CK: Hello there!!!!!! Once again, 'tis I of the weirdness!!!!!!!!!
Okkei, I better get to the responses, 'cuz I am WAAAAAAY too hyper.........
Kabuki: Yeah, poor Pegsy...why does everyone hate him so? Minus the soul stealing thing....and anyway, your curiousity won't be satisfied for awhile, 'cuz I've decided to be mean and not tell anything until the end.....
Sakuuya: Gomen, gomen, I didn't mean to make it so short. It's just my writer's block's been acting up (it's like a medical condition, I'm tellin' ya....). But I *think* this chapter's longer than last time. It's definitely funnier, if that's any consolation. BTW, I finished writing up your date with Shadi, it should be up by tomorrow or Sunday.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ C'est La Vie, C'est La Guerre
((Ugh......this chapter may be messed up a little, I had such a bad case of writer's block........ergh, this story is ending SO different than the first time I wrote this......then again, the WHOLE STORY is different.....so that's making things difficult.....so gomen, basically...))
Pegasus hid himself away in one of the rooms of his castle. He needed to be alone, without anyone disturbing him....not even Cecilia.
How could he have been such an IDIOT?????? How could he have thought that Cecilia'd just popped into thin air, making a guest appearance after seven years? Wasn't it OBVIOUS what had happened? Why did he have to wait to find the corpse to realize what had occurred? Well, ignorance is bliss, he supposed, but it was too late for that now. Now how to solve the problem.........
He couldn't tell Cecilia what he had almost done. He couldn't, there was just no way. He knew how she'd react, and he wouldn't be able to bear it. Come to think of it, he couldn't tell any of them. He didn't particularly care what *they* thought of him, but word might leak to Cecilia. It would have to remain a secret.
He knew he wouldn't be able to bear it if she found out.........he could already see the look of guilt and sadness on her face...........and he could practically hear her tell herself that she shouldn't have 'let' him do something like that........her self-esteem was not the best.......and he hated himself whenever she was like that............
But now the more important issue.....what was he going to do about this Tea girl? Cecilia hadn't said who she'd found out from, but it had to be one of *them*......well, they must particularly loathe him now, no doubt about that. He could fix the problem, but who would be sacrificed? The machine was like a deal-maker, one life for another, which was why he hadn't built it until after his plan against Yugi failed.
Pegasus sighed. Aaargh.......if only they hadn't even set foot on this island.....then everything would have worked out as planned. Well, except for the part where he fell through the floorboards......that wasn't exactly part of the plan either......
He'd have to start from scratch this time......but he already knew what the outcome would be......
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Later that day, Yugi and Company were seated in one of the guest rooms of the castle. If this had been them in another situation, this would have been an ideal time for an orgy, but 'twas not meant to be. Instead, they were having a meeting, although this did not mean that certain participants (namely, Tristan and Joey) were thinking about that orgy idea.
Yugi sat apart from the others. He could barely hear what they said as he thought to himself. They didn't know about Pegasus's confrontation yet. He wanted to figure out what *he* thought of what was going on before the others bombarded him with their own opinions......
What had he seen?......That emotion on Pegasus's face, what did it mean?....he had seemed..........astonished, he guessed......like when a painter steps back and realizes that he's painted the Mona Lisa.....
Wait, no, that wasn't right. If a painter paints the Mona Lisa, he steps back and is astonished, but he's happy and feels a surge of pride..............Pegasus had stepped back from the canvas and hadn't seen a Mona Lisa, he'd stepped back and seen a work from a nightmare.......
That's what that emotion had been.
Horror.
But why had it unsettled him like that? After all, this was Pegasus, who had more than the average person's amount of sins weighing down on them. He was the one had calmly killed Yugi, without the blink of an eye, who had sent others to their fates without caring. For one who valued his wife so highly, he had very little concern over the lives of anyone else.
So what changed? Maybe it was like the reaction a four-year old had when he's caught breaking something. Put on a sad face, make a few apologies, say that you'll never ever do it again, and the world just smiles and shakes its head a little. No problem. After all, last time around, Pegasus had all the control. He had lackeys, he had magic, and he hadn't just run up a hospital bill. Well, those were gone, and there were seven people he had to contend with.
Yes, that was probably it.
Yugi finally stopped zoning out and tried to listen to his friends.....but all they were doing was yammering on like they had been doing for the last two days. How long would it take for them to admit that they had no idea what was going on, or had been planned, or what anyone was thinking? All they had managed to do these two days had been say they're 'theories' or 'ideas' and basically yak it up. Yes, just your normal everyday chat about murder, corruption, and magic, folks, nothing out of the ordinary about *that*.
Yugi noticed that Ryou was the only one who was as quiet as he was. So that basically meant it was Joey, Tristan, and Mai who were blabbering, since Kaiba basically despised everyone else who inhabited this place, except for Mokuba, but he had been stuck to his brother's side since the hospital trip.
Hmm.....just Mai, Tristan, and Joey? Yugi knew it was a little mean, but he did get a kick out of imagining them in Three Stooges outfits.
((A/N: As innocent as Yugi is on the outside, there's no friggin' way he's all innocent on the inside.....for crying out loud, I go to school and people think I'M innocent. ME!!!!!!!!! Does that not say something?))
Yami watched amusedly as his hikari had his three friends perform a small Three Stooges skit in his imagination, eye-poking and banana peels included. When Yugi had finished the grand finale, in which Mai and Joey did a kick-line while Tristan kept trying to peer up Mai's skirt, Yami applauded a little, making Yugi turn red.
//Yami!!!!!//
The older and taller of the two laughed. //You have a tendency to daydream a lot, don't you? Especially during that 'school' that you keep going to....//
//I have to do something to pass the time there. You can't tell me that *you've* been paying attention during all of my classes.//
//Hehe.....what if I told you that you got an 85% on your last math test?//
//Hey, how could you know? We haven't gotten it back yet!!!//
//You botched number eight in the multiple choice section because you circled '2' accidentally, even though you meant to circle '3', which'll cost you three points. Then you screwed up the 12-point question at the end because you mistook a sine curve for a cosine curve that was shifted, and you were too caught up to show any work because the bell was going to ring in thirty seconds.//
//...................//
//You still got a good grade.//
//.......why do I even try to pay attention in school if you enjoy it more AND understand it better?//
//Now, Yugi, that's not fair to the other kids who didn't have the fortune to solve an ancient Egyptian puzzle. Besides, learning is good for you.//
//Alright, since you're so smart, what have Joey, Mai, and Tristan been saying for the last half-hour?//
//Not much, really. The same old 'We don't like Pegasus, Pegasus is bad, Pegasus should be sent to the time-out chair and spanked'.......not that I don't agree with them.//
//.......*spanked*?//
//I didn't mean it like THAT.//
//.....o-kay then.//
Yugi decided it would be a good idea to snap back to reality before disturbing images popped up into his head....ugh, Yugi was getting the willies from THAT one. He noticed that they seemed to be wrapping things up, so he figured now was as good a time as any to ask what had been gnawing on the back of his mind for a little while now.
"Um.......I just want to ask you guys something."
Everyone else in the room seemed surprised that Yugi had spoken, but they turned to face him so that they could listen.
"Well....who told Pegasus that Tea died?"
Ryou blinked, then spoke up as well. "He knows?"
"Yeah, he asked me before what her name was and what had happened to her....so who told him? I know I didn't."
After the initial shock wore off, everyone murmured to themselves that it hadn't been *them*.......eventually, since no one spilled the beans, they just shrugged it off. After all.....
......how he found out wasn't THAT big a deal, was it?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ CK: So there you go. New chappie done on time this week, so meesa is proud. So I'll just update this thing, go cry my eyes out watching Joan of Arcadia, then let you guys handle the reviewing part, if you could ^ ^.
Kabuki: Yeah, poor Pegsy...why does everyone hate him so? Minus the soul stealing thing....and anyway, your curiousity won't be satisfied for awhile, 'cuz I've decided to be mean and not tell anything until the end.....
Sakuuya: Gomen, gomen, I didn't mean to make it so short. It's just my writer's block's been acting up (it's like a medical condition, I'm tellin' ya....). But I *think* this chapter's longer than last time. It's definitely funnier, if that's any consolation. BTW, I finished writing up your date with Shadi, it should be up by tomorrow or Sunday.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ C'est La Vie, C'est La Guerre
((Ugh......this chapter may be messed up a little, I had such a bad case of writer's block........ergh, this story is ending SO different than the first time I wrote this......then again, the WHOLE STORY is different.....so that's making things difficult.....so gomen, basically...))
Pegasus hid himself away in one of the rooms of his castle. He needed to be alone, without anyone disturbing him....not even Cecilia.
How could he have been such an IDIOT?????? How could he have thought that Cecilia'd just popped into thin air, making a guest appearance after seven years? Wasn't it OBVIOUS what had happened? Why did he have to wait to find the corpse to realize what had occurred? Well, ignorance is bliss, he supposed, but it was too late for that now. Now how to solve the problem.........
He couldn't tell Cecilia what he had almost done. He couldn't, there was just no way. He knew how she'd react, and he wouldn't be able to bear it. Come to think of it, he couldn't tell any of them. He didn't particularly care what *they* thought of him, but word might leak to Cecilia. It would have to remain a secret.
He knew he wouldn't be able to bear it if she found out.........he could already see the look of guilt and sadness on her face...........and he could practically hear her tell herself that she shouldn't have 'let' him do something like that........her self-esteem was not the best.......and he hated himself whenever she was like that............
But now the more important issue.....what was he going to do about this Tea girl? Cecilia hadn't said who she'd found out from, but it had to be one of *them*......well, they must particularly loathe him now, no doubt about that. He could fix the problem, but who would be sacrificed? The machine was like a deal-maker, one life for another, which was why he hadn't built it until after his plan against Yugi failed.
Pegasus sighed. Aaargh.......if only they hadn't even set foot on this island.....then everything would have worked out as planned. Well, except for the part where he fell through the floorboards......that wasn't exactly part of the plan either......
He'd have to start from scratch this time......but he already knew what the outcome would be......
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Later that day, Yugi and Company were seated in one of the guest rooms of the castle. If this had been them in another situation, this would have been an ideal time for an orgy, but 'twas not meant to be. Instead, they were having a meeting, although this did not mean that certain participants (namely, Tristan and Joey) were thinking about that orgy idea.
Yugi sat apart from the others. He could barely hear what they said as he thought to himself. They didn't know about Pegasus's confrontation yet. He wanted to figure out what *he* thought of what was going on before the others bombarded him with their own opinions......
What had he seen?......That emotion on Pegasus's face, what did it mean?....he had seemed..........astonished, he guessed......like when a painter steps back and realizes that he's painted the Mona Lisa.....
Wait, no, that wasn't right. If a painter paints the Mona Lisa, he steps back and is astonished, but he's happy and feels a surge of pride..............Pegasus had stepped back from the canvas and hadn't seen a Mona Lisa, he'd stepped back and seen a work from a nightmare.......
That's what that emotion had been.
Horror.
But why had it unsettled him like that? After all, this was Pegasus, who had more than the average person's amount of sins weighing down on them. He was the one had calmly killed Yugi, without the blink of an eye, who had sent others to their fates without caring. For one who valued his wife so highly, he had very little concern over the lives of anyone else.
So what changed? Maybe it was like the reaction a four-year old had when he's caught breaking something. Put on a sad face, make a few apologies, say that you'll never ever do it again, and the world just smiles and shakes its head a little. No problem. After all, last time around, Pegasus had all the control. He had lackeys, he had magic, and he hadn't just run up a hospital bill. Well, those were gone, and there were seven people he had to contend with.
Yes, that was probably it.
Yugi finally stopped zoning out and tried to listen to his friends.....but all they were doing was yammering on like they had been doing for the last two days. How long would it take for them to admit that they had no idea what was going on, or had been planned, or what anyone was thinking? All they had managed to do these two days had been say they're 'theories' or 'ideas' and basically yak it up. Yes, just your normal everyday chat about murder, corruption, and magic, folks, nothing out of the ordinary about *that*.
Yugi noticed that Ryou was the only one who was as quiet as he was. So that basically meant it was Joey, Tristan, and Mai who were blabbering, since Kaiba basically despised everyone else who inhabited this place, except for Mokuba, but he had been stuck to his brother's side since the hospital trip.
Hmm.....just Mai, Tristan, and Joey? Yugi knew it was a little mean, but he did get a kick out of imagining them in Three Stooges outfits.
((A/N: As innocent as Yugi is on the outside, there's no friggin' way he's all innocent on the inside.....for crying out loud, I go to school and people think I'M innocent. ME!!!!!!!!! Does that not say something?))
Yami watched amusedly as his hikari had his three friends perform a small Three Stooges skit in his imagination, eye-poking and banana peels included. When Yugi had finished the grand finale, in which Mai and Joey did a kick-line while Tristan kept trying to peer up Mai's skirt, Yami applauded a little, making Yugi turn red.
//Yami!!!!!//
The older and taller of the two laughed. //You have a tendency to daydream a lot, don't you? Especially during that 'school' that you keep going to....//
//I have to do something to pass the time there. You can't tell me that *you've* been paying attention during all of my classes.//
//Hehe.....what if I told you that you got an 85% on your last math test?//
//Hey, how could you know? We haven't gotten it back yet!!!//
//You botched number eight in the multiple choice section because you circled '2' accidentally, even though you meant to circle '3', which'll cost you three points. Then you screwed up the 12-point question at the end because you mistook a sine curve for a cosine curve that was shifted, and you were too caught up to show any work because the bell was going to ring in thirty seconds.//
//...................//
//You still got a good grade.//
//.......why do I even try to pay attention in school if you enjoy it more AND understand it better?//
//Now, Yugi, that's not fair to the other kids who didn't have the fortune to solve an ancient Egyptian puzzle. Besides, learning is good for you.//
//Alright, since you're so smart, what have Joey, Mai, and Tristan been saying for the last half-hour?//
//Not much, really. The same old 'We don't like Pegasus, Pegasus is bad, Pegasus should be sent to the time-out chair and spanked'.......not that I don't agree with them.//
//.......*spanked*?//
//I didn't mean it like THAT.//
//.....o-kay then.//
Yugi decided it would be a good idea to snap back to reality before disturbing images popped up into his head....ugh, Yugi was getting the willies from THAT one. He noticed that they seemed to be wrapping things up, so he figured now was as good a time as any to ask what had been gnawing on the back of his mind for a little while now.
"Um.......I just want to ask you guys something."
Everyone else in the room seemed surprised that Yugi had spoken, but they turned to face him so that they could listen.
"Well....who told Pegasus that Tea died?"
Ryou blinked, then spoke up as well. "He knows?"
"Yeah, he asked me before what her name was and what had happened to her....so who told him? I know I didn't."
After the initial shock wore off, everyone murmured to themselves that it hadn't been *them*.......eventually, since no one spilled the beans, they just shrugged it off. After all.....
......how he found out wasn't THAT big a deal, was it?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ CK: So there you go. New chappie done on time this week, so meesa is proud. So I'll just update this thing, go cry my eyes out watching Joan of Arcadia, then let you guys handle the reviewing part, if you could ^ ^.
