Chapter 2

Cosplay Party

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Yugi kept Yo Gi Oh in the corner of his vision as he picked up the phone and frantically called Téa. "Oh, please pick up!"

A freshly energized female voice picked up the phone. "Hello?"

"Téa!" Yugi said with relief. "Thank goodness I caught you. I need your help."

"Why? What's wrong, Yugi?" asked Téa slightly worried.

"Yami's gone berserk. I need some help with him. Can you come over?"

Slightly confused, Téa nodded to the phone. "Of course I'll come over Yugi."

"Thanks Téa. Oh, shoot!" Yo Gi Oh had rediscovered the stairs to the lower levels and to the game shop. "I've got to go, Téa. Call Joey and whoever else you can get a hold of to help."

Before Téa could respond, Yugi had hung up the phone with a loud crash. Téa grabbed her phone book from under the side table and began flipping through it.

In a panic, Yugi was now in the game shop down stairs watching Yo Gi Oh rummage through all the games carelessly. "Yami, what are you doing?"

"How dare you call me that! I told you! I'm am YO GI OH!"

Yugi ducked as a Jinga piece flew by his head. "I'm sorry!"

Yo Gi Oh humped and continued filtering through the games and trinkets looking for inspiration. "How does "King of Tin Soldiers' sound?"

"What?" asked Yugi as he tried picking up the remaining Jinga pieces and putting the back into the knocked over box.

"No good, huh?" sighed Yo Gi Oh, going back to rummaging through the shop. "Hey, what's in this room?"

"What room?" asked Yugi, looking up. Just then, the bell to the door opening rung. Téa and Joey walked in, both of them smiling like normal. Yugi ran to meet them and quickly flipped the sign on the door to 'closed'.

"Tristan couldn't make it. So, what's going on, Yugi?" asked Joey, glancing around the shop that was in slight disorder.

"Yeah, I heard that something happened to Yami," said Téa, also looking around the shop. "Where is Yami, anyway?"

"He's not here!" Yugi squealed turning around to see Yo Gi Oh was nowhere to be seen. "Where did he go?"

Yugi quickly looked behind the counter and then to an open window in a panic.

"What's wrong with Yami, Yuge?" Joey wondered while watching little Yugi panic.

"Well he... he's kinda lost it," freighted Yugi.

"In what way?" Joey continued.

Téa screamed and hid behind Joey. "I saw something move!"

"Where?" asked Yugi, turning around quickly.

Téa pointed a quivering hand to a door to the left behind the counter. "Over there. Yami won't hurt us, will he?"

"Well..." Yugi rubbed his head in thought and ended up pulling a few more Jinga pieces out of his hair.

Téa cowered again. "Something moved again."

All of them slightly on edge again, Joey moved closer to the door. "Hey, Yami? You, eh... okay in there?"

A deep voice replied from within the darkness of the room. "Yami is dead. I destroyed him."

Joey looked back at Yugi who looked just as scared as Téa. Joey turned back to the room and gulped. "Then who are you?"

With a graceful sweep, Yo Gi Oh lept upon the glass counter. "I am Yo Gi Oh! King of Game!"

One look at Yo Gi Oh and everyone had fallen over. Yo Gi Oh was standing upon the counter with a fake foxtail, fake ears and a fake snout.

Looking down at everyone on the ground, Yo Gi Oh took this as a negative response to his perfect entry. "No?" He lept off the counter and back through the door.

Joey slowly recovered from his head on collision with the floor. "Yugi, you didn't tell me he went loony."

Yugi was rubbing his head and removing the rest of the Jinga pieces. "I didn't know he'd go this far. He must've found the costume closet."

Téa had just helped Yugi up when there was a silent knock at the door. "May I come in?"

"Bakura!" cheered Téa, "You made it." (Bakura = good Bakura)

A cheerful lad with white hair and a slight English accent walked in the door. "Well, when I heard that something was wrong, I couldn't not come and help. Just as long as I don't get run over again by a giant boulder."

Téa laughed slightly, still slightly nervous from Yo Gi Oh's last appearance.

Before Bakura could ask what was up, the door burst open and Bakura was crushed against the wall.

"I'M BACK!" Yami Bakura shouted, grinning devilishly in the doorway. (Yami Bakura = Evil Bakura)

"Bakura!" Téa shouted as the door slowly closed to reveal poor Bakura crushed against the wall. Téa helped him up.

Yami Bakura payed little attention and went to scanning the shop like the others had before him. "So, what happened to the pharaoh this time?"

When there was no reply, Yami Bakura turned to the others to ask again. He gave them all a strange look when he saw that they were all standing on one leg with their hair up strait, scared out of their wits.

A voice from behind him whispered, "I am Yo Gi Oh! King of Pain."

Yami Bakura turned around to see what they were looking at and almost burst out laughing, but instead raised an eyebrow at Yo Gi Oh. He was wearing a long black cloak with chains around his neck. He had a fake bloody are in his head and a plastic, spring-loaded dagger in his hand.

Looking over Yami Bakura's shoulder, Yo Gi Oh looked over at Yugi and the gang. "How's this one?"

The four were just as terrified as when he had first appeared, still on one leg and their hair still up straight. Yo Gi Oh's eyes turned into mere lines with the classic sarcastic 'thanks allot' look. "You know, Yugi. A simple 'no' would've sufficed." Yo Gi Oh pulled the fake axe out of his axe out of his hair and tossed it carelessly and it struck poor Bakura over.

Yo Gi Oh returned to the costume closet and Yami Bakura puzzled over what he had just seen. He turned and looked at the group of kids fixing their hair. With a devilish grin, Yami Bakura began to inch towards the closet.

"Gosh, I'm sorry, Bakura." apologized Yugi.

"I see now why you asked for help." Bakura attempted to smile as his heart began to calm down.

"Yugi, tell us." Tea said, fixing her plaid skirt. "What happened to... Yo Gi Oh for this to happen?"

Yugi stood and thought of a good way to put this. "Well, you see, I was reading the newspaper when- WHAT IS HE DOING!?"

All their heads snapped in the direction of the counter to see Yo Gi Oh standing upon it in nothing but a loincloth, a headband and war paint. "I am Yo Gi Oh! King of the Savages!"

Yo Gi Oh lept off the counter and started doing his war dance and the whole group had massive sweat drop expressions. Yugi was about to ask Yo Gi Oh to stop when Yami Bakura burst out of the costume closest and stomped up onto the counter. He had an Arnold Swartzinager look to him. Dressed in camo with chains of bullets across his chest and armed with two huge chain nerf guns, he shouted manically, "I am Yami Bakura! King of Mass Destruction!"

Yo Gi Oh actually looked entertained until Yami Bakura looked down at him with a devilish grin, aiming a nerf gun at his face. Yo Gi Oh fled in panic as Yami Bakura chased him out of the room "Die, savage! I, king of Mass Destruction shall be your opponent!"

The door swung open once again and once again crushing Bakura behind it. "Did some one say 'Mass destruction'?" In the door this time stood Yami Marrik.

"Bakura." moaned Téa, going to help him up again.

Another sweat drop fell from Yugi's face. "Téa? How many people did you call?"

Before Téa could answer, the door swung open again, knocking Bakura down for a third time. Normal Marrik was in the doorway this time. Flipping his hair, Marrik smirked. When he was about to say his entrance line, Yami Marrik sent him an evil glare and Marrik looked down, saddened, and scurried over to pick up the tail end of Yami Marrik's cloak off the ground.

Yami Marrik scanned the shop, the 2nd Yami to do so. "So, what has happened to the pharaoh?"

"You know," smiled Bakura. "My Yami said the exact same thing when he walked in here."

Yami Marrik tilted his head slightly. "The tomb robber is here?"

Hearing a loud crash, the gang quickly covered their eyes. Yami Marrik and Marrik looked at them strangely until they realized why. Yo Gi Oh came, half tripping over himself, skidding into the room, covering his head. "I give up! I don't want to be the King of Savages anymore! Ow!"

Yami Bakura was hot on his tail shooting an unending melee of darts at his backside. "I won't show you any mercy this time!"

"Ow!" cried Yo Gi Oh. "Those darts really hurt!"

Marrik felt incredibly awkward as Yami Marrik burst out into laughter at Yo Gi Oh's pain. "Now, that is entertainment."

Yo Gi Oh flung himself into the costume closet. Yami Bakura followed close behind and Yami Marrik walked in as well, leaving the normal Marrik outside. Fixing his hair again and dusting himself off, Marrik walked over to the group of kids who all looked dumbfounded.

"All right, Yugi." said Marrik regally, clearing his throat. "What's going on?"

Yugi took a deep breath and began explaining everything that had just happened. He told them about the movie and the typo in the newspaper and how Yami had just snapped.

Bakura nodded. "For something to happen to quickly, it sounds like Yami had just been searching for an excuse to lash out at the world."

"Well, I'd say Yugi got lucky," sighed Marrik. "My Yami tried to destroy me when he snapped."

Everyone nodded and sighed.

Yugi looked up at everyone. "Well, what are we going to do about them? By the looks of it, it's not just my Yami any more."

It was true. The three Yamis were now sitting upon the counter in deep conversation. It was quite a sight. Yo Gi Oh was now dressed in a Circus Ring Master outfit was a whip and a top hat. Yami Bakura had changed his look to that of an English guard; all dressed in red was a tall fuzzy hat. Yami Marrik, had only just been introduced to the costume closet was wearing a headband with a red spot in the middle and had a sword strapped on his back.

"You you're Yo Gi Oh, Pharaoh?" asked Yami Marrik.

"If you're not going to be Yami anymore, can I have it?" asked Yami Bakura? "It just sounds shorter than mine."

"I don't see why not." replied Yo Gi Oh.

"What about you, Psychopath?" Yami (Bakura) asked Yami Marrik.

After scowling at Yami (Bakura), Yami Marrik replied. "Well, Marrik never really sounded like a truly evil name. I want to be called something that someone hears and you just know that that person is evil.... like Grimlord or Darek Nagel or something."

"Well," Yo Gi Oh popped in, "I'm also trying to think of something else to be the king of. King of Games just doesn't work anymore."

They all sat in thought for a moment. Yami (Bakura) perked his head up. "How about 'King of the Undead."

"Or 'King of Shame'." Suggested Yami Marrik.

Joey, over hearing the conversation, laughed to himself. "How about 'Yo Gi Oh! King of Lame'!"

Yo Gi Oh lept up so fast that his hair flung his top hat across the room, striking Bakura on the nose.

"YES! That's Perfe- Wait a minute." In a split second, Yo Gi Oh was three inches away from Joey's face with fire burning in his eyes. "Are you implying that I'm lame?"

With a large sweat drop and an embarrassed Joey smile, he grinned. "No way, Yogi, I thought that outfit was lame."

"Oh." nodded Yo Gi Oh, about to go sit back down, when he stopped and spun back around. "But I'm wearing the outfit which then implies that I'm lame!"

"No, Yogi, not at all."

Joey suddenly vanished in a puff of smoked. Yugi, Téa and the gang turned toward the counter. Both Yami (Bakura) and Yami Marrik were standing now. Yami's (Bakura) ring was glowing and Yami Marrik's rod was out.

Yami (Bakura) started laughing. "That's it! I'm Yami! King of the Shadow Realm!"

Yami Marrik also looked triumphant. "And I am The Lich King! Supreme Master of the Shadow Realm!"

"Hey!" growled Yami (Bakura), "You can't be the Supreme Ruler of something I'm already the king of!"

"And why not?! I said I was the Supreme Ruler of the Shadow Realm!" growled Yami Marrik back.

"But I'm the king!" Yami (Bakura) shouted back again. "And besides, you can't be the Lich King and the Supreme Ruler of something. It just doesn't work!"

"Of course it does!" Yami (Bakura) and Yami Marrik where head to head growling at each other when Yo Gi Oh did a misty flip out of the costume closet. Wearing blue overalls over a red shirt with red shoes and a red hat with a large M on it. "Look guys! I'm the King of Nintendo!"

With a bit less of a shock this time because of the times this had happened, the gang merely replied with sweat drops all around.

A small bell rung and Yugi turned around to see Shadi sticking his head in the door. Shadi, seeing Yo Gi Oh dressed as Mario and crumpling up wads of paper, turned to Yugi. "Is this a bad time?"

Yugi nodded. "Yes. Yes it is."

"I'll come back later." Shadi pulled his head back out the door and closed it silently.

When Yugi has turned back, Yo Gi Oh was lighting the wads of paper on fire and throwing them across the room.

"My hair!" Bakura screamed. "My hair's on fire!" Bakura was running around in a panic. Téa quickly grabbed a bucket of cleaning water that was in the corner and dumped it on Bakura's head, extinguishing the fire.

"What does everything bad happen to me?" Bakura cried.

Marrik cleared his throat loudly looking for attention.

Yugi sighed again. "This is going to be a long day."