Hey everyone!!!
Ok, last chappie was cold, depressing, and really mean to Ryou..... Who is my favorite character..... So I need to lighten things up with a lot of interludes and interesting stuff, while still trying to move the story line in a forward direction...
I'm beating my brother in our contest!!!!Yay!!! Thank you all so very much! You are all so wonderful! I have but one request for you all! (Don't tell her I told you,) but can you pleeeeease go and read Shells's story "Yu-Gi- Oh fair" ? (Her pen name is actually Shells124, but you already knew that, right? Right.) Please? It will make her happy! (She's depressed because both me and DVD each have about 50-56 reviews and she only has 21.) Thanks!
For anyone who was confused and don't remember, Yugi was grounded by Grandpa because Yugi got into that fight with Bakura. (Remember? "Don't worry, Yami, I'm only grounded for a week!")
Ok, now to answer a few questions from Pruningshears, (Of whom I am very happy reviewed, as per usual). You asked why Daricio didn't get her own body and Bakura did. There are two reasons for that. One was that Daricio entered the Yu-Gi-Oh world by going into Yugi's mind, so, basically, she did get a new body... Yugi's! Whereas, Bakura, (or, at that time, Ryou) entered directly into the world, so he needed a body. So it gave him one that looked just like his other one had. The other reason, (And the reason of why Ryou even had a link to the other world in the first place) Will be revealed in this chappie. Also, thanks for pointing out to me that Seto did, sorta, save Ryou from abuse from Gozaburu Kaiba... I feel better... Sorta...But that didn't make it any easier for Ryou then because he didn't know that Seto was getting abused... So the spirit, sensing that this was a point of grief for Ryou, Homed in on it and forced him to remember it, and the feelings that came with it. Thanks, Pruningshears, for the nice comment about Yami Bakura. ^_^
*sigh* I got this really cool book for christmas.... (I know, it's a little kinda late to be talking about that...) It has Character Bios... Summeries for the show... Summeries for the Japanese manga (Means comic book) and for the Japenese Anime.... And a lot of piccies..... Very humourous ones, might I add.... (You have no idea how funny it can be to see a piccie of Tea (Actually, in the Japanese, it is Anzu) and Yugi on a waterslide together.... ^_^ .... There's only one problem..... Nowhere... I mean nowhere, is there ANY picture WHATSOEVER of Ryou.... There's a few of "Yami" Bakura.... But no Ryou... ;_; ......wait.... *Grabs microscope* is that...? Yes! One very small picture of Ryou!!! (Although that is the smallest picture of a person I have ever seen... Ok, now I'm using this as a rant.... I better stop before I hurt something..... Plus this is probably boring you.....
On with the fic!
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{Shells}
"Ok, now that we've finally gotten through everyone... We have got to find that Yugi tin." DVD said. "It has to be around here somewhere."
"Wait. What about Tea?" Shells asked. "We forgot to ask her!"
"So what? We need to find that tin!" DVD told her.
"But... She might..." Shells started.
"If she knew anything or had been here before, she wouldn't have been so scared of us or fainted!" DVD reasoned.
"What if she talked to Yugi? Wouldn't she know something then?" Shells asked.
DVD shook his head. "That's not good enough. We need to ask Yugi himself." He said.
Shells sighed, then finally agreed. They searched everywhere. In Daricio's desk. In her dresser. All the shelves. On her bed. (Where most of her stuff usually ends up). In the closet. (Which actually didn't look too bad, considering it had just recently been attacked by a Red Eyes Black Dragon.) Everywhere they could think of.
Suddenly, they heard a noise downstairs. Someone was awake. They would have to turn off the lights and use Daricio's flashlight. (Found on her bed, along with about a dozen books, a few random candy wrappers, and a lot of stuffed animals)
DVD turned off the light and switched on the flashlight. They resumed their searching, being careful not to make lots of noise.
They searched and searched.
"Man, If we had more light," DVD commented softly. "This would be so much easier."
"If someone had gotten their homework done as fast as I did," Shells pointed out. "We'd have more light."
"If another someone had decided not to keep showing me her Yu-Gi-Oh cards when I was trying to do my homework, it would have gotten done faster!"
"If SOMEONE hadn't done a really stupid trade with me, I wouldn't be showing you my Yu-Gi-Oh cards."
"If someone had told me what the EFFECT of that really stupid monster was, I wouldn't have made the trade!"
"If you had listened to me when I told it to you the first time, I wouldn't have NEEDED to show you again."
"If you hadn't dented my card carrier, I would have listened to you!"
"If you hadn't told me I could use that card carrier to take my cards to school, I wouldn't have dented it, now would I?"
"Oh, yeah? Well, if you had told me you were going to store the thing in the front pocket of your backpack, then walk around backwards and run into a sign pole, thereby denting it, I wouldn't have told you you could use it!"
"Daricio keeps HER cards in the front pocket of HER backpack, and she walks backwards home from school almost every day, and her cards don't get dented!"
"Well, Daricio doesn't KEEP her cards in a dentable card carrier, does she? No! She always keeps her cards in one of her TINS!!!!"
They stopped arguing suddenly and stared at each other.
"Oh, duh...." DVD said sheepishly, looking towards the door. "Her Yugi tin is still in her backpack.... Front pocket....Where it always is when she forgets to take it out after school....huh?"
Shells shook her head. "Yup."
They stared at each other for amoment before bursting out laughing.
"Interesting how making a comment about light made us find it..." DVD said, remembering what had started the little argument.
"Yeah.... There's one problem still. There's someone down there... And we don't know who... What if it's Mom or Dad and they send us back to bed?" Shells said.
"We'll just go down there and hope that it's Jrj." DVD said.
"I don't want to get sent to bed! We have to use that tin tonight! Daricio has been gone, sorta, for almost two days! I don't want her to have to wait any longer!" Shells cried.
"We have to try, then." DVD reasoned. "Let's go."
They switched off the flashlight and opened the door, heading down the stairs. They got to the bottom and turned the corner, revealing that the person downstairs was...
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(No, I'm not that mean..... No cliffie.... Back to the story...)
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The person downstairs was Jrj! DVD and Shells let out a small sigh of relief and entered the room.
Jrj looked up as they entered.
"Hi. Couldn't sleep either?" He asked.
Shells and DVD exchanged glances, then nodded. "Yup."
"Me either... I can't stop thinking about Daricio.... I mean..." Jrj started.
"We understand. We feel the same way." DVD reassured him.
"Yeah... so, what did you come down here for?"Jrj asked.
"Oh, we wanted to get something..." Shells said.
"Yeah." DVD agreed.
"Oh." Jrj said. "Then I suppose I'll let you get back to whatever it was you were playing, huh?"
"Uh.... yeah." DVD said. He and Shells went over to the rack where all the coats and backpacks were hung up. They opened the front pocket on Daricio's backpack and pulled out the Yugi tin.
Then they went back up the stairs and into Daricio's room. They knew who it was that was down there, so they could safely turn the light on without it bothering people, but they decided to leave it of and just use the flashlight, as it was night and they didn't want to blind anyone.
Shells and DVD looked at on another, and even though they couldn't see each other's faces easily, they could tell that they were both grinning.
Shells focused the beam from the flashlight to shine on the tin, then reached out and pressed the square.
It glowed for a second, then Yami came out of it. He looked startled for an instant, then looked around, shading his eyes from the glow of the flashlight. Shells moved it so that it wasn't in his eyes as much.
Yami, now being able to see, realized where he had to be. He opened his mouth and called out into the darkness.
"Shells? DVD?" He asked. They looked at each other in surprise.
//He knows US already? Daricio must have told him about us...// Shells said.
DVD agreed. Then he answered Yami. "Yes... I'm DVD, and this is Shells."
Yami's eyes finally adjusted to the gloom of the flashlight and he looked up at them. "Hi. I have a whole lot to tell you two. I've been waiting all day for you to figure out how to use this thing... What took you so long?"
DVD and Shells looked at each other again.
//Ok, he definetly knows something about Daricio. This must be what she meant by 'use the tins.' So now, --// DVD was cut off by a slightly annoyed look from Yami and his speaking.
"Ok, you two... Whatever you have to say, you can say it in front of me." He told them. Shells and DVD looked down on them, confusion all over their faces. "yes, I know you two and Daricio have a link." He said.
They looked at each other again. Then back at Yugi. "How do you know? How do you even know about us? Nobody else we asked knew anything..."
"Yes, I know. Just give me a while to explain. It's kind of a long story." Yami told them. "First off, I think this would help you understand... At least sort of."
He closed his eyes, then the puzzle around his neck glowed softly. When it stopped, he had let Yugi take control and he had assumed a temporary physical form.
Shells gave the two a confused look. "Yeah... So?" She started. Then she realized that, beside Yami, was yet another person in a temporary physical form. Shells mentally pointed this out to DVD, then the two of them leaned closer to look.
It was Daricio! She was very little, but it was her! They had found her!
Shells and DVD exploded with questions, but the most obvious one was asked first. "What are you doing down there?" DVD asked.
Daricio gave him a strange look, then sighed and sat down on the edge of the tin.
//I had wondered what it was like to be able to sit on one of these things...// She said softly to Yugi. He smiled slightly. Then Daricio began her little tale.
"Do you guys remember a few days ago when I was at dinner, and I basicly just ignored everyone? Even when Mom asked how my day was?" She asked them.
Shells and DVD shook their heads. "Yes. Me and Shells thought something was wrong with you. Then the next day, Mom went to get you up for the paper route, and you wouldn't get up. She called the hospital, and we've been missing school every day since then to go and visit you in the hospital." DVD said.
Daricio frowned. "I had hoped I wasn't worrying too many people." She said. "I mean, you guys even went and took..."
Suddenly she looked up and peered into the darkness in the general direction of her bed. "Wait." She said, her frown getting bigger. "So, I'm not here. I'm at the hospital miles and miles away."
Shells nodded slowly. "Yeah? So?"
"Oh great." She paused. "What day is it today?"
Shells and DVD exchanged glances. "Thursday. Tomorow morning will be Friday." Shells said."But you still haven't told us whow you are right here..."
"Oh, right. Sorry." Daricio said. "Ok, well, the reason I wasn't responding to anyone was that earlier that day and the day before... and the day before, I think... I had figured out how to use the tins...
"Not only that, after several times of bringing Yugi over, for some reason, we started doing the same exact things. I even thought that his locker combo was mine at one point. What was happening was that me and him were forming a mental link.
"So, that day, I had figured out that we had a link, and I was searching for it. I figured out how to get to my soul room, and I had lots of fun organizing it."
Daricio was remembering trying to clean up stuffed animal after stuffed animal after... She shook her head to clear it, then continued with her story.
"After a while, I found the link. I "Walked" along it, until I came to the door to Yugi's soul room. I guess it made my body go into a coma... anyways, I explored in there for a while..."
"Not telling either of us that she was there, of course." Yami reminded her. "She turned herself invisible."
Daricio glanced down at the floor. "It was fun." She said simply.
"Until you got stuck there." Yugi said.
"Right." Daricio returned the conversation to the story. "I tried to get back home, but the door that I came through to get back was sealed shut. Nothing any of us have tried had worked to get the darn thing open. When you two figured out how to contact me using OUR link, I could barely hear you because the door was in the way."
"Yeah, I noticed that." Shells said. "You were just barely able to get us the message "Use the tins" before the connection broke."
Daricio nodded. "Exactly." She said. "We think that if Yugi can get close to my body, maybe the door will unseal itself and let me get back to my body."
Shells and DVD nodded, understanding the theory. "And so you are now annoyed that your body isn't here." DVD concluded.
Daricio nodded again. "Tomorrow, before you go to the hospital, bring Yugi and us over. That way his Grandpa won't make him go to school and he has to sit through his classes hoping you don't choose that moment to make him suddenly disappear."
Shells nodded, realizing for the first time that that was what happened when she transported them over.
"Also, you'll be able to see what it looks like to stare out fo a window at things going by really fast when you're really small." DVD said.
Daricio grinned. "Right."
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{Interlude: Seto Kaiba. (Really now, were you expecting the interlude to be done by ANYONE else?}
That night, Seto Kaiba had to sit in front of a huge panel of people as they stared at him and told him that he was mentally unable to care for his company further, and so it was to be taken from him. Numbly, he nodded and then, after spending several hours trying to convince them otherwise, was told that all he had done by talking to them was to convince them that he didn't have to wear a straightjacket, and was led to a very small room with blue squishy walls. A different one than the one he had had before. It had been white.
Two long, painful, boring hours later, the door opened a crack. Seto looked up at it and glared at the stranger who stuck his head in.
"What do you want?" Seto demanded.
The man smiled a small, "I-don't-care-if-you-do-think-I'm-stupid-because- you're-crazy" look, then held up a small chair. Seto stood up slowly, glared at the man, and took it, then retreated off to the corner with it and sat in it, thinking. The man left.
A chair. Lovely. Maybe tomorrow they would let him have his laptop back. Then maybe his cellphone. Then again, he really didn't have to worry about company profits or company problems. He wasn't in charge any more.
"The company is going to be totally destroyed without me there. It will be devestated. Then when I get out of here, I will be able to pluck it up from the dust and get it going again. That should be proof enough that I'm not nuts." Seto mumbled to himself.
What had he done to deserve this? Here he was in the insane assylum, trying to prove to people that he wasn't crazy. He never dreamed he would have to endure such a nightmare. There wasn't much worse that could happen. What else could happen?
"Hmph. If the company wants to destroy itself faster, all they need to do is put that freak, Joey as the CEO." Seto growled to himself. "That would just make my day so much better."
"I'm sure it would, Mr." Seto jumped at the voice of the person that was now standing right beside him, giving him a strange look. Seto jumped out of the chair and whirled around, facing the man.
"How did you get in here without me noticing?" Seto asked. The man shrugged.
"It's a gift. Also, it's really easy to sneak up on someone when they're thinking about something." The man said. Then he pointed to his name tag. "I am Dr. Sadejklfas. But you can call me Dr. S. Or maybe even Bob, if you feel like it."
Seto frowned. (As if he wasn't already.) This man made him feel like he was in kindergarden! with all his 'call me Dr. S' and all that. Who in their right mind would call someone Dr.S? Not that he really technically was in his right mind at the moment...
"Dr. Bob Sadejklfas?" He asked. "What kind of name is"
"No, my name isn't Bob." Dr. S said, laughing. "I just said you could call me that because it's so much easier to say!"
Seto frowned even more, then turned his head to look more closely at the nametag. It was blank. Seto raised an eyebrow. "And your name would be?"
"Dr. S" sighed. "It's Dr. Angeline Frand" He told Seto, sitting down crosslegged on the floor. "Frand."
Seto was now really confused. "Angeline...Frand? What? But didn't you just say?...." Seto sat down in his little chair and watched the man.
"FRANDA!!!!!!!! FRENDA!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" The man suddenly burst out. "FRANKIE!!!!!!!!!"
Seto stared, shocked at the man's reaction to his words. "Are.... Are you ok?"
"Dr S" looked up at him, tears in his eyes. "My name... is....my name....is.......is......is..................is....." He burst out crying.
Seto stood up and looked at the door, which had a little window. He went over to it and looked out, a small suspicion in his mind. Sure enough, several doors down, one of the doors had been left open. There were no guards anywhere.
Seto turned back to the man, who was now throwing a temper tantrum on the floor. "Hey, you. Whoever you are, how did you get out?"
The man immedietly stopped thrashing, stood up calmly, and walked over so that he was standing next to Seto. Seto took a small step away from him.
"It's Freda." The man concluded. "Freda. But you can call me George. Or Bob. Or just call me Dr. S."
Seto nodded slowly, hoping that he wouldn't ever have to see that happen again. "How did you get out?" He repeated.
Dr S. leaned heavily on the door. "Out of where?" He asked.
Seto gave him a strange look. "Ok, how did you get in here?"
"Oh! Well, that was easy! There was this spiffy little door handle, and I pulled on it! The door opened! But there's no little spiffy handle on this side. In that other room, there was, but not here. Shame, really. It was fun. It was about... Riiiiiiiight here." Dr S pointed to a space about three inches from the top of the door.
Seto looked up at the spot. "Really." He said.
Dr S looked startled. "What?" He asked.
"There was a handle right here?" Seto asked.
"No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Dr. S. burst out. "Not there, you idiot!!!!! THERE!!!!!!!!!!"
He pointed to a spot about three inches from the base of the door. Seto glared at him.
"Can you open the door, or not?" Seto growled.
Dr. S. gave him a strange look. "My name?" He asked. "Why, it's Saderfreada. Mr. Sadrefreda. Nice to meet you, uh......"
Seto sighed. "The door." He said again.
"Oh! Nice to meet you Mr. The Door!" Dr. S. said, reaching out and grasping Seto's hand and shaking it frantically.
Seto tried to wrench his hand away, but to no avail. The man, though he looked small, was extremely strong. Seto lifted his hand as high up as he could, lifting the smaller man up into the air, hoping the force of gravity could get him off.
That didn't work either. The small man clung on desperatly and continued trying to shake Seto's hand up and down.
"Nice....To.....meet...You!!!" He said, gasping for breath. Seto sighed and returned him to the floor. He finally let go and sat down on the ground. Seto ran over to the other side of the room to get as far away from the guy as possible.
Dr. S. stared at Seto. "Mr. The Door? Mr. The Door?" He asked. He was silent for a moment, then he began chanting softly.
His chanting grew louder. And louder. Soon Seto could hear the words.
"Bate' Bate' Chocolate'. Con Arosy, Con Tomate'. Bate' Bate' Chocolate'. Con arosy, con tomate'. Bate' bate' chocolate'. Con arosy, con tomate'!!!!!! BATE' BATE' CHOCOLATE'!!! CON AROSY CON TOMATE!!!!!!!!!!" He laughed hystarically and rolled around on the floor. "Bate' Bate!!! Chocolate'!!! Con arosy!!! Con tomate'!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!"
Seto stared at him. "What does that mean?!?!?" He asked.
"Mix the chocolate with the tomato." Dr. S. said, stopping his laughing very suddenly and standing up, looking over at Seto as if nothing strange had happened. "It's Spanish."
"Oh. Thats....Nice." Seto said, still staring.
"Yes, it is very nice to meet you Mr. The Door." Dr. S. said, nodding.
"It's Kaiba. Seto Kaiba." Seto said. "Not The Door."
"Oh. Well then, Mr. Seto, What say we explore for a while?" Dr. S said.
Seto, not sure of what to do, only nodded slowly. Dr. S. promptly turned towards the door and began banging on it. Nothing happened. Then he took a small card out of his pocket and slid it down the side of the door, untriggering any locks that were on it, and the door opened.
Seto stared. "Why didn't you do that when I asked you to open the door?"
"You didn't ask me to." Dr. S. said. He walked out of the room and Seto followed, looking both ways to see if there were any guards. Seeing none, he headed down the hall, looking in on various doors.
"What are you doing? I thought we were going to explore!!!" Dr. S. whined.
"I am exploring." Seto said. "I have to find my brother."
"Your brother? There are more Seto The Doors around here?" He looked around nervously as if a clone of Seto might step out from behind a corner at any moment.
Seto ignored him. He may have helped him get out, but that didn't mean he was any use to him. He continued looking in on various doors, listening intently for the sound of footsteps in case he was being followed.
Unfortunetly, Dr.S. was being extremely loud in his talking to Seto, which made it very hard for him to hear. Seto rounded a corner, getting the man away from his sight, searching for Mokuba's cell.
Suddenly he heard a huge shout of surprise. "HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He whirled around, expecting to see guards coming after him, but it was only Dr. S, running after him. He ran up to Seto, then glared at him. "No leaving me behind! You scared me! Don't you want to be with me?"
"Not really." Seto said, continuing down the hall. From behind him where the man stood there was silence. Then came a loud wail.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Dr. S cried. "HE NO LIKEY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I JUST WANTED TO TAKE WALK!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! FRANKIE!!!!!!! FRANCINCHIL!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
"Quiet! Shh! SHH!!!!!!!" Seto tried to get him to calm down, but it was too late. Guards came running down the corridor and soon Seto was surrounded once more.
"Ok, Mr. Kaiba. Come on, Mr. Gice. Let's go." The lead guard said. "Back to your rooms, now."
Mr. Gice, formerly known as Dr. S, nodded and said, "I was just taking a walk with my friend here."
"That's nice. Hey, that's the first friend you've made here yet!" The guard said, leading him back into his room.
"Yup!" He said as the door closed and locked. Then the guard took Seto back to his room and locked him in also.
"He's not my friend." Seto said to the door.
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{Daricio: The next morning}
They had made plans for Shells and DVD to bring Yugi over at about 7:45 so that Yugi would be able to say goodbye to Grandpa and be walking in the general direction of the school building when he was brought over. Then nobody would notice that he was gone.
It was a good plan. A great plan. One of the most organized, planned things that had happened since she had first gotten herself trapped in there. Unfortunetly, it didn't work.
First, Yugi's alarm clock didn't go off when it was supposed to. Which, of course, meant that he overslept.
Grandpa came running into the room piling Yugi's clothes on top of him from out of his closet, talking a mile a minute about getting to school on time, then finishing what he was saying and leaving the room, leaving Yugi, covered with random articles of clothing, having just woken up and wondering what in the world was going on. ( A/N: Is that a run on sentance? Technically, it isn't, but it is very long...)
Yugi sat there, pulling a shirt off his head and staring at it, for about one minute before looking up at his clock and realizing what his grandpa had been trying to tell him. It was almost 7:30 already!
He got up and, as quickly as he could, pulled on his clothes and dashed down the stairs. Looking up at the clock, he ran out the door because of lack of time to get anything to eat. "I'll get something at school!" He promised Grandpa on his way out.
"Just don't get candy, and that'll be fine." Grandpa said, standing at the door to the game shop and watching Yugi run off.
That's when the other bad thing happened. Bakura, who was also running late, came running up behind him.
"Yugi! Wait up!" He called. Yugi looked over his shoulder to see who it was, slowing down so that he wouldn't run into anyone.
"Oh, hi Bakura." Yugi said as Bakura ran up beside him, out of breath.
"Hi. I guess we're both late for school today, huh?" Bakura asked. Yugi nodded slowly.
"Yeah, I guess we are." He said. They continued walking down the street.
They came to the crosswalk. Bakura ran across quickly, then turned around and realized that Yugi was still standing on the other side. Just then, the traffic changed and cars went racing by. By the time the light changed back to allow Yugi over, he was gone.
Bakura had no idea where he went.
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Just in case anyone was wondering, Bate' Bate' Chocolate' Con arosy Con tomate' Really does mean "Mix the chocolate with the tomato" in Spanish... I don't think that's how you spell it though. It's a really strange song I learned a long time ago that I just now had stuck in my head.
Also, when Shells and DVD argue, they talk about Daricio walking home from school backwards every day. In real life, I take the bus home and the bus stops about a block away from my house. And so I walk backwards home from the bus stop. Every day. It's fun! It confuses people! ^_^ (By that I mean this: Just today, as I was walking backwards home, I got stared at by two people, and a car drove by me with the window open and the boy in the back seat yelled, "Weirdo!" at me! I like making people think I'm weird!)
^_^
Ok, now that you have read my really strange chapter of this story, You are allowed to go and read the rest of the fanfictions... See ya next chappie!
--Daricio
Ok, last chappie was cold, depressing, and really mean to Ryou..... Who is my favorite character..... So I need to lighten things up with a lot of interludes and interesting stuff, while still trying to move the story line in a forward direction...
I'm beating my brother in our contest!!!!Yay!!! Thank you all so very much! You are all so wonderful! I have but one request for you all! (Don't tell her I told you,) but can you pleeeeease go and read Shells's story "Yu-Gi- Oh fair" ? (Her pen name is actually Shells124, but you already knew that, right? Right.) Please? It will make her happy! (She's depressed because both me and DVD each have about 50-56 reviews and she only has 21.) Thanks!
For anyone who was confused and don't remember, Yugi was grounded by Grandpa because Yugi got into that fight with Bakura. (Remember? "Don't worry, Yami, I'm only grounded for a week!")
Ok, now to answer a few questions from Pruningshears, (Of whom I am very happy reviewed, as per usual). You asked why Daricio didn't get her own body and Bakura did. There are two reasons for that. One was that Daricio entered the Yu-Gi-Oh world by going into Yugi's mind, so, basically, she did get a new body... Yugi's! Whereas, Bakura, (or, at that time, Ryou) entered directly into the world, so he needed a body. So it gave him one that looked just like his other one had. The other reason, (And the reason of why Ryou even had a link to the other world in the first place) Will be revealed in this chappie. Also, thanks for pointing out to me that Seto did, sorta, save Ryou from abuse from Gozaburu Kaiba... I feel better... Sorta...But that didn't make it any easier for Ryou then because he didn't know that Seto was getting abused... So the spirit, sensing that this was a point of grief for Ryou, Homed in on it and forced him to remember it, and the feelings that came with it. Thanks, Pruningshears, for the nice comment about Yami Bakura. ^_^
*sigh* I got this really cool book for christmas.... (I know, it's a little kinda late to be talking about that...) It has Character Bios... Summeries for the show... Summeries for the Japanese manga (Means comic book) and for the Japenese Anime.... And a lot of piccies..... Very humourous ones, might I add.... (You have no idea how funny it can be to see a piccie of Tea (Actually, in the Japanese, it is Anzu) and Yugi on a waterslide together.... ^_^ .... There's only one problem..... Nowhere... I mean nowhere, is there ANY picture WHATSOEVER of Ryou.... There's a few of "Yami" Bakura.... But no Ryou... ;_; ......wait.... *Grabs microscope* is that...? Yes! One very small picture of Ryou!!! (Although that is the smallest picture of a person I have ever seen... Ok, now I'm using this as a rant.... I better stop before I hurt something..... Plus this is probably boring you.....
On with the fic!
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{Shells}
"Ok, now that we've finally gotten through everyone... We have got to find that Yugi tin." DVD said. "It has to be around here somewhere."
"Wait. What about Tea?" Shells asked. "We forgot to ask her!"
"So what? We need to find that tin!" DVD told her.
"But... She might..." Shells started.
"If she knew anything or had been here before, she wouldn't have been so scared of us or fainted!" DVD reasoned.
"What if she talked to Yugi? Wouldn't she know something then?" Shells asked.
DVD shook his head. "That's not good enough. We need to ask Yugi himself." He said.
Shells sighed, then finally agreed. They searched everywhere. In Daricio's desk. In her dresser. All the shelves. On her bed. (Where most of her stuff usually ends up). In the closet. (Which actually didn't look too bad, considering it had just recently been attacked by a Red Eyes Black Dragon.) Everywhere they could think of.
Suddenly, they heard a noise downstairs. Someone was awake. They would have to turn off the lights and use Daricio's flashlight. (Found on her bed, along with about a dozen books, a few random candy wrappers, and a lot of stuffed animals)
DVD turned off the light and switched on the flashlight. They resumed their searching, being careful not to make lots of noise.
They searched and searched.
"Man, If we had more light," DVD commented softly. "This would be so much easier."
"If someone had gotten their homework done as fast as I did," Shells pointed out. "We'd have more light."
"If another someone had decided not to keep showing me her Yu-Gi-Oh cards when I was trying to do my homework, it would have gotten done faster!"
"If SOMEONE hadn't done a really stupid trade with me, I wouldn't be showing you my Yu-Gi-Oh cards."
"If someone had told me what the EFFECT of that really stupid monster was, I wouldn't have made the trade!"
"If you had listened to me when I told it to you the first time, I wouldn't have NEEDED to show you again."
"If you hadn't dented my card carrier, I would have listened to you!"
"If you hadn't told me I could use that card carrier to take my cards to school, I wouldn't have dented it, now would I?"
"Oh, yeah? Well, if you had told me you were going to store the thing in the front pocket of your backpack, then walk around backwards and run into a sign pole, thereby denting it, I wouldn't have told you you could use it!"
"Daricio keeps HER cards in the front pocket of HER backpack, and she walks backwards home from school almost every day, and her cards don't get dented!"
"Well, Daricio doesn't KEEP her cards in a dentable card carrier, does she? No! She always keeps her cards in one of her TINS!!!!"
They stopped arguing suddenly and stared at each other.
"Oh, duh...." DVD said sheepishly, looking towards the door. "Her Yugi tin is still in her backpack.... Front pocket....Where it always is when she forgets to take it out after school....huh?"
Shells shook her head. "Yup."
They stared at each other for amoment before bursting out laughing.
"Interesting how making a comment about light made us find it..." DVD said, remembering what had started the little argument.
"Yeah.... There's one problem still. There's someone down there... And we don't know who... What if it's Mom or Dad and they send us back to bed?" Shells said.
"We'll just go down there and hope that it's Jrj." DVD said.
"I don't want to get sent to bed! We have to use that tin tonight! Daricio has been gone, sorta, for almost two days! I don't want her to have to wait any longer!" Shells cried.
"We have to try, then." DVD reasoned. "Let's go."
They switched off the flashlight and opened the door, heading down the stairs. They got to the bottom and turned the corner, revealing that the person downstairs was...
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(No, I'm not that mean..... No cliffie.... Back to the story...)
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The person downstairs was Jrj! DVD and Shells let out a small sigh of relief and entered the room.
Jrj looked up as they entered.
"Hi. Couldn't sleep either?" He asked.
Shells and DVD exchanged glances, then nodded. "Yup."
"Me either... I can't stop thinking about Daricio.... I mean..." Jrj started.
"We understand. We feel the same way." DVD reassured him.
"Yeah... so, what did you come down here for?"Jrj asked.
"Oh, we wanted to get something..." Shells said.
"Yeah." DVD agreed.
"Oh." Jrj said. "Then I suppose I'll let you get back to whatever it was you were playing, huh?"
"Uh.... yeah." DVD said. He and Shells went over to the rack where all the coats and backpacks were hung up. They opened the front pocket on Daricio's backpack and pulled out the Yugi tin.
Then they went back up the stairs and into Daricio's room. They knew who it was that was down there, so they could safely turn the light on without it bothering people, but they decided to leave it of and just use the flashlight, as it was night and they didn't want to blind anyone.
Shells and DVD looked at on another, and even though they couldn't see each other's faces easily, they could tell that they were both grinning.
Shells focused the beam from the flashlight to shine on the tin, then reached out and pressed the square.
It glowed for a second, then Yami came out of it. He looked startled for an instant, then looked around, shading his eyes from the glow of the flashlight. Shells moved it so that it wasn't in his eyes as much.
Yami, now being able to see, realized where he had to be. He opened his mouth and called out into the darkness.
"Shells? DVD?" He asked. They looked at each other in surprise.
//He knows US already? Daricio must have told him about us...// Shells said.
DVD agreed. Then he answered Yami. "Yes... I'm DVD, and this is Shells."
Yami's eyes finally adjusted to the gloom of the flashlight and he looked up at them. "Hi. I have a whole lot to tell you two. I've been waiting all day for you to figure out how to use this thing... What took you so long?"
DVD and Shells looked at each other again.
//Ok, he definetly knows something about Daricio. This must be what she meant by 'use the tins.' So now, --// DVD was cut off by a slightly annoyed look from Yami and his speaking.
"Ok, you two... Whatever you have to say, you can say it in front of me." He told them. Shells and DVD looked down on them, confusion all over their faces. "yes, I know you two and Daricio have a link." He said.
They looked at each other again. Then back at Yugi. "How do you know? How do you even know about us? Nobody else we asked knew anything..."
"Yes, I know. Just give me a while to explain. It's kind of a long story." Yami told them. "First off, I think this would help you understand... At least sort of."
He closed his eyes, then the puzzle around his neck glowed softly. When it stopped, he had let Yugi take control and he had assumed a temporary physical form.
Shells gave the two a confused look. "Yeah... So?" She started. Then she realized that, beside Yami, was yet another person in a temporary physical form. Shells mentally pointed this out to DVD, then the two of them leaned closer to look.
It was Daricio! She was very little, but it was her! They had found her!
Shells and DVD exploded with questions, but the most obvious one was asked first. "What are you doing down there?" DVD asked.
Daricio gave him a strange look, then sighed and sat down on the edge of the tin.
//I had wondered what it was like to be able to sit on one of these things...// She said softly to Yugi. He smiled slightly. Then Daricio began her little tale.
"Do you guys remember a few days ago when I was at dinner, and I basicly just ignored everyone? Even when Mom asked how my day was?" She asked them.
Shells and DVD shook their heads. "Yes. Me and Shells thought something was wrong with you. Then the next day, Mom went to get you up for the paper route, and you wouldn't get up. She called the hospital, and we've been missing school every day since then to go and visit you in the hospital." DVD said.
Daricio frowned. "I had hoped I wasn't worrying too many people." She said. "I mean, you guys even went and took..."
Suddenly she looked up and peered into the darkness in the general direction of her bed. "Wait." She said, her frown getting bigger. "So, I'm not here. I'm at the hospital miles and miles away."
Shells nodded slowly. "Yeah? So?"
"Oh great." She paused. "What day is it today?"
Shells and DVD exchanged glances. "Thursday. Tomorow morning will be Friday." Shells said."But you still haven't told us whow you are right here..."
"Oh, right. Sorry." Daricio said. "Ok, well, the reason I wasn't responding to anyone was that earlier that day and the day before... and the day before, I think... I had figured out how to use the tins...
"Not only that, after several times of bringing Yugi over, for some reason, we started doing the same exact things. I even thought that his locker combo was mine at one point. What was happening was that me and him were forming a mental link.
"So, that day, I had figured out that we had a link, and I was searching for it. I figured out how to get to my soul room, and I had lots of fun organizing it."
Daricio was remembering trying to clean up stuffed animal after stuffed animal after... She shook her head to clear it, then continued with her story.
"After a while, I found the link. I "Walked" along it, until I came to the door to Yugi's soul room. I guess it made my body go into a coma... anyways, I explored in there for a while..."
"Not telling either of us that she was there, of course." Yami reminded her. "She turned herself invisible."
Daricio glanced down at the floor. "It was fun." She said simply.
"Until you got stuck there." Yugi said.
"Right." Daricio returned the conversation to the story. "I tried to get back home, but the door that I came through to get back was sealed shut. Nothing any of us have tried had worked to get the darn thing open. When you two figured out how to contact me using OUR link, I could barely hear you because the door was in the way."
"Yeah, I noticed that." Shells said. "You were just barely able to get us the message "Use the tins" before the connection broke."
Daricio nodded. "Exactly." She said. "We think that if Yugi can get close to my body, maybe the door will unseal itself and let me get back to my body."
Shells and DVD nodded, understanding the theory. "And so you are now annoyed that your body isn't here." DVD concluded.
Daricio nodded again. "Tomorrow, before you go to the hospital, bring Yugi and us over. That way his Grandpa won't make him go to school and he has to sit through his classes hoping you don't choose that moment to make him suddenly disappear."
Shells nodded, realizing for the first time that that was what happened when she transported them over.
"Also, you'll be able to see what it looks like to stare out fo a window at things going by really fast when you're really small." DVD said.
Daricio grinned. "Right."
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{Interlude: Seto Kaiba. (Really now, were you expecting the interlude to be done by ANYONE else?}
That night, Seto Kaiba had to sit in front of a huge panel of people as they stared at him and told him that he was mentally unable to care for his company further, and so it was to be taken from him. Numbly, he nodded and then, after spending several hours trying to convince them otherwise, was told that all he had done by talking to them was to convince them that he didn't have to wear a straightjacket, and was led to a very small room with blue squishy walls. A different one than the one he had had before. It had been white.
Two long, painful, boring hours later, the door opened a crack. Seto looked up at it and glared at the stranger who stuck his head in.
"What do you want?" Seto demanded.
The man smiled a small, "I-don't-care-if-you-do-think-I'm-stupid-because- you're-crazy" look, then held up a small chair. Seto stood up slowly, glared at the man, and took it, then retreated off to the corner with it and sat in it, thinking. The man left.
A chair. Lovely. Maybe tomorrow they would let him have his laptop back. Then maybe his cellphone. Then again, he really didn't have to worry about company profits or company problems. He wasn't in charge any more.
"The company is going to be totally destroyed without me there. It will be devestated. Then when I get out of here, I will be able to pluck it up from the dust and get it going again. That should be proof enough that I'm not nuts." Seto mumbled to himself.
What had he done to deserve this? Here he was in the insane assylum, trying to prove to people that he wasn't crazy. He never dreamed he would have to endure such a nightmare. There wasn't much worse that could happen. What else could happen?
"Hmph. If the company wants to destroy itself faster, all they need to do is put that freak, Joey as the CEO." Seto growled to himself. "That would just make my day so much better."
"I'm sure it would, Mr." Seto jumped at the voice of the person that was now standing right beside him, giving him a strange look. Seto jumped out of the chair and whirled around, facing the man.
"How did you get in here without me noticing?" Seto asked. The man shrugged.
"It's a gift. Also, it's really easy to sneak up on someone when they're thinking about something." The man said. Then he pointed to his name tag. "I am Dr. Sadejklfas. But you can call me Dr. S. Or maybe even Bob, if you feel like it."
Seto frowned. (As if he wasn't already.) This man made him feel like he was in kindergarden! with all his 'call me Dr. S' and all that. Who in their right mind would call someone Dr.S? Not that he really technically was in his right mind at the moment...
"Dr. Bob Sadejklfas?" He asked. "What kind of name is"
"No, my name isn't Bob." Dr. S said, laughing. "I just said you could call me that because it's so much easier to say!"
Seto frowned even more, then turned his head to look more closely at the nametag. It was blank. Seto raised an eyebrow. "And your name would be?"
"Dr. S" sighed. "It's Dr. Angeline Frand" He told Seto, sitting down crosslegged on the floor. "Frand."
Seto was now really confused. "Angeline...Frand? What? But didn't you just say?...." Seto sat down in his little chair and watched the man.
"FRANDA!!!!!!!! FRENDA!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" The man suddenly burst out. "FRANKIE!!!!!!!!!"
Seto stared, shocked at the man's reaction to his words. "Are.... Are you ok?"
"Dr S" looked up at him, tears in his eyes. "My name... is....my name....is.......is......is..................is....." He burst out crying.
Seto stood up and looked at the door, which had a little window. He went over to it and looked out, a small suspicion in his mind. Sure enough, several doors down, one of the doors had been left open. There were no guards anywhere.
Seto turned back to the man, who was now throwing a temper tantrum on the floor. "Hey, you. Whoever you are, how did you get out?"
The man immedietly stopped thrashing, stood up calmly, and walked over so that he was standing next to Seto. Seto took a small step away from him.
"It's Freda." The man concluded. "Freda. But you can call me George. Or Bob. Or just call me Dr. S."
Seto nodded slowly, hoping that he wouldn't ever have to see that happen again. "How did you get out?" He repeated.
Dr S. leaned heavily on the door. "Out of where?" He asked.
Seto gave him a strange look. "Ok, how did you get in here?"
"Oh! Well, that was easy! There was this spiffy little door handle, and I pulled on it! The door opened! But there's no little spiffy handle on this side. In that other room, there was, but not here. Shame, really. It was fun. It was about... Riiiiiiiight here." Dr S pointed to a space about three inches from the top of the door.
Seto looked up at the spot. "Really." He said.
Dr S looked startled. "What?" He asked.
"There was a handle right here?" Seto asked.
"No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Dr. S. burst out. "Not there, you idiot!!!!! THERE!!!!!!!!!!"
He pointed to a spot about three inches from the base of the door. Seto glared at him.
"Can you open the door, or not?" Seto growled.
Dr. S. gave him a strange look. "My name?" He asked. "Why, it's Saderfreada. Mr. Sadrefreda. Nice to meet you, uh......"
Seto sighed. "The door." He said again.
"Oh! Nice to meet you Mr. The Door!" Dr. S. said, reaching out and grasping Seto's hand and shaking it frantically.
Seto tried to wrench his hand away, but to no avail. The man, though he looked small, was extremely strong. Seto lifted his hand as high up as he could, lifting the smaller man up into the air, hoping the force of gravity could get him off.
That didn't work either. The small man clung on desperatly and continued trying to shake Seto's hand up and down.
"Nice....To.....meet...You!!!" He said, gasping for breath. Seto sighed and returned him to the floor. He finally let go and sat down on the ground. Seto ran over to the other side of the room to get as far away from the guy as possible.
Dr. S. stared at Seto. "Mr. The Door? Mr. The Door?" He asked. He was silent for a moment, then he began chanting softly.
His chanting grew louder. And louder. Soon Seto could hear the words.
"Bate' Bate' Chocolate'. Con Arosy, Con Tomate'. Bate' Bate' Chocolate'. Con arosy, con tomate'. Bate' bate' chocolate'. Con arosy, con tomate'!!!!!! BATE' BATE' CHOCOLATE'!!! CON AROSY CON TOMATE!!!!!!!!!!" He laughed hystarically and rolled around on the floor. "Bate' Bate!!! Chocolate'!!! Con arosy!!! Con tomate'!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!"
Seto stared at him. "What does that mean?!?!?" He asked.
"Mix the chocolate with the tomato." Dr. S. said, stopping his laughing very suddenly and standing up, looking over at Seto as if nothing strange had happened. "It's Spanish."
"Oh. Thats....Nice." Seto said, still staring.
"Yes, it is very nice to meet you Mr. The Door." Dr. S. said, nodding.
"It's Kaiba. Seto Kaiba." Seto said. "Not The Door."
"Oh. Well then, Mr. Seto, What say we explore for a while?" Dr. S said.
Seto, not sure of what to do, only nodded slowly. Dr. S. promptly turned towards the door and began banging on it. Nothing happened. Then he took a small card out of his pocket and slid it down the side of the door, untriggering any locks that were on it, and the door opened.
Seto stared. "Why didn't you do that when I asked you to open the door?"
"You didn't ask me to." Dr. S. said. He walked out of the room and Seto followed, looking both ways to see if there were any guards. Seeing none, he headed down the hall, looking in on various doors.
"What are you doing? I thought we were going to explore!!!" Dr. S. whined.
"I am exploring." Seto said. "I have to find my brother."
"Your brother? There are more Seto The Doors around here?" He looked around nervously as if a clone of Seto might step out from behind a corner at any moment.
Seto ignored him. He may have helped him get out, but that didn't mean he was any use to him. He continued looking in on various doors, listening intently for the sound of footsteps in case he was being followed.
Unfortunetly, Dr.S. was being extremely loud in his talking to Seto, which made it very hard for him to hear. Seto rounded a corner, getting the man away from his sight, searching for Mokuba's cell.
Suddenly he heard a huge shout of surprise. "HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He whirled around, expecting to see guards coming after him, but it was only Dr. S, running after him. He ran up to Seto, then glared at him. "No leaving me behind! You scared me! Don't you want to be with me?"
"Not really." Seto said, continuing down the hall. From behind him where the man stood there was silence. Then came a loud wail.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Dr. S cried. "HE NO LIKEY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I JUST WANTED TO TAKE WALK!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! FRANKIE!!!!!!! FRANCINCHIL!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
"Quiet! Shh! SHH!!!!!!!" Seto tried to get him to calm down, but it was too late. Guards came running down the corridor and soon Seto was surrounded once more.
"Ok, Mr. Kaiba. Come on, Mr. Gice. Let's go." The lead guard said. "Back to your rooms, now."
Mr. Gice, formerly known as Dr. S, nodded and said, "I was just taking a walk with my friend here."
"That's nice. Hey, that's the first friend you've made here yet!" The guard said, leading him back into his room.
"Yup!" He said as the door closed and locked. Then the guard took Seto back to his room and locked him in also.
"He's not my friend." Seto said to the door.
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{Daricio: The next morning}
They had made plans for Shells and DVD to bring Yugi over at about 7:45 so that Yugi would be able to say goodbye to Grandpa and be walking in the general direction of the school building when he was brought over. Then nobody would notice that he was gone.
It was a good plan. A great plan. One of the most organized, planned things that had happened since she had first gotten herself trapped in there. Unfortunetly, it didn't work.
First, Yugi's alarm clock didn't go off when it was supposed to. Which, of course, meant that he overslept.
Grandpa came running into the room piling Yugi's clothes on top of him from out of his closet, talking a mile a minute about getting to school on time, then finishing what he was saying and leaving the room, leaving Yugi, covered with random articles of clothing, having just woken up and wondering what in the world was going on. ( A/N: Is that a run on sentance? Technically, it isn't, but it is very long...)
Yugi sat there, pulling a shirt off his head and staring at it, for about one minute before looking up at his clock and realizing what his grandpa had been trying to tell him. It was almost 7:30 already!
He got up and, as quickly as he could, pulled on his clothes and dashed down the stairs. Looking up at the clock, he ran out the door because of lack of time to get anything to eat. "I'll get something at school!" He promised Grandpa on his way out.
"Just don't get candy, and that'll be fine." Grandpa said, standing at the door to the game shop and watching Yugi run off.
That's when the other bad thing happened. Bakura, who was also running late, came running up behind him.
"Yugi! Wait up!" He called. Yugi looked over his shoulder to see who it was, slowing down so that he wouldn't run into anyone.
"Oh, hi Bakura." Yugi said as Bakura ran up beside him, out of breath.
"Hi. I guess we're both late for school today, huh?" Bakura asked. Yugi nodded slowly.
"Yeah, I guess we are." He said. They continued walking down the street.
They came to the crosswalk. Bakura ran across quickly, then turned around and realized that Yugi was still standing on the other side. Just then, the traffic changed and cars went racing by. By the time the light changed back to allow Yugi over, he was gone.
Bakura had no idea where he went.
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Just in case anyone was wondering, Bate' Bate' Chocolate' Con arosy Con tomate' Really does mean "Mix the chocolate with the tomato" in Spanish... I don't think that's how you spell it though. It's a really strange song I learned a long time ago that I just now had stuck in my head.
Also, when Shells and DVD argue, they talk about Daricio walking home from school backwards every day. In real life, I take the bus home and the bus stops about a block away from my house. And so I walk backwards home from the bus stop. Every day. It's fun! It confuses people! ^_^ (By that I mean this: Just today, as I was walking backwards home, I got stared at by two people, and a car drove by me with the window open and the boy in the back seat yelled, "Weirdo!" at me! I like making people think I'm weird!)
^_^
Ok, now that you have read my really strange chapter of this story, You are allowed to go and read the rest of the fanfictions... See ya next chappie!
--Daricio