YuGiOh/GW, Yaoi JkxSk, MixJk, 2x1, 4x3. BattleCity, Marik's out to get Jou but not just to get to Yami's powers. He likes him. In a nasty kinda way. GW cast entered BC Duels, Bakura's after Mokuba's body & Mil Items. My 1st YGO fic, R+R please!
Disclaimers: I Don't own Yugioh or GW. I Do own this story.
Every card used but not shown in the series is in my own deck.
If you know better ones to write in then suggest them. I don't know all of them.
I will not make up new cards, they have to really exist.
Archive: Ask first. DHML is ok, and at my Etherealin_sanity site.
Anyone who archived me before, just ask.
Warnings: AU, Yaoi, some het, Lime later. May contain spoilers.
Pairings/info/summary: 2x1, 4x3, 5+M, MarikxJou, See first chapter's disclaimers.
NOTES: ---I am not going to be following the YGO series plot from this point on,
so anything matching the english plot soon to be aired in America on WB will be purely coincidential.-
-I just wrote out an intricate summary for the 1st half so that much WILL be written.-
----No, TJK, I WON'T kill Anzu. YOU go write a deathfic for her! :P~~! ---
**Thanks to people on MLs who reviewed, it's nice to know someone's reading and maybe likes it. Just makes a day that much brighter.
I am usually against asking for reviews, but even I need some feedback once in a while.
All in the Cards 2/?
- Darkness Descending Like Falling Rain
April 02, 2003
The day of the Tournament.
In the darkened alley...
It was decided that Marik and Bakura had then joined forces. Bakura's knowing smile and steady glare toward Marik told the young Rare Hunter that he had better be careful of the teen leaning against the wall before him. Standing tall and confidently staring down his new teammate, the youth was radiating a magical light. He knew too much, or so it seemed from his intimate knowledge of the seven 'Sennen' Millenial items, their potent abilities, and the dark powers of the Shadow Realm. Of course they would join forces, but only until Marik had acquired what he so desired. He would keep his promise and hand over the Millenial Rod, for if indeed he received the powers of the God cards, the rightful inheritance of the Paraoh, everything that should be HIS, then it's meager magics would be useless to him at such a date. The white haired boy could amuse himself all he wanted with the Sennen Ring and Golden Millennial Eye that he already possessed (though hid the latter well out of view), the Millenial Rod, his own sister's Touk, and even the Millenial Puzzle that 'Little Yugi' seemed to be so fond of, once Marik was through with it; for the magic that this other one would gain could never compare to the strength and power that he himself were about to possess.
Of course with there being seven items all together, not all of them would be so easy to get a hold of. The cunning Rare Hunter's Leader knew this fact because he had tried to hunt them down beforehand. But Marik had never agreed to find or acquire them all for the young man with the gleam in his eyes. He had merely promised enough to gain a temporary ally as, until he received his due power, he was still able to be defeated; although afterwords, Marik assumed he could easily dispose of this force if he would only wish it. The powers of the Gods and Paraoh are immense, beyond comparison.
Yet for now, Marik was only human.
Right at the moment, the blond boy mused, he had more important things to think of. He had been speeding along on his motorcycle not moments before when the white haired teen had called him to stop. After their initial none-too-friendly greeting, and an exchange of mutual plans of strategy, they had came to an agreement; that a truce was in order. They did have a common enemy to start from. Using the Millenial Rod, Marik had seen through his slave's eyes a vision of blue eyes and a cocky grin, had felt the desperation at his very mention of the light haired boy's name to his new nemesis through the body of his unwilling mind slave, whereas when he mentioned the few others' names in the young Hikari's little sideshow, Yugi hadn't even flinched. What a perfect target, and a handsome one at that. With this new determination in mind, he had set his eyes on Jounouchi Katsuya, Little Yugi's best friend. Bakura had even informed him of a method to make that beautiful boy his willing mind slave. Oh, how sweet.
With a grin as he climbed aboard his motorcycle once more, Marik recalled that he always gets what he desires...
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At the Domino Hotel....
The day of the tournament.
Duo hopped out of the shower and began to dry his hair. He had another half an hour to get dressed and make it down for breakfast. Everyone else but Meiran and Wufei had already gotten up and made it down there as well. Heero had left him in the room so he could have a little privacy. He and Heero had been sharing a room, Meiran and Wufei another, and Quare and Trowa got the one down the hall.
There'd been a problem in the middle of the night. Heero and Duo had gone to bed early. Duo was snoring away and Heero was asleep across from him. They heard a noise in the middle of the hallway. They figured it was because the hotel seemed to be unusually full this week. So many duelists had dropped by for the tournament that they were all staying at the same hotel. Some of them were noisier than the others though.
Apparantly there was a girl in the next room over. She had made a bet with a guy and he lost his room to her. He made a ruckus, tried beating the door down. Everyone in the hall had a hissy fit, until the manager arrived. He straightened things out and sent the guy back to his room. The girl got a free room upstairs, as the manager seemed to like her. Plus he lost a bet to her too. Heero and Duo had heard all of this from the comfort of their beds. When things finally died down at around two in the morning, they both fell fast asleep once more. But Duo was cranky in the morning. He'd had to get up at five while everyone else did, but that didn't mean he actually had to remove his head from the pillow. He just slept there with his eyes open, until Heero tossed a shirt onto his face. That woke him up.
Once his hair was braided and partially dried, he got dressed in a pair of black jeans and a gray tee with an anime character decal on the front and back. It was a vampire and it was from a cool new anime that had caught his attention. He forgot what it was called though he didn't care, he was going for the Undead look to suit his deck, a Shinigami's deck. He had a strategy for it too, but he wasn't about to tell anyone!
Having made it down to breakfast, Duo had pancakes and eggs with strawberry preserves. Heero eyed it oddly as he ate his bran muffins. Wufei and Meiran decided to join them ten minutes later. They said they'd had a fight but had resolved their differences. Something about Meiran's comment made it humorous 'Just because I am a girl doesn't mean I like FAIRIES!' She'd said as they walked into the room. Wufei had just nodded his head and then told her to read the descriptions on the cards and learn how to use them properly. Apparantly he'd caught her trying to trade them off in the hallway...
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Meanwhile, at the Domino City Aquarium's entrance...
Jounouchi clapped his hands and hollered into the sky, raising some heads of passersby and causing a general facefault from all of his friends present. He was so enthusiastic because he'd just won his duel to get him into the finals! With the two locator cards he'd won from Meiko, the deep sea duelist, he'd finally gotten himself into the big leagues, once again. 'Wouldn't Yugi be proud?' Joey wondered, 'Hey, where is he anyway?' Jou looked around the groups of people that had gathered outside of the aquarium and didn't see his best friend anywhere. Oh well, he mused, he must be off dueling some hot shot for the locator cards. Everyone in the tournament needed to have six of them to get into the finals. That meant that for every new card you earned, someone else lost their chance to duel in the finals. Eveyone started out with only one locator card, and their required rare cards to duel. Of course, a person could duel without a locator card, but what was the point in someone dueling them if only for their rare card? Well, unless it was someone with talent, and something worth winning, Jou didn't want to mess with it. He would leave the small 'fish' to the small 'fish', he laughed. But with his new Legendary Fisherman card, he could really whoop some ass.
"So, Jou, you made it to the finals, but what now?" Honda asked while placing a hand on his friend's shoulder to try and calm him down a bit.
"I'm Going to KAIBA LAND!" Jou shouted with a fist in the air, the one holding his two new locator cards.
Solomon laughed. "Don't you mean Disney Land or something? Isn't that what most people say?"
"No, I am serious. I mean I am going to kick Kaiba's ass, then rub his face in the mud like he did to me in Duelist Kingdom, and with cards like this I just won from Meiko, I will have an even better chance of finding a way to get past his nasty ass skyblue-eyed dragons!"
"Well, if you put it that way... but at least you have a lot of spirit, Jou." Anzu smiled as he put his cards away, making sure to move that damn parasite card that Weevil slipped in to the deck into his back pocket for safekeeping. He'd just stick it in his side deck for now. There was no point in having it pop up in the middle of a duel and mess things up again. At least he'd saved face when he made such a big production of drawing the damn thing during the duel in the Aquarium with Meiko, and fell from his pedestal with a little grace. He did win afterall. The thought brought another wide grin to his face. "Aw, Jou, you know we're always there for you! You can do it, but then, don't get too over confident, keep things in perspective. Kaiba is the champion, well, beside Yugi and even without his dragons, he could probably cream you." At Jou's flat eyed glare, Anzu held her hands up and added, "Well, you know we'll be rooting for you even if you have to shove your own foot in your mouth. What are friends for, eh?"
"'Dat don't make me feel much better, Anzu." Jounouchi sighed. He'd fallen from his high and mighty feeling. Well, at least he had friends that cared enough to try and talk some sense into him. But this wasn't about sense. This was about revenge, and getting the one up on that snotty faced spoiled brat, Kaiba. Who was he to call him a dog of all things? He just liked to pick on people, the handsome devil. Yeah, so what if he was a genious and he had good looks, of that Seto Kaiba truly did, but that was no excuse to go around showing it off all the time! Jou was certain he could beat him and teach the bastard a lesson. And if he couldn't well, then at least he'd actually tried! Most people were too damn scared to even work up the balls to talk to the brown haried boy, and here Jou was, already used to throwing insults in his face. He knew he could hold his own, it was all a draw of the card in the end.
"Don't you need to put all the locator cards together to find out where the finalists should meet? Wouldn't that be where Kaiba is?"
"No. It's too early in the day. It's not even lunchtime yet, and I know for a fact this is gonna last long into the night. Call it a hunch. Anyway, Kaiba is gonna be at grand central, searching out the damn Egyptian God cards like he said. My reasoning is I can catch him while he's glaring at the monitors, challenge him in front of all'o his flunkies, then smear his face in the dirt that I walk on." Jou proclaimed as they started walking down the street toward the Kaiba Corp building. The crowds of various people outside the Aquarium began to filter out of the area as some duelists finished up a game. They passed by some people they knew from the high school and waved as they passed. Honda looked back at Jou, thinking.
"You know, just because you have a score to settle doesn't mean you can just waltz in on him and demand he duel you. He's a busy guy." Honda pointed out. "Last time, he snuffed you because of the God card, what makes you think that the next time will be any different?"
"If I am a dog like he says I am, I will get his attention. There's only so long you can sit there and tolerate a barking dog at your door before opening it to either kick him away, pacify'em or make him shut up. That's when I will bite! Yep, I am in character!" Jou stopped walking to block the sidewalk, he flexed his muscles and pretended to be a body builder, posing for imaginary cameras. "I will prevail! I will not let them get to me, all of their insults will fuel my fire, yes they will!"
"Your reasoning is odd. I guess there's no changing your mind though." Solomon said. Jou waved him away and turned to keep walking down the street. The others followed, interested to see what else would develop as their friend hurried on to probably get his ass kicked once more. "What did you mean though, by 'all of their' insults? Who else are you speaking of?"
'Uh, I said that?' Jou thought. 'Oh, yeah, the OTHER dog hater...' Jou rubbed the back of his neck and glanced at Yugi's Grandpa. "I was also talkin' bout that guy, Otogi. He does the dog insults too. Remember?"
Anzu nodded, "Of course we remember; Yugi almost lost his right to play Duel Monsters because of that!"-- *#1
Jou smirked, "Yeah, well, Yug's still On Top and I will be too!"
"Of course you're going to be on top! Wait... but you're saying that about Seto Kaiba? Hmm..." Honda chimed in, stepping up behind Jou to look him in the eyes. The taller boy let it slide when his blond friend just looked his way with a blank expression. Honda supposed Jou didn't have a clue what he was attempting to joke about. It just wasn't as much fun when no one else understood his slightly peverted sense of humor. Unless Jou was going to have another delayed reaction as his brain finally registered exactly how he'd been insulted... Honda decided to walk backwords in front of his friend for a while and watch to see it sink in. Jou's face slowly turned red.
"Waitaminute... HONDA!" Yep, that seemed to be the case. Honda laughed and ran ahead of the others, with Jou hot on his heels.
FootNote-*#1- I dunno if this is different in the Jap version but I am referencing from the English episodes here. Yugi Dueled Duke at his own game to save Joey, who lost a DM duel to Duke, from a week of enslavement as Duke's obediant pet dog. *Gawd I need to write something AU on this, heh. Too many Yaoi ideas. But it's already been done...* Yugi almost lost his title and right to play Duel Monsters, but someone told me it was different in the other version, something about the Puzzle. I dunno really.
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