Chapter 3 - Yami the Space Pharaoh
Joey yelled in frustration as another one of his cards started floating through the air and revealed itself to Yugi. Yugi saw that Joey had placed Kunai with Chain face down, as well as putting Axe Raider in defense mode. Yugi played the Dark Magician and won again.
"Hey Kaiba, could you please turn the gravity control back on? This absence of gravity is making it impossible for me to play Duel Monsters properly. All my face down cards are going out of control, and now Yugi can see them all!"
"Nup," replied Kaiba, looking up to where Yugi and Joey were floating, dueling. He then made sure that everyone else was the right way up and fairly close to the ground. "Actually, I will put the gravity control back."
Joey, realizing what he had done, fell all the way to the floor with a loud thud. Yugi was more fortunate. He landed on Ryou. Everyone else was unharmed and started laughing at Joey's misfortune.
"It's not funny," said Joey, rubbing his head where a large red bump was growing.
"What's all this racket about?" Yami came from the bedroom, still wearing his pyjamas, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. "What time is it anyway?"
"Téa's preparing lunch," said Yugi, also apologizing to Ryou and Bakura.
"Lunch? Already? I've been asleep for that long? Back when I was Pharaoh I used to get up when the sun rose to honor Ra, as well as to set an example for everyone else. Now look at me." His stomach growled. "Oh well, at least I'll be able to get some food into me."
He went back into the bedroom to get changed, before heading out to eat lunch. It was all healthy food, compliments of Téa. Yami was convinced he was going to die from the lack of fatty foods.
After lunch Kaiba had a surprise for everyone.
"I have a surprise for everyone. We're all going to go into space." Everyone cheered. "Mind you," Kaiba added, looking at what Malik was wearing. "It might get slightly chilly out there, so make sure you put on extra clothes."
Malik's eyes narrowed. "Are you saying that I might get cold? My blood's already cold enough to withstand almost anything. Trust me."
"Yeah Malik," said Yami. "You wouldn't want to freeze to death in that midriff top of yours. And there's also the fact that you lived in Egypt, where it's really hot."
Malik was on Yami within a split second, his rod turning into a dagger again. "I don't want you criticizing what I wear, got it? You're lucky I stopped trying to kill you to become the Pharaoh. Just don't provoke me further, otherwise I'll kill you for the pleasure of it."
"Okay, okay," said Yami, slightly shaken. "I'll stop. I wouldn't want to make you upset. Bakura wouldn't allow it."
"Why don't we all calm down?" asked Téa, trying to create peace inside the ship. "We're all going to be stuck with each other for quite a while, so stop all your bickering and get used to one another."
"I'm getting my cloak," said Malik, and stalked off.
Floating through space was a new experience for everyone. Joey tried to move around by flapping, Ryou and Yugi were having fun with their jet propellers, Yami found the experience most interesting, Bakura and Malik were off in their own little world, and Téa was just talking with everyone. Kaiba was checking the ship and making sure that no one was in any trouble.
"Doesn't the Earth look so different from up here?" commented Téa. "I always knew our planet looked mostly blue and white, with a bit of green and brown, but it's really something else when you see it for yourself."
"I agree with you," said Yugi, becoming bored with playing tag with Ryou, who kept trying to 'fly' all the way back to Earth, only to find that a cord held him back.
"Hey, don't break the cord," Kaiba warned, "if it breaks, and you use up all your gas, we're not going to bother saving you."
"I don't think you'd really do that," said Ryou, but he heeded the warning anyway. Kaiba was in charge of everything here.
"Kaiba, how much longer until we get to the moon?" asked Joey, staring at it.
"Probably only a day or two more," he answered. "And then the fun will begin. I've brought along a buggy so that we can all go riding across the moon. And a few other surprises," he said with a smile. In fact, he had to bite his tongue to stop himself from laughing and using up all the oxygen.
Yami floated as far away from the spaceship as possible, then studied it. It was a funny shape, like a deformed pigeon. It had too many wings, and was too pointed. All to improve the aerodynamics, I guess. In fact, the more he looked, the stranger the spaceship appeared. He started squinting at it, trying to see what else he could make the ship look like. It looked like a mad giant frozen hummingbird. He screwed up his face. It looked like a pyramid through an hourglass. He turned upside down and covered one eye. It looked like a broken Millennium Puzzle. He blinked rapidly. It looked like a fat Millennium rod. He shook his head violently and then nodded his head as hard as he could. It looked like a mutilated spinning top. He held his breath for as long as he could and widened his eyes. It looked like a fuzzy pear. He shut his eyes hard for a few minutes, then opened them. This time all he saw was white light and bright spots. He also discovered that he had drifted closer to the spaceship. He was trying to figure out what other things the spaceship resembled, but then his thoughts were rudely interrupted.
"Yami, what the heck do you think you're doing?!" Bakura and Malik had returned, and watched the entire 'show' Yami had put on. "You were making the strangest faces. It was the funniest thing!"
Bakura and Yami cracked up. They laughed so hard that tears ran down their faces. And because they were wearing spacesuits, the glass of their helmets started to fog up. They began to run out of oxygen and started to gasp for air. Kaiba had to return the two to the spaceship, and the two lay on the floor for several minutes, sucking in large mouthfuls of air and half choking. Then, when they recovered, they started laughing again. And the process went on for the rest of the day. They even had to eat dinner separately, after Bakura choked on his soup and spat it on everyone. Eventually Kaiba had to lock the two up in a closet to try and calm them down. Giggles echoed all throughout the ship. It took them ages to fall asleep.
Again Yami heard strange noises in his sleep. There was the usual sniffing, but it sounded as if there were two people instead of one. This time there was less swearing, but more suppressed giggles. He thought he even heard someone choke and hit the floor hard. Why doesn't anyone else hear these things, he thought to himself. I must be hallucinating. Then, just after midnight, he thought he heard screams of delight, before hearing footsteps running back to bed.
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What has this person found to be so excited? Could it be that someone else is onboard with Yugi and the gang? Or maybe it is just Yami hallucinating, in which case the others will have to try and fix the problem.... Well, a secret won't stay secret for long, will it?