Desert Storm
Chapter 3 – Huge Airplanes, Old Ladies, and Hungry Crocodiles
Disclaimer – Why do they make such a big thing about these five words: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
The airplane was big, but it was one of Kaibas smaller planes. There were no rows of chairs and small windows. No, this plane was very different.
There were some sofas along the walls, and tables with chairs stood at the end of the plane.
"Wow!" was all they could say.
"And this is supposed to be small?" Joey said, jumping onto a sofa.
"This is cool!" Tristan said, from behind the fridge door. "Hey Joey, they have your favourite cheese!" Tristan held up a piece of cheese to show it Joey, but he had already grabbed it and ran back to the sofa. He pulled open the foil around it and took a big bite.
"Why are you always thinking about food?" Tea asked, seating herself on the sofa, opposite from Joey's.
"This is cool! In this plane you don't have your own seat…you have your own sofa!" Tristan said, seating himself, with a plate full of food and a can of soda, on the sofa next to Joey's.
Then the pilot entered the plane and the door closed behind him. "Hello. Would you please fasten your seatbelts. After the start you may walk around the plane…You can do what ever you want…except starting a fire…"
Joey interrupted him,"Sir? Where ARE the seatbelts?"
As soon as they left the plane, a warm breeze welcomed them.
"So this is Egypt", Yugi said quietly to himself, as he left the plane, but he did not notice the Pyramids of Gizeh, that had stood in the desert behind him for more than 4500 years.
"Wow! Look at this!" Joey said, pointing at the huge Ramses statue in the airport hall.
"Look at this!" Tristan said, standing at an old stone wall with hieroglyphics on it. The rest of the group came running to Tristan who was trying to squeeze through the group of people standing around the stone. Joey was right after him, squeezing himself almost to the front where he bumped into a small, old lady. She was so frightened, that she let her bag fall down.
"Sorry madam!" Joey said, picking up the bag. Right at that moment the old lady started to scream.
"HELP! HELP!"
"What?" Joey said, confused by her reaction.
"HELP! HELP! THIEF!"
Joey laid the bag on the ground, slowly starting to move away. He had noticed the stares of the crowd. Looking confused at the ground, he had not noticed the old lady grabbing her bag and starting to walk towards him. She lifted her bag into the air and slammed it into his face. "Thief!" she screamed. Joey got knocked over and fell onto his back. He turned and started running towards his friends, the old lady right behind him, hitting him with her bag.
"Friends, RUN!" he yelled. They looked confused as they saw him running past, with an old lady after him. Then Tristan joined the group.
"What are you doing!" Tea asked him.
"The lady let her bag fall, he picked it up for her, and now he's a thief", Tristan said calmly.
"I think we should go after them", Yugi said, hurrying after Joey, the others following.
They found Joey, five minutes later, behind a stack of boxes next to the garbage.
"Wow, that was cool!" Tristan said, helping Joey out from behind the boxes.
"Cool? That was scary!" Joey said, wiping off the dirt on him.
Just then, they started looking at their surroundings. In front of them were taxis, picking up tourists. Behind that was a parking lot and right behind that… was nothing except sand! The airport was at the edge of Cairo, right by the desert.
As they were standing there, amazed by the landscape, a man in a black suit came up to them.
"Yugi Muto?" he asked Yugi.
"Yes. Why?" Yugi asked, looking confused at the others.
"I'm from the Kaiba Corp… I'm here to pick you up", the man said, turning so that Yugi and the others could see the black limo.
It had been over 30 minutes, till they finally reached the Nile. The group climbed out of the car and walked to the shore, where huge papyrus grew. They could see the Pyramids of Gizeh and the crocodiles that lay on the other side of the river.
"I think the swimming can wait!" Tea said, seeing the crocodiles.
"We are not here to go swimming Tea!" Yugi said, looking over to a boat that was floating to their right.
"Let's go!" Joey said, starting to walk over to the boat.
"This is cool!" Joey said, throwing himself onto the cabin bed. "We have a huge room for the four of us and huge, cosy beds, better than the ones on the trip to the Duel Kingdom!"
"And the fridge is also full!" Tristan said, opening the fridge door.
"Déjà-vu!"Tea said to Yugi. They both smiled. "I think I'll go outside", she said, and walked out of the room.
"Where are we actually going?" Joey asked, taking some food from Tristan's plate.
"Hey!" he yelled, looking angrily at Joey.
"To the nearest reachable place to the where the plane landed!" Yugi said.
"And where is that place?" Joey asked, stuffing some bread into his mouth.
"Somewhere in the desert", Yugi said calm.
"In de dezer!" Joey yelled, trying to swallow the bread as fast as he could. Too fast because he started coughing. Tristan gave him a drink and he gulped it down hastily.
"Are you alright Joey?" Yugi asked, worried that he would start to cough again.
"Yeah, I'm O.K. ", Joey said, with a rough voice.
"You mean we are going into the desert to look for the Kaiba's…IN THE DESERT?" Tristan shouted angrily at Yugi.
"Yes"; Yugi said calm.
"Are you crazy!" Tristan yelled, jumping up from the bed.
"Tristan, we can't just leave hem to die in the desert!" Yugi said, almost shouting. Tristan knew what this meant: there was no way to stop him. He sat down quietly and slowly started eating again. Yugi went over to his bed and started looking at his deck.
The silence that had lasted over an hour was finally broken when Tea entered the room.
"Hey guy's, get your stuff. We're there!"
Sorry that it took me so long.
I hope you like this chapter, the next ones gonna come soon. More action than in this one.
Thank's to all reviewers!
