I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry about being so late but my computer has been down for about a month, and we finally just got a new one. On the plus side you get a chapter that is twice as long as normal. And the new computer doesn't have spell check so if you spot any mistakes i'm sorry. but Carly is my beta reader so blame her.
sigh i must once again use /thought/ for thoughts becuase my new computer is crap:(
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Realization clicked. Everyone's jaw dropped. "No way!" someone shouted.
"Crap, Alyssa this is bad," Yami frantically spoke to her. "You just gave her your address and phone number, correct?" A nod. "Marik needs to know where you are to take over your mind. He now knows because of that witch Rin, who probably also gave us a fake name! We've got to find a way to protect you!"
Alyssa had gone pale as a sheet behind her summer tan. Her jaw hung open. "B-but that is onl-ly a speculat-tion r-right?" Alyssa sputtered
"You've seen how evil Marik could be. Would you put this past him?" Ryou quietly stated.
Most wondered how Alyssa could know this, but now was not the time to ask.
"So did everyone enjoy the park?" Grandpa asked with fake enthusiasium, after ten minutes of pensieve silence. He got several half-hearted replys, but then, he didn't really expect anyone to be cheerful after Yami's morbid prediction.
The next day at school Alyssa told Carly and Hannah about her predicament.
"So Yami thinks Marik is after me," Alyssa finished. "I'm just so scared. I don't know what to do becuase i obviously can't go home."
Carly and Hannah nodded, letting this new information soak into thier brains.
Hannah summed it all up. "This sucks." The girls nodded in agreement.
"Alyssa, you can stay at my house until this all blows over. I'm sure my parents won't mind."
"Thanks Carly, but what are you going to tell them? 'Alyssa's in mortal danger if she steps into her house because a mind controlling psycho is after her.'? I don't think so."
"Alyssa, Carly could tell her parents and yours that this is some sort of school project for a week or two to switch places with a friend."
"Hannah, you are a genious! Thank you!" Alyssa exclaimed, giving her friends a hug. "But Hannah you need to convince my parents that I'm staying at your house because if my parents know where I am, then Marik can tap thier brains and know. And Carly make sure you convince your parents by Sunday morning becuase I'll be over after church."
~oOOo~
Three days later it was party-time.
After Everyone was worn out from dancing, Mokuba suggested that everyone play Chubby Bunny. Chubby Bunny is a contest to see who can stuff the most marshmallows into thier mouths without chewing or swallowing. Everyone agreed it was a little childish but sounded like fun. Mokuba, being the youngest with the smallest mouth, stayed out as the counter.
"One," Mokuba announced as everyone stuffed a marshmallow into his or her mouth. "Two." The action was repeated.
Fifteen minutes later...
"33." Hannah, Seto, and Yami were the only people who hadn't gaged on the marshmallows yet. "Thirty four A-choo!" Mokuba sneezed. While poking a marshmallow into his mouth, Seto automadically replied "bless you," spitting out some marshmallows in the process, and thus loosing.
After poofing out his marshmallows Seto turned to Mokuba. "You did that on purpose."
Mokuba just smiled innocently and proceeded onto 35. Soon he was up to 47.
No one could believe Yami and Hannah's cheeks hadn't burst yet. 48. By now they looked like squirrels who were stocking up too many nuts for the winter. 49. Yami was showing signs of strain to keep from laughing at the groups antics. 50. Now everyone except Mokuba was putting up thier best efforts to get Hannah or Yami to laugh and spit out thier marshmallows. 51. Finally Yami cracked when Alyssa, Carly and Bakura started to fake strip witho out revealing anything riskay. He simuntaniously poofed out his marshmallows while laughing hystarically, all while not choking. Hannah noticed that she had won, so she began spitting out the 51 marshmallows in her mouth. Unfortunatly, Hannah apparently did not have as much skill as Yami in this.
In other words she choked.(chucking to death! if you've seen Boy Meets World you would understand) Yugi immediatly ran behind Hannah to give her the heimlich maneuver. After several perverse motions the 5 marshmallows caught in Hannah's throat dislodged themsleves and flew out leaving Hannah collapsed in a heap on the floor.
As Yugi kneeled down to comfort her by rubbing her back, Sterling walked over to them. Everyone knew Sterling had been crushing on Hannah since sixth grade.
"Hey back off," Sterling demanded, of the birthday boy no less! "She's mine," Sterling cracked his scrawny knuckles in a would-be threatening way. Yugi just rolled his eyes, but Yami stepped in front of him, going into over-protective Darkness mode.
"Are you threatening my light?" Yami asked retorically. Yes or no were both wrong answers: Yes would be admitting ot the crime and no would be lieing. All in all Sterling was doomed no matter what he said.
"No."
"Lieing to the Pharaoh is punishable by banishment to the Shadow Realm!" Yami started to gather a ball of dark energy in his right hand. Starting to look a little scared now that this information had finally gotten through to his thick brain, Sterling took a nervous step back. But it was too late, Yami threw the dark energy ball at him and Sterling dissapeared with the ball's contact.
"Who invited him anyway?" Tristan asked. He hadn't liked Sterling from the begining. Everyone turned to Alyssa.
"Hey don't look at me," Alyssa held her hands up innocently. "He must have overheard me inviting Hannah; ya'll know he stalks her."
Everyone shrugged it off knowing it was true.
"Let's play strip poker now!" Serenity enthusiastcally shouted to everyone.
Knowing it had been coming, Alyssa, Tea, Serenity, and Mai had each slipped three extra pairs of socks on.
Apparently the males had caught wind of the strip poker plan and had been practicing for the past week. By the 15th round the females had been stripped barefoot.
"My feet are cold," Mai randomly complained.
"Why? It's like 80 degrees in here," Joey rolled his eyes, but promptly grabbed Mai's feet gently and began massaging them. This was more likely the real reason for Mai's 'complaining.'
"Traitor," Tristan mumbled and elbowed Joey in the side.
Joey grinned sheepishly. Carly made a whipping motion with her hand. "Mai's got him whipped." Mai just smiled in a self-satisfied way.
"Can we just get on with the game," Seto mumbled. Secretly, Seto hoped he had finally found something he could beat the ancient ruler at. /Not that I want to see Yami naked or anything like that. Although, I do hope I beat Tea and see her naked buns./
"I hate you," Alyssa glared at Yami as she threw her shirt at him. She was the first girl to lose her shirt. Most unfortunatly, Alyssa had forgotten to change into a sports bra, so way more cleavage then she would have liked showed.
"I need to go to the bathroom," Joey interjected, looking pointedly at Mai. As soon as he left she followed to several wolf-whistles. She rolled her eyes and met Joey in the bathroom.
"We need to end this game," Joey said explicitly.
"I agree. i can see how uncomfortable Alyssa is in her bra, and short and I saw she had a loosing hand again. We can't let her go through the humiliation of being naked in front of you and the rest of the guys. Hun, it just isn't right," Mai told Joey.
"Yes, Tea, and Bakura's girl...oh what's her name..."
"Carly."
"Oh yeah Tea and Carly don't seem too comfortable with themselves being naked soon."
"Funny Serenity doesn't seem to mind..."
"WHAT?! Are you saying her and maneybags..."
"No! No, I was just kidding Joey. Calm down," Mai soothed.
"Let's just go out there and stop the game." Joey gritted through his teeth.
They marched out with Joey throwing suspisious glares at Kiaba while having his arm around a crying Mai. /Time to start her acting job/ Joey thought.
"W-we can't go o-on," Mai 'sobbed.'
"And why not?" Bakura asked
Mai forced herself to blush. An "ohh..." could be heard from quite a few people.
The other girls immediatly jumped to Mai's aid. "I agree," they chimed.
"Fine," the guys mumbled reluctantly. None of them watned to upset thier girlfriends by pressing the game.
As they breaked for pizza, Yami mumbled audibly enough for everyone present to hear. "Just when it was getting good too..."
/You've got to be kidding me/ Yami mentally sighed as Yugi smashed pizza in his hair like a little kid. Retaliation was swift in the form of a Coke bottle chucked at Yugi. Of course Yugi ducked, letting the Coke explode all over Alyssa.
She jerked up from her conversation with Carly. "You!" She shouted as she playfully tackled Yami, attempting to wrestle him to the ground.
"Get a room you two," Tea teased, commenting on how Yami was victoriously strattling Alyssa's hips.
"It's not as if they haven't before," winked Carly.
In response, Alyssa grabbed two chunks of pizza from Yami's horribly messed up hair and logged them at Tea and Carly. With her terrible aim it hit Seto and Bakura in the hair and neck. Naturally, the fight escalted quickly and soon two sides were formed:Those who lived in Japan and those who had been living in Florida for at least 2 months. Ryou got hit in his eye.
"MAN DOWN!" Bakura cried, throwing apple pie over to the other side. An 'oof' was heard as the pie hit it's mark on Mai.
"STOP!" Alyssa stood up and shouted glancing over at Ryou, who was whimpering and trying to get mashed potatoe out of his eyes. Everyone turned to her, then to Ryou, then reluctantly nodded in agreement out of pity.
"Let's all get cleaned up so you chumps don't smell," Kiaba snorted haughtily as he glanced around at the bacon hanging out of Yami's nose, Ryous mashed potatoed eye, Bakura with the former pizza's marinara sauce staining his gleaming white hair, to Yugi with spaghetti dangling from his tri-colored spikes of hair, to Mai with a once-full pie pan still stuck to her face, to Alyssa who was drenched in Coke and milk, to Carly who was licking melted chocolate off her arm in a suggestive way while looking at Bakura, to Mokuba trying to flick sloppy joe meat off his eye lashes, to the mutt who was squeezing his clothes free of apple juice and sauce, to Tristan who was rather crudely licking whipped cream off Tea's neck, to Tea's face which was practically moaning in pleaure, to the various other people Kiaba didn't know, and finally to the cream cheese/jello mixture with lazana and pizza pieces dripping off his own bangs into his face. He sighed and rolled his eyes at the childishness of the others, forgetting that he too, had been engaged in the food fight.
After everyone had hosed off outside, ("Yami just banish the food to the Shadow Realm." "No Alyssa I'd rather not reveal too much of our Shadow Powers to our school friends yet." "'Our Shadow Powers?Yami, I have some too?!" "No, I mean maybe but for now we'll stick with my Shadow Powers.") Carly suggested that they play I've Never. The American's all nodded happily in agreement while the Japanese people just stared blankly at each other.
"Ahem, for those of you who do not know what I've Never is, I'll explain. We all sit in a circle and go around one by one and name things we have never done. Anyone who has done the thing the person named taked a drink of soda..."
Bakura cut in, "actually I brought beer we can use for that..."
"How did you get your hands on some, your only 17," Ryou chided.
"Aaahhh...but you forget I'm 5,000 years old and the King of Thieves none the less. I think you know how I got it."
"Hehe, oh yeah. OK... takes a drink of beer. The last one not passed out wins," Carly finished.
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Who will win? What 'intresting' secrets will be found out? How will Marik complete his evil plot? Find out in the next chapter
sigh i must once again use /thought/ for thoughts becuase my new computer is crap:(
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Realization clicked. Everyone's jaw dropped. "No way!" someone shouted.
"Crap, Alyssa this is bad," Yami frantically spoke to her. "You just gave her your address and phone number, correct?" A nod. "Marik needs to know where you are to take over your mind. He now knows because of that witch Rin, who probably also gave us a fake name! We've got to find a way to protect you!"
Alyssa had gone pale as a sheet behind her summer tan. Her jaw hung open. "B-but that is onl-ly a speculat-tion r-right?" Alyssa sputtered
"You've seen how evil Marik could be. Would you put this past him?" Ryou quietly stated.
Most wondered how Alyssa could know this, but now was not the time to ask.
"So did everyone enjoy the park?" Grandpa asked with fake enthusiasium, after ten minutes of pensieve silence. He got several half-hearted replys, but then, he didn't really expect anyone to be cheerful after Yami's morbid prediction.
The next day at school Alyssa told Carly and Hannah about her predicament.
"So Yami thinks Marik is after me," Alyssa finished. "I'm just so scared. I don't know what to do becuase i obviously can't go home."
Carly and Hannah nodded, letting this new information soak into thier brains.
Hannah summed it all up. "This sucks." The girls nodded in agreement.
"Alyssa, you can stay at my house until this all blows over. I'm sure my parents won't mind."
"Thanks Carly, but what are you going to tell them? 'Alyssa's in mortal danger if she steps into her house because a mind controlling psycho is after her.'? I don't think so."
"Alyssa, Carly could tell her parents and yours that this is some sort of school project for a week or two to switch places with a friend."
"Hannah, you are a genious! Thank you!" Alyssa exclaimed, giving her friends a hug. "But Hannah you need to convince my parents that I'm staying at your house because if my parents know where I am, then Marik can tap thier brains and know. And Carly make sure you convince your parents by Sunday morning becuase I'll be over after church."
~oOOo~
Three days later it was party-time.
After Everyone was worn out from dancing, Mokuba suggested that everyone play Chubby Bunny. Chubby Bunny is a contest to see who can stuff the most marshmallows into thier mouths without chewing or swallowing. Everyone agreed it was a little childish but sounded like fun. Mokuba, being the youngest with the smallest mouth, stayed out as the counter.
"One," Mokuba announced as everyone stuffed a marshmallow into his or her mouth. "Two." The action was repeated.
Fifteen minutes later...
"33." Hannah, Seto, and Yami were the only people who hadn't gaged on the marshmallows yet. "Thirty four A-choo!" Mokuba sneezed. While poking a marshmallow into his mouth, Seto automadically replied "bless you," spitting out some marshmallows in the process, and thus loosing.
After poofing out his marshmallows Seto turned to Mokuba. "You did that on purpose."
Mokuba just smiled innocently and proceeded onto 35. Soon he was up to 47.
No one could believe Yami and Hannah's cheeks hadn't burst yet. 48. By now they looked like squirrels who were stocking up too many nuts for the winter. 49. Yami was showing signs of strain to keep from laughing at the groups antics. 50. Now everyone except Mokuba was putting up thier best efforts to get Hannah or Yami to laugh and spit out thier marshmallows. 51. Finally Yami cracked when Alyssa, Carly and Bakura started to fake strip witho out revealing anything riskay. He simuntaniously poofed out his marshmallows while laughing hystarically, all while not choking. Hannah noticed that she had won, so she began spitting out the 51 marshmallows in her mouth. Unfortunatly, Hannah apparently did not have as much skill as Yami in this.
In other words she choked.(chucking to death! if you've seen Boy Meets World you would understand) Yugi immediatly ran behind Hannah to give her the heimlich maneuver. After several perverse motions the 5 marshmallows caught in Hannah's throat dislodged themsleves and flew out leaving Hannah collapsed in a heap on the floor.
As Yugi kneeled down to comfort her by rubbing her back, Sterling walked over to them. Everyone knew Sterling had been crushing on Hannah since sixth grade.
"Hey back off," Sterling demanded, of the birthday boy no less! "She's mine," Sterling cracked his scrawny knuckles in a would-be threatening way. Yugi just rolled his eyes, but Yami stepped in front of him, going into over-protective Darkness mode.
"Are you threatening my light?" Yami asked retorically. Yes or no were both wrong answers: Yes would be admitting ot the crime and no would be lieing. All in all Sterling was doomed no matter what he said.
"No."
"Lieing to the Pharaoh is punishable by banishment to the Shadow Realm!" Yami started to gather a ball of dark energy in his right hand. Starting to look a little scared now that this information had finally gotten through to his thick brain, Sterling took a nervous step back. But it was too late, Yami threw the dark energy ball at him and Sterling dissapeared with the ball's contact.
"Who invited him anyway?" Tristan asked. He hadn't liked Sterling from the begining. Everyone turned to Alyssa.
"Hey don't look at me," Alyssa held her hands up innocently. "He must have overheard me inviting Hannah; ya'll know he stalks her."
Everyone shrugged it off knowing it was true.
"Let's play strip poker now!" Serenity enthusiastcally shouted to everyone.
Knowing it had been coming, Alyssa, Tea, Serenity, and Mai had each slipped three extra pairs of socks on.
Apparently the males had caught wind of the strip poker plan and had been practicing for the past week. By the 15th round the females had been stripped barefoot.
"My feet are cold," Mai randomly complained.
"Why? It's like 80 degrees in here," Joey rolled his eyes, but promptly grabbed Mai's feet gently and began massaging them. This was more likely the real reason for Mai's 'complaining.'
"Traitor," Tristan mumbled and elbowed Joey in the side.
Joey grinned sheepishly. Carly made a whipping motion with her hand. "Mai's got him whipped." Mai just smiled in a self-satisfied way.
"Can we just get on with the game," Seto mumbled. Secretly, Seto hoped he had finally found something he could beat the ancient ruler at. /Not that I want to see Yami naked or anything like that. Although, I do hope I beat Tea and see her naked buns./
"I hate you," Alyssa glared at Yami as she threw her shirt at him. She was the first girl to lose her shirt. Most unfortunatly, Alyssa had forgotten to change into a sports bra, so way more cleavage then she would have liked showed.
"I need to go to the bathroom," Joey interjected, looking pointedly at Mai. As soon as he left she followed to several wolf-whistles. She rolled her eyes and met Joey in the bathroom.
"We need to end this game," Joey said explicitly.
"I agree. i can see how uncomfortable Alyssa is in her bra, and short and I saw she had a loosing hand again. We can't let her go through the humiliation of being naked in front of you and the rest of the guys. Hun, it just isn't right," Mai told Joey.
"Yes, Tea, and Bakura's girl...oh what's her name..."
"Carly."
"Oh yeah Tea and Carly don't seem too comfortable with themselves being naked soon."
"Funny Serenity doesn't seem to mind..."
"WHAT?! Are you saying her and maneybags..."
"No! No, I was just kidding Joey. Calm down," Mai soothed.
"Let's just go out there and stop the game." Joey gritted through his teeth.
They marched out with Joey throwing suspisious glares at Kiaba while having his arm around a crying Mai. /Time to start her acting job/ Joey thought.
"W-we can't go o-on," Mai 'sobbed.'
"And why not?" Bakura asked
Mai forced herself to blush. An "ohh..." could be heard from quite a few people.
The other girls immediatly jumped to Mai's aid. "I agree," they chimed.
"Fine," the guys mumbled reluctantly. None of them watned to upset thier girlfriends by pressing the game.
As they breaked for pizza, Yami mumbled audibly enough for everyone present to hear. "Just when it was getting good too..."
/You've got to be kidding me/ Yami mentally sighed as Yugi smashed pizza in his hair like a little kid. Retaliation was swift in the form of a Coke bottle chucked at Yugi. Of course Yugi ducked, letting the Coke explode all over Alyssa.
She jerked up from her conversation with Carly. "You!" She shouted as she playfully tackled Yami, attempting to wrestle him to the ground.
"Get a room you two," Tea teased, commenting on how Yami was victoriously strattling Alyssa's hips.
"It's not as if they haven't before," winked Carly.
In response, Alyssa grabbed two chunks of pizza from Yami's horribly messed up hair and logged them at Tea and Carly. With her terrible aim it hit Seto and Bakura in the hair and neck. Naturally, the fight escalted quickly and soon two sides were formed:Those who lived in Japan and those who had been living in Florida for at least 2 months. Ryou got hit in his eye.
"MAN DOWN!" Bakura cried, throwing apple pie over to the other side. An 'oof' was heard as the pie hit it's mark on Mai.
"STOP!" Alyssa stood up and shouted glancing over at Ryou, who was whimpering and trying to get mashed potatoe out of his eyes. Everyone turned to her, then to Ryou, then reluctantly nodded in agreement out of pity.
"Let's all get cleaned up so you chumps don't smell," Kiaba snorted haughtily as he glanced around at the bacon hanging out of Yami's nose, Ryous mashed potatoed eye, Bakura with the former pizza's marinara sauce staining his gleaming white hair, to Yugi with spaghetti dangling from his tri-colored spikes of hair, to Mai with a once-full pie pan still stuck to her face, to Alyssa who was drenched in Coke and milk, to Carly who was licking melted chocolate off her arm in a suggestive way while looking at Bakura, to Mokuba trying to flick sloppy joe meat off his eye lashes, to the mutt who was squeezing his clothes free of apple juice and sauce, to Tristan who was rather crudely licking whipped cream off Tea's neck, to Tea's face which was practically moaning in pleaure, to the various other people Kiaba didn't know, and finally to the cream cheese/jello mixture with lazana and pizza pieces dripping off his own bangs into his face. He sighed and rolled his eyes at the childishness of the others, forgetting that he too, had been engaged in the food fight.
After everyone had hosed off outside, ("Yami just banish the food to the Shadow Realm." "No Alyssa I'd rather not reveal too much of our Shadow Powers to our school friends yet." "'Our Shadow Powers?Yami, I have some too?!" "No, I mean maybe but for now we'll stick with my Shadow Powers.") Carly suggested that they play I've Never. The American's all nodded happily in agreement while the Japanese people just stared blankly at each other.
"Ahem, for those of you who do not know what I've Never is, I'll explain. We all sit in a circle and go around one by one and name things we have never done. Anyone who has done the thing the person named taked a drink of soda..."
Bakura cut in, "actually I brought beer we can use for that..."
"How did you get your hands on some, your only 17," Ryou chided.
"Aaahhh...but you forget I'm 5,000 years old and the King of Thieves none the less. I think you know how I got it."
"Hehe, oh yeah. OK... takes a drink of beer. The last one not passed out wins," Carly finished.
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Who will win? What 'intresting' secrets will be found out? How will Marik complete his evil plot? Find out in the next chapter