Chapter Eight: Dragon's Day
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Niobe closed her ruby eyes as the train stopped for the third time. They had reached their spot in Domino City and it was time for them to go to Duke's party. Joey walked out of the train station and down the main street, all the while letting Niobe nuzzle his neck. "Just a little ways more and we'll be at Duke's place. It's huge so we'll be able to move around a lot and not have to worry about being cramped," he said as his dragon chirped a response.
As he reached his destination, a snowball flew in his direction and hit his shoulder. A voice laughed and Joey looked to see who threw it. "Sorry Joey, I couldn't resist," Yugi said as he laughed. The King of Games and his dragon Neo ran away from Joey as he ran after them throwing snowballs back.
Joey laughed and picked up snow, balling them up and throwing them at the short duelist. "I'm going to get you back for that Yugi, just you wait!" he cried out. Niobe chirped and watched as her human threw the cold snow. A snowball finally hit Yugi in the back and he went down. "Bulls eye!"
Yugi got up and brushed the snow off of him and turned around. "You finished Joey?" he asked closing his violet eyes with a smile.
Joey caught up with his best friend and laughed. "Yeah. So how's Neo? He looks like he just ate a bunch off sugar cookies," he said and watched the extremely hyper dragon fly around them. Niobe grew dizzy as her friend flew around her.
Yugi laughed and caught his hyper dragon in his hand. "You couldn't be any more right. Neo and I were in the kitchen. I was making my lunch and I got a sugar cookie. Well I gave one to Neo as well and he liked them so much that he continued to eat them until grandpa came in and put the cookies up. Every since then, he's been flying around in circles trying to do whatever he possibly can. I want to know how to calm him down though," Yugi said as the hyper dragon flew out of his hand and made a growling noise in Niobe's direction.
Niobe glared and flew after the Curse of Dragon. Joey laughed and watched as his dragon tried to tackle Neo in the air. "Milk helps. It calms them down and makes them sluggish. Just don't give it to him until your ready for him to sleep," Joey said as Niobe gave up and went back to her perch on Joey's shoulder.
Yugi looked at his dragon as it landed on his shoulder too. The limbless dragon made a noise that sounded like a chirp and growl mixed. "Milk? I hope that we have some at home," he said and pet Neo's head.
Carolers were singing at store doors and by passers dropped money in a can outside the caroling group. Dragons owned by some of the carolers were curled around the humans' necks. Everywhere, duelists had a dragon and it didn't matter what the person was dueling, the dragon was there. Kids played in the snowy playground and threw snowballs around while their dragons chirped locations and played peek-a-boo with each other by peeking their heads out of the snow and chirping before dunking back in the snow.
A snowball had hit Joey in the back off his head and he turned around to see who threw it. The Kaiba brothers were right behind he and Yugi. Mokuba was laughing and Seto had an evil smirk on his face. "Sorry Joey. You were an easy target," Mokuba laughed.
Seto's Blue Eyes White Dragon flew off of his shoulder and flew to Niobe, roaring the whole time. Niobe glared and flew after it. The Blue Eyes flew around the playground and kids cheered in the show they were getting. "Seems like you aren't the only one who is easily angered, right mutt?" Seto said as his dragon teased Niobe.
"Watch it Kaiba! You had better be lucky that it's Christmas time," Joey said raising a clenched fist in the teenaged CEO's direction.
"Or you'll what? Duel and lose to me? Oh I'm really scared," Seto smirked. "Draco." The Blue Eyes' head perked in Seto's direction and flew to his human. "Keep walking mutt, I don't want people to think that we know each other." Draco wrapped himself around Seto's neck.
Yugi looked at Seto and then at Mokuba. "You escorting him to the party, Kaiba?" Yugi asked.
Seto looked down to the King of Games. "That and I've been invited," he said curtly and walked past them.
Mokuba grinned and walked by Yugi and Joey. "Don't worry about him. Really sorry for the snowball, Joey but you were an easy target," he said and watched the Red Eyes Black Dragon fly to her human and snorted in anger. "Sorry about Draco, Niobe."
Niobe snorted again and hid her face as Joey pet her. "Whatever. So other than Kaiba being a jerk again, what else is new?" he asked the young Kaiba.
"Kiba's been ripping my clothes to shreds. I don't understand why he doesn't like them," Mokuba said. "Other than that, I found out that he likes my games. I was playing a racing game on my X-Box and I was going really fast so that everything was a blur and he was sitting in front of my TV and every time I crash, he would jump up and chirp. He likes speed and crashes." Kiba looked up as soon as Mokuba said crash and looked around. There wasn't a loud crashing noise or smoke and fire so why did his human say crash?
Joey laughed. "Yeah, Niobe found my wrapping supplies and found out that she doesn't like metallic paper. She shrieked as soon as she saw it. She's got the bow on her head when she fell in a bag of them," he said pointing to the white bow on Niobe's head.
Yugi laughed and pet Niobe. "Poor girl, did you fall in his supplies?" he asked softly to the dragon. Niobe made a purring noise and moved with his hand as he pet her head and neck.
Kiba climbed from Mokuba's shoulder to Joey's bookbag and up his hoodie. He chirped at Niobe who opened a ruby red eye and chirped back. The two seemed to be talk until Neo flew around and chirped to the as well. The two looked at Neo and flew after him.
Joey laughed. "Oh yeah, Serenity's got a dragon too. It's a Hyozanryu named Glitter. I told her to keep an eye on it," he said as he stretched.
Yugi looked up in though as he remembered the card. "That's a dragon made of pure diamond. You're right Joey, a thief would want that dragon. She had better keep Glitter safe then," he said.
Mokuba looked from Yugi to his dragon. Kiba had managed to land in the snow and was shivering from the cold. "Oh Kiba. You okay?" he asked as he gingerly picked up the dragon. Kiba chirped and shook violently to shake the snow off of him. "Hope you don't get sick," he said and put Kiba into his coat's pocket. The pink dragon chirped again and buried himself into his human's pocket.
A/N: Okay, guaranteed, the next chapter is Duke's party. I had a reviewer that wanted me to tell of what the dragons did all day so there you have it. Anyways, please review. Thanks.