A/N- Hey, minna! I'm sorry, but I don't have enough time to respond to
your reviews today. (That's what I get for not reading my summer reading
books during the SUMMER, but hey...I didn't have English till this semester
and why read just so you can forget, huh? Of course it wouldn't be that
way if they would let us read INTERESTING books for that, but no.)
Neways, Thank you all so very much for reviewing and to make it up to you I'm giving every one of you three of your very favorite cookies each!
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Chapter 23
Sitara and Yugi stopped at the base of a large mountain. Yugi looked up at the top, which towered over them threateningly. White snow covered the ground at the top of the mountain and Yugi wished he had something warmer to wear.
"Well, this is it...Vision Mountain," Sitara said as the two teens got off their horses and Sitara told them to meet them on the other side while she grabbed a pack from Allayna's back.
"Will they?" Yugi asked as he watched the horses leave them at a slow pace.
"Will who what?" Sitara asked, vaguely puzzled.
"Will the horses meet us on the other side?"
The two started up the winding trail leading to the top.
"Of course! They're really smart and very loyal as you undoubtedly saw back there where they found us."
He still seemed doubtful, but he knew what she said was true. Sitara seemed to notice this look and said a little forcefully, "Would you just climb?" Yugi shrugged and continued on as the air temperature began to drop slightly.
They climbed all the way up until they were just below the line of snow. It was just like a termocline only above water; the temperature had seemingly dropped at least twenty or something degrees and Yugi was starting to convulse with shivers as was his partner, Sitara. She stopped walking forward and Yugi stopped with her. She drew out some extra garments and two blankets from the pack she had brought with them and tossed them over to Yugi as she donned some more garments herself.
(A/N- a termocline, for those of you that don't scuba dive, is when there are layers of water that get colder the further down you go. You find these especially in lakes and quarries and I must tell you from experience they can be FREEZING!! Sometimes you can even see the layer cuz it looks fuzzy...or something like that I don't know how to describe it, but you can be floating along in warm water and stick your hand below you and your hand will be freezing. Neways back to the story...)
After they were all bundled up in their new layers of clothing, they continued on, up into the snowline. Yugi's clothes below his knees were soaked and frozen by the time they made it all the way to the top.
"Why does she live all the way up here, may I ask?" Yugi panted.
"Yes, you may ask and I have no idea. No wonder everyone thinks she's kinda crazy! How can she stand living in snow like this all the time?"
"Well, we can ask her for ourselves now that we're here. That is HER cottage over there isn't it? I mean no one ELSE lives here do they?"
"Nope, just Isis. Come on, lets go. The sooner we get there the better."
Sitara and Yugi stood in front of the door to Isis's establishment, looking at each other. They were both asking with their eyes, "Do YOU want to open the door," and the other pair of eyes would answer back silently, "NO...YOU do it," and the other would reply, "No, you." On and on the little staring match went on and neither one even notice when the door was opened by Isis.
The fortune teller cleared her throat to get their attention and they both looked up at her, eyes wide. Isis was tall, with black hair and a tan complexion, but what was the most predominant feature about her was her eyes. When she looked at you with those bright blue eyes it felt as if she was giving you an X-ray. It was almost as if by looking into your eyes she could see into the inner most parts of your soul.
She welcomed them and bid them to come in. The two teens complied and found themselves in a small, cozy living room. Poufs and other comfy chairs, which you could sink into, littered the floor around a magnificently carved wooden table. On his left, Yugi saw a doorway leading to the kitchen; and on the right was another one going into a bedroom. The door was almost all the way closed, but Yugi could see a bed against the wall.
"Please, have a seat," Isis told them in a oft voice.
The three of them sat around the table and Sitara asked, "Isn't there something else we have to get to defeat this great evil? You do, of course, know why we are here?"
Isis smiled at them pleasantly, "Yes is the answer to both questions. What you need is the Enhancer. It is a necklace that will enhance the powers of the holder. Id does nothing in the hands of mere mortals. You can find it at the Moon Shrine in the desert. Alone and even combined together, with just the two of you, your magic is not strong enough to overcome this evil, but if you can find the Enhancer you will have enough power to defeat it."
Sitara seemed thoughtful for a moment. "Hm...I...I think I know what you're talking about. Thank you, Isis."
"You are welcome. Now, come sit over here by the fire and warm yourselves. You may rest and eat here. You have another long journey ahead of yourselves."
"Thank you, Isis-san," Yugi told her politely.
She smiled and said, "You may just call me Isis, Yugi."
Yugi gasped, "How did you know-"
//She's a fortune teller, aibou.//
/Oh, right. Thanks./
"Uh...never mind."
"Yes, thanks again. We won't be able to stay that long, I'm afraid. There's a storm heading this way and it doesn't look good. We need to leave before it comes so we don't get snowed in."
"I agree."
Sitara and Yugi dried themselves off by the fire and ate a small meal before departing once more.
"Thank you, once more, Isis, for your services. Well, Yugi, it's time to go."
Yugi, who had for the past few minutes looking around for any kind of fortune telling device, asked, "Where's your crystal ball?"
Sitara looked at him completely puzzled, but Isis simply said, "I don't use a crystal ball to tell the future. That object belongs to your world. I use this." She showed him a golden headdress with the Millennium Symbol on it. (aka- Millennium Necklace.)
Yugi's eyes widened in recognition and called to his counterpart.
/Yami! Do you see that?! It's a Millenium Item!/
//I see that, aibou//
/But what is a Millennium Item doing here?/
//I don't know, but it's something we need to solve.//
Isis broke the "silence" by saying, "Try not to make any loud sounds, so as not to start an avalanche when you go back down the mountain and here...take this with you." She handed Sitara a map which the young princess took thankfully.
"Ok, thanks. Come on, Yugi. It's time for us to go now."
"Ok, bye, Isis!"
"Goodbye and take care little one."
'Grr. I'm not THAT small!'
//Calm down, aibou//
Yugi just decided to ignore him. As it was, it seemed as though it was more difficult trying to go DOWN than it was to go UP. It was a lot easier to slip and slide on the ice, it seemed that most of the snow had been turned to ice thanks to the blizzard winds that had started blowing.
They were actually doing quite well until halfway down when they came to a cliff face. Sitara decided to go the long way around to make sure nothing happened, but when Yugi tried to follow her he slid on a sloping patch of ice, causing him to loose his balance and fall.
He fell down into the snow and slid on the ice right towards the cliff.
//YUGI!// "YUGI!" Yami and Sitara both yelled and Sitara took immediate action. She skied through the ice and three herself on her stomach, catching Yugi by the hands before he suffered the same fate as Kero-oshi.
Unfortunately for them, at that exact moment, the storm fully reached them. Hail rained down on them, stinging in every place it touched. Both Yugi and Sitara's eyes widened and she hastened to pull her friend to safety before it got any worse.
The hail began to get bigger and bigger as Sitara tried her best to pull her small friend up, but just as Yugi was halfway up a sphere of hail the size of a baseball hit her on the temple with such force that she immediately fell down unconscious. Yugi's eyes widened in fear and Yami called his name.
Yugi quickly let go of Sitara's hand so he would not pull her over the side with him. He tried to find a handhold somewhere in the snow, but all there was...was ice. He slowly began to slide back towards the edge...slowly...slowly...until there was nothing left to hold him up and he fell...over the edge.
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After blowing up the toilet and running, screaming, from the room, Yami went into the living room. Upon seeing all the furniture, Yami decided he needed to calm down just a bit. He hopped over the back of the couch and landed on the sitting part of the cushion. As soon as he landed, it shot him right back up into the air a little ways for him to just fall right back down.
Yami's eyes lit up with excitement. "IT BOUNCES!!" he yelled to no one. Immediately, he stood up and started jumping on the couch. Which is how the others found him as they came down the stairs arguing.
Tea was yelling at Joey, "This is all YOUR fault!"
"My fault?! How is this MY fault?!"
"Because YOU are the one that gave, no wait, MADE Yami eat that chocolate! Now, he's all hyper and it is ALL YOUR FAULT!!!"
"Well, how was I supposed to know he would get that big of a sugar rush? It was an accident."
"Yeah, an accident that made him blow up the toilet and..." Tea stopped as she and the others noticed Yami jumping up and down on the sofa. Joey looked at Tea to see that her expression had darkened.
'Uh oh,' he thought, 'Maybe I'll just scoot over to the side here so she won't hurt me...'
He slid over to an empty chair and grabbed the remote, to the television set, which was on a side table. He flicked the television on and all heads immediately turned to Yami.
His eyes had gone wide and he jumped off the couch. He was kneeling on the floor in front of the contraption and was staring at it with awe. On the screen was a commercial for Hershey's Kisses. His eyes lit up again.
Yami leaned in closer to the set and reached forward. His hand hit the glass (whatever that stuff's made of) and he cried, "HEY! What's the big idea?! I want the chocolate and this box won't let me have it!!"
Apparently, Yami had been trying to take the chocolate out of the TV. The others stared at him with puzzled expressions while Yami just became angry with the "box". He tried yet again to get the chocolate, but before he could reach out to it, it disappeared to be replaced by a mug of coffee.
"HEY!!!" Yami seethed. "Where did the candy go?! Bring it back right now!! I am the Pharaoh of Egypt and I demand to have CHOCOLATE!!!"
The others behind him sweatdropped.
Yami glared at the television, thinking that would make it obey him, (after all it always worked in Egypt) but when he saw that it was not going to listen to him (he found that out by the fact that the coffee disappeared to be replaced with a car) he decided to just send the thing to the Shadow Realm for its disobedience...so he did.
Just at that moment, Bakura entered and his expression darkened at what he saw. He turned to glare at Joey, who was still sitting in his chair, holding the remote, stunned. Bakura started over to him.
Tea also turned to him. "LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE NOW! This is ALL YOUR FAULT JOSEPH WHEELER!!!" She began to advance on him when everyone heard something that made the bottoms drop out of their stomachs (except Yami).
"Tea? What are you yelling about?" It was Yugi's grandfather...
Joey's face had paled and he whispered, "Oh no..."
Tea exited the room muttering, "Guess it's up to me to get his grandfather out of the house away from these bakas."
"Well, thanks a lot, Yami. Now we have no entertainment." (a/n- didn't they know that Yami WAS the entertainment?) Joey then got up and walked over to the stereo while Bakura brought back the television set from the Shadow Realm.
Joey was just about to turn the radio on when Bakura turned around (to start yelling at Joey) and saw what he was about to do.
"NOOOOOO!" he screamed. "STOP YOU BAKA INU! NOOO! FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS GOLDEN AND SHINY NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
But it was too late. Joey had already turned the dial. As soon as he turned it on voices of people filled the room; it was a talk show.
Yami's eyes widened in fear and he screamed, "AHHHH!! NOOOO! THE ALIENS!! THEY'RE TALKING TO ME IN MY HEAD!! THEY'RE AFTER ME!! DON'T LET THEM GET ME!!!" (He still hadn't figured out where the voices were coming from.)
Bakura lunged at Joey and the radio, but Yami, being panicked that aliens were after him, thought he was going after the aliens and wanted to help him. He saw the box that the voices were coming from and picked it up, interested instead of frightened now.
"Hmm...how does this work?"
Joey saw fit to explain. "Well, you see this antenna? It gets a message from a satellite in outer space that is beamed to it by-"
That was all he managed to get out because Yami, hearing "outer space" immediately "knew" that he WAS hearing aliens speaking to him. "ALIENS!! AHHH!! IT *IS* ALIENS!! THEY'RE AFTER MEEEEE!!" Then he promptly sent it to the Shadow Realm.
A/N- well, that's all I have for now. I hope you enjoyed it. Um...thanks to someone. I forget who, but I used someone's idea for the jumping on the couch. I need more ideas! URGH!! Well, neway's I gtg and get A LOT of stuff done! Lata!
R&R and tell me about updates!
Neways, Thank you all so very much for reviewing and to make it up to you I'm giving every one of you three of your very favorite cookies each!
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Chapter 23
Sitara and Yugi stopped at the base of a large mountain. Yugi looked up at the top, which towered over them threateningly. White snow covered the ground at the top of the mountain and Yugi wished he had something warmer to wear.
"Well, this is it...Vision Mountain," Sitara said as the two teens got off their horses and Sitara told them to meet them on the other side while she grabbed a pack from Allayna's back.
"Will they?" Yugi asked as he watched the horses leave them at a slow pace.
"Will who what?" Sitara asked, vaguely puzzled.
"Will the horses meet us on the other side?"
The two started up the winding trail leading to the top.
"Of course! They're really smart and very loyal as you undoubtedly saw back there where they found us."
He still seemed doubtful, but he knew what she said was true. Sitara seemed to notice this look and said a little forcefully, "Would you just climb?" Yugi shrugged and continued on as the air temperature began to drop slightly.
They climbed all the way up until they were just below the line of snow. It was just like a termocline only above water; the temperature had seemingly dropped at least twenty or something degrees and Yugi was starting to convulse with shivers as was his partner, Sitara. She stopped walking forward and Yugi stopped with her. She drew out some extra garments and two blankets from the pack she had brought with them and tossed them over to Yugi as she donned some more garments herself.
(A/N- a termocline, for those of you that don't scuba dive, is when there are layers of water that get colder the further down you go. You find these especially in lakes and quarries and I must tell you from experience they can be FREEZING!! Sometimes you can even see the layer cuz it looks fuzzy...or something like that I don't know how to describe it, but you can be floating along in warm water and stick your hand below you and your hand will be freezing. Neways back to the story...)
After they were all bundled up in their new layers of clothing, they continued on, up into the snowline. Yugi's clothes below his knees were soaked and frozen by the time they made it all the way to the top.
"Why does she live all the way up here, may I ask?" Yugi panted.
"Yes, you may ask and I have no idea. No wonder everyone thinks she's kinda crazy! How can she stand living in snow like this all the time?"
"Well, we can ask her for ourselves now that we're here. That is HER cottage over there isn't it? I mean no one ELSE lives here do they?"
"Nope, just Isis. Come on, lets go. The sooner we get there the better."
Sitara and Yugi stood in front of the door to Isis's establishment, looking at each other. They were both asking with their eyes, "Do YOU want to open the door," and the other pair of eyes would answer back silently, "NO...YOU do it," and the other would reply, "No, you." On and on the little staring match went on and neither one even notice when the door was opened by Isis.
The fortune teller cleared her throat to get their attention and they both looked up at her, eyes wide. Isis was tall, with black hair and a tan complexion, but what was the most predominant feature about her was her eyes. When she looked at you with those bright blue eyes it felt as if she was giving you an X-ray. It was almost as if by looking into your eyes she could see into the inner most parts of your soul.
She welcomed them and bid them to come in. The two teens complied and found themselves in a small, cozy living room. Poufs and other comfy chairs, which you could sink into, littered the floor around a magnificently carved wooden table. On his left, Yugi saw a doorway leading to the kitchen; and on the right was another one going into a bedroom. The door was almost all the way closed, but Yugi could see a bed against the wall.
"Please, have a seat," Isis told them in a oft voice.
The three of them sat around the table and Sitara asked, "Isn't there something else we have to get to defeat this great evil? You do, of course, know why we are here?"
Isis smiled at them pleasantly, "Yes is the answer to both questions. What you need is the Enhancer. It is a necklace that will enhance the powers of the holder. Id does nothing in the hands of mere mortals. You can find it at the Moon Shrine in the desert. Alone and even combined together, with just the two of you, your magic is not strong enough to overcome this evil, but if you can find the Enhancer you will have enough power to defeat it."
Sitara seemed thoughtful for a moment. "Hm...I...I think I know what you're talking about. Thank you, Isis."
"You are welcome. Now, come sit over here by the fire and warm yourselves. You may rest and eat here. You have another long journey ahead of yourselves."
"Thank you, Isis-san," Yugi told her politely.
She smiled and said, "You may just call me Isis, Yugi."
Yugi gasped, "How did you know-"
//She's a fortune teller, aibou.//
/Oh, right. Thanks./
"Uh...never mind."
"Yes, thanks again. We won't be able to stay that long, I'm afraid. There's a storm heading this way and it doesn't look good. We need to leave before it comes so we don't get snowed in."
"I agree."
Sitara and Yugi dried themselves off by the fire and ate a small meal before departing once more.
"Thank you, once more, Isis, for your services. Well, Yugi, it's time to go."
Yugi, who had for the past few minutes looking around for any kind of fortune telling device, asked, "Where's your crystal ball?"
Sitara looked at him completely puzzled, but Isis simply said, "I don't use a crystal ball to tell the future. That object belongs to your world. I use this." She showed him a golden headdress with the Millennium Symbol on it. (aka- Millennium Necklace.)
Yugi's eyes widened in recognition and called to his counterpart.
/Yami! Do you see that?! It's a Millenium Item!/
//I see that, aibou//
/But what is a Millennium Item doing here?/
//I don't know, but it's something we need to solve.//
Isis broke the "silence" by saying, "Try not to make any loud sounds, so as not to start an avalanche when you go back down the mountain and here...take this with you." She handed Sitara a map which the young princess took thankfully.
"Ok, thanks. Come on, Yugi. It's time for us to go now."
"Ok, bye, Isis!"
"Goodbye and take care little one."
'Grr. I'm not THAT small!'
//Calm down, aibou//
Yugi just decided to ignore him. As it was, it seemed as though it was more difficult trying to go DOWN than it was to go UP. It was a lot easier to slip and slide on the ice, it seemed that most of the snow had been turned to ice thanks to the blizzard winds that had started blowing.
They were actually doing quite well until halfway down when they came to a cliff face. Sitara decided to go the long way around to make sure nothing happened, but when Yugi tried to follow her he slid on a sloping patch of ice, causing him to loose his balance and fall.
He fell down into the snow and slid on the ice right towards the cliff.
//YUGI!// "YUGI!" Yami and Sitara both yelled and Sitara took immediate action. She skied through the ice and three herself on her stomach, catching Yugi by the hands before he suffered the same fate as Kero-oshi.
Unfortunately for them, at that exact moment, the storm fully reached them. Hail rained down on them, stinging in every place it touched. Both Yugi and Sitara's eyes widened and she hastened to pull her friend to safety before it got any worse.
The hail began to get bigger and bigger as Sitara tried her best to pull her small friend up, but just as Yugi was halfway up a sphere of hail the size of a baseball hit her on the temple with such force that she immediately fell down unconscious. Yugi's eyes widened in fear and Yami called his name.
Yugi quickly let go of Sitara's hand so he would not pull her over the side with him. He tried to find a handhold somewhere in the snow, but all there was...was ice. He slowly began to slide back towards the edge...slowly...slowly...until there was nothing left to hold him up and he fell...over the edge.
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After blowing up the toilet and running, screaming, from the room, Yami went into the living room. Upon seeing all the furniture, Yami decided he needed to calm down just a bit. He hopped over the back of the couch and landed on the sitting part of the cushion. As soon as he landed, it shot him right back up into the air a little ways for him to just fall right back down.
Yami's eyes lit up with excitement. "IT BOUNCES!!" he yelled to no one. Immediately, he stood up and started jumping on the couch. Which is how the others found him as they came down the stairs arguing.
Tea was yelling at Joey, "This is all YOUR fault!"
"My fault?! How is this MY fault?!"
"Because YOU are the one that gave, no wait, MADE Yami eat that chocolate! Now, he's all hyper and it is ALL YOUR FAULT!!!"
"Well, how was I supposed to know he would get that big of a sugar rush? It was an accident."
"Yeah, an accident that made him blow up the toilet and..." Tea stopped as she and the others noticed Yami jumping up and down on the sofa. Joey looked at Tea to see that her expression had darkened.
'Uh oh,' he thought, 'Maybe I'll just scoot over to the side here so she won't hurt me...'
He slid over to an empty chair and grabbed the remote, to the television set, which was on a side table. He flicked the television on and all heads immediately turned to Yami.
His eyes had gone wide and he jumped off the couch. He was kneeling on the floor in front of the contraption and was staring at it with awe. On the screen was a commercial for Hershey's Kisses. His eyes lit up again.
Yami leaned in closer to the set and reached forward. His hand hit the glass (whatever that stuff's made of) and he cried, "HEY! What's the big idea?! I want the chocolate and this box won't let me have it!!"
Apparently, Yami had been trying to take the chocolate out of the TV. The others stared at him with puzzled expressions while Yami just became angry with the "box". He tried yet again to get the chocolate, but before he could reach out to it, it disappeared to be replaced by a mug of coffee.
"HEY!!!" Yami seethed. "Where did the candy go?! Bring it back right now!! I am the Pharaoh of Egypt and I demand to have CHOCOLATE!!!"
The others behind him sweatdropped.
Yami glared at the television, thinking that would make it obey him, (after all it always worked in Egypt) but when he saw that it was not going to listen to him (he found that out by the fact that the coffee disappeared to be replaced with a car) he decided to just send the thing to the Shadow Realm for its disobedience...so he did.
Just at that moment, Bakura entered and his expression darkened at what he saw. He turned to glare at Joey, who was still sitting in his chair, holding the remote, stunned. Bakura started over to him.
Tea also turned to him. "LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE NOW! This is ALL YOUR FAULT JOSEPH WHEELER!!!" She began to advance on him when everyone heard something that made the bottoms drop out of their stomachs (except Yami).
"Tea? What are you yelling about?" It was Yugi's grandfather...
Joey's face had paled and he whispered, "Oh no..."
Tea exited the room muttering, "Guess it's up to me to get his grandfather out of the house away from these bakas."
"Well, thanks a lot, Yami. Now we have no entertainment." (a/n- didn't they know that Yami WAS the entertainment?) Joey then got up and walked over to the stereo while Bakura brought back the television set from the Shadow Realm.
Joey was just about to turn the radio on when Bakura turned around (to start yelling at Joey) and saw what he was about to do.
"NOOOOOO!" he screamed. "STOP YOU BAKA INU! NOOO! FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS GOLDEN AND SHINY NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
But it was too late. Joey had already turned the dial. As soon as he turned it on voices of people filled the room; it was a talk show.
Yami's eyes widened in fear and he screamed, "AHHHH!! NOOOO! THE ALIENS!! THEY'RE TALKING TO ME IN MY HEAD!! THEY'RE AFTER ME!! DON'T LET THEM GET ME!!!" (He still hadn't figured out where the voices were coming from.)
Bakura lunged at Joey and the radio, but Yami, being panicked that aliens were after him, thought he was going after the aliens and wanted to help him. He saw the box that the voices were coming from and picked it up, interested instead of frightened now.
"Hmm...how does this work?"
Joey saw fit to explain. "Well, you see this antenna? It gets a message from a satellite in outer space that is beamed to it by-"
That was all he managed to get out because Yami, hearing "outer space" immediately "knew" that he WAS hearing aliens speaking to him. "ALIENS!! AHHH!! IT *IS* ALIENS!! THEY'RE AFTER MEEEEE!!" Then he promptly sent it to the Shadow Realm.
A/N- well, that's all I have for now. I hope you enjoyed it. Um...thanks to someone. I forget who, but I used someone's idea for the jumping on the couch. I need more ideas! URGH!! Well, neway's I gtg and get A LOT of stuff done! Lata!
R&R and tell me about updates!