Hello everyone!
(To everyone: I know the author notes are really long today, but PLEASE read them. I swear that mixed in with all the random jamble are some really important questions and things that need to be answered and that are some answers to other people.) ..... (I think I just cunfuzzled myself...)
O.O WOW!!!!!!!! I just looked at the last time I updated... I haven't updated for a whole month now!!!! Yeesh!!! Sorry guys.....
It took forever to get out! And it's not even very long!... I didn't even START writing it until about a week after posting the last one... *Sigh* I DO have good reasons though!
REASON #1!!!
You see, my sister is trying to write a new story called the Millennium Item Girl. It is a really cool story, (Mostly cuz I helped her write it) so go and read it! Right now!!! Ok, maybe not right now... Finish reading this chapter first, then go read it...
But anyway, since I am helping her write it, my head has been filled with tons of ideas for her story, and also a bunch for mine... And I keep writing myself into corners because of accidently writing about Rada in this story and Daricio in the other story and have to back up and rewrite it with the correct characters.... So, yeah... We've been workin real hard on that story and I barely had time to start this one...
So, when you're done reading this, (review on it, of course) then go and review Millennium Item Girl! So far it has only one tiny review!!!!
REASON #2!!!!
(And I use a quote from Mojobubbles's Bio) "I have come to the conclusion that teachers are ignorant, evil beings who think we have no lives of our own and enjoy doing homework." Yeah... I have two assignments that have a total worth of 600 points!!! Plus the teachers keep giving us MORE STUFF!!!!!!!! And part of it is a speech in front of about 120 people!!!!! XP *Falls over* ......... And that, my friends, is why it took me a month to update...
Ok, more additional random stuff...
I got more reviews!!!! YAY!!!! I've got more than DVD!!! ^_^ 82!!!!! Thank you so much guys! Reading those reviews made me happyful! ^_^ Thank you to the following: Mojobubbles, (Though again she has changed her name...Perpetually Hyper One) Caterfree10, (Who has also changed her name... The insane Otaku AKA Caterfree) Serena Bunny, Pruningshears, Yana, Yugiplushie, Tamera Raymond, and... Yogurt?
(* IMPORTANT QUESTION PEOPLE!!!!!!!! *) (*AND I MEAN RRRRREEEEEEEEAAAAAALLLLLLLYYY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!! DON'T NOT READ THIS!!!!!! READ IT!!!!!!!!!*) Should I continue with the interludes? I mean, the only way to continue them is to keep Mr. Gice in the nuthouse, and if I do that, several people will strangle me... and I quote, "Poor Mr. Gice!!!" Well, actually, I have SOME ideas for him being out of the nuthouse, but I'm not sure if they would work, so I need opinions on that...
*NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!!*
I get glassies!!!!!! They ish purple!!!!!! I wore them to school, and nobody noticed them... I pointed them out to a person, and they said, "......*Looks at Daricio's face* Oh! I didn't see them! They blend into your face!" ...So.... Yeah... Invisiglasses... (And, no... My chara Daricio is not going to get glassies as well... That's just me. Not her. And, yeah...)
So, if there is nothing else to say, we can start the fic... *Braces self for "Misspelled!" but hears only silence*.... Can it be???? YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY WORD SCRIBE IS GOOOOOONNNNEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^ The trial period is finally over!!! Yay!!! Yippy!!!! Wahooo!!!!!! ^_^ Now Serena Bunny doesn't have to destroy my computer!!! (She said that if her computer ever did that to her, that she would destroy it, so that implies that she would have been willing to destroy my computer if I had asked her to... Which would have been fun, but now that it's gone, she doesn't have to...) ^_^
Ok, actually, before i start the fic, I must do a little rant... Just because I'm mad about this little thing that the stupid dubbers did....
SLIFER?!?!?!? SLIFER?!?!?!!?!?!?!? WHAT KIND OF NAME IS SLIFER?!?!?!?!?!!?!!?!?! *Ahem* allow me to explain... In the English version, for the god card, they put that his name is "Slifer: The Sky Dragon"... It's SUPPOSED to be "Saint Dragon: God of Osiris" !!!!!!! OSIRIS!!! YOU HEAR ME?!?!?!?! OSIRIS!!!!!!!!!!! *Breaths heavily* In Egypt, Osiris is the god of the dead, and worked together with another god named... *drumroll* Isis! So, it fits PERFECTLY with Yu-Gi-Oh!! *Breathes heavily* SO WHY IN THE WORLD DID THEY COME UP WITH A NAME LIKE SLIFER?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!? Slifer the Sky Dragon! Sheesh!!! Sounds like something you'd put on a car... Slifer! The window wiper!!! *Breathes heavily* ..... *Ahem* Ok, I feel better now... Sorta... Still mad at stupid dubbers... Oh well... At least Malik isn't Terrance... That is maybe their one good quality... I mean, come on... Slifer?! ... *Sigh* stupid stupid stupid....
And another rant!!!
Why in the world did Seto come up with that brilliant idea to use that really cool cycle trick that Yugi did before Yugi figured it out? Yugi's supposed to be the expert duelist that comes up with all the cool stuff, not Seto!!! He just supposed to come up with his own stuff, not stuff Yugi does!!! *Sigh* He figured it out first.... XP ...Oh well... Now just to make me feel better, when I finally get to that point, I'm gunna have Yami figure it out before Daricio does... Anyhow, back to the rant... How in the world does Seto think he can beat Yugi now? He can't use the same technique that Yugi used to beat "Slifer," He'd have to come up with a differant strategy... Cuz Yugi doesn't have a revival jam thingymabobber thing that I forgot it's name.... And neither does Seto.... And even if they did, Yugi doesn't have that one card that makes him draw three cards for every time a monster reforms so if Seto did get that revival thingy, it would just be "attack, reform! attack, reform! attack, reform!" in one continuous round! It would get boring really fast... And neither of them have the one card that lets them have more than six cards in their hand either... So yeah...
And ANOTHER RANT!!!!
What was with that two v two duel? That sucked! Any duel in which Yugi and Seto WILLINGLY work together has got to be worth AT LEAST a full episode! And Yugi's got to do more than just put two cards face down and play Kuribo in defence mode!!! *Sigh* Bad peoples.. bad bad peoples... EVILNESS!!!!!!!!!! evilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevil...... XP
Ok, now that I'm done ranting.... On to the fic!!!!! ...Actually, not on to the fic!!!!
I have made the decision that I am going to do individual Review Responses... (Like what Mojobubbles and some other people do) It makes people feel better about reviewing... And it makes me feel like I'm not ignoring people! So, here goes!
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Review responses!!!!
Random Reviewer 209854- I like reviews from real people better than random reviews, but... *Shrugs* Oh well... I'm glad you like the interludes! And, actually, you did spell it right!
Pruningshears- ^_^ Ok, now I dunt feel bad bout making Bakura make a deal with Radley. You so nice! Not evil at all! ^_^... Your welcome for the mention! You deserve mention lately! (Getting accepted at collage and all that!) And, the letting Mr. Gice out thing will fall to the opinion of the reviewers...
The Perpetually Hyper One- (AKA Mojobubbles) ^^ You is definetly hyper... *turns to Kamilah* Did her high finally wear off? Does it ever wear off? No? I thought not... Mine doesn't either!!!!! (Although mine's not from Inu- Yasha...) Thanks for correcting me on the "Doom" song thing... I knew it was the doom song, but it SOUNDS like the doo song, so that's just how I always do it... And, thanks for letting me use Kura! (That didn't sound right...)
Yana- Yes, different is good... ^_^
Yogurt- Veeeeery interesting penname.... Anyhow, glad you like the story! Yes, I will try and keep going... Not sure how that will work with evil teachers and other stories and nobody reviewing on Millenium Item Girl...
YugiPlushie- lol. I'm sorry there wasn't a done chappie after that one... Glad you like it! Thanks for the compliment! *Turns to other reviewers, pointing to YugiPlushie's review* See, it's stuff like this that makes me feel all good inside! *Gets glared at* Er... not to say that YOUR reviews WEREN'T good.... hehe...
Tamera Raymond- No sticking celery up your nose, huh? That's going on my quotes list...... Finally, somebody says that my fic is better than his!!!!! (Although I do enjoy going over and helping him type it up, because it's fun to write insanity fics now and then)... And thankies for putting me on your favorites!!! (You know, there's only 5 people that have me on their favorite author list... and two of those are my siblings... And there's no way for me to know how many people have my story on their fav lists... It doesn't tell you... So... Yeah...)
The Insane Otaku (AKA Caterfree)- I'm glad you like my chappies!!! ^_^ And thanks for letting me use YAY!!! Anyone can use it now! YAY! ^^ Here's the continuation that you requested!
Serena Bunny- Ok, not exactly sure why you said the last chappie was boring. I mean. I know SOME of it was, but. *Shrug* you'll have to explain to me exactly what was boring to you so that I can not do it next chappie. I know I have better ideas, though. That's why I'm putting them into THIS chappie!And other chappies! ^^ And.. Joey WAS in that last chappie a lot, ne? . But, alright. I'll put him in this one if I can. Course, he's a big part of Battle City, so of course I'm gunna have him in a lot.
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Ok, that's all the reviews! Now, on with the fic!!!! (Sure did take me long enough... If this chappie actually ends up being over 5000 words long, it'll be because the author's note took up so much space...) ^_^
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{The next morning} (No particular POV... It starts out as Daricio, but then it's Yami...)
Daricio's alarm clock went off at 5:00 AM that morning, just like it did every morning.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!
Both Yami and Daricio jumped. Yami gave the clock a death glare. Daricio sat up in bed and hit the snooze button, shaking her head to clear the sleep out of it. She shut the clock off and looked down at the floor, preparing to get out of bed. She was startled to see that Yami was still sitting on the floor in his temporary physical form watching TV. She shook her head.
The night before, she had offered to let him look at Yu-Gi-Oh episodes that she had recorded in order to distract him from what Yugi was saying to Tea....... Two or three hours later, She said that she had to go to bed, and he told her he'd "Turn down the volume and just watch a few more, then he'd go." Apparently he watched more than just a few...
"Morning." She said. He looked up.
Yami looked out the window. "It's morning?" He asked.
Daricio nodded. "Yeah...Did you sleep last night, Yami?"
"No...But...How can it be morning? It's still dark!"
Daricio smiled. "The sun doesn't usually come up until 6:00 or so, Yami. It's only 5."
Yami nodded slowly. "Oh." He switched off the TV. "I didn't realize what time it was."
Daricio jumped out of bed, then pulled on her shoes and went over to the door. "In a normal situation, I would say that it's alright for you to stay here until I get done with the paper route, but... Yugi has a surprise for you today and you need some sleep." she told him.
"A surprise?" Yami asked.
"Yup! It'll be fun."
Yami nodded grimly. "I'm not a big fan of surprises..." He informed her.
Daricio shrugged. "You'll like this one." She said. Then she went out the door hurried down the stairs to start her route.
Yami yawned, then let his physical form fade as he returned to Daricio's soul room, then tiptoed through Yugi's soul room so as not to wake him up, and finally, ended up back in his own. (Tongue twister there...)
He sat on the edge of his mental bed, thinking.
He had seen almost all of Daricio's videos... He thought it was amusing how they added in music here and there... It made it seem like it was more dramatic than it really was...
Also, time passed "faster"... There was several times when little things that had happened were edited out. Like, they had edited out when Tristan was convinced that they should go one way, and everyone else wanted to go a different way... Tristan had finally just gone with them because of two reasons. He didn't want to have to travel alone, and he didn't have a dueling deck so he couldn't do anything alone anyway... The time that was spent wandering around Pegasus's island searching for people to duel and trying to get un-lost was also edited out...
And the cameras obviously weren't as good as the people thought they were... The life points did weird things sometimes... Like subtracting 400 LP instead of 500 or other odd mistakes...
Yami looked around suddenly. //They could be filming me right now, for all I know...// He thought nervously. //I hope I don't look stupid...//
He shook his head. //This is really strange... Only a week ago, I was wondering whether Daricio was really going to be a part of my destiny... Now I'm worrying about a TV show...Boy, have my priorities changed...//
He lay down on the 'bed' and sighed. //Things are definitely more complicated than they were a few weeks ago.// He thought as he faded off to sleep.
***************************************************************** {Daricio: Later}
Daricio looked up at the school clock, longing for it to hurry up and change so that the bell would ring so she could go to her next class and get out of math, in which she had a TON of make-up work for not being there for a week.
Suddenly, she realized just what time it was... It was already 9:50! Yugi was meeting with Tea at 10! She quickly opened her mind link with Yugi.
(A/N Last chappie, when Yugi told Tea to meet him at Domino station, I had forgotten that he had said, "Meet me at Domino Station at ten o clock!" And not just, "meet me at Domino Station!" *Blush* Sorry...)
//Yugi? Yugi, you awake yet?// She asked.
She received a mumble in reply.
//I'll take that as a no.// She thought. //YUGI!!!!!!!!!!!!//
//Huh?? Wha? What's going on, Darici- Oh, no...// Yugi asked, waking up suddenly and also realizing what time it was.
//That's right, Yugi. You better get moving! What happened to your alarm clock?//
//I wouldn't be surprised if Yami turned it off...// Yugi replied.
//That seems likely.// Daricio agreed. //Is he up yet?//
//I'm up, I'm up...// Yami said, yawning. //And no, I did not turn off your clock.//
//Yami, are you ok?// Yugi asked.
//Yes. I'm fine. Just didn't get to sleep last night.// He said.
//Yup. Watching Yu-Gi-Oh episodes late into the night.// Daricio said, mentally grinning. Outwardly, she was pretending to work on math homework so that her math teacher wouldn't come swooping down on her like a vulture demanding to know why she wasn't doing her work.
//Not late into the night!// Yami said defensively.
//Ok, fine. All night.//
Yugi laughed. Yami frowned, then changed the subject.
//So, what is this big surprise you have planned for me?// He asked.
Yugi grinned. //You'll see!//
//We can't tell you! It's be a cool duel, though!// Daricio put in slyly.
//Duel?// Yami asked.
Yugi frowned at Daricio, then channeled his thoughts so that only she could hear. //Ok, now you're just having fun confusing him.// He accused.
//Who, me? Naw... I'm just trying to keep him from guessing his surprise!//
//And messing with his mind, too...// Yugi sighed.
Daricio shrugged. //Added bonus//
Yugi sighed again, then switched back to talking to everybody.
// Now... If only I could decide what to wear!//
Daricio shook her head slightly. //Yugi, might I remind you that you're late? Just pick something and go! You're lucky! When you can't find something to wear, you can just put on your school uniform... We don't have school uniforms.//
//If you don't have to wear those, then YOU'RE the lucky one. I'm not gunna wear my uniform today! I hafta wear that every day! I'm going to wear something different today!//
//Fine, whatever... Just don't be late!//
//Here, Yugi. I'll help.// Yami put in.
Daricio sighed. //Boys...//
She looked up at the clock again and put her math stuff away. There was just one minute until class was over, and she wanted to be prepared to get out of there ASAP.
Yugi ran out the door, heading to Domino Station.
Finally, the bell rang, startling Yugi slightly as he raced down the street,and causing Daricio to rush the math room's door.
In the halls, she tried to avoid getting into conversations with people so that she could pay better attention to what Yugi and Yami were doing. What they were doing was more fun than this...
It was kinda cool, actually. To be walking down the halls at boring old school, and yet, sorta, at the same time be running down the street towards a place that, two weeks ago, she hadn't known actually existed. It was exciting.
"Hey, Daricio!" Someone suddenly called out to her. She sighed, then stopped and turned around, letting Josh catch up.
"Hey." She replied.
"What's up with you lately?" Josh asked casually.
"Not too much, really. And you?"
"Ooooh... Mutant aliens took over the world... evil villans captured the aliens and took over the world... Then I captured the villans and took over the world!"
"Riiight. What's REALLY up?"
"I told you! Aliens, Villans, and taking over the world! That and the sky, of course."
Daricio laughed. "You're hopeless."
"Yup!"
Yugi saw Tea up ahead and stopped for a moment. "Ok, Yami. This is where you take over!" He said aloud. The Puzzle glowed slightly, then Yami was suddenly forced out.
He blinked.
"Hey!!! Wait a... I'm not... Yugi, this isn't a duel!!!!" Yami cried out, flailing about and yelling in the general direction of the puzzle, which was swinging around franticly.
Just then, he noticed Tea staring at him. He quickly stood up straight and help up his hand. "Hello." He said, his face turning slightly red as he realized that he had been caught doing something slightly stupid.
Daricio couldn't help it. She cracked up. //That's it, I'm definitely recording today's episode!// She crowed.
Josh gave her a strange look as she burst out laughing. "What?"
She shook her head, still laughing slightly. "Nothing... Absolutely nothing..."
"Right... Now you're the hopeless one."
"Yup!"
They continued walking down the hall toward Daricio's classroom, still talking.
"So, where were you last week?" Josh inquired.
"Um... I was... sick..." Daricio said, frowning and looking at the floor.
"Ooh. Ok. I bet you have a TON of homework, then." Josh said, grinning.
Daricio nodded. "Oooooh yeah." She sighed.
They reached Daricio's classroom and the conversation came to an abrupt end.
"Well, I'll see ya."
"Bye."
Daricio went into the classroom and Josh ran off towards his next class.
Two girls came up beside Daricio as she walked in, talking about whatever stuff they happened to be talking about. Suddenly, one of them looked up, noticed Daricio beside her and walked around her to the other side, placing her in the center of the little 'group.'
"You're Daricio, right?" She asked. Daricio nodded, looking from one girl to the other slightly nervously.
"And you're..." Daricio trailed off.
"Bethany. And this is Aiko."
(A/N Aiko means "little loved one" in Japanese...I think... I was trying to be sarcastic... These two are horrid preppies...)
"Oh." Daricio said, nodding. "Sorry..."
"That's Ok, Daricio." Aiko said with a toss of her long, silky, obviously- washed-four-times-a-day hair. "Everyone forgets us sometimes! But we... put up with it."
"So.. I hear that YOU beat up Chris last week!" Bethany said with a mischievous look in her eye.
"Sort of...Not really, though..." Daricio trailed off again, suddenly desperately wanting to change the subject.
Bethany and Aiko exchanged glances. "Really now..." Bethany asked.
"Well, you see." Daricio started to explain that it was Chris's fault and that she had only hit him once.
"Well, class is starting!" Aiko exclaimed quickly. The two ran to their seats, giggling.
//What was THAT all about?// She wondered.
//Freaks...// Yugi commented, having watched the exchange.
//My thoughts exactly...//
Daricio slowly walked to her seat and sat down, looking up at the teacher who was just about to start the lesson.
"Ok, class! Welcome to your first day back!"
"Back from what?" Someone asked.
"From the weekend!"
The class groaned.
The teacher tried to fit in with the teens, but... There are some people who are naturally young at heart and just simply get along with everybody, be it babies, teenagers, or fifty-year-old idiots. And there were others who made themselves look like the afore mentioned fifty-year-old idiots and would be better off and would make the world a nicer place simply by sitting in rocking chairs, reading the paper and yelling at random people who passed by.
"Now, today we will start our Earth Science lesson! Take out a sheet of paper to take notes!" She called.
She walked over and shut off almost all of the lights, and turned on her overhead. Then she took out her overhead pen, popped the cap off, and sat on her teacher stool.
Daricio tried to pay attention to the lesson, but occasionally, she would hear whispers and giggling coming from the other side of the room. When she looked over to see what was so funny, there would be a few people looking at her and the giggling would abruptly stop.
This happened about five times, and each time the whispers and giggles were louder and there were more people staring at her.
//Something tells me I just became the latest "talk."// Daricio thought dryly.
Yugi nodded solemnly and Daricio sighed.
//Suddenly, I cannot WAIT for this class to get over. This is going to be a loooooong period...//
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{Mr. Gice} (Again, opinions on this...)
The wall moved closer and closer and closer until Mr. Gice's nose was right next to the rubber padding. Then it retreated and got farther and farther and farther away until it was as far away as it could get and Mr. Gice ran into the soft backing of the wall behind him. Then he went forward again and it got closer and closer and closer until he went into reverse and it got farther and farther and farther...
It was Mr. Gice's way of pacing the room without him having to use up the extra energy it took to turn around each time he reached the other wall. Plus, as an added bonus, the soft walls made it so that he didn't have to worry about running into something sharp when he walked backwards, like he had to do at the lab.
Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth...
He had been planning on trying to break out again that very night and had been making arrangements, but then the guards came in and searched him, taking Seto's Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips away from him.
He had realized that the only way they could have known about those strips would be if there were hidden security cameras in his room.
He had given up searching for them about a half an hour ago after looking for about 3 hours.
If his hypothesis was correct, and there really were cameras in there, then those guards had done a really good job of hiding them...
Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth...
Where could those cameras be? Where did those guards hide them? Where where where?
Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. The wall came closer, then got farther away. Then closer. Then farther. Then closer. Then Farther. Then-
"Mr. Thomas S. Gice!!!!" A voice yelled sternly. Mr. Gice jumped about a foot into the air, looking around, then spotted the man standing at the door who was watching him.
Mr. Gice stopped his "Pacing" and stood at military style attention, his hand held up in a salute.
The man sighed and rubbed his temples, then he spoke. "Mr. Gice, that is really annoying. Would it be too much to ask that you stop?!"
"Sorry." Mr. Gice said. He sat down cross-legged on the floor, bouncing slightly. His hand was still in salute. "Better?"
"Thomas, that is not what I meant, and you know it."
"Oh." Mr. Gice dropped his salute, looking up at the guard innocently. "This better?"
"I meant walking back and forth like that! You're driving us all bonkers!" The man said haughtily. He quickly stepped out of the room and slammed it shut in sheer frustration.
Mr. Gice stared at the door in wonder for a moment. If anybody had been looking in from the window, they wouldn't have been able to see his "pacing" because he had been doing it on the wall next to the door, in the blind spot of the window.
He nodded firmly. This proved his theory that there were cameras in there... he got up and began "pacing" again, thinking.
The camera obviously wasn't near the door, as he had originally suspected, or they still wouldn't have been able to see the pacing. It had to be in one of the back corners of the room...
He moved over to the left side of the room in what would be the camera's blind spot in if were in that corner and "paced" some more. If there was a camera in that corner, it wouldn't be able to see him.
Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth.
"Mr. Gice!!!!" The door was opened again and the same man entered, his face beet red from anger. Mr. Gice regained the afore mentioned military style attention with salute.
"Yes?"
"I thought I told you to stop!!!"
"You didn't say please."
The reply sounded forced. "Mr. Gice..... Will you....PLEASE... stop it!"
Mr. Gice frowned. "Well, you don't have to be all haughty about it all... if you had just asked me!"
"I DID ask you..."
"Well! I cert-" His remark was cut short by the door slamming shut again.
Mr. Gice thought for a moment. They could still see him when he was on that side, then. The camera was in the right corner.
He went over there and began carefully checking the walls, searching for the cameras once again.
It took him a while, but soon, sure enough, there was the camera, stuffed snugly into one of the creases of the padded part. Actually, there were three of them. He quickly grabbed them all, rewound the tapes that were in them, quickly edited out his "pacing", set it for a loop, then pressed play. All within five minutes.
There. Now no matter what he did, they would think he was just doing what he had been doing. He put them back into the crease and began "Pacing" again.
The tapes hadn't been that long... They had just recently been put in there... Probably had been put in right after his first escape attempt with Seto. That made sense...
That would explain why the alarm went off when he had tried to get out before. They must have seen him getting out and triggered the alarm. When they couldn't find him, they turned it off, knowing it would make him come out of hiding.
They were catching on to him...
He went over and picked up one of the cameras, turning it over in his hands. There were several useful parts in there and he really doubted that they would see one camera going nuts for a few brief seconds... And if they were catching onto him, he would have to get out soon, before they raised security even more than it was already.
He pulled the plug on the camera and plugged it into an extra jack on one of the other cameras. This made it so that the television set that was hooked into that camera would now show the exact same thing that the other camera was showing. He hoped that nobody would notice.
Turning and sitting down with his back to the window, just in case anyone came in to check on him, he began taking the camera apart and laying them out on the rubber floor in groups of needed parts and unneeded parts. The unneeded ones would be useful for creating snappers, which he could throw at the guards later just for fun. Snappers are simply twisted pieces of metal that made loud snapping sounds when they hit people. Or things. Or whatever you were throwing them at.
The pieces thus separated out, he began the tedious work of building a few Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips. It would take a while. It was one thing to de-securitize an inactive strip. Building a whole new one was another thing entirely.
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{Tea}
Tea looked down at her watch, then looked around. Yugi was supposed to be there! Where was he?
She was kinda nervous about talking to someone who had been living in a gold puzzle for who-knows-how-long... What would she say to him?
What if she ended up doing something or saying something stupid that would embarrass herself or the spirit? What if she accidently called him Yugi?
This was so confusing... What if-
She turned as she heard Yugi's voice yelling at someone... But... It wasn't exactly like Yugi's voice, nor did the person she saw look exactly like Yugi either... It must be the spirit...
He seemed to be yelling at the puzzle, which was swinging out in front of him... What was he doing?
Suddenly he noticed her looking at him, straightened up, raised one hand in greeting, and said, "Hello." His face turned slightly red.
"Hi." She replied. He walked over slowly, looking around. Then he looked at Tea and smiled shyly.
Tea almost laughed. He was almost as nervous about this as she was! Some of her fear melted away and she was able to relax enough to get a sentance out without squeaking...
"Umm... wanna get something to eat?" She asked, not sure what else to say.
The spirit looked confused. "Actually, I don't know quite why Yugi wanted me to come out here... He never told me, just said it was a surprise..."
"Um... he just told me to show you around the town for a while..." Tea said.
"Oh... But why would Yugi...." The spirit trailed off..
Tea shook her head slightly. "This is really weird..." She muttered under her breath.
"Why?" The spirit asked. His hearing was apparantly better then most people's...
"Umm.. Well, you see..." Tea fought for the right words to express her confusion. "Um... You have been coming out to help Yugi so much that it's kinda hard for some of us to tell the differences between you..."
The spirit frowned. "I have been told that I am taller than him, and that's how people tell us apart..."
Tea nodded. "I know... But you and Yugi's voices sound kinda the same... So when I hear you say, "I don't know why Yugi wanted me to come out." It would be like me suddenly saying, "I don't know why Tea wanted me to come out." See? Like I was suddenly talking in third person about myself..."
The spirit nodded. "Ah. I understand..."
Tea laughed. "Really? Good, maybe you could explain it to me sometime... I think I just confused myself..."
The spirit smiled.
"So, how about we go and get something to eat now?" Tea suggested.
The spirit nodded. "Sure."
They went over to a nearby resteraunt and sat down at one of the tables near the window. A young waitress came up to the table.
"Good morning to you!" She said cheerfully. "What can I get for you today?"
"We'll just have some burgers." Tea responded automatically.
"Alrighty then! And for drinks? Special discount on Hot chocolate today!"
"We'll have that then."
"Okay! We'll have that ready in a juffy, then!" She skipped off.
Suddenly Tea realized something. She turned to the spirit. "Erm... You DO like burgers, right?"
The spirit shrugged. "Actually, I have never tried them... Yugi says they're good though..."
"Oh. Sorry... It's just that... Well... whenever Yugi comes here he gets burgers, so I just kinda assumed..." Tea trailed off, looking out the window. It was stupid little mistakes like that that she had been afraid of making...
"That's ok." The spirit stared out the window as well.
There was silence for a moment, then the spirit spoke up again, whispering softly.
"The hot chocolate, though..." He trailed off.
"What about it?"
"Never mind..."
They sat in nervous silence for a while until the waitress came back.
"Well, the burgers are a bit on the late side, so you'll have to wait for them, but here are your drinks anyway..." The girl said somewhat gloomily, as if she felt personally reponsible for them not getting their burgers.
"That's ok." Tea assured the waitress. "We'll just have the drinks."
The girl brightened up again. "Ok!" She gave them their drinks, then skipped off.
Tea shook her head. "She is waaaay too into this job."She commented softly.
The spirit nodded, still staring out the window, now holding the cup in his hands.
The silence returned as the two stared out the window a while longer, Tea occationally taking sips of her hot chocolate.
After a while, it bacame unbearable for Tea... She had to talk about SOMETHING..... They couldn't just sit there the whole day staring out the window.... She looked over at the spirit.
She realized that he hadn't touched his drink yet. "That's going to get cold if you don't drink it." She commented.
He nodded slowly. "Yes. I know... That's the point..."
"What?"
The spirit's gaze shifted from the window to his cup. "The last time I tried hot chocolate, I tried to drink it too fast... It was hot..." He said simply.
Tea nodded in understanding. "Oh, I see. I get it now... It should be cool enough to drink by now." She said.
The spirit shook his head. "Perhaps... I'll just let it sit for a while to be sure..."
Tea shrugged, then changed the subject, remembering what Yugi had told her to do the night before.
"Sooo... How much of your past do you remember?" She asked casually. The spirit's already dark face grew darker.
"I don't remember much..." He admitted. "I know that my origins lie in Ancient Egypt, and that I now reside within the Millenium Puzzle, but that's about it..."
"Oh..." Tea said. She reached down into her jacket pocket and pulled out a newspaper article she had found that morning. "Take a look at this! It's the new Egyptian Exhibit down at the museum! Maybe if we go to that, we can learn more about your past!"
The spirit looked out the window again. "I don't know, Tea... I'm not so sure that I really want to find out about and face my past yet... I just... Don't think I'm ready..."
"Yeah, me too... I know our circumstances and our goals are different, but we are sorta the same! Your dream is to find out more about yourself, mine is to become a dancer! I always say that we should just learn to follow our dreams! Do whatever I feel like doing! Live for the moment!" Tea grinned, her initial nervousness completely gone. "Ok, I just totally inspired myself! Let's go!"
"But what about-?"
The spirit didn't get to finish his sentance as he was pulled out the door. The hot chocolate sat forgotten on the table.
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Well, people, I was going to do a Daricio POV right now, but... I really need to end this chappie so that you can read it... The Daricio POV will be first thing next chappie.
About the Daricio thing... And her becoming the "latest talk"... (That will turn to gossip and rumors next chappie, just so you know) but that isn't real.... Daricio needs to be doing something other than battle city so that it's not JUST battle city, it's also Daricio doing stuff... And the talk being about Chris kinda pulls the story together some more...
Ok, well... Just so that you know, I'm going to go back and retype the first few chapters of this story... I just recently went back and read them, and they totally suck! I will make them sound better... So... within the next few weeks or so, be watching for that...
Alright, I know that the thing people most remember about a story is the stuff they last read about... So... So that you will remember, I will repeat a few things that I want you to remember!
First of all, the Mr. Gice thing! Let him out of the nuthouse, or no? OPINIONS PEOPLE!!!
Second of all, When you're done reviewing on this, GO READ MILLENIUM ITEM GIRL!!!!!!!! ^_^
Third of all, My bro DVD has been having really interesting stuff happen in his fic! Go read that as well! He put ME in it! ^_^ Fun! (I'm helping him type it, so actually, I put me in... *shrugs* same differance)
So, that's all I would like to say for now! See ya!
--Daricio!
(To everyone: I know the author notes are really long today, but PLEASE read them. I swear that mixed in with all the random jamble are some really important questions and things that need to be answered and that are some answers to other people.) ..... (I think I just cunfuzzled myself...)
O.O WOW!!!!!!!! I just looked at the last time I updated... I haven't updated for a whole month now!!!! Yeesh!!! Sorry guys.....
It took forever to get out! And it's not even very long!... I didn't even START writing it until about a week after posting the last one... *Sigh* I DO have good reasons though!
REASON #1!!!
You see, my sister is trying to write a new story called the Millennium Item Girl. It is a really cool story, (Mostly cuz I helped her write it) so go and read it! Right now!!! Ok, maybe not right now... Finish reading this chapter first, then go read it...
But anyway, since I am helping her write it, my head has been filled with tons of ideas for her story, and also a bunch for mine... And I keep writing myself into corners because of accidently writing about Rada in this story and Daricio in the other story and have to back up and rewrite it with the correct characters.... So, yeah... We've been workin real hard on that story and I barely had time to start this one...
So, when you're done reading this, (review on it, of course) then go and review Millennium Item Girl! So far it has only one tiny review!!!!
REASON #2!!!!
(And I use a quote from Mojobubbles's Bio) "I have come to the conclusion that teachers are ignorant, evil beings who think we have no lives of our own and enjoy doing homework." Yeah... I have two assignments that have a total worth of 600 points!!! Plus the teachers keep giving us MORE STUFF!!!!!!!! And part of it is a speech in front of about 120 people!!!!! XP *Falls over* ......... And that, my friends, is why it took me a month to update...
Ok, more additional random stuff...
I got more reviews!!!! YAY!!!! I've got more than DVD!!! ^_^ 82!!!!! Thank you so much guys! Reading those reviews made me happyful! ^_^ Thank you to the following: Mojobubbles, (Though again she has changed her name...Perpetually Hyper One) Caterfree10, (Who has also changed her name... The insane Otaku AKA Caterfree) Serena Bunny, Pruningshears, Yana, Yugiplushie, Tamera Raymond, and... Yogurt?
(* IMPORTANT QUESTION PEOPLE!!!!!!!! *) (*AND I MEAN RRRRREEEEEEEEAAAAAALLLLLLLYYY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!! DON'T NOT READ THIS!!!!!! READ IT!!!!!!!!!*) Should I continue with the interludes? I mean, the only way to continue them is to keep Mr. Gice in the nuthouse, and if I do that, several people will strangle me... and I quote, "Poor Mr. Gice!!!" Well, actually, I have SOME ideas for him being out of the nuthouse, but I'm not sure if they would work, so I need opinions on that...
*NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!!*
I get glassies!!!!!! They ish purple!!!!!! I wore them to school, and nobody noticed them... I pointed them out to a person, and they said, "......*Looks at Daricio's face* Oh! I didn't see them! They blend into your face!" ...So.... Yeah... Invisiglasses... (And, no... My chara Daricio is not going to get glassies as well... That's just me. Not her. And, yeah...)
So, if there is nothing else to say, we can start the fic... *Braces self for "Misspelled!" but hears only silence*.... Can it be???? YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY WORD SCRIBE IS GOOOOOONNNNEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^ The trial period is finally over!!! Yay!!! Yippy!!!! Wahooo!!!!!! ^_^ Now Serena Bunny doesn't have to destroy my computer!!! (She said that if her computer ever did that to her, that she would destroy it, so that implies that she would have been willing to destroy my computer if I had asked her to... Which would have been fun, but now that it's gone, she doesn't have to...) ^_^
Ok, actually, before i start the fic, I must do a little rant... Just because I'm mad about this little thing that the stupid dubbers did....
SLIFER?!?!?!? SLIFER?!?!?!!?!?!?!? WHAT KIND OF NAME IS SLIFER?!?!?!?!?!!?!!?!?! *Ahem* allow me to explain... In the English version, for the god card, they put that his name is "Slifer: The Sky Dragon"... It's SUPPOSED to be "Saint Dragon: God of Osiris" !!!!!!! OSIRIS!!! YOU HEAR ME?!?!?!?! OSIRIS!!!!!!!!!!! *Breaths heavily* In Egypt, Osiris is the god of the dead, and worked together with another god named... *drumroll* Isis! So, it fits PERFECTLY with Yu-Gi-Oh!! *Breathes heavily* SO WHY IN THE WORLD DID THEY COME UP WITH A NAME LIKE SLIFER?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!? Slifer the Sky Dragon! Sheesh!!! Sounds like something you'd put on a car... Slifer! The window wiper!!! *Breathes heavily* ..... *Ahem* Ok, I feel better now... Sorta... Still mad at stupid dubbers... Oh well... At least Malik isn't Terrance... That is maybe their one good quality... I mean, come on... Slifer?! ... *Sigh* stupid stupid stupid....
And another rant!!!
Why in the world did Seto come up with that brilliant idea to use that really cool cycle trick that Yugi did before Yugi figured it out? Yugi's supposed to be the expert duelist that comes up with all the cool stuff, not Seto!!! He just supposed to come up with his own stuff, not stuff Yugi does!!! *Sigh* He figured it out first.... XP ...Oh well... Now just to make me feel better, when I finally get to that point, I'm gunna have Yami figure it out before Daricio does... Anyhow, back to the rant... How in the world does Seto think he can beat Yugi now? He can't use the same technique that Yugi used to beat "Slifer," He'd have to come up with a differant strategy... Cuz Yugi doesn't have a revival jam thingymabobber thing that I forgot it's name.... And neither does Seto.... And even if they did, Yugi doesn't have that one card that makes him draw three cards for every time a monster reforms so if Seto did get that revival thingy, it would just be "attack, reform! attack, reform! attack, reform!" in one continuous round! It would get boring really fast... And neither of them have the one card that lets them have more than six cards in their hand either... So yeah...
And ANOTHER RANT!!!!
What was with that two v two duel? That sucked! Any duel in which Yugi and Seto WILLINGLY work together has got to be worth AT LEAST a full episode! And Yugi's got to do more than just put two cards face down and play Kuribo in defence mode!!! *Sigh* Bad peoples.. bad bad peoples... EVILNESS!!!!!!!!!! evilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevil...... XP
Ok, now that I'm done ranting.... On to the fic!!!!! ...Actually, not on to the fic!!!!
I have made the decision that I am going to do individual Review Responses... (Like what Mojobubbles and some other people do) It makes people feel better about reviewing... And it makes me feel like I'm not ignoring people! So, here goes!
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Review responses!!!!
Random Reviewer 209854- I like reviews from real people better than random reviews, but... *Shrugs* Oh well... I'm glad you like the interludes! And, actually, you did spell it right!
Pruningshears- ^_^ Ok, now I dunt feel bad bout making Bakura make a deal with Radley. You so nice! Not evil at all! ^_^... Your welcome for the mention! You deserve mention lately! (Getting accepted at collage and all that!) And, the letting Mr. Gice out thing will fall to the opinion of the reviewers...
The Perpetually Hyper One- (AKA Mojobubbles) ^^ You is definetly hyper... *turns to Kamilah* Did her high finally wear off? Does it ever wear off? No? I thought not... Mine doesn't either!!!!! (Although mine's not from Inu- Yasha...) Thanks for correcting me on the "Doom" song thing... I knew it was the doom song, but it SOUNDS like the doo song, so that's just how I always do it... And, thanks for letting me use Kura! (That didn't sound right...)
Yana- Yes, different is good... ^_^
Yogurt- Veeeeery interesting penname.... Anyhow, glad you like the story! Yes, I will try and keep going... Not sure how that will work with evil teachers and other stories and nobody reviewing on Millenium Item Girl...
YugiPlushie- lol. I'm sorry there wasn't a done chappie after that one... Glad you like it! Thanks for the compliment! *Turns to other reviewers, pointing to YugiPlushie's review* See, it's stuff like this that makes me feel all good inside! *Gets glared at* Er... not to say that YOUR reviews WEREN'T good.... hehe...
Tamera Raymond- No sticking celery up your nose, huh? That's going on my quotes list...... Finally, somebody says that my fic is better than his!!!!! (Although I do enjoy going over and helping him type it up, because it's fun to write insanity fics now and then)... And thankies for putting me on your favorites!!! (You know, there's only 5 people that have me on their favorite author list... and two of those are my siblings... And there's no way for me to know how many people have my story on their fav lists... It doesn't tell you... So... Yeah...)
The Insane Otaku (AKA Caterfree)- I'm glad you like my chappies!!! ^_^ And thanks for letting me use YAY!!! Anyone can use it now! YAY! ^^ Here's the continuation that you requested!
Serena Bunny- Ok, not exactly sure why you said the last chappie was boring. I mean. I know SOME of it was, but. *Shrug* you'll have to explain to me exactly what was boring to you so that I can not do it next chappie. I know I have better ideas, though. That's why I'm putting them into THIS chappie!And other chappies! ^^ And.. Joey WAS in that last chappie a lot, ne? . But, alright. I'll put him in this one if I can. Course, he's a big part of Battle City, so of course I'm gunna have him in a lot.
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Ok, that's all the reviews! Now, on with the fic!!!! (Sure did take me long enough... If this chappie actually ends up being over 5000 words long, it'll be because the author's note took up so much space...) ^_^
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{The next morning} (No particular POV... It starts out as Daricio, but then it's Yami...)
Daricio's alarm clock went off at 5:00 AM that morning, just like it did every morning.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!
Both Yami and Daricio jumped. Yami gave the clock a death glare. Daricio sat up in bed and hit the snooze button, shaking her head to clear the sleep out of it. She shut the clock off and looked down at the floor, preparing to get out of bed. She was startled to see that Yami was still sitting on the floor in his temporary physical form watching TV. She shook her head.
The night before, she had offered to let him look at Yu-Gi-Oh episodes that she had recorded in order to distract him from what Yugi was saying to Tea....... Two or three hours later, She said that she had to go to bed, and he told her he'd "Turn down the volume and just watch a few more, then he'd go." Apparently he watched more than just a few...
"Morning." She said. He looked up.
Yami looked out the window. "It's morning?" He asked.
Daricio nodded. "Yeah...Did you sleep last night, Yami?"
"No...But...How can it be morning? It's still dark!"
Daricio smiled. "The sun doesn't usually come up until 6:00 or so, Yami. It's only 5."
Yami nodded slowly. "Oh." He switched off the TV. "I didn't realize what time it was."
Daricio jumped out of bed, then pulled on her shoes and went over to the door. "In a normal situation, I would say that it's alright for you to stay here until I get done with the paper route, but... Yugi has a surprise for you today and you need some sleep." she told him.
"A surprise?" Yami asked.
"Yup! It'll be fun."
Yami nodded grimly. "I'm not a big fan of surprises..." He informed her.
Daricio shrugged. "You'll like this one." She said. Then she went out the door hurried down the stairs to start her route.
Yami yawned, then let his physical form fade as he returned to Daricio's soul room, then tiptoed through Yugi's soul room so as not to wake him up, and finally, ended up back in his own. (Tongue twister there...)
He sat on the edge of his mental bed, thinking.
He had seen almost all of Daricio's videos... He thought it was amusing how they added in music here and there... It made it seem like it was more dramatic than it really was...
Also, time passed "faster"... There was several times when little things that had happened were edited out. Like, they had edited out when Tristan was convinced that they should go one way, and everyone else wanted to go a different way... Tristan had finally just gone with them because of two reasons. He didn't want to have to travel alone, and he didn't have a dueling deck so he couldn't do anything alone anyway... The time that was spent wandering around Pegasus's island searching for people to duel and trying to get un-lost was also edited out...
And the cameras obviously weren't as good as the people thought they were... The life points did weird things sometimes... Like subtracting 400 LP instead of 500 or other odd mistakes...
Yami looked around suddenly. //They could be filming me right now, for all I know...// He thought nervously. //I hope I don't look stupid...//
He shook his head. //This is really strange... Only a week ago, I was wondering whether Daricio was really going to be a part of my destiny... Now I'm worrying about a TV show...Boy, have my priorities changed...//
He lay down on the 'bed' and sighed. //Things are definitely more complicated than they were a few weeks ago.// He thought as he faded off to sleep.
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Daricio looked up at the school clock, longing for it to hurry up and change so that the bell would ring so she could go to her next class and get out of math, in which she had a TON of make-up work for not being there for a week.
Suddenly, she realized just what time it was... It was already 9:50! Yugi was meeting with Tea at 10! She quickly opened her mind link with Yugi.
(A/N Last chappie, when Yugi told Tea to meet him at Domino station, I had forgotten that he had said, "Meet me at Domino Station at ten o clock!" And not just, "meet me at Domino Station!" *Blush* Sorry...)
//Yugi? Yugi, you awake yet?// She asked.
She received a mumble in reply.
//I'll take that as a no.// She thought. //YUGI!!!!!!!!!!!!//
//Huh?? Wha? What's going on, Darici- Oh, no...// Yugi asked, waking up suddenly and also realizing what time it was.
//That's right, Yugi. You better get moving! What happened to your alarm clock?//
//I wouldn't be surprised if Yami turned it off...// Yugi replied.
//That seems likely.// Daricio agreed. //Is he up yet?//
//I'm up, I'm up...// Yami said, yawning. //And no, I did not turn off your clock.//
//Yami, are you ok?// Yugi asked.
//Yes. I'm fine. Just didn't get to sleep last night.// He said.
//Yup. Watching Yu-Gi-Oh episodes late into the night.// Daricio said, mentally grinning. Outwardly, she was pretending to work on math homework so that her math teacher wouldn't come swooping down on her like a vulture demanding to know why she wasn't doing her work.
//Not late into the night!// Yami said defensively.
//Ok, fine. All night.//
Yugi laughed. Yami frowned, then changed the subject.
//So, what is this big surprise you have planned for me?// He asked.
Yugi grinned. //You'll see!//
//We can't tell you! It's be a cool duel, though!// Daricio put in slyly.
//Duel?// Yami asked.
Yugi frowned at Daricio, then channeled his thoughts so that only she could hear. //Ok, now you're just having fun confusing him.// He accused.
//Who, me? Naw... I'm just trying to keep him from guessing his surprise!//
//And messing with his mind, too...// Yugi sighed.
Daricio shrugged. //Added bonus//
Yugi sighed again, then switched back to talking to everybody.
// Now... If only I could decide what to wear!//
Daricio shook her head slightly. //Yugi, might I remind you that you're late? Just pick something and go! You're lucky! When you can't find something to wear, you can just put on your school uniform... We don't have school uniforms.//
//If you don't have to wear those, then YOU'RE the lucky one. I'm not gunna wear my uniform today! I hafta wear that every day! I'm going to wear something different today!//
//Fine, whatever... Just don't be late!//
//Here, Yugi. I'll help.// Yami put in.
Daricio sighed. //Boys...//
She looked up at the clock again and put her math stuff away. There was just one minute until class was over, and she wanted to be prepared to get out of there ASAP.
Yugi ran out the door, heading to Domino Station.
Finally, the bell rang, startling Yugi slightly as he raced down the street,and causing Daricio to rush the math room's door.
In the halls, she tried to avoid getting into conversations with people so that she could pay better attention to what Yugi and Yami were doing. What they were doing was more fun than this...
It was kinda cool, actually. To be walking down the halls at boring old school, and yet, sorta, at the same time be running down the street towards a place that, two weeks ago, she hadn't known actually existed. It was exciting.
"Hey, Daricio!" Someone suddenly called out to her. She sighed, then stopped and turned around, letting Josh catch up.
"Hey." She replied.
"What's up with you lately?" Josh asked casually.
"Not too much, really. And you?"
"Ooooh... Mutant aliens took over the world... evil villans captured the aliens and took over the world... Then I captured the villans and took over the world!"
"Riiight. What's REALLY up?"
"I told you! Aliens, Villans, and taking over the world! That and the sky, of course."
Daricio laughed. "You're hopeless."
"Yup!"
Yugi saw Tea up ahead and stopped for a moment. "Ok, Yami. This is where you take over!" He said aloud. The Puzzle glowed slightly, then Yami was suddenly forced out.
He blinked.
"Hey!!! Wait a... I'm not... Yugi, this isn't a duel!!!!" Yami cried out, flailing about and yelling in the general direction of the puzzle, which was swinging around franticly.
Just then, he noticed Tea staring at him. He quickly stood up straight and help up his hand. "Hello." He said, his face turning slightly red as he realized that he had been caught doing something slightly stupid.
Daricio couldn't help it. She cracked up. //That's it, I'm definitely recording today's episode!// She crowed.
Josh gave her a strange look as she burst out laughing. "What?"
She shook her head, still laughing slightly. "Nothing... Absolutely nothing..."
"Right... Now you're the hopeless one."
"Yup!"
They continued walking down the hall toward Daricio's classroom, still talking.
"So, where were you last week?" Josh inquired.
"Um... I was... sick..." Daricio said, frowning and looking at the floor.
"Ooh. Ok. I bet you have a TON of homework, then." Josh said, grinning.
Daricio nodded. "Oooooh yeah." She sighed.
They reached Daricio's classroom and the conversation came to an abrupt end.
"Well, I'll see ya."
"Bye."
Daricio went into the classroom and Josh ran off towards his next class.
Two girls came up beside Daricio as she walked in, talking about whatever stuff they happened to be talking about. Suddenly, one of them looked up, noticed Daricio beside her and walked around her to the other side, placing her in the center of the little 'group.'
"You're Daricio, right?" She asked. Daricio nodded, looking from one girl to the other slightly nervously.
"And you're..." Daricio trailed off.
"Bethany. And this is Aiko."
(A/N Aiko means "little loved one" in Japanese...I think... I was trying to be sarcastic... These two are horrid preppies...)
"Oh." Daricio said, nodding. "Sorry..."
"That's Ok, Daricio." Aiko said with a toss of her long, silky, obviously- washed-four-times-a-day hair. "Everyone forgets us sometimes! But we... put up with it."
"So.. I hear that YOU beat up Chris last week!" Bethany said with a mischievous look in her eye.
"Sort of...Not really, though..." Daricio trailed off again, suddenly desperately wanting to change the subject.
Bethany and Aiko exchanged glances. "Really now..." Bethany asked.
"Well, you see." Daricio started to explain that it was Chris's fault and that she had only hit him once.
"Well, class is starting!" Aiko exclaimed quickly. The two ran to their seats, giggling.
//What was THAT all about?// She wondered.
//Freaks...// Yugi commented, having watched the exchange.
//My thoughts exactly...//
Daricio slowly walked to her seat and sat down, looking up at the teacher who was just about to start the lesson.
"Ok, class! Welcome to your first day back!"
"Back from what?" Someone asked.
"From the weekend!"
The class groaned.
The teacher tried to fit in with the teens, but... There are some people who are naturally young at heart and just simply get along with everybody, be it babies, teenagers, or fifty-year-old idiots. And there were others who made themselves look like the afore mentioned fifty-year-old idiots and would be better off and would make the world a nicer place simply by sitting in rocking chairs, reading the paper and yelling at random people who passed by.
"Now, today we will start our Earth Science lesson! Take out a sheet of paper to take notes!" She called.
She walked over and shut off almost all of the lights, and turned on her overhead. Then she took out her overhead pen, popped the cap off, and sat on her teacher stool.
Daricio tried to pay attention to the lesson, but occasionally, she would hear whispers and giggling coming from the other side of the room. When she looked over to see what was so funny, there would be a few people looking at her and the giggling would abruptly stop.
This happened about five times, and each time the whispers and giggles were louder and there were more people staring at her.
//Something tells me I just became the latest "talk."// Daricio thought dryly.
Yugi nodded solemnly and Daricio sighed.
//Suddenly, I cannot WAIT for this class to get over. This is going to be a loooooong period...//
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{Mr. Gice} (Again, opinions on this...)
The wall moved closer and closer and closer until Mr. Gice's nose was right next to the rubber padding. Then it retreated and got farther and farther and farther away until it was as far away as it could get and Mr. Gice ran into the soft backing of the wall behind him. Then he went forward again and it got closer and closer and closer until he went into reverse and it got farther and farther and farther...
It was Mr. Gice's way of pacing the room without him having to use up the extra energy it took to turn around each time he reached the other wall. Plus, as an added bonus, the soft walls made it so that he didn't have to worry about running into something sharp when he walked backwards, like he had to do at the lab.
Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth...
He had been planning on trying to break out again that very night and had been making arrangements, but then the guards came in and searched him, taking Seto's Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips away from him.
He had realized that the only way they could have known about those strips would be if there were hidden security cameras in his room.
He had given up searching for them about a half an hour ago after looking for about 3 hours.
If his hypothesis was correct, and there really were cameras in there, then those guards had done a really good job of hiding them...
Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth...
Where could those cameras be? Where did those guards hide them? Where where where?
Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. The wall came closer, then got farther away. Then closer. Then farther. Then closer. Then Farther. Then-
"Mr. Thomas S. Gice!!!!" A voice yelled sternly. Mr. Gice jumped about a foot into the air, looking around, then spotted the man standing at the door who was watching him.
Mr. Gice stopped his "Pacing" and stood at military style attention, his hand held up in a salute.
The man sighed and rubbed his temples, then he spoke. "Mr. Gice, that is really annoying. Would it be too much to ask that you stop?!"
"Sorry." Mr. Gice said. He sat down cross-legged on the floor, bouncing slightly. His hand was still in salute. "Better?"
"Thomas, that is not what I meant, and you know it."
"Oh." Mr. Gice dropped his salute, looking up at the guard innocently. "This better?"
"I meant walking back and forth like that! You're driving us all bonkers!" The man said haughtily. He quickly stepped out of the room and slammed it shut in sheer frustration.
Mr. Gice stared at the door in wonder for a moment. If anybody had been looking in from the window, they wouldn't have been able to see his "pacing" because he had been doing it on the wall next to the door, in the blind spot of the window.
He nodded firmly. This proved his theory that there were cameras in there... he got up and began "pacing" again, thinking.
The camera obviously wasn't near the door, as he had originally suspected, or they still wouldn't have been able to see the pacing. It had to be in one of the back corners of the room...
He moved over to the left side of the room in what would be the camera's blind spot in if were in that corner and "paced" some more. If there was a camera in that corner, it wouldn't be able to see him.
Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth.
"Mr. Gice!!!!" The door was opened again and the same man entered, his face beet red from anger. Mr. Gice regained the afore mentioned military style attention with salute.
"Yes?"
"I thought I told you to stop!!!"
"You didn't say please."
The reply sounded forced. "Mr. Gice..... Will you....PLEASE... stop it!"
Mr. Gice frowned. "Well, you don't have to be all haughty about it all... if you had just asked me!"
"I DID ask you..."
"Well! I cert-" His remark was cut short by the door slamming shut again.
Mr. Gice thought for a moment. They could still see him when he was on that side, then. The camera was in the right corner.
He went over there and began carefully checking the walls, searching for the cameras once again.
It took him a while, but soon, sure enough, there was the camera, stuffed snugly into one of the creases of the padded part. Actually, there were three of them. He quickly grabbed them all, rewound the tapes that were in them, quickly edited out his "pacing", set it for a loop, then pressed play. All within five minutes.
There. Now no matter what he did, they would think he was just doing what he had been doing. He put them back into the crease and began "Pacing" again.
The tapes hadn't been that long... They had just recently been put in there... Probably had been put in right after his first escape attempt with Seto. That made sense...
That would explain why the alarm went off when he had tried to get out before. They must have seen him getting out and triggered the alarm. When they couldn't find him, they turned it off, knowing it would make him come out of hiding.
They were catching on to him...
He went over and picked up one of the cameras, turning it over in his hands. There were several useful parts in there and he really doubted that they would see one camera going nuts for a few brief seconds... And if they were catching onto him, he would have to get out soon, before they raised security even more than it was already.
He pulled the plug on the camera and plugged it into an extra jack on one of the other cameras. This made it so that the television set that was hooked into that camera would now show the exact same thing that the other camera was showing. He hoped that nobody would notice.
Turning and sitting down with his back to the window, just in case anyone came in to check on him, he began taking the camera apart and laying them out on the rubber floor in groups of needed parts and unneeded parts. The unneeded ones would be useful for creating snappers, which he could throw at the guards later just for fun. Snappers are simply twisted pieces of metal that made loud snapping sounds when they hit people. Or things. Or whatever you were throwing them at.
The pieces thus separated out, he began the tedious work of building a few Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips. It would take a while. It was one thing to de-securitize an inactive strip. Building a whole new one was another thing entirely.
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{Tea}
Tea looked down at her watch, then looked around. Yugi was supposed to be there! Where was he?
She was kinda nervous about talking to someone who had been living in a gold puzzle for who-knows-how-long... What would she say to him?
What if she ended up doing something or saying something stupid that would embarrass herself or the spirit? What if she accidently called him Yugi?
This was so confusing... What if-
She turned as she heard Yugi's voice yelling at someone... But... It wasn't exactly like Yugi's voice, nor did the person she saw look exactly like Yugi either... It must be the spirit...
He seemed to be yelling at the puzzle, which was swinging out in front of him... What was he doing?
Suddenly he noticed her looking at him, straightened up, raised one hand in greeting, and said, "Hello." His face turned slightly red.
"Hi." She replied. He walked over slowly, looking around. Then he looked at Tea and smiled shyly.
Tea almost laughed. He was almost as nervous about this as she was! Some of her fear melted away and she was able to relax enough to get a sentance out without squeaking...
"Umm... wanna get something to eat?" She asked, not sure what else to say.
The spirit looked confused. "Actually, I don't know quite why Yugi wanted me to come out here... He never told me, just said it was a surprise..."
"Um... he just told me to show you around the town for a while..." Tea said.
"Oh... But why would Yugi...." The spirit trailed off..
Tea shook her head slightly. "This is really weird..." She muttered under her breath.
"Why?" The spirit asked. His hearing was apparantly better then most people's...
"Umm.. Well, you see..." Tea fought for the right words to express her confusion. "Um... You have been coming out to help Yugi so much that it's kinda hard for some of us to tell the differences between you..."
The spirit frowned. "I have been told that I am taller than him, and that's how people tell us apart..."
Tea nodded. "I know... But you and Yugi's voices sound kinda the same... So when I hear you say, "I don't know why Yugi wanted me to come out." It would be like me suddenly saying, "I don't know why Tea wanted me to come out." See? Like I was suddenly talking in third person about myself..."
The spirit nodded. "Ah. I understand..."
Tea laughed. "Really? Good, maybe you could explain it to me sometime... I think I just confused myself..."
The spirit smiled.
"So, how about we go and get something to eat now?" Tea suggested.
The spirit nodded. "Sure."
They went over to a nearby resteraunt and sat down at one of the tables near the window. A young waitress came up to the table.
"Good morning to you!" She said cheerfully. "What can I get for you today?"
"We'll just have some burgers." Tea responded automatically.
"Alrighty then! And for drinks? Special discount on Hot chocolate today!"
"We'll have that then."
"Okay! We'll have that ready in a juffy, then!" She skipped off.
Suddenly Tea realized something. She turned to the spirit. "Erm... You DO like burgers, right?"
The spirit shrugged. "Actually, I have never tried them... Yugi says they're good though..."
"Oh. Sorry... It's just that... Well... whenever Yugi comes here he gets burgers, so I just kinda assumed..." Tea trailed off, looking out the window. It was stupid little mistakes like that that she had been afraid of making...
"That's ok." The spirit stared out the window as well.
There was silence for a moment, then the spirit spoke up again, whispering softly.
"The hot chocolate, though..." He trailed off.
"What about it?"
"Never mind..."
They sat in nervous silence for a while until the waitress came back.
"Well, the burgers are a bit on the late side, so you'll have to wait for them, but here are your drinks anyway..." The girl said somewhat gloomily, as if she felt personally reponsible for them not getting their burgers.
"That's ok." Tea assured the waitress. "We'll just have the drinks."
The girl brightened up again. "Ok!" She gave them their drinks, then skipped off.
Tea shook her head. "She is waaaay too into this job."She commented softly.
The spirit nodded, still staring out the window, now holding the cup in his hands.
The silence returned as the two stared out the window a while longer, Tea occationally taking sips of her hot chocolate.
After a while, it bacame unbearable for Tea... She had to talk about SOMETHING..... They couldn't just sit there the whole day staring out the window.... She looked over at the spirit.
She realized that he hadn't touched his drink yet. "That's going to get cold if you don't drink it." She commented.
He nodded slowly. "Yes. I know... That's the point..."
"What?"
The spirit's gaze shifted from the window to his cup. "The last time I tried hot chocolate, I tried to drink it too fast... It was hot..." He said simply.
Tea nodded in understanding. "Oh, I see. I get it now... It should be cool enough to drink by now." She said.
The spirit shook his head. "Perhaps... I'll just let it sit for a while to be sure..."
Tea shrugged, then changed the subject, remembering what Yugi had told her to do the night before.
"Sooo... How much of your past do you remember?" She asked casually. The spirit's already dark face grew darker.
"I don't remember much..." He admitted. "I know that my origins lie in Ancient Egypt, and that I now reside within the Millenium Puzzle, but that's about it..."
"Oh..." Tea said. She reached down into her jacket pocket and pulled out a newspaper article she had found that morning. "Take a look at this! It's the new Egyptian Exhibit down at the museum! Maybe if we go to that, we can learn more about your past!"
The spirit looked out the window again. "I don't know, Tea... I'm not so sure that I really want to find out about and face my past yet... I just... Don't think I'm ready..."
"Yeah, me too... I know our circumstances and our goals are different, but we are sorta the same! Your dream is to find out more about yourself, mine is to become a dancer! I always say that we should just learn to follow our dreams! Do whatever I feel like doing! Live for the moment!" Tea grinned, her initial nervousness completely gone. "Ok, I just totally inspired myself! Let's go!"
"But what about-?"
The spirit didn't get to finish his sentance as he was pulled out the door. The hot chocolate sat forgotten on the table.
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Well, people, I was going to do a Daricio POV right now, but... I really need to end this chappie so that you can read it... The Daricio POV will be first thing next chappie.
About the Daricio thing... And her becoming the "latest talk"... (That will turn to gossip and rumors next chappie, just so you know) but that isn't real.... Daricio needs to be doing something other than battle city so that it's not JUST battle city, it's also Daricio doing stuff... And the talk being about Chris kinda pulls the story together some more...
Ok, well... Just so that you know, I'm going to go back and retype the first few chapters of this story... I just recently went back and read them, and they totally suck! I will make them sound better... So... within the next few weeks or so, be watching for that...
Alright, I know that the thing people most remember about a story is the stuff they last read about... So... So that you will remember, I will repeat a few things that I want you to remember!
First of all, the Mr. Gice thing! Let him out of the nuthouse, or no? OPINIONS PEOPLE!!!
Second of all, When you're done reviewing on this, GO READ MILLENIUM ITEM GIRL!!!!!!!! ^_^
Third of all, My bro DVD has been having really interesting stuff happen in his fic! Go read that as well! He put ME in it! ^_^ Fun! (I'm helping him type it, so actually, I put me in... *shrugs* same differance)
So, that's all I would like to say for now! See ya!
--Daricio!