Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Dark Magician Girls Escape Trick ❯ More Escape Tricks ( Chapter 2 )

"Well if it isn’t the Three Stooges!" said Kaiba in his usual half angry half snooty voice. "I knew you morons would be at the center of whatever’s happening."

Yugi, Joey, and Tristan had just rushed to Tea’s house only to be met by Kaiba at the entrance.

Since Tristan was busy holding Joey back from attacking Kaiba Yugi spoke for the group. "Kaiba, How do you know what’s going on? We just found out ourselves."

"Every Dark Magician Girl card on the planet has mysteriously turned into a new Ballerina Girl Tea card. Stuff like that tends be mentioned in the gaming newsletters, and it doesn’t take a genius to think of asking Tea what’s going on." Kaiba responded.

Yugi took a quick look in his deck to confirm what he had just heard. Previously all he had known was that Dark Magician Girl / Mana was somehow in the physical world.

"Hey rich boy," Joey asked, "How did you get here so fast? Your place is across town, and I don’t see a car anywhere."

"I’m not here! What you see is a hologram being projected by a satellite from space." Kaiba responded.

Everyone went bug-eyed in amazement, and then Kaiba started laughing. "You actually believed me, didn’t you! Ha Ha Ha. I’m not a hologram, I have a blue eye shaped jet cloaked in the park down the street." Yugi, Joey, and Tristan then stared at one another wondering if they should believe his second story.

Mana peaked through the blinds of Teas’ window. There was the boy the Pharaoh considers his rival. He has a tendency to argue with the pharaoh over all things. Perhaps he was trying to keep them from defiling her honor. How noble, she mused. She felt a royal responsibility to the Pharaoh, but being passed around to his friends went beyond the limits of that responsibility. The girl tried to lip-read as her master had taught her, and she heard Kaiba say, "I have a blue eye shaped jet cloaked in the park down the street." A plan formed in her mind.

Yugi knocked on the door, and Tea’s mother answered. "Oh, Yugi dear, did you come to see Tea again." "Yes ma’am" Yugi responded." "And I see you brought Joey and Tristan with you, how nice. Wait, your Kaiba, Tea told me all about you." Her voice suddenly took a gruffer tone. She yelled back into the house. "Honey, get over here, and bring your shotgun. Now you all wait here a moment." She then went up to the door of Teas’ room and knocked. "Dear, your friends, and that Kaiba boy are here." Doing her best to disguise her voice as Teas, Mana responded "Please let all but lord Kaiba enter." The voice was perfect, but Tea would never call Kaiba a lord. Still her mother shrugged and went to let them in. As they walked down the hall too Teas’ room, Mana opened the window jumped out, and flew to the park down the street. There she saw lord Kaiba. He pressed a button on a remote and a massive Blue Eyed White Dragon jet appeared. Mana landed behind him, and hearing a rustle in the grass Kaiba turned to face her.

"Lord Kaiba, keeper of the Blue Eyes, I implore you for protection from those who would defile my body." Mana begged.

"O-Okay." This was weird Kaiba thought. Different impressions rushed through his genius mind trying to make sense of the situation. Some cute blonde was cosplaying as the Dark Magician Girl. He’d seen plenty of her type at card conventions. She probably thought a guy with a giant blue eye’ plane wouldn’t mind playing along. But what was this nonsense about those who would defile her? A girl who cosplays in public is pretty well asking for it. Different responses rushed through his brilliant mind. The first ones were act snooty and get angry, but why bother. She was probably one of his fans anyway. After all once he defeats that damn Yugi he will be the worlds top duelist again. Maybe it was Yugi, Wheeler, or that other one that harassed her. Or maybe she just wants a ride in his jet. Kaiba is a workaholic with a bad personality and though he hates to admit it his experience with women was next to none. He is even more out of touch with current courting rituals than a girl from ancient Egypt would be. Even Yugi has that Tea girl though he’s to dumb to realize it. Maybe he should play along with this stupid blonde, he thought. "Where shall I spirit you away to my dear. Paris, Cairo, Italy, Kaiba land."

"Hmm," Mana thought out loud. "I miss Cairo, though I know someone in Tuscany."

Kaiba was a bit hurt that she didn’t even consider Kaiba land, but decided to let it pass.

Ballerina Girl Tea wondered through the card graveyard. Why did that guy think she could beat Slifer, she wondered? Slifer had three times her attack points. Well this wasn’t so bad. Cards go to the graveyard all the time, and they’re fine in the next duel. Sure it’s foggy, and dank, and smells funky, and something is grabbing my leg, she thought. Wait, something grabbing my leg. She slowly looked down. It was a skeleton hand reaching out from a grave. Eeek!

"It looks like she got out the window," Tristan commented.

"Hey Yugi, Mana said she would wait here for us! What’s up with this?"

"I don’t know Joey." He looked at Manas' diary on the nightstand, with a Ballerina Girl Tea card between its pages.

"Can’t you, like, use your millenium puzzle to talk to the card."

"I don’t know Joey."

"Well theirs got to be some way to reach Tea," Joey commented.

"I SAID I DON’T KNOW DAMN IT!"

Joey stepped away. Yugi was clearly worried more than anyone was about Tea. Without even transforming into Yami the little guy seemed intimidating for a moment.

Kaiba was in love. Mana, was not at all the bimbo he had at first mistaken her for. At this very moment she was reading a hieroglyph that three linguists, five cryptologists, two Egyptologists, and a supercomputer couldn’t translate. No! It was more than that. She read it with such ease that it was like hearing an adult read a book intended for three-year-olds. He even found himself taking notes. Most girls his age seemed so frivolous and innate, which is why he rarely bothered with them. Yet here was a girl who couldn’t be more than seventeen yet cared about things that truly mattered, like archeology and dueling.

The strange girl still wouldn’t give up the Dark Magician Girl act. Cosplayers where a pretty fanatical group, but he could be pretty obsessive himself when it came to duel monsters. Besides the outfit looked hot.

Mana was having such a fun day. As a servant she was used to receiving orders from people of higher social standing so it was refreshing to have the man try to please her for a change. And boy could Kaiba be pleasing when he tried. Who else would fly a girl to Egypt on nothing more than a whim?

They left the ruins and headed towards the outdoor market place. Mana held her first ice cream cone in one hand and Kaibas’ hand in her other. If she looked at an item in the market for more than a few moments Kaiba would offer to buy it for her. Kaiba always let out an air of smugness and indifference, but underneath Mana knew he was eager to impress her.

Yugi read through the book on the nightstand. "We know Tea has somehow traded places with Dark Magician Girl, and it seems like she was reading Manas’ diary just before it happened, and she used the Dark Magician Girl card as a bookmark. But nothing in this book explains how to trade places with a duel monster."

A light seemed to turn on inside Joeys' mind. "I see where you’re going with this Yugi." This surprised Yugi since he didn’t know where he was going. Joey went into Teas’ closet and removed a shoebox. He then opened the box, tossed aside some wrapping paper, and removed Teas’ diary. Next he found the key to her diary inside a secret compartment beneath a music box kept by the vanity mirror in her room. Tristan and Yugi stared at Joey after seeing this spectacle. "Oh c’mon guys. Like you didn’t know where it was." Yugi and Tristan whistled to themselves and looked away trying to appear innocent. "If I got this figured right all I got to do is put this Ballerina Girl Tea Card inside her diary, and close the book."

"NO WAIT!" Yugi yelled.

Slap, was the sound of the book being shut.

Everyone stared at Joey for a whole minute, but nothing happened. Then they turned their heads figuring nothing was going to happen.

Suddenly Tea was back in her room with Yugi and Tristan. She was in her Ballerina Girl costume and tears streamed from her eyes. "Guys, you’re here, I’m here, I’m not in the Graveyard with those perverted skeletons anymore. I’m so happy to see you and…" Suddenly she noticed something on the floor. "HEY, HAVE YOU JERKS BEEN READING MY DIARY AGAIN!" Again Yugi and Tristan whistled to themselves and looked away trying to appear innocent.

Meanwhile in Tuscany a little girl shuffled her deck looking for her favorite card, when a very different card caught her eye. "Eww, where did I get this one?" The card was called Impetuous Apprentice. On it was a picture of Joey struggling to lift a sword five times the size of his body.

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Well that’s chapter 2.

My current plan is to develop Kaiba and Mana’s relationship more while everyone else bumbles around trying to fix everything. Tell me what you think of that idea.