Wow. 120+ reviews, I love you guys. I'm also really sorry for the lateness on this chap. I've been trying to type it in-between my Taekwondo lessons but as you can probably see, I haven't gotten to far. I really have no excuse, so I guess I'm just lazy…

Well, enough of that. I feel so honored to have had you as my wonderful reviewers and I'll make sure to answer your question at the end of this fic. (Because I've been avoiding a few. Heh. Bad me.)

And, as I promised, thanks to LiLianJieGurl for the reunion idea! (Sorry I forgot you last chapter.)

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Under The Warps

Entry 08: The Remaining

[Pegasus, Mai, Bandit Keith, Honda (Tristan), Mokuba, and Shizuka (Serenity)]

(Welcome to the final hours of "Under The Warps". Where we are doesn't matter, what matters is that we are here – all of us. Our six guests sit in frount of us, in a crescent moon-like circle. We face the Remaining.)

Q: Welcome everyone. I'm glad you made it. Let's start off with you Mai, since you have the most reviews (one over Pegasus). What do you think of fanfiction?

Mai: Hon, fanfiction is like a guy. There are the good things and the bad; you can't separate them so it's either all or nothing.

Q: Anything in particular you don't or do like about fanfiction?

Mai: Now if I told you that, the bashers out there reading this would have something to work with. Wouldn't they?

Pegasus: Quit perceptive Ms. Kujaku, but I believe you've just let the cat out of the bag when you said: bashers.

Q: Any you? What do you not like?

Pegasus: Let's just say the yaoi authors have an interesting time with me. If you're a widowed man, wearing a wine red suit, and keep young boys locked in you person dungeons – an automatic bull's-eye seems to materialize on your back.

Keith: You seem ta' have forgotten the whole 'reads and watches manga' deal, Peg'sy.

Q: Alright Keith we understand your point, but let's not forget that in the real world five year olds are playing with Duel Monsters. Pegasus had another point, does anyone feel the way they dress or act effect the way author see them?

Mokuba: I'm just Seto's little brother… it's like I'm his shadow. Authors don't get that I can be just as smart as he can.

Mai: Don't get down on yourself, Mokuba. At least you aren't portrayed as a bimbo. It's only a hair color for God's sake…

Honda: Atleast it's not compared to fungus.

Keith: Fungus! Hahaha! Now that's funny…

Q: Um… Can we get back on track here? Shizuka, you've been quite, how bout you enlighten us?

Shizuka: Me? Well… fanfiction's… interesting.

Keith: That's a nice way to put it. I was thinking more like "unbearable".

Mai: Shush, and let her speak Keith.

Shizuka: Thanks Mai. Anyway I can't really say I don't like it, but I can't say I like it. I mean it is our life… we can escape it so we have to acknowledge it and, in some ways, except it.

Pegasus: Wise words, young lady. But we can't forget that we're just slaves to the imaginations of thousands. We can never die, and thus – my unfortunate friends – we are not living.

Honda: Congratulations Pegasus, you've lost me.

Keith: Not that it's hard to do.

Honda: Haha Keith, very funny. But what I don't get it we can think and move and talk, why aren't we alive?

Pegasus: We don't have to live to exist. In fact we don't even have to be to exist.

Mai: That's… um, intriguing but care to explain it further.

Shizuka: Because we think, there for we exist. Rene' Descartes right?

Mai: In Japanese (or English), hon?

Pegasus: Precisely, Ms. *Jounouchi. "The action of thinking, being, perceiving. I perceive I am thinking, and therefore the world exists in my image, and only mine."

Mokuba: I'm getting your drift. Seto was reading a lot of book on this stuff… he said the only way we aren't some mindless puppets for someone higher is because we can think.

Mai: Got'cha. Although that's pretty deep, coming from a twelve year old and stuff. What I don't get is why we have to do what they write.

Q: Hello…?

Honda: 'Cause we're figments of imagination.

Keith: How deep. It's surprising you could even come up with something like that? Your momma help you.

Honda: What the hell is your problem Keith?

Keith: My problem? Fuck my problem, it's not like anyone cares. I'm in the bloody nothingness all day.

Honda: Well maybe if you weren't such a bastard all the time.

Shizuka: Please stop, Mokuba shouldn't have to hear this and I don't like it much either. Give him a break Honda, it's not like people are always write about him… be glad your included in a lot of fics. I know what it was like before people knew about me…

Q: Um…guys?

Keith: I don't need you're pity girlie. After all, I'm just a fucking *throwaway character.

Mai: I hate to burst your bubble of pity, Keith, but technically you're not.

Q: PEOPLE!

Pegasus: Yes?

Q: I'm so glad you're interacting with each other, but we nee to get down to business. Alright, we're behind schedule.

Shizuka: Sorry about that…

Q: Nothing to be sorry about. But let's move on shall we? What do you all think about the couples you've been paired in here?

Mokuba: I really don't want to think about this…

Pegasus: I will agree with young Mr. Kaiba here. I'd rather keep them under wraps.

Mai: I don't really care, hon. The way things are going I'm with pretty much who I want to be with… or what the canon hints at. Whether that really is what I want or not, is up to you to find out.

Keith: I'm not even gonna comment on this…

Shizuka: I'm with Kaiba – a lot. But I'll admit it's kind of a Romeo/Juliet couple…

Mai: Forbidden love… ah, those are the most fun.

Q: Alright them, but -

Honda: Hmph. I don't see what's Kaiba's got that I don't.

Mai: It's called green and he's got mountains of it.

Shizuka: Money doesn't buy happiness, Mai.

Mai: In know, but it buys you nice things.

Pegasus: Ms. Jounouchi has another fine point, Mai. Fine things don't bring happiness.

Keith: Don't tell me, you love struck old fool, love does.

Honda: I don't see what Jou sees in you Mai.

Mai: What is this? Gang up on the blonde time?

Keith: Might as well be, the more time I spend here and out of there the better.

Q: Hello peoples… what about the interview?

Mokuba: You better leave them; it's getting dangerous in there.

(The wisdom of a twelve year old. Perhaps this interviewing has reached its prime, after all asking only certain questions means you'll receive only certain answers. You can here more than what you've asked for when you let their voices be herd – sometimes more than you care to, but that is an insignificant sacrifice.)

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* Jounouchi is both Katsuya's and Shizuka's last name- "Jou" is just Katsuya's nickname.

* Not sure where the quote is from, But I'm guessing it's by Rene' Descartes 'cause it sound like some of his work.

*Throwaway Character, a term use for character whose name is mentioned once or twice and plays an insignificant role in the plot. (Keith is not one or theses.)

A/N: Personally, I hate this chapter. No, better yet, I loathe this chapter! But since I'm so late as it is, I've posted it anyway. Please forgive me; I'm just another lazy ass kid trying to make it out there on fanfiction.