"Ok so are we gonna fight or what?" Yami asks Marik, impatiently. "'Cuz I sort of want to get it over with."

"We'll fight soon, Pharaoh. Just one moment, please," Marik says.

Marik walks up to Aya.

"What's your name?" he asks her.

"Aya, what's it to you?" she responds, eyeing him suspiciously.

"Now, Aya," Marik begins, holding out his hand. "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way. Will you kindly hand over your Millennium Puzzle?"

"What are you talking about?" Aya asks, looking down. "Eh? AWESOMENESS!"

Everyone looks at the now visible puzzle hanging off of Aya's neck.

"But...how?" Yami asks, looking confuzzled.

"Eh?" Sonic says...in that kind of stupid way of his.

"How come I never noticed?" Shadow wonders.

I'll answer that, because you weren't blatantly staring at her like some perverted freaks with weird tattoos.

"Woah." Ash says, a tad shocked.

"HOW COME SHE GETS A MILLENNIUM ITEM AND I DON'T?" a very dramatic Gin asks no one in particular. Oh Gin, it will all be answered in time, but for now, Aya gets a shiny necklace and you don't. Deal.

"Oh my God!" Misty gasps.

"Woah. That's unexpected," Rouge says.

"Ooh...it's so shiny" Amy says, admiring the newly discovered Millennium Item.

"What I REALLY wanna know is why he was staring at my chest in the first place..." Aya says.

"So, are you gonna give it to me, or what?" Marik asks, impatiently.

"Tch, no," Aya responds, putting her hands protectively over her puzzle.

Marik sighs. "Always the hard way...Oh ya, I have one more question."

"Eh?" Aya asks.

"Will you go out with me?"

Everyone anime falls.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!" Aya screams, completely horrified. "AS IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIF!"

"HEY!" Bakura shouts, glaring at Marik. "Shes MINE!"

Aya looks horrified once again.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!" she shouts, clawing at her hair in frustration. "I DON'T 'BELONG' TO EITHER OF YOU!"

Gin is now laughing to herself because she knows something that Aya doesn't know...hehehehe...

"Woah. People are fighting, AND THEY'RE NOT HURTING ME!" Kaiba says, ecstatically.

"As you mortals say, shut up." Shadow says to Kaiba.

"Eh." Kaiba says.

"Okay, something is wrong here. I get here first, but Aya gets a Millennium Item. I'm boy-crazy, and yet only one guy likes me so far, and Aya doesn't even really care and she has three! No wait two! I mean two...yes... Hehe..." Gin observes, glancing surreptitiously at Yami.

"Stop this chitter chatter," Marik says. "I have work to do. Now, since you won't give me your Millennium Puzzle, I will have to take it! MUA HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

While Marik is laughing like a maniac, another person drops in.

"HAHAHAHA!" laughs a REALLY freaky voice. "WHEEE!"

"SHUT UP, MARIA!" shouts a not-so-freaky voice.

Maria and Dr. Eggman (as seen in SA2) have just dropped in.

"Wow, you said shut up wow, wow, wow, wow." Maria says, looking just a TAD ditsy.

"EGGMAN!" Sonic bellows.

"Ew, that fat idiot's here too?" Aya asks, looking disgusted.

"Maria?" Shadow asks, his eyes wide.

"Shadow?" Maria asks, getting a tear in her eye.

The both run towards each other in slow motion, with a bunch of random cherry blossom petals thrown in, and embrace.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Rouge screams, looking completely horrified.

"EH?" everyone else asks in unison, turning around to see what's going on.

Rouge blushes a deep scarlet. "I-I mean um...good for you, Shadow"

" Marias alive?" everyone asks, again in unison. Excluding Shadow and Maria.

"Who's Maria?" Bakura and Marik ask.

"None of your business," Gin says.

Marik looks over at Eggman. "Why did you have to intrude? I told you we were coming here."

"Sorry, Marik." Eggman apologizes. "Maria here got kind of outta hand and came here--Ooh!" Eggman finally notices his 'little blue friend.' "Hello Sonic!"

"Oh shut up!" Sonic says, exasperated. "I don't feel like fighting you today. In case you haven't noticed, we have something else to deal with right now."

"Oh Sonic," Amy breathes, love in her eyes. "I love it when you act all assertive like that!"

Kaiba snickers.

"SHUT UP!" Sonic bellows at him, while trying to fight off the glomp-obsessed Amy.

"Both of you SHUT UP!" Aya shouts at them. "In case you haven't already noticed, we are dealing with creepy maniacs!"

"What she said," Gin agrees.

"Um, what were we supposed to be doing here, anyway?" Bakura asks.

"Huh. I dunno." Marik answers.

"Wasn't it something to do with da Millennium Items?" Bakura asks.

Um, when is it not?

Suddenly, Marik remembers.

"AYA! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!" he says, pointing at Aya. "She's a chick, so she cant be that tough anyway." he thinks to himself.

Everyone looks at Aya.

"FINE! I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE!" Aya responds.

Gin is the probably the only one who is shocked right now because she knows more than anyone (well, maybe her brother) that Aya NEVER duels and she totally sucks and she doesnt have any cards.

What Gin doesn't know is that Aya won a happy shopping spree at the Glendale Galleria (ugh, gag me. Poor thing.) which has a quaint little anime shop where she bought a bunch of very rare Duel Monster cards...

"Oy..." Gin says, smacking her forehead. "She's so gonna lose."

"How do you know?" Yami asks.

"She has hardly any cards and she totally sucks at dueling."

"Hey!" Aya says, obviously offended. "I heard that!"

"Well, its true," Gin responds, shrugging.

"I knew it! She sucks. Maybe I should raise the stakes a little..." Marik thinks to himself. "Also, if I win you...um...hmmm...Ooh! I know. If I win you give me your puzzle and you have to go out with me." Marik says aloud, an evil grin on his face.

"Whatever," Aya responds, nonchalantly.

"Aya! Let Yami duel instead!" Gin says.

"Don't worry," Aya consoles. "I'll beat him in...lets see...what time is it?"

Yami looks at his watch. "Ten PM, why?"

"Ok. Ill win in 5 minutes." Aya says.

Gin gives her a very skeptical look.

"Alrighty then!" Marik says, rubbing his hands together.

Marik and Aya both pull out duel-disks (© Kaiba Co.) and put their decks in them. They are playing by Duelist Kingdom rules and both have 2000 life points. Why? Plot device, Mr. Frodo. Plot device.

"Lets duel!" Marik and Aya both say in unison.

I'm making this so predictable and lame...

Aya and Marik now pull 5 cards from their decks.

"I'll go first." Marik says. "I play Blue Eyes White Dragon in attack mode."

Blue Eyes White Dragon-
Attack:3000 Defense:2500

"How do you have a Blue Eyes?" Kaiba asks, looking incredulous.

"I stole it from you, imbecile." Marik responds.

"Oh yeah..." Kaiba remembers.

Marik turns back to the game. "I end my turn."

"Ok," Aya says, looking through her hand. "Then I play Dark Magician in attack mode."

Dark Magician-
Attack:2500 Defense:2100

"And next, I play swords of revealing light which traps your monster for three turns," she continues.

"Damn!" Marik curses. "Oh well, I play one card face down and end my turn."

"I sacrifice Dark Magician and play Dark Magician Girl in attack mode." Aya says, placing her card on the duel disk.

I am fully aware that DMG has less attack pts. than DM, even with her special effect thingy. She's just my favorite card.

Dark Magician Girl-
Attack:2300 Defense:1700
Marik draws and ends his turn.

Aya draws. "I place one card face down and I end my turn."

"I play one card face down in Defense mode," Marik says, as Swords of Revealing Light disappears.

Aya draws and gets Skull dice

"I play one card face down." Aya says.

"Hey, you look Egyptian. You got any Egyptian in you?" Marik asks, randomly.

"No. Why?" Aya asks, looking puzzled.

Marik grins. Which, by the way, looks very scary. "Would you like some?"

A vein pops in Yami's head, and he clenches his fist. Kaiba pulls out a notepad and writes down what Marik said while muttering, "I've been needing some good pick-ups..." Gin and all of the other females look disgusted.

"Dude, you really need to work on your pick-up lines..." Aya says, sweat-dropping.

"Oh, I don't think so..." Marik says, still grinning evilly (probably having some special...erm...'guy' fantasies.) "Blue Eyes, attack Dark Magician Girl!"

"That idiot." Gin says, looking at Aya.

"Just wait..." Yami says.

"Yay!" Kaiba cheers. "She's gonna lose and then Ill never have to see her again!"

Everyone glares at Kaiba except for Gin.

"You wish, loser." Aya says, glaring at Kaiba. "I reveal my face down card, Skull Dice."

Marik swears loudly.

But...Aya only rolls a 3.

"Ha!" Marik taunts, looking a tad rabid. "Looks like your stupid plan didn't work!"

"Oh really? I reveal my other face down card, Graceful Dice."

This time she rolls a 6. Whee!

Ok. So Blue Eyes attacks and dies because DMG has more attack points so now Marik has 1800 Life Points blah, blah, blah. You know the drill.

"Yes!" Aya cheers, punching her fist into the air.

"This duel isn't over yet," Marik says, looking extremely smug.

"Whatever you say, Marik." Aya says, rolling her eyes. "Ok now I play Nobel Cross-out which takes out any face-down monster I choose."

Marik swears loudly as a hand comes up out of the field and grabs his face-down card, blowing it up.

Aya waggles her fingers. "Sayonara Marik's life-points. DMG, attack his life points directly!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Marik shouts.

...and his life points reach zero.

SUB-PLOT TIME!

While all of this has been happening Bakura (who is supposed to be watching, because then he could figure out how to defeat Marik...) has been trying to...um... 'get with' Maria...

"So...Maria...that's a really nice name. "

"Oh, thank you."

"It's Egyptian, right?"

"Um...no. It's Spanish."

"Are you sure?" Bakura asks, looking mock-surprised. "You look like you have a little Egyptian in you."

"No, I'm sure." Maria says conversationally.

Bakura smiles. "Would you like some?"

Now before we hear Maria's response, I'm assuming we all know what THAT (points upward) was. I mean we HAVE used it twice in one chapter. If you don't, find someone who will explain it to you. Also, it should be mentioned that Maria has never heard this pickup line before, so it will be very interesting to see her reaction...

"Uh...sure I guess," she says. "Yes, that would be fun."

Oh dear, Bakura seems to have started seizing. You see, he has never before heard the word, "yes" from a girl speaking to him. He is seizing out of joy.

Uh oh. While this was going on, Shadow seems to have eavesdropped! He is devastated, shocked, and wounded. Rouge on the other hand is...well, happy would be an understatement. Rouge, you see, a long time ago, was an ordained minister (yes children, she had a flock) and preformed ceremonies many, many times.

"Bakura! Maria!" Rouge screams as she jumps out of her hiding spot. "SAY I DO!"

"I DO!" shouts Bakura, stretching his hand way up, glad to be included in what he thinks is a lovely game (like Candy Land, his favorite game.)

"Um..." Maria starts. Then, seeing Bakura's obvious enthusiasm and thinking it's a game too (like Candy Land, her favorite game), raises her hand as well. "I do."

"I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU MAN AND WIFE!" Rouge shouts, dramatically closing a Bible that popped in out of nowhere.

"Wh-What? But I thought Maria loved me. How could she do this?" Shadow weeps. Then, he gets his angry face. "BAAAAAKKKKUUUUURRAAAAAAAA! I SHALL NEVER REST UNTIL I DEFEAT YOU FOR STEALING MY LOOOOVE!"

Rouge visibly winces when she hears this, but keeps her cool. "Oh well, they're married now. Sorry Shadow. I guess you'll just have to find someone closer to your species. Hem hem."

Several people nervously glance around, thinking that Umbridge has somehow come out of her insanity and traveled to Anime World in order to turn them all into pinstriped centaurs. They then look back towards the duel.

Maria looks very distraught. "What just happened? Am I married to HIM now? I thought it was a game! Like Candy Land!"

Bakura gasps. "You...like...Candy Land?" he asks, eyes big.

"Yes, I love it." Maria says, a faraway look in her eyes. "It's my life. I play it with my comrades at the Wombat-Like Citizens League."

Bakura gasps (Again? Jeez.) "Only the Burrowing Bishops are allowed to play Candy Land! You must be the Blonde Wombat of Truth! One of the most highly ranked Candy Land players IN THE WORLD."

Maria (no, don't do it) gasps (JEEEEEZ) and points at him in shock. "And you must be th-the Furry Wombat of Justice!" She looks at him appraisingly. "You know... I've always liked men who play Candy Land..."

Bakura jumps up, overcome with joy, and sweeps Maria into his arms. "TO THE BRIDAL CHAMBERS!"

Shadow, in the meanwhile, channels the Skywalkers.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he cries out while falling to his knees.

Maria looks at him piteously. "Come on Shadow, you never really expected us to actually get together did you? It was fun for a while, but really, you're a hedgehog. I'm a human. We need someone at least remotely close to our species. "Maria's eyes glaze over for a minute. "If you were a wombat, it would be a different story. Oh well, I must be with my husband now. Bye Shadow!"

Shadow falls, defeated, as Bakura carries Maria into the distance where, apparently, the bridal chambers await. He replays what Maria said over and over in his mind and eventually realizes... "A...wombat..."

Rouge looks triumphant. "Now, now Shadow. You knew it would never work out. Maybe should date ME on the rebound! Wouldn't that make you feel better?"

But unfortunately for Rouge, Shadow does not hear her. "Gin!"

Gin momentarily looks away from the stadium, at Shadow, not aware of the event that had just unfolded. "Yeash?"

Shadow breaths heavily. " Can. You. Turn. People. Into. Animals?"

"Yah, I do it all the time." Gin says, thinking about all the times she turned her enemies into rodents/miniature ponies. And yes, she did have this power before she got to Anime World.

"Could you turn me into a wombat?"

Rouge seizes. "WHAT?"

"Please, Gin. If you don't, I can never be with Maria."

Rouge is motioning furiously (NO PLEASE DON'T DO IT) and although Gin knew the trials and tribulations of interspecies relationships, having been faced with heartache herself, she could see that Rouge and Shadow made a perfect couple. "Ummm...sorry Shadow. I seem to have...uh...misplaced it..." Then, she turns back to the duel.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!"

At this point in time, Aya has just won the duel. Only a few people were watching the whole Maria/Bakura/Shadow/Rouge love rectangle thang, but most were paying attention to the duel.

"Wha...?" Gin asks, looking confused, having missed a few minutes of the duel. "Oh well. AYA KICKED SOME FREAK'S ARSE CHA-HAAAA!"

Yami smirks. "I knew it."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Kaiba shouts.

"Eh!" Sonic cheers.

Amy looks at the playing field with wide eyes. "Ooh everything's all explode-y..."

Rouge is now in an incredibly good mood. She pats Aya on the back and says, "Great! Absolutely fantastic!"

Shadow whimpers softly to himself.

"Coolness!" Misty exclaims.

Ash looks at Aya with great admiration. "Wow! This is almost as exciting as a Pokemon Battle."

Is that all he ever thinks about? Poor Misty...when they get married, its gonna be tough.

"Wh00t! Now I don't have to go out with a pervert! Hey Shadow...what's wrong?" Aya asks, noticing his rather obvious sullenness (see that? I used a vocabulary word.)

"Oh! Nothing's wrong with him!" Rouge says, over-enthusiastically. "He's always sour. Hehe. You know Shadow."

"Righto..."

"How did you get so good?" Gin asks, bewildered.

Aya looks away from Rouge and Shadow. "Two words," Aya responds. "Shopping spree."

"Oh."

"Wow!" Yami thinks to himself. "She's hot, she hates Kaiba and she's a great duelist."

Ooh...looks like Aya covers the basics...

"How could I lose to a girl!" Marik exclaims, looking disgusted.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Gin, Aya, Rouge, Amy and Misty all ask in unison.

Marik starts backing away slowly, as one does when confronted by a rabid squirrel. "Um...we'll just be leaving now!"

Then he, and Eggman (who Maria just left there, glad to be away from him) run away.

"Well that was special." Aya says.

"You got that right." Misty agrees.

"Well you know what? I'm gonna go see a movie." Gin says clasping her hands together. "Anyone wanna come with?"

"No thanks," Aya says. "I'm tired. Wait a sec...where am I gonna stay?"

"You guys can stay at my apartment if you want." Misty offers.

"Thanks!" Aya says.

"No problem."

Gin starts walking in the direction of the nearest movie theatre.

"Bye everyone!" she says.

Everyone waves goodbye and walks off to the apartment building where they all live.

To be continued