Prophecy
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"When legend becomes reality,
Three warriors of ancient monsters will rampage the earth,
Of light, dark, and element.
Look to the Heavens,
They will come from there…"
Chapter 17 – New Comrades
Ultimately, the Kaiba brothers, with their house surrounded by the "mafia," ended up staying at the trio's mansion. Days past and whatever Tien did, he excused Seto and Mokuba from their schools. Jackie, Jennie, and Erica continued going, though (much to their dismay), and did so until school finally finished. Of course, Teá got over her break-up and when Jennie told Joey the truth, he was fine and everything was casual again.
Unfortunately, when the schools closed for summer vacation, there was rain every other day and when there wasn't, it was too cloudy and dark. It also seemed as if autumn had come early, even it was still early summer. The days grew colder and it seemed like daylight wanted to end quickly. Something was about to happen…
So, our three heroes waited for sunlight when they would be finally able to challenge the Shadow Realm…
But the trio was definitely in no rush for that. The Shadow Realm could wait, at least for awhile.
"Aw, man!" Jackie moaned. "My exam scores sucks! I failed in Kanji class and history!"
Apparently, the high school scores came and after fighting for whose envelopes their grades held, scrambling to see who did worse by snatching each other's grades, and chasing each other around in the mansion, the three teens eventually settled into Erica's room, contemplating on their less than perfect grades.
Jennie agreed with Jackie's depressed comment and crumpled up her test grades. "My English almost went below the passing grade!"
"My science grade is below the average grade…. Good thing my mom isn't here," Erica added, picking up another envelope from their high school.
The braided-haired girl threw her scores into the waste basket and saw Erica twirling the remaining school report. She caught the name "Seto Kaiba" on it.
"Gimme!" Jennie yelled as she snatched the envelope away from Erica's hands after tackling her to the ground.
When the dark brown-haired girl tried to get the report back, Jackie cleverly shoved a comic book in front of her face and she immediately grabbed it, reading it and forgetting all about Seto's report card. Then Jackie moved over to Jennie and looked over her shoulder. All of Kaiba's grades were perfect…except…
The two teens laughed their heads off as Kaiba's grades floated to the ground. Erica, irritated that she was already disturbed from the hacker boy's manga, picked up the test scores and looked through it. At exactly the same time, Seto entered the room, about to lecture how the three were disturbing his work. Then his eyes fell on the suffocating boy and girl and Erica, her eyes slowly getting bigger and bigger. After that, he saw her holding his exam scores from the day's mail.
Turning red, he snatched his grades away from Erica, but when he did, the girl looked at Seto. Suddenly she smiled from ear to ear.
"You failed in Home Economics, gym, and Family Life for Health. There was also a note that you had difficulty sewing, taking part in activities in gym, and…ignoring the valuable lessons of sex education and 'Where Babies Come From!'" the tomboy managed to spit out before collapsing in helpless laughter at Seto's flustered and angry face.
Kaiba yelled (half from frustration, the other half to be heard over the loud laughter), "Men do not sew, I rather spend my physical education time for business matters, and…and…STOP LAUGHING!"
Jennie and the other two stuffed their fists into their mouths and shook with silent merriment. Erica had a case of giggles, snorts and all.
Kaiba continued to seethe and Jackie pat Seto with mock sympathy. "We understand, Seto. You just don't wanna know where you came from!"
Jennie poked, "Yeah, and you're too high and mighty for poor sewing, you big baby!"
Then Erica embraced Seto like how one would do for a little kid. "Poor, poor Seto. Just remember to wear a condom at all times, dear. "
If it was possible, smoke would have erupted from Kaiba's ears as he bellowed, "STOP MOCKING ME!"
The three sprinted out of the room, cackling loudly. Then Jennie said something clever and everyone screamed with glee again. Seto kicked the wall in frustration and went back to his room. How in the world was he supposed to live here, nevertheless survive, if those three made it so intolerable!
The trio talked on the way downstairs and when the doorbell rang, Jennie and Erica took off automatically, competing in who would get to answer the door first. Jackie just shook his head at their immaturity.
Three seconds later, Jennie opened the door while Erica was on the floor nearby, panting heavily. Jackie came down soon after and all three teenagers had a surprised expression when they saw the yamis of Yu-Gi-Oh on their doorstep; Malik, Isis, Bakura, and Yugi.
"Um…hello," Jennie, Jackie, and Erica chorused, puzzled in why the yamis were there. "What's going on?"
Yami Bakura shrugged with languor as Yugi and the other two piled into the living room. Erica went off to make tea for the guests, leaving her friends behind.
"Uh…why are you guys here?" Jennie repeated from before, blunt and to the point.
Yami Bakura said seriously, "Malik and Isis came on their own, sensing some kind of danger in Domino City. I just dragged Yugi here since we might need him also. Basically, I brought them here."
Jackie said, "Yeah, but that doesn't answer why."
Yugi answered, in his usual timid voice, "Bakura said that you three needed our help of some kind. I don't know what, though."
Malik and Isis nodded in agreement. When Jackie looked at Bakura with curiosity, he had his careless look that said, 'I just brought them here. You explain.'
The boy glanced at Jennie who conveniently stole a look at him, too. Getting the clue, the two excused themselves and ran to the kitchen, almost tripping on the way.
"Erica, Erica! B.K. got the yamis to help out in our quest!" Jennie exclaimed when the two got to their tea-making friend.
Erica almost dropped the cup she was holding and hissed, "I don't know whether to feel relieved or kill that stupid yami!"
Jackie shrugged. "Why? I think it's pretty good. We need all the help we can get."
"Yeah, but it'll end up with them asking how we got our cards and where we came from and how we knew about the Shadow Realm and-" Jennie ranted, but Erica coughed for her to stop.
"Yeah, well, B.K. didn't ask about all that stuff!" Jackie argued.
"Becauuuuse," Jennie said with sarcasm, "we practically told him who we really are! I think the albino can think up the rest of the story!"
Erica pointed out, "But Bakura didn't tell the other three about what happened…yet. He seems to be loyal enough."
Jackie frowned. "Yeah, but let's get back to the problem: should we let the yamis help us and tell them about our whole ordeal?"
Jennie helped Erica take out cups as all three discussed some more. Finally, after three minutes, they all sighed and agreed to tell. What choice did they have and what can they explain if they said no?
When the trio went back to the living room, they spotted the yamis having a discussion of their own. It seemed like Yugi and the others were trying to force information out of Yami Bakura. Fortunately, his mouth was rock-glued and stapled. When Jackie, Jennie, and Erica sat down, the four guests turned their attention to them.
"Well?" Bakura egged on, obviously intent on getting his companions' attention away from him.
With another sigh, the trio explained their whole story with the exception of where they came from and some embarrassing issues (such as topics like where they got their cards). Of course, the yami albino knew what the trio was doing, but kept an amused silence.
After one hour and a half, the trio finished their tale, answered all the questions as truthfully as they could, and the only thing left was if Yugi, Malik, and Isis would join them. Yugi immediately agreed, but the tomb keepers were a bit reluctant.
"How do we know that you are not the villains themselves?' Isis asked.
Erica rolled her eyes and said, "If we were, you would be all dead by now and why would we want to take over Seto's house if we have no special powers or purpose whatsoever? Anyway, you and Malik aren't really yamis. Why are you here?"
"We have some valuable knowledge about the Realm and still have powers, though without out yamis," Malik said coolly.
The dark brown haired girl gave the Egyptian boy a scowl, but the conversation continued on.
"So…" Jackie drifted, "You will join forces with us, right?"
"To save the world," Yugi said, who suddenly transformed into Yami, "most certaintly."
Isis and Malik nodded. "If our pharaoh agrees, then we must, too."
The trio gave a cough that strangely sounded like a snicker, Bakura smirked, and Yami looked uncomfortable at this sudden declaration of loyalty.
"Well, then. We have to make plans with our chief, and guardian, Tien-Xiang. Right now he's at the museum, so, till then, stay or go back home and come back around...six o'clock p.m." Jennie noted, looking at her watch.
Isis told everyone that she had to leave to take care of a few hotel arrangements, but the rest of the guests (much to everyone's dismay) stayed. Right after Isis went out of the driveway, all hell broke loose.
Erica and Malik swore war against each other and it was difficult to keep them apart from biting each other's heads off. At the same time, Bakura kept poking "fun" at his crush and Jennie chased him around the room so she could kill him for his pervertiveness. The only calm, but slightly startled, ones were Jackie and Yugi…until, of course, Kaiba came down the stairs to get coffee.
Kaiba immediately went into "challenge-Yugi-into-duel" mode and when he spotted Bakura in the room, it only made him angrier. Jackie, in the meantime, blew out a weary breath and went down to the garage to get a special item. By the time he came back up, Jennie was choking Yami Bakura, Seto was holding Yugi by the back of his shirt (he attempted to run away) and snapping at the albino, and Erica and Malik were trying to knock each other out with the pillows from the sofa. Suddenly tired, the hacker-boy took out the item he was looking for and covered one of his ears with his free hand. Counting to three, Jackie pressed hard on the release button.
"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!"
Immediately there was total silence (except for pained yells) as everyone stared at the bullhorn that Jackie held up. The insanely loud and annoying belch of the thing was still echoing in the air.
After a few seconds, Erica snapped, "You made me deaf, you retard!"
The others were trying to unclog their tortured ears.
"Now," Jackie said calmly, "if Malik and you, Erica, want to fight, play the video games. If Seto and Yugi want to fight, play chess. If you, Jennie, and Bakura want to fight, join in the same game as Erica and Malik. Got it?"
Everyone exchanged puzzled looks and shook their heads. Jackie explained three more times, but each time, the other five continued to look confused and frustrated.
Finally annoyed, the boy yelled, shaking the windows, "OH, COME ON! YOU CAN'T REALLY BE DEAF, YOU SADISTS!"
Apparently, everyone heard this comment, since they shouted back, "WE ARE DEAF!"
Slapping his forehead, Jackie mimed in what everyone should do. Though this took much longer than his word explanation, everyone understood. Erica, Jennie, Bakura, and Malik played a racing game while Jackie forced Yugi to play chess with Seto. There was peace…with the exception of some explosion sounds from the T.V.
Just for time to pass by quickly, everyone regained their hearing abilities, continued to play the racing game (Jennie kept winning…), Isis and Tien-Xiang came back at six with Mokuba (Tien had brought the boy to the museum to see a new exhibit), discussed some plans, and made up the meeting place when it was time to fight the Shadow Realm. At last, everyone was about to leave.
"Bye, Isis, Yugi!" Erica waved, completely ignoring Malik and Bakura.
The two nodded and everyone inside the house said goodbye (except for Seto). Not surprisingly, Bakura had to make a scene when he kissed Erica goodbye on the lips, making Seto seethe, Jennie and Mokuba laugh, and Tien and Jackie holding the rabid Erica away from the albino. Malik smirked at Erica's misfortune and quickly ran away when she started to aim her random kicks at him. Isis sighed and followed after her brother. Bakura left a few seconds after that.
Closing the door with a slam, both Erica and Kaiba screamed, "I'm going to kill that damn albino!"
The two gave surprised stares at each other.
Everyone else laughed and scattered to different directions when the girl and Seto tried to tackle at least one of them. The scenes of a happy family…
Sorta.
A/N: Yay! I am doooooone! Well, I know this wasn't a funny chapter and all, but it was important since our heroes couldn't go against the Realm with only Tien and Bakura to help, and having help from others was essential.
Anyway, I'm sorry if the Malik and Isis thing was a bit random and I made Malik, perhaps, out of character. I never watched most of the Yu-Gi-Oh episodes with the God Cards arc and I only saw freaky Yami Marik being all crazy and all, so I never knew how the real Malik acted like. Speaking of Marik and Malik…Did I get those names right? Is Malik the real guy, not the yami? I always get those two confused…I really hope I didn't make a mistake in their names...
Bah. Whatever.
Anyhow, HERE ARE THE REVIEWERS! W00T!
Isis the Spinx (new reviewer!), DarkHand27, and fairy'smaiden…
Dude…what happened? Did the rest of you reviewers decide to die or something? Oi… Anyway, I'm still happy I'm getting reviews, so I know I still matter to some people who are kind enough to let me know how they feel about my fanfiction. Well, better get started on the next chapter. I'll let you guys in a clue…
It's Jackie's birthday.
Sooooo, review as usual, people, and, though 75 percent of you won't answer this…
Who is your favorite character? Jackie, Jennie, or Erica? It would be interesting to see who has the most fans.
Well, CAOI!