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The Thief of the Card
Chapter 3
Joey, Yami, and Tristan were sitting on the floor in the kitchen eating cheese puffs and caramel apples, which Yami still thought were odd and occasionally sent a few to the shadow realm, which I'm sure the souls and monsters stuck there appreciated. In the back ground, Grandpa was singing and attempting to put even more fan mail into the overflowing fire place:
"Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea. He frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honnalee."
"Will you please by quite?" Joey said. "You just made me lose 5 cheese puffs!" Three of these cheese puffs had just gone into Yami's mouth because he had just won the round of Black Jack (or 21) they were playing. Tristan went to bet some more cheese puffs to find them all gone.
"Awwww, my cheese puffs are all gone..." Tristan complained. He really liked his cheese puffs. Joey reached for his cheese puffs to find he only had 10 left.
"My cheese puffs!" Joey said protectively as Tristan reached out to get one. Joey pushed all his cheese puffs into his over-sized mouth and ate them.
"Yum..." Joey said, satisfied. Yugi walked into the room with a newspaper in his hand and a worried look upon his face.
"Yami, I think it would be wise..." Yugi stopped in mid-sentence. Yami was surrounded by, what looked like, a castle of cheese puffs. He grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth, then continued.
"You should read this." Yugi said taking another cheese puff – they sure were addictive. Yami and Joey looked up at Yugi as he dropped the newspaper to the floor, the headline: The Card Thief Strikes Again, staring them in the face. Yami picked it up and read it out loud.
"Late last night our very own game inventor, Duke Devlin, was broken into. His precious game store was vandalised and all his computers were crashed. Nothing appears to be stolen but Duke is still trying to check the inventory. The police have no suspects but they assume that it's the same person who stole our renowned millionaire, Seto Kaiba's cards. The police are still looking into both cases." Yami said, slightly shocked. "Let's go pay Duke a visit."
- Scene change -
Tèa and the gang took the elevator up to Duke's apartment, apart from Yami who wished to look for clues first. Tristan and Joey of course had no desire to be there, but Yugi and Tèa didn't mind – for different reasons of course.
"I'll ring the doorbell!" Tèa said gleefully, causing Yugi to wish for a sudden moment that he was Duke. But then he remembered that Duke wore dice for earrings and he realized he wasn't that desperate.
Duke answered the doorbell, looking tired. He had bags under his eyes and looked like he could used a nice cup of caffeine...err, I mean coffee.
"Duke!" Tèa yelled gleefully...again.
"Hi Tea, Yugi, Tristan, Joey. What did you come round for?" Duke said tiredly.
"We thought you could use you friends support," Yugi started.
"And to ask you about the robbery." Tristan added. Duke shook his head.
"Look, my whole game shop is in ruins because some thief crashed every bloody computer and this whole bloody shop is run by those bloody computers! So now I have to rewrite all my bloody files!"
"I know what you need: a nice cup of tea." Tèa said, barging her way into Duke's apartment.
"I don't drink tea." He said wearily as he led them in.
"Want a cheese puff?" Asked Joey as he pulled an unopened packet of cheese puffs from out of his pocket. Just then, Yami walked into the room, holding a thing that looked like a duel monster card but quickly shoved it into his pocket. Smiling, he sat on the zebra print couch in Duke's living room.
/Hey Yami, did you find anything?/
/You know Yugi, Some people are really blind.../
"I'd like to ask you a few questions." Duke sat down on the opposite lime green couch. The rest of them sat down on the dark blue starry couch.
"Have you ever had a Red Eyes Black Dragon for sale in your shop?" Yami questioned.
"Not recently, they are hard to get a hold of!" Duke replied, not sure what this had to do with anything.
"When was your last one sold?" Yami questioned, obviously aiming to get a straight answer.
"Let's see, I believe it was around 3 months ago." Duke said, very confused. "Why?"
"I'll answer that after you answer this, did you keep one Red Eyes Black Dragon for yourself, and if so, could we see it?" Yami questioned making himself look and sound stupid as his questioning was going nowhere.
"Nope, sold the lot." Duke said. Yami drew something from his back pocket. He dropped it onto the glass coffee table in front of them.
"Then explain this." Yami demanded.
On the table lay a duel monsters card. A Red Eyes Black Dragon to be exact. They all looked at Yami.
"Um, Yami...have you looked through our deck recently?" Yugi asked.
"Why?" He was annoyed at this question for Yami couldn't see the relevance. Joey, kindly enough provided it for him.
"I gave ya a Red Eyes Black Dragon, 'memba?" Joey said, his American accent showing through. Yami glared at Joey. Shuffling through his deck he found that there was no Red Eyes.
"It seems there is no Red Eyes in my deck," Yami said. "But neither was it there yesterday."
"Maybe the thief stole it." Yugi said. At Duke's right a phone rang.
"Excuse me, I have to answer that." He picked up the phone and started talking. Only a few moments later he put the phone down and stood up.
"The police have found more evidence at Kaiba's. Come on, let's go." He led them out of the apartment and towards the garage.
- Scene change -
The police were swarming around when they arrived. One of the police officers walked up to Duke.
"Come on inside." He glanced at the rest of them suspiciously.
"They're with me." Duke said quickly. The officer nodded and led them into the room where Kaiba was sitting, talking with the head sheriff.
"As you know we had found at Duke's store that a date had been written on a piece of paper. Even though we didn't have the original by shading over it we could see what had been written." One of them started.
"This may not seem important but then we looked at the receipt that we found at Kaiba's more closely. On the back was written – almost like a shopping list – pink balloons, Red Eyes Black Dragon, and um cheese puffs." Tristan and Joey looked at each other, and then they whistled innocently.
"We matched the handwriting up and they are from the same person. Now I have a few questions to ask you. Do the words pink balloons, Red Eyes Black Dragon and um Cheese puffs mean anything to you?" Duke looked at Yami.
"I found a Red Eyes in my store just after you left."
"What? We missed something?"
/I told you they were blind.../ Yami smirked.
"But pink balloons and... cheese puffs did you say? I don't think those make much sense."
"It was you!" Kaiba suddenly came up to Yugi and grabbed him by the collar. "You have a Red Eyes Black Dragon! That mutt gave it to you. WHERE ARE MY PRESSSSSSSIOUSSSSSSS DRAGONS! TELL ME!"
"Gollum...I know ya in 'ere. Come out, come out where ever ya are!" Joey said looking around the room.
Kaiba's lawyer carefully dragged Kaiba away from Yugi. "Now Seto, we don't want another law suit on our hands..."
"You have a Red Eyes?" The police officer turned to Yugi, looking him steadily in the eye.
"Had, it's missing." Yugi said truthfully. Suddenly the police officer's mobile was ringing. It was playing puff the magic dragon song. He looked at Yugi.
"I'm keeping my eye on you." He said then went to go answer his phone.
- Later that night -
/Yami...What is with that list thing?/
/Yugi, the pink balloon was obviously about Marik's rod./
/What about the cheese puffs?/
/Even thieves get hungry, Yugi./
/And the Red Eyes.../
/Has anyone been near our deck recently? Have you duelled anyone?/
/Only our friends....Yami, you don't think...one of them did this? I don't think they're even smart enough to fight their way out of a paper bag let alone steal./
/Looks can be deceiving...A mask can hide a lot more then just your identity.../
/I really don't like this, Yami./
/What can I say Yugi? The truth is out there...someone has to find it./ 'If anyone bothers to look hard enough' Yami thought, as he started falling asleep.
- End of chapter 3 -
We mentioned the word puff 18 times in the story – so review. We apologize for the lack of stupidity and humour. Trust us, the next chapter will be...um lacking in normality and seriousness.
READERS: Finally!
The Thief of the Card
Chapter 3
Joey, Yami, and Tristan were sitting on the floor in the kitchen eating cheese puffs and caramel apples, which Yami still thought were odd and occasionally sent a few to the shadow realm, which I'm sure the souls and monsters stuck there appreciated. In the back ground, Grandpa was singing and attempting to put even more fan mail into the overflowing fire place:
"Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea. He frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honnalee."
"Will you please by quite?" Joey said. "You just made me lose 5 cheese puffs!" Three of these cheese puffs had just gone into Yami's mouth because he had just won the round of Black Jack (or 21) they were playing. Tristan went to bet some more cheese puffs to find them all gone.
"Awwww, my cheese puffs are all gone..." Tristan complained. He really liked his cheese puffs. Joey reached for his cheese puffs to find he only had 10 left.
"My cheese puffs!" Joey said protectively as Tristan reached out to get one. Joey pushed all his cheese puffs into his over-sized mouth and ate them.
"Yum..." Joey said, satisfied. Yugi walked into the room with a newspaper in his hand and a worried look upon his face.
"Yami, I think it would be wise..." Yugi stopped in mid-sentence. Yami was surrounded by, what looked like, a castle of cheese puffs. He grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth, then continued.
"You should read this." Yugi said taking another cheese puff – they sure were addictive. Yami and Joey looked up at Yugi as he dropped the newspaper to the floor, the headline: The Card Thief Strikes Again, staring them in the face. Yami picked it up and read it out loud.
"Late last night our very own game inventor, Duke Devlin, was broken into. His precious game store was vandalised and all his computers were crashed. Nothing appears to be stolen but Duke is still trying to check the inventory. The police have no suspects but they assume that it's the same person who stole our renowned millionaire, Seto Kaiba's cards. The police are still looking into both cases." Yami said, slightly shocked. "Let's go pay Duke a visit."
- Scene change -
Tèa and the gang took the elevator up to Duke's apartment, apart from Yami who wished to look for clues first. Tristan and Joey of course had no desire to be there, but Yugi and Tèa didn't mind – for different reasons of course.
"I'll ring the doorbell!" Tèa said gleefully, causing Yugi to wish for a sudden moment that he was Duke. But then he remembered that Duke wore dice for earrings and he realized he wasn't that desperate.
Duke answered the doorbell, looking tired. He had bags under his eyes and looked like he could used a nice cup of caffeine...err, I mean coffee.
"Duke!" Tèa yelled gleefully...again.
"Hi Tea, Yugi, Tristan, Joey. What did you come round for?" Duke said tiredly.
"We thought you could use you friends support," Yugi started.
"And to ask you about the robbery." Tristan added. Duke shook his head.
"Look, my whole game shop is in ruins because some thief crashed every bloody computer and this whole bloody shop is run by those bloody computers! So now I have to rewrite all my bloody files!"
"I know what you need: a nice cup of tea." Tèa said, barging her way into Duke's apartment.
"I don't drink tea." He said wearily as he led them in.
"Want a cheese puff?" Asked Joey as he pulled an unopened packet of cheese puffs from out of his pocket. Just then, Yami walked into the room, holding a thing that looked like a duel monster card but quickly shoved it into his pocket. Smiling, he sat on the zebra print couch in Duke's living room.
/Hey Yami, did you find anything?/
/You know Yugi, Some people are really blind.../
"I'd like to ask you a few questions." Duke sat down on the opposite lime green couch. The rest of them sat down on the dark blue starry couch.
"Have you ever had a Red Eyes Black Dragon for sale in your shop?" Yami questioned.
"Not recently, they are hard to get a hold of!" Duke replied, not sure what this had to do with anything.
"When was your last one sold?" Yami questioned, obviously aiming to get a straight answer.
"Let's see, I believe it was around 3 months ago." Duke said, very confused. "Why?"
"I'll answer that after you answer this, did you keep one Red Eyes Black Dragon for yourself, and if so, could we see it?" Yami questioned making himself look and sound stupid as his questioning was going nowhere.
"Nope, sold the lot." Duke said. Yami drew something from his back pocket. He dropped it onto the glass coffee table in front of them.
"Then explain this." Yami demanded.
On the table lay a duel monsters card. A Red Eyes Black Dragon to be exact. They all looked at Yami.
"Um, Yami...have you looked through our deck recently?" Yugi asked.
"Why?" He was annoyed at this question for Yami couldn't see the relevance. Joey, kindly enough provided it for him.
"I gave ya a Red Eyes Black Dragon, 'memba?" Joey said, his American accent showing through. Yami glared at Joey. Shuffling through his deck he found that there was no Red Eyes.
"It seems there is no Red Eyes in my deck," Yami said. "But neither was it there yesterday."
"Maybe the thief stole it." Yugi said. At Duke's right a phone rang.
"Excuse me, I have to answer that." He picked up the phone and started talking. Only a few moments later he put the phone down and stood up.
"The police have found more evidence at Kaiba's. Come on, let's go." He led them out of the apartment and towards the garage.
- Scene change -
The police were swarming around when they arrived. One of the police officers walked up to Duke.
"Come on inside." He glanced at the rest of them suspiciously.
"They're with me." Duke said quickly. The officer nodded and led them into the room where Kaiba was sitting, talking with the head sheriff.
"As you know we had found at Duke's store that a date had been written on a piece of paper. Even though we didn't have the original by shading over it we could see what had been written." One of them started.
"This may not seem important but then we looked at the receipt that we found at Kaiba's more closely. On the back was written – almost like a shopping list – pink balloons, Red Eyes Black Dragon, and um cheese puffs." Tristan and Joey looked at each other, and then they whistled innocently.
"We matched the handwriting up and they are from the same person. Now I have a few questions to ask you. Do the words pink balloons, Red Eyes Black Dragon and um Cheese puffs mean anything to you?" Duke looked at Yami.
"I found a Red Eyes in my store just after you left."
"What? We missed something?"
/I told you they were blind.../ Yami smirked.
"But pink balloons and... cheese puffs did you say? I don't think those make much sense."
"It was you!" Kaiba suddenly came up to Yugi and grabbed him by the collar. "You have a Red Eyes Black Dragon! That mutt gave it to you. WHERE ARE MY PRESSSSSSSIOUSSSSSSS DRAGONS! TELL ME!"
"Gollum...I know ya in 'ere. Come out, come out where ever ya are!" Joey said looking around the room.
Kaiba's lawyer carefully dragged Kaiba away from Yugi. "Now Seto, we don't want another law suit on our hands..."
"You have a Red Eyes?" The police officer turned to Yugi, looking him steadily in the eye.
"Had, it's missing." Yugi said truthfully. Suddenly the police officer's mobile was ringing. It was playing puff the magic dragon song. He looked at Yugi.
"I'm keeping my eye on you." He said then went to go answer his phone.
- Later that night -
/Yami...What is with that list thing?/
/Yugi, the pink balloon was obviously about Marik's rod./
/What about the cheese puffs?/
/Even thieves get hungry, Yugi./
/And the Red Eyes.../
/Has anyone been near our deck recently? Have you duelled anyone?/
/Only our friends....Yami, you don't think...one of them did this? I don't think they're even smart enough to fight their way out of a paper bag let alone steal./
/Looks can be deceiving...A mask can hide a lot more then just your identity.../
/I really don't like this, Yami./
/What can I say Yugi? The truth is out there...someone has to find it./ 'If anyone bothers to look hard enough' Yami thought, as he started falling asleep.
- End of chapter 3 -
We mentioned the word puff 18 times in the story – so review. We apologize for the lack of stupidity and humour. Trust us, the next chapter will be...um lacking in normality and seriousness.