A Fantastic Story
Chapter 16 - Being Different

That night, at an old warehouse…

The guards laid on the ground, some of them were unconscious, but most of them were dead.

"Sorry gentlemen," the man, with the long, dark blue, hooded trench coat, said, as he stepped over the bodies. "I'm just going to pick up some things for a few friends."

He then stopped and looked at the weapons before him.

"Finally, my step-father has a use after all," he said as he looking at a few particular weapons. He stared at a heat-seeking missile and then looked up at a huge box labelled 'Hyper-Cooling Unit'.

"Perfect," he replied, before turning back to the bodies. "You see gentlemen, one of these friends took everything from me, the day he beat me…and I think it's time I repay him."

Tristan walked and walked the streets of Domino City for hours. He wore a long brown coat and a brown hat on his head. He then came across a bar and went in. but as he entered, every step he took shock the bar, making the glasses rattle and the music box turn on and off. People stopped and stared at him, but then get back to their business once he got to a stall.

Tristan went to sit down on it, but when he did, it instantly broke and Tristan fell down to the floor. Nearly everyone in the bar laughed laughing.

"That's not funny!" Tristan said as he came to his feet. When he stood up again and ordered a drink. Unknown to him, a young female, who had been sitting in the corner with her friends, came over to him. She had bandages around her eyes.

"Tristan?" she said. "Is that you?"

Tristan turned around to see the girl; she had long light brown hair that stopped just past her shoulders.

"Serenity!" he said. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, my mates wanted to take me out before my next operation tomorrow. Anyway, enough about me, Joey told me what happened up in space, how are you doing?"

"Not great," Tristan said before he picked up his glass but then it shuttered in his hand. He then let out an angry sigh. "If there is a god up there, he must hate me!"

"I don't think she isn't really into hate," Serenity replied.

"You wouldn't say that if you could see me."

"Well, can I?…See you?" she said as she reached out her hands towards him, Tristan tried backing up a little but he was up against the bar. "It's okay…I won't bite." She then touched his arm. "Not that I could."

Tristan's face broke into a smile, something he hadn't done for a long time. Serenity's hands then moved up his rocky body. Tristan looked at her face, he could see his rock-like body intrigued her. Her hands then made it up to his face as she examined his features, including his eyes.

"Such a sad face," she said. "You know, sometimes being different isn't always bad thing."

"Trust me, this isn't one of those times," Tristan said before Serenity took her hands off him and her friends came up to her.

"Serenity, we better get going if we want to get you back in time," one of them said.

Serenity nodded at them. She then turned back to Tristan and smiled at him.

"I'll see you around then," she said as she left the bar with her friends.

"Bye," Tristan replied as he watched her walk away.

Meanwhile, back at the Hawkins building…

Tea stood in the lift, trying to wipe away her tears when the lift doors opened. She stepped out to see all the lights were switched off. Apart from one little desk lamp, she went over to it.

When she got there, she found that Yugi had fallen asleep on the keyboard while he was working on the nearly completed machine that stood in the middle of the room. A smile came back on her face when she saw him.

"Yugi…Yugi," Tea said as she placed her hand on his arm to wake him up. Yugi raise his head and looked up at Tea standing there. But the side of his face, which he had been laying on the keyboards, had re-shaped into the buttons on it. Tea couldn't help but let out a little laugh. So did Yugi once he saw his reflection. "Where is everyone?"

"Well…Joey and Tristan aren't back yet and Professor Hawkins and Rebecca got called away somewhere," Yugi replied as he wiped his face so it would go back to normal shape. "They didn't want to go at first, but I made them. Why should they suffer just because we are?"

"Yeah," Tea replied, but then Yugi noticed something.

"Have you been crying?" he asked.

"No, no I haven't…well, maybe a little, it's been a hard day. Anyway, how's the machine coming?"

"Umm…good, although the only thing we have left to test is (flicks through the plans) …me."

"No! Yugi no! You can't! What if something goes wrong!"

"I need to. Tristan…"

"No Yugi, what you need is a break!" Tea said as Yami came out of the puzzle.

/--She's right Yugi, you have been working yourself to hard lately. I'm sure Tristan won't mind you taking a little break --/

"You're right," Yugi replied to both of them.

"Okay then, come with me," Tea said as she grabbed Yugi's arm and dragged him towards the lift.

Meanwhile, Tristan sat in a café with his hat off on the table, but with his coat still on. Suddenly, someone came up behind him.

"Is this seat taken?" a voice came.

Author's notes: Who is that behind Tristan? What does this person want with him? And where is Tea taking Yugi? Find out next chapter on A Fantastic Story

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