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Chapter 15: The Beginning of Our Little Game
"What game are we going to play?" Calendae asked with a voice mockingly polite. Bakura's other, TombRobber, smirked at it and almost looked like laughing. Ann was tense, even in phantom form (strange but true); he could roast them with his gaming skills. He _did_ have centuries of practice you know, and she doubted that he ever lost game (expect against Yami and Yugi of course) and that but their chance of survival very low. Running was the best chance of survival with these guys, not straight out battling them. Calendae was listening to her reasoning.
"Don't worry. The good guys always win."
/ In FICTIONAL places! This is very real Calendae!/
"Humph! You have every little faith, but I shall get us through this."
/ Spare me the heroics/ Ann was getting irritated and frightened with a twisting motion in her gut. Calendae pretended or really didn't notice.
Kaiba on the other hand was looking at them like Ann had completely lost her mind. He was standing there, jaw opened, ( that was the freakiest part of this whole situation. Kaiba's look of being utterly struck dumb.) and blue orbs lit and as wide as possible in the darkened air. Calendae was ignoring his expression and making eye contact with TombRobber, keeping one of Bill's wide 'I really don't know what's going on but I don't care' grins on as he waited an extra moment to see if she was done talking to herself, or so it looked.
"Would a duel suffice?"
"Certainly."
/ I DON'T HAVE MY DECK! /
"Oh, well hang on a moment then…Hey Billyboy!" She looked straight up to the pale face leaning over her head about a staircase up; Bill looked a bit startled by Calendae's sudden appearance as well. Bet he didn't know she could do that.
"Could you please get Ann's deck for me? I sort of need it to get us out of this mess. Please?" It took Bill a moment to wake up from his state of surprise.
"OH!" A few quick hand movements and a jerk of his wrist, a slightly battered looking black box about the size of a poker deck of cards appeared in his hands, which he quickly dropped down to her. Calendae caught it easily and opened the container and pulled out a thick wad of cards and tucked the box into her jeans, creating a large lump that would start bugging her if she ran. Ann was rolling her eyes at this; they wouldn't be running far anyway.
TombRobber had his deck out by now, and was shuffling them hastily. Calendae copied him, almost chuckling at how serious he looked, and Ann just let her legs shake to let off the nervous energy. Bill was started running down the stairs, probably knowing T.R would sweep them off into a shadow duel, and if you weren't in the cloud, even with magic it would be a hell of a hack job. Bakura had suddenly appeared behind Kaiba and drew him in as the purple/black cloud started to blossom around them, Calendae looking around at it in complete and utter awe grinning widely. Bill just made it before they were all gobbled up in it.
"First trip to the shadow realm I see." TombRobber was mocking them, but Calendae had a funny way of ignoring the obvious if you haven't noticed already, that was Ann's main reason to be so annoyed.
"Yes. It is my first trip, very interesting place…peculiar but interesting." Calendae was infatuated with their surroundings, stamping on the floor, and trying catch a bit of cloud fluff but she was failing. Bill and Bakura were sweatdropping at her. Kaiba and TombRobber looked extremely bored of it already.
"Are you done?" TombRobber smoothly asked. Calendae's head swung back to him, wide-eyed but still smiling.
"Oh! Yes, yes, sorry…shall we begin?" This is what Ann guessed he wanted to hear. He pulled out five cards off the top of his deck and waited impatiently for Calendae to draw her five cards one at a time, and finally sit down to use the floor.
/ This is weird. /
"Why?"
/ 'Cause theirs always a dueling station or disk or something…/
"Yes, but can you manage?"
/ Yes, I think I could since I _always_ duel this way. /
"Good then." TombRobber took a card out of his hand and put it face down with a small slap. Calendae blinked at it. After about ten minutes, Bill took out a deck of regular cards and started playing solitaire as Kaiba tapped his foot and yawned loudly, Bakura stretched and looked as if he was going to sleep. Tomb Robber was stiff and unmoving, and so was Calendae until Ann interrupted.
/ It's our turn you know…/
"OH! …What should I do then?" Ann slapped her forehead.
/ You mean to tell me you've never played this game before?!/
"No."
/ We're dead. /
BookDragon: "Sorry this is short guys. I still have to think of what to do in the battle and write a narrative poem about a historical person that my English teacher decided to annoy my class and me with. I don't even have a clue who to write about. "
Bill: "Please review… wish her luck too, she's going to need it!"