A Midsummer Night's Hell
By Firefrost
(Based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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CAST:
Japanese Name (English Dub Name) - Character In Play
Anzu Mazaki (Tea Gardner) - Hermia
Marik Ishtar (Yami Marik) - Lysander (Hermia's lover)
Shizuka Katsuya (Serenity Wheeler) - Helena (Hermia's best friend)
Yami (Yami Yugi) - Demetrius (Hermia's suitor, Helena's secret love)
Jounouchi Katsuya (Joey Wheeler) - Oberon (King of Fairies)
Mai - Titania (Queen of Fairies)
Yugi - Puck (mischievous fairy, Oberon's servant)
Isis Ishtar (Ishizu) - Hippolyta (Duchess-to-be of Athens)
Malik Ishtar (Marik) - Egeus (Hermia's father)
Seto (Kaiba) - Theseus (Duke of Athens)
Bakura Ryou (Yami Bakura) - Nick Bottom (weaver)
Ryou Bakura (Bakura) - Cobweb (Titania's lady-in-waiting)
NOTE: 'dfdfdf' = thoughts
When referring to who's speaking, I have used M, M, B, Y in different mixtures and arrangements. These stand for Marik, Malik, Bakura, and Yami (they will never be used to stand for any of the others).
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Firefrost: O' joy, o' rapture! Steady mine throbbing heart, and partake of such a humourous offering as this which hath been laid before thee! (Translation: Be happy, my heart! Enjoy this humourous story!)
Anzu: O_o Did she get into the sugar again?
Malik: (Points to Yami) The Pharaoh did it!
Yami: _ (Shakes fists in the air) I did NOT! You were the one who dared her to—!
Bakura: (Raises eyebrow and smirks at Malik) To drink all that Pepsi before bed.
Marik: Stupid authoress.
Firefrost: I heard that!
Marik: So?
Firefrost: So, if you WANT to be paired with Anzu, be NICE! Or I'll put her with Bakura, or Yami or Malik! (Red with fury)
Marik: (Approaches Anzu and wraps his arms around her) Very well. I shall, as long as Anzu is mine!
Anzu: O.O (Blushes)
M, B, Y: (Glare daggers at Marik before leaping forward and pulling him away from her) ANZU'S MY WOMAN!!
A cloud of dust appears as a brawl breaks out between the four.
Anzu: O_o
Firefrost: (Wobbling from sugar high) While Anzu and I peel the men apart, Shizuka, will you do the honours?
Shizuka: Sure! (Flashes a sweet smile) Firefrost owns neither Yu-gi-oh nor Midsummer Night's Dream. If she did, she'd be in the hospital for bragging to her peers too much, so she says!
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Chapter 1: To Wed & Not To Wed!
The city of Athens was lit with joy as its noble Duke Seto hosted a great party celebrating his nearly-come wedding days (four days from then). Many of the great nobles had gathered.
Malik: (Walks on stage to the Duke and his bride-to-be, Isis, cursing Bakura for trying to trip him backstage) Ra-damned F***ing Tomb Robber! (Realizes he's on, and looks at couple) Worthy Duke, I send you my fondest congratulations for your to-be matrimony... (Smirks at Isis, who blushes) As well as your to-be nuptials.
(A/N: Nuptials are reference to *ahem* the wedding night ritual of you-know-what.)
Isis: That wasn't in the script, Malik!
Malik: What?! Everyone knows you like him!
Isis: O_O
Seto: O.o; Ummmm... right. (Struggles to remember his line) Thank you kindly, Lord Malik! But, let me not be selfish in my rejoicement. How be your lovely daughter and her betrothed? Has there been a setting of the date?
Malik: (Shakes his head) I fear not. My Anzu has chastised many a time my choice. A year it has been, and still she loathes Lord Yami. Yet reserved is she to marry that reckless and wild Marik! (Pouts at mention of Marik) I do not understand! If she persists more, (touches his platinum hair) I fear my hair shall be all but white!
Seto: Fear not, my kinsman. Where be the lovely Anzu at this hour? I bid her come and we shall solve this discourse.
Anzu: (Enters, on cue) I pray you, did you call, my lord?
Seto: Aye, dear maiden.
Isis: Ooh! Anzu, are YOU in for it!
Anzu: (Glares)
Seto: Your father tells that you defile his honourable match. Why do you so detest Lord Yami? He be the son of a nobleman, and well trained in the art of courting fair ladies such as yourself. Will you not even consider him?
Anzu: I will not. Indeed, he knows the way to court and woo a woman. Just last morrow, he courted through night the body of my companion, Shizuka! Is that not a sin in the eyes of the noble?! And even more a sin to destroy true love? My dear Marik—!
Malik: (Snorts)
Anzu: —and I are destined! Would you defy Aphrodite's great plan?
(A/N: Aphrodite = Greek Goddess of Love)
Seto: I will bear the curse of Love's wrath for the sake of your loving father's honour. (Turns to Isis) Begone, dearest. Leave your ears clean of this business's conclusion, or it may well damage your delicate nature.
Isis: Aye, my beloved. (She leaves)
Seto: As Duke on high, I set before you, Anzu, a choice of three. May the Gods guide your choice wisely. One, to wed your father's chosen suitor, Yami. Two, to confirm as a nun, and be a sister of the faith. Or three, be put to death at the axeman's swing.
Anzu: (Gasps) My lord, there is no choice in this! (Tears well in her pretty blue eyes)
Malik: (Wraps his arms around her) Awww...! Don't cry, Anzu!
Anzu: O.o (Whispers to Malik) It's for the scene, Malik!
M, B, Y (backstage): Grrr!!! Get your FILTHY hands off 'er, Malik!!
Seto: (Pulls Malik and Anzu apart to avoid catastrophe) A choice it is. And it be the only one you shall have. Be swift now, before I lose my patience!
Anzu: (Her tears fall) I BEG you, Lord, give me time!! My heart is pierced with a thousand razored swords, and the wounds MUST heal! Let my shock fade, and I shall answer when I may!
Seto: Agreed. You shall come to me in the morn. No sooner, and no later! You must answer then. (Waves his hand absently) Off and away, to puzzle your dilemma and coax your delusional brain into logic!
Anzu retreats to her guest chamber in the Duke's home, and there is kept company by the withering night.
Anzu: O' night deadly! O' night wicked! What cruel joke do you play on me?! This night me heard my Duke say I must choose — but choose I CANNOT! To be a woman of faith is too lonesome! To be wed to my betrothed is appalling! But to die is UNBEARABLE! To leave my Marik behind, in pain, and know that I have wronged he whom I love as the breath I do intake?! Injustice! Injustice I would do to him! Never!
M, M, Y, & B (backstage): O_O 'She's good!'
Marik: (Enters at Anzu's window) Dearest angel of my heart? 'Tis I, your Marik! Be not shy, and come with me to revel in the moonlight's pale embrace! From beneath dark trees that may hide us we shall entreat each other!
Anzu: (Runs and embraces Marik's neck, making Malik, Bakura, and Yami extremely jealous) My love! I am in no fit to entreat this night! Forgive me, but my heart is troubled with choice.
Marik: (Kisses her forehead and looks in her eyes) What choice, my fair lady?
Anzu: The Duke bid me wed Yami, be a nun, or to suffer the stroke of the axeman! But, NEVER to live and love you!
Marik: (Ponders) I see... Behold, a thought! Fair Anzu, meet me in one hour at the brink of the forest, ere we will travel and elope, only to marry elsewhere where the Duke has no power!
Anzu: (Smiles brightly) O', beloved! Brilliant! I will come! But, first, I must warn Shizuka. In my stead, she may be Yami's wife, as she so deeply desires. I cannot leave my childhood friend without this hopeful knowledge!
Marik: (Outside window) As you wish. I shall wait for you at the brink as planned. Be not late!
It took only a short while for Anzu to find her sweet friend, Shizuka, who was in the garden.
Shizuka: (Stands from a flower grove) Anzu, what is it? Never before have you looked so bright and so jubilant! Pray I ask your source of ecstacy?
Anzu: My dearest of dear friends, rejoice with me! My love has come to me this night! He bid me join him ere an hour at the brink! From there, we shall disappear from the shunning eyes of Athens! Away and away forever, to a place we can wed!
Shizuka: _ Oh, I wish I could elope!! Jounouchi won't let me go with Seto!!
Anzu: O____O;; Shizuka, you lines?!
Shizuka: O_______O OH! Oh, right!! Um — Then I bid you farewell and happiness, my playmate!
Anzu: As I wish you! For once I and mine are vanished, Yami will beget you the title of his wife! What I hath lost, you hath won! Despite, I do not mind losing it!
Shizuka: (Shaking her head) But Yami loves you, Anzu. He sees me not anymore...
Anzu: Not so! I feel he will pursue Marik and I, and YOU must be there to distract him. Time alone with you may change his feelings beyond that of the immediate physical pleasure he hath used you for! Go with him when he follow me. Take his heart's eye from me, and steal his soul with your womanly beauty!
Shizuka: (In a dreamy state) I shall...
Anzu: Good fortune! I go now, Shizuka. Fare you well and may luck shine upon you as the sun in your auburn hair!
Anzu disappears from the garden, and Shizuka is silently exuberant at her chance to 'snag' her beloved Yami.
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Firefrost: I LOVE happy endings...! *sniff*
Bakura: Dimwit, it's not over yet!!
Firefrost: I KNOW THAT!! But the CHAPTER is, you demented pick-pocket!
Bakura: 'KING OF THIEVES,' LITTLE MISSY!!!
Firefrost: _ (Makes a South Park-Cartman Sound) Gi-gi-gi-Geeeaaaaa!!!!
Marik: (Looks at Malik) I'm not doing it, dumbass.
Malik: Well, I sure as hell am not doing it!
Marik: Well then, it just won't get done.
Anzu: (Annoyed, places an arm around each of their waists and smiles at them) Please do it. For me?
M & M: (Go stiff at Anzu's touch — not THERE, you hentai!) Thanks for reading! Join us next time! R&R please!
By Firefrost
(Based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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CAST:
Japanese Name (English Dub Name) - Character In Play
Anzu Mazaki (Tea Gardner) - Hermia
Marik Ishtar (Yami Marik) - Lysander (Hermia's lover)
Shizuka Katsuya (Serenity Wheeler) - Helena (Hermia's best friend)
Yami (Yami Yugi) - Demetrius (Hermia's suitor, Helena's secret love)
Jounouchi Katsuya (Joey Wheeler) - Oberon (King of Fairies)
Mai - Titania (Queen of Fairies)
Yugi - Puck (mischievous fairy, Oberon's servant)
Isis Ishtar (Ishizu) - Hippolyta (Duchess-to-be of Athens)
Malik Ishtar (Marik) - Egeus (Hermia's father)
Seto (Kaiba) - Theseus (Duke of Athens)
Bakura Ryou (Yami Bakura) - Nick Bottom (weaver)
Ryou Bakura (Bakura) - Cobweb (Titania's lady-in-waiting)
NOTE: 'dfdfdf' = thoughts
When referring to who's speaking, I have used M, M, B, Y in different mixtures and arrangements. These stand for Marik, Malik, Bakura, and Yami (they will never be used to stand for any of the others).
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Firefrost: O' joy, o' rapture! Steady mine throbbing heart, and partake of such a humourous offering as this which hath been laid before thee! (Translation: Be happy, my heart! Enjoy this humourous story!)
Anzu: O_o Did she get into the sugar again?
Malik: (Points to Yami) The Pharaoh did it!
Yami: _ (Shakes fists in the air) I did NOT! You were the one who dared her to—!
Bakura: (Raises eyebrow and smirks at Malik) To drink all that Pepsi before bed.
Marik: Stupid authoress.
Firefrost: I heard that!
Marik: So?
Firefrost: So, if you WANT to be paired with Anzu, be NICE! Or I'll put her with Bakura, or Yami or Malik! (Red with fury)
Marik: (Approaches Anzu and wraps his arms around her) Very well. I shall, as long as Anzu is mine!
Anzu: O.O (Blushes)
M, B, Y: (Glare daggers at Marik before leaping forward and pulling him away from her) ANZU'S MY WOMAN!!
A cloud of dust appears as a brawl breaks out between the four.
Anzu: O_o
Firefrost: (Wobbling from sugar high) While Anzu and I peel the men apart, Shizuka, will you do the honours?
Shizuka: Sure! (Flashes a sweet smile) Firefrost owns neither Yu-gi-oh nor Midsummer Night's Dream. If she did, she'd be in the hospital for bragging to her peers too much, so she says!
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Chapter 1: To Wed & Not To Wed!
The city of Athens was lit with joy as its noble Duke Seto hosted a great party celebrating his nearly-come wedding days (four days from then). Many of the great nobles had gathered.
Malik: (Walks on stage to the Duke and his bride-to-be, Isis, cursing Bakura for trying to trip him backstage) Ra-damned F***ing Tomb Robber! (Realizes he's on, and looks at couple) Worthy Duke, I send you my fondest congratulations for your to-be matrimony... (Smirks at Isis, who blushes) As well as your to-be nuptials.
(A/N: Nuptials are reference to *ahem* the wedding night ritual of you-know-what.)
Isis: That wasn't in the script, Malik!
Malik: What?! Everyone knows you like him!
Isis: O_O
Seto: O.o; Ummmm... right. (Struggles to remember his line) Thank you kindly, Lord Malik! But, let me not be selfish in my rejoicement. How be your lovely daughter and her betrothed? Has there been a setting of the date?
Malik: (Shakes his head) I fear not. My Anzu has chastised many a time my choice. A year it has been, and still she loathes Lord Yami. Yet reserved is she to marry that reckless and wild Marik! (Pouts at mention of Marik) I do not understand! If she persists more, (touches his platinum hair) I fear my hair shall be all but white!
Seto: Fear not, my kinsman. Where be the lovely Anzu at this hour? I bid her come and we shall solve this discourse.
Anzu: (Enters, on cue) I pray you, did you call, my lord?
Seto: Aye, dear maiden.
Isis: Ooh! Anzu, are YOU in for it!
Anzu: (Glares)
Seto: Your father tells that you defile his honourable match. Why do you so detest Lord Yami? He be the son of a nobleman, and well trained in the art of courting fair ladies such as yourself. Will you not even consider him?
Anzu: I will not. Indeed, he knows the way to court and woo a woman. Just last morrow, he courted through night the body of my companion, Shizuka! Is that not a sin in the eyes of the noble?! And even more a sin to destroy true love? My dear Marik—!
Malik: (Snorts)
Anzu: —and I are destined! Would you defy Aphrodite's great plan?
(A/N: Aphrodite = Greek Goddess of Love)
Seto: I will bear the curse of Love's wrath for the sake of your loving father's honour. (Turns to Isis) Begone, dearest. Leave your ears clean of this business's conclusion, or it may well damage your delicate nature.
Isis: Aye, my beloved. (She leaves)
Seto: As Duke on high, I set before you, Anzu, a choice of three. May the Gods guide your choice wisely. One, to wed your father's chosen suitor, Yami. Two, to confirm as a nun, and be a sister of the faith. Or three, be put to death at the axeman's swing.
Anzu: (Gasps) My lord, there is no choice in this! (Tears well in her pretty blue eyes)
Malik: (Wraps his arms around her) Awww...! Don't cry, Anzu!
Anzu: O.o (Whispers to Malik) It's for the scene, Malik!
M, B, Y (backstage): Grrr!!! Get your FILTHY hands off 'er, Malik!!
Seto: (Pulls Malik and Anzu apart to avoid catastrophe) A choice it is. And it be the only one you shall have. Be swift now, before I lose my patience!
Anzu: (Her tears fall) I BEG you, Lord, give me time!! My heart is pierced with a thousand razored swords, and the wounds MUST heal! Let my shock fade, and I shall answer when I may!
Seto: Agreed. You shall come to me in the morn. No sooner, and no later! You must answer then. (Waves his hand absently) Off and away, to puzzle your dilemma and coax your delusional brain into logic!
Anzu retreats to her guest chamber in the Duke's home, and there is kept company by the withering night.
Anzu: O' night deadly! O' night wicked! What cruel joke do you play on me?! This night me heard my Duke say I must choose — but choose I CANNOT! To be a woman of faith is too lonesome! To be wed to my betrothed is appalling! But to die is UNBEARABLE! To leave my Marik behind, in pain, and know that I have wronged he whom I love as the breath I do intake?! Injustice! Injustice I would do to him! Never!
M, M, Y, & B (backstage): O_O 'She's good!'
Marik: (Enters at Anzu's window) Dearest angel of my heart? 'Tis I, your Marik! Be not shy, and come with me to revel in the moonlight's pale embrace! From beneath dark trees that may hide us we shall entreat each other!
Anzu: (Runs and embraces Marik's neck, making Malik, Bakura, and Yami extremely jealous) My love! I am in no fit to entreat this night! Forgive me, but my heart is troubled with choice.
Marik: (Kisses her forehead and looks in her eyes) What choice, my fair lady?
Anzu: The Duke bid me wed Yami, be a nun, or to suffer the stroke of the axeman! But, NEVER to live and love you!
Marik: (Ponders) I see... Behold, a thought! Fair Anzu, meet me in one hour at the brink of the forest, ere we will travel and elope, only to marry elsewhere where the Duke has no power!
Anzu: (Smiles brightly) O', beloved! Brilliant! I will come! But, first, I must warn Shizuka. In my stead, she may be Yami's wife, as she so deeply desires. I cannot leave my childhood friend without this hopeful knowledge!
Marik: (Outside window) As you wish. I shall wait for you at the brink as planned. Be not late!
It took only a short while for Anzu to find her sweet friend, Shizuka, who was in the garden.
Shizuka: (Stands from a flower grove) Anzu, what is it? Never before have you looked so bright and so jubilant! Pray I ask your source of ecstacy?
Anzu: My dearest of dear friends, rejoice with me! My love has come to me this night! He bid me join him ere an hour at the brink! From there, we shall disappear from the shunning eyes of Athens! Away and away forever, to a place we can wed!
Shizuka: _ Oh, I wish I could elope!! Jounouchi won't let me go with Seto!!
Anzu: O____O;; Shizuka, you lines?!
Shizuka: O_______O OH! Oh, right!! Um — Then I bid you farewell and happiness, my playmate!
Anzu: As I wish you! For once I and mine are vanished, Yami will beget you the title of his wife! What I hath lost, you hath won! Despite, I do not mind losing it!
Shizuka: (Shaking her head) But Yami loves you, Anzu. He sees me not anymore...
Anzu: Not so! I feel he will pursue Marik and I, and YOU must be there to distract him. Time alone with you may change his feelings beyond that of the immediate physical pleasure he hath used you for! Go with him when he follow me. Take his heart's eye from me, and steal his soul with your womanly beauty!
Shizuka: (In a dreamy state) I shall...
Anzu: Good fortune! I go now, Shizuka. Fare you well and may luck shine upon you as the sun in your auburn hair!
Anzu disappears from the garden, and Shizuka is silently exuberant at her chance to 'snag' her beloved Yami.
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Firefrost: I LOVE happy endings...! *sniff*
Bakura: Dimwit, it's not over yet!!
Firefrost: I KNOW THAT!! But the CHAPTER is, you demented pick-pocket!
Bakura: 'KING OF THIEVES,' LITTLE MISSY!!!
Firefrost: _ (Makes a South Park-Cartman Sound) Gi-gi-gi-Geeeaaaaa!!!!
Marik: (Looks at Malik) I'm not doing it, dumbass.
Malik: Well, I sure as hell am not doing it!
Marik: Well then, it just won't get done.
Anzu: (Annoyed, places an arm around each of their waists and smiles at them) Please do it. For me?
M & M: (Go stiff at Anzu's touch — not THERE, you hentai!) Thanks for reading! Join us next time! R&R please!