Ryou: Why haven't you updated in so long 'SJ?
WSJ: *grins widely* Well, for one thing, writers' block. For the second, I got the Lord of the Rings speciel edition DVD a couple nights ago, and I stayed up half the night watching it. ^__^ I love LotR! I'm dying for Two Towers to come out!!!! *wiggles in her seat* The Riders of Rohan, Eowyn, Faramir, not to mention Gollum and Shelob!! *shivers in excitment*
Bakura: *gives her a side-ways look* Right... We don't own YGO.
WSJ:...But at the moment I have Yami-Malik-kun locked in my closet for my own amusement! ^_^ *a crash is heard from off-set* Uh...
Ryou: *sweatdrops* Not anymore... *furvent swearing in Egyptian is heard* Better run onee-chan!
WSJ: *nods* Great idea! *runs*
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PCHANGE
Chapter 3 -- White Reflection and Dub-bashing
"I pick..."
Everyone tenced for Joey's choice, hoping it wouldn't be them. Seto looked especially nervous, and rightly so.
"I pick... Mai!" Joey said, grinning at her. Seto let out a long sigh of relief and slumped back in the arm-chair. Mai, however, was not so enthusiastic.
"JOEY!!!!!!!!" Quickly Isis and Tea, who were sitting nearest Mai, grabbed her arms to keep her from leaping enraged on Joey Wheeler. "Omae wo korosu!"
Rosie and WSJ grinned, and WSJ broke into spontaneous song. "I feel your love reflection, The truth of our acceptance of each other! Kiss me --- and there's nothing else that I'll need!" (And she sang rather badly, at that)
The rest of the cast clamped their hands over their ears, and Yami sent a glare at the blond authoress, a peice of holly still hanging out of his mouth. "What in the name of Brood Mayran are you singing?!?"
"White Reflection!" WSJ said, grinning.
"O-kaaaay..." Yugi said slowly. "And just why are you singing White Reflection?"
WSJ paused for an instant, and then belted out the next bit of chorus before answering him. "I feel your love reflection, Believe in the passion that will not give up! Our piercing through the eternal battle, Never ending story… Well, ya' see Yugi-chan, Mai just used Heero Yuy's catch-phrase." she shrugged, now a little unsure of herself. "I love White Reflection, which is, after all, a Gundam Wing song, and that just reminded me of it."
"You're lucky she wasn't singing May It Be..." Rosie muttered.
"What?" Mokuba asked. "Why?"
"Because I just got the special edition DVD! I've been watching it non-stop!" WSJ squealed.
Bakura frowned slightly, pointing up at the introduction. "Yes, so you said..."
"Anyway," Hotaru interrupted, "Let's put Mai's video in."
"Yes, let's," Rosie said, pulling it out of her bag. "And it's got a title too. Where Mai Was During DDM."
"DDM?" asked Bakura and Ryou in unison.
"Dungeon Dice Monsters," Yugi supplied, taking a side-ways look at Mai. "This should be good. I always wondered where you were during all that."
Mai suddenly realised what it was the tape contained, and her eyes widened. "No! There's no way anyone could have taped that!"
"Yes there is," Rosie said, holding up a palm-sized digital video camera. "When I came here I had just finished up travelling through time and space, taping everyone's most embarrassing moments." She grinned, winked, and blew a kiss at the yamis, who, until now, had thought they were safe. All five of them paled noticably.
"Oh by Ra, no..."
And it doesn't really matter who said that.
WSJ looked at her best friend curiosly. "You travelled through Time? Wouldn't Susan be ticked?"
Rosie's face flushed red and she whacked the other authoress on the back of the head. "You idiot! I said I travelled through time, not Time! Get your mind out of the gutter!"
WSJ pouted. "Aibou, you're no fun..."
(WSJ's Note: Susan Sto Helit and Time, aka Lobsang Ludd belong to the almighty Terry Pratchett. I just wanted to use them. *giggles* If you go read chapter 2 of ASN, Lobsang shows up there too. I dunno why I'm so obsessed with them tonight...)
Suddenly Mai let out a blood-curtling scream and tried to lunge at the TV to throw it out a window as the picture snapped into focus. This time it took the combined efforts of Isis, Yami-WSJ, and Yami-Li to hold her down. Tea ended up getting kicked in the jaw with Mai's high-heels and fell over, completely knocked out.
There would have been a celebration, but at the moment everyone was too busy staring at the TV screen and trying to hold in their lunch, many of them looking blue across the nose.
On the video Mai was dressed in a skimpy cheerleader's outfit, with a pom-pom in each hand. She was in her livingroom, jumping up and down and waving the pom-poms. The TV in front of her was on, and showed the DDM duel between Yami and *shudders slightly* Duke. She was also screaming at the top of her lungs, along with the three cheerleaders on the screen.
"Duke, Duke, he's my man! If he can't do it, no one can!"
Back in WSJ's livingroom, Yami looked hurt. "You weren't rooting for me?"
To her credit, Mai had the courtesy to look embarrassed. "Well... You... I mean... Er..." Finally she burst out, "You beat me in the Duelist Kingdom semi-finals! Me!"
Yami cringed. "Still sore about that? Look, it's not my fault I'm King of Games...!" He looked around frantically for anything to distract Mai, but found something to distract himself instead. "Hey look! Pine cones!"
"No Yami!" Yugi yelled as his other ran for the basket of pine cones on the coffee table. "You're not supposed to eat those either!"
"Eh, let 'im," Tristan said, shrugging. "The holly didn't kill 'im, so chances are pine cones won't either."
"And besides..." Mai continued like she hadn't been interrupted. "Duke's really, well..." she shrugged. "Hot."
"Yeah..." Isis sighed.
"Hell yeah!" Yami-WSJ pitched in.
"Isis?!?" Malik and Yami-Malik sputtered, oogling at the older girl.
"Anjil!?!?!?!" Bakura looked hurt. (WSJ: Anjil is my yami's name. I just usually call her Yami-WSJ to make it easier)
"Mai!!!" Joey looked absolutly murderous. "Let me at that Devlin guy! I'll skin 'im! I'll tear 'im apart!"
The five authoresses looked mildly disgusted. "I'd love to let you do that Joey, but I don't think the Duke-fans would like that very much..." Li sighed.
Katya blinked and turned to her friend. "There are Duke-fans?"
"Weeeell..." Li paused. "Otogi-fans, yeah. Duke-fans? I dunno, probably not."
The five of them sweatdropped slightly and said in unison, "Stupid dubbers..."
WSJ shuddered. "Terrance..."
They shivered, and Malik gagged. "How awful!"
"Who in their right mind would name their kid Terrance? And an Egyptian kid, no less! That is so messed up..." WSJ said.
Rosie shuddered and agreed. "Okay Mai, whose video's next?"
Mai shot a look at a certain CEO, who was trying to hide a grin at her earlier discomfort. "Seto Kaiba."
Kaiba started and looked like he'd choked on his tongue. This was quickly followed by a glare in Mai's direction. "You-"
"We know," Pegasus and Yugi interrupted in tandem. "You monster..."
Kaiba blinked. "Er... Yeah,"
WSJ grinned at him and fished around in Rosie's bag, easily pulling out the tape she sought. She stuck it into the VCR and pressed the play button. Everyone settled back into their seats. Well, Kaiba was forced to, since he suddenly had both Rosie and Mokuba warring for space on his lap.
The screen came on, and the entire group burst out laughing. Seto looked about six or seven, and was modelling a green Halloween costume for whoever held the camera. The person, everyone assumed it was Gozenboru (is that how you spell his name...?), laughed and said "Okay Seto, turn around now, show me the back," To the surprise of all, it was a woman's voice.
Kaiba blushed and ducked his head a little. "That was right before mom died... If she hadn't been so sick I wouldn't have worn that stupid thing. But he was her favorite, so..."
Joey snorted back a laugh. "That's real noble of ya' and all, Kaiba, really. But, come on! Kermit the Frog?!"
Kaiba's face reddened further, this time in anger, and he looked like he was ready to pounce on the unsuspecting blond duelist. "Look inu, it wasn't my choice!" Suddenly he seemed to remember something, and his face brightened up. "Keep it rolling 'SJ!"
She did, and within seconds the cast was on the floor in laughter again. Mokuba, only about three, had just waddled into the line of the camera, dressed up in a rediculously large Miss Piggy costume.
"Awwww!" Feline said, running over to give the blushing boy a hug. "It's okay Moku-chan!"
"Hey," Mokuba said suddenly, attempting to break out of her grip. "Do you hear a rumbling sound?"
Indeed, now that everyone stopped to listen, they could. It got closer until something crashed through the roof and landed smack on Malik's lap. It coughed slightly, and then looked up, reveiling the face of a girl about WSJ's age.
"Oh, hullo."
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WSJ: *high-fives ShadowWolf* Welcome to the party Wolfie! We're gonna have an awesome time! *giggles*
Chapter 4: Videos abandonned for now, the group turns to pleasenter things. Bakura, Yami-WSJ, and Yami-SW get into a heated argument about Ancient Egypt and babies, which turns into an all-out *w*itch fight between Yami-WSJ and Yami-Wolf. Meanwhile, Yami-Malik, Hotaru, and Katya deside to sacrifice Tea and Pegasus to call forth the Black Luster Soldier! But instead they get... Chibi-Malik!?
God bless minna-san!