Chapter cut in pieces. I know this is a big change but haven't any authors wanted to change their stories a little bit once in a while. So instead I play to be on the right track after this.
Recap: The unwelcome guests in Pegasus' castle had a story to tell. Their TV failed them from seeing their daily Saturday access to Yugioh and they need a solution. Their father however brings up a solution but it isn't pretty, so we welcome, Henry!
Chapter Three: Henry
"I know that Henry is a bit...untidy but at least he has cable right," assumed the father uneasily.
The three looked at him wondering why in the world would he suggest such a thing. Unfortunately, everyone else they knew didn't like or either never heard of Yugioh and were probably watching their own stuff at this time. They didn't hate Henry, oh no. It was just something about him that was weird.
Henry, an 11-year-old brunette, was the only person nearby their house that watched Yugioh. He collected the cards and periodically showed them off to Taylor any chance he got. His outfit screamed nerd with his pulled up gray suspenders and buttoned up white collared shirt. He didn't wear any glasses, but he had so many boils you could play connect the dots on them and no matter what ointment you gave him it didn't work. His big crush on Dinah affected the friendship as well. Whenever she got near him or he close to her, he broke into sweat enough to fill those buckets you find in wells. His house smelled like dung since he owned many pets. Last year the smell grew so horrid, the house was quarantined.
The older siblings realized they had no choice seeing their younger sister April crying and screaming in such a fit even father couldn't calm her down. They knew she could keep this up all day, maybe onto next week, and so with Taylor holding his crying sister; the older siblings waved good-bye to their father and headed up the five blocks to Henry's house. A few minutes passed and already it seemed like an eternity.
"WAAH!"
"April will you stop crying, please? I'm getting a headache," pleaded Dinah covering her ears with her hands.
"WAAH!"
"Ugh! I don't know what's worse; Her crying or Henry's house?" screamed Taylor who faced the full force of the crying.
"IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR BAD MOUTHING KAIBA, WAAH!"
"Ugh!" Taylor yelled.
After a period of running, walking, April's consistent wailing and poking Taylor, and the neighbor's complaints, they finally caught sight of Henry's house. As they approached, the door flew open with such speed Taylor barely lifted a fist to knock. Sure enough it was Henry who had answered the door. He was wearing some blue suspenders hitched up to his belly button, a light blue collared shirt with dark blue tie, and oxford shoes.
"Hi, everyone," welcomed Henry who ignored the crying April and immediately focused his direction on Dinah. "Hello Dinah."
"Hello Henry." shouted Dinah uneasily.
"Say why aren't you at home? Yugioh's on and boy is it good. Say Taylor, want to see my new Dark Magician card?" he shouted using his hands like a megaphone.
"Not right now, Henry. Sorry to ask but your cable didn't go out recently, did it?" yelled Taylor.
"Oh it's okay, but no it didn't. Did yours?" Henry shouted back
"Yes and it's been driving April crazy. On the way over here she kept poking me and screaming it was my fault that the TV channel wrecked."
"It is your fault. You bad mouthed Kaiba and someone heard you and got rid of him," wailed April with less volume.
"As you can see..." explained Taylor a bit relieved.
"Well Taylor I'd let you in if I could but my parents aren't home and I can't let anyone in while they're guh..."
His sentence broke as two tiny hands grabbed his shirt collar with such force he nearly fell. April's eyes met his and she demanded "GIVE ME YUGIOH NOW!"
"Excuse me."
She wiggled out of Taylor's arms, still holding on to Henry's collar. Using one free hand, she dug into her right pants pocket and pushed something towards his throat.
"Hey she's got a knife!" screamed Henry.
"What!" exclaimed Taylor and Dinah in alarm.
"Be quiet, you two!" she cried out keeping the knife close to Henry's throat. She then faced Henry while keeping one eye on her wary siblings. "Now where's Yugioh?" April demanded.
"April! Where did you get that knife!" exclaimed Dinah.
"Hand it over, April," said Taylor sternly.
"Back off or it goes in!" warned the deprived girl pushing it closer to the poor guy's throat that knife met skin.
The older siblings back off knowing that she might be crazy enough to do it. They always told their parents that April needed therapy. Of all the times they said no, this would have been a great opportunity to prove them wrong. Darn that a person's life was in danger though.
"WHERE"S THE YUGIOH?" she demanded.
"In the den!" he answered but his answer was too soft and not loud enough to reach the crazed girls' ears. She pushed the knife further and rubbed it as if she was about to slice through. Feeling the strokes, Henry shouted with all his might. "AHH, IT'S IN THE DEN!"
"Thank you." she replied in a sweet tone.
She let go of Henry's collar and dropped the knife by her feet. As she hopped inside, Taylor quickly got it in case she wanted it back. Dinah ran to Henry's aid and helped him up even though he sweated profusely grossing her out. Taylor examined the knife and burst out laughing.
"This isn't funny, Taylor. We need to tell Mom and Dad about this," Dinah proclaimed.
"Yeah. How can you laugh when I almost got killed here?" Henry said looking at Taylor with anger.
"Because Henry. This knife's a fake. It must have been a piece of her kitchen sets," he spoke before going into a fit of giggles.
"Oh really." After that he fainted with a struggling Dinah trying to support him.
"Hello, when you're done laughing you can help me out over here!"
"Oh right," said Taylor breaking free from his laughter.
The two picked up Henry's heavily sweating, limp body and carried him inside. From a distance they looked like two crooks leading a body inside after killing him. Well the inside smelt like something died. The foul smell entered their nostrils nearly causing them to collapse, but enough to choke and gag. Fighting the urge to go back outside, they saw that they had to get him inside otherwise his entire body would be too wet for them to carry and they would end up dropping him. As they went further into the house, the smell got stronger and stronger. It reeked of something dead with a hint of onions. It might have been the smell of garbage that had been left too long in the kitchen. Whatever it was it stunk. They recalled a porch window and an extra couch in the den, so they decided to place him there. When they entered the den they could April sitting on the red sofa, her hands clenching the front of the cushion it seemed like it was going to break. They set Henry down on the brown couch next to her. Seeing no room on the brown couch since Dinah was sitting with Henry in case he woke up, Taylor sat himself next to April and could see clearly his sister's evil leer directed at the TV.
"What's wrong April?" asked Dinah who saw it too.
April pointed her index finger towards the TV. Instead of monsters and cards there were police cars and a bank. The news rolled." This shootout has been tough for the police as the bank robbers refuse to give up and."
"Oh no." Taylor said in terror.
Their direction turned back to April whose face turned bright pink.
"Are you sure this is the right channel, April?" asked Dinah.
Soon as the sentence escaped her lips, the remote control hit her stomach. Without hesitation she pushed the display button and to her disappointment the bottom right of the TV displayed in green lighting Ch 33.
"Maybe it's on another channel. Different TV's Different cable chann," Taylor started before his sister shoved her index finger in front of his face. It pointed to some papers lined up in a pile of the table in front of her. Taylor took a few sheets and went through them. To his astonishment, these papers were the channel listings for Henry's TV and what cable network they used. Among the papers was a TV Guide, which he also scanned. It seemed that from the time they dragged Henry into the time to the time they entered the den; April did her homework. Henry got Yugioh on the same channel they got. Listed in the TV Guide were the words 11:00 p.m. Ch 33: Yugioh!. There was no mistaking it.
"Darn." was his answer as he placed the papers down.
The two siblings expected April to be fuming clouds by now. clenched the cushion even tighter trying to not let her emotions get to her, as she knew she'd get in trouble. So in her head she counted to ten and breathed. Her pink hue turned peach again and she faced her brother with a clenched smile. Just then Dinah screamed.
"Ahh, something touched me."
She got up from her spot where a blushing Henry cheered quietly. He got up from the sofa and went towards a painting hanging on the wall.
"How dare you touch my sis? Girls we're leaving and you; I'm telling your parents as soon as they get back."
As the three started to leave, Henry got up from the couch and walked towards a painting of a one sail sailboat. He faced the painting and took out a gas mask from behind it and put it on. The trio started feeling sleepy for some strange reason.
"Why am I feeling so tired?" asked Taylor as he approached the door. Henry ran fast to block the door and laughed at the trio. He stood in a corner trying to get a cool pose and mocked the poor guest.
"I tricked you. I knew that you guys would be watching Yugioh at this very moment so I used my newly made satellite to sabotage that channel so that April would cry and so that you'll have no choice but to come here! And so I sprayed the den with chloroform so that you'll have to stay and finally sweet Dinah could be mine. Alas my urges got the best of me, and seeing her so close to me I had to touch her arm. I also rewired my TV so that you three would have to stay longer so that the chloroform would take affect and "Huh?"
When he turned around the trio wasn't there. In fact once he had said chloroform the first time the trio left with lightning speed.
"Darn, they must have escaped." He proceeded to follow them. Meanwhile a few yards away the trio had gotten themselves a head start and headed towards back the house with all the strength they could muster. Dinah was first with April right behind her and Taylor in the back.
"I can't believe it. Who knew he'd be that smart?" said Dinah in amazement.
"Now's not the time Dinah, we have company." Said Taylor pointing to a dark figure in the distance. It was Henry and it looked like he was gaining on them.
"Darn it! How could I've been so stupid?" asked Taylor beating himself up emotionally.
"Taylor don't blame yourself, Henry's strong sweat smell distracted you." said Dinah reassuringly.
The chloroform started to take a greater affect as they ran. With each step they made their stride went slower and slower while the distance between them and Henry got less and less. Soon Henry was catching up.
"We won't make it back to the house! We'll collapse before we make it!" worried Dinah.
"We need to get to my lab! It's the only place near here where we can hide. It's only a couple of feet just past that oak tree," stated Taylor pointing at the tree.
"Yugioh where are you!" shouted April still holding her Kaiba plushie.
The oak tree was just in their sight. However no matter how hard they thought they'd run it seemed that they were farther and farther away from sanctuary.
"Give it up, Wampols! (last names of the three)" shouted Henry close behind.
"Just a bit closer." said Taylor sighting the oak tree. "Now!"
As he got a remote out of his pocket, he stumbled and fell way behind Dinah and April. Unfortunately Henry came close behind and thought about how to use this stroke of luck when it came against the remaining two.
"Oh no, Taylor!" shouted Dinah turning her head to see the fallen Taylor. She wondered what she could do. She could fight, but if Henry was as strong as he was smart, Henry would have the advantage. There was no way she was going to give up. She was running out of ideas until she spotted April's plushie and got an idea.
"April, give me your plushie."
"Why?"
"Because Taylor's about to be hurt and maybe taken hostage! So I need that plushie," she demanded.
"No, Kaiba needs me," she shouted holding Kaiba tightly.
"Well..." (She took the toy from April's grasp) "Then let Kaiba be a hero." With that she threw the plushie.
"Kaiba!"
'Kaiba' flew through the air and hit Henry dead center on his skull. The impact knocked him backwards giving Taylor enough time to get back on his feet and heads towards the lab. (remember the plushie had a tape recorder in it.)
Taylor pressed the button and the grass spilt open revealing a door. The three flew inside as Henry threw the plushie off him and made it inside in the nick of time. Taylor locked the door behind him and both he and Dinah smiled. Each took a chair and went to sleep. April, not feeling the full force of the chloroform yet, still had some energy left and walked around the lab. She didn't know her brother had so many inventions! Walking a little way off from her siblings she noticed a stuffed sheep toy set on a pedestal. She laughed at the thought that her brother had something like this. Not wanting to know why she took it off the pedestal and noticed a blue tag on the plushies' right leg. It said:
'ieie ningen sonokawarini hakusei enkai'
"No humans instead a stuffed animal party" she translated. "That's weird but I would like a stuffed animal party, but first I must give my respects to Kaiba."
She named the sheep Takara and searched for a spot in which to give her eulogy. A few minutes passed until she and Takara found themselves in front of a huge machine. The machine was made of glass and looked like an elevator built for 100 people, with its big wide frame. It looked close to a steeple to April, so she set Takara in a bowing pose on the floor, then faced the machine and bowed her head.
(sniffle) "Kaiba you were a brave soldier and a good friend. Thank you for saving us from Henry. I wish you didn't leave me so soon though," she said with tears falling from her eyes.
Not wanting to say anymore, her head fell upon the keyboard that was in front of her. Her tears touched the keyboard, which woke up the computer hooked up to the right of the elevator-looking machine. A face appeared on the screen and it used the camera it had attached on top to see what was wetting its keyboard. For some strange reason, the computer was shocked seeing that the cause was a young girl crying instead of her creator. It watched in silence as the girl cried herself to sleep. Feeling concerned, the computer adapted with emotions, scanned the girl's brain waves and sorted out the events that had happened. How she had awaited to see Kaiba duel. How the theme song got switched with horrible static. How Henry tricked into thinking he had Yugioh and nearly got them with the sleeping gas (what she calls it), and so on.
"Destination found. Proceed travel in 3, 2, 1."
The computer finished scanning her brain knowing what she wanted. Her program started up and activated the machine. The room started rumbling violently but no one stirred. The room sparkled and glowed filling the room with a rainbow of colors. Swirls of blue and green lights formed into eels that attached themselves to the elevator to start it up. Red lines formed together to make the numbers on the elevator, while two purple streams made the up and down button. Orange lights formed the elevator levels' glow as the levels rose. The rumbling carried itself all the way up to the surface, where a startled Henry tried to keep balance.
"Hey what's going on!" exclaimed Henry as the ground below shook him. Some silver lines wrapped around Henry and bound him. Tied up, the struggling Henry watched in awe as the ground below split in two forming doors. The wind blew harshly as two black helicopter wings appeared from the doors. Attached to the wings was the entire lab encased in a tree house looking, square building. Stars the colors of the rainbow surrounded it with such speed;the stars bright yellow light blinded Henry and caused him to fall over.
After a bright yellow glow, everything returned to normal, at least for Henry. The grass put itself together and there were no lights or helicopter wings. He broke through his ropes and came over to the spot where the lab once was. He pounded his fists on the grass, demanding that the Wampols come out immediately or be trapped there. What the dunce didn't know was that they were already gone. The trio slept unaware that the world they knew would be gone when they awoke. The path the lab crossed was colorful and strange. It looked like they took a trip in Dorothy's tornado (Wizard of Oz) as many objects and people passed by. Too bad they were asleep as many universes including The Twilight Zone zoomed past them. The lab sped in the speed of light then appeared inside a fancy room. The streams of rainbow light circled around the lab before stopping altogether.
(ding) "You are now at Duelist Kingdom. Please watch your step and enjoy." The computer announced.
Okay July 20 was a kooky day cause I couldn't get the chapter up nor the other one for my other story. Phooey! I had a hard time as I fought writer's block. Expect Ryou Exposed to have a new chapter soon and my other story to become a sequel.