qg: ...and here's chapter two!
Chapter Two- Trees 101
"Alright. Now, what are we doing again?" Marik pulled another burr out of his hair. Bakura had managed to get him out of bed, dressed in army fatigue, and in a bush next to Yugi's house.
"Shh! He might hear us!" Bakura hissed. He had a pair of binoculars and was looking through a window to the game shop.
"He's not downstairs. Maybe he's not even home," yawned Marik.
"No," Bakura shook his head, "It's way to early for him to have left. Only the crazies are outside this early."
"What about us?!"
"We have a mission," Bakura smiled deviously.
"You have a problem," groaned Marik.
Bakura ignored Marik's comment however and moved on, "Taking what we have deduced, he's upstairs!"
"Thanks 'Einstein'," Marik muttered before looking up. Yugi's room was just above them, but with one minor set back: they couldn't see in. There was a tree next to them that was the only thing relatively close to Yugi's house. But it wasn't tall enough to reach up to the window and it wasn't steady enough to hold them anyway.
Unfortunately, Bakura had overlooked those facts.
"We climb!" the evil, sadistic, presently insane spirit of the millenium ring hopped to the tree. "Marik! With me!" With that said, he jumped and caught himself halfway up the tree, seeing as how it was a short tree. He bobbed his head up and down a bit, as though by doing so he'd move up farther, but from Marik's view, if Bakura was moving, it was in fractions of millimeters. "Marik! Give me a boost!" Bakura continued bobbing his head up and down, very disturbingly.
"Um, Bakura?" the blonde tried to warn him.
"Talk later, climb now!"
Marik sighed, "Okay. You're the boss." He took his time walking over to the tree, trying to look inconspicuous, and certainly unacquainted with Bakura. "Um, what should I do?" Marik edged left and right to see how he could shove Bakura up the tree he'd started to climb, when he began to hear a noise that sounded a lot like wood breaking.
"Ahh, Marik! The tree's leaning! It wasn't before!!" Bakura tried to let go, but was too scared of the tree falling on him to do it.
With one last sickening crack, the tree fell…
Fortunately, Bakura was on the other side of the tree that didn't hit the ground.
Unfortunately, Marik ended up being on the side of the tree that did hit the ground.
Bakura got up and shook himself off, "Well, now we know not to do that again, don't we?" He shook his head disappointedly at Marik, "Honestly, it doesn't take a genius to see that a tree of that size and stature could not hold someone our age. You really shouldn't have let me go up on it."
Marik's eyes rolled around, unsettlingly as he tried standing up. Bakura took one look at him and nodded, "Time for plan B!"
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