Wow, that didn't even take forever...

Entrance to the Fair

"Do we have ta walk all dat way?" Jonouchi groaned when we all got out of the van. Ryou had parked in the nearest empty parking space—which happened to be about three quarters of the way out.

Bakura rolled his eyes, stretching his cramped legs. "Apparently, yes. And it's a good way to get exercise, so move your butt."

Terra glared at him. "Be nice, thief, or I'll rip your tongue out."

Mikey blinked. "Uh…Terra?"

"What?" Terra snapped. She then blinked, and made a face. "Oh—sorry, Mikey. I'm starting to get a headache, that's all."

"Maybe you should stay here," Sonja suggested.

Terra firmly shook her head. "I'm fine. Really. Just a little stressed out."

Mikey eyed her with concern, but said nothing else.

Sam tapped me on the arm. "Miriku, I gotta tell you something," she whispered.

She and I slowed down a little, until we were at the back of the group. "What is it, Sam?"

"I'm sensing somethin' from Terra," she murmured. "Somethin' that feels like Derama…and Kimiru…and neither, and both at the same time…"

My eyebrows shot up. "Hunh?"

Sam shook her head. "It's hard to explain. The karma is almost the same, but not quite…"

My eyes widened, as did Sam's. "…Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Sammy?"

Sam nodded. "I'm thinkin' that Terra might be the one with Kimiru's and Derama's sisters."

I shook my head. "Boy oh boy…"

It made sense. I remembered what Kimiru had shown me—that Kemisi had once had a crush on the High Priest Seto, but pretended to hate his guts. If she had really been reincarnated into Terra, then it made absolute sense that she and Kaiba should bicker and fight the way they did.

"Don't tell anyone," I murmured to Sam, before running to catch up to the rest of the group. "Are we there yet?" I whined annoyingly.

Bakura glared at me. "Ra damn, you can be irritating when you want to be."

"Thank you. It's a gift."

"More like a curse," Bakura grumbled.

"Anything that annoys you is a blessing," Yami muttered with a snigger.

"Shut up, pharaoh."

"No."

Ryou rolled his eyes. "Can't you two please keep from murdering each other until we reach the ticket lines, at least?"

"No," Bakura and Yami said in unison.

Malik smirked. "This is like listening to you and Kaiba," he said to Terra—and immediately had to duck as she threw a punch at him.

Dustil ran ahead, Merekai hot on his heels. "Hurry up, slowpokes!" Merekai called over her shoulder. "I want to go buy some chocolate-covered waffles!"

Dean raised an eyebrow. "Chocolate-covered waffles? How much stranger can this woman get?"

"Not much, I'm sure," Damien said, shaking his head.

I grinned. "Oh, I've seen her in much stranger predicaments. Remember—I've know this girl longer that either of you."

"…Good point."

Marik began to bounce up and down. "We're here, guys! We're here we're here we're here!"

Sure enough, we'd reached the ticket lines. "You guys should go and wait at the entrance," Damien said. "Sonja and I will buy the tickets."

Malik waved a sketchy sort of salute. "Yes sir."

Damien rolled his eyes. "Malik, stop it."

"All right."

Sonja and Damien went off to stand in the line, while the rest of us went to wait by the entrance.

Dustil began to bounce excitedly up and down. "I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait! Can't those two move any faster!"

Dean put a hand on his shoulder. "Calm down. In case you haven't noticed, those are some very long lines."

"I know that—but still!"

Bakura rolled his eyes. "Stop whining, midget. We'll get in eventually."

Ryou smiled a little. "Has anyone got the power to fast-forward time?" he joked.

Mikey laughed. "That's impossible! Not even the Millennium Items can speed up time!"

Suddenly, there was a flash of hard, iron-gray light.

"I could probably do it," Terra said in a calm voice.

But—it wasn't Terra. The girl who now stood in Terra's place had the same blond hair, but with a few black streaks. Her eyes were a molten gold color—similar to Marik's, but considerably deeper. And she had silvery-gray ears and tail.

I felt Kimiru's amazement, changing into remembered loneliness, changing into hatred.

I looked at Sam—but Derama had taken over. And Derama was staring at Kemisi with a snarl on her face. "Oh, looky. The wimp is here."

Kemisi growled. "Shut up, robber's favorite."

I felt Kimiru struggling to get out. /It's—Kemisi—let me out, Miriku!

/Okay, okay!

I let Kimiru take control, and phased out. When I got out, I saw that Terra and Sam had done the same.

Derama and Kemisi stood about five feet apart, glaring daggers at each other. Kimiru stood between and a little off to the side of them, glancing back and forth.

Terra stared at Kemisi. "…Whoa."

I grinned wryly. "Yeah, that's about how we felt."

Yuugi looked nervously around. "Uh, guys. Can we deal with this later? We're starting to attract attention."

I looked around. True enough, people were casting us curious glances. "Kimiru, let me in."

Kemisi started, and whipped her head around. "Kimiru?"

Malik sighed exasperatedly. "Later, people!"

Kemisi and Derama glared at each other once more, before disappearing in their own flashes of black and silver light. Kimiru shook her head, before disappearing in a flicker of white. When the lights faded, Sam, Terra, and I were back in control of our bodies.

Terra gave her head a good shake. "Heh. No wonder I had such a headache earlier. I guess I was fighting Kemisi off without even realizing it."

"…Okay, now that that weirdness is over, can we go in?"

All of us whipped around. Sonja and Damien were standing behind us, tickets in hand.

Sonja sighed. "Kids."

Merekai made a face. "Hey, I'm only one year younger than you!"

Dustil made a face at her. "And I'm three years younger than her. So that's not fair."

Damien rolled his eyes. "Anyway, people, here you go—the entrance tickets and the wristbands."

Bakura raised his eyebrows. "…Wristbands?"

Merekai grinned. "Cool! Unlimited rides! That is sweet!"

"…Oh. I knew that."

Malik sniggered. "Doubt it."

Bakura deathglared him. "No one asked you."

"No one needed to."

Terra rolled her eyes. "Can we just go in now? Please?"

I grinned a little. "Sounds good to me. That is what we came for."

Sonja held up one had. "First, we need to split into groups of two. No one wanders around by themselves. Damien and I are one pair. The others are Kaiba and Terra, Ryou and Mikey, Dean and John, Malik and Marik, Miriku and Yami, Bakura and Sam, Jonouchi and Merekai, and Yuugi and Dustil. All right, guys—anyone need help with their wristbands? No? Okay, then!"

The eighteen (A/N: Whoa—how the hell did we go from six real people to eleven? And then plus the seven YuGiOh people… Holy crap… of us passed through the turnstiles and split off into our pairs.

"Remember—we need to be back here by six fifty-five!" Sonja reminded us over the clamor of the other people in the fair.

Bakura rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, okay. We know when we come back. Can we actually go now?"

Sonja glared at him, and then sighed. "All right. And remember guys—have fun!"

Bakura grumbled something that sounded like, "Yeah right," as he was led off by Sam. The other pairs turned and drifted away as well.

Yami looked around. "So…where should we go first?"

I shrugged, and started off in a random direction. "I dunno—but, like Sonja said, let's just have some fun!"

Yay, fun-ness! ...I have a feeling the next chapter is going to be very long...

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