey ma'am," Yusei began, "There's something I've been wondering."
"What the fuck do you want now?" Ah-Mah replied in an annoyed tone.
"You and everyone else is acting like the destruction of those touchstone thingies and the removal of the veil is some end-of-everything kind of deal," Yusei said, "So I'm guessing that there's no big ol' magic reset button to set everything back to normal so that none of the human world knows what the fuck is going on?"
Sighing in a resigned tone, Ah-Mah remarked, "A while ago, something very fucking similar to what the fuck is going on right now took place. Granted, we were able to restore everything before the shit hit the fucking fan, but it was still a right proper pain the ass." Shaking her head gently, Ah-Mah continued, "But that was pretty much a one-time deal. This time, there's no, as you had so colorfully fucking put it, big ol' magic reset button. We're going to fucking have to live with the fact that the human world knows about the existence of the magical world."
"Why else did you think I was worried about trying to get ahold of enough Amnesia Dust to cover every human in the world?" Juniper said to Yusei and Jack.
"Isn't there anything else we might have to worry about?" Jack asked, "Like, say, some form of evil magic ruining everything or whatever?"
"All magic that is outright evil has been banished, never to be a threat to anyone or anything ever again," Ah-Mah replied, "Granted that won't stop someone from using magic that isn't outright evil to do evil things, but still."
"Any other handwaves that we ought to be made aware of?" Yusei asked dryly. (7)
"Hold on a second, I got a fucking list here," Ah-Mah said as she pulled out a mini spiral bound notebook. Opening the notebook to the first page, Ah-Mah began, "Ah, here's the first one…"
The second group, which consisted of Kalin, Monroe, Ray-Ray, Dennis and Jody, went to where the second touchstone was located, which was at the museum. "Wow," Kalin remarked in an amazed tone as he and everyone else entered the museum, "This is one of the most amazing museums that I've ever been to." Putting his right hand on his hip while stroking his chin with his left hand, Kalin said, "Hmm, I wonder if Bonnie would like to come here on a date…"
"Hey, you said that you and your friends came here from the New Domino suburb, right?" Dennis began, getting Kalin's attention.
Turning to face the oldest of the three Lee kids, Kalin replied, "Yeah, why?"
"From what I remember hearing, the New Domino suburb has its own history museum," Dennis went on. Giving Kalin a mildly skeptical look, Dennis asked, "What's wrong with the history museum that you guys have over there? Sorry, but I'm just curious."
"I can't blame you for curiosity," Kalin replied in an understanding tone, "And to answer your question, the history museum that was over in New Domino was destroyed by Crow because he claimed that the history museum stole some stuff from the on-campus museum that Hogan University has."
"…" After giving Kalin a deadpan look for a few seconds, Dennis said, "…Your friend is pretty weird, Kalin." (8)
"Try living with him," Kalin replied dryly.
"Whatever," Dennis said, "We ought to look for signs of what happened Holy crap this ought to be a lead!" After Dennis deviated midsentence and ran off, Kalin and the rest of the group followed after him quickly. After running for a few seconds, everyone arrived as a large hole that was dug into the floor of the museum. Inside of the hole were the shattered remains of a rather large gem-like stone.
"Well one thing's for certain," Dennis remarked, "No way was this the work of Juniper having been forcefully mutated into some giant hairy monster." (9)
With a completely baffled look on his face, Kalin turned to face Dennis and said, "I...I beg your pardon?"
Over at the location of the third touchstone, which was located at the clock tower, Marcus was climbing up a flight of stairs inside of the clock tower. "Geez, I really wish those guys would have waited up for me," Marcus remarked aloud and to himself, "I know that we have to investigate what happened to these magical touchstone doohickeys, but they could have at the very least waited for Hey wait a minute what's that smell?"
Upon completing his climb to the very top of the clock tower, Marcus found Crow, Jeff, Ophelia and Roger lounging about, the smoke of smoking the dankest of weed thick in the air. All four of Marcus's teammates in his portion of the investigation were softly giggling like idiots. "H-hey guys," Roger said, "You k-know what I've always w-wanted? Jafar's hat."
"I w-was thinking of gaining, like, at least t-two hundred pounds or so," Ophelia stammered calmly while under the influence of pot, "I c-can totally pull o-off the fat girl l-look."
"You guys!" Marcus exclaimed, barely getting the attention of his teammates, "We're supposed to be investigating what's going on with the touchstones!"
"Hey, you guys," Jeff began, "You know what would help us with the investigation? Straws."
"DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!" Crow said as if he had just heard the greatest idea in the history of forever, "We need to get some fucking straws!"
Facepalming, Marcus muttered to himself, "I must have done something to piss off at least one deity out there, because there's no other way that I would have gotten stuck with the group that likes smoking pot."
Back at the park, Yusei, Jack, Juniper, Ah-Mah and Lila were standing around while Ah-Mah was reading things off of a list. "…And that's it," Ah-Mah said to Yusei. After putting away her mini spiral-bound notebook, Ah-Mah asked, "Is that it? Is there any fucking thing that I missed?"
"No, that should cover it," Yusei replied, "So now that we got all of that taken care of, we should look into investigating how the touchstones were all destroyed."
"Only a Te Xuan Ze is able to destroy the touchstones," Juniper stated, "And as far as I'm aware, I didn't do it. Neither did Ah-Mah, who was the Te Xuan Ze before she retired and I took over."
"So…I'm guessing that there can be more than one Giant Leek at a time?" Yusei asked.
"Te Xuan Ze," Juniper corrected, "And to answer your question, technically yes, but only one person at a time can actively be the Te Xuan Ze."
"Forgive me if saying this offends you," Jack began, getting the attention of Juniper and Ah-Mah, "But can there be an evil Traffic Beat?"
"Te Xuan Ze," Juniper corrected again. With a resigned sigh, Juniper continued, "Unfortunately enough, there actually was an evil Te Xuan Ze."
"The fucker's name was Kai Yee," Ah-Mah began to explain, "Many centuries ago, he was the Te Xuan Ze. In fact, he was the greatest and most powerful Te Xuan Ze, better than any before him, better than any after him."
"But then…" Yusei said, expecting to be filled in.
"…But then Kai Yee went bat shit crazy and tried to fuck everything up," Ah-Mah continued, "So the counsel of magical elders had to seal him away. But there was an incident a while ago where Kai Yee managed to fucking escape being sealed. After a hard-fought battle against that asshole, Kai Yee was resealed."
"Pardon me if saying this might set off some alarms," Jack began, "But if this Kai Yee fellow was able to escape being sealed once, don't you think it's possible he might be able to escape being sealed again?"
"That's fucking impossible," Ah-Mah dismissed casually, "After Kai Yee was resealed into a statue, the statue was put into a vault in my home." With a confident nod, Ah-Mah said, "The only way for that douchebag Kai Yee to come back would be if someone broke into my home, found the vault, retrieved the statue of Kai Yee, and released him back into the world once more." With a chuckle, Ah-Mah added, "But what are the fucking odds of that ever fucking happening, am I right?"
"No, I'd say you're wrong," a mysterious male voice called out, prompting everyone to turn and see who was talking. As such, they saw a young adult male of Asian heritage with his hair in a single long men's ponytail, save for the bangs framing his face. He wore a dark brownish-grayish long-sleeved shirt under a brown sleeveless tunic, a sash over his torso (going from right shoulder to left hip), leggings the same color as his long-sleeved shirt, boots that reached halfway up his shins, gloves that reached halfway up his forearms, and a white cloak around his waist. The man was also wielding a sword.
"Oh fuck!" Ah-Mah exclaimed as her eyes went wide with shock, "It's Kai Yee!"
"You're behind the destruction of the touchstones, aren't you Kai Yee?!" Juniper exclaimed in a demanding tone as she pointed accusingly at the former Te Xuan Ze.
With a casual shrug, Kai Yee said, "Yeah, you got me on that one."
"How the fuck did you even manage to escape from your fucking sealing?" Ah-Mah demanded, looking very much angry.
"I was freed by a trio of leprechauns, all three of which were clearly under the influence of some sort of drug that heavily clouded their ability to think things through," Kai Yee answered, "My guess is that they somehow wandered into where the statue I was sealed into was being kept, they found my statue, and freed me. As soon as I was free once more, the trio of leprechauns asked me if I knew where they could find munchies." With a mildly confused look, Kai Yee said, "Forgive me if this is a bit off subject, but what are these 'munchies' that the leprechauns spoke of?"
"Fuck!" Ah-Mah exclaimed, "This is all the fault of that stoner leprechaun Jeff and two of his stoner leprechaun friends!"
"Let me see if I got this straight," Jack began in a tone that clearly showed that he was not happy, "Those three touchstones were destroyed by this Kai Yee fellow, who was sealed away and was most likely supposed to remain sealed away forever, but he was freed and was able to carry out his plans because of a trio of leprechauns that were high on pot?!" After Jack finished his exclamation, the other two groups came running over, having finished their searching of the locations that they were sent to.
"Ah-Mah!" Ray-Ray called out, "We're finished with looking over at the museums for any Holy crud is that Kai Yee?!"
"Dude!" Jeff said as he pointed at Kai Yee, "He's the guy that owes me and my leprechaun bros some serious munchies!"
"So it was your fucking fault!" Ah-Mah exclaimed, pointing accusingly at Jeff.
"We can discuss who has what fault later," Crow said. Pointing to Kai Yee, Crow continued, "Right now, I think that taking this guy down is our primary concern."
"Ha!" Kai Yee laughed, "I'd like to see any of you try!" Holding his hands out at arm's length, Kai Yee said, "And what point would there be to defeating me now? The veil is gone, humans know about the magical world now, and last I checked, you can't fix everything by turning back time like you did the last time!"
"Wait a minute," Jack said as he turned to face the Lee family, "You guys were able to turn back time once?"
"Yeah, and that was sort of a one-time deal," Ah-Mah remarked, "And that's yet another reason why my granddaughter is worried about getting enough Amnesia Dust to cover roughly seven-point-two billion people." (10)
"So yeah, there's no undoing what I've done," Kai Yee stated to everyone, "And even if I had a way to fix everything, why would I? Why would any self-respecting Te Xuan Ze want to be bound to one place, never able to leave, until someone else can take over for them, only to be bound by the same fate until they themselves can leave?" Gently shaking his head, Kai Yee said, "I'm actually doing my fellow Te Xuan Ze a favor. It's a shame that they don't realize it."
"We serve a need greater than our own, you jerk!" Juniper snapped at the former Te Xuan Ze.
"Does part of that need include kicking this Thunder Fleece guy's ass?" Kalin asked.
"It's pronounced Te Xuan Ze, ignorant idiot!" Kai Yee exclaimed as he seemingly flew forward towards Kalin while drawing his sword. In one swift motion as he passed Kalin, Kai Yee swung his sword; a few seconds after Kai Yee came to a stop about a dozen feet away, a huge burst of blood erupted from Kalin's torso as Kalin screamed in pain. The white-haired penthouse resident then fell over onto the ground, where Yusei check for a pulse.
"Fuck!" Yusei exclaimed, "That Kai Yee fucker killed Kalin!"
"And I'll do the same to all of you!" Kai Yee exclaimed as he seemed to being losing his sanity, "None of you can defeat me! No one at all can defeat me! Not even a dragon deity can defeat me!" Pulling something out from the neck hole of his tunic, Kai Yee revealed two medallions, one with a fay-like insignia on it and the other with a snowflake symbol on it. "I have the Amulet of Fairy-kind, which makes me immune to draconic assault, and an Amulet of Elemental Ice, which gives my own attacks the properties of elemental ice, which is surprisingly effective against dragons!" Putting his amulets away, Kai Yee said, "What dragon deity can stop me?!"
At that moment, something large and heavy landed behind Kai Yee, making him turn around to see who it was. Likewise, Yusei and everyone else who was confronting Kai Yee also looked up to see who it was. To everyone's surprise, it was Ailor's Dialga. "It's the neighbor girl's Dialga!" Jack exclaimed as he pointed to the legendary Pokémon, "Come to deliver us from the evil that is trying to do us harm!"
"Ha! I'd like to see it try," Kai Yee scoffed as he turned to face Dialga properly, "With my Amulet of Fairy-kind and Amulet of Elemental Ice, there is no way that-" Kai Yee was cut off when Ailor's Dialga fired a Flash Cannon attack at him, striking the former Te Xuan Ze with pinpoint precision and hitting him with such force that the entirety of his upper body was blown up, sending the remains all over the park.
As the lower half of the (now dead) former Te Xuan Ze's fell over onto the ground, Dialga roared something at the remaining people before going up in the air and flying away. (11)
After Dialga was gone, Jack fell to his knees and looked up into the sky, holding his hands up reverently as if in prayer. "Thanks for the save, Dialga!" Jack exclaimed.
Back at the Atlas Penthouse, Yusei, Jack and Crow were chillaxing in the living room. "Well guys," Yusei said, "Things are never going to be the same, huh?"
"What do you mean, Yusei?" Jack asked.
"The human world was never supposed to know about the magical world," Yusei began to explain, "But because the veil went down and there's no undoing this mess, existence of the magical world is now public knowledge all over the world." With a sigh, Yusei said, "I hope this won't end badly."
"Yusei, with all due respect, I think that the reveal of the magical world's existence is far from the most worrisome thing that we have to deal with," Jack remarked, "I mean, we already knew that magic existed due to a mix of that princess girl from Munie, that nice elderly Chinese gentleman living in Chinatown, those crazy monk kids living in China, that batshit crazy talking duck lady, the Grim Reaper, and now that Asian American family living in the next suburb over." With a shrug, Jack said, "In my opinion, magic is nowhere near rare enough so that if it's existence was revealed, it would cause mass panic."
Yusei raised his right index finger in a gesture signifying that he was about to argue, but when he opened his mouth to speak, Yusei found that he couldn't say anything right away due to what Jack had said. After going over a few things in his head for a few seconds, Yusei conceded to the point that Jack had made. (12)
With a shrug, Yusei said, "Whatever." As he, Jack and Crow sat down and turned their attention to the TV, Yusei said as he picked up the video game controller so he could play some shows on the system's streaming service, "I just hope this won't end up causing problems for us." (13)
END, CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Author's notes:
1. Sort of like an elf.
2. Orchid Bay City is based off of San Francisco, so…yeah.
3. Fourth wall? What's that?
4. …I'm pretty sure that saying 'how bad could it be' or 'what's the worst that could happen' is pretty much asking for it in fiction.
5. Look, I don't have time to describe what every character looks like. If you want to know, look it up. That's what I did.
6. …Yeah, this is how Monroe is going to be talking for this chapter. Also, don't forget his Scottish accent.
7. Look, the veil is gone forever, there's no undoing this, humans know about the magic world now, just deal with it.
8. Let's hear it for Dennis, who just gave the understatement of the century!
9. This actually happened. In the final episode, no less. I wish I was making this up.
10. Give or take a few.
11. It's a legendary Pokémon, people. I'm pretty sure it can figure out something like this.
12. It's a valid point.
13. Don't hold your breath!
And there's chapter twenty-five. Anywho, after researching 'The life and times of Juniper Lee' for this chapter, I decided to go for a plot where the veil went down and there was no undoing it ever. Although this would most likely cause problems in the series proper, this is far from the worst that Yusei, Jack, Crow and Kalin have dealt with so far. Not helping is the fact that the adventures of Yusei, Jack, Crow and Kalin are nowhere near finished; they haven't even had their first multi-chapter arc yet. Well anywho, Yusei and the other guys will be dealing with superpowered capes and cowls in the next chapter.
It'll be a chapter that will put a shock to your system.