Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Mary-Sue Invasion ❯ The Plot in Action ( Chapter 3 )

Third chapter. ^^ And again, it didn't take that long… I think I'll try to update every second week from now on, but I can't promise anything, I'm really busy nowadays. *stares at her schedule with a sigh* The end of term exams, and that essay of thousand words… not to talk about a research paper of at least 15 pages - not that I'd have to get it finished this year, but still… Never forgetting the ordinary homework. --; Someone shoot me, please…

Disclaimer: I'm feeling lazy. Read it in the previous chapters.

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Chapter 3 (Too tired to come up with a chapter title… just deal with it.)

"Yami?"

The unmoving figure sitting by the window remained as it was, unmoving. Sugoroku took hesitantly a few steps closer to him. "Could you come here for a moment? Yami? Do you hear me?"

"Hmmm?" Yami shifted a little staring out of the window. "I wish Nightfall would come back soon…"

Nightfall was his name for Aurora's yami. He didn't want to call her 'Yami Aurora', that didn't sound romantic at all, and since Aurora's name came from the dawn time it felt like a good idea to name her yami after the sunset. 'Nightfall' hadn't objected, actually she was just flattered and thought that the name was quite fitting.

Sugoroku sighed. "She just left, Yami. Now… would you come to help me with one thing? Time will go faster if you do something, and… I'm actually planning a surprise for Nightfall…" He chuckled softly. Although I doubt that she'll like this surprise…

"Hmmm?" Yami blinked slowly. "Surprise…"

"Yes, that's right… Come here now, will you… away from the window. I'll tell you everything about how you can make her really happy…"

Yami got slowly up from his chair, still staring out. Sugoroku reached out his hand and grasped that of Yami's, drawing him away from the window. "Yes, a surprise… Come now…" He was talking slowly and soothingly, as if to an animal that felt itself threatened. "Come now, good boy…"

He shuddered a little as he thought what might happen if Yami felt himself threatened. Normally Yami would never do anything to harm him, but this wasn't normally. He still remembered what had happened to Anzu, and few days ago the ex-Pharaoh had actually struck his aibou who had been in his beloved Nightfall's way. Not that Yuugi had cared, he had had Aurora to comfort him.

He led Yami to the kitchen and told him to sit down. Nervously licking his lips he took a glass from the table and gave it to Yami. "You see, I'm going to arrange a surprise party for her, and I thought that you could taste this new drink and tell me if it's good…"

Yami glanced at the glass once and took then a sip. With a shrug he placed it on the table. "Doesn't taste like anything… Nothing does when she… she's… not here…"

Feeling strangely intrigued Sugoroku watched as the tri-coloured head nodded few times before Yami collapsed down on the table.

"Well… that went fast." I hope this stuff truly is harmless… He picked the glass up from the table and looked at it suspiciously. He couldn't help but feel a little shocked about how easily a kid of Mokuba's age could get stuff like that into his hands.

Well, if Mokuba was going to use it on his 'niisama', it would quite surely be totally safe. With a shrug he left to upstairs.

"Yuugi? Could you come here for a moment? I have something to show to you, something that Aurora will surely like…"

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Twenty minutes later he stopped his van outside the apartment where the twins lived. That was where Jou and Honda had spent most of their time lately, and where they would quite certainly be found also now.

He frowned a little as he looked at the silent house. Anzu, Shizuka and Mai were supposed to have taken care of the boys by now, but there wasn't any sign of them. After waiting for a few minutes he got out of the car and walked to the house. The front door wasn't locked so he stepped inside. By now he was able to hear the sounds of… a fight?

"Will you guys STOP THAT!" Definitely Mai's voice, and she sounded quite pissed off.

The living room of that apartment had obviously been turned into a battlefield. At the moment, the boys were rolling on the floor, Mai was screaming at them from the top of her lungs, Shizuka looked like she was ready to cry, and Anzu was hovering on the background, as if trying to decide whether she wanted to interfere or not. When she turned to look at Sugoroku, he understood why; there was a huge bruise on her cheek.

"What…" He stared at the scene quite dumbfounded.

Anzu sighed. "They're fighting over which one of the twins is more beautiful."

Sugoroku blinked. "But they look exactly the same."

"Exactly my point…"

"Listen to me!" Mai was obviously on the edge of it. "What do you think the girls will do when they come home and see that you've destroyed everything here? They'll probably throw you out, that's what I'd do!"

That caught the fighting boys' attention. "No way…" Jou stared at her with wide eyes. "Maryann wouldn't do something like that… She's a real angel…"

Honda snorted. "Nothing to be compared to my Susan…"

"Nothing, huh?" The fight was about to begin again, but Mai grasped Jou's hand and dragged him away from Honda with Shizuka's help, as Anzu and Sugoroku took a firm hold of Honda.

"She's more beautiful," Honda muttered through clenched teeth. Suddenly he turned to stare at Sugoroku with flaming eyes. "Say that she's more beautiful!"

"No! Mary is the most beautiful woman ever born!" Jou struggled in the girls' grasp and threw them easily aside. "Say that she's more beautiful!"

"No, Susan is…!"

"Maryann…!"

Sugoroku glanced at the glowering boys, and cut them off as they were about to begin shouting at each other. "Of course she is," he said calmly, and the boys turned to look at him. "Why do you have to fight over such a self evident matter?"

While the boys blinked slowly, trying to process this in their at the moment not so fast working brains, Anzu and Mai took the chance and grasped two glasses from the table.

"Here," Anzu said, placing the other into Honda's hand. "You seem to be quite out of breath, why don't you take a drink?" Still trying to figure out the reason for the fight, Honda emptied the glass absentmindedly.

"Quite bland stuff," Jou muttered drinking from the glass Mai had offered him. "Hey… now I know! It is self evident, but that idiot still doesn't understand it! He keeps… keeps on claiming… and I have to… make him… Hey, whatcha doin'?" Strange, Honda had obviously decided to go to sleep on the floor. And it was strange too how dizzy he was feeling… how… Sugoroku caught him as he too fell down.

Mai stared at the sleeping boys angrily. "I really wouldn't care if they kept on sleeping the rest of my life," she muttered darkly as they began to carry them to the van.

The next one on their list was Malik, and that, luckily, went without problems. Rishid and Isis carried the sleeping Malik to the van, and after giving few last-minute orders to Rishid, Isis jumped on too. The van was getting quite crowded, but once they'd get to Seto and Mokuba they would have another car too.

First, it was Ryou and his yami's turn.

Standing behind their door, Anzu and Mai shared one nervous glance before ringing the doorbell. It took some time, but finally Ryou came to open the door, looking quite dreamy.

"Hi!" Anzu smiled at him, trying to sound normal and not so nervous as she felt herself to be.

"Oh, it's you…" Ryou sighed. "I hoped that Pearl had come back already… although she has a key, why would she ring… unless she had lost it…" He kept on muttering under his breath as he wandered back into the apartment, forgetting the door open.

Inside, Bakura was sitting on a chair, staring at the television, although he obviously wasn't following the program.

Anzu suppressed a giggle. "I wouldn't have believed that I'd ever see Yami Bakura watching Teletubbies…"

Mai only shook her head in amusement. "Hey guys!" she said loudly, but neither of the boys paid any attention to her. "We thought that now that you're all alone, we might use the chance to tell you how to really impress your loves…"

Ryou turned to look at them, looking vaguely interested, while Bakura kept on staring at the television.

"It's seems that he's just got the 'treatment'," Mai whispered to Anzu, who nodded.

"So," she continued, going to the kitchen and taking two glasses from the shelf. "Why don't you sit down, take a drink, and listen to what we have to say…"

Few minutes later, with the help of the others, they were trying to smuggle the sleeping boys to the downstairs without neighbours noticing anything - which wasn't that easy since Ryou lived on the sixth floor.

So it was, finally, Otogi's turn. He turned out to be the most problematic case…

First of all, to their great surprise, Otogi hadn't been at his apartment. After spending some time wondering what to do, they decided to go to check if he was working. When they finally found him, it was at his company, surrounded by strict security and appearing to be in quite sharp state. He received them quite politely, but they could see that he was suspicious; anyway he well knew that - for some incomprehensible reason - they didn't like his Azura, who, as he told them, was the light of his days, best thing that had ever happened to him, gentle and loving and beautiful and smart and more charming than any dice could ever be. At this point Shizuka looked like she was going to choke, and Anzu got a bad coughing fit.

Shortly put, they decided that it wasn't necessarily a good idea to offer him some strange drink which would make him to lose consciousness in the front of his security guards, and after they realized that he wasn't going to leave anywhere without the guards, they bid their farewells.

Isis sighed. "Damn… If we don't get him today, I don't know when we'll have another chance…"

"Yeah, but what can we do?" Anzu glanced at the building behind them and winced as she saw the guards staring after them suspiciously. "It's not as if we'd have any chance to get him as long as he's in there, and it seemed that he wasn't going anywhere anytime soon."

They got to the van and squeezed into it. "I guess it's best to go to get Kaiba and Mokuba now," Sugoroku said as he started the car. "Anyway, if we succeed in six cases out of seven, that's quite well, you know."

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At the Kaiba mansion, Mokuba was already waiting for them. He stared out of the window tapping impatiently the armrest of his chair with his fingers, his brother's laptop and a small bag with other necessary things beside him. Every now and then he glanced at his sleeping brother with a small frown on his face - a frown that was strikingly similar to that of his brother's when everything wasn't going as he had planned. A frown, which made the employees of Kaiba Corp. hope that whatever it was that had gone wrong wasn't their fault.

"What the hell's taking them so long?" he muttered under his breath. Wouldn't it just make this day if they've screwed everything up…

He looked once again at Seto, who was lying on a couch, snoring slightly. At first he had hoped - no, actually he had been sure - that he'd be able to overcome the effect of the mascara without having to use the drug, but as it was…

He sighed. Nothing had worked. He had even talked Seto into a duel, since he had thought that doing something Seto really enjoyed might help him to recover, but no. Seto had dueled with him, all right, but his thoughts had clearly been on something else, and there hadn't been any strategy in his playing. He had just played the cards he had in his hand, not paying any attention to them, and suddenly Mokuba had found it really hard to keep the game going on - as it was, he could have won in a moment.

For a while he had thought that there was still some hope left when he had noticed how Seto stopped playing for a while to stare at a card he had in hand. He had hoped, very fervently, for it to be a Blue Eyes White Dragon, but that hope was crushed when Seto had played the card with a sigh. "There is nothing more beautiful than red hair," he had muttered, staring at the Harpy Ladies. At that point Mokuba had given up and offered his brother a drink.

Harpy Ladies,he thought with a snort. Wonder when he's got that card… Not that it weren't fitting for that old harpy…

Just then he saw a car driving to the yard. Finally! He bounced up and run to the door.

"What the hell took you so long?"

"Language, Mokuba…" Anzu started to say, but Mokuba cut her off, ignoring her, as they entered the house.

"Niisama's been sleeping for an eternity by now! I was afraid you wouldn't come at all…"

"We had some… problems," Mai said. "Especially with Otogi."

Mokuba glanced at her. "So you didn't get him?"

Mai shook her head. "No, we didn't. Well, we'll just have to come up with something else later."

They carried Seto out of the mansion and into a limo that was waiting by the side door.

"Can't ride in an ordinary van even when he's unconscious," Sugoroku muttered as he stumbled under the CEO's weight.

Mai grinned. "I'm not complaining. I've always wanted to drive a limo…"

The other's glanced at her hesitantly.

"You… drive?" Anzu said. "Can't anyone else…"

"Who? Does any of you even have driver's license?" Mai was grinning even more widely. "And we're not getting a chauffeur," she continued as she noticed that Mokuba was going to say something. "We can't really trust anyone."

After a moments silence Sugoroku shrugged. "So, one of you comes with me and the rest with her." With that he began to walk towards his van.

"Me!" Before anyone else had had time to say anything, Shizuka was running after him. "I'll come with you, jiichan!"

Anzu and Isis glanced at each other.

"Maybe we'll survive this…" Anzu muttered.

"I'll offer a prayer to my namesake."

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I don't know who of the YGO cast have driving licenses and who don't, but, technically, Anzu and Shizuka are too young, and Isis… well, she just doesn't have a driving license in this, okay?

As for the Teletubbies… No idea where that came from. ^^;;

Btw… when I was writing this I thought that Nightfall sounded vaguely familiar. I just remembered from where I knew the name. There's a book called The Legend of Nightfall, it's by Mickey Zucker Reichert. Really good book, although I don't remember much about it… This piece of poetry came to my mind, though:

'Lock up your children after dark,

Lest Nightfall find an easy mark.

For safety ends at twilight's close,

And darkness comes where Nightfall goes.'

I think it was like that… Wonder why random pieces of poetry always stuck to my mind. ^^;;

Next chapter comes… as soon as I'll get it written. I'll try to get it out in two weeks, but we'll see…

*sigh* Cheer me up with some reviews, will you? I really need them this time…