Hey everyone!!!
Ya know what? This chappie is going to be very strange. I am very sugar high right now, and I have changed my method of writing for this chapter. Just trying something new. Before, I had everything all carefully planned out how I wanted the plotline to go and everything, but this time I'm just sorta typing down the first thing that enters into my mind. (Note: I just recently finished watching the Weevil's web episodes, so that has effected the "first thing that pops into my mind" thing.) This method, so far, has resulted in a rather chaotic thingy. Chaotic, but definitely interesting. I'd like input on what writing method seems to work better for this story.
I'm trying to improve my vocabulary, so if you see any big, weird words, I may or may not explain them, so feel free to either use FF.net's dictionary thingy, or ask me what it means. I've been looking in the dictionary for strange words. Did peoples know that the "Word" "Higgledy-Piggledy" is in the dictionary? My WordScribe thingy probably wouldn't like it, but it WAS in the dictionary.Honest! It means, "Haphazard, or randomly placed." Strange, ne?
In the Weevil's Web thingys, Joey calls Weevil, "Underpants!" They stole my idea!!! Actually, I was thinking Weevil Underwear, but that works. Actually, Evil Underpants would be an interesting name too.. Now what mental piccies come up when you think of evil underpants? ("AAAHH!! IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE EVIL UNDERPANTS!!!!!") lol. Anywhos, on with the rest of the author notes. (Note: this is a freaky example of me writing the first thing that pops into my head. Kinda makes you wonder how the story turned out, ne?)
Here is the NORMAL author notes. ( i.e. The part I wrote before I gotsted sugar-high. Or at least before I gotsted completely sugar-high. ^_^ )
First off, I just recently realized a big thing that makes my story difficult to do... There are gaps between episodes!!! Life doesn't just come to a screeching halt for the characters after their half hour is up!!! So how in the world would there be a week long gap in, say, the Espa Roba thing, or other duels that were chopped in half? So, in my story, I'm going to make two changes. One is that the new episodes, (For Daricio, anyway, not in the real world... Darn...) are going to be daily instead of just being on weekends... Also, The episodes are going to be a little behind real life... Such as, the episode will show what happened a little while ago, instead of being right on track with what they're doing at that moment in time. Unfortunately, this means that it will be very hard for Daricio to help Yugi an Yami with duels by telling them the other player's strategy or hand or whatever... Oh, well, they're good duelists... They don't need help from Daricio... (Speaking of which, most of the POV's for this are going to be in Daricio's POV... K? Unless there is a good reason for not having it in her POV... A.K.A. Bakura POV's and the interludes...)
Also, another thing that makes my story kinda strange. When I was writing this chapter, I lost all sense of time and my head became really befuddled, and now we all get to pretend that Sunday doesn't exist!!! This week is going to go as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, then Monday! It may be confusing at first, but don't get too confused. And don't worry, this is the only "week" that will be like that. The only reason I'm doing that is cuz I messed up.
Ok, for yet another thing, I have realized that I have been using something in my story and I haven't been giving proper recognition to her. In her story "Shadow Turned Light" (Which is a GREAT story by the way.. You've GOT to read it.) she used the term "Temporary physical form." As you know if you've read this far, I've used that term in my story several times without recognizing *Drum roll* High Crystal Guardian!!! Thank you, HCG for letting me use your term! *Bow*
I made Ishizu kinda evil in that last chappie!!! (And yes, I'm calling her by her dub name, and not by the Japanese name, Isis. Why? That's just how it is. I like the dub name better, and it's too hard for me to try to keep track of who's who when using the Japanese names...) And yes, she's kinda evil. I figure that such a cool, knowledgeable person like her, (As was commented, "She's the only smart girl on the whole fricking show!" ~Mojobubbles) She can't be totally un-evil...^_^ Actually, I am making several characters in this chapter be kinda evil. Including Bakura! *Evil grin*
I bet you have noticed that my WordScribe hasn't been going off... This is because Me an Seto had a WHOLE lot of fun with some rifles... If you know what I mean... *Another evil grin* Surprisingly, he's a very good aim... Especially when it concerns his AI... Which kept yelling at us... ("Ha! You missed!!!! Ow!")...
^_^
A big thank you to everyone who reviewed! I wouldn't have even gotten this far without your guy's support... In fact, If it weren't for you, this story would never have gotten past, "Hey, I can transport these people over here! How fun!" Thank you, thank you, thank you, reviewers! (And for those of you who read this story, but don't review, shame on you!) Also, BIG thanks to pruningshears! A big YAY! to her for many of the ideas in this chappie, including revealing to me how I would be able to keep my interludes going even though Seto has stopped doing them and has become a real character again. YAY!!! (And yes, Caterfree10, I know, I know, I just stole your word... "YAY!!!")
So, thanks again to everyone!!! Ideas, encouragement, and yes, even constructive criticism, is always welcome! (I never get quite enough criticism... I always get, "This is great! I wouldn't change a thing!" When people read my rough drafts of writing when we're supposed to be doing peer editing with school stuff, and so I feel bad because I'm one of the only ones with no corrections... (Poor other people) makes me feel kinda guilty cuz I'm all being over-critical with other people so they get lots of marks on their papers.... So, yeah...)
Anywhos... ......... ..................... .................... uh....... Hmm.................. What else do I want to say before I start the fic?................Hmmmm............Uh.... I have no earthly clue if there is anything else I need to say...
So let's just start the fic!("Misspelled!") ..... What, did we get a new one or something?!?!?!? *Sigh* *Looks at thing* only 8 more days until trial period is over...only 8 more days.... *Dreams*
Ok, so now lets start the fic ("Misspelled!") whilst I try and ignore this thing... Then afterwards, it'll be time to take Seto ("Misspelled!") out shooting again... ("Gulp!") *Evil grin*
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{Daricio}
Daricio went back into her soul room and closed the door. Through the link that she now had with Yugi, she could sense that he was really confused about all this. Through her link with Yugi and through his link with Yami, she could faintly tell that Yami was asleep. Yugi also had a few weaker links with his friends and his Grandpa, so Daricio could also tell some of their emotions well enough to know that Tea and Joey were worried and Tristan and Grandpa were asleep. She couldn't sense anything from Bakura though... Strange... The link with him must not be as strong. Through the link she had with her brother and sister, she could tell that they were both asleep.
Man, links were confusing... And she and Yugi had way too many of them...Trying to figure out which of the emotions she was feeling were her own... Strange how recently she had been able to figure out and analyze everyone else's feelings, but she couldn't tell how she was sometimes...
Daricio sighed. Thoughts like not being able to know your own emotions were depressing. She needed to be able to do something fun. Or if not DO something, then maybe eat the candy bar she had stashed in her dresser drawer.
She swung her legs out of bed and jumped down to the floor. She walked slowly over to her dresser, being careful not to step on the toys scattered here and there along with a couple of piles of books and a few random articles of clothing.
She rummaged around in the top drawer of her dresser, her junk drawer. She knew she had a candy bar stashed in there somewhere...
Come on.... It was here somewhere... She just knew it was...... There! A Hershey bar! Success!
She grabbed it and headed back to her bed, opening it as she walked, and wincing as she stepped on a particularly sharp loud thing that started woofing Christmas carols at her.
She sighed, massaging her forehead in a vain attempt to make her headache go away. She sensed her little sister waking up and sighed again.
"Wha?" Shells mumbled, still half asleep.
"Sorry. Stupid toy on the floor...You can go back to sleep now."
"What're you doing out of bed in the first place, Daricio?" Shells wondered, rubbing at her eyes.
"I... couldn't sleep."
"You know, the last time you 'couldn't sleep,' you were hiding something from me." Shells said.
"This is different." Daricio insisted.
"Really." Shells didn't sound very convinced.
"I'm not hiding anything! I just can't sleep, that's all." Daricio said.
Shells sat up in bed, looking at the clock. She was just about to respond to her sister when she turned back to Daricio and noticed what she was holding and now eating.
"Daricio, you shouldn't be eating chocolate at 10:00 at night. It's not good for you, and you're going to give us all sugar rushes."
"What? When I eat a candy bar it doesn't give everyone I have a link with a sugar rush! It's not like we're linked physically! And besides, sugar helps me sleep at night."
"Right."
"It does! And besides, what do you know about these sort of things anyhow?"
"I know enough! Does the thing you're not telling me have anything to do with that bar of chocolate?"
"I'm NOT not telling you something.... And no, the chocolate has nothing to do with it.... Sorta..." Daricio said, taking another bite, despite what her sister was telling her about sugar rushes.
"What does it have to do-"
"It's 10:00?"
"Yeah, even look!"
"Oh, great... Mom told me I have to go to school on Monday AND do the paper route in the mornings because I'm not sick anymore. I have to go to bed now... It's a good thing I still have Saturday tomorrow to mess around before I go back to school Monday...And I can't wait until tomorrow's new episode."
"Oh, forgot to tell you... The new episodes have been changed from being on Saturdays to weekdays after school. I have no clue why, but it's definitely good!"
"What? That means I have to wait until Monday!" Daricio said. "Oh well. Now we get them every day! You know, Mom is always telling us, 'do those episodes really matter all that much? It's not like it's a matter of life or death if you miss one!' Now they sorta are... I mean, I need to know if I'm in any of them... That would be strange..."
"As if what IS happening isn't strange enough?"
"True. But if I were in the new episodes, it would kinda let our secret out... And I would get mobbed by a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh lovers at school..."
"Yeah... Try and stay away from the FWC's..."
"That's right. Except, according to that book that Yugi's got, they're invisible, so that will be difficult."
Shells shrugged. "If you're in them, you're in them. You'll find out after school Monday, right?"
"Right."
"Goodnight, Daricio."
"Goodnight, Shells."
"Put the candy away."
"Why?"
"You're going to make yourself sick..."
Daricio looked from her sister to her candy bar, then shrugged and stuffed the rest of it in her mouth, causing her sister to laugh.
"Night."
"Might..." Daricio said around her chocolate bar.
She got into bed and pulled the covers over her head, staring at the designs in them while still savoring the chocolate.
Several minutes passed, during which Daricio discovered that her sister was right about the sugar rush. Usually, chocolate really did make her fall asleep quickly, but now she just plain old couldn't sleep. She was tired, yes, but she couldn't sleep.
"Daricio..." Someone whispered softly. Daricio was so groggy now that she couldn't tell who it was.
"Hrm?" She mumbled in answer to the call.
There was no reply. It took her a few moments before she realized that the call had been a mental one.
She went into her soul room and looked around. //What? Did someone just call me?//
There was no answer. She shrugged. She was just about to turn in the other direction when she heard the voice again.
//Daricio.// It called extremely softly. Daricio frowned, realizing that the reason she hadn't known who had called was that she didn't recognize the voice.
She turned around her soul room again, trying to determine where the voice was coming from. It wasn't from the door leading to her brother and sister's connection. It wasn't from Yugi's door, either. But... That meant that the only place it could be coming from was right there in her own room.
//H-hello?// She asked. //Who's here?//
//Daricio...// the unknown person whispered, just barely louder than the last two times.
Daricio sat down slowly on a sofa, still looking around nervously. She was about to try and ignore the voice and just go to sleep, when she realized something. Imagination could make people invisible in soul rooms. That was obvious because she had done it before to sneak into Yugi's soul room. Could someone else be sneaking into hers the same way?
She flooded the soul room with light. Suddenly, she felt a sharp twinge of fear go up her spine. But it wasn't her fear. It had to be someone she was linked to. She was just about to fill the room with imagination powers that would make anyone who was imaginationally invisible become visible, when she sensed the presence leave her soul room.
She sighed in frustration; not having been able to tell which exit it had gone through.
//Who could that have been? Who was in my soul room?// She thought, breathing hard from the sudden adrenaline rush she had from the other person's fear. //What's happening?//
//Daricio?// A voice she recognized mentally called out to her. She jumped slightly, and then looked around her soul room. The door to DVD's link had opened a little and DVD was peeking in.
// Shouldn't you be in your own mind?// Daricio asked.
//Well, I figure, it's night so I'm supposed to be asleep anyway. What's up, Daricio?//
//What do you mean, what's up?// she asked, thinking that it was probably him that had done that.
//I mean, that I suddenly can't sleep... Were you eating chocolate?//
//Yeah... But that's beside the point!//
//Daricio, when you do that, it gives us all sugar rushes... You do know that, right?//
//No it doesn't!//
//Yes it does!//
//Yes it does!// Shells put in from her own soul room door.
Daricio sighed. //I guess that means no more late night chocolate feasts for me...// She said sadly. DVD nodded, smiling.
They began to chat about nothing really in particular, and soon Daricio had all but forgotten her little encounter with the unknown person.
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{Bakura}
"Stop it! Stop it!!! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Radley's pleads rang out sharply in the room that was otherwise silent.
Bakura frowned, experiencing a slight moment of Déjà vu. Those were the same words he himself had been saying not too long before for the same reason. He decided that he didn't want to be like Radley in any way at all. So he did exactly opposite of what the spirit had done to him. He stopped the memory that was playing, the one in which Radley's mother and father both died, and brought them out of the Shadow Realm.
Now that his mind was back with his body in the park, he stood up shakily, leaning on the big oak tree for support. Looking around him, he noticed just how dark it was and realized, too late, that he had forgotten to stop the time while they were in the Shadow Realm. That meant that he had to get home as soon as possible.
He took a deep breath, now very tired from the effects of the Shadow Realm and the powers of the Ring, and started hurrying off as fast as he could. Suddenly, it felt as if he wasn't as tired anymore. He began running, wondering where the sudden energy boost had come from.
After going for a while, he realized what it had to be. Radley was helping him. Merging with him just enough to give him a little extra strength.
"Thanks." He whispered, almost silently to the Spirit.
//Well, what was I supposed to do?// Radley answered wearily. //Let you just sit there all night till you got enough energy to get up?// He laughed dryly. //Say. Let's not bug each other any more, Ok?//
//Sounds good to me. You leave me alone; I'll leave you alone. No more teasing. No more Shadow Realm. No more-//
//No more Shadow Realm?//
//Yes.// Bakura said forcefully.
They went on in silence.
When Bakura got to his house, instead of going in through the front door and possibly facing his father, he around the side and climbed into his room through the window. Once inside, after listening carefully and deciding that everyone was asleep and that nobody had noticed that he was gone, he lay down on his bed, exhausted now that Radley wasn't helping anymore.
//Now do you see what it's like to relive your life over again? Knowing what's going to happen and being powerless-again-to stop it.//Bakura asked. The spirit took a few seconds to answer.
//Yes.// He said finally, tonelessly. He sighed. //That doesn't make me think of you as any less annoying, though.//
Bakura frowned. //If you don't like me so much, why don't you just leave?//
Radley laughed hollowly. //Believe me, If I could, I would. Unfortunately, it's not that simple.//
//What do you mean?//
Radley sighed again, this time in slight exasperation. //I'm bound to you, Ryou. In more ways than one. For one thing, I live inside the Ring. I'm bound to it. You are the destined one of the Ring. This makes me bound to you. Also, I had to create a very powerful, strong mental link in order for you to cross worlds. That also binds me to you.// He explained.
Ok. I already know that mental links are mainly irreversible, so I guess We'll always be sorta linked together. But if you were somehow unbound from the Ring, would you be able to have your own body and be away from me?//
//Well, yeah, of course. But I don't think I CAN be unbound from the Ring.//
//If you had more Millennium Items, would you?// Bakura asked, deep in thought.
//If I had more Millennium items, there are a lot of things I would be able to do. Why do you think I'm trying to get them?//
//How many do you think you would need to unbind yourself?// Bakura wondered. //Or to have me unbind you?//
//Why do you care?//
//How many?// Bakura asked again.
//I don't know! I would think at least four.//
//Let's make a deal.//
Radley narrowed his eyes. //What kind of a deal?//
//I'll help you get two more Millennium Items, as long as you promise to get out and leave me alone. And one more thing. We are not going to hurt anyone to do it. Especially not Yugi. Is it a deal?// Bakura asked, holding out his hand.
//Deal.// They shook on it.
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{The next morning: Yugi}
Yugi was woken from the second Dark Magician chasing dream he had had that night by Yami telling him to get up because the alarm clock was driving him nuts.
//Sorry Yami.// Yugi said, shutting off the clock and rubbing his eyes.
//Well, the evil thing is off now.// Yami said, nodding. //So it's ok.//
Yugi laughed slightly. //It's not evil, Yami. It's supposed to do that.//
//What? Make as much if not more noise than a herd of wild animals? But why?//
"I wanted to get up early today, so I set it to go off early so that I would wake up." Yugi explained, getting out of bed.
"Oh." Yami said after a brief pause. "Why didn't you get up when it went off, then?"
Yugi sighed. "I slept through it... That happens sometimes."
"I don't know how anyone can sleep through THAT..." Yami muttered. "Evil little things."
"Well, you slept through one this morning." Daricio informed him, having opened both her own and Yugi's soul room doors so that she could talk with them and still be in her own body. "Mine went off at 5:00"
"Yeah, but both yours and Yugi's soul room doors were closed then. I can't hear stuff through two doors, about two rooms, and through me being asleep." Yami retorted.
"So? You still slept through one." Daricio said, grinning.
Yugi checked his clock. Before, he had turned off the alarm but had neglected to check what time it was. It was almost 8:30.
"What time did Joey say he was going to come over again?" Yugi asked himself.
"I don't think he specified a time." Yami told him. "But he'll be here. Unless he also possesses the rare ability to sleep through that horrible noise."
Daricio laughed. "Most people do sleep through the alarm, Yami." She told him. It was obvious from the look on his face that he didn't believe her.
"Right." He said skeptically.
"Daricio, why do you get up so early?" Yugi asked, coming up with a topic changer from out of the blue.
"Um. Oh, I have a paper route. I have to get all my papers delivered by 6:30." Daricio explained.
"Paper route?" Yami asked.
Daricio and Yugi looked at each other.
"You explain." Yugi said. "I'm going to get something to eat."
He headed down the stairs, listening to Daricio try and explain to Yami, who was not really getting it.
"You know how every morning, there's a newspaper outside the door, and so all you have to do is pick it up and you can read it, right?"
"Well, sort of. Yugi usually reads it to me... I'm not always that interested..."
"Ever wonder where that paper came from?"
Yami looked at Daricio with amazement. "You make those?"
Daricio shook her head. "Nooo... The newspaper company makes them and sends them to my door, and I put them into plastic bags, put them on my bike, and deliver them to people's doors."
"Why don't the people just go down to the newspaper place and get their own paper?"
"Some people do. It's just that it's a whole lot easier to just be able to open the door and grab your paper rather than go to the newspaper place every day, right?"
"Easier for them maybe, but what about you? I certainly wouldn't want to get up to the racket of an alarm clock every morning and give stuff away to random people."
Daricio shook her head slowly. "It's Ok for me, because I get paid for it. And I don't just give them to random people. Different people call the newspaper company and tell them that they want their paper delivered to their door, then they pay the people for the newspapers. Then, every morning, I get a certain amount of papers, and I have to deliver to the people who called the company."
"Oh, ok. I get it now." Yami said, not getting it at all but not really wanting to listen to more explanations.
Yugi smiled, shaking his head slightly. Their conversation went on, but Yugi stopped paying attention to it, because just then, the door to the game shop burst open, and Joey came in, looking around and finally spotting Yugi at the table in the kitchen.
"Yuge, you ready to go?" He asked, looking at his watch. "We don't really have all day..."
Yugi gave him a look of confusion. "Why not? It's not like we have anything else to do today. Besides, do you think Bakura's even up yet?"
Joey sat at the table across from Yugi, realizing that he hadn't even started his breakfast yet, and sighed. "Yeah, actually, I do have something to do today. I don't know if I'm supposed to tell anyone or not..."
"Why not?" Yugi asked.
"Weevil didn't say if I was allowed to disclose the info or not." Joey said.
"Weevil? Joey, what's going on?"
"K, fine, I'll tell ya. I got a letter yesterday, Yuge. It was from KaibaCorp. Apparently, our dear friend Mr. Kaiba got himself sent to the nuthouse."
Yugi frowned. "Yeah, I knew about that... What does that have to do with?"
"I'm getting to it... Anyways, Weevil's been put in charge in his place, and he asked me if I would come and take over for im. So basically, I'd have Kaiba's job..." Joey said, smirking. "I still dun like Weevil, obviously, but this is an offer I can't refuse... says so in the letter. Be here at 10 tomorrow if you accept. Be here at 10 tomorrow even if you don't accept, cuz you still get the job."
Yugi laughed. "That sounds like Weevil alright." He commented.
Joey smiled too. "But I have to go to that meeting at 10." he said. He looked at his watch again. "In... Two and a half hours and three minutes... ten seconds..."
"You're really looking forward to this, aren't you?"
Joey broke into a full out grin. "Hey, I look forward to anything that has to do with embarrassing Kaiba."
Yugi nodded, still laughing.
Joey's expression turned slightly impatient. "Yugi, are you done yet?" He asked, looking at Yugi's half eaten bowl of cereal.
Yugi looked down and realized that Joey was waiting for him to finish. "Uh... I guess I am now..." he said, shrugging and placing his bowl in the sink.
They went out the door after leaving a note for Grandpa telling him where they'd be.
They got to the street corner, when Joey suddenly stopped. "Uh... Does anyone know where Bakura lives?" He asked.
Yugi realized also that Bakura never had shown them where he lived. They had seen each other at school all the time, but Bakura had never really been friends with them until Yugi and Yami had banished the Spirit of the Ring at Duelist Kingdom, and since then so much had been going on, that showing everyone where his house was wasn't really all that important.
Yugi sighed. "Maybe it's in the phone book. There are addresses there as well as phone numbers." He suggested. Joey agreed, and they went and found a payphone. Joey went inside and opened the book, flipping through it to the letter...
"Yugi..." He asked slowly. "What's Bakura's last name?"
Yugi paused for a moment. "I'm not really sure." He admitted. "But I think that Bakura IS his last name... try looking that up."
Joey nodded and flipped to the B's. He stopped at a promising looking page and slid his finger down the list of names, reading a few of them off softly as he went.
"Baabn... Babnal... Badiuav...Bajerak....Baka...Bakbu...Man, these people have really strange names... Ah, here it is! It is in here! Bakura. John Bakura... think that's Bakura's dad?"
Yugi nodded. "Sounds good. Let's try that address..."
"Wait... There's a John Bakura... and a Ketran Bakura... and a Terrance Bakura... and a Waterson Bakura... and-"
(A/N Anyone see the little puns I put into the names? lol. )
"Oh, man... If we try going to every house on that list, it'll be really dark by the time we find Bakura..." Yugi said gloomily.
"Yeah..." Joey agreed, looking hard at the list. "Too bad there's not one that says, "Ryou Bakura" here."
"Why?"
"Cuz whenever we get a substitute, they always call roll an they say, "Ryou Bakura.""
"Oh. So all this time, Bakura has been telling us his name was Bakura when it was really Ryou? I wonder why..."
Joey shrugged. "Now's not the time to think bout that... We've got to find him... My meeting starts in only an hour an a half! And five minutes!"
Yugi looked confused for a second. "We've been doing this for an hour already?"
Joey nodded. "Yeah... So?"
"It seemed shorter..." Yugi remarked.
"Strange. I've generally found that short people think of other things as big, not the other way around." An annoying voice put in. "And you obviously fit the criteria of 'short' "
Joey turned to their eavesdropper, narrowing his eyes slightly at the boy with his blue bowl cut hair and thick glasses. "What do you want, Weevil?" He asked. "And shouldn't you be at KaibaCorp?"
Weevil's obnoxious grin turned to a frown. "Kaiba got back early this morning and kicked me out." He said sadly.
"What?!?!" Joey exclaimed. "You can't be serious!"
"I am totally serious, Wheeler."
"No! That stupid.. He.Back.. Grrrg! What a time to get back!" Joey said, muttering under his breath.
"I know what you mean." Weevil said, nodding.
"I wasn't asking you!" Joey growled, now in a very bad mood.
There were several moments of silence during which Weevil glared at Joey because of his rudeness. Finally, Weevil decided to change the subject.
"Sooo. Can you kindly tell me what it is about that phone booth that is suddenly so interesting?" Weevil asked, pushing his thick glasses higher onto his face.
Yugi was about to answer him, but Joey was still mad.
"Nothing that concerns you, Weevil. Bug off." Joey said, deliberately putting in the "bug" part.
Weevil let out an indignant snort and turned on his heel. "Fine, I will then." He began to walk away, muttering under his breath.
Joey probably should have left it at that, but he wasn't finished with Weevil yet. "Hey Yuge!" He said, turning to Yugi and speaking up so that Weevil could hear. "Suddenly, I'm not feeling my best. I think there's a bug going around!"
He pointed at Weevil. "I hope it doesn't come by and BUG us!"
Weevil froze, his head down and his fists clenching and unclenching slowly.
"Joey." Yugi warned, realizing that Weevil was getting mad.
"What?" Joey asked jokingly. "He's bugging me!"
Weevil looked over his shoulder and glared at him, his fists still clenched, but Joey didn't seem to notice.
"In FACT. I bet that-" His sentence was interrupted slightly as he was knocked to the ground by a small greenish-blue blur. Joey looked up from a daze, staring after Weevil's retreating form storm off in the distance. "Wow." He commented, rubbing his jaw where he had just gotten smacked. "Powerful little Bugger."
"Joey, are you alright?" Yugi asked, trying to hide a smile.
Joey hurriedly got up off the ground and dusted himself off. "Course I am!" He said, trying to save whatever dignity he had left. "That little bug couldn't hurt a fly!"
"Joey?"
"What?"
"Enough with the bug jokes."
Joey nodded, grinning. "Fine."
"We still have to figure out where Bakura lives." Yugi reminded him. "Maybe we should ask-"
"Yugi!" Tea called, coming up the street.
"We could ask her." Yugi finished. Tea ran up beside them, then bent over, leaning her hands against her knees, breathing hard.
"Any luck yet guys?" She asked after a minute, looking up.
"Uh. actually.. We haven't talked to him yet." Yugi said.
"What? Why not?"
"Weeeell." Yugi said, looking at Joey.
Joey took the hint and finished the sentence. "We dun't know where he lives." He admitted.
Tea frowned, then sat down on a bench by the side of the road; one of many that were scattered all over the city. "You don't know where he lives." She repeated.
"Yeah, that's what I said." Joey said. "Do you know?"
Tea shook her head. "I was going to ask you!"
There was silence as this revelation sunk in.
//Ok, that's not good. How are we going to find Bakura?// Yugi thought to himself.
//I dunno.// Daricio mused from the doorway, having finished her conversation with Yami long ago. The two were standing by the doorway. //Well, I sorta have an idea.// She paused for a moment, physically looking around her and making sure nobody was awake yet. Having confirmed this, she stepped over and took a temporary physical form next to Yugi, startling Tea and Joey.
"Can you not do that?" Joey asked her.
She shrugged. "I have an idea of how we can find Bakura." She said.
"What is it?" Yugi asked.
"If we simply search all over town, he's bound to show up somewhere. I mean, he can't just stay in his house all day, right? He's got to be doing SOMETHING." She told them.
Joey and Tea nodded. "Ok, then. Let's go."
Joey turned to Daricio. "So, you gunna just hang out wit Yugi?" He asked.
She nodded. "Sorta. I have to get back before people at home wake up though, so I won't be able to help for very long. Sorry." She apologized.
"Ok. Me and Daricio will search over that way, Joey can go that way, and Tea goes that way." Yugi said, pointing in the different directions for each person. "We'll meet up at the school at 5:00, Ok?"
Everyone nodded and they set out towards their assigned searching areas.
They searched and searched for HOURS!!! But even so, there was no trace of Bakura anywhere. Seemed like Daricio's theory wouldn't work after all.
Around eleven o clock, Daricio had to stop the search because everyone was starting to wake up.
(A/N Yes, everyone likes to sleep in. so what?)
The searching seemed to go on forever and was producing absolutely no results. As a lovely added bonus, it had started to rain heavily on them. Even after searching all of Domino city at least four times and having spent about five hours looking, Bakura was nowhere to be found.
Yugi decided he had had enough of searching in the rain and ran over to the school to meet up with everyone else and compare results. He had a bad feeling, however, that their results would be the same as his.
He pushed through the doors and looked around. Tea and Joey were sitting in some chairs, totally drenched. The looks on their faces showed that his suspicions were correct.
"Hey guys." He said.
"Hey, Yuge"
"Hi Yugi" Tea and Joey spoke at the same exact time, creating an interesting harmonic sound and making Yugi laugh slightly.
"Any luck anyone?" Tea asked. Everyone shook their heads, frowning.
"I guess Bakura DOES spend all day in his house." Tea commented. "Otherwise we would have seen him."
Suddenly, they all realized that they weren't the only ones in the school. They could hear a lot of noise coming from the gymnasium! They got up and went around the corner. The school dance was in progress. Well, actually, it was at the end. The last song had just finished.
"Aw! I had forgotten about this!" Tea complained, watching the people as they filed slowly out of the building, hiding from the rain under umbrellas.
"Hey!" Tristan called as he came out of the makeshift dance hall. "Ya missed the dance!"
"We noticed." Tea said dryly.
"Joey, you should have been here! They started playing the Funky Chicken Dance, and I just knew you would be PERFECT for it!"
"Watch it, Tristan." Joey said, mock glaring at his friend. Tristan laughed, stepping quickly out of Joey's reach.
"Come back here, coward!" Joey yelled, chasing after him.
"Hey! You two! Get over here!" A man called, pointing to Joey and Tristan.
"What?" Joey asked, walking over.
The man held out a sheet of paper on a clipboard. "You both are signed up for the post-dance cleanup crew! Let's break out the mops, people!"
Joey and Tristan looked at each other, surprised, then shrugged and went over to help. "Now who signed us up for that?" Joey asked.
Tristan shrugged, picking up a mop. "Obviously, somebody doesn't like us." He stated. The two heard loud giggling, turned, and just barely caught the sight of two pink school outfits dart around the corner towards the school exit. "And I think it might be them." He added.
Yugi turned and started watching the rain come down, wondering how wet he would have to get before he got home, considering he hadn't brought an umbrella. Tea soon joined him.
"Whacha thinking about?" She asked him.
Daricio chose this moment to quickly run over, whisper "Ask her now!" to him, and grab Yami's hand declaring, "Come here, Yami. I wanna show you something." Then she dragged him into her soul room.
Yugi took a deep breath and began to think of how to ask Tea what he wanted to ask. Finally, he began. "With all of the things that have been going on, it would be a whole lot easier to figure everything out if the Spirit of the Puzzle could remember his past. I've been thinking that maybe if he saw some of the Egyptian stuff at the new exhibit in town, that he would be able to remember something. But I don't want to just bring him to this exhibit; he needs to want to go there. So, maybe if you were to take him around the town tomorrow, then take him to the exhibit if he wants to?"
Tea nodded. "Sure, I could do that, I guess."
"Thanks. It would mean a lot to us. I gotta get home now, or Grandpa will worry. I've been out all day."
"Ok. Yugi, what about school tomorrow?"
"I don't think we have school tomorrow, Tea. Holiday."
"What holiday?"
"Ummm.. Day off from school day? I don't know. But it means we get the day off from school, so that's good."
"Oh. Ok, I'll see you tomorrow, then."
Yugi nodded, then with another deep breath, took off into the rain.
"Yugi! Where?"
"Meet me at Domino Station!"
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{Interlude!: (New interlude person now!) Mr. Gice}
Thomas paced his super extra overly padded room several times, bouncing slightly as he walked because of how much they had padded his room.
He sighed in immense frustration. He shouldn't have to be here. He was absolutely sane, as much as he didn't show that to people all the time. He went over to the corner of the room and picked up the straightjacket that he had struggled out of and pulled a few brightly colored strips out of the pocket. In the confusion of the other night, he had grabbed a few unprogrammed Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips from Seto's pocket.
Now that he had gotten news that Seto and his little brother had been released, he was glad that he had them. They would help him get out. And now that he was alone, it would be easier to not catch the attention of the guards. Tonight.
He was getting out tonight. He was desperate. He had been in these padded cells for two months and there was no way he was going to stay there any longer.
Of course, that's what he had said the night Seto, Mokuba and him had attempted to escape and here he was again. He sighed in silent memory of being dragged back to this horrid place. Then he turned his attention to programming the strips.
It was going to take a while. Seto had put a huge amount of extra security codes on and he didn't know what putting in the wrong code would result in.
He worked diligently, poking and prodding at the tiny buttons on the side of the strip that blended into the strip, preventing anyone who didn't know what they were doing from reprogramming it. Fortunately, Mr. Gice was not "Someone who didn't know what he was doing."
After a couple of hours had passed, he finally broke through the security of the microscopic computer, and he shoved it in his pocket and began working on the next one. There were ten total strips, but now that he had the basic code for breaking though, he could do the rest easily.
He had the rest reprogrammed within half an hour.
Thomas grinned to himself, packing his pockets with the now active strips. Everyone said he was crazy, but now he was going to prove them all wrong. He had some evidence back at his lab that would totally be able to back up all of his theories, providing that the idiots that he was forced to call "co-workers" didn't disprove them.
He pulled out his other great breakout tool; one of his business cards. He slid it across the doorway openings and stood back as the door creaked open. He was surprised that Seto hadn't read the writing on the business card that he had given him so that he could get out. If he had, then Thomas wouldn't have needed to tell him about his work; he would have known. He shook his head. He didn't like socializing much because of the way most people treated him, so he wasn't one to ask when the question concerned the mysteries of human behavior.
He stepped into the hallway and hurried down it, not even bothering to look around; he knew that nobody was there. He rounded several corners, counting them off as he went. "Two rights, one left, five rights, left, right, left, right, freedom." He whispered, mentally picturing the front doors of the institute. After a few seconds of dreaming, he realized that it was making his slow down slightly, so he shook his head and hurried on.
He was two rights and three lefts away from the freedom part, when the alarm went off. Thomas cursed under his breath, and quickly pressed himself to one of the hallway walls. He knew that he hadn't done anything to set off any alarms, and nobody was around to see him, so all he could do now was to lay low until the alarm stopped and it was safe to proceed. Actually, it would be best to find a hiding spot for the meantime so that people coming down the hall wouldn't see him.
He steered himself over to the nearest doorway, trying to remember who was in it. He hoped that it was empty. That would be easiest. And if it weren't, he would have to see if he could convince the person inside that he was either a doctor, or another nut like he had done with Seto.
He pulled the handle quietly, also hoping that if there was someone inside that they would be asleep. He snuck inside. His hope was not fulfilled. The room was occupied, and the inhabitant was not currently in sleep mode.
"Why, hello! Who are you?" The young girl asked cheerfully despite the frown on her face.
Mr. Gice bowed, deciding to pull his 'doctor' act. "I am Dr. Savoib. But you can call me Dr. S." He said, pointing to his blank nametag.
The girl's frown faded and a huge grin came across her face. "What are you doing in here?" She asked angrily. "This is MY room, you know!"
//Strange. Her facial expression appears to be exactly opposite of what she is really feeling.// Mr. Gice noted.
"I am here because I am here. You will let me stay here, of course." He said, trying to keep all expression out of his face and tone.
The girl frowned again. It was a good sign. "Yeah, ok. Whatever." She said. "Whatcha wanna be here for?"
"If you really want to know, I'm hiding." He said, feeling unable to lie to a little girl. "What's your name?"
"I'm Abby. You can call me Ab." She said, copying his tone.
"That's nice. My name is Hadjav. Mr Hadjav." He said, bowing to her again. "But you can call me"
"Dr. S." She finished the sentence for him, frowning hard. He nodded, then looked at his watch. After a while, he looked out the little window, checking to see if the alarm had stopped going off.
"Do you know the "Doo" song?" Abby asked suddenly. "I keep trying to sing it to people, but nobody else knows it."
Mr. Gice smiled and nodded. "I think I know what song you're talking about."
Ab started the song in the traditional 'Gir' way. "I'm going to sing the Doo song now! Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!!!"
(A/N doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!!! Lol. Anyone seen Invader Zim? And his little Robot "Gir" ? Lol. )
Thomas smiled faintly, adding in a "doo" here and there, but mostly just looking out the window and waiting for the red light to stop blinking. When it did, he wished Abby a very quick farewell and used his special lock picking breakout tool to open the door and went back out into the hall.
He wondered what the alarm had been for. Someone else must have chosen that very same night to break out. But now he was running out of time. He could no longer go out the front door because of the security raising. He would go out the ventilation shafts that they had used last time. He hurried down the hall.
When he got to the opening that they had used last time, he discovered that the Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips that Seto had applied last time were still there, plastered to the opening. He knew that they were activated, because otherwise Seto wouldn't have put them on in the first place. He would have to get them off in order to get into the shaft, though. And the best way to deactivate an Electromagnetic Magnesium- Carbohydrate strip was to put another Electromagnetic Magnesium- Carbohydrate strip on top of it that was programmed for somebody else. So all Thomas needed to do was to place one of his strips on top of Seto's strips.
He grinned pleased at himself for having figured out a solution quickly. He pulled one out of his pocket and tossed it onto the already set strips.
Well, he had remembered that the way to deactivate the strips was to put the new strips on the old, but what he forgot was that it caused a chemical reaction that was scientifically called an "Electromagnetic Magnesium- Carbohydratic explosion." This means that a large explosion occurred that did not make a lot of painful heat, but created a huge amount of smoke and sound; the two things that made it so that the people in charge would be able to find him.
//Oh well.// Thomas thought as the guards surrounded him and began to drag him back towards his room. //Now I don't have to deactivate them next time.//
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Ok, end chappie there. I think that 7,860 words is enough for now. ^_^
I hope you enjoyed this chappie! I have to go now. Do you see what I meant when I said Kura got evil? (Kura is Mojobubbles's nickname for Bakura. I'm using it! That OK Mojobubbles?) Well, he's not really evil, but this means he's gunna be doing some evil things.
Anyways, gotta go now! See ya next chappie!
--Daricio
Ya know what? This chappie is going to be very strange. I am very sugar high right now, and I have changed my method of writing for this chapter. Just trying something new. Before, I had everything all carefully planned out how I wanted the plotline to go and everything, but this time I'm just sorta typing down the first thing that enters into my mind. (Note: I just recently finished watching the Weevil's web episodes, so that has effected the "first thing that pops into my mind" thing.) This method, so far, has resulted in a rather chaotic thingy. Chaotic, but definitely interesting. I'd like input on what writing method seems to work better for this story.
I'm trying to improve my vocabulary, so if you see any big, weird words, I may or may not explain them, so feel free to either use FF.net's dictionary thingy, or ask me what it means. I've been looking in the dictionary for strange words. Did peoples know that the "Word" "Higgledy-Piggledy" is in the dictionary? My WordScribe thingy probably wouldn't like it, but it WAS in the dictionary.Honest! It means, "Haphazard, or randomly placed." Strange, ne?
In the Weevil's Web thingys, Joey calls Weevil, "Underpants!" They stole my idea!!! Actually, I was thinking Weevil Underwear, but that works. Actually, Evil Underpants would be an interesting name too.. Now what mental piccies come up when you think of evil underpants? ("AAAHH!! IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE EVIL UNDERPANTS!!!!!") lol. Anywhos, on with the rest of the author notes. (Note: this is a freaky example of me writing the first thing that pops into my head. Kinda makes you wonder how the story turned out, ne?)
Here is the NORMAL author notes. ( i.e. The part I wrote before I gotsted sugar-high. Or at least before I gotsted completely sugar-high. ^_^ )
First off, I just recently realized a big thing that makes my story difficult to do... There are gaps between episodes!!! Life doesn't just come to a screeching halt for the characters after their half hour is up!!! So how in the world would there be a week long gap in, say, the Espa Roba thing, or other duels that were chopped in half? So, in my story, I'm going to make two changes. One is that the new episodes, (For Daricio, anyway, not in the real world... Darn...) are going to be daily instead of just being on weekends... Also, The episodes are going to be a little behind real life... Such as, the episode will show what happened a little while ago, instead of being right on track with what they're doing at that moment in time. Unfortunately, this means that it will be very hard for Daricio to help Yugi an Yami with duels by telling them the other player's strategy or hand or whatever... Oh, well, they're good duelists... They don't need help from Daricio... (Speaking of which, most of the POV's for this are going to be in Daricio's POV... K? Unless there is a good reason for not having it in her POV... A.K.A. Bakura POV's and the interludes...)
Also, another thing that makes my story kinda strange. When I was writing this chapter, I lost all sense of time and my head became really befuddled, and now we all get to pretend that Sunday doesn't exist!!! This week is going to go as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, then Monday! It may be confusing at first, but don't get too confused. And don't worry, this is the only "week" that will be like that. The only reason I'm doing that is cuz I messed up.
Ok, for yet another thing, I have realized that I have been using something in my story and I haven't been giving proper recognition to her. In her story "Shadow Turned Light" (Which is a GREAT story by the way.. You've GOT to read it.) she used the term "Temporary physical form." As you know if you've read this far, I've used that term in my story several times without recognizing *Drum roll* High Crystal Guardian!!! Thank you, HCG for letting me use your term! *Bow*
I made Ishizu kinda evil in that last chappie!!! (And yes, I'm calling her by her dub name, and not by the Japanese name, Isis. Why? That's just how it is. I like the dub name better, and it's too hard for me to try to keep track of who's who when using the Japanese names...) And yes, she's kinda evil. I figure that such a cool, knowledgeable person like her, (As was commented, "She's the only smart girl on the whole fricking show!" ~Mojobubbles) She can't be totally un-evil...^_^ Actually, I am making several characters in this chapter be kinda evil. Including Bakura! *Evil grin*
I bet you have noticed that my WordScribe hasn't been going off... This is because Me an Seto had a WHOLE lot of fun with some rifles... If you know what I mean... *Another evil grin* Surprisingly, he's a very good aim... Especially when it concerns his AI... Which kept yelling at us... ("Ha! You missed!!!! Ow!")...
^_^
A big thank you to everyone who reviewed! I wouldn't have even gotten this far without your guy's support... In fact, If it weren't for you, this story would never have gotten past, "Hey, I can transport these people over here! How fun!" Thank you, thank you, thank you, reviewers! (And for those of you who read this story, but don't review, shame on you!) Also, BIG thanks to pruningshears! A big YAY! to her for many of the ideas in this chappie, including revealing to me how I would be able to keep my interludes going even though Seto has stopped doing them and has become a real character again. YAY!!! (And yes, Caterfree10, I know, I know, I just stole your word... "YAY!!!")
So, thanks again to everyone!!! Ideas, encouragement, and yes, even constructive criticism, is always welcome! (I never get quite enough criticism... I always get, "This is great! I wouldn't change a thing!" When people read my rough drafts of writing when we're supposed to be doing peer editing with school stuff, and so I feel bad because I'm one of the only ones with no corrections... (Poor other people) makes me feel kinda guilty cuz I'm all being over-critical with other people so they get lots of marks on their papers.... So, yeah...)
Anywhos... ......... ..................... .................... uh....... Hmm.................. What else do I want to say before I start the fic?................Hmmmm............Uh.... I have no earthly clue if there is anything else I need to say...
So let's just start the fic!("Misspelled!") ..... What, did we get a new one or something?!?!?!? *Sigh* *Looks at thing* only 8 more days until trial period is over...only 8 more days.... *Dreams*
Ok, so now lets start the fic ("Misspelled!") whilst I try and ignore this thing... Then afterwards, it'll be time to take Seto ("Misspelled!") out shooting again... ("Gulp!") *Evil grin*
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{Daricio}
Daricio went back into her soul room and closed the door. Through the link that she now had with Yugi, she could sense that he was really confused about all this. Through her link with Yugi and through his link with Yami, she could faintly tell that Yami was asleep. Yugi also had a few weaker links with his friends and his Grandpa, so Daricio could also tell some of their emotions well enough to know that Tea and Joey were worried and Tristan and Grandpa were asleep. She couldn't sense anything from Bakura though... Strange... The link with him must not be as strong. Through the link she had with her brother and sister, she could tell that they were both asleep.
Man, links were confusing... And she and Yugi had way too many of them...Trying to figure out which of the emotions she was feeling were her own... Strange how recently she had been able to figure out and analyze everyone else's feelings, but she couldn't tell how she was sometimes...
Daricio sighed. Thoughts like not being able to know your own emotions were depressing. She needed to be able to do something fun. Or if not DO something, then maybe eat the candy bar she had stashed in her dresser drawer.
She swung her legs out of bed and jumped down to the floor. She walked slowly over to her dresser, being careful not to step on the toys scattered here and there along with a couple of piles of books and a few random articles of clothing.
She rummaged around in the top drawer of her dresser, her junk drawer. She knew she had a candy bar stashed in there somewhere...
Come on.... It was here somewhere... She just knew it was...... There! A Hershey bar! Success!
She grabbed it and headed back to her bed, opening it as she walked, and wincing as she stepped on a particularly sharp loud thing that started woofing Christmas carols at her.
She sighed, massaging her forehead in a vain attempt to make her headache go away. She sensed her little sister waking up and sighed again.
"Wha?" Shells mumbled, still half asleep.
"Sorry. Stupid toy on the floor...You can go back to sleep now."
"What're you doing out of bed in the first place, Daricio?" Shells wondered, rubbing at her eyes.
"I... couldn't sleep."
"You know, the last time you 'couldn't sleep,' you were hiding something from me." Shells said.
"This is different." Daricio insisted.
"Really." Shells didn't sound very convinced.
"I'm not hiding anything! I just can't sleep, that's all." Daricio said.
Shells sat up in bed, looking at the clock. She was just about to respond to her sister when she turned back to Daricio and noticed what she was holding and now eating.
"Daricio, you shouldn't be eating chocolate at 10:00 at night. It's not good for you, and you're going to give us all sugar rushes."
"What? When I eat a candy bar it doesn't give everyone I have a link with a sugar rush! It's not like we're linked physically! And besides, sugar helps me sleep at night."
"Right."
"It does! And besides, what do you know about these sort of things anyhow?"
"I know enough! Does the thing you're not telling me have anything to do with that bar of chocolate?"
"I'm NOT not telling you something.... And no, the chocolate has nothing to do with it.... Sorta..." Daricio said, taking another bite, despite what her sister was telling her about sugar rushes.
"What does it have to do-"
"It's 10:00?"
"Yeah, even look!"
"Oh, great... Mom told me I have to go to school on Monday AND do the paper route in the mornings because I'm not sick anymore. I have to go to bed now... It's a good thing I still have Saturday tomorrow to mess around before I go back to school Monday...And I can't wait until tomorrow's new episode."
"Oh, forgot to tell you... The new episodes have been changed from being on Saturdays to weekdays after school. I have no clue why, but it's definitely good!"
"What? That means I have to wait until Monday!" Daricio said. "Oh well. Now we get them every day! You know, Mom is always telling us, 'do those episodes really matter all that much? It's not like it's a matter of life or death if you miss one!' Now they sorta are... I mean, I need to know if I'm in any of them... That would be strange..."
"As if what IS happening isn't strange enough?"
"True. But if I were in the new episodes, it would kinda let our secret out... And I would get mobbed by a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh lovers at school..."
"Yeah... Try and stay away from the FWC's..."
"That's right. Except, according to that book that Yugi's got, they're invisible, so that will be difficult."
Shells shrugged. "If you're in them, you're in them. You'll find out after school Monday, right?"
"Right."
"Goodnight, Daricio."
"Goodnight, Shells."
"Put the candy away."
"Why?"
"You're going to make yourself sick..."
Daricio looked from her sister to her candy bar, then shrugged and stuffed the rest of it in her mouth, causing her sister to laugh.
"Night."
"Might..." Daricio said around her chocolate bar.
She got into bed and pulled the covers over her head, staring at the designs in them while still savoring the chocolate.
Several minutes passed, during which Daricio discovered that her sister was right about the sugar rush. Usually, chocolate really did make her fall asleep quickly, but now she just plain old couldn't sleep. She was tired, yes, but she couldn't sleep.
"Daricio..." Someone whispered softly. Daricio was so groggy now that she couldn't tell who it was.
"Hrm?" She mumbled in answer to the call.
There was no reply. It took her a few moments before she realized that the call had been a mental one.
She went into her soul room and looked around. //What? Did someone just call me?//
There was no answer. She shrugged. She was just about to turn in the other direction when she heard the voice again.
//Daricio.// It called extremely softly. Daricio frowned, realizing that the reason she hadn't known who had called was that she didn't recognize the voice.
She turned around her soul room again, trying to determine where the voice was coming from. It wasn't from the door leading to her brother and sister's connection. It wasn't from Yugi's door, either. But... That meant that the only place it could be coming from was right there in her own room.
//H-hello?// She asked. //Who's here?//
//Daricio...// the unknown person whispered, just barely louder than the last two times.
Daricio sat down slowly on a sofa, still looking around nervously. She was about to try and ignore the voice and just go to sleep, when she realized something. Imagination could make people invisible in soul rooms. That was obvious because she had done it before to sneak into Yugi's soul room. Could someone else be sneaking into hers the same way?
She flooded the soul room with light. Suddenly, she felt a sharp twinge of fear go up her spine. But it wasn't her fear. It had to be someone she was linked to. She was just about to fill the room with imagination powers that would make anyone who was imaginationally invisible become visible, when she sensed the presence leave her soul room.
She sighed in frustration; not having been able to tell which exit it had gone through.
//Who could that have been? Who was in my soul room?// She thought, breathing hard from the sudden adrenaline rush she had from the other person's fear. //What's happening?//
//Daricio?// A voice she recognized mentally called out to her. She jumped slightly, and then looked around her soul room. The door to DVD's link had opened a little and DVD was peeking in.
// Shouldn't you be in your own mind?// Daricio asked.
//Well, I figure, it's night so I'm supposed to be asleep anyway. What's up, Daricio?//
//What do you mean, what's up?// she asked, thinking that it was probably him that had done that.
//I mean, that I suddenly can't sleep... Were you eating chocolate?//
//Yeah... But that's beside the point!//
//Daricio, when you do that, it gives us all sugar rushes... You do know that, right?//
//No it doesn't!//
//Yes it does!//
//Yes it does!// Shells put in from her own soul room door.
Daricio sighed. //I guess that means no more late night chocolate feasts for me...// She said sadly. DVD nodded, smiling.
They began to chat about nothing really in particular, and soon Daricio had all but forgotten her little encounter with the unknown person.
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{Bakura}
"Stop it! Stop it!!! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Radley's pleads rang out sharply in the room that was otherwise silent.
Bakura frowned, experiencing a slight moment of Déjà vu. Those were the same words he himself had been saying not too long before for the same reason. He decided that he didn't want to be like Radley in any way at all. So he did exactly opposite of what the spirit had done to him. He stopped the memory that was playing, the one in which Radley's mother and father both died, and brought them out of the Shadow Realm.
Now that his mind was back with his body in the park, he stood up shakily, leaning on the big oak tree for support. Looking around him, he noticed just how dark it was and realized, too late, that he had forgotten to stop the time while they were in the Shadow Realm. That meant that he had to get home as soon as possible.
He took a deep breath, now very tired from the effects of the Shadow Realm and the powers of the Ring, and started hurrying off as fast as he could. Suddenly, it felt as if he wasn't as tired anymore. He began running, wondering where the sudden energy boost had come from.
After going for a while, he realized what it had to be. Radley was helping him. Merging with him just enough to give him a little extra strength.
"Thanks." He whispered, almost silently to the Spirit.
//Well, what was I supposed to do?// Radley answered wearily. //Let you just sit there all night till you got enough energy to get up?// He laughed dryly. //Say. Let's not bug each other any more, Ok?//
//Sounds good to me. You leave me alone; I'll leave you alone. No more teasing. No more Shadow Realm. No more-//
//No more Shadow Realm?//
//Yes.// Bakura said forcefully.
They went on in silence.
When Bakura got to his house, instead of going in through the front door and possibly facing his father, he around the side and climbed into his room through the window. Once inside, after listening carefully and deciding that everyone was asleep and that nobody had noticed that he was gone, he lay down on his bed, exhausted now that Radley wasn't helping anymore.
//Now do you see what it's like to relive your life over again? Knowing what's going to happen and being powerless-again-to stop it.//Bakura asked. The spirit took a few seconds to answer.
//Yes.// He said finally, tonelessly. He sighed. //That doesn't make me think of you as any less annoying, though.//
Bakura frowned. //If you don't like me so much, why don't you just leave?//
Radley laughed hollowly. //Believe me, If I could, I would. Unfortunately, it's not that simple.//
//What do you mean?//
Radley sighed again, this time in slight exasperation. //I'm bound to you, Ryou. In more ways than one. For one thing, I live inside the Ring. I'm bound to it. You are the destined one of the Ring. This makes me bound to you. Also, I had to create a very powerful, strong mental link in order for you to cross worlds. That also binds me to you.// He explained.
Ok. I already know that mental links are mainly irreversible, so I guess We'll always be sorta linked together. But if you were somehow unbound from the Ring, would you be able to have your own body and be away from me?//
//Well, yeah, of course. But I don't think I CAN be unbound from the Ring.//
//If you had more Millennium Items, would you?// Bakura asked, deep in thought.
//If I had more Millennium items, there are a lot of things I would be able to do. Why do you think I'm trying to get them?//
//How many do you think you would need to unbind yourself?// Bakura wondered. //Or to have me unbind you?//
//Why do you care?//
//How many?// Bakura asked again.
//I don't know! I would think at least four.//
//Let's make a deal.//
Radley narrowed his eyes. //What kind of a deal?//
//I'll help you get two more Millennium Items, as long as you promise to get out and leave me alone. And one more thing. We are not going to hurt anyone to do it. Especially not Yugi. Is it a deal?// Bakura asked, holding out his hand.
//Deal.// They shook on it.
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{The next morning: Yugi}
Yugi was woken from the second Dark Magician chasing dream he had had that night by Yami telling him to get up because the alarm clock was driving him nuts.
//Sorry Yami.// Yugi said, shutting off the clock and rubbing his eyes.
//Well, the evil thing is off now.// Yami said, nodding. //So it's ok.//
Yugi laughed slightly. //It's not evil, Yami. It's supposed to do that.//
//What? Make as much if not more noise than a herd of wild animals? But why?//
"I wanted to get up early today, so I set it to go off early so that I would wake up." Yugi explained, getting out of bed.
"Oh." Yami said after a brief pause. "Why didn't you get up when it went off, then?"
Yugi sighed. "I slept through it... That happens sometimes."
"I don't know how anyone can sleep through THAT..." Yami muttered. "Evil little things."
"Well, you slept through one this morning." Daricio informed him, having opened both her own and Yugi's soul room doors so that she could talk with them and still be in her own body. "Mine went off at 5:00"
"Yeah, but both yours and Yugi's soul room doors were closed then. I can't hear stuff through two doors, about two rooms, and through me being asleep." Yami retorted.
"So? You still slept through one." Daricio said, grinning.
Yugi checked his clock. Before, he had turned off the alarm but had neglected to check what time it was. It was almost 8:30.
"What time did Joey say he was going to come over again?" Yugi asked himself.
"I don't think he specified a time." Yami told him. "But he'll be here. Unless he also possesses the rare ability to sleep through that horrible noise."
Daricio laughed. "Most people do sleep through the alarm, Yami." She told him. It was obvious from the look on his face that he didn't believe her.
"Right." He said skeptically.
"Daricio, why do you get up so early?" Yugi asked, coming up with a topic changer from out of the blue.
"Um. Oh, I have a paper route. I have to get all my papers delivered by 6:30." Daricio explained.
"Paper route?" Yami asked.
Daricio and Yugi looked at each other.
"You explain." Yugi said. "I'm going to get something to eat."
He headed down the stairs, listening to Daricio try and explain to Yami, who was not really getting it.
"You know how every morning, there's a newspaper outside the door, and so all you have to do is pick it up and you can read it, right?"
"Well, sort of. Yugi usually reads it to me... I'm not always that interested..."
"Ever wonder where that paper came from?"
Yami looked at Daricio with amazement. "You make those?"
Daricio shook her head. "Nooo... The newspaper company makes them and sends them to my door, and I put them into plastic bags, put them on my bike, and deliver them to people's doors."
"Why don't the people just go down to the newspaper place and get their own paper?"
"Some people do. It's just that it's a whole lot easier to just be able to open the door and grab your paper rather than go to the newspaper place every day, right?"
"Easier for them maybe, but what about you? I certainly wouldn't want to get up to the racket of an alarm clock every morning and give stuff away to random people."
Daricio shook her head slowly. "It's Ok for me, because I get paid for it. And I don't just give them to random people. Different people call the newspaper company and tell them that they want their paper delivered to their door, then they pay the people for the newspapers. Then, every morning, I get a certain amount of papers, and I have to deliver to the people who called the company."
"Oh, ok. I get it now." Yami said, not getting it at all but not really wanting to listen to more explanations.
Yugi smiled, shaking his head slightly. Their conversation went on, but Yugi stopped paying attention to it, because just then, the door to the game shop burst open, and Joey came in, looking around and finally spotting Yugi at the table in the kitchen.
"Yuge, you ready to go?" He asked, looking at his watch. "We don't really have all day..."
Yugi gave him a look of confusion. "Why not? It's not like we have anything else to do today. Besides, do you think Bakura's even up yet?"
Joey sat at the table across from Yugi, realizing that he hadn't even started his breakfast yet, and sighed. "Yeah, actually, I do have something to do today. I don't know if I'm supposed to tell anyone or not..."
"Why not?" Yugi asked.
"Weevil didn't say if I was allowed to disclose the info or not." Joey said.
"Weevil? Joey, what's going on?"
"K, fine, I'll tell ya. I got a letter yesterday, Yuge. It was from KaibaCorp. Apparently, our dear friend Mr. Kaiba got himself sent to the nuthouse."
Yugi frowned. "Yeah, I knew about that... What does that have to do with?"
"I'm getting to it... Anyways, Weevil's been put in charge in his place, and he asked me if I would come and take over for im. So basically, I'd have Kaiba's job..." Joey said, smirking. "I still dun like Weevil, obviously, but this is an offer I can't refuse... says so in the letter. Be here at 10 tomorrow if you accept. Be here at 10 tomorrow even if you don't accept, cuz you still get the job."
Yugi laughed. "That sounds like Weevil alright." He commented.
Joey smiled too. "But I have to go to that meeting at 10." he said. He looked at his watch again. "In... Two and a half hours and three minutes... ten seconds..."
"You're really looking forward to this, aren't you?"
Joey broke into a full out grin. "Hey, I look forward to anything that has to do with embarrassing Kaiba."
Yugi nodded, still laughing.
Joey's expression turned slightly impatient. "Yugi, are you done yet?" He asked, looking at Yugi's half eaten bowl of cereal.
Yugi looked down and realized that Joey was waiting for him to finish. "Uh... I guess I am now..." he said, shrugging and placing his bowl in the sink.
They went out the door after leaving a note for Grandpa telling him where they'd be.
They got to the street corner, when Joey suddenly stopped. "Uh... Does anyone know where Bakura lives?" He asked.
Yugi realized also that Bakura never had shown them where he lived. They had seen each other at school all the time, but Bakura had never really been friends with them until Yugi and Yami had banished the Spirit of the Ring at Duelist Kingdom, and since then so much had been going on, that showing everyone where his house was wasn't really all that important.
Yugi sighed. "Maybe it's in the phone book. There are addresses there as well as phone numbers." He suggested. Joey agreed, and they went and found a payphone. Joey went inside and opened the book, flipping through it to the letter...
"Yugi..." He asked slowly. "What's Bakura's last name?"
Yugi paused for a moment. "I'm not really sure." He admitted. "But I think that Bakura IS his last name... try looking that up."
Joey nodded and flipped to the B's. He stopped at a promising looking page and slid his finger down the list of names, reading a few of them off softly as he went.
"Baabn... Babnal... Badiuav...Bajerak....Baka...Bakbu...Man, these people have really strange names... Ah, here it is! It is in here! Bakura. John Bakura... think that's Bakura's dad?"
Yugi nodded. "Sounds good. Let's try that address..."
"Wait... There's a John Bakura... and a Ketran Bakura... and a Terrance Bakura... and a Waterson Bakura... and-"
(A/N Anyone see the little puns I put into the names? lol. )
"Oh, man... If we try going to every house on that list, it'll be really dark by the time we find Bakura..." Yugi said gloomily.
"Yeah..." Joey agreed, looking hard at the list. "Too bad there's not one that says, "Ryou Bakura" here."
"Why?"
"Cuz whenever we get a substitute, they always call roll an they say, "Ryou Bakura.""
"Oh. So all this time, Bakura has been telling us his name was Bakura when it was really Ryou? I wonder why..."
Joey shrugged. "Now's not the time to think bout that... We've got to find him... My meeting starts in only an hour an a half! And five minutes!"
Yugi looked confused for a second. "We've been doing this for an hour already?"
Joey nodded. "Yeah... So?"
"It seemed shorter..." Yugi remarked.
"Strange. I've generally found that short people think of other things as big, not the other way around." An annoying voice put in. "And you obviously fit the criteria of 'short' "
Joey turned to their eavesdropper, narrowing his eyes slightly at the boy with his blue bowl cut hair and thick glasses. "What do you want, Weevil?" He asked. "And shouldn't you be at KaibaCorp?"
Weevil's obnoxious grin turned to a frown. "Kaiba got back early this morning and kicked me out." He said sadly.
"What?!?!" Joey exclaimed. "You can't be serious!"
"I am totally serious, Wheeler."
"No! That stupid.. He.Back.. Grrrg! What a time to get back!" Joey said, muttering under his breath.
"I know what you mean." Weevil said, nodding.
"I wasn't asking you!" Joey growled, now in a very bad mood.
There were several moments of silence during which Weevil glared at Joey because of his rudeness. Finally, Weevil decided to change the subject.
"Sooo. Can you kindly tell me what it is about that phone booth that is suddenly so interesting?" Weevil asked, pushing his thick glasses higher onto his face.
Yugi was about to answer him, but Joey was still mad.
"Nothing that concerns you, Weevil. Bug off." Joey said, deliberately putting in the "bug" part.
Weevil let out an indignant snort and turned on his heel. "Fine, I will then." He began to walk away, muttering under his breath.
Joey probably should have left it at that, but he wasn't finished with Weevil yet. "Hey Yuge!" He said, turning to Yugi and speaking up so that Weevil could hear. "Suddenly, I'm not feeling my best. I think there's a bug going around!"
He pointed at Weevil. "I hope it doesn't come by and BUG us!"
Weevil froze, his head down and his fists clenching and unclenching slowly.
"Joey." Yugi warned, realizing that Weevil was getting mad.
"What?" Joey asked jokingly. "He's bugging me!"
Weevil looked over his shoulder and glared at him, his fists still clenched, but Joey didn't seem to notice.
"In FACT. I bet that-" His sentence was interrupted slightly as he was knocked to the ground by a small greenish-blue blur. Joey looked up from a daze, staring after Weevil's retreating form storm off in the distance. "Wow." He commented, rubbing his jaw where he had just gotten smacked. "Powerful little Bugger."
"Joey, are you alright?" Yugi asked, trying to hide a smile.
Joey hurriedly got up off the ground and dusted himself off. "Course I am!" He said, trying to save whatever dignity he had left. "That little bug couldn't hurt a fly!"
"Joey?"
"What?"
"Enough with the bug jokes."
Joey nodded, grinning. "Fine."
"We still have to figure out where Bakura lives." Yugi reminded him. "Maybe we should ask-"
"Yugi!" Tea called, coming up the street.
"We could ask her." Yugi finished. Tea ran up beside them, then bent over, leaning her hands against her knees, breathing hard.
"Any luck yet guys?" She asked after a minute, looking up.
"Uh. actually.. We haven't talked to him yet." Yugi said.
"What? Why not?"
"Weeeell." Yugi said, looking at Joey.
Joey took the hint and finished the sentence. "We dun't know where he lives." He admitted.
Tea frowned, then sat down on a bench by the side of the road; one of many that were scattered all over the city. "You don't know where he lives." She repeated.
"Yeah, that's what I said." Joey said. "Do you know?"
Tea shook her head. "I was going to ask you!"
There was silence as this revelation sunk in.
//Ok, that's not good. How are we going to find Bakura?// Yugi thought to himself.
//I dunno.// Daricio mused from the doorway, having finished her conversation with Yami long ago. The two were standing by the doorway. //Well, I sorta have an idea.// She paused for a moment, physically looking around her and making sure nobody was awake yet. Having confirmed this, she stepped over and took a temporary physical form next to Yugi, startling Tea and Joey.
"Can you not do that?" Joey asked her.
She shrugged. "I have an idea of how we can find Bakura." She said.
"What is it?" Yugi asked.
"If we simply search all over town, he's bound to show up somewhere. I mean, he can't just stay in his house all day, right? He's got to be doing SOMETHING." She told them.
Joey and Tea nodded. "Ok, then. Let's go."
Joey turned to Daricio. "So, you gunna just hang out wit Yugi?" He asked.
She nodded. "Sorta. I have to get back before people at home wake up though, so I won't be able to help for very long. Sorry." She apologized.
"Ok. Me and Daricio will search over that way, Joey can go that way, and Tea goes that way." Yugi said, pointing in the different directions for each person. "We'll meet up at the school at 5:00, Ok?"
Everyone nodded and they set out towards their assigned searching areas.
They searched and searched for HOURS!!! But even so, there was no trace of Bakura anywhere. Seemed like Daricio's theory wouldn't work after all.
Around eleven o clock, Daricio had to stop the search because everyone was starting to wake up.
(A/N Yes, everyone likes to sleep in. so what?)
The searching seemed to go on forever and was producing absolutely no results. As a lovely added bonus, it had started to rain heavily on them. Even after searching all of Domino city at least four times and having spent about five hours looking, Bakura was nowhere to be found.
Yugi decided he had had enough of searching in the rain and ran over to the school to meet up with everyone else and compare results. He had a bad feeling, however, that their results would be the same as his.
He pushed through the doors and looked around. Tea and Joey were sitting in some chairs, totally drenched. The looks on their faces showed that his suspicions were correct.
"Hey guys." He said.
"Hey, Yuge"
"Hi Yugi" Tea and Joey spoke at the same exact time, creating an interesting harmonic sound and making Yugi laugh slightly.
"Any luck anyone?" Tea asked. Everyone shook their heads, frowning.
"I guess Bakura DOES spend all day in his house." Tea commented. "Otherwise we would have seen him."
Suddenly, they all realized that they weren't the only ones in the school. They could hear a lot of noise coming from the gymnasium! They got up and went around the corner. The school dance was in progress. Well, actually, it was at the end. The last song had just finished.
"Aw! I had forgotten about this!" Tea complained, watching the people as they filed slowly out of the building, hiding from the rain under umbrellas.
"Hey!" Tristan called as he came out of the makeshift dance hall. "Ya missed the dance!"
"We noticed." Tea said dryly.
"Joey, you should have been here! They started playing the Funky Chicken Dance, and I just knew you would be PERFECT for it!"
"Watch it, Tristan." Joey said, mock glaring at his friend. Tristan laughed, stepping quickly out of Joey's reach.
"Come back here, coward!" Joey yelled, chasing after him.
"Hey! You two! Get over here!" A man called, pointing to Joey and Tristan.
"What?" Joey asked, walking over.
The man held out a sheet of paper on a clipboard. "You both are signed up for the post-dance cleanup crew! Let's break out the mops, people!"
Joey and Tristan looked at each other, surprised, then shrugged and went over to help. "Now who signed us up for that?" Joey asked.
Tristan shrugged, picking up a mop. "Obviously, somebody doesn't like us." He stated. The two heard loud giggling, turned, and just barely caught the sight of two pink school outfits dart around the corner towards the school exit. "And I think it might be them." He added.
Yugi turned and started watching the rain come down, wondering how wet he would have to get before he got home, considering he hadn't brought an umbrella. Tea soon joined him.
"Whacha thinking about?" She asked him.
Daricio chose this moment to quickly run over, whisper "Ask her now!" to him, and grab Yami's hand declaring, "Come here, Yami. I wanna show you something." Then she dragged him into her soul room.
Yugi took a deep breath and began to think of how to ask Tea what he wanted to ask. Finally, he began. "With all of the things that have been going on, it would be a whole lot easier to figure everything out if the Spirit of the Puzzle could remember his past. I've been thinking that maybe if he saw some of the Egyptian stuff at the new exhibit in town, that he would be able to remember something. But I don't want to just bring him to this exhibit; he needs to want to go there. So, maybe if you were to take him around the town tomorrow, then take him to the exhibit if he wants to?"
Tea nodded. "Sure, I could do that, I guess."
"Thanks. It would mean a lot to us. I gotta get home now, or Grandpa will worry. I've been out all day."
"Ok. Yugi, what about school tomorrow?"
"I don't think we have school tomorrow, Tea. Holiday."
"What holiday?"
"Ummm.. Day off from school day? I don't know. But it means we get the day off from school, so that's good."
"Oh. Ok, I'll see you tomorrow, then."
Yugi nodded, then with another deep breath, took off into the rain.
"Yugi! Where?"
"Meet me at Domino Station!"
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{Interlude!: (New interlude person now!) Mr. Gice}
Thomas paced his super extra overly padded room several times, bouncing slightly as he walked because of how much they had padded his room.
He sighed in immense frustration. He shouldn't have to be here. He was absolutely sane, as much as he didn't show that to people all the time. He went over to the corner of the room and picked up the straightjacket that he had struggled out of and pulled a few brightly colored strips out of the pocket. In the confusion of the other night, he had grabbed a few unprogrammed Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips from Seto's pocket.
Now that he had gotten news that Seto and his little brother had been released, he was glad that he had them. They would help him get out. And now that he was alone, it would be easier to not catch the attention of the guards. Tonight.
He was getting out tonight. He was desperate. He had been in these padded cells for two months and there was no way he was going to stay there any longer.
Of course, that's what he had said the night Seto, Mokuba and him had attempted to escape and here he was again. He sighed in silent memory of being dragged back to this horrid place. Then he turned his attention to programming the strips.
It was going to take a while. Seto had put a huge amount of extra security codes on and he didn't know what putting in the wrong code would result in.
He worked diligently, poking and prodding at the tiny buttons on the side of the strip that blended into the strip, preventing anyone who didn't know what they were doing from reprogramming it. Fortunately, Mr. Gice was not "Someone who didn't know what he was doing."
After a couple of hours had passed, he finally broke through the security of the microscopic computer, and he shoved it in his pocket and began working on the next one. There were ten total strips, but now that he had the basic code for breaking though, he could do the rest easily.
He had the rest reprogrammed within half an hour.
Thomas grinned to himself, packing his pockets with the now active strips. Everyone said he was crazy, but now he was going to prove them all wrong. He had some evidence back at his lab that would totally be able to back up all of his theories, providing that the idiots that he was forced to call "co-workers" didn't disprove them.
He pulled out his other great breakout tool; one of his business cards. He slid it across the doorway openings and stood back as the door creaked open. He was surprised that Seto hadn't read the writing on the business card that he had given him so that he could get out. If he had, then Thomas wouldn't have needed to tell him about his work; he would have known. He shook his head. He didn't like socializing much because of the way most people treated him, so he wasn't one to ask when the question concerned the mysteries of human behavior.
He stepped into the hallway and hurried down it, not even bothering to look around; he knew that nobody was there. He rounded several corners, counting them off as he went. "Two rights, one left, five rights, left, right, left, right, freedom." He whispered, mentally picturing the front doors of the institute. After a few seconds of dreaming, he realized that it was making his slow down slightly, so he shook his head and hurried on.
He was two rights and three lefts away from the freedom part, when the alarm went off. Thomas cursed under his breath, and quickly pressed himself to one of the hallway walls. He knew that he hadn't done anything to set off any alarms, and nobody was around to see him, so all he could do now was to lay low until the alarm stopped and it was safe to proceed. Actually, it would be best to find a hiding spot for the meantime so that people coming down the hall wouldn't see him.
He steered himself over to the nearest doorway, trying to remember who was in it. He hoped that it was empty. That would be easiest. And if it weren't, he would have to see if he could convince the person inside that he was either a doctor, or another nut like he had done with Seto.
He pulled the handle quietly, also hoping that if there was someone inside that they would be asleep. He snuck inside. His hope was not fulfilled. The room was occupied, and the inhabitant was not currently in sleep mode.
"Why, hello! Who are you?" The young girl asked cheerfully despite the frown on her face.
Mr. Gice bowed, deciding to pull his 'doctor' act. "I am Dr. Savoib. But you can call me Dr. S." He said, pointing to his blank nametag.
The girl's frown faded and a huge grin came across her face. "What are you doing in here?" She asked angrily. "This is MY room, you know!"
//Strange. Her facial expression appears to be exactly opposite of what she is really feeling.// Mr. Gice noted.
"I am here because I am here. You will let me stay here, of course." He said, trying to keep all expression out of his face and tone.
The girl frowned again. It was a good sign. "Yeah, ok. Whatever." She said. "Whatcha wanna be here for?"
"If you really want to know, I'm hiding." He said, feeling unable to lie to a little girl. "What's your name?"
"I'm Abby. You can call me Ab." She said, copying his tone.
"That's nice. My name is Hadjav. Mr Hadjav." He said, bowing to her again. "But you can call me"
"Dr. S." She finished the sentence for him, frowning hard. He nodded, then looked at his watch. After a while, he looked out the little window, checking to see if the alarm had stopped going off.
"Do you know the "Doo" song?" Abby asked suddenly. "I keep trying to sing it to people, but nobody else knows it."
Mr. Gice smiled and nodded. "I think I know what song you're talking about."
Ab started the song in the traditional 'Gir' way. "I'm going to sing the Doo song now! Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!!!"
(A/N doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!!! Lol. Anyone seen Invader Zim? And his little Robot "Gir" ? Lol. )
Thomas smiled faintly, adding in a "doo" here and there, but mostly just looking out the window and waiting for the red light to stop blinking. When it did, he wished Abby a very quick farewell and used his special lock picking breakout tool to open the door and went back out into the hall.
He wondered what the alarm had been for. Someone else must have chosen that very same night to break out. But now he was running out of time. He could no longer go out the front door because of the security raising. He would go out the ventilation shafts that they had used last time. He hurried down the hall.
When he got to the opening that they had used last time, he discovered that the Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips that Seto had applied last time were still there, plastered to the opening. He knew that they were activated, because otherwise Seto wouldn't have put them on in the first place. He would have to get them off in order to get into the shaft, though. And the best way to deactivate an Electromagnetic Magnesium- Carbohydrate strip was to put another Electromagnetic Magnesium- Carbohydrate strip on top of it that was programmed for somebody else. So all Thomas needed to do was to place one of his strips on top of Seto's strips.
He grinned pleased at himself for having figured out a solution quickly. He pulled one out of his pocket and tossed it onto the already set strips.
Well, he had remembered that the way to deactivate the strips was to put the new strips on the old, but what he forgot was that it caused a chemical reaction that was scientifically called an "Electromagnetic Magnesium- Carbohydratic explosion." This means that a large explosion occurred that did not make a lot of painful heat, but created a huge amount of smoke and sound; the two things that made it so that the people in charge would be able to find him.
//Oh well.// Thomas thought as the guards surrounded him and began to drag him back towards his room. //Now I don't have to deactivate them next time.//
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Ok, end chappie there. I think that 7,860 words is enough for now. ^_^
I hope you enjoyed this chappie! I have to go now. Do you see what I meant when I said Kura got evil? (Kura is Mojobubbles's nickname for Bakura. I'm using it! That OK Mojobubbles?) Well, he's not really evil, but this means he's gunna be doing some evil things.
Anyways, gotta go now! See ya next chappie!
--Daricio