Chapter 4: Operation Get friends back: Part one
Humor fic: The day in the life of me!
6:30 a.m. wake up to my sisters jumping on my bed as I curse them out at the top of my lungs. I get yelled at by my Mom for cursing.
7:00 a.m. eat breakfast as Emilia is freaking out about how she's gonna be late… and her bus doesn't leave til 7:45.
7:45 curse under my breath as I drive to school.
8:20 Math class with Alex and his excuses about his homework. Watch him say "fishy, fishy, fishy" to the class beta fish, Alphie. Alphie's head gets big as he tries to scare off Alex. Alex make comment at how 'Fishy' hates him. We say how we don't blame the fish. The teacher agrees.
9:10 Spanish, also with Alex as he repeats the words, "Nadar" (pronounced na-DAR)and "Pupitre" (pronounced poopie-tray) over and over and over and over and over and over again…
10:00 Literature with…wait for it…yes its…ALEX! He keeps making smart-ass comments about school and how it sucks. For once, I agree with him.
10:50 Lunch. Watch people make out with sandwiches, pretend that water bottles are dicks as they pretend to piss on the grass, curse in front of teachers and don't get in trouble, and watch people pretend that a banana is a dick as they take a bit off of it and scream, 'The tip of my dick is gone!' Alex shouts, 'SHUT UP!' to people who haven't said a word. Meanwhile, I am trying to pretend that I don't know them and trying to finish my unfinished homework.
11:30 Team time. Listen to Alex talk like a gay man as we play dominoes. We all curse as he wins again. I curse at him for sounding like a gay man. He flips me off. We fight. We get sent to the Principals office.
11:40 Writing. Yes, I have Alex with me yet again. In the wise words of Edgar Allan Poe before he died, "God have mercy on my soul!"
12:30 P.E. I watch Alex get hit in the nuts again during football, or volleyball, or basketball. I laugh my head off. He tries to moon me for the third time since we've met. I avoid it and try to beat him with a metal pole. He runs away.
1:20 Science. I watch Alex yet again as he blows something up in his face and watch him get locked out for being late.
2:10 ELPS. I watch my whole class with Alex included get confused about politics and our lame American rules.
3:00 THANK YOU GOD! SCHOOLS OVER!
3:30 start homework.
6:00 (or whenever) have dinner in silence with family. Dad might be there unless he's on another business trip. It's a fifty-fifty chance.
11:00 due to insomnia, I attempt to fall asleep, but I fail. I read one of my one-hundred-and-one books of manga to put me to sleep. (It's true! I have 101 books of manga and counting!) It fails miserably.
And that's a day in the life of me!
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Last time…
"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.
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3rd persons POV
Max cursed under her breath.
"Wha' do I need, restraining order on you and the rest of the Erasers?" Joey looked confused and then he turned to Ari.
"Who the hell are you, ya jerk?" Ari made a fake sympathy look at both of them.
"Max, do you mean to tell me that this boy doesn't know about me or the flock? I'm hurt. Oh well, I'll show you what I am." And with that, he started to morph.
His skin was the first to change on the outside. All of his body hair was becoming more course and thick, and it was starting to cover his body. His face was the next to go. It got more narrow as it extended. His eyes became yellow and razor teeth filled his mouth. He gained a tail and his feet became longer and started to rise up a bit. His hands were the last to change as the nails became claws. He uncurled his wings and gave out a giant howl that sounded like it could raise the dead.
Joey didn't even flinch.
"If you think that scares me, think again. Hangin' around with Yugi is scary on it's own when you lose your soul more than once and face the Shadow Realm." He turned to Max,
"I'll give you the cliff notes on that stuff later, but for now, this guys gonna learn a lesson in pain, Joey Wheeler style!" With that, he ran at Ari. Without even thinking, Max uncurled her wings, grabbed Joey as he was about to attempt to land a punch on Ari, and took off into the air. When he realized that he wasn't fighting, he looked down. At that moment, he decided to freak the shit outta himself.
"A-A-A-A-A-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-R-R-R-R-R-R-G-G-G-G-G!" he shouted. Max head butted him.
"Calm down Joey! It's not like I'm gonna drop you. Besides, I guess you want answers huh?" Joey gave her a face that said 'Now THAT'S the understatement of the millennium.'
"I'll take that as a yes. First, lets find a place to hid before…" but she was cut off by Joey screaming,
"Giant flying wolf! At 8 o'clock!" Max whirled her head to see that he was right; Ari was about 10 yards away and getting closer.
"Hey Joey, do ya think you can fight while I hold onto you?" Joey attempted to shrug. Ari was now 5 yards away…wait, make that 4.
"Beats me, but I can try!" Ari was now 2 yards away. One yard. Now he was two feet away. That's when Joey made his move. Since he is a man and Ari is also a man, they all share the same weakness: the place where-the-sun-don't-shine-that-often. And that being said, Joey kicked him there harder than he has ever kicked before. Ari let the pain seep in for a second before dropping 50 feet in the air and stop as he holds the area in pain.
"Why I never hit him there before, I will never know." Max thought. Her thoughts we interrupted by Joey asking,
"So what's goin' on? I mean, that guy just changed into a werewolf with wings without a full moon. And…and…you have wings!" Max took a deep breath in before explaining.
"Joey, that guy's name is Ari. He's an Eraser who wants nothing more than to see my family and me dying a slow and painful death. He turned into that creature because he's only half human. The other forty-eight percent is wolf and two percent is bird."
"Yea, but that doesn't explain why you have wings Max." Said Joey.
"Well I…I…" Max paused. Was she really ready for someone else to know what she and the rest of her family were? That's when she heard it.
"Calm down Max" said a disfigured voice in Max's head. It continued.
"Friendships will only get better if you don't keep secrets." Yes, the Voice had struck again. It had given her good advice before, so she would take it again.
"Ok Joey, don't interrupt me because I'm only gonna tell you this once. You see Joey…My family and I are also experiments. We were all born ninety-eight percent human, and two percent bird, which gives us wings and other abilities. Up until I was ten, all of us lived in a lab that we knew as, The School. When I was ten, a scientist, or whitecoats as we call them, named Jeb. He felt sorry for us and helped us escape. He disappeared after two years. Two years later, Erasers showed up again and kidnapped Angel. We went back to The School and got her back. I also found out that there's this computer chip in my arm, so we think that's how they find us. I've already asked if it can be removed, but if it is, I might loose the use of my arm. Since then it's pretty much been us trying to destroy all of The School's around the world. But that's not all; Ari is Jeb's son. He should be ten years old. He wasn't born an eraser, but they experimented on him like us."
"But why did he look like an adult?" asked Joey. Max sighed.
"You really want me to drop you don't you?" a loud NO was heard before Max continued.
"You see, Erasers last normally five, maybe six years tops. But by then they look like male models in their twenties. Since Ari wasn't a born eraser, he's gonna last twice as long. (1) Any questions?"
"Just one." Said Joey.
"What?" Max asked
"Can we land now? I can literally see my apartment from here and it's getting' hard to breathe." Now that he mentioned it, he was lookin kinda blue.
"Ok Joey. Which apartment building is yours?"
"The whitish yellowish one with a green roof. Can you see it?" he said/asked.
"Yep. I goin' in!" with that, Max headed down to Mizu Apartments. (2)
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FF to the ground
"I'm really sorry about Ari Joey. He always ruins everything for us. I just wish…" but Max was silenced as Joey put his lips to hers.
"Go with the flow Max." said The Voice. She took its advice and went with the joyous flow. When they were done, Max looked up at Joey and said,
"You don't care that I'm a freak of nature?" Joey laughed.
"Like that matters. Look, Max, I've been through some weird shit too." With that, He starts to explain the Millennium Items and all the stuff the gang has been through. (3)
"Wow, that's a lot of stuff. That also explains why you weren't afraid of Ari when he was morphed." Said Max when Joey was done.
"Yea. Hey, you know that you gotta tell the rest of the gang about all of this. Maybe we could all meet up at Yugi's place around noon? I'll call the gang ok?" To Max, it sounded like a good idea.
"Ok, see you guys at noon." Max placed a peck on Joey's cheek, turned around, uncurled her wings, and took off flying. Joey sighed.
"I might have been through the Shadow Realm and had my soul taken away from me twice, but I may never get used to that." With that, he walked inside.
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Yami Nailah: Now I shall use my lighter half's powers as an author to make time fast forward to when Max gets home! Next, I shall take over the world MUWAHAHAHA!
Me: Yami Nailah! You're scaring away the readers! Get back in the Millennium Earrings NOW! (Shoves Yami Nailah into a pair of earrings)
Me: Sorry bout that guys! (B.T.W., the earrings are not real, I made them up!)
Anywhos ignore that last argument up there, but Y.N's right. Now, to Max's house!
When Max got back home, she faintly saw smoke coming from the windows.
"Please let this not mean that Gazzy and Iggy blew something up." She thought. Her fears were proven wrong when she opened the door. Nudge and Angel looked like they were about to fight. Max sighed.
"What the reason this time?" she asked Fang.
"It's case number 12…" said Fang.
Max took out a small book "Number 12, number 12… oh here it is… Angel uses her mind controlling powers to make her stay up late…again…Nudge breaks free…again…Nudge throws ectoplastic goop at Angel...again." read Max. (4)
"But what's with the smoke I saw coming out of the windows?" Max asked.
"That one was 'I bet you' case number 22; Gazzy bet Iggy twenty dollars that he couldn't make a smokeless bomb again. As you can tell, Gazzy won." Before Nudge and Angel started to fight, Max spoke,
"Oh, by the way guys, Joey knows what we are." Gazzy looked at Max and asked,
"He knows that we're Jewish?" Everyone did an anime fall.
"No... We're not Jewish Gazzy. He knows that we're experiments." Everyone stopped doing what they were doing.
"How does he know!" Yelled/asked a frantic Iggy. Max coolly replied with,
"Well, remember when we all got our Duel Monster cards? Well, apparently Kaiba went to them and told them what he found out from the files he hacked into from the FBI. Then Joey asked me if it was true.
"And you told him!" Fang asked/yelled.
"No. I'll give you five guesses who showed up and the first four guesses don't count."
"Ari." Everyone said in dull voices.
"Bingo! Anyways, of course he morphs in front of Joey. And Joey was about to fight Ari so I kinda grabbed Joey and flew off…"
"YOU FLEW IN FRONT OF HIM?" Everyone asked her.
"It's not like I could do anything else! So I explained everything to Joey. He told me that we would have to tell the rest of the gang though and that they won't be afraid or reject us. We're supposed to meet them at noon tomorrow. Now if you all excuse me, I'm gonna go to bed now.
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(FF to noon next day third person POV)
"Look, I know that you guys don't want them to know, but the voice said last night that we can trust them." Max tried to convince the flock. They were almost at the Kame Game Shop when Angel noticed something wrong.
"Max, the windows are broken. And the door's gone…Oh my God, those claw marks are HUGE." The flock rushed inside to see that the house was ransacked. Grandpa was on the floor, unconscious. Angel rushed to him and used her mind to wake him up.
"Ohhh…Angel. They took Yugi." The rest of the flock rushed next to Grandpa and Iggy asked,
"Who took Yugi Grandpa?"
"About a dozen of werewolves with wings! They didn't steal anything, but they just took Yugi."
"Crap." Said Nudge.
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WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOO! This is my longest chapter yet! Bring out the sake! (Starts guzzling it like a Hummer with a tank full of gas)
Joey (takes out a gun): Fire Thief, step away from the sake and no one gets hurt.
Me: (Hic) You're hair looks funny…It looks like a rectangle
Joey: We've lost her…
Me: (Hic) I don't think you ever had me… (hic)
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Author notes
1) I realized that there was a plot hole with Ari's age and how long he could really live.
2) I made up the name for the apartment building that Joey lives.
3)To lazy to write the whole story. If you're a Max fan, just ask any YGO fan for info. But in short: 7 Millennium Items: Ringsensing other items and sealing souls into objects. Has spirit of an evil tomb robber that can forcibly take control of the owner. Spirit is also very homicidal. Eye reading minds. Scales reading a persons heart. Key go into a persons 'soul room'. Rod controlling minds. Necklace/tauk seeing past and future. Puzzle houses the spirit of the nameless pharaoh who can posses you at will in times of stress. Owner will also gain the powers of the Shadow Games. Long story long: Yugi solves Puzzle, gets an alter ego, people want Puzzle, he kicks bad guy butt while dueling, becomes king of games.
4) Thanks Emma Iveil!