Chapter 9

Disclaimer: Roses are read, violets are blue, if I owned this, you know what I'd do!

A short tale, written for your enjoyment by Trillium:

Dragonheart&Trillium: *watching 'Angel'

Dragonheart: *sigh* I love werewolves.

Trillium: Someone needs an 'Oz' bish, then.

Dragonheart: *Watches man get dragged off by evil peps* Mwhahahaha!!! I love it when they beg.

Trillium: *is scared*

Dragonheart: Mwhahahahahaha

Trillium: eepp!

Finis

True story. She really freaked me out. Ciao, Trillium.

Note: Hi again! I hope y'all are enjoying this fic! I am working as hard on it as I can to make it good. BTW..If I did own any of this...I would make Demonica's, Songwind's, and my story into movies. No chance of that happening unfortunatly. *sniff* Read, enjoy, review!

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Isolde woke the next morning. "Hmmm, what to do today? Manicure, maybe? Why do I think I have plans? EEPP! What time is it?!" The last sentences she said out loud, waking some of her bishes.

"Ehh?" Tokaki mummered as he turned over in his sleeping bag.

"Just one more minute," slurred Tomo.

"C'mon, peeps! Up and at 'em!" Isolde threw pillows and bedding at her bishes till she had them all up and moving.

"You all should follow Seto's example. Look, he was up before I was!" Isolde pointed to the figure leaning against the wall.

He raised an eyebrow. "Well, if you're all up...," he said, siezing the remote.

"No time for that!" Isolde said batting the remote out of his hand, "We need to get ready to meet up with my friend, Ariel!"

Tokaki got up quickly and grabbed the shower first. Everyone else made the beds while Isolde called Angela, Risika, Anastasia, and Cherry. "Hey, Amiboshi, I need to talk to Angela please, could you put her on the phone?"

"Hello?" said a perky voice a few seconds later.

"Hey, Angela, my friend Ariel is in town and wants to meetcha and the others."

"Cool! When?"

"In ten minutes at the Hilton across town!"

"Ok! I'm ready!"

"Could ya go ahead and tell her I might be awhile?" Isolde asked, "And take whoever else is ready with ya. I'll send Hikitsu and Tokaki to show you the way."

"No problem. See ya there!" Angela said.

About 15 minutes later, Isolde and the rest of her numerous bishies reached the Hilton. They went into the hotel lobby and found Ariel and the others waiting there. "Hey, Isolde! You're late!" Ariel called.

"It's not my fault! Tomo took forever in the shower and then doing his makeup!" Isolde defended herself, glaring at Tomo all the while.

"Sure. So what's up?" Ariel asked.

"Nothing much. Wanna go find a duel?" Isolde said.

"Sure! It'll be just like old times!" Ariel agreed excitedly, "Hey! Do any of you girls wanna duel with us?"

"Huh?" asked Risika, "Umm...you can duel together?"

"Yeah! It's sooo cool! Especially when you got a team like ours!" Isolde said.

"So who'd you use?" asked Cherry.

"Tomite and Hikitsu," answered Ariel.

"I'll pass," said Risika.

"Same here," said Anastasia.

Cherry and Angela looked at eachother and grinned. "We'll duel ya," said Cherry.

"Who are ya using?" asked Ariel.

"Suboshi and Amiboshi," replied Angela.

"Cool! Let's go to the gym then!" Ariel said.

"Wait, don't y'all want to eat first?" Isolde asked.

"Oh," Ariel sweatdropped, "I forgot how you're always hungry."

They ate a quick brunch at Big Boy's (A/N: Dragonheart:nasty spot that. Trillium: No it's not! Dragonheart: Whatever.) and then went to the gym. They passed Aya training with her Sesshoumaru using a katana. "Wow," Ariel said, "What's she doing?"

"She's like that,' Isolde said.

Aya looked over at them, "Hey guys!"

"Mornin' Aya!" said Angela.

"Where're ya goin'?" Aya asked.

"We're gonna go see if the owner of the gym will let us use his arena for another duel," Isolde replied.

"Oh, good luck with that. Who's dueling?" Aya asked curiously.

"Me and Ariel against Cherry and Angela," replied Isolde.

"Really? I'll have to watch that," Aya said, "Could ya give me a second so I could clean up?"

"No problem. I'll go talk to the owner," Isolde replied.

After a long talk and many promises, the owner agreed to allow them to use the gym. "Why was he so reluctant to let you use his gym?" Ariel asked Isolde.

"Well...," Isolde rubbed the back of her neck sweatdropping, "Remeber that duel I told you I had with Aya? That was here."

"Oh," Ariel nodded, "I see. He must be very trusting to allow you to use it again after that mess."

"Yeah," agreed Isolde.

Aya joined them moments later. "Hi! Did he let you use the gym?" Aya asked. They nodded. "Cool!" Aya said.

"Alright, let's go," Ariel said posing dramatically. Aya, Risika, Angela, and Cherry all gave her a funny look while Isolde just laughed.

The girls got into position while Risika had the honor of starting the fight. Anastasia and the other bishies not dueling sat in the lower benches this time to watch. Ariel and Isolde's bishies were waving their trainer's flags while Tasuki had grabbed a few bottles of sake and was splitting it with Tokaki. (A/N: few bottles of sake *snort*) Miroku, Tokaki and Tasuki were sitting infront of Aya and her bishies.

"Ok, um...Begin?" Risika said in a small voice.

"Let's duel!" Ariel did her best Yami Yugi imatation.

Isolde gave her a look, "I forgot how weird you were."

Cherry and Angela just did peace signs.

Hikitsu and Tomite attacked first. They combined Hikitsu's ice power with Tomite's energy to produce ice arrows which Tomite shot at both Amiboshi and Suboshi. Amiboshi used his flute and created an energy shield that protected him and his twin.

Suboshi and his brother retaliated by using Amiboshi's chi transfer to up Suboshi's powers as Suboshi used his telekinises to throw his meteor ball at Tomite. Hikitsu saw the danger his brother warrior was in and use his ice powers to entrap the meteor ball in a wall of ice.

Tomite threw an energy ring at Amiboshi. Amiboshi didn't see it coming and it wrapped around him and started closing. (A/N: Ouch, anyone seen Final Destination 2? There was one part where a guy got sliced into 3 parts....that looked like it HURT. Oh, and it was sorta gross I guess too.) Suboshi saw his brother was in trouble so he used his whips to distract Tomite so he didn't concentrate on knocking Amiboshi out by sufacation with the energy ring. Amiboshi saw his chance and broke the ring using his chi powers.

Hikitsu summoned his ice snakes which came forth and wrapped themselves around Suboshi. Amiboshi then used his flute to break the ice spell Hikitsu had placed on his brother. "Argh!",

Ariel said, "Why don't they just-!"

Isolde clapped her hand over Ariel's mouth and whispered in her ear, "Children in the room!"

Ariel went red and whispered back, "I wasn't gonna say THAT! Unlike you I don't travel around with peverts!"

Isolde shrugged, "You never can tell with some people ya know."

Ariel glared back, "Whatever girl. Now I wanna duel you after we finish these two off."

Isolde grinned, "Our usual bashing pair?"

Ariel nodded. Isolde went ^_^.

Angel 'eeped' when one of Tomite's arrows went right by her head.

"They won't kill you!" said Cherry to Angela.

"I know! I know! They could hurt me though!" Angela replied. Suboshi's Meteor Ball crashed through the wall of ice that had entrapped it and it flew at Tomite and struck him in his stomach. Tomite went flying backwards and hit the ground hard. The ball levitated back up above him and was about to go down for the "kill" when Hikitsu blasted it with an ice shard and walled it back up in ice. Tomite got up quickly and continued to fight on.

Meanwhile the other non-fighting bishies were having their own kind of fun. Tokaki had cajoled Chichiri into making some sticky balls of an unknown subtance and they all were currently having a fight to the pain. Aya and Risika were taking cover by running to the top of the benches in the arena so they could continue to watch the fight in semi-peace.

Suboshi and Amiboshi were getting frustrated, the two other bishies were so good at fighting together! There was just no way around their defenses it seemed! The fight was brought to a close with Hikitsu pummeling Suboshi with his snakes of ice and Tomite capturing Amiboshi with his energy ring.

"Alright!" cheered Ariel striking a pose,

"We win!" Ariel and Isolde gave eachother a high five. The two girls ran to their bishies and gave them hugs.

The other trainers and their bishies ran over to the winning trainers, Cherry and Angela were still sorta in a daze over losing. "Great job!" the trainers and bishies congradulated Ariel and Isolde.

Vash (A/N: You thought I forgot about him didn't ya? ^_^ I did ), yelled out, "Group hug!" The girls just happily leaped into the hug.

Ariel was enjoying the moment when suddenly she sighed, "Tokaki, you were doing SO well...", she trailed off as she turned around. Miroku blinked at her. "Hey!" she exclaimed in complete surprise, "You're not Tokaki!" Ariel spun around and yelled, "Isolde! Some monk bishie I don't know just groped me!"

Isolde was kinda like, "Yeah, well uh, that would be Miroku."

Ariel raised an eyebrow, "I assume he is one of yours then?"

Isolde blushed, "Yeah, maybe," and sweatdropped.

Ariel sighed, "You have the oddest taste in bishies."

Cherry and Angela, having gotten over the shock of losing, offered to treat the winners to dinner. Isolde and Ariel of course accepted graciously.

The day after the duel dawned bright and warm. The trainers all woke up and headed straight for the gym for some more training before their departure of Waterslide City.

As Isolde, Anastasia, Cherry, Angela, and Risika entered the gym they saw that Aya and her bishies had beat them. Aya was training Sesshou-Maru using her katana. "She's really good," remarked Angela.

"Yeah," agreed Risika.

Isolde took over the punching bag area with her many bishies. Marick, Bakura, Tomo, and Seto were the only bishies not using the bags.( I can just see Tomo hitting one of those and breaking his nails.) Seto was typing on his ever present laptop. Marick was toying with a dagger. Bakura was carving odd hieroglyphics into the gym floor.

Angela and Cherry went to the weight lifting space to train for awhile. The girls had to explain to Amiboshi, Suboshi, and Tasuki what the lifts were for and how they worked first.

Risika and Anastasia found a swimming pool in the back of the gym and decided they could do laps. (A/N: I love swimming. It's such fun! Been awhile though since I last went. Oh well, on with the story!)

After an hour after the trainers arrived, Angela and Cherry heard an enormous *crash* from Isolde's area.

They quickly turned around along with the rest of the gym's occupants.

What they saw astonished them.

Isolde was standing yelling red-faced at Marick and Bakura while another trainer was yelling also at them and her own bishie, Yami.

Most of the trainers and bishies in the gym just shrugged and went back to whatever they were doing. But Angela and Cherry left their bishies to their weight lifting (They couldn't be drug from it by wild horses to tell the truth.).

"What happened?" Angela asked a still screaming Isolde.

"These fucking idiots decided to pick on this girl's Yami!" Isolde said sucking in deep breaths to calm herself.

"Why would they do that?" Cherry asked.

"It's a bad habit. Something about these three together causes all sorts of catastrophic happenings," Isolde said much calmer now.

"Baka Pharoah," muttered Bakura.

"Stupid Tomb Robber," muttered Yami.

Isolde glared at all three of the miscreatents.

"I'm so sorry," apologized Yami's trainer.

"It's ok. Has your bishie ever been near any of these two before?" Isodle asked.

"No. I don't understand why-," the trainer said before she was cut off by Isolde.

"It's because in the anime Bakura and Merick both try to kill or destory Yami in one way or another," Isolde explained, "I would keep Yami away from any of these two 'cause even though they can't kill each other they can do some nasty damage."

"Ok, arigato!" Yami's trainer said as she left dragging her Yami after her.

Isolde decided to call it a day. She left the gym grumbling about stupid bishies and their violent tendencies.

The other trainers left at noon for lunch then returned to their hotel. They found Isolde in her room watching the news with her bishies.

"Hey ya guys there's some interesting news on now!" Isolde said. "Come in and watch with us," she commanded.

The girls and their bishies crammed into the already crowded room.

"...and in just one month, the Grand Tournament will begin in which six trainers will be granted the titles of Master Trainers! Back to you Tom," said a news reporter in front of a large white dome shaped building.

"What's going on?" asked Risika.

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Dragonheart: That was fun.

Trillium: Sure it was. *coughiwoncough*

Dragonheart: *glares* That's because it would make sense since the two trainers have dueled with that pair before. I'll get you back for this!

Trillum: Ooo I'm scared.

Dragonheart: Die fiend.

Dante: *grabs microphone* This is gonna go on for awhile...better stop there...Hope you enjoyed! See ya next time on Bishies and Duels!

Disclaimer:

Dragonheart: Do I have to do this?

Dante: Yes!

Dragonheart: Fine. *sulks* I don't own this at all except for the plot.

There! Ya happy now muse?

Dante: *dryly* Estatic.

Dragonheart: I'm sure.

Note: elflord, your character will be inserted into this fic as soon as possible. Thanks to all my reviewers! Read, review, enjoy!