Warnings; May contain swearing and hinting of Yaoi, don't like? Don't read!
Pairings: KaixRay, SetoxJoey, YamixYugi, TrunksxGoten.
Disclaimer; I do NOT own DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh! Or Beyblade or any of their characters, however I do own; the plot, my four OC's, the school name and the talents of these guys. Thank you.
-'thoughts'
I decided to keep Tristan straight and single.
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Chapter 2; Setting up for chaos.
Nicole was running around like a headless chicken, she was dressed from head to toe in black.
It was the night of the talent show, she had contacted all her acts and told them that they had to come two hours early to get settled. She was waiting for them in the Administrations area, they were all late and time was running out.
'Maybe this talent show was a bad idea, no-one's gonna turn up. No, I have to think positive.' She looked out to the horizon, she could see nine shooting stars heading her way. 'Wait, shooting stars?' Nicole sweat dropped, her brown eyes threatening to pop out of her head when she saw that they weren't stars, but people.
One of them landed and approached her. "Hey there, um... are you Nicole King?" he asked. Nicole nodded, her brown hair falling out of it's ponytail.
"Kakarot, it's obvious that she's the one we're looking for, who else would dress like that!" Vegeta pointed to Nicole's scuffed black shoes, headset and clip board.
"You must be Vegeta," she tied her hair back again. "I've heard about you and I must say I'm not impressed, I'm actually rather disappointed, oh and so you know, everyone who works backstage wears this gear. So mess with me you mess with them." She smirked, gazing at her clip board. Vegeta had to count to twenty before he did something he'd regret.
"Goku and Vegeta. Um…Yamcha, Krillin and…Tien?" she looked up at the group, the dark haired one with a scarred face, the short bald one and the triclops stepped forward. "Over there please. Gohan and Piccolo, do you have black clothes?"
"I have." Gohan straightened his glasses and indicating a backpack. Piccolo shook his head.
"I'll sort out some black ones and a belt for you. Is that ok?" Nicole asked the tall green guy. Everyone stared at her, including Vegeta. "Is there a problem guys?" she asked them. They all shook their heads.
'No,' Yamcha thought. 'It's just not everyday someone sees a tall green alien and a guy with a third eye in his forehead and not run off screaming, as well as insulting Vegeta and gets away unscathed!'
"Guy's loos are over there, you might want to go and change Gohan while we wait for the others…
At the Kame Game Shop
"Come on guys! We have to get going now!" yelled Mokuba, banging on every door. Yami was the only one ready, his outfit in his bag. "Ryou! Tristan!"
"I-I'm coming, M-Mokuba." stammered Ryou, signing a piece of paper and putting it in his bag. Bakura was smirking and carrying a large box behind him.
"Yeah I'm here, I'm ready."
"Abiou! Joey!" called Yami.
"Hold ya horses! I'm here." cried Joey, they could hear a faint jingle going from his bag.
Yugi stepped out of his room, rubbing his eyes and lugging his bag over his shoulder. Yami frowned, ever since they had entered the contest, Yugi had shut himself in the attic and all the guys could hear from there was tap tap tap, tappity tap. And some angry sounding jazz / rock music. He only came down for food and drinks. Yami thought it was just the contest thing, everyone had somehow kept their acts secret from each other. They heard a horn from outside.
"Everyone ready? The limo's here! We're meeting Dice boy and Téa at the school!" cried Kaiba, shoving everyone down the stairs.
"Bye Grandpa!" called Yugi.
"Bye Yugi, I'll see you at the show!" called the old man's reply from the shop.
At the dojo…
"Tyson! Stop stuffing your face and help Max and Kenny get the drums into the van!" Kai commanded, stuffing his clothes into his duffle bag as he walked around the kitchen like a lunatic himself. Ray was just sipping a glass of milk, watching the display of the stoic bluenette in front of him and trying not to laugh.
"Calm down Kai, I'll go and help them." Ray told him. Kai stopped, only realising then that his Chinese friend was there. He shook his head and gave Ray a rare smile. 'Man, he looks so handsome when he smiles. Oh, he's talking to me-'
"Look Ray, if I don't stop Tyson eating now, we'll never get going…" Kai took a breath "TYSON!" Ray had to clamp his hands over his ears at the sudden increase in volume. "If you don't stop eating now, I'm going to SHOVE your drumsticks up somewhere even Dragoon won't go anywhere near!"
"I'm coming!" Tyson's fear struck voice was heard running out of the house, Kai smirked in victory.
"You ready?" Kai asked Ray. Ray finished off his milk and nodded. He was about to follow Tyson out when Kai called him back.
"Yeah?" he asked, Kai blushed slightly and pointed to his top lip, Ray put his fingers to his own lip and found it was wet. "Oh!" Ray blushed too and rubbed him milk moustache off. "Better?" Kai nodded.
"Will you two stop flirting so we can go? That Nicole girl's going to kill us as it is!" cried Kenny, he knew he was treading very thin ice saying that in front of Kai of all people. Both the boy's blushes deepened and they ran out to the van.
Back at the school…
"Oh wait 'til I get my hands on them! If I don't get my grade I'll kill them!" Nicole cried, Gohan had changed and come out of the toilets, they had even found a black beanie and belt for Piccolo in the time it took for the others to arrive. "I've got an hour and forty-five minutes to get everything set up and you lot ready."
"Wait, you're getting graded in this?" asked Gohan.
"Yes, I'm doing a theatrics course, I have to be able to organise and set up a show for the public and recruit those to help me for my final grade. Look Gohan, take those taking part to the bottom of the corridor and to the right, there should be a door at the end that says 'Stage' wait for me there please. Piccolo, could you wait with me here? There's one guy I'm don't like the sound of."
"Hn." Piccolo growled, he knew he would regret this.
"Cheers mate." she smiled at him, Gohan was about to go off with the others when.
"Hey is this the talent show contestants?" asked a tall woman dressed in wearing a black gladiator-type warrior suit, with strategically placed slashes in the top and cycling shorts under the skirt, which had been decorated with silver chains. Her long brown hair tied back in a high, tight ponytail, the scars on her face matched those of Yamcha.
She was holding the hand of a little girl who was dressed exactly the same but with black hair and a hearing aid on each ear. Beside them was a man in a wheelchair, with black hair and dressed in a green pullover and jeans.
"Yes and you are…Yamuna and Ella, yes?"
"Yeah that's us."
"If you'd like to follow Gohan and I'll be with you in a moment." Nicole sighed. Then the little girl signed something to who Nicole guessed was Yamuna. "Is she deaf?"
"Yeah, what was that Ella?" she signed something back to the girl, who signed her reply. "Oh I'm sure daddy will be fine. Won't you LC?"
"Of course I will Ella." he said as he signed. "Now you be a good girl for Aunt Yamuna, yeah?" Ella nodded and kissed her dad and left with her aunt. "Right, where do I go?" he asked Nicole.
"Spectators go in the hall but you're rather early. Um, if you'd like to wait with over with those two and…"
"Hey, are we too late?" Nicole looked up to see a limo pull up, and eight people file out. The last being Seto Kaiba and Joey, both scarlet in the face. Joey was trying to stop his bag jingling when the limo took a sharp turn, making Joey land in Kaiba's lap.
"No, but I got to get you lot into your dressing rooms. Follow that lot there if your competing or helping out. Piccolo," she whispered to the Namekian, "Watch the taller white haired one. Who's Tristan?"
"I am, why?"
"I never found out what you were doing for the show."
"I'm helping backstage."
"It says here you're performing. You're in the programme now."
"Thanks Kaiba!" Tristan bellowed at the teenage billionaire. "I'll do something for the show. Duke, have you got your bag of dice on you?"
"Never leave home without it."
"Can I borrow it?" Tristan asked, giving Duke a 'let-me-or-die' look. Duke tossed him the drawstring bag. "Cheers."
"Good luck guys!" called Téa and Duke as the joined Kaiba. And Yugi, Tristan, Yami, Joey, Ryou and Bakura disappeared down the corridor with the others.
"Excuse me but where do you want us?" asked a kid who Nicole recognised as Kenny. Nicole smiled since he was in the right gear already.
"I don't need an intro to you guys, Kenny, stick with me, Hilary you're running the refreshment stall, it's at the back of the hall so you can still see the show."
"Ok." Hilary smiled, at least she didn't have to run around in the dark.
"Bladebreakers, follow me and let's get this started." She led them down to the door she had told Gohan to meet them at. "I'm sorry everyone, but the waiting around is over."
Nicole introduced everyone to everyone else before assigning everyone, two to a room. Yamuna and Ella, Yugi and Yami, Joey and Tristan, Bakura and Ryou, Kai and Ray, Tyson and Max, Goku and Vegeta. Krillin, Tien and Yamcha managed to fit into the last room.
"Chief, Mokuba, Gohan and Piccolo. I only have three headsets. Kenny has one, he's on the balcony, Mokuba, you take the right wing and I'll be on the left, Gohan, if I give you the third, so you and Piccolo can prevent people killing each other. Gohan can you fly Kenny up to the balcony?"
"Right." the four replied. Gohan took Kenny around the waist and flew him across the hall, setting him down and flying back.
"Ok…" Nicole sighed, she couldn't afford to get a headache now. Then she helped Ryou roll a large round table top painted like a bullseye into place. (Wonder who that's for?)
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