All Anime characters: /carrying birthday gifts "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAIYAN MOON GODDESS!!"
/Cheers and yells are heard/
Saiyan Moon Goddess: "Thank you to all my loyal fans. I'm still writing my novel, doing school, and a lot of other things. If I ever publish my novel, I'll be sure to tell you guys in one of my fanfics. Though I'm afraid that someday I may quit doing fanfiction. But don't worry, I'll write as much as I can, and I'll continue reading."
Yugi: /looking cute/ "How old are you, SMG?"
Saiyan Moon Goddess: "I'm 16 years old! Ain't that great! I'm getting my learners permit and in two more years I'll be out of high school. Once in college I'll have less time to write in , but I'll do my best. 10th grade in my school is hard enough right now."
Yami: "What are doing today?"
Saiyan Moon Goddess: "Well, let's see." /counts on fingers/ "I'm eating out tonight, a big desert, karate class (all guys, /drool/) where my friends said they would give me an unforgetable treatment, and a Baskin Robbins' cake at 9:30, because I was born at that hour."
/A shadow creeps behind SMG and wraps its strong arms around her waist./
/SMG gasps in surprise and looks behind her. She smiles lovingly when she spots her one and only./
Saiyan Moon Goddess: "Hiei-koi!"
Hiei: "Happy birthday, kitten." they kiss with passion
Saiyan Moon Goddess: thinking "That's what I like about my realm. I can do absolute WHATEVER I want."
Kurama: "Hey, guys! What are you doing standing there? Let's celebrate!"
SMG and Hiei: /break kiss/
Ryou: "What are we going to do?"
Saiyan Moon Goddess: "You guys go ahead and party. Hiei and I want to be alone on our date tonight."
Yugi: "I thought you said you had other things to do."
Saiyan Moon Goddess: "Your forgeting that time is endless in my realm. Once I finish my date, I'll return right on time to do my list of chores. But Hiei comes first. Toodles." /she runs off with Hiei/
Lady Vegeta4eva: "Oh well, then let's enjoy the story while SMG is away."
Everyone: "YEAH!"
/Lookalikes so far/
/From Saiyan Moon Goddess (OC/s)/
1. Koneko - Marlene/Saiyan Moon Goddess
/From Yu-Gi-Oh!/
1. Nessuro - ???
2. Neil - ???
3. Prince Umi - Ryou
4. Cerulean - ???
5. Zukoi - ???
6. Max - Pegasus
7. Korosu - Bandit Keith
/From Yu Yu Hakusho/
1. Kage - Hiei
2. Zorro - Kurama
3. Akira - Botan
4. Maki - Koenma
5. Iwa - Kuwabara
6. Iwa's partner(I never said his name) - Jin
-Alternate Universe Twist- By Saiyan Moon Goddess
-Chapter 5: Problems Back At Home And The Haunted Forest-
In Yugi's universe...
Everyone sat around in the living room inside Marlene's house, waiting. All yamis and hikaris (except for Yami and Yugi) were there, including Serenity, Jou, Honda, and Seto. They were waiting for a certain pair of white-haired teens to come back.
Ryou and Bakura come into the living room. Everyone gasped. The tomb robber had a black eye, a split lip, and a bleeding nose, not to mention his clothes looked slightly torn.
"Uh, how's Marlene?" Jou asked Ryou.
"She kept on until her energy was completely drained." said Ryou. "She fainted so I put her to bed. But don't worry, she'll be okay."
Serenity turned to Bakura. "How is Yami?"
Bakura pointed at his face. Everyone stared.
"I actually let him hit me until he was satisfied!" Bakura said, sounding angry and frustrated. "He still blames himself for the midget's disappearance and I just told him to let it all out."
"We can see that." said Seto.
"Shut up, CEO." Bakura growled.
"Guys, please, don't fight." Ryou pleaded. He turned to his yami. "Isn't there any way to bring Yugi back?"
"Don't look at me." said Bakura, shrugging. "I didn't do the spell and neither Yami or I know a thing about alternate dimensions." He walked pass the group, toward the kitchen.
"Where ya going?" Jou asked.
"I'm going to get a raw stake for my eye." Bakura replied dryly and went into the kitchen.
"Why don't you use the icepack?" Ryou called after him. "The raw meat will make you face smell!" Ryou ran into the kitchen. The others sighed.
The white-haired hikari and yami came back a few minutes later, Bakura holding a small icepack to his eye.
"What are we going to do now?" Malik asked. (Malik: Malik/Yami Malik: Marik)
They heard glass breaking and someone curse loudly.
"And I thought you had a dirty mouth." said Ryou to his yami.
"I'll go see him." Serenity said and stood up.
"NO!" Jou pulled her back down, looking panicked. "I'm not gonna let Yami beat you like he did to Bakura."
"I'll go then." Ryou started upstairs, but Bakura quickly grabbed his arm.
"Forget it." he said. "If the pharaoh does so much as lay a hand on you, nobody will find his body parts, not even in the Shadow Realm." Bakura walked upstairs. Marik followed him.
They went into the room they kept Yami in. They had to lock Yami inside until he calmed down. And that was a day ago that he was locked. The others waited. They heard some more glass breaking, curses and yells, and a loud thud. Serenity started fearing the worst.
"Hikari!" called Bakura. "Bring up the First Aid Kit! The pharaoh hurt himself with a mirror!"
"Coming!" Ryou ran upstairs with the kit in hand. Ryou went to the guest room and saw Bakura and Marik laying Yami on a bed. The pharaoh had his hands and feet bleeding from numerous cuts. He noticed glass shards scattered on the floor and the broken mirror.
"Uh, what happened?" he managed after recovering from his shock.
"When we came in he was walking over two broken lamps." Marik explained. "He punched the bathroom mirror and the mirror over there and broke them both. Then he attacked us. We had to knock him out."
"Something's not right here." Bakura said, staring at Yami's body. "Something about Yugi's absence has made him go mad!"
Ryou removed the glass shards from Yami's hands and feet, cleaned the wounds, and bandaged them up. He noticed the big bruise on the back of his head and took care of that too.
"I think you hit him too hard." He turned to the other two. "Move him to another room. I'll take care of this mess later." The yamis nodded and took the pharaoh to a different room next to Marlene's. This time they were careful enough to remove all breakable and sharp objects from the room, then locked him in.
Ryou went to Marlene's room to check on her. He smiled in relief when he saw her still lying on her bed, spleeping peacefully. The blonde was exhausted from all the spells she did to try and bring Yugi back to their dimension. None of them worked and she was completely drained, and not sleeping for two days didn't help either. She was out like a light.
"Ryou!" Bakura nearly screamed from the other room. Alarmed, Ryou ran into the room.
"What?! What is it?!"
"Yami's disappearing!" Marik yelled.
Ryou took a look at Yami and he gasped with widened eyes. Yami became transparent for a few seconds, then went to normal.
"Is he joining Yugi?" said Ryou.
"No!" Bakura said. "Yugi's not in this dimension anymore. He's seizing to exist. Soon, there will be nothing left of him."
"Why?"
"I don't know!"
Ryou stared sadly at Yami. 'Yugi, you have to come back. Or Yami will be a goner.'
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ALTERNATE UNIVERSE:
Yugi, Koneko, Kage, and three other soldiers walked through the forest that covered most of the Kotao and Taokao territory. They planned to avoid going directly through Kotao's civilian area to avoid more soldiers. But taking this path was also a great risk.
One of the three soldiers was the redhead one who guarded the palace's gates, his name is Jin. (SMG: "Yeah, I let him keep the name. I like it.") The other two: one was the same heigh as Jin, he has black hair and brown eyes, and his name is Yuke (Yuseke); the second one was a blonde with sharp brown eyes, and his name is Jono (Jou). (SMG: "I'm getting tired of making up names.") Koneko and Kage tried to convince Zorro to acompany them. But his duty is to protect to prince. So he stayed.
"Why don't soldiers use the forest to have their fights instead of the civil areas?" Yugi asked.
"Because, this forest is believed to be haunted." said Kage.
"What?"
"Years before the war, something unexplained happened here." Koneko said. "People from both Kotao and Taokao started talking about whispering spirits in the forest. Few were brave enough to come here and try to investigate. What happened was that when they came back, they were all scared out of their minds. They said they saw horrible monsters here. In the trees, the grass, plants, soil, everywhere. But most of all they heard these voices whispering in the air at night, like a lament. But absolutly nobody has been able to understand what these voices are trying to say. They weren't harmed in any way, but they were in shock for a long while. Ever since then, no one dares to come here. Even the bravest soldiers are scared. They say that if the whispering voices don't drive you insane, the monsters will."
"So basicly, it sounds to me like these monsters are either only trying to scare people, or their trying to give them a message." said Yugi.
"You think so?" said Koneko. "Well, even if they were trying to deliver a message, nobody can understand what they're saying. It's daylight now. We won't get to Kotao until tomorrow. So we must endure the night here. With them, whoever they are."
"No problem." said Jono. "I'm not scared of some whispering voices or monsters."
"Me either." said Yuke.
"This could be fun." said Jin.
"Don't say that!" Kage scolded his men, pointing his sword at them. "You still don't know what's out there and you treat it like a game! Focus for once in your life!"
Yugi pulled Koneko down and whispered to her. "Is he always like this?"
"Sometimes." Koneko whispered back. "He used to be ignorant like them, even if they are older than him. But Zorro trained him so hard he matured before time."
Yugi and Koneko got a little ahead of the group and continued whispering to each other.
"Is Zorro really his father?" said Yugi. "They don't look a thing alike."
"No." said Koneko. "Kage is an orphan. He was found as a baby in the forest with his parents' dead bodies nearby. He was hidden inside a tree trunk and his parents were apparently killed by wild animals. Zorro is the one who found him while training in the forest."
"So he kept him?"
"Yes. He brought him back to the palace. Kage had no other relatives known, so the king let Zorro keep him and raise him as a loyal soldier to his majesty. Zorro raised him like he were his own son. That's why Kage sees Zorro, the one who took care of him and was always there for him, as a father."
"Did he ever asked about his parents?"
"Yes, but nothing was known about them. They lived inside the forest, away from the kingdoms. He felt sad not knowing anything about where he came from. But having Zorro, me, and the others made him forget about all that. He was truly happy until the war tore us apart."
"Koneko..."
"Yes?"
"Kage said he saw your house on fire when the war started, and he thought your were dead. What happened that day? How did you end up with your previous master and then with Max."
Suddenly, Koneko lost a bit of control on herself and started shaking for no apparent reason. "Sorry, Yugi-sama. I don't want to talk about it." She started walking faster and ahead of him, but stopped only for a second and turned to him again. "By the way, Yugi-sama, did you know you have the same katana as Kage?" Then she went ahead of the group, not noticing the sky turning dark.
"Huh?" Yugi looked down at his katana, then turned to look at Kage's sword. They were the same.
'Wait a minute. Does this mean that he's...' A female scream broke his thoughts.
Kage was instantly alarmed. "Koneko!" He ran in direction of the scream, leaving the others behind. Yugi and the others ran behind him. That's when they started hearing whispering voices in the air.
'What is that?' Yugi thought as he ran. 'It sounds familiar. Is this the strange lament?' Somehow, he could understand what the voices were saying.
'What are you trying to tell me?' he said mentally to the mysterious voices. But the whispers becames a bit faint and he heard only a few words.
Yugi-sama...dark one...inprison...spirits...forest...shadows...trapped...
Yugi was awaken from his trance when he almost ran right into a tree. He looked around and saw a lonely figure in the darkness of the forest. At that moment, raindrops fell from the sky as strong wind blew. A storm started. Asuming the figure was either Kage or Koneko, he ran to it. But when he came close, he froze in his tracks.
The person dressed in a black hood and holding a sharp blade, had no face.
To Be Continued....
Ryoko: "Countdown for 9:30p.m.!"
Yugi: "Ten!"
Yami: "Nine!"
Ryou: "Eight!"
Bakura: "Seven!"
Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys: "Six!"
Lady Vegeta4eva: "Five!"
Trunks: "Four!"
Vegeta: "Three!"
Kurama: "Two!"
Jou: "One!"
Everybody present: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMG!!!"
Saiyan Moon Goddess: enters room/gets excited "OMG! You guys!" /hugs all her friends/ "But where is Hiei?"
Kurama: "We have a special surprise for you SMG!" /he disappears/
/Everyone sits down with SMG in the front row and a huge stage before them. The curtain lifts up. SMG looks curious. Heavy Metal music starts playing. Everyone screams in excitement. A smokescreen comes up. A shadow comes out through it, holding a microphone and an electric guitar./
Saiyan Moon Goddess: /gasps/ "It's Hiei-koi!"
/And so are Yugi, Yami, Ryou, Bakura, and Kurama. They all hold instruments and microphones and are all dress as SMG's favorite heavy metal band, LINKING PARK!/
/Music plays hard. SMG screams Hiei's name as well as everyone else. The group starts singing, with Hiei on the lead, one of SMG's favorite songs from the latest LP CD, Meteora./
/DON'T STAY/
SOMETIMES I NEED TO REMEMBER JUST TO BREATHE SOMETIMES I NEED YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM ME SOMETIMES I'M IN DISBELIEF I DIDN'T KNOW SOMEHOW I NEED YOU TO GO
DON'T STAY FORGET OUR MEMORIES FORGET OUR POSSIBILITIES WHAT YOU WERE CHANGING ME INTO JUST GIVE ME MYSELF BACK AND
DON'T STAY FORGET OUR MEMORIES FORGET OUR POSSIBILITIES TAKE ALL YOUR FAITHLESS WITH YOU JUST GIVE ME MYSELF BACK AND
DON'T STAY
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I TRUSTED YOU TOO WELL SOMETIMES I JUST FEEL LIKE SCREAMING AT MYSELF SOMETIMES I'M IN DIBELIEF I DIDN'T KNOW SOMEHOW I NEED TO BE ALONE
DON'T STAY FORGET OUR MEMORIES FORGET OUR POSSIBILITIES WHAT YOU WERE CHANGING ME INTO JUST GIVE ME MYSELF BACK AND
DON'T STAY FORGET OUR MEMORIES FORGET OUR POSSIBILITIES TAKE ALL YOUR FAITHLESS WITH YOU JUST GIVE ME MYSELF BACK AND
DON'T STAY
I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE I DON'T WANT TO BE IGNORED I DON'T NEED ONE MORE DAY OF YOU WASTING ME AWAY.
I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE I DON'T WANT TO BE IGNORED I DON'T NEED ONE MORE DAY OF YOU WASTING ME AWAY.
WITH NO APOLOGIES
DON'T STAY FORGET OUR MEMORIES FORGET OUR POSSIBILITIES WHAT YOU WERE CHANGING ME INTO JUST GIVE ME MYSELF BACK AND
DON'T STAY FORGET OUR MEMORIES FORGET OUR POSSIBILITIES TAKE ALL YOUR FAITHLESS WITH YOU JUST GIVE ME MYSELF BACK AND
DON'T STAY
/After more screams for encore, the group sang /Faint/, /Numb/, and finished. SMG was so happy she ran up stage and kissed Hiei countless times for making her birthday incredible./
Saiyan Moon Goddess: "Hiei-koi, you really know how to make a tough girl happy."
Hiei: /smirks/ "I know."
Saiyan Moon Goddess: "Well, guess I'm 16 now. When I start driving, I'll give you a ride."
Hiei: "Do I look like I'm asking for a deathwish?"
Saiyan Moon Goddess: "WHAT?!" /she pounces on him and they wrestle on the floor/
Lady Vegeta4eva: "There they go again." /calls outs/ "Place your bets! I'm getting the drinks!"
/And the curtain falls./
Saiyan Moon Goddess: /outside of party/ "Let's see. I got "Yu-gi-oh! Duelists of the Roses" game, the "Xenosaga: Episode I" game, the "Linking Park Meteora" CD, a stragety guide, a Yugioh magazine, and 20 dolars. Not bad!"
NEXT TIME: Nope, all the excitement from my birthday had me short on ideas, so wait for the next chapter.
NEXT CHAPTER: (Same as above.)