Chapter 2: Butterfly
Author's notes:
Edited a part of Chapter 1 that I forgot to change. Sorry!
Okay. . .Dark Rabbit, Fifilafemme, Peeka-chan, and LeDiva, you all get donut holes for reviewing! Thank you!
I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh, and of the characters. . .and this disclaimer will be finished at the end of this chapter.
Movin' On!
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It had been a normal day at school. It had almost been a normal day after school. Yugi found a package waiting for him. It looked like a package from Industrial Illusions. Inside the package was a note.
"You have been cordially invited to a pre-release tournament of a never-before seen expansion set."
The note then went on about details about the meeting place and time of said tournament. It also mentioned something about an entry card. Yugi searched the remnants of the package a bit more closely. A Duel Monsters card lay face-down between two sets of bubble wrap.
Yugi immediately went to work on the bubble wrap.
o.o.o
Mai Valentine was having a horrid day. Her hair refused to cooperate, her car battery had died, and her duel disk was on the fritz. Worse yet, one of the strings on her corset had snapped, giving men within a one-mile radius of her phenomenal nosebleeds.
A package sat near her door. Without a second thought, Mai chucked it out of the nearest window. It was probably a bomb.
Something hit Raphael on the head. It was far too large to be the Blessings of a Bird. He picked up the offending item. It was a package addressed to Mai Valentine. With a sigh, he went to return the errant package to its owner.
"Must I get a restraining order against you too?" Mai said tartly, as she glared at the person on the other side of her door. Raphael simply held up the package.
"I think you dropped this," he said, trying his best to quash the urge to rearrange her pretty face.
"It didn't explode? GIVE THAT TO ME!" Before Raphael could react, she had snatched the parcel from him, and shut the door.
Or, she tried to shut the door. Raphael's trenchcoat got stuck in the door. After several enlightening phrases from Mai, she opened the door again.
"Are you going to stand there and stare at my-" Before the irritated woman could finish her sentence, Raphael pointed down. The hem of his trenchcoat was firmly entrenched in the door hinge.
The former Doom Biker yanked at his trenchcoat. The piece of clothing refused to budge. Mai tried repositioning the door. The hinge refused to let go.
An hour later, Raphael had managed to get his trenchcoat out, but remnants of it were still stuck between the door hinges. Mai did her best to clear her door hinge; Raphael did his best not to sprout a nosebleed.
The package from Industrial Illusions was open. Raphael snuck a peek at the note. It was an invitation of sorts, and it looked exactly the same as the one he had gotten earlier that day. Out of curiosity, he took a peek in the box.
A card sat there, sandwiched between two pieces of bubble wrap. Raphael smiled evilly to himself.
In moments, Raphael and Mai were fighting over the bubble wrap.
o.o.o
Malik Ishtar looked at the package in his hands. How did Pegasus manage to mail such a thing to the Ishtar residence, which STILL didn't have a valid street address?
He gingerly opened the box, fully expecting a jack-in-the-box, or some other prank. Instead, he found a note. He took the time to read it. He sensed a presence over his shoulder. It was his older sister.
"You too?" she asked cryptically, before leaving silently. He shook his head, then examined the box more closely. A card had been sent with the box. Malik's eyes widened.
It was time to pop bubble wrap.
o.o.o
Yugi wiped a tear from his eye. All the bubble wrap had been turned into so much flat plastic. In sorrow, he turned his attention towards the card that had been protected by the fun stuff. His sadness turned to confusion, which turned into a rather inapprorpiate reaction.
WTF-10
Hooker's Hunting Ground
Any female monster that shows clevage may attack directly. This does
not apply to card pictures that were meant for a country other than the
one this Duel is taking place in. If "cleavage" is unclear, please ask
the nearest anime freak/judge that isn't your opponent for details.
Common (Field Magic)
Yugi did his best to tear his eyes away from the artwork, which didn't look like it was meant for kids. He giggled.
Somewhere, deep within the Millenium Puzzle, the pharoah sighed. Was it possible that the pharoah had been so. . .young?
o.o.o
Surprisingly, no one was hurt. The bubble wrap fight had ended with both sides getting one side of the bubble wrap. Mai took a look at her card. So did Raphael. Their expressions went from curiosity to shock. Both were certain that Amelda would flip if he saw the card Mai had just received.
WTF-32
Blue-Eyes Neo-Fascist Dragon
Whenver this card destroys a monster as a result of battle, create one
"Member of the Perfect Race" token (Light/Reptile; 4; 1000/1000) in
Attack Mode on your side of the field.
Light/Dragon/Effect; 8; 3100/2100; Super Rare
Mai and Raphael looked at each other, then giggled. It HAD to be a coincidence. . .right?
o.o.o
Malik's happiness disappeared with the last bits of bubble wrap. He was bored. He picked up the card Pegasus had sent him. His eyes widened in shock. He quickly put the card far, far away from him, and blushed.
WTF-42
DJ Nyah
This card can and will destory any monster it battles with, if said
monster has "DJ" in its name, BUT it cannot destory "DJ Zilch" as a
result of battle or by the effect of this card (for that matter, this
card can't inflict Battle Damage to the owner of "DJ Zilch.
Light/Queen of DJs/Effect; 5; 1900/1000; Ultra Rare
Malik made the mistake of thinking about how the woman on the card was dressed. His nosebleed skyrocketed him clear out of the house. Ishizu looked out of the hole in the wall, and sighed. She looked at Malik's card. How did HE get such a rare card? She pulled the card she had gotten out of the folds of her robes.
WTF-20
The Non-Negatable Trap
This card's activation can only be negated by a Counter Trap. This card
can be activated regardless of Monster Effects or Continuous Traps that
say otherwise. Negate your opponent's next Special Summon.
Common (Trap, obviously)
Malik had all the luck.
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Author's notes:
Four per chapter. That's how many cards I plan on introducing. This is gonna be a LONG fic. . .
Now, for the rest of the disclaimer:
I do NOT own Beatmania IIDX (insert version here), any of the artwork, any of the songs, any of the characters, any of the stories behind the characters, or any of its artists. I also do NOT own "Butterfly" (it's the smile.dk version).
"Butterfly" is the cliched beginning song of DDR. The start of something evil, if you will.
Hooker's Hunting Ground is a horrible pun of Harpie's Hunting Ground. The card name was thought up by me; the general effect was suggested by a friend. I modified it a bit. . .and. . .voila! Card.
Blue-Eyes Neo-Fascist Dragon had a longer story behind it, one which will be explained in a future chapter (which one, I don't know. . .the card that the four characters in this chapter got were purely random). Mai and Raphael shared The Giggle of Discomfort, because both of them are fairly close to "The Perfect Race". It HAD to be a coincidence. . .and don't even THINK about Mai x Raphael. . .
In the wonderful world of Beatmania IIDX, DJ Nyah is the best DJ so far (not counting a certain incident with DJ Zilch, which I shall detail later). Her stats are made to look like the Thunder Nyan Nyan. She wears a pink-and-white top that kind of looks like a bra and pink-and-white bike shorts. No wonder poor Malik got a nosebleed (just LOOK at how Ishizu dresses).
The Non-Negatable Trap is my way of thumbing my nose at Jinzo.
All the DJs are copyright GOLI Matsumoto, not me! I just turned them into cards!