Something Strange

Disclaimer: I in no way own Yu-gi-oh or any of its components. I do however own Robin and this original plot.

Thank you Amarie Miriel and Josephine Taylor for your reviews. I'm sorry Amarie Miriel but I haven't learnt how to edit something once it's already up otherwise I would change that parenthesis. Hope you like this new chapter.

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Tuesday evening

The gang was 'round Yugi's place, just hanging.

Joey could hardly keep his eyes open, who would have thought that working in a fast food place would have been so draining?

Téa is a little down. "It's not fair, I won't get to actually dance until Friday afternoon, they have me doing a different job each day, and tomorrow I have to help design advertising; Which means photocopying until I'm black with printer ink."

Tristan is oddly quiet, but Joey says over his yawning "If you think that's bad try having to work with zoned out zombies while the Wicked Witch of the Beef is just waiting for me to do anything wrong to she can dock my break or something. That woman is a slave driver, if it wasn't for the free food…" and Joey's rant is broken by another yawn.

Yugi started talking about Robin. "I think this girl I work with can see Yami, but every time I try to get her alone to talk the other boy Thomas does something and she just looks at me and shakes her head, then glances at Thomas. Thomas really doesn't like Robin, every time he thinks I'm not looking he scowls at her. What am I going to do?" Yugi sighs and picks absent mindingly at the carpet.

Tristan replies, "Why not offer to walk her home?"

"I tried that, she said no, and disappeared in the graveyard."

Téa laughs, "She gave you the slip?"

"No, she was there one moment, and then just gone. I checked where she had gone and there was no way she could have just vanished like that."

"So you think she's a spirit or something?"

"I don't know. She doesn't have a millennium item, I think I know where they all are, or at least who has them."

"So she has a different magic. Let's hope it's not another psycho trying to take over the world." Téa moaned, "Can't it wait till next week? I'm this close" and she held her figure and thumb only an mm apart, "to getting Madam Jasmine to watch me dance."

"I was thinking; she couldn't disappear if we were all there. It'll drive me mad if I can't get Robin to explain her hints. So what do you say guys?"

The conversation is interrupted as a worn out Joey falls off his chair; dead to the world, and continued to snore even after hitting the floor.

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Wednesday

Téa's

It's a cold and rainy day, and Téa manages to get completely soaked while walking the 5 minutes from the bus-stop to the dance studio. The grey building looks even worse in the dim light, and the entrance is for once not a welcome sight. The rain was leaked, dripped and trodden in and the luxury carpet now appeared like a mangy mutt.

Somehow through the staff at the studio managed to be cheerful despite the weather, and the advertising team, which consisted of two women; Lois and Tiara who seemingly spent the entire day gossiping, seemed overjoyed to have Téa's help and asked her opinion of several designs in production. While Téa was acting as an errand-girl again she felt acknowledged.

Finally as the day came to an end, something unexpected happened.

"Téa would you like to get a coffee with us?" Lois asked, "We always do on Wednesday afternoons."

Téa was torn. Which would she choose; New friends or old?

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Tristan's

Tristan was getting in the habit. Come into the station when something occurred and so avoid Officer Richard. Otherwise it was another lecture on how unreliable and immoral today's youths were, and the Officer would make sure to watch Tristan in such a way as to suggest Tristan was about to do something unspeakable right in front of Officer Richard.

Sergeant Johnson (Johnny) and Sergeant Waite were working on an old case, or rather cases: Missing teenagers that had disappeared within the past twenty years. It worried Tristan that so many had just gone. Some where runaways and he could understand why someone would been driven away, but some were from good families; never beaten, always loved. Those were the cases which the sergeants put to one side for now.

Tristan's job was to give the sergeants a teenager's view of the world. It might help. Might…

It soon neared the end of the day, and before he went Tristan looked over some of the photographs of the missing. A name caught his eye, "Robin Sage" The girl must have hated the camera, or the camera-man, in the photo she had poked her tongue out and crossed her eyes. He looked at the date; she had been missing for 19 years today.

Johnny came up to him and took the photo, "Just go home mate, there's nothing more you can do today. It isn't your job to find them, go home and have some good times with your buddies."

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Joey's

The dragon was driving him up the wall. Nothing was good enough for her. The counters had to be spotless, the customer satisfied, and everything done to a schedule. She was worse than any of his teachers.

The only thing that was stopping him from getting livid was the free food he got instead of a real wage, and he had a plan for Friday. She would get her comeuppance. No one was going to get the better of Joey Wheeler without a fight; he would give her a piece of his mind now, if only he was so tired.

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Yugi's

Yugi was more jumpy than usual today. The morgue had a customer so the three children (as the elderly lady Maggie referred to them) had been sent out to the graveyard to do some tidying-up.

Yugi worked on getting Thomas to say why he hated Robin, but all he got was; "Them lot is bad luck." And when asking Robin she just looked at him as if to say; "Are you mad? People don't ask those questions"

So by the time home time rolled round Yugi was starting to wonder wither to brother with his plan to get Robin to talk, but then Yami said "She still keeps looking at me, and I sense sometime… trapped about her."

Yugi sighs, "I guess we had better find out what's going on."

"Hey Thomas, me and some friends are going to the arcade tonight," Yugi starts.

"I can't come, my father…" Thomas butts in.

"Robin?" Yugi asks.

Robin's eyes had lit up at the suggestion, not sensing the trap. "Well if you don't mind me tagging along."

"Just as long as you promise to save me from Téa and her dance machine." Yugi says laughing; it was going to be easier than he thought.

The Arcade

So the gang plus Robin went to the arcade, with Robin none the wiser about the plan. Téa turned up an hour late with a guilty look on her face, but continued to stomp Robin on the dance floor.

Tristan kept sneaking quick glances at Robin, and wandered off into his own thoughts for long enough so that Joey beat him at "Space Attacks".

But no one managed to get Robin to talk, even with a great many hints that got more and more obvious as the evening went go.

When it came to 9.47 Robin glanced at her watch and panicked. "I have to get home, it's been great guys, see you tomo Yugi?"

"Hey! You can't walk home alone. It's dark already." Joey said, ever the gentleman.

"Yep, we had better walk you home." Tristan chipped in.

Robin tried to assure them she would be fine, but to no avail. The gang was walking her home and that was that.

The walk was uneventful apart from Robin doing her best to lose the gang, but then 10 o'clock struck.

Robin screamed, and the darkness swallowed her up.

"Robin?" The gang stood shocked.