AN: You might not get this if you're not into cheesy 80s films, but this
one's for those of you that are :)
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"Intellectual Property"
a YuGiOh Xover Short
by The Mad Fangirl
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In a particularly dark patch of the island's forest, an owl hooted. Yugi and his friends crowded in close together, when a rustling behind them made them all jump and turn again. There stood a man with long white hair, in dark, flowing clothing, edged in ruffles.
"Pegasus!"
The man just sighed. "No, not Pegasus."
And in fact, he wasn't. His face was thinner, his hair touched with yellow, and his eyes, both intact, were chased with…eye shadow?
"But, you work for him, right?" asked Joey, still hostile.
"Not in the slightest." A shaft of moonlight moved to illuminate the man as he fidgeted with something in his left hand. "In fact, I came to offer you my aid against him, if I can help in any fashion."
"But…who are you?" asked Yugi?
"Just another in the line of poor fools tricked by the man. I suppose I got off easy. All he did was enter my realm, learn all he could from me, and leave without any sort of payment. That, I could have countenanced. But now he's stealing my act!"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean this whole abducting-your-relatives-to-a-mystical-realm-and-forcing- you-to-run-a-gauntlet-to-retrieve-them bit. I invented that! And if that weren't enough he's counterfeited my fashion sense!" The strange gaunt man's voice was melodious even in his outrage.
"He defeated me. By my own rules, I can't touch him. How was I to know that eye of his would show him the way? But you challenge him, so perhaps I can support you, some." Whatever he was playing with began to rise into the air, shining softly.
"Do you have a Millenium Item?" asked Ryou Bakura.
"No, more's the pity. I do like trinkets, I'm a fair hand at games, and my own realm's more shadowy than most." He fixed Bakura with his eyes. "You'd do well there, I think. Both of you. I've a soft spot for thieves, so long as they never, never steal from me."
"Well, I don't know if we ought to take your help. You don't seem like such a good guy yourself," Tristan said. "Who are you, anyway?"
"Oh, that's right. We haven't been introduced." The man tossed a second crystal sphere into the air, then a third, and let them all rotate above his outstretched palm, refracting the moonlight. "Jareth the Goblin King, Lord of the Labyrinth, at your service." The spheres continued to spin as he sketched a bow.
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End
TMF
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"Intellectual Property"
a YuGiOh Xover Short
by The Mad Fangirl
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In a particularly dark patch of the island's forest, an owl hooted. Yugi and his friends crowded in close together, when a rustling behind them made them all jump and turn again. There stood a man with long white hair, in dark, flowing clothing, edged in ruffles.
"Pegasus!"
The man just sighed. "No, not Pegasus."
And in fact, he wasn't. His face was thinner, his hair touched with yellow, and his eyes, both intact, were chased with…eye shadow?
"But, you work for him, right?" asked Joey, still hostile.
"Not in the slightest." A shaft of moonlight moved to illuminate the man as he fidgeted with something in his left hand. "In fact, I came to offer you my aid against him, if I can help in any fashion."
"But…who are you?" asked Yugi?
"Just another in the line of poor fools tricked by the man. I suppose I got off easy. All he did was enter my realm, learn all he could from me, and leave without any sort of payment. That, I could have countenanced. But now he's stealing my act!"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean this whole abducting-your-relatives-to-a-mystical-realm-and-forcing- you-to-run-a-gauntlet-to-retrieve-them bit. I invented that! And if that weren't enough he's counterfeited my fashion sense!" The strange gaunt man's voice was melodious even in his outrage.
"He defeated me. By my own rules, I can't touch him. How was I to know that eye of his would show him the way? But you challenge him, so perhaps I can support you, some." Whatever he was playing with began to rise into the air, shining softly.
"Do you have a Millenium Item?" asked Ryou Bakura.
"No, more's the pity. I do like trinkets, I'm a fair hand at games, and my own realm's more shadowy than most." He fixed Bakura with his eyes. "You'd do well there, I think. Both of you. I've a soft spot for thieves, so long as they never, never steal from me."
"Well, I don't know if we ought to take your help. You don't seem like such a good guy yourself," Tristan said. "Who are you, anyway?"
"Oh, that's right. We haven't been introduced." The man tossed a second crystal sphere into the air, then a third, and let them all rotate above his outstretched palm, refracting the moonlight. "Jareth the Goblin King, Lord of the Labyrinth, at your service." The spheres continued to spin as he sketched a bow.
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End
TMF