Hey again all!
I hope you really liked my last chappie.... Cause you HAD to have had fun reading it over and over and over while waiting forever for this one to get out!!!
Sorry that this HAS taken so long to get out... I do have a life beyond FF.N, right? Actually no, I don't, but my school teachers seem to think I do, and so had schedualed Finals week for the semester to begin the week RIGHT after I began writing this chappie.... So, in other words, I've been kinda busy lately... : P By the time Iwas finally able to finish the chappie and get it posted, it had taken me over 5 days to do it! So sorry for all those peoples who have been waiting for this!
Just in case any of you were wondering.... Yes, I was sugar high while I wrote that last chappie.... But I promise things will not get too random in this chappie... *Looks over at disapointed looks from readers* um... Ok, fine... Randomness!!!! (Just with a little more storyline this time.)
And if anyone noticed, yes Tea was VERY OOC in that last chappie... Sorry....
If any of you were wondering what in the world the "Contest" I was talking about at the end of last chappie meant and were too lazy to read through my little brother's whole fic to find it, all it is, is that my brother seems to think his fic is better than mine. His proof? He has more reviews than me even though I have... 19 chappies? Oh, wait, 20 now... and he has, like, 12 or 13... I keep telling him, insanity fics always get more reviews than normal ones, but will he listen to me? Nooo... So we're having a contest. Whoever gets the most reviews, has the better story. (He's winning by one review at this moment of time that I am writing this. It's 49 to 48... So please review on this chappie!!!)
Ok, not that any of you were really interested in knowing that... You all just want me to shut up and get on with my fic... So, to the delight of viewers, (I mean "readers") all across the Yu-Gi-Oh portion of the fanfiction site, We now interupt the fictions to bring you... *Drumroll* "Where's Yugi?"!!!(Yes, I know, I know, the title doesn't match the story anymore.... Oh well!)
On with the fic!
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{Shells}
They reached the hospital. They finally reached the hospital. After a long and grueling drive, they finally reached the hospital. Ok, maybe that's an over exageration, but it was a very long boring ride. Shells would have jumped for joy, but she knew that her Mom would think she was on a sugar high. They all went up to Daricio's room and placed themselves in the chairs surrounding the bed.
Shells and DVD looked at each other. Even without using the mind link communication, they both had the same thought.
//Not in here. Outside in the gardens.//
Shells waited for a while, staring at Daricio, then got up and went over to Mom. "Can me and DVD go out to the little garden in the front of the hospital?" She asked.
Mom looked up. "Sure." She said softly, her voice barely more than a whisper.
Shells and DVD went out the door and stood at the elevator. As they waited for it to come, Shells stared down the hall towards Bakura's room. The elevator arrived, and she had to stop the wanderings of her mind. They went down the elevator and into the garden.
They looked around quickly for a hidden spot. Finally they found a bench that was mostly surrounded by bushes. They sat down on it and Shells pulled out all of the tins. She began putting them all into two piles. The "Already done" ones, and the "Need to do" ones.
In the "Already done" pile were: Joey, and Tristan. In the "Need to do" pile were: Mokuba, Seto, Tea, Mai, and Bakura.
DVD pulled down the tin on the top of the pile, the Mokuba tin. He looked over at Shells.
//Ready?// He asked, biting his lower lip nervously.
//As ready as I'm going to be.// She answered. She reached out and pressed the square. Mokuba popped out.
He looked around nervously for a moment, then called out. "Hello?" He, being the little explorer that he was, immedietly began walking around looking at everything. "Hello?"
"Uh, Hi Mokuba." DVD said. Mokuba looked up. Waaaay up.
"Wha!" Mokuba gasped when he spotted them.
Shells tried to put on a smile that she thought wouldn't scare him. "Hi." she said.
"Who... Who are you?" He demanded loudly.
Shells quickly looked around to see if anyone had noticed them and turned back to Mokuba. "Not so loud, ok?" She whispered.
Mokuba looked at her strangely. "Why not? Are you in trouble or something?"
"No!" DVD said. "Of course not!"
"Oh, yes you are. I can tell." Mokuba said with a smirk.
"Oh yeah? How?" DVD asked, frowning.
"Cause that's how Joey always sounds when he gets into trouble with Big Brother. And guess what? When I get back home, guess who else is going to be in trouble with Big Brother!!!" Mokuba said, sitting down indian style on the edge of the tin and crossing his arms, still glaring up at them.
"We're not in trouble, Ok? Especially not with Seto!" DVD said, sounding a little upset that someone that was, at the moment, only three inches tall, was insulting him.
Mokuba gave them a funny look. "How do you know mine and Big Brother's names?" He asked suspiciously.
"Well, it's kind of hard NOT to know who Seto Kaiba and his little brother are." DVD said.
Mokuba nodded. "I guess you're right. Now. I have a few questions for you. First off, Where am I?"
Shells and DVD looked at each other again. Then Shells spoke. "Uh, Mokuba, I'm not sure you'd know where it was even if we told you..."
Mokuba looked slightly hurt. "Are you saying I don't study hard enough?! I'll have you know, that geography is my favorite subject! As long as you don't name, like, small cities, I'd know where it was."
DVD and Shells still didn't know what to say.
"Uh.... Then would you know where the United States of America are?" DVD asked.
Mokuba gave him a funny look. "Duh. What do you think I am, stupid or something? Are you guys nuts?"
"Someimes I wonder..." DVD muttered under his breath.
//The Yu-Gi-Oh world must be an almost exact replica of our own world! The countries probably have the same names, but the individual cities don't.// Shells told DVD.
//That sounds right.// DVD said. //But then, where do we tell them that we live?//
//I don't know... Maybe if we say-// Shells was cut off suddenly by Mokuba.
"Why do you keep staring at each other every time I say something?" Mokuba demanded. Suddenly he grinned. "Do you LIKE each other?"
"He's my brother, Mokuba." Shells said, giving him a strange look.
"Oh." Mokuba sounded disappointed. "I thought... cuz Seto is always looking at this one girl in his Math class, and he likes her... Oops, I almost told Seto's big secret...."
"Never mind, Mokuba." Shells said. "Uh, the reason you are here, is because we wanted to ask you something..."
Mokuba shifted on the tin into a different sitting position. "What?" He said, trying to sound like Seto.
"Do you know anyone named Daricio?" Shells asked.
Mokuba thought for a moment. "Why?" He asked, not answering the question.
"Because..." Shells hesitated. Without turning to DVD, she contacted him.
//Should I tell him? I don't think he'll answer the question if we don't.// Shells said.
//Uh... Sure, I guess... It won't hurt any.// DVD replied.
"Well, you see, Daricio is our sister. We... we can't find her, and the only clue she left as to her whereabouts were that..." Shells stopped to try to explain, then thought of something that would make sense to him more than 'the Yu-Gi-Oh characters.' " That either Yugi, Seto, you, Mai, Tristan, Joey, or Tea would know anything about where she went." She finished.
Mokuba looked thoughtful. He didn't say anything for a while, then he shook his head. "Sorry, I don't know her... or what might have happened to her."
"Oh... Um... Thanks anyways.... Uh..." Shells was very disapointed. She had thought for SURE that he had known something.
Mokuba got up from the tin and stood up as straight as he could. "So, I answered your question, now you answer mine!"
"Uh.... Are you sure you don't want to ask a different question?" DVD asked.
Mokuba shook his head hard. "Answer!"
Shells sighed. "I think that, wherever you are right now, it would still be best for you to go home now." She informed him, reaching for the square.
"What are you doing? Why won't you answer my question?" Mokuba demanded.
Shells' finger hovered over the button. "Uh... Because we really don't know how to tell you... And it's time for you to go. We have to ask other people now. Bye, Mokuba."
"Wait! If I don't get to have that question answered, then I-" His indignant shout was abruptly cut off as Shells hit the square and he disappeared.
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{Very short interlude: Seto Kaiba}
Seto Kaiba was still fast asleep at his computer console, which was flashing a message. "You Have Mail." Seto didn't see it of course, as he was asleep. Nor would he have cared about it even if he was awake. It's not good to check and answer messages when you're supposed to not be there.
The message flashed again. And again. And again. Waiting for someone to aknowledge that it was there. Waiting... Waiting...Waiting.........waiting..................waiting...............wai ting.........
Seto Kaiba's AI on his computer automatically switched itself on after twenty minutes of the message's arrival.
"Hello? Hello? Earth to Seto Kaiba!!!" Came the sassy voice. Seto opened his eyes halfway and turned his head just enough to be able to look up towards the screen at the message. His mind was groggy from lack of sleep and too much work in one night, and he was still not sure of where he was.
The AI, now slightly annoyed at his lack of response, opened a small animation clip. "Hey Kaiba! Hey Kaiba! Hey Kaiba!!!!!" The dancing bunnies that were now all over his screen sang.
"What!?" He yelled, pushing himself off of his desk and standing up quickly..
"You have Mail, Kaiba!" The AI siad, shutting off the clip. " Aren't you going to read it? Or are you hiding again?" His AI's voice asked, refering to the time Kaiba had needed to sneak into the underground lab after almost being captured by Pegasus's goons.
"It would be much appreciated," Kaiba yawned. "If you would not talk about that or play that clip anymore. Erase it. And no, I am not going to read the mail. Save it in my inbox for me."
"Right away, sir!" The AI chirped. A moment passed before it added, "Except the erasing of the clip."
Kaiba growled softly and began looking over the screen. There was something missing. He could feel it. He gave the screen one final glance, then realized what it must have been. He double checked with his AI.
"Was I working on something last night?" He asked.
"Oh, yes. You were doing a BIG report of the company's profits. Kinda silly, though, as you had already done that five months ago. Also kinda silly that you decided to exit it without saving it." The AI said with a hint of sarcasm, knowing that Seto hadn't meant to do that.
Kaiba swallowed hard. "Without saving." He repeated. He stared at the screen again. "That means..."
"All gone, Seto. You erased it all. It no longer exists in the hard drive." It paused for a second. "You'll have to do it AAALLL over again."
Kaiba groaned. It had taken him most of the night to do up just half of the report!
"I'm going to kill you..." He muttered to the AI as he opened the software, pulled up KaibaCorp's records and began redoing it all from scratch.
"I love you too, Kaiba." The AI replied.
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{Shells}
//Ok, which tin should we do next?// Shells mentally asked DVD.
//Just the next one on the pile! Seto Kaiba!// DVD replied, pulling it down.
//Maybe we don't need to do that one. I mean, we did just do Mokuba. If Mokuba doesn't know her, what makes you think Seto will?// Shells said.
DVD gave her a strange look. //Well, we have to make sure... What if he DOES know something?//
Shells sighed. "You're right." She said softly aloud. //Let's go!//
DVD grinned at her and pressed the square on the tin. Seto appeared and fell over, as Tristan had done. He had also been sitting in a chair.
Seto stared at the space directly ahead of him for a second, as if confused that whatever he had been looking at had disappeared. Then he quickly looked arund, just as everyone else they had brought over had done and spoke just two sentances. "Oh, no. Not here again...."
Shells looked quickly at DVD who grinned. "You've been here before?" He asked exitedly.
Kaiba looked up at him and got to his feet. He glared at DVD and Shells. "Why do you want to know?" He demanded.
//It's amazing just how much Mokuba acts like him.// Shells said to DVD, recalling Mokuba's reaction. He wasn't paying attention to her observations.
//I think that with Seto, there's not going to be much beating around the bush. We should just tell him, straight out what's happening and what we wanted to ask him.// He said.
//Oh. Good idea.// Shells said.
"Seto, we really need to ask you something. It's really important." She told him. He looked up at her suspiciously, just as Mokuba had done.
He sat down on the tin with a thoughtful expression on his face. He was in the exact same position Mokuba had shifted himself into when he was told that they were going to ask him a question.
Shells shook her head as her previous observation came back to her. She smiled.
"What?" Kaiba asked. "What's your question, and how important is it? Answer the second question first."
"Uh... It's VERY important." DVD said.
Kaiba raised an eyebrow and frowned. "Ok. What is it?"
Shells told him the same thing she told Mokuba about their sister being lost. "So we need to know if you know our sister or not, or where she is."
Kaiba narrowed his eyes. "And who is she?"
"Her name is Daricio." DVD said.
Kaiba winced at the name. "Somehow, I just knew it. Only siblings of Daricio could be as annoying as her."
DVD grinned. "So you know her?"
Kaiba got up from where he was sitting and began pacing the tin. "Yes, but that doesn't mean I know where she is." He said, his feet making a clanging sound every time they hit the tin.
Shells' and DVD's smiles faded. "You don't know..." DVD said softly.
Kaiba stopped his pacing and stood staring at the picture on the tin. "Although...I might be able to help..." He started. Then he shook his head and glared up at DVD.
"Why would I want to help the siblings of the person that started this whole mess?" He demanded.
DVD and Shells looked at each other, confused. "Mess? What's going on, Kaiba?" Shells asked.
Seto directed his glare on her. "Oh, nothing much." He said sarcasticly. "Only that... Oh, never mind. It'll take too long. The point is, why should I help you? I have better things to do!" He began pacing the tin again. "Such as working on that report.... And checking up with Mokuba... and.." His voice trailed off.
//That's a good question. why should he help us?// Shells asked solemly.
//Well, we can blackmail him....... Sorta...// DVD said, a ghost of a grin apparent on his face.
//Blackmail? What do you mean?// Shells said, confused.
//All we have to do is....either we show him that we have the means to take Mokuba from him.... No, that would be too mean... So instead, we can just tell him that if he doesn't tell us... Then we'll...// He told her of his plan. Slowly, a grin appeared on her face, matching the one on his. It didn't take Kaiba long to notice that something was up, so he interupted them.
"Ok, two questions. One, what are you two planning? You're both grinning like idiots!" He said. Then he added softly, "Which isn't a bad description..." Then he went on with what he was saying. "Two, How in the world am I supposed to get home?"
Shells chose to ignore his first question. "Home?" She asked, countering with her own question. She checked her watch. "Shouldn't you be in school?"
Kaiba glared at her. "No." He said simply.
Shells grinned. "Why not? Everyone else is in school...."
"Mokuba's not." Seto said.
"He doen't count. You probably made him not go to school today." Shells countered.
"Yeah!" DVD said, getting himself into the argument.
Seto glared at them both. "No I didn't. We were busy."
"I bet you were not! You kept him home!" DVD said.
"No I didn't!" Seto growled. DVD was pressing on his nerves.
"Yes you did!" DVD said, grinning widely.
"I. Did. Not." Seto sat down on the edge of the tin again while he talked, glaring at DVD the whole time.
"Did too!" DVD said.
"Did not." Seto growled again.
"Did so!"
"Did not."
"Did so!"
"Did not."
"Did so!"
"I. Did. Not!" Seto said slowly, his eyes flashing. He brought his fist down hard on the tin beside him. It just HAPPENED to land on one of the two squares. It glowed brightly.
Seto gasped and jumped off. It was just in time, too, for about one second later, a huge Blue Eyes White Dragon appeared. (Huge to Seto, that is.)
The Blue Eyes looked quickly around then spotted Seto. Seto narrowed his eyes at it. He pulled his deck out of his pocket slowly and began looking through it. He could only find two of his three Blue Eyes White Dragon cards.
He ran forward and slapped his fist down on the square again and the huge dragon disappeared. Seto went through his deck again, and was relieved, yet confused, to find all three of the cards.
He turned to DVD. DVD grinned at him. "Did too."
Seto glared at him for a moment before he spoke. "Shut up."
DVD did shut up, but continued grinning.
Shells sighed. "Just when you think you've seen it all, your brother gets Seto Kaiba to participate in a childish argument about stupid things..." she said softly. This resulted in both DVD and Seto turning to glare at her.
"What?" She asked innocently.
"We're not deaf, you know." Seto said harshly.
"I know." Shells said simply. "Listen, we are way off topic here. We really need to know anything we can about Daricio."
Seto glared at her some more. "So, you bring me here, you ask a bunch of questions, you insult me, you set one of me own Blue Eyes White Dragons against me, and now you want me to help you. Again I ask, why should I?"
//Time for that blackmailing DVD...// Shells said.
//Ok.// DVD said, grinning.
"I have a really good reason for you to tell us anything you know about Daricio." He told Seto.
Seto narrowed his already narrow eyes at him. "Like what?" He challenged.
"Like... If you don't, I'll tell Mai that you really really really really like her." DVD said. Seto's eyes widened, and his mouth fell open.
"I do not!" Seto shouted.
"I know. And you know. But does SHE know? Oh, how the rumors would spread, though...." DVD grinned evily. "Like wild fire...Seto and MAI.. Sitting in a tree!"
Seto was staring in shock. "You can't do that!" He said. He sat down heavily on the edge of the tin.
"I can, and I will." DVD said.
"You... Wouldn't... Dare." Seto said slowly.
"Yes... I... Would." DVD said just as slowly. "Unless you tell us EVERYTHING you know about Daricio and where she might be."
Seto's glare returned. "Fine. When Daricio brought me over, as far as I know, the only other person she brought over was... Yugi" Seto said, spitting out the name like it was something vile. Of course he always did that whenever he had to mention the names of Yugi or his friends, so that wasn't much of a surprise.
"Thank you." Shells said.
"Can I go home now?" Seto asked, crossing his arms. "Or are you not done torturing me?"
"You can go. Bye." Shells said.
"How?" Seto growled.
Shells reached forward and pressed the square that sent him home. Then she turned to DVD.
//Ok, now what?// She asked.
//Duh. We bring Yugi over.// DVD said.
//I know THAT, I meant should we bring him over now, or later? I mean, he IS still in school, even if Kaiba and Mokuba weren't.// Shells said.
//Oh. I think we should just do it right now. We don't know how long we're going to be able to stay here, because if we stay here too long, someone will find us. So if we don't do it now, we might not be able to until we get home.// DVD said.
//Right. Ok, let's do it then!// Shells said.
DVD reached into Shells' backpack and began rummaging around. After a few moments, he stopped and stared into it. He pulled every single tin out of the bag.
//Shells, we have a problem.// He said.
//What?// Shells asked.
//The Yugi tin isn't here! We must have left it back at the house!// DVD said.
//Ok, so what do we do instead?// Shells asked.
//Um... Let's go inside and warm up. It's frozen out here!// DVD said, shivering.
//It's not that cold.// Shells said. //But yeah, let's go inside.//
They gathered up all the tins and put them back into the backpack. Then they headed inside the hospital.
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{Yugi ( Took me long enough to get to him, huh?)}
Strangely, with Yugi spending the day completely tense and ready to be transported off to somewhere else all of a sudden, the rest of the school day went by quickly and before he knew it, the school bell had rung and he was out the door and on his way home.
//Something's wrong.// Daricio said to herself.
//Oh, yeah. Tell me about it.// Yugi said back. //This is stressful.//
//No, that's not what I mean. Something's wrong with Shells and DVD. Even if they went through every other tin I have, it shouldn't have taken them this long to get to the Yugi tin.// Daricio said.
//Oh. Well, it can't be that bad.// Yugi said. //I mean, if they could figure out how to even transport people over in the first place in that amount of time, they can do lots of stuff... hey, where's Joey, Tristan, and Tea? They're not here! Where are they? Yami!!//
A few moments went by before Yami replied, for he had been sleeping. //What?//
//Do you know if Joey and Tristan had sports practice today?// Yugi asked.
//I don't think they did. Why would Joey ask to come over the the game shop if he had sports practice to go to?// Yami reasoned.
//Then where could they be?// Yugi sounded worried.
//Hey, Joey will be coming over soon, and knowing Tristan, he will want to tell you what's going on, so he probably will too.// Yami said.
//Right. Oh man, I've got to get home! I forgot to do my chores yesterday, so I have to get those done, plus we still need to clean up that game from last night!// Yugi started running for the shop.
//Hey, Yami?// Yugi heard Daricio ask Yami as he ran.
//Yes?//Yami replied to her.
//I was wondering, you know how, uh.... whenever you go outside of Yugi and you turn slightly see through?// Daricio asked, trying to figure out how to word her question.
//You mean when I take a temporary physical form?// Yami asked.
//Yeah. Is that what that's called?// Daricio asked.
//Yes. What about it?// Yami asked.
//Well, when you go into your, uh, temporary physical form, can you still pick things up?// Daricio asked.
//Yes, I can still pick things up. I think I know where you're going with this, Daricio. You want to help Yugi with his chores, right?// Yami said.
//Right. Can you teach me how to go into that temporary physical form?// Daricio asked.
Yugi grinned as he ran. Today, doing his jobs was going to be fun. Yami began his "physical form" lessons with Daricio.
//It's a fairly simple process. I even taught Yugi how to do it!//
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{Shells}
After spending several hours inside, she and DVD were about to go out again, when Mom decided it was time to go home.
"Why?" Shells asked.
"Because, I asked Suzie to bring over your guy's homework and I'm sure you have lots of it. the moment we get home, you can start working on it." Mom said.
So, with several groans, they all piled into the car again to have an hour long drive back home.
Shells pulled off her backpack and threw it onto the seat next to her, then she sat down. She realized that DVD would have to sit next to her, so she pushed it off the seat and onto the floor and scooted into the seat it had occupied to let DVD sit in the one she had been occupying.
The car started, they all put their seatbelts on, and they drove away.
//Ok, the moment we get home, come up to my room.// Shells told DVD.
//So that we can do our homework together. I know, I know.// DVD sighed.
//Well, that's what we'll tell Mom. But really...// She gestured slightly to the backpack on the floor of the car.
//Right.// DVD said. No sooner had he said that, then the car did suddenly take a really wide right turn. Everyone was pressed towards the left side of the car and loose items slid left.
//Uh... Who's up for left?// DVD said. Shells laughed. After a while, silence fell upon the inhabitors of the car. The only thing breaking the silence was the dueling music coming from Jrj's Gameboy Advance. And another small sound.
Shells and DVD noticed it at the same time.
//What is that? I can't really hear it... It's too soft.// DVD said. They both strained to hear it and figure out what it was coming from. Nobody else seemed to have noticed.
The sound got a little louder, but not much. It seemed to be words.... Someone saying something very softly. So softly, that Shells and DVD couldn't quite hear what exactly was being said, or by whom.
The sound got even louder. DVD looked up at Jrj. He still hadn't noticed, as his attention was on the game. Mom and Dad hadn't noticed either.
The sound didn't get any louder after that. In fact, if anything, it got quieter. After a while, it was gone completely.
//What was that? Where was it coming from?// Shells asked.
//It sounded like it was coming from the floor.// DVD said, confused.
//Yeah... Weird...// Shells said. She picked the backpack up off the floor so they could look around. As soon as she did so, the noise started up again, though this time even louder. Shells and DVD could make out the individual words.
"Hey, whoa! What? Argh! Get off of me!" One voice, a girl's, said.
"I'm not on you! You're on me!" Another voice, a boy, said.
"No, you both are on me!" Yet another boy's voice said.
"Get off!" The girl yelled.
"I would if I could, but I can't! There's no room!!! and HE'S still on me!" The first boy said.
"I am not! Get off!" The other voice said. Shells realized what must have happened.
//Oh, no! That big right turn must have hit some of the squares!// She reached to open the backpack to hit the squares on the tins and send them all back again.
Suddenly a roaring sound overpowered all of their voices.
"AAAAh!!!!" The girl, Tea, screamed.
"Red Eyes!" The first boy, Joey yelled.
"Get out of the way!" Tristan yelled.
"I can't! Tea, move!"
"There's no room!"
"Get out of the way!"
"AAAAH!!!"
A whirring sound was heard, then a sidepocket of the backpack had a hole blown in the side of it and the inferno fire blast that created the hole hit DVD in the leg.
"Wha!" DVD yelped.
"What's going on back there?" Mom asked.
"Playing a game.. Just a game... it's nothing." DVD said, clenching his teeth together and holding his leg with both hands.
"Be more quiet please." Mom said.
"Ok..." Shells said, opening the backpack and pulling out as many tins as she could get her hands on, being careful not to hit anyone.
"Whoh! What the?"
"Light!" Tristan said. "over here!"
Shells saw the three poke their heads out from behind a tin. the Red Eyes was still glaring around, threatening to blast everyone away.
"Haven't you been enough trouble?" Shells asked the Red Eyes in a small voice, She grabbed the Joey tin and hit the Red Eyes's square. It disappeared. Tea, Tristan and Joey stared at where it had been standing.
Shells pressed the other square, and Joey disappeared.
"Joey? wha?" Tea said.
"What did you do with Joey?" Tristan demanded.
"Shh.. Quiet, or I'm going to get in trouble." Shells whispered. She grabbed the Tea tin and pressed the square on it.
Tristan looked around him quickly. "Tea?" He realized that she too had gone. Shells grabbed the Tristan tin and was about to hit the button, when DVD motioned to her that she should probably exlain what had happened to Tristan. She shook her head.
//I'll explain to them later, ther's no time now! Mom's going to hear!// She said. She pressed the square, and Tristan disappeared with a small yelp of surprise.
Shells let out a small sigh of relief. //Next time, we have to be more careful about what we let happen to these tins.// she said. She began putting them into the backpack carefully. Then she set the backpack on the seat next to her so it wouldn't get jostled.
//That was close.// DVD said.
//You bet it was...// Shells replied with a sigh.
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Ok, Must end chappie... Too long now... Took too long to write it... Stupid Finals.... very frusterating.... and annoying... and..... stressful.... *shudders* : P
So, I hope you enjoyed this chappie! Lotsa fun! Being really mean to Kaiba! Which reminds me.... I guess I can't end the chappie yet, for I must do a nice little End of Chappie interlude! read on!:
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{End of Chappie Interlude: Seto Kaiba}
It was a good thing Seto had sat down before he got transported back, or he would have ended up standing on the chair in his computer lab when he got brought back. He shook his head, and looked up at the screen. His work was still sitting there, waiting for him to get it done.
"So that's how...." he said to himself, answering the question that he had just asked moments before.
He began working on the report once again. After about five seconds, he was interupted by his AI.
"What just happened Seto? Where did you go? Are you testing out another invention?" It asked quickly.
"Be quiet." Seto said. "I really need to concentrate on this."
"But... What just happened?" The AI asked, being very persistant, just as it had been programmed to do.
"Nothing of your concern. Shut down for now." He told the AI.
"Are you sure? If you shut down now, you may lose precious data..." The AI informed him, just as it did every time he asked it to shut itself down.
"Just do it and quit putting it off." Seto snapped.
"How would you feel if someone told YOU to shut yourself off?" The AI replied.
"Not now. I'm busy." Kaiba grumbled.
"Fine. Shutting down. Shutting down.......All systems.... shutting down..." The AI said.
Kaiba whipped his head up. "No, not ALL systems, just the AI! JUST THE A-" But he was too late. The whole screen went black and Seto lost the information and work that he had JUST been putting in for the last hour.
Seto groaned and began pounding one fist lightly and rhythmetically on the desk, the other hand holding his head.
"Does that AI hate me or something?" He asked himself softly, booting up the computer again. A message popped up: "You lost data when the last time you shut down, because you did not shut down correctly."
"I know." He growled at the screen. "That's obvious."
He waited impatiently for the computer to finish booting; it always took a long time to boot when he didn't shut it down the right way because of all the tests it ran itself through.
Along with the normal booting up of the screen, came the unfortunate rebooting of his AI.
"Hello, Seto! Did you miss me?" The AI's sassy voice said cheerfully.
"I really am going to kill you one of these days." Seto growled.
"I know. And I still love you too." The AI replied.
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Ok, bye! ^_^
--Daricio
I hope you really liked my last chappie.... Cause you HAD to have had fun reading it over and over and over while waiting forever for this one to get out!!!
Sorry that this HAS taken so long to get out... I do have a life beyond FF.N, right? Actually no, I don't, but my school teachers seem to think I do, and so had schedualed Finals week for the semester to begin the week RIGHT after I began writing this chappie.... So, in other words, I've been kinda busy lately... : P By the time Iwas finally able to finish the chappie and get it posted, it had taken me over 5 days to do it! So sorry for all those peoples who have been waiting for this!
Just in case any of you were wondering.... Yes, I was sugar high while I wrote that last chappie.... But I promise things will not get too random in this chappie... *Looks over at disapointed looks from readers* um... Ok, fine... Randomness!!!! (Just with a little more storyline this time.)
And if anyone noticed, yes Tea was VERY OOC in that last chappie... Sorry....
If any of you were wondering what in the world the "Contest" I was talking about at the end of last chappie meant and were too lazy to read through my little brother's whole fic to find it, all it is, is that my brother seems to think his fic is better than mine. His proof? He has more reviews than me even though I have... 19 chappies? Oh, wait, 20 now... and he has, like, 12 or 13... I keep telling him, insanity fics always get more reviews than normal ones, but will he listen to me? Nooo... So we're having a contest. Whoever gets the most reviews, has the better story. (He's winning by one review at this moment of time that I am writing this. It's 49 to 48... So please review on this chappie!!!)
Ok, not that any of you were really interested in knowing that... You all just want me to shut up and get on with my fic... So, to the delight of viewers, (I mean "readers") all across the Yu-Gi-Oh portion of the fanfiction site, We now interupt the fictions to bring you... *Drumroll* "Where's Yugi?"!!!(Yes, I know, I know, the title doesn't match the story anymore.... Oh well!)
On with the fic!
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{Shells}
They reached the hospital. They finally reached the hospital. After a long and grueling drive, they finally reached the hospital. Ok, maybe that's an over exageration, but it was a very long boring ride. Shells would have jumped for joy, but she knew that her Mom would think she was on a sugar high. They all went up to Daricio's room and placed themselves in the chairs surrounding the bed.
Shells and DVD looked at each other. Even without using the mind link communication, they both had the same thought.
//Not in here. Outside in the gardens.//
Shells waited for a while, staring at Daricio, then got up and went over to Mom. "Can me and DVD go out to the little garden in the front of the hospital?" She asked.
Mom looked up. "Sure." She said softly, her voice barely more than a whisper.
Shells and DVD went out the door and stood at the elevator. As they waited for it to come, Shells stared down the hall towards Bakura's room. The elevator arrived, and she had to stop the wanderings of her mind. They went down the elevator and into the garden.
They looked around quickly for a hidden spot. Finally they found a bench that was mostly surrounded by bushes. They sat down on it and Shells pulled out all of the tins. She began putting them all into two piles. The "Already done" ones, and the "Need to do" ones.
In the "Already done" pile were: Joey, and Tristan. In the "Need to do" pile were: Mokuba, Seto, Tea, Mai, and Bakura.
DVD pulled down the tin on the top of the pile, the Mokuba tin. He looked over at Shells.
//Ready?// He asked, biting his lower lip nervously.
//As ready as I'm going to be.// She answered. She reached out and pressed the square. Mokuba popped out.
He looked around nervously for a moment, then called out. "Hello?" He, being the little explorer that he was, immedietly began walking around looking at everything. "Hello?"
"Uh, Hi Mokuba." DVD said. Mokuba looked up. Waaaay up.
"Wha!" Mokuba gasped when he spotted them.
Shells tried to put on a smile that she thought wouldn't scare him. "Hi." she said.
"Who... Who are you?" He demanded loudly.
Shells quickly looked around to see if anyone had noticed them and turned back to Mokuba. "Not so loud, ok?" She whispered.
Mokuba looked at her strangely. "Why not? Are you in trouble or something?"
"No!" DVD said. "Of course not!"
"Oh, yes you are. I can tell." Mokuba said with a smirk.
"Oh yeah? How?" DVD asked, frowning.
"Cause that's how Joey always sounds when he gets into trouble with Big Brother. And guess what? When I get back home, guess who else is going to be in trouble with Big Brother!!!" Mokuba said, sitting down indian style on the edge of the tin and crossing his arms, still glaring up at them.
"We're not in trouble, Ok? Especially not with Seto!" DVD said, sounding a little upset that someone that was, at the moment, only three inches tall, was insulting him.
Mokuba gave them a funny look. "How do you know mine and Big Brother's names?" He asked suspiciously.
"Well, it's kind of hard NOT to know who Seto Kaiba and his little brother are." DVD said.
Mokuba nodded. "I guess you're right. Now. I have a few questions for you. First off, Where am I?"
Shells and DVD looked at each other again. Then Shells spoke. "Uh, Mokuba, I'm not sure you'd know where it was even if we told you..."
Mokuba looked slightly hurt. "Are you saying I don't study hard enough?! I'll have you know, that geography is my favorite subject! As long as you don't name, like, small cities, I'd know where it was."
DVD and Shells still didn't know what to say.
"Uh.... Then would you know where the United States of America are?" DVD asked.
Mokuba gave him a funny look. "Duh. What do you think I am, stupid or something? Are you guys nuts?"
"Someimes I wonder..." DVD muttered under his breath.
//The Yu-Gi-Oh world must be an almost exact replica of our own world! The countries probably have the same names, but the individual cities don't.// Shells told DVD.
//That sounds right.// DVD said. //But then, where do we tell them that we live?//
//I don't know... Maybe if we say-// Shells was cut off suddenly by Mokuba.
"Why do you keep staring at each other every time I say something?" Mokuba demanded. Suddenly he grinned. "Do you LIKE each other?"
"He's my brother, Mokuba." Shells said, giving him a strange look.
"Oh." Mokuba sounded disappointed. "I thought... cuz Seto is always looking at this one girl in his Math class, and he likes her... Oops, I almost told Seto's big secret...."
"Never mind, Mokuba." Shells said. "Uh, the reason you are here, is because we wanted to ask you something..."
Mokuba shifted on the tin into a different sitting position. "What?" He said, trying to sound like Seto.
"Do you know anyone named Daricio?" Shells asked.
Mokuba thought for a moment. "Why?" He asked, not answering the question.
"Because..." Shells hesitated. Without turning to DVD, she contacted him.
//Should I tell him? I don't think he'll answer the question if we don't.// Shells said.
//Uh... Sure, I guess... It won't hurt any.// DVD replied.
"Well, you see, Daricio is our sister. We... we can't find her, and the only clue she left as to her whereabouts were that..." Shells stopped to try to explain, then thought of something that would make sense to him more than 'the Yu-Gi-Oh characters.' " That either Yugi, Seto, you, Mai, Tristan, Joey, or Tea would know anything about where she went." She finished.
Mokuba looked thoughtful. He didn't say anything for a while, then he shook his head. "Sorry, I don't know her... or what might have happened to her."
"Oh... Um... Thanks anyways.... Uh..." Shells was very disapointed. She had thought for SURE that he had known something.
Mokuba got up from the tin and stood up as straight as he could. "So, I answered your question, now you answer mine!"
"Uh.... Are you sure you don't want to ask a different question?" DVD asked.
Mokuba shook his head hard. "Answer!"
Shells sighed. "I think that, wherever you are right now, it would still be best for you to go home now." She informed him, reaching for the square.
"What are you doing? Why won't you answer my question?" Mokuba demanded.
Shells' finger hovered over the button. "Uh... Because we really don't know how to tell you... And it's time for you to go. We have to ask other people now. Bye, Mokuba."
"Wait! If I don't get to have that question answered, then I-" His indignant shout was abruptly cut off as Shells hit the square and he disappeared.
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{Very short interlude: Seto Kaiba}
Seto Kaiba was still fast asleep at his computer console, which was flashing a message. "You Have Mail." Seto didn't see it of course, as he was asleep. Nor would he have cared about it even if he was awake. It's not good to check and answer messages when you're supposed to not be there.
The message flashed again. And again. And again. Waiting for someone to aknowledge that it was there. Waiting... Waiting...Waiting.........waiting..................waiting...............wai ting.........
Seto Kaiba's AI on his computer automatically switched itself on after twenty minutes of the message's arrival.
"Hello? Hello? Earth to Seto Kaiba!!!" Came the sassy voice. Seto opened his eyes halfway and turned his head just enough to be able to look up towards the screen at the message. His mind was groggy from lack of sleep and too much work in one night, and he was still not sure of where he was.
The AI, now slightly annoyed at his lack of response, opened a small animation clip. "Hey Kaiba! Hey Kaiba! Hey Kaiba!!!!!" The dancing bunnies that were now all over his screen sang.
"What!?" He yelled, pushing himself off of his desk and standing up quickly..
"You have Mail, Kaiba!" The AI siad, shutting off the clip. " Aren't you going to read it? Or are you hiding again?" His AI's voice asked, refering to the time Kaiba had needed to sneak into the underground lab after almost being captured by Pegasus's goons.
"It would be much appreciated," Kaiba yawned. "If you would not talk about that or play that clip anymore. Erase it. And no, I am not going to read the mail. Save it in my inbox for me."
"Right away, sir!" The AI chirped. A moment passed before it added, "Except the erasing of the clip."
Kaiba growled softly and began looking over the screen. There was something missing. He could feel it. He gave the screen one final glance, then realized what it must have been. He double checked with his AI.
"Was I working on something last night?" He asked.
"Oh, yes. You were doing a BIG report of the company's profits. Kinda silly, though, as you had already done that five months ago. Also kinda silly that you decided to exit it without saving it." The AI said with a hint of sarcasm, knowing that Seto hadn't meant to do that.
Kaiba swallowed hard. "Without saving." He repeated. He stared at the screen again. "That means..."
"All gone, Seto. You erased it all. It no longer exists in the hard drive." It paused for a second. "You'll have to do it AAALLL over again."
Kaiba groaned. It had taken him most of the night to do up just half of the report!
"I'm going to kill you..." He muttered to the AI as he opened the software, pulled up KaibaCorp's records and began redoing it all from scratch.
"I love you too, Kaiba." The AI replied.
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{Shells}
//Ok, which tin should we do next?// Shells mentally asked DVD.
//Just the next one on the pile! Seto Kaiba!// DVD replied, pulling it down.
//Maybe we don't need to do that one. I mean, we did just do Mokuba. If Mokuba doesn't know her, what makes you think Seto will?// Shells said.
DVD gave her a strange look. //Well, we have to make sure... What if he DOES know something?//
Shells sighed. "You're right." She said softly aloud. //Let's go!//
DVD grinned at her and pressed the square on the tin. Seto appeared and fell over, as Tristan had done. He had also been sitting in a chair.
Seto stared at the space directly ahead of him for a second, as if confused that whatever he had been looking at had disappeared. Then he quickly looked arund, just as everyone else they had brought over had done and spoke just two sentances. "Oh, no. Not here again...."
Shells looked quickly at DVD who grinned. "You've been here before?" He asked exitedly.
Kaiba looked up at him and got to his feet. He glared at DVD and Shells. "Why do you want to know?" He demanded.
//It's amazing just how much Mokuba acts like him.// Shells said to DVD, recalling Mokuba's reaction. He wasn't paying attention to her observations.
//I think that with Seto, there's not going to be much beating around the bush. We should just tell him, straight out what's happening and what we wanted to ask him.// He said.
//Oh. Good idea.// Shells said.
"Seto, we really need to ask you something. It's really important." She told him. He looked up at her suspiciously, just as Mokuba had done.
He sat down on the tin with a thoughtful expression on his face. He was in the exact same position Mokuba had shifted himself into when he was told that they were going to ask him a question.
Shells shook her head as her previous observation came back to her. She smiled.
"What?" Kaiba asked. "What's your question, and how important is it? Answer the second question first."
"Uh... It's VERY important." DVD said.
Kaiba raised an eyebrow and frowned. "Ok. What is it?"
Shells told him the same thing she told Mokuba about their sister being lost. "So we need to know if you know our sister or not, or where she is."
Kaiba narrowed his eyes. "And who is she?"
"Her name is Daricio." DVD said.
Kaiba winced at the name. "Somehow, I just knew it. Only siblings of Daricio could be as annoying as her."
DVD grinned. "So you know her?"
Kaiba got up from where he was sitting and began pacing the tin. "Yes, but that doesn't mean I know where she is." He said, his feet making a clanging sound every time they hit the tin.
Shells' and DVD's smiles faded. "You don't know..." DVD said softly.
Kaiba stopped his pacing and stood staring at the picture on the tin. "Although...I might be able to help..." He started. Then he shook his head and glared up at DVD.
"Why would I want to help the siblings of the person that started this whole mess?" He demanded.
DVD and Shells looked at each other, confused. "Mess? What's going on, Kaiba?" Shells asked.
Seto directed his glare on her. "Oh, nothing much." He said sarcasticly. "Only that... Oh, never mind. It'll take too long. The point is, why should I help you? I have better things to do!" He began pacing the tin again. "Such as working on that report.... And checking up with Mokuba... and.." His voice trailed off.
//That's a good question. why should he help us?// Shells asked solemly.
//Well, we can blackmail him....... Sorta...// DVD said, a ghost of a grin apparent on his face.
//Blackmail? What do you mean?// Shells said, confused.
//All we have to do is....either we show him that we have the means to take Mokuba from him.... No, that would be too mean... So instead, we can just tell him that if he doesn't tell us... Then we'll...// He told her of his plan. Slowly, a grin appeared on her face, matching the one on his. It didn't take Kaiba long to notice that something was up, so he interupted them.
"Ok, two questions. One, what are you two planning? You're both grinning like idiots!" He said. Then he added softly, "Which isn't a bad description..." Then he went on with what he was saying. "Two, How in the world am I supposed to get home?"
Shells chose to ignore his first question. "Home?" She asked, countering with her own question. She checked her watch. "Shouldn't you be in school?"
Kaiba glared at her. "No." He said simply.
Shells grinned. "Why not? Everyone else is in school...."
"Mokuba's not." Seto said.
"He doen't count. You probably made him not go to school today." Shells countered.
"Yeah!" DVD said, getting himself into the argument.
Seto glared at them both. "No I didn't. We were busy."
"I bet you were not! You kept him home!" DVD said.
"No I didn't!" Seto growled. DVD was pressing on his nerves.
"Yes you did!" DVD said, grinning widely.
"I. Did. Not." Seto sat down on the edge of the tin again while he talked, glaring at DVD the whole time.
"Did too!" DVD said.
"Did not." Seto growled again.
"Did so!"
"Did not."
"Did so!"
"Did not."
"Did so!"
"I. Did. Not!" Seto said slowly, his eyes flashing. He brought his fist down hard on the tin beside him. It just HAPPENED to land on one of the two squares. It glowed brightly.
Seto gasped and jumped off. It was just in time, too, for about one second later, a huge Blue Eyes White Dragon appeared. (Huge to Seto, that is.)
The Blue Eyes looked quickly around then spotted Seto. Seto narrowed his eyes at it. He pulled his deck out of his pocket slowly and began looking through it. He could only find two of his three Blue Eyes White Dragon cards.
He ran forward and slapped his fist down on the square again and the huge dragon disappeared. Seto went through his deck again, and was relieved, yet confused, to find all three of the cards.
He turned to DVD. DVD grinned at him. "Did too."
Seto glared at him for a moment before he spoke. "Shut up."
DVD did shut up, but continued grinning.
Shells sighed. "Just when you think you've seen it all, your brother gets Seto Kaiba to participate in a childish argument about stupid things..." she said softly. This resulted in both DVD and Seto turning to glare at her.
"What?" She asked innocently.
"We're not deaf, you know." Seto said harshly.
"I know." Shells said simply. "Listen, we are way off topic here. We really need to know anything we can about Daricio."
Seto glared at her some more. "So, you bring me here, you ask a bunch of questions, you insult me, you set one of me own Blue Eyes White Dragons against me, and now you want me to help you. Again I ask, why should I?"
//Time for that blackmailing DVD...// Shells said.
//Ok.// DVD said, grinning.
"I have a really good reason for you to tell us anything you know about Daricio." He told Seto.
Seto narrowed his already narrow eyes at him. "Like what?" He challenged.
"Like... If you don't, I'll tell Mai that you really really really really like her." DVD said. Seto's eyes widened, and his mouth fell open.
"I do not!" Seto shouted.
"I know. And you know. But does SHE know? Oh, how the rumors would spread, though...." DVD grinned evily. "Like wild fire...Seto and MAI.. Sitting in a tree!"
Seto was staring in shock. "You can't do that!" He said. He sat down heavily on the edge of the tin.
"I can, and I will." DVD said.
"You... Wouldn't... Dare." Seto said slowly.
"Yes... I... Would." DVD said just as slowly. "Unless you tell us EVERYTHING you know about Daricio and where she might be."
Seto's glare returned. "Fine. When Daricio brought me over, as far as I know, the only other person she brought over was... Yugi" Seto said, spitting out the name like it was something vile. Of course he always did that whenever he had to mention the names of Yugi or his friends, so that wasn't much of a surprise.
"Thank you." Shells said.
"Can I go home now?" Seto asked, crossing his arms. "Or are you not done torturing me?"
"You can go. Bye." Shells said.
"How?" Seto growled.
Shells reached forward and pressed the square that sent him home. Then she turned to DVD.
//Ok, now what?// She asked.
//Duh. We bring Yugi over.// DVD said.
//I know THAT, I meant should we bring him over now, or later? I mean, he IS still in school, even if Kaiba and Mokuba weren't.// Shells said.
//Oh. I think we should just do it right now. We don't know how long we're going to be able to stay here, because if we stay here too long, someone will find us. So if we don't do it now, we might not be able to until we get home.// DVD said.
//Right. Ok, let's do it then!// Shells said.
DVD reached into Shells' backpack and began rummaging around. After a few moments, he stopped and stared into it. He pulled every single tin out of the bag.
//Shells, we have a problem.// He said.
//What?// Shells asked.
//The Yugi tin isn't here! We must have left it back at the house!// DVD said.
//Ok, so what do we do instead?// Shells asked.
//Um... Let's go inside and warm up. It's frozen out here!// DVD said, shivering.
//It's not that cold.// Shells said. //But yeah, let's go inside.//
They gathered up all the tins and put them back into the backpack. Then they headed inside the hospital.
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{Yugi ( Took me long enough to get to him, huh?)}
Strangely, with Yugi spending the day completely tense and ready to be transported off to somewhere else all of a sudden, the rest of the school day went by quickly and before he knew it, the school bell had rung and he was out the door and on his way home.
//Something's wrong.// Daricio said to herself.
//Oh, yeah. Tell me about it.// Yugi said back. //This is stressful.//
//No, that's not what I mean. Something's wrong with Shells and DVD. Even if they went through every other tin I have, it shouldn't have taken them this long to get to the Yugi tin.// Daricio said.
//Oh. Well, it can't be that bad.// Yugi said. //I mean, if they could figure out how to even transport people over in the first place in that amount of time, they can do lots of stuff... hey, where's Joey, Tristan, and Tea? They're not here! Where are they? Yami!!//
A few moments went by before Yami replied, for he had been sleeping. //What?//
//Do you know if Joey and Tristan had sports practice today?// Yugi asked.
//I don't think they did. Why would Joey ask to come over the the game shop if he had sports practice to go to?// Yami reasoned.
//Then where could they be?// Yugi sounded worried.
//Hey, Joey will be coming over soon, and knowing Tristan, he will want to tell you what's going on, so he probably will too.// Yami said.
//Right. Oh man, I've got to get home! I forgot to do my chores yesterday, so I have to get those done, plus we still need to clean up that game from last night!// Yugi started running for the shop.
//Hey, Yami?// Yugi heard Daricio ask Yami as he ran.
//Yes?//Yami replied to her.
//I was wondering, you know how, uh.... whenever you go outside of Yugi and you turn slightly see through?// Daricio asked, trying to figure out how to word her question.
//You mean when I take a temporary physical form?// Yami asked.
//Yeah. Is that what that's called?// Daricio asked.
//Yes. What about it?// Yami asked.
//Well, when you go into your, uh, temporary physical form, can you still pick things up?// Daricio asked.
//Yes, I can still pick things up. I think I know where you're going with this, Daricio. You want to help Yugi with his chores, right?// Yami said.
//Right. Can you teach me how to go into that temporary physical form?// Daricio asked.
Yugi grinned as he ran. Today, doing his jobs was going to be fun. Yami began his "physical form" lessons with Daricio.
//It's a fairly simple process. I even taught Yugi how to do it!//
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{Shells}
After spending several hours inside, she and DVD were about to go out again, when Mom decided it was time to go home.
"Why?" Shells asked.
"Because, I asked Suzie to bring over your guy's homework and I'm sure you have lots of it. the moment we get home, you can start working on it." Mom said.
So, with several groans, they all piled into the car again to have an hour long drive back home.
Shells pulled off her backpack and threw it onto the seat next to her, then she sat down. She realized that DVD would have to sit next to her, so she pushed it off the seat and onto the floor and scooted into the seat it had occupied to let DVD sit in the one she had been occupying.
The car started, they all put their seatbelts on, and they drove away.
//Ok, the moment we get home, come up to my room.// Shells told DVD.
//So that we can do our homework together. I know, I know.// DVD sighed.
//Well, that's what we'll tell Mom. But really...// She gestured slightly to the backpack on the floor of the car.
//Right.// DVD said. No sooner had he said that, then the car did suddenly take a really wide right turn. Everyone was pressed towards the left side of the car and loose items slid left.
//Uh... Who's up for left?// DVD said. Shells laughed. After a while, silence fell upon the inhabitors of the car. The only thing breaking the silence was the dueling music coming from Jrj's Gameboy Advance. And another small sound.
Shells and DVD noticed it at the same time.
//What is that? I can't really hear it... It's too soft.// DVD said. They both strained to hear it and figure out what it was coming from. Nobody else seemed to have noticed.
The sound got a little louder, but not much. It seemed to be words.... Someone saying something very softly. So softly, that Shells and DVD couldn't quite hear what exactly was being said, or by whom.
The sound got even louder. DVD looked up at Jrj. He still hadn't noticed, as his attention was on the game. Mom and Dad hadn't noticed either.
The sound didn't get any louder after that. In fact, if anything, it got quieter. After a while, it was gone completely.
//What was that? Where was it coming from?// Shells asked.
//It sounded like it was coming from the floor.// DVD said, confused.
//Yeah... Weird...// Shells said. She picked the backpack up off the floor so they could look around. As soon as she did so, the noise started up again, though this time even louder. Shells and DVD could make out the individual words.
"Hey, whoa! What? Argh! Get off of me!" One voice, a girl's, said.
"I'm not on you! You're on me!" Another voice, a boy, said.
"No, you both are on me!" Yet another boy's voice said.
"Get off!" The girl yelled.
"I would if I could, but I can't! There's no room!!! and HE'S still on me!" The first boy said.
"I am not! Get off!" The other voice said. Shells realized what must have happened.
//Oh, no! That big right turn must have hit some of the squares!// She reached to open the backpack to hit the squares on the tins and send them all back again.
Suddenly a roaring sound overpowered all of their voices.
"AAAAh!!!!" The girl, Tea, screamed.
"Red Eyes!" The first boy, Joey yelled.
"Get out of the way!" Tristan yelled.
"I can't! Tea, move!"
"There's no room!"
"Get out of the way!"
"AAAAH!!!"
A whirring sound was heard, then a sidepocket of the backpack had a hole blown in the side of it and the inferno fire blast that created the hole hit DVD in the leg.
"Wha!" DVD yelped.
"What's going on back there?" Mom asked.
"Playing a game.. Just a game... it's nothing." DVD said, clenching his teeth together and holding his leg with both hands.
"Be more quiet please." Mom said.
"Ok..." Shells said, opening the backpack and pulling out as many tins as she could get her hands on, being careful not to hit anyone.
"Whoh! What the?"
"Light!" Tristan said. "over here!"
Shells saw the three poke their heads out from behind a tin. the Red Eyes was still glaring around, threatening to blast everyone away.
"Haven't you been enough trouble?" Shells asked the Red Eyes in a small voice, She grabbed the Joey tin and hit the Red Eyes's square. It disappeared. Tea, Tristan and Joey stared at where it had been standing.
Shells pressed the other square, and Joey disappeared.
"Joey? wha?" Tea said.
"What did you do with Joey?" Tristan demanded.
"Shh.. Quiet, or I'm going to get in trouble." Shells whispered. She grabbed the Tea tin and pressed the square on it.
Tristan looked around him quickly. "Tea?" He realized that she too had gone. Shells grabbed the Tristan tin and was about to hit the button, when DVD motioned to her that she should probably exlain what had happened to Tristan. She shook her head.
//I'll explain to them later, ther's no time now! Mom's going to hear!// She said. She pressed the square, and Tristan disappeared with a small yelp of surprise.
Shells let out a small sigh of relief. //Next time, we have to be more careful about what we let happen to these tins.// she said. She began putting them into the backpack carefully. Then she set the backpack on the seat next to her so it wouldn't get jostled.
//That was close.// DVD said.
//You bet it was...// Shells replied with a sigh.
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Ok, Must end chappie... Too long now... Took too long to write it... Stupid Finals.... very frusterating.... and annoying... and..... stressful.... *shudders* : P
So, I hope you enjoyed this chappie! Lotsa fun! Being really mean to Kaiba! Which reminds me.... I guess I can't end the chappie yet, for I must do a nice little End of Chappie interlude! read on!:
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{End of Chappie Interlude: Seto Kaiba}
It was a good thing Seto had sat down before he got transported back, or he would have ended up standing on the chair in his computer lab when he got brought back. He shook his head, and looked up at the screen. His work was still sitting there, waiting for him to get it done.
"So that's how...." he said to himself, answering the question that he had just asked moments before.
He began working on the report once again. After about five seconds, he was interupted by his AI.
"What just happened Seto? Where did you go? Are you testing out another invention?" It asked quickly.
"Be quiet." Seto said. "I really need to concentrate on this."
"But... What just happened?" The AI asked, being very persistant, just as it had been programmed to do.
"Nothing of your concern. Shut down for now." He told the AI.
"Are you sure? If you shut down now, you may lose precious data..." The AI informed him, just as it did every time he asked it to shut itself down.
"Just do it and quit putting it off." Seto snapped.
"How would you feel if someone told YOU to shut yourself off?" The AI replied.
"Not now. I'm busy." Kaiba grumbled.
"Fine. Shutting down. Shutting down.......All systems.... shutting down..." The AI said.
Kaiba whipped his head up. "No, not ALL systems, just the AI! JUST THE A-" But he was too late. The whole screen went black and Seto lost the information and work that he had JUST been putting in for the last hour.
Seto groaned and began pounding one fist lightly and rhythmetically on the desk, the other hand holding his head.
"Does that AI hate me or something?" He asked himself softly, booting up the computer again. A message popped up: "You lost data when the last time you shut down, because you did not shut down correctly."
"I know." He growled at the screen. "That's obvious."
He waited impatiently for the computer to finish booting; it always took a long time to boot when he didn't shut it down the right way because of all the tests it ran itself through.
Along with the normal booting up of the screen, came the unfortunate rebooting of his AI.
"Hello, Seto! Did you miss me?" The AI's sassy voice said cheerfully.
"I really am going to kill you one of these days." Seto growled.
"I know. And I still love you too." The AI replied.
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Ok, bye! ^_^
--Daricio