Leena: Oh hi! Welcome back! You made it here just in time! Part 2 is going to start soon!

Chibi Yagi: *hops back into his chair* I'm back!

Leena: Geez, how long does it take you to use the bathroom?!

Chibi Yagi: There was a line!

Leena: *sighs* Whatever.

Chibi Yami: *pops up out of nowhere* TO THE EXTREME!!!!!! *disappears*

Leena: *blink*

Chibi Yagi: *blink*

Leena: Ooooooooo....kkkk............
Um..Yagi? Why don't you do the disclaimer?

Chibi Yagi: AGAIN?! *sigh* Ok.

Leena does not own any characters from Yu-Gi-Oh!, nor any real anime character what-so-ever. She owns me though. She also does not own the story A Christmas Carol, which the play is based on, or the idea of making an A Christmas Carol and Anime/Cartoon crossover. Some lines in the play are acutally FROM A Christmas Carol, which Leena also does not own.

Leena: Thank you Yagi-chan! ^_^

Chibi Yagi: ^_^

Leena: Oop, shh! Part 2 is starting!

Chibi Yagi: Enjoy the show!

*lights dim again*

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[Applause]

Yugi: *hops onto the stage* Hi! Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your break! Part 2 of chapter 1 is about to begin! *hops back off stage*

[Applause]

*Curtain opens. The scene is still in the shop. Joey is still huddled by the fire, and Kaiba is still just standing there.*

[Knock on door]

Joey: Comin'!!! *runs over to door and opens it*

*2 old men walk in*

Old Man #1: Scrooge and Marley's, I believe. Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr Scrooge, or Mr Marley?

Kaiba: Mr Marley has been dead these seven years. He died seven years ago, this very night.

Joey: Creepy...

Old Man #2: We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner.

Old Man #1: At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.

Kaiba: Are there no prisons?

Old Man #2: Plenty of prisons.

Kaiba: And the Union workhouses? Are they still in operation?

Old Man #2: They are. Still, I wish I could say they were not.

Kaiba: The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?

Old Man: #1: Both very busy, sir.

Joey: *is getting dizzy from looking from Kaiba, to one old man, to Kaiba, then the other old man trying to follow the conversation* @_@ Oy..

Kaiba: Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course, I'm very glad to hear it.

Old Man #2: Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude, a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?

Kaiba: Nothing!

Old Man #1: You wish to be anonymous?

Kaiba: I wish to be left alone. Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.

Joey: (I have no idea what these folks are talking about..)

Kaiba: SUHT UP WHEELER!!

Joey: Wha--?! You can't tell what I said!!!

Kaiba: Yes I can! Since this is a story, I can read your mind because all I have to do is read what's typed up above me!!

Joey: THAT'S NO FAIR!!!

Kaiba: LIFE ISN'T FAIR YOU STUPID CANINE!

Joey: WHY YOU--

Old Man #1: A-HEM.

Kaiba: Oh..*blink* Sorry. You were saying?

Old Man #1: Um..oh, oh yes. Many can't go there; and many would rather die.

Kaiba: If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.

Old Man #2: But you might know it.

Kaiba: It's not my business. It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!

Joey: And don't make him repeat himself! It gets annoying after a while!

Kaiba: Wheeler...

Joey: o.o *huddles over fire again*

Old Man #1 and #2: *look at each other, then walk off stage*

Kaiba: *looks out the window, then looks down at Joey* You'll want all day tomorrow, I suppose?

Joey: If quite convenient, Sir.

Kaiba: It's not convenient, and it's not fair. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I 'll be bound?

Joey: *smiles faintly*

Kaiba: And yet, you don't think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no work.

Joey: It's only once a year.

Kaiba: A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December! *puts on his coat* But I suppose you must have the whole day. Be here all the earlier next morning!

Joey: Alright.

Kaiba: *walks out the door, grumbling*

Joey: *gets his coat on, and walks out the door*

*The scene changes magically and Kaiba is walking into his mansion*

Yugi: As Scrooge goes into his house on Christmas Eve, he hears the sound of ghostly chains dragging along the floor. *looks off stage and nods*

Tea and Mai: *start to shake some chains and make them hit the floor and such*

Kaiba: *looks around* Could it be..?

*cellar door swings open and chain sounds get louder*

Kaiba: It's humbug still! I won't believe it. *looks in cellar door*

*flames come out of the cellar door*

Kaiba: OW!! Easy on the flamethrower!!!

*flames stop*

Kaiba: *falls down* I know him! Marley's Ghost!!

Pegasus: *steps out of cellar door and laughs kinda evilly*

Kaiba: *blink*

Pegasus: *stops laughing* Huh?

Kaiba: What?

Pegasus: Kaiba Boy, I'm suppose to be a ghost. You have to be scared.

Kaiba: Oh.. [monotone]: Ahhhhh...

Pegasus: *blink*

Yugi: Aww man!

Yami: Let me handle this, Yugi. Psst!! Kaiba!

Kaiba: Huh? *looks over*

Yami: *waves 1 of Kaiba's BEWD over a lit cigarette lighter*

Kaiba: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pegasus: That's better.

Yami: *smiles proudly*

Yugi: Where'd you get a cigarette lighter?!

Yami: Internet.

Yugi: Huh..O.O Yami! The card!!!

Yami: The wha--HOLY CRAP!!!!!! *tries to blow out flame that started in the corner of Kaiba's BEWD*

Kaiba: What's going on back there?

Pegasus: *steps infront of Kaiba's view of Yami* Um uh..stick to your lines, Kaiba Boy!

Kaiba: Oh yeah..How now! What do you want with me?

Pegasus: Much.

Kaiba: Who are you?

Pegasus: Ask me who I WAS.

Kaiba: Who WERE you then. You're particular, for a shade.

Pegasus: In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

Kaiba: Can you -- can you sit down?

Pegasus: I can.

Kaiba: Do it, then.

Yami: *stamping on card because the flame started to spread* STUPID...FIRE!! OUT ALREADY!!

Kaiba: *blink*

Pegasus: You don't believe in me.

Kaiba: *looks back at Pegasus* I don't.

Pegasus: What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?

Kaiba: I don't know.

Yami: *sighs* Phew! There, it's out!

Ryou: Good Job, Firefighter Yami.

Yami: *smiles proudly again*

Kaiba: Wha..?

Pegasus: Why do you doubt your senses?

Kaiba: Because a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

Um...*picks up a toothpick* You see this toothpick?

Pegasus: I do.

Kaiba: You are not looking at it.

Pegasus: But I see it, notwithstanding.

Kaiba: Well! I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation. Humbug, I tell you; humbug!

Pegasus: *makes a sad attempt of a ghostly wail*

Kaiba: *sighs, then falls upon his knees and clasps his hands before his face* Mercy! Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?

Pegasus: Man of the worldly mind! Do you believe in me or not?

Kaiba: I do. I must. But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?

Pegasus: It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world -- oh, woe is me! -- and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness! *sad ghostly wail again*

Kaiba: You are fettered. Tell me why?

Pegasus: I wear the chain I forged in life, I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?

Kaiba: *blink* Uh--

Pegasus: Or would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous chain!

Kaiba: You must have been very slow about it, Jacob.

Pegasus: Slow!

Kaiba: Seven years dead, and travelling all the time?

Pegasus: The whole time. No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.

Kaiba: You travel fast?

Pegasus: On the wings of the wind.

Kaiba: You might have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years.

Pegasus: *yet another sad ghostly cry, and shakes his chains* Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed, not to know, that ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused! Yet such was I! Oh! Such was I!

Kaiba: But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.

Pegasus: Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

At this time of the rolling year, I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!

Kaiba: Right..

Pegasus: Hear me! My time is nearly gone.

Kaiba: I will, but don't be hard upon me! Don't be flowery, Jacob! Pray!

Pegasus: How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.

Kaiba: o.o;

Pegasus: That is no light part of my penance, I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.

Kaiba: (Oh yeah, that's Scrooge's first name.)

Yami: What kind of name is Ebenezer?!

Yugi: Yami! Hush!

Yami: Sorry.

Kaiba: You were always a good friend to me. Thank'ee!

Pegasus: You will be haunted by Three Spirits.

Kaiba: Is that the chance and hope you mentioned, Jacob?

Pegasus: It is.

Kaiba: I -- I think I'd rather not.

Pegasus: Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first tomorrow, when the bell tolls One.

Kaiba: Couldn't I take 'em all at once, and have it over, Jacob? *hint hint*

Pegasus: Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. The third upon the next night when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate. Look to see me no more; and look that, for your own sake, you remember what has passed between us.

Kaiba: Er...

Pegasus: *disappears*

*Curtain closes*

[Applause]

Yugi: *hops out* Hi! That was the end of Part 2 of 2! The second chapter shall begin after a small break! *hops back off stage*

[Applause]

*Behind stage* AHHHHHHHHHH!!! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PRECIOUS BLUE EYES?!

It wasn't me! Honest!

Stop lying Yami! It was you!

NO! IT WASN'T!! AHHH!!!

[crashing noises and screams and yells]

Yugi: Um..they're just rehersing, folks ^_^; heh. *runs behind stage*

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Leena: Well, that was odd.

Chibi Yagi: Yeah. But good storyline so far.

Leena: I didn't expect Pegasus to get so many lines, I mean, for a dead guy and all.

Chib Yagi: *nods*

Leena: Well, that's it for Part 2 of the 1st chapter in A Christmas Carol! Send in your reviews everyone! I love to read them all! ^_^

Chibi Yagi: Bye! Be sure to come back for scene 3!