AN: Welcome back readers. Thanks for reviewing. It took us three tries to get the 1st chapter up for your information so you better be grateful! 1 last thing: CHICKENS ARE MUTANT DINOSAURS!!!! (Something 2 friends said when they had way to much sugar, but they answered the question: What came first, the chicken or the egg? With the answer: HELLO?!? AN EGG CAME FIRST FROM A DINOSAUR!)

The Thief of the Card

Chapter 2


The next day, they were all at Marik's house – or by the door really – waiting for someone to ring the doorbell. Tèa was still going on about the danger of the situation: you could get electrocuted by ringing a doorbell! Yami just rolled his eyes, wondered what Yugi ever saw in this girl, and rung the doorbell. Just after pressing the doorbell, an egg came flying through the window and a girlish scream followed, along with the sound of eggs cracking and someone swearing loudly.

They all had the common sense to dodge the egg except for Tristan. It, being the egg, flew right out the window into Tristan's mouth. I'm sure the egg would rather have stayed in the house than enter the bottomless pit of Tristan's mouth.

"Yum...tasted like egg." He said very intelligently.

"It was an egg." Joey said, wondering when Tristan became stupider than himself.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT?" Marik, supposedly, answered the door. Of course they didn't know for sure if it was Marik because he was dressed in rather...an unusual attire. Yami burst into laughter.

"Is it Halloween already?" Asked Joey, wondering how in the world did they skip his birthday. Marik's left eye twitched. It wasn't his fault he dressed like this.

His light blue Ugg boots had a rim of purple fluff which matched his purple tights. His shorts had red and orange flames on them. His shirt was neon pink and his black cape had little pictures of stars and wands on it. His face was covered with eggs (I wonder why?) and his purple eyes were glaring daggers at Yami, who was lying in the flower beds laughing. Marik grabbed his pointed magician hat and threw it to the ground.

"HOW DARE YOU LAUGH AT ME, PHAROH!" Marik yelled, reaching for the Millennium rod. This, of course, caused Yami to laugh even harder. Marik shook the pink balloon in his hand at Yami.

"BEWARE OF MY MILLE-" He stopped suddenly as he realized he was holding a pink balloon which written in black marker said: Millennium rod.

"What?" He was speechless, well apart from the word what.

"Look on the other side." Yugi said.

"I took the." Marik read off the balloon. "NOOOOOOO!" Then he turned to Yugi. "Took what?" Yami shook his head, the stupidity was unbearable.

"Read it together." Yami said as if talking to a kindergartener.

"Millennium Rod I took the?" Marik said wondering if this was the Pharaoh's idea of a joke. "That makes no sense."

"I TOOK THE MILLENIUM ROD, YA IDIOT." Joey screamed, even with his mental capabilities he understood it. "I mean, I didn't, that's what the pink balloon says..."

"NOOOOOOO! THE PINK BALLOON TOOK MY MILLENIUM ROD!" Tears sparked from Marik's eyes.

"Um, I think it means that someone else replaced your millennium rod with the pink balloon." Tea whispered, hiding behind Tristan even though he was about as good a wall as air. She felt sympathetic towards the pink balloon. Marik was probably going to take its helium.

Marik grabbed Yugi by the collar and yelled at him, salt water running down his egg covered face.

"Do you know what this means?"

"Um, that your millennium rod is missing?" Yugi said nervously, not liking being this close to the psychopath.

"NO! It means that..." He stopped, realizing what Yugi just said. "YES!!!!" Then he started weeping on Yugi's shoulder.

Tèa understood what Marik was going through, she was a girl after all and she understood emotions. She knew just what to do. She grabbed Marik by the arm and started leading him into the house.

"Come on, I'll make you a cup of egg nog."

"Okay." Marik sniffled.

Everyone else looked at each other. Yami started backing away slowly but Yugi grabbed him.

"I'm not going in there alone." Yugi said, pulling Yami through the doorway, which Yami was desperately holding onto.

"But...but...but..." Yami stammered.

"Stop saying Bert." Yugi said. Basically, he was forcing Yami into the house.

Tèa, Marik, Joey, and Tristan were already in the kitchen. Marik was drinking a cup of egg nog from a mug that said: I vill take over the vorld. And I thought Marik was Egyptian when all along he had been Transylvanian.

"I...I guess I didn't notice that it was gone. Not until you guys came! I will never pull a Kuriboh out of a hat again, not even if they threaten to take my millennium rod..." Marik started crying again.

"Okay, Kuriboh...hat...meaning?" Yami said confused.

"Start from the beginning." Yugi said, hoping that Marik wouldn't lean on him and cry...again.

"I went to work – I brought my millennium rod with me – and then I came back home and I was practicing juggling eggs, for no particular reason. Then you guys came and...and... it was gone!" He burst into tears and leaned on Yugi's shoulder...again. Yugi pushed him onto Yami's shoulder, who pushed him onto Joey's shoulder, who pushed him onto Tristan's shoulder, who pushed him onto the table. His head landed with a thud.

"Ow," Marik mumbled pathetically.

"Who in their right mind would employ you?" Yami asked, bewildered.

"I...was working....as a magician...I did magic shows for little kids." He said in between tears. "It's been so stressful...little kids don't like me."

"I wonder why." Joey said sarcastically.

Yugi talked to Yami through the mind link.

/Yami, do you think that Marik's missing Millennium rod has anything to do with Seto's missing Blue Eyes White Dragons?/

/Duh./ Yami replied. 'But we now have fewer suspects.' Yami thought glancing at the Millennium puzzle. 'I hope it's not another maniac out to kill me...'

-Later That Night-

The thief watched as Duke shut his store for the night.

"Perfect." he mumbled, jumping down from a tree and, using a rock, smashed the window and went to the computer, stopping the alarm.

"Where is it?" he said angrily looking for the correct file, oblivious to the fact that a card fell from his pocket. Finally, a smirked formed on his lips.

"Got ya..." He scribbled down a date before erasing all the files, backup systems and crashing the computer.

"Soon, my plan will be complete. I will get the pharaoh back for what he did to me."

- End of Chapter 2 -

P.S. Hope you like that small bit about the thief. Hope you got a valuable clue from it. We like eggs, we mentioned them 12 times - So, PLEASE REVIEW!