WAAZZUP! I decided not only to screw the rating, but decided to screw doing the duel by E-mail. At this rate, I know enough to make my own duel, so without further ado, here's chapter two!
/Hikari to Yami/
//Yami to Hikari//
Attack/Defense
"And Dragon scale armour, raising Opal dragon's defense by 5001000/3200 and makes her impervious to physical attacks although she already was in the first place, but that doesn't matter. Oh, and since I am not gonna take any risks, I play egg-shell, which protects any monster with 'baby' in its name for one turn. Make your move!"
Now Baby Dragon was surrounded by an eggshell, and Opal Dragon's scales were tinged with a silver-colour due to the magic card played.
"Your turn!" Ariel said, smiling, well, largely.
Yugi sighed as he drew a card and surveyed his hand.
~*~*~
Ariel's mind was wandering, stuck in another daydream, like she usually does when she's supposed to be paying attention to someone/thing important. Except this time, it was about something other than Stories, Duel Monsters, and tales of fantasy…
//YO ARIEL!!!// A voice rang out in her head.
Ariel nearly jumped.
//Getting a little distracted?// The voice questioned in a sarcastic, know-it-all tone.
/Uh...-/
//Its our turn you know.//
/Right, well you see its-/
"HEY ARIEL!" Yugi's voice rang from the other side of the field. Was it her, or did he sound different?
"Uh, YES?!" Ariel said whilst trying not to sound stupid.
"You are fully aware of the fact that it's your turn?" The Duelist on the other side of the field questioned while raising an eyebrow.
"Sure!" said Ariel whilst sweatdropping. "I-"
"You forgot to draw a card"
"Oh." Ariel blushed as she drew a card. Her eyes brightened up as she saw what it was. 'AW yeah! All I gotta do is lay it face down in attack…'
"I place this card, face down in attack mode, and I also play this face down." Ariel said as did just that…
~*~*~*~
"I wonder why she played that card in attack mode." Téa said worriedly.
"'Cause she's a stupid little brat!" Joey answered darkly. He then noticed Bakura cringing.
"Whatsa matter Bakura?" Joey asked, turning to the white-haired boy.
"Well, I don't like the look she just gave me. It was quite….disturbing." Bakura nervously said, his almond-brown eyes locked on the duelling short-girl.
"What are ya talking about? I have-Woa!" Joey said, whirling around to look at Ariel, only to be met with blazing green eyes, and a really evil-looking smirk.
"Now I see what ya talkin' about…Geez, that stare gives me the creeps." Joey said whilst shuddering.
~*~*~*~
/NOW who's the one distracted?/ Ariel mentally said to her Yami.
//Uh, er, well-//
/Its ok. I understand./
//Really?//
/Yeah. I like him too. Awwww….those brown eyes…/
//Yea…//
/And that silvery-white hair./
//Ye- Waitaminute! He has Blond hair!//
/Huh? He has White hair! He's the dude with the accent!/
// HELLO! Don't you think I know that? He's the guy with the coat you ran into, the one with the blond hair?!//
/Wait, him? I think his name is Joey. That's not who I'm talking about! I'm talking-wait, if you like Joey, and I like, uh, the guy with the white hair, then….uh/
//Lets resolve this later, 'Cause Yugi is makin' his move!//
/CRAP!/
Ariel watched as Yugi's card, Gaia the Fierce Knight, attacked Baby Dragon. This is what Ariel was waiting for. Ariel grinned as she flipped her face-down card up, revealing-
"MOTHER DRAGON" Ariel shouted as the large dragon appeared2300/1500. It looked like an older version of Baby dragon, but younger than Thousand Dragon. Ariel could see the confusion in Yugi's eyes as Mother Dragon gained 1000 points to her Attack and 500 to her defense, so she explained her move.
"Mother Dragon gains 500 Attack and Defence points for every baby dragon-type monster on the field. And since you attacked her baby, Mother dragon gains another 500 attack points for this turn, and can block the attacking monster. In this case, I believe that Mother Dragon beats your Gaia. Now, it's my turn!"
Yugi: 1000/Ariel: 2000
Ariel drew a card. 'Hmmm, I think I have a card here I can use….lets see. OH!'
"I play Opal Eyes Turquoise Dragon in attack mode!" A turquoise dragon with pinkish eyes appeared on the field 2700/1000.
"And I attack your Celtic Guardian!" the young female duelist said whist grinning maniacally.
Yugi raised an eyebrow.
"Are you stupid, or do you have just have a mental problem?" He said while flipping up a card Ariel didn't notice before, revealing it to be a Trap card, Spell-Binding Circle to be exact.
"Shit. Shitshitshit." Ariel cursed under her breath as she watched her dragon freeze in place, its stats points lowering by 500. 2200/500
//Shoulda paid attention.//
/Look who's talking Mademoiselle Boy-Igniter??/
//…That only happened once. And it wasn't my fault he decided to grab my ass!//
~*~*~*~
"What the hell was she thinking?" Tristan exclaimed loudly. "It was obvious that the card he put down was a trap!"
"Yea…I know." Téa said quietly.
"Well, that's Ariel for ya. Probably wandering off on a chain of thought." A voice piped up from seemingly nowhere.
Joey, Tristan, Téa and Bakura immediately turned around to see who spoke. The voice came from the unnamed girl with long brown hair and glasses and burdened with six large bags, mentioned in Chapter One, who is called 'Kendra' by Angela in that wonderfully acted scene-(angry readers: Get on with it!) . Ahem. Right. Anyways, the 4 'cheerleaders' weren't introduced to 'Kendra', so therefore they don't know 'Kendra'. Is that clear? Because if it isn't, I'd have to go around and explain the scene, of which is probably one of my personal favourites, although that is just me and-
"Get on with it!" Kendra suddenly shouted into the awkward silence.
"What are ya talkin' about?" Joey confusedly shouted at the girl with long hair. Angela took the opportunity and jumped in before Kendra could come up with a clever retort.
"Don't mind her. She's, uh, got Claustrophobia!" said Angela as she stood between the group and Kendra, sweatdropping.
"Yo, Angela, it's Schizophrenia you moron." Kendra hissed at Angela.
"Uh, right. I knew that. Anyways, this is Kendra, Ariel's cousin and Overloaded Pack-Mule of the moment."
"Yeah. Usually it's Ariel."
"Ya sure she's an Overloaded Pack-Mule or a Stubborn Jack-Ass…" Joey muttered under his breath, before turning back to the field to watch the duel.
~*~*~*~
Back on the duelling field, Yugi had brought out Curse of Dragon, and had played another card Face down.
'Ok, I just need some random stroke of luck.' Ariel thought as she drew a card. 'Bingo!'
"I play Polymerization and merge my Turquoise Dragon and my Opal Dragon, giving me a choice of creating the Pearl Eyes Sapphire Dragon or the Sapphire Eyes Pearl Dragon! I choose the one with the strongest Attack, PEARL EYES SAPPHIRE DRAGON!" A Blue Dragon with long horns and claws appeared on the field, its iridescent eyes changing colour in the light 3500/2000.
"And, I attack Celtic Guardian! SAPPHIRE FLAME"
"MIRROR FORCE!"
"SHIIIIT!"
As she braced for attack, Ariel remembered the card she had played. She had thought it was her 'Fountain of Youth', but it was right here in her hand, so…
"NEGATE!" shouted the girl as she flipped up her card, stopping the blue-coloured fire from hitting her monsters.
/Well, that was lucky/.
//No shit Sherlock.//
/Yeah. I hafta pay more attention to things./
//Yup//
/Instead of wallowing in my own self-pity./
//Yup//
/And thinking of stories I'm never going to write./
//Yup//
/And say 'Yup' again if you're a complete and total idiot and haven't listened to a word I said./
//Yup-HEY! That's cheating!//
/Well, Y-AW CRAP!/
//What?// Ariel's Yami just managed to get a glimpse of Dark Magician destroying her, rather, their Sapphire Dragon.
//How the-//
/Shield and Sword. Dark Magician's Defence is 2100 compared to Sapphie's 2000./
//Damn.//
Ariel: 1900/Yugi: 1000
//Well, Its our turn now.//
Ariel drew a card.
/Prism Cat./
//Oh the memories, the precious memories…//
/Just shut up./
//Why?//
/ 'Cause if you don't soon, we're gonna be caught in a flashback!/
// Uh, too late?//
~~*Flashback*~~
Ariel walked home from the bus stop. Once again, she had faced the embarrassingly stupid attempts to lower her self-esteem from the local bitch.
/Damn, doesn't she know I don't care?/ She randomly thought to herself.
//Nope. She's too stupid, remember?// Ariel found herself mentally answering her own rhetorical question.
/It was a rhetorical question you dumbass/ Ariel retorted to herself, before walking up the steps to her house and turning the doorknob and slamming into the door with her shoulder. Normally, that would open the door, but today, Ariel found out, the door was locked. As she rubbed her shoulder, she took off her backpack and rummaged around in the front pocket for her house keys.
/Hmm, that's strange, why is the door locked? Grandpa didn't say anything about him going anywhere this morning, why would he lock the door?/ Ariel asked herself once again.
//Well, its obvious he's not here!// she found her self answering.
/Oh really? How is it so obvious?/
//Well Madame smartyass, his truck isn't in the driveway!//
/Oh. Well then…/ Ariel opened the door and looked around for her two cats that would 'greet' her by meowing until the got fed. But they weren't. Lupi, her grey cat who thought she was the frickin' queen of the household, and whose ultimate goal is either kill the humans of the house or get outside, wasn't attempting to slip between her legs and get out. Cleo, the fat calico cat with tabby stripes where the black patches were and who thought she was a dog, wasn't meowing for food.
"Hmmm….This is strange..." Ariel stated out loud as she walked through the kitchen to the phone by the sliding glass doors (Uh, the back doors? Does that help?).
She dialled her Mom's work number, partially to tell her that she's home, and partially to ask her about the absence of the cats, Grandpa and her Brother. After several rings, Ariel got through to a person, but it wasn't her Mom.
"Uh, hi, is Dawn Metzo there?" Ariel asked awkwardly.
"No she isn't, may I ask who's calling?" said the lady on the phone.
"Er, this is her daughter, Ariel. Do you know where my Mom is?"
"Well, according to this note, she left an hour ago."
An hour? A whole frickin' hour? If that was the case, Ariel's Mom should've been home by now!
As the above 'comment' went through Ariel's head, she thanked the lady on the other end of the phone and hung up.
Ariel ran upstairs to her room, and looked into the Terrarium that should've held her two lizards, Charlie the Brown Anole, and Skip the Long-Tailed Grass Lizard. But they weren't there. Looking around, Ariel spotted a small cardboard box on her bed. Conveniently taped shut.
"Jesus, whoever taped this must've used three rolls!" Ariel exclaimed as she went over to her desk and rummaged around the piles of crap known as her random doodles for some scissors. But she didn't notice her Bracelet glowing until…
"Damn, this doesn't look good!" a startled Ariel jumped as she turned around, brandishing a pair of Safety Scissors as a weapon. What she didn't expect, was seeing the back of, well, herself. As the figure turned around Ariel almost fell over in shock. It was an exact copy of herself! Well, except for the fact that this Ariel was taller. And the hair was a bit wilder, as well as the blazing green eyes, but other than that! She was facing herself!
"Don't just stand there looking like an idiot! Are you going to give me those scissor or what?" the other her said. Ariel shakily handed the scissors over to, well, herself. The other her took them, and after finding that they could cut through the thick layer of tape, she started stabbing the box, until managing to get leverage so that she was able cut a small hole in the side(oh blah, blah, blah! Enough explaining, just cut to the point!).
"Uh…" Ariel began as she watched the exact copy of herself work.
//Don't just stand there, get your Duel Monsters deck!//
/What?! There's another me here and you're telling me to go get a deck of cards?/ Ariel mentally asked herself.
//You idiot! That's me!//
Ariel almost fell over from the shock of being told by a voice in her head that said voice had taken physical form.
/You? That…that me? Are you sure?/
"Yes." Said the other Ariel as she pulled the contents of the box out. "Remember? I'm the one who tells you to give people the finger?"
The original Ariel visably relaxed.
"Oh it is you."
"Yeap"
"I just thought-"
"Yeah, I know what you thought. I live in your friggin' head for cryin' out loud! Well, actually, I live in the Bracelet-"
"Bracelet? But it's only a bit of jewellery my Grandpa got from Egypt (1.) for my birthday!"
"Look, it's a long story, I'll explain later. Now get your freakin' deck!"
With a quick 'right', Ariel ran out of her room, and over to the living room, where she kept her Duel Monsters Deck. After picking it up, she went to run around back to her room, but as she passed her brother's room, she saw something. It was her brother's Duel Monsters Deck.
'Well, my brother always gets the good crap. He won't mind if I borrow some cards…' Ariel thought as she went through the cards her brother had. One especially caught her eye-Prism Cat. It gained 500 Attack/Defense points for every light monster on the field. As she put the cards into her own deck, and filed a mental note to return Logan's cards, she didn't notice the other card that had clung to Prism Cat…
~~*Endith the Flashback*~~
/Well, thank you for bringing on that unnecessarily long piece of shit known as a flashback!/
//I already said sorry!//
/No you didn't!/
//Uh….well….Its your turn?//
Ariel Mentally rolled her eyes at her other half as she played Prism Cat facedown in defense mode 800/1000 and waited for Yugi to make his move…
Eheh. Sorry for the crappy ending, but I've been working on this chapter for a long time. And *gaspith* the dreaded writer's block has struck! I'm open to ideas, and remember, no flames. Please?
Oh, and before I forget:
(1.):I'm putting my comments like this. Anyways, this isn't an intended bought of Cheesy-ness, my Grandpa has really been to Egypt. But sadly, he didn't bring any magical artefacts home…
Eheh. Anyways…tell me what you think!