Hicky: Okie Dokie, time to get into the good stuff!
Trent: Hicky is finally going to do a bit more focussing on the cards and the couples!
Hicky: Thats would be a-right! Okay, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or the dubbed versions, but I think I own Cee and Gee's personalities that kinda stuff.
Trent: Enjoy!
Live and Let Duel
"Yeah we won!" Gaia yelled.
"And amazingly you did nothing," Curse said looking to see the warrior had stopped jumping.
"Neither did you!" Gaia yelled at the dragon. Curse shrugged and flew off.
"You were all show-offy," Celtic said poking Dark's arm. "With the switchy-staff-thing and the flippy-into-place-thing."
"Yeah, I was," he said looking down at the shorter monster. 'All for you...' he thought.
Celtic flopped to the ground in one quick, and what looked like a little too painful, motion. "That was cool," he said falling back onto the ground. "I got to be out more than one turn! But you," He looked up at the now very tall mage. "You were there like the whole duel! You know it's not fair."
"What isn't?" Dark asked.
"My power level in the real world is a bunch of crap! I'm so much stronger than that!"
"Are you now?"
"He is," A calm, deep voice said.
Celtic sat up quickly. "Pharaoh?"
"Hello Celtic," Yami said.
"Hey there!" Celtic said happily.
"I know I haven't come to see you all for a while. If Yugi's not duelling then that blonde friend of his manages to get into some sort of trouble... I can't talk long though... I'm sensing another duel very soon. I think I'll come again right after the next duel. Is there anything you need?" He asked the monster that were still around. Most of them shook their heads and left.
"You you guys need anything?" Celtic asked, annoyed at Dark, Gaia, and Kuriboh.
"OOOOH! Bossy Elf-Boy!"
'Shrug it off Celtic, you're no boy, you're a man.'
"We have no need of anything... what? You wish us to leave?" Dark asked, still looking down at the elf.
"Yeah, so shoo!" Celtic said using his hands to extenuate his statement.
"Fine then," Gaia said turning on his heels and walking off. Kuriboh left also, and after one more look from Celtic, Dark went off to his room.
Yami crouched down next to the guardian. "So you want something then?" he asked.
"Yeah... I was wondering if they had any other duel monster stuff in the real world?"
"They do. What is it you're interested in?" Yami asked curiously.
"A toy... a stuffy...." Celtic said looking down. 'Oh yeah. You're a man, who wants a stuffed toy!!!!'
"Of which monster?" Yami asked knowing the answer.
Celtic squirmed and groaned.
"Dark Magician maybe?" Yami asked smiling.
"How did you know?!" Celtic said, looking Yami in the eyes.
"Because I do... Yugi has one in his soul room... I'll give you that one. He can come up with another later." Yami placed his hands around his puzzle and it glowed bright gold, and then there was a little plushie in Celtic's lap.
Celtic smiled and picked it up. "Thank you Pharaoh!"
"Anytime," Yami said as he stroked Celtic's cheek.
Celtic looked at Yami again. "I-I guess I'll see you again after the next duel... bye then," Celtic got up rather quickly and headed off.
Celtic headed back to his room. 'Jeeze, that guys flirts with everyone!!! Well, every male!!' Celtic thought as he headed to his room. Once there he flung himself and his stuffy onto his bed. He hugged the plushie tightly. "Hmm, what shall I call you my sweet little boy-toy?" 'Okay, that was a good one!' "Nice staff." 'Oh Celtic, what a mind you have. Bad elf, bad!' "My little Dark Magician... Dark... Darky.... Darky-poo!" He laughed loudly. "Heh, why not... you're a plushie anyway!" He hugged it again. Not ten minutes later a duel vibe hit the air. Celtic got up and put his stuffy down on one of his pillows. He headed out to the graveyard for some good ol' fashion duelling... or so he thought.
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Seto on one side Yami on the other. The two rivals had come against each other once again. Seto began the duel playing Ryoukashin in attack mode.
Yami played Curse of Dragon and with the help of Dragon Flame sent Seto's monster to the graveyard.
For his next move Seto played Sword Stalker, which gained a twenty five per cent power increase from his fallen ally. He attacked and destroyed Curse of Dragon using Vengeance Strike.
Yami played Monster Replaced to switch Curse and Dark Magician. With one hundred more attack points Dark countered and destroyed Seto's second monster. Yami then re-played Curse of Dragon.
Seto placed Lagin the Magical Genie on the field. But when Dark attacked, he played Ancient Lamp, drawing the genie inside and deflecting the attack towards Yami's dragon. Curse was sent back to the graveyard. Seto's next move was to equip Lagin with the Dispel magic card. Lagin used it to destroy Yami's magic card that just happened to be the Swords of Revealing Light.
Yami used the magic card Magic Eye of Truth to see all of the cards that Seto held in his hand. He then called upon Dark's ability with magic tricks, using Mystic Box, he ended up destroying Seto's Ancient Lamp. Dark shook his finger at the genie spell-caster. 'Can't hide from me,' he thought before attacking.
Seto then played his famous Saggi the Dark Clown combo. He was pleased when Yami called back the Dark Magician, only to summon Gaia the Fierce Knight to attack his diseased clown. Now Yami could not use any monsters with an attack power of over 1500.
Yami drew a card and looked at it. He couldn't play the powerful Summon Skull, so he turned to Silver Fang; placing him in defence mode.
Seto played Battle Ox and ordered his Axe Slam attack. "Your puppy has been put down!" he said proudly.
Yami played Griffore in attack mode and equipped him with Horn of the Unicorn. The Magical Lightning Combo attack managed to destroy Seto's ox monster.
Seto's plan was going perfectly. He played Mystical Elf to increase his Life Points by three hundred, then played a Blue Eyes. It flew up over the field and attacked with White Lightning. Griffore was gone.
Yami played Giant Soldier of Stone in defence mode, beginning to worry about the outcome, even though all it meant was a few more duels to get into Pegasus's castle.
Seto created his ultimate beast, his Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. He felt filled with a new strength as his monster loomed over the duel. He order the attack, Neutron Blast, and Yami lost another monster.
"That Kiaba!" Tristan yelled both angrily and dumbly from the side lines. He guessed that calling someone by their last name was an insult. He caught Ryou looking at him.
Yami made a desperate play. He used his Living Arrow card in combination with Polymerization to combo his Mammoth Graveyard, with Seto's Ultimate Dragon. Yami then played his furry friend Kuriboh in attack mode. {Hicky- Okay, I think it should be defence but I haven't seen the duel for a while and I didn't make great notes and maybe there is a reason that it works for attack mode... I'll make one up.}
"In the entire game, Kuriboh is the weakest monster," Seto stated.
'OOOOOH, but very scary!' Kuriboh thought angrily towards the brown haired boy.
Yami played his magic card, Multiply, to make more Kuriboh that ever seen, and only ever imagined in Gaia's worst nightmares.
Seto attacked with Neutron Blast but only managed to take out a portion of the brown furry creatures. Seto was surprised when Yami explained that until every Kuriboh was destroyed no Life Points would be lost, and that they would continue to multiply.
Seto began to freak out. He couldn't handle the insane number of little brown balls of fur or the fact that his dragon was slowly but surely turning into and oozing pile of goo. He tried another Neutron Blast, but again the majority of Kuriboh remained, and on and on they multiplied.
Now with Seto's dragon down to nine hundred attack points a head Yami summoned Celtic Guardian to the field. Celtic had to repressed the urge to swat his arms in every direction to make the fur balls clear away. Some how he managed to keep stoic, and the many Kuriboh gave him extra room. Yami ordered Celtic to attack one of the Blue Eyes heads.
'YEAH BABY!' Celtic thought excitedly as he charged and swung. An oozing dragon head hit the ground moments later.
Seto began to step back, toward the edge of the tower. He stepped back onto the ledge and made a little speech. He played his Reborn the Monster to resurrect the fallen Blue Eyes head. The field was now set. If Celtic were to attack and win, the after shock of the duelling system could possibly knock Seto to his death, but if Celtic did not attack, then Seto could used the revived Blue Eyes head to take him out. It all came down to this one last choice on Yugi's part.
Yami didn't care about Seto. He cared about winning. He cared about getting into Pegasus's castle so they could save Yugi's grandfather. He cared about Yugi. Yami ordered Celtic to attack.
Celtic charged, filled with hope and joy. And why shouldn't he. He was going to take the final swipe at a Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon! As he charged that stupid "girl" friend of Yugi's went running into the duel area and started to yell something about how Yugi cared about other people and couldn't risk someone's life like this. Celtic was just about there, just about at his destination when he heard Yugi's little voice call out 'stop'. Celtic slowed in disbelief, and lowered his sword. He looked down at the ground, his face set in a stunned expression. 'No...' he thought as he was engulfed in the attack from that one Blue Eyes head.
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Celtic stood still stunned, stocked, pissed off, all of the above.
"Celtic, you did fine, really you did great," Dark said trying to make the elf feel better.
"Dude, you like kicked dragon ass!" Gaia added.
Just then a very angry looking pharaoh stormed up to Dark. He looked darkly at the tall mage. "Kiss me," he ordered.
Dark looked at him oddly. First of all, Yami wasn't ever that dominate, second of all they were in broad shadow light and thirdly, Celtic was right there. "Yami I-"
"I said kiss me damn you." He grabbed Dark's armour and pulled down hard. He caught the mages lips with his. A hard, fierce kiss, that Dark returned out of obedience. Yami kept it going until he heard what he was waiting for. It wasn't just to relieve the stress built up because of the duel. He heard a low, almost inaudible growl from a certain monster and smiled before breaking the kiss.
"Pharaoh? What has gotten into you?" Dark asked once he had been freed.
"You wanna know what? Fine..." He took a deep breath before starting. "Mr. Seto Kaiba thinks that he's go smart by standing on the edge of a tower and threatening Yugi by saying that the after shock of the duel could cause him to fall to his death... Well I gotta a few things to say about that. One, the damn duel would have ending with a shock either way! And when he won he didn't fall to his death. Shame the bastard didn't! Oh and how come if he did start to lose his balance one of Yugi's many friends couldn't go catch the stupid klutz!"
"Yami!" Dark said grabbing the ranting pharaoh's shoulders. "Breath will you! Calm down."
"And another thing!"
"Yami..." Dark warned.
"Shut up Dark. Celtic had the chance to destroy the strongest monster that I can remember! He could have shown what he's capable of but no! Yugi had to stop him, and that damned girl. That stupid brunette moron!"
"Yeah! I could have!" Celtic joined in.
"Don't you start!" Dark said sternly, turning to face the elf before returning his attention to his master. "Listen Yami. We lost okay. Yugi still has five star chips, he isn't out yet."
'It's not just the star chips,' Yami thought to the mage, looking up with sad eyes.
'What do you mean?' Dark thought back, keeping the conversation private.
'He doesn't trust me anymore. He's blocking me out, holding me back.'
'Yami... don't worry... he needs you more than he knows... he needs your help to win this thing. Don't give up on him so easily.'
'How can you be so sure?'
'Yami. He's probably dealing with puberty or something. I mean come on. He's fifteen. Isn't that when the hormones start kicking in... it was around then for some else.' Dark gently hit Yami's arm.
Yami smiled. 'Don't start that... plus, I wasn't fifteen... I lied.'
'How old were you?!' Dark asked.
'Hmm, thirteen I think,' Yami said grinning a bit.
"I'm kinda glad that back then age wasn't a big deal..." Dark said aloud.
"Okay everyone," Yami said looking around. Everyone had stayed on account of a ranting pharaoh being entertaining and they were a little curious about the mind talking thing. "Here's what you are all going to do. You guys need a break big time. Now, if you follow that path behind the mansion for twenty minute you'll come to a lake. I swear it is the most beautiful place in all the Shadow Realm. It's brighter and the sky is less clouded, more purple. The water is the most perfect pink, the grass blue, and flowers of every color imaginable; golds, silvers, black, white, red and yellow. There are cliffs of green stone circling a portion of the lake, and you can jump off them into the deep water. It's great, fun and relaxing. You guys can even have a picnic if you want. But I suggest you go about it fairly soon, while Yugi's still in his semi-coma from losing."
"Heh, that sounds great! And I don't have to plan it this time!" Celtic said happily.
"What have you been planning?" Yami asked interested.
"We've had Halloween and we've had a dance!" Celtic said before looking at the ground a bit depressed. He looked up before everyone except Dark noticed. "I can't wait for a picnic! But I was wondering... we don't need food do we?"
"No you don't need it, but you can sure enjoy it!" Yami said. "Now if you'll excuse me I must try to find a way to make Yugi snap out of it." He disappeared moments later.
"Picnic time! Swim-swim time!" Celtic sang.
"Okay, even I wouldn't say something as stupid as swim-swim," Gaia said, giving the elf an odd look.
"That's because you aren't cool enough!" Celtic shot at him. He was slowly getting over the "child" problem.
"Okay! Everyone off! We'll need our swim stuff and some tasty treats and a change of clothes," Celtic said half to himself, half to the others. "Bring friends if you want!" Celtic said before dashing off. In ten minutes he was knocking on Cee and Gee's door.
"Hi Celtic. What are you so happy about?" Cee asked.
"We're having a picnic and I wanted to invite you guys! You can bring stuff! Oh and bring swim suits, it's at some lake."
"By stuff you mean treats don't you?" Gee asked coming into the door frame.
Celtic nodded.
"Fine, but picnic treats, not candy! You've had enough for a while," Cee said only to have Celtic pout.
"Well, I gotta get ready! See you guys in front of the mansion!" Celtic dashed off yet again.
In his room he grabbed a big fluffy towel and a sparkly article of clothing. He got dressed in a loose shirt and pulled a pair of cargo pants over his swim suit. He flung the towel around his shoulders like a cape and headed out. He went up the stairs and knocked on Dark's door.
"Celtic? You ready already?" Dark said, looking at his towel cape.
"Yeah... you?" He asked, wanting to get going.
"No, not yet. Come on in and have a seat. I'll be ready soon." Dark said heading into his bathroom.
Celtic looked around until his eyes came upon a spiral bound, hard cover, black book. He went over and picked it up. 'What's this?' Celtic asked as he sat down on the edge of Dark's bed. 'I really shouldn't look at his personal things,' Celtic thought while opening to the first drawing. '..... but.... when they have to do with me I think it's okay.....' He turned the page to another picture of him. 'At least I have some clothes on.' Celtic turned through a few more pages. 'Never mind.' Celtic heard the knob on the bathroom door turn. He slammed the book shut and hid it behind his back, under his towel. "Heh Dark. I forgot something in my room. I'll see you out front." Celtic left quickly.
Once in his room he took the book from behind his back and placed it beside the plushie. "I will be dealing with you later," he said pointing to the book. Then he left his room and headed outside.
Hicky: Okay! I'm reaaaaallllllllllllllly sorry this took so long but I couldn't even open a single thing on FF.net, so it's not my fault!
Trent: We have a winner to the Drumstick/Niwatori thing and she will be receiving her prize shortly. Congratulations Nelara!!!!