It was a winter day, Alexa and Emily were out at Alexa's house playing outside in the snow. They were enjoying themselves and were about to go in for some hot cocoa when suddenly Emily saw some people down near the corner.
"Hey, Alexa, is it just me or do those people look like Yugi, Duke, and Joey?"
"What the…Emily, your right! I mean, I think those people are Yugi, Duke and Joey!"
"Well, I dare you to call there names and see if they come over!" Emily shouted.
"Well, if it's for Yugi, then ok!" The Yugi/Yami fan agreed.
Then when Alexa was about to call to them she turned around only to find that Duke was standing right behind her.
"May I ask where the closest game shop is?" Duke asked being very polite.
Emily thought a moment and finally said, "There is no game shop around here. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disappoint you."
Yugi then replied with sadness in his heart "Is there any game shops on this planet?"
Alexa stuttered as she answered Yugi. "Y-yeah…of c-course…just not around h-here…" She said, trying to hide a blush.
"Of course, if you went a little ways into town, you might find one…" Emily added, trying to impress Duke.
"We'll take you to it!" The two girls added at once.
"But first, can we offer you some hot chocolate?" Alexa asked, trying to impress Yugi, hoping he wouldn't see how nervous she was.
"H-hot chocolate w-would be g-good right about n-now…" Joey answered, not about to turn down food.
"How the heck are we supposed to get them inside without my mom finding out?" Alexa asked Emily in a panicked whisper.
"We'll figure out something…I hope…" Emily added the last line under her breath.
All of a sudden Alexa's mom yelled " Hey Alexa, I need to go get some milk, eggs, and coconut to make cookies, I'll be back in about a half an hour! Love ya!"
Alexa whispered to Emily again now sounding relived, "That solves that problem…"
"Now who wants some hot chocolate?" she added, not wanting an answer.
FIVE MINUTES LATER…
Everyone one was inside getting warm from the seemingly sub-zero temperatures. Alexa was in the kitchen, making hot cocoa and other random hot food. Emily did her best to keep the guests entertained.
"EMILY!" Alexa shouted.
Emily excused herself from the rest and went into the kitchen.
"Now, miss chef-in-training, is it possible to burn hot chocolate?"
"Um…no…"
"Well then, I just altered the laws of physics!" Alexa yelled, showing a mug with burnt hot chocolate.
"Alexa, this stuff isn't even hot! Somehow you managed to over cook it and under cook it at the same time!"
"I can't help it! I wanna impress Yugi!"
"Here, we'll start by pouring the powder into the cups, then pouring in the hot water…hey, Alexa! Where'd you go!"
"And that's how I beat Emily at Duel Monsters 20 times in a row!" Alexa finished an obviously entertaining story.
"Grr…I'll finish these!" Emily said, topping the hot cocoa with whipped cream and sprinkles, then coming to the rest of the gang.
"So Alexa…would you mind telling us how you managed to burn and under cook the first batch of Instant Cocoa at the same time?" Emily added in a vengeful kind of way.
Alexa gave her a look that would slice cheese. No one seemed to hear the comments, out of Yugi asking Joey a question who got interrupted by Duke saying "Wow! I'm not that bad, and I can't even make cold cereal!"
When Emily sat down Alexa kicked her. "At least when I was making fun of you it was a joke…" She muttered under her breath quite angrily, but in a way that also said she'd forgive her.
Suddenly a low rumble started in what seemed the front side of the house.
"Monkey's! My mom's home!" Alexa yelled at the garage door opening.
"Well, what do we do?" Emily asked in a panic.
The three boys sat there with confused looks on there faces.
"Hurry! Everyone, out the sunroom!" Alexa yelled.
Not quite sure why or what they were doing, they all followed Alexa into the backyard, then out the gate back to where they'd all met.
"Ok, we're going to go inside…and you'll be foreign exchange students from Japan…yeah…who lost there bus…so now there stranded with us for all eternity! The end!" Alexa said, looking up joyfully. She had basically just told a story out loud off the top of her head.
"Alexa…are you feeling ok?" Emily asked jokingly…
"ALEXA!"
"Well, unless you have some genius plan, we'll have to leave THEM.." At this she pointed to Duke in particular. "Out in the cold!"
"We could go in…build a fort…have them live in it forever…" Emily nodded. "The end…"
"Ok…who votes for Emily's plan?"
"Nay!"
"For my plan?"
"Aye!"
"Alright, it's settled. You'll be foreign exchange students from Japan who lost there bus and are now stranded with us for all eternity. The end." Alexa agreed, saying the last two words in Emily's face.
Then Emily mumbled to Joey, "Lets just hope that she doesn't put any silverware in the microwave… I'm not in the mood for fire works…."
Alexa all of a sudden turning around, "I heard that!"
"So?" Joey added trying to be a smart alek.
As the group got inside they looked at the kitchen which should have been a mess from Alexa's cooking only to find that it was spotless and there was no evidence of them being there before.
"oh, hi Emily, hi Alexa, do you guys want some hot- who are these people Alexa?" Alexa's mom asked trying not to sound rude.
Alexa went along with her plan even though her mom probably wouldn't get it, "These are Japanese exchange students who lost there bus and are now stranded with us for all eternity!" then if it wasn't bad enough Alexa puts on a cheesy smile and the rest of the group follows.
Alexa's mom stood there, blinked a few times and then said the worst possible thing, "Ok! But where will they sleep?"
Alexa eagerly stepped up. "Yugi can take my bed!" She said eagerly.
"But where will you sleep?" Asked Yugi politely.
"I can sleep on the floor…um…somewhere…" She insisted.
"And what about us!" Joey and Duke objected.
"Well, when my sister finds out that you're here, Joey, you'll have a bed too. As for Duke, that depends on Emily…."
"Of course you could clean out your basement and all share a room down there…" Emily thought out loud.
"No! Yugi gets MY room! He agreed already! So there!" Alexa yelled.
"Actually, I didn't…" He began…
"Don't fool around! My bed is definitely more comfortable than anything in my basement!" Alexa once again interrupted.
"Well, let me check it out then…" Yugi said.
Alexa nodded, then suddenly shook her head. "No! You can't go in it yet!"
"Why not?"
"I…uh…have to clean!" She attempted at lying.
"Alexa, your room is clean, I just-" Emily argued..
"No! It's not! I'll be right back!"
"No, it's ok. I don't mind. I just want to see…" Yugi insisted.
"No! You CAN'T see it!" Alexa yelled running into her room, Yugi following.
"Oh come on! It can't be THAT bad!" He shouted after her.
Alexa ran in and shut the door, but it was too late. Yugi had followed. Alexa was in the process of taking down a poster, which now hung on top of her head, being suspended by only two bottom tacks.
"What the…" Yugi began walking in.
Alexa tried desperately to hide the poster, but it was no use. There was several other various things on the wall that had Yugi/Yami and random YuGiOh related things. Yugi took the poster from Alexa, and what else? It was a poster of Yami, Joey, and Kaiba.
"JOEY! You better see this!" Yugi yelled.
"No! I can explain!" Alexa begged. "It was a bet!"
Emily was laughing hysterically. "If I recall, I gave you the pillowcase and the poster for Christmas, the collage is from your friend, and…"
"SHUT UP YOU IDSTU!" Alexa yelled back.
Everyone but Alexa and Emily gave a look that said "What the heck is an idstu?"
Alexa sighed. "Yugi, I'm sorry…" She stopped. What else could she say?
Then Yugi gave Alexa a look that was like a cat scraped out your eyes and then put them back in your sockets. "How did you get all this stuff with me on it!"
"Umm… I lost a bet!" Alexa said trying to sound convincing.
"I remember very clearly that I gave you those for Christmas, your birthday, and the rest your friends gave you. You didn't loose a bet." Emily said just to make Alexa mad.
As this was going on Yugi was looking at the poster, "Hey, they got my good side in this one. Ha look at Joey though! He looks like a train crashed into him!"
"Hey! I do not! Well, maybe a little! But it's not my fault!" Joey replied trying not to make himself look bad.
"I'm lucky. I have no pictures of me hanging up." Duke said sounding happy but sad at the same time.
"Don't worry Duke all of your pictures are hanging up in Emily's room." Alexa said to get back at Emily.
Out of no where Alexa's mom calls up the stairs, "Guys! Your room in the basement is ready!"
"Ok, lets move in!" Yugi replied to no one.
"I'll get our bags!" Duke said as he left Alexa's room to get their bags from the garage.
After moving everything around about three times, all of them were moved in.
"Hey Yugi, may I look at your deck?" Alexa asked hoping he would let her.
"Yeah, sure, but don't mess them up it took me years to perfect that deck"
"Hey Duke, this is some collection of dice you have! Ohh! Look at your earrings! There are blue, red, purple, gold! How did you get all of these?" Emily asked Duke as she was going through his stuff.
"Hey! Get out of there-."
"I didn't know you dueled! May I challenge you to a duel?"
"Sure whatever, but I'm really bad. I didn't even finish my deck yet!" Duke said sounding disappointed that he didn't finish yet. "But, maybe someday Emily, just not now."
"Ok, that's fine with me!"
"I'm hungry! Do you have anything to eat besides hot cocoa around here?" Joey asked his belly grumbling.
At that moment Alexa's mom called down to them, "Time for diner!"
They all laughed as they climbed the stairs and went to the kitchen.
"So let me get this strait. Alexa, your Italian and you don't like pasta?" Yugi asked not believing his ears.
"Yep, I hate pasta."
"But I don't!" said Emily as she took a wad of noodles and threw them on her plate.
"I'm glad one of you two is normal!" said Duke as he did the same thing.
"Trust me she is the normal one." said Emily as she pointed at Alexa.
The next day as everyone was waking up Duke was finishing off his deck.
"Hey Yugi! How many change of heart cards can you have in your deck?"
"I'll answer that one Duke. You can only have one sadly." said Emily as she walked down stairs to see if the boys needed anything.
"Oh, thanks! I'm done with my deck now. Do you want to duel?"
"Sure. I have my deck right here. I'll keep life points."
"What do you mean keep life points? I have my duel disc."
"I don't have a duel disc."
"Then ill just use the portable arena."
"Let's duel!"
"Ok, how does a 4,000 life point duel sound to you Duke?"
"Fine by me."
"Ok, I will play dancing fairies in defense mode and end my turn." Said Emily starting off the duel.
"I don't see what good that will do you"
"Ah, then you didn't read it? I get 1000 life points each turn that my dancing fairies is defense mode and the control shifts to you."
"So, I will summon one card face down and end my turn."
"Duke, if you thought that one dancing fairy was enough, then it is time for you to meet two. Only this time it won't be in defense mode it will attack your face down monster with 1700 attack points"
"Ha! You fell for my trap! My face down card was yomi ship! If yomi ship is attacked in battle then the card that attacked it is destroyed!"
"That's fine by me. So I don't get my 1000 extra life points. I still have 5000 and you only have 4000. since you didn't put out a monster last turn your life points are unprotected. I summon Maha Vailo to the field and equip it with two Malevolent Nuzzlers giving my 1550 Maha Vailo a 2400 boost. How do you ask? My monster gets 500 extra attack points for each equip card I attach to it. Now my Maha Vailo attack with 3950 attack points! Now my Dancing fairy attack with 1700 and destroy the rest of his life points!"
"You beat me!"
"Yes, but I would like to duel you when you have more practice. I like your deck."
"If Emily can beat Duke in about three moves, and Alexa can beat Emily, does that mean that Alexa is a VERY strong duelist?" Joey asked Yugi.
"I hope she is… I need a challenge." replied Yugi.
"Hey Emily!" said Duke as Emily walked by, "I challenge you to a Iron Chef battle!"
"I thought you said that you couldn't cook?"
"I said I couldn't cook cereal, and I can't. But I can cook a lot of other stuff. I just don't like oatmeal."
"Maybe sometime else…."
"I'll judge!" said Joey.
"Me two!" said Yugi.
"Count me in too! Unless there is pasta" said Alexa.
"Ok, let me go to my house and get some supplies, I will be back in about an hour." said Emily as she was getting her coat and shoes.
"I thought you two were sisters." said Yugi.
"Yeah, me too what gives?" said Joey.
"How did you get that idea? Emily is tall I am not. Emily has blue eyes and brown hair, I have dirty blond hair and green eyes. It is easy to tell that we are not sisters."
"Well, she stayed here last night so we thought you were related" said Duke.
"well I have to go so I will be back soon." Said Emily as she left.
"Soo…" Alexa said as Emily left to get stuff from her house. "Yugi, do you want to duel?"
Yugi seemed to perk up. "Sure! I would love to!"
"Great! We'll have to use there portable arena, since I also don't have a duel disk.
"Alright, that's fine with me. How about a 4,000 life point duel?" Yugi asked, shuffling his deck.
"Perfect." Alexa nodded happily, and handed her shuffled deck to Yugi to cut.
Yugi handed his to Alexa, they cut there decks, got there decks back and both said "Let's Duel!"
"You want the honors of going first, or should I?" Alexa asked, trying to impress Yugi with some manners.
"Ladies first." Yugi answered. He decided not to have Yami take control. Alexa couldn't be that powerful, could she?
"You'll wish you hadn't done that!" Alexa said, drawing a card. "I summon one monster face down in defense mode, and put one card face down on the field. Your move."
"You won't win by hiding behind defenses!" Yugi said. "I summon Celtic Guardian, in attack mode! Attack her face down monster!"
"Ha! You've activated my Kelbeks' special ability! And now, you're Celtic Guardian gets sent back to your hand, after my Kelbeks destroyed, of course." Alexa added.
"I put one card face down and end my turn." Yugi said, grunting.
"Alright, I play Graceful Charity, and I know you know what that means, Yugi…"
"Grr…"
"I draw three cards and discard two." Alexa smirked. "I summon Maha Vailo, and equip it with Axe of Despair, as well as a Malevolent Nuzzler. That increases it's power to a powerful 4250 attack power!"
"Whoa! She summoned a 4250 monster in one move! That's incredible, there's few monsters that can beat that!" Yugi marveled.
"I'm glad you're impressed…" Alexa started. "Cause you're about to lose! Go Maha Vailo, Lightning blast attack!"
"Not so fast, I activate de-spell, to get rid of your Axe of Despair Magic card!" Yugi saved himself.
"No! My Axe of Despair!" Alexa grunted. "You still get 2750 points of damage!"
Yugi LP: 1250
Alexa LP: 4000
"No way!" Joey yelled in disbelief. "Alexa just struck down more than half of Yuge's life points!"
"My move, Alexa!" Yugi said, drawing a card. "I play the Celtic Guardian, in attack mode! Then, I activate ultimate offering! Do I have to stop and explain?"
"Continue, I know the powers of ultimate offering." Alexa said. Ultimate Offering is a trap card, that for 500 life points per monster, you could summon addition monsters on the field.
"Good, cause now I summon Queen's Knight! Then, I sacrifice them both to bring out Dark Magician! And with a little help from an equip card, black pendant, It's power goes up to 3000!"
"No! That's enough to destroy my Maha Vailo and do some damage at the same time! But it'll take more than that to knock me down!"
"That's why I'm not finished!"
"What!"
"I play the magic card, stray lambs, giving me 2 sheep that I can sacrifice in order to bring out Dark Magician of Chaos!"
"Not that! How could you have that in your hand too!"
"Now, Dark Magician attack her Maha Vailo!"
Alexa's LP: 3750
Yugi's LP: 1250
"And Magician of Chaos, you're up! Attack her life points directly!"
Just as I thought…she only thinks one move ahead. Although her Maha Vailo's powerful, she had nothing to save it…
Alexa's LP: 950
Yugi's LP: 1250
"You're attacks triggered my magic card, Fairy of the Spring!"
"But why are you going to take an equip card from your graveyard if your Maha Vailo's Destroyed?"
Alexa smirked. "I suppose it's my move? I'll show you Yugi, I'm not that easy to beat! First, I'll play Dien Keto the Cure Master! He gives me 1000 extra life points! Then, I summon Maha Vailo to the field…"
"But I destroyed your Maha Vailo!"
"Who's to say I only had one? Anyway, I activate Pot of Greed to Draw two cards…" Yes! Just what I needed! "I also play Shooting Star Bow Seal! By decreasing my Vailo's attack by 1000, I can now attack you directly!"
Alexa's LP: 1950
Yugi's LP: 700
"One more card face down on the field will end my move. You're turn, Yugi!"
"Alexa, you left a fatal mistake…."
"Wha…ah! You're monsters are way more powerful than my Maha Vailo! I'm dead meat for sure!"
"Dark Magician, attack her Maha Vailo!"
"Activate my first face down card, de-spell! 'Do unto others as you'll have others do unto you' I'm going to destroy Black Pendant!"
"Which does 500 damage to you, don't forget…"
Alexa's LP: 1450
Yugi's LP: 700
"It's still my move! Dark Magician of Chaos, attack now! Chaos Scepter Blast!"
"Activate Trap Hole! You're Chaos Mage is destroyed!"
"Man, dis is a close duel. Every move either one of dem makes get countered!" Joey exclaimed.
"My move, Yugi!" Hmm…if I activate my Axe of Despair on my Maha Vailo, it'll get 1000 extra to it's normal attack power and still be able to attack Yugi directly. That wouldn't be any fun, though. I can't say I won unless I beat Yugi's Dark Magician, which is precisely what I'm going to do with my soon-to-be 2550 monster! But first, I have another surprise for him… "Ok then, first I play Axe of Despair, which in the long run makes Maha Vailo 2250. Then, I play a magic card, Sparks, to decrease your life points by 200… And then I strike your Dark Magician with My Maha Vailo!"
"No! My Dark Magician! You'll pay for that Alexa!"
Alexa's LP: 1450
Yugi's LP: 450
"And then I end my move by placing a card face down."
"First, I summon Mystical Elf to the field, and sacrifice her to summon Dark Magician girl! And she get's a 300 point boost from each Magician in both our graveyards. Since there's 2 in mine, that gives 2600 attack points!"
"Wow, so you'll do 50 damage to me. Ouch…" Alexa said sarcastically with a laugh.
"Not if I activate Eternal Rest…"
"Not that! No way!"
"I'm lost, what does that card do?" Duke asked.
"It destroys all Monsters with equip cards on them!" Alexa said. "Meaning my Maha Vailo!"
"You got it Alexa! And with no other monsters on the field, My Dark Magician Girl will finish you! Attack now, Dark Magician Girl! Dark Magic Attack!"
"I can't stop you're attack, meaning I can't stop my defeat. However, Yugi, I can bring you down with me! Activate Attack and Receive!"
"What does that card do?"
"The moment your Attack hit's, this card will take 500 life points from you!"
"But that makes it…"
"A tie!" They both said at once.
"Nice duel Yugi, but next time, I want the full battle."
"Right. Next time, I won't hold back." Yugi said, both of them referring to Yami.
"Time for the Iron Chef Competition!" Emily yelled running downstairs with a ton of Food on hand."
"My genius friend, the kitchens upstairs you know…"
Emily stopped with all the stuff she was struggling to take downstairs, laughed nervously, and dragged it all up.
In the kitchen.
"alright lets get this thing going! I wanna judge you twos art ehhh, food!" Joey said.
"ok! Duke and I put names of food in a hat, here Yugi, you pick one!" said Emily holding out a hat full of little pieces of paper.
"umm," said Yugi picking out a piece of paper and unfolding it as the group of them made a drum roll on the table. "Rice!"
"I have this in the bag!" said Emily.
"I wanna see you try!" said Duke.
Joey holds up a random pepper, bites into it (you know like on iron chef) and says let the cooking begin. With that Alexa starts the hour timer.
Yugi's voice comes over a random intercom, "In the two battles today rice is the theme ingredient! The both of the have started making rice. Duke seems to be making normal white rice, but Emily seems to be making sticky rice." Said Yugi. "Now what's this! Emily seems to be making some sort of stir fry dish while duke is making a chicken."
"Hey Yugi! How many dishes do we have to make?" asked Emily.
"Yeah! I was wondering the same thing!" said Duke a few moments later.
"Umm… just make a family style dish ya know? Like one platter full of food." Said Yugi.
"Ok!" said Duke and Emily at the same time and both got back to work.
"Now duke seems to be cutting up his chicken! Emily got to making balls out of her rice! It seems that she will be making sticky rice balls! Yum! Hey look at this! Duke seems to be making sushi! Wow!" said Yugi excitedly.
"Times up!" said Joey loud enough for everyone on the planet to hear.
"Ok!" The two contestants said as they brought there dishes to the table.
"Oh boy! This is gonna be da best!" said Joey as he sat down to the table.
"here is my dish" said Emily as she set down her rice balls with fried vegetables in it.
"Here is my dish, egg rolls!" said Duke as he set down about 10 egg rolls that were resting on a bed of rice.
"oh boy!" said Joey rubbing together his hands.
"Now! The scoring is as following! Taste: 5 points, appearance: 5 points. This is out of a total of ten points! You may eat and score! Begin!"
Ten minutes later
"The scores are: Duke with 8.5 points! A five for taste and a 3.5 for appearance! Now Emily scored 7 points! Five for taste and two for appearance!" said Tristan.
"good cook off Duke!" said Emily as she shook Dukes hand.
"It was only good because you can cook too." Replied Duke as he shook her hand back.
"Eh, can we continue eating now? I'm hungry!" said Joey.
"Me too!" Tristan said as he joined Joey heading toward the food.
"You JUST ate! Why do you need to eat more?" asked Alexa.
"One we ate five minutes ago NOT just now and two, because we are hungry! Ha!" said Joey as he dug into the food.
"What he said!" said Tristan as he followed Joey's example.
"Hey! No fair! My earring wont come off!" said Duke tugging at his ear.
"let me help" said Emily as she walked over to Duke who was still frantically tugging at his ear. "All you need to do is unhook it! How long have you been wearing earrings! You should know how to take them off by now!"
"FOR YOUR INFORMATION I HAVE BEEN WEARING THE SAME EARRING FOR THE WHOLE TIME! I HAVENT TAKEN IT OFF YET!" said Duke as he threw his hands up in the air.
"Just wondering…" said Emily as she backed away into the corner.
"let me get that!" said Joey as he walked over to Duke and easily took off his earring.
"I'm not even gonna ask…" said Tristan and Alexa in unison.
"What! I have a sister!" said Joey shrugging his shoulders.
"so what do ya wanna do?" asked Duke to everyone.
"Hey, do any of you wanna make a sculpture?" replied Emily randomly.
"HA! Me and what army!" replied Tristan to Emily.
"I duno whatcha wanna do then?" said Emily.
"We could polish my earings…" said Duke out of the blue.
"Why would we want to do that!" replied everyone almost instantly.
"So I could put another earring in! I don't want my earring wholes to close up! Do you think I am a crazy person! Getting your ears pierced hurts! A lot!" said Duke angrily.
"Here give me your green earring, and I will put it in for you." Said Alexa.
"whatever…" said Duke.
"That brings us back to our first question, what do you want to do? I mean its winter so going out side is off limits….. I'm outta ideas." Restated Alexa.
"we could eat…" said Joey as he rubbed his belly.
"WE JUST ATE!" said duke slapping Joey over the head with a random frying pan.
"OW!" said Joey as he chased after Duke.
"hmmm… so… how many days till Christmas…" said Tristan to himself.
"twelve!" said Emily almost instantly.
"well then!" said Yugi, "you know what time it is then! It is time for Christmas shopping!"
"NOOO!" said Emily and Duke as they fell to the floor, "THE HORROR!"
"I thought only boys hated shopping…." Said Joey to Tristan.
"I DON'T LIKE SHOPPING BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE MONEY IT DEALS WITH! Especially WHEN I AM BROKE!" yelled Emily as she got up and helped Duke to his feet.
"I gots moneys! HA HA!" said Alexa as she pointed and sung at Emily.
"WELL – WELL- WELL I HAD MORE MONEY THAN YOU UNTIL THE YU-GI-OH! DVD CAME OUT! OPPS-…" said Emily as she slipped into the other room.
"What does she mean, Yu-gi-oh! Dvd?" asked Yugi who had been quiet the whole time.
"Umm… I have no clue! I think now would be a good time to review our abc's!" said Alexa trying to stall.
"NO! I wanna know what the heck Emily meant when she said "yugioh dvd" like Yuge was a doll or cartoon character or som'in!" said Joey to Alexa.
"Umm… I kinda gotta go now… be back in 3 million years…" replied Alexa as she hurriedly went up to her room.
"ok!" said Joey agreeing, "WAIT A SECOND COME BACK HERE! BOY I OTTA!
The two chased each other around the room in circles until they had been running for nearly 15 minutes strait.
"I leave for three minutes and you get your self into a mess!" said Emily she calmly walked into the room holding a book.
"well… all Joey did was ask about you saying 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' dvd and then Alexa tried to leave just as you did and they have been chasing each other around the room since…" said Duke to Emily," I just can't figure it out.
"Well ummm… guys! Come here I guess Alexa and I have some explaining to do…." Said Emily hesitantly. "When you guys first came here we new you because well, you are cartoon characters from our favorite show….." continued Emily and then stopped for Alexa to continue.
"So there you have your answer… as simple as pie… you are cartoon characters… and I have no clue how you got here… umm… I hope you don't hate us…… at all or anything…. Just I.. um we.. well we wanted you to well… stay here for awhile…" said Alexa as slowly as she could.
"So basically we are here because we are not a cartoon anymore?" Yugi asked.
"I'm not sure. I'm hoping it's just for a while. I'm sorry if we spoiled your time, now." Alexa said, in her state where whatever happened next would either send her to tears or make her happy. "I really hope…oh…I'm not sure what I hope!" Alexa got up and ran out of her room.
"Here, I'm going to go see if she's alright…" Yugi said. "I don't think we should crowd her."
"I agree…" Emily nodded. "And I'm sure if anyone could help Alexa right now, it's you Yugi."
Yugi nodded and left. He found Alexa sitting in the kitchen eating yogurt. "Alexa…are you ok…?"
She shook her head. Her parents and sister were outside playing in the snow. "Yugi, there's something else I want you to know, just because I'm afraid it'll complicate things later."
"Yeah?"
"I…uh…man, this is hard…promise you won't laugh and or hate me?"
"Promise."
Alexa mixed the yogurt a little, stopped, sighed, and then looked at Yugi. "I…I like you, Yugi. But, I won't be offended if you don't like me."
Yugi took a seat next to Alexa. "Alexa, I'm glad you told me now. I know it wasn't easy…"
"Please, Yugi. I'm sorry, it's true, but I'm scared of scaring you away."
"I must say, it's a little weird, but if you have the story of my life on TV, at least you know enough about me to actually have a good person to like. I think…"
"Yeah, but I also know you like Teã, so I'll lay off…" Alexa mumbled under her breath. "That evil friendship ranter…"
"Actually Alexa, I was thinking the same thing about Teã…"
"No way, you're kidding me!"
"No, I've known her since forever, long enough to know she really only likes Yami…"
"Oh, that's another thing…"
"What?"
"Um…I kinda…uh…sorta…"
"Get on with it!"
"I like Yami too!"
They stared at each other for a while.
"Well, that's good. Because you'll be dealing with him for a while…"
"Why's that?"
"I think I like you too…"
Alexa smiled happily. "Really! Well, if you want me too, I'll stay silent. I don't know if you'll be embarrassed or not."
"I'll tell them all eventually…" Yugi smiled. Yami appeared at his side, smiling. He'd heard the whole thing. But suddenly Alexa turned at white as a sheet.
"What is it, Alexa?" Yugi asked worriedly.
"I…I can see…Yami…" Alexa said, as if she'd faint.
"What! How can you? Only I can!"
"I'm sorry…I didn't do it on purpose!" Alexa said, afraid she'd done something wrong.
"It's not your fault you see him. I mean, when you turned that white, it was obvious you didn't do anything…"
"Yeah I guess…" Alexa said, staring at Yami intriguingly.
"You don't have to stare…" The Pharaoh answered.
"AH!" Alexa flipped off her chair as if she'd expected him to be a statue. She pulled herself back up. "Sorry about that. But this is really freakin' me out."
"I wonder, Alexa, do you have any millennium items?" Yami asked her.
"No, not that I know of…why?"
"I was thinking that you may have one, and that may be why you can see me."
"Well…I'm pretty sure I don't, and I never black out or anything, so I doubt that anything like that is happening…" Alexa added.
"We'll figure it out…" Yugi said. "One way or another."
"Hello Dudes!" A brown haired girl walked up from the garage, her cheeks rosy. Obviously, she'd been outside.
"Who's that?" Yugi asked.
"My sister, Megan." Alexa sighed. "So idiotic in her youth…"
"I'm only younger than you by 18 months!" Megan argued.
"That's one and a half years, now go bug Joey." Alexa instructed.
"Joey's here! Cool!" Megan ran upstairs to find "her love".
"So…what do you want to do now?" Alexa asked Yugi, trying to hold the conversation.
"I'm not sure…" Yugi said. Alexa sighed. So much for conversation…
"YUGIOH'S ON! YUGIOH'S ON! YUGIOH'S ON! YUGIOH's-"
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Alexa yelled at her sister who was running through the kitchen, screaming at the top of her lungs.
"What does she mean, "YuGiOh's on?" Yugi asked.
"Um…that'd be your show…" Alexa answered.
"EVERYONE TO THE SUNROOM!" Shouted Emily, hearing Megan's distress call.
"You're not helping…" Alexa answered. Eventually, however, they all found themselves in the sunroom, glued at the TV, waiting to see what was really known about themselves…
