Author's notes:
First, Fifilafemme, LeDiva, Caroann Fridh Bronach, and DJ Akira you get. . .ah. . .an pan! The bread itself is somewhere between French bread and sweet bread. Enjoy!
This chapter would have been up much sooner, but I've been having problems with my account. Sorry!
GAH! Too much homework. . .
Varon: Tell me about it! Raphael's night classes-
Me: Way too much information, thankyouverymuch.
I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh, the rest of the disclaimer (warning: VERY LONG) is at the end of the chapter, etc.
(Goin' on with the story. . .)
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It had been about a month since Pegasus had put them through the strangest tournament Joey had ever been in. The crazy expansion set that Pegasus had released had been gobbled up by the general public like it was free mint chocolate chip ice cream. Needless to say, he had yet to see anyone get the Moronic Captain's attack up past 500.
Joey checked his e-mail like he had been doing every night ever since he had figured out what an e-mail was. As usual, he had about 50 messages. As usual, 49 of them were completely irrelevant to his well-being. Message number 50 looked very special.
It was from his sister, an ocean away from him.
Joey read the contents of the e-mail. He read it over again. He reached for the phone. He could not do this alone.
An hour later, Joey's room was full of people, about a third of which he actually invited. All of them had brought what he requested, although none of them knew why he had made that strange request.
"Alright folks, look at this e-mail I got from my sister," Joey announced.
"Is she cute?" Amelda and Varon asked simultaneously.
"I didn't invite you two freaks along!" Joey screamed.
"It's okay, they're not going to steal your soul or anything," Malik stated evenly.
"I didn't invite you either!" Joey screamed. Again.
"Well. . .you said bring all the anime and manga resources we could, so I did," Yugi said, as innocently as possible.
"Oh man, this bites," Joey muttered, mostly to himself.
"Why did you bring us all here?" Tristan asked, flatly. Joey got the impression that the Duel Monsters Dunce of the group would rather be sleeping.
"My sister said that Pegasus would not bring the Where's The Fun? set over to America, and she wants to know what the DJ characters look like," Joey explained.
Raphael burped.
Mai rolled her eyes.
Tristan snored.
"Hey, are you guys paying attention!" the frazzled host of the impromptu get-together shrieked. Tristan woke up.
"Where is the hot chick I was promised?" Seto stated, from the doorway of Joey's room. A bit of manga cover peeked out from Seto's suitcase.
"WHO THE HELL INVITED YOU!" Joey yelled. From behind Seto's legs, Mokuba raised his hand sheepishly.
"Listen, that chick belongs to me," Amelda stated firmly. Seto and Amelda glared at each other.
"So, Kaiba, what manga did you bring?" Yugi asked. Everyone ignored the short duelist. Yugi sighed.
"At the rate we're going, Serenity is never going to get an answer!" Tea exclaimed. She shrieked again, this time because Bakura's (or was it Ryou's?) arm was around her waist.
Everyone ignored her, too.
The phone rang. Joey picked it up, and did his best to decipher what the caller was saying.
"Hey, aniki, how are things going?" Joey blinked. The room suddenly went silent.
"Uh, just fine, Serenity," Joey managed to stammer out.
"HI SERENITY!" Duke, Tristan, Amelda, and Varon yelled.
"Who are those guys? They sound really scary," Serenity said, over the phone.
"They were, ah, helping me. . .with a project. Yeah, with a project," Joey told his younger sister.
"Oh, that's nice. You sound really busy. Say hi to the others for me!" Before Joey could object, Serenity had hung up.
"What did Serenity say?" Tristan asked.
"She said that all of you are ANNOYING!" Joey shouted.
"I came all this way out here for your YOUNGER SISTER! Mokuba, we're going home! Mokuba?" Seto looked down at his younger brother, who was munching on an ice cream cone.
"Aniki, I wanna stay. The scene in front of me looks like it was written by a deranged fanfic writer," Mokuba said, in his best innocent-little-brother tone.
"Oh, fine. But you," Seto said, as he pointed to Tea, "No. More. Friendship. Speeches." Seto's face fell when he saw where Tea's attention was directed.
Tea held Ryou in a nasty-looking submission hold. Seto sweatdropped.
"Yo, hands off of each other. Let's see what you guys brought!" Somehow, the motley group managed to cough up their goods.
"What is this? Seto reads Groove Adventure Rave!" Yugi exclaimed. Seto blushed.
"Raphael, those are OUR tapes of Mahou Sensei Negima," Amelda and Varon whined.
"Since when were you into Zatch Bell?" Rebecca asked Ishizu flatly. Ishizu blushed.
"Since when was a child genius into Rurouni Kenshin?" Joey asked Rebecca flatly. Rebecca stuck her tongue out at him.
"Bakura, get your hands off my Bleach!" Tea screamed.
"Tea, get your hands off my Rival Schools!" Bakura screamed back.
"Mai dear, you and I have the same taste in video games," Malik said, as both produced different years of The King of Fighters.
"Up high and down low!" Tristan and Duke exclaimed. Tristan held a Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken catridge. Duke tossed a Fire Emblem: Seima no Kouseki cartridge up and down. Yugi grinned and took out his Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi cartridge out.
"I guess that just about settles it," Joey said. He held up his copies of Saiyuki proudly.
Three hours later, Joey typed up the answers that everyone had (more or less) agreed upon. The format looked something like this:
DJ Name - Alternate character (series), Notes (if any), Resemblance rating (1 none, 10 scary)
1. DJ Yuz - Jaffar (Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken), if he was about five years older, 8
2. DJ Celica - Serra (Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken), 10
3. DJ Duel - Bandit Keith, if Bandit Keith was clean-shaven and had semi-radioactive-green hair, 8
4. DJ Siren - Marcus (Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken), if Marcus was about 10 years younger and had indigo hair, 9
5. DJ Shi-low - Pent (Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken), 9
6. DJ Nix - Joey, if he ever lives to see 20, 8
7. DJ Q-Jack - Geitz (Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken), if Geitz wandered around with a modified bike helmet and shorter hair, 6
8. DJ Erika - Rachel (Fire Emblem: Seima no Kouseki), if Rachel grew her hair out a bit, 7
9. DJ Nyah - Elle (Groove Adventure Rave), if Elle's hair was pink and a little shorter, 6
10. DJ Shiki - Batsu (Rival Schools), less muscular, 7
11. DJ K-Na - Roy (Rival Schools), with Batsu's hair and a crazy expression on his face, 6
12. DJ Zilch - the owner of the Mamodo whose only purpose was to show how Zatch's third spell worked (Zatch Bell), 9
13. DJ Lilith - Konoka (Mahou Sensei Negima), with a serious expression, 9
14. DJ Ereki - Malik, if Malik put his hair up, 10
15. DJ Shem - Rath (Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken), if Rath replaced his ho-hum expression with a crazed one, and if he got rid of his bandanna, 7
16. DJ Daruma - Son Goku (Saiyuki), sans staff, 10
17. DJ Tsugaru - Ku Fue (Mahou Sensei Negima), with lime green hair and white skin, 9
18. DJ Iroha - Asuna (Mahou Sensei Negima), with her hair down, 10
19. DJ Eiri - Ichigo (Bleach), 9
20. DJ Tekka - Female fanartists make him look like a young Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin) with a haircut; his official artwork is closer to Zeiss (Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi) with glasses, 8 (both)
21. DJ Sakura - Mai Shiranui (Fatal Fury/The King of Fighters), with longer, black hair, 9
"I'm hungry. Who wants to raid Joey's fridge?" Tristan asked the group. As a single mass, everyone except for Joey RAN to the kitchen.
"I'm in trouble," Joey whimpered to himself.
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Author's notes, extended version:
This disclaimer's gonna be a long one!
I do NOT own Beatmania IIDX or any of its songs or characters, or anything from Zatch Bell, the Fire Emblem series, Mahou Sensei Negima, Bleach, Saiyuki, Fatal Fury (insert version here), The King of Fighters (insert year/version here), Rival Schools, Groove Adventure Rave, Rurouni Kenshin, or Tokyo Underground.
Joey: Who looks like what from where?
The authoress - A certain assassin with glasses (Tokyo Underground), 8
Everyone: Geez, that was lame.
I did not feel like putting the Japanese title for Zatch Bell in this fanfic, because it's WAY too long.
Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi is the sixth installment in the Fire Emblem series (which will never be released here). This series gets mentioned because it stars Roy (and we ALL know where Roy made his American debut), and because it's the sequel to Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken (released in America in 2003 as Fire Emblem; Eliwood is the star of that game). Fire Emblem: Seima no Kouseki is known in America as Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, and it has nothing to do with the previous Fire Emblem games.
Mahou Sensei Negima is a fairly new anime series currently airing in Japan. It's darned funny if you're a guy and quite insulting if you're a girl.
Speaking of Mahou Sensei Negima. . .
22. DJ Xiatian - Ku Fue (Mahou Sensei Negima), 10
Everyone: WHO?
Me: The new DJ for Happy Sky, which was released well after Pegasus released Where's The Fun?
I am not too familiar with Bleach or Saiyuki; I happened to see Ichigo and Son Goku by accident.
I've been a fan of The King of Fighters since I was in high school (a long, long time ago). Some of the characters from Fatal Fury made it to The King of Fighters (most notable is Terry Bogard; Mai Shiranui hopes to become his sister-in-law).
Rival Schools was released by Capcom, and I found that game to be quite amusing.
Groove Adventure Rave was released as Rave Masters in America. Elle's dress style, and her face (sort of) made me think of DJ Nyah. The only other resemblence in the series involves the Beyond the Earth video, and I don't feel like explaining THAT.
I'm not a particularly big fan of Rurouni Kenshin, but I am a fan of Guilty Gear, and Baiken's character design was taken off of Kenshin's design.
I have yet to see Tokyo Underground. Someone mentioned that I looked like that assassin, with a few minor differences.
Toe Jam is a song by Big Idea. It made its debut on Happy Sky. It's the only IIDX song that features a banjo. Its video shows ALL the characters, dressed a la the Old West, riding mechanical ponies. Go GOLI!
Sorry if this chapter dragged a bit! This is my way of trying to relate what everyone looks like, since Beatmania IIDX has a VERY small following.
I didn't bother introducing any new cards; they would have taken too long to incorporate. The next chapter will introduce the last bit of cards. One card in particular has a most interesting effect, involving clothes; try not to miss it!
Review, if you haven't fallen asleep already.