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Yu-gi-oh! 5Ds after hours
Chapter seventeen: Yusei and friends do Peach Creek
It was late evening to very early in the night one day over in New Domino City, a suburb located in San Francisco, California. There was this bar slash nightclub called 'The Crow's Nest' that was fairly popular, despite the somewhat unorthodox business strategy the place had by having a pirate theme that seemed more at home in a family friendly restaurant. The bar was frequented by Yusei Fudo, Jack Atlas, Crow Hogan and Kalin Kessler, four friends who are roommates that each cover an equal share of the expenses of their place of residence, the Atlas penthouse. In fact, the guys were all at 'The Crow's Nest' right now.
"Let's hear it for Yusei, dudes!" Crow said as he raised a beer mug in a toast to Yusei, prompting Jack, Kalin and even some random nearby bar patrons to do the same.
"Thanks, guys," Yusei replied as he reached for his own mug of beer.
"Well hey now, Yusei," Crow replied, "Now that Akiza has given birth to Alphonse Jack Atlas Constantine Sephiroth Grelod Gideon Joffrey Dio Urkel, that means that-"
"We're just going to call him Al or Alphonse for short," Yusei interrupted, "We'll only refer to him by his full name if he's in trouble."
"Being referred to by such a name might be a punishment in and of itself, Yusei," Jack remarked, "But seriously. Why did you and Akiza let Brianna get away with giving the kid that name?"
"Mostly because we were just too happy to finally be parents," Yusei explained, "Besides, at least Brianna had the decency to put the name we wanted first on the birth certificate."
"That's my girlfriend for you, dude," Crow remarked with a hint of pride in his tone, "The most considerate woman in the world."
"She wanted to take Akiza drinking with her while Akiza was pregnant," Yusei pointed out.
"Most considerate woman in the world," Crow repeated before he took a swig from his beer mug. Yusei turned his attention back to his own mug of beer, realizing that trying to argue the point with Crow was a lost cause. (1) Even so, Yusei was still on a high of happiness; as he had said, Yusei and Akiza recently became parents when Akiza gave birth to her and Yusei's son, who they named Alphonse because it was one of the male names that Kalin's talking dog best friend Dukey came up with and Akiza really liked it. Even with the slight metaphorical road bump that was Brianna giving Alphonse a ridiculously long ridiculous full name, Yusei and Akiza still could not be happier.
…And Yusei had never been more worried. He was not only a husband to Akiza, but a father to Alphonse as well. The ace turbo duelist was finding life as a family man to be a much greater challenge than any duel he had ever been in. As Yusei contemplated the thoughts in his head, Brianna Stone, the girlfriend of Crow, came walking out of the women's restroom of the bar that everyone was at.
"Sorry about taking so long, babe," Brianna said as she pecked Crow on the cheek, "But I had to drop some black friends off at the pool."
"And people think men are the grosser gender," Jack muttered to himself, too quietly for anyone else to hear, before he took a swig rom his mug of beer.
"Now that you're here Brianna, we can make the announcement," Crow said.
"Announcement?" Yusei repeated aloud and in a confused and mildly worried tone, "What announcement?"
Without responding to Yusei's question, Crow took an empty snack dish that had nuts in it and used it in lieu of a fork to tap against the side of his beer mug, getting the attention of pretty much every patron in the bar. "May I have your attention please!" Crow announced to everyone in the bar, "I have a special announcement!" Gesturing to Yusei, Crow said, "My pal here, Yusei Fudo, has just celebrated something very special, that being the birth of his first child! Let's hear it for the new dad among us!"
The patrons of the bar, all of them being in generally good spirits, went along with what Crow was saying and gave a few cheers of 'hip, hip, hooray!' in unison. A few people even gave sincere cheers of congratulations to Yusei for becoming a dad. "Now then, a round of drinks for everyone!" Crow declared. Jerking a thumb at Jack, Crow added, "It's on him!"
"Shouldn't the new dad be covering the celebratory round of drinks?" one random patron asked, "I mean, that's sort of the custom, right?"
"Although what you said holds a lot of merit, keep in mind that most of Yusei's money will have to go to raising his new son," Crow explained, "At most, he can only buy one or two mugs worth of beer tonight."
"That's no bloody excuse for pushing the bill onto my plate, Birdbrain!" Jack exclaimed angrily.
"Relax, Jack," Kalin remarked, "I'll help you cover the tab, alright?"
"At least someone has the decency to be considerate," Jack remarked to Kalin, "Thanks for the save, Kalin."
And so, the good times at the bar went on. Toasts were made, songs were sung, and beer was consumed. (2) As the night went on, the guys and Brianna were still sitting at the counter, with Crow, Brianna and (surprisingly) Jack all having consumed enough beer to be drunk.
"C-C-Crow, sweetness," Brianna said with some drunkenness-induced stammering, "W-W-Would you still l-love me if I were f-f-f-fat?"
"Brianna, s-s-sweetheart," Crow replied in a drunken stammer, "My previous re-relationship was with someone who w-was plus-sized. Fat d-don't bother me in the l-l-least."
"So, y-you would be willing t-t-to have sex with me if I were f-fat?" Brianna asked drunkenly before letting out a belch.
"Fuck yesh," Crow said in a slurred tone before falling face first onto the surface of the bar counter they were all sitting at, snoring rather loudly.
"…Well at least we know a little bit more about Crow's preferences," Yusei remarked to Kalin in an amused sarcastic tone.
"We do indeed, Yusei," Kalin agreed in the same tone. Turning to face Jack, Kalin said, "How about you, Jack?"
"I hate politics!" Jack declared drunkenly before leaning to the side and throwing up.
"Aaaaaaand we have Jack's opinion on our nation's government," Yusei replied in the amused sarcastic tone that he and Kalin have been using, drawing a laugh out of Kalin. As the two friends clanged their beer mugs together, Yusei and Kalin heard two men in the background arguing. Turning around, they saw one of the men shove the other intentionally. "Uh oh," Yusei remarked, "Looks like we ought to get go-"
Yusei was cut off when the man who was shoved punched the man who shoved him across the face. "Cover?" Kalin suggested to Yusei.
"Cover," Yusei repeated in a tone of agreement as he and Kalin made their way to the nearest unoccupied table to hide under it, figuring that it was okay to leave the drunken members of their group behind as, even when intoxicated, Jack, Crow and Brianna are all capable of covering themselves in a barfight. "Won't this make for an interesting story to tell everyone when we get back to the penthouse, eh?" Yusei remarked to Kalin as they hid under the table they got to.
…
A few minutes later, most of the bar patrons were standing outside of the bar. Yusei and Kalin had found Jack, Crow and Brianna standing off to the side, watching as some of the bar patrons were loaded into the back of police cruisers. "Wow, I'm surprised that you aren't among those getting arrested, Crow," Yusei remarked.
"Personally, I'd have to agree with you on that one, Yusei," Crow said.
"And you don't sound drunk anymore," Kalin noted.
"Barfights that turn fatal have a very potent tendency to sober people up quickly," Crow explained.
"Well that makes a whole lot of wait a minute," Yusei replied, deviating midsentence when he realized what Crow had said, "What do you mean 'turn fatal'?"
"There was this one guy who I thought grabbed my butt during the fight," Brianna explained while blushing in embarrassment, "And I thought that he was going to rape me, so Crow killed the man to protect my maiden virtue."
"The man went down like a bitch, too," Crow commented with a chuckle, "I mean, seriously. It's like he only had one hit point or something. I think the doofus is still lying on the floor in the bar if'n you want to go inside and take a look."
Yusei, Jack and Kalin exchanged unsure looks with each other before they turned their attention back to Crow. "…Alright, Birdbrain," Jack remarked, "Let's go check out whoever you killed this time."
The four guys went back into the bar, with Kalin giving the excuse that he left his other jacket inside. Once inside, they saw a male adult who couldn't be any older than themselves laying on the floor dead. He wore a yellow sports jersey under a red flannel jacket, khaki pants, a brown newsboy cap, and greenish shoes. The man's head was laying on its side, with the right side facing up; a pair of sunglasses hung off of the man's right ear by the right temple. The left side of the man's head laid in a small puddle of blood on the floor of the bar.
"…Yup," Crow said as he gestured to the dead man lying on the floor of the bar, "That there is the man who had the gull to grab Brianna's butt."
"Although what he did was unquestionably deplorable, was it really necessary to kill the man?" Jack asked, "I mean, what if he just accidentally brushed against Brianna's butt, and she just blew things out of proportion? Brianna did say that the man had supposedly grabbed her butt during the fight, so there's a good chance that it may have been a total accident."
"Accident or not, he touched Brianna's ass, which meant that his ass was grass," Crow replied.
"Well never let it be said that you don't look out for those close to you," Yusei remarked as he looked around. As Kalin found his jacket that he left in the bar (it was under the table that he and Yusei hid under during the barfight), a police officer came walking up to the guys.
"Are the four of you familiar with the deceased here?" the officer asked the guys as he pointed to the dead man lying on the floor.
"I'm familiar with him" Crow replied, "Why do you ask?" In response, the officer handed Crow a printed sheet of paper.
"The deceased has family living at this address in a neighborhood called Peach Creek," the officer explained, "Think you can do the New Domino Police Department a favor and go inform the deceased's family about their loss?"
Giving the police officer a salute, Crow said, "You can count on me, officer." The police officer nodded in acknowledgement before he turned around and walked away. Turning to face the guys, Crow said, "Boys, looks like we got ourselves a quest on our hands."
"What, that you have to inform the family of the man that you killed that you killed someone in their family?" Jack asked.
Waving his hand at Jack in a dismissive manner, Crow replied, "Details."
The following morning, Yusei and the guys used the Golden Tiger Claws to teleport over to Peach Creek via driving Yusei's Volkswagen van into the tear that they made. Once parked on next to the curb in a construction area, the guys got out right as the tear they drove out of vanished. "Okay, we're here now," Yusei said as he locked up the Volkswagen, "Crow, do you still have that sheet of paper the officer gave you last night?"
"You mean this?" Crow replied as he took out a folded-up sheet of paper and handed it to Yusei. Unfolding the sheet of paper, Yusei quickly read it.
"Okay guys," Yusei remarked as he folded up the sheet up paper and slipped it into a back pocket on his pants, "We're looking for 220 Rethink Avenue." (3)
"Well hopefully we can find someone who can give us directions," Jack said, "I don't know about you, but I just want to find this place, inform the guy's next of kin that the guy died, give them a few words of sympathy as they will undoubtedly be upset to hear the news, then get the hell out of dodge."
"Excuse me, sirs, but can I help you?" a young female voice called out, getting the guys to turn to see who it was. As such, Yusei, Jack, Crow and Kalin saw a young girl of approximately the same age as the wonder twins Leo and Luna come walking up. She had blonde hair and fair skin, and wore a black t-shirt under a white tank-top, a pair of purplish jeans, and black shoes. She was also carrying a thing of Tupperware.
"Sorry young lady, but my friends and I are busy at the moment," Yusei said, "We're trying to find 220 Rethink Avenue, as we've been sent to deliver some rather bad news to the residents who live there."
"Wait a minute," the blonde girl said, "I know where that is. I can show you guys over if you'd like."
"That would be immensely helpful, thanks," Kalin said, "How do you know where that is, by the way?"
"That's where Eddy lives," the blonde girl replied, "He's one of the guys that I'm friends with."
"Oh, so a friend of yours lives there," Jack remarked, "Well isn't that convenient."
With a mildly unsure and worried look on her face, the blonde girl continued, "Umm, you guys said that you have some bad news to deliver to Eddy's place. What happened?"
"I'm afraid that we aren't at liberty to discuss that with anyone other than your friend Eddy and anyone else who lives at the address we're trying to find," Yusei replied.
Nodding once in understanding, the blonde girl replied, "Yeah, that seems fair, I suppose. So, you guys want I should show you over now?"
"That would be lovely, miss…" Crow said, but trailed off. "…Umm, what's your name, young lady?"
"I'm Nazz," the girl replied with a nod.
"Well then, Nazz," Yusei said, "My friends and I would like to get our business here in Peach Creek squared away."
"Of course," Nazz said as she gestured for the guys to follow her. Taking the cue, Yusei and the others proceeded to follow Nazz out of the area of the construction site they were at.
A few minutes later, Nazz had led the guys over to the address that they were trying to find. "Well, here's Eddy's place," Nazz said to Yusei, "You know, I was actually on my way here anyway to return this thing of Tupperware."
"Well I guess there's no harm in letting you return the Tupperware first before we deliver the news to your friend and his family," Yusei remarked.
Turning around, Yusei knocked on the front door. A few seconds later, the door was answered by a boy around the same age as Nazz. The boy had black hair and pale peach-colored fair skin, and wore a yellow polo shirt with a red stripe on the side, blue jeans, and red shoes. "Oh, hey Nazz," the boy greeted, "What can I-" The boy stopped midsentence when he noticed Yusei and the other guys. "Uhh…can I help you?" the boy said to the guys.
"Eddy," Nazz said to the boy in a somewhat concerned tone, "These guys are here because the say that they have bad news to deliver to you and your family." Handing Eddy the Tupperware, Nazz said in a regular tone, "Oh, and here's the Tupperware my mom borrowed from yours."
"Thanks," Eddy replied as he received the Tupperware from Nazz. After Nazz took her leave, Eddy turned his direction to the guys. "So, umm…" Eddy began, somewhat unsure of what to say, "…What happened?"
Taking out the sheet of paper he had put in his pants pocket earlier, Yusei unfolded it to check it for something. After finding what he was looking for, Yusei turned his attention from the paper to Eddy. "The news concerns your older brother," Yusei explained. Hearing this apparently had the effect of putting Eddy in a foul mood.
"What did that jerk do this time?" Eddy asked, a mild scowl forming on his face.
"That's…not a very high opinion you have of your older brother there," Kalin remarked in a concerned tone, "I take it that things aren't all that well between you and your brother?"
"Just get on with it, already," Eddy said as his tone took on a hint of annoyance, "What did he do? Did he get himself arrested? Is he stuck in a foreign country without the ability to get back without help from my family?"
"He was killed last night," Yusei stated in as businesslike of a tone as he could manage, "I'm sorry for your family's loss." The guys watched as Eddy's annoyed scowl morphed into a shocked expression that clearly showed that Eddy was having trouble on what he should think about the news that had just been delivered to him.
"…Oh," Eddy replied, "Umm, well…okay. My brother's…dead. Yeah, sure, okay."
"Are you going to be alright, little dude?" Crow asked.
"…Huh," Eddy said as he gently pushed his way past the guys before making a left and heading for a house that was on the outer end of the entrance to the cul-de-sac. Concerned about how Eddy was acting, Yusei and the others decided to follow him in hopes of being able to help him somehow.
Meanwhile, in a bedroom in one of the houses, two kids approximately Eddy's age were standing in front of a desk or dresser of some kind that had beakers and vials used for science. The first kid was a boy who had fair skin and wore a black beanie cap; some hair came out from underneath the hat in the back. The boy also wore a red t-shirt, purple shorts, long red socks, and a pair of light-blue colored shoes.
The second kid was a girl. This girl had fair skin and, surprisingly, blue hair, the bangs of which she allowed to cover one of her eyes. The girl wore a dark wristband on one of her wrists, a black tank-top that exposed her midriff, a pair of green pants held up with a pink belt, and black shoes. The girl also had her nails painted red. She watched as the boy, who was handling a small vial and a beaker, was carefully trying to pour the contents of the vial into the beaker, where it would mix with the contents already in there.
The boy was successful, and the two kids watched as the mixture in the beaker turned from a rosy red color to a pale pink color. "There we are," the boy said in a satisfied tone as he gently sat the beaker down on the desk slash dresser. Turning to face the girl, the boy said, "I'll just go procure a bottle to put the mix in, then I can give it to you so you can take it to your sister."
"Are you sure this science stuff will work?" the girl asked, tilting her head slightly to the left to show her confusion.
"I am certain," the boy replied, "When have I ever been-" the boy was cut off when a noise that sounded like someone was knocking on a door at least one floor lower could be heard. "Oh my, it seems I've got a visitor," the boy remarked. Heading for the door of the bedroom, the boy said, "Care to come along, Marie?"
"Sure thing," the girl, apparently named Marie, replied as she followed the boy out of the bedroom and down a flight of stairs to the ground floor. The boy looked through an eyehole on the door, and was surprised to see Eddy standing there.
"Eddy's here!" the boy said in a panicking tone as he turned to face the girl, "He can't find out we're secretly dating!"
"I'll go hide under your bed!" Marie said as she ran back up the stairs. Once Marie was up the stairs, the boy turned around to open the door. When he did, the boy saw that Eddy was accompanied by Yusei, Jack, Crow and Kalin.
"Hello, Eddy," the boy greeted. Turing his attention to the guys, the boy asked, "Umm, Eddy, I don't mean to be rude, but who are your friends here?"
"Hey, Double D," Eddy greeted in an emotionless monotone as he walked past the boy, apparently identified as Double D, and into the house.
"Umm, would it be okay if we came in?" Yusei asked Double D, "My friends and I came here to Peach Creek to inform Eddy's family of some rather troubling news." Gesturing to Eddy, who was now walking up the stairs, Yusei continued, "As soon as we told him the news, he started acting like this."
"Oh dear," Double D remarked in a concerned tone, "Yes, by all means, come in. Oh, I'm going to have to ask that you take your shows off first." After Yusei and the other guys all took their shoes off, they followed Double D up the stairs, and over to one of the rooms when Double D spotted Eddy walking into that room. "Eddy, are you okay?" Double D called out as he and the guys followed Eddy, eventually entering the bedroom Double D was in earlier. There they found Eddy sitting on the side of Double D's bed, an expression devoid of any emotion on his face.
"Eddy…" Double D said in a more concerned tone, "Are you okay?"
"I just found out my older brother's been killed, Double D," Eddy said, his tone not showing any emotion at all.
"He's been killed?!" Double D said in a shocked tone, "My goodness, Eddy, I am so sorry to hear that!"
"Yeah, that's why the guys and I came here to Peach Creek," Crow said as he walked over to Double D's bet and sat down next to Eddy on the boy's left, "We're the messengers sent to deliver the news of his brother's death."
"This is terrible," Double D said as he shook his head, "A death in the family is never a good thing."
"I know," Crow remarked to Double D. Crow turned his head to face Eddy; with his right hand, Crow patted Eddy on the back in a comforting, sympathetic manner. "You must be in shock by the news," Crow said in an understanding tone to Eddy, "Aren't you, young ma-" Crow was cut off when a loud fart sounded off from the area of Crow and Eddy. "…That wasn't me," Crow said instantly.
"He who denied it supplied it, Crow," Kalin remarked.
"Now hang on there a minute, Kalin," Jack said, "As much as I always enjoy getting on Birdbrain's case for whatever reason, even I have to point out that Crow always takes credits for his farts, and he also occasionally takes credit for farts that he didn't make. So, if he's denying a fart, then chances are that he didn't really fart."
"Well it certainly wasn't me," Eddy remarked, just the barest hint of emotion showing through his tone.
"We can discuss who farted and who didn't fart later," Yusei said to everyone as a whole, "The point here is that Eddy is trying to come to terms with the fact that his older brother's been killed, and that we need to provide as much of our support and understanding as we can to him, so as to help him get through the troubled times he's bound to face."
"Indeed," Double D agreed with a nod, "Why don't you guys take Eddy back to his place for now? I'll join you there in a bit."
"Alright," Crow remarked as he got up, getting Eddy to follow him and the other guys out of Double D's bedroom. The group was then escorted by Double D out of the house. After he closed the front door behind them, Double D turned back around just in time to see Marie appear at the top of the staircase. Holding onto the railing of the staircase, Marie gasped loudly, as if she were trying to breathe after holding her breath for a decent length of time.
"Holy crap!" Marie exclaimed, "That's the last time I hide under someone's bed after eating a supreme burrito from Taco Hut!"
Over at Eddy's house, Yusei and the guys stood in one of the bedrooms with Eddy. This bedroom had a car in it for some reason, along with a refrigerator, a shelf with various oddities on it, a radiator, a harp, a stuffed camel for some reason, and for some other reason there was a toilet seat mounted on the wall; on either side of the toilet seat was a robotic arm, both of which also mounted on the wall.
"Well, this is my brother's room," Eddy said in an unsure tone, "Or rather, it was his room."
"What do you plan to do with it?" Yusei asked.
"My mom will probably want to turn it into a guest room," Eddy remarked, "As for my dad, he's going to want to get rid of this stuff as soon as he can. He never really approved of the various odds and ends my brother collected."
"Well from the looks of things, I'd say you're going to be holding quite the yard sale," Jack remarked as he, Yusei and Kalin looked around. While he was looking around, Jack noticed that Crow was staring at the stuffed camel. "…Birdbrain, the hell are you doing staring at that camel for?" Jack asked.
"…Is the camel for sale?" Crow asked.
"…You want to buy the camel?" Jack said more than asked, his tone showing no surprise at all.
"I'm interested in the harp," Kalin admitted.
"Umm, sure, I guess," Eddy remarked, "I'd be glad to sell you guys the camel and the harp. In a mildly confused and unsure tone, Eddy continued, "Umm…make me an offer?"
Kalin walked over to the harp, inspecting it upon getting close enough. Sitting on the stool placed next to the harp, Kalin played a few notes, showing surprising skill at it. "It's in tune, surprisingly," Kalin remarked. Getting up off of the stool, Kalin said, "How about fifty dollars?"
"I'll give you twenty for the camel," Crow offered Eddy, "I'll also give you an additional five for each of the two hats the camel has on his head and back hump."
"What is it with you and weird hats, Birdbrain?" Jack asked, a confused incredulous look on the blonde turbo duelist's face.
"Yeah, those offers all sound good," Eddy remarked to Crow and Kalin.
"I'll go get the Volkswagen," Yusei said, "We've got to carry this stuff back home with us since we're apparently buying it."
Later, Jack, Crow and Kalin were in Eddy's front lawn; a few tables had been set up, and were laden with the various odds and ends from Eddy's brother's room. After Eddy came out of his house carrying a box holding the last of the objects from his brother's room, Yusei pulled up in his Volkswagen van. "Okay, let's load the harp, the hats and the camel into my van," Yusei said as he got out, "And wow, I cannot believe I just said that."
"The hats I can see a possible reason for," Jack remarked to Crow, "But the camel?! Why in the bloody hell do you want a fucking stuffed camel?!"
"I got this idea for a YouTube exclusive sitcom, and this camel would be one hell of a prop," Crow explained, "So yeah, the camel is essential, Jack." As Jack shook his head in confusion, Nazz came walking over to the yard sale Eddy was having. Nazz was also accompanied by a boy approximately her and Eddy's age. This boy had fair skin and orange-red hair, and he wore a red baseball cap turned backwards, a long-sleeved light green shirt, black shorts, white socks and black shoes. "Hey man," the boy greeted Eddy, "You having a yard sale?"
"Oh, 'sup Kevin, 'sup Nazz," Eddy replied when he saw the two kids approach, "Yeah, my dad's been wanting to get rid of all of the stuff my brother has in his room for the longest time. Now that my brother's been killed, my dad has the perfect excuse to do so."
"Your brother's been killed?!" Nazz nearly exclaimed out of shock, "My goodness, Eddy, I am so sorry to hear that!"
"Yeah man, that's a tough break," said the boy with Nazz, apparently named Kevin, "I mean, sure your older brother was nothing short of terrifying, but it still must be pretty hard to go through something like that."
"Is that the bad news you guys had to deliver to Eddy's family?" Nazz asked the guys.
"Unfortunately, yes," Yusei replied with a nod in the affirmative.
"I don't suppose you guys can tell us how Eddy's brother was killed, can you?" Nazz asked.
"Yeah, I'm actually kind of curious about that myself," Eddy remarked as he walked over, "How did my older brother bite it? Car crash? Mugging gone wrong? Freak accident?"
"He was killed in a bar fight," Crow explained.
"Must have been a really terrible fight if he got killed in it," Kevin remarked as he shook his head. Looking at the yard sale Eddy had set up, Kevin pointed to one of the tables and said, "Is that a blue wig you got for sale, dude?"
"Huh?" Eddy said as he looked over to where Kevin was pointing, "Oh yeah. That was on a wig holder on the shelf in my brother's room. You know, I've never figured out why my brother even got that wig in the first place."
"I'll give you five dollars for it," Kevin said.
"Wait a minute," Nazz said in a confused tone, "Kevin, why do you want to buy that blue wig?"
"I have an idea for a YouTube exclusive sitcom, and that wig would be perfect for it," Kevin explained as he fished a five-dollar bill and handed it to Eddy.
"Well how about that, Eddy?" Kalin remarked in a mildly amazed tone that was clearly meant to convey praise, "Counting the camel, hats and harp that you sold to me and Crow, you already made-" Kalin was cut off when a boy in the neighborhood came running by. This boy had fair skin that seemed to have something of a yellow hue to it, and orange hair that was in a very short buzzcut. He wore a red and white stripped t-shirt under a green jacket, blue pants, and black shoes. The boy was very clearly running away from something that frightened him, as he was also screaming in fear.
"KANKER!" the boy screamed in fright as he ran through the yard sale, knocking into Kalin with such force that Kalin was thrown into the air a good few dozen feet. "RUN AWAY!" the boy screamed in fear as he ran into the distance, "THE END IS NIGH!" After that boy disappeared into the horizon, Double D came running up to the yard sale. Stopping next to Yusei, Double D had to catch his breath.
"…What was that all about?" Yusei asked Double D as he pointed in the direction that the screaming boy ran off into.
"Oh, that was me and Eddy's friend Ed," Double D explained as he panted with exhaustion, "He was just frightened by the appearance of a girl from the nearby trailer park is all."
"Which one was it, dude?" Kevin asked, looking around out of mild alarm. Nazz and Eddy were also likewise alarmed by the possibility of encountering the girl from the trailer park.
"It was Marie," Double D replied, "You see, a pet belonging to her had found its way into my family's backyard and-" (4) Double D was cut off when Kalin landed with a rather hard thud on the roof of Yusei's Volkswagen van, setting off the alarm that Yusei had installed. Turning off the alarm, Yusei got to Kalin and checked for a pulse.
"Kalin's dead," Yusei remarked in a mildly grim tone as he walked back over to Jack and Crow, "He must have hit the roof pretty damn hard if the impact killed him."
"Are we going to keep the harp that Kalin bought?" Jack asked, "Because I really don't see much of a reason to keep the thing."
END, CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Author's Notes:
(1) Having any sort of argument with Crow in the first place is a lost cause.
(2) Drink responsibly.
(3) This is what the address is stated to be in the series proper.
(4) Double D's story about Marie's pet was a lie that he was fabricating.
Well there's chapter seventeen done and over with. Sorry if some of you were expecting to see at least all of the cul-de-sac kids at least once each at some point, but I couldn't really think of how to include them into the plot without making it obvious that they were there just to be there; even then, I feel like Ed was in this chapter just for that reason. Well anywho, the next chapter will see the guys heading on another adventure to help the neighbor kids who live next door to them.
Huh…I wonder what they're going to do today.