Rated for a little Violence later on.
Mena: Say it.
Toli: (tries to hold it in)
Mena: Say it.
Toli: (snickers)
Mena: Just say it already!
Toli: (bursts into laughter) THIS IS SO DUMB!
Jesselda:...O.o;
Mena: It is not! Everybody loves The Wizard Of Oz! Now they'll have to suffer through The Wizard Of Domino High!
Toli: Yeah, yeah. Let's just do the disclaimer.
Jesselda: Yu-Gi-Oh is not owned by any person in this room. Nor are the characters of this story. The authors do own me, the power of the Millennium Plate, Mena's--ugh--purple contacts, and... well, that's it.
Mena: What about our souls?
Jesselda: Nope, not those either. You sold them to your mom for the right to play Nintendo.
ONE: We're Not On Floor One Anymore
The bell rang. Tea was the first to escape her seat. "Yes!" she cheered as she walked down the hall to her locker. It was Friday. A whole weekend of schoollessness!
When she came to her locker, she stopped and untied the leash knotted around the handle. Attached to the leash was a collar. Attached to the collar was 11-year-old Mokuba, whom Tea was babysitting while Seto ran off to Africa for "important business". Tea was doing a great job. (A/N: Come on, people, if you've baby-sat, you know you've wanted to put that kid on a leash at sometime or another)
"Time to go home, Mokuba," Tea said, stashing all her books from her locker into her backpack.
"Great," Mokuba said eagerly. "I'm tired of wearing this black fur shirt with the matching pants and hat."
Tea shrugged. "Well, I didn't want them throwing you out for being a people doing number one in the hallway."
"I told you, that was spilled orange juice!" Mokuba protested as they headed for the doors.
"Look out behind!"
Tea and Mokuba turned. A massive wind was flying down the hall. It was ripping up everything in its path, including students.
"Run!" Mokuba cried frantically. They were close to the door, but the wind was closer.
"We gotta hide!" Tea exclaimed. A locker door near her was thrown open by the blast. It was an industrial-size locker, for one of the industrial-sized football players. She shoved Mokuba inside and stepped in, slamming the door behind her. She held the door closed by clinging to the vents.
"Is it really safe in here?" Mokuba asked, smashed up against the wall behind her.
"It'll have to be."
The wind ripped by, carrying all of its new possessions with it. Tea and Mokuba screamed when they felt the locker tear out of the wall and swirl around in the air.
"We're gonna die!" Mokuba yelled.
"Quiet!" Tea screamed. "We have to think of a plan!" She could barely see through the vents, and that was fixed when a school newspaper blew over it and got stuck. She only hoped they landed somewhere safe.
CRASH! CLANG-A-LANG-A-LANG! WHUMP! "Yeeeow!!"
The locker stopped moving. It must have landed on something, because the middle was pushed up. "Well, we're here," Tea said in a strained voice, trying to maneuver around the new giant bump that took up three-quarters of the space they thought they had. "Wherever 'here' is." Tea let go of the vents and pushed the door open. Since they were lying face up, the door just came off the hinges and fell to the side. Tea's head came up, and so did Mokuba's.
"Wow!"
They were on a strange floor of the school, it seemed. Someone had drawn graffiti of flowers, trees, and bushes all over the walls in pretty girly colors. A bunch of potted rosebushes lined the hallway. The sun was shining rather brightly through a giant hole that took up the entire ceiling. Some of the floor's tile had been ripped up, leaving only a single path down the hall. A broken water fountain was spouting a stream that ran through a ditch. There were only three doors, and all on the wall opposite the fountain.
"Where are we?" Mokuba asked as he and Tea hopped out of the locker.
Tea shrugged. "You got me."
They looked around, nervous. Then Mokuba suddenly shouted, "What's that?"
Tea looked to where his finger was pointing. A dark blue, glowing, lipstick container was floating towards them. It opened in a flash of light, and when it was gone, Mai stood in front of them, wearing a blue sleeveless minidress with matching detached sleeves and thigh-high boots and a sparkly blue crown. She was carrying a blue wand and had blue wings, of all things.
"Hi," she said. "Have you come to wreak evil on the top floor of Domino High School?"
"Um...no, I don't think so," Tea said.
"Great!" Mai said. She walked over. "I'm Mai, the Good--and Attractive and Sought After--Witch of 8:00. Welcome to Summitland!"
Tea's eyebrow raised. She turned to Mokuba. "Mokuba, I don't think we're on Floor 1 anymore."
Mokuba was speechless.
Mai chuckled. "Nope. This is Summitland, but some of us call it The Top Floor. You must be Tea, and your little...um, is he human or a horse? Well, never mind," she said just when Tea was about to open her mouth and reply that Mokuba was human. "You don't know what a great thing you've just done! You've got to meet the guys who live up here!" She turned to the three doors. "Come on out! She doesn't bite! Though I don't know about her little rodent there." She said the last in a lower voice.
The doors opened. Out of the first two, Yugi and Rebecca peeked out. Yami just stalked out of the third one. The other two followed him. "You killed the Wicked Witch of 7:00!" Rebecca exclaimed immediately.
"Of what?" Tea turned and saw a pair of legs and feet sticking out from underneath the locker she and Mokuba had ridden in. "Oh. Why's she of 7:00?"
Silence. Tea turned to see Mai, Yugi, Yami and Rebecca with quizzical looks on their faces. "We don't know," Yugi said. "We're just Midgets."
"Though the politically correct term is 'vertically challenged little people'," Yami corrected. He was in a sour mood, arms crossed, and eyes narrowed suspiciously of the newcomers. Yugi patted his right arm in sympathy.
Suddenly, a book dropped down on the floor. It opened up to reveal Toonland's castle. A little door on the top opened, and a life-sized man somehow stepped out. "What's this I hear about some not-from-the-top-floor person killing the Wicked Witch of 7:00?" Maximillian Pegasus demanded.
"She did it!" Four fingers pointed at Tea. Mai wasn't pointing; Mokuba was. Tea ground her fist onto his head as punishment for betrayal while she stared at Pegasus. "Who the heck are you?"
"I," Pegasus said, "am the Wicked...er, Man of 11:00."
"Why 11:00?" Tea asked.
Again, unsure looks appeared. "Well...everyone knows that's the time when all the bad shows on TV start!" he said with a confident glare, though he didn't sound sure. "But that's not the point! What do you think you've done? The Wicked Witch of 7:00 was ruling this floor, and now you've gone and killed her!"
"Yay!" the Midgets--except for Yami--cheered. Pegasus glared at them. "Uh, we mean, awww," the Midgets--except for Yami--corrected quickly.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Mai said to Pegasus. "Don't you want the Wicked Witch of 7:00's special shoes? That's what she ruled Summitland with, remember?"
"But they aren't--" Rebecca started, but both Yugi and Yami slapped their hands over her mouth.
Pegasus didn't notice Rebecca's remark. "Oh, right, of course. Thank you for reminding me." Pegasus went over to the legs sticking out from under the locker. But they only had on fishnet stockings. The legs suddenly disintegrated and flew out of the ceilinghole.
Pegasus was appalled. "What!" he cried. "What happened to the Ebony Boots?"
"Tea has them now!" Mai said. "That's the only reason I called your attention to them--so you could see that now Tea is wearing the Ebony Boots!"
"I am?" Tea looked down. Instead of the brown loafers she had had on, now she was wearing shiny jet-black knee-length spike-heel boots that didn't exactly go with her school uniform. "I thought I felt some sudden elevation!" She looked up at Pegasus. "Were you planning to put these on?"
The Midgets snickered.
"That's none of your business!" Pegasus exclaimed. Then his watch beeped. He glanced at it. "Uh oh, time for Pokémon! I've got to go! But I'll be back for my Ebony Boots, rest assured. I'll get you, my pretty! And your little...uh...what is that?"
"I'm a human!" Mokuba yelled.
"Then why are you covered in fur?" Pegasus asked. He shook his head. "Never mind. I've really got to go." He pointed a finger at Mokuba. "This episode was a continuation, I'll have you know. If you made me miss how the Gym battle turned out, I'll really be after you!" He stepped back in the little door in his Toonland castle, and the book closed up and flew away.
"He makes the rest of us humans look bad," Mai sighed. "Anyway! Now that you have the Ebony Boots, what do you want?"
"I want to get back to the first floor and go home!" Tea said.
"If you wanna do that, you'll have to talk to the Wizard of Domino High," Rebecca said, speaking the name in reverence.
"Who?"
"The Wizard of Domino High!" Yami snapped suddenly. "What are you, deaf? Didn't you hear her the first time?!"
"He doesn't like being a Midget," Yugi informed Tea in a low voice.
Tea turned to Mai. "Well, how do I find this Wizard guy?"
Mai pointed at the floor with her wand. "You see the path before you; just follow it and it will take you to Cafeteria City, on the first floor, where the Mighty Wizard lives. He will be able to tell you how to get out."
Tea looked down at the floor. "What path?"
"The White Linoleum Road," Yugi informed her.
"Yeah! Follow the White Linoleum Road!" Rebecca cheered.
"And hurry it up," Yami growled.
"I just follow the White Linoleum Road?" Tea confirmed.
The Midgets nodded. "Follow the White Linoleum Road! Follow the White Linoleum Road!" they cheered.
"And remember," Mai said, "if they don't let you see him, show off those spankin' Boots. You know, those really flatter your legs. And no matter what, don't let The Wicked Man of 11:00 have them. Anyway, you'd better head off."
Tea shrugged. "Well, okay. Come on, Mokuba; let's find this Wizard guy!" She walked down the linoleum with Mokuba trailing, and the Midgets behind, chanting, "Follow the White Linoleum Road! Follow the White Linoleum Road!" When she was out of sight down the hall, Rebecca elbowed Yami. "You didn't tell her you represented the Lollipop Guild!"
"I don't," Yami said. "They fired me."
END CHAPTER
Mena: Well, that was fun!
Jesselda: It was weird.
Toli: It was a parody! Parodies are supposed to be weird!
Mena: Guess what? Something special will happen for the person who knows who needs a brain, who needs a heart, and who needs courage! Anyway, let us know whether this story should stay or go! Please review and tell us!
Next in Chapter 2...Who--or what--is in need of a brain?
SLAM! Tea jumped at the sudden noise. "What was that?!" she cried.
SLAM! Mokuba winced. "It sounds like a giant monster c-comin' to eat us," he trembled. SLAM!
"Oh, please," Tea said. "A monster in a--SLAM!--school?"
"Is it any stranger--SLAM!--than an entire named land on--SLAM!--the top floor of a school--SLAM!--a fashion-wise fairy, a bunch of weirdo--SLAM!--Midgets, and a crazy Wicked Witchman--SLAM!--who watches Pokémon at 3:26 in the afternoon--SLAM!--in his tiny Toonland house?!" Mokuba cried. SLAM!
Tea nodded. "Yeah, you're probably right. Let's go face this thing." SLAM!
They rounded the corner and stopped short, staring in amazement at what they saw. SLAM!
