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OWN YUGIOH!
Silver: Although it's a darn shame...
Yup, it's still dedicated to Mr. T.
Mr. T: STOP IT! STOP IT!
Technically this chapter is part of the last chapter, so it'll be short, but hey, don't kill us!! Yugi and everybody come back and it seemed too different from the last chapter to smoothly fit them together as one.
We still can't decide on a boy or girl , but all of the boy names we found stink comparitively so we might be leaning towards a girl. On the other hand, GriffenFire says it should be a boy. NO TWINS. Poor Cecilia has enough to worry about without being pregnant with TWINS!
Thanks, guys, for reviewing... GriffenFire, the [] are just to indicate they're talking in a different language. Later there'll be {} for High Elvish.... and High Crystal Gaurdian, how did we know you knew? We must be all reading each other's minds... Anyway, Max doesn't have the Eye, because we would have taken pains to mention it, but he does seem to have inherited a few of its abilities anyway. Remember the dreams?
Chapter Five: Could You Please Repeat Yourself More Slowly?
Domino, Japan; The governor's estate
"How do you feel, Cecilia?" Mai asked as the older woman awoke. She groaned.
"My belt needs loosening, I have to go to the bathroom, and even though I feel sick, I still have the most insane craving for about six different foods I haven't eaten in nine years. I don't WANT oatmeal, even if it IS good for me!"
"Sounds normal," Serenity said, coming out of the bathroom. "If you have to go you had better do it now instead of waiting."
A high-pitched howl from Rex and Weevil's cell startled them. It sounded like Weevil.
"A SCORPION!!" he squealed. "AND YOU HAD TO SQUISH IT!!!" The rant dissolved into traumatized sobbing. "How could you, Rex? Why, why?"
"Oh, come on, kid, it was him or me! He was a mean little sucker! An' he almost got me, too."
Weevil's loud sobs continued. There was a sound of flesh hitting flesh, and then muffled grunts as they apparently began to fight.
The three human females glanced at one another. "Just about anything will set them off at each other, won't it?" Cecilia commented.
Mai shrugged. "Pretty much, yeah."
"HEY! Oh, gross, don't do THAT!" Rex's voice raged. "Man, if I could get a different cell mate, I'd do it in a second!"
"The feeling's mutual, dinosaur brains!"
"Sometimes you just have to wonder what in the world they're doing in there," Mai commented. "Not that I really want to know."
Serenity made a face. "Get in the bathroom, Cecilia, before I go back in there for thinking too much."
Cecilia was suddenly on her feet and standing in the doorway of the bathroom. "Clean your brain out, Serenity."
--
Domino "town square"
Seto glanced around discreetly, not liking the daylight. Yugi stood behind him, or rather Yami did, but Seto was not completely aware of the difference.
"So we jus' get in an' out as fast as possible, huh?" Joey asked a little too loudly.
Seto glared at him. "Shh!"
"Learn to be a little quieter!" Tristan said, poking Joey.
"And don't state the obvious," Kel added with a grin.
Yami grinned a little evilly in amusement. "They're taking all of your lines, Seto."
The other grunted. "Let them. Just so long as we all pull this off in one piece." He started toward the warehouse, then was stopped by the war-suited Queliyg on duty.
"What are you up to, human?"
Seto, fully aware that the others would probably start giggling insanely about now, turned wide blue eyes on the Queliyg. "What am I up to?" he asked in an innocent voice. "Why would I be up to anything?" Why couldn't Yugi have done this?!?
_Of course,_ Seto reminded himself, _he's TOO small and vulnerable to a Queliyg. She'd probably eat him._ Not quite literally, of course... he hoped.
The Queliyg's beady black eyes seemed to soften a little bit. "Well-- because this area is restricted."
Seto's eyes widened further and he hoped this wouldn't be too much strain on his poor eyelids. "I'm sorry, Ma'am," he said. "I didn't mean to break any rules..." inside he fought the urge to laugh as he saw Yami Yugi, Joey, Tristan and Kel sneaking around to the other side of the building.
The Queliyg seemed a little flattered that he was calling her by a title. She was probably low rank.
There was a noise inside the warehouse. She turned. "What in the Glorious Queliyg Empire is that?"
Seto shrugged. "Maybe it was a cat." The feathers on her head and shoulders ruffled and she went to take a look.
Seto groaned as he heard Joey. "Hiya!" the blonde shouted from inside the warehouse, and there was suddenly a lot of noise. Seto ran in the front door, which the Queliyg had foolishly left open.
Chaos reigned within. "_JOEY!!_" Seto yelled over the din. "HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU TO BE _QUIETER?!?_"
Joey ran past him, several large packages of food and what appeared to be some sort of howitzer in his arms. "'Parrantly, ya can't tell me enough times!" the other teen said in passing. "Go grab somet'in'!"
Seto rushed in and pounced on the Queliyg from behind, grabbing her helmet and tearing it off, then grabbing onto her feathers.
"AIIII!" the Queliyg screamed, as he began tearing at them.
Yami Yugi looked up as the Queliyg managed to rip Seto away from her shoulders, using a cybernetically augmented arm and taking pinfeathers with him.
"And here I thought you were a cute little mammal," she hissed at him, beak clacking dangerously.
Despite that he was hanging from a large avian's sharp-taloned hand, Seto managed to smile beatifically at her. "I am a cute little mammal," he replied somewhat teasingly. "Even adorable little bunnies get mean, after all."
She threw him to the ground in annoyance. "Seto!" Yami Yugi called. Seto was on his feet instantly.
"I'm okay, Yugi. She, on the other hand..." he turned to the Queliyg. She had mysteriously dropped, twitching, to the ground. "Wow."
Yami Yugi threw him a few packages and a plasma weapon. "Get going!" he shouted as Tristan and Kel passed to the door. Then he gathered an armload for himself. He stopped by Seto, who was still staring at the Queliyg. "Please get going?"
"Huh? Yeah!"
--
Max and Duke walked down the street, side by side. Duke was already driving Max crazy again. Although it might have been the terrible human traffic.
A blonde teenage human boy pushed through the crowd, large burlap bag slung over his shoulder. It was suspiciously bulky and what appeared to be a weapon barrel stuck out the top.
Max grabbed his arm as he tried to run past. "Oh, you're a smart one, aren't you?" he demanded. The boy tried to jerk loose.
"Lemme go!" he yelled. "I got a bird on my tail!" Max did not let go.
He grabbed the barrel of what turned out to be a portable howitzer and pulled it out. "This is called a weapon. It is wonderful for crowd control, and getting rid of large yellow birds. Use it, and your brain." Max pointed it at the side of a building and fired it off, throwing himself backwards. It had considerable kick. Within seconds the teaming mass of human bodies was virtually gone.
He handed it to the blonde, while Duke giggled a little from overexcitement. "There," Max said, a little of his bad mood straining through, "Isn't that SO much BETTER?"
The brown-eyed blonde took it, glaring at him as two figures, one familiar and the other generic (other than a terrible hair-style) ran toward them, also carrying burlap bags, but with weapons out.
"Why is it ev'rybody I meet has ta insult my intelligence?" the blonde demanded of the brown haired stranger. "I'm not stoopid, y'know!"
Max looked at the other, an elf, and felt his heart jump to his throat. He had to resist letting on that he'd seen Kel before. _And here I was sure he'd die!_ Not that Max was dissappointed to see the blonde elf alive, certainly.
The brown haired boy stared at Max. "Who are you?" he asked. "I've seen your face somewhere before, haven't I?" Two more were coming, another brown haired boy and a shorter boy with the wildest hair Max had ever seen in his life.
For the second time. But something didn't seem quite right about him, he seemed taller, and some of his blonde hair seemed to be standing up in front of the rest, like he'd been standing in a wind tunnel, almost. "No," Max told the taller boy, with the terrible haircut, "unless you read the news, which I doubt."
"Hey, just 'cause we're poor don't mean we can't get the news," the blonde butted in angrily. "Who do ya t'ink ya are, anyhow?"
Duke spoke before Max could. "He's Pegasus!" he said proudly, grabbing Max's shoulders. "And I'm helping him find his wife!"
_I'm beginning to wonder if spending half of his life in orbit didn't affect Duke's brain development,_ Max thought in annoyance.
"You're Pegasus?" the other brown haired boy asked, coming close just in time to hear that part. The wild haired boy also joined them. "Wonderful time for introductions. I'm Seto, they're Joey, Tristan, Kel and Yugi." He immediatly changed tracks and gave Joey a dirty look. "Did you fire that thing off? You don't even know how to use it!"
"That's right, he doesn't," Max said. "I did it."
Seto's eyebrows rose. "Oh. Never mind, then. Though if you don't mind, I'd like to know why you did it?"
Max growled. "I was getting tired of that crowd!!! WHY ARE WE STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET LIKE THE ACTORS IN A BAD SKIT??" The others looked at each other. "MOVE!!!" Max shouted impatiently. "You don't get anything done in a rebellion when you stand around like mannequins!"
"How'd you know we're part of the Japanese rebellion?" Tristan asked.
"You actually are? Sweet heavens, I'm losing hope here! Pick a direction and run!!!"
Yugi made a break for it, and the others followed seconds after. Max and Duke ran along. "In case anyone cares," Max went on, happier now that something was happening, "My companion is Duke Devlin, and I'm sorry for being in such a bad mood."
"You are a very strange man," Seto replied over his shoulder. "Wouldn't you agree, Yugi?"
Yugi laughed, and his voice seemed deeper than it had in Max's dream. "He doesn't seem any stranger than the rest of us, Seto. What brings you to Japan, Pegasus?"
"Call me Max," he replied. "It's easier to scream that way. As Duke said, we're looking for my wife, Cecilia. She was kidnapped and I have reason to believe she was taken here."
They came to a subway entrance and started down the steps. Joey collided very suddenly with someone who'd been coming up, and they both tumbled down, Joey's weapon and bag flying loose and going wherever. There was a lot of commotion and scuffling.
"Who's there?" came a soft voice with a British accent.
"Dat's wat I wanna know!" Joey replied, sounding miffed. A light came out of nowhere and Max was startled to realize it was a flashlight.
The light shone on Joey and its holder came to stand over him. "Oh, dear. I'm terribly sorry, are you all right?"
"Who are you?" Tristan asked the boy, going over to help Joey up. Joey smacked his hand away and got up on his own.
"I'm Bakura," the other teenager said. "Would you like to buy a flashlight? It's awfully dark down here."
"No," Max said, grabbing Bakura's sleeve. "You're coming with us, so we'll just use yours."
"Today is just our day for picking people up, isn't it?" Seto demanded.
--
End Chapter Five. What are Rex and Weevil doing in their cell? And we'll let you think what you like. Hey, we got the gang in this chapter, right? Don't look at us like that. Please, don't-- STOP! STOP!! Geezopetes, you can't blame us for wanting to develop that "tiny little" wrinkle with Cecilia first off, can you? You can. Shoot.
Silver: Although it's a darn shame...
Yup, it's still dedicated to Mr. T.
Mr. T: STOP IT! STOP IT!
Technically this chapter is part of the last chapter, so it'll be short, but hey, don't kill us!! Yugi and everybody come back and it seemed too different from the last chapter to smoothly fit them together as one.
We still can't decide on a boy or girl , but all of the boy names we found stink comparitively so we might be leaning towards a girl. On the other hand, GriffenFire says it should be a boy. NO TWINS. Poor Cecilia has enough to worry about without being pregnant with TWINS!
Thanks, guys, for reviewing... GriffenFire, the [] are just to indicate they're talking in a different language. Later there'll be {} for High Elvish.... and High Crystal Gaurdian, how did we know you knew? We must be all reading each other's minds... Anyway, Max doesn't have the Eye, because we would have taken pains to mention it, but he does seem to have inherited a few of its abilities anyway. Remember the dreams?
Chapter Five: Could You Please Repeat Yourself More Slowly?
Domino, Japan; The governor's estate
"How do you feel, Cecilia?" Mai asked as the older woman awoke. She groaned.
"My belt needs loosening, I have to go to the bathroom, and even though I feel sick, I still have the most insane craving for about six different foods I haven't eaten in nine years. I don't WANT oatmeal, even if it IS good for me!"
"Sounds normal," Serenity said, coming out of the bathroom. "If you have to go you had better do it now instead of waiting."
A high-pitched howl from Rex and Weevil's cell startled them. It sounded like Weevil.
"A SCORPION!!" he squealed. "AND YOU HAD TO SQUISH IT!!!" The rant dissolved into traumatized sobbing. "How could you, Rex? Why, why?"
"Oh, come on, kid, it was him or me! He was a mean little sucker! An' he almost got me, too."
Weevil's loud sobs continued. There was a sound of flesh hitting flesh, and then muffled grunts as they apparently began to fight.
The three human females glanced at one another. "Just about anything will set them off at each other, won't it?" Cecilia commented.
Mai shrugged. "Pretty much, yeah."
"HEY! Oh, gross, don't do THAT!" Rex's voice raged. "Man, if I could get a different cell mate, I'd do it in a second!"
"The feeling's mutual, dinosaur brains!"
"Sometimes you just have to wonder what in the world they're doing in there," Mai commented. "Not that I really want to know."
Serenity made a face. "Get in the bathroom, Cecilia, before I go back in there for thinking too much."
Cecilia was suddenly on her feet and standing in the doorway of the bathroom. "Clean your brain out, Serenity."
--
Domino "town square"
Seto glanced around discreetly, not liking the daylight. Yugi stood behind him, or rather Yami did, but Seto was not completely aware of the difference.
"So we jus' get in an' out as fast as possible, huh?" Joey asked a little too loudly.
Seto glared at him. "Shh!"
"Learn to be a little quieter!" Tristan said, poking Joey.
"And don't state the obvious," Kel added with a grin.
Yami grinned a little evilly in amusement. "They're taking all of your lines, Seto."
The other grunted. "Let them. Just so long as we all pull this off in one piece." He started toward the warehouse, then was stopped by the war-suited Queliyg on duty.
"What are you up to, human?"
Seto, fully aware that the others would probably start giggling insanely about now, turned wide blue eyes on the Queliyg. "What am I up to?" he asked in an innocent voice. "Why would I be up to anything?" Why couldn't Yugi have done this?!?
_Of course,_ Seto reminded himself, _he's TOO small and vulnerable to a Queliyg. She'd probably eat him._ Not quite literally, of course... he hoped.
The Queliyg's beady black eyes seemed to soften a little bit. "Well-- because this area is restricted."
Seto's eyes widened further and he hoped this wouldn't be too much strain on his poor eyelids. "I'm sorry, Ma'am," he said. "I didn't mean to break any rules..." inside he fought the urge to laugh as he saw Yami Yugi, Joey, Tristan and Kel sneaking around to the other side of the building.
The Queliyg seemed a little flattered that he was calling her by a title. She was probably low rank.
There was a noise inside the warehouse. She turned. "What in the Glorious Queliyg Empire is that?"
Seto shrugged. "Maybe it was a cat." The feathers on her head and shoulders ruffled and she went to take a look.
Seto groaned as he heard Joey. "Hiya!" the blonde shouted from inside the warehouse, and there was suddenly a lot of noise. Seto ran in the front door, which the Queliyg had foolishly left open.
Chaos reigned within. "_JOEY!!_" Seto yelled over the din. "HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU TO BE _QUIETER?!?_"
Joey ran past him, several large packages of food and what appeared to be some sort of howitzer in his arms. "'Parrantly, ya can't tell me enough times!" the other teen said in passing. "Go grab somet'in'!"
Seto rushed in and pounced on the Queliyg from behind, grabbing her helmet and tearing it off, then grabbing onto her feathers.
"AIIII!" the Queliyg screamed, as he began tearing at them.
Yami Yugi looked up as the Queliyg managed to rip Seto away from her shoulders, using a cybernetically augmented arm and taking pinfeathers with him.
"And here I thought you were a cute little mammal," she hissed at him, beak clacking dangerously.
Despite that he was hanging from a large avian's sharp-taloned hand, Seto managed to smile beatifically at her. "I am a cute little mammal," he replied somewhat teasingly. "Even adorable little bunnies get mean, after all."
She threw him to the ground in annoyance. "Seto!" Yami Yugi called. Seto was on his feet instantly.
"I'm okay, Yugi. She, on the other hand..." he turned to the Queliyg. She had mysteriously dropped, twitching, to the ground. "Wow."
Yami Yugi threw him a few packages and a plasma weapon. "Get going!" he shouted as Tristan and Kel passed to the door. Then he gathered an armload for himself. He stopped by Seto, who was still staring at the Queliyg. "Please get going?"
"Huh? Yeah!"
--
Max and Duke walked down the street, side by side. Duke was already driving Max crazy again. Although it might have been the terrible human traffic.
A blonde teenage human boy pushed through the crowd, large burlap bag slung over his shoulder. It was suspiciously bulky and what appeared to be a weapon barrel stuck out the top.
Max grabbed his arm as he tried to run past. "Oh, you're a smart one, aren't you?" he demanded. The boy tried to jerk loose.
"Lemme go!" he yelled. "I got a bird on my tail!" Max did not let go.
He grabbed the barrel of what turned out to be a portable howitzer and pulled it out. "This is called a weapon. It is wonderful for crowd control, and getting rid of large yellow birds. Use it, and your brain." Max pointed it at the side of a building and fired it off, throwing himself backwards. It had considerable kick. Within seconds the teaming mass of human bodies was virtually gone.
He handed it to the blonde, while Duke giggled a little from overexcitement. "There," Max said, a little of his bad mood straining through, "Isn't that SO much BETTER?"
The brown-eyed blonde took it, glaring at him as two figures, one familiar and the other generic (other than a terrible hair-style) ran toward them, also carrying burlap bags, but with weapons out.
"Why is it ev'rybody I meet has ta insult my intelligence?" the blonde demanded of the brown haired stranger. "I'm not stoopid, y'know!"
Max looked at the other, an elf, and felt his heart jump to his throat. He had to resist letting on that he'd seen Kel before. _And here I was sure he'd die!_ Not that Max was dissappointed to see the blonde elf alive, certainly.
The brown haired boy stared at Max. "Who are you?" he asked. "I've seen your face somewhere before, haven't I?" Two more were coming, another brown haired boy and a shorter boy with the wildest hair Max had ever seen in his life.
For the second time. But something didn't seem quite right about him, he seemed taller, and some of his blonde hair seemed to be standing up in front of the rest, like he'd been standing in a wind tunnel, almost. "No," Max told the taller boy, with the terrible haircut, "unless you read the news, which I doubt."
"Hey, just 'cause we're poor don't mean we can't get the news," the blonde butted in angrily. "Who do ya t'ink ya are, anyhow?"
Duke spoke before Max could. "He's Pegasus!" he said proudly, grabbing Max's shoulders. "And I'm helping him find his wife!"
_I'm beginning to wonder if spending half of his life in orbit didn't affect Duke's brain development,_ Max thought in annoyance.
"You're Pegasus?" the other brown haired boy asked, coming close just in time to hear that part. The wild haired boy also joined them. "Wonderful time for introductions. I'm Seto, they're Joey, Tristan, Kel and Yugi." He immediatly changed tracks and gave Joey a dirty look. "Did you fire that thing off? You don't even know how to use it!"
"That's right, he doesn't," Max said. "I did it."
Seto's eyebrows rose. "Oh. Never mind, then. Though if you don't mind, I'd like to know why you did it?"
Max growled. "I was getting tired of that crowd!!! WHY ARE WE STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET LIKE THE ACTORS IN A BAD SKIT??" The others looked at each other. "MOVE!!!" Max shouted impatiently. "You don't get anything done in a rebellion when you stand around like mannequins!"
"How'd you know we're part of the Japanese rebellion?" Tristan asked.
"You actually are? Sweet heavens, I'm losing hope here! Pick a direction and run!!!"
Yugi made a break for it, and the others followed seconds after. Max and Duke ran along. "In case anyone cares," Max went on, happier now that something was happening, "My companion is Duke Devlin, and I'm sorry for being in such a bad mood."
"You are a very strange man," Seto replied over his shoulder. "Wouldn't you agree, Yugi?"
Yugi laughed, and his voice seemed deeper than it had in Max's dream. "He doesn't seem any stranger than the rest of us, Seto. What brings you to Japan, Pegasus?"
"Call me Max," he replied. "It's easier to scream that way. As Duke said, we're looking for my wife, Cecilia. She was kidnapped and I have reason to believe she was taken here."
They came to a subway entrance and started down the steps. Joey collided very suddenly with someone who'd been coming up, and they both tumbled down, Joey's weapon and bag flying loose and going wherever. There was a lot of commotion and scuffling.
"Who's there?" came a soft voice with a British accent.
"Dat's wat I wanna know!" Joey replied, sounding miffed. A light came out of nowhere and Max was startled to realize it was a flashlight.
The light shone on Joey and its holder came to stand over him. "Oh, dear. I'm terribly sorry, are you all right?"
"Who are you?" Tristan asked the boy, going over to help Joey up. Joey smacked his hand away and got up on his own.
"I'm Bakura," the other teenager said. "Would you like to buy a flashlight? It's awfully dark down here."
"No," Max said, grabbing Bakura's sleeve. "You're coming with us, so we'll just use yours."
"Today is just our day for picking people up, isn't it?" Seto demanded.
--
End Chapter Five. What are Rex and Weevil doing in their cell? And we'll let you think what you like. Hey, we got the gang in this chapter, right? Don't look at us like that. Please, don't-- STOP! STOP!! Geezopetes, you can't blame us for wanting to develop that "tiny little" wrinkle with Cecilia first off, can you? You can. Shoot.