Yami Yami Yugi: I'm alive! Wee! I'm so happy I'm going cry! Over 100 Reviews! 112 in fact! Yay! You have all made me a happy, happy author! Thank You all so much!
Yugi: While she runs around the house screaming, me and Jou are going to have to take care of the authors note.
Jou: Okay, so I guess we had better start with saying sorry for not updating in, what, three month? Four Months? But just remember that YYY is not about to give up. Just a bit of writer's block.
YYY: Yeah. You see I started this with the traditional plot in line. Yami meets Yugi. Yami loves Yugi. Yugi loves Yami. Corrupt council is jealous. Corrupt council kidnaps Yugi. Yami saves Yugi. Council is sentenced to death. Yami and Yugi live happily ever after with Jounouchi, Seto, Ryou, Bakura, Malik, and Ishtar who worked their way into the story.
But one thing led to another and I suddenly came up with something new to work into this. Then I think a small dash from the real Yu-Gi-Oh. And how about I add some more of this to this. And you get the idea.
Yugi: We do?
YYY: Yes you do.
Jou: Really, cause it's weird. I lost you somewhere around 'happy, happy author' picked up at my name, but lost you again at 'Ryou.' Now see how does that work out cause a total of five words don't really qualify as getting the idea. Of course you have to take into account how many words there are in total. If there were only say six to start with then that would be… continues on for a few hours …which is why the meaning of life is cheese. Any questions?
YYY: Do you have any three's?
Yugi: Go fish.
YYY: Oh! Are you done? Well then let's get a move on.
Jou: But I…
Warning and Disclaimer: You are generally smart people, right? cough Well, you are smart enough to get it by now anyway.
Chapter 8
Three young slaves sat in a small circle in the large room. They were all chatting happily with one another, catching up on, well, everything.
"So he just took it off? Just like that?"
Yugi sighed. "Yes Malik, I've said it ten times already. He just took it off."
"But he just took…"
"Malik!" Ryou interrupted. "Yugi has made it very clear that the Pharaoh took the stupid band off. Next topic please."
"Okay, so do you have everything back now, or do you still have to get some others?"
"I don't really know. Let's see. I can still obviously talk telepathically. I made a plant grow last night. What else?" He scrunched up his face trying to remember what else he could do.
"Can you make Malik fly across the room?" Ryou asked with an innocent look on his face.
"I don't know?" Yugi said with a wink. "I'd better give it a try."
"What? No wait! Can't we talk about this? Ahhhhhh!"
Yugi and Ryou laughed as the former made his friend fly from one side of the room to the other with a series of loops and twists. He finally dropped him down on the floor where he glared up at them.
"Yes, I think it works just fine," Ryou said calmly.
"Oh ha ha. See? I'm laughing."
"PHARAOH YAMI!"
The council members jumped at the sound as Yami stood up from his seat. Through the doors stormed in a pissed of and shocked looking High Priest dragging a scared looking slave behind him.
"What's the meaning of this Seto?"
"What's the meaning of this? I'LL SHOW YOU THE MEANING OF THIS!" He grabbed Jounouchi and pushed him a small ways away from him. He then took out two daggers and threw them at him.
"Wah!" The other boy shut his eyes and put his hands in front of his face as if feeble attempt to protect himself. The next thing anyone knew his hands glowed blue and the daggers were replaced by feathers, just inches from his face.
"See? See what I mean? He's- He's- I don't know what he is! But he's something else!"
"Calm yourself Seto," Yami said, trying to keep his patience. Turning to the slave who was now backed against the wall he asked, "What are you?" The boy remained silent. "Well? Explain this!"
"I can't!" he blurted out and quickly covered his mouth with his hands.
"What do you mean you can't?"
"I just can't! I don't know why I can do these things. It's just something I've always been able to do. Since I was little."
"Really? Seto?" He turned to his High Priest who had calmed down some. "Mokuba knows how to use his Key, right?"
"Of course."
"Good. Have him join us."
"Okay Bakura," Ishtar said to the other thief. "So how about telling me what it is that we're doing tonight anyway?"
He sighed and sat down. "Fine. I might as well as we're doing this tonight. We're going to get two of the seven Millennium Items."
"No way!" Ishtar's voice was full of excitement. "Are you serious? The Millennium Items are the most powerful items in Egypt! But wait," he frowned. "Why only two? Why not get all seven?"
"Because, that would be stupid," Bakura explained. "The other five items already belong to people in the palace, including the Pharaoh and High Priest. If we jump in and just take them I can grantee we won't leave alive. What we have to do is get the un-owned items from the palace and learn to use them. Then we pick off the others one by one. It will take some time. But we have to be patient. Does that make sense?" he asked.
Ishtar leaned back on the ground. "I guess. But it'll be worth it in the end. I can't wait!"
"Well like I said, you're going to have to. Just a little longer."
"Hey Yugi," Malik said. "I just had a thought."
"Wow. That's new."
Malik scowled at Ryou. "I'm ignoring you. Anyway, I was just thinking that since you don't have the band on anymore, you might be able to take ours off."
"Hey! That's a good idea. Give it a shot Yugi."
"Well, okay." He moved closer to Ryou and moved his hand to the band. But as he got closer a spark of energy erupted from it and hit his hand. "Ow! I guess not."
They sighed. "Well, it was worth a shot. I guess only a master can remove them."
"Look, let's just put him with the others for now and we'll figure out how to get through in the meantime," came a voice from outside. The doors opened and someone pushed a figure inside. "Maybe he's just not experienced enough to handle the Key and…" the voices faded as the doors shut and they moved away.
The three friends looked at each other and then at the person who was on the floor in front of them. He was just lying there, unmoving. The way he was positioned they couldn't see his face, but it was obviously a boy.
Yugi finally stepped forward. "Hey, are you okay?"
The boy sat up slowly and turned around to face them. Yugi gasped.
"Jou- Jounouchi?" he whispered.
"Yugi…"
Yugi gave a shout of joy. "Jounouchi it's you!" he said running over. "You're okay!"
He fell to his knees to give him a hug which Jounouchi gladly returned. Ryou and Malik joined them a few seconds later in their reunion.
YYY: Okay, so it's not as long as it could have been, but if I did anything more, you probably would have had to wait a few more months.
Yugi: And we just don't have that. See, this summer, Yami Yami Yugi's going to go away for four weeks, come back for one day, then go away for three more weeks.
Jou: Then she'll have about two weeks off before having to go to Virginia for a week. So we are going to try to satisfy you with as much as we can before she goes.
YYY: So expect another chapter soon. (Wow, how many times have you heard me say that?)