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Chapter 3-the beach house


Yami groaned and slowly opened his eyes. He noticed a dull throb at the back of his head.

"Morning Yami, you've been asleep a long time." Yugi's cheerful voice called from the front of the car. Yami grumbled in reply and pulled back from where his head had been leaning against the window. He squinted at the sunlight now flooding the car.

"What time is it?" he asked wearily.

"Nine fifteen, we should be at the beach house in just under an hour now."

Yami rubbed his head. Why did it hurt so much? The memory came back to him and he glanced sharply at Bakura who was staring at the roof of the car determinedly. "Bakura." He growled.

"Yes pharaoh?" he asked innocently.

"You are gonna get it when we get out of this car."

"Whatever for pharaoh?"

"You know what for." Bakura just smirked and went to looking out of the window.

Duke finally stopped the car an hour later on a long gravel driveway. "This is the place." He said turning off the engine.

"Erm, where's the place?" Joey asked looking out of the windows seeing nothing but the driveway leading up to what looked like a miniature wood on top of a hill on his right and the beach on his left.

"Right up there." Duke said pointing to the top of the hill.

"Great, so we have a mile walk up this hill?" Tea moaned as the all got out of the car.

"Bear in mind this was the only place we could get Tea." Yugi said poking her in the side. The gang grabbed their bags out of the tiny boot and started to trudge up the hill, Yugi knew what he was saying when he said to pack light. Single file, they picked their way through the trees that surrounded the beach house, the path being old and worn, almost invisible and extremely hard to follow. Finally after a good few minutes, gasps were heard from Tea and Ryou at the front of the line as they got the first look at their accommodation.

Ryou was the first to speak, "It's not old, it's…it's-"

"It's fucking ancient!" Bakura shouted.

"In case you haven't noticed Bakura, so are you." Yami said coming to a stop beside the former tomb-robber but looking up at the building with the same look of distaste.

"We're really going to stay here?" Joey asked glancing at Yugi.

"We don't really have a choice, there's no-where else to stay at such short notice and I really don't want to sit through another two days worth of traffic, do you?"

He said pointedly. He walked up to the front door and slid the key in the lock. He then pulled the door open and took a cautious step inside. "Hey, it's not that bad, just really, really dusty." He walked fully inside the entrance hall and looked about himself. Two doorways lead off to his left and a staircase was situated on his right and right in front of him was a set of oak double doors. "Let's split it up and check it out."

"Okie dokie Freddie, You go that way with Daphne and Me and Scooby here will go this way!" Bakura said sarcastically motioning to Yami when he said Scooby.

"Hey! No more cartoons for you!"

"Well no more Scooby snacks for you!" (1)

Duke Tea and Joey went to check out the kitchen and living room, Yugi Ryou and Tristan went outside to the garden through the oak doors, leaving Yami and Bakura to check out the upstairs.

"Wow, this would be a really cool kitchen if it wasn't coated in grime." Duke commented blowing some dust off of the kitchen counter revealing a beautiful marble top. "This place just needs a really big clean, I bet then it wouldn't be so bad."

"Yeah, we should go and buy some cleaning supplies from that store we passed a few miles back." Tea agreed, rubbing at the dirt on the windows so she could see her friends through the kitchen window, she waved and smiled as Ryou spotted her and waved back.

"Whoa!" Duke and Tea both turned to look at Joey who was currently staring at a huge refrigerator. "Get a load of that baby!" he then rushed forward and opened the door. "There's nothing inside it!"

"Well of course there isn't, did you think it would be stocked up for us? No-ones lived here for years!" Tea said laughing as Joey pouted.


Ryou waved to Tea and then turned to his other friends. "We could cut the grass, clean out the pool and get some disposable barbeques then this would be a great place to hang out." Yugi nodded his head in agreement as Tristan went over to inspect the pool. The laughter of his friends reached his ears from inside the kitchen and they headed inside to find out what all the laughter was about.


"Why the hell do I always get stuck with you? I still haven't quite forgiven you for drawing on my face by the way." Yami huffed as he followed the tomb-robber up the stairs.

"I'll keep that in mind." Bakura said absently as he peered into an open doorway. The room was small and bare and had no furnishings. They walked up the landing and both started to open doors and inspect the rooms. They found two rooms with two single beds, two rooms with just one single bed, a room with a double bed and a completely empty room that was huge, like an upstairs ball room.

"No way, this is-"

"Humongous!" Bakura finished for him, equally impressed at the size of the room. They walked into the centre of it and took in the huge ceiling-to-floor windows, the chandelier hanging from the ceiling and the would-be polished oak floor.

"You know what we should do?" Yami asked.

"No, what?"

"We should put all the mattresses in here and sleep in this room only."

"Yeah that sounds cool." Bakura agreed.

"YAMI! BAKURA! GET DOWN HERE!" Both yamis jumped when they heard Joeys voice before they obeyed. Everybody was standing in the entrance hall again when they joined them.

"We're going to the store to get some supplies." Yugi said.

"Erm okay…let us know how that turns out?" Yami said unsurely.

"No stupid, we want you to come with, we're gonna need help." So the group piled back in the car once more.


(1) My friend Mandi helped me out with that line, 'twas very funny!

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