Chaos in Florida!
By Larien
Chapter 8
We're On Our Way!
Summary: The YuGiOh! Gang are invited to my house for the year 2005. How will they all cope, especially Seto Kaiba? Set in Florida!
Genre: Humor/Humor (For now)
Warnings: Language, Mild Violence
Characters: All of the YuGiOh! Gang, Me, some of my friends.
Pairings: None at the moment
Disclaimer: Me no ownies YuGiOh!
Credit: To Seto's Princess for beta reading
And so the YuGiOh! Gang went to pack up; after all, they did have an early flight. Larien was still slightly pissed at Seto and hadn't talked to him since last night, early in the morning, she sweetly asked her second bishie, and Varon to load up the suitcases in which he happily obliged…Kaiba on the other hand seemed to have a little green monster on his head…by 4am the YuGiOh! Gang were all loaded up into a huge station wagon and ready to go…Raphael volunteered to drive and they sped off to the airport…and in the distance behind the van, you could see a bug eyed boy, a dino dude, a pencil head, and a cartoon freak chasing the van…huffing and puffing…all the way to the Orlando International Airport, Larien was sitting by Varon and on her other side was Yami Bakura…Ryou and the rest of the hikari's were asleep in the millennium items replenishing energy as they were the ones to be riding the airplane not the yamis…
"Weakling Hikari." Muttered Bakura.
"Aww…it's not that bad 'Kura…" Larien said and gave him chocolate crème puffs.
"I guess." Bakura said gnawing away at the crème puffs.
Larien patted Bakura's hair and dozed off onto Varon's shoulder.
-One Hour Later-
"We're here." Alistair said.
Larien rubbed her eyes sleepily and got up…shaking Bakura awake and Marik awake…Ishizu shook Yami awake and in a flash the yamis had switched with the hikari's so now instead of Bakura, Marik, and Yami, there stood, Ryou, Malik, and Yugi. Larien pushed Varon out the door and the rest of the girls soon followed.
At the check in line, Kaiba was carrying his two brothers and somehow still managing to carry all their luggage. Larien felt a little pity and decided to help him.
"I'll help you carry something or someone." Larien volunteered.
"Fine. You can carry Mokuba or Noa, take your pick."
"I'll take Noa." Larien said, seeing that there was no way Mokuba would come out of the nook he was in inside of Seto's trenchcoat.
Larien gently took Noa and slung her backpack over her shoulder seeing as she could lug her other backpack with her freehand.
Noa stirred a bit but kept on sleeping as they finished checking in and went to the FoodCourt for breakfast.
"Wake up Noa." Larien said gently.
Noa yawned and stretched and sniffed.
"Food?"
"Yepp, what would you like?"
"Pancakes…" Noa yawned…
"Right…syrup?"
Noa nodded.
"Kay, I'll be right back…you just wake up a bit more." Larien said and strutted off…
Crap…maybe I shouldn't have accused her…
(Ohh…who said that?)
And because the authoress is too lazy and thinks it is too troublesome to write about eating breakfast in an airport, it has now come to about 26 hours later when they are just stepping off the boarding gate and in Shanghai National Airport. YAY!
Everyone yawned as they stepped off the gate and sleepily tumbled their way out into the bright morning sunglight of Shanghai…but Mai quickly awoke.
"Woah! See all the shopping!" Mai's eyes twinkled.
"Yeah yeah…" Bakura mumbled as they hailed like 15 cabs to go to the house that Seto rented.
And so when they got there, the helpful cab people unloaded their luggage and they collapsed on the bed…
(You see, Larien is not doing details because she is rather in a hurry to get back home and back into the scenes of her wonderful high school, University High Cougars rock!)
After everyone had crashed and slept till the next morning, they finally had regained energy and were ready to start looking. Larien in Seto's body, dressed up in an awesome black t-shirt and long black pants. Seto in Larien's body, disgustedly dressed himself up in a UHS t-shirt and white jeans. Everyone ate a nice breakfast of pork dumplings…(Larien drools a river here) and set off to find the Buddhist Monk Temple. First of all, Larien and Seto and Mokuba and Noa, all knowing Chinese because Larien was Chinese first of all, second, Seto was super smart and probably knew every language, Mokuba learned it from Seto, and Noa well, he just knew it. They went around asking people for directions.
"A Yi! Nin Zhi Bu Zhi Dao Yu Le Miao Zai Shen Me Di Fang Ma?" Larien politely asked for the 5,00th time that day a lady who was walking by. (Translation: Auntie (Miss)! Do you know where Yu Le Miao is located?)
"Chao Nan Jing Lu Zou, Zai Zuo Zuan, Zou Shi Si Mi Jiu Dao Le." The lady replied.
(Go towards Nan Jing Road, turn left, and walk about 14 meters to get there.)
"Xie Xie!" Larien cried. (Thank you!)
And the group set off…but unfortunately, some poor guys were stuck carrying Mai and Serenity's shopping spree…15 bags, 17 packages, and 34 boxes.
By the time they reached Yu Le Miao it was already 2pm in the afternoon, therefore, time for lunch! And so they ate at a restaurant about one block from the monastery, and ate noodles! And at promptly 3pm, they finally entered the place. The sacred monastery.
(Darnit! I should've made them go to the Shaolin Monastery now that I think…crap darn it! Ohh, new plot now!)
At 4pm, they finally got to see the head monk…
"Xian Sheng, Zai Yi Jiu Jiu Liu Nian De Shi Hou, Wo Ba He Ma Lai Guo Zhe Li, Mai Le Yi Yang Dong Xi, Nin Ke Bu Ke Yi Gao Su Wo Zhe Shi Shen Me?" Larien held out the broken plate. (Sir, in 1996, my dad and mum came here and bought something, can you please tell me what this is?)
The monk took the plate and examined it.
"Zhe Shi Yi Ge Pan Zi, Hen Lao De, Ru Guo Shuai Huai De Hua, Ni Jiu Hui De Dao Shang Di De Chu Fa" The monk replied (It is a plate, very old, if it is broken, then you will receive punishment from the high god)
"Wo Men Yi Jing Shou Dao Le Chen Fa, Wo He Ta Huan Le Shen Ti, Nin Zhi Bu Zhi Dao Zen Me Gai Hui La Ma?" Larien asked (We have already received the punishment, we switched bodies, do you know how to reverse it?)
"Ke Neng You Ban Fa, Gen Wo Lai Ba." The monk got up and started walking. (There could be a way, follow me.)
The group followed the monk and he led them into a room that smelled of incense and smoke. It was filled with old books and the monk plucked one off the shelf and flipped through the pages.
"Ei! Zhao Dao La! Zai Zhe Li, Kan!" The monk said and jabbed at the book, Larien craned her neck while the six foot tall whatever Kaiba just looked over the monk's shoulder. (Ei! Found it! Right here! Look!)
"To break the curse one must understand their hidden love for each other. Only then will the curse be broken." Larien read in English.
"TRUE LOVE! What kind of idiotic nonsense is this!" Seto yelled enraged.
In the background, Joey snickered quietly and Yami smiled a secretive smirk. He understood and knew.
"Well…uhh, that sounds nice." Larien mumbled, "Wo Men Zen Me Biao Zhi Chu Lai Wo Men De Ai Ne?" (How are we supposed to express the true love then?)
"Bu Zhi Dao, Zi Ji Yao Zhao." The monk replied also now smirking. (I don't know, you must find it yourselves)
Larien cursed, "Hao ba…Xie Xie Nin Le." (Okay…thank you.)
The group left the place looking somewhat disgruntled especially Larien and Seto…express true love my a--…Seto was royally p-ssed and he was showing it.
"Err…let's go home." Larien said and started asking for directions…as the rain poured down.
"Hn." Seto said and asked also. Not like he cared, he could stand in the rain all day if he freaking wanted to. It's just that Mokuba and Noa were tired and they needed rest. Plus, they needed food. It was nearing 7pm at night and no one had eaten. The Jounou-inu was complaining the loudest.
"I'm HUUUNGRYYY!" He whined
"Shut up mutt. Everyone's hungry. Do your stupid complaints help the situation?" Kaiba retorted.
Joey pouted and shook his head.
"Exactly."
An hour later, they were situated in a dumpling shop a block away from the rental house. Everyone was enjoying the nice warm steam emitting from the noodle bowls and Mokuba looked quite pleased with his appetizer of three mantou's…Noa had already eaten two out of five. Seto took the third, and Mokuba polished off the last two. Brotherly love. Larien gazed at the three longingly. Seto was so different around his brothers.
'But you know how he feels.' A voice inside her head prompted. 'I know…I'm just jealous, my sister doesn't care that much about me. Not that I expect her too.'
Larien sighed and started eating her noodles. Hmm…needs salt.
No one said a word through the whole dinner. Not even Joey or Bakura complained. Who knew where Ishizu and Odion had gone? Probably hopped a freight to Xi An to visit the Terracotta Army or something. Malik slurped at the last of his vegetable noodles with delight.
"It's so cool. Asian people respect vegetarians!" Malik said happily.
"Yea. Whatever." Larien said.
"Was it something I said?" Malik wondered.
"No, I'm just tired."
Malik nodded. Weren't they all?
Later
Everyone had taken their showers and was ready to settle in for the night. There were no beds or anything so they were all in sleeping bags and blankets. Larien conviently stuck her bag in the corner. Away from everyone. Bakura and Malik were the only ones to notice that she was isolating herself from the group. She wasn't talking or looking at them…she just stared out the window as the raindrops slid from the glass and onto the floor below. Seto was working on his laptop which he somehow managed to get internet service using a cheap free dial up 800 hour free software and convert it to high speed cable without the cable. He was click clacking away, maneuvering between about twenty windows. One could hardly see where his mouse was. Varon, Raphael, and Alistair were helping Mai sort out her purchases of about half a million things. Serenity gazed longingly at a sparkle pink sequin bag that Mai had bought from a street vendor. Joey was reading a cookbook he had bought off another street vendor and marking down notes in the margins. Yugi was playing vs. mode on his GameBoy Advance with Yami in Pokemon Sapphire Version. Ryou was writing to his hampsters back home and Yami Marik was activating and deactivating his flame thrower over and over again. Tea was scribbling in her purple diary and well…that's all there was right? Oh yes, Mokuba and Noa were playing on their new Sony PSPs.
In the corner, Larien sighed. They were all so happy…even Joey…how could they stand it? None of it seemed like a mask or illusion or anything. It was so real.
'When I invited them…I never thought…they'd be so real' Larien said, 'It's like they don't care about the world or anything…'
Wrong-o…Malik and Bakura were staring intently at Larien trying to figure out her inner thoughts. They were truly puzzled. Maybe she didn't like Kaiba after all? But just as they thought that, Larien snuck a glance at Seto. So much for that theory. Hmm, maybe she was jealous of Mai and all her purchases? Larien didn't care, she went to her suitcase and pulled out a pair of jeans from Target to wear tomorrow. Okay, scratch that hypothesis too. Maybe she was lonely? Larien pulled out her iPod nano…scratch that scientific guess. Man…maybe something was bothering her? Well duh! She had some stupid mystery theory to solve before winter break was over in what…two days? Gee golly whiz. Aren't we genius? Bakura and Malik nodded. Here the narrator shuts them up by giving them invisible knuckle sandwiches.
After a couple of hours, people began dozing off. Joey was drooling from the side of his mouth and Yugi and Yami had curled up into little multi colored porcupine balls. Ahem, Mai was sleeping with her hair curlers and eye covers…and Varon's hand dropped limply from the Prada Bag he was supposed to be holding. Larien's eyes drooped and her hand slipped off her iPod causing it to land gently on her pillow as her neck flopped to one side.
But the rain never stopped falling…
Malik and Bakura were pretty proud of their hypothesis's about Larien's cold behavior and were falling asleep with their papers scattered around them. Even Seto began to close all his computer programs and save his work for tomorrow.
Back To The Airport
"Whaddya mean this tickets aren't legimate? I bought them from your website!" Rex yelled at the poor cashier at the ticket booth for China Airlines.
"I'm sorry, but they just won't go through!" The cashier said back as she stared again at the crudely drawn black and white tickets that looked scribbled onto the construction paper with permanent marker…
Uh huh…they're completely legimate Rex…yea…sure…
But the rain kept falling and it didn't stop…it didn't get lighter…either, it just kept raining on and on…
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