*****CONTEST ALERT*****
The contest winner for drawing me or a scene from the story is (insert drumroll) Yami's-girl/BB-chicken/Marina Martinez (all one person) she will be appearing in the story when they go to Disney World and more after that. Congratulations!
Test: if this is italic it will make my life much easier if not ignore this
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That Monday, Mrs. Spears brought up something interesting in class, to everyone's surprise. "People, this week we will do a short study of ancient Egypt, then compare out society to their next week." At this, the foreign students and Alyssa sat up straighter, actually interested in what the monotonous teacher had to say. Not ten minutes later all the Japanese and Egyptian students, who knew all about ancient Egypt from either personal experience or second hand accounts, were bored out of their minds. A couple of minutes later a phrase caught Yami's attention. "So after Pharaoh Khu named his son Seth…" Mrs. Spears had droned.
Yami shot up his hand. Pharaoh Khu was his father and certainly, Yami's name was not Seth. In the past as Prince and Pharaoh, Yami had gone by Yugioh. When Mrs. Spears called on him, Yami contradicted her. "Mrs. Spears, Khu's son's name was Yugioh, and Yugioh's high priest was Seth." Boy it felt weird talking about himself in third person.
"Excuse me?" Mrs. Spears demanded. Yami repeated himself. "Are you questioning my facts?"
"I'm not questioning you, I'm telling you that you're wrong. Nor do I mean a disrespect in telling you that Seth was Yugioh's high priest."
"And just what do you base this on?"
"Extensive research," Yami lied. He was about to say personal experience, but caught himself on time.
Fine, if you can produce evidence of this 'Yugioh's' existence by tomorrow, I will give you extra credit." Those in the class that were awake gasped, for Mrs. Spears never, I mean never in her entire teaching career, gave extra credit.
Later that afternoon Yami and Alyssa were ransacking Yami's soul room, searching for some scrolls that told of Yami's birth.
"Idiot priests made me store practically of Egypt's long history in here," Yami muttered to Alyssa, shifting through a huge stack of scrolls. Alyssa laughed at Yami's mutterings. According to him, she was in here to help him look, but she knew that he just wanted company, for she could read no ancient Egyptian if her life depended on it.
The next day, to the shock of many, Yami did get extra credit for the authentic and well preserved scrolls. The rest of August passed in a flash and soon it was time for the other Japanese students to arrive. Alyssa's mom had agreed to let Alyssa and the boys a week as long as they attended 2 days of school the week they were gone and didn't miss any more day the rest of the semester.
Standing around the busy airport waiting for people she was going to meet for the first time was fairly boring for Alyssa. The boys, on the other hand, were anxiously awaiting the arrival of their best friends, and thus pacing back and forth. Finally, after what seemed like ages the flight attendant announced the arrival of flight 474 on Boeing 747, the flight everyone was waiting for.
Joey Wheeler was among the first set of people to come off for he was running very quickly. Tristan Taylor, who was trying to restrain Joey, and Mai Valentine, who was shouting after Joey to slow down, closely followed him. Tea Gardner walked out next, talking to Mokuba Kiaba. Behind them Serenity Wheeler and Seto Kiaba, who was watching Mokuba like a mother hawk, appeared, holding hands. Solomon Moto walked slowly off the plane, one of the last off. Joey immediately tackled err… hugged Yugi.
"Yug, so great to see ya again!" Joey exclaimed with a surprising Brooklyn accent.
Poor Yugi was crunched under Joey's weight and had had all of the wind knocked out of him form Joey's hug. "It's nice to see you too Joey, but I need to breath," Yugi wheezed.
"Oh right," Joey mumbled as he rolled off of Yugi.
As soon as Yugi stood up, he squealed Grandpa! And ran over to hug the older man. After that, it was chaos of hugs and handshakes between old friends. Alyssa stood off to the side, thinking it better to let them have a semi-private reunion. Her eyes narrowed when Mai purposely swished her chest against Yami's when hugging him, before she realized that Mai must do that to all men, which made her wonder how Joey stood the jealous rage he must be feeling.
"Didn't you say your host was staying with us?"
"Oh yeah Tristin, I did. She's over here," Yugi told him, pointing Alyssa out. The woman in question walked over. She smiled nervously at the group staring at her.
Mai, being the bravest, boldly stuck her hand out, a foreign American gesture to her, for Alyssa to shake. "Hello, hun, I'm Mai."
"I'm Alyssa," Alyssa said, returning the handshake. Yami had previously warned her that it was better to pretend not to know everyone unless they asked.
Rounds of introductions were made, even though Alyssa already knew everyone.
"We'll be staying at the Perry's Oceanside Resort for the week," Grandpa told everyone.
"Hey that's where we stayed when we had a week at the beach," Ryou pointed out.
Coincidentally, the boys' room was the one our heroes (and heroines) had stayed at over a month ago.
"Girls in one room, boys in the other, and I am over there," Grandpa jovially told them. He chuckled, "I don't want you kids to keep my up too late."
Soon everyone was settled in and the girls found that they got along quite nicely. They stayed up very late plotting Yami, Yugi, Ryou and Bakura's demise, er…. combined birthday party for that Friday.
"Oh! We can go swimming and stuff!" Tea said, bouncing ideas off Serenity, Mai and Alyssa.
"Truth or dare and spin the bottle are necessary," Mai put in her 2 cents to Alyssa, who was writing down ideas, so they would not forget them in the morning.
"We have to do strip poker!" Serenity chirped. Mai, Tea and Alyssa goggled at her. "What? Just because I'm Joey's little sister doesn't mean I'm a complete innocent." They raised a brow at that, but let it go.
Around two in the morning, when the girls were giggling uncontrollably at nothing they decided it was time to go to sleep.
"Disney World!" Joey and Tristin exclaimed, exchanging a high five.
"What would a vacation to Florida be without going to Disney World?" Solomon chuckled with merriment.
It was the next day, shortly after Alyssa had returned from school. That day at school she had informed all of the foreign exchange students' friends of the upcoming party on Friday.
"Cool," was the general response to the party and Grandpa's Disney World announcement.
That night the girls were again up too late for there own good.
"Oh! I have the greatest idea!"
"What is it Tea?"
"Well Serenity, you know the American song 'I like Big Buts'? Well I have it on a CD." Tea whispered the rest of her plan to the older girls. Giggling the girls changed into their shortest boxers and prepared the rest of the plan.
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Yes I know that was a crappy chapter but this is a product of horrible writer's block.
Reviewers Responses
Coolygirly: What does everyone have against Tea? She is just a normal character and I have no problem with her so she will be appearing in the story.
BB-Chicken: Maybe, I am still undecided.
Yami's-Girl: Yeah Marik/Malik is most like the person you will get.
ACME-Rian: What's a good idea to have?
Storm: As already stated numerous times only the contest winner will be in the story unless someone sends me a late drawing so good it's just got to be in.
Raine Minamino: Thanks but I never got them and the contest is over so read above review response.
La Bella Yu-gi-oh: It was August 1, sorry but it is over. Again, read above review.
Lyssa14: Thanks
The Ice Queen: Thanks you for telling me that. If you have not noticed I have followed your suggestion and now my new chapters are in html format.:)
MarikzAngel: Sorry you got second place. I'm not sure what to reward you for that though.
Yami's-Girl: You really need to make up you mind on to who you want together. I think that you are going to be with Marik/Malik though. There is like zero chance I'm going to do a lemon in any of my stories. Sex before marriage is extremely wrong and therefore will not be in any of my writing material. Thanks for the Disney idea because they will go to Disney and sorry but Duke will not be appearing in the story. This is because there is already too many character to try to have a conversation with and I'm most likely going to struggle with out the extra burden of yet another character.
Aithril the Elf-Maiden: Thank you for the nice review.
QuietOne: lol All of us are blond at heart. Please tell me what you think Joey's secret is I think it would be amusing if you were right. And even if you're wrong I may decide to use your idea in the story.
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