Card Mishap
By Draco Starbo
A/N: Ooo, third chapter! Third chapter! Yay! I'm a roll here! Even though I'm suppose to be working on a Shanara fic, a Harry Potter fic, and any other fics I don't have finished yet. Well, shhhh, don't tell my logic this or else I'm in trouble! *dissolves into a fit of laughter* I also just woke up four hours ago and have only had candy so far today, so . . . Oh, just read the fic!
CHAPTER THREE: BAFFLING
"Hey, I think Yugi's coming around, guys!" Téa waved everyone over to Yugi, whose eyes fluttered and he moaned a little.
"Give him some breathin' room!" The girl commanded in her fast-paced accent that slurred some of the words together into new ones. She was a strange girl with red, bushy hair to her lower back, midnight blue eyes, and a light tan and freckles. Her clothes were black jeans, and a faded mint- green T-shirt. Well, it wasn't her physical looks that made her seem strange; it was her attitude. She didn't give her name, but that was understandable - they did land in her house without any explanation of how they got there. She really didn't like that fact and seemed ready to throw them out in a heartbeat. Yet, there she was, holding an ice pack to Yugi's head for the last half an hour. . . .
Yugi opened his eyes weakly and tried to focus. Whatever hit him, that black energy, hit him like a rock! His head throbbed, but there was a cool comfort braking into it, dulling the pain. He tried to sit up, and found that difficult to do, but was then prompt by a hand on his back.
"'Ere, drink some water," an unfamiliar voice said.
A glass of water came to his lips and he sipped on it a little bit before it was taken away. His vision became clearer and he saw his friends crowding around with anxious looks and an unfamiliar girl. "Is everyone alright?"
"Yeah!" Téa smiled warm heatedly. "We were all worried about you, Yugi! You out longer than any of us!"
"I was?" Yugi asked. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to worry any of you. Um, who are you?" He asked the girl.
A cold, distance look crossed her face. "I should be askin' you that, seein' how you're in *my* livin' room."
". . . I'm Yugi," Yugi looked baffled. "Where are we?"
"Well, all I can tell," Joey cut in, "is that we're in some girl's house and that's it!"
"Your friends," the girl sighed deeply, "claim that they have no idea how they got here. Is that true?"
"Yes," Yugi was still very baffled. "I don't even know where we are."
An angry glow swept across the girl's face, but it was gone as soon as it came. She got up and walked away, taking a couple of deep breaths. "Okay, so you mean to tell me," she started slowly with her back turned to the group, "that you somehow appear in my living room and have no idea how?"
"Look, Lady," Joey said annoyed, "if we did, we'd tell ya!"
"Yeah, there's no need to get mad. We find this very strange, too," Tristan added.
Spinning around, she snapped, "Yeah, well . . . this is *my* house, so I have home team avenge!"
An awkward hush fell upon the room, so thick you walk on it like another rug. Yugi sitting on a love seat, Téa sitting near his feet, Joey and Tristan just behind her, and the weird girl fuming beside a table just a few yards away from the group. It was very awkward.
Joey leaned a little over to Tristan and whispered loudly, " . . . This girl's crazy!"
"I'm not the one poppin' up in stranger's homes!" the girl glared. "I should kick all of you out right here and now!"
"Please, calm down, everyone!" Yugi got off the couch and walked over to the girl, even when the headache came back to life with a brand new plus. "I'm very sorry we scared you; we don't mean any harm. Can you please forgive us?"
//No. I'm too freaked out to even comprehend you request!// But her face soften and her shoulders lost a little bit of their tension a little at the honesty and innocence. "All right. I'm sorry for gettin' so pissy, but I'm freaked out, that's all. I mean, he - Joey -" she nodded to him, "just pops up in front of me."
"I can relate," Tristan smirked. "You're always freaked out when Joey's around."
"Hey!" Joey looked ready to pound his friend, but was interrupted by the girl giggling. "Oh, sure, *every*one thinks I'm hilarious!"
"Sorry, I couldn't help," she calmed down. "I'm Riverting, by the way. Where are you guys from?"
"We're from Japan," Téa answered.
//This is a *very* baffling day!// "Um, I'm sorry, Japan?" Riverting scratched her head, thinking. "Where's that?"
Baffled looks all around for everyone! How can no one know where Japan is?! It's not the biggest place in the world, but it sure is a major power, so people should at least have some kind of idea where it is.
"What, is your brain fried or somethin'?" Joey asked. "Japan, the island by China, in the Pacific Ocean!" When Riverting just looked even more baffled, Joey nearly fell over, "Jeez! You failed Geography, didn't you?"
"No, Idiot!" she snapped back. "I've never heard of any of those places in my life! If anything, YOU are the one who failed!"
"WHAT?!"
"Let's not get into a fight here!" Téa stood up to block Joey's few of Riverting. "Maybe we can start backwards with this. Where are we right now, Riverting?"
"Banta, Orson," she shrugged like everyone should know this little fact, "just the Capital of the World."
"The Capital of the World?!" Tristan repeated.
"Well, there's no actual document saying so, but sense all the World Leaders and governments come here to chat about things in a non-violent manor - which, for some reason they can't seem to do anywhere else - and basically very race of the human race has at least one of their people livin' here, makin' a life, and expressin' their cultures, it was deemed the Capital of the World." She paused as if something just occurred to her. "Man, either you're all crazy or not from this world. I mean, every school kid know about the Capital of the World."
"That would make sense," Yugi looked down in thought. "If you don't know about Japan and we don't know about Banta, Orson. . . ." He looked up, "Do you know about Dueling?"
"Um, as in dueling with swords?" she offered.
"Yep, that confirms is!" Joey threw up his hands. "We're on ANOTHER world!"
"That," Tristan mumbled, "or you're going insane again."
"You don't think that could be it, do you!?" he seriously looked afraid.
Téa do nothing but sweat-drop and say, "Don't tease him like that, Tristan."
" . . . It was a joke?" Joey looked uncertain, but his comment was ignored.
"But, how would we be on another world?" Tristan asked.
"Maybe it had something to do with that Dark Ring," Yugi offered.
Riverting looked from one face to the next. "Uh-"
Rrrrriiiiiiiiiiing!
"Hang on, you're going to have tell me about that Dark Ring in a sec," she waved them silent and went to pick up the phone. "Hello? . . . . Oh, hey, Loki! . . . . Yeah, being bored out of mind, as usual. You? . . . . Oh, I see. . . . So, what time do you expect to be home? . . . . Ah-ha! And you realize you were suppose to be home by five to make dinner? . . . . That'll be three times in a row now! . . . Fine-alright, alright! But I get half of your allowance! . . . . Yeah, but I also cleaned the bathroom, watered the garden, AND raked the leaves - all of those are *your* chores! If anything, I should get ALL of your allowance! . . . Yeah, well, it's your choice to be spending so much time with him. . . .I still get half. . . Well, fine, when Mom gets home tonight, I'll explain to her- . . . . Knew you would see it my way. See ya tomorrow." And she hung up, mumbling something underneath her breath a curse.
"Who's Loki?" Tristan asked. The others had enough sense to stay quiet through the phone call, not wanting to get Riverting in trouble.
"Loki's my sister. Her real name is Nicole," Riverting sighed and sat on top of the table, swinging her legs. "Ever sense she got that boyfriend of hers, Josh, she's been more like an elusive myth, with a few crack-pots getting a blurry picture of her." And like a switch being flipped, she went from pissed to pleasance. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go on like that. Please, tell me about this Dark Ring."
"Who cares about the Dark Ring?" Téa questioned. "Shouldn't we be trying to figure out a way home instead of talking about some unknown card?"
"Maybe it'll help," Riverting shrugged. "I'm going out on a limb here, but I think the Dark Ring is something that you guys have no idea what it is and it somehow is linked to why you're here."
Yugi nodded. "At least, we think so. When I was dueling Barker, he used this card called Dark Ring, and after I freed the Dark Magician, it exploded-"
"Whoa, whoa, back up! Dueling, Barker, and the Dark Magician, would you mind explaining those?"
"This could to take a while!" Téa sighed.
Riverting shrugged, "Then start explaining."
~*~*~*~*~
" . . .And the next thing I know, we're here," Yugi finished.
"Oh, I see," Riverting was looking over the deck of Yugi that was spread over the table. She was now sitting at one of the six chairs. "This looks like a fun game."
"It's more than just a game," Tristan told after swallowing the last of his sandwich. After fifteen minutes of talking, Joey's stomach had rumbled, and sense everyone was feeling hungry, Riverting let them make their lunches. Tristan, like the others, had tastefully had a sandwich and some chips, but Joey-
"What do you mean, it's more than a game?" Riverting's attention fully on him.
"Well, people make their whole lives from Dueling." Tristan explained. "And you can win any game if you know how to play, but with Dueling, you have to trust the Heart of the Cards."
"Wow," she whispered. "So, you're all from another world where Dueling is like a culture and you all travel around, meet knew people, dueling and being with your friends. . . .That sounds so cool! Much better than my life, anyway."
"Why? What's wrong with it?" Joey asked before swallowing and got a few pieces of already-chewed food on the table, to which he quickly swiped up into his mouth. Joey had two sandwiches and some left-over noodles, dismissing their looks with, "Hey, I'm a growing boy; I have to eat!"
"Well, it's just boring, that's all," she sighed, "But my life isn't important right now. Yours is. How the heck are we going to get you back to your world?"
"What happened to kicking us out?" he couldn't help but ask.
"I was just being careful. Oh man, this is a very strange day." She leaned back in her chair, lifting the two front legs off the ground and seemed to be speaking mostly to herself, "Okay, first off, I need to tell my mom about you guys. If she comes home and finds strangers in her house, she'll through the biggest hissie fit you've ever seen. Secondly, I need to make dinner, sense my elusive sister won't take on the responsibility. And lastly, I guess I or someone can look up about dark engirds, maybe find something worth while."
"We can all do that," Téa suggested. "We can split up go onto the Internet and the library."
"Um, we've got the net," Riverting piped up. "We don't have a 'library', though."
"A library is a public place where you can go get information from books," Yugi offered.
"Oh, oh! Yeah, we've got those, but they're called Information Stations. One's just down the road. Hey, somethin' just occurred to me! Have you guys ever heard of alternative universe?"
Joey, finally finished with his sandwiches and moving onto his noodles, asked, "You mean the basis for just about every sci-fi movie?"
Riverting laughed, "Yeah, that, and the real theories made about alternative universe. It seems like you guys are from an alternative universe, so maybe researching that could help us figure out how to get you guys home."
"Joey and I will check out the Information Station," Tristan volunteered, standing up.
"And Yugi and I can look on the net," Téa added, she and Yugi standing up.
"Great! I'll my mom . . . and think of something to say," Riverting shrugged.
"Come on, Joey," Tristan waved his hand.
Joey looked up all confused. "Huh?" Noodles hung out of his mouth. Tristan, disgusted and annoyed, reached around the other side of the table and dragged Joey up and out of the house with Joey whining, "But-but my noodles!"
~ End of Baffling ~
A/N: Well, another chapter is done . . . PLEASE HELP ME!!!!! I'm dragging on ideas here! If you have any idea, any at all, please let me know!!! Oh, and what did you think of this chapter? Yeah, it's just an informational chapter, but at least it was a little faster paced, right? Right? Well, come on, I'm not a mind reader (as much as I wish I was) and I won't know unless you tell me! Please review!!
A/N: Ooo, third chapter! Third chapter! Yay! I'm a roll here! Even though I'm suppose to be working on a Shanara fic, a Harry Potter fic, and any other fics I don't have finished yet. Well, shhhh, don't tell my logic this or else I'm in trouble! *dissolves into a fit of laughter* I also just woke up four hours ago and have only had candy so far today, so . . . Oh, just read the fic!
CHAPTER THREE: BAFFLING
"Hey, I think Yugi's coming around, guys!" Téa waved everyone over to Yugi, whose eyes fluttered and he moaned a little.
"Give him some breathin' room!" The girl commanded in her fast-paced accent that slurred some of the words together into new ones. She was a strange girl with red, bushy hair to her lower back, midnight blue eyes, and a light tan and freckles. Her clothes were black jeans, and a faded mint- green T-shirt. Well, it wasn't her physical looks that made her seem strange; it was her attitude. She didn't give her name, but that was understandable - they did land in her house without any explanation of how they got there. She really didn't like that fact and seemed ready to throw them out in a heartbeat. Yet, there she was, holding an ice pack to Yugi's head for the last half an hour. . . .
Yugi opened his eyes weakly and tried to focus. Whatever hit him, that black energy, hit him like a rock! His head throbbed, but there was a cool comfort braking into it, dulling the pain. He tried to sit up, and found that difficult to do, but was then prompt by a hand on his back.
"'Ere, drink some water," an unfamiliar voice said.
A glass of water came to his lips and he sipped on it a little bit before it was taken away. His vision became clearer and he saw his friends crowding around with anxious looks and an unfamiliar girl. "Is everyone alright?"
"Yeah!" Téa smiled warm heatedly. "We were all worried about you, Yugi! You out longer than any of us!"
"I was?" Yugi asked. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to worry any of you. Um, who are you?" He asked the girl.
A cold, distance look crossed her face. "I should be askin' you that, seein' how you're in *my* livin' room."
". . . I'm Yugi," Yugi looked baffled. "Where are we?"
"Well, all I can tell," Joey cut in, "is that we're in some girl's house and that's it!"
"Your friends," the girl sighed deeply, "claim that they have no idea how they got here. Is that true?"
"Yes," Yugi was still very baffled. "I don't even know where we are."
An angry glow swept across the girl's face, but it was gone as soon as it came. She got up and walked away, taking a couple of deep breaths. "Okay, so you mean to tell me," she started slowly with her back turned to the group, "that you somehow appear in my living room and have no idea how?"
"Look, Lady," Joey said annoyed, "if we did, we'd tell ya!"
"Yeah, there's no need to get mad. We find this very strange, too," Tristan added.
Spinning around, she snapped, "Yeah, well . . . this is *my* house, so I have home team avenge!"
An awkward hush fell upon the room, so thick you walk on it like another rug. Yugi sitting on a love seat, Téa sitting near his feet, Joey and Tristan just behind her, and the weird girl fuming beside a table just a few yards away from the group. It was very awkward.
Joey leaned a little over to Tristan and whispered loudly, " . . . This girl's crazy!"
"I'm not the one poppin' up in stranger's homes!" the girl glared. "I should kick all of you out right here and now!"
"Please, calm down, everyone!" Yugi got off the couch and walked over to the girl, even when the headache came back to life with a brand new plus. "I'm very sorry we scared you; we don't mean any harm. Can you please forgive us?"
//No. I'm too freaked out to even comprehend you request!// But her face soften and her shoulders lost a little bit of their tension a little at the honesty and innocence. "All right. I'm sorry for gettin' so pissy, but I'm freaked out, that's all. I mean, he - Joey -" she nodded to him, "just pops up in front of me."
"I can relate," Tristan smirked. "You're always freaked out when Joey's around."
"Hey!" Joey looked ready to pound his friend, but was interrupted by the girl giggling. "Oh, sure, *every*one thinks I'm hilarious!"
"Sorry, I couldn't help," she calmed down. "I'm Riverting, by the way. Where are you guys from?"
"We're from Japan," Téa answered.
//This is a *very* baffling day!// "Um, I'm sorry, Japan?" Riverting scratched her head, thinking. "Where's that?"
Baffled looks all around for everyone! How can no one know where Japan is?! It's not the biggest place in the world, but it sure is a major power, so people should at least have some kind of idea where it is.
"What, is your brain fried or somethin'?" Joey asked. "Japan, the island by China, in the Pacific Ocean!" When Riverting just looked even more baffled, Joey nearly fell over, "Jeez! You failed Geography, didn't you?"
"No, Idiot!" she snapped back. "I've never heard of any of those places in my life! If anything, YOU are the one who failed!"
"WHAT?!"
"Let's not get into a fight here!" Téa stood up to block Joey's few of Riverting. "Maybe we can start backwards with this. Where are we right now, Riverting?"
"Banta, Orson," she shrugged like everyone should know this little fact, "just the Capital of the World."
"The Capital of the World?!" Tristan repeated.
"Well, there's no actual document saying so, but sense all the World Leaders and governments come here to chat about things in a non-violent manor - which, for some reason they can't seem to do anywhere else - and basically very race of the human race has at least one of their people livin' here, makin' a life, and expressin' their cultures, it was deemed the Capital of the World." She paused as if something just occurred to her. "Man, either you're all crazy or not from this world. I mean, every school kid know about the Capital of the World."
"That would make sense," Yugi looked down in thought. "If you don't know about Japan and we don't know about Banta, Orson. . . ." He looked up, "Do you know about Dueling?"
"Um, as in dueling with swords?" she offered.
"Yep, that confirms is!" Joey threw up his hands. "We're on ANOTHER world!"
"That," Tristan mumbled, "or you're going insane again."
"You don't think that could be it, do you!?" he seriously looked afraid.
Téa do nothing but sweat-drop and say, "Don't tease him like that, Tristan."
" . . . It was a joke?" Joey looked uncertain, but his comment was ignored.
"But, how would we be on another world?" Tristan asked.
"Maybe it had something to do with that Dark Ring," Yugi offered.
Riverting looked from one face to the next. "Uh-"
Rrrrriiiiiiiiiiing!
"Hang on, you're going to have tell me about that Dark Ring in a sec," she waved them silent and went to pick up the phone. "Hello? . . . . Oh, hey, Loki! . . . . Yeah, being bored out of mind, as usual. You? . . . . Oh, I see. . . . So, what time do you expect to be home? . . . . Ah-ha! And you realize you were suppose to be home by five to make dinner? . . . . That'll be three times in a row now! . . . Fine-alright, alright! But I get half of your allowance! . . . . Yeah, but I also cleaned the bathroom, watered the garden, AND raked the leaves - all of those are *your* chores! If anything, I should get ALL of your allowance! . . . Yeah, well, it's your choice to be spending so much time with him. . . .I still get half. . . Well, fine, when Mom gets home tonight, I'll explain to her- . . . . Knew you would see it my way. See ya tomorrow." And she hung up, mumbling something underneath her breath a curse.
"Who's Loki?" Tristan asked. The others had enough sense to stay quiet through the phone call, not wanting to get Riverting in trouble.
"Loki's my sister. Her real name is Nicole," Riverting sighed and sat on top of the table, swinging her legs. "Ever sense she got that boyfriend of hers, Josh, she's been more like an elusive myth, with a few crack-pots getting a blurry picture of her." And like a switch being flipped, she went from pissed to pleasance. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go on like that. Please, tell me about this Dark Ring."
"Who cares about the Dark Ring?" Téa questioned. "Shouldn't we be trying to figure out a way home instead of talking about some unknown card?"
"Maybe it'll help," Riverting shrugged. "I'm going out on a limb here, but I think the Dark Ring is something that you guys have no idea what it is and it somehow is linked to why you're here."
Yugi nodded. "At least, we think so. When I was dueling Barker, he used this card called Dark Ring, and after I freed the Dark Magician, it exploded-"
"Whoa, whoa, back up! Dueling, Barker, and the Dark Magician, would you mind explaining those?"
"This could to take a while!" Téa sighed.
Riverting shrugged, "Then start explaining."
~*~*~*~*~
" . . .And the next thing I know, we're here," Yugi finished.
"Oh, I see," Riverting was looking over the deck of Yugi that was spread over the table. She was now sitting at one of the six chairs. "This looks like a fun game."
"It's more than just a game," Tristan told after swallowing the last of his sandwich. After fifteen minutes of talking, Joey's stomach had rumbled, and sense everyone was feeling hungry, Riverting let them make their lunches. Tristan, like the others, had tastefully had a sandwich and some chips, but Joey-
"What do you mean, it's more than a game?" Riverting's attention fully on him.
"Well, people make their whole lives from Dueling." Tristan explained. "And you can win any game if you know how to play, but with Dueling, you have to trust the Heart of the Cards."
"Wow," she whispered. "So, you're all from another world where Dueling is like a culture and you all travel around, meet knew people, dueling and being with your friends. . . .That sounds so cool! Much better than my life, anyway."
"Why? What's wrong with it?" Joey asked before swallowing and got a few pieces of already-chewed food on the table, to which he quickly swiped up into his mouth. Joey had two sandwiches and some left-over noodles, dismissing their looks with, "Hey, I'm a growing boy; I have to eat!"
"Well, it's just boring, that's all," she sighed, "But my life isn't important right now. Yours is. How the heck are we going to get you back to your world?"
"What happened to kicking us out?" he couldn't help but ask.
"I was just being careful. Oh man, this is a very strange day." She leaned back in her chair, lifting the two front legs off the ground and seemed to be speaking mostly to herself, "Okay, first off, I need to tell my mom about you guys. If she comes home and finds strangers in her house, she'll through the biggest hissie fit you've ever seen. Secondly, I need to make dinner, sense my elusive sister won't take on the responsibility. And lastly, I guess I or someone can look up about dark engirds, maybe find something worth while."
"We can all do that," Téa suggested. "We can split up go onto the Internet and the library."
"Um, we've got the net," Riverting piped up. "We don't have a 'library', though."
"A library is a public place where you can go get information from books," Yugi offered.
"Oh, oh! Yeah, we've got those, but they're called Information Stations. One's just down the road. Hey, somethin' just occurred to me! Have you guys ever heard of alternative universe?"
Joey, finally finished with his sandwiches and moving onto his noodles, asked, "You mean the basis for just about every sci-fi movie?"
Riverting laughed, "Yeah, that, and the real theories made about alternative universe. It seems like you guys are from an alternative universe, so maybe researching that could help us figure out how to get you guys home."
"Joey and I will check out the Information Station," Tristan volunteered, standing up.
"And Yugi and I can look on the net," Téa added, she and Yugi standing up.
"Great! I'll my mom . . . and think of something to say," Riverting shrugged.
"Come on, Joey," Tristan waved his hand.
Joey looked up all confused. "Huh?" Noodles hung out of his mouth. Tristan, disgusted and annoyed, reached around the other side of the table and dragged Joey up and out of the house with Joey whining, "But-but my noodles!"
~ End of Baffling ~
A/N: Well, another chapter is done . . . PLEASE HELP ME!!!!! I'm dragging on ideas here! If you have any idea, any at all, please let me know!!! Oh, and what did you think of this chapter? Yeah, it's just an informational chapter, but at least it was a little faster paced, right? Right? Well, come on, I'm not a mind reader (as much as I wish I was) and I won't know unless you tell me! Please review!!