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Yami Yugi Moves Out!

October 9:

Malik came by today with my new license. Boy works fast, I'll give him that. Also got a birth certificate; name is now "Atem Yami Pharaoh Mutou". Don't want to know where he got a baby to put little inky foot- and handprints all over the paper….

Have been developing way to make camel go faster. Went to the chemistry building at work and asked them to make some rocket boots for a large, four-legged animal, but that may take a while. And some explaining. And some brainwashing.

Ten minutes later:

Realized something terrible. Duelist camp will make me reveal my secrets. My secrets allow me to win. Seto Kaiba will be free to trounce all over me after I'm done spreading my tricks around like grape jam. This is very, very bad.

October 10:

Got a call from Joey today. Led to what has to be the weirdest day in...ever. And I've had some doozies. (Edith's saying, not mine.)

Anyway, Joey calls and I think, "hey, he's grown up, he's accepting that I'm my own person!" I mean, he still calls me Yugi when I live almost a whole city from the nearest Mutou. Very annoying.

The first thing he says when I pick up is, "How's it going?" and so I say, "Fine, thanks for aski–"

"So Yugi, want to go out on the town?"

Despite that rudeness...I said yes. I needed to get out of the house to figure out what to do about the secrets-vs-losing-to-Seto-Kaiba fiasco. Which is still giving me headache. Ouch.

Had to go get Joey, as his car finally stopped running. So I had to figure out how to get my camel to take two people. As Pharaoh, I never rode with anyone else, and it sounded uncomfortable.

Joey's dorm is right in the middle of the University of Domino campus. Felt a little edgy, as his university is the rival of the one I work at and I have a "University of Uno Rules!" bumper sticker on my camel's butt. It was like walking into enemy territory, except my enemies were all vacant-eyed yokels who didn't even react to a "sports car" driving on their lawns, but started growling when they saw my Pro-U.of U bumper sticker.

Joey's dorm was all the way at the back of the campus. A not-so-funny thing about dorms is they all look the same. Like the architect was bored, or tracing the design from a book, or obsessed with brown-brick-white-trim-pointy-window style. Would hate to be obsessed with buildings. Would be very, very boring.

So tied my camel up outside the dorm and raced up the stairs to the third floor (why must friends always live so high up? Like the world is trying to seal them away in a tower. Am mostly sure they don't deserve to be locked away, so it is decidedly a nuisance.) Found out I was in the girls' dorm. Raced back downstairs and to the next building. Found Joey's room much more easily in that one.

Another thing about dorms is they're always named after people. And the ones at Joey's school are all named after the same person. Except random initials are stuck in between the first and last name, so we can all tell the difference with ease. Unless you're drunk or tired or sick, in which case you have no hope of ever finding your bed or roommate ever again.

So Joey was sprawled out on his bed, listening to music, etc. Like his whole floor was doing. Like they can really study when their music is blaring so loud it shakes their books off their desks…will have to investigate to make sure my students don't do this. Would be very, very bad for image.

Joey jumped up and began hunting for shoes. Noticed his socks had holes in the feet (or is it soles? Don't only shoes have soles? And some kinds of religions? Is a stupid word), and wondered if maybe his shoes had been burned as firewood when he wasn't looking. Dorm smelled smoky enough. And rubbery enough. Ew.

I finally told him to just wear his rain boots (bright yellow ones) and then had to threaten him before he'd do it. But then he wanted to change into baggier pants, and so had to search his entire room before finding muddy jeans big enough to cover his boots.

Finally got back out to the camel. At first he was excited (again, ignoring the fact that there was a sports car on the lawn.) but then I stopped using Shadow Magic on him. Then he saw camel and brightened even more. Should have been suspicious, but no, I was just swept up with friendship happiness—having a friend who liked camels, who appreciated my creativity, etc.

Went back through the labyrinth of dorms and buildings and pathways (all of them built around the huge, nice red-leafed trees here…again, wonder about IQ of architects, since this campus was built in a forest…) and finally found the freeway. Had to go under it and stick to surface roads. Felt much stronger desire for rocket boots and made a note on Dec. 7 page to call the chemistry professors again.

We ended up at some big, empty parking lot, stretching from a broken chain link fence to infinity. Ok, not that far, but I had trouble seeing the end of it.

Was a little disturbed to find all sorts of teenagers sitting there, just like the gang of Yo-Yo bandits Joey knew a few years ago. Reached for deck and put a hand over Millennium Puzzle, but Joey just started saying, "Hey, guys!" and waving. And the bandits waved back lazily.

Then noticed very obvious smell of camels. Camels, with an s. More than one. Judging by the stink, a whole lot more than one. I started looking around, but couldn't see or hear any.

"Are we gonna do this?" The smallest of the group said. He was probably only a little taller than me, if we're not counting my hair. If we are counting hair, I was towering over him. Probably.

"Yeah," Joey said, hopping down. "Just…ah, gimme a minute, will ya?"

When they'd shuffled away into an empty building, Joey turned and looked up at me. "Uhm…Yugi, I figured you'd want a challenge. It's been a while, right?"

"Well…" have figured out the trick to canasta, so it had been a while since I'd been challenged. Have been marking off the days until Seto Kaiba comes back for a rematch, but still have about twenty days to go. "Yes, I suppose it has." I looked around carefully. "What is going on?"

"You're gonna race your camel!" He beamed as he said it.

"Against…?"

"Uhm…some other camels." He snorted. "And a cow."

"A cow-camel?"

"Huh?"

Didn't have time to explain to him about cow-camels because then the other racers came back, with their large and overly-muscled camels. Made mine look like a…a string bean.

I struck a sitting-down gaming pose. "I accept your challenge, Joey! And I shall prevail!" Wondered if I ought to choose something to win for, since I didn't want to say, 'For the good of money!' Thought a minute and then added, "For the good of getting out of debt!"

Everyone blinked a few times, shrugged and cheered half-heartedly. Camel racers are lazy people. Except me, but am Game King and not just a camel racer.

Looked over the competition, still a little uneasy about having the wimpiest looking camel there, and then the ground started to tremble. Just a little…may have been more my intuition than a real shake, actually.

But then I turned around and saw the biggest, most bulked-out dairy cow I'd ever laid eyes on. And I've seen a lot. Yugi used to love to go visit the dairy farm.

Like I said, camel racers are lazy. Camel races are a little slow. But cows? Big, bulked-out cows?

Everyone took their place. I got put in between a white camel and a really dark brown one, and the cow got put on the far right.

"Right, so y'all know the drill. Go when we wave the flag, race inside the painted lines." Luckily the lines were painted dark green, very hard to miss except at night. "Any questions." When everyone mumbled a "no", the judge stepped back and nodded at Joey.

Joey took a big, red blanket and waved it once, then started screaming cheers at me.

All the camels stood around for a few seconds before they started walking, gradually working up to a trot. The cow was jogging already.

Finally got my camel to match its speed, then slowly to pass it. But as soon as we were ahead, I hear Chomp, turn around, and find the cow has latched its teeth onto my camel's butt. Luckily, as I said, I have a U of Uno sticker. Cow ripped it off, and camel started running as fast as it ever had. Which was actually pretty fast; but it was hard to turn then. Had to practically hang off the edge, yanking on the reins until my arms shook, sweat pouring down my face and so on, but I managed. Victory was ours.

So was an extra twenty dollars and a bald spot on camel's behind. Will look into Rogaine.

But all that excitement got my mind moving. Finally figured it out: do not have to share dueling secrets or deck secrets with kids. Kids like fancy moves, they like the window dressing, since they are too young to know about the super-secret anti-darkness double card maneuver.

Have list of things to teach daycamp kids:

Drawing a Card! (with enough gusto to scare the pants off your opponent)

Flipping a Card to Face-Up position! (and not laughing when the taste of victory is in your mouth)

Being Confident but Not Too Much!

Wardrobe!

Where Not to Carry Your Deck!

Need a few more things before camp is ready, but am confident completely. Ah yes. Things will work out well.