Invisible Touch
Chapter 23
Twenty minutes later, Junior takes a glance at the other students and scoffs, "This is it? These riffraffs are wearing dorky clothes."
"Junior, that's their school uniform," Dark corrected the teen. "As long as you're going to this school, you're gonna have to wear a uniform."
"No way! I'm not reducing myself to a geek in uniform. I'll end up like my dad."
"I don't know why you're so uptight. Bakura went to this school long before you were born. Now let's go."
The magician got out of the car. Immediately, the students began snickering and muttering. Junior sank in his seat while blushing. 'This is so humiliating,' he thought. 'I arrive at a campus and I get a truckload of snickering.'
Dark opens the car door and jerks the teen out. On their way to the office, a teenage girl came up to Junior and batted her eyes. "Hello there...."
The magician covers Junior's mouth and answers for him, "He's not up for grabs. Trust me, it wouldn't work out with you two."
The girl blinks in shock, 'How did he know I was gonna ask if he is up for grabs?'
The two newcomers continued towards the office. When they finally got there, Junior looks around to see a few new students staring at him for a brief second. One student with blond hair gathered the courage to introduce himself to the green-haired teen, "Hi!"
"Hello," Junior replies unenthusiastically.
"I like your hair color."
"Thanks. My mother dyed it for me."
"I tried to dye my hair blue, but I can never get it to be like that."
"Oh."
"I'm Cliff."
"Junior. Nice to meet you, Cliff."
"You hate this school don't you?"
"To no end. I loathe this school. They're gonna force me to wear a damn uniform."
"I know how you feel. I'm here for the same reason. I'm just waiting for my dad to get here. By the way, why is the Dark Magician with you?"
"He's an android. He's filling in for my mom."
"What does your mom do?"
"She owns a company that sells makeup and hair dye."
"Are you related to Miss Harmony?"
"Yes, she's my mother. She's marrying Seto Kaiba tomorrow."
"Wow! A beauty marrying a beast."
The two laugh at the joke. Junior continues the conversation, "I'm not quite happy that he's marrying my mother, but if it makes her happy...."
"That's understanding," Cliff agrees.
"What does your father do?"
"He owns a game shop."
"Is your father named Yugi Moto?"
"Yes, do you know him?"
"My mom does and so does my dad. In a way, he does know me. As of now, he banned me from his store."
"He can't do that! He said if I ever have friends, he can't kick them out. So, if you were my friend, he can't do that."
"Why is that? Is it his rule?"
"It's more of a manner."
Soon, the magician came up to Junior with a schedule, "Junior, here's your schedule."
Junior takes it and looks it over. "Hmm, I have a lot of good subjects. Music...awesome! Chemistry....snoresville. Ouch! I have Algebra for sixth hour."
"That's a drag!" Cliff groans, "I have the same class with you."
"You don't seem too happy."
"It's the teacher. They say he's the ugliest motherfucker who crawled out of the bowels of an old corporation."
"Yikes! He's sounds like a demon."
"Our last teacher had to leave for a sex change. Went from cuddly cute to a babe."
"Ick! A man to a woman!"
Then Dark pulls Junior aside to speak to him, "Junior, I've talked to those bloodhounds, and they said you can still wear your clothes, but you have to wear this jacket."
The magician pulls it out of his hiding place and shows it to the teen. Junior squirmed, "Yuck! I'm not wearing that eyesore! That jacket looks like Yugi Moto's."
A fight commenced. After the cloud faded, Junior stood in place wearing the damned jacket with his arms crossed. Dark had this goofy look on his face while his hands joined palm to palm. "Junior, you look so cute."
"I think I'm gonna puke," Junior replies crinkling his nose.
"C'mon, Junior, you'll be late for class."
As the magician drags the teen out of the office, Cliff waved goodbye. Junior gave up fighting the magician and gave in.
Somewhere downtown, Anjel is planning the wedding for tomorrow. Everything on her list is over and done with. All she has to do now is plan her honeymoon. She could picture it now. A beautiful wedding and a wonderful honeymoon. It'll be just Seto and her. None of her evil relatives will interfere her special day, so she has this made.
After taking care of a few things, she looks at her watch. "Noon already? No wonder I'm starving."
She stops at a pizza parlor for a lunch break. During that time, she noticed a male wearing dark clothes and a hat sitting very close to her. Ignoring this stranger, she resumes eating. At some point, the stranger removes his sunglasses. Anjel looks up and is in a state of shock. The dark stranger is none other than a face she didn't expect to see at the wedding. So, she froze in place saying only the name she never imagined she would say in years, "Uncle Max."
"Hello there, sweetie," the older male greeted.
"I-I thought you were dead."
"I wasn't dead at all. You lived with a genius for a long time, you pick up a few tricks."
"You made an android of yourself? What about Marik?"
"He's alive and breathing. In fact, he's tracking down your soon-to- be husband for a man-to-man chat. You're getting married and you didn't bother to tell me."
"The list was short. I only invited my friends and their family to witness the marriage. Uncle Max, what do you want from me?"
"Anjel, I'm not here to take your seven cards. I'm here to wish you all the happiness in the world. I know what I've done in the past is terrible. I was afraid to lose you."
"I think I understand now, Uncle Max."
"So, for fifteen years, I've fought myself to stay sober. Day and night, I wanted a shot of whiskey."
"What stopped you?"
"You. I realized I've done more than hurt you mentally. I've broken your spirit, and it can't be healed."
"I know. You were drinking to drown your sorrows, but somewhere along the line the liquor got the best of you."
Pegasus patted her head, "I know you'll be a good wife."
"Thanks," Anjel smiled.
"There's one other thing that still bothers me. What did you ever see in Kaiba?"
Anjel laughs, "I guess it was my awkward period."
Later that day, Junior is in his fifth hour class drawing something on his arm since he got bored. The bell rings ending the hour. Junior gathers his stuff and headed for his last hour class: Algebra. He made it having three minutes to spare. A minute later, he sees Cliff....wearing the same damn jacket. Junior blinks, "Et tu Judas?"
"Yup. This bites!" Cliff spat.
Junior moves closer to Cliff to talk to him. He glances at the chalkboard, "Who's the teacher?"
"Dunno," Cliff shrugs, "I heard he's tough as nails."
"I see the last teacher must have been polite to clean the chalkboard."
"Hey, what's that on your arm?"
"Oh, I drew a picture of a rose with sharp pedals."
"Cool. Are you thinking of getting a tattoo?"
"Yup."
The bell rings. The students found a seat and sat down. Junior lowers his head for a moment. When he looks up, he became stunned. He stammers a few words and choked on one. Cliff compares the teacher and Junior and says, "Hey, he looks just like you only he's a dork!"
Junior sank in his chair, "Damn it! He's everywhere."
The teacher began writing out his name on the blackboard. Cliff whispered the name to Junior, "It's Mr. Kaiba. My mistake, he's the king of darkness."
The green-haired teen replies, "Cliff, that's my dad!"
"Is that why you're sinking in your chair?"
"Yes, I'm trying to hide."
Seto turns to Junior and approached calmly. For poor Junior, it was a living hell. Not only is his demented father living at home and marrying his mother, he had to be the teacher. "I noticed you sinking in your seat. Since this is your first day here, I will ask you why you're doing that."
"I have the shits. Take a guess, smart-ass."
The students laughs uproariously.
Seto raised a brow and faces the class, "Okay, class, this is rule number one. There will be absolutely no swearing. This will give you immediate access to the principal's office. However, this person happens to be my son."
The students snickered and made an 'o-h-h-h-h-h' noise. Seto yanks his son up and out of his chair and forced him to come up to the front of the class. Junior blushed deeply.
"Now then," Seto continued, "don't you have something to say to your friends about your love life with a certain rockstar?"
"Why don't you suck my dick, motherfucker?" Junior blurted.
The class laughed again, but Seto lost his cool and slaps the teen upside his head. "Ow!" Junior cries out. Then the class settled down.
Seto explains, "Normally, I would send you to the principal for that kind of language, but since you're my son, I'll just have to tell your mother about this little incident when she gets home."
"Some threat," Junior scoffs, "she can't even lay one finger on me."
"Maybe she can't but I can."
"Go to hell." Then the teen darts out of the classroom. Ten seconds later, Junior walked backwards as he stared into the eyes of the principal with a huge grin on his face. "Going somewhere, Mr. Kaiba?" the principal asks.
"To the restroom. I have an overactive bladder," Junior fibbed.
"It's not going to work. You stay in this classroom until school is over."
"Yes sir."
Still keeping eye contact, Junior sat down in his seat completely miffed. After he sits down, he crosses his arms and snorted at the principal. Just in case, the principal pulls up a chair and sat down blocking the doorway. Seto continued the lesson where the last teacher left off. Writing a problem on the blackboard, Junior immediately figured it out. So, he dozed off. When Seto called out his name, Junior answers the problem not opening his eyes. The entire class glanced at him oddly.
"That's right. How did you know that?" Seto asks the teen.
"I've taken this class in Egypt. My mother taught me half of the material when I was only nine," Junior answered boldly.
"Okay, Junior, answer this problem." The older male writes down the problem. Once again, the green-haired teen answers the problem, this time his eyes were open. Seto sighs deeply and beckons the teen. Junior stands up and came forth. "Did your mother teach you every subject while you were living in Egypt?"
"Yes," Junior nods, "and she also taught me how to create androids."
The classmates became amazed by the teenage genius. "As of now, I'm working on a blueprint," Junior pulls out the blueprint. "This android will be the Musician King."
Seto examines it over and over again. Sadly, he couldn't understand much of the equations, "Junior, most of the materials are hard to find."
"That only proves what you know. I can find all the parts."
"Oh yeah? You're gonna find Gitaroo Man's mind?"
"I asked Uncle Mokuba to borrow the game."
"The game is not the brat's mind."
"I'm not finished. I'm just gonna transfer the information of his guitar skills to the Musician King's mind."
"I give up. Okay, Junior, you win. You don't have to do homework ever again."
"Cool!"
"Now sit down and do whatever, but no headsets in class."
"I didn't bring a headset. I bring in blueprints."
"Whatever."
Junior sits back down in his seat and works on his blueprints. He had three of them. One for the Musician King, another for the Moon Envoy, and the last one is for the Dancing Elf. Each one is very complicating to build and to program. Getting one of the androids to hover is the hardest for Junior, and if it is for sale, it'll cost more than five vehicles. For all androids to talk, he began assembling a voice box as small as a dice.
Cliff watched as Junior assembles it piece by piece. Tiny pieces of metal and wires were inserted into the little box. What's strange is the black object in Junior's ear. It looked like a hearing aid but there was a antennae going up and to the side. Cliff tapped Junior on the shoulder, "Hey, J. What's that sticking out of your ear?"
Junior drops the tweezers and faces the other teen, "Don't tell my dad. It's a radio."
"It looks like a hearing aid."
"Good. The last thing I want to hear is my dad nagging."
"Not that you can out of one ear."
They snicker. Cliff continues the conversation. "So, what else does it do? Or is that all it can do?"
"Well, I can play music I downloaded. Most of them are seven to ten minutes long. This little device can play up to three hours of music," Junior explains.
"Wow! How long did it take you to create something like that?"
"Three days. If it was my mom, it may take her weeks."
The time seemed to fly by faster when the students pretended to listen. Somehow, this behavior bothered Seto. If the class didn't listen, there's a problem. Since this is only his first day as a teacher, it's best to give him a few days to get their attention.
That night, Junior packs up his belongings and left the mansion after saying goodbye to his parents. One android wanted the teen to stay.
"I'm sorry you feel that way," Junior replies, "but I have to live my life now."
The magician firmly grasps the teen's legs pleading, "Don't go, Junior. I don't wanna stay here alone with..." He turns to the others, scornfully, "them!"
"Dark, let go of my legs. I have to go now."
"Can't I go with you? I'll do anything."
"There's nothing I can do. So get that look out of your eyes and let go of my legs."
"I won't be a burden. I'll clean up after you two, do all of your chores."
"Are you that desperate?"
"No, I just want to get out of this place. It's filled with freaks and weirdos."
Celtic gazed at a poker and hits the wall leaving a gaping hole. Chaos is on the couch snoring loudly. Mystra is dusting the room using a dry dishrag. And Annabelle is vacuuming the floor lifting the furniture up to reach those small spaces regardless.
"Oh, I see your point," Junior frowns.
"Please, they're gonna turn me into another one of them," Dark cried. "I don't wanna be another idiot."
"Oh, alright! You can be our housekeeper."
Dark hugs the teen tightly squealing happily, "Whee! Thank you!"
Anjel enters the room, "Junior, Bakura's waiting for you outside."
Junior asks his mother one last question, "Mom, is it okay to take Dark? He said he wants out of this place."
The beauty faces the magician and nods, "I don't care. I think it's time for him to leave this mansion for good."
"Mom, are you sure? He lived here for a long time. You created him when you were a teen."
"I know, and now it's time for Dark to leave the nest. His job here is finished."
Dark lifted Junior's suitcases. The teen snickers and left the mansion letting the magician follow him from behind. Outside, Bakura noticed the magician. "Junior, why is he following you?"
"Bakura, he's coming with us. He's gonna be our housekeeper," the teen smiled.
"Let me guess. He doesn't want to stay in that rathole for another second," the white-haired rockstar guessed.
"Right."
"Well, if he's gonna be out in the real world, he's gonna need a whole new wardrobe. As far as I'm concerned, that purple outfit has got to go."
"What's wrong with this outfit?" the magician asks innocently.
Junior places a hand on his shoulder, "Dark, if you're gonna live with us, it's best to look good. Let's just say what you're wearing is old." The teen and Bakura examines the magician.
"Why are you two looking at me funny?" the magician blinks in confusion.
They didn't listen. Junior suggested something, "Bakura, you still have extra clothes?"
"Yes," the rockstar nods. "but I doubt some of it fits him."
"We'll find something."
The magician's clothing is forced off his body. There he stood wearing nothing but a tanktop and boxers with stars and planets on them. Junior snatches a black shirt from a suitcase and puts it on the magician. Bakura grabs a pair of blue jeans, knocks down the magician and slips it on the fallen victim. Junior grabs a pair of white socks and began putting them on Dark's feet while Bakura fastens the jeans and zips it up. Dressing Dark isn't easy. From the time he had the shirt on, the magician didn't want to cooperate. All he did was wiggle around trying to fight them. After Junior zips up the black boots, Dark stops the wiggling. Bakura sits the magician up and began tying his purple hair up into a ponytail. Finally, the two stopped and viewed their creative work. "Now he looks decent enough to walk freely as a normal person," Junior chirped.
Bakura added one thing to complete their work. He slips a dark blue jacket on the magician without notice. "There, now he won't freeze to death."
Junior raises a brow, "Ugh! Now he looks like crap!"
"He does not! That was the same jacket I wore to my last concert."
"Oops..."
"Let's go."
Inside the mansion, Anjel watched her only son, her first android created, and Bakura drive off never to be seen again. What happens the next day will cheer her up........
To be continued.........
Chapter 23
Twenty minutes later, Junior takes a glance at the other students and scoffs, "This is it? These riffraffs are wearing dorky clothes."
"Junior, that's their school uniform," Dark corrected the teen. "As long as you're going to this school, you're gonna have to wear a uniform."
"No way! I'm not reducing myself to a geek in uniform. I'll end up like my dad."
"I don't know why you're so uptight. Bakura went to this school long before you were born. Now let's go."
The magician got out of the car. Immediately, the students began snickering and muttering. Junior sank in his seat while blushing. 'This is so humiliating,' he thought. 'I arrive at a campus and I get a truckload of snickering.'
Dark opens the car door and jerks the teen out. On their way to the office, a teenage girl came up to Junior and batted her eyes. "Hello there...."
The magician covers Junior's mouth and answers for him, "He's not up for grabs. Trust me, it wouldn't work out with you two."
The girl blinks in shock, 'How did he know I was gonna ask if he is up for grabs?'
The two newcomers continued towards the office. When they finally got there, Junior looks around to see a few new students staring at him for a brief second. One student with blond hair gathered the courage to introduce himself to the green-haired teen, "Hi!"
"Hello," Junior replies unenthusiastically.
"I like your hair color."
"Thanks. My mother dyed it for me."
"I tried to dye my hair blue, but I can never get it to be like that."
"Oh."
"I'm Cliff."
"Junior. Nice to meet you, Cliff."
"You hate this school don't you?"
"To no end. I loathe this school. They're gonna force me to wear a damn uniform."
"I know how you feel. I'm here for the same reason. I'm just waiting for my dad to get here. By the way, why is the Dark Magician with you?"
"He's an android. He's filling in for my mom."
"What does your mom do?"
"She owns a company that sells makeup and hair dye."
"Are you related to Miss Harmony?"
"Yes, she's my mother. She's marrying Seto Kaiba tomorrow."
"Wow! A beauty marrying a beast."
The two laugh at the joke. Junior continues the conversation, "I'm not quite happy that he's marrying my mother, but if it makes her happy...."
"That's understanding," Cliff agrees.
"What does your father do?"
"He owns a game shop."
"Is your father named Yugi Moto?"
"Yes, do you know him?"
"My mom does and so does my dad. In a way, he does know me. As of now, he banned me from his store."
"He can't do that! He said if I ever have friends, he can't kick them out. So, if you were my friend, he can't do that."
"Why is that? Is it his rule?"
"It's more of a manner."
Soon, the magician came up to Junior with a schedule, "Junior, here's your schedule."
Junior takes it and looks it over. "Hmm, I have a lot of good subjects. Music...awesome! Chemistry....snoresville. Ouch! I have Algebra for sixth hour."
"That's a drag!" Cliff groans, "I have the same class with you."
"You don't seem too happy."
"It's the teacher. They say he's the ugliest motherfucker who crawled out of the bowels of an old corporation."
"Yikes! He's sounds like a demon."
"Our last teacher had to leave for a sex change. Went from cuddly cute to a babe."
"Ick! A man to a woman!"
Then Dark pulls Junior aside to speak to him, "Junior, I've talked to those bloodhounds, and they said you can still wear your clothes, but you have to wear this jacket."
The magician pulls it out of his hiding place and shows it to the teen. Junior squirmed, "Yuck! I'm not wearing that eyesore! That jacket looks like Yugi Moto's."
A fight commenced. After the cloud faded, Junior stood in place wearing the damned jacket with his arms crossed. Dark had this goofy look on his face while his hands joined palm to palm. "Junior, you look so cute."
"I think I'm gonna puke," Junior replies crinkling his nose.
"C'mon, Junior, you'll be late for class."
As the magician drags the teen out of the office, Cliff waved goodbye. Junior gave up fighting the magician and gave in.
Somewhere downtown, Anjel is planning the wedding for tomorrow. Everything on her list is over and done with. All she has to do now is plan her honeymoon. She could picture it now. A beautiful wedding and a wonderful honeymoon. It'll be just Seto and her. None of her evil relatives will interfere her special day, so she has this made.
After taking care of a few things, she looks at her watch. "Noon already? No wonder I'm starving."
She stops at a pizza parlor for a lunch break. During that time, she noticed a male wearing dark clothes and a hat sitting very close to her. Ignoring this stranger, she resumes eating. At some point, the stranger removes his sunglasses. Anjel looks up and is in a state of shock. The dark stranger is none other than a face she didn't expect to see at the wedding. So, she froze in place saying only the name she never imagined she would say in years, "Uncle Max."
"Hello there, sweetie," the older male greeted.
"I-I thought you were dead."
"I wasn't dead at all. You lived with a genius for a long time, you pick up a few tricks."
"You made an android of yourself? What about Marik?"
"He's alive and breathing. In fact, he's tracking down your soon-to- be husband for a man-to-man chat. You're getting married and you didn't bother to tell me."
"The list was short. I only invited my friends and their family to witness the marriage. Uncle Max, what do you want from me?"
"Anjel, I'm not here to take your seven cards. I'm here to wish you all the happiness in the world. I know what I've done in the past is terrible. I was afraid to lose you."
"I think I understand now, Uncle Max."
"So, for fifteen years, I've fought myself to stay sober. Day and night, I wanted a shot of whiskey."
"What stopped you?"
"You. I realized I've done more than hurt you mentally. I've broken your spirit, and it can't be healed."
"I know. You were drinking to drown your sorrows, but somewhere along the line the liquor got the best of you."
Pegasus patted her head, "I know you'll be a good wife."
"Thanks," Anjel smiled.
"There's one other thing that still bothers me. What did you ever see in Kaiba?"
Anjel laughs, "I guess it was my awkward period."
Later that day, Junior is in his fifth hour class drawing something on his arm since he got bored. The bell rings ending the hour. Junior gathers his stuff and headed for his last hour class: Algebra. He made it having three minutes to spare. A minute later, he sees Cliff....wearing the same damn jacket. Junior blinks, "Et tu Judas?"
"Yup. This bites!" Cliff spat.
Junior moves closer to Cliff to talk to him. He glances at the chalkboard, "Who's the teacher?"
"Dunno," Cliff shrugs, "I heard he's tough as nails."
"I see the last teacher must have been polite to clean the chalkboard."
"Hey, what's that on your arm?"
"Oh, I drew a picture of a rose with sharp pedals."
"Cool. Are you thinking of getting a tattoo?"
"Yup."
The bell rings. The students found a seat and sat down. Junior lowers his head for a moment. When he looks up, he became stunned. He stammers a few words and choked on one. Cliff compares the teacher and Junior and says, "Hey, he looks just like you only he's a dork!"
Junior sank in his chair, "Damn it! He's everywhere."
The teacher began writing out his name on the blackboard. Cliff whispered the name to Junior, "It's Mr. Kaiba. My mistake, he's the king of darkness."
The green-haired teen replies, "Cliff, that's my dad!"
"Is that why you're sinking in your chair?"
"Yes, I'm trying to hide."
Seto turns to Junior and approached calmly. For poor Junior, it was a living hell. Not only is his demented father living at home and marrying his mother, he had to be the teacher. "I noticed you sinking in your seat. Since this is your first day here, I will ask you why you're doing that."
"I have the shits. Take a guess, smart-ass."
The students laughs uproariously.
Seto raised a brow and faces the class, "Okay, class, this is rule number one. There will be absolutely no swearing. This will give you immediate access to the principal's office. However, this person happens to be my son."
The students snickered and made an 'o-h-h-h-h-h' noise. Seto yanks his son up and out of his chair and forced him to come up to the front of the class. Junior blushed deeply.
"Now then," Seto continued, "don't you have something to say to your friends about your love life with a certain rockstar?"
"Why don't you suck my dick, motherfucker?" Junior blurted.
The class laughed again, but Seto lost his cool and slaps the teen upside his head. "Ow!" Junior cries out. Then the class settled down.
Seto explains, "Normally, I would send you to the principal for that kind of language, but since you're my son, I'll just have to tell your mother about this little incident when she gets home."
"Some threat," Junior scoffs, "she can't even lay one finger on me."
"Maybe she can't but I can."
"Go to hell." Then the teen darts out of the classroom. Ten seconds later, Junior walked backwards as he stared into the eyes of the principal with a huge grin on his face. "Going somewhere, Mr. Kaiba?" the principal asks.
"To the restroom. I have an overactive bladder," Junior fibbed.
"It's not going to work. You stay in this classroom until school is over."
"Yes sir."
Still keeping eye contact, Junior sat down in his seat completely miffed. After he sits down, he crosses his arms and snorted at the principal. Just in case, the principal pulls up a chair and sat down blocking the doorway. Seto continued the lesson where the last teacher left off. Writing a problem on the blackboard, Junior immediately figured it out. So, he dozed off. When Seto called out his name, Junior answers the problem not opening his eyes. The entire class glanced at him oddly.
"That's right. How did you know that?" Seto asks the teen.
"I've taken this class in Egypt. My mother taught me half of the material when I was only nine," Junior answered boldly.
"Okay, Junior, answer this problem." The older male writes down the problem. Once again, the green-haired teen answers the problem, this time his eyes were open. Seto sighs deeply and beckons the teen. Junior stands up and came forth. "Did your mother teach you every subject while you were living in Egypt?"
"Yes," Junior nods, "and she also taught me how to create androids."
The classmates became amazed by the teenage genius. "As of now, I'm working on a blueprint," Junior pulls out the blueprint. "This android will be the Musician King."
Seto examines it over and over again. Sadly, he couldn't understand much of the equations, "Junior, most of the materials are hard to find."
"That only proves what you know. I can find all the parts."
"Oh yeah? You're gonna find Gitaroo Man's mind?"
"I asked Uncle Mokuba to borrow the game."
"The game is not the brat's mind."
"I'm not finished. I'm just gonna transfer the information of his guitar skills to the Musician King's mind."
"I give up. Okay, Junior, you win. You don't have to do homework ever again."
"Cool!"
"Now sit down and do whatever, but no headsets in class."
"I didn't bring a headset. I bring in blueprints."
"Whatever."
Junior sits back down in his seat and works on his blueprints. He had three of them. One for the Musician King, another for the Moon Envoy, and the last one is for the Dancing Elf. Each one is very complicating to build and to program. Getting one of the androids to hover is the hardest for Junior, and if it is for sale, it'll cost more than five vehicles. For all androids to talk, he began assembling a voice box as small as a dice.
Cliff watched as Junior assembles it piece by piece. Tiny pieces of metal and wires were inserted into the little box. What's strange is the black object in Junior's ear. It looked like a hearing aid but there was a antennae going up and to the side. Cliff tapped Junior on the shoulder, "Hey, J. What's that sticking out of your ear?"
Junior drops the tweezers and faces the other teen, "Don't tell my dad. It's a radio."
"It looks like a hearing aid."
"Good. The last thing I want to hear is my dad nagging."
"Not that you can out of one ear."
They snicker. Cliff continues the conversation. "So, what else does it do? Or is that all it can do?"
"Well, I can play music I downloaded. Most of them are seven to ten minutes long. This little device can play up to three hours of music," Junior explains.
"Wow! How long did it take you to create something like that?"
"Three days. If it was my mom, it may take her weeks."
The time seemed to fly by faster when the students pretended to listen. Somehow, this behavior bothered Seto. If the class didn't listen, there's a problem. Since this is only his first day as a teacher, it's best to give him a few days to get their attention.
That night, Junior packs up his belongings and left the mansion after saying goodbye to his parents. One android wanted the teen to stay.
"I'm sorry you feel that way," Junior replies, "but I have to live my life now."
The magician firmly grasps the teen's legs pleading, "Don't go, Junior. I don't wanna stay here alone with..." He turns to the others, scornfully, "them!"
"Dark, let go of my legs. I have to go now."
"Can't I go with you? I'll do anything."
"There's nothing I can do. So get that look out of your eyes and let go of my legs."
"I won't be a burden. I'll clean up after you two, do all of your chores."
"Are you that desperate?"
"No, I just want to get out of this place. It's filled with freaks and weirdos."
Celtic gazed at a poker and hits the wall leaving a gaping hole. Chaos is on the couch snoring loudly. Mystra is dusting the room using a dry dishrag. And Annabelle is vacuuming the floor lifting the furniture up to reach those small spaces regardless.
"Oh, I see your point," Junior frowns.
"Please, they're gonna turn me into another one of them," Dark cried. "I don't wanna be another idiot."
"Oh, alright! You can be our housekeeper."
Dark hugs the teen tightly squealing happily, "Whee! Thank you!"
Anjel enters the room, "Junior, Bakura's waiting for you outside."
Junior asks his mother one last question, "Mom, is it okay to take Dark? He said he wants out of this place."
The beauty faces the magician and nods, "I don't care. I think it's time for him to leave this mansion for good."
"Mom, are you sure? He lived here for a long time. You created him when you were a teen."
"I know, and now it's time for Dark to leave the nest. His job here is finished."
Dark lifted Junior's suitcases. The teen snickers and left the mansion letting the magician follow him from behind. Outside, Bakura noticed the magician. "Junior, why is he following you?"
"Bakura, he's coming with us. He's gonna be our housekeeper," the teen smiled.
"Let me guess. He doesn't want to stay in that rathole for another second," the white-haired rockstar guessed.
"Right."
"Well, if he's gonna be out in the real world, he's gonna need a whole new wardrobe. As far as I'm concerned, that purple outfit has got to go."
"What's wrong with this outfit?" the magician asks innocently.
Junior places a hand on his shoulder, "Dark, if you're gonna live with us, it's best to look good. Let's just say what you're wearing is old." The teen and Bakura examines the magician.
"Why are you two looking at me funny?" the magician blinks in confusion.
They didn't listen. Junior suggested something, "Bakura, you still have extra clothes?"
"Yes," the rockstar nods. "but I doubt some of it fits him."
"We'll find something."
The magician's clothing is forced off his body. There he stood wearing nothing but a tanktop and boxers with stars and planets on them. Junior snatches a black shirt from a suitcase and puts it on the magician. Bakura grabs a pair of blue jeans, knocks down the magician and slips it on the fallen victim. Junior grabs a pair of white socks and began putting them on Dark's feet while Bakura fastens the jeans and zips it up. Dressing Dark isn't easy. From the time he had the shirt on, the magician didn't want to cooperate. All he did was wiggle around trying to fight them. After Junior zips up the black boots, Dark stops the wiggling. Bakura sits the magician up and began tying his purple hair up into a ponytail. Finally, the two stopped and viewed their creative work. "Now he looks decent enough to walk freely as a normal person," Junior chirped.
Bakura added one thing to complete their work. He slips a dark blue jacket on the magician without notice. "There, now he won't freeze to death."
Junior raises a brow, "Ugh! Now he looks like crap!"
"He does not! That was the same jacket I wore to my last concert."
"Oops..."
"Let's go."
Inside the mansion, Anjel watched her only son, her first android created, and Bakura drive off never to be seen again. What happens the next day will cheer her up........
To be continued.........