Notes: Me thinks my next fic will begin with Judy from Beyblades as an Andilite trapped in human morph. Wish me lucki!
~Nyassa~
My yami shook her head, sniffing as soon as we were in the relative privacy of the suite that I was sharing with Fera and Natari. "I... actually... (sniffle) attacked the pharaoh. He is going to be sooooo angry... (sniff) Aibou, things could not go from bad to worse could they?"
"There's a light at the end of every tunnel Yami-chan." I sighed, leaning back against the pillows on the bed. I just wish I could see the light at the end of mine. I thought dejectedly. I reached out to wipe the tears away from her cheeks.
My name is Nyassa. Let me tell you my sad tale of woe. It all started when my parents died. I was sent from one foster home to another. Let me tell you something about foster care. People do not want a teenager. They want a baby who will call them "mama" and "dada" and think of them that way because when he/she was taken in they were too young to remember.
This all changed when I started going to school in Meridan, a medium sized city in Connecticut. I made my first friend in a long time. Her name was Fera, and she loved playing games of all kinds. I loooove games, video games, card games, board games and strategy games of all kinds, it doesn't matter to me!
But I also loved to sing. That was how I met Natari and Carola. They were part of a cover band called the Triangle Sisters, and I was competing against them for a record deal. The contest ended in a tie between us, and the manager suggested that we form a new group. The Lambda Triangle was born.
Soon after, Fera's father died in a car accident on his way home from Fera's first Duel Monster Tournament. Fera had defeated Pegasus in the final round in less than 5 turns, and that was WITH Toon World on the field. Fera's father, a duelist himself, left Fera two legacies, a Blue Eyes White Dragon, and a mysterious silver puzzle. When Fera solved the puzzle, a mysterious spirit came out of it. Apparently she was a queen of Egypt in life, a queen of games!
News of the puzzle being solved spread. The uproar reached its peak when Pegasus offered Fera and I a job at his Tournament Dueling Center, Duelist's Kingdom. It turns out that our friend Natari was Pegasus' little sister! And she had recommended us for the job!
Since we both had skills in the arts, Fera and I were apprenticed to the Artist Eliminator, a French Aristocrat named Charla Chalemane. And since we weren't Eliminators ourselves, we were allowed to compete in the Duelist's Kingdom Tournament.
That was where we met Selene. Selene was Weevil Underwood's older sister, and boy did she have an attitude! She wanted to win the prize money to start her own recording studio, and she was willing to sacrifice anything and anybody that got in her way! Selene defeated me once, even with Fera's spirit helping me!
Charla was a lot kinder. She took me to the back of her workshop and showed me her treasure, the Millennium Crystal. It had been passed down from her ancestor, General Chalemane of Europe, he had claimed it as his good luck charm. But since General Charlemane's death, it had remained dormant. Nobody had been able to activate it.
When I touched it, the most amazing thing happened! The crystal began to glow purple and silver, and a Millennium Spirit came out of it! With my spirit's guidance, I was able to defeat Selene. She didn't forgive us right away, until I told her about my own dream, to own an Animation Studio/Entertainment Company of my own. Selene offered to join us if, once I got my own studio, I would put her in charge of the recording portion of it. So Selene, Carola, Natari, Fera and I changed the band name to Alchemy, in honor of our tried and true team!
Pegasus allowed Selene to stay on the island as another of Charla's apprentices. Together with Carola's brother Rex, an ocean duelist named Maeko Tsunami and Selene's brother Weevil, we made an art studio and raised money for the Entertainment Studio/Record Company by making industrial art for office buildings. Unfortunately, we couldn't sell enough of it, and just yesterday, we had to shut it down until we could raise enough money for more material OR sell enough art to continue funding it.
There was a knock on the door. "Its Natari! I've brought Chinese food for dinner!"
I quickly let Natari and Fera in. Fera had a roll of sheet music under one arm. Her guitar was slung across her back by a strap embroidered with a twined Blue Eyes/Red Eyes motif.
"Hey, has anybody seen Weevil and Rex around?" Selene asked. She and Carola followed them in.
Fera is rather short, only about four feet high, but she grows when she transforms to about 5'5". She has spiky hair, kind of like a human hand. Her bangs are blonde, but the rest of her hair is black streaked with red highlights. With a little bit of instruction, Fera can play any instrument, (or game) to perfection. She is also the only person I know who has mastered "Game Theory," an obscure branch of collage level mathematics necessary to create board and video games.
Carola has brown hair, which, like her brother, has a silver streak through her bangs. Instead of a red skating hat, she has a red and white Yankees hat, and she normally turns it backwards so that it doesn't obscure her, "peripheral vision." (A/N: i.e. seeing something out of the corner of your eye.) Carola loves studying three things above all else, History, Mythology, and Philosophy. Her favorite philosopher is a little known French, political philosopher named Francois Marie Aruet Voltaire. (Talk about your long names!) Carola has a tendency to interpret the anime and manga that she watches and reads, rather deeply. She loves Duo Maxwell in Gundam Wing to the point where she imitates his hairstyle. Her hair was currently in its usual yard long braid, her bangs flopping into her eyes.
Selene has green hair like her brother. Only her hair is longer and silkier. She added layers to her hair, which bounce as she walks. Unlike Carola, who's tall with a boyish looking figure, Selene has about the biggest bust I have ever seen. Her waist is thin. Her hips are wide, and they tend to sway from side to side when she walks. Her butt and thighs, due to almost religious strength training, karate, boxing, yoga, and fencing, are extremely shapely. Selene needs all those martial arts. When we first met Maeko, it was like holding a magnet close to a nail. Natari later joked that she thought we'd have to pry him off with a crowbar. Selene reads music as naturally as she breathes, and can come up with a tune at the top of a hat. That's part of why she was so upset. Selene knew that she had the ability to go the distance. To her, defeat was not an option.
"I haven't seen them anywhere. Last time I checked, Weevil was going to find out where Rex went." I answered. It started raining outside.
"Hey, um... Yami Nyassa, why do you look so upset?" Fera asked.
"We were confronted by the Pharoah himself!" My spirit complained. "He would have attacked us! Three on two! I was only protecting myself I swear!"
"Calm down!" Natari told her. She began setting out the cartons and pouring them into dishes.
Natari has her elder brother's white hair, pure, platinum white. Her eyes are turquoise blue, and their expression is softer than Pegasus'. Her Reflection Millennium Item (the Reflection Eye) hung from around her neck, because she never got up the courage to activate it and lose an eye in order to use it. Natari is not a very social person, in fact, she's very shy. She plays flute, violin, and guitar. Natari's voice is very beautiful, almost like songbirds, or angels. My voice is okay I guess, but I always feel second to her.
I stand about five foot six. My skin is tanned from spending too much time in the sun. My long black hair falls in ripples down my back, but it tends to get either greasy or frizzy if I try to style it. My eyes are the same blue as Fera's blue eyes white dragon. Fera took that as a good sign when I first met her. I tend to wear a lot of ultramarine blue. I prefer to appear on stage dressed in that same shade from my headband to my metal-edged, blue suede boots. On top of that, I usually wear a leather trench-coat, either that same shade of blue or black. Its very soft and it keeps me warm in rain or snow. My specialty arts skill is creative writing.
The most remarkable thing about our little group is that except for Natari, (who is bi) we're all Lesbians. We keep it very hush hush, just our secret! Carola and Selene came out to us the exact same day that Fera and I did, so Natari had to admit that she was bi too. "It was only fair." She said.
I explained what had happened. "I think that little crony of Yugi's ratted on us. And he wasn't exactly little. He looked about six feet high at least!"
Selene whistled appreciatively.
"And I'm not sure what to do if they come after me again." I answered.
That was when Rex and Weevil finally decided to show up. They were soaked. And as Carola observed. "REX! YOU'RE GLOWING!!" She swept her little brother up into a bear hug. "WHO ARE YOU SEEING? IS SHE PRETTY??!!"
"Down girl." Selene commented, wrapping her arms around her girlfriend's waist. Carola flushed and let go.
"I'm not seeing anybody." Rex snapped.
"Stop it you two, sit down and eat!" Natari chided them.
"But Natari! When you're sleeping with somebody, you glow!" Carola protested, picking up the rice bowl and chop sticks that Natari gave her. Carola began to wolf down her food.
Weevil and Rex looked at each other in alarm. "Is that true Natari?" Rex asked worriedly.
"Now I KNOW you're seeing somebody." Carola grinned impishly. "Girl or boy Rexie?"
"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" Rex, Weevil and Selene shouted in unison.
"Oh (sniff) alright (sniffle) I understand...." Carola put on an expression of gloom. "I'll just take my chow mein noodles into this corner over here."
"No Carola! Come join us!" Fera's spirit dragged Carola back over. "I may not eat, but even I enjoy the company!"
"Carola, you know what you did was rude." Natari chided her.
"You're so nosy Carora-chan." Selene hugged her lover, kissing her gently on the lips.
"And six months ago I wondered what it would be like sharing an apartment with four lesbians and a three eyed bisexual girl with assorted fetishes." Weevil shook his head. "I really wish I never wondered. Especially after Selene's reaction to my duel with Joey."
"Yes, well, sibling studies show that certain tendencies run in families Weevil. So you're probably just as queer as we are only you just don't realize it!" Selene teased, poking her younger brother in the cheek.
Weevil flushed, genetics was an old hobby of theirs. Selene tended to debate theoretical science, especially biology and astrophysics, with her little brother at the oddest times. This was an argument that the younger Underwood sibling never won, it was no surprise that he grunted an unintelligible response and focused on his food.
"I wonder if Yugi's okay." Fera said thoughtfully. She slurped in some kung pao chicken. "I couldn't even fathom being separated from my spirit for more than a few hours!"
"Wouldn't we both?" I asked. "I couldn't live without her."
"By the way, has anybody seen Maeko lately?" Asked Natari. "I heard that he and Shelly finally hooked up."
"Maybe, I wonder if he's gotten his boat yet." Carola said aloud.
"Nope, otherwise he wouldn't have joined Battle City." Selene shrugged. "Or maybe he just joined for fun."
"Yeah," Said Carola, "That does happen sometimes."
~meanwhile, Ryou~
I woke up around midafternoon. "Huh?" I asked. Then I remembered the pain and confusion of the night before.
Beneath me, my Other half moaned softly in his sleep, almost as if he was having a nightmare. His eyelids slowly fluttered open. "OH RA!" He exclaimed, when he remembered what we'd been doing the night before. "I can't believe I let you be on top!" He growled.
"I can't believe you let me either." I said, eyes round in shock.
"I can't believe I let you fuck me!"
"I can't believe it either!"
We looked at each other for a moment. "Cool." We said in unison.
Surprisingly enough, my Yami pulled me in closer to him. He pulled one of my hands to his heart. "Feel that Hikari?" He asked.
I leaned in, placing my cheek to his heart and listened. "Our hearts, they're beating as one…" I said, awed.
"Our… activities last night, it brought us back in balance…" He wrapped his arms around me. "Gods but it still hurts. I'll be happy when we can merge again." He leaned up to lick at my lips tenderly. Then he sniffed. "I smell food. Somebody must be cooking…" He looked around. "Oh how considerate. Somebody left food for us."
I reached out, pulling the tray down. My other half sat up, pulling me into his arms and slipped the tray into my lap. I blushed softly. How to proceed? Where do I go from here? I wasn't sure.
My other held a strawberry in front of my nose. "Eat, you feel like you need it." I flushed deeper. He still shares my mind, but… before he'd never been this worried about me. I bit into the strawberry, sucking at the juices daintily.
"Who says I wasn't worried?" My other demanded.
"What am I going to call you?" I wondered. "I mean, my other is kind of long."
"I know, but I don't have an answer." He said with a sigh.
And so we held a meeting to that effect before Marik and his other half would troop back to their boat. It was Mokuba who came up with the suggestion. "Why don't we call them all Yami, like this, 'Yami Yugi,' 'Yami Bakura' and 'Yami Marik.'" He suggested.
It made such sense that the newly dubbed Yamis in question agreed without any argument or debate, and from that moment on I called my other Yami Bakura, Bakura, or (if we were in bed,) Yami-kun.
And so we packed up and headed back to our houses. Yami and Yugi had a lot of explaining to do, but Marik, Yami Marik, my Yami and I had a long walk and no explanations. I took my Other's arm in mine, leaning against his shoulder every so often. He squeezed my hand.
"So what are we going to do with our day?" Marik asked suddenly. "I mean, we don't really have anywhere to go. I have no parents to answer to, you have no mother to answer to and your father is in Egypt. My sister kicked me out of the house because I wanted to take over the world. What exactly do we do?"
"Raise Hell?" Suggested Yami Marik, "Wait a minute, I'm Egyptian, I don't believe in Hell!"
"If you two BEHAVE." Marik offered. "We could go to a movie. I heard there's a new one coming out with Dracula, Wolfman, AND Frankenstein in the same film!"
"Who are they?" My other half asked, curious.
"I forgot you wouldn't have been around." I said with a sigh. "Okay, about a hundred years ago three aristocrats decided to have a contest to see who could write the best horror story. One of them came up with a vampire named Count Dracula. The second told the story of a monster made from human corpses called Frankenstein, and the third came up with a werewolf known simply as Wolf Man."
"Cool." The two Yamis said in unison.
"Who won?" Yami Marik asked.
"Nobody knows, but they've been considered classic cinema since my grandpa was in diapers." I told them. "And recently, another film maker wrote a story about a man who takes on all three of them. The movie is called Van Hellsing, after the main character, and you know, it strikes me as the perfect double date." I said with a smirk.
"Let's go let's go please!" Marik begged, trying very hard to look cute. "Come on Yami-kun! It's really cool!" One of the funniest sights I have EVER seen before or since is Marik giving his other half bambi eyes.