I'm back. :)
Sarah: Oh yay. -_- Do you know how hard you are to catch?
Well, I'm over my paranoia and I've written Chapter 7.
Sarah: You did receive alot of complaints about the cliffhanger you left.
Yep.^^ Brrrrrrr. I'm kind of cold. I'm going to go get a jacket out of the closet.
Sarah: Wait! Don't-
Ryo: Oh dear, the tea has gotten cold.
Sarah: go in the closet.
B-B-British! *SLAM*
Sarah: Oh dear. Um...YamiHeart doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh and would like you all to enjoy her story.
Pov: Greta (ain't I nice giving her a pov?)
It had been a couple days since Sage had been in a burning building, but she still hadn't told anyone what had worried her for two seconds before she shook it off and forgot it even happened.
The event of the burning game shop Sage said she was going to was strange enough, and did not require the amplified weirdness Sage had given it by zoning out and saying "Oh D*EEP it." and, if only to confuse me more, when questioned by DJ and myself what Sage was talking about she looked at us like we were loony and insisted she had said nothing.
I had shrugged it off for a while, believing the random outburst had been caused by the trauma of the fire all around the young girl but, a couple days after Yugi was released from the hospital, my suspicions grew again when I found Sage lying face down on her bed, apparently distressed by something.
"Are you alright Miss Sage? I something troubling you?" I asked, quite worried that the girl was prone to strange episodes of randomness.
"Today is the day…the D*EEP day…" Sage answered cryptically into her pillow.
"Um…what is today?"
"The day all hell breaks loose." I can easily say I was completely freaked out at this point. But, I tried to remain calm and get to the bottom of what was going on.
"Why is all hell breaking loose today, Miss?"
Sage looked up from her pillow and gave me a very bewildered expression. At first I was afraid she forgot she had said anything again, but in an instant her face changed as if she realized something. Sage turned over onto her back and looked at the ceiling.
"Because the Pharaoh and Tea are going on a…date." Sage said the word "date" with such disgust, she made the word seem sacrilegious.
At first I didn't know what to say to the comment, but then I recalled sage referring to Yugi as "The Pharaoh". I had always assumed it was a title given to him by Sage because he was the "King of Games", but in all honesty I had never really asked.
Well, whether "The Pharaoh" referred to Yugi or not, it was bothering Sage that they were going out with Tea to the point it had caused Sage to react a couple days before just as negatively as she was today.
"So…what are you going to do about it?" I asked, not really sure if my conversation was uncovering anything useful.
"That's the problem. Unless 'He' does something to mess it up, I can't do anything." Again, Sage was talking in a language only she understood. In fact, I wasn't even sure if what she said was directed toward me.
"Uh…who's 'he'?" I asked Sage, hoping to get back into the conversation I wasn't sure I was included in.
Sage's eyes widened as if she had said something she shouldn't have.
"He is a…a…friend of mine who um…sometimes likes to mess with people's lives. Yeah and when he messes with things it gives me an excuse to mess with them too." It was obvious Sage was making this up at the top of her head, so I decided not to prod further into the matter of "He".
"Well, you seem a bit stressed about it." That was an understatement in the highest meaning of the word. "And when I'm stressed out I listen to music."
"You're right Greta!" the sudden 180 in Sage's demeanor shocked me. In less than one second Sage had changed from being depressed to motivated. "I can't sit around here and do nothing! I have to take action! I have the power to change destiny here!"
Sage jumped off her bed and came sailing towards me with arms wide open for a hug.
"I'm not sure if that's exactly what I meant but… if that's the way you want to take it, go ahead!" I said after I returned Sage's hug.
"Yes! I must do everything in my power to stop that date from being a success! Goodbye Greta! Wish me luck!" With that, Sage swiftly left the room and went down the stair case to leave the house.
"Oh dear…I don't think this is going to go well…" I said to myself as I went about my cleaning duties. "Not well at all…"
Pov: The Pharaoh
Bored.
That's all I was.
Nothing against Yugi, but setting me up on a "date" with Tea was not how I wanted to spend any of my afternoons. Tea didn't have much brains when it came to what I liked doing, so she just took me wherever the heck she felt.
"Man, how I wish this date was over" I thought to myself while Tea and I approached some sort of arcade.
Little did I know I was going to get way more than I wished for.
Inside the arcade was games and worn-out old carpet, all things you'd expect to see. A big crowd at the back of the store caught Tea's eye and I found myself dragged to another place I didn't feel like going.
The reason for the crowd? A DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) game. They were apparently quite popular in Japan, and the dude on the right with the dreadlocks was kicking butt.
"LOSER!" the computer voice yelled as loudly as possible to rub the shame of losing into the man on the right's face.
"Ha ha! Can anyone beat Johnny Steps?" That couldn't seriously be his name, could it?
"I'll take you on, you creep!" Tea announced confidently.
Tea threw off her jacket (perhaps just to make me catch it) and went onto the dance machine.
"You're pretty cute. Maybe after I beat you we could go out on a date." Johnny Steps offered.
"You wish!" Tea snapped back.
Thus, the dance off began.
I guess I have to give Tea credit. I mean, her dancing was pretty good, even while Johnny Steps tried to cheat. Tea even won in the end, which somewhat shocked me.
Johnny Steps left the stage, head bowed in shame. Tea beamed at me and all the crowd was cheering.
Well, not all the crowd.
A single clap could be heard from the back of the mob. The clap was unenthusiastic and unconvincing. Everyone turned around to see a single girl with her hat covering her face. She wore a neon-green miniskirt, a vivid blue tank top, a hot pink jacket, and carried an over-sized pocketbook.
"I must say, that was quite a commendable performance." The girl said with obvious sarcasm in her voice.
"What? Do you think you could do better?" Tea asked.
"Heh. Nope." Everyone was surprised by her answer. "I know I could."
The girl jumped to the platform with lightning-fast speed, and I found myself not only holding a jacket but also a giant handbag.
"You ready for this?" The girl asked sharply yet playfully.
"You bet!" Tea answered.
"Let's go!" the two girls said in unison.
Instantly, the two of them went off in an all out dancing war. No one could concentrate on either of their movements, and even Johnny Steps gawked in amazement at the two dancers.
Finally, after what seemed like ages, the dancing was over. Tea fell to her knees from exhaustion while the unknown girl staggered a bit, but didn't fall completely over. I was amazed to see that after all that vigorous movement the mystery girl's hat had remained on.
"TIE!" the computer generated voice declared.
"What?" Both girls exclaimed in unison.
After the initial shock, the girl straightened herself up and pushed her hat even farther in front of her face.
"Looks like I underestimated you…" The girl painfully admitted. She jumped off the stage and came over to me to retrieve her bag.
"Hey Pharaoh, what's up?" The girl asked me slyly.
"Wait…" Only one person in the entire world called me that.
The girl lifted only a portion of her hat so that I could see her wink at me. Suddenly, I found myself being almost strangled in a hug from the mystery girl, Sage.
"OH MY GOD! SQUEAL! "Sage said, almost too eagerly.
Sage jumped up and down, without letting me go, and quickly whispered into my ear "Would you like this date to end, or would you rather stay?"
I thought about it for a second before whispering back "If you've got a plan, go for it."
As suddenly as I had been hugged, I was let go and dropped to the ground. Sage stopped for a second as if to say sorry before returning to her hyper-active disguise.
"I can't believe I'm meeting the King of Games! I could just die! AIEEEEEE!" Sage's high-pitched squeals could make a dog go deaf.
I took a quick glance at Tea, who looked like she was about to murder Sage.
"I'm a duelist myself, you know. I would find it a great honor if you agreed to duel me!" Sage bent over and pleaded with her hands for me to duel her.
Again I looked at Tea, who shook her head "no" vigorously. Sage followed my gaze to Tea and seemed quite shocked at Tea's response.
"What are you, his girlfriend or something? He's the King of Games and he has to accept any challenge thrown at him, Miss Nagfish." If I hadn't known Sage was acting, I would've said that there was some built up anger released when Sage called Tea a "Nagfish".
Tea's face had turned completely red at this point, whether it was from dancing so hard, anger, or embarrassment I had no idea.
"Hmph." Sage said after she received no response. "I thought so. Come on, let's go." Sage offered me her hand to help me up, and we left the arcade.
After we had gone a couple of feet out of the arcade, Sage threw her hat up into the air and began to laugh. Not being able to help myself, I began to laugh too. This continued for quite a while because every time I tried to stop laughing Tea's face popped into my head. But the laughing did indeed stop, and as soon as it did, I had some questions I wanted answered.
"So…Sage, what were you doing at the arcade in that." I motioned towards Sage's outfit because Sage never looked like one to wear such things. She even refused to wear the skirts that were supposed to be part of the girl's uniform. Instead, she wore the boy's uniform pants underneath. Some people had noticed on the first day of school, but Duke got most of the attention that day.
"Oh, this? I rented it at a costume rental place." Sage said as if it were no big deal. "I had called the Game Shop earlier, but Grandpa Mutou said you went out. So I decided to go into town when I saw you and Tea together, but it was obvious by your expression you weren't having fun. I then got this outfit, disguised myself, and waited for the perfect opportunity."
"Could you always dance like that?"
Sage seemed shocked at the question, as if she had no idea what I was talking about, but then she smiled and shrugged it off.
"If you can call random moves in succession dancing, then sure, I've always been able to dance like that." Sage looked up into the sky with her arms behind her head.
I was shocked. Was she saying it was complete luck that she tied with Tea at DDR?
"B-but you were both doing so good that even Johnny Steps gawked at the sight of you two facing off!" I argued.
"Phhh. Johnny Steps admired our dancing? My life is complete now." Sage said with absolute sarcasm. "You do realize DDR is just stepping on arrows, right? You can do whatever you want with your upper torso, all you have to do is make sure you hit the arrows when they hit the same arrow on the screen. That game requires no skill whatsoever."
When Sage put it that way, all the admiration I had given Tea went out the window. I could have won at that game if that's all you had to do.
"Well, unless you want o do something, I'll be going." Sage said as she began to walk away.
"Wait!" Sage stopped. "Didn't you say you called the Game Shop? Was there something you wanted?"
"Um…well…" Sage turned around and darted toward me. "I was going to ask if you wanted to go to the museum. They have an awesome new Egyptian exhibit I wanted to check out, and I just love Egypt! But Greta didn't want me going anywhere by myself after what happened at the Clown place…"
I had remembered Tea mentioning something about a museum earlier, but we didn't go because we were too busy going to music stores and arcades.
"So…Sage likes Egypt, huh? Maybe that's why she keeps calling me Pharaoh…" I thought to myself.
"Alright, let's go. But…you can change first if you'd like." I said.
"Oh, yes, I would like that. Thank you!" Once again, I was given a giant hug that smushed me.
"I have to go back to the costume rental place to return this and get my clothes back. You can head over to the museum if you'd like." Sage said, letting me go.
"Yeah…about that…I don't actually know how to get there." I explained. There was more than one reason I didn't go home during my date with Tea, and one of them was the simple fact that I didn't know how to get home.
"Oh dear…you better stick with me then." And just like I had been all day, I was grabbed by the arm and led around, but the only difference was that I was smiling.
Sarah:...That was a stupid cliffhanger.-_-
W-well maybe p-people should have expected the unexpected.
Sarah: Please get a hold of yourself. So Ryo was in the closet. So what? You know tons of British people.
L-like who?
Sarah: LitttleKuriboh.
WHat? Seriously?
Sarah: Yeah. And besides, how could anyone be afraid of Ryo?
Well...he is super adorable...
Sarah: See? British people are cool.
Yeah. British peopel are cool. Who cares if they stalk me? That mus make me cool too! XD
Sarah: Uh...sure. You keep believing that...
Yay! I'm so happy now! Hey, if you want to comment, British or not, go ahead! Make my day!
Sarah: I think i'd go into shock if anyone other thna cyclonzgirl, MikieJoe, or sasusaku-rulez-2001 commented.
So if you want to see Sarah go into shock, comment!
