Come friends! I greet you here! Or, well. . . really just the THREE PEOPLE
WHO REVIEWED MY LAST CHAPTER! Everybody else can go [censored for content,
time, and for the necessity of keeping the computer from melting]. Needless
to say, I am. . . displeased. Show some sympathy for a writer every now and
then, please. That being said, how was Turkey Day everybody? Let me tell
you, it is a sad say indeed when the guys make a better turkey than
everybody else. And better mashed potatoes, and better gravy, and better
stuffing, and better green bean casserole. Anyway, On with the story!
Chapter 18: A New Leg of the Journey (ahh, man, not another one! Isn't one enough?)
Joey. . . was not happy. First, his best friend is caught in a coma. Then, that same friend mysteriously disappears. And all the while, he could tell just how mean he was becoming. He could still remember all the times that he had saved Yugi's life, like when Kaiba was still a megalomaniac, and Joey was the one who defeated the mercenaries Kaiba had hired to kill Him, Yugi, Tea, Tristan, and even Tristan's little brother, who had been there by accident. When all those miscellaneous thugs, crooks, and generally un- nice people had repeatedly tried to kill just about everybody that Joey was a friend of. Sure, he was a little freaked out that his friend was also the host of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, and that most of the people hat he eventually had to deal with were powerful magicians and psychopaths with varying degrees of dementia. But the way he saw it, that just meant more asses to kick. And he greatly enjoyed giving a good ass kicking.
He did not know why Kaiba had decided to bring him and Yugi along with him into the Japan's version of the middle ages, and he still did not know just what everybody was supposed to do while they were there. He was still beating himself up because he felt that he had finally let his friend down. And who was to say that he was wrong?
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Inuyasha and the others had given up trying to find Yugi, and had returned to the village to see if anybody else had found a trace of their oh-so-cute- living-shampoo-and-hair-gel-commercial.
"Sand, you say, Inuyasha? That is. . . quite curious indeed."
"What? You find something else, than, Miroku? Maybe some wizard created a golem or something, that's the only thing I can think of that would only smell of sand and not of anything else."
"Not as such. But It is beginning to sound more and more like Yugi wasn't kidnapped at all. I guess I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but I would not be surprised if this was some new power of his puzzle or something. It would not be the first time that kid did the impossible."
"Kaiba is probably correct. The way it sounds, maybe Yugi was able to open a portal of his own, not unlike your machine, Kaiba. Egypt is a very sandy place, right Kagome?"
"Hey! Yeah, it is! That does make sense, I guess. Maybe Yugi found a way home or something!"
"I believe that that may very well be the case. The question remains, though: how do we get to where Yugi is?"
Suddenly showing up out of nowhere, Joey pops up and surprises everyone with the biggest grin that they had ever seen, even before the problem with the disappearing midget. "Hey-hey! Guys, you are not gonna believe this! Do the words: Mysterious, ethereal portal into a desert-like region sound good to ya?" he asked.
"Let me guess," said Kaiba, "you found one? And now you are suggesting that we go through it, into unknown danger, on a no doubt VERY perilous journey, through a desert, no less, with only a half breed demon with a magic sword, a lecherous monk, a ninja girl, a modern day school girl, a weird dog/fox demon thing that can go from cute and fluffy one minute, to tear-your- throat-out scary, a modern day Japanese street punk with a magic gauntlet that he can use to summon monsters and play spells, and one of the richest people in the world with an attitude as big as his fortune with the same sort of gauntlet, to barge on through, rescue the reincarnation of a pharaoh WHO WENT THERE PRESUMABLY OF HIS OWN WILL, *and* do who knows what else?"
"Damn strait." Joey answered.
"Good. 'Cause I like those odds." said Inuyasha.
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Everyone sensed the power that created it. None of them, not even The Three, Not even Mister-Voice-in-the-Dark, nor Naraku, or anybody else could have conceivably missed it. Except for, Kuwabara, because he was to busy pigging out at a weird buffet.
IT IS OFFICIAL! Yes! Yes! Yes! You knew it, and if you did not know it, You should have! I told you on NUMEROUS occasions to read both stories, and if you still haven't, than there is nothing I can do to help you. Until next chapter, I must bid you: adieu .
Chapter 18: A New Leg of the Journey (ahh, man, not another one! Isn't one enough?)
Joey. . . was not happy. First, his best friend is caught in a coma. Then, that same friend mysteriously disappears. And all the while, he could tell just how mean he was becoming. He could still remember all the times that he had saved Yugi's life, like when Kaiba was still a megalomaniac, and Joey was the one who defeated the mercenaries Kaiba had hired to kill Him, Yugi, Tea, Tristan, and even Tristan's little brother, who had been there by accident. When all those miscellaneous thugs, crooks, and generally un- nice people had repeatedly tried to kill just about everybody that Joey was a friend of. Sure, he was a little freaked out that his friend was also the host of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, and that most of the people hat he eventually had to deal with were powerful magicians and psychopaths with varying degrees of dementia. But the way he saw it, that just meant more asses to kick. And he greatly enjoyed giving a good ass kicking.
He did not know why Kaiba had decided to bring him and Yugi along with him into the Japan's version of the middle ages, and he still did not know just what everybody was supposed to do while they were there. He was still beating himself up because he felt that he had finally let his friend down. And who was to say that he was wrong?
***************************
Inuyasha and the others had given up trying to find Yugi, and had returned to the village to see if anybody else had found a trace of their oh-so-cute- living-shampoo-and-hair-gel-commercial.
"Sand, you say, Inuyasha? That is. . . quite curious indeed."
"What? You find something else, than, Miroku? Maybe some wizard created a golem or something, that's the only thing I can think of that would only smell of sand and not of anything else."
"Not as such. But It is beginning to sound more and more like Yugi wasn't kidnapped at all. I guess I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but I would not be surprised if this was some new power of his puzzle or something. It would not be the first time that kid did the impossible."
"Kaiba is probably correct. The way it sounds, maybe Yugi was able to open a portal of his own, not unlike your machine, Kaiba. Egypt is a very sandy place, right Kagome?"
"Hey! Yeah, it is! That does make sense, I guess. Maybe Yugi found a way home or something!"
"I believe that that may very well be the case. The question remains, though: how do we get to where Yugi is?"
Suddenly showing up out of nowhere, Joey pops up and surprises everyone with the biggest grin that they had ever seen, even before the problem with the disappearing midget. "Hey-hey! Guys, you are not gonna believe this! Do the words: Mysterious, ethereal portal into a desert-like region sound good to ya?" he asked.
"Let me guess," said Kaiba, "you found one? And now you are suggesting that we go through it, into unknown danger, on a no doubt VERY perilous journey, through a desert, no less, with only a half breed demon with a magic sword, a lecherous monk, a ninja girl, a modern day school girl, a weird dog/fox demon thing that can go from cute and fluffy one minute, to tear-your- throat-out scary, a modern day Japanese street punk with a magic gauntlet that he can use to summon monsters and play spells, and one of the richest people in the world with an attitude as big as his fortune with the same sort of gauntlet, to barge on through, rescue the reincarnation of a pharaoh WHO WENT THERE PRESUMABLY OF HIS OWN WILL, *and* do who knows what else?"
"Damn strait." Joey answered.
"Good. 'Cause I like those odds." said Inuyasha.
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Everyone sensed the power that created it. None of them, not even The Three, Not even Mister-Voice-in-the-Dark, nor Naraku, or anybody else could have conceivably missed it. Except for, Kuwabara, because he was to busy pigging out at a weird buffet.
IT IS OFFICIAL! Yes! Yes! Yes! You knew it, and if you did not know it, You should have! I told you on NUMEROUS occasions to read both stories, and if you still haven't, than there is nothing I can do to help you. Until next chapter, I must bid you: adieu .