On The Road Part One
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Dawn spent most of the evening trying to get Buffy's ok to go camping with her dueling buddies. Even with Giles, Kennedy, Willow and Xander backing her up, it took some time. Finally she cracked and she had the rest of the night to RSVP and to pack. Good thing she did, Brian was calling everyone that plans had changed slightly for the trip and they were to meet at the park at 8:00 A.M. Then Dawn tried to add onto the bargain by asking for a duel disk and deck of cards, but Xander said she shouldn't push her luck.
Brian put down his phone and began the final packing stages for the trip. Ring ring ri- the phone rang until Brian turned it on. "Moshi, moshi," he said, putting some warm clothes into the bag. "Oh, hey Faith, 'sup?" he asked smiling. "Nah, I'm good. Well actually me and my friends are going camping tomorrow for a week. Yeah winter break, after all we been through we need one. How's Angel and Spike? Alright, hey um...I was gonna call you, but since I'll be gone, I'm gonna need someone to watch my place for a week. You can't? Well how about the others, can one of them do it? Yeah, I'll hold for a sec," he said sitting down, phone to his head.
A few minutes later, Faith came back, "Yeah I'm still here, any takers? Spike? I don't know," he trailed off looking at all the stuff in his home. "Ok he can watch it while I'm gone, but if he does something like break any of my games or movies, or goes somewhere he's not supposed to, I'm staking him," he warned. "Ok, I'll leave him the key and the invite outside underneath the mat. Ok, love ya sis, bye," he hung up the phone.
-Park, 7:50 AM-
"Hikari, I'm freezing my ass off," Bakura said shivering due to the cold of the weather. "Sorry, Bakura. I told you to dress warm," Ryou said in a 'I-told-you-so' tone. "Hey, I was plenty warm before we left the house," he growled. Ryou looked at his dark half and tried not to giggle. Bakura was dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and some shoes. "Screw you, Hikari, I'm going into the HUMMER to warm up," Bakura snapped before climbing into the large black vehicle.
Ryou laughed and heard honking ahead of him. A few cars were headed his way. Out of the first one, Joey, Serenity and Tea stepped out and unloaded their stuff before saying thanks to Joey's mom as she drove off. "Hey you guys," Ryou greeted. "Hey Ryou, where's Bakura?" Tea asked the white haired boy. "Inside the car, he's not to fond of the weather," he said jerking his thumb to the HUMMER. The last two cars held the rest of the gang, Yami and Yugi were dropped off by Yugi's Grandpa, Marik, Malik,and Brian came in his van. "There you guys are, get lost?" Serenity asked. "Not quite, last minute change in roster," Brian told her. "Who?" Tea asked, but before they could hear his answer, another car horn sounded. They turned to look as a black car pull up and park right next to them.
Dawn stumbled out, half asleep with Buffy on the other side. "Hey, Dawn. Glad you could come," Yugi greeted politely. "Hm," she grunted. Buffy rolled her eyes and addressed the gang. After a few introductions, and some odd looks to Serenity, Yugi and Yami, she helped Dawn unload her bags. "Can we go? I'm cold," Joey whined. "Well first off, Brian has to tell us about the last minute change," Tea chirped up, looking at her boyfriend. "Well she's not here, I had to stop and give her directions to the place cuz she wanted to surprise you guys," was all he said. "So, what's the riding arrangements?" Dawn asked them. "Hm, good question," Yami said quietly looking at the group. "Well, to make sure nothing funny happens on the way up there, guys in the HUMMER, girls in the van. How's that?" Tea suggested.
"That's MY van," Brian looking at the van as he was ushered into the HUMMER. "Move over Tomb Robber, I'm driving," Brian told Bakura. "Like hell you are!" Bakura growled. "Yeah, I am. You won't follow directions and I'm the only one that knows how to get there. Besides, you can work the radio if you want," he pointed out. "Fine. What the hell is this?" Bakura asked pointing to a device underneath the stereo. "That, my dark half, is a CB radio, I had installed a few days ago so we can talk to our friends in their cars," Ryou explained. "You all have this thing?" Bakura asked everyone, and they nodded. "Yeah, let me show you how it works," Brian offered taking the reciever. "Push this, choose the channel you want then see if anyone's there, watch. Dancing Queen, Dancing Queen, this is Highlander, come in Dancing Queen," he said into the CB. A few seconds passed, "Highlander, this is Dancing Queen, what's up?" Tea's voice asked.
Brian grinned as he demonstrated to Bakura. "You ladies ready to roll, Dancing Queen?" he asked her. Tea's voice laughed, "Copy that, Highlander, let's rock!". Brian put down the CB and started up the engine. "Highlander, come in Highlander," Serenity's voice came in this time. He picked up "Yeah, what's going on, Firefly?" he asked. "Firefly?" Yami mouthed, Joey and Yugi shrugged. "How long till we get there?" Serenity asked him. "Oh...if we make good time I'd say, we'll get there by 6 this evening," he replied, which recieved groans from the back. "Hey shut up," he told the others, putting up the reciever. They pulled out of the park area and onto the highway, "HI HO SILVER! AWAY!" Marik cheered. Malik and the others looked at the Yami. "What?" he asked innocently.
-Highway-
"Are we there yet?" Bakura asked. "No," Brian answered. A few moments later, "There yet?" he asked again. "No," came the same answer. "How about now?" he asked. "I swear to Ra, Bakura if you ask that again, I'm gonna have the others tie you up and put you in the back!" Brian threatened him as he pulled into a truck stop for a rest. "Guys, wake up, get a chance and stretch you legs," he told them, climbing out of the car. Yugi yawned and shook Yami awake, while Marik was asleep, drooling on Maliks shoulder. Joey snored loudly as Ryou tried to wake him up. Brian walked around, trying to wake his ass up from sitting too long at once.
Tea and the girls climbed out of his van and walked around as well. "Aw jeez, butt cramp, butt cramp," Brian groaned walking off. He and Tea walked to the HUMMER. "When you have them woken up, come inside, we'll have lunch," she told Bakura. Yugi and Yami managed to pull free of the sleeping masses and followed Tea and Brian inside. The rest of the girls were already in there, talking about what they would do when they got there. They sat down in either booths or on stools and waited for the others. Joey, Malik, Marik, Ryou and Bakura came walking in, rubbing the sleep from their eyes, and Malik wiping the Marik's drool off his leather jacket.
"Bout time you woke up," Yami chuckled. "Shaddup...Pharaoh," Marik yawned sitting next to him on a stool. Dawn took this opportunity to ask questions. "So, why do you guys call him that?" she asked Tea. "Hm? Call who what?" Tea asked her. "Yami, why do you guys call him Pharaoh?" she asked again. "Oh that, well growing up he was very into the ancient Egyptian culture, so much that everyone started to call him Pharaoh as a nickname," Tea said waving her off. "Oh, ok then, answer me this, what is Shadow Magic?" she asked her. Everyone at her table and the ones at the stools heard her, and they slowly turned around to look at her. "Where did you hear that?" Yami asked calmly. "I read it in the Museum a while ago, on a tablet that your face and Kaiba's face on it," she explained slowly.
"Oh, Ra...," Brian cursed as the waitress brought him his meal. "We'll explain that to you, but not here," Malik told her. But before she could ask why, a man at the end of the room began shouting. "What? Twenty bucks for a burger and fries? That's robbery!" Marik, Bakura and Joey leaned over to catch a glimpse of the guy yelling. "Who's complaining?" Yugi asked them. Marik shrugged "Some dude with one hand," he said. Joey squinted at him "I don' know where but I think I've seen him before," he told Serenity. Serenity looked over and saw the same man, she too could remember seeing him but couldn't remember where from.
They went to back to eating as the man walked past him towards the men's room. "He's got the right idea," Brian muttered. "You ok?" Yugi asked him. "Yeah, just had too much to drink on the way up here," he said walking to the bathroom. He walked to the urinal and did his business while listening to the cursing and complaining of the man with one hand. Brian finished and proceeded to wash his hands when the man walked up to a sink too. "Where you headed?" he asked Brian. "Place in the woods a few hours drive from here," he replied. "Ah, I'm headed that way too," the man told him, pushing the soap dispenser. "Camping?" he asked him. The man shook his head, "Nah, hunting. It's been a long time since last time, so I thought why the hell not?" he shrugged. Brian nodded and left the restroom, and headed back to his meal.
"Where's Bakura?" he asked, noticing the Tomb Robber wasn't present. "He, Yami, Yugi and Joey discovered they had an arcade here and they left to go play," Tea explained. "Oh, ok. I'll go tell them we'll be leaving soon," he said walking off to the arcade section. Halfway there, he bumped into someone. "Oh jeez I'm sorry," he apologized looking at the person he had ran into. It was a woman with long shaggy black hair and a cold look to her. "Uh...sorry about that," he apologized again, before walking off to find the others. "C'mon Brian! It was just getting good!" Joey protested as they were leaving the parking lot. "Yeah, well...I know how you guys get around those things and I for one would like to get there before the temperature drops," Brian said shaking his head. "Dancing Queen come on in," he called over the CB.
He expected to hear Tea's voice but instead it was the guy from the diner. "What the hell? Who is this? Why are you calling me Dancing Queen?" he asked irritably. "Oh jeez, sorry. Must've picked you up on the same channel. Just trying to get my girlfriend on the line," Brian apologized. "Eh, it's ok, easy mistakes. Listen kid, would you mind talking to me for awhile? Sometimes I go nuts from cabin fever," the man asked him. "Yeah sure, I understand. I know some people that drive me nuts when I'm stuck in a place for too long," he chuckled. Tea's voice came into the CB this time, "Anyone in particular?". Brian jumped, "Oh, hey Tea. I don't know what you're talking about," he said nervously. "Anyway kid, I never got your name," the man on the radio called. "Call me Highlander," he replied. "You actually watch that immortal show crap?" the man asked him. "Hey, I watch what I like. What do you call you, Lefty?" he retorted. Bakura snickered. "Veeery funny kid, name's Ash," the man said before flicking the CB off.
As they left the parking lot, the woman with shaggy black hair watched them head towards the woods. She smiled and her eyes changed black for a few seconds before returning to normal. She heard someone nearby and saw a man unloading his truck. She looked at him and then made her way to him. She snuck up behind him and when he turned around, before he could make a sound, she reached out and snapped his neck, killing him instantly. She tossed him in a dumpster and took his keys. "Time for a joyride," she purred, starting up the dead man's truck.
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Kilnorc: Well dere's dee update! I know how you must feel not having to read an update since i posted one up last night, SO DON'T WORRY! Wolfen-Ways thank you for that kind thanks for letting Kairi be in the ficcy.
-Now goes Godfather Style- Now, as I did this kind gesture towards you, you're gonna have to do a favor for me. You don't know what or when you, but I will expect it to bo soon... now...my boys will see you out...
-snaps fingers and Bakura and Marik who open the door and usher Wolfen-ways out of the room-
HAHAHAHAHA woo i nvr did da godfather so i had to do that! seriously tho, you owe me one...R AND R PPLS!