Chapter 2:
The arrival of Will & The first part of the DUCK chronicles
Jess had after a few more seconds of staring ran to the phone and started to dial like someone had finally managed to find 'the bodies'. Any who Jess was standing there innocently waiting for the person to answer their mobile when she was tackled from behind by a number of vertically challenged people and soon had one of those personal moments with the ground.
"What the?" Asked Jess in shock as she looked up from her not so ominous position on the floor at two of the said tacklers from behind.
"What ish your name lady?" asked the chibi version of Joey. "My name is Jess… what are your names?" asked Jess as to not disturb them because thy obviously couldn't remember who she was. (That hurts guys…) "Well Mah name's Joey, That's Yugi, Yami, Anzu, Ryou, Mai, Seto and this is Mokuba." Joey said as he pointed to each of them. "Oh and the three sitting on you at the moment are Marik, Malik and Bakura." Joey said as he remembered why Jess was still on the floor.
"Do you three mind?" asked Jess getting one of those anime veins on her head.
"No not really." Answered the midget version of Bakura seriously.
"Oh that's good coz I don't really mind either." Jess said as she flipped over and grabbed all three of them before standing up. "Hey!" "Let me go!" "This ain't fair!" were the protests of the three small ones as Jess picked up her phone, just then the person on the other end of the line picked up.
"Hello?"
"Hi Will Can you come over here for a while, I need some reinforcements.." Jess trailed off as she noticed the three evils were missing. "Could you bring a few of those tracking devices of yours? They'd be really useful.."
"Ok what have you done this time? Please tell me that you didn't turn one of your math teachers into a chicken again.." Will said in an exasperated voice.
"Oh no nothing like that… umm please come over here.. NOW!" Yelled Jess as she spotted Marik beginning to walk out onto the balcony, she flung the phone away and ran out to get him before he discovered that they were on the 11th story.
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"Hey put that down! That's not food! Yami put down that vase before… OWCH!" Jess yelled as Yami Marik Randomly decided to bite her hand. "OWCH! Let go of me you…" Jess forced back the very nice words she was about to call Yami Marik when she heard the unmistakable sound of someone opening a cookie jar behind her back. "Bakura! Don't touch MY cookies!" shrieked Jess as she lunged at him. He of course was smaller than her and therefore much faster so he was gone by the time she got over there. "Grrrrr" growled Jess as she rounded on both Bakura and Yami Marik who had gone over to see what else they could do to anger the already furious lady. They both eeped as she grabbed both of them and dragged them off to exact her revenge. (I don't hit kids, don't worry ppl)
Jess stuck Bakura in the linen closet and locked Yami Marik in the laundry.
Bakura could not move so well as the linen closet was a small compact space.
Yami Marik's movement was much more restricted however as Jess had stuck the laundry basket on top of him and placed a heavy box on top of it.
"And I'm not letting either of you out until you can behave yourselves." Said Jess through gritted teeth trying very hard to resist the urge to strangle both of them as she left to see what havoc the others were causing.
Yami Marik was screaming himself hoarse for about ten minutes until he realized Jess was gone and therefore was not listening to him. So in one of his incredibly rare flashes of genius began to chew through the basket.
Bakura was yelling but what he said was muffled due to the towels that he had managed to re-arrange all over the place in the linen closet. He had a rare stroke of genius also; he began to make the muffled sounds of crying. His idea, unlike Yami Mariks worked much faster. Jess although as evil and heartless as she can act at times had a soft spot for kids. She opened the door to see what was wrong and he looked up at her with a tear stained face, Jess flauntered visibly 'oh crap, he's crying' she thought panicking. "I-I-I'm sorry please don't cry." Jess said beginning to freak out a bit; it wasn't an every day thing to see a miny version of Bakura cry, or a Bakura of any type cry for that matter.
"I pwomice I wont be mean again" sobbed the crying five year old. Jess' head snapped up a bit from that one. 'Ok he's defiantly acting… or at least lying there's no way that could be true coming from him… I think I'm going to enjoy this..' thought Jess as she continued to watch little Bakura's performance, she inwardly began to smirk no longer concerned.
"That's ok sweety.." said Jess playing along with his little game.
"I know you will be, come on let's go see what the others are up to." Jess said and Bakura scampered (insert snicker here) into the lounge room ahead of her.
Jess went in and turned on the TV… everything went quiet and the chibis huddled around the TV as Jess popped in a movie (let's say something along the lines of Disney) and they all became fixated on the TV screen. Jess snuck out of the room and returned shortly with a box of old toys which she had found recently and was considering giving to the salvos, thank god she didn't. Jess unpacked the toys and went to go and see if Yami Marik was dead yet (just kidding).
Jess opened the door and saw that he had chewed half of his way out of the basket. There were bits of white plastic everywhere. Yami Marik was in the process of choking on a piece of said plastic. Jess being the nice person she is picked him up and hit him in the back. He spat out the offending piece of plastic and she had her face nearly impaled by his hair, sounds like a fair trade.
cough cough glare "I hate you." Said Yami Marik after he had recovered somewhat. Jess grinned "It's not my fault you're teething still, come on the others are watching a movie… There are cookies." That did it, Yami Marik like all of the five year olds was soon parked right infront of the TV and was happily munching on a cookie.
'Maybe I shouldn't give them any more sugar.. chances are they'll go hyper as it is and I doubt that even with Wills help I'd be able to.' Jess paused in mid thought as she heard the sound of her door bell buzzing. Jess went over and opened the door.
"Ok what is it?" asked Will as he walked in. "They're in here." Said Jess as they walked towards the lounge room. Wills eyes widened considerably as he observed the group of five year olds sitting infront of the TV munching on cookies. He pulled Jess back into the kitchen. "What the hell?" asked Will looking at Jess in total disbelief. "I told you I needed reinforcements." Said Jess in response. "How did this happen?" asked Will looking perplexed. "I don't know how exactly.. but I do have a pretty good theory as to how." Said Jess. "Ok then let's hear it." Said Will sitting on a near by stool. "I went out to get some things at the store and they were all over. I left Ryou and Yugi incharge and when I came back I saw all this coloured smoke emitting from behind my door, at first I thought they were burning down my apartment but when I opened the balcony doors and the smoke cleared out I saw nothing was wrong. There was a broken flask on the coffee table so I went around looking for everyone. I found the cabinet in my lab open and one of my books was missing. Then I found them." Said Jess calmly. Will by this time had his mouth hanging wide open.
"Well I suppose it could have been worse." Said Will thinking of a few possible out comes from them being in her lab, e.g. half human – half something else people, Yami Marik with heat vision, Bakura with ghosting abilities (walking through walls) and the yami's still having their millennium items would've been a bad thing if they'd known how to use them. (Thank god they can't remember)
"So what do we do now?" asked Jess sounding at her wits end. "I'm not sure… maybe they'll change back soon….. hmmm maybe you should try and find the book they had… it could have a reversal to this little problem.." said Will as though he'd thought it through thoroughly. "Just one tiny problem with that… if I'm doing research in the book… who'll be looking after…" Jess stopped short at the realization. "Oh… please tell me you're joking…" Jess said looking at Will as though he had completely gone mad. (It's happened before…) Will grinned "It can't be THAT hard Jess, they're only five year olds for god's sake… besides how much worse could they be?" asked Will dismissively. "Well… Yami Marik likes to chew furniture and peoples hands, Bakura still likes to pinch things, Yugi and Ryou get upset over anything and start crying, Yami is acting like a pompous jack ass as usual… Marik likes exploring, he tried to climb out onto the balcony before…. Mokuba can't be separated from Kaiba, Kaiba and Joey have been trying to kill eachother as usual, Mai and Anzu have been in numerous cat fights already and none of them can stay in the one place for more than two seconds, unless their eating, fighting, playing or sleeping… or watching TV. So yes Yami Marik has also managed to take a chunk out of my hand and destroy my laundry hamper, Bakura broke he cookie jar and stole all of the cookies from it, but since the TV's been going they've all been great." Finished Jess as Will just stood there for a few seconds and then blinked. "Ok then I get your point but as long as the TV's on they'll be easy to look after.."
A crashing sound was heard in the next room, Jess and Will ran in there and saw the TV smoking and crackling with the millennium rod stuck in the middle of the screen. "Who did this?" asked Jess sounding angry. The children all not surprisingly moved away from Yami Marik. "And just WHY did you skewer my Television?" Asked Jess sounding annoyed. "The purple dinosaw was singing his happy song… I HATE the purple dinosaw… so I kill him.." said Yami Marik breaking out into one of his psychotic grins.
"Oh I see…. Next time though can you just change the channel? Now I have to order a new TV.." Jess sighed and pulled the now dented and probably broken millennium rod out of the TV screen and put it up on a high shelf. "I think you should leave this thing alone for now… I'll give it back to you later…. You guys'll have to play amongst yourselves for a while now…." Jess trailed off as she saw that they weren't paying any attention to her and were instead focused on Will who began to slowly back away.
"Oh right… guys this is Will he's going to be looking after you all for a while whilst I get some work done… have fun.. Behave yourselves and you, be nice." Said Jess pointing at Will who placed a hand over his heart and said "That hurts cousin." Jess rolled her eyes and walked off into the lab.
