Chapter 5 Just a General AAAAAAAH!
A/N Sorry for the delay folks but I finally got my muse back.
The old lady turned to Akane again. "This is a competition cook-off. The rules are simple, you must out-cook your opponent, every time you fail to a member of your team will be sent packing and it will be that much harder to win. Your first task is to make me a bowl of ramen noodles. Go!"
"That's not so bad," said Ukyo. "How can she fail to put noodles in a pot of boiling water?"
"You must not know Akane's cooking that well," said Ranma. "She'll find a way."
Sure enough soon the room was full of black smoke and a foul smell, for some reason Akane had decided to cook her noodles in an oven while covered in octopus pieces and vinegar. Needless to say she lost the first round and Ukyo was sucked into a hole in the floor. After several similar rounds Shampoo and Moose were also gone.
As the next round began Akane started thinking fast. At this rate there was no way she would win. She had only one chance. She would have to try and make a food so horrible it would make the teacher faint and then they could escape.
"For your next assignment you must bake me a vanilla cake!" cried the instructor. She shuddered at the thought of what Akane would produce having already tasted three samples of her cooking. Kaiba wasn't paying her enough for this.
Ranma pressed his face against the glass tubing anxiously, at this rate they were going to lose before they had even started. But he couldn't lose yet! There was something important he had to ask that Yugi kid. Something he had to know.
All his hope seemed lost however as he saw the cloud of Akane's furious cooking fury take shape again. He couldn't see anything really but it seemed like she was passing in her cake.
Akane held her breath, she had worked hard to make this cake as awful as possible, she could only hope it would be enough.
The instructor looked nervously at Akane's cake. It looked pretty good, and it smelled wonderful, but then so had the chili she had tried to make and that had resulted in a whole package of Tums in her stomach. She shakily took a fork and inserted the smallest piece possible into her mouth.
Akane felt her shoulders being gripped suddenly. Thinking she was about to be thrown up on she tried to pull away but the teacher held fast. With tears in her eyes she smiled and said, "Akane my dear, you pass! This is the most beautiful cake I have ever tasted!"
In a daze what was left of team Saotome left the room and went wandering down the hall.
** Meanwhile **
Team Yugi wasn't doing very well. They had finally beaten the Evil Dodgeball Machine From Hell that they been facing but in the process they had lost Bakura and Mai (who had gotten knocked out) and Honda (who had broken the machine by throwing one of its balls back at it with the force of a rocket). The result was now only Yugi, Anzu, and Joey were left (and the author was left with much less characters to juggle Yay!) They had been wearily trudging down the hall when they saw Ranma's group up ahead of them.
"Hey Ranma! Wait up!" cried Yugi.
When they had all caught up Yugi spoke again. "This is ridiculous, we'll never get out of here alive if we don't work together. Why don't we just put this challenge aside until we escape and then work something out. Competing like this is just silly." Team Saotome just stared at him dully. "What?"
"You idiot," said Ryouga. " You're the one who arranged this in the first place!" Yugi blushed and Ryouga proceeded to strangle him.
** Meanwhile **
Kaiba and Nabiki had slipped into the first room they could find seeking shelter from the lasers. It had turned out to be a janitor's closet. They sat there for half an hour fuming about being caught in their own trap. Kaiba filled the silence by muttering about all the things he would do to Joe and his entire extended family.
Finally Nabiki said, "Okay that's enough. You designed this place right? You should know an easy way out."
Kaiba shook his head, "I designed it so there was no easy way out. There's no way around it. If we want to get out we'll have to play the game."
Nabiki groaned but stood up and they left the room running down the halls as fast as possible hoping neither team would see them. They finally stopped at a classroom and went inside. They were in the room for that class where you have to pretend you're married and run a little fake household (I don't know what it's called.)
Kaiba was hoping to just demand a passing grade and move on but he didn't seem to understand how the gods of irony worked. Unbeknownst to him the 'teacher' for this subject was actually Joe's uncle and let's just say some things run in the family.
"Hey Old Man!" Kaiba yelled at the shriveled guy in the corner. "Give us a pass so we can get out of here!"
"Oh no no no no noooooo," said Uncle Joe, "not until you earn it! And to earn it you must first prove to me you can manage a family."
"I've been managing a company for years!"
"And yet you can't manage a family?"
"Don't bother Seto," said Nabiki. "He's got the look of an idiot in him."
Kaiba sighed exasperated, "Fine Old Man, what do we have to do?" 'Since when does she call me Seto?'
"Well come on over and we'll get you two 'hitched.'" (a/n whenever Uncle Joe says something with ' ' around it that means he's put little quotation fingers around it.)
They had soon exchanged little plastic rings and had signed a piece of paper.
"Oh, I just love newlyweds! Now you two go off and make a family, come back in a few years so I can give you your grade. Take your time though I think you're a little young right now..."
"Oh knock it off," said Nabiki. "It's not for real."
The old man looked surprised, "Of course it is, I'm a real 'minister' and you two have just signed a legal 'marriage' certificate. You're now legally married by the law of the commonwealth of 'Domino' and you're going to stay that way! I won't allow anyone I marry to get a divorce!" He then slapped a pair of hand-cuffs on them and went scurrying out the door.
Nabiki stared wide-eyed after him. "You don't think he was serious do you?"
Kaiba was already frantically scanning the paper they had signed. He put it down shaking and said, "No, it's real, and it says right here that no one who signs this can divorce without the signature of the person who brought them together!"
They both starred at each other for a long moment before screaming "He's getting away!" and running out the door.
Bwahahahahahahaha! Yes I'm evil I know. I just couldn't resist. Anyway if one of your favorite characters got kicked out in this chapter I'm very sorry but I may bring them back depending on reader demand. I'm also sorry I haven't been saying much about the Yu-Gi-Oh cast but there will be more of them next time I promise. Until then I'm open to any ideas or suggestion that you might have and I promise to update sooner this time.
A/N Sorry for the delay folks but I finally got my muse back.
The old lady turned to Akane again. "This is a competition cook-off. The rules are simple, you must out-cook your opponent, every time you fail to a member of your team will be sent packing and it will be that much harder to win. Your first task is to make me a bowl of ramen noodles. Go!"
"That's not so bad," said Ukyo. "How can she fail to put noodles in a pot of boiling water?"
"You must not know Akane's cooking that well," said Ranma. "She'll find a way."
Sure enough soon the room was full of black smoke and a foul smell, for some reason Akane had decided to cook her noodles in an oven while covered in octopus pieces and vinegar. Needless to say she lost the first round and Ukyo was sucked into a hole in the floor. After several similar rounds Shampoo and Moose were also gone.
As the next round began Akane started thinking fast. At this rate there was no way she would win. She had only one chance. She would have to try and make a food so horrible it would make the teacher faint and then they could escape.
"For your next assignment you must bake me a vanilla cake!" cried the instructor. She shuddered at the thought of what Akane would produce having already tasted three samples of her cooking. Kaiba wasn't paying her enough for this.
Ranma pressed his face against the glass tubing anxiously, at this rate they were going to lose before they had even started. But he couldn't lose yet! There was something important he had to ask that Yugi kid. Something he had to know.
All his hope seemed lost however as he saw the cloud of Akane's furious cooking fury take shape again. He couldn't see anything really but it seemed like she was passing in her cake.
Akane held her breath, she had worked hard to make this cake as awful as possible, she could only hope it would be enough.
The instructor looked nervously at Akane's cake. It looked pretty good, and it smelled wonderful, but then so had the chili she had tried to make and that had resulted in a whole package of Tums in her stomach. She shakily took a fork and inserted the smallest piece possible into her mouth.
Akane felt her shoulders being gripped suddenly. Thinking she was about to be thrown up on she tried to pull away but the teacher held fast. With tears in her eyes she smiled and said, "Akane my dear, you pass! This is the most beautiful cake I have ever tasted!"
In a daze what was left of team Saotome left the room and went wandering down the hall.
** Meanwhile **
Team Yugi wasn't doing very well. They had finally beaten the Evil Dodgeball Machine From Hell that they been facing but in the process they had lost Bakura and Mai (who had gotten knocked out) and Honda (who had broken the machine by throwing one of its balls back at it with the force of a rocket). The result was now only Yugi, Anzu, and Joey were left (and the author was left with much less characters to juggle Yay!) They had been wearily trudging down the hall when they saw Ranma's group up ahead of them.
"Hey Ranma! Wait up!" cried Yugi.
When they had all caught up Yugi spoke again. "This is ridiculous, we'll never get out of here alive if we don't work together. Why don't we just put this challenge aside until we escape and then work something out. Competing like this is just silly." Team Saotome just stared at him dully. "What?"
"You idiot," said Ryouga. " You're the one who arranged this in the first place!" Yugi blushed and Ryouga proceeded to strangle him.
** Meanwhile **
Kaiba and Nabiki had slipped into the first room they could find seeking shelter from the lasers. It had turned out to be a janitor's closet. They sat there for half an hour fuming about being caught in their own trap. Kaiba filled the silence by muttering about all the things he would do to Joe and his entire extended family.
Finally Nabiki said, "Okay that's enough. You designed this place right? You should know an easy way out."
Kaiba shook his head, "I designed it so there was no easy way out. There's no way around it. If we want to get out we'll have to play the game."
Nabiki groaned but stood up and they left the room running down the halls as fast as possible hoping neither team would see them. They finally stopped at a classroom and went inside. They were in the room for that class where you have to pretend you're married and run a little fake household (I don't know what it's called.)
Kaiba was hoping to just demand a passing grade and move on but he didn't seem to understand how the gods of irony worked. Unbeknownst to him the 'teacher' for this subject was actually Joe's uncle and let's just say some things run in the family.
"Hey Old Man!" Kaiba yelled at the shriveled guy in the corner. "Give us a pass so we can get out of here!"
"Oh no no no no noooooo," said Uncle Joe, "not until you earn it! And to earn it you must first prove to me you can manage a family."
"I've been managing a company for years!"
"And yet you can't manage a family?"
"Don't bother Seto," said Nabiki. "He's got the look of an idiot in him."
Kaiba sighed exasperated, "Fine Old Man, what do we have to do?" 'Since when does she call me Seto?'
"Well come on over and we'll get you two 'hitched.'" (a/n whenever Uncle Joe says something with ' ' around it that means he's put little quotation fingers around it.)
They had soon exchanged little plastic rings and had signed a piece of paper.
"Oh, I just love newlyweds! Now you two go off and make a family, come back in a few years so I can give you your grade. Take your time though I think you're a little young right now..."
"Oh knock it off," said Nabiki. "It's not for real."
The old man looked surprised, "Of course it is, I'm a real 'minister' and you two have just signed a legal 'marriage' certificate. You're now legally married by the law of the commonwealth of 'Domino' and you're going to stay that way! I won't allow anyone I marry to get a divorce!" He then slapped a pair of hand-cuffs on them and went scurrying out the door.
Nabiki stared wide-eyed after him. "You don't think he was serious do you?"
Kaiba was already frantically scanning the paper they had signed. He put it down shaking and said, "No, it's real, and it says right here that no one who signs this can divorce without the signature of the person who brought them together!"
They both starred at each other for a long moment before screaming "He's getting away!" and running out the door.
Bwahahahahahahaha! Yes I'm evil I know. I just couldn't resist. Anyway if one of your favorite characters got kicked out in this chapter I'm very sorry but I may bring them back depending on reader demand. I'm also sorry I haven't been saying much about the Yu-Gi-Oh cast but there will be more of them next time I promise. Until then I'm open to any ideas or suggestion that you might have and I promise to update sooner this time.