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Warnings: slight language
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All I Want for Christmas Chapter 11: Falling StarsIt was nine in the morning when Yami woke to find that Yugi had already left.
Dear Yami,
Don't worry I'm meeting the others somewhere. No, we're not doing anything dangerous. I'll be home around ten this evening.
Yugi.
So said the note that was left under the Millennium Puzzle by the spirit's hikari.
Yami cursed at Yugi's foolishness, 'You don't want me to know what your doing? Fine! But to leave the Puzzle? Did this dammed holiday rid you of your common sense?'
Their mind-link was still in tact, but since Yugi did not processes the puzzle at this time, if anything happened to him, Yami shuddered at the thought, he might be to late to protect his lighter half.
'It doesn't even say where he's going! At least he'll be with his friends.' Yami reasoned, 'I'll just be ready incase he should need me.'
Yami sighed, knowing that Yugi probably didn't take the puzzle to prevent himself from coming along. 'Let him keep his secrets then, but if he thinks he's getting out of a stern lecture about his personal safety he has another thing coming.'
The spirit wandered into the Mutou's living room, wanting nothing more then to forget about the troublesome holiday.
To rid his mind of the event previously mentioned, the spirit did something he rarely did, turned on the TV. Grant it, it took him several tries before he pressed the power button on the remote, but he was finally successful.
"Lets take a look at the weather on this fine Christmas Eve."
Click
"This holiday give her the gift that she'll…"
Click "The Hess Trucks back and it's better then ever for Christmas…" Click "All holiday shoppers save 25 off!" Click "Grrr…""Look Daddy, teacher says 'Every time a bell rings an angle gets his wings.'"
Click
"Merry Christmas Charley Brown!"
Click "For the love of Isis!"
"Ebenezer Scrooge, I am the ghost of Christmas past."
"That's just ridicules!" Click
Yami shut the TV off in frustration. "I'm sick of hearing about this Re dammed holiday!" and in a fit of rage, threw the remote at the Christmas tree.
Time stood still while the former Pharaoh watched the tree titer slightly. Yami breathed a sigh of relief when the tree did not fall over.
However, he found it quite difficult to breath when the star at the top fell and came crashing to the floor.
"No." Yami whispered.
"Are you all right in there, I heard something break." Mr. Mutou took one look at the shattered crystal, and then one glance at the spirit standing behind the couch looking guilty as sin. "I'll get the broom."Domino Park
Yugi and Tea stood by the fountain in the center of the park. They were the only ones there, save for a few kids and an old man feeding the pigeons. Yugi was glancing back and forth, waiting to see a familiar face come round a corner.
Tea picked up on her friend's tension, "Don't worry, they'll be here soon."
Just then, the Wheeler siblings along with Mai turned the corner. Upon seeing his friends, Joey bounded up to them. "Hey guys, look who I brought!"
He motioned toward the two girls.
"Hey Mai, hi Serenity! I want to thank both of you for coming on such short notice." Yugi said.
"Don't mention it Hon, without anybody holding another tournament it's been nothing but dulls-vile." The blond duelist said giving the short teen a wink.
"And I don't mind helping out either." Serenity added.
"Look, here comes Tristan and Ryou." Tea spoke up.
"Hey man." Joey said to Tristan giving him a high-five.
"Hey." The brunet returned the greeting.
"Hello everyone. I hope your well." Ryou said walking up to the rest of the group.
Everybody exchanged greetings, while Yugi did a quick head-count. "Is this everyone?"
"I called Duke and Malik last night." Tristan said, "They should be here."
"Does that mean Marik's coming?" Mai asked, concerned.
"Nope, no yamis allowed." Joey reassured Mai, "Especially crazy ones."
"He prefers to be called psychotic but I guess crazy works too."
Everyone turned in surprise to find Malik, Isizue, and Odion standing there. "Whoa, looks like you brought the whole clan." Tea commented.
"You didn't bring anyone else, right?" Joey asked seriously.
"Don't worry, the demon is having a time out." Odion said with a faint smile on his face.
"Hello everyone." Isizue greeted the group.
"Now, all we have to do is wait for…" Tea began
"Me." Duke finished, jogging up the path.
"You're late." Tristan said bluntly.
"Haven't you've ever heard of being fashionably late?" Duke questioned.
"Hey man, glad you could make it." Joey said.
"Yeah so am I. It's a good thing Malik reminded me about this little get together. It's funny, but I don't remember anything between six and nine last night."
"Really?" Mai asked, not totally convinced.
"Yep, Malik found me, and later phoned me to tell me what happened."
"He did?" Ryou asked glancing at Malik.
"Sunspots." Duke stated.
"Sunspots?" The group repeated.
"Yes sunspots, back in Egypt they would make even the strongest men go mad." Malik said.
Ryou mouthed a 'thank you' to the Egyptian while Duke noticed a certain brown-eyed girl in the crowd.
"Hi Serenity, how've you been?"
"I'm fine Duke. How's your vacation going?"
Joey who was conversing with Tea and Mai at the time was oblivious to Duke's motives, however Devlin wasn't so lucky when it came to Tristan.
"Hi Serenity." Tristan said butting into the conversation.
"Hello Tristan."
"Yeah, hi Tristan."
Yugi took this opportunity to speck up. "I want to thank everyone for coming…"
"Actually about that," Ryou said cutting Yugi off. "I should be thanking you."
"What do you mean Ryou?" Yugi asked.
"You know I'd help you if I could, but…" The white haired teen was unable to finish.
"Ryou got thrown out of his apartment." Tristan explained.
"That's terrible!" Tea cried.
"How, why?" Joey asked.
"It's not important, but it might take sometime before I can get this all straightened out. So do you mind me still tagging along?"
"I understand, and of course I don't mind." Yugi answered instantly.
"Sure, glade to help." Joey added.
"Why didn't you say something sooner?" Tea asked.
"Now I have a confession." Malik said stepping up to the group. "You see, up until around nine fifteen we would have had no problems with helping you Yugi..."
"What happened?" Serenity asked
"The Spawn of Seth happened!" Odion spat out.
"What he means is Marik became upset and took out his frustrations on our washing machine." Isizue stated.
"What he do?" Joey asked.
"He blew it up." Malik said flatly.
"How'd he do that!" Tristan asked, just as stunned as the rest of the group.
"The Internet, he found a way to make a bomb out of, rubber tubing, rubbing alcohol and a potato, off the Internet."
"Oh boy." Tea sighed.
"December is the museums slow month," Isizue explained. "Everyone is rushing around for the holidays; we won't be able to afford a new washer for some time."
"Don't worry about it," Joey began, "by the end of the day we'll all get what we came for."
"Are you sure Joey?" Mai asked. "You don't even know how much they're paying." "Have a little faith Mai, it's Christmas!" Joey responded. "If you say so." The other blond said, giving Joey a lopsided smile. "What are we waiting for? Lets go?" Tristan said taking off. "I call shotgun!" "Hey I'm driving and I think maybe someone else should sit in front." Mai said. "Yeah, in other words, she wants you down wind from her Tristan." Duke said. "Shut up Devlin!" "What I mean is, Joey has the address so he should sit with me." "I brought my car too, some of you can ride with me while I follow Mai." Duke stated."We also have a ride. We'll follow you." Isizue said indicating herself and her brothers.
"Ok, that ought to do it." Yugi said.
After much confusion when Joey accidentally pushed the button that made the top go down on Mai's convertible, and much insult slinging between Duke and Tristan, the group had made it to their destination.
They scrambled out of the cars and looked at their surroundings. "Joey, are you sure we're in the right place?" Yugi asked.
"Yeah, this is the right address." The blond responded.
"You dimwit!" Mai yelled whacking Joey over the head with her purse. "This isn't a charity event, it's the Domino Mall!"
"Well at least were in the right place to get a Christmas gift." Joey pointed out sheepishly.
All right, everyone, review please!
So the gang wound up at the mall, if you're wondering what's going to happen next I'll have the next chapter up sometime tomorrow.
Chapter 12: Yami has broken something valuable to Yugi, how's he going to fix this dilemma? We also find out what happens when Marik and Bakura can't find that their hikaris are missing.