Ok, my loyal subjects--*er, i mean* fans, DarkFlame's gonna do something a
little different, she is. i'm going to make a story inside a story.
remember when Sekhmet and Kento went to the bathroom to clean up, and they
never came back? Anubis sent Kale to go get them, but he never came back,
either. what the hell happened? were they sucked into a wormhole and
transported into a parallel universe where people eat and talk through
their asses and take a whiz, etc. through their mouths? *thinks for a
moment* hey...that could explain the phrase "potty mouth"...
*shakes head as if to clear it* tell me how you like this new approach,
k? what started as part of VRW's eighth chapter is instead going out into
the world on its lonesome. Sortta; it's still connected to the main story.
i guess.
DarkFlame136
Ps: my card references in the side-story...a cookie and mounds of praise to anyone who knows what the last two cards revealed in the Chibi Adventure correspond to in Tarot =)
Disclaimer: same 'ole thang, peoples, same 'ole thang. that's why i'm not really doing one for this part of the story ;รพ
Kale's Chibi Adventure, Part I ::In the Bathroom, the Mighty Bathroom...::
Kale found Sekhmet and Kento--along with five other people (luckily all male) in the men's restroom. All were sitting in the center of the room around mounds. The outer ones were two piles of money, one in change, one in bills. A third pile between the two held miscellaneous items, such as shoes, clothes, a sword, credit cards, car keys, property deeds, etc.
Sekhmet, with a cup and two dice, was staring intently at the green haired man in front of him. The man stared back.
"You're probably better off backing out, you know. After this, you'll have nothing left to put down, Spiegal."
Spike didn't flinch. "You may have stolen my hair, but there's no way you're stealing my money." He took a set of keys out of his suit pocket. "I'll even throw in the Swordfish."
Sekhmet frowned. "I've had enough seafood for one night, thank you."
Next to him, Kento shuddered at the memory. 'That damn butter smell's probably NEVER going to come out of my hair!' He still couldn't really believe how Cye had gone two-face on him like that.
"Spike!" an older man with cyborg parts and a pair of nifty boxers yelled. "You've seen how the others lost to this guy--he's worse than Fey! Don't you DARE put up your ship!"
"Relax, Jet. I've never lost before. Why start now?"
A third man who kinda looked like Jet spoke up. Hell, he even had on the same pair of boxers. "Yeah, that's exactly what Lupin said, and look at him now!"
The man in his birthday suit sitting across from him--cross-legged with his hands covering most of it, mind you--scowled. "Oh, shut up, Jigen! If Spike wins this, we can all get our stuff back. If he doesn't, well...Big Boy over there still hasn't gone yet!"
Kento's eyes widened. "No way! I'M not playing him!"
"Wise choice, boy. I don't think ANYONE wants to see you lose, if you get my drift."
"What?" he craned his neck to see towards the door, where a second Masho stood with a peculiar expression on his face. "KALE?!"
Sekhmet smiled up at the Warlord of Darkness. "Did you miss us?"
"No," he sighed. "If i left and told the others that you're having an orgy, would i be lying or telling the truth?"
"It's a dice game, hentai."
"Then why are most of the people in the room lounging around in their underwear?" he jerked his thumb towards Lupin. "And where the fuck is his? I did NOT come in here to see that!"
His comrade gave an evil chuckle. "Some people have a gambling problem, Kale."
"I think ANYONE who goes against you has a gambling problem."
"You're not jumping in, then?" Kento asked, a bit disappointed. Not that he WANTED to see Kale butt-naked, but he did want to see him thoroughly embarrassed.
His eye-twitched as he thought of the double meaning of his question (they WERE in a room full of almost naked men, you know. The one in the loincloth was making him especially nervous). "I'd just as soon play a snake. Oh, wait..."
Sekhmet rolled his eyes. "The dice aren't rigged, you know."
"Speaking of which," Spike interrupted, "are we going to play or what?"
"Fine, fine, if you're in THAT much of a hurry to lose." With the dice between two fingers, he snatched them up with the cup. Rattling them around a bit, he then slammed the cup on the floor. "Well now, bounty hunter. Evens or odds? Seven or eleven is an automatic win, two ones an automatic loss. You feeling lucky today?"
Kale shook his head with a sad smile, feeling genuinely sorry for the young man. He had guts for taking a turn, with all the other object lessons in view. 'He's still a fool if he thinks he stands a chance.'
"I'm feeling extremely lucky today. Evens. And make sure you give Lupin and Goemon back their stuff first!"
"PLEASE!" everyone else pleaded. The two mentioned frowned.
"Bold words." Sekhmet removed the cup, revealing the dice. His eyes widened at the two sixes. "Evens."
"ALLRIGHT, SPIKE!" Kento cheered, both surprised and glad someone finally beat the Warlord of Venom.
"WAY TO GO, MAN!"
"HEY, THESE AREN'T MY PANTS!"
"GIMME MY SHIRT!"
"I'M NOT TOUCHING THOSE DRAWERS, MAN!"
"GODS, THESE SOCKS STINK!"
Kale raised an eyebrow. "Well, now. If you are done swindling people, can we leave now?"
"Fine. Let's go, Hardrock."
"Not quite yet, gentlemen."
Everyone looked at Spike. "You know the rules. Anyone who comes in has to play, remember?"
Everyone looked at Sekhmet. "That was before anyone won. Now there's nothing in the pot, since you got it all."
Everyone looked at Kale. Kale didn't budge. "I'm still not playing."
"Oh, yes you are." Spike took the cup and dice. "You can play me instead, if you wish."
"I don't do dice."
"He prefers cards, which I'm sure no one has," Sekhmet informed him.
The other watermelon green-haired man pulled a Bicycle deck out of his coat pocket. "Gimme the game and I'll deal out the hand."
Kale stared at him. "There's a reason I don't gamble, you know. I never bet low, and high stakes can be quite dangerous." His tone of voice, however, did not suggest that the odds were against him.
"No one's leaving until you've had a go." Spike said in a sing-song voice. Jet groaned, holding his head in his hand. 'We're gonna be here all night...'
'Kale; I neither know nor want to know what's taking you three so long, but we're going now'
"Huh?" he said aloud. 'Dais! I--oh, never mind. Sekhmet's at it again, that's all I'm saying. The rest may give the both of us nightmares for some time.'
'Man, don't tell me he has dice on him!'
'The less I say, the better. As long as I don't say anything, I can keep denying and eventually forget everything'
'Good luck, man'
Kale ignored the raised eyebrow from Spike. "Don't ask."
"Having voices in your head does not get you out of this."
The other man scowled. "Why is it that almost everyone i meet is so quick to lose something?"
Spike shrugged, shuffling the cards. "Must be something in the water."
'Too bad it's not arsenic' "It's late, I'm tired, and I'm not hanging around in a bathroom all night."
Spike shrugged. "Shortest game I can think of is Twenty One."
*sigh* "Fine. One game only, me against dealer. I win...I get something from all of you."
"And if I win, I get something from you three," he slid a face down card towards Kale who was still leaning on the doorframe. After dealing him a face up card, Queen of Spades, he gave himself one face up, one face down. "Aces are eleven or one, face cards ten." Spike's first card was King of Diamonds.
Before he could flip the face down card, Kale stopped him. "Let's make this more interesting, shall we? We can still get another hit if we choose, but without seeing our facedown card."
"Ooh, I like a man that takes risks," with a smile, Spike folded his arms. "I'm staying."
Kale smiled as well. "Funny that...so am I."
"By the way...that's a nice watch you have there. I think it would look better on my wrist, though, don't you think?"
Kale rolled his eyes. "Aren't we energetic today!"
Sekhmet and Kento looked at him, then at each other, confirming their suspicions by the expressions on each of their faces. "Kale, you're not going to..."
"What if I am? He's the one that wanted to play, no one stopped him, and I've been wanting to try something with my weapon."
By some interesting quirk of nature that goes against all biological possibilities, the normally pale Warlord of Venom somehow or another managed to lose about two more shades of pigment in his face. "Shit, what if it works? I am so NOT hanging around with a bunch of empty shells!"
Kento had no idea what they were talking about, but he felt it necessary to say something, anyway. "Um, then what do you call those tin cans you guys are always dragging around after you?"
A quick glance from Kale kept him from voicing his own thoughts. There would be time for "constructive criticism" later on. "Just hurry up and win so I can get the hell out of here before you raise it!"
"I'm just waiting for Mr. Dealer here to turn over or ante up without the ado," was the innocent reply.
"Hmmm....no sense in asking you to humor my curiosity and go first?"
"Naturally."
"All righty. Each on three?"
"Whatever floats your boat." Kale walked the few steps between him and his hand and knelt down. Both had their hands on their face down cards. Everyone else had their fingers crossed, holding their breath and not making a sound. The two players stared at each other, neither daring to blink. A tumbleweed makes its way across the bathroom floor and out the door. A waitress carrying a load of drinks trips over it and falls with curses and a loud crash.
"What the hell..." Kale muttered, his eyes sliding towards the door.
"Oi, game's down here, buddy."
With a glare, Kale began turning over his own card at the same time Spike starts to reveal his.
*DRUM ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....*
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Yeah, that's right i'm making you wait. ;p
DarkFlame136
Ps: my card references in the side-story...a cookie and mounds of praise to anyone who knows what the last two cards revealed in the Chibi Adventure correspond to in Tarot =)
Disclaimer: same 'ole thang, peoples, same 'ole thang. that's why i'm not really doing one for this part of the story ;รพ
Kale's Chibi Adventure, Part I ::In the Bathroom, the Mighty Bathroom...::
Kale found Sekhmet and Kento--along with five other people (luckily all male) in the men's restroom. All were sitting in the center of the room around mounds. The outer ones were two piles of money, one in change, one in bills. A third pile between the two held miscellaneous items, such as shoes, clothes, a sword, credit cards, car keys, property deeds, etc.
Sekhmet, with a cup and two dice, was staring intently at the green haired man in front of him. The man stared back.
"You're probably better off backing out, you know. After this, you'll have nothing left to put down, Spiegal."
Spike didn't flinch. "You may have stolen my hair, but there's no way you're stealing my money." He took a set of keys out of his suit pocket. "I'll even throw in the Swordfish."
Sekhmet frowned. "I've had enough seafood for one night, thank you."
Next to him, Kento shuddered at the memory. 'That damn butter smell's probably NEVER going to come out of my hair!' He still couldn't really believe how Cye had gone two-face on him like that.
"Spike!" an older man with cyborg parts and a pair of nifty boxers yelled. "You've seen how the others lost to this guy--he's worse than Fey! Don't you DARE put up your ship!"
"Relax, Jet. I've never lost before. Why start now?"
A third man who kinda looked like Jet spoke up. Hell, he even had on the same pair of boxers. "Yeah, that's exactly what Lupin said, and look at him now!"
The man in his birthday suit sitting across from him--cross-legged with his hands covering most of it, mind you--scowled. "Oh, shut up, Jigen! If Spike wins this, we can all get our stuff back. If he doesn't, well...Big Boy over there still hasn't gone yet!"
Kento's eyes widened. "No way! I'M not playing him!"
"Wise choice, boy. I don't think ANYONE wants to see you lose, if you get my drift."
"What?" he craned his neck to see towards the door, where a second Masho stood with a peculiar expression on his face. "KALE?!"
Sekhmet smiled up at the Warlord of Darkness. "Did you miss us?"
"No," he sighed. "If i left and told the others that you're having an orgy, would i be lying or telling the truth?"
"It's a dice game, hentai."
"Then why are most of the people in the room lounging around in their underwear?" he jerked his thumb towards Lupin. "And where the fuck is his? I did NOT come in here to see that!"
His comrade gave an evil chuckle. "Some people have a gambling problem, Kale."
"I think ANYONE who goes against you has a gambling problem."
"You're not jumping in, then?" Kento asked, a bit disappointed. Not that he WANTED to see Kale butt-naked, but he did want to see him thoroughly embarrassed.
His eye-twitched as he thought of the double meaning of his question (they WERE in a room full of almost naked men, you know. The one in the loincloth was making him especially nervous). "I'd just as soon play a snake. Oh, wait..."
Sekhmet rolled his eyes. "The dice aren't rigged, you know."
"Speaking of which," Spike interrupted, "are we going to play or what?"
"Fine, fine, if you're in THAT much of a hurry to lose." With the dice between two fingers, he snatched them up with the cup. Rattling them around a bit, he then slammed the cup on the floor. "Well now, bounty hunter. Evens or odds? Seven or eleven is an automatic win, two ones an automatic loss. You feeling lucky today?"
Kale shook his head with a sad smile, feeling genuinely sorry for the young man. He had guts for taking a turn, with all the other object lessons in view. 'He's still a fool if he thinks he stands a chance.'
"I'm feeling extremely lucky today. Evens. And make sure you give Lupin and Goemon back their stuff first!"
"PLEASE!" everyone else pleaded. The two mentioned frowned.
"Bold words." Sekhmet removed the cup, revealing the dice. His eyes widened at the two sixes. "Evens."
"ALLRIGHT, SPIKE!" Kento cheered, both surprised and glad someone finally beat the Warlord of Venom.
"WAY TO GO, MAN!"
"HEY, THESE AREN'T MY PANTS!"
"GIMME MY SHIRT!"
"I'M NOT TOUCHING THOSE DRAWERS, MAN!"
"GODS, THESE SOCKS STINK!"
Kale raised an eyebrow. "Well, now. If you are done swindling people, can we leave now?"
"Fine. Let's go, Hardrock."
"Not quite yet, gentlemen."
Everyone looked at Spike. "You know the rules. Anyone who comes in has to play, remember?"
Everyone looked at Sekhmet. "That was before anyone won. Now there's nothing in the pot, since you got it all."
Everyone looked at Kale. Kale didn't budge. "I'm still not playing."
"Oh, yes you are." Spike took the cup and dice. "You can play me instead, if you wish."
"I don't do dice."
"He prefers cards, which I'm sure no one has," Sekhmet informed him.
The other watermelon green-haired man pulled a Bicycle deck out of his coat pocket. "Gimme the game and I'll deal out the hand."
Kale stared at him. "There's a reason I don't gamble, you know. I never bet low, and high stakes can be quite dangerous." His tone of voice, however, did not suggest that the odds were against him.
"No one's leaving until you've had a go." Spike said in a sing-song voice. Jet groaned, holding his head in his hand. 'We're gonna be here all night...'
'Kale; I neither know nor want to know what's taking you three so long, but we're going now'
"Huh?" he said aloud. 'Dais! I--oh, never mind. Sekhmet's at it again, that's all I'm saying. The rest may give the both of us nightmares for some time.'
'Man, don't tell me he has dice on him!'
'The less I say, the better. As long as I don't say anything, I can keep denying and eventually forget everything'
'Good luck, man'
Kale ignored the raised eyebrow from Spike. "Don't ask."
"Having voices in your head does not get you out of this."
The other man scowled. "Why is it that almost everyone i meet is so quick to lose something?"
Spike shrugged, shuffling the cards. "Must be something in the water."
'Too bad it's not arsenic' "It's late, I'm tired, and I'm not hanging around in a bathroom all night."
Spike shrugged. "Shortest game I can think of is Twenty One."
*sigh* "Fine. One game only, me against dealer. I win...I get something from all of you."
"And if I win, I get something from you three," he slid a face down card towards Kale who was still leaning on the doorframe. After dealing him a face up card, Queen of Spades, he gave himself one face up, one face down. "Aces are eleven or one, face cards ten." Spike's first card was King of Diamonds.
Before he could flip the face down card, Kale stopped him. "Let's make this more interesting, shall we? We can still get another hit if we choose, but without seeing our facedown card."
"Ooh, I like a man that takes risks," with a smile, Spike folded his arms. "I'm staying."
Kale smiled as well. "Funny that...so am I."
"By the way...that's a nice watch you have there. I think it would look better on my wrist, though, don't you think?"
Kale rolled his eyes. "Aren't we energetic today!"
Sekhmet and Kento looked at him, then at each other, confirming their suspicions by the expressions on each of their faces. "Kale, you're not going to..."
"What if I am? He's the one that wanted to play, no one stopped him, and I've been wanting to try something with my weapon."
By some interesting quirk of nature that goes against all biological possibilities, the normally pale Warlord of Venom somehow or another managed to lose about two more shades of pigment in his face. "Shit, what if it works? I am so NOT hanging around with a bunch of empty shells!"
Kento had no idea what they were talking about, but he felt it necessary to say something, anyway. "Um, then what do you call those tin cans you guys are always dragging around after you?"
A quick glance from Kale kept him from voicing his own thoughts. There would be time for "constructive criticism" later on. "Just hurry up and win so I can get the hell out of here before you raise it!"
"I'm just waiting for Mr. Dealer here to turn over or ante up without the ado," was the innocent reply.
"Hmmm....no sense in asking you to humor my curiosity and go first?"
"Naturally."
"All righty. Each on three?"
"Whatever floats your boat." Kale walked the few steps between him and his hand and knelt down. Both had their hands on their face down cards. Everyone else had their fingers crossed, holding their breath and not making a sound. The two players stared at each other, neither daring to blink. A tumbleweed makes its way across the bathroom floor and out the door. A waitress carrying a load of drinks trips over it and falls with curses and a loud crash.
"What the hell..." Kale muttered, his eyes sliding towards the door.
"Oi, game's down here, buddy."
With a glare, Kale began turning over his own card at the same time Spike starts to reveal his.
*DRUM ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....*
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Yeah, that's right i'm making you wait. ;p