Chapter 3: The final 2 siblings, Duel Monsters, and a Date
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Sorry for not updating lately. It's been chaos, with summer, and camp, and I got a boyfriend, and then school started… I hope you understand!
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Humor Fic: Family Courtroom Chaos
Scene opens to a courtroom where you see my friends and family in as the jury. My sister, Emilia, is the person who questions the witness. I am the suspect, sitting in the box thingy where they question you. My sister walks up to me.
Emilia: So…Fire Thief…IF that is your real name…WHERE WERE YOU ON THE NIGHT OF TONIGHT!
Me: One, you know my real name. Two, it's the afternoon right now… And why am I even here?
Emilia: (ignores last question.) Well it's nighttime SOMEWHERE in the world!
Me: (gasp) You're right! I'm guilty! (bursts in anime tears.)
Emilia: Got that right, you're goin' ta jail for 300 years…
Me: WAIT! I just remembered! This afternoon or night… You were with me watching CSI! Man… that was a good one too…And Greg was lookin' hotter than usual…
Emilia: Or WAS I with you! Dun dun duh!
Me: Um, I have your fingerprints from the scene.
Emilia: Or DO you! Dun dun duh!
Me: Um…yeah… I took them to the local CSI lab
Emilia: or DID you? Dun dun duh!
Me: Yea, I did. I also brought a witness with me. Besides the fingerprints are a match to yours and the lab doesn't lie.
Emilia: Or DO they! Dun dun duh!
Me: Can you please stop it with the "dun dun duhs"? It's getting kinda annoying
Emilia: Or IS it! Dun dun duh!
Me: If ya don't quit it, I'm gonna "Dun Dun" ya head!
Emilia: Or WILL you! Dun Du…
Me: THAT'S IT! (starts to strangle Emilia. Then I notice the readers.)
Me: Oh… Hi peoples! Just ignore me trying to commit murder. This is pretty much the same relationship I have with my sister in real life! Except it's normally headlocks and not strangulation… Oh well!
Anyways, since no one gave me any ideas for the animals, I'll go with the ones that I chose:
Yugi: Fox Tea: Tiger Tristan: Shark Kaiba: Dragon Joey: Bird
Why did I want you guys to choose an animal? Well, you'll find out in later chapters! By the way, I don't know how to write a Bronx accent, so Joey ain't gonna have an accent. And yes, "ain't" is a word in the English Language, just look it up!
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(Walking to Domino Elementary)
Max's POV
After the little fiasco with Kaiba, we walked to the Elementary school to pick up Angel and Gazzy. While walking, the gang tried to start a conversation with us. Yugi brought up a new game to us called Duel Monsters. When Joey heard that we hadn't even heard about it before now, he went nuts.
"Waddaya mean you never heard about Duel Monsters! It's one of the most popular games played in the world! Yugi here is the only guy to ever defeat its creator, Maximilian Pegasus, meaning that he's the King of Games." With that, Fang, Nudge, and I looked at Yugi, who was now blushing like heck. Iggy couldn't look at him because he couldn't see him.
"You defeated a game creator Yugi? Wow, how ja' do it?" Nudge asked.
"It was hard, but my friends were supporting me all the way, so in the end, it was easy. Not to mention, the heart of the cards guided me and it has never let me down."
"What's the 'Heart of the Cards'?" Iggy asked, as he narrowly avoided running into a trash can, courtesy of Fang.
"The heart of the cards is kind of hard to explain, but it's like the cards are your soul. The cards will let you draw the right cards that you need at the right time. Does that make sense?" Yugi explained. Still not getting it, we shake our heads YES. Yep, you did read right, even though we didn't understand it, we still shook our heads YES. Force of habit. Nudge decided to change the subject.
"So um, can you like help us make our own decks so we can be good like you Yugi?" Joey, who was walking next to me, pushed me a bit to get a better view of Nudge and said,
"Ya know, Yugi's not the only world-famous duelist who lives in Domino. I happen to have come in 2nd place in Duelist Kingdom, then 4th place in Battle City." When he was talking, he seemed to radiate light from his body. O Kay then… Iggy leaned to Tristan and asked,
"Is he always like this?" Tristan replied with,
"Yea and it's not just about Duel Monsters. If he's got any competition, he'll try everything to prove that he's better than them." As much as I don't wanna admit it, I'm kinda like that. Jeb always told me,
"You're the best Max. You are the Maximum." The sad part it, when he was on our side, I believed him. He made me feel special and all that jazz. I guess that I've always been a show-off.
"Well, this is it! Domino Elementary!" says Yugi. Gosh his voice is so small!
"Max!" I heard a familiar voice shout. I look to see my baby Angel and her brother Gazzy. No, I didn't give birth to them; I just love Angel so much. To tell you the truth I kinda like Angel the best.
"Angel, Gazzy this is…" I start to say but Angel cuts me off.
"You're Yugi Moto, Joey Wheeler, Tea Gardner, and Tristan Taylor." I shot Angel a glare that said, 'I-told-you-to-keep-it-low-with-the-mind-reading!'
"Yeah, How'd know our names? Your siblings didn't know about Joey and Yugi being famous, and we're not famous at all." Tea asked. Angel quickly answered with,
"I saw both of them on T.V. and they mentioned your names too." And she's safe for now!
"Oh, I suppose that sound reasonable." Said Tea. With that we started walking until we came to the Kame Game store. Yugi opened the door and said,
"Grandpa, I'm home! And I brought some new friends!" We walked inside and saw all kinds of games. But the biggest section was in the front. That's were all of the Duel Monster stuff was. And at that section was a man a bit bigger than Yugi. He had hair like Yugi's too, only it was grey. But they both shared those weird violet eyes. It amazes me that neither was at one point experiments. He smiled when he saw us and said,
"Welcome! My name is Solomon Moto, but you can call me 'Grandpa'! What are your names?" Wow, friendly, now that's rare for us. It's even rarer to find an adult who doesn't wanna rip our throats out too. Iggy answered 'Grandpa' (wow, nice to call someone that.)
"My name's Ian, but call me Iggy; this is Gerald a.k.a. Gazzy, Angie or Angel as we call her, then there's Rick, but call him Fang if you wanna live, next up is Monique, but just call her Nudge, and finally is the oldest Max, and she's the only one with no nickname at all!" When he finished this, He had a big smile on his face. Grandpa was still smiling and said,
"Well it's nice to meet all of you. I take it that you're here for some Duel Monster cards and quick lessons. Before I could protest, Nudge ran up to the counter and started to point out which packets that she wanted. Soon, the rest of the flock followed her lead. After about two hours, we all had a theme for our decks: Mine was Females and Dragons, Fang's was fiends, ghosts and all that scary stuff, Iggy was winged beasts and animals, Nudge got magicians, Gazzy got warriors, and Angel got the fairies. We all wound up with some decent cards actually. My best card was Seiryu, Fang's was The Invader of Darkness, Iggy's was Simorgh, Bird of Divinity, Nudge got Dark Magician of Chaos, Gazzy's was Gilford the Legend, and Angel got St. Joan. Not to mention, by the end of the two hours, we all had the basis of the game down and Grandpa was even nice enough to give us these nice Duel Discs. And by the time we were done, I felt like I was part of a real non-eraser or foster-mom-whose-really-working-for-the-School family for the first time in my life. Wow, it feels great.
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FF to Friday
Look, I'm normally not the type of girl who gets all excited for a date. In my opinion, kicking Ari's undead behind is more my style. Or Jeb's. But something was different about Joey. When I talked to him, he listened to me. Turns out he's quiet a good fighter too and we like the same stuff and have big appetites. When I was asked on a date when I went to school in America, it wasn't a big deal. Joey just has that something that I just can't place my finger on…
Anyways, my outfit was a skirt that kinda looked like a kilt; I had a brown shirt on with a white button up shirt on top of it that was unbuttoned. Joey said that this would be a simple date, nothing fancy. I just hope that this wasn't too fancy.
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To Joey's Place 3rd person POV
"Yea, I know Yugi, I'll tell her what Kaiba told us…Don't worry about it, with the Wheeler charm, I can get her to answer any of my questions…Of course there's a Wheeler charm!" Joey was talking to Yugi on the phone. After Max and her family went home that day when they got their Duel Monster cards, Kaiba came in and said,
"Listen up dweebs, there's something strange about those guys. I did a back round check, and nothing came up. They don't exist. And check this out; I hacked into the F.B.I system, and they have the suspicion that some people in America are doing illegal experiments on people. And get this: Max and her 'family' were under the suspicion of being runaway experiments that are two percent bird. For those who are too dumb to figure that out, it means that they might have wings. I don't know about you guys, but you better keep an eye on them." And with that, he left.
It was strange, Kaiba, Mr. I-Don't-believe-in-that-hocus-pocus-magic-shit, was telling them to be careful about something strange. Well, this wasn't that strange for the gang. After all, they had had some of their souls stolen from them multiple times, so this wasn't that strange at all. But just to be on the safe side, they agreed that Joey would ask Max what was going on.
Joey smiled at the though of Max. She wasn't like Mai, who he found out around three months ago that she was two-timing him with Valon. She was…unique. If Kaiba was right about Max and her family, then things would really be interesting.
Speaking of which, it was around time to pick Max up. He sprayed a bit of cologne and was out the door. He was wearing a long sleeved black shirt with a white button shirt unbutton with a dog tag necklace. For pants, he was wearing simple jeans.
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FF to Max's house, third person POV
Ding-dong went the Ride's doorbell. Joey was expecting Max to enter, but instead, it was Gazzy.
"Oh, hey Joey. C'mon in, Max is gonna be here in a minute." Joey walked inside, only to be greeted by the reason why Gazzy's is called The Gasman. Joey made a face.
"Ugh. No wonder why they call you The Gasman. You have a gasmask anywhere?" Joey heard a familiar giggle, and he turned around to see Max, ready for their date.
"Hey Joey, nice ta see ya. So, where are we going?" she asked. Joey smiled and replied in a horribly fake British accent with,
"Tonight, Ms. Ride, we shall attend the rink of rollerblading, grab some pizza, and a walk thru the park." Max laughed and said,
"You should stick with the Bronx accent Joey. You're horrible at other accents. So, let's go!" She turned around to yell,
"Fang, you're in charge until I get back. Iggy, Gazzy, no bombs, and make sure everyone's in bed by 11:00, if not earlier." With that, the happy couple left.
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FF to the park third person POV (AN: as you can tell, I like fast forwarding)
"Wow Joey that was a fun date! That was my first time I've ever been on roller-blades."
"NAH! Really? I woulda never guess the way you kept falling and clung on to the railings." Joey joked at Max. Max blushed as they walked thru the park. They found a bench to sit on.
"So Joey, you have a younger sister who you saved from going blind? That's what I call sibling love."
"Yea, but I woulda never done it without Yugi's help. He won the tournament and gave me the money for the operation." There was a very pregnant pause before Joey asked the question.
"Max, who are you really?" Max was taken aback for a minute before she answered with,
"What do you mean?" Joey sighed.
"I mean, after you guys left when you first got your Duel Monster cards, Kaiba came and told us that you guys don't exist. You guys were even under the suspicion of being two percent bird experiments! I wanna know what's going on Max." Max looked away for a minute before Joey gently grabbed her chin and kissed her on the lips. It was a short sweet kiss. But even when they parted, Max was still uncertain.
"Joey…I really do like you. I wish I could tell you, honestly, it's just that…" That's when Max looked up, her face paled and her eyes got a look of terror in them. Joey looked in her direction and saw a man that looked like…The Wolverine! The man looked at Max.
"Why hello Max, how good to see you again." Said Ari.