Chapter Six: Niobe's Experience with Paper
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh.
A/N: Jeez, how many more hits am I going to get before I finish this fic? Anyways, on with the fic!
Joey woke up the next morning due to a growling stomach. He stretched and looked forwards realizing that he fell asleep in front of the TV. He looked around for Niobe who was curled up on his pillow again. He looked at his clock and saw that it was early in the morning. He stood up and stretched, popping his back. He walked to the kitchen and made himself some scrambled eggs. As soon as he was done he went to his room where his dragon greeted him with a chirp.
"Hey, I got some eggs. I hope that you don't mind that they're a little burnt," he said with a sorry look. Niobe flew to his shoulder and climbed carefully down to his arm. She grabbed a piece of egg and ate it. She chirped and grabbed more pieces to eat. "HEY! Save some of that for me!" he said trying to move the plate away.
Niobe growled a little and climbed onto the plate, her claws scrapping against the china, making the hair on the back of Joey's neck stand on end. "Okay, you can have it, I'll just make some more. Jeez, I have goose bumps now," he said rubbing his arms and the back of his neck as he tried to make them go down. As he left, he grabbed the empty bowl and made his way into the kitchen, setting it into the sink. Something wasn't right though. Joey looked in his father's room and found him gone, probably out. Now wonder there wasn't any snores.
After making more eggs and cleaning up, he went into the bathroom with a set of clean clothes to take a shower. Niobe was upset that Joey went somewhere she couldn't and moaned sadly in his room. She walked clumsily to his dresser and climbed up it, jabbing her claws in the wood as she climbed and reached the top. One of the draws was open and filled with wrapping paper. Niobe grew curious and looked for a way to get in, only to fall in accidentally. She stood back up and shook her head with a snort. Falling was not her favorite thing to do unless the thing she landed on was soft.
She looked forward and saw the wrapping paper shimmer in the light. It was shiny silver and she crawled towards it. As she did, her reflection in the paper grew big, scaring the poor dragon. She shrieked in fear and tried to hide behind objects, scotch tape, ribbons and bows. All the while, a bow got stuck to her head as she hid. "Niobe? Niobe, where are you?" she heard. It was her human. With a tiny roar, she gave her location. To Joey, the roar sounded like she was either hurt or scared.
He opened up the drawer some more and saw his dragon cowering from the metallic paper. "There you are. Why did you go in there?" he asked as he gently pulled her out of his drawer. Niobe had at that time looked down at the paper and shrieked again, climbing up his bare arm. "Ow. What's the matter with you? Oh, it's the wrapping paper. You saw your reflection and it scared you, huh? I wonder why?" he questioned as she hid behind his wet neck. He wore a t-shirt and it was getting wet from his hair. Niobe nuzzled his neck in hopes that he'll scare off the evil paper.
Joey pulled out the paper and sat on the floor. He reached under his bed and pulled out the presents he bought and a Christmas bag. Niobe slowly moved her head to see what Joey was doing. She watched in awe as he straightened out the paper and flipped it over, putting one of the albums on top of it. She moaned in fear. That was Joey's and that evil paper was going to eat it. Joey rubbed her wing to calm her down and measured how long the paper should be before he could cut it. He stood back up and pulled out a pair of scissors and cut the paper. Niobe growled softly as the evil paper was being cut and didn't shriek out in pain. This was a weird enemy and it still scared her.
He used the tape and wrapped the gift up and flipped it over so he could put a bow and a tag on it. He reached back up and pulled out a gold and silver bow and tag. He wrapped the other gift up and then wrapped the two gifts together with the ribbon. As he wrapped the second ribbon around the gifts, he accidentally cut his finger with the scissors edge. Niobe looked worriedly to her human and growled an apology. Joey pat her bowed head and walked to the bathroom to grab a Band-Aid. "Don't worry, it was my fault anyways. At least I didn't scissor my finger, only cut it," he said as he wrapped the Band-Aid over the wound. It surprised Niobe as the bleeding stopped thanks to that little tan object he put around his wound.
He went back to his room and continued to work on the gifts. Serenity's was finished; all that was needed was the tag to tell whom it was from. After trying to print his name neatly, he set the gift back and put away the wrapping paper. Niobe hid her face from the evil shiny paper and waited until she was sure that the evil paper wasn't going to pop out and attack her or her human. Joey sat back down and felt Niobe crawl down his arm again and sat laid down next to him and watched as he set the sugar cookie candle in the red and green bag. Niobe then looked up at Joey, wondering why he was feeding his things to horrible creatures. He pulled out thin tissue paper and put that in there as well. Niobe was really worried that he was going to be swallowed up as well.
Joey held up the bag and set it with Serenity's gift. "Now all I need is to deliver these to them and we'll set off for the party okay Niobe?" The tiny dragon growled a reply and watched as he pulled out another gift, this one was little and wrapped in gold though. He put that in a bookbag with other gifts and grabbed his hoodie. "Ready to go, girl?" he asked and put on the hoodie. Niobe chirped and climbed up his pant leg and climbed through the hoodie to get in between Joey's neck and the hoodie's fabric. Joey's hair was still damp but she could fix that with smoke rings.
A/N: Poor Niobe, at least Joey saved her from the evil paper. Anyways, please review at the end. Thanks!