The Fellowship Of The Yu-Gi-Oh Cast

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Bruises, Fat Egyptians and Wargs

After Grima was literally kicked out from the castle, the king discovered that his son Théodred was dead. Together with Pegasus he went to the tomb of the royal family. Théoden held a white flower in his hand.

"Simbelmynë. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forbearers." He looked up at Pegasus. "Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see the last days of my house."

"Oh c'mon Théoden, it wasn't your fault!... At least… not directly." Pegasus was clearly no comfort-man.

"No parent should have to bury their child." The king started to weep.

Now Pegasus really was uncomfortable. "I'll uh… leave you alone now, okay?" No comfort-man indeed. He wanted to return to the castle when he saw two children on horseback in the distance. Suddenly the boy collapsed and fell off the horse.

"Oeh! That will cause terrible bruises!"

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Pegasus had brought the children inside (Seto: "Seems like the paedophile in Pegasus finally comes up to the world." Joey: "How about that time with Mokuba in Duellist Kingdom than?" Seto: "What about it?..." Joey: "Uh… nothin'…") and the boy had come to conscience again. The two children were eating at the table, Éowyn sat next to them.

"They had no warning. They were unarmed. Now the wild men are moving through the Westfold, burning as they go. Rick, cot and tree."

"Where's mama?" The girl asked saddened.

"Ssh…"

Pegasus nodded. "This is only the beginning of Saruman's terror. You must fight… or else!" He walked to the boy and pointed at his arm. "We will all have bruises!"

"We would be lucky if we would all keep our head." Duke said raising an eyebrow.

"Bruises!" Pegasus repeated. He looked around paranoid

"Let's get this over with!" Seto interrupted. "You have two thousand good men riding north as we speak. Éomer is loyal to you. His men will return and fight for their king."

"They will be three hundred leagues from here by now. Éomer cannot help us. I know what it is that you want of me. But I will not bring further death to my people. I will not risk open war."

"Open war is upon you. Whether you would risk it or not."

"They should put a tune on that song, you know, like 'They're taking the hobbits to Isengard'?" Joey said to Duke.

"Yeah that would be a hit!"

They started to hum a tune, jumping from the one foot to the other and singing silently ("Open war is upon you. Whether…"). Seto growled.

"Then what will you do?"

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"By order of the king, the city must empty. We make for the refuge of Helm's Deep. Do not burden yourselves with treasures. Take only what provisions you need."

People were moving about, gathering their belongings and preparing to move. Pegasus, Seto, Joey and Duke walked towards the stables.

"Helm's Deep! I have no clue what it is, but if even their king doesn't want to fight for them, than who will?" Duke mocked.

"Helm's Deep has saved them once…" Seto began.

"Open war is upon you..." Joey sang, making some instrumental sounds with his mouth. Seto turned around slowly.

"I have the same feeling that they're doing something wrong…" Pegasus agreed with Duke. "But I must leave now… to do…. something…"

"You have to search information." Seto said.

"O yes! That was it! Well!" He sat down on Shadowfax, or like Pegasus called him 'Fizzlycake'. "Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East!" With a movement of his foot, the horse started to run and Pegasus quickly disappeared out of sight.

Joey coughed. "… Shouldn't we write that down?"

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Gollum was trying to catch a fish in the river. He slipped and fell, grasping at a slippery fish as he fell. Yugi and Yami saw it happening.

"Idiotic creature! Stay closer to us!" Yami called out.

"Why do you do that?"

"What?"

Yugi looked at his feet. "Call him names; being mean to him..."

"Do you really think he wants to help us? He just wants the Ring, that's all he cares about."

Yugi glared at Yami. "You have no idea what it did to him. What it's still doing to him… I want to help him, Yami..."

"But… Why?"

"Because everyone deserves a second chance…"

"I don't think that would be a wise thing to do."

Yugi actually became mad now. "Who gives you the right to decide if people get a second chance or not?"

Yami looked shocked, almost hurt by the sudden outburst. Uncomfortably he walked away from his friend.

Yugi caught up with him quickly, regret visible on the young boy's face. "I'm sorry Yami… I don't know why I said that…"

Yami looked back at Yugi, his face was a bit red. "I do. It's the Ring. You can't take your eyes off it. I've seen you. You're not eating... And you're already so short… You barely sleep. It's taken a hold of you, Yugi. You have to fight it!"

Yugi found himself become mad again. "I know what I have to do Yami. The Ring was entrusted to me! It's my task! Mine! My own!" Now he walked away.

"Can't you hear yourself? Don't you know who you sound like?"

Yugi didn't turn around, because he knew what his friend was saying was true…

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The next day, while Yugi and Yami were resting Sméagol came back with two rabbits and dropped them onto Yugi's lap. Yugi's eyes grew and all colour disappeared off his face. He liked rabbits more when they were alive and skipping around. Not dead and on his lap.

"Look! Look! See what Sméagol finds! Hehehe! Hahaha!"

Yugi tried to smile despite of the situation. Sméagol raised a fist in self-congratulation and danced around. Suddenly he picked one of the rabbits back up from Yugi's lap and started to snap the animal's back. Yugi got a tick in his right eyebrow now.

"They are young. They are tender. They are nice. Yes they are! Eat them! Eat them!"

He bit and tore into the raw meat. Yami suddenly rushed over and snatched the rabbit out of Gollum's hands.

"You'll make him sick behaving like that!" He held up the two rabbits, but quickly putted them back down when he saw the tick on Yugi's face. "Uhm… There's only one way to eat rabbits!" He looked at Yugi again. "Or… of course… you just can not eat them…"

A while later, a pot of stew was heating up above a fire. Yami was stirring in the pot triumphantly.

Sméagol looked into the pot disgusted. "ARGH! What's it doing! Stupid fat Egyptian! It ruins it!"

Yami became red. "I am NOT fat! Nor stupid! … And what's to ruin? There's hardly any meat on the damn things!"

Yugi was sitting further away, when suddenly a faint noise caught his attention.

Yami looked at the pot again. "What we need is a few good taters." He pondered.

"What's taters, preciousss? What's taters uh?"

"PO-TA-TOES!" He cried out, not believing that someone didn't know what taters were. "Boil them. Mash them. Stick them in a stew!" Seemed like Yami was a great chef cook. "Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish... "

Sméagol let out his tongue in disgust. "Pbbbttt!"

"Even you couldn't say no to that." He took a sip of it elegantly.

"Oh yes we could!" Sméagol defended himself. "Spoil nice fish..." He scrambled up closer to Yami. "Give it to usss rrraw... and wrrriggling! You keep nasty chips." He hopped away."

"You're hopeless…"

Yugi had followed the source of the sound. Yami suddenly noticed that Yugi was no longer in his sight. He stood up quickly, almost knocking over his precious stew.

"Yugi?"

He walked around in search of Yugi and soon found him lying down near some bushes looking at a Haradrim army marching across the land. He moved to lie low beside Yugi. Sméagol also moved in beside Yugi.

"Who are they?" Yami asked.

Gollum was the one the answer. "Wicked men. Servants of Sauron. They are called to Mordor. The Dark One is gathering all armies to him. It won't be long now. He will soon be ready."

Yami looked at him, together with Yugi. "Ready to do what?"

"To make his war. The last war that will cover all the world in shadow."

Yugi swallowed. "We've got to get moving. Come on, Yami."

Yami suddenly grabbed Yugi's arm and pushed him down again. "Yugi! Look! It's an elephant! Like that one time in the zoo in the summer…"

Gigantic elephants appeared, carrying soldiers and supplies on their backs.

"They are twice as large as normal! No one at home will believe this..."

Sméagol slipped away unnoticed. Yugi noticed this a little too late.

"Sméagol?"

Suddenly, pandemonium broke out from below; the soldiers were being ambushed. Cloaked rangers were firing deadly arrows at the soldiers and elephants from behind bushes. One of the elephants started trumpeting and stomping towards Yugi and Yami, swinging his huge trunk and tusks. A soldier fell from the elephant and landed right behind the duo.

Yugi shrieked. "Let's go Yami! Quickly!"

Yugi stood up and ran right into a Gondorian Ranger, who grabbed hold of him and threw him onto his back. Yami saw Yugi in danger and reached for his sword. He charged at a man, called Faramir, but was grabbed by another ranger and was threw down just like Yugi. A sword was held at his throat.

Faramir looked down at them. "Bind their hands."

"O my god! We're going to get raped because you wanted to look at those elephants!"

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Meanwhile, the Rohirrim refugees were heading towards Helm's Deep. Duke was on a horse, chatting with Éowyn who was leading it by the reins. Duke wasn't a good horse rider, but he sure knew how to get attention of women. If the attention would hold for long was another thing.
The horse suddenly reared up and galloped away as Éowyn lost her hold on the reins. Duke fell off after a short distance and landed with a loud thump.

Éowyn ran after him, laughing.

"It's alright, it's alright." Duke said sitting up straight quickly. His face had a red colour. "Nobody panic. That was deliberate. It was deliberate!"

Joey nodded. "Of course it was, and this," he pointed at a rock. "Is my fiancée, we will get married soon." He nodded at the rock. "Isn't that right my sugar?"

Éowyn helped Duke up. She laughed as she brushed him off and looked back at Seto. Seto didn't knew why but he suddenly had to think about Arwen…

Flashback

"Guess who?" The woman's voice whispered in his ear.

Seto clenched his teeth together. What the hell was she doing? He didn't even know her…

"Uh…" Seto could bring out.

The woman let out a giggle and sat down next to Seto. "It's just me, Arwen."

"So that's her name." Seto thought.

Then suddenly Arwen's hands rested on Seto's chest. Seto looked at them surprised.

"I've missed you Seto…" Arwen said softly.

"E-excuse me?" Seto stuttered.

Arwen's hands trailed up till they rested on Seto's cheeks. Seto looked at Arwen nervous not knowing what to do.

"Kiss me my love." Arwen said leaning towards Seto and closing her eyes.

"I HAVE TO GO!" Seto said loudly while he jumped up just in time to avoid the kiss and making Arwen fall of the bench. "TOILET!" Seto continued as he ran away…

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He coughed and looked around nonchalantly. Then Éowyn got his attention. "Where is she? The woman who gave you that necklace?"

Seto looked down at his own chest, the picture of his brother Mokuba jumping around because of the horse's movements. "Uhm… I actually got it from my little brother…"

Éowyn looked surprised. "Oh…! Ooh! Allright… I see…"

Gamling and Hamá went to the front. Joey watched them, another bad feeling started crawling trough his body.

The two rider's horses became restless.

"What wrong?"

Háma looked around. "I'm not sure…"

All of the sudden a warg scout appeared on a slope above and charged at them. The creature looked like a much to big sort of cat wolf. An Orc was sitting on it's back. The warg attacked Háma quickly, who fell of his horse and was killed brutally."

"Wargs!" Gamling cried out.

The warg charged at Gamling now, but Joey ran over to him and killed the warg with an arrow. He then drew his knife and killed the Orc.

"A scout!" Joey yelled.

Seto heard Joey's scream and he clenched his teeth. Théoden galloped towards Seto on his horse "What is it? What do you see?"

Seto turned around to the king. "Wargs! We are under attack!"

Hearing the alarm, the villagers began to cry and panic, looking around, not sure what to do.

"Get them out of here!"

"All riders to the head of the column!" Théoden demanded.

Duke was trying to get on a horse. "Come on, get me up here, I'm a rider!"

Duke finally got onto the horse with some help. Joey gazed into the distance and saw many warg-riders coming towards them fast. Clouds of dust appeared from below the creature's paws.

Théoden turned to his niece. "You must lead the people to Helm's Deep. And make haste!"

Éowyn refused. "I can fight!"

"No! You must do this... for me."

Éowyn held Théoden's gaze for a moment and then turned to attend to the villagers.

Théoden on his turn looked at his men. "Follow me! Yah!"

Duke was now trying to get the horse moving. "Forward. I mean, charge forward! March forward!" The horse moved on with Duke seated rather unsteadily. "That's it! Go on!"

Éowyn waved with her arms to the villagers. "Make for the lower ground! Stick together!" She looked back at the Rohirrim and saw Seto galloping away towards the danger. Éowyn departed with the villagers in the opposite direction.

Joey took aim at the distant target and shot a warg-rider. He drew another arrow and killed another one. Just as he reached for a third arrow, he saw Théoden and company approaching quickly.

"Holy shit!"

He quickly ran and jumped on Duke's horse with a smooth leap, like only an Elf could do, and joined in the fray with Duke behind him on horseback.

"Damn you Joey! I almost got the hang of it!"

The warg-riders roared dangerously.

"CHARGE!" Théoden yelled.

The Rohirrim and warg-riders crashed head on and the battle began. Théoden and his men hacked away at the warg riders. In the midst of fighting, Duke fell off the horse. He turned around to find a warg growling at him.

Duke took his axe and looked at the creature challenging, his green eyes full of trust in his own strength. "Bring your pretty face to my axe!"

Just as the warg leaped at him, Joey killed it with one shot.

Duke jumped back outraged as the warg fell in front of him. "Joey you bastard! That one was mine!"

Duke crashed his axe in another approaching warg, killing it and making it fall right upon him, pinning Duke on the ground."

"Son of a bitch!"

As he tried to lift the warg off him, an Orc leaned over them both. Duke killed him quickly, twisting his neck, but the Orc also landed on him. Duke coughed uncomfortably. He now tried to lift both the warg and Orc off him. But just then, another warg came upon him and bared it's teeth, ready to strike.

"…oh FUCK!"

Seto plucked a spear out of a body as he passed on horseback and threw it at the warg. The spear pierced it's body and killed the creature. It fell down on the already large pile of dead bodies on Duke.

"…My… ribs…"

Seto was knocked off his horse and was attacked by a warg-rider. He tried to kill the warg-rider, but the Orc blocked his attempt and grabbed Seto by the neck, dragging the CEO onto the warg in the process. Seto and the Orc started to hit each other while ridding the creature, and in the struggle, the Orc was thrown off and he ripped the necklace with Mokuba's picture from Seto's neck as he fell. Seto tired to let go of the warg but found his wrist tangled with the saddle straps. He tried to disentangle himself unsuccessfully and was dragged closer and closer to the edge of a cliff at great speed. The warg ran right off the cliff and both the creature and Seto disappeared over the edge.

The battle was coming at an end and the last warg and his rider were killed by Théoden. Joey looked around and saw Duke, who apparently succeeded to escape the pile of bodies after all. Joey continued to look around. He saw Théoden and his men…

But where was Seto?

"Kaiba!"

Duke started to look around too, noticing the absence of the CEO as well. "Kaiba!"

They walked near to the cliff and heard an Orc wheezing and laughing.

Duke stood over the dying Orc. "What are you laughing about? Tell me now!"

The Orc sneered. "He's…" The Orc coughed. "…dead." He laughed like he had told a good joke. "Took a little tumble off the cliff…"

Joey looked towards the edge of the cliff and a feeling of rage took over. He grabbed the Orc roughly. "You're lying!"

The Orc chortled and finally died. Joey looked down at the Orc's fist and found the picture of Mokuba.. He clenched his teeth, grabbed the picture, ran to the edge of the cliff and looked down to see the great drop and rushing waters below… with no sign of Seto. Duke came to stand beside him.

Théoden was ordering his men. "Get the wounded on horses. The wolves of Isengard will return. Leave the dead."

Joey turned around to Théoden, an expression of perplexed anger on his face.

Théoden putted a hand on Joey's shoulder. "Come. We must continue."

The king walked away, leaving Joey and Duke at the cliff.

They couldn't believe that Seto had left them too…