"Hey Seto, Seto!" called out Mokuba Kaiba as he ran through the huge
mansion that was his house. "Seeeetooooo!"
"I'm in here, Mokuba," Seto Kaiba said, stepping out from one of the many doors. "What is it?"
"My birthday is tomorrow!" Mokuba announced happily.
"Don't worry, I didn't forget, if that's what you're worried about," Kaiba said, smiling, and ruffling his brothers hair. "I have a present for you already, even."
"I knew that, but I was wondering . . ." Mokuba looked at the ground, and said, "Could I have a birthday party?" He looked up hopefully, "There's a place, called Chuck E. Cheeses, and it's the coolest place! So can I please have a birthday party there, please Seto?"
Kaiba looked at his younger brother, who was looking so sad and hopeful at the same time, and there was just no way he could refuse the littler boy. "Certainly. I'll go and book the place for tomorrow, and you can invite all your friends."
"That's another thing," Mokuba asked, "I was wondering if you could have Yugi and his friends come! I like Yugi and Bakura; they're really nice to me. But if I asked them, they'd probably say no. But if you asked them, Seto, I know they'll come! Please?"
Once again faced with the puppy dog pleading face of Mokuba, Kaiba could only say, "Sure, Mokuba. I'll talk to them this afternoon and tomorrow you can have your party."
Kaiba was as good as his word. The next morning, he booked out the entire Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. Then he politely asked (read: threatened with dismemberment if they didn't come) every to come, and they all agreed to come.
And so, Mokuba happily skipped into the brightly lit and cheery place that is Chuck E. Cheese. "Wow, this is great! Did you really book the entire place, Seto, did you?"
"Yes, I did," Kaiba paused before entering, and flinching at the brightness and cheerfulness that is Chuck E. Cheese. He glanced out a window and saw a squirrel sitting contently on a branch eating a piece of pizza. "That's just . . . wrong . . ."
"When are the others getting here?" asked Mokuba, looking around excitedly. Save for the people working there, there was no one inside.
"In a few minutes," Kaiba said, glancing at his high tech watch, which not only displayed the time, but also the phase of the moon, the tides, and the earths current distance from the sun.
"I can't wait!" Mokuba said, very excited.
Indeed, soon, everyone started arriving. First was Yami and Yugi. Yugi greeted Mokuba happily, and Yami and Kaiba sort of glared at each other.
"I can't wait to play games, can you, Yugi?" Mokuba said happily.
"Yeah, it'll be fun!" agreed Yugi, "Happy birthday Mokuba!" He handed the boy a present, and Kaiba and Yami both stopped glaring at each other long enough to notice that Mokuba was not less than two inches shorter than Yugi.
After that, Bakura and his yami (who shall now be referred to as Ryou) arrived. Bakura and Yugi and Mokuba talked excitedly about the games they were going to play, and went to arrange Mokuba's presents in the meantime in the other half of the place.
"Why am I here?" Ryou complained to Yami, who shrugged.
"I dunno, who invites tomb raiders to their birthday party anyway?" Yami smirked. "Myself, being the king of games, it is OBVIOUS why I am here."
"Oh, that sounds like a challenge to me," Ryou promptly said. "Come on, let's have a bet. Let's see who can get the most tickets today, shall we, Pharaoh?"
"I can not turn down an offer like that," Yami said, "How about winner gets all the tickets?"
"Alright, that's acceptable. May the best man - me - win," Ryou said happily.
He and Yami didn't even bother to shake hands on it. Not like they'd even care to touch each others hand.
Finally, the last person arrived. Malik (no yami; his yami was busy terrorizing peasants in Zimbabwe) entered the cheerful room and glared, instantly bringing the cheerfulness levels around him down to negative eight.
"You!" he said, glaring at Yami. "Your days are numbered, Pharaoh! I'll get you today!"
Yami raised an eyebrow, "I don't think so, Malik!" He reached around to grab his cards, and Malik did the same.
"Hey! No card duels in this building!" Kaiba called out. "Now everyone get their lazy butts into the other room."
So they all went into the other room, which was the restaurant part of the building. Mokuba was grinning very happily as Yugi and Bakura arranged his tall pile of presents.
"We're going to go on the Merry-Go-Round, aren't we, Yugi? And we're going to go through the tunnels too, right? And we'll bring Seto! It'll be great!" Mokuba was saying. Kaiba stalked up to the front and announced, "Alright you pathetic people. You all get ten tokens for being here, but if you want any more, you have to buy them. Go play your pathetic games!"
"Seto, don't be mean to them," Mokuba said, "They all brought me presents!"
Kaiba couldn't help but smile at that, so he said nothing more, but tossed everyone a bag with ten game tokens.
Instantly, Mokuba jumped up, and, grabbing Yugi and Bakura's hands, dragged them out to the other room, which was full of games.
"He's excited, isn't he?" Yami said, following behind at a much more normal pace.
"Just keep an eye on your tickets, Pharaoh, because I want you to see how pathetic you are," Ryou said, glaring. "When you lose, as you are destined to."
Yami glared back.
Malik went over to the games and spotted an innocent little purple box that was proclaimed to be 'Whack-a-gopher!' He wandered up to it, and blinked. "Such pathetic games." He glanced around to make sure no one was watching, and placed a token into the machine. "Whack a gopher indeed." Ignoring the large mallet attached to the game, he got out the millennium rod, and got ready to strike.
Meanwhile, Kaiba slowly wandered into the game area. "These all so stupid. However, they do not look too hard . . . and I see them as merely another change to defeat Yugi! Or his Yami. Whatever."
He made his way over to a game called 'Dinoscore' which consisted of you launching tokens at a bunch of targets, each worth different amounts of tickets. Some were worth none. Kaiba placed a token in the shooter, and took aim.
Click.
"WHAT? I MISSED!?"
Click.
"I missed AGAIN?"
Click.
"This machine must be broken or something!"
Thirty tries later, and not one ticket richer, Kaiba growled at the machine before turned to let the next person use it.
Yami put his coin in the shooter, and took aim.
Click.
Kaiba watched as the coin bounced off every corner of the box before hitting the two hundred ticket target. Yami smirked.
Kaiba stalked off, grumbling, to buy more tokens.
Meanwhile, Malik was busily whacking the gophers with his millennium rod, or, attempting to anyway. "Dammit I missed! And again! You stupid gopher! Take this! How could I have missed?"
Angrily, he jammed the pointy part of the millennium rod into the machine.
"Oops, are sparks supposed to fly from the game like this?" Malik turned away from the game and started whistling innocently, walking away as fast as he could.
"Hmmmm," Mokuba said, eyeing the many games, "What should we do first?"
"That looks like a fun game," Bakura said, pointing to a game where the object was to press a button to get a frog on the screen to catch the falling flies.
"Ok, but lets go on the merry go round first," Mokuba said, pointing to it.
Yugi and Mokuba easily climbed onto the small machine, and Bakura paused. "I seem to be a little, umm, tall for this . . ."
"C'mon Bakura!" Mokuba said, "Please?" He gave Bakura sad, sad, sad puppy eyes, and Bakura had no choice but to duck down and climb onto the third horse. He was too tall to sit on it normally, so he sat sidesaddle, and Mokuba put a token into the machine. Cheesy music started playing, and the ride began.
Meanwhile, Kaiba had gotten some new tokens, and was now eying a new game. Storm stopper. It consisted of a single round console, with flashing lights around the top. You had to press a button and depending where you stopped it was how many tickets you got.
"This seems quite simple," Kaiba thought, putting a few tokens into the machine, and placing his hand over the button.
Click.
"One?!"
Click.
"One AGAIN?"
Click.
"I swear these games are fixed! They're SO fixed!"
Click.
Kaiba was about to pull his hair out in frustration, but he decided that doing that would not be a good idea, and besides, he'd look bad without hair.
Growling, he placed another token in the machine. He was just about to press the button when . . .
Click.
Kaiba's head snapped up as flashing lights began to flash and blaring music began to blare. He glanced at the person who had came up and pressed the other button on the console.
"Not you again!" Kaiba said angrily.
Yami smirked, and collected his tickets. "Seems I truly am the king of game, no?"
Kaiba scowled and walked off to buy more tokens.
"Hmmmm," Malik said quietly to himself, spotting another game that caught his interest. "Spider stomp?" He walked up to a console that consisted of a platform you stood on and stomped on the lights as they lit up. "Mwahahahaha!" he laughed, the air around him becoming dark and evil. He stepped onto the console, and pressed 'start.'
"Hey, this is pretty fun, isn't it?" Mokuba asked Yugi as the merry-go- round went around and around.
"Yeah, it is," Yugi said happily.
"I'm starting to get dizzy," Bakura said, his face holding a tint of greenness. "This ride's been going for five minutes now, don't you think that's a bit long?"
Mokuba shook his head, "Nah, we're just getting a good ride for our money!"
Kaiba grinned as he held a token out, "Now I shall finally play a game I can totally master! There is no chance I can lose!" He put a token into the Skee-ball machine, and got ready to plan. He was so absorbed in winning that he didn't notice as Ryou snuck up behind him and stole his few tickets.
Malik pressed the 'hard' difficultly; he was sure he could handle it. Instantly, two lights lit up and he stomped on them quickly. As soon as he had done that, two more lit up in their place.
'This is harder than I perceived, but I have the millennium rod!' Malik thought, and stomped on the lights. Only one light lit up and he easily hit it. 'They're trying to lull me into a sense of security!' Only one more light lit up. 'I refuse to be tricked!' Only one more lit up. 'Ok, maybe it's almost over.'
He relaxed a tad, and immediately three lit up. 'noooo!' he thought as he slammed one with one foot, another with his other foot, and stuck out the millennium rod to get the third one, but overshot and fell on his butt.
Um, if it was any consolation to him, he did manage to hit all three, ending the game with a perfect score.
'Ouch. . . .' he thought angrily, and glared at the game. "No game should dare to try to hurt me!" He put the millennium rod through the base of the game and stalked off as smoke started pouring forth.
"Come on, 100!" Kaiba said as he rolled the ball down the lane. "WHAT? TEN POINTS! THIS GAME IS RIGGED TOO!"
Suddenly, flashing lights began flashing at the lane next to him; Yami had gotten a perfect score of 900.
"IT'S NOT FAIR!" screamed Kaiba and stalked off to buy more tokens.
Only he didn't have any time to buy tokens as someone announced, "Will all participants of Mokuba Kaiba's Birthday Party please report to the party room?"
Kaiba scowled as he stalked over there. "That would be all of us."
A few minutes later, Yami entered, holding a ton of tickets, and Ryou entered behind him, also with a ton of tickets. Malik stormed in behind them, muttering angrily about stupid games that broke too easily.
Three minutes later, Kaiba said, "Ok, now it could just be me, but when you have a birthday party, doesn't the person receiving the party usually come when their party is announced?"
"Where IS Mokuba, anyway?" asked Yami.
"I saw him riding the merry go round," said Ryou, shrugging, and stealing a couple of Yami's tickets.
"That should be done in a minute, then," Kaiba said, and everyone sat down, staring at the cake.
Five minutes later, neither Mokuba nor Yugi nor Bakura had arrived.
"Alright, that's it, let's go find him," growled Kaiba, worried that Bakura and Yugi might have hurt his little brother. Of course, that was a stupid idea as both Yugi and Bakura were perfectly nice.
"Get me off of this," sighed Bakura as he turned a shade greener.
"This ride has been going for quite awhile," Yugi agreed.
"Wheee!" said Mokuba.
"There you have it," Malik said drolly, "They're on the bloody merry go round."
"C'mon Mokuba, it's time for cake. Get off the Merry-go-round," Kaiba said.
"But Seto, that's a waste of my token and you always say that nothing should never ever be wasted! You said so, Seto, you said so!" Mokuba said.
"But . . . but . . ." Kaiba sighed. "Your cake will get warm," he warned, but said nothing else.
Bakura groaned and turned a shade greener.
Malik growled and said, "Oh, enough of this!" Taking out his ever faithful millennium rod, he smashed it into the side of the merry go round, causing it to slowly sputter to a stop.
"Hey, what did you do that for?" Mokuba asked, tears threatening to spring forth as his eyes got huge and sad.
And it was living proof that no one could possibly upset the cuteness that is Mokuba Kaiba as Malik actually sighed and said, "I'm sorry."
"C'mon Mokuba, let's go get cake," Kaiba said, and Mokuba instantly darted into the party room, merry go round long forgotten.
Following after Mokuba, Kaiba sighed, but he had to admit - Mokuba was just too freaking cute and stuff for his own good. He could get anyone to do anything for him.
Inside the party room, everyone sat down, and Mokuba looked at his cake happily. Yugi sat on one side of him, and Kaiba on the other.
"Wow, this looks like a great cake, Mokuba," Yugi said.
"My brother Seto ordered it specially for me! It's chocolate with white frosting and raspberry jam!" Mokuba said, hugging his brother, who couldn't help but to smile.
Some people came in and put pitchers of pop on the table. Instantly, everyone started grabbing for them to get some pop.
Yami and Ryou both reached for the cherry coke, and then glared at each other. After a long but exciting glaring contest, Yami finally blinked, and Ryou grabbed the pitcher happily. After he poured the drink into his cup he added about fifteen packets of sugar.
Yami scowled as he poured himself some cherry coke and then added sugar himself.
Bakura got some diet coke, Yugi got coke, Mokuba got root beer, and then everyone glanced at Malik, who was pouting.
"It doesn't fit your image to pout," Yami said, "What's the matter?"
Malik glared, "Like I'd tell YOU!" he stared at the table and glared again.
"What is it, Malik?" Yugi asked. "You can tell us, we're your friends."
"Or not," Yami muttered.
Malik shot a dirty look at Yami, and still said nothing.
"Just leave him alone," Kaiba said, pouring himself a cup of water.
Ryou glanced at Malik. "What's up?"
Malik's eyes darted back and forth, and then he leaned over and muttered something to Ryou, who suddenly grinned before bursting out in laughter.
"Don't LAUGH!" Malik said, standing up and a dark cloud forming over him. A lightning bolt flashed, nearly taking off Kaiba's head.
"Hey, watch it," He said, sipping his water.
"I can't believe that set you off, Malik," Ryou muttered, holding back a chuckle.
"What did he say?" everyone asked, crowding around Ryou. "Tell me! Tell us! Tell us!"
Ryou glanced at Malik, who glared, but was unable to stop Ryou from saying, "Malik is upset because they didn't serve any fizzy fruit punch and that's all he likes to drink."
Malik glared at them all before putting his head on the table.
"Well, you could have just told us," sighed Kaiba, rolling his eyes. He snapped his fingers and almost instantly a person came up to the table with a pitcher full of fizzy fruit punch. "Now, any more complaints, or can we get started with this?"
No one said anything, so Kaiba nodded, and a new person came up to the table and lit the candles on Mokuba's cake.
"Make a wish, Mokuba!" Kaiba said, and for a moment everyone stared dubiously at Kaiba who was looking all excited at the fact that his little baby brother was getting a year older.
Just as Mokuba was about to make a wish, the lights dimmed, and cheesy music began to play. A large costumed figure came out of the shadows, and smiled at everyone. "Heya kids!" he said. "How are you today?"
"Heya Chuck E!" Mokuba said happily, "It's my birthday today!"
Malik and Ryou were burying their arms in shame as the furry creature danced around the table singing happy birthday. Finally, he finished his song with a flourish, and then went around the table and hugged everyone. Both Yugi and Bakura hugged back, as did Mokuba, but Kaiba, Ryou and Malik looked ready to kill something as the furry . . . thing . . . hugged them.
And then it disappeared into the shadows and everyone rejoiced. Except for Mokuba, Yugi and Bakura, of course.
"That was the most traumatizing experience in my life," Malik stated simply, and Ryou and Kaiba nodded while Mokuba blew out the candles.
The cake was then cut and served, and everyone had to admit it was probably the best cake they had ever had in their lives.
"Well, duh," Kaiba told them, "Seeing as I paid $250 for it!"
While everyone gasped over how much Kaiba paid for a single cake, Kaiba stole the last piece. Ryou stole twenty of Malik's tickets. Yugi grinned.
"250 dollars," muttered Yami as he shook his head, eating his piece of cake. "Hmmm, Yugi?"
"Yeah?"
"What's 250 divided by 7?"
"Roughly 35, why?"
Yami just simply groaned. "And Yugi?"
"Yeah?"
"What's 35 divided by 11?"
"Roughly 3, why?"
Yami groaned again. "Three dollars per bite of cake. Kaiba, you're nuts."
Kaiba grinned before laughing insanely.
"I'm in here, Mokuba," Seto Kaiba said, stepping out from one of the many doors. "What is it?"
"My birthday is tomorrow!" Mokuba announced happily.
"Don't worry, I didn't forget, if that's what you're worried about," Kaiba said, smiling, and ruffling his brothers hair. "I have a present for you already, even."
"I knew that, but I was wondering . . ." Mokuba looked at the ground, and said, "Could I have a birthday party?" He looked up hopefully, "There's a place, called Chuck E. Cheeses, and it's the coolest place! So can I please have a birthday party there, please Seto?"
Kaiba looked at his younger brother, who was looking so sad and hopeful at the same time, and there was just no way he could refuse the littler boy. "Certainly. I'll go and book the place for tomorrow, and you can invite all your friends."
"That's another thing," Mokuba asked, "I was wondering if you could have Yugi and his friends come! I like Yugi and Bakura; they're really nice to me. But if I asked them, they'd probably say no. But if you asked them, Seto, I know they'll come! Please?"
Once again faced with the puppy dog pleading face of Mokuba, Kaiba could only say, "Sure, Mokuba. I'll talk to them this afternoon and tomorrow you can have your party."
Kaiba was as good as his word. The next morning, he booked out the entire Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. Then he politely asked (read: threatened with dismemberment if they didn't come) every to come, and they all agreed to come.
And so, Mokuba happily skipped into the brightly lit and cheery place that is Chuck E. Cheese. "Wow, this is great! Did you really book the entire place, Seto, did you?"
"Yes, I did," Kaiba paused before entering, and flinching at the brightness and cheerfulness that is Chuck E. Cheese. He glanced out a window and saw a squirrel sitting contently on a branch eating a piece of pizza. "That's just . . . wrong . . ."
"When are the others getting here?" asked Mokuba, looking around excitedly. Save for the people working there, there was no one inside.
"In a few minutes," Kaiba said, glancing at his high tech watch, which not only displayed the time, but also the phase of the moon, the tides, and the earths current distance from the sun.
"I can't wait!" Mokuba said, very excited.
Indeed, soon, everyone started arriving. First was Yami and Yugi. Yugi greeted Mokuba happily, and Yami and Kaiba sort of glared at each other.
"I can't wait to play games, can you, Yugi?" Mokuba said happily.
"Yeah, it'll be fun!" agreed Yugi, "Happy birthday Mokuba!" He handed the boy a present, and Kaiba and Yami both stopped glaring at each other long enough to notice that Mokuba was not less than two inches shorter than Yugi.
After that, Bakura and his yami (who shall now be referred to as Ryou) arrived. Bakura and Yugi and Mokuba talked excitedly about the games they were going to play, and went to arrange Mokuba's presents in the meantime in the other half of the place.
"Why am I here?" Ryou complained to Yami, who shrugged.
"I dunno, who invites tomb raiders to their birthday party anyway?" Yami smirked. "Myself, being the king of games, it is OBVIOUS why I am here."
"Oh, that sounds like a challenge to me," Ryou promptly said. "Come on, let's have a bet. Let's see who can get the most tickets today, shall we, Pharaoh?"
"I can not turn down an offer like that," Yami said, "How about winner gets all the tickets?"
"Alright, that's acceptable. May the best man - me - win," Ryou said happily.
He and Yami didn't even bother to shake hands on it. Not like they'd even care to touch each others hand.
Finally, the last person arrived. Malik (no yami; his yami was busy terrorizing peasants in Zimbabwe) entered the cheerful room and glared, instantly bringing the cheerfulness levels around him down to negative eight.
"You!" he said, glaring at Yami. "Your days are numbered, Pharaoh! I'll get you today!"
Yami raised an eyebrow, "I don't think so, Malik!" He reached around to grab his cards, and Malik did the same.
"Hey! No card duels in this building!" Kaiba called out. "Now everyone get their lazy butts into the other room."
So they all went into the other room, which was the restaurant part of the building. Mokuba was grinning very happily as Yugi and Bakura arranged his tall pile of presents.
"We're going to go on the Merry-Go-Round, aren't we, Yugi? And we're going to go through the tunnels too, right? And we'll bring Seto! It'll be great!" Mokuba was saying. Kaiba stalked up to the front and announced, "Alright you pathetic people. You all get ten tokens for being here, but if you want any more, you have to buy them. Go play your pathetic games!"
"Seto, don't be mean to them," Mokuba said, "They all brought me presents!"
Kaiba couldn't help but smile at that, so he said nothing more, but tossed everyone a bag with ten game tokens.
Instantly, Mokuba jumped up, and, grabbing Yugi and Bakura's hands, dragged them out to the other room, which was full of games.
"He's excited, isn't he?" Yami said, following behind at a much more normal pace.
"Just keep an eye on your tickets, Pharaoh, because I want you to see how pathetic you are," Ryou said, glaring. "When you lose, as you are destined to."
Yami glared back.
Malik went over to the games and spotted an innocent little purple box that was proclaimed to be 'Whack-a-gopher!' He wandered up to it, and blinked. "Such pathetic games." He glanced around to make sure no one was watching, and placed a token into the machine. "Whack a gopher indeed." Ignoring the large mallet attached to the game, he got out the millennium rod, and got ready to strike.
Meanwhile, Kaiba slowly wandered into the game area. "These all so stupid. However, they do not look too hard . . . and I see them as merely another change to defeat Yugi! Or his Yami. Whatever."
He made his way over to a game called 'Dinoscore' which consisted of you launching tokens at a bunch of targets, each worth different amounts of tickets. Some were worth none. Kaiba placed a token in the shooter, and took aim.
Click.
"WHAT? I MISSED!?"
Click.
"I missed AGAIN?"
Click.
"This machine must be broken or something!"
Thirty tries later, and not one ticket richer, Kaiba growled at the machine before turned to let the next person use it.
Yami put his coin in the shooter, and took aim.
Click.
Kaiba watched as the coin bounced off every corner of the box before hitting the two hundred ticket target. Yami smirked.
Kaiba stalked off, grumbling, to buy more tokens.
Meanwhile, Malik was busily whacking the gophers with his millennium rod, or, attempting to anyway. "Dammit I missed! And again! You stupid gopher! Take this! How could I have missed?"
Angrily, he jammed the pointy part of the millennium rod into the machine.
"Oops, are sparks supposed to fly from the game like this?" Malik turned away from the game and started whistling innocently, walking away as fast as he could.
"Hmmmm," Mokuba said, eyeing the many games, "What should we do first?"
"That looks like a fun game," Bakura said, pointing to a game where the object was to press a button to get a frog on the screen to catch the falling flies.
"Ok, but lets go on the merry go round first," Mokuba said, pointing to it.
Yugi and Mokuba easily climbed onto the small machine, and Bakura paused. "I seem to be a little, umm, tall for this . . ."
"C'mon Bakura!" Mokuba said, "Please?" He gave Bakura sad, sad, sad puppy eyes, and Bakura had no choice but to duck down and climb onto the third horse. He was too tall to sit on it normally, so he sat sidesaddle, and Mokuba put a token into the machine. Cheesy music started playing, and the ride began.
Meanwhile, Kaiba had gotten some new tokens, and was now eying a new game. Storm stopper. It consisted of a single round console, with flashing lights around the top. You had to press a button and depending where you stopped it was how many tickets you got.
"This seems quite simple," Kaiba thought, putting a few tokens into the machine, and placing his hand over the button.
Click.
"One?!"
Click.
"One AGAIN?"
Click.
"I swear these games are fixed! They're SO fixed!"
Click.
Kaiba was about to pull his hair out in frustration, but he decided that doing that would not be a good idea, and besides, he'd look bad without hair.
Growling, he placed another token in the machine. He was just about to press the button when . . .
Click.
Kaiba's head snapped up as flashing lights began to flash and blaring music began to blare. He glanced at the person who had came up and pressed the other button on the console.
"Not you again!" Kaiba said angrily.
Yami smirked, and collected his tickets. "Seems I truly am the king of game, no?"
Kaiba scowled and walked off to buy more tokens.
"Hmmmm," Malik said quietly to himself, spotting another game that caught his interest. "Spider stomp?" He walked up to a console that consisted of a platform you stood on and stomped on the lights as they lit up. "Mwahahahaha!" he laughed, the air around him becoming dark and evil. He stepped onto the console, and pressed 'start.'
"Hey, this is pretty fun, isn't it?" Mokuba asked Yugi as the merry-go- round went around and around.
"Yeah, it is," Yugi said happily.
"I'm starting to get dizzy," Bakura said, his face holding a tint of greenness. "This ride's been going for five minutes now, don't you think that's a bit long?"
Mokuba shook his head, "Nah, we're just getting a good ride for our money!"
Kaiba grinned as he held a token out, "Now I shall finally play a game I can totally master! There is no chance I can lose!" He put a token into the Skee-ball machine, and got ready to plan. He was so absorbed in winning that he didn't notice as Ryou snuck up behind him and stole his few tickets.
Malik pressed the 'hard' difficultly; he was sure he could handle it. Instantly, two lights lit up and he stomped on them quickly. As soon as he had done that, two more lit up in their place.
'This is harder than I perceived, but I have the millennium rod!' Malik thought, and stomped on the lights. Only one light lit up and he easily hit it. 'They're trying to lull me into a sense of security!' Only one more light lit up. 'I refuse to be tricked!' Only one more lit up. 'Ok, maybe it's almost over.'
He relaxed a tad, and immediately three lit up. 'noooo!' he thought as he slammed one with one foot, another with his other foot, and stuck out the millennium rod to get the third one, but overshot and fell on his butt.
Um, if it was any consolation to him, he did manage to hit all three, ending the game with a perfect score.
'Ouch. . . .' he thought angrily, and glared at the game. "No game should dare to try to hurt me!" He put the millennium rod through the base of the game and stalked off as smoke started pouring forth.
"Come on, 100!" Kaiba said as he rolled the ball down the lane. "WHAT? TEN POINTS! THIS GAME IS RIGGED TOO!"
Suddenly, flashing lights began flashing at the lane next to him; Yami had gotten a perfect score of 900.
"IT'S NOT FAIR!" screamed Kaiba and stalked off to buy more tokens.
Only he didn't have any time to buy tokens as someone announced, "Will all participants of Mokuba Kaiba's Birthday Party please report to the party room?"
Kaiba scowled as he stalked over there. "That would be all of us."
A few minutes later, Yami entered, holding a ton of tickets, and Ryou entered behind him, also with a ton of tickets. Malik stormed in behind them, muttering angrily about stupid games that broke too easily.
Three minutes later, Kaiba said, "Ok, now it could just be me, but when you have a birthday party, doesn't the person receiving the party usually come when their party is announced?"
"Where IS Mokuba, anyway?" asked Yami.
"I saw him riding the merry go round," said Ryou, shrugging, and stealing a couple of Yami's tickets.
"That should be done in a minute, then," Kaiba said, and everyone sat down, staring at the cake.
Five minutes later, neither Mokuba nor Yugi nor Bakura had arrived.
"Alright, that's it, let's go find him," growled Kaiba, worried that Bakura and Yugi might have hurt his little brother. Of course, that was a stupid idea as both Yugi and Bakura were perfectly nice.
"Get me off of this," sighed Bakura as he turned a shade greener.
"This ride has been going for quite awhile," Yugi agreed.
"Wheee!" said Mokuba.
"There you have it," Malik said drolly, "They're on the bloody merry go round."
"C'mon Mokuba, it's time for cake. Get off the Merry-go-round," Kaiba said.
"But Seto, that's a waste of my token and you always say that nothing should never ever be wasted! You said so, Seto, you said so!" Mokuba said.
"But . . . but . . ." Kaiba sighed. "Your cake will get warm," he warned, but said nothing else.
Bakura groaned and turned a shade greener.
Malik growled and said, "Oh, enough of this!" Taking out his ever faithful millennium rod, he smashed it into the side of the merry go round, causing it to slowly sputter to a stop.
"Hey, what did you do that for?" Mokuba asked, tears threatening to spring forth as his eyes got huge and sad.
And it was living proof that no one could possibly upset the cuteness that is Mokuba Kaiba as Malik actually sighed and said, "I'm sorry."
"C'mon Mokuba, let's go get cake," Kaiba said, and Mokuba instantly darted into the party room, merry go round long forgotten.
Following after Mokuba, Kaiba sighed, but he had to admit - Mokuba was just too freaking cute and stuff for his own good. He could get anyone to do anything for him.
Inside the party room, everyone sat down, and Mokuba looked at his cake happily. Yugi sat on one side of him, and Kaiba on the other.
"Wow, this looks like a great cake, Mokuba," Yugi said.
"My brother Seto ordered it specially for me! It's chocolate with white frosting and raspberry jam!" Mokuba said, hugging his brother, who couldn't help but to smile.
Some people came in and put pitchers of pop on the table. Instantly, everyone started grabbing for them to get some pop.
Yami and Ryou both reached for the cherry coke, and then glared at each other. After a long but exciting glaring contest, Yami finally blinked, and Ryou grabbed the pitcher happily. After he poured the drink into his cup he added about fifteen packets of sugar.
Yami scowled as he poured himself some cherry coke and then added sugar himself.
Bakura got some diet coke, Yugi got coke, Mokuba got root beer, and then everyone glanced at Malik, who was pouting.
"It doesn't fit your image to pout," Yami said, "What's the matter?"
Malik glared, "Like I'd tell YOU!" he stared at the table and glared again.
"What is it, Malik?" Yugi asked. "You can tell us, we're your friends."
"Or not," Yami muttered.
Malik shot a dirty look at Yami, and still said nothing.
"Just leave him alone," Kaiba said, pouring himself a cup of water.
Ryou glanced at Malik. "What's up?"
Malik's eyes darted back and forth, and then he leaned over and muttered something to Ryou, who suddenly grinned before bursting out in laughter.
"Don't LAUGH!" Malik said, standing up and a dark cloud forming over him. A lightning bolt flashed, nearly taking off Kaiba's head.
"Hey, watch it," He said, sipping his water.
"I can't believe that set you off, Malik," Ryou muttered, holding back a chuckle.
"What did he say?" everyone asked, crowding around Ryou. "Tell me! Tell us! Tell us!"
Ryou glanced at Malik, who glared, but was unable to stop Ryou from saying, "Malik is upset because they didn't serve any fizzy fruit punch and that's all he likes to drink."
Malik glared at them all before putting his head on the table.
"Well, you could have just told us," sighed Kaiba, rolling his eyes. He snapped his fingers and almost instantly a person came up to the table with a pitcher full of fizzy fruit punch. "Now, any more complaints, or can we get started with this?"
No one said anything, so Kaiba nodded, and a new person came up to the table and lit the candles on Mokuba's cake.
"Make a wish, Mokuba!" Kaiba said, and for a moment everyone stared dubiously at Kaiba who was looking all excited at the fact that his little baby brother was getting a year older.
Just as Mokuba was about to make a wish, the lights dimmed, and cheesy music began to play. A large costumed figure came out of the shadows, and smiled at everyone. "Heya kids!" he said. "How are you today?"
"Heya Chuck E!" Mokuba said happily, "It's my birthday today!"
Malik and Ryou were burying their arms in shame as the furry creature danced around the table singing happy birthday. Finally, he finished his song with a flourish, and then went around the table and hugged everyone. Both Yugi and Bakura hugged back, as did Mokuba, but Kaiba, Ryou and Malik looked ready to kill something as the furry . . . thing . . . hugged them.
And then it disappeared into the shadows and everyone rejoiced. Except for Mokuba, Yugi and Bakura, of course.
"That was the most traumatizing experience in my life," Malik stated simply, and Ryou and Kaiba nodded while Mokuba blew out the candles.
The cake was then cut and served, and everyone had to admit it was probably the best cake they had ever had in their lives.
"Well, duh," Kaiba told them, "Seeing as I paid $250 for it!"
While everyone gasped over how much Kaiba paid for a single cake, Kaiba stole the last piece. Ryou stole twenty of Malik's tickets. Yugi grinned.
"250 dollars," muttered Yami as he shook his head, eating his piece of cake. "Hmmm, Yugi?"
"Yeah?"
"What's 250 divided by 7?"
"Roughly 35, why?"
Yami just simply groaned. "And Yugi?"
"Yeah?"
"What's 35 divided by 11?"
"Roughly 3, why?"
Yami groaned again. "Three dollars per bite of cake. Kaiba, you're nuts."
Kaiba grinned before laughing insanely.