Lila: Wild Thornberries? Is that the one with the girl and the talking monkey with the bad English accent? I've only seen the show once. I don't even know who Debby is. Is she the one that can talk to the animals? Gah! I'm afraid I don't watch it.

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TOO MANY ON AN ISLAND

CHAPTER 9

Duke sat on the sand poking at random rocks and rambling to himself. "It's just not fair." He muttered.

"What's not fair?" A sweet voice said.

Duke had been completely unaware that anyone was near by and broke the stick in his hand. "Oh! Hi Serenity." He said.

Serenity smiled at Duke and then came to sit down beside him. "The twins needed to have a bath or something so I finally got some free time from them." She said. She then proceeded to pick up a stick and poke at rocks along with him.

"They really like you a lot." Duke commented.

Serenity giggled. "Yeah. It's kinda cute but it gets tiring after a while. You'd think they'd never seen a girl before."

"Private Schooled English Boys tend to be deprived of that." He said.

"What is it like a need?" She joked.

He grinned. "Actually it is." He said. "Most guys wouldn't function properly without women. Or at least they'd club each other to death like Neanderthals."

"It was mine first!" Piggy shouted. He clunked Tristan on the head with a stick.

"I saw it first!" Tristan snapped back. He clubbed Piggy on the head in response.

"Cut it out Tristan!" Serenity yelled.

"Why doesn't Piggy get into trouble?" Tristan pouted.

"Because he's 11 and you're 17." She replied (I bumped the ages a little)

"Fine." Tristan pouted. "Let's go settle this elsewhere."

They walked off. Duke and Serenity we're left alone again.

"So.."

"So.."

"Do you think we'll ever get saved?" Duke asked.

"Of course. Some ship will come by eventually. No worries there." She replied.

There were a few moments of silence. Finally, Duke spoke.

"I hope you don't find this too forward of me Serenity but I'd really like to kiss you right now." He said.

Serenity stopped poking at the rocks. "What?"

"I've been wanting to kiss you for a long time now. The opportunity hasn't occurred naturally but I thought now that this is the first time that I've been alone with you that I'd.you know..oh forget it..it was a dumb idea..I shouldn't have said anything.But I ramble a lot when I'm nervous."

She sat still as he spoke.

"I just keep rambling and rambling as if it will help but it only makes me feel like a bigger dork and do I."

Serenity suddenly jumped on Duke and started to kiss him furiously. Duke didn't fight these advances. Rather, he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her back with even more need.

Suddenly from the bushes, "NOOOOOOOO!" Three voices cried in unison.

"We'll save you!" Sam said as he tore through the sand like a wild animal.

"Unhand her you animal!" Tristan screamed as he charged in like a wild bull.

The two lovebirds on the beach had barely noticed the advancing trio before poor Duke was knocked away and pinned.

"I'll teach you to Befuzzle a young lady." Eric said.

"Don't you mean befoul?" Sam asked.

"Whatever. PURPLE NURPLE!" He screamed.

"OWWWW!" Duke screamed as the twins (and Tristan) painfully violated him

"Pull His hair!"

"Give him a wegie!"

"Pinch him!"

"Punch him!"

"Poke Him!"

"Kick him!"

"STOP IT!" Serenity screamed and the boys froze instantly. "Get off of him right now."

The boys crawled off of Duke and Serenity ran over. "You poor thing." She cooed.

Duke groaned in pain slightly.

"But Serenity, he was..he was." Tristan said.

"Stop obsessing over me and leave my boy friend alone!" She hissed.

"Boyfriend?" The boys said in unison.

"I'm your boyfriend?" Duke asked trying to sit up. The pain of his purple nurples was still too intense and he lay back down.

"Of course you are." She said. She looked him over again. "You poor thing. Let's get you back to the other camp and get you fixed up."

She gently helped him to his feet and began to walk him back to the Yu-gi- oh camp. "You should be ashamed of yourselves!" She said.

The boys looked down at their feet. Duke turned around, gave them a wink and stuck out him tongue. The boys attempted to charge in fury but both Piggy and Ralph held them back.

Meanwhile.

Mai came sauntering out of the jungle with her pack hanging at her side. She was humming and grinning as if she were rather proud of herself.

"Done already?" Yami Bakura asked in surprise. (He'd been hoping to get rid of her for longer than that.)

"I got SOOOO many samples too. All I need is some test subjects." She said grinning at Yami Bakura.

"OOOOH no! I'm not going to be one of you're little lab rats. Get Joey. He'll do anything to please you." Yami Bakura said. He put up an arm in defense mode (he he). Defense Mode) to make sure his hair remained untouched.

"I know he will but I need more." She said. "Multiple subjects to get an overall effect."

"What's in it for me?" He asked.

"30 percent cut on the profit I make from the best product." She said.

"I don't want your money. I can get anything I want just by waving my hands." He snorted.]

"How about I get you a date with my friend Tammy?" She smiled.

"Whose Tammy?" He asked. (Sigh. Yami Bakura is still a sucker for the women."

"This is Tammy." Mai said. She held out a small picture from her wallet that hadn't washed away.

Yami Bakura drooled at the picture of the bomb shell blonde in the picture. "K. Deal." He said.

"Great. Now to convince two more." She grinned.

ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES LATER.

Yami Bakura, Joey and Yami all sat on a row of logs. Everything had been set up. Water buckets, shampoos and other necessities.

"How'd you get dragged into this?" Yami Bakura asked.

"Mai promised me a date." Joey grinned.

"Figure." Yami Bakura snorted.

"What was that?"

"Nothing. How'd she convince you?" Yami Bakura asked Yami.

Yami sighed. "Actually she asked Yugi. I owed Yugi a favor though and this is how he wished me to repay it."

"Pffft. You and your stupid promises." Yami Bakura said.

Mai walked out. "Ready boys?"

They all gulped.

"First sample I'll use on Yami Bakura." She said.

She reached into the cup of white goo and spread it into Yami Bakura's hair.

"Mai if this stuff makes my hair fall out you're taking a first class trip to the shadow realm." Yami Bakura warned.

"Point taken." She said.

Yami Bakura began to cough like crazy.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Fumes. This stuff is letting off fumes and they're choking me." He said.

"You're just being a baby." She said.

"No he isn't Mai. Even I can smell it. It smells like sulfur." Joey said.

"Can't.. breath.." He said.

Mai got frustrated. "Oh fine..go wash it out and wait for the next one." She pouted.

She threw out sample one. "On to the next one."

She stood behind Joey and added the cream colored goo to his hair.

"Hey Mai. That feels great." Joey groaned.

"Uh Joey." Yami said.

"Not now Yami." He sighed. "This stuff is awesome."

"Uh Joey." Yami said again staring at his friend in horror.

"NOT NOW!" He hissed.

Yami Bakura snickered as he watched.

"Hey Joey?" Yami said again.

"What Yami?" Joey said in an annoyed voice.

"Do you have any allergies?" Yami asked.

"Yeah, Pineapple." He said.

"Uh Oh.." Mai said.

"What?" Joey said.

"This mix have pineapple in it." Mai said.

"WHAT!" Joey said. "You're trying to kill me with shampoo!"

Joey's face had broke out into hives and was now burning. "Get in the water Joey!" Yami shouted.

Joey dove into the bigger bucket and nearly drowned himself in the process. When he came up the hives were gone but his face was all red and blotchy.

"Maybe the next one will do better." Mai said.

"Forget it!" Joey said. "The next one might kill me!"

"But our deal!" Mai said.

"Forget the damn deal! I'd rather yearn from afar than a date from the emergency room." He said and stormed off.

Mai turned to Yami. "You're turn."

"Oh Dear Ra." He said.

"Mai put the greeny blue mixture in Yami's hair. Yami was tense and nervous. Only fearing what would happen to his precious hair. He began to relax. "This isn't so bad." He said.

"See. And you were all worried." She cooed.

Suddenly, "AHHHH!"

"What? What is it?"

"It burns!"

"What?"

"It burns! It burns!" He screamed. "AHHH!" and dove into the next bucket.

"Hmmm. Guess that one is no good either." Mai said.

"Well no kidding. This is getting too dangerous." Yami Bakura said. He began to stand up but Mai pinned him back down. "One more. Just one more." She said.

She put the red-brown goo into his hair and began to rub it in. "Well?"

"No fumes."

"Good"

"No Allergic reactions."

"Good."

"No intense blinding antagonizing pain."

"Good."

"Mai?"

"Yeah?"

"I think you got it." He said.

"Yay!" She shouted. "Go wash it out."

He went and did so then dried his hair. He looked up at Mai who was staring at him pale faced.

"What? Is it falling out?"

"No."

"What's wrong then?"

"Nothing." She said.

"You're lying."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

"I'm uhhh. It's just uhhhh." She stuttered. "I'm just so excited. I have to go get it copyrighted right away!" And she ran off.

Yami Bakura shrugged and walked over to the fire where the boys were cooking. "How's dinner coming?" Yami Bakura asked.

"Good." Seto said not looking up.

Malik looked up and stared at Yami Bakura for a moment then burst out laughing.

"What?" Yami Bakura asked.

Seto looked up with a straight face. His face twitched then he grinned. Finally he couldn't hold it in any longer and joined Malik on the ground rolling in laughter.

"What's so funny?"

Seto reached over and picked up Mai's hand mirror (which she'd forgotten about and handed it to Yami Bakura. Yami Bakura stared into the mirror. His hair was bright red like Bozo the clowns.

"Mai!" He screamed.

END OF CHAPTER 9

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