AN: Heeeeere goes! I'm so excited!
The guitarist pulled away as Bakura was shouting "Thank you, Europe!"
They went straight to the green room once the performance was over. 3 more acts were set to perform before the voting began.
As they took a seat in the green room. Seto looked for the guitarist. He wasn't there.
"Where'd he go?" Seto asked.
"Travis?" Mokuba asked.
"Is that his name?" Seto asked.
"You're talking about the guitarist, right? Yeah. That's him." Bakura said.
"I don't know where he left." Mokuba said.
"Did you see that, Joey?!" Yugi said.
"Nah, I missed the whole thing. But oh well." Joey said.
Fifteen minutes later, "Travis" returned.
"Well done, Travis!" Bakura and Mokuba said.
"Thank you!" Travis said. He spoke with a British accent.
Seto was a little disappointed after he heard Travis speak.
"So it's not him..." Seto thought.
Seto couldn't stop thinking about Joey. Especially after Travis came along. Why on earth did this fellow remind him so much of Joey?
He looked into Travis' eyes.
"They're blue. But weren't they brown the day before?" Seto thought.
Travis looked at Seto. Though his face was covered (well, part of it) by a mask, you could still see that he had sad eyes.
"Maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me." Seto thought.
They enjoyed the three remaining performances. Bakura grew really nervous when the hosts announced "Europe, start voting now!"
"I wonder what Joey is doing now? Is he watching?" Seto thought.
Mokuba and Bakura noticed Seto looked really sad.
"What's the matter, Nii-sama?" Mokuba asked.
"Joey..." Seto said.
Mokuba didn't say anything. He just hugged Seto.
Travis and Bakura were having a conversation.
It was time for the scores to be announced.
Bakura and his posse were paying very close attention.
"Let's see how the juries of each country voted! First we go to Sweden! Good Evening, Loreen!"
"Oh my god, it's Loreen!" Seto said as he was fangirling.
"Not now, Seto!" Bakura, Mokuba, and Travis said.
"Good Evening, Europe! Stockholm calling! Here is how the Swedish Jury voted!" Loreen said. The points were being distributed.
"And twelve points from the Swedish jury go to...The United Kingdom!" Loreen announced.
The camera showed Bakura and the guys happily celebrating and waving flags. Bakura blew a kiss.
"Alright, Bakura!" Yugi, Grandpa and Mai shouted.
The points were being announced with Bakura getting a handful of twelve points from some of the countries. They showed the scoreboard and he was currently in second place behind Sweden. Four more countries were left and then the televote results were also left.
"Now we go to Israel! Good Evening, Ofer! May we have your vote, please?" One of the hosts said.
"Good Evening Alex and Vova!" Ofer shouted.
Seto felt a little sad at Ofer's announcement hinting that Israel might not return next year.
"That's sad. They've sent a lot of entries that I like." Seto thought.
"...And twelve points from Israel go to...The United Kingdom!" Ofer said.
Bakura and his posse kept cheering, celebrating, and he kept blowing kisses.
"The United Kingdom!"
"The UK!"
"United Kingdom!"
"And Twelve Points go to The United Kingdom!"
Bakura was now in the lead.
"Take off his mask!" a little voice in Seto's head kept saying.
"It's not him." Seto thought.
"I'll be back. I'm going to call Mummy real quick."
Seto felt an urge to get up.
"Seto, stay here!" Mokuba said.
In the audience:
"Now da televote's next! Do ya think Bakura can win?" Joey asked.
"I hope so!" Yugi said.
"I just made a bet with the man next to me. If Bakura wins, I will win $5000." Grandpa said
Yugi almost had a heart attack. So did Mai.
"Are ya betting da whole game shop?!" Joey said rather surprised.
"Hey, this old man is making bets. He thinks the UK can win." a guy said.
He brought ten other guys with him.
"Hello, gentlemen." Grandpa greeted them.
"I'll bet you $100,000 that Sweden will win." A man said.
"No way, I'll bet you guys $750,000 that Italy will win. He's the bookies' favorite." Another man said.
"I'm putting $750,000 on Azerbaijan."
"I'm putting $200,000 on Italy."
"I'm putting $500,000 on Sweden."
The bets were coming in and Yugi wanted to die.
"You're on!" Grandpa said.
Yugi fainted.
"Now we have our top ten..." The hosts announced.
"97 points go to Denmark." The hosts said.
"101 points go to Sweden."
"105 points go to Azerbaijan."
The guy who bet on Azerbaijan saw that there was no way that Azerbaijan could win, so he handed $750,000 to Grandpa. Mai counted the stack of money to make sure it was $750,000. It was $750,000.
"Now to our top three!"
"197 points go to..." (after a slight pause) "Italy!"
The guys who bet on Sweden saw that Sweden couldn't win, so they paid grandpa.
"Woohoo!" Grandpa shouted.
Ishizu and Mai burst out laughing as they were counting the money.
Yugi woke up.
"365 points go to..." (10 second pause) "Portugal!"
The guy who bet on Italy paid Grandpa.
"...And now we have the United Kingdom left!" The host announced. Bakura gulped. Mokuba was doing the math.
"He needs 398 points in order to beat Portugal." Mokuba thought.
"The" (pause) "United Kingdom" (pause) "gets" (another pause)
"Just spill it already!" Travis said to himself.
"403 points!" The host said.
"You did it, Bakura!" Mokuba shouted. He immediately kissed Bakura and Travis followed suit with Seto.
"The winner of Eurovision 2017 is The United Kingdom!" The hosts announced.
"Yeaaaahhhhh!" Grandpa, Yugi and the rest of the guys shouted.
Ten other men were paying Grandpa. He made two million dollars from bets that night. He was really happy. Yugi swore that he felt like a heart attack was coming, but he was happy for Bakura and for his grandpa.
"Congratulations, Mr. Muto! Remind me to never make a bet with you." Mai chuckled. Ishizu hugged Grandpa.
Bakura went up on stage to give his "winner's speech" and his crew were ready to perform with him.
"I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart." Bakura said and gave everyone a teary-eyed smile.
The stage was set for him to perform.
The song was starting and Travis kept walking closer to Seto with his guitar. Bakura started to sing.
Suddenly, the light hit Seto and Travis. Seto took Travis' mask off immediately.
AN: Oh dear! I just had to do it. Also, I know that Portugal won this year. I loved Portugal's entry. It was one of my favorites, but for the sake of this fic, I wanted Bakura to win. Hahaha.
Again, thanks for the reviews! As soon as I remember how to reply to the reviews (Ill read them on my emails, but for some odd reason, I can't seem to reply to them as I don't remember where exactly to do that here. ) I'll reply. I want to give you a personal 'thank you.' I will continue this in a few minutes. I just wanted to finish this chapter. Hahahahahaha.
