Hello Everyone! I realize that in my chapters, I sometimes spell something wrong when I was trying to spell something right. Like when I write, 'our' I end up putting 'out' so if you think I have problems…I don't! Its just that I don't read them over just to make sure its right, because in my head, I know its right, until later on, that's when I realize I spelled it wrong. So from now on, I'm going to read my chapters over and over again to make sure I spell them right! I don't have spelling problems, but it's these darn evil typos! They must all die! …uh…here's chapter 40. Read and enjoy.
Chapter 40: Spirit Guardian One: Mako and his Show
The gang arrived back at Domino City to find Mako, Mai, Espa, and Vivan. Alister, Rafael, and Valon were going to pick them later on so everyone just walked out of the airport and thought for a moment.
"Well," said Yami, "Where should we look for them?"
"Beats me pharaoh," said Joey rubbing his hair, "We gotta look for them and fast so we can kick Aeru's butt!"
"Let's look around and ask some people if they saw them," suggested Tea.
The gang nodded and headed towards the main city of Domino. Once there, the gang looked everywhere and asked anyone that might know where they might be. Some shook their head not knowing who they were or where they were and others just shrugged because some were tourists. The gang soon met with each other and asked each other if they got any info.
"Sorry guys, I got nothing on them," said Tristan.
"Nothing going on at the main street," said Ryou.
"Nothing," said Duke crossing his arms.
"They got to be here somewhere," said Tea looking around.
"Hey guys! What about this," asked Marik staring at a poster.
The gang went up to Marik, Ishizu, and Odion looking up at the poster. It was poster of a show that was going to play at the Domino Aquarium Center and when they saw a person on the poster, they found one of their Spirit Guardians, Mako Tsunami. The poster showed a huge wave with Mako riding on a killer whale and at the bottom of the poster showed the times when the show will start and the top of the poster said, Grand Opening for the Domino Aquarium Center.
"Mako is at the Aquarium! Let's go see him," yelled Joey running towards the Domino Aquarium.
"Yo Joey! Wait for us man," yelled Tristan running after him.
"Hey you two! Wait for us instead," yelled Tea.
The gang ran after the two and soon after, the gang reached the Domino Aquarium. The Domino Aquarium was huge blue building and of course, there was a huge line at the ticket center for the Aquarium Center. The building itself was made out of hard solid marble mixed with a sky blue color, dark blue, sapphire, and when the sunlight hit the Aquarium, the marble gave a nice sparkly light. The gang was impressed of this new place and went in line to get tickets. However, Joey was complaining due to the long line and not bringing any money with him.
"Chill Joey, I'm sure the tickets are not that expensive," said Duke waving his hand around.
"Wha ya talking bout Duke? I'm sure ya didn't bring any money with ya," said Joey crossing his arms smirking at Duke.
"Look everyone, the line is moving now," said Ryou clapping his head, though they only moved an inch and Ryou just sweat dropped, "Um, maybe not…"
30 minutes have passed since the gang was still in line to get the tickets, but soon after, they were next. The gang looked up at the sign, which they couldn't believe their eyes. On the sign it was $23.00 for just a single, $30 for a one-week pass, and $50 dollars for a one year pass. The gang couldn't believe it, how were they supposed to pay that much money if they only had money below $20? Yami went through his pocket trying to find money, not that he knew what money looked like because back then, when Yugi took him to Tea for a tour, before Battle City had ever started and before they went to the Egyptian Museum to meet Ishizu for the first time, Tea mostly spent everything on him, for the shakes he got, the cards when he got Life Force Sword, a trap card, and all that other stuff (remember that Episode? It was the episode when Tea and Yami almost went to some kind of nearly-date thing and Yami got cards, met Ishizu and Seto started the battle city tournament? And when Tea faced Johnny Steps in that Dance Contest in the Arcade? That's the one!).
"I got nothing," said Tea checking through her purse.
"What does this money look like," asked Yami in concern.
"Ya never seen money before Pharaoh," yelled Joey in awe, "Wow! You need some catching up to do!"
"Hello my friends," yelled a familiar voice.
The gang turned around and saw Mako walking towards them. Mako changed differently after the last time they met with him dueling with Espa Roba against those two duelists. Mako wore a blue headband with wavy lines on them that look like sea waves, a dark blue vest, but nothing underneath it, blue wristbands on each wrist with wavy lines also, blue jeans, and was barefoot.
"Mako! Good to see ya man! And it's a good think ya got rid of that skirt, it was sort of creeping me out," said Joey shriving just thinking about it, but that made Mako a little mad.
"That was no skirt Wheeler! That 'skirt' was my shorts, but in way of a skirt," yelled Mako.
"Sure…whatever girly man," whispered Joey. Mako gave a small glare at Joey and faced the gang.
"What brings you here my landlubber friends," smiled Mako, "Here to check out the new Domino Aquarium and my show?"
"Sort of, but we needed to see you too Mako. We want to ask you something," said Yami.
"Wave away my King of Games friend," smiled Mako.
But before Yami could speak, one the workers of the Aquarium came up to Mako and told him the show was about to start in less than 10 minutes. Mako nodded and faced his friends, "I'm terribly sorry my friends, but the sea creatures are waiting for me to entertain these people. Perhaps you can come and watch my show?"
"We would want to Mako, but we didn't bring any money with us to buy some tickets," said Tristan.
"Do not worry my friends! Just follow me. They'll let you trough," smiled Mako.
Mako headed towards the Aquarium with the gang following him. Once they were inside, the gang were quiet amazed of the inside. It was a long huge hall of nothing but pure water. At the side, walls were replaced with clear, strong glass to hold the water from breaking and drowning everyone. Sea creatures were swimming around, a school of fishes swimming fast, a couple of sharks swimming around, jellyfish just floating over there, etc. There were different kinds of species swimming in the huge pool and everyone, except for Mako due to his bound with the sea, couldn't help themselves, but stare and stare until they reached the very end.
The gang couldn't help but do a small 'gasp' as they saw a huge round pool with a huge large screen at the far side and seats for thousands of people to watch, which of course, there was thousands of people waiting for the show to start. Mako lead his friends up the stairs into a small, room and opened the door for them. Inside were nice furniture's with a mini-bar at the far left side of the room, a long table of all-you-can-eat-buffet, a long clear window for the viewer to see more clearly at the pool and small screen TV's hanging from the ceiling for the viewer to see the show in many different angles. The gang walked around the room never getting this kind of luxury. Tea sat on the couch and the couch started to move in wavy way and Tea couldn't help but giggle.
"Hey guys! The couch is a waterbed! Or a waterchouch," giggled Tea.
Mako smiled seeing his friends enjoy this nice paradise and left the room while closing the door behind him. After like 10 minutes, the screen went on outside and inside the room where Yami and the others were staying. They saw one of the staff members walk towards some kind of board and opened his arms to everyone. Everyone cheered and soon after, raised his hands to stop the people for clapping and began to speak from his headset.
"Ladies and Gentlemen," yelled the staff member, "And of course, little children! Are you ready for some water entertainment!"
The crowd was growing wild because they were all shouting and clapping their hands in excitement. The staff member gave a small chuckle and spoke again.
"Then get ready folks, for the splash of your lifetime! He is a volunteer hoping to entertain you all! His name you ask? Is MAKO TUSANMI!"
The staff member walked away and a huge gate opened. Two gray dolphins came out and as soon as they came out, Mako was on them standing on their backs as if they were jet skis, but one thing, he wasn't holding on anything. Mako was balancing well when the dolphins moved in a fast way and everyone clapped and shouted never seeing anyone done that before on two dolphins without holding onto something. After that, Mako jumped in the air and the two dolphins jumped up with him and the two dolphins gave two somersaults and Mako landed on a tall platform. He grabbed a huge ring and the dolphins jumped in the air and went through the ring, one at a time of course. Mako put his ring down and opened his arms to everyone, who were still clapping their hands in total amazement.
"Wow…his good," said Marik rubbing his chin.
"That's Mako! He loves the water so much," said Tea clapping her hands.
"Impressive for such a duelist," said Ishizu.
"Indeed Mistress Ishizu," said Odion nodding.
Mako raised his hand at everyone waving at them and smiling at them. After a while, everyone stopped and Mako started to speak.
"Thank you everyone for enjoying that 'small presentation'," smiled Mako, "But I fear that there is another one far better than this! Who wants to see it!"
Again, the crowd was growing wild. Clapping hands together, and cheering "Show us now! Show us now!" Mako nodded to everyone and nodded to the staff members. However, they were feeling nervous because what Mako was asking for was dangerous and for one thing, he was just volunteering. He doesn't even work over there! And yet, they allowed him to, but if something bad happened to him, they would just say, "Well it was his idea." The staff members walked to some kind of switch and pressed it. It gave a loud buzzing sound and a huge gate opened and when the gate opened, a great white shark came out of it and started to swim around the pool really fast. The crowd gasped and started to get scared knowing what he was thinking and of course, inside the room, this made the gang nervous.
"Please don't tell me what I'm thinking is what his thinking," yelled Joey.
"That depends. Are you thinking about food? Or your not thinking at all," asked Duke laughing hard. Joey glared at Duke and looked back at Mako, but soon after, Duke turned serious, "Seriously, I don't know Joey. This guy is about to lose his life."
"That's dangerous man! They shouldn't even allow him to do that! Better yet, they shouldn't EVEN do that," yelled Tristan.
"I hope he doesn't get hurt," said Ryou getting scared.
/Doesn't get hurt? FOOL! How can he get hurt from a shark? All what that shark can do is simply grinned his teeth into his flesh and eat him, that poor foolish man! Hahaha! I hope that fool gets eaten for that foolish mistake he ended putting himself into/ grinned Bakura hoping to see his wish come true.
The great shark was banging its head on the plastic wall, though it was too strong for it, but even though the wall was too strong for the shark to break, this made the people scared and some were beginning to panic.
"Do not fear my landlubbers! This will onlytake a second," laughed Mako, "What I will be doing is none other than try to rub this dangerous sea creatures tummy for 10 seconds!"
The crowd couldn't believe what they heard, swim up to that creature and rub it's tummy for 10 seconds? To them, that was impossible, crazy, stupid, and idiotic. Mako winked at the crowd and dived underwater.
Yami was watching Mako on the clear screen plasma TV that was hanging from the wall seeing Mako all clammed swimming up to the beast. Tea was getting scared and the gang couldn't help, but watch in horror as they saw their friend swimming to the shark.
"Dead man swimming," whispered Duke.
Mako was getting closer to the shark and soon after, the shark started to pick up Mako's scent and turned around facing him. Once it saw him, it quickly swam up to him in top speed opening his mouth. Mako stopped and just swam still waiting for the right time to get closer to him. The shark got closer and closer by every second passing by and the crowd got scared feeling their hearts pump seeing the poor fool get killed by the shark. Mako gave a small grin and made a quick turn and grabbed the shark's fin on it's back (I forgot what's it called, but I know the fin on those kind of sea creatures have a name, but I forgot what) and was holding tight because the shark was now swimming faster and moving around making him get off. If the shark manages to shake off Mako, he can kiss his sorry sea deck good-bye. Mako slowly moved towards it tummy by putting his arms around the shark tightly and moving to his front while still holding on the shark. This time, the shark was swimming towards the plastic wall so it could place its stomach against it. Mako had to move fast or this was it for him. Mako let go of one hand and rubbed the great white shark's tummy. This made the shark to clam down and started to swim in a slow pace. Mako gave a small smile and then, it hit him. His breath was running low. Guessing by his time, Mako had only maybe less than 5 seconds of air in his lungs left. Mako was nearly done, but he couldn't hold his breath any longer, but he had too, for his sake and promising to the crowd. 5…4…3…2…1! That was it! 10 seconds have passed and Mako quickly let go the shark and started swimming to the surface trying to get his breath. The shark woke up from feeling Mako's hands on it tummy and picked up his scent again. The shark swam towards him a hurry opening its jaw, but Mako had finally made it. The staff members quickly pulled Mako out of the pool and the shark jumped out of the water and saw Mako lying on the floor. The shark nearly had Mako until two other staff members fired a two shots at the beast. The shark closed its mouth and fell on the floor next to Mako. The first two members who took out Mako from the pool saw two darts on the shark. The first two workers gave a thumbs up to the second two and the second two gave them a thumbs up right back at them. But the crowd were still silent waiting for Mako. The gang moved closer to the screen TV or wall waiting for Mako to wake up. No response. Everyone looked down and so did the gang knowing that Mako…was gone. But then, everyone heard a soft laugh. The crowd and the gang looked back up and Mako got from the floor sitting up. He gave a soft laugh spitting out water and gave a thumbs up to the crowd. The crowd cheered in relief, but still couldn't believe what Mako was able to achieve that seemed impossible to others and to them. The gang yelled in happiness seeing their friend alright.
"His alright! Thank Ra that his alright," yelled Yami smiling.
Mako waved to everyone and gave a scared sigh. He couldn't believe what he just did and what his been through.
Great. I nearly got myself killed by that hungry sea beast! Never again shall I step into a pool with a shark and do crazy things! I will never go up to those workers and tell them that I want to do something stupid for the audience, thought Mako sighing in relief that his was still alive and giving himself a pinch just to make sure he WAS still alive.
After the show…The seats were empty and Mako was sitting a cube shape box as a chair with a blanket over him drinking a cup of Hot Coco and staring at the water. Yami and the gang went up to him and started to yell at him, well, mostly Joey, Tristan, and Tea for that stupid stunt his just pulled.
"You nearly got ya self killed Mako" yelled Joey, "Whatever made ya to do stupid stuff like tha?"
"Yeah! You could've got killed," yelled Tristan.
"You nearly scared us to death," yelled Tea getting a piece of Mako.
Mako laughed and got up onto his feet and smiled at them. The gang couldn't believe he would still smile and laugh what he just been through.
"Let's say it was the way of the sea that made me do something like that," laughed Mako.
"Heh, of course Mako. We know you very well that you like the sea very much, regardless if the sea turns its back on you," smiled Yami.
Mako smiling and noticed the three Egyptians. And also Ryou and Duke. Mako forgot to ask them who they were since he never meant them due to the fact he only meant Yugi, Joey, Tea, and Tristan back at Duelist Kingdom and during the Battle City Tournament.
"Aren't you going to introduce me to your new friends guys," smiled Mako.
"Oh no! I can't believe we forgot! You guys never meant! Sorry for introducing you to them. Mako, this is Marik Isthar, Ishizu Ishtar, and Odion Ishtar (Odion is part of Marik's and Ishizu's family right? Not by blood, though right?). And these two over here is Ryou Bakura, the white haired, and Duke Devlin, the creator of DDM, or known as Dungeon Dice Monsters," smiled Tea.
"Nice to meet you all," said Mako.
"Nice to meet you too," smiled Ryou shaking hands with Mako.
"Pleasure's all mine," said Duke wiping his nose and grinning.
"Nice to meet you Mako Tsunami," greeted Marik.
"Enchanted to meet you," said Ishizu.
"Great meeting with you," said Odion giving a small wave.
"Of course, to you all the same," smiled Mako, "Now my friends. Before my show started, what did you guys wanted to ask?"
"Oh yeah! We nearly forgot about that," yelled Joey.
"We need your help Mako," said Yami.
"What kind of help King of Games," asked Mako.
"You see, there is this crazy guy who is trying to take over the world! Not you might not believe us and you may think were crazy, but were telling the truth Mako," said Tea.
"His name is Aeru and there is this black hooded freaks that call themselves the Dark Force. Reminds you of the rare hunters," said Tristan.
Mako thought for a while and turned his back on his friends.
"I do not know this Aeru or this kind of help you are asking my friends," said Mako speaking to them behind his back, "But, I felt a disturbance from the sea…"
"A disturbance," asked Marik.
"Before I volunteered to entertain these people, I was at the beach," said Mako, "Something in me told me to go over there, so I did. As soon as I got there…the waves at sea felt terrified. The sea I felt was not feeling well and the waves were acting unusually…"
"You can tell what goes on in the sea," asked Ishizu in surprised.
"I don't really know how to say this really, but let's say, it's like a part of me, a part of my soul and part of my deck," said Mako turning to face them, "I don't really know what is going on in the sea, but I do feel something within the sea. Something awful and I plan to find out what this is…"
"So will you help us," asked Yami.
Mako nodded and continued, "Of course. I want to know what is causing the seas to shake in fear and I wan to know more about this Aeru you speak of. I will join you my friends in this fight of yours…"
The gang nodded to each and Mako nodded back to them. Altogether started heading off to find the other duelists. Just a few more and they will heading to Aeru's base…
End of Chapter 40Ok! I checked over this chapter to see if I have any problems…so far, so good. No problems yet. Hope you guys liked it. Reviews please! I really want them! Many welcomes from you all!