Chapter Six- Scenes From A Hat

As promised, this chapter is a bit long so… enjoy. This chapter also has a comment about "Funny Bunnies," meant as a joke, not as a bashing… thanks…

The camera focuses on the stage, where Mina now stands "Tonight's winner is Marik Ishtar!" she says, as cheers from the audience start up and the camera focuses on Marik.

Marik, who is in the chair, smile softly, looking into the camera "And now for "Scenes from a hat"" he says bringing out a yellow sombrero with a blue feather, filled with paper to the brim, randomly picked one and read it out loud ""What would happen if Joey was killed"" (several D.D.M. references… kinda gets odd… to say the least…)

Mina motions for Yami and comes onto the stage dressed like Kaiba "Please… I swear I didn't kill him. I may have despised him, but I…" she says, standing on her tiptoes (he is four inches taller than Mina…) a buzzer soon follows

Yami Steps towards the middle of the stage "And, he never got to defeat Kaiba" he says to laughter from the audience, especially Kaiba (who is on stage).

Mina comes in dressed as Yugi and on her knees "Joey… Nnnnooo… Someone wake me up and tell me this is all a dream…" laughter follows as Mina stands up and says "Kaiba, how could you…" and storms of in a Yami like manner.

The buzzer soon follows as Marik draws another slip.

Marik reads the slip aloud ""What Joey would say if Mai went on a date with him""

"Oh, well, now wat?" comes Joey's accent as clear as crystal.

"Oh, now I truly know how much Mai cares about me, how ever much she tries to deny it." Mina says, indicating Mai in the audience, who growled softly.

"Really?" Kaiba says, pretending to faint again (he did it in Chapter Five).

"I'm not sure he would say that… but okay…" Mina says with an unsure tone.

Marik picks another slip, reading it for all the crazy "contestants" on stage ""What Mina would do if she had a rematch with Joey"" he said, to many a giggle from the audience, remembering how she got her butt kicked…

Mina motions for Joey, and pretends to set a card on her duel disk, adding "I play the Seal of Orichalcos." (Thank you to who ever invented Closed Captioning!)

Joey acts all shocked and says "Not dat ting again!" as he backs away and pretends to run into the Seal and falls on his face, laughter soon follows.

Kaiba says with a high voice "How could I lose to him again?"

Mina death stares "I don't know, how could you lose to him at all?"

Marik reads the last one for the game ""What if… what would happen if…" at this he pauses to gulp slightly ""Marik's evil side"" (AKA Malik in thisinstance) ""returned""

Mina comes on dressed as Mai "Malik, just leave me alone, just no more Shadow Games…ah…" she runs off and returns, speaking in a much deeper voice and brandish the rod "Wheeler, I will… defeat you…" she points the Rod at him softly.

Joey opens his trap with "How dare you pretend to be Mai, you don't know anything!"

Mina replies in a slightly deeper voice "Don't test my patience, Wheeler, you shall find yourself in a world of hurt."

Joey, in his infinite "wisdom" replies "You can't hurt me… augh…" he screams as Mina starts to control his mind bit by bit

Mina replies in a dark tone "Shut up, you mutt, and bow!" she says, looking at the rod's glow.

Joey in a slightly deep voice replies "Never!"

The Rod at this point is glowing brighter "bow you mongrel!" Mina says, pointing it more intently at his heart.

Joeyslowly bows and says in the same simi-deep voice "yes, of course," giving in to the dark influence of the Rod.

Mina says "That's right, bow to the new Pharaoh!" while staring darkly at the bowing shadow.

Joey says in a conquered version of a deep voice "all hail Pharaoh Mina!" At this the confusion of the scene escalates.

Kaiba adds "What's going on?" looking slightly confused at the fact that anyone would be able to control the rod except for Marik.

Yami responds to Kaiba's question with "Mina's gone over board because Joey pissed her off, and now she's going to…"

Mina interrupts whatever would ruin her "victory" over the "mutt" "Shut up; or you're next!"

Yami replies by stepping in front of Mina "That's enough Mina, don't make me take that rod from you…"

Mina says "Go ahead and try, Pathetic Yami" Yami attempts to take the rod from Mina, who in turn knocks him down with Mental Blast Wave(D.T.)

Yami replies weakly "Marik, can you buzz us and bring Mina back to reality?"

The "Buzzer" sound emanates, making the "host" more angry at the situation and pushing her far beyond the reach of sanity.

Mina replies darkly "Blast that infernal contraption…" as she Mind Blasts the Buzzer Button

Yami looks into Mina's eyes "Mina, snap out of it, NOW" At this, he waves his hand slowly in front of her face, for which she slaps him in the face, hard… Her eyes were ghost white, which in its own right should have warned of her wrath.

Marik Stands up and walks towards Mina and grabs the Rod, this time, Mina lets go and her voice returns to normal

Mina shakes her head softly, adding "Sorry Yami, I don't know what came over me…"

Yami rubs the red mark she left on his face with a simple "its okay…"

Joey, who has also regained hisnormal voice, replied "Shouldn't you also apologize to me?"

Mina sighs softly "Sorry, Joey… I wouldn't have done that if I was truly in my right mind. Marik… I honestly think that your evil side will never return. Kaiba, I'm not sure what to say to ya' but, eh…" she shrugs softly, the tine of humor soon returning.

Marik sighs more relieved then he had been in a while "So it's over now?" He asked, holding out the rod softly.

Mina replies, ruffling the hair on the back of her neck softly "Well, I'm thinking about doing several more games, but no more Shadow Magic… Yikes…"

Yami replies with "Here, here" in agreement, the red mark still apparent after the rubbing.

Marik rolls his eyes softly, adding "Well, that's all for tonight's show… stay tuned for "When Funny Bunnies Attack…" after a word from our sponsors" Laughter comes from all directions as the camera zooms out, afterwards he gives the rod back to Yami.

(Back Stage)

Mina says, ruffling her hair more "I promise not to use the Rod unless I have to, Yami…" At this, she sighed, fiddling with the crystal on her neck.

Yami replies "Good… Also, no more pretending to be Mai or Malik for you!" holding the Rod out with a concerned look towards Mina.

Mina replies "Fair enough!" and takes the Rod with a sly glimmer in her eyes. "It's a promise, besides; I'm certainly nothing like Mai…" At this, everyone laughed that had come backstage with her "what'd I say…"

"Mina, you are a dragoness with the temper of Mai…" Kaiba said, Joey nodding, for once agreeing with his rival.

"No, I have my own temper, it just I can't control it…" she said, looking at the Rod in her right hand. "I promise I'll try though…"

Yay, first game is done… more to come… I promise! This chapter was changed a bit, but only at the end to kind of wrap the game up… Kaiba is sort of right though, but only half way, you'll see what I have planned…