Hi! For those of you who couldn't already tell, I'm doing the fairy tale,
not the Disney version. In this version, there are three poisoning
attempts. Here comes number two!
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Pegasus woke up the next morning, smiling widely, truly pleased that he had killed off his competition. He stretched out his arms and rolled out of his silk-sheeted bed. He stepped right up to the Mirror, confident, and asked it his question.
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who's the most adorable of us all?"
The Mirror smiled mischievously. It had been growing cockier day after day, loving it every time it saw Pegagus' reaction. It was no longer afraid of telling the girly-man the truth. What was hard was getting the answer to rhyme, as well as to be insulting.
"Yugi is still cuter, and yes, he's still alive,
But you; was your head stuck in a beehive?"
The Mirror, though overconfident, was still smart enough to know that he was very close to Pegasus' breaking point. The man's face turned purple with rage and he slammed his fist towards the Mirror. The Mirror winced, but didn't feel himself shatter. Pegasus had hit the panel on top of it and was now entering the stone door frame that had opened up. He stomped his way down into the dungeon and opened up his old spellbook to the poison he had made earlier. He flipped the page and saw the perfect spell. 'But what to put it on.' he said to himself. As his eyes fell on a family portrait painted a few years ago, he came upon an idea and smiled that cruel, evil smile.
~*~*~*~At the Dwarves' Cottage~*~*~*~
"Now, NOBODY is to enter this house but us." Anzu said, like a worried mother hen.
"Don't worry so much Anzu." Bakura said. "He's not dumb enough to do it again, and besides, he's got that necklace on." He pointed at his own gift to the prince, the golden pyramid. Touching it lightly, Yugi spoke up. "Don't worry about me. Just go on to work. I promise that no one is to get in this house and I won't leave it."
Still apprehensive, Anzu stepped out the door, and the rest followed her, saying their goodbyes for the day. Sighing, Yugi closed the door behind them and traipsed into the kitchen, bringing with him the dirty breakfast dishes. Just as he set them down, he heard a knock on the door. He shook his head and walked to the door, yelling, "Forgot something?" At the door was not, as he expected, Seto, having forgotten his shovels, again. It was a young woman. She was very tall and slim, with silvery hair and a very fashionable tunic. She looked kind of familiar…
"Hello, I come bearing some of the finest…" SLAM! Yugi slammed the door into the face of his second vendor in two days.
"NO SOLICITORS!" he yelled through the door.
"But I'm selling…neck belts." Almost immediately, the window next to the door swung open.
"I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to open the door, but I'm sure you can show me your fine merchandise through this window." Yugi smiled, excited. The woman blinked for a few seconds, surprised that he could've shoved open the window so quickly. Shaking her head to regain her cool, she held out a large, flat basket heaped with piles of short belts. Pulling one out from the bottom, she held it out to him and Yugi took it.
"Hmm…not too bad, but that one on the left side of the basket is more of my color." He held it back out to her. The woman looked livid for a moment, as if she wanted to argue with him, but then her face lit up suddenly, as if she struck upon an idea. She paused, smiled evilly at the boy, and bolted straight into the woods. Confused, Yugi suddenly realized he still had the neck belt.
"Hey, wait! I still have your…" he knew it was useless. She was long gone. But he still felt like she was familiar to him. He shrugged and examined the belt closer. He smiled. He hadn't had a neck belt since he was ten, when his mother said it was too crude and threw it out. He missed his old one. He pulled off his pyramid because its chain was in the way of buckling the belt. He swung the belt around his neck and buckled it to his neck. He immediately felt it begin to tighten. Gasping for the breath that had just been choked out of his throat, he reached up and tried to get it off, but the buckle was too polished and slippery. He started to get woozy. He could feel that it wasn't shrinking any more, it just stayed slightly too tight, at the perfect length to suffocate him. He fell down in a heap, with one last thought fluttering to his mind. 'Pegasus makes a pretty salesgirl…'
~*~*~*~Sunset~*~*~*
"That's my jewel!" Mai insisted. "I'm the one who dug it up. You stole it from my pail!"
"Prove it." Mokuba said lazily, tossing and catching the gem repeatedly. Jou caught it when his youngest brother tossed it up and handed it to Mai.
"Here you go." He smiled.
"Hey! Jou!" Mokuba whined. "Give that back!"
"Shut it, twerp. You shouldn't steal from others." he reprimanded.
"I didn't steal it!" the kid pouted,
"Really?" he said sarcastically. "Do you even know what kind of jewel that is?" The kid looked stumped.
"Thought so." he grinned triumphantly. "It's a red-rock."
"No, it's not." Seto spoke up suddenly. "It's a garnet."
"It is so a red-rock!" Jou argued.
"You wouldn't know a red-rock if it hit you in the head" Sure enough, Seto bounced a small red pebble off of Jou's head. Jou was on him in a flash. As the two oldest brothers wrestled on the side of the rode, the rest of them sat down on a small log, attached to huge sweatdrops.
"How long do you think this one will last?" Bakura asked almost bored.
"I'd give them…say…four minutes." Anzu guessed. And in exactly four minutes, the two pulled themselves off of each other, dusted off their shirts, and started up the path. The others followed them. Jou and Seto walked straight up to the cottage and flung open the door. Jou froze. Seto cursed and cried out, "Not again!" The rest of the family pushed into the house and saw Yugi lying face down on the floor. Anzu and Mai scrambled over to his head and checked for combs. They found nothing.
"Honda, grab some water! Mokuba, shake him, tickle him, anything! Mai, start slapping!" Anzu commanded, highly panicked. After they had severely mauled the poor boy in his state of suffocation; by drowning him, beating him, jumping on his head ('Mokuba, stop it! A human's brain is in there!' 'Really? He never used it before…')
"Somebody get Seto's cologne!"
"What? You can't waste my cologne!"
"We can when it's as strong as yours! It's enough to kill a living person and knock a dead one back to life!" Honda maintained. Mokuba heard this and started for the tiny glass bottle under his brother's bed.
As everyone else was doing more harm to the kid than helping, Bakura stepped over to the table and saw that the pyramid he gave to Yugi was sitting there; the eye was practically winking at him. He picked it up and looked over to Yugi. There was a leather belt-thing around his neck; it looked really tight. Curious, Bakura bent down and pulled it off. Almost instantly, Yugi sprang up to sitting position gasping for air. His hands flew to his neck, as he sighed with relief.
"Oh, my God! Yugi!" Anzu wrapped her arms tightly around him and Yugi once again found himself in his favorite position, being hugged to her chest. But this time, he wasn't enjoying himself as much.
"Ranru, mm surfrokrating." he whimpered. Anzu let go of him.
"What did I say about letting people into the house?"
"She…he…never came in." he said truthfully. Anzu was about to open her mouth again but was interrupted by someone else.
"Gangway!" Mokuba came thundering down the rickety stairs. Then, as if the stairs could smell the scent that was wafting from the bottle, they gave away under Mokuba. He flailed in mid-air for a second before he fell…and smashed the bottle. The full extent of the odor blew up into each of their faces. They all screamed at the top of their lungs and darted for an open exit. That is, except for Seto.
"What?" He sniffed his own shirt. "It's not THAT bad."
~*~*~*~Two Hours Later~*~*~*~
"Ah, what a beautiful night." Yugi sighed. They had stuffed their bellies full of food and even gotten rid of most of the smell. But, as Jou put it, "I'm never gonna smell the same again."
Yugi, Anzu, Mai, Seto, and Bakura were all sitting on top of the roof, watching the stars. As for Jou, Honda, and Mokuba…
"Hey! That's not fair! You're both bigger than me!" SPLASH! They were, uh, 'playing' in the lake behind the cottage.
"That's not how you do it!" Mai said suddenly to Jou. "You have to push in front of his legs, so it looks like he tripped in." She slid herself off the roof and landed easily next to Honda.
"Like this…" She stuck one foot in front of him and pushed, hard, with one hand.
"Aaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" SPLASH! Sputtering, Honda popped his head out from under the water's surface and glared at her. He hauled himself out of the lake and shook himself dry on her. He smiled at her squealing and pulled himself up onto the roof. Mokuba was already up there finishing off the rest of dinner. That left Jou and Mai on the ground. Yugi couldn't tell what they were saying, partly because everyone else was occupied with arguing over the last biscuit. Jou whispered something into her ear and kissed her. (A/N: I know they're brother and sister in the fic, but I already told you, it was common practice back then!)
Yugi smiled and looked up at the full moon. The others were arguing in the background. He pressed his hand to the upside-down pyramid hanging over his chest and remembered what Bakura told him about being able to make a wish. He closed his eyes and thought, 'I wish that I could fall in love and have that love returned.' The puzzle glowed warmly in his hands; and he knew that his wish would be granted.
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Hmmm….this is going to be a little bit longer than I expected…
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Pegasus woke up the next morning, smiling widely, truly pleased that he had killed off his competition. He stretched out his arms and rolled out of his silk-sheeted bed. He stepped right up to the Mirror, confident, and asked it his question.
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who's the most adorable of us all?"
The Mirror smiled mischievously. It had been growing cockier day after day, loving it every time it saw Pegagus' reaction. It was no longer afraid of telling the girly-man the truth. What was hard was getting the answer to rhyme, as well as to be insulting.
"Yugi is still cuter, and yes, he's still alive,
But you; was your head stuck in a beehive?"
The Mirror, though overconfident, was still smart enough to know that he was very close to Pegasus' breaking point. The man's face turned purple with rage and he slammed his fist towards the Mirror. The Mirror winced, but didn't feel himself shatter. Pegasus had hit the panel on top of it and was now entering the stone door frame that had opened up. He stomped his way down into the dungeon and opened up his old spellbook to the poison he had made earlier. He flipped the page and saw the perfect spell. 'But what to put it on.' he said to himself. As his eyes fell on a family portrait painted a few years ago, he came upon an idea and smiled that cruel, evil smile.
~*~*~*~At the Dwarves' Cottage~*~*~*~
"Now, NOBODY is to enter this house but us." Anzu said, like a worried mother hen.
"Don't worry so much Anzu." Bakura said. "He's not dumb enough to do it again, and besides, he's got that necklace on." He pointed at his own gift to the prince, the golden pyramid. Touching it lightly, Yugi spoke up. "Don't worry about me. Just go on to work. I promise that no one is to get in this house and I won't leave it."
Still apprehensive, Anzu stepped out the door, and the rest followed her, saying their goodbyes for the day. Sighing, Yugi closed the door behind them and traipsed into the kitchen, bringing with him the dirty breakfast dishes. Just as he set them down, he heard a knock on the door. He shook his head and walked to the door, yelling, "Forgot something?" At the door was not, as he expected, Seto, having forgotten his shovels, again. It was a young woman. She was very tall and slim, with silvery hair and a very fashionable tunic. She looked kind of familiar…
"Hello, I come bearing some of the finest…" SLAM! Yugi slammed the door into the face of his second vendor in two days.
"NO SOLICITORS!" he yelled through the door.
"But I'm selling…neck belts." Almost immediately, the window next to the door swung open.
"I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to open the door, but I'm sure you can show me your fine merchandise through this window." Yugi smiled, excited. The woman blinked for a few seconds, surprised that he could've shoved open the window so quickly. Shaking her head to regain her cool, she held out a large, flat basket heaped with piles of short belts. Pulling one out from the bottom, she held it out to him and Yugi took it.
"Hmm…not too bad, but that one on the left side of the basket is more of my color." He held it back out to her. The woman looked livid for a moment, as if she wanted to argue with him, but then her face lit up suddenly, as if she struck upon an idea. She paused, smiled evilly at the boy, and bolted straight into the woods. Confused, Yugi suddenly realized he still had the neck belt.
"Hey, wait! I still have your…" he knew it was useless. She was long gone. But he still felt like she was familiar to him. He shrugged and examined the belt closer. He smiled. He hadn't had a neck belt since he was ten, when his mother said it was too crude and threw it out. He missed his old one. He pulled off his pyramid because its chain was in the way of buckling the belt. He swung the belt around his neck and buckled it to his neck. He immediately felt it begin to tighten. Gasping for the breath that had just been choked out of his throat, he reached up and tried to get it off, but the buckle was too polished and slippery. He started to get woozy. He could feel that it wasn't shrinking any more, it just stayed slightly too tight, at the perfect length to suffocate him. He fell down in a heap, with one last thought fluttering to his mind. 'Pegasus makes a pretty salesgirl…'
~*~*~*~Sunset~*~*~*
"That's my jewel!" Mai insisted. "I'm the one who dug it up. You stole it from my pail!"
"Prove it." Mokuba said lazily, tossing and catching the gem repeatedly. Jou caught it when his youngest brother tossed it up and handed it to Mai.
"Here you go." He smiled.
"Hey! Jou!" Mokuba whined. "Give that back!"
"Shut it, twerp. You shouldn't steal from others." he reprimanded.
"I didn't steal it!" the kid pouted,
"Really?" he said sarcastically. "Do you even know what kind of jewel that is?" The kid looked stumped.
"Thought so." he grinned triumphantly. "It's a red-rock."
"No, it's not." Seto spoke up suddenly. "It's a garnet."
"It is so a red-rock!" Jou argued.
"You wouldn't know a red-rock if it hit you in the head" Sure enough, Seto bounced a small red pebble off of Jou's head. Jou was on him in a flash. As the two oldest brothers wrestled on the side of the rode, the rest of them sat down on a small log, attached to huge sweatdrops.
"How long do you think this one will last?" Bakura asked almost bored.
"I'd give them…say…four minutes." Anzu guessed. And in exactly four minutes, the two pulled themselves off of each other, dusted off their shirts, and started up the path. The others followed them. Jou and Seto walked straight up to the cottage and flung open the door. Jou froze. Seto cursed and cried out, "Not again!" The rest of the family pushed into the house and saw Yugi lying face down on the floor. Anzu and Mai scrambled over to his head and checked for combs. They found nothing.
"Honda, grab some water! Mokuba, shake him, tickle him, anything! Mai, start slapping!" Anzu commanded, highly panicked. After they had severely mauled the poor boy in his state of suffocation; by drowning him, beating him, jumping on his head ('Mokuba, stop it! A human's brain is in there!' 'Really? He never used it before…')
"Somebody get Seto's cologne!"
"What? You can't waste my cologne!"
"We can when it's as strong as yours! It's enough to kill a living person and knock a dead one back to life!" Honda maintained. Mokuba heard this and started for the tiny glass bottle under his brother's bed.
As everyone else was doing more harm to the kid than helping, Bakura stepped over to the table and saw that the pyramid he gave to Yugi was sitting there; the eye was practically winking at him. He picked it up and looked over to Yugi. There was a leather belt-thing around his neck; it looked really tight. Curious, Bakura bent down and pulled it off. Almost instantly, Yugi sprang up to sitting position gasping for air. His hands flew to his neck, as he sighed with relief.
"Oh, my God! Yugi!" Anzu wrapped her arms tightly around him and Yugi once again found himself in his favorite position, being hugged to her chest. But this time, he wasn't enjoying himself as much.
"Ranru, mm surfrokrating." he whimpered. Anzu let go of him.
"What did I say about letting people into the house?"
"She…he…never came in." he said truthfully. Anzu was about to open her mouth again but was interrupted by someone else.
"Gangway!" Mokuba came thundering down the rickety stairs. Then, as if the stairs could smell the scent that was wafting from the bottle, they gave away under Mokuba. He flailed in mid-air for a second before he fell…and smashed the bottle. The full extent of the odor blew up into each of their faces. They all screamed at the top of their lungs and darted for an open exit. That is, except for Seto.
"What?" He sniffed his own shirt. "It's not THAT bad."
~*~*~*~Two Hours Later~*~*~*~
"Ah, what a beautiful night." Yugi sighed. They had stuffed their bellies full of food and even gotten rid of most of the smell. But, as Jou put it, "I'm never gonna smell the same again."
Yugi, Anzu, Mai, Seto, and Bakura were all sitting on top of the roof, watching the stars. As for Jou, Honda, and Mokuba…
"Hey! That's not fair! You're both bigger than me!" SPLASH! They were, uh, 'playing' in the lake behind the cottage.
"That's not how you do it!" Mai said suddenly to Jou. "You have to push in front of his legs, so it looks like he tripped in." She slid herself off the roof and landed easily next to Honda.
"Like this…" She stuck one foot in front of him and pushed, hard, with one hand.
"Aaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" SPLASH! Sputtering, Honda popped his head out from under the water's surface and glared at her. He hauled himself out of the lake and shook himself dry on her. He smiled at her squealing and pulled himself up onto the roof. Mokuba was already up there finishing off the rest of dinner. That left Jou and Mai on the ground. Yugi couldn't tell what they were saying, partly because everyone else was occupied with arguing over the last biscuit. Jou whispered something into her ear and kissed her. (A/N: I know they're brother and sister in the fic, but I already told you, it was common practice back then!)
Yugi smiled and looked up at the full moon. The others were arguing in the background. He pressed his hand to the upside-down pyramid hanging over his chest and remembered what Bakura told him about being able to make a wish. He closed his eyes and thought, 'I wish that I could fall in love and have that love returned.' The puzzle glowed warmly in his hands; and he knew that his wish would be granted.
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Hmmm….this is going to be a little bit longer than I expected…