Note to Readers: I am very, very sorry. Not only have I been too lazy to update, but also…in the last chapter, I said that after the characters got their drinks, they'd meet at Cellular Advantage…and then I stupidly congregated them in the food court. So just pretend that never happened…they met in the food court.
Chapter Five
"The Millennium Cell Phone"
"That was weird," Bakura commented to Joey. "Let's just get the hell out of here." They all stood up and began to walk.
"Where are we going again?" Ryou asked.
"Why, Cellular Advantage, stupid!" Tea replied angrily.
"Oh."
"What is 'cellular', and what is its advantage?" Malik asked. Marik, calmly sipping his bottled water as they walked, rolled his eyes.
"Cellularmeanscellphoneandcellphonesletyoutalktopeoplewhereveryouareandthey'recoolandGrampawon'tletmehaveone," Yugi shrieked, hyperactive from the Mountain Dew. Yami sweatdropped, falling onto the floor, but he got up quickly as the group pressed forward.
"OH MY GAWD! There it is!" Tea screamed at the top of her lungs. "Cellular ADVANTAGE!"
Good grief. Why do I love that woman? Yami thought.
"I'm getting a PINK cell phone cover!" exclaimed Tea.
"How hard can it be to find one of those?" Tristan whispered to Joey. "We shouldn't be here very long."
"I didn't know there was such a wide selection! They've got, like, fifteen pink covers!"
"Nooo!" Joey banged his head against the kiosk counter.
"We're gonna be stuck here forever!" Tristan sobbed.
Ryou winked. "I know how to make time pass. Watch." He walked over to Bakura, who was staring at the cell phone on display.
"Buttons," Bakura said.
"Be careful," Ryou said.
"Why be careful of buttons?" Bakura drooled.
"Be careful, buddy." Ryou repeated. "They say there's another Millennium Item out there."
Bakura's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"S-S-Seriously?" he stuttered.
"Yup," Ryou replied. "They say it's a cell phone similar to that one. It's supposed to destroy anything it touches. Whoever touches it will have a curse on him forever."
"EEEEK!" Bakura leaped back. "Get that thing away from me!"
"Bakura screams like a little girl," Marik said, nudging Malik.
Bakura was upset. "Why, you little -"
"Shh." Ryou crooned. "We mustn't awaken the phone from its slumber."
Bakura bit his lip and tears started rolling down his face. He quivered frantically and rubbed his ankles together. Then he began to sob.
"Don't let it get me!" He cried into Ryou's shoulder.
"It won't hurt you as long as you stay away from it. It might not be the right phone anyway – maybe it just looks like it."
"Maybe."
"We just have to be careful around cell phones like that."
"Right." Bakura was still shaking.
"OH MY GAWD I'M GETTING THIS!" Tea shrieked. She came back with a pink cell phone cover with red hearts on it. She purchased it and slapped it on her phone. Bakura yelped.
"Bakura, I said we only have to worry about cell phones that look like – oh shit." Tea's phone was identical to the one on display.
"Um, Bakura?" Ryou whimpered.
"WHAT, RYOU?" Bakura shouted, twitching.
"You know the whole cell phone thing…? Well, Tea was taking so long…and so I made that up to pass the time."
"YOU WHAT?"
Bakura chased Ryou out of the store.
"You are so dead when we get home!"
Everyone chased after them.
"WAIT, BAKURA!" Marik called out to Bakura. "He didn't mean to hurt anyone!"
"I'm gonna smash your head open with my fist, Ryou! You are so dead!"
"Marik." Malik whispered, panting.
"What is it?"
"Watch." Then Malik began to shout.
"Hey, Bakura! CAROUSEL!"
Bakura's eyes bugged out of his head.
"You heard me! CAROUSEL!"
Bakura ran over to Malik and Ryou took shelter behind Tristan.
"Where's the carousel?" Bakura inquired.
"Crap, I shoulda thought of that," Ryou said to himself.
"It should say where…on…Marik, where does it say where stuff is?
"The mall directory," Marik replied, sweatdropping.
"I'VE NEVER BEEN TO A MALL, FOOL! NO SWEATDROPPING IS ALLOWED IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION!"
"I'm sorry."
"'SORRY' DOES NOT CUT IT, MARIK! THINK ABOUT THE FEELINGS OF OTHERS, DAMMIT!"
Marik was shocked at Malik's comment.
"The carousel!" Ryou hissed from behind Tristan.
"Er, right." Malik said. "Where is this 'mall directory'?"
"There's one over there!" Yugi shrieked, rushing to it. Bakura gave him a push and he fell on it.
"I'm…okay…"
Yami glared at Bakura and walked over to the directory.
"It's over by Mr. Bulke."
"Where's that?" Joey asked.
"Well, Yami said, "It should be…er…at -"
"I SEE IT!" Bakura shrieked, running to the end of the hall. Everyone ran after him.
"Come back, Bakura! I just bought these shoes!" Tea yelled.
When they finally caught up to Bakura, they found him laughing uncontrollably.
"What is it, Bakura?" Tristan asked, then looked at the carousel.
"Oh…my…gawd."