Me: Welcome to Chapter 3! I though about splitting this one into two parts, but I wanted to keep you entertained until next week end, which is probs the next chance I'll get to upload stuff.
Yami: Yahoo! Penalty Games!
Yugi: You just gave away most of the plot!
Me: Oh dear... read on to find out what their talking about! Enjoy!
It was lunch break. My friends called me over to one of the tables in our playground. Yugi and Yami had patiently sat through my classes, but were glad of a break.
"Do you have your cards Jen?" My friend Will asked. I nodded, dug in my bag, and produced my
YU-GI-OH! Cards.
"I didn't know you played Duel Monsters," Yugi said.
"I have all the other memorabilia, so I've gotta have these too." I whispered.
"I am so gonna beat you today," He said, unfolding the paper mat.
Yami asked where the Duel Disks where. I told him we preferred to play vintage style. The two found that amusing, but didn't complain.
"I play Queen's Knight in attack mode." I began.
"And then you'll summon King's Knight and sacrifice them to play your Dark Magician Girl, right?" Yugi interrupted.
"Ah, no, cos you only need to sacrifice one monster for Dark Magician Girl. But I was going to summon Jack's Knight as well as King's Knight and summon Red Eyes when I find it."
"You won't find it soon, let me warn you. It's almost at the bottom of your deck. " Yami said.
"Yami! Using the Millennium Eye to look into her deck is bad!" Yugi scolded.
"Ooh I'm scared!" The Pharaoh replied sarcasticly.
"Don't even joke about that Yami! You can't tell her how to win!"
"Says the boy who told her to play Dark Magician Girl."
"SHUT UP!" I yelled. My friends jumped.
"Wow, you sure are tetchy today Jen," Will said in surprise. "It's your turn by the way."
"I play..."
"Activate Queen's Knight's special ability and summon King's Knight!" Yugi urged.
"She can't do it now. She should have done it earlier!"
"She can so!"
"She can't."
"She CAN!"
"Yugi, I've been playing it for over 5000 years. I think I know what I'm doing!"
"You played with blocks of enchanted stone!"
I stood up from the table, making my chair crash to the ground.
"I can't play if you're going to be like this!"
Will looked hurt, and asked what he'd done. I ignored him, and proceeded to have a massive rage fight with the other two. (which must've looked ridiculous, because my friends couldn't see them.) The argument sort of consisted of three phrased; Get on with the duel, be quiet, and you're making a fool of yourself. The latter two applying to all three of us. I sat down at my chair again, but before I could continue the duel, the bell rang for classes. We packed up, and decided to forfeit that game, which really ticked me off. And what's worse, all my friends ignored me for the rest of the day. SO as you can understand, I was NOT happy.
I trudged my way along a quiet, tree-lined street from school, the earphones of my Ipod in my ears, and the music on full blast so I couldn't hear the two boys talking. I could tell they were trying to apologise, so I decided to make them sweat. Make them PAY. I don't take losing easily if it's not my fault. Especially if it wasn't my fault.
Yugi kept coming up to me and making silly faces. Yami pulled him back, and it looked like this was telling him off. I tried to not laugh, but it was quite hard. I pulled out my earphones, and turned to face them. They went silent, and Yugi went a light pink colour.
"We're sorry Jen," Yami began at last. "We're just so used to..."
"Don't make excuses Pharaoh," I interrupted him. He seemed surprised, but looked down at his feet awkwardly. I turned around, and started walking again. "and your both wrong. Queen's Knight can't summon King's Knight in this world." I looked back at them and grinned. They both released a sigh of relief and ran to catch up with me.
And so went the days. The boys came with me to school, and then we all hung out afterwards. I got some awesome tips from them on how to play Duel Monsters even better. It was great. I felt I had never been happier. I had always wanted friends like Yugi and Yami. It's not that my friends were rubbish, it was just... we weren't what you would call the popular group. Every day was a constant struggle to prove myself to everyone. But with Yugi and Yami, it didn't matter. We could just be ourselves, and not worry about anyone else. And for once in my life, I felt like I could belong.
"Do you know who I think you look like?" Yugi said one day as we sat on the swings in the local park. "Bakura."
"Bakura! Oh how did I know you would say that?" I wailed. You see, I tried to dye my hair blonde . My natural colour is black, and I've hated it for ages. But I used to much of the bleach-y stuff and... I made my hair white. No really, it is white.
"But don't you agree Yami?" Yami, who was leaning against the swing frame, arms folded in their trademark position, gave a small smile.
"Yeah."
"Nyeh! No fair!"
"You just need the Millennium Ring, and you could be twins." Yami grinned.
We argued and laughed like this for the next couple of minutes, until I heard a noise at the entrance to the park. It was Cara, a very large and very scary girl a few years above me. She and her posse of cohorts spend their time flushing the heads of the newcomers down the staff toilets, and terrorising the other pupils. So, as you may have guessed, I wasn't so pleased to see her. Especially since she had some of her nasty friends with her too.
"Talking to yourself are we Gemma?" She sneered, walking over to the swings.
"It's Jenna, actually."
"Like I give a damn." She said, plonking her large behind on the swing that Yugi happened to be sitting on. He passed right through her, just as a ghost would do. He stood up, and made a face.
"Shall we go Jen?" Yami asked. I nodded and turned to leave.
"Don't be so rude Gemma!" I was stopped in my tracks by two of her burly pals. "Leaving without saying goodbye is such bad manners!"
"Good bye then." I said, a panic growing inside of me. The boys seemed to feel it too, worried expressions flashing across their face.
"Aw, you're no fun!" Cara complained, twisting her wiry hair in-between her chubby fingers. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see some of her gang twisting the swings around the central crossbar, making them out of the reach of almost everyone else. "The party's just about to begin!"
"Heh, yeah, well, I'm really busy. Homework and all..." I tried to push past, but bounced off one of the gang members. Cara stood up from the swing, and the sound of her knuckles cracking sounded worse than the sound of lightning.
Yugi muttered something slightly undignified under his breath, and the Pharaoh's eyes narrowed into thin slits .
"Can I inflict a Penalty Game on her?" He asked darkly. "I could make her become entwined in the chains of the swings. Or make her head become permanently stuck in a toilet..."
I raised my hand. "That won't be necessary."
"But you're our honorary guest Gemma. You can't leave now." Cara whispered menacingly. Before I
knew it, I was backed up against the climbing wall, Cara's hand gripping my shirt, and her rancid breath tickling my face.
"What did I ever do to you?" I murmured. I tried to sound strong, but only succeeded in making my voice go up a few octaves.
"Nothing. I just enjoy torturing people." She raised her fist, and I braced myself. But I didn't get the impact. It all happened so fast. I felt a cold shudder past through me. All my muscles burned, and I felt light headed. Multi-colours whizzed before my eyes. I thought I was going to pass out, but I regathered myself. Only it wasn't technically me.
"Ok Cara, back off!" I said, in a voice I hardly recognised. It definitely wasn't mine. I was deep and high all at the same time, like multiple people were talking all at once. Then I realised it. More than one person was speaking. Yugi and Yami... were inside me.
Me: Did you like it? Huh huh?
Yami: Not really. There was no Penalty Games.
Yugi: You got close to one!
Yami: It's not the same... Ah the good old days...
Yugi: Ut-oh. Epic nostalgia moment...
Me: Please leave a reveiw on the way out! x