King: Three in a row!
Judy: Yay!
King Anthony: Welcome back Judy. We all missed you.
Judy: It feels good to be back.
King Anthony: Tell the readers what you were doing.
Judy: Oh yeah! I went to find out what that man in Matrix Reloaded meant.
King Anthony: Did you find out.
Judy: No, the Andy and Larry are like elves when it comes to hiding.
King Anthony: What that creator of the matrix said may be a secret to the world.
Judy: Anyway can I go ahead and do the introduction.
King Anthony: Go.
Judy: Ishtar Dinner Party takes place when still rebuilding from Marik's last romp around the city in a Gundam.
King Anthony: Read and review.
Judy: I'll get the popcorn!
Ishtar Dinner Party
King Anthony: Wait I forgot to do that thing.
Judy: What thing.
King Anthony: (Several lawyers surround him) I don't own not I thing except me. And reproduction of this chapter will result in eternal damnation as I will personally send Nelly to your house to sing It's getting hot in herrrre.
Judy: Does it really say all of that.
King Anthony: Yep.
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Judy: The T broke.
King Anthony: Budget's low from last chapter. Just replace it.
Ishtar Dinner ParLy
*One week after Marik's Gundam incident Yugi, has become roommates with Tristian until The Kami shop is rebuilt. Tea is also over there*
Yugi: (Watching rerun of the duel between him and Duke) Hey Tristian can you get me another pop.
Tea: Gee Yugi, that's your fifth one.
Yugi: Yeah with grandpa arguing with the insurance people about rather or not giant robots are under their policy I can do any thing I want to.
Tristian: ….
Tea: Hey has anyone seen Joey around?
Tristian: Nah.
Yugi: Nope.
Tea: It's weird I haven't seen him in about ten days.
Tristian: Maybe he's been kidnapped by a top notch secret society known as FACS.
Yugi/Tea: -_-u
*There is a knock on the apartment door Yugi jumps up quickly to answer it*
Yugi: Hello.
Marik: Hello Yugi. (Marik's voice is the same as when he was Namu from Battle City)
(Transforms) Yami: You!
Tea: Oh no! If we stay together we can handle this!
Tristian: (Glares at her)
Marik: Hey hey! Calm down! I'm not here to cause trouble. I'd just like to apologize for my dark sides antics.
Yami: …
Marik: So I reserved us a table at that famous restaurant downtown.
Tea: You mean La Carmendiego!
Marik: The very same!
Tea: That place is rich! I always dreamed of having my first date there. (She stares at Yami who quickly turns away)
Yami: How do we know this isn't a trick Marik!
Marik: No trick! I swear on my father's grave. (Bows low and hands him a small card ) Please come. More of your friends will be there too.
Yami: We'll thank about it.
Marik: Alright seeya! (Hurries down the hallway to the elevator)
Yami: (Still facing the door) I don't think we sho…(Tea grabs his hand and spins him to face here the height issue seems apparent now)
Tea: We got to! And I know the perfect thing to wear!
Tristian: Well if there's good food I'm going!
Yami: (Looks at the card) Well it's tonight so we better get ready. I still think we shouldn't trust him.
Tea: Don't be a party pooper this is going to be great!
*7:00 that night. Downtown Domino just in front of La Carmendiego Yugi, wearing a black leather jacket over a black old school Donkey Kong shirt and also a pair of black slacks that seem longer then they suppose to be, and Tristian, wearing a long fine white cloaks that looks like the Rare Hunters, are standing out front alone*
Yugi: Gee I knew this was a trick!
Tristian: …It doesn't seem his style. This is too simple with no structure.
Yugi: Right… Anyway where's Anzu?
Tristian: Who?
Yugi: I mean Tea.
Tristian: Dunno. Maybe she decided not to come. (Just then a white stretched limo pulls up to the restaurant. The waiters eager for a tip opens the door. Surprisingly Marik steps and then even more shocking helps Tea out)
Yugi: Grrr!!!
Tristian: Big pimp coming thru. (Tristian whistled at Marik's white suede jacket, matching white bell bottoms high platform kicks, and to top it off a huge feather hat)
Marik: (Turning toward Tristian and speaking still with that "nice guy" voice) Hey guys I see that you're the first to arrive. Rex and Weevil are yet to arrive.
Yugi: Rex and Weevil?! They coming to!
Marik: All those I wronged are invited, even Keith. I also tried to invite Kaiba but he… refused.
Tristian: Just being buy being stuck up.
Marik: Ha, maybe anyway shall we wait for our other guest inside.
Yugi: Yeah Let's go!
*They go inside and are seated at a large rectangular table. Marik is at one end with Tea close beside him. Yugi, glaring at Mark, sat beside her. Tristian sat on the other side of Yugi*
Yugi: Should we wait for the others before we order?
Marik: Great idea! Manners are always good to have. (Yugi eyed him suspiciously but said nothing)
Rex: Alright! Food baby! Champion food for the champion duelist!
Weevil: Will you shut up! (Rex, Wearing what he usually wears plus a untied tie, and Weevil, wearing a silk shirt with a spider design are seated. Rex sits beside Tristian and Weevil sits at the other end.)
Marik: Welcome my honored guest.
Rex: Whateva! Can I order!
Marik: We wait for the others first. The Order anything you wish.
Rex: Argh! But ok the champion duelist can always show his manners.
Yugi: That's what I been doing Rex.
Rex: (Glares sulkily at Yugi)….
Weevil: Finally somebody sat loud mouth up.
Serenity: Speaking of loud moth has anyone seen Joey? (Serenity, wearing a white short sleeve short and a black miniskirt, arrives. Tristian quickly stands up and pulls out the seat beside him for her. She smiles and sits.)
Rex: I'm glad Mr. Puppy isn't here!
Mai: But he's my Puppy.
Keith: Yeah right! I can give you the world! What do you want from Mr. Bad accent puppy boy?
Mai: No means no Keith!
Keith: You'll change you mind and when you do you know where to find me. (Gets slap)
Tea: Mai!
Tristian: Keith…
Marik: Now, now Tristian we are all good friends at this table. Even if we tried to send them to the shadow realm or tried to seal them in a cave to die.
(Keith, sporting a Linkin Park t shirt and khakis, laughs and takes a seat beside Rex. Mai, wearing a way to short skirt and sleeveless white shirt, sits on the other side of him beside Yugi across from Rex.
Tea: Wow how many people you invite?!
Marik: Only three more.
Espa: I predict the third to arrive shall arrive at this very moment! (Espa in a flash of smoke nearly choking every one around it appears. He wears a formal tuxedo with a top hat. He sits beside Mai)
Tristian: Cool entrance man.
Serenity: (Excited) Are you a magician?!
Espa: For you I'd be anything! (With a slight of hand produces a rose and tosses it to her but Tristian nabs it instead)
Tristian: I thought you was a psychic!
Espa: I'm a jack of all trades. (Looks at Keith) Didn't you die in the tournament at Pegasus's castle.
Keith: You would be so surprised.
Ryou: Hey I made it! (Bakura, in a sports jacket and black slacks, [If I drew this and inked it I'll be out of ink y now. Why does everyone wear black!] sits quickly beside Keith. Espa sits beside Mai)
Yugi: Ryou?! Is that you?
Ryou: Of course it is! Why shouldn't I be? (Glances at Keith) Aren't you dead?
Keith: Can we order.
Marik: Well…
???: The darkness surrounds you all. One shall remain while the other surrender to their fates.
Mai: Who in the world…
(Shadi appears beside Espa)
Espa:!!!!! Can you teach me how to do that?!
Shadi: It is no street trick child. I bend the rules of reality with the ancient powers of the Millennium Items.
Espa: Uhh… right.
Marik: Alright! Now that everyone's here order up!
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Judy: Isn't our favorite author so considerate!)
Keith: You are paying for this right?
Marik: Of course all expenses al on me! Now order!
Keith: Lobster time!
Yugi: I wonder if they got cheeseburgers?
Rex: I want the steak!
Serenity: Hey Tristian let's order the salad.
Tristian: What! I mean uhh… I'm allergic to green food.
Serenity: Silly I was just playing.
Tristian: …
Tea: I'll get the salad too.
Mai: Spaghetti and meat balls I think.
Ryou: Chicken.
Weevil: Rum Chicken!
Shadi: It is fated for me to chose the shrimp platter.
Espa: General Tsao Chicken.
Marik: Anything! Hmmm I'll get the roast duck.
(They eat and talk some more ad everyone is having a great time soon the food wraps up and the they just talk)
Marik: That was great!
Yugi: Mmmhmmm.
Ryou: This must have cost a bunch Marik. How can you afford it.
Marik: Ha! I had tons of gold my whole life. I just never wanted to be rich.
Keith: (Jokingly) Then care you spare some.
Marik: I wish but my sister will kill me.
Shadi: Ahh, yes Ishizu how is she?
Marik: Fine. But if you excuse me I have to use the rest room. When I come back I'll take care of the check.
Tea: Deal. (Marik takes to the restroom)
Espa: What a nice fellow.
Yugi: He's completely turned around.
Mai: Yeah and to think I smacked the little guy when I seen him.
Rex: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Weevil: Knocked out cold…
(They continue to chat for about ten minutes)
Tea: I hope Marik is aright.
Ryou: I'll go check up on him.
(Ryou leaves for the restroom but comes back a few moments later)
Ryou: He's not there.
Yugi: What!?
Keith: Let me see! (He runs to the restroom)
Serenity: Where is he?
Mai: No clue.
Yugi: Shadi do you know?
Shadi: How would I know.
Yugi: You talk about fate all the time you might know.
Shadi: (Grins) If you want to know. I sense Marik moving fast along the road.
All: What!!!!
*Cut to Marik on his motorcycle*
Marik: (Normal voice) Ahahahahahahahaha!!!! The fools!
*He Tears down the road as a piece of paper flies out his pocket. It's the check that reads $758.62. He laughs as we cut back to the restaurant*
Yami: Damn it! I knew something like this was going to happen!
Tea: Maybe he's already paid…
Weevil: Shut up! Any one can see that this was all a trick!
Ryou: Can't we just explain to the manager.
Yami: I doubt it. The bill is too high just to let go.
Tristian: So what do we do.
(Everyone stares at everyone knowing that the only way out was to do the same that Marik has done but nobody speaks of it)
Mai: If you would excuse me. (She stands but the glares around her make her sit. Escape won't be that easy)
Espa: Hey where's Keith!
*Cut to Domino park*
Keith: I knew when Marik didn't return he was pulling something so. I got out as soon as I could.
*He whistles while he walks. Cut Back to Yugi and gang*
Shadi: Gone.
Espa: It seems that Marik got the last laugh.
Yami: When I find him I'll kill him!
Shadi: This is a shadow game I suppose. (Every faces him) Where the last one remaining is punished.
Tea:…
Mai: So game master how you gonna win this one!
Yami: I'm thinking!
(Tristian yells out in pain. Serenity jerks back a little)
Yami: Tristian! What's wrong! (Tristian says nothing put is clearly in pain)
Tea: He's not faking it!
(The paramedics came and picked him up. Serenity jumped in beside him. Yugi and co. sit back down with the waiters hovering around them)
Tea: What was that about!?
Mai: I don't know but he looked like he was in pain.
*Cut to Tristian in the ambulance*
Serenity: Tristian, you don't think slamming my foot down there was a little much do you?
Tristian:….we …out… aren't… we…..
*Cut back to co.*
(Everyone left is looking with shifting eyes as each one loses trust in the other. Ryou is still ordering chicken)
Tea: I never thought he could eat like that!
Ryou: It's very good!
Mai: I feel sick by looking at him.
Weevil: Hmph…
Yami: *glancing at Espa What's this?!
(Mai and Shadi glance to the seat between them at a very still Espa)
Mai: A card board cut out?!
Shadi: The kid has style.
Tea: When did he do that?!
Shadi: When everyone glanced at Ryou.
Tea: You seem to know a lot Shadi! Why are you so sure that you won't be the one left here!
Shadi: It's already written in the prophecy.
Tea: I'm starting to hate this destiny mess.
Mai: You and me both sister. Any way I think it's time for me to pay this bill.
Tea: Really you have enough?!
Mai: Yep.
Yami: Impressive.
Mai: (Pulls out a Visa) I never leave home without it. (A waiter walks up)
Waiter: A Mr. Weevil has a phone call.
Weevil: Really?! This is my first one! I hope it's a girl calling me to woo her!
Tea/Yami/Mai: -_-…. (Weevil rushes off)
Mai: Waiter we're ready to leave. Here (Hands him her card) Now Please excuse me I'll be right back.
Yami:…..
Mai: Oh please! Do you think I'll leave without my Visa?!
Yami: (Chuckles at his own distrust) Fine.
Mai: Tea come with.
Tea: Why?
Mai: Never ask why just come!
Tea: o… ok… (They leave)
Ryou: You should try this chicken it's to die for!
Shadi: Perhaps I will another day.
Yugi: It's been a fun night… except Marik ditching us like that.
Ryou: Yes it has. (starts at another drumstick when the waiter comes back)
Waiter: I'm sorry but the card was denied.
Yugi: What?!
Waiter: Where is Ms. Valentine?
*Cut to a taxi*
Tea: You sure it was ok to leave your Visa back there?
Mai: If you knew how much I owe on that thing you would want to leave it.
Mai: Shall we go to see the Matrix Revolutions?
Tea: Sure!
*Cut back to the restaurant*
Yami: Damn it!!!!
Ryou: Chill out dude it's not like you can lose.
Yami: Huh?!
Ryou: (His voice gets darker with every syllable) It seems that this is the one shadow game you can't win so easily.
Yami: What are you talking about?
Ryou: Can't you see it?! Marik is not just going to leave us here like that. No he has something else going on as well care to look under the table?
Yami: …( glances under the table to see a dark swirling void) What is this?!
Ryou: The shadow realm! And the last one left will be swallowed up!
Yami: Oh no! Bakura! How do you know?!
Bakura: I knew from the start idiot. Well now that I explained I should be going.
Yami: You think I'll let you leave?!
Bakura: You don't wanna hurt itty-bitty Ryou now do we?
Yami:….
Bakura: I thought so! Now I must be going! (Bakura whistles and pimps his way out)
Shadi: It seems that Weevil is gone too.
Yami: What?!
Shadi: He knew how much Mai could spend and used that moment to his advantage. He called himself using his cell phone.
Yami: And what of you?
Shadi: Look over there! (Yami glances over to where Shadi points but know he just made a mistake) Damn. (Turns back and Shadi is gone)
Yami:…. (Notices something gets up slowly and walks out) I can never lose.
(The void swallows the last person up for eternity and he sleeps through it all)
Rex: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Joey: Whats da big deal!
Executive: Joseph Wheeler you don't know how important you really are.
Joey: Really I'm dat important?!
Executive: Yes and next chapter we begin your training.
Joey: Training for what?
Executive: I'll tell you later now we eat Pizza Pie.
Joey. Booya Food! Bout time I'm starving!
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King Anthony: This was finished the same time The Matrix Revolutions is released. Nine o'clock eastern time. That must mean something.
Judy: That you were not there for the opening.
King Anthony: No! It means that I felt that the readers are more important then that movie.
Judy: No you don't.
King Anthony: Yes I do.
Judy: Then why were you kicking and screaming about how they were sold out.
King Anthony:…
Judy: Anyway stay tuned and Read and review. The next chapter will contain a lot more Marik.
King Anthony: Yes it will. And it will have 75% more action.
Judy: How can you figure that out.
King Anthony: Quiet! I know all! Anyway this is sponsored By Visa.
Judy: (pulls out her Visa) No Teen girl can go without it.
King Anthony: It's also sponsored by the WB. (The frog jumps out and dances)
Frog: Hello my baby, hello my darling…(Gets covered by a box that Judy threw)
King Anthony: Go see the Matrix! I feel a parody arising.
Judy:….
King Anthony: Oh and sorry for the slight delay. I kinda deleted my system registry but now I'm back powerful then ever.
Judy: Can we stop now I hair to get my Hair done. (Flashes the Visa)
King Anthony: That's all folks! Read Review! You know the drill!
Frog: Double uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!