Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Mary-Sue Invasion ❯ Chapter 7 ( Chapter 7 )

Sorry for the wait… Lately I've been feeling just as imaginative as a (writer's) block of stone, especially when it comes to humor. Anyway, this chapter turned out pretty long. ^^

So... for those who didn't read the chapter 6½ (you did read the AN in the end of the previous chapter, right?), Felicia is permanently out of the picture. Note: the first scene with the twins takes place before chapter 6½, or more precisely at the same time with it, so the girls don't yet know of Felicia's fate. I've added here the end of chapter 6½ for those who didn't read it… it's not so horrible it couldn't be in a PG rated fic, I guess. ^^

A small car note: My grandpa used to have a van in which there was a small seat for children between the front seats. So, I decided to give Yuugi's grandpa a similar car, just to have a little more room for people there.

Here's the next chapter. Enjoy! (Or at least try to…) (And yes, I know I'm 'forgetting' the disclaimer. Read it in the previous chapter if you want to.)

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Chapter 7

"I'm so excited, sis! Just think, he's back in town! I just don't understand why he ran away from me…" Susan pouted a little as she watched her sister spread her things on the desk in the game shop. As soon as they had come back they had rushed to their book to 'consult' it. They had reasoned that in the shop no one would be likely to disturb them, so that was the place they had chosen for their 'ritual'. Now if Maryann only found the Book from her bag… Susan watched her impatiently.

"Oh, he'll come back, I'm sure of that… Here!" Maryann stood up smiling. "The Millennium Book, our guide in the life." She placed it on the desk almost with ceremonial air. Susan grasped her Quill, opened the Book, and pressed the Quill's tip on the paper.

"Okay!" She had barely finished writing when Maryann snatched the Book from her. "Here is what it says." Maryann cleared her throat and read then dignifiedly: "Fate is cruel and life is short; run away, mission abort."

"Huh?" Susan blinked. "What did you say?"

"Fate is…" Maryann stared at text and turned then to look at her sister. "What did you ask it?"

Susan blinked again. "Just… what is the wisest course of action… Let's try again!" She took the Book back and wrote: In the current situation, what is the best way for us to proceed?

Maryann shook her head as she read the answer.

"What?"

She sighed. "To survive Fate's cruelest turn, run away before you burn. Are you sure you set your question right? Maybe you misspelled some words or something."

"Third time lucky."

Once more Susan wrote into the book and Maryann read the answer. "Flee, little girl, swiftly flee, before thy death catches thee… what is wrong with this book?!"

"Oh, one more time." What should we do? Susan wrote into the book with capitals. Then she gasped in surprise as the letters suddenly burst into flames and formed into new words.

"What's going on? Is it broken," she exclaimed, but fell then silent as she too was capable of reading the words in the book.

Are you stupid or what? I told you to run.

They stared at the book and looked then hesitantly at each other. "Do you think we should do as it says?" Susan whispered to her sister who licked nervously her lips.

"I don't know… maybe it is just broken or something. It isn't supposed to work like this. Maybe we should ask Aurora what to do…"

Just then they heard the doorbell ringing.

~

I can't take this anymore… Eyes closed Anzu leaned her head against her hands, elbows on the pizzeria's table. How can it be this difficult to get a plan everyone agrees on?

All in all, things really weren't going that smoothly. Just a little ago Yami Bakura had stormed out of the building, 'fed up with these mortal fools' as he had put it. Ryou had left with him - mainly because he was still in his soulroom, and Anzu suspected that he hadn't even had a chance to get out of there. Jou, on the other hand, was far from being 'fed up', judging from how he devoured his second pizza, ignoring his little sister who had been sulking ever since Jou had finished interrogating her about her relationship to Honda - who, on the other hand, had entered the pizzeria just in time to hear his last comments. Naturally, the reunion of these old friends had almost ended up with a fistfight.

As for the rest of the group, Seto hadn't said a word for a long time, he just sat there quietly and watched his little brother eating, Yuugi seemed to be completely lost to the world as he sat staring into emptiness munching absentmindedly his pizza, Mai looked tired and a little sick as she watched Jou eating, and Sugoroku was bravely trying to come up with encouraging, helpful, and all-problems-solving suggestions… with very little success though. His best suggestion so far had included some toy weapons, banana peels on the floor, and Duel Monsters costumes.

For a moment Anzu wished that she too had a psycho little brother, so that she could have followed Isis's example and left home to make sure that he was okay. Instead, she had to be stuck here…

With a sigh she raised her head. "Listen guys," she started to say just at the same time as Mokuba announced happily "I'm ready!", having finished his pizza. At the same instant Seto stood up.

"Where are you going?" Mai asked looking at him with a frown.

"To Kaiba Corporation."

"But…" Anzu tried to say, but she was ignored.

"I have to go to check what is going on there, and besides, I need to get some papers from there. Anyway, if you're so worried, you can come with me - but that means that you will come now," he added, giving a look at Jou who had still almost half of the pizza left.

"No problem." Jou took one big bite of the pizza and folded the rest in half. "I'll take this with me."

Seto's look turned a little nauseous. "You are not going to eat in my car."

"Oh, he can come with me," Sugoroku said getting up from his chair.

In the end, both Jou and Honda ended up in the van, since Jou refused to let Honda go into the same car as his sister, and Shizuka wasn't that enthusiastic about her brother's company right then. Resisting an urge to roll his eyes at the two sullen teenagers who shared the van with him, Sugoroku started the car and drove after Kaiba's limousine.

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{THE END OF CHAPTER 6½}

"Do you think it was wise of her?" Aurora watched her yami worriedly.

"Wise? What?" Nightfall glanced at her, irritated by the disturbance of her thoughts.

"Felicia… wanting to stay there all alone with Malik…"

Nightfall shrugged. "I don't have time to play her mommy. She's a big girl, she knows what she's doing."

Aurora didn't look convinced. "Yeah, maybe, but…"

A loud shriek, almost high enough to break glass, cut her off.

"What the hell!" Nightfall slammed her fist angrily against the table as she got up. "Can't I get a moment's peace in this house!?"

She stomped angrily to the outdoor where the shriek had come from. There she saw the twins clinging to each other in terror. "Where's the mouse this time?" she asked exasperatedly, before she saw what they were staring at.

"Oh my god…" Aurora, who had followed her, turned quickly around placing a hand over her mouth.

"What the…" Nightfall stepped to the outdoor, which was still wide open. It was dark outside, and she couldn't see anyone in the shadows.

"What's going on here?"

She turned around as she heard Pearl's voice from behind her. The black-haired girl's eyes widened as she looked down. In that moment, her yami took over.

"Where did that come from?" Black Pearl turned to glare at the shivering twins.

"It… it was…" Maryann sniffled.

"There… there was…" Susan continued.

"Get a grip of yourself!" Nightfall grasped Susan's shoulders and shook her violently. "What happened?"

"So…someone rang the doorbell and we went to open and… and there was some cloaked figure… and he… he threw that in… and… and…" she broke down into sobs.

"Who was it? Did he say anything?" Black Pearl asked.

"I… we don't know who it was…" Maryann sniveled. "But he said… said… that he wanted to bring us a mem… memento of Fe…licia… and… and show us what's waiting for u…us."

"Felicia…"

Nightfall let finally go of Susan and turned to stare at the bloody heart on the floor. Suddenly the air had turned quite chilly… Taking one final look into the darkening shadows outside, she pulled the door close.

{THE END OF CH. 6½… umm, ENDS ^^}

"God…"

Maryann and Susan had returned to the shop and sat there hugging each other, sniffing quietly.

"Di-did he really… has he really ki-killed Fe…Felicia…"

Maryann squeezed her sister a little tighter. "I… I don't… understand… How is this possible? Som-something like this wasn't supposed to happen…"

Simultaneously their eyes turned to look at the Book. The text in it was still shining softly although it had begun to fade away.

Are you stupid or what? I told you to run.

They turned slowly to look at each other, jumped then up from their chairs and ran to pack up again.

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Azura watched the flying twins through the game shop's window. She had known all the time that if things were to turn bad they'd be the first ones to run. Rats leaving the ship… but this ship isn't going to sink.

She walked to the desk where the Millennium Book still lied and picked it up. Bending down she took the Quill from the floor as well. With a little snort she placed the two items into her bag before leaving the shop.

~

"As soon as this is over, we can throw a party. What do you boys think about that?"

Silence was the only answer Sugoroku got as Jou kept on staring at his knees and Honda out of the window. With an exasperated sigh he tried again.

"We can hold it at my place, have something good to eat and hey, maybe I could teach you some new came…"

New games were currently the last thing in either of the boys' mind. Jou kept on staring at his worn jeans a little frown on his face. If someone had taken a look on his thoughts right then this is what he would have seen - or maybe heard, however you want.

I can't believe he's been flirting with my baby sister… as if I hadn't enough worries without that. Wonder how long this has been going on behind my back… Bastard… In a time like this, if you can't trust your friend, who can you trust?

Honda's thoughts, on the other hand, weren't so far from his - actually they both would have been quite surprised to find out on how similar tracks their minds were.

I can't believe he's overreacting like that… as if I hadn't enough worries without this. Wonder how long it'll take to make him calm down… Idiot… In a time like this, we'd need to keep together and not to start fighting.

The lights turned red in front of them and Grandpa brought slowly the van to halt. Honda's eyes wandered absentmindedly on the busy people crossing the street as he kept on cursing his idiotic best friend silently in his mind. The said eyes widened to an amazing size as he noticed two familiar-looking girls running over the street with rucksacks on their backs.

"Wha…" Following them with his gaze he leaned over Jou, earning an icy glare from the blond boy.

"There isn't that much room to begin with, if ya haven't noticed, so could y…"

"It's the twins!" Honda shouted, cutting the complaint off.

"What?" Now it was Jou's turn to blink in bewilderment. "Do you mean…"

"C'mon!"

Sugoroku was glancing frantically around as the boys jumped out of the car just as the light turned green. "Hey! Wait a…" But they were gone already, and he didn't have any other choice than to follow Kaiba's limo that was driving away - after all, parking in the middle of the junction wasn't any good idea.

"Besides, I've had enough of running after kids, I'm too old for that," he muttered under his breath.

Outside, Jou and Honda were also glancing frantically around, trying to spot the girls.

"Are you sure you saw them?" Jou asked his friend who just nodded in response.

"Hey, excuse me!" Honda stopped a middle-aged woman as she was about to walk past. "Did you see two auburn-haired girls with rucksacks here?"

Shaking his head the woman walked on, leaving the boys to curse under their breaths.

"Shit, we ain't going to…" Jou began to say, but a boy with a bike cut him off.

"They went to that alley," he said pointing with his finger.

Jou and Honda shared one quick look and ran then towards that direction, just shouting 'thanks' over their shoulders.

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"It's not very long anymore, is it?"

"I guess not…" Susan took a glance around. "I think we're pretty close now, anyway."

"You think…" Maryann muttered under her breath. "What good has ever come of you thinking?"

"Oh, don't get bitchy on me now, I'm doing my best. You're not much help here eith…"

"Hey!"

With a start the girls stopped and looked behind, to see two very angry-looking teenagers running towards them. Now, normally, they would have been thrilled about seeing again their beloveds, but this wasn't normally. And… the 'beloveds' didn't really look very loving at the moment.

As one they turned around again and began to run.

"Stop there bitches, we have something to say to you!"

Needless to say, they didn't obey.

The chase continued even deeper into the back streets, Susan still trying to do her best to find their destination. Very soon she had to admit to herself that she was completely lost, though. Not that she was going to tell that to her sister.

"Oh why didn't we use the mascara as Nightfall told us to?" Maryann panted as she almost could feel the boys' breath on her neck - that was, naturally, only her imagination, but it was still quite an unnerving feeling. Cause using it all the time was making my eyes red, she answered herself.

"Shut up and run," her sister muttered, but as she glanced over her shoulder she realized that it wouldn't do much good. So she did the only thing she could think of: screamed for help.

Susan glanced at her sharply but realized that there was little else they could do and joined her voice to the screams.

"Help! Robbers! Rapists! Murderers! They're going to kill us! Heeelp!"

Miraculously, their pleading was heard and answered, although not exactly in the way they had wished for. A door cracked open and a group of men stepped out of it blocking their way quite effectively. A group of men, most of them baldheaded, dressed in black leather and chains, with wide grins appearing on their faces as soon as they saw the girls. They were quite obviously member's of some gang - or at least members of some social group the twins didn't want to get to know any better. They took one glance at the men, stopped on their heels, turned around, and almost bumped into Jou and Honda who, after taking one glance at the men, stopped on their heels, turned around, and ran after the girls.

"Gah! This day's all wrong!" Susan cried as the four of them fled side by side this time from a common threat.

"Giving you your own advice: shut up and run," her sister muttered under her breath -breath, which was growing short by this time.

Those two bring more bad luck than you'd think is humanly possible, Jou thought as he sprinted on throwing a hesitant glance over his shoulder. Not that he were afraid of those gang members, of course, but he had to admit that seven against two would be a little tough, and besides, stopping to fight would give the girls a chance to escape.

"We need to distract them somehow," Honda shouted, panting.

"Yeah, well… how?"

"Dunno."

In any case it was clear that they wouldn't be able to keep this on for long, they were all quite exhausted from all the running.

"You got any money?"

"No, but…" Jou's eyes fell on Maryann, or more precisely on the rucksack bouncing on her bag, or, to be even more precise, on a certain side pocket of the above mentioned rucksack. He'd seen it before, and he was pretty sure that… With a quick move he opened the pocket and snatched out Maryann's wallet before she could protest. The wallet was promisingly thick, and a grin appeared on his lips as he opened it. Bills, lots of bills, and big ones, too. He took them out and scattered them on the street, seeing from the corner of his eye that Honda was doing just the same with Susan's wallet.

They got us into trouble, so it's just fair that they'll pay us out of it.

Looking over his shoulder again he saw that 'the distraction' had worked fine: all the gang members more than happily ignored them and chased after the bills. They still kept on running until they were sure no one was anymore chasing them. By that time the twins weren't really running anymore, they were staggering. As Jou and Honda stopped and turned their icy glares at the girls, they looked ready to cry - well, actually Maryann was already crying. (Is that any wonder? Her side was hurting from the running, her hairdo was messed up, and moreover, she was sure she was going to die soon.)

"So," Jou muttered cracking his knuckles as he silently wondered what they'd do with the girls now that they had them, "it's time for payback."

Susan too let out a muffled sob while her sister fell to her knees.

"Don't tear out our hearts, please…don't!"

Had the boys been anime characters, they would have been sweatdropping now as Susan fell down beside her sister.

"We didn't mean anything bad, honestly! We just wanted to have some fun… there aren't any cute boys in our w… our… home…"

Jou and Honda shared an exasperated glance. "Maybe we should have left them to those guys," Honda grumbled, making the girls shiver even more.

"No… not those horrible monsters…" Susan sniffled again. "We'll be good, just let us go, we promise we'll never bother anyone again, we… we'll become nuns and…"

"Not me!" Maryann looked up sharply and blinked then. "I mean… the nun part… but I'll be good too, promise!" she continued quickly as she realized what she had said. "We'll go home and be good!"

"Uh… where is your home?" Jou asked, still trying to figure out what to do.

"In England," Susan whispered.

"Well, that's far enough for me…" Honda began to say but cut then himself off. Looking at the girls with a frown he asked, "If you're going to England, why are you running around in the back streets of Domino City?"

The girls glanced hesitantly at each other but didn't say anything.

"Well?" Jou frowned at them. "I think that's a very good question."

Susan bit her lip, a deep frown on her face. She was trying to weigh the alternatives, whether it was worse to tell the boys the answer and risk Yami Aurora's wrath, or not to say anything and face… god's knew what, but her imagination had some good suggestions.

Her sister didn't have any problems with the decision.

"We have kind of a shortcut here… somewhere," Maryann blurted out. "It takes us directly back to home, which is… well, it's in England but not really in this world, or in this dimension, or… something."

Susan decided that she might as well start talking too. "Unity and Azura know more about that, we just… they said there had to be seven of us and they asked us to join them, and Unity wrote the program, and then we came here, and…"

"Hey, wait a minute! What program?" Jou looked like he was getting a bad headache.

"The computer program. We could have a say on some parts of it too: what we wanted to look like, what kind of Millennium Items we wanted to have, and who we…" she gulped once before finishing, "…wanted to be with here."

"..." Jou was opening and closing his mouth like a fish on dry land.

"Are you some kind of a computer program?" Honda asked with wide eyes.

"No… it's a little complicated, we don't understand it that well either. We just…" Maryann took a deep breath trying to clear her thoughts. "Unity wrote the program," she said slowly. "It has the outline of how this story was supposed to go, but I don't know what happened… What they told us was that we'd go to another dimension, they called it the Yu-Gi-Oh! Dimension, and there we'd be beautiful and invincible and have magic and would get cute boyfriends… it sounded quite good, and that's all we know, really." She turned her big, watery eyes up to the boys. "Can we go home now, please?"

"Uh…"

Jou and Honda shared a bewildered look (trying to avoid the a-little-too-enchanting eyes - even without the mascara) neither of them knowing what to say.

"So…" Honda started finally, "did I get this right? You have written some kind of a story in which you come here and, well, and start to date and, well…" With a blink he fell silent.

"This is kinda like a live RPG for you?" Jou asked, and the twins nodded hesitantly.

"I guess," Maryann muttered, still looking at them pleadingly her question in her eyes, although she didn't dare to repeat it aloud any more.

Sharing one more look, this one more than exasperated, Jou and Honda nodded as one.

"Just get the hell outta here," Jou snorted, "and do not come back."

The girls sprang to their feet. "Oh thank you so much! Thank you thank you thank you… we won't come back, promise! We'll…"

"Er…" Susan cut off her sister's outburst looking hesitantly around. "Sure, we'll go and don't come back, but… well, we're quite lost." She tried to pull the eye trick too, but neither of the boys fell for it.

Jou shrugged. "That's your problem, I can't help it if you're so foolish that you get lost that easily," he said, turning his back to the twins. The boys walked briskly away, leaving the girls looking helplessly around, trying to decide into which direction to leave - and in which direction they'd be most unlikely to get some unwanted company.

Behind the corner Jou turned to look at Honda who had followed him silently.

"So… got any idea where we are?"

~

A black limo stopped in the front of the Kaiba Corporation, followed by an old, grey van.

Yuugi was the first to hop out of the limo, and when he saw his grandfather stepping out of his car alone, he stopped in surprise. "Hey! Where did Jou and Honda disappear?"

Sugoroku shrugged. "They jumped of when we were stopped at the red lights. I think that Honda saw the twins."

Yuugi stared at him in shock. "And you let them go?!"

His grandfather frowned down at him. "What was I to do to stop them?"

Yuugi shrugged, not knowing what to say. "I don't know… but I just hope they won't manage to get themselves enchanted again."

"We can hope that," Kaiba's voice came form behind of him, "but keeping in mind who we're talking about, it is quite unlikely." He was already walking towards the entrance. Glancing over his shoulder he continued, "You can wait here. This'll take only a moment. …You too, Mokuba," he added to his little brother who was following him.

"But…"

"Just wait here, kiddo. Okay?" He smiled quickly at the boy, and Mokuba stopped, sighing.

"Okay, niisama. But be careful."

It was Seto's turn to shrug. "It's my own company."

They were left staring after him as he walked into the massive building.

Anzu glanced at the others. "I have a feeling that it wasn't a good idea to let him there all alone. What if there's something wrong?"

"Oh, niisama can deal with anything, he doesn't need help," Mokuba said trustingly, but even as he spoke he eyed the building worriedly.

Few minutes passed. And then some more. And still some more…

Yuugi yawned as he sat on the hood of Kaiba's limo. "I wonder how long his only a moment is…" he muttered sleepily.

Mai shifted worriedly. "Maybe we should go to check if everything's okay," she said.

"I'm not sure if they'll let us just to walk in," Anzu said staring at the guards who were standing at the outdoor. She frowned a little. "Have there always been that many guards?"

Yuugi frowned too as he looked to the door. "I don't know… but Kaiba-kun didn't say anything about it, so I guess he thought that it's normal. But… maybe we should go to see what's taking him so long. What do you think, jiichan?"

He jumped down from the hood and turned to look at Sugoroku who shook his head, thinking.

"I don't know… that boy knows how to take care of himself, and who knows, maybe us running in there to rescue would just make things worse. I can't say that I like him much, but he knows what he's doing… usually."

"I'm still a little worried," Mai cut in. "He's a little too confident in himself… this isn't any ordinary girl we're dealing with. Mokuba, do you know…" she glanced around. "Hey, where's that kid?"

"Huh?" Yuugi blinked and looked around. "Mokuba?"

His eyes stopped on the front door of Kaiba Corporation as it slammed shut.

"That's it!" Anzu stared at the door determinedly. "Now we have to go there." She began to walk to wards the entrance, and the others followed her, but when they reached the door the guards stopped them.

"Your name and business." It wasn't a question but an order.

"Well…" Yuugi resisted the urge to squirm as the man's - the gigantic man's, especially from his point of view - eyes fell on him. "We… I'm Motou Yuugi, and these are my friends and grandfather, and, uh… we're Kaiba-kun's friends and we have to speak with him now, so…"

"I am sorry," the man said, although nothing in his expression indicated that there was any truth in those words, "but I am under orders not to let in anyone who doesn't have an appointment."

Yuugi-tachi glanced at each other, and then at the solid wall that was the guard. [1]

"Ummm… well, have a nice day," Yuugi muttered at the man giving him a hesitant smile that died soon away under the cold glare. "Uh, we'll be going now…"

They walked slowly back to the cars. "What now?" Anzu asked, and Yuugi shrugged.

"Unless one of you knows a way to break in there, I guess we just have to wait."

~

Azura stretched herself a little, taking a little more comfortable position on the coach as she waited for Otogi to come home. Now that she had both the Book and the Quill she was trying to relax a little. Otogi's home really was good for that, too bad that she could spend there so little time. Everything had been so stressing lately… she pressed her fingers against her cheek. I hope this stress doesn't…

Just then Otogi entered the room, and she favored him with a bright smile. "Good that you came, dear. I have to ask you something. Answer me truthfully: do you think that this stress is having a bad effect on my skin? Sometimes when I'm stressed I get…"

"Your skin is perfect, love," Otogi said, placing his hand against her cheek as he sat down beside her. "But… you are stressed?" He tsked. "I've asked you a million times if everything's okay, and you always just smile. How can I help you if you don't talk to me?"

Azura smiled at him sweetly. "You're too kind to me." She thought for a moment. "Actually, there is something that you can do for me… I need you to get something for me."

Otogi dropped down from the coach to one knee, looking up at her worshippingly. "Anything for you," he whispered, grasping her hand.

"Good. Felicia is dead, and I believe that Malik has her bracelet. I want it."

The grasp of her hand tightened for a moment. "Uh…"

"What?" Azura frowned at him and quickly he hurried on to assure her that he'd get her anything, even the rings of Saturn to adorn her fingers.

Azura frowned again. "I don't want the rings of Saturn, I want Felicia's bracelet."

"Oh, I'll get it to you, of course I will." He sat again beside her on the coach. "I just… Did you say that Malik has it? "

Azura shrugged. "I think so."

"Uh…" Otogi managed to look really troubled at the same time as he was the very image of admiration. "How'll I get it?"

"That's your problem, honey."

~*~

[1] Yuugi-tachi means basically 'Yuugi and the others'.

AN: No Azura, you're wrong. It's not his problem, it's my problem. -_-;; Don't have any idea at the moment…. I've given up with trying to write an outline for this fic. It's pointless, everything keeps on changing all the time.

I know, that's a little cliffhangry when it comes to Seto and Mokuba, but… I need to have a little more time to think exactly what is going to happen in there. I have the basic idea but… just be patient. I'm facing problems with Bakura and Ryou too…. I don't really know what they're up to. (Yes kiddies, starting to write a fic without a proper outline will only get you into trouble.)

Yeah, I didn't kill the twins. They're so… stupid that I started to feel sorry for them.

Btw, I faced some problems with this chapter concerning the time of day. Chapter 6½ ends when it's already dark outside, but that doesn't fit the overall timeline. The events of 6½ take place about 4 pm…. In the end I just decided to ignore that. ^^;; Hope it didn't bother you - if you even noticed anything. (I mean… I usually don't notice things like that in fics I read. ^^;)