Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Mary-Sue Invasion ❯ And Everyone’s back to Plotting ( Chapter 5 )

Have you ever noticed that Christmas breaks, as well as other vacations too, are magical? During their time, you can get everything done that you didn't have time to do from all the studying… Writing fics you should get finished, reading that pile of books that's been waiting forever in the corner of your room, taking a look on a certain research paper you have to finish next spring, and, well, the list goes on for ever.

In the end, the only things you do are sleeping, eating, and playing in the snow.
…Okay, okay, and maybe writing some fics. ^^ *shrugs* So what. It's supposed to be vacation, anyway.

Many thankses for those who reviewed! ^^

Kyria the fallen angel: ^^ Patience, patience… Just give me a little time and I'll always continue, promise. Glad that you like this!

mistress_of_ra: Thanks for the review! And thanks for the praise too. I hope you're going to like the rest of the fic too.

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Chapter 5: And Everyone's back to Plotting

The light of the morning sun did little to warm up the silence in the small room, which was probably chilly enough to make water freeze.

In Kame Game Shop nine girls were gathered around a table, some of them sitting by it, others leaning against the walls. Three of them looked positively maddened, five heartbroken, and one quite relaxed.

A glowering redhead threw an angry look at the composed one.

"You know, Azura," she muttered, "I know that you have your beloved left, but you could at least try to look a little more sympathetic."

"Oh Unity, calm down. I am sympathetic, of course I am," Azura smiled at her sweetly. "But I have to say that it is, after all, your own fault that…"

"Our fault!?" Yami Aurora, a.k.a Nightfall shrieked. "What the hell you mean it's our fault?"

Azura shrugged. "You obviously didn't have good enough control over your boyfriends, unlike me. I've been using the mascara intelligently, while you've quite overused it, so that the boys were constantly totally dimwitted. Mine had his wits with himself, and so he's safe."

"Intelligently, is it…" Nightfall muttered darkly. "So could you come up with something intelligent to clear up this mess? -And will you two stop that whining and use your book!" she shouted at the sniffling twins.

"Oh, don't be so nasty," Maryann sobbed, "my heart is broken."

"And so is mine," Susan continued. "Besides, we've already used the Book."

"You have?" Black Pearl got up from her chair and leaned over the table to stare at the twins. "What did it say?"

"Nothing helpful, really. To see thy love return to thee, sit back, relax, and take some tea."

Unity closed her eyes, rubbing her temples. Not exactly any Shakespeare, that book…

Black Pearl blinked. "Why didn't you tell us that immediately?" she exclaimed. "Don't you understand? We don't have to worry or to do anything at all, all will work out on its own."

Maryann and Susan looked at her hope in their eyes. "Are you sure?"

"If the Book says so…"

Nightfall nodded. "I think that we'd better follow its advice."

For a moment they sat in silence. Then Felicia spoke up.

"Umm… Do you think I should make some tea for us?"

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"Bldi bidhesh!"

"Swallow, Jou. It's easier to talk if your mouth is empty…"

Mai winced as she saw the blond boy shoving more bread into his mouth. With obvious effort Jou munched it few times and swallowed then.

"I'm starving! And I said 'bloody bitches'." He slurped the rest of his soup away.

"An indisputable comment," Malik snorted. "You got anything intelligent to say?"

Jou was going to give him an angry punch, but Yuugi touched lightly his arm. "Take it easy, everyone… I guess we're all quite mad about this thing, but let's not fight now."

"Yuugi's right," Anzu said. "We need to come up with a plan…"

"Plan?" Jou looked up from his food. "That's easy enough. Get back to Domino and kick some ass."

"Oh, trust you to come up with such an ingenious plan," Mai snorted, offering him a paper handkerchief. "You can't just go rushing back there… c'mon, take it!"

"What am I supposed to do with that?" Jou eyed the paper warily.

"Wipe your mouth with it. 'That's your handkerchief and that's your sleeve. Don't confuse the one with the other…' [1] God… sometimes I wonder why I bother." She sat down with a sigh.

"It's not that bad a plan, although a little crude. But, basically, that's what I intend to do." Bakura got up from his chair and leaned over the table. "It's not as if that girl would stand a chance against me now that I know about their tricks."

"But you don't know, that's the point!" Isis interrupted him. "We know about the mascara, but that's pretty much all. We don't know what other powers they have… and besides, now they have Yami… at least they don't have the Millennium Puzzle."

"They don't?" Jou stopped eating for a while and stared at Yuugi. "I mean, isn't that the Puzzle?" He pointed at the shining object that hung around Yuugi's neck. "So if Yuugi has it, why doesn't Yami?"

"Well…" Yuugi fingered his pendant gently. "You know that when Yami separates from me, his clothes are copies of mine, and so is the Puzzle. When we were imprisoned the Puzzles were taken away, and that 'copy' disappeared. The only way Yami will get it back is for him to go back to his soulroom and separate from me again. We actually tried it once, just to know how it works…"

He fell silent trying not to look as miserable as he felt himself. He really didn't like this. Yami was in trouble, and he would have to try to save him, and, well… that was the wrong way round. Suddenly he felt a hand squeezing his elbow and turned to look at Jou with a start.

"Don't worry, pal. We'll get him back."

"Yeah." Anzu smiled at him too. "Of course we will."

Bakura snorted. "And how are you planning to do that if you're not going back to Domino? Will your Shining Friendship solve all the problems for us?"

Anzu frowned at him. "Oh, don't be a…"

"He's right," Malik interrupted her. "We have to get back there, and the sooner the better. The longer we wait, the longer they have to make their plans. Let's just make a surprise attack, and they won't know what hit them before they're all having a picnic in the Shadow Realm."

"Calm down, little brother! I know you're angry, but this is not the right time for rashness. We need to come up with a little better plan than that."

Isis and Malik spent some time glaring at each other, before both of them gave up.

"Anyway, we have to go away from here," Ryou spoke up finally. "Yami and Honda can tell them where we are, and if we waste time, we'll be the ones receiving a surprise attack."

"That's true," Sugoroku said. "So we have to get away from here. But where will we go?"

"To Domino, of course." The answer was self-evident to Bakura. "We can do the plotting on the way there."

"We could do that," Ryou said thoughtfully. "Then, if we don't come up with anything on the way, we can go to, I don't know, maybe some hotel, and continue planning there, but at least we'd be in the right city then. I don't think that we should waste any more time, either."

"Not you too, Ryou," Mai sighed. "Is this 'wanting revenge' thing some side effect of the mascara or what?"

"Well, I don't know," Ryou muttered quietly, feeling a little angry and vaguely embarrassed as he thought about the past weeks. "But we have to do something to those girls."

"I'm not sure if it's a good idea to go to Domino yet," Anzu said. "Maybe we should go to that hotel we passed on the way here."

"Why can't we…" Isis began to say, but she was cut off by an angry shout.

"Damned idiots!"

"What?" She turned to look at Seto, who was at the moment glaring at his laptop. "Something wrong?"

Seto turned his glare to her. "One way to put it. It seems that I haven't been paying much attention to my company lately and those… those retarded idiots…" He got abruptly up from his chair and shut down his computer.

"I obviously can't leave them on their own for a second. You do whatever you want to, but I have to get back to Kaiba Corp. now."

"But you can't!" Anzu shouted. "If Unity is there waiting for you, she'll just enchant you again and we have to start from the beginning."

"I don't have anymore time to waste on that girl! I'll get some assassin to take care of her…" He paused for a while. "Mokuba… you didn't hear that."

Mokuba, who had been lying on the floor, quite bored, looked up with a blink. "I have a selective hearing?"

"Yes."

"…Okay…"

"What if she has enchanted your employees? Your guards? And your assassins? …Do you have assassins, Kaiba-kun?" Yuugi stared at him with wide eyes.

Mokuba pressed his hands on his ears. "I am not hearing this, I am not hearing this…"

Seto gave him an exasperated look. "Stop that."

"But you said…"

"I know what I said. Now try to be serious."

Mokuba looked at him innocently. "I am serious, niisama."

Seto sighed. "Whatever. But I have to go back there."

"So let's all go back!" Jou jumped up too, finally finished with eating. "I know we can deal with those gals easily."

"Sit down, Jou." Mai looked at him angrily. "We can't just go back without knowing anything about what's going on there!"

"Then let's go to that hotel, why don't we?" Anzu asked.

"Because I have to get back to Domino!" Seto shouted, earning an angry glare from Mai.

"Who cares about what you have to do, you're not the only one who matters here!"

"Well, I agree with that, but I also agree with him," Bakura stated. "I'm not going to start to hide from some silly girls!"

"Umm… I think that Anzu…" Yuugi tried to say, but his voice was soon drowned under yelling. Yes… you're right, at this point our heroes seem to be slipping towards a fight. So, let's leave them with their entertainment for a moment. There are also other characters in this story about whom we're interested, right?

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By now, all of the nine girls were sitting round the table. This time, four of them were quite relaxed - in fact, they were snoring. After all, they had been up all the night, first coming home late, then spending some frantic time running around searching for their beloveds, and then trying to come up with some kind of a plan.

"How long is this going to take?" Aurora whined silently.

"Who knows," her yami muttered.

Felicia tried to make herself more comfortable in her chair. "Mmm… maybe I should make us more tea…"

"Oh shut up."

Aurora looked at her yami disapprovingly. "Don't be mean to her…"

"I'm not mean, I'm just highly irritated…"

Just then they heard someone opening the front door.

"Honey? Are you home?"

Nightfall's eyes lit up.

"I'm right here, my dear," she shouted, jumping up.

"Beloved!"

Yami rushed to her and flung himself immediately on her neck. "Oh, I've missed you so much…"

Nightfall tried to hold her smirk in check. "And I've missed you, dear… Now, let go, okay? There, that's better." She smiled at Yami who was staring at her with open admiration. "Now, could you tell us, dear, where the others are?"

Yami blinked slowly. "Others? Who cares about them? We're together, that's what matters…"

"Yes, yes, of course dear," Nightfall cut him off, winking at the other girls to keep silent. "But those who kidnapped you have to be punished, don't you agree? They hurt me, after all…"

Yami blinked again. This thought obviously hadn't crossed his mind before. "Oh… yes. I guess you're right." He frowned a little, trying to remember where they had been. "It was some small town… somewhere south from Domino. I don't know its name… There was some road sign… I think it said that it was 100 miles or so to Domino from there. I'm not sure. I managed to get a lift from a guy with a truck… Oh, yes, I almost forgot."

He glanced hesitantly at Nightfall.

"What?"

"Well… that guy was babbling all the time, and he really got on my nerves, and… when I told him that I was going back to the most wonderful woman ever born, he laughed and claimed that all women are an unfaithful lot, and if I've been gone long the chance of you waiting for me would be extremely small, and… well, he was getting on my nerves, and…"

"Yes… what?" Nightfall tried to keep her impatience in check.

"Well, I kind of mind crushed him and took his truck and it's parked there on the street," Yami said nervously. He had a feeling that Nightfall wouldn't necessary be happy about this.

"You drove a truck?!" Aurora exclaimed, while Susan blinked and asked, "How can you kind of mind crush someone?"

Nightfall walked to the window and looked outside. True enough, there was a truck parked by the house… She shook her head.

"We have to get rid of that before we have police knocking the door. Azura…"

"Yes, yes… I'll take care of it." Azura got lazily up from her chair and walked out.

Aurora was still staring at Yami in confusion. "I didn't know you can drive."

Yami shrugged. "I'm a quick learner."

The girls fell silent. The idea of Yami practicing driving with a truck on public roads was a little unnerving, even to them.

"Well, at least you got back in one piece," Nightfall muttered. She frowned a little as she looked at her loved one. "Are you feeling okay? You're a little pale…"

"Oh, I'm fine now that I'm with you." Yami smiled at her lovingly. "I just… feel a little… dizzy."

"Oh." Nightfall stared at him thoughtfully for a moment. "Wait a minute, love…"

Turning around, she took out her pocket mirror and mascara. Soon she was finished and turned again to look at Yami, who took one look at her, blinked, and spaced out.

Azura, who just walked back in, sighed. "What did I just tell you about…"

"Be quiet, I don't need you to teach me how to use my own Millennium Item," Nightfall snapped at her.

"I think that Azura has a point, yami," Aurora said hesitantly. "Besides, if you use it that much, he might grow immune…"

"I don't need anyone to teach me how to use my own freaking mascara!" Aurora winced a little at her yami's exclamation and fell silent.

"Oh, calm down, everyone," Black Pearl cut in the conversation as she saw Azura opening her mouth with an angry frown. "We don't have time to fight. We have to come up with a plan to get the other boys back."

"You mean… drinking tea isn't enough anymore?" Maryann asked hesitantly.

"Oh god…" With an exasperated sigh Nightfall turned her back to the others, and gazed out of the window. I can't stand those idiots… At least the truck had disappeared from the street without a trace.

"Very well." She turned back to the others and sat down. "Any suggestions?"

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During the absence of his master, Rishid had come to an important conclusion. He really hated dusting. Still, after Isis and Malik had left, things had been quite quiet, and he had decided that he might as well do some cleaning up.

Dusting wasn't fun though - especially not when the house was full of all kind of more or less antique junk that really gathered dust. Right now he was standing on a stepladder, trying to wipe away the dust from the uppermost shelf of the bookcase, which was filled with everything else but books. He was just reaching for the furthermost corner, when he realized that the stepladder really wasn't that stable… Waving wildly with his feather duster he felt himself falling backwards. With loud crash he fell down to the floor, and everything went black.

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Malik blinked. Something happened… something… Uh. Rishid, what the hell did you…

/My, my, my… haven't I been waiting for this…/

/Yami! I don't know what you're planning but please don't start killing off people now!/

/What?/ The voice in his mind was slightly amused. /Do you mean that you don't want to kill a certain beautiful blonde?/

/…On closer, thought, I take my previous comment back./

/That's my boy./

Yami Malik got up from his chair. "Have to go to toilet," he muttered to others, who were so engaged in their plotting (read: fighting) that they paid no attention to him.

/They talk all too much/, he thought to his hikari as he walked out of the house.

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In a quiet a park of our unnamed town, a very confused teenager sat on bench, trying to figure out how he had ended up there. Few hours ago, he had been walking on the streets of this strange town, determined to go to some girl called Susan, then he had started to feel quite dizzy, and now…

Now he was suffering from quite a severe memory block.

Susan?

Yes… He vaguely remembered some auburn haired, bimbo girl… and as weird as it was, he was almost sure that he had been living with her for some time.

And that was all.

He had no idea of where he was, how he had ended up in that place, who the hell that girl was, and exactly what had happened since that day in the park.

…At least he thought they had been in a park on the first day of their summer vacation.

Damn.

Well, it was a good thing he had few crumpled bills in his pack pocket. Maybe getting something to eat would help him to remember, it really was difficult to think when he was this hungry.

So… Honda got up from the bench stretching himself a little. First he'd get some food, and then he'd found out how he'd get back to Domino from… wherever this place was.

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/You're going to get us killed, I hope you realize that./

/Oh, have a little faith in me…/

/Yami! That was a red light!/

/Really pretty. Red's my favorite color… after black./

/God. I give up with you./

/Why haven't you ever told me how much fun this is? I'm starting to understand why you're so fond of your bike…/

/I haven't ever felt suicidal enough to do that… Look out, yami!/

/Calm down, I know what I'm doing. Besides, fat old ladies should be more careful when crossing streets./

/You're impossible. Just to let you know, I'm never going to let you anywhere near to my bike… Is that Honda?/

Yami Malik slowed down a little and turned to look at a brown haired boy walking on the pavement.

/Well, well, well… I do believe it is./

He rode to the boy and raised his hand in mock greeting. "Taking a walk?"

"Wha…" Honda gave a start. He had been quite deep in his thoughts. "Malik! What are you doing here?"

/Hmm… I wonder how much he remembers…/

"Getting home. Want a lift?"

"Well…" Honda eyed the blond boy suspiciously. There was something in Malik's smile that made him a little nervous, but this was a chance to get home so… "I guess. I have to get there somehow, and I don't even know where we are so…"

"Jump on, then."

As he climbed on, Honda took a look at the bike. "Don't you have a helmet?"

Malik shrugged. "Who needs helmets? Ready?"

"Yeah… this isn't your bike, is this? Where did you get this?"

"Found."

"Fou… ah!" Honda took a tight grasp of Malik's waist as the blond boy speeded away, a little too fast to his mind.

"Gah… Slow down a little!"

"Oh shut up, you wanted to get home, didn't you?"

"Yeah, but…"

"Now… I wonder which way Domino is… Never mind, we'll find it sooner or later. This is such a small town…"

"What are you doing!" Honda shrieked as Malik took a sharp turn, and drove down stairs to a pedestrian street. "Are you nuts!"

/He really should know the answer to that question by this time, don't you think, yami…/

/Shut up./

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[1] A quote from My Fair Lady.

Okay… I decided to cut this off here. I have a feeling that the next chapter will be quite short, but I wanted to get something sent to you before Christmas, so… *shrugs* We'll see. I try to get the next chappy out this year, but… we'll see. ^^

I don't really know what's going on with Azura… I've totally lost control of her. You wouldn't believe the things she's plotting behind my back… O_o And here I was thinking that I know what I'm going to do with this fic.

I had an almost irresistible urge to make Yami Malik call Malik hikari-pretty here… wonder why. ^~

Very Merry Christmas to everyone! Here's little something I read from the back of one CD with Christmas carols (or the translation of it, to be exact):

"Have a peaceful Christmas!
This is what they say, and go then to buy weapons for their children. I as well, in my worst pacifist-phase, bought for my son lots of tin soldiers, ready killed.
The real peace you won't get until the Christmas Eve, after you've eaten yourself under the table."

So… have yourself a merry little Christmas. Peace on Earth and so on. I have to go now to plot how to kill off my Mary-Sues. ^^