Sekhmet: So. Last chapter happened and now we have this. Despite the ongoing...things happening, it was actually kind of fun to write some of this dialogue.
Susano-o: King of the Hill is best anime ever don't me.
Sekhmet: It's not an anime, it has its origins in America, therefore it's a cartoon. Don't ME. That being said, I'll admit it is a pretty funny cartoon.
Susano-o: Black Lagoon is also awesome.
Sekhmet: Yes, I like that exchange. Sorry this week's chapters are late, I was in the city for a baseball game and was absolutely pooped when I got to the hotel. On with the show!
Duel 27: The Final Destination
"That fucking bitch!" Rose ranted as she paced at runt in Alexis's rug. "Her fucking demure japanese princess act caused all this shit and she has the Obelisk damned nerve to blame me when I take the fucking initiative to fix the fucking problem!" She yelled grabbing a pillow off Alexis's couch and screaming into it.
"Rose you did give her crush a lapdance in front of everyone," Alexis rationalized. "And spiked the drinks."
"I thought I used enough to make everyone calm, not turn them into douchebags!" Rose yelled. "I was barely paying attention to that duel because Atticus can't mix a damn karaoke machine to save his life!"
"Rose you need to calm down before you have an aneurysm," Alexis said sighing. "Look I'm gonna go get us some ice cream," She said standing up. "You take some time to calm down," She ordered.
"Fuck that!" Rose yelled. "I am an eternal flame of rage! I am a death machine made of hate and fuck! I PISS FIRE AND I SHIT THUNDER!"
Alexis sighed as she walked out of the room, ignoring the rest of Rose's rant which was slowly devolving into a rant about anything and everything she could think of.
…
Yuko screamed into her pillow. She felt nothing but embarrassment and anguish. "How could she? She made a fool out of me! I have no chance anymore! None!"
"Yuko, that's far from the truth. Rose was trying to help you...In her own strange way" Syrus said, still blushing a bit.
"Well she shouldn't have! I was doing fine without her! She doesn't care about anything but her own entertainment!" Yuko said.
"You know that's not true." Syrus said.
"She's gone too far this time. This isn't a fucking joke!" Yuko said.
"Please calm down, Yuko." Syrus said. Yuko just started crying again. He sighed.
...
"This is a nightmare," Alexis said sighing as she walked towards the cafeteria. "There's one Shadow Rider left and those two can't get over themselves long enough to finish this damn fight out first."
"Oh don't worry," A voice growled out from the shadows. "You won't have to worry about finishing this fight after I'm through with you."
Alexis gasped as a cloaked figure walked out of the shadow and in front of her. "Oh great," She said pulling out her duel disk. "Can this get any worse?"
"Oh it will," He laughed as he activated his duel disk.
…
"With a bucket of fish heads!" Rose finished with a deep breath as she looked around. "Alexis? Where did you go?" She asked looking around. "Oh shit did I go off again?" She muttered walking over to the door and walking out of the room. "Alexis? Where are you?" She asked walking down the hall and into the cafeteria, where she saw Alexis's cards laying on the floor. "Oh shit!" She yelled running towards the red dorms. "Gotta warn the others."
…
"Come on, let's go for a walk. It'll help you clear your head." Syrus said, holding Yuko's hand.
Yuko's face was angry red, but it conveyed only sadness. "Ok…"
The two walked out of her room to the sight of Midori's cards scattered around the main grounds of the red campus.
"Those are Midori's cards…" Yuko thought. She quickly turned around and practically threw Syrus back into the room. "Stay here. Hide in the closet, lock the door and don't open it for anyone." Yuko said.
"What? Yuko, aren't you overreacting?" Syrus asked.
"No, I'm keeping you safe." She said, and closed the door. "Now where the hell is this fuck?"
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"Guys he's here!" Rose yelled running into the dorms. "The final Shadow Rider is here!"
"We know," Syrus said from the window. "They got Midori!"
"Fuck and Alexis," Rose hissed. "That leaves Bitch, Chazz, and me with keys, and the ones on the USS M'DICK….oh shit!" She yelled running towards the docks.
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Yuko ran through the forest. "If I was a Shadow Rider, spooky forests are where I'd hide, right?" Yuko asked herself as she ran through the underbrush.
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"Shit shit shit shit!" Rose yelled as she scrambled into her submarine, where she found the safe torn open. "Oh son of a bitch!" She yelled running over to the V.H.S. Betamax and taking off into the sky. "You ain't getting away with this one!" She yelled flicking the spotlight on.
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"Where are you, asshole!" Yuko yelled. "I'm ready to fucking kill myself!"
Suddenly a bright spotlight covered forest. "Come out come out wherever you are!" Rose yelled from her airship.
"Will you stop? I'm trying to kill myself here!" Yuko said.
"You can kill yourself after I beat this asshole!" Rose yelled back. "He's got our friends, Chazz is still AWOL, and I want to end this fucking nightmare already!"
A sudden bright light erupted from across the forest. "That's the abandoned dorms!" Rose yelled flying forward. "You can go back to the dorms now, I don't need your suicidal ass slowing me down!" She ordered.
"Well too bad, you're getting it anyway!" Yuko said.
"No you can fuck off back to the dorms!" Rose ordered again. "If your plan is anything your others it's gonna fail anyway!"
Yuko said nothing but still ran towards the light.
…
"I told you to go away!" Rose yelled as she touched down outside the abandoned dorms.
"Don't feel like listening all of a sudden." Yuko said.
"All of a sudden? You act like that's not your modus operandi!" Rose snarked as she looked around the front yard for clues.
"You're the one who wanted me to stop being so demure." Yuko said.
"You should also know to respect when someone stronger than you gives you an order," Rose said getting right in Yuko's face. "You do it."
"You're not the boss of me. You're not my god, you're not my superior." Yuko replied. "My brother would be ashamed of you."
"Yeah well he's not here to save your ass!" Rose yelled. "I am! He's not gonna swoop in and deal with this threat this time! And between the two of us," She said grabbing Yuko by the front of her uniform. "I am your superior!"
"Then fucking act like it!" Yuko shouted. "You think you can intimidate and punch your way out of everything. There will come a time where that won't work, or worse, backfire! What happens then?"
Rose fumed as she dropped Yuko. "I don't have time to debate the philosophical merits of what type leadership works better than another!" She yelled walking towards the front door. "I may be a violent grudge holding cunt but at least I'm willing to take charge and take the lead!"
"Then we were both wrong!" Yuko said.
"You started this!" Rose yelled throwing the doors open and stamping through the entryway, taking note of Chazz's cards strewn about the hallway.
"By existing? Yeah, you would think that." Yuko muttered.
"No by acting all scared at something easy!" Rose yelled following the dusty footprints inside to the basement. "I had a bitch of a time asking Alexis out but that's because I am a literal useless lesbian, you're just wrapped up in your stupid notions about what a Japanese relationship should be like!"
"And you think I didn't have the same problem?!" Yuko said. "It just took me longer than you!"
"You kept fucking around and didn't seize the boy when you had the chance," Rose yelled. "I took my one chance when I had it, you didn't even need that since he's always been there! Also this is the worst time for you to have finally grown a backbone but I! Am! Proud! Of! You!" She yelled in Yuko's face.
Yuko was actually stunned by this. "What the hell do you mean proud of me? I thought you hated me!"
"I do but I can still be proud of you for growing a spine!" Rose yelled. "Now either sack up or fuck off!" She yelled kicking down the door to the basement. "We've got a Shadow Rider to beat!"
"Fine, but I reserve the right to still bitch about it." Yuko said, finally following Rose in.
Rose growled as she stamped down the stairs at into an odd laboratory that looked like a mixture of a modern science lab and a medieval alchemy laboratory.
"Where are you?" Rose sang looking around the room.
"Someone likes the old times." Yuko said, looking over some of the equipment.
"Look around," Rose ordered. Yuko grumbled internally but started looking around. She didn't find much other than beakers and test tubes. On the side, however, was a giant stone coffin. She opened it, and almost threw up.
"Rose, I think I found something…" Yuko said.
"What?" Rose asked looking away from the massive stone tablets of 3 monsters that looked like zombified or demonic versions of the Egyptian God cards. "What did you find?"
Yuko shined the flashlight in her PDA onto the body. "It's not a mummy, but it's familiar." She said.
"Oh shit," Rose said looking over the body. "Oh shit is that Banner?" Rose asked.
"I think so." Yuko said.
"Ah, and here they are," A voice said behind them. "The final two keys."
"The fuck did you do to our professor?" Yuko asked.
"What I did to him is irrelevant," He said activating his duel disk. "What's important is what I'm about to do to you."
"Alright my turn!" Rose said shoving Yuko away with all her might. "Ya'll been blue balling me since this adventure started! I've got balls like a mother fucking Smurf here, BALLS LIKE A SMURF!"
"Yeah I've got no objections to that." Yuko said.
"Very well," The Shadow Rider said throwing off his hood. "You will be next in line to feel the power of Amnael," He said holding up his Shadow Charm, a book. "Then I will trap your soul as well inside my Emerald Tablet."
"That's a book." Yuko said, raising her hand.
"It is a tablet," Amnael insisted.
"No, it's got pages, it's a book." Yuko said.
"It is called the Emerald Tablet," Amnael explained. "It is a translation of the original Emerald Tablet."
"Why does it have pages then?" Yuko asked.
"Because the original tablet is over twenty feet tall and had to be condensed into a smaller form," Amnael said. "It is a book, but it's called the Emerald Tablet."
"Ah, So it IS a book!" Yuko said, smirking and trying not to laugh.
"It is a tablet!" He yelled.
"I will shatter both of your shins!" Rose yelled at both of them. "Lets duel already!"
"Fine," Amnael said drawing his first hand. "I play 'Alchemic Kettle - Chaos Distill'!" He yelled activating his card, summoning a massive boiling kettle behind him. "Now all my cards that go to the graveyard are removed from play instead."
"Cool," Rose said. "How does that help you?"
"It lets me do this," He said playing three cards. "I activate, 'Steel Lamp', 'Bronze Scale' 'Lead Compass', these allow me to special summon 'Alchemy Beast - Salamandra the Steel, Ouroboros the Bronze, and Leon the Lead'(500/500)." He said as three monsters, a steel dragon, a bronze snake, and lead colored lion appeared in front of him.
"Ah shit," Rose muttered. "Please don't make a triple tribute."
"Oh don't worry, I won't be doing that yet," Amnael said. "I set a card and end my turn."
"Ok then?" Rose said drawing her card. "I play 'A Hero Lives' this allows me to pay half my life points to special summon a level 4 or lower 'Elemental Hero' from my deck so come on out 'Elemental Hero Shadow Mist' (1000/1500 (Rose LP: 8000-4000), and now when she's special summoned I get to add a 'Change' quick play spell card to my hand," She explained drawing the card. "Now I summon 'Elemental Hero Blazeman' (1200/1800) and when he's summoned I get to add a 'Polymerization' to my hand, now let's do this 'Blazeman' attack 'Alchemy Beast-Leon the Lead'!"
'Blazeman' reared back and fired out a barrage of small fast moving fireballs at the metal lion.
"And that's as far as you get," Amnael chuckled. "I activate 'Elemental Absorber'!" He said activating his trap card, summoning a small metal screw-like device with four spikes on top of it. "Now by removing a monster in my hand from play I can prevent any monster sharing it's attribute from attacking," He explained removing 'Spirit of Flames' which caused one of the spikes on his 'Elemental Absorber' to turn a glowing red, which locked onto 'Blazeman' and stopped him cold.
"Ok that's interesting," Rose muttered. "Well I can still use 'Shadow Mist' to destroy your 'Leon'!" She yelled as her monster sent a purple haze at Amnael's that quickly consumed it in shadows (Amnael LP: 8000-7500) "I place one card face down and end my turn."
"You don't see many banishment decks around. This'll be interesting." Yuko said.
"Oh glad to see you're having fun as our friends are stuck wander a book like the Pagemaster," Rose snarked.
"It's a tablet!" Amneal yelled.
"I can't do anything about it, can I?" Yuko snarked back. "I COULD walk into the book but that would be counterproductive."
"It. Is. A. Tablet!" Amneal yelled. "I'll make you learn this, I activate 'Tin Spell Circle', 'Mercury Hourglass', and 'Silver Key' to summon 'Alchemy Beast-Aretos the Tin', 'Ekenas the Mercury', and 'Moonface the Silver' (500/500)!" He yelled as three more beasts, a tin eagle, a quicksilver Echeneis, and a large silver anthropomorphic moon appeared on the field.
"Ok still don't know what they can do," Rose said raising an eyebrow.
"They can attack you directly that's what," Amneal said chuckling as all five of his beasts charged at Rose, slipping right through her monsters and hitting her directly (Rose LP: 4000-1500). "And now I end my turn."
"Well that sucks," Rose said drawing a card. "I play 'E-Emergency Call' to add an 'Elemental Hero' to my hand and then I'll use 'HERO's Bond' to summon two level 4 or lower Hero's, so come on out 'Elemental Hero Sparkman' (1600/1400) and 'Elemental Hero Ocean' (1500/1200)!" She yelled. "And I'll use 'Blazeman's' ability by sending a 'Elemental Hero' from my deck to my graveyard I can change 'Blazeman's' attribute, attack, and defense to that monsters and I think I'll send 'Elemental Hero Bladedge' (Blazeman Attribute: Fire-Earth 1200-2600/1800-1800). "Now my monsters are gonna fuck you up!"
'Blazeman' hit 'Ekenas', 'Ocean' hit 'Salamandra'''Sparkman' hit 'Ouroboros' and 'Shadow Mist' hit 'Moonface' (Amneal LP: 7500-5400-4400-3300-2800). The force of the attacks actually caused Amnael's mask to crack.
"Meow," someone said from behind them.
"Who's that?" Yuko asked, looking around. She saw Pharaoh at her feet. "Hey, What are you doing here?"
Pharaoh ran across the field and rubbed up against Amnael's legs.
"Pharaoh if you're using him as a scratch post, make sure to scratch up near his crotch really hard!" Rose said.
"Great, now he's got a cat minion, just like all the Bond villains do. There's no greater sign of evil!" Yuko said dramatically.
Then Amnael's mask cracked in two and his face was revealed to be Professor Banner.
"No fucking way." Yuko said, standing up.
"Yes you thought the final shadow rider was someone you didn't know!" Banner said smirking. "-But it was me Banner!" He yelled pointing to himself.
"BANNER!" Rose yelled as a fiery aura erupted around her.
"Hush girl you won't speak my name in vain again!" Banner yelled.
"You where a traitor all this time?" Rose yelled.
"Yes, I was working with the Shadow Rider's the entire time!" He yelled. "I knew where everyone's key was and what they were playing, how else do you think they knew the exact ways to beat you, or rather they would have if you didn't start turning them to your side and turning their advantages against us!"
"We're just that good," Rose smirked.
"Joke's on you, friendship is magic!" Yuko added.
"This is not My Little Pony!" Banner yelled. "-But it doesn't matter, this is my chance to get the Sacred Beast cards myself!" He laughed. "My curse will now be my blessing!"
"...I feel like we're missing some info here," Rose said scratching her head. "Well I guess I'll set a card and end my turn."
"Yeah I feel like I could benefit from a backstory." Yuko agreed.
"I was cursed when I found the ruins where the Sacred Beast were stored," He explained. "My body was slowly decaying, but with the power of dueling Alchemy I was reborn!"
"...Huh?" Rose asked.
"So are you a Homunculus or…?" Yuko asked.
"I am a god!" Banner yelled.
"HE IS MY DINNER!" Eraser yelled.
"His pancreas will be an excellent morsal for me to devour," Dreadroot agreed.
"I live with gods. You're not nearly eccentric enough to be one." Yuko said.
"You mortals will feel my wrath!" Banner yelled drawing his card. "I activate 'Chaos Greed' to draw two cards."
"Oh no you don't I use 'Masked Change' on 'Shadow Mist' to summon 'Masked Hero Dark Law' (2400/1800) Now since you drew outside your draw phase I get to send banish one random cards from your hand, so I choose the one on the left."
The card was 'The Rock Spirit'. "Very well, I now play 'Black Process-Negledo' to banish 'Aretos the Tin' to draw two more cards.
"And I get to send another, so I send the one on the right," This time it was 'Aqua Spirit'.
"Very well, I now activate 'White Process-Albedo' to summon 'The Golden Homunculus' to the field!" He yelled as a massive golden golem appeared on the field behind Banner (1500/1500). "And he gains an extra 300 attack and defense for each banished card of mine, and I believe I have 17 so that's an extra 5100!" (1500-6600/1500-6600).
"Oh shit," Rose muttered.
"Get that shit outta here!" Yuko said, more panicked than pushy.
"Shut up!" Rose yelled back. "I know what I'm doing!"
"Homunculus end this duel with Stone Shard Storm!" Banner yelled.
"Go 'Draining Shield'!" Rose yelled. "So I get those points as life points," (1500-8100).
"Yeet it outta existence!" Yuko said.
"Bitch you need glasses!" Rose yelled back. "It's still here!"
"I used to have some, I grew outta them cause I ate my carrots!" Yuko said.
"I wish you had also grown out of your stupid traditions! This is why the best dueling shit comes out of America we're willing to experiment and not be stuck is a system so rigid Christians are telling you to chill out!"
"I wish you'd grown outta messin with peoples shit all the time! Then you wouldn't be so pushy!" Yuko retorted.
"I pushed because you're all pussies!" Rose yelled. "Telling a boy you like him had to be a fucking spectacle with you instead of a simple yes or no conversation! Syrus had the self confidence of a worm and the survival instinct of one as too! Basiton fell into crippling depression because of a girl he knew for one day! Crower was a dick! And every blue student was an arrogant twat waffle!" Rose yelled counting them off with her fingers. "If I didn't push shit wouldn't have gotten done and the status quo would have remained! But apparently that makes me an asshole for changing shit up!"
"Then why does the almighty westerner even care?" Yuko said.
"Because I fucking love dueling and would sooner burn my deck then leave this school the way it was when I got here!" Rose yelled back. "You think anyone else would have made Crowler repair the red dorms? You think anyone else could have curtailed the blue dorms arrogance? I made my stance clear from day one and I've stuck to it this whole time!"
"If you fucking hate everyone why don't you just leave?!" Yuko said.
"Maybe I fucking will if all of you hate me that much!" Rose yelled drawing her card and the extra for 'Shadow Mist's' effect. "I'll go away and let you all go back to the way shit was!" She yelled. "For now though I activate 'Miracle Fusion' to fuse 'Shadow Mist and 'Bladedge' to summon 'Elemental Hero The Shining' (2600/2100)'!" She yelled summoning her newest Hero. "And he gains 300 attack for each banished monster" (2600-3200/2100). "Now I play 'Polymerization' to fuse 'Blazeman' and 'Avian' to make 'Elemental Hero Great Tornado' (2800/2200)!" She ordered as her one armed hero appeared on the field. "And he halves the attack and defense of each monster on my opponent's side of the field (Homunculus 6600-3300/6600-3300). "And now I play 'H-Heated Heart' to give 'Great Tornado' another 500 attack (2800-3300). "Now 'Great Tornado' attack his 'Homunculus' and 'The Shinning' attack directly!" (Amneal LP: 2800-0). "And that's the fucking game!" Rose yelled grabbing Amenal's book from his decaying body and flipping it open at full speed to let everyone out. "Now I'm gonna go fucking pack!" She yelled getting right in Yuko's face. "Take a good look, because this is the last time you'll ever see me!" She yelled before walking out of the basement.
"Good." Yuko said.
"Umm, what just happened?" Chazz asked confused.
….
"What is wrong with you two!" Midori yelled she force Yuko and Rose into two chairs in front of her.
"She's a bitch!" Rose yelled crossing her arms.
"She's an offensive stereotype." Yuko said.
"Oh I'm sorry misses 'Japanese women can't ask their crushes out as it isn't tradition'," Rose snarked. "There's a phone call for you from Mr. Kettle."
"Oh I'm sorry miss 'I didn't get what I want so I'm gonna pitch a fit like a giant baby', the kettles calling the pot." Yuko said.
"Oh wow how is the weather from up there in your ivory tower," Rose asked. "Hope those pillars of salt can support it and your hypocrisy."
"I'd usually hope for the same to you, but you're clearly too much of a bitch to garner any good hearted comments from me." Yuko said.
"Ok that's it!" Chazz yelled shoving between the two. "You two are gonna settle this like men, angry redneck men, BLUNDERBUSSES AT 20 PACES!" He yelled pointing away from himself.
"We're not doing that." Yuko said before a blunderbuss landed in her lap.
"Load it up bitch," Rose said tamping her powder and ball inside it.
Alexis sighed. "Rose where did you get a pair of blunderbusses?" She asked angrily.
"Inside M'DICK," Rose explained before Alexis took the blunderbuss away from her. "Hey!" She yelled as Syrus took Yuko's as well.
"Well then what the hell would you suggest?" Yuko asked.
"We have an idea," Tania said nodding to Camula, who grabbed Rose by her leg while Tania hefted Yuko over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes. "Come along you two!" She said happily as the four walked/got dragged into the woods.
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"That hurt you bitch!" Rose yelled as Camula finally let her go inside Tania's arena.
"And what are we doing here?" Yuko asked.
"You two are gonna settle this the amazon way!" Tania said as the gates locked down and the two jumped up into the stands where everyone else was waiting. "A butt kicking bare knuckle boxing match!" She yelled happily.
"-But I'll kill her!" Rose said pointing at Yuko. "She cried when she got a splinter off the porch!"
"She's not worth the stain in my knuckles." Yuko said.
"What did you say punk!" Rose asked poking Yuko's chest.
"You heard me." Yuko said.
"Alright then!" Rose said cracking her knuckles.
"Ok now the rules!" Tania yelled. "First one down loses! We start at the sound of the blunderbusses!"
"I don't know how to fire this!" Syrus whined.
"I do," Alexis said aiming it into the sky and pulling the trigger. "I learned in Girl Scouts."
Syrus whined and fired, nearly taking out a low flying bird in the process.
"I'm gonna make you uglier," Rose said cracking her neck and throwing off her coat.
"Before we start, your shoe's untied." Yuko said, drier than the desert.
Rose snorted, but after a few seconds, did look down at her shoe. Yuko took the opportunity to slam her fist into Rose's stomach.
Rose coughed before grabbing Yuko's outstretched arm and locking her leg behind Yuko's to take her to the ground. Yuko kneed Rose in the stomach from below. Rose pushed on and kept punching Yuko in the face as hard as she could.
"This is completely barbaric!" Syrus yelled as he watched his two friends beat each other up. "We need to stop this!"
"Well then why don't you go try," Chazz said nodding at the two girls.
Syrus gulped but then Tania chimed in as well. "If you hate it so much, why don't you stop it?"
He ran to the edge of the arena. "Guys, stop! There must be a better way to settle this! why don't we just go inside and-"
"STAY THE FUCK OUT OF THIS!" Rose and Yuko yelled stopping their grappling for a second to yell together. Yuko took the brief opportunity to choke slam Rose as best she could from her spot below. Rose responded by grabbing Yuko by the boobs and twisting them as hard as she could to force her to release her grip. Instead, Yuko raked her nails across Rose's face. It was a miracle she didn't take out an eye. Syrus sighed, defeated, and returned to his seat. Rose screamed and grabbed Yuko by the neck and slamming her head into the ground as hard as she could while dodging Yuko's swipes. Yuko damn near broke her spine rolling out of the way and nailing Rose with a kick upside the head. Rose responded with a sweeping leg kick that sent Yuko flailing as Rose spear tackled her into the dirt again, this time pinning her arms with her thighs as she wailed on her.
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"This is getting ridiculous," Camula said from under the shade of her umbrella. Syrus has stopped watching ten minutes ago.
"Shouldn't they have knocked each other out by now?" Alexis asked face in her hands from exhaustion.
Rose sighed as she stood across from Yuko. "Why won't you die already!" She yelled.
"Fuck you, that's why." Yuko huffed.
Rose charged forward, fist raised to punch Yuko in the face. Yuko did the same, and on impact, they knocked each other out cold.
"There it's a draw," Tania said lazily from her place on Bastion's lap, Bastion had been running his hand through her hair romantically as they watched their friends brawl it out.
"Still think blunderbusses would have done the job quicker," Chazz muttered.
"Is it over?" Syrus asked warily, glancing up at the arena.
"Yes finally," Midori said rubbing her temples. "Why did I let these two go on for that long?"
Alexis pulled Syrus down to the arena to help the two up, they had both been twitching for a few minutes obviously both trying to stand up, but couldn't stand under their own power anymore.
"Come here you big baby," Alexis said helping Rose up to her feet.
"Let me at her," Rose muttered trying to walk back over to Yuko. "I'm not done yet!"
"Yes you are," Alexis said forcefully, Rose muttered a few cursed but complied.
"Let's go, Yuko." Syrus said, helping Yuko up.
"I'm not finished." Yuko stammered.
"Yuko, you can't even stand. We're going to the infirmary." Syrus said, and Yuko didn't protest further.
"Before that," Camula said walking down. "I believe you both have something to say?" She asked in her most teacher like voice.
The two looked at each other and grimaced. "I'm sorry," They said in unison.
"I am a pushy bitch," Rose muttered.
"And I'm a stubborn cunt." Yuko admitted.
"And that's why we love you two!" Midori said grabbing the two in a hug. "-But if you ever fight like this again, I'll dangle you two over the volcano and let ManBearPig eat you alive!"
"...I think she's still not quite right in the head from the Camula incident," Rose muttered to Yuko behind Midori's back. Yuko nodded tiredly. Rose reached out and wrapped their fingers together lightly. "I really am sorry," Rose admitted.
"Same." Yuko said. Tears streamed from her face, though she didn't sob.
"Aww shit don't cry," Rose chuckle sobbed. "If you start crying them I'm gonna start crying too."
"Too late." Yuko sniffled.
"Aww shit," Rose sobbed as well. "You big baby," She chuckled.
"You're crying too." Yuko said.
"No I'm not," Rose sobbed. "I just have some dust in my eye," She coughed. "It's very dusty down here."
"All right then, keep your secrets." Yuko smiled.
"Aww everyone is friends again!" Syrus said happily.
"Yeah grilled cheese for everyone!" Chumley said happily pulling out a portable George Foreman grill.
"Where did you get that?" Yuko asked.
"I've always had it," Chumley said happily plugging it into a portable generator he pulled out as well, along with a banquet of sandwich supplies, a table and chair set for 8, a giant patio umbrella, and a small "hot sauce" cooler. Yuko dismisses his apparent mastery of hammerspace as a brain damage induced hallucination. "Let's eat guys!" He said finally pulling out his final items, two coolers full of drinks and snack foods.
"Good I'm starving," Rose said sitting down at the table and making a massive sandwich, everyone took the hint and sat down as well, it'll only Yuko and Syrus were left standing. Yuko was still unsure if any of this was actually happening.
"Umm there's not enough seats left," Syrus said blushing. "So you wanna share one?" He asked nervously.
"Sure." Yuko said, wobbly sitting down, Syrus then sat down on her lap.
The group ate together in a pleasant serene calm. The Shadow Riders had been defeated, friendships had been mended, new ones had been made, and some had gone farther than that. In the end they had all grown and were ready for a relaxing end to the semester and the beginning of a much better year.