Hey guess what! It's my birthday! Yay! (dances around) Sadly, we didn't do a whole lot to celebrate, but me and my cousins and a couple friends got together and played LOTR: Third Age and SSM Melee today. Nothing really special. It was fun though. And I got lot's of money, which is the best present you can give someone. Who knows, I might be going to Knott's sometime next week. But anyway, on with the story.
Thanks for the reviews, guys… and gals… guyals. O.o But moving on, I was thinking of doing pairings for my fic. Not to the extent that it will be all romantic and-
Bakura: Thhhhpppptttt! (raspberry)
SILENCE! But, yeah, so I don't want it to be like that, but maybe if you want you can make a couple of suggestions. I've already got the Seth x Ishizu one. Should I leave that? And what other ones should I do, if any? Here's my list of guys and girls, and if you have the time and the heart, say who should be with who in your-
Atem: Thhhhpppptttt!
Bakrua: THHHHPPPPPTTTT!
Atem: THHHHPPPPPPTTTTTTTT!
WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU MORONS DOING?
Atem: He started it.
Bakura: Oh, don't give me that, Pharaoh. Is that what you did when you were fighting wars or whatever as King? Just pointed to some other country and said, 'He started it?'
Atem: Only twice… and it actually worked rather well.
Bakura: Coolness.
That's absolutely amazing. Now go… lick yourselves.
Bakura: OK!
Well, as I was saying, if you want to see any pairings, mention them in your reviews. Here's a list of the guys and girls. Do what you want w/ it.
Seth, Bakura, Valon , Seto, Atemu, Joey, Duke, Tristan
Mai, Ishizu, Serenity, Myself? (this is a maybe. I might not even be in here.)
There you go… yeah. That's good. Unless you want…
TEA AND REBECCA
back.
But seriously folks. Oh and one other thing. This might sound weird, but, ahem… I do not hate Tea.
Atem, Yugi, Bakura, Ryou, Seto, Seth, Mokuba, Marik, Malik, Ishizu, Joey, Duke, Tristan, Serenity, Mai, Noah, Valon, Alister, Dartz, Raphael, Big Five, Iron Heart, Christ, Pegasus, Grandpa Mutou, Shadi, Odion, Professor Hawkins, Bandit Keith, Rex, Sieg Lloyd, Leon Wilson, Vivian Wong, Weevil, Pharaoh Akunumkanon, Priest Akunadin, Mahado, Isis, Karim, Shada, Shimon, Mana, Kisara, Bobasa, Gebeluk, Hasan, Dark Akunadin, and Zork: HOLY CRAP! GAAAAAAASSSSSSPPPPPPP! (all faint)
Rebecca: (pushes up glasses) I knew it.
Yes, it is true. And that took freaking forever to write those names down. Maybe I just should have said, 'Everyone but Rebecca'…
Zork: Well I guess you should have, then!
Die! (stabs Zork)
Bakura: I'm free!
Iron Heart: And no longer evil. Here, let me cure you of all your badness.
Atem: Run Bakura! He did that to me, and then I couldn't go on anymore killing rampages!
Bakura: Augh! (runs away)
(rolls eyes) This is an effing long intro so I had better start now. But yeah, I actually like Tea… in the manga anyway. And she's ok in the uncut version. However, in the dubbed version, I can't stand her. Just for your notice. Rebecca however, needs to be shot. (Takes a rocket launcher and hands to Malik) Will you do the honors?
Malik: Sweet. (fires rocket at Rebecca. Rebecca explodes, sending her guts flying and her ginormous brain into oblivion.) Victory is mine!
Disclaimer: Crap, I had to take this job back. But… (sighs) as you may have seen in the other chapters, PADA doesn't own YGO or anything else with some sort of name brand or what not.
Chapter… ELEVEN (dun dun dun!): Duel
Yugi and the others have to somehow persuade Seto to let them have a party at his house. So they do it in the most kind and loving way possible…
"NO! DON'T FLUSH IT! DON'T FLUSH IT! MY POOR MONEY!" Seto cries as he clings to the bathroom doorknob in despair. Yugi, Ryou, and Marik are inside, pretending to flush all Seto's credit cards down the toilet.
"Then let us use your mansion for our social festivities!" comes Ryou's accented voice.
"No!"
"Well, here goes another one then!" yells Yugi. A swilling sound is heard as the toilet handle is pushed.
"STOP! PLEASE!" Seto bangs on the door.
Atem, Bakura, and Malik are watching from the hall, smiling at their hikari's actions.
"I'm so proud of them." says Bakura, wiping a tear from his eye.
"Me too." Malik agrees.
"We have taught them well." comments Atem. They all laugh quietly as they see the elder Kaiba fall to his knees and sob as he thinks of his precious money floating in the sea.
After a few minutes, however, Seto finally gives in to their request.
"Ok," says Yugi, who is making the plans. "I listed the jobs for each of us to do. Take a look."
List of Jobs (boy, he got really creative with the name, didn't he)
Food: Yugi, Ryou, Ishizu, Seth, Tristan
Supply Shopping: Malik, Atem, Bakura, Seto
Cleaning: Joey, Valon, Marik
Phone Calls (other guests): Mokuba
While Valon and Joey go into conniptions about having to work together, Seto glares at Yugi in a very glary type of fashion.
"Stop glaring at me so glaryingly, Kaiba. It's too glare-like."
"I can glare if I want to, Mutou. I am the King of Glares."
Atem interrupts. "Umm, I hate to break it to you… psych. I would love to. But, as I was saying, I am actually the King of Glares."
Seto looks at him. "Oh, yeah? How?"
"Well, there was that one time when I was dueling Pegasus in Duelist Kingdom… oh, and then there was that one other time with you, before I dueled Pegasus. And, let's see, oh yes. There was the duel with Malik, and even that one time where Mai was dueling Malik. And also the duel with Raphael, and that was a really good one too, seeing how I had the whole Orichalcos (oh, right. Cause I'm going to know how to spell it.) thingy going on. Remember that one, Yugi?"
"Heck yeah. That was a good one. Of course, my soul was taken away soon after…" Yugi says.
"It's your own fault. Ooh and of course the one with Weevil, and Dartz, and Bakura, or Zork, I guess. So, looks like I got you beat."
Seto thinks about that. "Whatever. What are you not the King of?"
Atem shrugs. "I don't know. I am King of Cruel and Unusual Punishment, King of Weird Hairstyles, Former King of Egypt, King of Basketball (can you just imagine that?), and of course, King of the Annual Nile Scarab Beetle Races. Which, by the way, Seth, you still owe me 73,000 pounds for." (1)
Bakura turns to Seth. "You bet him 73,000 pounds? You know he always drugged his beetle to make him win."
Seth scowls. "I'm sorry. I didn't know he would do that, seeing how he was only three at the time."
"I guess the only thing I'm not King of is King of Theives, and King of Games." Atem told Seto.
They all went quiet.
Ryou tapped Atem on the shoulder. "Uh, you are the King of Games, dude."
Atem turns to him and shoves his hand away. "BACK, ADVERSARY OF AMEN-RE! YOUR WORDS ARE BLASPHEMY! MAY ANIBUS IMPLEMENT NO MERCY UPON YOUR KIND! YOU ARE A FOLLOWER OF SET, AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH! OSIRIS AND ISIS SHALL BESTOW THEIR REPRISAL UPON YOU! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" (2)
Ryou looks at Atem with wide, frightened eyes. "S…s…sorry… 'Temu."
"You are forgiven. Now, it is true that I am not the King of Games. Yugi is."
Yugi grins. "Daaaaaaaaamn straight."
"But!" Atem sneers and wips out a deck of duel monsters cards. "That title can be easily removed to my benefit."
Yugi and the others gasp. "You mean, you will duel me to win back your title?"
"Daaaaaaaaamn straight. Now let's get it on."
Mokuba hits the gong with the hammer. 'Bonnnnnggggggg!' (heh heh. Bong…)
"Mokuba! What have I told you about ringing gongs before people duel!" Seto asks Mokuba, sounding rather annoyed.
"Sorry ani.(3) I just couldn't help myself."
"I gave you your treatment."
"I know, but the sensation just somehow sneaks in. It's a great feeling, you know."
Malik looks at them. "Silence, fiends! I want to see this! It's like the Ceremonial Duel all over again, except this time I'm actually around to watch it. Stupid baka Pharaoh, sending me to the Shadow Realm…" He starts muttering something about how Atem stole his leather jacket after he won the duel between them.
Yugi puts on his 'game' face, whatever the heck that would be, and agrees. "Alright, Pharaoh. It's time to d-d-d-d-d-d-"
"Oh, be quiet and let's go." Atem sits down at the kitchen table and sets up his deck. Yugi does the same, as everybody else comes to watch.
Yugi smiles when he sees the cards in his hands. 'Great.' he thinks. 'I have the perfect strategy. First, I'll do… then, oh, that's a great card. I can put that in defense and then attack with this one later. I'll use this magic card my third turn, and use this card to combine these two monsters!'
Atem is indifferent as he looks at his own cards. '… I wonder what Ishizu would look like with a bikini.' He raises his eyebrows. 'Or better yet…'
He looks at Yugi. "You ready?"
"Of course." Yugi nods. "Ore makenai." (4)
"Whatever you say, hikari."
"You don't believe me? I truly won't. I believe in the heart of the cards. It will guide me."
Atem just shakes his head and smirks. "Don't be a fool, Yugi. There is no such thing as the heart of the cards."
"What? But… but you said…" Yugi is taken aback. "You always said it was real!"
"That's cause it was in the Ra damned bloody script! Now come on. Omae no time." (5)
Yugi blinks. "O…ok. I guess. Uh, I play Dark Magician in attack mode."
Atem shakes his head again. "Oh, darn. You got me there. I play Obelisk the Tormentor in attack mode. He attacks, Dark Magician dies."
"Crap. I play Horse Raider in defense mode."
"Alrighty. I play card destruction. We both discard our entire hands."
"You know, Atem. I will not give up. Even if you get me down to one point, I will keep on fighting!"
Atem nods. "Uh huh."
"I believe in my friends and in myself!"
"You go ahead and do that…"
"If you think that for one minute, I'm going to stop fighting, well then you're wrong!"
"I have all the cards to summon Exodia."
"I beat you once before! I can defeat you again!"
"Exodia just destroyed all you're life points. Ore wa katsuda." (6)
"… oh. Well ok then."
The others looks at each other. "That was quick."
"Yeah. I'm also the King of Luck…"
(1)- pounds are like Egyptian dollars
(2)- Amen-Re: Highest of Egyptian gods
Anubis: ancient Egyptian god of the dead
Set: Egyptian god of chaos/evil chaos, slayer of god Osiris
Osiris and Isis: Osiris is the god of the underworld and of vegetation, was killed by his brother Set, Isis is Osiris' wife
(3)- ani: older brother
(4)- Ore makenai: Ore means I, makenai means not lose
(5)- Omae no time: your turn
(6)- Ore wa katsuda: I win
One of my least favorite quotes: "Get on the line." If you've played basketball, you probably know what I mean.
R&R!