Chapter 2: Lord, What Fools These (Im)Mortals Be!
Firefrost: (Looks around) Hey! Is it just you guys? Where IS everybody?! It's almost time to start the next chapter!
Yugi: Well, they were supposed to be right behind us.
Ryou: Yeah! I show up in this scene!
Marik, Bakura, and Yami enter, looking very confused.
Firefrost: What's the matter with YOU?
Marik: (In panic) We can't find Anzu!!!
Bakura: (Grinds his teeth — Ew!) Or Malik!
Yugi: Oh, come on! You don't think she'd—!
Anzu and Malik enter, slightly mussed. Their hair is out of place, Anzu's lipstick is smeared, and they are breathing heavily with flushes on their faces.
Anzu: (Gasp) Sorry... we're late..!
M, B, & Y: WHERE WERE YOU?!!
Malik: Relax! We just... took a jog. Anzu said she... (Glances at Anzu lustfully) needed the exercise.
Bakura: Exercise my ass!! She's already got a body that won't quit! (Grabs her by her arm and pulls her forward) She doesn't need your PERSONAL tutoring!
Marik: (Rushes at Malik and pushes him against the wall) If you f***ing touch her again, I'll KILL you!!! You hear me?!!
Malik: Put me down, psychopath! I didn't do anything to her you haven't done already! I saw you last night on the couch—!"
Firefrost: Enough! (Shakes herself, like she's trying to rid herself of fleas) I don't want to know! Where's Jounouchi and Mai? They're on in this chapter, too.
Shizuka: (Enters) He's in the back of the car with Mai. He'll be here in a few minutes.
All: O.O (Sweatdrop, classic anime fall over)
Anzu: (Who HAD been hugging Marik and Malik sweetly) TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!
Firefrost: My, Anzu, you're hypocritical.
Anzu: Shut up! I only care to know about MY sex life!
Malik: (Smiles slyly) I'd say it's doing REALLY well, Anzu dear.
Anzu: --_-- (Blushes deeply)
Marik: (Shakes fist warningly) Why I oughtta—!
Ryou: (Frightened) Uh!! Here's chapter 2, please read and review!
Firefrost: Hey, that was cute! It rhymed!
All, but Firefrost: O_o; (Sweatdrop)
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Bakura: (Walks on stage alone, extremely pissed at Mokuba, Otogi, Honda, and Rebecca) I can't believe those idiots left me alone to do this play! How am I supposed to read my lines?!
Firefrost (from backstage): (Shrugs) Improvise?
Bakura: (Ponders quickly) Ummmm... Lord, what fools these mortals be—!
Marik (from backstage): (Whispers) Hey, that should be MY line! I'M the one who hates mortals!
Anzu: (Whispers back) You aren't playing Bottom.
Marik: ...
Bakura: See here! Behold, my friends have abandoned me! This day, we were to have rehearsal of the tragic tale of Mokuba and Rebecca. That which we are to perform four days hence at our Duke's fair wedding! Yet none of my fellows attend?! Must I play all roles within?! Be the damsel, the spellbound lover, and the wall together? As well as be stage hands?! I pray you, Lord, how? (Considers) I shall try, for my Duke and Duchess. Rehearse I came for, and rehearse I shall have, be it accompanied or solo!
The lights fade. Shuffling ensues in the theatre's darkness. The next scene lights up on stage: a forest.
Ryou: (Enters and starts dancing about) Tri-ping hi-ther, tri-ping thi-ther! Round and rou-ound, ne-ver to wi-ther! We must dance, and we must si-i-i-i-ing! All a-bout our fair-y ring!
Bakura: (Walks out and grabs Ryou by the ear) Wrong play, you moronic hikari! That's Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Iolanthe!' We're doing Shakespeare, remember?!
Ryou: (Being dragged offstage) Oh... right. Oops.
Firefrost (backstage): (Slaps her hand over her eyes) Shoot me now!
Marik reaches for something.
Shizuka: She was being sarcastic, Marik.
Marik: (Breaks into a spasm fit of anger, waving his arms about) That's it! Just rain on my parade, Katsuya!
Mai and Jounouchi enter. She is gowned in shimmering fabric that drapes down to her bare feet. He dresses in a garb of fur that fits as though he were a caveman. She shimmers with an unearthly aura (the lighting). He is dull and kind of ugly.
Mai: You shall not have him. My dear boy deserves the sweetness only the QUEEN of fairies can offer.
Jounouchi: But, fair Mai. I am King. This orphan tot you raise is mortal — not yours! He will be strong one day, and wise. Will you not permit him as my page?
Mai: Nay, my husband. He was my treasure when I found him in the shrubbery and is now my son. He'll not be plagued into your... (She glances at his muscular body under his garb) handsome, sweaty, sexy—!
Firefrost (backstage): _ * STICK TO THE SCRIPT!!!!
Mai: (Snaps her eyes away from Jounouchi's chest)— servitude!
Jounouchi moves downstage and looks at the audience, speaking his hidden thoughts.
Jounouchi: Wicked female! Devil's bed fellow! Serpent of the gentle sex! Be there NOTHING under this sky to abate her fury?! Be there nothing that drowns out the thought of her repented Seto? The grand Duke she loves o' so greatly, yet he loves another mortal woman. Can she never love ME?! Wicked, I say!
Mai: (Approaches and pulls Jounouchi from his thoughts) What devilish ploy slinks through your heat-suffered brain, o' relentless one? Fear you my swift tongue so that you recoil into your own silent reverie?
Jounouchi: (Glares) Nay, sweet, impatient wife! I think of you and your beloved. He who marries ere the end of the week! What say you to that?
Mai: (Stays silent a moment) ... And what of you? Forget not that YOUR dear Isis is the one to marry MY beloved Seto. Feel YOU no pain or jealousy?
Jounouchi: I feel. More so than you can know.
Mai: (turning and spinning on her heel) Then, there is nothing left to say. Ryou?!
Ryou: (Runs out on stage in a pretty dress, similar to Mai's) Aye, fair Queen?
Mai: Accompany me to see my son. Where be he now?
Ryou: Awaiting in the Mother Tree, my Queen. Freshly returned from bathing in the stream not far off, where he did spy fair Iolanthe at the water's edge.
Jounouchi: Ryou, this is 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM,' not 'Iolanthe'!!!
Ryou: (Scratches his head) Oh, that's right. I forgot.
Firefrost (backstage): (tugs hard on her hair) Gi-gi-gi-Geeeaaaa!!!
Mai pulls Ryou along as she goes offstage.
Jounouchi: (Alone to his thoughts again) I see my Queen has retained her youthful flare, (glances at Mai, who's standing offstage) though FAR from young is she.
Mai: _** (Shrieks as Bakura and Marik restrain her) I'LL KILL 'IM!!! I'LL KILL 'IM!!!
Jounouchi: Now, fizzle and toil, my tired brain! A plan is much needed! (Waits a minute) Hark! A scheme of brilliance! Yugi!! Come hither, my servant!
Yugi enters with a garb like Jounouchi's.
Yugi: You call, my King?
Jounouchi: Aye. My dear Mai, once again, refused me my page! Yet, whence she was gone, I thought, and planned. Listen carefully! (Pulls Yugi closer) Not far from here, amid the field of popplers, Cupid's Flower blossoms joyously. Any who's eyelids are dabbed with its dew shall drown in love for the first being they see when they wake! Bring me this flower, Yugi. And with it, I shall anoint fair Mai. Yet, when she wakes from her night's slumber, I shall see her love befalls the most vile creature she can imagine! Thus, her hand will be forced, and she will give me the orphan child in exchange for her heart's freedom!
Yugi: And where be you, Majesty, as I do perform your task?
Jounouchi: Here. I shall watch Mai to ensure the plan's success. Go now and fetch me the flower!
Yugi: I go! (Exits, skipping merrily)
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Anzu: ~_~ Awww! A love flower! How romantic!
Yami: You would fancy a flower, Anzu? Then, I shall fetch you one!
Yugi: Oh, brother!
Jounouchi: Yeah, Yugi?
Yugi: (Slaps his hand over his eyes and shakes his head)
Bakura: Pharaoh, my Anzu will NOT receive a flower from YOU!
M & M (mmm... candy!): YOUR Anzu?!!
Marik, Malik, Yami, and Bakura break into another brawl.
Firefrost: I can't take much more of this!
Anzu: (Smirks) Don't worry, I'll handle it! (Clears her throat and put her hands on her hips) Oh man! And here I thought we could have a fivesome! But, I don't do that post-fist-fight look.
The four boys stop in mid-punch, kick, or whatever.
Malik: (Jaw agape) Fivesome? Anzu, I didn't know you...!
Anzu: (Picks up her coat and starts walking outside) Well, I guess you'll never know now, will you?
M, M, B, & Y: Anzu, wait up!! (Chase after her)
Yugi: That was... scary.
Firefrost: Nah, just hormone-stimulating. Teenagers live such hard lives!
Mai: (Glares at Jounouchi) Thanks for reading, but I'M NOT OLD!!! See you all next time... and see you in HELL, Jounouchi! Later! (Rushes out)
Jounouchi: Hey! (Runs after her)
Yugi: Uh... Reviews please?
Firefrost: (Looks around) Hey! Is it just you guys? Where IS everybody?! It's almost time to start the next chapter!
Yugi: Well, they were supposed to be right behind us.
Ryou: Yeah! I show up in this scene!
Marik, Bakura, and Yami enter, looking very confused.
Firefrost: What's the matter with YOU?
Marik: (In panic) We can't find Anzu!!!
Bakura: (Grinds his teeth — Ew!) Or Malik!
Yugi: Oh, come on! You don't think she'd—!
Anzu and Malik enter, slightly mussed. Their hair is out of place, Anzu's lipstick is smeared, and they are breathing heavily with flushes on their faces.
Anzu: (Gasp) Sorry... we're late..!
M, B, & Y: WHERE WERE YOU?!!
Malik: Relax! We just... took a jog. Anzu said she... (Glances at Anzu lustfully) needed the exercise.
Bakura: Exercise my ass!! She's already got a body that won't quit! (Grabs her by her arm and pulls her forward) She doesn't need your PERSONAL tutoring!
Marik: (Rushes at Malik and pushes him against the wall) If you f***ing touch her again, I'll KILL you!!! You hear me?!!
Malik: Put me down, psychopath! I didn't do anything to her you haven't done already! I saw you last night on the couch—!"
Firefrost: Enough! (Shakes herself, like she's trying to rid herself of fleas) I don't want to know! Where's Jounouchi and Mai? They're on in this chapter, too.
Shizuka: (Enters) He's in the back of the car with Mai. He'll be here in a few minutes.
All: O.O (Sweatdrop, classic anime fall over)
Anzu: (Who HAD been hugging Marik and Malik sweetly) TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!
Firefrost: My, Anzu, you're hypocritical.
Anzu: Shut up! I only care to know about MY sex life!
Malik: (Smiles slyly) I'd say it's doing REALLY well, Anzu dear.
Anzu: --_-- (Blushes deeply)
Marik: (Shakes fist warningly) Why I oughtta—!
Ryou: (Frightened) Uh!! Here's chapter 2, please read and review!
Firefrost: Hey, that was cute! It rhymed!
All, but Firefrost: O_o; (Sweatdrop)
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Bakura: (Walks on stage alone, extremely pissed at Mokuba, Otogi, Honda, and Rebecca) I can't believe those idiots left me alone to do this play! How am I supposed to read my lines?!
Firefrost (from backstage): (Shrugs) Improvise?
Bakura: (Ponders quickly) Ummmm... Lord, what fools these mortals be—!
Marik (from backstage): (Whispers) Hey, that should be MY line! I'M the one who hates mortals!
Anzu: (Whispers back) You aren't playing Bottom.
Marik: ...
Bakura: See here! Behold, my friends have abandoned me! This day, we were to have rehearsal of the tragic tale of Mokuba and Rebecca. That which we are to perform four days hence at our Duke's fair wedding! Yet none of my fellows attend?! Must I play all roles within?! Be the damsel, the spellbound lover, and the wall together? As well as be stage hands?! I pray you, Lord, how? (Considers) I shall try, for my Duke and Duchess. Rehearse I came for, and rehearse I shall have, be it accompanied or solo!
The lights fade. Shuffling ensues in the theatre's darkness. The next scene lights up on stage: a forest.
Ryou: (Enters and starts dancing about) Tri-ping hi-ther, tri-ping thi-ther! Round and rou-ound, ne-ver to wi-ther! We must dance, and we must si-i-i-i-ing! All a-bout our fair-y ring!
Bakura: (Walks out and grabs Ryou by the ear) Wrong play, you moronic hikari! That's Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Iolanthe!' We're doing Shakespeare, remember?!
Ryou: (Being dragged offstage) Oh... right. Oops.
Firefrost (backstage): (Slaps her hand over her eyes) Shoot me now!
Marik reaches for something.
Shizuka: She was being sarcastic, Marik.
Marik: (Breaks into a spasm fit of anger, waving his arms about) That's it! Just rain on my parade, Katsuya!
Mai and Jounouchi enter. She is gowned in shimmering fabric that drapes down to her bare feet. He dresses in a garb of fur that fits as though he were a caveman. She shimmers with an unearthly aura (the lighting). He is dull and kind of ugly.
Mai: You shall not have him. My dear boy deserves the sweetness only the QUEEN of fairies can offer.
Jounouchi: But, fair Mai. I am King. This orphan tot you raise is mortal — not yours! He will be strong one day, and wise. Will you not permit him as my page?
Mai: Nay, my husband. He was my treasure when I found him in the shrubbery and is now my son. He'll not be plagued into your... (She glances at his muscular body under his garb) handsome, sweaty, sexy—!
Firefrost (backstage): _ * STICK TO THE SCRIPT!!!!
Mai: (Snaps her eyes away from Jounouchi's chest)— servitude!
Jounouchi moves downstage and looks at the audience, speaking his hidden thoughts.
Jounouchi: Wicked female! Devil's bed fellow! Serpent of the gentle sex! Be there NOTHING under this sky to abate her fury?! Be there nothing that drowns out the thought of her repented Seto? The grand Duke she loves o' so greatly, yet he loves another mortal woman. Can she never love ME?! Wicked, I say!
Mai: (Approaches and pulls Jounouchi from his thoughts) What devilish ploy slinks through your heat-suffered brain, o' relentless one? Fear you my swift tongue so that you recoil into your own silent reverie?
Jounouchi: (Glares) Nay, sweet, impatient wife! I think of you and your beloved. He who marries ere the end of the week! What say you to that?
Mai: (Stays silent a moment) ... And what of you? Forget not that YOUR dear Isis is the one to marry MY beloved Seto. Feel YOU no pain or jealousy?
Jounouchi: I feel. More so than you can know.
Mai: (turning and spinning on her heel) Then, there is nothing left to say. Ryou?!
Ryou: (Runs out on stage in a pretty dress, similar to Mai's) Aye, fair Queen?
Mai: Accompany me to see my son. Where be he now?
Ryou: Awaiting in the Mother Tree, my Queen. Freshly returned from bathing in the stream not far off, where he did spy fair Iolanthe at the water's edge.
Jounouchi: Ryou, this is 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM,' not 'Iolanthe'!!!
Ryou: (Scratches his head) Oh, that's right. I forgot.
Firefrost (backstage): (tugs hard on her hair) Gi-gi-gi-Geeeaaaa!!!
Mai pulls Ryou along as she goes offstage.
Jounouchi: (Alone to his thoughts again) I see my Queen has retained her youthful flare, (glances at Mai, who's standing offstage) though FAR from young is she.
Mai: _** (Shrieks as Bakura and Marik restrain her) I'LL KILL 'IM!!! I'LL KILL 'IM!!!
Jounouchi: Now, fizzle and toil, my tired brain! A plan is much needed! (Waits a minute) Hark! A scheme of brilliance! Yugi!! Come hither, my servant!
Yugi enters with a garb like Jounouchi's.
Yugi: You call, my King?
Jounouchi: Aye. My dear Mai, once again, refused me my page! Yet, whence she was gone, I thought, and planned. Listen carefully! (Pulls Yugi closer) Not far from here, amid the field of popplers, Cupid's Flower blossoms joyously. Any who's eyelids are dabbed with its dew shall drown in love for the first being they see when they wake! Bring me this flower, Yugi. And with it, I shall anoint fair Mai. Yet, when she wakes from her night's slumber, I shall see her love befalls the most vile creature she can imagine! Thus, her hand will be forced, and she will give me the orphan child in exchange for her heart's freedom!
Yugi: And where be you, Majesty, as I do perform your task?
Jounouchi: Here. I shall watch Mai to ensure the plan's success. Go now and fetch me the flower!
Yugi: I go! (Exits, skipping merrily)
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Anzu: ~_~ Awww! A love flower! How romantic!
Yami: You would fancy a flower, Anzu? Then, I shall fetch you one!
Yugi: Oh, brother!
Jounouchi: Yeah, Yugi?
Yugi: (Slaps his hand over his eyes and shakes his head)
Bakura: Pharaoh, my Anzu will NOT receive a flower from YOU!
M & M (mmm... candy!): YOUR Anzu?!!
Marik, Malik, Yami, and Bakura break into another brawl.
Firefrost: I can't take much more of this!
Anzu: (Smirks) Don't worry, I'll handle it! (Clears her throat and put her hands on her hips) Oh man! And here I thought we could have a fivesome! But, I don't do that post-fist-fight look.
The four boys stop in mid-punch, kick, or whatever.
Malik: (Jaw agape) Fivesome? Anzu, I didn't know you...!
Anzu: (Picks up her coat and starts walking outside) Well, I guess you'll never know now, will you?
M, M, B, & Y: Anzu, wait up!! (Chase after her)
Yugi: That was... scary.
Firefrost: Nah, just hormone-stimulating. Teenagers live such hard lives!
Mai: (Glares at Jounouchi) Thanks for reading, but I'M NOT OLD!!! See you all next time... and see you in HELL, Jounouchi! Later! (Rushes out)
Jounouchi: Hey! (Runs after her)
Yugi: Uh... Reviews please?