Edit: I've been writing my own character's last name wrong it's Fortescue, jeez I'm bad.
And holy crap! Nine months and I finally updated! I thank watching Yugioh in subs to get me inspired again.
Merry Christmas and Enjoy Chapter 4.
Disclaimer: Yugioh belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.
Morning Repercussions
"What took you so long?" The doppelganger of Ryo turned from his perch overlooking the city to the man walking across the rooftop. It was the detective from Marseille. "Don't tell me you flew here, Dougal."
"Of course not, demons don't fly." The dark-haired man let his human appearance fall showing black bull horns and a whip-like tail jutting under his tan trench coat. "I took that awfully slow TGV these mortals are so proud of."
The white-haired demon smirked, "Getting lazy are we?"
"The people upstairs get horribly antsy when we simply move a foot using the shadows. I didn't want any unnecessary attention." Dougal looked down at the city lights beginning to dim as early morning started to rise, Bakura kept glancing at him with the same sneer plastered on.
"Are you afraid that pagan fellow will pay us another visit?" their transport to France alerted 'the people upstairs' and so sent a Greek pagan wearing some feather shoes to warn them they were being watched and any funny business would end up with their tails ripped off and their heads on platters. The honey brown hair youth proceeded to show this punishment on one of their lackeys.
"I'm amazed they can order that trickster around."
"He was Messenger of the Gods, if I'm not mistaken." He chuckled at the demon's still worried expression. Those people couldn't do anything else not unless the end of the world was coming which it might. "Enough about that, we have plans to execute."
Dougal turned to Dark Bakura and saluted as one would to another in higher rank, "What are the orders, Commander?"
"Ughhh…" Yugi forced his glued eyes opened to the blurry hotel room. He could vaguely recall making it here last night after leaving the cabaret. They were all pretty drunk from finishing that bottle of wine. Yugi got up from his makeshift bed on the floor and scanned the room. Joey and Tristan were sprawled on the bed like a cute little couple and Ryo was sleeping on the couch. "My head is killing me." He went to the bathroom and flicked the light on, nothing happened. "The power's out?" His hung-over self overlooked it and took a leak in the semi-dark.
Walking out he was smacked in the head by a ringing metal object. "Answer yer damn cell phone!"
"Wasn't it off?" Came his stupid reply when he should have been screaming at Joey for almost putting him in a coma.
"It's not anymore!" Tristan snarled back.
Jeez, everyone's in a bitchy mood. Yugi didn't think and answered his phone. "Hello?"
"Yugi?"
"Oh, hey Grandpa." The next second Yugi's grandpa started to scream into the phone piece. First it was relief he was alright which quickly switched to him calling his cell phone twenty times last night with no answer and hearing from Mrs. Bakura how they jumped on a train to Paris. "Grandpa, please stop yelling, my head hurts."
"I hope it hurts from all the stupidity you boys were pulling! Make me louder I want to yell at the others too!" So Yugi made him 'louder' by putting him on speaker phone. "ARE YOU ALL STUPID? HAVE YOU NO COMMON SENSE! RYO! YOUR MOTHER'S BEEN WORRIED SICK ABOUT YOU, SHE'S WORRIED ABOUT ALL OF YOU! WE THOUGHT YOU WERE KIDNAPPED AND PUT INTO HUMAN TRAFFICKING!" This went on for minutes that the boys finally got a hold of themselves and proceeded to change into their street clothes while Grandpa kept lecturing them. "…INVITE YOU AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY THEIR HOSPITALITY…ARE YOU BOYS LISTENING?"
"Yes Grandpa…" all four said.
"Good!" his voice returned to normal level either he truly wanted their attention or his throat hurt from bellowing from the top of his lungs. "Now, I want all of you to get your butts back on the next train, otherwise the police is going to drag you all back!"
"I told you Mum would call them." Ryo whispered in a harsh tone. After a few more reprimands from Yugi's grandfather they were left feeling down and…guilty. After Grandpa hung up and bringing around the adamant duo of Joey and Tristan they decided to head back to the train station.
That is, they would've if there wasn't a massive power outage throughout the city. "What the hell happened this morning?" The outage must've occurred around five in the morning since all the clocks they passed during their trip were stuck at this hour. "And why do I get da feelin' we were da cause?"
"Your conscience is playing tricks on you, Joey." Ryo consoled and muttered, "You aren't that bad." Any argument that would have started was put aside when they witnessed the giant crowd of people outside the station's entrance, all screaming in angry French. "Guys, let's get out of here." They had no choice when officers were herding the civilians away from the station and the boys were swept away into the crowd. "Yugi! Joey! Tristan!" Ryo yelled over the crowd, but he couldn't spot them in the throng of people.
He attempted to move in the direction, he believed, was the way the crowd was breaking up, but was simply jostled about and elbowed someone in the face, "Sor-" the person disappeared, but Ryo swore that person was wearing giant glasses, "ry…?"
"Bakura! There you are!" A hand grabbed the back of his shirt, it was Tristan. "We thought we lost you." Joey and Yugi were safely away from the stampede. When they reached refuge in a diner nearby and when the power returned an hour later they learned what happened. On the news station the city's main electric company was damaged by a multiple pipe bombs to the main power core. Because of this possible terrorist threat all flights and trains in and out were cancelled for the day and possibly the next.
"Sounds like we're stayin'," Joey didn't bother to hide his happiness with this turn of events, as gruesome as it was. "So where should we go first?"
"How about we wait while everyone calms down?" The group agreed upon and waited for the waitress who could finally take orders for breakfast.
"With the crowds they won't notice us following them." Dougal replied after giving the waitress their order. Bakura and him were seated a few booths from the group of boys. Dark Bakura said nothing on the matter. "Commander?"
"I didn't give you this for show," he motioned to the communication ear piece the two were both wearing.
"…But I'm right in front of you…"
"That's not the point my dear Dougal. Understand it's simply a protocol to follow."
With a sigh the demon used the ear piece, "Copy that Commander." He felt like such an idiot, these stupid humans were staring at their strange behavior. One little girl from behind Bakura's seat stuck out her tongue at him, he imitated and with a pale face the girl disappeared into her booth.
Dark Bakura chuckled, "Try not to blow our cover, will you?"
"Copy, over."
"Dougal, you can just speak normally, but into the earpiece."
"I thought we had to follow a protocol."
…
The pale man made a face at his underling followed by rolling his eyes, "Fine, if it pleases you, speak that way."
"The subjects are leaving, over." Indeed the four boys got up from their booth and exited the glass doors.
"Let's go," In tan trench coats, the two placed on their faces sunglasses and large fake moustaches and followed out.
"Isn't this a little suspicious, over?"
"Take the picture, take it, take it, take it!" The boys had a panoramic view of the city, the Eiffel Tower in the center. Joey bounded down the steps and crouched, thus making it appear the landmark rested on his shoulders. "It's so heavy!"
"I took the picture, alright?" Tristan affirmed, Joey asked if he got his good side. "How the heck should I know what your good side is? They look the same to me!" As the blond taught his friend what was very apparent which was his best side, Ryo and Yugi were entertained by a random juggler, the man was using one of his feet to juggle the balls into the air. At the same time he was engaging small talk with the two, about their plans for today and hopefully transportation will be back up.
"Hey you two, let's get a move-on!" Tristan yelled while Joey and he continued the ascent towards Le Sacre Coeur.
"Now I remember how much these fools annoyed me." Sitting on a bench, the two demons were reading the same newspaper as Ryo and Yugi passed and followed suit. "Everyone else is in place, correct?"
"Yes, Commander," So they watched their prey with growing boredom while they visited the tour sites, such as an opera house the woman who didn't come wanted to visit that was an inspiration for a book about a disfigured man kidnapping a girl and killing her fiancé, they visited the museum with the ugly pyramid then the gothic church that was another inspiration for another disfigured man in love with a woman and competing with two other men, he killed at least one of them. After a boat ride in the Seine they went to relax in the Luxembourg Gardens.
"Yugi, does something seem strange to you?" Ryo had borrowed Tristan's camera and the looking through the pictures already taken.
"What do you mean?" Yugi sat up from his lounging on a park bench and joined his friend on a stone wall.
"Look at this." Starting from the beginning of this morning's trip Ryo pointed out abnormalities in each photo. "Here's this man, in the trench coat wearing ridiculous glasses and fake moustache.
"Yeah, they sell those everywhere."
"But keep looking," The pictures of them at the Palais Garnier, "Here he is again," the shots jumped to when they were at Le Louvre, "And again," pictures at Notre Dame, "and in the boat," A shot of the river and unknowingly the passengers behind produced the same glasses and moustache man. "Doesn't that seem awfully suspicious to you?"
"It does..." Yugi thought of something, "I wonder…" the teen took the camera and turning it around, shot a picture of themselves then went back to view the image, "You've got to be freaking kidding me." The glasses and moustache was right behind them in some bushes. A minute to register what that meant and the two jumped from the wall while Joey fell over laughing. "What the heck, Joey?"
"Pretty cool, right?" The blond chuckled, Tristan followed after with the same mask on. They asked where they found them, "They were just sittin' on da ground here."
"Commander, we lost our masks."
"Yes, I realize that, thank-you Dougal for pointing that out." Bakura growled. They managed to slip out of there before the two fools discovered them, now they watched from a tree as the group made their way out of the gardens to eat at a little Bistro they noticed before coming here. Bakura smirked, "It's the girls' turn now."
It was a slow time for the Bistro, so the four found a table next to the window, the only other people was two guys sitting in the corner and a young lady sitting by herself. She gave a cute smile at the group and a friendly wave.
"She's cute," Tristan commented about the girl sitting alone. After the waitress took their order she traveled to the lone woman and conversed with her in an intimate manner, they knew each other. At one point the girl's eyes traveled to the group giggling right after and speaking rapidly in their tongue. "Well they obviously like us."
"Not quite," Ryo replied in distaste, "They think Yugi is cute, the tall one's not bad looking, the blond's got a dopey look like a dog, and they thought I was a chick."
"You got supersonic hearing, bud?" Tristan, with the little French he knew, couldn't understand what they were saying from the combination of how fast they spoke and the fact they were whispering. Ryo had to remind them this wasn't his first visit to the country and was taught by a French teacher who only spoke French. Pretty much had to learn in order to understand.
"Excusez-moi?" The girl sitting at the table walked over, black waves of hair, nice average figure wearing pink strapless dress and brown short jacket. She introduced herself as Sophie and she was nineteen years old. Sophie asked where they were from. Her eyes sparked learning they came from Domino City. "Americain?"
"Umm…is the city a Japanese colony or the States?" Ryo asked the people who lived there their entire lives on this city-island. The three gave blank stares; the British man rolled his eyes. He explained the island's located between the United States and Japan and the population had an American lifestyle.
She nodded more to end this strange discussion and offered if they wanted later this evening to join her girlfriends (one being the waitress) and herself for drinks at a club. "It's…much fun and…close to chez moi." Ryo's face turned a bright red from the insinuation and issued a polite decline. Sophie pursed her lips, but wrote her name and phone number on a napkin. "If you…change mind maybe?" When her back was turned Joey and Tristan disagreed to Ryo's decision and she resisted a smirk, all they needed was to split the weak sheep from the flock.
"Sorry, shacking up with girls the first day I meet them, isn't my style thanks. You're more than free to go just count me out." Ryo concluded after the brief squabble, Yugi declined as well.
"What kind of men are you two? Having sex with foreign girls you'll never see again? Who would pass that up?"
"A man who already has a girlfriend that's who," Ryo complexion returned to a red hue as his friends made hooting noises, "It's not that surprising is it?" The conversation changed to the group making bets about Ryo's sexuality and Tea was the only one that won.
"And I had alotta money on you bein' da passive." Joey's words were rewarded with bread being thrown at his face, the blond duck and instead smacked one of the men sitting there. The man was tall with a heavy build and demanded who threw that, not evening understanding the question Joey pointed at Ryo. The man cursed French at him while Ryo tried to calm the angered guy. The brute took the boiling hot soup on the table and poured it down the British teen's front. Ryo fell over trying to stand from the intense heat, his friends made pain expressions, they all felt that. The waitress screamed and hurried over to help the battered patron.
She yelled at the one guy, whose name was Louis, got Ryo back upright then proceeded to clean his soiled pants. Louis didn't take kind to this; the waitress was his girlfriend and pushed Ryo back down before storming out, cursing all of them.
"And what, pray tell, is so funny?" Dark Bakura cast a rueful glare at Dougal, chuckling at what occurred.
"Oh nothing, I think we're about to have some fun, aren't we?" The second-in-command looked on as his Commander followed after the fuming human, out of sight from their prey and told him to stop. Louis scowled, he didn't tell the difference between the Bakura and Dark Bakura just he had a sudden change in outfit.
"Come with me and we can settle this like men." The dark velvet in his voice wasn't noticed either as he motioned to a dark alleyway. The human was ready to beat this little punk to a pulp. They got into the alley and Louis didn't waste time in sucker punching Bakura, he fell to the ground and laughed. "Something you should know, though." Louis paused, lifting Bakura by the scruff of his collar ready to nail another blow. His eyes flashed a ruby hue which his foe blanched at, "I'm not a mortal man and I don't play fair." The prey now paralyzed. The demon grasped the arm holding him and snapped the arm right in half. "No kill shots, Dougal." As the other demon jumped their prey from behind, "I want to hear him squeal."
"Looks like you pissed your pants," was the first comment they got when Ryo and the waitress came back from cleaning the beef soup off his clothes, "and your shirt."
"I would like to go back to the hotel now." The boys bid farewell to Marie, the waitress and she hoped they would see each other tonight. Back at the hotel, the group had a little time to relax before Tristan and Joey changed into the dress clothes they purchased to go to the club.
"Sure ya don't wanna change yer mind?" Joey asked the last time, grasped in his hand were the directions to this club that Sophie gave when they called back.
"We're good, Joey, be back at a decent time tomorrow morning." Yugi waved them off searching the television for a program in English. They planned to try the train station tomorrow morning.
"Try not to bring back an STD." Ryo offered as a little advice towards safe sex. The partners in crime replied they had it covered, a package of condoms appeared and with stupid grins went off on their merry way. Ryo and Yugi spent a minute in silence then Ryo asked, "Is there any reason why you didn't go, Yugi?"
"Oh, you know, my penis doesn't make my decisions for me." His companion gave a soft laugh. Then Yugi face flushed pink, "and well, I want my first time to be special."
"You're not alone, my friend. So what about the other two? Are they still virgins?"
"Well from their excitement I would say they've done it enough times or they have no morals whatsoever and don't care who they lose it to." This was one of the few times they shared camaraderie with the ineptness of females and sex. Just then a harsh knock came from their doorway. "What's wrong guys? Did you forget your room keys?"
"That's typical."
Instead the door was busted down and several men in police uniforms ran in screaming, "POLICE!" Officers tackled the two teens and dragged them out of the building.
"Well dis is it." Joey and Tristan looked at the neon lights of the club, looking at each other they gave thumbs to go and bounded inside. Tonight would be a night to never forget.