Hey all!!!!!
...Today, I actually had something I was going to say in the chapter heading, but then I reread my brother's fic for him and I forgot it again...darn...
I do remember some parts of what I was going to tell you though.. It's a nice little thank you note. Thanks (Again) To Caterfree10 and Yami Mojobubbles (And Mojobubbles, even though they have changed their pen name to Tenshi Bakaru) For all of the support and encouragement they have shown throughout this fic. Also, thanks for Pruningshears for the detailitory idea for this chappie! And last but (Definitely not least) I thank myself for ALL of the main plot ideas. (Hint, Hint)
Also......Darn it, I had remembered, and now I forgot it AGAIN!!!!!! ... Uh.. Read the Fic, maybe I'll remember it by the end of the chappie...
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{Shells}
Shells, DVD, Mom, Jrj, and Dad (Whom I have been previously excluding from the story and am now informing you of them... sorry) all waited for hours before the doctor came out of the room again. When he did, they all stood quickly and looked at him expectantly. Upon seeing their faces, he sighed.
"Daricio is...just fine." He told them. The group immediately tried to push past him into the room. He stopped them with a raised hand. "What I meant was, there is absolutely no explanation for her to have fainted...or whatever happened to her. We just can't figure it out. It's a complete mystery. I'm sorry."
He started to turn away, and then told them, "If you want to visit her, which I'm sure you do, she has been taken to room 104 on floor 12." The group thanked him and started towards the elevator.
As Shells walked by, she heard the doctor mutter something. "Only one other case like this ever..." He said quietly, shaking his head.
Trying to figure out what he had meant, Shells followed her family to the elevator. She looked over at DVD. He had the same look of fear and confusion on his face that she felt. It was times like these that made her so sure that she had a link with her brothers and sister.
She shook her head. That was impossible. She tried to return her attention to the situation, but for some reason, that was all she could think about. Realizing this, she focused on remembering the reasons she had collected for them having one.
First of all, it was only with DVD, Shells, and Daricio... Jrj never seemed to be included much. They always seemed to know when something was going on with one another; when they were in need of help. Also, they almost always had a certain sense of what the others need.
She paused in her thoughts as the elevator stopped at the top. She continued her list as she followed everyone to Daricio's room.
They also were able to know what the others were feeling, and often felt the same way. She looked at DVD again and knew that this was happening now, but this probably wasn't because of any link. He looked at her.
"Thinking about that link again?" He asked her quietly.
Oh, and the fact that we can sometimes tell what each other are thinking. Shells nodded to DVD, then returned her attention to where they were walking. They had reached the door to Daricio's room, and they went inside.
Shells and DVD sat down in chairs near the window next to each other so that they could talk.
"I was thinking about the link you say we have too. Last night, we were worried about Daricio. Why? I don't remember so clearly anymore, so it must have just been.a feeling.or maybe it was the link." DVD said to Shells.
Shells nodded slowly. "So?" She asked.
"So, if we could feel THAT, maybe we could feel-" he started to tell her, but he was cut off by Jrj.
"Well... There's nothing really to do in here except stare at Daricio... And I really don't want to go to school thinking about this... So let's see what's on the T.V. in here!" He flipped on the television set in the room and turned down the volume a little so as not to disturb Mom and Dad who were sitting by the side of Daricio's bed.
He began surfing through channels. "Hmm..Hm.. Boring..Hm.. Ah, here we go!" He had turned it to a Yu-Gi-Oh rerun.
DVD and Shells glanced up at the screen and then told Jrj to turn it off. "Now's not the time for it."
Before he did turn it off, they caught a sight of which episode it was. It had been the one where Mokuba's soul had been trapped in a Duel Monster's card. Shells turned back towards DVD and was about to ask him to go on, when she suddenly thought of something.
She turned back towards the blank screen once again and stared at it. Then, slowly, she turned back towards the hospital bed. Mokuba...Unconscious... Soul-less... Daricio... Unconscious... Nah... She turned back towards DVD and asked him to continue with what he had been about to say, but he was also staring at the screen. He turned back to her.
"Strange... I have forgotten what it was I was saying..."
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{Daricio}
It was now 8:15, so of course Yugi was in school. While he was concentrating on work, though, Yami and Daricio had been exploring. After their first hour of exploring, they had decided to make a small map of the place as they went along.
"Ok, in room 2B, we have absolutely nothing. In room 2C we have a table with flowers on it. In room..." Daricio continued reading off her map to Yami.
"That sounds about right so far." Yami said. "Let's try in here, now"
Daricio gave him a faintly humored look.
"What?" He asked.
"You're having more fun with this than I am." She commented, giggling.
"So?" Yami asked, opening the door. He wasn't paying attention to what he was doing, however, so he barely got out of the way of a bunch of arrows flying towards him. "AHH!!" He dodged quickly and the arrows lodged themselves firmly into the wall behind them.
Daricio looked down at her map. "Strange. I though we looked in that one already." She looked around, then back at her map. "Um... Yami?"
"What?" He asked again, getting up off the ground, slightly annoyed that Daricio hadn't even tried to help him up.
She turned back to him. "Some parts of the puzzle just shifted. Almost all of the doors are in different locations. Does it do this often?"
Yami looked around and found that she was right. "I had never noticed it before, but I guess it could have happened before."
Daricio looked down at her map again. It had not shifted with the puzzle. She sighed and tossed it away. "Not even imagination powers solve this." She commented absently.
Yami sighed too. "Ok, who's going to tell Yugi?" he asked.
"Nobody has to. I know. This is bad. " Yugi commented, coming around a corner. "It's lunchtime, guys."
"Lunchtime?" Daricio looked up quickly. "Already? Man, my parents must be worried sick! Not to mention Shells and DVD! Maybe Jrj, too.."
Yugi and Yami led Daricio back to Yugi's soul room.
"Do you think I'll ever get back home?" She asked quietly.
The other two looked at each other. "We really don't know."
Daricio sighed and sat on Yugi's bed. Yami brought Yugi aside for a moment.
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{Yugi}
"Yugi? Isn't this Tuesday?" Yami asked.
"Yeah..." Yugi said.
"So... Isn't this the day your schedule gets all messed up?"
"Yeah... Oh, right...I have Math after lunch. Great." Yugi sighed. Suddenly, he looked up. Then he groaned. "And to come and add even more problems to my pile, here comes Bakura!"
Outside, he began looking around for a place to hide. Unfortunately, they were in an empty classroom, therefore, there was none. There were a few other people in the room, but not much.
He quickly sat down in one of the desks and pulled out a book, hoping that Bakura, who was in the halls, wouldn't see him. His wish did not come true, however, and soon Bakura came into the room.
"Yugi." He said softly, trying not to disturb the other students. Yugi looked up. What he saw greatly surprised him. It wasn't Evil Bakura, for one thing, it was normal Bakura. Even more amazing was that he didn't look mad.
"Uh..." Yugi tried to figure out what to say.
"Yugi, I'm sorry about yesterday. I really shouldn't have said all those things. I... Really don't know what came over me..." Bakura looked down at the floor.
"That's ok, Bakura." Yugi said. He also looked at the floor. "And I shouldn't have hit you."
"Still friends?" Bakura asked.
"Still friends." Yugi said, giving Bakura a grin.
"Come on, Yugi!" Tristan called from the door. "Come eat with us! Everyone was wondering where you were yesterday, and you never did tell me what's going on!"
Yugi followed Tristan to the table where Joey and Tea were already seated. Bakura came with him. They all sat down at the table and began to chat about stuff. Normal stuff. And for some reason, they never actually got around to telling Tristan what was going on.
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{Later: Yami}
Lunchtime was over. Yami could sense Yugi heading for Math. He sighed. Daricio looked over at him from where she was still sitting on the bed.
"What?" She asked.
"Math." Yami replied sadly. "It's time for Quadratic equations."
"Fun." Daricio said, grinning for the first time in a while. "I'm sure you will just love that."
Yami sat next to her on the bed. "Maybe you could help us with it." He suggested.
"Maybe... But I'd have to have paper and pencil. And not just this imaginary stuff in here. This stuff disappears if you're not concentrating on it enough, and I cannot concentrate on keeping my paper and pencil here, keeping whatever I write onto the paper on the paper, AND doing complex math problems all at the same time." Daricio paused.
"Although, I could just have Yugi write it down for me..." Then she grinned again. "Or, I could write it on his paper for him..."
"What do you mean?" Yami asked.
"I mean...well... you know how you can control Yugi's body? I think I can too... and so I could take over to write stuff down on the paper, and tell you why I'm writing stuff in here..." Daricio said.
Yugi had been listening to what they were saying as he walked, so he was in the soul room too. "Wait a minute." He said. "Whenever Yami takes over I sort of change... I mean, you already know how I get taller. And my hair sort of changes. And my voice changes to Yami's... So... What would I end up looking like if Daricio took over?"
They were all silent for a moment. Yami looked from one teen to the other, trying to imagine them combined. Somehow, he couldn't quite do it.
Yugi and Daricio were the same height, so there wouldn't be a change there. But.
Yugi and his spiky red, black and yellow hair. Daricio and her long, slightly curly, poofy, light brown hair.
There was also the small matter of: Would his clothes change to what Daricio was wearing like they sometimes did with Yami?
Somehow, the two's very unique appearances just did not mix.
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I have had that question in my head all week. What WOULD Yugi look like if Daricio took over? And would anyone in his class notice the sudden change?
As always, any ideas are appreciated!!!!!! (Not only for how Yugi would look, but for the actual story too.)
Also, for anyone who is actually taking the time to read through all these little notes and is wondering if I remember what I was going to tell you at the beginning of the chapter, No...Sorry...I still don't remember. * Shrugs* It'll come back to me!!! Maybe... Next chapter maybe..
But, hey! Even if I didn't remember that, I did think of something else in here that I don't have! Character Pronunciations and stuff! I'm going to just do a few that look like they might be confusing, but if you find more that you're not sure of, just tell me. (Character that you want me to pronounce must be in this story) Anyways:
Shells = Shells. Just like it sounds. Is actually short for Shells124. (See my Bio)
DVD = Dee Vee Dee. Like the letters. Is actually short for DVD185. (Again, See Bio)
Jrj = Jay Are Jay. Like the letters. It's actually supposed to be JRJ, but I is lazy. Is short for JRJathome. (Once again, See Bio)
"If there is any other confusion, tell me. I did not put this in because I thought you were to stupid to figure it out. (Although this may be the case for a select few) It is merely for your convenience. Thank You. This has been a recording."
That was my automatic De-Flaming thingy. Like it? Anyways, Gotta Go now! See Ya!
--Daricio
...Today, I actually had something I was going to say in the chapter heading, but then I reread my brother's fic for him and I forgot it again...darn...
I do remember some parts of what I was going to tell you though.. It's a nice little thank you note. Thanks (Again) To Caterfree10 and Yami Mojobubbles (And Mojobubbles, even though they have changed their pen name to Tenshi Bakaru) For all of the support and encouragement they have shown throughout this fic. Also, thanks for Pruningshears for the detailitory idea for this chappie! And last but (Definitely not least) I thank myself for ALL of the main plot ideas. (Hint, Hint)
Also......Darn it, I had remembered, and now I forgot it AGAIN!!!!!! ... Uh.. Read the Fic, maybe I'll remember it by the end of the chappie...
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{Shells}
Shells, DVD, Mom, Jrj, and Dad (Whom I have been previously excluding from the story and am now informing you of them... sorry) all waited for hours before the doctor came out of the room again. When he did, they all stood quickly and looked at him expectantly. Upon seeing their faces, he sighed.
"Daricio is...just fine." He told them. The group immediately tried to push past him into the room. He stopped them with a raised hand. "What I meant was, there is absolutely no explanation for her to have fainted...or whatever happened to her. We just can't figure it out. It's a complete mystery. I'm sorry."
He started to turn away, and then told them, "If you want to visit her, which I'm sure you do, she has been taken to room 104 on floor 12." The group thanked him and started towards the elevator.
As Shells walked by, she heard the doctor mutter something. "Only one other case like this ever..." He said quietly, shaking his head.
Trying to figure out what he had meant, Shells followed her family to the elevator. She looked over at DVD. He had the same look of fear and confusion on his face that she felt. It was times like these that made her so sure that she had a link with her brothers and sister.
She shook her head. That was impossible. She tried to return her attention to the situation, but for some reason, that was all she could think about. Realizing this, she focused on remembering the reasons she had collected for them having one.
First of all, it was only with DVD, Shells, and Daricio... Jrj never seemed to be included much. They always seemed to know when something was going on with one another; when they were in need of help. Also, they almost always had a certain sense of what the others need.
She paused in her thoughts as the elevator stopped at the top. She continued her list as she followed everyone to Daricio's room.
They also were able to know what the others were feeling, and often felt the same way. She looked at DVD again and knew that this was happening now, but this probably wasn't because of any link. He looked at her.
"Thinking about that link again?" He asked her quietly.
Oh, and the fact that we can sometimes tell what each other are thinking. Shells nodded to DVD, then returned her attention to where they were walking. They had reached the door to Daricio's room, and they went inside.
Shells and DVD sat down in chairs near the window next to each other so that they could talk.
"I was thinking about the link you say we have too. Last night, we were worried about Daricio. Why? I don't remember so clearly anymore, so it must have just been.a feeling.or maybe it was the link." DVD said to Shells.
Shells nodded slowly. "So?" She asked.
"So, if we could feel THAT, maybe we could feel-" he started to tell her, but he was cut off by Jrj.
"Well... There's nothing really to do in here except stare at Daricio... And I really don't want to go to school thinking about this... So let's see what's on the T.V. in here!" He flipped on the television set in the room and turned down the volume a little so as not to disturb Mom and Dad who were sitting by the side of Daricio's bed.
He began surfing through channels. "Hmm..Hm.. Boring..Hm.. Ah, here we go!" He had turned it to a Yu-Gi-Oh rerun.
DVD and Shells glanced up at the screen and then told Jrj to turn it off. "Now's not the time for it."
Before he did turn it off, they caught a sight of which episode it was. It had been the one where Mokuba's soul had been trapped in a Duel Monster's card. Shells turned back towards DVD and was about to ask him to go on, when she suddenly thought of something.
She turned back towards the blank screen once again and stared at it. Then, slowly, she turned back towards the hospital bed. Mokuba...Unconscious... Soul-less... Daricio... Unconscious... Nah... She turned back towards DVD and asked him to continue with what he had been about to say, but he was also staring at the screen. He turned back to her.
"Strange... I have forgotten what it was I was saying..."
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{Daricio}
It was now 8:15, so of course Yugi was in school. While he was concentrating on work, though, Yami and Daricio had been exploring. After their first hour of exploring, they had decided to make a small map of the place as they went along.
"Ok, in room 2B, we have absolutely nothing. In room 2C we have a table with flowers on it. In room..." Daricio continued reading off her map to Yami.
"That sounds about right so far." Yami said. "Let's try in here, now"
Daricio gave him a faintly humored look.
"What?" He asked.
"You're having more fun with this than I am." She commented, giggling.
"So?" Yami asked, opening the door. He wasn't paying attention to what he was doing, however, so he barely got out of the way of a bunch of arrows flying towards him. "AHH!!" He dodged quickly and the arrows lodged themselves firmly into the wall behind them.
Daricio looked down at her map. "Strange. I though we looked in that one already." She looked around, then back at her map. "Um... Yami?"
"What?" He asked again, getting up off the ground, slightly annoyed that Daricio hadn't even tried to help him up.
She turned back to him. "Some parts of the puzzle just shifted. Almost all of the doors are in different locations. Does it do this often?"
Yami looked around and found that she was right. "I had never noticed it before, but I guess it could have happened before."
Daricio looked down at her map again. It had not shifted with the puzzle. She sighed and tossed it away. "Not even imagination powers solve this." She commented absently.
Yami sighed too. "Ok, who's going to tell Yugi?" he asked.
"Nobody has to. I know. This is bad. " Yugi commented, coming around a corner. "It's lunchtime, guys."
"Lunchtime?" Daricio looked up quickly. "Already? Man, my parents must be worried sick! Not to mention Shells and DVD! Maybe Jrj, too.."
Yugi and Yami led Daricio back to Yugi's soul room.
"Do you think I'll ever get back home?" She asked quietly.
The other two looked at each other. "We really don't know."
Daricio sighed and sat on Yugi's bed. Yami brought Yugi aside for a moment.
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{Yugi}
"Yugi? Isn't this Tuesday?" Yami asked.
"Yeah..." Yugi said.
"So... Isn't this the day your schedule gets all messed up?"
"Yeah... Oh, right...I have Math after lunch. Great." Yugi sighed. Suddenly, he looked up. Then he groaned. "And to come and add even more problems to my pile, here comes Bakura!"
Outside, he began looking around for a place to hide. Unfortunately, they were in an empty classroom, therefore, there was none. There were a few other people in the room, but not much.
He quickly sat down in one of the desks and pulled out a book, hoping that Bakura, who was in the halls, wouldn't see him. His wish did not come true, however, and soon Bakura came into the room.
"Yugi." He said softly, trying not to disturb the other students. Yugi looked up. What he saw greatly surprised him. It wasn't Evil Bakura, for one thing, it was normal Bakura. Even more amazing was that he didn't look mad.
"Uh..." Yugi tried to figure out what to say.
"Yugi, I'm sorry about yesterday. I really shouldn't have said all those things. I... Really don't know what came over me..." Bakura looked down at the floor.
"That's ok, Bakura." Yugi said. He also looked at the floor. "And I shouldn't have hit you."
"Still friends?" Bakura asked.
"Still friends." Yugi said, giving Bakura a grin.
"Come on, Yugi!" Tristan called from the door. "Come eat with us! Everyone was wondering where you were yesterday, and you never did tell me what's going on!"
Yugi followed Tristan to the table where Joey and Tea were already seated. Bakura came with him. They all sat down at the table and began to chat about stuff. Normal stuff. And for some reason, they never actually got around to telling Tristan what was going on.
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{Later: Yami}
Lunchtime was over. Yami could sense Yugi heading for Math. He sighed. Daricio looked over at him from where she was still sitting on the bed.
"What?" She asked.
"Math." Yami replied sadly. "It's time for Quadratic equations."
"Fun." Daricio said, grinning for the first time in a while. "I'm sure you will just love that."
Yami sat next to her on the bed. "Maybe you could help us with it." He suggested.
"Maybe... But I'd have to have paper and pencil. And not just this imaginary stuff in here. This stuff disappears if you're not concentrating on it enough, and I cannot concentrate on keeping my paper and pencil here, keeping whatever I write onto the paper on the paper, AND doing complex math problems all at the same time." Daricio paused.
"Although, I could just have Yugi write it down for me..." Then she grinned again. "Or, I could write it on his paper for him..."
"What do you mean?" Yami asked.
"I mean...well... you know how you can control Yugi's body? I think I can too... and so I could take over to write stuff down on the paper, and tell you why I'm writing stuff in here..." Daricio said.
Yugi had been listening to what they were saying as he walked, so he was in the soul room too. "Wait a minute." He said. "Whenever Yami takes over I sort of change... I mean, you already know how I get taller. And my hair sort of changes. And my voice changes to Yami's... So... What would I end up looking like if Daricio took over?"
They were all silent for a moment. Yami looked from one teen to the other, trying to imagine them combined. Somehow, he couldn't quite do it.
Yugi and Daricio were the same height, so there wouldn't be a change there. But.
Yugi and his spiky red, black and yellow hair. Daricio and her long, slightly curly, poofy, light brown hair.
There was also the small matter of: Would his clothes change to what Daricio was wearing like they sometimes did with Yami?
Somehow, the two's very unique appearances just did not mix.
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I have had that question in my head all week. What WOULD Yugi look like if Daricio took over? And would anyone in his class notice the sudden change?
As always, any ideas are appreciated!!!!!! (Not only for how Yugi would look, but for the actual story too.)
Also, for anyone who is actually taking the time to read through all these little notes and is wondering if I remember what I was going to tell you at the beginning of the chapter, No...Sorry...I still don't remember. * Shrugs* It'll come back to me!!! Maybe... Next chapter maybe..
But, hey! Even if I didn't remember that, I did think of something else in here that I don't have! Character Pronunciations and stuff! I'm going to just do a few that look like they might be confusing, but if you find more that you're not sure of, just tell me. (Character that you want me to pronounce must be in this story) Anyways:
Shells = Shells. Just like it sounds. Is actually short for Shells124. (See my Bio)
DVD = Dee Vee Dee. Like the letters. Is actually short for DVD185. (Again, See Bio)
Jrj = Jay Are Jay. Like the letters. It's actually supposed to be JRJ, but I is lazy. Is short for JRJathome. (Once again, See Bio)
"If there is any other confusion, tell me. I did not put this in because I thought you were to stupid to figure it out. (Although this may be the case for a select few) It is merely for your convenience. Thank You. This has been a recording."
That was my automatic De-Flaming thingy. Like it? Anyways, Gotta Go now! See Ya!
--Daricio