Hey all!!!
I'm here once again with yet another chappie!!!!!!!
Once again, I'm going to try to put more humor into the chappie, and less mystery and misery and such. Beware: I had a lot of sugar while I was writing this, and like I said, I'm trying really hard to put humor back into this by means other than picking on the charecters.
(Caution: If you are allergic to hilarious randomness, please exit the fic. Actually, don't. It would be humorous to watch that....*Imagines little purple and pink bumps appearing all over face* *Shudder* Or maybe not...)
Anywhos... Read the looooooooong chappie that I have created for you!!!!!!!!
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{Daricio}
"Daricio? Are you ok?" Yugi asked. Daricio had been sitting in front of her door for over an hour now, waiting to see if the connection would open again.
"Yeah. I'm fine. It's just... I wish I could have told them more...Asked them more... Seen if everyone was all right... Told them I was all right... Everything has gotten very confusing..." Daricio got up slowly and leaned against the door.
"I want to show you something." Yugi said with a smile. Daricio looked up at him.
"What?" She asked.
"Well, my grandpa's not going to be back for a while, cause he went to the store, and...Me and Grandpa have lots of Board games, and me and Yami were wondering if you wanted to play with us." Yugi said.
"How?" Daricio asked.
"That's why I mentioned that Grandpa was gone. See, all we have to do is switch when it's our turn. It would look really weird to anyone watching, though, because it would almost look like I was playing against myself..." Yugi told her.
Daricio imagined what that would look like to anyone watching and concluded that Yugi was right. It would look weird. Then she remembered something.
"But, Yugi... We still haven't figured out what would happen if I tried to switch..." she pointed out.
"Well, maybe because you're really not a spirit like Yami is, I wouldn't change at all... Or maybe I would. But, hey, like I said, there's nobody here, so if I end up looking really strange, nobody would notice! Right?" Yugi said.
"I guess you're right. it's worth a try. Besides, it's something to do besides just sitting here waiting." Daricio agreed.
She went over to the bed where Yami was already sitting. He hadn't noticed them walk up yet. He was humming the "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves" song while reading a book.
"Hey Yami, what game are we going to play?" Daricio asked, giggling slightly because she had gotten a song stuck in his head.
He looked up and put away his book. "I don't know. I thought Yugi was going to pick one out." Yami and Daricio turned to Yugi.
"Uh... I was going to let Daricio pick." Yugi said.
"I don't know what games you have" Daricio reminded him. They all sat down to think.
Suddenly Daricio grinned. "Have either of you ever played 'Egyptian War'?" She asked.
Yami looked up at the sound of the word Egyptian, but then he and Yugi both shook their heads no.
"Do you have a deck of normal playing cards?" Daricio asked.
"Uh... No." Yugi said. "The shop sold out yesterday."
"Hmm... I guess it would be kind of hard to play anyway... At least with how we would have to do it." Daricio said.
"How do you play?" Yami asked. He was very interested.
"It's fairly simple. The deck is divided up between all the players. Each person, on their turn, takes the top card and puts it on top of the last one played. If it's a number card, like a ten or a two, then nothing happens, and it's the next person's turn. If it's a face card, then something different happens. For a King, the next person plays down three cards from the top. if none of those is a face card, then the whole pile goes to the person who played the king. If they do get a face card, then the next person has to play down cards. If it's a Queen, then the person plays down two cards, and for a Jack, the next person plays down one. That's basicly it." Daricio explained to them.
"Oh." Yami said, sounding somewhat disappointed. "That's it?"
"That's it." Daricio replied with a smile.
"Oh. I guess we can't play that though, since we don't have any playing cards." Yami said. They all began thinking of games again.
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{Shells}
When Shells and her family got home, she and DVD went up to hers and Daricio's room. They went over and picked up Daricio's tins and inspected them carefully.
"USE them? Use the tins? Use them for what? We all have our own tins... Why would we need to use hers?"DVD wondered thoughtfully.
"I don't know. What time is it?" Shells asked.
"Uh... 9:30." DVD answered.
"Man, we have to go to bed. Mom will probably make us go to school tommorow. Good night." Shells said.
"Night." DVD went into his room. Shells turned back to the tins and picked up a Joey one.
//This isn't making sense. Use the tins... Use the tins... Why won't this make sense?// Shells sighed. She set the tin down on the ground and stared at it. She began running her fingers over the outlines of the pictures and lines idly, lost in thought.
Suddenly, the tin began to glow slightly. It got brighter and brighter. Shells jumped when she noticed. Then, the Red Eyes Black Dragon popped out!
Shells stared at the dragon. The dragon stared at her. After a second, it began to growl.
"What in the world?" Shells whispered. She reached towards the dragon and tapped it slightly on it's shoulder. She had apparently tapped too hard, because it fell over, flapping it's wings franticly to try and regain it's balance.
"Growr!" It cried. As quickly as it could, it got back to it's feet and glared at Shells. It opened it's mouth and it's Inferno Fire Blast attack grew bigger and bigger.
"Whoa!" She cried, realizing what was happening. She ducked and the blast flew over her head, crashing into a bookshelf behind her.
Shells turned to inspect the damage quickly before deciding that it wan't too bad and turning back to the Dragon. It growled at her again, obviously not pleased that it had missed its target. It flew off the tin and began circling the room, swooping this way and that and knocking things over here and there.
Shells quickly picked up the tin and stared at it, hopeing it would explain somewhere what had just happened. All she could find was a small inscription on the side that read, "Caution: FWC Pic. Tech."
"Wha? Whatever... How do I get this dragon out of my room? How did it get here in the first place? It better not wake anyone up!!!" Shells got up and began trying to catch the rampaging Red Eyes. It was very agile.
"Grrrroooow..." It growled loudly. It looked behind it to see Shells and calculate how to get away, but not being able to see where it was going, it flew right through another pile of books on Daricio's bed and smashed into the wall behind them.
Shells quickly grabbed it and began trying to force it into the tin. "Come on, you have to go in here until I figure out what to do with you." She wrestled with it some more.
The door creaked open, and Shells gasped, thrusting the Dragon away from her in confusion. Upon being released, it immedietly flew out the door, past a very confused DVD and into the hallway, where it promptly began trying to tear down all the pictures on the wall.
"What the? Shells what is THAT?" DVD asked, staring at the Red Eyes. Shells quickly pushed past him, grabbed the Dragon, and raced back into the room, pushing it into the closet and shutting the door.
"Um... That? ...I'm... Not sure..." She said, out of breath. "Maybe you could help me figure that out!"
DVD stared at the closet from which growling and tearing sounds could be heard. Their clothes were getting a very heavy beating. Shells heard a slight whirring sound, then a bright flash of light was seen from under the door, followed by the slight smell of burnt cloth.
Shells winced. "Where did it come from?" DVD asked her.
"The tin.... It was really weird.... I wasn't really doing anything, just rubbing it, then it started to glow, and that came out." She said, gesturing towards the closet, where more havoc was being done.
"Maybe that's what Daricio meant... Use the tins... Maybe she WANTED us to bring this thing here..." DVD suggested.
"Somehow, I don't think so... Maybe...I think that thing is a Red Eyes Black Dragon." She said, pointing to the Red Eyes picture in the background of the tin. "And If we can make THAT appear here using just a picture of it... Maybe..." She pointed at Joey's picture.
"We can make the other characters come here too! But first we need to figure out how... And how to get that Dragon back where it came from before it tears down the whole room..." DVD said.
From the closet, another Inferno Fire Blast was being fired, and stuff was getting just a little more than singed. DVD opened the closet door a crack and reached in to try and grab the Red Eyes again. It bit him on the finger, hard.
"Ow!" DVD pulled his hand back and put his injured finger in his mouth. "Nasty little bugger." He mumbled. The Red Eyes peeked its head out of the closet and looked around the room, looking for an escape route.
"Oh, no you don't." Shells muttered under her breath. She quickly lunged for the tiny, seven inch tall dragon. It saw her coming and retreated back into the closet. Shells shut the door again and sighed.
"Well, it's definetly not a hologram of the monster, like in the show." DVD commented, looking at the indents in his now injured finger with a frown.
"Definetly not. This is going to be a bit of a problem if we can't figure out how to get rid of this thing!!!"
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{Joey}
Lately Joey had been really worried about Yugi. First there was all this disappearing stuff, and him getting into that fight, and now it seemed like he was avoiding everyone.
After school, Joey had yelled to him to ask if he could come over after his sports practice, but Yugi had just continued down the street, staring downwards, humming something to himself.
He was obviously preoccupied with something. He decided to call and see what was up. He went over to the phone and dialed Yugi's number.
It rang several times, but nobody picked up. Joey was just about to hang up, when Yugi's grandpa answered.
"Hello, Turtle Game Shop, this is Soloman. Sorry it took so long to get to the phone, I just got back in. How may I help you?" Grandpa said cheerily.
"Heya Gramps, this is Joey. Is Yuge around?" Joey asked.
"Well, he had been awfully quiet today. He came up to his room the moment he got home. Didn't say a thing to anyone. Was whistling this very strange tune. I don't think he's feeling well, Joey." Grandpa said, concern showing in his voice. "But I can ask him if he wants to talk to you if you want."
"Ok, thanks." Joey said. He heard a clunk as the phone got set down, then faint thumping noises as Grandpa went up the stairs to Yugi's room.
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{Grandpa}
Grandpa pushed gently on the door, and it opened with a creak. He stepped halfway into the room. "Yugi, Joey's on the phone for you." He said with a concerned smile.
"Ok, Grandpa." Yugi said. His face was slightly red and he sounded out of breath, as if he had been running around his room. "I'll go talk to him now."
He got up from a table that had been set up in the center of the room, where a game of Mad Magazine was set up for some reason, and went down the stairs towards the phone.
Grandpa watched him go with another smile, then came into the room and examined the game. It was set up for three players, it seemed, although Yugi had been the only one there. At least he thought so.
Grandpa looked at the "different" players's amounts of money and things. The 'player' on the left had been winning, and the one in the center had been losing.
The one on the right had just drawn a card that said, "Run around the table with your eyes closed. If you can go all the way around without running into anything, lose $100. If not, gain $100."
(A/N In Mad Magazine, the point of the game is to lose, or "get rid of all your money." Very confusing game. Very fun, too.)
Grandpa chuckled. So Yugi HAD been running around the room.
It just kind of figured, that while Yugi's friends wanted him to go out and do more things, he found it more enjoyable to sit in his room playing games with himself. Grandpa shook his head and left the room, heading back down to the shop so he could clean up a bit.
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{Joey}
Joey waited for a few minutes until he heard the phone get picked up again.
"Hello?" Yugi said.
"Hey Yuge! What's up?" Joey asked.
"A lot.... I was just up stairs playing a game..." Yugi said, sounding distracted.
"Oh. Ya know, after school I had wanted to ask you if ya wanted me ta come over or something, but... ya didn't answer me..." Joey told him.
"Really? Oh sorry, Joey. I haven't been able to concentrate on anything very easily lately..." Yugi apoligized.
"Yeah, well, I know it's a little too late for anyone to be goin anywhere tonight, but do can I come over and hang out wichu tommorow?" Joey asked.
"It's late? What time is it?" Yugi asked.
'Uh.... 'bout 9:30 'cording to my watch." Joey said.
"Really? Um... Sure, you can come over tomorrow, Joey. I have a whole lot of stuff I really need to tell you." Yugi said, sounding like if he didn't tell someone, he would explode.
"All right Yuge. So I'll see ya tomorrow then. Bye!" Joey said.
"See ya." Yugi relpied. Then he hung up. Joey hung up too.
Now Joey knew that something was definetly up with Yugi. But now he was going to get some answers. He hoped. But for now, it was time to get some shut eye.
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{Yugi}
Yugi looked over at his grandpa who had finished sweeping the floor and was now headed for his room.
"Night Grandpa." He said as he headed up the stairs.
"Night Yugi. Don't forget to clean up that game in your room before you go to bed." Grandpa said.
"Alright..." Yugi went up the stairs and into his room.
//Darn... That means we won't be able to finish the game... And I was winning too... // Daricio complained. //I mean, losing... I mean...... I had the least money.... Yeah....//
//Oh well. I do need to go to bed, Daricio. I have school again tomorrow, even if it is Late Start Wednesday.// Yugi told her.
//Oh. Right. Forgot about that. Alright.// Daricio went over to her door and sat down next to it, leaning up against the wall. //I guess I should sleep too. Goodnight.//
//Good night Daricio. Night Yami.// Yugi yawned and went to bed, forgeting about his grandpa's reminder to put away the game.
//Good night.// Yami said, retreating into his soul room for the night.
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{Shells}
Shells sighed as she and DVD tried, once again, to get the Red Eyes from wrecking havoc on the closet. It wasn't working.
DVD opened the door and put the end of a broom inside. the Red Eyes grabbed ahold of it with it's sharp teeth, just as they thought it would. DVD yanked it out and Shells, with gloves on, grabbed hold of the elusive Dragon.
It roared again, then squirmed out of Shells' grasp. It flew for the room door, which had been left open.
"No!" DVD cried as he lunged for it. But he was too late. The dragon had gotten out and was now sailing down the stairs.
"Oh, no. I hope Dad decided not to stay up late watching TV down there!!!" Shells whispered to DVD. They both raced down the stairs after the pesky Dragon.
Fortunetly, nobody was down there and the lights were off. nobody could see a thing except when the Red Eyes fired off an Inferno Fire Blast.
DVD ran and turned on the lights, hoping that it wouldn't attract the attention of anyone sleeping upstairs. The Red Eyes flew downwards and landed on the Dining Room table.
"Growr!" It called to them. It began powering up another attack.
"No, wait! Don't attack! Wait, don't- too late." DVD sighed as a blast hit a cupboard. A bowl came flying out of it and landed at DVD's feet.
Suddenly shells got an idea. "DVD, fill that bowl up with something! Maybe if we can get that Dragon to eat something, it will stop tearing everything apart!"
DVD ran to a shelf and poured some cheerios into the bowl. Then he placed it on the table.
Curious as to what was in the bowl, the Red eyes walked over. It sniffed at the bowl and gave it a suspicious look before leaning over and, keeping a close watch on DVD and Shells, began eating.
Shells and DVD sighed. Then Shells looked at the tin that she had kept in her hands the whole time.
"DVD, if I made this thing appear by pressing some sort of button on here, then all I have to do to make it go away is to do the smae thing, right?" Shells thought aloud.
"It's worth a try." DVD said, sitting in a chair and leaning up against the table, still watching the dragon eat.
Shells placed the tin on the flat surface of the table and began tracing over all the lines again, searching for the switch. After a few minutes of searching, the tin began to glow again, and Shells realized what the switch had to be.
It was the square in the corner of the tin! The tin glowed brighter and brighter, but to their suprise, instead of the Red Eyes disappearing, something else appeared on the tin.
At first, Shells couldn't figure out what it was, because it was all wrapped up in a bunch of blankets, but when it rolled over slightly, she recognised it as being Joey!
"DVD, look!" Shells whispered. He looked up.
"Whoa.... Weird... Is that...?" DVD asked softly.
"It's Joey!" Shells whispered back excitedly. "Only.... Mini size!"
The figure on the tin rolled over again, this time rolling completely off the tin away from them.
"Oof!" They heard him mumble, still sleeping. "My pizza...."
"Yup, it's Joey all right..." Shells grinned.
"Hrm.... Huh?" Joey half woke up, pulling himself up so that he was mostly still leaning on the tin. "Hey... This isn't my room...."
He looked around him slightly. Then he spotted the Red Eyes.
"Whoa! What the...." Joey was completely awake now. he rubbed at his eyes for a second, then stared back at the red eyes. "Is there a duel goin' on here somewheres?"
"No. He's just having a really early breakfast." DVD said. Joey whirled towards him, looking around. Then he realized that it wasn't "around" that he had to look. It was up. Doing so, he finally noticed DVD and Shells watching him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Joey ran and hid behind the tin. "I must still be dreamin'!!!" They heard him mutter to himself. "Dragons eating breakfast and giant people? What's goin' on here?"
DVD looked at Shells. "I didn't mean to scare him...." DVD said, shocked.
Joey looked out from behind the tin, his eyes wide. "Scare me? Whaddya mean scare me? I'm not scared, and nothin' youse say can stop THAT!" He said, trying to look brave.
Shells giggled slightly. Joey hid behind the tin again. DVD was still staring.
The Red Eyes looked up from it's meal. "Growr?" It growled questionally. It walked over to the tin and began sniffing around it.
"Oh no... This is NOT going to help Joey not be scared of us." Shells whispered, trying not to let Joey hear.
"Whoa!" Joey lept out from behind the tin as the Red Eyes nudged him in the shoulder. "Ok, that does it. This has GOT to be a dream. I am JUST dreamin' ...... WAKE UP JOEY!!!!!!!!!!!"
Joey fell over as he ran across the tabletop, and the Red Eyes came over to him again.
"Growr?" It asked itself again. Joey rolled over onto his back and stared up at the dragon that was towering over him.
"This is NOT my day...." Joey said to himself, trying to scoot away. "Down Red Eyes.... Down!" To his suprise, it obeyed. It sat down on the tabletop and began watching him.
"Uh.... Good Dragon..." Joey said shakily.
Shells sudenly noticed that the tin had two squares, not one, and pressed the other one. The tin and the Dragon glowed for a moment, then the Red Eyes Black Dragon disappeared. Joey, Shells, and DVD let out a huge sigh of relief.
"Joey?" DVD asked after a few minutes of silence, looking over at him and realizing that he had started wandering around the tabletop.
Joey quickly turned towards DVD. "How da you know my name?" He demanded, stuffing something in his pocket.
"Well I... Sorta...." DVD stammered, not sure what to say.
"He just does." Shells answered for him. "You are famous, you know."
"Wha? Whaddya talkin about?" Joey asked, bewilderment on his face.
"Well, lets see, you got second place in duelist kingdom... That oughta count for something. That and you saved Yugi from a fire...Mostly, though, it's because you're Yugi's best friend." DVD said.
Joey just stared at him. Then he grinned. "So I'm famous, huh? How famous?"
"Um..... Well here, just look!" Shells pointed to the surface of the tin. Joey got up on top of it and looked at the picture.
"Hey, cool! It's me! Neat! And with my Red Eyes in the background!" Joey sounded impressed with himself all of a sudden. "I think I like this dream."
"Uh,.... Joey, can we ask you something?" DVD asked.
Joey turned back to him. "Sure, I guess... What?"
"Do you know anyone named Daricio?" DVD asked hopefully.
Joey gave him a strange look. "Nope. Why?"
"Um..... Never mind. I.... Uh..... Well, maybe you should go home now..... It's late...." DVD stammered.
Shells nodded and pressed the square on the tin. Joey disappeared.
DVD turned to her. "Shall we try the other tins?"
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{Joey}
Joey suddenly appeared back in his room standing on his bed. He immedietly hit his head on the low ceiling and sat down hard on the bed. He looked around, confused.
"That sure was some dream.......very strange..." Joey muttered to himself, shaking his head. He shrugged and lay down. "Maybe I'll tell Yugi about it when I go over there tomorrow..."
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Ok, I just realized just how long this chappie is and the fact that I haven't updated in a while, so you all were waiting for this one... Sorry... I just get so carried away when I have fun... Hehehehe......
Of course, to go along with the rest of the story, I not only put funnies in this chappie, I also slipped quite a few important details in. You won't be able to know what they are until you read more, but now you must wait until I finally decide to stop adding on to my next chappie and actually post it.
Hehehehe..... Lotsa fun being weird...... Anywhos, gotta go and start writing the NEXT chappie!!!!! Bye!
--Daricio
I'm here once again with yet another chappie!!!!!!!
Once again, I'm going to try to put more humor into the chappie, and less mystery and misery and such. Beware: I had a lot of sugar while I was writing this, and like I said, I'm trying really hard to put humor back into this by means other than picking on the charecters.
(Caution: If you are allergic to hilarious randomness, please exit the fic. Actually, don't. It would be humorous to watch that....*Imagines little purple and pink bumps appearing all over face* *Shudder* Or maybe not...)
Anywhos... Read the looooooooong chappie that I have created for you!!!!!!!!
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{Daricio}
"Daricio? Are you ok?" Yugi asked. Daricio had been sitting in front of her door for over an hour now, waiting to see if the connection would open again.
"Yeah. I'm fine. It's just... I wish I could have told them more...Asked them more... Seen if everyone was all right... Told them I was all right... Everything has gotten very confusing..." Daricio got up slowly and leaned against the door.
"I want to show you something." Yugi said with a smile. Daricio looked up at him.
"What?" She asked.
"Well, my grandpa's not going to be back for a while, cause he went to the store, and...Me and Grandpa have lots of Board games, and me and Yami were wondering if you wanted to play with us." Yugi said.
"How?" Daricio asked.
"That's why I mentioned that Grandpa was gone. See, all we have to do is switch when it's our turn. It would look really weird to anyone watching, though, because it would almost look like I was playing against myself..." Yugi told her.
Daricio imagined what that would look like to anyone watching and concluded that Yugi was right. It would look weird. Then she remembered something.
"But, Yugi... We still haven't figured out what would happen if I tried to switch..." she pointed out.
"Well, maybe because you're really not a spirit like Yami is, I wouldn't change at all... Or maybe I would. But, hey, like I said, there's nobody here, so if I end up looking really strange, nobody would notice! Right?" Yugi said.
"I guess you're right. it's worth a try. Besides, it's something to do besides just sitting here waiting." Daricio agreed.
She went over to the bed where Yami was already sitting. He hadn't noticed them walk up yet. He was humming the "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves" song while reading a book.
"Hey Yami, what game are we going to play?" Daricio asked, giggling slightly because she had gotten a song stuck in his head.
He looked up and put away his book. "I don't know. I thought Yugi was going to pick one out." Yami and Daricio turned to Yugi.
"Uh... I was going to let Daricio pick." Yugi said.
"I don't know what games you have" Daricio reminded him. They all sat down to think.
Suddenly Daricio grinned. "Have either of you ever played 'Egyptian War'?" She asked.
Yami looked up at the sound of the word Egyptian, but then he and Yugi both shook their heads no.
"Do you have a deck of normal playing cards?" Daricio asked.
"Uh... No." Yugi said. "The shop sold out yesterday."
"Hmm... I guess it would be kind of hard to play anyway... At least with how we would have to do it." Daricio said.
"How do you play?" Yami asked. He was very interested.
"It's fairly simple. The deck is divided up between all the players. Each person, on their turn, takes the top card and puts it on top of the last one played. If it's a number card, like a ten or a two, then nothing happens, and it's the next person's turn. If it's a face card, then something different happens. For a King, the next person plays down three cards from the top. if none of those is a face card, then the whole pile goes to the person who played the king. If they do get a face card, then the next person has to play down cards. If it's a Queen, then the person plays down two cards, and for a Jack, the next person plays down one. That's basicly it." Daricio explained to them.
"Oh." Yami said, sounding somewhat disappointed. "That's it?"
"That's it." Daricio replied with a smile.
"Oh. I guess we can't play that though, since we don't have any playing cards." Yami said. They all began thinking of games again.
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{Shells}
When Shells and her family got home, she and DVD went up to hers and Daricio's room. They went over and picked up Daricio's tins and inspected them carefully.
"USE them? Use the tins? Use them for what? We all have our own tins... Why would we need to use hers?"DVD wondered thoughtfully.
"I don't know. What time is it?" Shells asked.
"Uh... 9:30." DVD answered.
"Man, we have to go to bed. Mom will probably make us go to school tommorow. Good night." Shells said.
"Night." DVD went into his room. Shells turned back to the tins and picked up a Joey one.
//This isn't making sense. Use the tins... Use the tins... Why won't this make sense?// Shells sighed. She set the tin down on the ground and stared at it. She began running her fingers over the outlines of the pictures and lines idly, lost in thought.
Suddenly, the tin began to glow slightly. It got brighter and brighter. Shells jumped when she noticed. Then, the Red Eyes Black Dragon popped out!
Shells stared at the dragon. The dragon stared at her. After a second, it began to growl.
"What in the world?" Shells whispered. She reached towards the dragon and tapped it slightly on it's shoulder. She had apparently tapped too hard, because it fell over, flapping it's wings franticly to try and regain it's balance.
"Growr!" It cried. As quickly as it could, it got back to it's feet and glared at Shells. It opened it's mouth and it's Inferno Fire Blast attack grew bigger and bigger.
"Whoa!" She cried, realizing what was happening. She ducked and the blast flew over her head, crashing into a bookshelf behind her.
Shells turned to inspect the damage quickly before deciding that it wan't too bad and turning back to the Dragon. It growled at her again, obviously not pleased that it had missed its target. It flew off the tin and began circling the room, swooping this way and that and knocking things over here and there.
Shells quickly picked up the tin and stared at it, hopeing it would explain somewhere what had just happened. All she could find was a small inscription on the side that read, "Caution: FWC Pic. Tech."
"Wha? Whatever... How do I get this dragon out of my room? How did it get here in the first place? It better not wake anyone up!!!" Shells got up and began trying to catch the rampaging Red Eyes. It was very agile.
"Grrrroooow..." It growled loudly. It looked behind it to see Shells and calculate how to get away, but not being able to see where it was going, it flew right through another pile of books on Daricio's bed and smashed into the wall behind them.
Shells quickly grabbed it and began trying to force it into the tin. "Come on, you have to go in here until I figure out what to do with you." She wrestled with it some more.
The door creaked open, and Shells gasped, thrusting the Dragon away from her in confusion. Upon being released, it immedietly flew out the door, past a very confused DVD and into the hallway, where it promptly began trying to tear down all the pictures on the wall.
"What the? Shells what is THAT?" DVD asked, staring at the Red Eyes. Shells quickly pushed past him, grabbed the Dragon, and raced back into the room, pushing it into the closet and shutting the door.
"Um... That? ...I'm... Not sure..." She said, out of breath. "Maybe you could help me figure that out!"
DVD stared at the closet from which growling and tearing sounds could be heard. Their clothes were getting a very heavy beating. Shells heard a slight whirring sound, then a bright flash of light was seen from under the door, followed by the slight smell of burnt cloth.
Shells winced. "Where did it come from?" DVD asked her.
"The tin.... It was really weird.... I wasn't really doing anything, just rubbing it, then it started to glow, and that came out." She said, gesturing towards the closet, where more havoc was being done.
"Maybe that's what Daricio meant... Use the tins... Maybe she WANTED us to bring this thing here..." DVD suggested.
"Somehow, I don't think so... Maybe...I think that thing is a Red Eyes Black Dragon." She said, pointing to the Red Eyes picture in the background of the tin. "And If we can make THAT appear here using just a picture of it... Maybe..." She pointed at Joey's picture.
"We can make the other characters come here too! But first we need to figure out how... And how to get that Dragon back where it came from before it tears down the whole room..." DVD said.
From the closet, another Inferno Fire Blast was being fired, and stuff was getting just a little more than singed. DVD opened the closet door a crack and reached in to try and grab the Red Eyes again. It bit him on the finger, hard.
"Ow!" DVD pulled his hand back and put his injured finger in his mouth. "Nasty little bugger." He mumbled. The Red Eyes peeked its head out of the closet and looked around the room, looking for an escape route.
"Oh, no you don't." Shells muttered under her breath. She quickly lunged for the tiny, seven inch tall dragon. It saw her coming and retreated back into the closet. Shells shut the door again and sighed.
"Well, it's definetly not a hologram of the monster, like in the show." DVD commented, looking at the indents in his now injured finger with a frown.
"Definetly not. This is going to be a bit of a problem if we can't figure out how to get rid of this thing!!!"
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{Joey}
Lately Joey had been really worried about Yugi. First there was all this disappearing stuff, and him getting into that fight, and now it seemed like he was avoiding everyone.
After school, Joey had yelled to him to ask if he could come over after his sports practice, but Yugi had just continued down the street, staring downwards, humming something to himself.
He was obviously preoccupied with something. He decided to call and see what was up. He went over to the phone and dialed Yugi's number.
It rang several times, but nobody picked up. Joey was just about to hang up, when Yugi's grandpa answered.
"Hello, Turtle Game Shop, this is Soloman. Sorry it took so long to get to the phone, I just got back in. How may I help you?" Grandpa said cheerily.
"Heya Gramps, this is Joey. Is Yuge around?" Joey asked.
"Well, he had been awfully quiet today. He came up to his room the moment he got home. Didn't say a thing to anyone. Was whistling this very strange tune. I don't think he's feeling well, Joey." Grandpa said, concern showing in his voice. "But I can ask him if he wants to talk to you if you want."
"Ok, thanks." Joey said. He heard a clunk as the phone got set down, then faint thumping noises as Grandpa went up the stairs to Yugi's room.
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{Grandpa}
Grandpa pushed gently on the door, and it opened with a creak. He stepped halfway into the room. "Yugi, Joey's on the phone for you." He said with a concerned smile.
"Ok, Grandpa." Yugi said. His face was slightly red and he sounded out of breath, as if he had been running around his room. "I'll go talk to him now."
He got up from a table that had been set up in the center of the room, where a game of Mad Magazine was set up for some reason, and went down the stairs towards the phone.
Grandpa watched him go with another smile, then came into the room and examined the game. It was set up for three players, it seemed, although Yugi had been the only one there. At least he thought so.
Grandpa looked at the "different" players's amounts of money and things. The 'player' on the left had been winning, and the one in the center had been losing.
The one on the right had just drawn a card that said, "Run around the table with your eyes closed. If you can go all the way around without running into anything, lose $100. If not, gain $100."
(A/N In Mad Magazine, the point of the game is to lose, or "get rid of all your money." Very confusing game. Very fun, too.)
Grandpa chuckled. So Yugi HAD been running around the room.
It just kind of figured, that while Yugi's friends wanted him to go out and do more things, he found it more enjoyable to sit in his room playing games with himself. Grandpa shook his head and left the room, heading back down to the shop so he could clean up a bit.
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{Joey}
Joey waited for a few minutes until he heard the phone get picked up again.
"Hello?" Yugi said.
"Hey Yuge! What's up?" Joey asked.
"A lot.... I was just up stairs playing a game..." Yugi said, sounding distracted.
"Oh. Ya know, after school I had wanted to ask you if ya wanted me ta come over or something, but... ya didn't answer me..." Joey told him.
"Really? Oh sorry, Joey. I haven't been able to concentrate on anything very easily lately..." Yugi apoligized.
"Yeah, well, I know it's a little too late for anyone to be goin anywhere tonight, but do can I come over and hang out wichu tommorow?" Joey asked.
"It's late? What time is it?" Yugi asked.
'Uh.... 'bout 9:30 'cording to my watch." Joey said.
"Really? Um... Sure, you can come over tomorrow, Joey. I have a whole lot of stuff I really need to tell you." Yugi said, sounding like if he didn't tell someone, he would explode.
"All right Yuge. So I'll see ya tomorrow then. Bye!" Joey said.
"See ya." Yugi relpied. Then he hung up. Joey hung up too.
Now Joey knew that something was definetly up with Yugi. But now he was going to get some answers. He hoped. But for now, it was time to get some shut eye.
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{Yugi}
Yugi looked over at his grandpa who had finished sweeping the floor and was now headed for his room.
"Night Grandpa." He said as he headed up the stairs.
"Night Yugi. Don't forget to clean up that game in your room before you go to bed." Grandpa said.
"Alright..." Yugi went up the stairs and into his room.
//Darn... That means we won't be able to finish the game... And I was winning too... // Daricio complained. //I mean, losing... I mean...... I had the least money.... Yeah....//
//Oh well. I do need to go to bed, Daricio. I have school again tomorrow, even if it is Late Start Wednesday.// Yugi told her.
//Oh. Right. Forgot about that. Alright.// Daricio went over to her door and sat down next to it, leaning up against the wall. //I guess I should sleep too. Goodnight.//
//Good night Daricio. Night Yami.// Yugi yawned and went to bed, forgeting about his grandpa's reminder to put away the game.
//Good night.// Yami said, retreating into his soul room for the night.
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{Shells}
Shells sighed as she and DVD tried, once again, to get the Red Eyes from wrecking havoc on the closet. It wasn't working.
DVD opened the door and put the end of a broom inside. the Red Eyes grabbed ahold of it with it's sharp teeth, just as they thought it would. DVD yanked it out and Shells, with gloves on, grabbed hold of the elusive Dragon.
It roared again, then squirmed out of Shells' grasp. It flew for the room door, which had been left open.
"No!" DVD cried as he lunged for it. But he was too late. The dragon had gotten out and was now sailing down the stairs.
"Oh, no. I hope Dad decided not to stay up late watching TV down there!!!" Shells whispered to DVD. They both raced down the stairs after the pesky Dragon.
Fortunetly, nobody was down there and the lights were off. nobody could see a thing except when the Red Eyes fired off an Inferno Fire Blast.
DVD ran and turned on the lights, hoping that it wouldn't attract the attention of anyone sleeping upstairs. The Red Eyes flew downwards and landed on the Dining Room table.
"Growr!" It called to them. It began powering up another attack.
"No, wait! Don't attack! Wait, don't- too late." DVD sighed as a blast hit a cupboard. A bowl came flying out of it and landed at DVD's feet.
Suddenly shells got an idea. "DVD, fill that bowl up with something! Maybe if we can get that Dragon to eat something, it will stop tearing everything apart!"
DVD ran to a shelf and poured some cheerios into the bowl. Then he placed it on the table.
Curious as to what was in the bowl, the Red eyes walked over. It sniffed at the bowl and gave it a suspicious look before leaning over and, keeping a close watch on DVD and Shells, began eating.
Shells and DVD sighed. Then Shells looked at the tin that she had kept in her hands the whole time.
"DVD, if I made this thing appear by pressing some sort of button on here, then all I have to do to make it go away is to do the smae thing, right?" Shells thought aloud.
"It's worth a try." DVD said, sitting in a chair and leaning up against the table, still watching the dragon eat.
Shells placed the tin on the flat surface of the table and began tracing over all the lines again, searching for the switch. After a few minutes of searching, the tin began to glow again, and Shells realized what the switch had to be.
It was the square in the corner of the tin! The tin glowed brighter and brighter, but to their suprise, instead of the Red Eyes disappearing, something else appeared on the tin.
At first, Shells couldn't figure out what it was, because it was all wrapped up in a bunch of blankets, but when it rolled over slightly, she recognised it as being Joey!
"DVD, look!" Shells whispered. He looked up.
"Whoa.... Weird... Is that...?" DVD asked softly.
"It's Joey!" Shells whispered back excitedly. "Only.... Mini size!"
The figure on the tin rolled over again, this time rolling completely off the tin away from them.
"Oof!" They heard him mumble, still sleeping. "My pizza...."
"Yup, it's Joey all right..." Shells grinned.
"Hrm.... Huh?" Joey half woke up, pulling himself up so that he was mostly still leaning on the tin. "Hey... This isn't my room...."
He looked around him slightly. Then he spotted the Red Eyes.
"Whoa! What the...." Joey was completely awake now. he rubbed at his eyes for a second, then stared back at the red eyes. "Is there a duel goin' on here somewheres?"
"No. He's just having a really early breakfast." DVD said. Joey whirled towards him, looking around. Then he realized that it wasn't "around" that he had to look. It was up. Doing so, he finally noticed DVD and Shells watching him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Joey ran and hid behind the tin. "I must still be dreamin'!!!" They heard him mutter to himself. "Dragons eating breakfast and giant people? What's goin' on here?"
DVD looked at Shells. "I didn't mean to scare him...." DVD said, shocked.
Joey looked out from behind the tin, his eyes wide. "Scare me? Whaddya mean scare me? I'm not scared, and nothin' youse say can stop THAT!" He said, trying to look brave.
Shells giggled slightly. Joey hid behind the tin again. DVD was still staring.
The Red Eyes looked up from it's meal. "Growr?" It growled questionally. It walked over to the tin and began sniffing around it.
"Oh no... This is NOT going to help Joey not be scared of us." Shells whispered, trying not to let Joey hear.
"Whoa!" Joey lept out from behind the tin as the Red Eyes nudged him in the shoulder. "Ok, that does it. This has GOT to be a dream. I am JUST dreamin' ...... WAKE UP JOEY!!!!!!!!!!!"
Joey fell over as he ran across the tabletop, and the Red Eyes came over to him again.
"Growr?" It asked itself again. Joey rolled over onto his back and stared up at the dragon that was towering over him.
"This is NOT my day...." Joey said to himself, trying to scoot away. "Down Red Eyes.... Down!" To his suprise, it obeyed. It sat down on the tabletop and began watching him.
"Uh.... Good Dragon..." Joey said shakily.
Shells sudenly noticed that the tin had two squares, not one, and pressed the other one. The tin and the Dragon glowed for a moment, then the Red Eyes Black Dragon disappeared. Joey, Shells, and DVD let out a huge sigh of relief.
"Joey?" DVD asked after a few minutes of silence, looking over at him and realizing that he had started wandering around the tabletop.
Joey quickly turned towards DVD. "How da you know my name?" He demanded, stuffing something in his pocket.
"Well I... Sorta...." DVD stammered, not sure what to say.
"He just does." Shells answered for him. "You are famous, you know."
"Wha? Whaddya talkin about?" Joey asked, bewilderment on his face.
"Well, lets see, you got second place in duelist kingdom... That oughta count for something. That and you saved Yugi from a fire...Mostly, though, it's because you're Yugi's best friend." DVD said.
Joey just stared at him. Then he grinned. "So I'm famous, huh? How famous?"
"Um..... Well here, just look!" Shells pointed to the surface of the tin. Joey got up on top of it and looked at the picture.
"Hey, cool! It's me! Neat! And with my Red Eyes in the background!" Joey sounded impressed with himself all of a sudden. "I think I like this dream."
"Uh,.... Joey, can we ask you something?" DVD asked.
Joey turned back to him. "Sure, I guess... What?"
"Do you know anyone named Daricio?" DVD asked hopefully.
Joey gave him a strange look. "Nope. Why?"
"Um..... Never mind. I.... Uh..... Well, maybe you should go home now..... It's late...." DVD stammered.
Shells nodded and pressed the square on the tin. Joey disappeared.
DVD turned to her. "Shall we try the other tins?"
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{Joey}
Joey suddenly appeared back in his room standing on his bed. He immedietly hit his head on the low ceiling and sat down hard on the bed. He looked around, confused.
"That sure was some dream.......very strange..." Joey muttered to himself, shaking his head. He shrugged and lay down. "Maybe I'll tell Yugi about it when I go over there tomorrow..."
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Ok, I just realized just how long this chappie is and the fact that I haven't updated in a while, so you all were waiting for this one... Sorry... I just get so carried away when I have fun... Hehehehe......
Of course, to go along with the rest of the story, I not only put funnies in this chappie, I also slipped quite a few important details in. You won't be able to know what they are until you read more, but now you must wait until I finally decide to stop adding on to my next chappie and actually post it.
Hehehehe..... Lotsa fun being weird...... Anywhos, gotta go and start writing the NEXT chappie!!!!! Bye!
--Daricio