Double bishie power in one day. Not bad.
Quote of the Afternoon: "Moooeeroo!! MOEEEEROOOO!!!"
~~Dilandau's war-cry. Pretty much means "BURN!! MWAHAHA!" He's a pyromaniac~
music: Let's get this party started ~ korn (my dilandau video. he's such a nutbar, we luvs him)
Yes, two bishes. Bishie #1 is Dilandau from Escaflowne. I read a profile on him recently, and his quirks, if you didn't know it was Dilandau, you could've sworn it was Yami Bakura.
quirks: short (very very VERY short) tempered, cocky, incredibly narcissistic, sadistic, cold, violent, giggly, twisted, arrogant.
I mean, his facial expressions are up there with Yami Malik's scariest. Speakin 'o Y!Malik, there was a poll at Kyokou Geemu for "Biggest. Freak. EVER." They said after it was who annoys who, who rubs you the wrong way, y'know, and if that had been the case I would've DEFINETLY chose Insector Haga/Weevil Underpants. But, since they mentioned "Freak" I, along with about 50%, went with Yami no Malik. He's always been spooky as hell, but there's this scary pic of him, which has haunted EVERYONE who's seen it FOREVER, where he does this "tongue thing". Freaky, I know. The screencap is a little freakier. I mean, Dilandau is just insane, right? Y!Malik is just FREAKY.
I'll trace down that screencap one day. It's from ep 120 I think. Yami Marysia has it as her signature, I believe.
My second Bishie is InuYasha. We've got the Y!Malik-type Bishie and then the Y!Bakura type bishie. I say this mostly because of his hair and attitude. He has Bakura-style hair and is half-demon. Very YB-ish, I should say.
AND!
I got InuYasha vol 1 AND 2!! Very very happy, precioss, yes. PLUS, I got them from this obscure little manga place downtown, so they are in INGALESH!!
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YAY.
*glomps Dilandau, who tries to light me on fire*
*glomps InuYasha, who tries to slice me in half*
MOOOERROOOOOOO!!
May 31, 2003
WAH!
Quote of the Day: "Swords are of no more use here!"
~~what about Leggy's shampoo?~~
music: Bamboo ~ dralion, cirque du soleil
Mmmm SATURDAY!!!
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Tis was supposed to be a weekend devoted to my poetry portfolio which I believe is due monday which I hadn't strated till this morning. I pretty much finished putting together all the poems within an hur, and now I have to do the illustration, as well as three pictures for art class. BLEARG, DAMMIT. Who knew art could suck so bad.
Anyway, been working on the duels while trying to follow Kaiba's incredible pace and bad grammar skill (no offence, Kaiba-kun). Maybe you could like, type it in Microsoft Word and do spell check. And put periods and commas here and there...
Just kidding.
Anyway, here's two short-ish eps so far. wo more should be done by mid-afternoon, if I have the time and energy.
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Episode 10: Yami Bakura's Truth
That night, Ryou went over the first duel of the finals in her head. Yugi had put up a good fight, letting Yami take over somewhere towards the end of the game, but it had already been too late by then. Kaiba won without even having to use his God Card. Kaiba was now in possession of Yugi’s Dark Magician, and had secured himself a spot in the semi finals.
“Alright,” Yami Bakura said. “What exactly did we learn today that we can use against him further on in the tournament?”
Ryou shrugged. “He’s scary when duelling?”
Yami Bakura rolled his eyes. “I’m trying to be serious here. You should too. We could be duelling tomorrow, for all you know.” But Yami Bakura couldn’t help but grin. “Now I wish I could’ve been the one to present the Pharaoh with that humiliating defeat.”
“Come off it, will you?”
This bickering between the two was not uncommon, but it was not in a hateful way. They got under each others skin, but not too much.
Now, to anyone that would’ve walked in at that moment, they would’ve seen a young girl, sitting on the edge of the bed, talking to the thin air beside her. Truthfully, it was not thin air. Well, in a way it was, but there was something there only Ryou could see.
Yami Bakura, being a spirit himself, and having a previous physical form, could appear separate from Ryou. In that case he was free and was no longer a resident of Ryou’s soulroom. The only setback was he was powerless in this form. Almost see-through, only Ryou could see his silhouette. He couldn’t touch anyone but her, and no one could see, hear, or feel him except her. Although anyone with a Millenium Item would probably be able to sense his presence. The reason they were doing this now was because it just felt easier to be able to talk to some you could focus your eyes on, not just a voice and a feeling.
Yami Bakura looked towards the door. “That duel was not a regular duel,” he told Ryou. “There was shadow magic, as well as Sennen magic.”
Ryou nodded. “Well, yeah, there would be, considering Yugi has the Millenium Puzzle. But now that you mention it, it’s strange. I thought with that spirit, he could not lose a duel. Unless…”
“Unless the power of another Sennen Item was disturbing the Puzzle’s power…”
“Yes, but there’s no one on board with an Item besides us,” she told him. “If you would’ve done anything I would’ve sensed it.”
Yami Bakura remained silent for a while, lost in thought. Then he looked up, real concern on his face. “That’s just it,” he said quietly. “I did sense the presence of another Item.”
Ryou stood up. “You did?! From who?”
Yami Bakura knew she would not believe him, but he took a shot at it anyway. “From Kaiba.”
Ryou blinked. Then, of all things, started laughing. “Oh, you have got to be kidding me. Are you telling me there’s like, a Yami Kaiba out there?” This made her laugh even harder.
Yami Bakura, on the other hand, was angered. He hated not being taken seriously. “This isn’t a game! If it’s true what I sensed, and your friend has an Item, then we are in danger. Everyone on this ship is in danger.”
Ryou’s laugher died down. She regained her serious air. “Okay…you’re saying Kaiba might have a Sennen Item…how come I haven’t noticed before? Or you haven’t sensed it? Why now?”
“Possibly because he did not want us to, or possibly because he himself only became aware of it recently. The Items have a will of their own, and that will is a part of the seven priests who first created them.”
Ryou absorbed all this slowly. “So you’re saying there really could be a Yami Kaiba?”
“Well – not exactly. If the Items are destined for the reincarnations of their original holders, or something along those lines, then it would be logical to say Kaiba has the Sennen Rod, considering he had it in the past. I don’t believe there is another soul within it, the only two Items with souls are the Puzzle and Ring, but perhaps it does have some of the energy of the priest who used to wield it.”
Yami Bakura observed Ryou follow this in rapt silence, so he continued.
“The Items have the power to create and destroy, to control or free. When Malik had the Rod, it freed the part of his soul consumed by hate and anger and made that hate into a living, breathing being: Yami Malik. It is possible that because the Rod is now in the hands of what it believes to be it’s original holder, it could have released some of the priests soul, and this is no ordinary priest. Kaiba, in his previous life, served the pharaoh, but was a cunning and calculating person, whose intentions were not always good. We must be very wary of him from now, and watchful; this may no longer be your friend we’re dealing with.”
“Are we in a any immediate danger?” Ryou asked.
Yami Bakura shook his head. “Not as long as we keep the items and God cards separate and away from him. If he plays Steve in the semis and defeats him, then we don’t stand a chance.”
This whole thing was beginning to scare Ryou. Kaiba was her friend, and now it was if he no longer existed. “What about the real Kaiba?” she asked. “If this isn’t a yami we’re dealing with, then doesn’t that mean it’s actually Kaiba himself?”
Yami Bakura considered this “I suppose you could say that. It is a part of Kaiba’s soul. His evil half, if you wish to simplify it to the utmost degree. Somewhere in the middle of myself and Yami Malik. Not a reincarnation from a previous life, a yami, but not a completely different person either.”
Ryou rubbed her temples. “Okay, you’ve lost me.” She shook her head. “This is way too confusing. It’s going to be running in circles around my head all night.”
Yami Bakura sighed. “I agree. That’s enough philosophy for one night. You should get some rest. You might have to duel in the morning.”
“Oh, yeah, I’ll be going to sleep real fast thanks to your bedtime story,” Ryou mutter. She watched Yami Bakura disappear slowly, and listened for the door of his soulroom shutting softly in her mind. She lay down and closed her eyes.
* * *
Sunlight streamed through the small, circular window of the blimp. She grabbed her light covers and curled into a ball, wrapping herself in the sheets.
“Nha...I don’t wanna go to school…”
She could hear a tapping on her window…or was that the door?
“Ryou!! Wake up!!”
A voice? Strange dreams. Ryou buried herself further in the covers.
More tapping on the window.
“For Ra’s sake, girl, wake up!!”
Ryou opened an eyes. That’s not my alarm clock…
“No, it’s not,” came Yami Bakura’s angry voice. A while ago, Ryou had discovered he was not a morning person when he’d destroyed her alarm clock. That one had been hard to explain.
The tapping again.
“Someone’s at the door!”
Ryou’s eyes shot open. She sat bolt upright and turned to the door. More banging.
“Who on earth is it and what time is it?!”
Yami Bakura rolled his eyes. “Just answer it. Could be important.”
Ryou swung herself into a sitting position and pulled on her sweater before answering the door. She didn’t need some guy in a suit seeing her in a tank top. She opened the door a crack. Then she opened it fully.
“Kaiba!”
Kaiba, looking a little flushed, smiled sheepishly. Ryou could just see Doug, Steve, and Yugi peeking over his shoulder.
“Um…” Kaiba searched for the right words. “Eh…they just announced they were serving breakfast and…well…you didn’t come out, and I didn’t think you’d want to miss it, so…”
Ryou looked down at herself. “Let me get a decent shirt on and I’ll be right there,” she said tersely, and proceeded to shut the door in his face. She turned and reached for her t-shirt.
“God, I hate being the only girl on board…”
Episode 11: The Stranger's Warning
Breakfast was pleasant. The surprising thing was only Kaiba, Steve, Doug, Yugi, and Ryou had showed up. The other three finalists were nowhere in site.
“So, what are we s’posed to do all day?” Ryou asked as they finished up. “All the matches are held at night. What do they expect, we spend all day strategizing? Oh, wait, I forgot, Kaiba’s here.”
Kaiba shot her a dirty look. “Very funny.” He turned back to the others. “I wonder what we could do for entertainment around here. How about a few practice duels?”
Everyone agreed to that, but Yami Bakura once again warned Ryou. “If you’re going to duel, take Ra out of your deck. It doesn’t matter if you get the stuffing beat out of you, just keep a low profile. And beware of Kaiba.”
Ryou sighed inwardly. She’d forgotten all about that. Or just tried to forget. In any case, it was not something she wanted to focus on.
They did play a couple of duels. She was surprised at how good some of the others were. Yami Bakura kept special observation on Steve and Kaiba, trying to pick up on their strategy. Strange, but neither of them were playing their God cards. It occurred to Ryou then that no one, except maybe Kaiba and herself, knew the possessors of all the Kami no Khaados. And Steve. Steve knew about Obelisk, but not Ra. Ryou still had an advantage there.
Night came once again, and the duellists gathered together. This time, the three others were here.
Ryou turned inwardly to her yami. “You don’t suppose your twin over there is working with the grim reaper guys, do you?”
Yami Bakura stared daggers at the competition. “Speak English, will you? If you mean do I think he’s working with those two hooded thugs, then no.”
Ryou was about to reply, when one of the Sunglass Dudes approached the group. He cleared his throat and began. “The next two contestants of the second round match have been chosen.”
Ryou listened closely. Her heart skipped a beat when she thought her name had been called, but no. It was…
It was the silver-haired stranger.
And he was playing against Doug. Ryou watched with suspicion, and Yami Bakura, with anger, as the stranger smiled a murderous smile that was so much like Yami Bakura’s. It was unsettling, to say the least.
Doug tried to look calm, but you could tell he was worried. And he should be, Ryou thought. His opponent moves with such an air of confidence and arrogance…I’d be worried too.
The others followed them up to the stadium. The air was even colder than it had been the previous night, and a lot of them were not dressed for it. Ryou tried not to notice, looking up at her yami’s look-alike. To her shock, he returned her gaze. Yami Bakura took over for the instant and growled at him.
“Let me take over for this duel,” Yami Bakura told her.
Ryou didn’t exactly want to, but didn’t feel like arguing, either. “Fine,” she said, giving him control. “Just try not to be a complete idiot of anyone asks any questions.”
Yami Bakura scowled at her but accepted control.
The players each inserted their decks and began.
Control of the playing field shifted back and forth between players. It didn’t look like either was taking the advantage, that is, until Doug summoned his Black Skull Dragon. But Yami Bakura knew better than that. He knew Doug’s opponent was only toying with him.
“I hope you’re paying close attention,” he said suddenly, speaking up almost for the first time. His eyes fell on Yami Bakura. “I know what you seek, as well as what your hikari seeks. Heed my warning: you are not the only one.” With that, he turned away once again.
“What on earth was that?” Ryou asked her dumbfounded yami. He didn’t answer. It was as if only they had heard the stranger’s words.
Yami Bakura remained silent and at the back of the group for the rest of the duel. As predicted, the individual won with ease. Doug handed him his Black Skull Dragon. Ryou was disappointed at not getting to see more of his strategy.
They returned to their room. Yami Bakura did not speak at all. He closed off the mental link between himself and Ryou, who slept uneasily, plagued by dreams.
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There!
^_^
Quote of the Day: "Swords are of no more use here!"
~~what about Leggy's shampoo?~~
music: Bamboo ~ dralion, cirque du soleil
Mmmm SATURDAY!!!
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Tis was supposed to be a weekend devoted to my poetry portfolio which I believe is due monday which I hadn't strated till this morning. I pretty much finished putting together all the poems within an hur, and now I have to do the illustration, as well as three pictures for art class. BLEARG, DAMMIT. Who knew art could suck so bad.
Anyway, been working on the duels while trying to follow Kaiba's incredible pace and bad grammar skill (no offence, Kaiba-kun). Maybe you could like, type it in Microsoft Word and do spell check. And put periods and commas here and there...
Just kidding.
Anyway, here's two short-ish eps so far. wo more should be done by mid-afternoon, if I have the time and energy.
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Episode 10: Yami Bakura's Truth
That night, Ryou went over the first duel of the finals in her head. Yugi had put up a good fight, letting Yami take over somewhere towards the end of the game, but it had already been too late by then. Kaiba won without even having to use his God Card. Kaiba was now in possession of Yugi’s Dark Magician, and had secured himself a spot in the semi finals.
“Alright,” Yami Bakura said. “What exactly did we learn today that we can use against him further on in the tournament?”
Ryou shrugged. “He’s scary when duelling?”
Yami Bakura rolled his eyes. “I’m trying to be serious here. You should too. We could be duelling tomorrow, for all you know.” But Yami Bakura couldn’t help but grin. “Now I wish I could’ve been the one to present the Pharaoh with that humiliating defeat.”
“Come off it, will you?”
This bickering between the two was not uncommon, but it was not in a hateful way. They got under each others skin, but not too much.
Now, to anyone that would’ve walked in at that moment, they would’ve seen a young girl, sitting on the edge of the bed, talking to the thin air beside her. Truthfully, it was not thin air. Well, in a way it was, but there was something there only Ryou could see.
Yami Bakura, being a spirit himself, and having a previous physical form, could appear separate from Ryou. In that case he was free and was no longer a resident of Ryou’s soulroom. The only setback was he was powerless in this form. Almost see-through, only Ryou could see his silhouette. He couldn’t touch anyone but her, and no one could see, hear, or feel him except her. Although anyone with a Millenium Item would probably be able to sense his presence. The reason they were doing this now was because it just felt easier to be able to talk to some you could focus your eyes on, not just a voice and a feeling.
Yami Bakura looked towards the door. “That duel was not a regular duel,” he told Ryou. “There was shadow magic, as well as Sennen magic.”
Ryou nodded. “Well, yeah, there would be, considering Yugi has the Millenium Puzzle. But now that you mention it, it’s strange. I thought with that spirit, he could not lose a duel. Unless…”
“Unless the power of another Sennen Item was disturbing the Puzzle’s power…”
“Yes, but there’s no one on board with an Item besides us,” she told him. “If you would’ve done anything I would’ve sensed it.”
Yami Bakura remained silent for a while, lost in thought. Then he looked up, real concern on his face. “That’s just it,” he said quietly. “I did sense the presence of another Item.”
Ryou stood up. “You did?! From who?”
Yami Bakura knew she would not believe him, but he took a shot at it anyway. “From Kaiba.”
Ryou blinked. Then, of all things, started laughing. “Oh, you have got to be kidding me. Are you telling me there’s like, a Yami Kaiba out there?” This made her laugh even harder.
Yami Bakura, on the other hand, was angered. He hated not being taken seriously. “This isn’t a game! If it’s true what I sensed, and your friend has an Item, then we are in danger. Everyone on this ship is in danger.”
Ryou’s laugher died down. She regained her serious air. “Okay…you’re saying Kaiba might have a Sennen Item…how come I haven’t noticed before? Or you haven’t sensed it? Why now?”
“Possibly because he did not want us to, or possibly because he himself only became aware of it recently. The Items have a will of their own, and that will is a part of the seven priests who first created them.”
Ryou absorbed all this slowly. “So you’re saying there really could be a Yami Kaiba?”
“Well – not exactly. If the Items are destined for the reincarnations of their original holders, or something along those lines, then it would be logical to say Kaiba has the Sennen Rod, considering he had it in the past. I don’t believe there is another soul within it, the only two Items with souls are the Puzzle and Ring, but perhaps it does have some of the energy of the priest who used to wield it.”
Yami Bakura observed Ryou follow this in rapt silence, so he continued.
“The Items have the power to create and destroy, to control or free. When Malik had the Rod, it freed the part of his soul consumed by hate and anger and made that hate into a living, breathing being: Yami Malik. It is possible that because the Rod is now in the hands of what it believes to be it’s original holder, it could have released some of the priests soul, and this is no ordinary priest. Kaiba, in his previous life, served the pharaoh, but was a cunning and calculating person, whose intentions were not always good. We must be very wary of him from now, and watchful; this may no longer be your friend we’re dealing with.”
“Are we in a any immediate danger?” Ryou asked.
Yami Bakura shook his head. “Not as long as we keep the items and God cards separate and away from him. If he plays Steve in the semis and defeats him, then we don’t stand a chance.”
This whole thing was beginning to scare Ryou. Kaiba was her friend, and now it was if he no longer existed. “What about the real Kaiba?” she asked. “If this isn’t a yami we’re dealing with, then doesn’t that mean it’s actually Kaiba himself?”
Yami Bakura considered this “I suppose you could say that. It is a part of Kaiba’s soul. His evil half, if you wish to simplify it to the utmost degree. Somewhere in the middle of myself and Yami Malik. Not a reincarnation from a previous life, a yami, but not a completely different person either.”
Ryou rubbed her temples. “Okay, you’ve lost me.” She shook her head. “This is way too confusing. It’s going to be running in circles around my head all night.”
Yami Bakura sighed. “I agree. That’s enough philosophy for one night. You should get some rest. You might have to duel in the morning.”
“Oh, yeah, I’ll be going to sleep real fast thanks to your bedtime story,” Ryou mutter. She watched Yami Bakura disappear slowly, and listened for the door of his soulroom shutting softly in her mind. She lay down and closed her eyes.
* * *
Sunlight streamed through the small, circular window of the blimp. She grabbed her light covers and curled into a ball, wrapping herself in the sheets.
“Nha...I don’t wanna go to school…”
She could hear a tapping on her window…or was that the door?
“Ryou!! Wake up!!”
A voice? Strange dreams. Ryou buried herself further in the covers.
More tapping on the window.
“For Ra’s sake, girl, wake up!!”
Ryou opened an eyes. That’s not my alarm clock…
“No, it’s not,” came Yami Bakura’s angry voice. A while ago, Ryou had discovered he was not a morning person when he’d destroyed her alarm clock. That one had been hard to explain.
The tapping again.
“Someone’s at the door!”
Ryou’s eyes shot open. She sat bolt upright and turned to the door. More banging.
“Who on earth is it and what time is it?!”
Yami Bakura rolled his eyes. “Just answer it. Could be important.”
Ryou swung herself into a sitting position and pulled on her sweater before answering the door. She didn’t need some guy in a suit seeing her in a tank top. She opened the door a crack. Then she opened it fully.
“Kaiba!”
Kaiba, looking a little flushed, smiled sheepishly. Ryou could just see Doug, Steve, and Yugi peeking over his shoulder.
“Um…” Kaiba searched for the right words. “Eh…they just announced they were serving breakfast and…well…you didn’t come out, and I didn’t think you’d want to miss it, so…”
Ryou looked down at herself. “Let me get a decent shirt on and I’ll be right there,” she said tersely, and proceeded to shut the door in his face. She turned and reached for her t-shirt.
“God, I hate being the only girl on board…”
Episode 11: The Stranger's Warning
Breakfast was pleasant. The surprising thing was only Kaiba, Steve, Doug, Yugi, and Ryou had showed up. The other three finalists were nowhere in site.
“So, what are we s’posed to do all day?” Ryou asked as they finished up. “All the matches are held at night. What do they expect, we spend all day strategizing? Oh, wait, I forgot, Kaiba’s here.”
Kaiba shot her a dirty look. “Very funny.” He turned back to the others. “I wonder what we could do for entertainment around here. How about a few practice duels?”
Everyone agreed to that, but Yami Bakura once again warned Ryou. “If you’re going to duel, take Ra out of your deck. It doesn’t matter if you get the stuffing beat out of you, just keep a low profile. And beware of Kaiba.”
Ryou sighed inwardly. She’d forgotten all about that. Or just tried to forget. In any case, it was not something she wanted to focus on.
They did play a couple of duels. She was surprised at how good some of the others were. Yami Bakura kept special observation on Steve and Kaiba, trying to pick up on their strategy. Strange, but neither of them were playing their God cards. It occurred to Ryou then that no one, except maybe Kaiba and herself, knew the possessors of all the Kami no Khaados. And Steve. Steve knew about Obelisk, but not Ra. Ryou still had an advantage there.
Night came once again, and the duellists gathered together. This time, the three others were here.
Ryou turned inwardly to her yami. “You don’t suppose your twin over there is working with the grim reaper guys, do you?”
Yami Bakura stared daggers at the competition. “Speak English, will you? If you mean do I think he’s working with those two hooded thugs, then no.”
Ryou was about to reply, when one of the Sunglass Dudes approached the group. He cleared his throat and began. “The next two contestants of the second round match have been chosen.”
Ryou listened closely. Her heart skipped a beat when she thought her name had been called, but no. It was…
It was the silver-haired stranger.
And he was playing against Doug. Ryou watched with suspicion, and Yami Bakura, with anger, as the stranger smiled a murderous smile that was so much like Yami Bakura’s. It was unsettling, to say the least.
Doug tried to look calm, but you could tell he was worried. And he should be, Ryou thought. His opponent moves with such an air of confidence and arrogance…I’d be worried too.
The others followed them up to the stadium. The air was even colder than it had been the previous night, and a lot of them were not dressed for it. Ryou tried not to notice, looking up at her yami’s look-alike. To her shock, he returned her gaze. Yami Bakura took over for the instant and growled at him.
“Let me take over for this duel,” Yami Bakura told her.
Ryou didn’t exactly want to, but didn’t feel like arguing, either. “Fine,” she said, giving him control. “Just try not to be a complete idiot of anyone asks any questions.”
Yami Bakura scowled at her but accepted control.
The players each inserted their decks and began.
Control of the playing field shifted back and forth between players. It didn’t look like either was taking the advantage, that is, until Doug summoned his Black Skull Dragon. But Yami Bakura knew better than that. He knew Doug’s opponent was only toying with him.
“I hope you’re paying close attention,” he said suddenly, speaking up almost for the first time. His eyes fell on Yami Bakura. “I know what you seek, as well as what your hikari seeks. Heed my warning: you are not the only one.” With that, he turned away once again.
“What on earth was that?” Ryou asked her dumbfounded yami. He didn’t answer. It was as if only they had heard the stranger’s words.
Yami Bakura remained silent and at the back of the group for the rest of the duel. As predicted, the individual won with ease. Doug handed him his Black Skull Dragon. Ryou was disappointed at not getting to see more of his strategy.
They returned to their room. Yami Bakura did not speak at all. He closed off the mental link between himself and Ryou, who slept uneasily, plagued by dreams.
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There!
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May 30, 2003
Oh, I am SUCH an un-obsevant idiot!! (But then again, so is Kaiba, so that's comforting ^_^)
Quote of the Day: "Arg DAMMIT!!"
~~me in math class~~
video clip: Shattering the Darkness ~ ep 84, jap with subs, the best ep on the whole damn planet.
It IS the best ep on the whole damn planet. Yami Bakura has a notion of morality...it's tear jerking, it is, preciouss.. Oh, and Jounouch has the most fabulous sub line: "Damn!! I will cut Malik into pieces some day!!"
Today was rather interesting. Math, despite the fact we had this giant exam of 25% of our term mark, was decent. But, that was last periode, so first the otha stuff.
In geo we had a pop quiz. Kaiba-kun and I aced it with 10/10. It was the easiest. Then we talked and received notes. Blah.
In science we watched the GAYEST MOVIE IN THE WORLD for THE WHOLE DAMN CLASS. *twitch*
In french I worked wunderfully on my compo and impressed and pleased the teacher, despite I surpassed the 200 word limit by about 400 words. Ah well.
Okay: math. The big-ass test. Ack save us. From the beginning, things was going WRONG, man. First, I didn't have colours, and we didn't know if Kaiba had enough, cuz Jonathan Banana-Tomato (Bensadoun-Amato) needed some. So Kaiba, being efficient, fished out a sharperner for me. THEN , right before the test began, he took it back, and forgot to hand it back to ME. ARG. Then, for some reason I couldn't find my demi-cercle (protracter, ^_^) so I had to steal it from Jaspreet, but then I found it.
Kaiba came to my rescue again with sharpened colors. I noticed at one point it seemd he'd done something wrong and was erasing a whole chart. Then I started my second chart. It was then when I asked myself "Okay, I have my diagramme a band, my diagramme circulair, but where's my diagramme a ligne brisee?" AND, it was then I saw I'd drawn AND COLORED another diagramme a band where my diagramme a ligne brisee was s'posed to be. I curse (as quiety as I could) not believing how stupid I was, and just made both the circulair one and the broken line one on a nother page when the bell rang. I hope they're right. And believe it or not, Kaiba made the exact same mistake. I bet a lot of people did.
Later on, I hung out with Dia after school while Kaiba-kun went to the mall with Doug and Anthony. He's going to duel them. Good luck, Kaiba ^_^
I'm off to work on the duels. Oh, and Kaiba, we've got to discuss how we're going to do the finals and everything. It's going to be pretty wicked. I'll watch some more Battle City eps to get some ideas. But how do you stop TWO God cards? Oi...
Random Dre and Jay moment (i'm using kaiba and my fictious names, here)
Dre: Ryou, you have a boyfried?
Me: No.
Dre & Jay: Lies.
Dre: Kaiba, you have a girfriend?
Kaiba: No.
Dre & Jay: Lies.
They're idiotic. But funny.
Quote of the Day: "Arg DAMMIT!!"
~~me in math class~~
video clip: Shattering the Darkness ~ ep 84, jap with subs, the best ep on the whole damn planet.
It IS the best ep on the whole damn planet. Yami Bakura has a notion of morality...it's tear jerking, it is, preciouss.. Oh, and Jounouch has the most fabulous sub line: "Damn!! I will cut Malik into pieces some day!!"
Today was rather interesting. Math, despite the fact we had this giant exam of 25% of our term mark, was decent. But, that was last periode, so first the otha stuff.
In geo we had a pop quiz. Kaiba-kun and I aced it with 10/10. It was the easiest. Then we talked and received notes. Blah.
In science we watched the GAYEST MOVIE IN THE WORLD for THE WHOLE DAMN CLASS. *twitch*
In french I worked wunderfully on my compo and impressed and pleased the teacher, despite I surpassed the 200 word limit by about 400 words. Ah well.
Okay: math. The big-ass test. Ack save us. From the beginning, things was going WRONG, man. First, I didn't have colours, and we didn't know if Kaiba had enough, cuz Jonathan Banana-Tomato (Bensadoun-Amato) needed some. So Kaiba, being efficient, fished out a sharperner for me. THEN , right before the test began, he took it back, and forgot to hand it back to ME. ARG. Then, for some reason I couldn't find my demi-cercle (protracter, ^_^) so I had to steal it from Jaspreet, but then I found it.
Kaiba came to my rescue again with sharpened colors. I noticed at one point it seemd he'd done something wrong and was erasing a whole chart. Then I started my second chart. It was then when I asked myself "Okay, I have my diagramme a band, my diagramme circulair, but where's my diagramme a ligne brisee?" AND, it was then I saw I'd drawn AND COLORED another diagramme a band where my diagramme a ligne brisee was s'posed to be. I curse (as quiety as I could) not believing how stupid I was, and just made both the circulair one and the broken line one on a nother page when the bell rang. I hope they're right. And believe it or not, Kaiba made the exact same mistake. I bet a lot of people did.
Later on, I hung out with Dia after school while Kaiba-kun went to the mall with Doug and Anthony. He's going to duel them. Good luck, Kaiba ^_^
I'm off to work on the duels. Oh, and Kaiba, we've got to discuss how we're going to do the finals and everything. It's going to be pretty wicked. I'll watch some more Battle City eps to get some ideas. But how do you stop TWO God cards? Oi...
Random Dre and Jay moment (i'm using kaiba and my fictious names, here)
Dre: Ryou, you have a boyfried?
Me: No.
Dre & Jay: Lies.
Dre: Kaiba, you have a girfriend?
Kaiba: No.
Dre & Jay: Lies.
They're idiotic. But funny.
May 29, 2003
*runs off for no apparent reason*
Quote of the Day: "All those who follow in my blood line shall be bound to its fate; for I will risk no hurt to the Ring."
~~it is, precioussssss, to me...~~
music: Miracula Eternitatis ~ dralion, cirque du soleil
*yawns and pokes elastics in mouth* I hate my braces. And yet I don't mind them. Actually, what I hate is getting them tightened. And getting food stuck in them. Today we had half a day, cuz the seniors are graduating, but I missed the whole thing since I went to the orthodontist's this morning. And I got elastics for the first time. They are called "Penguins". Does that not scare you somewhat?
I was fully aware that my Calabrese friend Luca went ot the same dentist, but I thought he'd had his appointement on monday when he wasn't in for computer class. Believe it or not, I saw him there. I was with my nonna, since my mother couldn't come. So I got to introduce her to my italian friend. She keps insiting I marry someone italian, and whenever the subject of "boyfriends" comes up, they remind me of the nice Calabrese whom I used to like. I guess they're not big on marrying outside of the culture. It must have been quite a shock when they found my mother was marrying someone with all the english workings going. Since that didn't go so well, I guess they want to stick with the italians. The only other ones in my italian family who have married outside the culture is one of my uncles in italy, who married a russian girl, and one of my aunts here who married a portuguese guy. But that's still not too far from italian.
Kaiba has somewhat "cooperated" with me for the Mil Items suggestions. His listing, which made me laugh, went as follows:
"Millenium Puzzel is Yugi
Millenium Ring is Ryou and Bakura
Millenium rod is Kaiba
Millenium Neckless is Maliks sister
Millenium Eye is Steve
Millenium Key is the Milllenium Guardien dude
Millenium Thingy ( don't know the name) is the dude again."
Okay...the first three are right...um, Millenium Necklace? I prefer Millenium Tauk, but it doesn't come in anyway, so that doesn't matter. Oh, and her name's Isis, Kaiba. Believe it or not, I think they make a good couple in the anime and manga ^__^. So do a lot of people.
Mil Eye Steve...I suppose I could go with that. The only problem is for it to work, you have to have it "installed" and that means losing one of your eyeballs, which I don't suppose is very pleasant.
Alright, when I said Ankh, I meant Key. Key is just the english version. And "Guardian Dude!" I like that. I call him the Real Slim Shaadi, considering his name is Shaadi.
And the Mil Thingy, would be the Millenium Scale, which belongs to Shaadi dude again.
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I should really do some of my poetry portfolio, or study for that stupid math exam tomorrow, but I'm seriously worn out. God, summer, hurry up!! Stupid exams. Right before the holidays. They make us work till the last moment, don't they? Args.
Quote of the Day: "All those who follow in my blood line shall be bound to its fate; for I will risk no hurt to the Ring."
~~it is, precioussssss, to me...~~
music: Miracula Eternitatis ~ dralion, cirque du soleil
*yawns and pokes elastics in mouth* I hate my braces. And yet I don't mind them. Actually, what I hate is getting them tightened. And getting food stuck in them. Today we had half a day, cuz the seniors are graduating, but I missed the whole thing since I went to the orthodontist's this morning. And I got elastics for the first time. They are called "Penguins". Does that not scare you somewhat?
I was fully aware that my Calabrese friend Luca went ot the same dentist, but I thought he'd had his appointement on monday when he wasn't in for computer class. Believe it or not, I saw him there. I was with my nonna, since my mother couldn't come. So I got to introduce her to my italian friend. She keps insiting I marry someone italian, and whenever the subject of "boyfriends" comes up, they remind me of the nice Calabrese whom I used to like. I guess they're not big on marrying outside of the culture. It must have been quite a shock when they found my mother was marrying someone with all the english workings going. Since that didn't go so well, I guess they want to stick with the italians. The only other ones in my italian family who have married outside the culture is one of my uncles in italy, who married a russian girl, and one of my aunts here who married a portuguese guy. But that's still not too far from italian.
Kaiba has somewhat "cooperated" with me for the Mil Items suggestions. His listing, which made me laugh, went as follows:
"Millenium Puzzel is Yugi
Millenium Ring is Ryou and Bakura
Millenium rod is Kaiba
Millenium Neckless is Maliks sister
Millenium Eye is Steve
Millenium Key is the Milllenium Guardien dude
Millenium Thingy ( don't know the name) is the dude again."
Okay...the first three are right...um, Millenium Necklace? I prefer Millenium Tauk, but it doesn't come in anyway, so that doesn't matter. Oh, and her name's Isis, Kaiba. Believe it or not, I think they make a good couple in the anime and manga ^__^. So do a lot of people.
Mil Eye Steve...I suppose I could go with that. The only problem is for it to work, you have to have it "installed" and that means losing one of your eyeballs, which I don't suppose is very pleasant.
Alright, when I said Ankh, I meant Key. Key is just the english version. And "Guardian Dude!" I like that. I call him the Real Slim Shaadi, considering his name is Shaadi.
And the Mil Thingy, would be the Millenium Scale, which belongs to Shaadi dude again.
^____________________^
I should really do some of my poetry portfolio, or study for that stupid math exam tomorrow, but I'm seriously worn out. God, summer, hurry up!! Stupid exams. Right before the holidays. They make us work till the last moment, don't they? Args.
May 28, 2003
The longest post in the history of everything.
music: Running ~ no doubt (this somehow makes me think all yaoi *weird*...)
Alright, this is DEFINETLY the world's longest post, because this incoperates about two or three epsiodes. I decided I needed to get them all up. They'll be put up individually later, at Dazzled. AND, for those of you whom are wondering, I am re-posting ep 6 here. It's already at Dazzled. Once again, Power Reversal IS a real card, I just came up with an alternate english name.
So here we go!! We left off with me in a duel with Yami Malik.
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Episode 6: Overcoming God
Ryou looked at her hand. That Cyber Jar has destroyed all her powerful monsters, including Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, which had been her only guarantee for a quick win. Now, she was open. And so began the process of playing out Cyber Jar’s effect, drawing cards and placing them on the field.
By the end of that process, Ryou had Harpy’s brother in attack mode, and Mystical Elf face down, in defence. Her opponent had three monsters, facedown. If she didn’t destroy one, he’d have enough to summon Ra. And it was still her turn. She also had Mirror Force, Seven Tools of the Bandit, and Power Reversal.
Power Reversal….
That was it!! That was the card that could maybe win this for her…
“I’ll attack,” she said after a moment. She looked for a change in her opponents expression. She saw none. So she continued.
“Harpy’s Brother, attack his facedown card on the left!!”
The blast shattered the facedown card. Nothing happen. Ryou let out a sigh of relief. “I’ll also place three cards facedown,” she said. “And end.”
Yami Malik continued to grin maniacally, despite his laugh. This left Ryou terribly unnerved.
“Will you stop smiling?!”
This only made Yami Malik laugh. He glared at her. “My turn,” he said slowly, drawing his card. He was prolonging it as long as he could. Probably enjoying himself, Ryou thought bitterly. But she still had a chance to stop him from summoning it. As long as he didn’t get three monsters on the field…
“I play one monster facedown,” he said, “And I play…Change of Heart.”
“What!?”
“And take control of your Harpy’s brother.” The monster, now totally limp, it’s yellow eyes blank, floated over to Yami Malik’s side of he field, and stopped, turning to face Ryou. Two of his facedown monsters were flipped to attack mode, both Vorse Raiders. She clenched her fists. She knew what was coming, but she didn’t know if she could stop it.
“Now,” he said, wiping the disk board clean of three monsters, it began. “Prepare to face God!!
“I sacrifice Harpy’s Brother and two other monsters to summon the most powerful God…rise, Ra no Yokushindyuu!!!”
Duellists scattered like frightened animals as a wall of black and red fire rose behind Yami Malik. Directly above him, two red slits opened slowly. Ra’s eyes. The fire was blown on either side of these eyes, and became wings. Long golden armour sprang from its shoulders and head with ten-foot switch-blades. It was like a giant, glowing gem, surrounded by flames.
Ryou stepping back from the continuous heat wave blasts, couldn’t even look directly at it, the flames were so bright. It let out a roar and stretched its wings to their full length, brushing the roof and sides of the building. But Ryou had to act now, before it was too late, and before Ra had reached its full power. After that, Trap and Magic cards were useless. The ones she had on the field had already begun to burn.
She bent down, on her knees, trying to shield herself from the heat, and pressed the button under the Magic/Trap card slot. Te melting card flipped itself upright.
“Activate….Power Reversal!!”
The silhouettes of all the sacrificed monster suddenly reappeared on the field. Their attack and defence point were clear. Harpy’s Brother with 1800, and the two Vorse Raiders with 1900. Ra no Yokushindyuu took the attack and defence of the three monsters sacrificed in order to summon in. But Power Reversal stopped that. Power Reversal took the attack of sacrificed monsters and added them to the opponent’s LP. In all, Yami Malik was sacrificing monsters with 0 attack points. So with Ra, what could have been 5600, became 0 in and instant.
Ra still kept all it’s majesty, and this side of the mall still felt like an oven, but its raw power, the only thing that fuelled Ra, was gone. It no longer had an attack.
Yami Malik, who looked like he didn’t know whether he should just growl and continue or go over there and punch Ryou out, gripped his cards so hard his knuckles were white. Ryou was thankful to see his smirk gone. And those 5600 attack points that had been designated as Ra’s, were transferred, as LP to Ryou. Her LP count was now 8600.
“It’s still your turn,” Ryou said, not yet fully sure this was the end of Ra. She kept her guard up. Yami Malik still had one monster facedown. “I summon another Vorse Raider,” he said, voice low, “And attack your defence monster.”
A mistake. Mystical Elf’s defence cost Yami Malik 100 LP, bringing him to 2700. Yami Malik shook with rage.
Ryou nearly collapse when he ended. The fool. He’d left himself wide open. But that also depended on her draw. This could end now. Or he could have a chance at coming back. Ryou hoped not. But with 8600 LP and a powerless God card on the field, she had a chance.
“I draw,” she said. Once again, it had all come down to luck. Or what the duellists called luck. Heart of the Cards. But maybe something more. The will of the Kami. The will of the God. The final outcome, in whose hand Ra would end up, was ultimately left up to Ra. A power like that had a will of its own, and would only be left up to those who were worthy.
Ryou looked down. Her second Cyber-Stein. She never knew why she kept two in her deck. Summonding Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon was a one-shot deal after you gave up 5000 LP. But this time…with 8600…she could end it now.
She looked back up to Yam Malik. “Yami Malik,” she called. “I’ve done it. I’ve stopped the unstoppable. Your first mistake was excepting my challenge. Your second, blinded by rage, you forgot to switch Ra to defence mode. A very foolish mistake. An amateur mistake. And it cost you the duel. The duel, and the power of Kami.”
“Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, destroy the Winged Dragon of Ra!!!!”
In a second, Ra was enveloped in a sphere of blue lightening. Because of its 0 attack point, the assault came out as a direct attack, not only shattering Ra, but the rest of Yami no Malik’s lifepoints. It was finished.
Ryou was to shocked to be thrilled. Yami Bakura, no the other hadn’t, wasn’t to surprised, so he recovered quicker than his Hikari, took control, and went over to where the smoke was clearing from the blast. Waving it away, Yami Bakura moved to where Yami Malik had been standing a moment earlier. But when it had cleared, Ryou nr Yami Bakura spotted their opponent.
Yami Malik was gone.
The crowd began to whisper. Yami Bakura kept control of Ryou, just in case Yami Malik intended something, but nothing happened. The due points began to upload by themselves on the disk, bringing the count to 1200. A light began to beep, signalling Ryou was approved to qualify for the finals.
When Yami Bakura looked down, Ryou, using the limited sight, spotted something glittering off in a corner. Picking it up, Yami Bakura grinned.
“Ra no Yokushindyuu.”
Yami Bakura smirked. “Finals, here we come.”
Episode 7: Theif
Now that Ryou had Ra, as well as 1200 duel point, she had much more confidence for the finals. She could at least get through all the amateur duellists, but Steven and Kaiba were an entirely different story. The three of them were in a league of their own, the possessors of the legendary Kami no Khaados. Ryou felt quite happy at the moment. Now she had to present herself at the location for the finals, and it could begin. But first, she had one more stop to make…
A little ways off, a young, smug-looking duellist in a silver trench coat with short brown hair was rifting through his deck, unaware of the approaching threat. Turning around slightly to lay his cards out on a table, he suddenly felt his feet lift off the ground, the breath knocked out of him, as something hit him full force.
“Kaaaaiibaaaaaaa!!!!!”
A shock of pain running from his shoulders to his legs made Kaiba close his eyes and cringe. He tried to speak but only a groan came out.
“Oh, good, your alive. I thought maybe I’d knocked you out cold, there.”
Kaiba opened his eyes slowly to find himself on the hard floor, and blinked. Through the blur of light and colours, he could just make out a shadow standing over him looking down. As things got clearer, he suddenly recognized his attacker. Big bluish-green eyes, messy hair –
“Ry..Ryou?”
She grinned idiotically. “Yup. Sorry about nearly running you over there. I’m kinda excited. Oh, man, you aren’t gonna believe this…”
Kaiba held up a hand. “Okay, first of all, let me recover my bearings here. Next time, try not to knock me into the fifth dimension.” He sat up, rubbing the back of his head.
“Sorry,” Ryou repeated, grinning even wider. She grabbed Kaiba’s wrist and pulled him a little roughly onto his feet. He grabbed hold of the table to catch his balance.
“Alright, tell me what you want to tell me now before you kill me.”
Ryou laughed. “I’m really sorry,” she said for the third time. “I can get a little over excited at times…but you already know that…um…anyway, you aren’t going to believe this, but…I did it!!”
“Did what?”
Ryou rolled her eyes. “Ra, you idiot!! I won Ra!!” Still grinning from ear to ear, she rifled through her pocket for her deck, brought it out, and selected Ra from the top. Its holographic image glittered before Kaiba’s eyes.
Kaiba, speechless, didn’t know whether to be happy for her or screamingly jealous. Of course he’d known Ra was still out there, and he’d wanted it, and of course he’d known Ryou was also after it, but he never thought she’d find it, let alone win it. That meant she was a bigger threat than he’d thought. Especially in the finals. If he’d gotten Ra himself, it would have almost completely secured him the championship, but now that the cards were scattered amongst three individual duellists, it would be harder to pick off the other two to get them for himself.
“That’s great,” Kaiba said, a little flustered. He tried to seem happy. Ryou could tell this put him off a little, but she was too excited to get aggravated with him over it. She knew there was a possibility of it ending up in his hands, or even Steven’s hands, after the finals, but she could at least enjoy it while it was hers.
“Don’t underestimate Ra’s power,” her yami told her quietly from his soulroom. “It’s more powerful than you can imagine.”
“If you say so,” Ryou muttered. Kaiba looked at her curiously. “Nothing,” she said quickly. She still hadn’t told him about the “voices in her head” and she didn’t plan to anytime soon.
“Anyway,” Ryou said, “I’m in the finals, so we’ll get to face each other. That should be good. So which way is it to the stadium?”
Kaiba shrugged. “I’m only going to be heading there later. I thought I’d stop by the card shop to boost up my deck a little, y’know.”
Ryou looked a little disappointed for a moment, but brushed it off. “Okay. Just don’t get too good.” She winked and turned to leave. “See ya.”
“Yeah, see ya,” Kaiba echoed. He didn’t know why, but he couldn’t turn his attention back to his cards. He kept his eye on her as she walked away. For some reason, he had an ominous feeling, as if something bad was going to happen…
Ryou was totally in her own world, blissfully thinking about her win and her future in the finals. She didn’t notice the shadowy figure trailing her. But her yami did.
“Quicken you pace,” he instructed her firmly.
“Huh?” Ryou said out loud, coming out of her reverie.
“Move. Now.”
Her yami’s stress took a serious toll on Ryou, heightening her senses unnaturally, making her two times more aware of her surroundings. But it was already too late. The hooded figure was a little ways behind her, and at the last few feet between them, he started to run. He knocked into Ryou so hard she was thrown off her feet, temporarily disorienting her. It also sent her deck flying out of her hands, for she hadn’t stuck it back in her pocket. He grabbed it quickly and struggled to tear off the elastic. Yami Bakura was immediately in control and sprang to his feet, about to leap at the guy, but a sudden, stinging pain in Ryou’s leg made Yami Bakura retreat, giving Ryou back her body, as well a her senses, and the pain. She cried out and fell to her knees.
Looking up, she saw the hooded guy rip of the elastic and grab the first card off her deck, the card she had been showing Kaiba, Ra no Yokushindyuu. He dropped the rest of the cards, causing them to fall in a heap around Ryou, and split.
“Get back here you…” Ryou proceeded to let out a long string of curse words. She held her ankle firmly. She’d twisted it slightly when she’d ran into Kaiba, but thought nothing of it; the guy throwing her off her feet must have twisted it further.
Letting out a desperate sob, she sank to the ground again. Then out of nowhere, someone was at her side.
“You okay?”
It was Kaiba. Ryou nodded quickly, then motioned to the fleeing thief. “Get him Kaiba,” se said as firmly as she could, her voice strained. “Get my card back and give that dirtbag what he deserves. Just do it. Please.”
Kaiba looked from the figure back to Ryou, unsure what to do. “Go!” Ryou cried.
The voice was not Ryou’s anymore. It still sounded like her, but Yami Bakura had taken control temporarily give her a break from the pain. Of course, Kaiba had no clue he was no longer facing his friend.
The voice was much more intimidating and dangerous, but Kaiba was too flustered to notice. He hesitated, but finally ran after the stranger, as fast he could.
Yami Bakura didn’t mind taking the pain for Ryou; he had a stronger resistance to it than she did. He dragged himself up, rubbing the injured ankle, putting both his and Ryou’s willpower, as well as a little Sennen magic, into healing it. Finally, the pain had subsided enough for Ryou to take control again and walk, with just a slight limp, in the direction she’d seen Kaiba go. Of course, that quickly got them lost. They seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth.
A thought suddenly occurred to Ryou. She turned inwardly to her yami. “Can’t you sense them? Use the power of the Sennen Ring to track down Ra’s power. It should even help that Kaiba’s got Obelisk.”
Yami Bakura considered this. “I can try. But you’ll have to let me take control again.”
“Done,” Ryou said, releasing her grip. Yami Bakura once again had control and was off in another direction.
Episode 8: Retrieval in Suspicion
“In there.”
Ryou blinked, suddenly realizing where she was. She was in her soulroom, and Yami Bakura had control over her. They had been tracking Ra for a few minutes now, but Ryou hadn’t really been paying much attention.
“Are you listening to me?”
Her yami sounded irritated. She preferred not to get on his bad side (like he had a good side) so she was immediately attentive.
“What? That door?” Ryou found herself looking at an old, ugly door in front of her. The “Off Limits”, or some such warning sign, had faded away a long time ago.
“Yes,” Yami Bakura said, relaxing a little. “That door. Ra’s through there. I can feel it. I’ll let you have control now. I don’t trust that other duellist. One thing about Ra: if it’s used by someone unworthy, or in some manner unacceptable, that duellist, as soon as Ra is summoned, will be struck by a bolt of lightning from the heavens. Don’t ask. That’s just what I’ve heard. But if that’s true, I haven’t sensed any random lightning bolts lately, so this duellist must be somewhat skilled.”
Ryou listened to this with fascination. She’d heard of that before, but hadn’t known whether to believe it. Perhaps this was of those “Dark Duellists” she’d heard of, duelling Kaiba now. It struck her as ridiculous, but it was possible.
“What about Kaiba?” she asked suddenly, aware that his opponenet might have something sneaky up his sleeve.
“He can take care of himself,” Yami Bakura muttered, not completely focused.
She remembered she herself had said something similar at the beginning of the tournament. He could take care of himself. So back to the door situation.. “Let’s go,” she told him. Yami Bakura grabbed the rusted silver doorknob and twisted it. He cursed. “Locked.”
“Locked!?” Ryou cried, taken aback. She hadn’t expected it to be so. “Can’t you get through somehow?!”
“What do you suggest exactly?!” he yami retorted angrily. She fell silent. He’d helped her, despite his own frustration. She didn’t want anger to block out logic now.
But it did. Regaining control, Ryou slammed both fists on the door and let out a long string of curses. This wasn’t going so well. Their only hope was Kaiba knew what he was doing.
“If Kaiba defeats this guy…” Yami Bakura said suddenly, “He’ll have found one of Ra’s weaknesses. That would greatly diminish our chance of victory in the finals…”
“How can you be worrying about the finals now?!” Ryou cried, amazed. “If he doesn’t retrieve Ra for us there’ll be no chance at all in the finals. We have to wait.”
Her yami mumbled something inaudible and closed off the mental link between himself and Ryou. She could tell he was aggravated. She didn’t want him to get to mad. He was normally calm, but did have a wild temper when provoked.
She finally decided standing there and staring at the door wasn’t going to knock it down, so she slid down the wall next to it sat in the corner against the wall, hugging her knees. Waiting.
* * *
A little while later, Ryou had dozed off, her head in her hands, a single tear-stain on her face from a single tear of frustration.
Coming to slightly, she was aware of the latch on the inside of the door lifting, and the creak of it sliding open. She sprang to her feet immediately, fully awake, and turned to face a solemn but satisfied-looking Kaiba. And in his hand, gleaming in the bright florescent light, was the Winged Dragon of Ra.
Shocked, she simply stood and stared. Kaiba finally noticed her, his face brightening, and flashed the card. That was it. It was back.
Ryou recovered almost as quickly, and ran over to him, nearly knocking him over as she’d done before. She felt a few fresh tears roll down her cheeks, and realized how ridiculous she must look. She wiped them away quickly.
“You alright?” Kaiba asked, looking at her ankle.
Ryou nodded. “Yeah. I guess I should say thanks” She paused. “What about you? Did that guy go all freaky on you?”
Kaiba shrugged. “I guess you could say that. Most of the duellists in this tourney so far that I’ve duelled where all a little freaky.” He laughed. “So, I guess this is yours. Try not to lose it again.”
Ryou smiled gratefully. “Really, thanks. I guess we should head for the finals, huh?” Kaiba nodded. “Here, I’ll make you a deal: I’ll walk with you to the location, just so you don’t get mugged by some other weirdos, and then I’ll go back to the Card Shop for those cards I’ve been wanting.”
“Deal,” Ryou said, thankful she wouldn’t be walking, alone, in the half empty mall when some creeps were after her.
As they were walking, Ryou looked to Kaiba. “So, he wanted my God Card?” she asked quietly.
“It would seem so,” Kaiba answered. “And it looked like me having a God Card too was a bonus. He wasn’t that good, anyway, even with Ra. But that thing is one hell of a card.”
Ryou laughed. “Yeah, trust me, I know. Let me ask you something – do you…um…I don’t know if this will make sense to you, but…Obelisk’s full power. Do you feel as if you’ve got in under control?”
Kaiba, strangely, was not at all taken by surprise at the question. “Yes,” he said firmly.
Yami Bakura was immediately alert and on guard. “Something’s up. He knows something we don’t. And he’s not telling us. Something’s going on.”
Ryou rolled her eyes, making sure not to let Kaiba see. “What are you talking about?” Yami Baukra didn’t answer. “Oh, honestly, you worry to much, did you know that? This Kaiba were talking about. He’s my friend. Trust me, I’d know if something was up with him.”
Yami Bakura, of course, continued to be agitated, and the feeling rubbed off on Ryou. In made her twitchy and irritable. She tried not to think about it.
“Why do you ask?” Kaiba said after a while.
Ryou shook her head. “Just curious.” She wasn’t sure if he’d buy that. Truth be told, after looking twice, she began to notice what had freaked her Yami out so much. Kaiba seemed…different. But when he looked at her now, and smiled, it really didn’t seem as if he was anyone but himself.
“Alright, this is where I leave you,” he said, looking up to the archway before them. “At least, it’s where they told me. When you go in, they’ll ask to see your duel disk, and download the points, to verify the authenticity. After that, your free to hang around until the other seven show up.”
Ryou moved to face him, her back to the entranceway. “Thanks,” she said again. Then suddenly, she put on a great dramatic air, and lifted her arms to the ceiling. “Oh, goodbye, my knight in shining armour!! Parting is such a sweet sorrow.”
Kaiba gave her a strange look, then waved her off. “You won’t be saying that when we meet in the finals,” he told her. “See you in a while.”
“Bye!” Ryou called, watching him leave. She turned back to the entrance. “Okay,” she whispered, taking a deep breath. “This is going to be one hell of a ride.” With that, she took a step forward and crossed over.
Epiosde 9: Gathering of the Finalists
“Look at that.”
“That” was definitely something to look at. The entrance way had led her down winding staircase, through a tunnel, and into a large stadium-like open area. It was amazing in the sense that a minute ago she’d been underground, below the mall, and now she could look up and see the night sky.
Looking around she counted five duellists in the area. “Amateurs,” Yami Bakura said immediately, barely taking time to look at them. In one corner, Ryou spotted a young boy who looked around eleven. He had an unmistakable resemblance to Kaiba. “That must be Steven,” she whispered.
There were a few guys, too, obviously part of the whole thing, who had the black tux and sunglasses thing going. She handed them her duel disk, and after poking a few wires here and there, they handed it back to her and informed her she was qualified to participate in the finals.
With nothing better to do, she took a good look around her at the rest of the bunch that would be participating in the final test. She planned on keeping her distance from Steven, just in case. He still didn’t know who had Ra, and the longer it stayed that way, the better. Near Steven were two other guys, clad in similar clothes, hoods covering both their faces.
“They must be of the same species of scum who stole Ra,” she growled, her anger boiling up.
“Yes,” Yami Bakura agreed. “But keep your cool. We don’t want them knowing just yet that their plan went wrong. We’ll have to keep that under wraps for now. Just keep the role of inconspicuous amateur duellist and I bet you’ll be overlooked by every one of them.”
Ryou turned her burning gaze away from them reluctantly. She was equally shocked to see whom her eyes fell on next. “And that –“
“Would be the great and righteous Pharaoh,” Yami Bakura finished for her, practically fuming. And he was right. Yugi Muto, in the flesh, quietly going through his deck. For the Pharaoh, great and mighty King of Games, he didn’t look too threatening.
“You sure that’s the Pharaoh and not just regular Yugi?” Yami Bakura didn’t answer. He just continued to growl and storm around in his soulroom. “Alright, I get the message, you hate him, now calm down,” Ryou said. “And you told me not to loose my temper…oi…”
Ryou continued to do the 360 degree turn of the stadium. One figure in the shadows caught her attention. She moved slowly towards the light, trying to get a better look, and had to cover her mouth with her hands to stop from yelling.
“Yami Bakura!”
Her Yami angrily swung the door of his soulroom open. “What?!”
“Um…” she pointed mentally in the direction of the figure. “Um, guy over there? Maybe that’s just me, but….take a look.”
Yami Bakura peered through Ryou’s eyes. “What is going on here?” he yelled, as shocked as she was. See, the individual looked remarkably like Yami Bakura. Not as much Ryou, but definitely her yami. And not just a minor resemblance, but the same kind of hair, and piercing eyes and everything. The only thing was his hair was a tad shorter, and he looked maybe around 18 or 19.
“Freaky,” was the only thing Ryou could come up with. Her yami rolled his eyes. “That’s your brilliant deduction of the situation?! Freaky?!”
Ryou shrugged. “I don’t know! There aren’t a lot of guys out there who look even remotely like you...this may be stupid, but…d’you think it could have anything to do with your past life?”
Obviously, Yami Bakura had not thought of this. He remained silent for a moment, as Ryou continued to gaze at the stranger.
“I don’t know,” Yami Bakura said finally. He didn’t like not being in total control of the situation, but there wasn’t anything that could be done about it. Ryou certainly wasn’t going to skip up to the individual and ask if he was by any chance related to the voice inside her head.
“Well, we’ll see him clear enough when he duels,” she told him. “I wonder if they’re going to have the blimp stadium like I heard? That would be so cool.”
Yami Bakura obviously did not care where the finals were played out, as long as he got to play his carbon copy over there.
“Hey.”
A poke on the shoulder made Ryou jump and spin around.
“Doug!”
Doug had first been introduced to her by Kaiba. They were friends from school. She knew he was a duellist, but she didn’t know he was good enough to get to the finals. “Um, so, you got to the finals?” Ryou said, stating the obvious.
Douglas nodded. “Yup. Kaiba’s here too, right?”
Ryou grinned. “I’d die laughing if he wasn’t. Yeah, he’s here, along with his brother.” She pointed to the intensely concentrated Steve, who seemed to be developing a strategy of some sort.
“Besides him and Kaiba, the competition looks a little creepy.” He was obviously referring to the two hooded guys and the Yami Bakura look-alike. Apparently, he hadn’t spotted Yugi yet. Ryou scrunched up her nose and gave the two cloaked freaks an indignant look.
Soon afterward, Kaiba appeared through the entranceway, in all his glory. Like Yami Bakura, he dismissed the competition as amateurs, but didn’t say so in front of Doug. Either his brother didn’t know he was here, or didn’t care, because the two completely ignored each other.
As soon as the eight finalists were gathered in a group, a loudspeaker came on, announcing the arrival of the finals location. Many were confused by this, but Ryou was ecstatic as she watched the giant blimp descend from the sky.
They boarded, one by one, and as Ryou tried to stick with Kaiba and Doug, her yami kept dragging her off in the direction of Bakura #2. This was starting to irritate Ryou.
The duellists were allowed a bite to eat, then were called to assemble in the main area of the blimp. They were not even allowed to check into their rooms yet. The order of the duels were to be announced immediately, and the match to begin shortly after.
One of the “sunglass dudes”, as they had come to be known with Ryou, raised a hand to get everyone’s attention. Not that many people were talking, anyway. The two dark duellists were still in some corner discussing quietly under their breath, and the silver-haired stranger was still alone. Steve, as well as Yugi, had joined up with Kaiba, Doug, and Ryou, but weren’t talking much.
Sunglass Dude #1 began. “May I please have your attention. I will now announce the list of matches in order. The first two contestants are to proceed immediately upstairs to the Arena. Anyone who wishes to watch may do so. After the four first rounds are complete, the winner of each round will be selected randomly to play against another winner. The losers of each duel are permitted to watch the rest of the tournament.”
Ryou looked around. Two more sunglass dudes had entered the room. “Tight security for a Blimp,” Ryou whispered to Kaiba. “As if we’re going anywhere anytime soon.”
“The first round match shall be….Seto Kaiba vs Yugi Muto!”
It was then that Ryou decided this was fixed. Kaiba vs Yugi? No surprise there. Kaiba closed his eyes and grinned. He looked more arrogant than Ryou had ever seen.
Without another word, he and Yugi, followed by the rest of them, headed upstairs. They left the interior of the blimp and into the night air. It was a sky arena. They’d be duelling 4000 feet off the ground.
They took their place on either side of the playing field, the spectators below and off to the side.
As soon as Ryou was relaxed and off guard, Yami Bakura took control. Full control. There was a slight change in Ryou – her hair flared up a little, as well as her eyes became narrower. But, as usual, anyone without a Sennen Item remained incapable of noticing. Now Yami Bakura just had to act the part of Ryou if anyone asked any questions.
Ryou, however, was not happy with this. “What are you doing?!”
Yami Bakura knew he had the power to take total control over Ryou, and not let her fight back, as well as block himself out from her completely, where as Ryou could do neither. Still, he preferred to let her at least have a say in things, but this was serious. He was sensing something very strange from Ryou supposedly “normal” friend, Kaiba. This, of course, angered Ryou even more.
“Get a hold of yourself and calm down,” Yami Bakura told her harshly. “I know what I am doing, unlike you.” She did not speak after that. However, she did watch the duel, as well as her friend, with growing suspicion and concern.
Kaiba looked up at his opponent. “Let’s begin this, shall we?”
Yugi nodded. “I’m ready when you are.”
“DUEL!!!”
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Impressive, no? There'll be some fix-ups (if Kaiba cooperates) in terms of Mil Items and such, besides that, stayed tuned for the next eps of the finals!!
music: Running ~ no doubt (this somehow makes me think all yaoi *weird*...)
Alright, this is DEFINETLY the world's longest post, because this incoperates about two or three epsiodes. I decided I needed to get them all up. They'll be put up individually later, at Dazzled. AND, for those of you whom are wondering, I am re-posting ep 6 here. It's already at Dazzled. Once again, Power Reversal IS a real card, I just came up with an alternate english name.
So here we go!! We left off with me in a duel with Yami Malik.
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Episode 6: Overcoming God
Ryou looked at her hand. That Cyber Jar has destroyed all her powerful monsters, including Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, which had been her only guarantee for a quick win. Now, she was open. And so began the process of playing out Cyber Jar’s effect, drawing cards and placing them on the field.
By the end of that process, Ryou had Harpy’s brother in attack mode, and Mystical Elf face down, in defence. Her opponent had three monsters, facedown. If she didn’t destroy one, he’d have enough to summon Ra. And it was still her turn. She also had Mirror Force, Seven Tools of the Bandit, and Power Reversal.
Power Reversal….
That was it!! That was the card that could maybe win this for her…
“I’ll attack,” she said after a moment. She looked for a change in her opponents expression. She saw none. So she continued.
“Harpy’s Brother, attack his facedown card on the left!!”
The blast shattered the facedown card. Nothing happen. Ryou let out a sigh of relief. “I’ll also place three cards facedown,” she said. “And end.”
Yami Malik continued to grin maniacally, despite his laugh. This left Ryou terribly unnerved.
“Will you stop smiling?!”
This only made Yami Malik laugh. He glared at her. “My turn,” he said slowly, drawing his card. He was prolonging it as long as he could. Probably enjoying himself, Ryou thought bitterly. But she still had a chance to stop him from summoning it. As long as he didn’t get three monsters on the field…
“I play one monster facedown,” he said, “And I play…Change of Heart.”
“What!?”
“And take control of your Harpy’s brother.” The monster, now totally limp, it’s yellow eyes blank, floated over to Yami Malik’s side of he field, and stopped, turning to face Ryou. Two of his facedown monsters were flipped to attack mode, both Vorse Raiders. She clenched her fists. She knew what was coming, but she didn’t know if she could stop it.
“Now,” he said, wiping the disk board clean of three monsters, it began. “Prepare to face God!!
“I sacrifice Harpy’s Brother and two other monsters to summon the most powerful God…rise, Ra no Yokushindyuu!!!”
Duellists scattered like frightened animals as a wall of black and red fire rose behind Yami Malik. Directly above him, two red slits opened slowly. Ra’s eyes. The fire was blown on either side of these eyes, and became wings. Long golden armour sprang from its shoulders and head with ten-foot switch-blades. It was like a giant, glowing gem, surrounded by flames.
Ryou stepping back from the continuous heat wave blasts, couldn’t even look directly at it, the flames were so bright. It let out a roar and stretched its wings to their full length, brushing the roof and sides of the building. But Ryou had to act now, before it was too late, and before Ra had reached its full power. After that, Trap and Magic cards were useless. The ones she had on the field had already begun to burn.
She bent down, on her knees, trying to shield herself from the heat, and pressed the button under the Magic/Trap card slot. Te melting card flipped itself upright.
“Activate….Power Reversal!!”
The silhouettes of all the sacrificed monster suddenly reappeared on the field. Their attack and defence point were clear. Harpy’s Brother with 1800, and the two Vorse Raiders with 1900. Ra no Yokushindyuu took the attack and defence of the three monsters sacrificed in order to summon in. But Power Reversal stopped that. Power Reversal took the attack of sacrificed monsters and added them to the opponent’s LP. In all, Yami Malik was sacrificing monsters with 0 attack points. So with Ra, what could have been 5600, became 0 in and instant.
Ra still kept all it’s majesty, and this side of the mall still felt like an oven, but its raw power, the only thing that fuelled Ra, was gone. It no longer had an attack.
Yami Malik, who looked like he didn’t know whether he should just growl and continue or go over there and punch Ryou out, gripped his cards so hard his knuckles were white. Ryou was thankful to see his smirk gone. And those 5600 attack points that had been designated as Ra’s, were transferred, as LP to Ryou. Her LP count was now 8600.
“It’s still your turn,” Ryou said, not yet fully sure this was the end of Ra. She kept her guard up. Yami Malik still had one monster facedown. “I summon another Vorse Raider,” he said, voice low, “And attack your defence monster.”
A mistake. Mystical Elf’s defence cost Yami Malik 100 LP, bringing him to 2700. Yami Malik shook with rage.
Ryou nearly collapse when he ended. The fool. He’d left himself wide open. But that also depended on her draw. This could end now. Or he could have a chance at coming back. Ryou hoped not. But with 8600 LP and a powerless God card on the field, she had a chance.
“I draw,” she said. Once again, it had all come down to luck. Or what the duellists called luck. Heart of the Cards. But maybe something more. The will of the Kami. The will of the God. The final outcome, in whose hand Ra would end up, was ultimately left up to Ra. A power like that had a will of its own, and would only be left up to those who were worthy.
Ryou looked down. Her second Cyber-Stein. She never knew why she kept two in her deck. Summonding Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon was a one-shot deal after you gave up 5000 LP. But this time…with 8600…she could end it now.
She looked back up to Yam Malik. “Yami Malik,” she called. “I’ve done it. I’ve stopped the unstoppable. Your first mistake was excepting my challenge. Your second, blinded by rage, you forgot to switch Ra to defence mode. A very foolish mistake. An amateur mistake. And it cost you the duel. The duel, and the power of Kami.”
“Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, destroy the Winged Dragon of Ra!!!!”
In a second, Ra was enveloped in a sphere of blue lightening. Because of its 0 attack point, the assault came out as a direct attack, not only shattering Ra, but the rest of Yami no Malik’s lifepoints. It was finished.
Ryou was to shocked to be thrilled. Yami Bakura, no the other hadn’t, wasn’t to surprised, so he recovered quicker than his Hikari, took control, and went over to where the smoke was clearing from the blast. Waving it away, Yami Bakura moved to where Yami Malik had been standing a moment earlier. But when it had cleared, Ryou nr Yami Bakura spotted their opponent.
Yami Malik was gone.
The crowd began to whisper. Yami Bakura kept control of Ryou, just in case Yami Malik intended something, but nothing happened. The due points began to upload by themselves on the disk, bringing the count to 1200. A light began to beep, signalling Ryou was approved to qualify for the finals.
When Yami Bakura looked down, Ryou, using the limited sight, spotted something glittering off in a corner. Picking it up, Yami Bakura grinned.
“Ra no Yokushindyuu.”
Yami Bakura smirked. “Finals, here we come.”
Episode 7: Theif
Now that Ryou had Ra, as well as 1200 duel point, she had much more confidence for the finals. She could at least get through all the amateur duellists, but Steven and Kaiba were an entirely different story. The three of them were in a league of their own, the possessors of the legendary Kami no Khaados. Ryou felt quite happy at the moment. Now she had to present herself at the location for the finals, and it could begin. But first, she had one more stop to make…
A little ways off, a young, smug-looking duellist in a silver trench coat with short brown hair was rifting through his deck, unaware of the approaching threat. Turning around slightly to lay his cards out on a table, he suddenly felt his feet lift off the ground, the breath knocked out of him, as something hit him full force.
“Kaaaaiibaaaaaaa!!!!!”
A shock of pain running from his shoulders to his legs made Kaiba close his eyes and cringe. He tried to speak but only a groan came out.
“Oh, good, your alive. I thought maybe I’d knocked you out cold, there.”
Kaiba opened his eyes slowly to find himself on the hard floor, and blinked. Through the blur of light and colours, he could just make out a shadow standing over him looking down. As things got clearer, he suddenly recognized his attacker. Big bluish-green eyes, messy hair –
“Ry..Ryou?”
She grinned idiotically. “Yup. Sorry about nearly running you over there. I’m kinda excited. Oh, man, you aren’t gonna believe this…”
Kaiba held up a hand. “Okay, first of all, let me recover my bearings here. Next time, try not to knock me into the fifth dimension.” He sat up, rubbing the back of his head.
“Sorry,” Ryou repeated, grinning even wider. She grabbed Kaiba’s wrist and pulled him a little roughly onto his feet. He grabbed hold of the table to catch his balance.
“Alright, tell me what you want to tell me now before you kill me.”
Ryou laughed. “I’m really sorry,” she said for the third time. “I can get a little over excited at times…but you already know that…um…anyway, you aren’t going to believe this, but…I did it!!”
“Did what?”
Ryou rolled her eyes. “Ra, you idiot!! I won Ra!!” Still grinning from ear to ear, she rifled through her pocket for her deck, brought it out, and selected Ra from the top. Its holographic image glittered before Kaiba’s eyes.
Kaiba, speechless, didn’t know whether to be happy for her or screamingly jealous. Of course he’d known Ra was still out there, and he’d wanted it, and of course he’d known Ryou was also after it, but he never thought she’d find it, let alone win it. That meant she was a bigger threat than he’d thought. Especially in the finals. If he’d gotten Ra himself, it would have almost completely secured him the championship, but now that the cards were scattered amongst three individual duellists, it would be harder to pick off the other two to get them for himself.
“That’s great,” Kaiba said, a little flustered. He tried to seem happy. Ryou could tell this put him off a little, but she was too excited to get aggravated with him over it. She knew there was a possibility of it ending up in his hands, or even Steven’s hands, after the finals, but she could at least enjoy it while it was hers.
“Don’t underestimate Ra’s power,” her yami told her quietly from his soulroom. “It’s more powerful than you can imagine.”
“If you say so,” Ryou muttered. Kaiba looked at her curiously. “Nothing,” she said quickly. She still hadn’t told him about the “voices in her head” and she didn’t plan to anytime soon.
“Anyway,” Ryou said, “I’m in the finals, so we’ll get to face each other. That should be good. So which way is it to the stadium?”
Kaiba shrugged. “I’m only going to be heading there later. I thought I’d stop by the card shop to boost up my deck a little, y’know.”
Ryou looked a little disappointed for a moment, but brushed it off. “Okay. Just don’t get too good.” She winked and turned to leave. “See ya.”
“Yeah, see ya,” Kaiba echoed. He didn’t know why, but he couldn’t turn his attention back to his cards. He kept his eye on her as she walked away. For some reason, he had an ominous feeling, as if something bad was going to happen…
Ryou was totally in her own world, blissfully thinking about her win and her future in the finals. She didn’t notice the shadowy figure trailing her. But her yami did.
“Quicken you pace,” he instructed her firmly.
“Huh?” Ryou said out loud, coming out of her reverie.
“Move. Now.”
Her yami’s stress took a serious toll on Ryou, heightening her senses unnaturally, making her two times more aware of her surroundings. But it was already too late. The hooded figure was a little ways behind her, and at the last few feet between them, he started to run. He knocked into Ryou so hard she was thrown off her feet, temporarily disorienting her. It also sent her deck flying out of her hands, for she hadn’t stuck it back in her pocket. He grabbed it quickly and struggled to tear off the elastic. Yami Bakura was immediately in control and sprang to his feet, about to leap at the guy, but a sudden, stinging pain in Ryou’s leg made Yami Bakura retreat, giving Ryou back her body, as well a her senses, and the pain. She cried out and fell to her knees.
Looking up, she saw the hooded guy rip of the elastic and grab the first card off her deck, the card she had been showing Kaiba, Ra no Yokushindyuu. He dropped the rest of the cards, causing them to fall in a heap around Ryou, and split.
“Get back here you…” Ryou proceeded to let out a long string of curse words. She held her ankle firmly. She’d twisted it slightly when she’d ran into Kaiba, but thought nothing of it; the guy throwing her off her feet must have twisted it further.
Letting out a desperate sob, she sank to the ground again. Then out of nowhere, someone was at her side.
“You okay?”
It was Kaiba. Ryou nodded quickly, then motioned to the fleeing thief. “Get him Kaiba,” se said as firmly as she could, her voice strained. “Get my card back and give that dirtbag what he deserves. Just do it. Please.”
Kaiba looked from the figure back to Ryou, unsure what to do. “Go!” Ryou cried.
The voice was not Ryou’s anymore. It still sounded like her, but Yami Bakura had taken control temporarily give her a break from the pain. Of course, Kaiba had no clue he was no longer facing his friend.
The voice was much more intimidating and dangerous, but Kaiba was too flustered to notice. He hesitated, but finally ran after the stranger, as fast he could.
Yami Bakura didn’t mind taking the pain for Ryou; he had a stronger resistance to it than she did. He dragged himself up, rubbing the injured ankle, putting both his and Ryou’s willpower, as well as a little Sennen magic, into healing it. Finally, the pain had subsided enough for Ryou to take control again and walk, with just a slight limp, in the direction she’d seen Kaiba go. Of course, that quickly got them lost. They seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth.
A thought suddenly occurred to Ryou. She turned inwardly to her yami. “Can’t you sense them? Use the power of the Sennen Ring to track down Ra’s power. It should even help that Kaiba’s got Obelisk.”
Yami Bakura considered this. “I can try. But you’ll have to let me take control again.”
“Done,” Ryou said, releasing her grip. Yami Bakura once again had control and was off in another direction.
Episode 8: Retrieval in Suspicion
“In there.”
Ryou blinked, suddenly realizing where she was. She was in her soulroom, and Yami Bakura had control over her. They had been tracking Ra for a few minutes now, but Ryou hadn’t really been paying much attention.
“Are you listening to me?”
Her yami sounded irritated. She preferred not to get on his bad side (like he had a good side) so she was immediately attentive.
“What? That door?” Ryou found herself looking at an old, ugly door in front of her. The “Off Limits”, or some such warning sign, had faded away a long time ago.
“Yes,” Yami Bakura said, relaxing a little. “That door. Ra’s through there. I can feel it. I’ll let you have control now. I don’t trust that other duellist. One thing about Ra: if it’s used by someone unworthy, or in some manner unacceptable, that duellist, as soon as Ra is summoned, will be struck by a bolt of lightning from the heavens. Don’t ask. That’s just what I’ve heard. But if that’s true, I haven’t sensed any random lightning bolts lately, so this duellist must be somewhat skilled.”
Ryou listened to this with fascination. She’d heard of that before, but hadn’t known whether to believe it. Perhaps this was of those “Dark Duellists” she’d heard of, duelling Kaiba now. It struck her as ridiculous, but it was possible.
“What about Kaiba?” she asked suddenly, aware that his opponenet might have something sneaky up his sleeve.
“He can take care of himself,” Yami Bakura muttered, not completely focused.
She remembered she herself had said something similar at the beginning of the tournament. He could take care of himself. So back to the door situation.. “Let’s go,” she told him. Yami Bakura grabbed the rusted silver doorknob and twisted it. He cursed. “Locked.”
“Locked!?” Ryou cried, taken aback. She hadn’t expected it to be so. “Can’t you get through somehow?!”
“What do you suggest exactly?!” he yami retorted angrily. She fell silent. He’d helped her, despite his own frustration. She didn’t want anger to block out logic now.
But it did. Regaining control, Ryou slammed both fists on the door and let out a long string of curses. This wasn’t going so well. Their only hope was Kaiba knew what he was doing.
“If Kaiba defeats this guy…” Yami Bakura said suddenly, “He’ll have found one of Ra’s weaknesses. That would greatly diminish our chance of victory in the finals…”
“How can you be worrying about the finals now?!” Ryou cried, amazed. “If he doesn’t retrieve Ra for us there’ll be no chance at all in the finals. We have to wait.”
Her yami mumbled something inaudible and closed off the mental link between himself and Ryou. She could tell he was aggravated. She didn’t want him to get to mad. He was normally calm, but did have a wild temper when provoked.
She finally decided standing there and staring at the door wasn’t going to knock it down, so she slid down the wall next to it sat in the corner against the wall, hugging her knees. Waiting.
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A little while later, Ryou had dozed off, her head in her hands, a single tear-stain on her face from a single tear of frustration.
Coming to slightly, she was aware of the latch on the inside of the door lifting, and the creak of it sliding open. She sprang to her feet immediately, fully awake, and turned to face a solemn but satisfied-looking Kaiba. And in his hand, gleaming in the bright florescent light, was the Winged Dragon of Ra.
Shocked, she simply stood and stared. Kaiba finally noticed her, his face brightening, and flashed the card. That was it. It was back.
Ryou recovered almost as quickly, and ran over to him, nearly knocking him over as she’d done before. She felt a few fresh tears roll down her cheeks, and realized how ridiculous she must look. She wiped them away quickly.
“You alright?” Kaiba asked, looking at her ankle.
Ryou nodded. “Yeah. I guess I should say thanks” She paused. “What about you? Did that guy go all freaky on you?”
Kaiba shrugged. “I guess you could say that. Most of the duellists in this tourney so far that I’ve duelled where all a little freaky.” He laughed. “So, I guess this is yours. Try not to lose it again.”
Ryou smiled gratefully. “Really, thanks. I guess we should head for the finals, huh?” Kaiba nodded. “Here, I’ll make you a deal: I’ll walk with you to the location, just so you don’t get mugged by some other weirdos, and then I’ll go back to the Card Shop for those cards I’ve been wanting.”
“Deal,” Ryou said, thankful she wouldn’t be walking, alone, in the half empty mall when some creeps were after her.
As they were walking, Ryou looked to Kaiba. “So, he wanted my God Card?” she asked quietly.
“It would seem so,” Kaiba answered. “And it looked like me having a God Card too was a bonus. He wasn’t that good, anyway, even with Ra. But that thing is one hell of a card.”
Ryou laughed. “Yeah, trust me, I know. Let me ask you something – do you…um…I don’t know if this will make sense to you, but…Obelisk’s full power. Do you feel as if you’ve got in under control?”
Kaiba, strangely, was not at all taken by surprise at the question. “Yes,” he said firmly.
Yami Bakura was immediately alert and on guard. “Something’s up. He knows something we don’t. And he’s not telling us. Something’s going on.”
Ryou rolled her eyes, making sure not to let Kaiba see. “What are you talking about?” Yami Baukra didn’t answer. “Oh, honestly, you worry to much, did you know that? This Kaiba were talking about. He’s my friend. Trust me, I’d know if something was up with him.”
Yami Bakura, of course, continued to be agitated, and the feeling rubbed off on Ryou. In made her twitchy and irritable. She tried not to think about it.
“Why do you ask?” Kaiba said after a while.
Ryou shook her head. “Just curious.” She wasn’t sure if he’d buy that. Truth be told, after looking twice, she began to notice what had freaked her Yami out so much. Kaiba seemed…different. But when he looked at her now, and smiled, it really didn’t seem as if he was anyone but himself.
“Alright, this is where I leave you,” he said, looking up to the archway before them. “At least, it’s where they told me. When you go in, they’ll ask to see your duel disk, and download the points, to verify the authenticity. After that, your free to hang around until the other seven show up.”
Ryou moved to face him, her back to the entranceway. “Thanks,” she said again. Then suddenly, she put on a great dramatic air, and lifted her arms to the ceiling. “Oh, goodbye, my knight in shining armour!! Parting is such a sweet sorrow.”
Kaiba gave her a strange look, then waved her off. “You won’t be saying that when we meet in the finals,” he told her. “See you in a while.”
“Bye!” Ryou called, watching him leave. She turned back to the entrance. “Okay,” she whispered, taking a deep breath. “This is going to be one hell of a ride.” With that, she took a step forward and crossed over.
Epiosde 9: Gathering of the Finalists
“Look at that.”
“That” was definitely something to look at. The entrance way had led her down winding staircase, through a tunnel, and into a large stadium-like open area. It was amazing in the sense that a minute ago she’d been underground, below the mall, and now she could look up and see the night sky.
Looking around she counted five duellists in the area. “Amateurs,” Yami Bakura said immediately, barely taking time to look at them. In one corner, Ryou spotted a young boy who looked around eleven. He had an unmistakable resemblance to Kaiba. “That must be Steven,” she whispered.
There were a few guys, too, obviously part of the whole thing, who had the black tux and sunglasses thing going. She handed them her duel disk, and after poking a few wires here and there, they handed it back to her and informed her she was qualified to participate in the finals.
With nothing better to do, she took a good look around her at the rest of the bunch that would be participating in the final test. She planned on keeping her distance from Steven, just in case. He still didn’t know who had Ra, and the longer it stayed that way, the better. Near Steven were two other guys, clad in similar clothes, hoods covering both their faces.
“They must be of the same species of scum who stole Ra,” she growled, her anger boiling up.
“Yes,” Yami Bakura agreed. “But keep your cool. We don’t want them knowing just yet that their plan went wrong. We’ll have to keep that under wraps for now. Just keep the role of inconspicuous amateur duellist and I bet you’ll be overlooked by every one of them.”
Ryou turned her burning gaze away from them reluctantly. She was equally shocked to see whom her eyes fell on next. “And that –“
“Would be the great and righteous Pharaoh,” Yami Bakura finished for her, practically fuming. And he was right. Yugi Muto, in the flesh, quietly going through his deck. For the Pharaoh, great and mighty King of Games, he didn’t look too threatening.
“You sure that’s the Pharaoh and not just regular Yugi?” Yami Bakura didn’t answer. He just continued to growl and storm around in his soulroom. “Alright, I get the message, you hate him, now calm down,” Ryou said. “And you told me not to loose my temper…oi…”
Ryou continued to do the 360 degree turn of the stadium. One figure in the shadows caught her attention. She moved slowly towards the light, trying to get a better look, and had to cover her mouth with her hands to stop from yelling.
“Yami Bakura!”
Her Yami angrily swung the door of his soulroom open. “What?!”
“Um…” she pointed mentally in the direction of the figure. “Um, guy over there? Maybe that’s just me, but….take a look.”
Yami Bakura peered through Ryou’s eyes. “What is going on here?” he yelled, as shocked as she was. See, the individual looked remarkably like Yami Bakura. Not as much Ryou, but definitely her yami. And not just a minor resemblance, but the same kind of hair, and piercing eyes and everything. The only thing was his hair was a tad shorter, and he looked maybe around 18 or 19.
“Freaky,” was the only thing Ryou could come up with. Her yami rolled his eyes. “That’s your brilliant deduction of the situation?! Freaky?!”
Ryou shrugged. “I don’t know! There aren’t a lot of guys out there who look even remotely like you...this may be stupid, but…d’you think it could have anything to do with your past life?”
Obviously, Yami Bakura had not thought of this. He remained silent for a moment, as Ryou continued to gaze at the stranger.
“I don’t know,” Yami Bakura said finally. He didn’t like not being in total control of the situation, but there wasn’t anything that could be done about it. Ryou certainly wasn’t going to skip up to the individual and ask if he was by any chance related to the voice inside her head.
“Well, we’ll see him clear enough when he duels,” she told him. “I wonder if they’re going to have the blimp stadium like I heard? That would be so cool.”
Yami Bakura obviously did not care where the finals were played out, as long as he got to play his carbon copy over there.
“Hey.”
A poke on the shoulder made Ryou jump and spin around.
“Doug!”
Doug had first been introduced to her by Kaiba. They were friends from school. She knew he was a duellist, but she didn’t know he was good enough to get to the finals. “Um, so, you got to the finals?” Ryou said, stating the obvious.
Douglas nodded. “Yup. Kaiba’s here too, right?”
Ryou grinned. “I’d die laughing if he wasn’t. Yeah, he’s here, along with his brother.” She pointed to the intensely concentrated Steve, who seemed to be developing a strategy of some sort.
“Besides him and Kaiba, the competition looks a little creepy.” He was obviously referring to the two hooded guys and the Yami Bakura look-alike. Apparently, he hadn’t spotted Yugi yet. Ryou scrunched up her nose and gave the two cloaked freaks an indignant look.
Soon afterward, Kaiba appeared through the entranceway, in all his glory. Like Yami Bakura, he dismissed the competition as amateurs, but didn’t say so in front of Doug. Either his brother didn’t know he was here, or didn’t care, because the two completely ignored each other.
As soon as the eight finalists were gathered in a group, a loudspeaker came on, announcing the arrival of the finals location. Many were confused by this, but Ryou was ecstatic as she watched the giant blimp descend from the sky.
They boarded, one by one, and as Ryou tried to stick with Kaiba and Doug, her yami kept dragging her off in the direction of Bakura #2. This was starting to irritate Ryou.
The duellists were allowed a bite to eat, then were called to assemble in the main area of the blimp. They were not even allowed to check into their rooms yet. The order of the duels were to be announced immediately, and the match to begin shortly after.
One of the “sunglass dudes”, as they had come to be known with Ryou, raised a hand to get everyone’s attention. Not that many people were talking, anyway. The two dark duellists were still in some corner discussing quietly under their breath, and the silver-haired stranger was still alone. Steve, as well as Yugi, had joined up with Kaiba, Doug, and Ryou, but weren’t talking much.
Sunglass Dude #1 began. “May I please have your attention. I will now announce the list of matches in order. The first two contestants are to proceed immediately upstairs to the Arena. Anyone who wishes to watch may do so. After the four first rounds are complete, the winner of each round will be selected randomly to play against another winner. The losers of each duel are permitted to watch the rest of the tournament.”
Ryou looked around. Two more sunglass dudes had entered the room. “Tight security for a Blimp,” Ryou whispered to Kaiba. “As if we’re going anywhere anytime soon.”
“The first round match shall be….Seto Kaiba vs Yugi Muto!”
It was then that Ryou decided this was fixed. Kaiba vs Yugi? No surprise there. Kaiba closed his eyes and grinned. He looked more arrogant than Ryou had ever seen.
Without another word, he and Yugi, followed by the rest of them, headed upstairs. They left the interior of the blimp and into the night air. It was a sky arena. They’d be duelling 4000 feet off the ground.
They took their place on either side of the playing field, the spectators below and off to the side.
As soon as Ryou was relaxed and off guard, Yami Bakura took control. Full control. There was a slight change in Ryou – her hair flared up a little, as well as her eyes became narrower. But, as usual, anyone without a Sennen Item remained incapable of noticing. Now Yami Bakura just had to act the part of Ryou if anyone asked any questions.
Ryou, however, was not happy with this. “What are you doing?!”
Yami Bakura knew he had the power to take total control over Ryou, and not let her fight back, as well as block himself out from her completely, where as Ryou could do neither. Still, he preferred to let her at least have a say in things, but this was serious. He was sensing something very strange from Ryou supposedly “normal” friend, Kaiba. This, of course, angered Ryou even more.
“Get a hold of yourself and calm down,” Yami Bakura told her harshly. “I know what I am doing, unlike you.” She did not speak after that. However, she did watch the duel, as well as her friend, with growing suspicion and concern.
Kaiba looked up at his opponent. “Let’s begin this, shall we?”
Yugi nodded. “I’m ready when you are.”
“DUEL!!!”
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Impressive, no? There'll be some fix-ups (if Kaiba cooperates) in terms of Mil Items and such, besides that, stayed tuned for the next eps of the finals!!
KAIBA!! Something is in need of fixing...
Alright, Kaiba, request for you: because I am annoying but becuz I know you can never get mad at me *puts on most adorable face* I need to ask you a favour: can you switch items with steve? I mean, it would be easier for me if you had the Mil Rod, because Kaiba had it in the past, and it would work reeeeall well with the story line. I'll give Steve the Ankh, because it's the closest I can come to the "Stone".
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease?! It would make it so much easier for me.
Thankies!!
Your strange little friend,
Ryou-chan
Alright, Kaiba, request for you: because I am annoying but becuz I know you can never get mad at me *puts on most adorable face* I need to ask you a favour: can you switch items with steve? I mean, it would be easier for me if you had the Mil Rod, because Kaiba had it in the past, and it would work reeeeall well with the story line. I'll give Steve the Ankh, because it's the closest I can come to the "Stone".
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease?! It would make it so much easier for me.
Thankies!!
Your strange little friend,
Ryou-chan
MARLAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Quote of the Day: "It came to me...."
~~..by airmail ^_^~~
music: Ravendhi ~ dralion, cirque du soleil
Okay, here's the plan: I'll blog what I did today quickly, then post eps 7 to 9 or something, the entrance to the finals. I'll also put them up at Dazzled.
Omg, you'll NEVER guess who I saw at the park after school with Dia!! We were sitting on the little grassy hill, and all of a sudden someone comes up the hill, and we look at each other, and we both point, and I'm like, "Marla?!" And it WAS MARLA!! Marla from Peggy Productions. She was like "You go to LHA?!" and I'm like "You go to Hertz?!" And it was sooo cool. I'll have to tell the guys when dress rehearsals begin. She hasn't been there for the past three or four classes, and we all miss her. I think it's because she's graduating this year.
While there I also saw the infamous Alexandra, my former best friend. She was - get this - a bit nicer than she'd been the other week. Wow. I didn't know such a thing was possbible.
To quickly go through the boring events of the day, science wasn't that bad - we talked about magnectcs fields and stuff, and I like that kinda stuff. It's FASCINATING. In french we started our composition. I suck at writing in french. Blearg.
In math we went up to room 204, which is my geo room, and did our oral math test. I got 6 on eight. Which is okay, I suppose.
At lunch we helped Tanish finish her english project. After that we had catholic, and we watched a movie. Twas okee. Sorta boring, but whatever.
Dia, at the park, was telling me about this really weird dream she had. She was in the hospital with cancer or something, and Maguli and Jean-Bob the trumpet man (Jonathan) fell in love with her, and they made out or something, and then, I can't believe this, but Alibaba of all people was in it. Get this - he tried to kill me by dropping a rock on my head, but he missed, so I beat him, literally, into the ground. Then KAIBA (I'm sorry Kaiba but this is what she told me) climbed a tree and got stuck in it. Three days later, alibaba rose from the dead and climbed the tree too, but got stuck in it. Hows that for random insanity?
Be back with duels!!
*goes off to lure Kaiba up a tree*
Quote of the Day: "It came to me...."
~~..by airmail ^_^~~
music: Ravendhi ~ dralion, cirque du soleil
Okay, here's the plan: I'll blog what I did today quickly, then post eps 7 to 9 or something, the entrance to the finals. I'll also put them up at Dazzled.
Omg, you'll NEVER guess who I saw at the park after school with Dia!! We were sitting on the little grassy hill, and all of a sudden someone comes up the hill, and we look at each other, and we both point, and I'm like, "Marla?!" And it WAS MARLA!! Marla from Peggy Productions. She was like "You go to LHA?!" and I'm like "You go to Hertz?!" And it was sooo cool. I'll have to tell the guys when dress rehearsals begin. She hasn't been there for the past three or four classes, and we all miss her. I think it's because she's graduating this year.
While there I also saw the infamous Alexandra, my former best friend. She was - get this - a bit nicer than she'd been the other week. Wow. I didn't know such a thing was possbible.
To quickly go through the boring events of the day, science wasn't that bad - we talked about magnectcs fields and stuff, and I like that kinda stuff. It's FASCINATING. In french we started our composition. I suck at writing in french. Blearg.
In math we went up to room 204, which is my geo room, and did our oral math test. I got 6 on eight. Which is okay, I suppose.
At lunch we helped Tanish finish her english project. After that we had catholic, and we watched a movie. Twas okee. Sorta boring, but whatever.
Dia, at the park, was telling me about this really weird dream she had. She was in the hospital with cancer or something, and Maguli and Jean-Bob the trumpet man (Jonathan) fell in love with her, and they made out or something, and then, I can't believe this, but Alibaba of all people was in it. Get this - he tried to kill me by dropping a rock on my head, but he missed, so I beat him, literally, into the ground. Then KAIBA (I'm sorry Kaiba but this is what she told me) climbed a tree and got stuck in it. Three days later, alibaba rose from the dead and climbed the tree too, but got stuck in it. Hows that for random insanity?
Be back with duels!!
*goes off to lure Kaiba up a tree*
May 27, 2003
Ouija Board kon kara - wutthefuck?
videoclip: Yami Bakura vs Yami Yugi ~ ep 82, Battle City quarter finals, the REAL jap version
Alright, now we PICK YOU APART DUBBERS, LIGAMENT BY LIGAMENT.
Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Okay, becuz I am to flustered to say things sensibly, I shall list them, yes?
1) OUJA BOARD KON KARA wutthfuck = BLUE?! Since when did the Ouija Board of Doom become BLU?!?!?!? It is pretty, wooden BORWN, FOLKS. Yes, brown.
2) Destiny Board? What in Ra's name is that? Honeslty. Death does not bother us folks. This word deals with it everyday. And they removed Yami saying.."D E A T H...DEATH!!" in that wonderful non-english tone. *sniff*
3) As usual, speech was included where it was silent moments. And I'm DYING HERE. I MISS THE WONDERFUL JAP MUSIC. TIS WUNDERFUL.
4) This isn't a complain, but Yami B's eyes went BIG AND SCARY!! MOMMMYYYY!! That's two eps in a row. One with blue kitty eyes and now this. Oi.
5) Phear-me-I'm-squeaky-mc-cackly pants did not get as many cackles as was intended but I don't mind. Cackling does not bother me, unless its MERRICK'S VA taking a shot at it. Eug.
6) That moment when Malik-sama goes to talk to YB was cut a bit short. And they were talking bout Shishasose. Monster Reborn. Not..whatever they was talkin bout in the english. Ah well. Oh, and ealier, I had been imitating him when he did it in jap, and I was like, swearing in this weird language to thin air, and then I gave thin air the finger. That was quite spontanious. But it was very very funny.
7) Eeeh....Kuuriiiiiiiiiiii!
8) Hmm..that's all I can pick at now. Tomorrow YB will be blown away by Osiris' awesome bad breath. I never really seen how he does it. Just the shot where YB is defeated and the ring, torn from his neck. YB goes psychotic at that point in the manga. Then again, YB is always a tad more psychotic in the manga...
Off to work on duel. Shall use D E A T H! combo in quarter finals versus ancient!Bakura. Will be fun.^__^
videoclip: Yami Bakura vs Yami Yugi ~ ep 82, Battle City quarter finals, the REAL jap version
Alright, now we PICK YOU APART DUBBERS, LIGAMENT BY LIGAMENT.
Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Okay, becuz I am to flustered to say things sensibly, I shall list them, yes?
1) OUJA BOARD KON KARA wutthfuck = BLUE?! Since when did the Ouija Board of Doom become BLU?!?!?!? It is pretty, wooden BORWN, FOLKS. Yes, brown.
2) Destiny Board? What in Ra's name is that? Honeslty. Death does not bother us folks. This word deals with it everyday. And they removed Yami saying.."D E A T H...DEATH!!" in that wonderful non-english tone. *sniff*
3) As usual, speech was included where it was silent moments. And I'm DYING HERE. I MISS THE WONDERFUL JAP MUSIC. TIS WUNDERFUL.
4) This isn't a complain, but Yami B's eyes went BIG AND SCARY!! MOMMMYYYY!! That's two eps in a row. One with blue kitty eyes and now this. Oi.
5) Phear-me-I'm-squeaky-mc-cackly pants did not get as many cackles as was intended but I don't mind. Cackling does not bother me, unless its MERRICK'S VA taking a shot at it. Eug.
6) That moment when Malik-sama goes to talk to YB was cut a bit short. And they were talking bout Shishasose. Monster Reborn. Not..whatever they was talkin bout in the english. Ah well. Oh, and ealier, I had been imitating him when he did it in jap, and I was like, swearing in this weird language to thin air, and then I gave thin air the finger. That was quite spontanious. But it was very very funny.
7) Eeeh....Kuuriiiiiiiiiiii!
8) Hmm..that's all I can pick at now. Tomorrow YB will be blown away by Osiris' awesome bad breath. I never really seen how he does it. Just the shot where YB is defeated and the ring, torn from his neck. YB goes psychotic at that point in the manga. Then again, YB is always a tad more psychotic in the manga...
Off to work on duel. Shall use D E A T H! combo in quarter finals versus ancient!Bakura. Will be fun.^__^
Dark Sanctuary o kenieni sa sakedu!!
Fear my japanese spelling by ear. At least I can prounouce it.
Some notes I forgot to mention in my ealier post today...
Err, for the Coles Tourney, the latest two duels that aren't here are up at Dazzled. Um...and the card I use in the 2nd part of my duel with Yami no Malik, Power Reversal; it IS a real card, but I'm not sure if it's out in the american packs, so I just made up an english name for it. But it DOES existe. It was proably just specially created to screw YamiB over when he tried to summon Ra agains YamiMalik in ep 97.
In the 7th ep, the latest one (Kaiba, this is for you) I had written something, and rather ironically, something similar happened today. I won't spoil it, but..Kaiba, I'll give you a million bucks if you can remember and notice it. Remeber I actually said that out loud and told you I'd tell you later? Figure it out *wink*
YAMI SUMMONED DARK NECROPHIA AND USED IT TO ATTACK YB!! MUTINY, I TELL YOU!! Dark Necrophia belongs to YAMI B ONLY! Pooh.
Fear my japanese spelling by ear. At least I can prounouce it.
Some notes I forgot to mention in my ealier post today...
Err, for the Coles Tourney, the latest two duels that aren't here are up at Dazzled. Um...and the card I use in the 2nd part of my duel with Yami no Malik, Power Reversal; it IS a real card, but I'm not sure if it's out in the american packs, so I just made up an english name for it. But it DOES existe. It was proably just specially created to screw YamiB over when he tried to summon Ra agains YamiMalik in ep 97.
In the 7th ep, the latest one (Kaiba, this is for you) I had written something, and rather ironically, something similar happened today. I won't spoil it, but..Kaiba, I'll give you a million bucks if you can remember and notice it. Remeber I actually said that out loud and told you I'd tell you later? Figure it out *wink*
YAMI SUMMONED DARK NECROPHIA AND USED IT TO ATTACK YB!! MUTINY, I TELL YOU!! Dark Necrophia belongs to YAMI B ONLY! Pooh.
I'ma gangsta!! I don't gotta be reasonable!!
Quote of the Day: "Damn, homey; in high school you was the maaan, homey; the fuck happen to you?"
~~50 cent, its from a song, lol~~
music: Wangsta ~ 50 cent
Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Jaspreet you suuuuuck.......
Um...Oh ya. My day. I'm not paying attention. And blogging really late. HOLY SHIT IT'S 4:00. Oookay..
Art sucked. Provancher was back. She likes picking on me. We hates her forever. Oh, and it took me four "hellos" before Kaiba-kun finally responded. ......I dunno what to make of that....
Math was boring. I drew a bissectrice and the chalk broke. Lovely. Oh, and we have this joke now, we call Chris "lovely" for no apparent reason. He's cute. Sorta. Slightly. But sorta an asshole. Anyway, it's funny. He and Zim thinks it is.
In english I died. T'was borin. I'm re-reading Jack Higgin's On Dangerous Ground for the 4th time, I believe. It's one of my favorites. Besides the fact there's Palermo!Mafia peeps that remind me of Don Marco Cianflone, Dillon gets stabbed in the back by that bitch Norah Bell, so we get Dillon angst, which is beautiful. I love this guy. He is sooooooo cool. He needs to get together with Hannah, though. Honestly.
At lunch I ate with Vero's gang, and then I played cards with her and Melissa. In geo, for the first 15 mins I played cards with Melissa again, Kaiba-kun, and Jaspreet. I was doing okay. Outside, I played once again with Jaspreet and Kaiba again, along with Alisa Tortolano and Azzi. I won like 4 times. Mwaha. Take that, No 1 duellist Kaiba. Ha. Oh, speking of number 1 duellist, Yami Marysia, from the Kyokou Geemu Forums, her title is No. 1 Sexy Duelist!! and it's very cute.
I'm going to watch Yami vs Yami Bakura one more time in jap, sit through the dub, diss it, do my math, and work on the duels.
Sayonara tomodachies!
Quote of the Day: "Damn, homey; in high school you was the maaan, homey; the fuck happen to you?"
~~50 cent, its from a song, lol~~
music: Wangsta ~ 50 cent
Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Jaspreet you suuuuuck.......
Um...Oh ya. My day. I'm not paying attention. And blogging really late. HOLY SHIT IT'S 4:00. Oookay..
Art sucked. Provancher was back. She likes picking on me. We hates her forever. Oh, and it took me four "hellos" before Kaiba-kun finally responded. ......I dunno what to make of that....
Math was boring. I drew a bissectrice and the chalk broke. Lovely. Oh, and we have this joke now, we call Chris "lovely" for no apparent reason. He's cute. Sorta. Slightly. But sorta an asshole. Anyway, it's funny. He and Zim thinks it is.
In english I died. T'was borin. I'm re-reading Jack Higgin's On Dangerous Ground for the 4th time, I believe. It's one of my favorites. Besides the fact there's Palermo!Mafia peeps that remind me of Don Marco Cianflone, Dillon gets stabbed in the back by that bitch Norah Bell, so we get Dillon angst, which is beautiful. I love this guy. He is sooooooo cool. He needs to get together with Hannah, though. Honestly.
At lunch I ate with Vero's gang, and then I played cards with her and Melissa. In geo, for the first 15 mins I played cards with Melissa again, Kaiba-kun, and Jaspreet. I was doing okay. Outside, I played once again with Jaspreet and Kaiba again, along with Alisa Tortolano and Azzi. I won like 4 times. Mwaha. Take that, No 1 duellist Kaiba. Ha. Oh, speking of number 1 duellist, Yami Marysia, from the Kyokou Geemu Forums, her title is No. 1 Sexy Duelist!! and it's very cute.
I'm going to watch Yami vs Yami Bakura one more time in jap, sit through the dub, diss it, do my math, and work on the duels.
Sayonara tomodachies!
May 26, 2003
Dark Sanctuary!!!!! Eyeballs and mouths!!! But "Dark Necrofear"? Ick...
video clip: Yami Bakura vs Yami part 1 ~ ep 82, quarter finals, just been horribly dubbed.
Aiight, you eejit dubbers, I didn't think you'd totally blow this one, but oh Ra, you messed it up big time.
Alright, episode 82, first battle on the Battle Ship (or Kaiba Craft three or some such crap). Clash of the Yamis, Yami Yugi vs Yami Bakura. Alright, of course, as usual, the dialogue was messed up and stuck in the most obscure of places, which was quite ridiculous.
They turned the Bingo machine into..into something. But I loooved how Kaiba's thugs said "Bin go ma chine!", trying to prounoce the english words. And then they go "Bingo!! Starto!!" *sniggers*. And I don't know why they refuse to use Bakura's last/first name, Ryou. They just say "Bakura". Ryou is either his first or last name, depending on the version or..logic of the person, I suppose. It's sort of weird...
And when the constestants were announced, Kaiba's thug starting talking, but in the jap they're all teasing Ryou about how he doesn't stand a chance and Ryou is scolding them but laughing his cute little squeaky laugh. Evil dubbers destroyed his cute little squeaky laugh. *kills dubbers*
I forget what the arena was called in the dub. I like the jap. Sky Arena. Very simple, very cool.
And I don't understand why they removed "Duel Disk" from the side of Kaiba's Blimp. Another pointless change..
As for the beginning of the duel, that didn't much bug me, excpet the dialogue was so very off and stuck in the wrong places. I mean, it's fine if it's quiet for a moment, right? The whole Senne Ringu moment was way overdramatized in the english one.
Oh, and something I've started to notice, in this epsidoe particularly, at random points,Y!Bakura looks like a big fluffy white kitty with a scrunched up nose.
Yami B: EXCUSE ME?!
Me: Nothing....*runs off into a corner*
I honeslty don't mind YBakura's cackling in either version, but I've gotten to love squeaky-cackly!Bakura so much. And I'm surprsied they kept in spooky blue kitty-eyed Yami B. That's like, the freakiest but best moment. Especially right before that when you only see his mouth and he's got FANGS, man. Bonus points for fangs.
Alright, now is when they totally messed it all up. First of all, they totally ruined Dark Necrophia's entrace theme because as the Pink Bubble of Doom is floating around Yugi, there's this weird "OoooOOOH!" sound in the background, like a haunted-house sound effect. Kinda cheesey at first, but it works.
And her appearance... YOU FREAKS RUINED THE COOLEST MONSTER IN THE GAME!! Dark Necrophia is very beautiful in a twisted sort of way, but I personally dislike the freak doll in her hands, but it doesn't give me NIGHTMARES or anything. Honeslty. You didn't have to go REMOVE IT COMPLETELY. I like the doll, and yet it should be burned at the stake. And where the doll is, by her chest, Dark Necrophia is not all blue. There's sort of like..metals wheels in her, like she's half machine, like contraptions you would find in a clocktower or whatever. It adds to her spooky-ness.
And "Dark Necrofear"..I hate it when they call her that!! It takes away her femininity that the name "Necrophia" gave her. Then again if they'd kept Necrophia little kids whould go asking their parents about it and parents would have to explain its derived from Necrophile, which initally means having sex with dead people. That's lovely, eh?
Also, maniacle cackle of all maniacle cackles was subdued when YBakura summoned Dark Sanctuary. I applaud his VA for trying, but nobody can cackle like his jap seiyuu. That is just..and AWESOME cackle. And I'm glad they kept Dark Sanctuary's name, and ESTATIC they kept the mouths and eyeball. I loves them, precioussss, yess.
Alright, next episode in the Ocareto-combo series (Occult series), YBakura brings out the OUIJA BOARD O' DEATH!!! Which, becomes something along the crummy lines of the Final Destiny Board. Ickyickyicky. Oh well. I feel somewhat better now.
video clip: Yami Bakura vs Yami part 1 ~ ep 82, quarter finals, just been horribly dubbed.
Aiight, you eejit dubbers, I didn't think you'd totally blow this one, but oh Ra, you messed it up big time.
Alright, episode 82, first battle on the Battle Ship (or Kaiba Craft three or some such crap). Clash of the Yamis, Yami Yugi vs Yami Bakura. Alright, of course, as usual, the dialogue was messed up and stuck in the most obscure of places, which was quite ridiculous.
They turned the Bingo machine into..into something. But I loooved how Kaiba's thugs said "Bin go ma chine!", trying to prounoce the english words. And then they go "Bingo!! Starto!!" *sniggers*. And I don't know why they refuse to use Bakura's last/first name, Ryou. They just say "Bakura". Ryou is either his first or last name, depending on the version or..logic of the person, I suppose. It's sort of weird...
And when the constestants were announced, Kaiba's thug starting talking, but in the jap they're all teasing Ryou about how he doesn't stand a chance and Ryou is scolding them but laughing his cute little squeaky laugh. Evil dubbers destroyed his cute little squeaky laugh. *kills dubbers*
I forget what the arena was called in the dub. I like the jap. Sky Arena. Very simple, very cool.
And I don't understand why they removed "Duel Disk" from the side of Kaiba's Blimp. Another pointless change..
As for the beginning of the duel, that didn't much bug me, excpet the dialogue was so very off and stuck in the wrong places. I mean, it's fine if it's quiet for a moment, right? The whole Senne Ringu moment was way overdramatized in the english one.
Oh, and something I've started to notice, in this epsidoe particularly, at random points,Y!Bakura looks like a big fluffy white kitty with a scrunched up nose.
Yami B: EXCUSE ME?!
Me: Nothing....*runs off into a corner*
I honeslty don't mind YBakura's cackling in either version, but I've gotten to love squeaky-cackly!Bakura so much. And I'm surprsied they kept in spooky blue kitty-eyed Yami B. That's like, the freakiest but best moment. Especially right before that when you only see his mouth and he's got FANGS, man. Bonus points for fangs.
Alright, now is when they totally messed it all up. First of all, they totally ruined Dark Necrophia's entrace theme because as the Pink Bubble of Doom is floating around Yugi, there's this weird "OoooOOOH!" sound in the background, like a haunted-house sound effect. Kinda cheesey at first, but it works.
And her appearance... YOU FREAKS RUINED THE COOLEST MONSTER IN THE GAME!! Dark Necrophia is very beautiful in a twisted sort of way, but I personally dislike the freak doll in her hands, but it doesn't give me NIGHTMARES or anything. Honeslty. You didn't have to go REMOVE IT COMPLETELY. I like the doll, and yet it should be burned at the stake. And where the doll is, by her chest, Dark Necrophia is not all blue. There's sort of like..metals wheels in her, like she's half machine, like contraptions you would find in a clocktower or whatever. It adds to her spooky-ness.
And "Dark Necrofear"..I hate it when they call her that!! It takes away her femininity that the name "Necrophia" gave her. Then again if they'd kept Necrophia little kids whould go asking their parents about it and parents would have to explain its derived from Necrophile, which initally means having sex with dead people. That's lovely, eh?
Also, maniacle cackle of all maniacle cackles was subdued when YBakura summoned Dark Sanctuary. I applaud his VA for trying, but nobody can cackle like his jap seiyuu. That is just..and AWESOME cackle. And I'm glad they kept Dark Sanctuary's name, and ESTATIC they kept the mouths and eyeball. I loves them, precioussss, yess.
Alright, next episode in the Ocareto-combo series (Occult series), YBakura brings out the OUIJA BOARD O' DEATH!!! Which, becomes something along the crummy lines of the Final Destiny Board. Ickyickyicky. Oh well. I feel somewhat better now.
Blogger. The infinit power of randomness.
Quote of the Day: "They will find the ring...and kill the one who carries it."
~~*tries to think of a dirty context for this Saruman line*~~
music: Rumeurs ~ mystere, crirque du soleil
*is humming this very interesting song*. Well here's something I'm going to do that I haven't done in a while: math homework. I have to complete one more number for our revision stencil for the last end of term exam before the june exams. *goes all googly-eyed* Too...many...exams...save me....
I did my french oral today. It actually went quite well. I got something like 19/20, which saves 20% of my mark. I might actually get higher than 84 this term. I dunno why, but my marks in french went from 84, to 83, to 82, and now suddenly this term I'm doing really well. It's kind of like in catholic. I went 86, 59, 55, but now this term I'm doing everything I can to hand things in. Of course, the Cranker, Mme Daignault, is doing everything she can to make it hard for us. Let's put out her eyesss, preciouss, make her crrrawl...
Math was boring. I talked to Kaiba. It's the only chance I got to talk to him today. He's in my math class (we talk sometimes, since we sit near each other),
in my science (I go over to his table when I can to see him, Stefi, and Maguli),
in geo (we talk all the time, we sit next to each other)
in catholic (same as geo)
in english (only when we're going down to the locker rooms since he sits at the other end of the class)
art (our tables are next to each other so he always comes over or I go over)
I think that's it....
Aaaanyway...in english we read Anne of Green Gables (weird book. i really can't decide whether I like it or want to burn it). We also watched a bit of the movie.
At lunch, Vero, Cynthia, Douglas and I played cards. Doug is better than I thought. We were playing Crazy 8s countdown, and he was already at 4 cards. It's funny though, because in the Coles toruney, Ancient!Bakura kicks his butt. ^__^ He's a nice guy, though.
Last periode was hell. We had a computer test/project and everyone was scrambling and I had to do like, fifty different things for different people cuz they think I'm like a techy cuz I get like 95% in the course. I'm pretty much finished except I have to fix my stupid bar graph.
Yesssss. Today is the official start of the BattlShip arc. *is all like hyped* LET'S GO KAIBA'S BLIMP!! WOot!!And of course, the first duel is Yami Yugi vs Yami Bakura. I don't care if it's screechy-squeaken YBakura or evil-growly YBakura, just let me hear him cackle, for Ra's sake.
*goes off to watch the jap version so she can nitpick at the dubbers later*
Sayonara tomodachies!!!
Quote of the Day: "They will find the ring...and kill the one who carries it."
~~*tries to think of a dirty context for this Saruman line*~~
music: Rumeurs ~ mystere, crirque du soleil
*is humming this very interesting song*. Well here's something I'm going to do that I haven't done in a while: math homework. I have to complete one more number for our revision stencil for the last end of term exam before the june exams. *goes all googly-eyed* Too...many...exams...save me....
I did my french oral today. It actually went quite well. I got something like 19/20, which saves 20% of my mark. I might actually get higher than 84 this term. I dunno why, but my marks in french went from 84, to 83, to 82, and now suddenly this term I'm doing really well. It's kind of like in catholic. I went 86, 59, 55, but now this term I'm doing everything I can to hand things in. Of course, the Cranker, Mme Daignault, is doing everything she can to make it hard for us. Let's put out her eyesss, preciouss, make her crrrawl...
Math was boring. I talked to Kaiba. It's the only chance I got to talk to him today. He's in my math class (we talk sometimes, since we sit near each other),
in my science (I go over to his table when I can to see him, Stefi, and Maguli),
in geo (we talk all the time, we sit next to each other)
in catholic (same as geo)
in english (only when we're going down to the locker rooms since he sits at the other end of the class)
art (our tables are next to each other so he always comes over or I go over)
I think that's it....
Aaaanyway...in english we read Anne of Green Gables (weird book. i really can't decide whether I like it or want to burn it). We also watched a bit of the movie.
At lunch, Vero, Cynthia, Douglas and I played cards. Doug is better than I thought. We were playing Crazy 8s countdown, and he was already at 4 cards. It's funny though, because in the Coles toruney, Ancient!Bakura kicks his butt. ^__^ He's a nice guy, though.
Last periode was hell. We had a computer test/project and everyone was scrambling and I had to do like, fifty different things for different people cuz they think I'm like a techy cuz I get like 95% in the course. I'm pretty much finished except I have to fix my stupid bar graph.
Yesssss. Today is the official start of the BattlShip arc. *is all like hyped* LET'S GO KAIBA'S BLIMP!! WOot!!And of course, the first duel is Yami Yugi vs Yami Bakura. I don't care if it's screechy-squeaken YBakura or evil-growly YBakura, just let me hear him cackle, for Ra's sake.
*goes off to watch the jap version so she can nitpick at the dubbers later*
Sayonara tomodachies!!!
May 25, 2003
Squeaky bishounens rule *ties up uber-deep-voiced japanese Y!Malik to a chair and runs off cackling like Y!Bakura*
music: Daria ~ cake
I was just surfing Kyoku Geemu and noticed this wonderfully true quote from Yukie, one of the moderators:
"I love Bakura's original JP voice. Especially his wonderful little maniacal cackle. He can go from cute and unassuming to utter homicidality in two seconds flat, and though his voice is quite high, it makes it all the worse - you're about to be beaten into the topsoil by a SQUEAKY, FLUFFY BISHOUNEN-TYPE."
*rolls over giggling* Especially in ep 82, when he first brings out Dark Sanctuary, he starts cackling like mad, and at the last second, he goes REALLY high, and those who don't know its a girl who does his voice probably could swear it is a girl.
A lot of peeps bash his dub voice, but unlike MERRICK'S dub voice *kills dubbers* I honeslty don't mind it. I mean, Jap Yami Bakura is more "Phear me for I am squeaky and insane!! EHEHEHEHE!!!!", while dub Yami Bakura's voice is just...evil and..low..and...grr....and actually works for him. I find it actually makes him less insane and more evil.
Another person, SakurSinger, pretty much shares the same view as I do.
"Personally, I like both voices. I mean his higher Japanese voice works with the fact that he is illy judged by older people resulting in their own death or insanity, and yet the dubbed voice reminds us that this momently innocent looking guy is actually a theiving, selfish homicidal murderer, though very loveable on the side... I'd like it if they could get a combination of both somehow."
Yup. So that's it. ^____^ Oooooh, on tuesday, all you dub watching people are going to get to see ep 83, my FAV ep, the one I know by heart in japanese, with the OUIJA BOARD!! and all that stuff. Oh, but it is so much grander in japanese... maybe on my Dazzled site I could upload the video..I'd make Kaiba watch it with his eyes taped open just to know what I'm so obssessed with ^___^.
music: Daria ~ cake
I was just surfing Kyoku Geemu and noticed this wonderfully true quote from Yukie, one of the moderators:
"I love Bakura's original JP voice. Especially his wonderful little maniacal cackle. He can go from cute and unassuming to utter homicidality in two seconds flat, and though his voice is quite high, it makes it all the worse - you're about to be beaten into the topsoil by a SQUEAKY, FLUFFY BISHOUNEN-TYPE."
*rolls over giggling* Especially in ep 82, when he first brings out Dark Sanctuary, he starts cackling like mad, and at the last second, he goes REALLY high, and those who don't know its a girl who does his voice probably could swear it is a girl.
A lot of peeps bash his dub voice, but unlike MERRICK'S dub voice *kills dubbers* I honeslty don't mind it. I mean, Jap Yami Bakura is more "Phear me for I am squeaky and insane!! EHEHEHEHE!!!!", while dub Yami Bakura's voice is just...evil and..low..and...grr....and actually works for him. I find it actually makes him less insane and more evil.
Another person, SakurSinger, pretty much shares the same view as I do.
"Personally, I like both voices. I mean his higher Japanese voice works with the fact that he is illy judged by older people resulting in their own death or insanity, and yet the dubbed voice reminds us that this momently innocent looking guy is actually a theiving, selfish homicidal murderer, though very loveable on the side... I'd like it if they could get a combination of both somehow."
Yup. So that's it. ^____^ Oooooh, on tuesday, all you dub watching people are going to get to see ep 83, my FAV ep, the one I know by heart in japanese, with the OUIJA BOARD!! and all that stuff. Oh, but it is so much grander in japanese... maybe on my Dazzled site I could upload the video..I'd make Kaiba watch it with his eyes taped open just to know what I'm so obssessed with ^___^.
Ballare con te
Quote of the Day: "May it be a light for you, in dark places; when all other lights go out..."
~~Granny Galads~~
music: Ballare ~ dralion, cirque du soleil (my fav song. its italian)
voglio ballare
per te amore
voglio per la vita
ballare con te
voglio ballare per te amore
per la vita voglio ballare
con te
per te
sempre per la vita
sempre per l'amor'
ballare con te
sempre per la vita
sempre l'amor'
ballare per te
amore
per la vita voglio ballare
con te
per te mio amor'
voglio ballare per te amore
per la vita voglio ballare
con te, per te
sempre per la vita
sempre per l'amor'
sempre per la vita
sempre per l'amor'
ballare
ballare
ballare
voglio ballare per te amore
per la vita voglio ballare
con te, per te mio amor'
Translation:
I want to dance for your love
I want for life to dance with you
I want to dance for your love for life
I want to dance with you
for you
always for life
always for love
to always dance with you for life
always the love to always dance for your love
for life I want to dance with you for you my love
I want to dance for your love
for life I want to dance with you
for you always for life always for love
always for life always for love
to dance
to dance
to dance
I want to dance for your love
for life I want to dance with you
for you, my love
Yes, I know, I didn't blog yesterday. Whoops. We'll anyway, I've been working. I've decided all the duels for the Coles Tourney should be archived somewhere, sooo I made this site: Dazzled. I just have to put some fix-ups and everything and it's all good. The second part of moi vs Yami Malik is up there, but I'll also be putting it here later. I'm even going to scan my sketches and put some up there. Not all, some. Like, 4 or 5.
I'm still going to be posting the duels here as well, but I thought it would be easier to archive them if I wanted to find something, lets say. Y'know. Anyway, also, that song there, Ballare,that I'm obsesed with, there's a quicktime bar at the bottom of Dazzled's homepage, and if you click play, that song will play. Once again, it's a great song.
I must go do homework now. I haven't even done my math..sheesh..then again, alot of people peobably won't do it anyway...*snort*...
Quote of the Day: "May it be a light for you, in dark places; when all other lights go out..."
~~Granny Galads~~
music: Ballare ~ dralion, cirque du soleil (my fav song. its italian)
voglio ballare
per te amore
voglio per la vita
ballare con te
voglio ballare per te amore
per la vita voglio ballare
con te
per te
sempre per la vita
sempre per l'amor'
ballare con te
sempre per la vita
sempre l'amor'
ballare per te
amore
per la vita voglio ballare
con te
per te mio amor'
voglio ballare per te amore
per la vita voglio ballare
con te, per te
sempre per la vita
sempre per l'amor'
sempre per la vita
sempre per l'amor'
ballare
ballare
ballare
voglio ballare per te amore
per la vita voglio ballare
con te, per te mio amor'
Translation:
I want to dance for your love
I want for life to dance with you
I want to dance for your love for life
I want to dance with you
for you
always for life
always for love
to always dance with you for life
always the love to always dance for your love
for life I want to dance with you for you my love
I want to dance for your love
for life I want to dance with you
for you always for life always for love
always for life always for love
to dance
to dance
to dance
I want to dance for your love
for life I want to dance with you
for you, my love
Yes, I know, I didn't blog yesterday. Whoops. We'll anyway, I've been working. I've decided all the duels for the Coles Tourney should be archived somewhere, sooo I made this site: Dazzled. I just have to put some fix-ups and everything and it's all good. The second part of moi vs Yami Malik is up there, but I'll also be putting it here later. I'm even going to scan my sketches and put some up there. Not all, some. Like, 4 or 5.
I'm still going to be posting the duels here as well, but I thought it would be easier to archive them if I wanted to find something, lets say. Y'know. Anyway, also, that song there, Ballare,that I'm obsesed with, there's a quicktime bar at the bottom of Dazzled's homepage, and if you click play, that song will play. Once again, it's a great song.
I must go do homework now. I haven't even done my math..sheesh..then again, alot of people peobably won't do it anyway...*snort*...
May 23, 2003
Koreso Ra no Yokushindyuu!!
music: Mai vs Yami Malik
Okay, so here's the first part of the duel. The rest will be up tonight, by six or later. I'm watching Mai vs Yami Malik to get more dieas, though I already know what's going to happen. Oh, and when I'm talking with my yami, it's in my head, like, not out loud, or guys in black suits and sunglasses would come drag me away to the asylum. Okee? So here we go!!
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The next morning, Ryou could barely keep her eyes open as she roamed the mall for a new opponent. She’d been up all night, creating and entirely new deck, and an entirely new strategy, which revolved mainly around her new Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. Her, Yami, who was always skeptical about her strategies, told her it wasn’t smart to rely on a single monster like that. So she’d loaded the rest of her deck up with decent and half-decent effect monsters, and lots of magic and trap cards. She’d tried it out a few times and hadn’t lost yet. Now all she wanted to do was add Ra no Yokushindyuu, the Winged Dragon of Ra, to her collection.
The trick was finding it. She knew the duellist who possessed it had to be here somewhere. It was only logical. The other two God cards where here; she knew Kaiba was after them, and she believed he already had Obelisk. She’d also heard his little brother, Steven, possessed Osiris. Ra was still there for the taking. And being not only one of her favourite God Cards, but her favourite duel monster, she’d studied it’s strengths and weaknesses, abilities and disadvantages and knew everything there was to know about Ra off by heart. She also knew exactly how to kill the beast as it was summoned.
She wound her way through the crowds, dragging her feet. If Ra was played, not only would it illuminate practically the whole mall with a fiery red glow, but it would attract so many duellists, and what were her chances of challenging the possessor of the most powerful Kami no Khaado with everyone else wanting to do the same?
“Oh, this is hopeless!” she said, collapsing onto a bench. She sat there for a moment, staring intensely into the crowds, until her Yami finally started yelling at her from inside his soulroom about how she’d never get to the finals if she just sat there. She rolled her eyes and stood up slowly, picking a random direction to walk in. Suddenly, she shivered, and stopped walking involuntarily. Then she felt a great feeling sweep through her, and she shivered again.
“What was that?” she asked her yami through thought.
She could sense his dead seriousness as he searched for the feeling again. “Look around you,” he said after a moment.
Ryou looked around. She stood still as other duellists passed her, some gazing at her duel disk, but shrugging and proceeding in another direction.
“But I don’t see – “
Yami Bakura cut her off. “No, it’s them that do not see. Don’t you get it? We’re the only ones who felt that.”
“Why?”
“The Sennen Ring.”
Ryou thought about this. “Does that mean….that was another Item?”
Yami Bakura answered immediately. “No. That wasn’t an item. Something else. Similar, but….there was noting mystic about it. What we felt was raw power.”
Ryou shivered involuntarily again at the mere thought.
Yami Bakura let out a long sigh from his soul room. “Don’t do that, you’ll attract attention. I…” He stopped suddenly. Then Ryou felt a familiar murderous smirk touch his lips. “That wasn’t just power,” he said suddenly, excitement in his voice. “That was a Kami no Khaado.”
“A God Card?!”
“Yes. And we’re going after it.” Before Ryou could protest, she felt his grasp of power on her tighten, and her grasp loosen. Suddenly, she was not in control of her movements anymore. Yami Bakura had taken control, and she’d been sent into her soulroom. She still got really dizzy from when soul separated from body.
“You know, I really wish you wouldn’t do that without telling me,” she muttered darkly.
“Relax. I won’t through you down a well or anything. You forget: you die, so does my freedom. I wouldn’t be able to use this body anymore. So I promise I’ll keep it in mint condition.” He laughed quietly and began to walk towards the Zeller’s end of the mall
Ryou folded her arms and sat impatiently in her soulroom. She could still see what her eyes saw, still hear what he ears heard, but she had no control of any of it. She had lost all feeling in her limbs.
They hadn’t gotten far before a blast of heat hit them with such force, it knocked everyone around them on the floor. Duellists began to scatter, but Yami Bakura passed them all, and as they got closer to the open area, everything became hotter. It seemed as if the place was on fire.
“Ra no Yokushindyuu,” Ryou whispered in awe from her soulroom.
For once, even Yami Bakura was almost speechless. “Yes… the most powerful Kami no Khaado…Ryou, if you win that card, you could be the most powerful duellist…”
“Me?!” Ryou practically shrieked, “win a God Card? Are you crazy?”
“No, I’m not,” Yami Bakura said calmly. “You always talk about how powerful Ra is, but it does have it’s flaws. You know them better than anyone.”
“What about you? I thought you’d want it.”
Yami Bakura exhaled impatiently. “Yes, but you’re going to have to win it first, aren’t you?!”
Ryou tried to swallow the lump that was forming in her throat. “I….I can….but what if I lose? I’d get booted out of the tournament!! I have to get to the finals.”
“You’d get there a lot faster with this card, and without it, you don’t stand a chance against Kaiba or his brother,” Yami Bakura pointed out.
Ryou knew she was defeated, but she kept trying to dissuade him. She didn’t understand it though; she’d always wanted Ra in the first place. “How am I going to challenge the holder of the card if I can’t get through this crowd?” she asked.
“I’ll get you through,” Yami Bakura said quickly, pushing through rudely. Many duellists complained and glared evilly at “Ryou” but Yami Bakura ignored them. He used Ryou’s body to finally come face to face with her latest opponent, and all of a sudden Ryou was standing on her own two feet. She blinked and looked around, until she finally saw who was standing across from her. She tried not to yell.
Because he looked very similar to Yami no Malik. Even Yami Bakura raised and eyebrow from his soulroom. “Malik and Yami Malik are duelling as different entities?” he asked no one in particular.
“Don’t ask me,” Ryou said. “This place is whacked.”
Yami Malik stared at her with that familiar smirk. The orgasmalik expression, she called it. She couldn’t help but giggle.
“Can I help you?” Yami Malik asked, glaring at her.
Ryou regained her posture. “Yeah. You can duel me.”
Yami Malik’s smile disappeared and was replaced by a sneer. He let out a low, menacing growl and brought his face close to hers. “And why would I want to waste my time on you?”
“Because I know where the other God Cards are,” Yami Bakura blurted out, taking temporary control. Ryou raged at him silently. “What are you doing?!”
“Getting you a duel with this psychopath Kami no Khaado holder, you idiot. Now play along and win that card.”
Ryou gave in, regaining control. Yami Malik glared at her suspiciously, before he motioned for the crowd to disperse, as they made room for the field. Ryou bounced excitedly, then reminded herself there wasn’t much of a chance she’d win this one. Ra was extremely powerful, and even if she did have the one card possible of beating it, could she draw it in time?
“You know, no everyone can use a Kami no Khaado,” Yami Malik said, his usual evil grin plastered back on his face. “Now you...I sense power, there. Maybe power enough to face something like this. Power enough to control it…I’m not sure. But yes…you might entertain me.”
Ryou turned inwardly to her yami. “What’s he talking about?” she asked.
“He senses the Sennen Ring,” Yami Bakura answered. “It’s true, though. Ordinary duellists can’t handle such a power.”
“Then why can Kaiba handle Obelisk, and his brother Osiris?”
Yami Bakura frowned. “I don’t know. It has to do something about Kaiba possessing the Sennen Rod in a previous life…his brother, I have no clue. Maybe just because he has a strong duelling spirit.”
“Let’s duel then, shall we?” Yami Malik called, holding up his duel disk. Ryou nodded. “I’ll bet my four rarest cards as well as 400 duel points.”
Yami Malik grinned even wider. “Not bad. I’ll bet, of course, Ra no Yokushindyuu, and, just to make it more exciting…800 duel points.”
“800!” Ryou whispered. “That would get me into the finals, with some to spare…”
The LP readouts came to life, and it began.
“DUEL!!”
“I’LL GO FIRST,” Yami Malik said, and drew a card. “I place one monster facedown, in defence mode. And I’ll play Pot of Greed.” He drew two new cards. “And I’ll place two cards face down. I end.”
Ryou looked at her hand:
Man-Eater Bug 450/600
Trap Hole
Swords of Revealing Light
The Reliable Guardian
Cyber Stein
Cyber Jar
“Perfect,” she muttered. “Cyber Stein on the first draw. As long as those two aren’t traps like Mirror Force..”
She began her turn. “First, I place one card facedown,” she said, placing Trap Hole. “Then I’ll play Swords of Revealing Light. I’ll also summon Cyber-Stein, in attack mode, and activate his special effect: take one monster out of my fusion deck and Special Summon it, paying 5000 Lp. And I choose….Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!!!!!”
She watched as the giant three-headed dragon appeared.
“Blue-Eyes, attack his monster!!”
She knew she was taking a big risk in attacking, but she was grateful when Yami Malik didn’t activate anything. She finished with attacking his LP, leaving him at 7300, and she at 3000.
One thing that upset her, though, is that Yami Malik was still wearing that annoying suicidal maniac grin. He drew. “I play Graceful Charity,” he said, drawing three and discarding two. He then placed one monster facedown and ended.
She drew. Snake Fang. Useless. The process repeated itself, but this time, Cyber Stein destroyed his weak facedown monster, and Blue-Eyes took out a chunk of his LP, leaving him at 2800.
Ryou’s confidence grew, despite Yami Malik constantly looking at her. He reminded her of when Collins wouldn’t stop staring. It made her skin prickle.
She drew. Alpha the Magnet Warrior. “I place Magnet Warrior Alpha, in attack mode! And I attack!”
Yami Malik’s grin became ear-splitting as the card was flipped upright.
“Oh, no no no no!” Ryou cried. “Dammit!!”
One by one, Cyber Stein, Magnet Warrior Alpha, and Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon where destroyed.
Ryou was in fate’s hands now…
music: Mai vs Yami Malik
Okay, so here's the first part of the duel. The rest will be up tonight, by six or later. I'm watching Mai vs Yami Malik to get more dieas, though I already know what's going to happen. Oh, and when I'm talking with my yami, it's in my head, like, not out loud, or guys in black suits and sunglasses would come drag me away to the asylum. Okee? So here we go!!
___________________________
The next morning, Ryou could barely keep her eyes open as she roamed the mall for a new opponent. She’d been up all night, creating and entirely new deck, and an entirely new strategy, which revolved mainly around her new Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. Her, Yami, who was always skeptical about her strategies, told her it wasn’t smart to rely on a single monster like that. So she’d loaded the rest of her deck up with decent and half-decent effect monsters, and lots of magic and trap cards. She’d tried it out a few times and hadn’t lost yet. Now all she wanted to do was add Ra no Yokushindyuu, the Winged Dragon of Ra, to her collection.
The trick was finding it. She knew the duellist who possessed it had to be here somewhere. It was only logical. The other two God cards where here; she knew Kaiba was after them, and she believed he already had Obelisk. She’d also heard his little brother, Steven, possessed Osiris. Ra was still there for the taking. And being not only one of her favourite God Cards, but her favourite duel monster, she’d studied it’s strengths and weaknesses, abilities and disadvantages and knew everything there was to know about Ra off by heart. She also knew exactly how to kill the beast as it was summoned.
She wound her way through the crowds, dragging her feet. If Ra was played, not only would it illuminate practically the whole mall with a fiery red glow, but it would attract so many duellists, and what were her chances of challenging the possessor of the most powerful Kami no Khaado with everyone else wanting to do the same?
“Oh, this is hopeless!” she said, collapsing onto a bench. She sat there for a moment, staring intensely into the crowds, until her Yami finally started yelling at her from inside his soulroom about how she’d never get to the finals if she just sat there. She rolled her eyes and stood up slowly, picking a random direction to walk in. Suddenly, she shivered, and stopped walking involuntarily. Then she felt a great feeling sweep through her, and she shivered again.
“What was that?” she asked her yami through thought.
She could sense his dead seriousness as he searched for the feeling again. “Look around you,” he said after a moment.
Ryou looked around. She stood still as other duellists passed her, some gazing at her duel disk, but shrugging and proceeding in another direction.
“But I don’t see – “
Yami Bakura cut her off. “No, it’s them that do not see. Don’t you get it? We’re the only ones who felt that.”
“Why?”
“The Sennen Ring.”
Ryou thought about this. “Does that mean….that was another Item?”
Yami Bakura answered immediately. “No. That wasn’t an item. Something else. Similar, but….there was noting mystic about it. What we felt was raw power.”
Ryou shivered involuntarily again at the mere thought.
Yami Bakura let out a long sigh from his soul room. “Don’t do that, you’ll attract attention. I…” He stopped suddenly. Then Ryou felt a familiar murderous smirk touch his lips. “That wasn’t just power,” he said suddenly, excitement in his voice. “That was a Kami no Khaado.”
“A God Card?!”
“Yes. And we’re going after it.” Before Ryou could protest, she felt his grasp of power on her tighten, and her grasp loosen. Suddenly, she was not in control of her movements anymore. Yami Bakura had taken control, and she’d been sent into her soulroom. She still got really dizzy from when soul separated from body.
“You know, I really wish you wouldn’t do that without telling me,” she muttered darkly.
“Relax. I won’t through you down a well or anything. You forget: you die, so does my freedom. I wouldn’t be able to use this body anymore. So I promise I’ll keep it in mint condition.” He laughed quietly and began to walk towards the Zeller’s end of the mall
Ryou folded her arms and sat impatiently in her soulroom. She could still see what her eyes saw, still hear what he ears heard, but she had no control of any of it. She had lost all feeling in her limbs.
They hadn’t gotten far before a blast of heat hit them with such force, it knocked everyone around them on the floor. Duellists began to scatter, but Yami Bakura passed them all, and as they got closer to the open area, everything became hotter. It seemed as if the place was on fire.
“Ra no Yokushindyuu,” Ryou whispered in awe from her soulroom.
For once, even Yami Bakura was almost speechless. “Yes… the most powerful Kami no Khaado…Ryou, if you win that card, you could be the most powerful duellist…”
“Me?!” Ryou practically shrieked, “win a God Card? Are you crazy?”
“No, I’m not,” Yami Bakura said calmly. “You always talk about how powerful Ra is, but it does have it’s flaws. You know them better than anyone.”
“What about you? I thought you’d want it.”
Yami Bakura exhaled impatiently. “Yes, but you’re going to have to win it first, aren’t you?!”
Ryou tried to swallow the lump that was forming in her throat. “I….I can….but what if I lose? I’d get booted out of the tournament!! I have to get to the finals.”
“You’d get there a lot faster with this card, and without it, you don’t stand a chance against Kaiba or his brother,” Yami Bakura pointed out.
Ryou knew she was defeated, but she kept trying to dissuade him. She didn’t understand it though; she’d always wanted Ra in the first place. “How am I going to challenge the holder of the card if I can’t get through this crowd?” she asked.
“I’ll get you through,” Yami Bakura said quickly, pushing through rudely. Many duellists complained and glared evilly at “Ryou” but Yami Bakura ignored them. He used Ryou’s body to finally come face to face with her latest opponent, and all of a sudden Ryou was standing on her own two feet. She blinked and looked around, until she finally saw who was standing across from her. She tried not to yell.
Because he looked very similar to Yami no Malik. Even Yami Bakura raised and eyebrow from his soulroom. “Malik and Yami Malik are duelling as different entities?” he asked no one in particular.
“Don’t ask me,” Ryou said. “This place is whacked.”
Yami Malik stared at her with that familiar smirk. The orgasmalik expression, she called it. She couldn’t help but giggle.
“Can I help you?” Yami Malik asked, glaring at her.
Ryou regained her posture. “Yeah. You can duel me.”
Yami Malik’s smile disappeared and was replaced by a sneer. He let out a low, menacing growl and brought his face close to hers. “And why would I want to waste my time on you?”
“Because I know where the other God Cards are,” Yami Bakura blurted out, taking temporary control. Ryou raged at him silently. “What are you doing?!”
“Getting you a duel with this psychopath Kami no Khaado holder, you idiot. Now play along and win that card.”
Ryou gave in, regaining control. Yami Malik glared at her suspiciously, before he motioned for the crowd to disperse, as they made room for the field. Ryou bounced excitedly, then reminded herself there wasn’t much of a chance she’d win this one. Ra was extremely powerful, and even if she did have the one card possible of beating it, could she draw it in time?
“You know, no everyone can use a Kami no Khaado,” Yami Malik said, his usual evil grin plastered back on his face. “Now you...I sense power, there. Maybe power enough to face something like this. Power enough to control it…I’m not sure. But yes…you might entertain me.”
Ryou turned inwardly to her yami. “What’s he talking about?” she asked.
“He senses the Sennen Ring,” Yami Bakura answered. “It’s true, though. Ordinary duellists can’t handle such a power.”
“Then why can Kaiba handle Obelisk, and his brother Osiris?”
Yami Bakura frowned. “I don’t know. It has to do something about Kaiba possessing the Sennen Rod in a previous life…his brother, I have no clue. Maybe just because he has a strong duelling spirit.”
“Let’s duel then, shall we?” Yami Malik called, holding up his duel disk. Ryou nodded. “I’ll bet my four rarest cards as well as 400 duel points.”
Yami Malik grinned even wider. “Not bad. I’ll bet, of course, Ra no Yokushindyuu, and, just to make it more exciting…800 duel points.”
“800!” Ryou whispered. “That would get me into the finals, with some to spare…”
The LP readouts came to life, and it began.
“DUEL!!”
“I’LL GO FIRST,” Yami Malik said, and drew a card. “I place one monster facedown, in defence mode. And I’ll play Pot of Greed.” He drew two new cards. “And I’ll place two cards face down. I end.”
Ryou looked at her hand:
Man-Eater Bug 450/600
Trap Hole
Swords of Revealing Light
The Reliable Guardian
Cyber Stein
Cyber Jar
“Perfect,” she muttered. “Cyber Stein on the first draw. As long as those two aren’t traps like Mirror Force..”
She began her turn. “First, I place one card facedown,” she said, placing Trap Hole. “Then I’ll play Swords of Revealing Light. I’ll also summon Cyber-Stein, in attack mode, and activate his special effect: take one monster out of my fusion deck and Special Summon it, paying 5000 Lp. And I choose….Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!!!!!”
She watched as the giant three-headed dragon appeared.
“Blue-Eyes, attack his monster!!”
She knew she was taking a big risk in attacking, but she was grateful when Yami Malik didn’t activate anything. She finished with attacking his LP, leaving him at 7300, and she at 3000.
One thing that upset her, though, is that Yami Malik was still wearing that annoying suicidal maniac grin. He drew. “I play Graceful Charity,” he said, drawing three and discarding two. He then placed one monster facedown and ended.
She drew. Snake Fang. Useless. The process repeated itself, but this time, Cyber Stein destroyed his weak facedown monster, and Blue-Eyes took out a chunk of his LP, leaving him at 2800.
Ryou’s confidence grew, despite Yami Malik constantly looking at her. He reminded her of when Collins wouldn’t stop staring. It made her skin prickle.
She drew. Alpha the Magnet Warrior. “I place Magnet Warrior Alpha, in attack mode! And I attack!”
Yami Malik’s grin became ear-splitting as the card was flipped upright.
“Oh, no no no no!” Ryou cried. “Dammit!!”
One by one, Cyber Stein, Magnet Warrior Alpha, and Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon where destroyed.
Ryou was in fate’s hands now…
~Aqua
Fuoco~
~Aria
Terra~
Quote of the Morning: Too tired.
music: Ombra ~ dralion, cirque du soleil (ombra means shadow)
Oooooh Ra it's early........*falls asleep on keyboard*. I got back so late last night I didn't even have time to blog. I just collapsed on my bed and died.
Dralion, last night, was wonderful. The theme was really good too. I could tell from the beggining when the dancers came out that the role of the elements would play a big part here. There was one song where they actually said "Aqua. Fuoco. Aria. Terra" which literally means "Water. Fire. Air. Earth." I'm also downloading Ballare, which I'm going to post the words two in both languages because it's such a beautiful song.
Alright, Kaiba-kun, you've got me in a grand situation, here. Give me tonight and the weekend to catch up to where you are, all the way in the finals, and I promise I'll be there by saturday. Mind you I do have to get started on my geo and Ingalesh projects to...and I have a french oral this morning but I'm not doing it beause she only gave us a day to prepare and I resent that.
Oh yeah, and Yami Bakura, you're in the finals.
Yami Bakura: ME?! I thought I was your yami?
Me: You are, I'd I'll let you have a bigger role later on.
Yami Bakura: ...okay, then what am I doing in the finals?
Me: ...did it ever occur to you that there are three versions of you?
Yami Bakura: O.O Alright now you've totally lost me.
Me: *sigh* Well, okay, so, there's YOU, right, the 3000 year-old psychopath spirit/yami that sometimes possess innocent little Ryou. Then there's Ryou himelf (or herself, in this case, meaning me), and FINALLY, for all you who have never seen the mangas past the big Battle City incident, there's ancient egypt Bakura. Sure, he looks a bit older (he's around 19 or 20 in the manga) and we'de have to get him some 21st century clothes, as well as comb his hair a bit, but he'll do just fine.
Yami Bakura: *pauses* Okay. I'll just play along with you on this...
Me: Excellent! Well while I go look for Yami Bakura #2, lemme post what I wrote yesterday after I came home.
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Ryou blogged on her crappy computer at: 4:30 PM
Mou hitori!! (new random word)
Quote of the Day: “Curse you, and all the Halfings!!”
~~curse you and all computers…~~
music: None, dammit. Why do these things always happen to meeeee??!!
The reason I’m blogging so late is becuz I stayed after school with Ri-chan and Azzurra till like, 3:45, and then when I tried to turn on the internet to blog, the whole thing crashed on me, so now I’m writing my blog on a loose leaf of Microsoft Word on my old, really really crappy computer *destroys old, really really crappy keyboard*. In addition, spell check gets reeeeally annoying here, too.
Anyway, I was going to hate today becuz we had the music test, up until I found out, HA! Mr Dufy was not here! Ergo, no music test, a movie!! Ergo, I had to drag my trombone upstairs because the instrument room was locked and then I had to stay down there for 15 minutes waiting for the sub to find the key. Ergo, frustration. Oh, and for those of you who don’t have a great command over the english language, ergo means therefor.
In math I realized I had a chance at perhaps passing one of the tests in the June exams, the “chains d’operations”. If I study hard enough, it’s easy. I got 16/28 for the practice one, but of course Mme Flores didn’t exactly tell us, “You have a practice test tomorrow, study everything you learnt from september to january.” I mean, I don’t exactly retain ALL this stuff, or my head would explode.
Catholic was boring. I don’t even remember what we did. Ah, yes…sex ed with the school nurse. That was…interesting, but somewhat chaotic towards the end with so many immature people in that class. Then again, I shouldn’t talk. Last year, in Mr. Hardy’s class, we had to watch cartoons masturbate. *shivers * Those images are burned into the back of my mind forever.
In gym we did the Leger Boucher test thing, which is basically running back and forth and back and forth and back and forth like little lab rats to this constant “beep…beep” sound that drives everyone mad. I got...I don’t even remember what I got last time...around 9 or 10 runs, which is level 2.1. Which isn’t bad. Hey, I’m a sprinter, I don’t do endurance.
What pissed me off today was I doing perfectly well until someone banged into me and tore my earring right off my ear. It didn’t like, rip through or anything, but I bent to pick it up and I suddenly I was running as fast as I can to catch up with the others. I had lost my pace. Ms Lagodich slowed me down and then said “This isn’t a sprinting test, sit down and you’ll do it again.” I mean, NO, jeez, I just did 1.2 levels and I refuse To do it all over again, I’ll only last one level. I didn’t get up to do it with the second group and she gave me the 1.2 mark. I hate her forever now.
Besides that, everything’s okay. I’m going to Cirque du Soleil tonight as a late b-day present, so I’ll have to be ready by 5:20 since we’re going out to eat, WHICH MEASN I MISS THE GATHERING OF THE FINALISTS. GODDAMMIT. Oh well, I’ll catch it next Monday night when they do repeats; in addition, I’ve already seen it in jap, so I know what happens. RYOU IS THERE! Oh, and I had to sit through the whole Jean-Bob Magomme ep yesterday. Ick. He is sooo annoying.
Yami Bakura: It’s Jean-Claude Magnum.
Me: I DON’T GIVE A …hey, how do you know?
Yami Bakura: Because Jou won’t shut up about him.
I’m actually surprised they kept the marriage theme in the english one. Mai is only like, 19 or 20 I think. And Jou is like 16. And yet they make such a good couple..*sighs*. And I can’t remember whether it’s Jean-Claude in the jap one too… Ah well. I probably won’t get a chance to start Ra No Yokushindyuu’s duel tonight, maybe tomorrow morning.
*runs after Jou*
Fuoco~
~Aria
Terra~
Quote of the Morning: Too tired.
music: Ombra ~ dralion, cirque du soleil (ombra means shadow)
Oooooh Ra it's early........*falls asleep on keyboard*. I got back so late last night I didn't even have time to blog. I just collapsed on my bed and died.
Dralion, last night, was wonderful. The theme was really good too. I could tell from the beggining when the dancers came out that the role of the elements would play a big part here. There was one song where they actually said "Aqua. Fuoco. Aria. Terra" which literally means "Water. Fire. Air. Earth." I'm also downloading Ballare, which I'm going to post the words two in both languages because it's such a beautiful song.
Alright, Kaiba-kun, you've got me in a grand situation, here. Give me tonight and the weekend to catch up to where you are, all the way in the finals, and I promise I'll be there by saturday. Mind you I do have to get started on my geo and Ingalesh projects to...and I have a french oral this morning but I'm not doing it beause she only gave us a day to prepare and I resent that.
Oh yeah, and Yami Bakura, you're in the finals.
Yami Bakura: ME?! I thought I was your yami?
Me: You are, I'd I'll let you have a bigger role later on.
Yami Bakura: ...okay, then what am I doing in the finals?
Me: ...did it ever occur to you that there are three versions of you?
Yami Bakura: O.O Alright now you've totally lost me.
Me: *sigh* Well, okay, so, there's YOU, right, the 3000 year-old psychopath spirit/yami that sometimes possess innocent little Ryou. Then there's Ryou himelf (or herself, in this case, meaning me), and FINALLY, for all you who have never seen the mangas past the big Battle City incident, there's ancient egypt Bakura. Sure, he looks a bit older (he's around 19 or 20 in the manga) and we'de have to get him some 21st century clothes, as well as comb his hair a bit, but he'll do just fine.
Yami Bakura: *pauses* Okay. I'll just play along with you on this...
Me: Excellent! Well while I go look for Yami Bakura #2, lemme post what I wrote yesterday after I came home.
______________________
Ryou blogged on her crappy computer at: 4:30 PM
Mou hitori!! (new random word)
Quote of the Day: “Curse you, and all the Halfings!!”
~~curse you and all computers…~~
music: None, dammit. Why do these things always happen to meeeee??!!
The reason I’m blogging so late is becuz I stayed after school with Ri-chan and Azzurra till like, 3:45, and then when I tried to turn on the internet to blog, the whole thing crashed on me, so now I’m writing my blog on a loose leaf of Microsoft Word on my old, really really crappy computer *destroys old, really really crappy keyboard*. In addition, spell check gets reeeeally annoying here, too.
Anyway, I was going to hate today becuz we had the music test, up until I found out, HA! Mr Dufy was not here! Ergo, no music test, a movie!! Ergo, I had to drag my trombone upstairs because the instrument room was locked and then I had to stay down there for 15 minutes waiting for the sub to find the key. Ergo, frustration. Oh, and for those of you who don’t have a great command over the english language, ergo means therefor.
In math I realized I had a chance at perhaps passing one of the tests in the June exams, the “chains d’operations”. If I study hard enough, it’s easy. I got 16/28 for the practice one, but of course Mme Flores didn’t exactly tell us, “You have a practice test tomorrow, study everything you learnt from september to january.” I mean, I don’t exactly retain ALL this stuff, or my head would explode.
Catholic was boring. I don’t even remember what we did. Ah, yes…sex ed with the school nurse. That was…interesting, but somewhat chaotic towards the end with so many immature people in that class. Then again, I shouldn’t talk. Last year, in Mr. Hardy’s class, we had to watch cartoons masturbate. *shivers * Those images are burned into the back of my mind forever.
In gym we did the Leger Boucher test thing, which is basically running back and forth and back and forth and back and forth like little lab rats to this constant “beep…beep” sound that drives everyone mad. I got...I don’t even remember what I got last time...around 9 or 10 runs, which is level 2.1. Which isn’t bad. Hey, I’m a sprinter, I don’t do endurance.
What pissed me off today was I doing perfectly well until someone banged into me and tore my earring right off my ear. It didn’t like, rip through or anything, but I bent to pick it up and I suddenly I was running as fast as I can to catch up with the others. I had lost my pace. Ms Lagodich slowed me down and then said “This isn’t a sprinting test, sit down and you’ll do it again.” I mean, NO, jeez, I just did 1.2 levels and I refuse To do it all over again, I’ll only last one level. I didn’t get up to do it with the second group and she gave me the 1.2 mark. I hate her forever now.
Besides that, everything’s okay. I’m going to Cirque du Soleil tonight as a late b-day present, so I’ll have to be ready by 5:20 since we’re going out to eat, WHICH MEASN I MISS THE GATHERING OF THE FINALISTS. GODDAMMIT. Oh well, I’ll catch it next Monday night when they do repeats; in addition, I’ve already seen it in jap, so I know what happens. RYOU IS THERE! Oh, and I had to sit through the whole Jean-Bob Magomme ep yesterday. Ick. He is sooo annoying.
Yami Bakura: It’s Jean-Claude Magnum.
Me: I DON’T GIVE A …hey, how do you know?
Yami Bakura: Because Jou won’t shut up about him.
I’m actually surprised they kept the marriage theme in the english one. Mai is only like, 19 or 20 I think. And Jou is like 16. And yet they make such a good couple..*sighs*. And I can’t remember whether it’s Jean-Claude in the jap one too… Ah well. I probably won’t get a chance to start Ra No Yokushindyuu’s duel tonight, maybe tomorrow morning.
*runs after Jou*
May 22, 2003
Large, fuzzy dice, because I couldn't come up with a better way to title this post.
No quote, no music either right now. Sowee.
Alright, before I go, Kaiba, you have done a wonderful job of dramatizing this whole Ra situation.
Yami Bakura: Is that a complement or an insult?
Me: Why do you care?
Yami B: Curious.
Ok, it's not an insut, it just struck me as funny. I shall dramaize it more for you when I put up my perspective of it. Plus I have to actually WIN the card from the guy, too.
In other news, I was doing my math homework, and it's kinda like a preview of what we're gonna be getting in the june exams, and let me telll you, HOLY CRAP THIS SHIT'S HARD.
Along with the oral, which I'm never really good at, and which were not allowed to do calculations on the paper unless we erase 'em real good, which I never do, soooooo I'm royally screwed there. But, I heard that if I get such a LOW LOW mark (I dun think this will happen) but I won't have to repeat the grade in math, they'll just bump me down to reg math or we-need-help math. That's what I've heard, anyway.
Yami B: Don't believe everything you hear.
Me: If I fail, it's your fault.
Yami B: Why?
Me: You won't be concerning yourself with "why" once I'm finished with you....
No quote, no music either right now. Sowee.
Alright, before I go, Kaiba, you have done a wonderful job of dramatizing this whole Ra situation.
Yami Bakura: Is that a complement or an insult?
Me: Why do you care?
Yami B: Curious.
Ok, it's not an insut, it just struck me as funny. I shall dramaize it more for you when I put up my perspective of it. Plus I have to actually WIN the card from the guy, too.
In other news, I was doing my math homework, and it's kinda like a preview of what we're gonna be getting in the june exams, and let me telll you, HOLY CRAP THIS SHIT'S HARD.
Along with the oral, which I'm never really good at, and which were not allowed to do calculations on the paper unless we erase 'em real good, which I never do, soooooo I'm royally screwed there. But, I heard that if I get such a LOW LOW mark (I dun think this will happen) but I won't have to repeat the grade in math, they'll just bump me down to reg math or we-need-help math. That's what I've heard, anyway.
Yami B: Don't believe everything you hear.
Me: If I fail, it's your fault.
Yami B: Why?
Me: You won't be concerning yourself with "why" once I'm finished with you....
May 21, 2003
*rolls over laughing* The Millenium Rod has now, in the subtitled version, become know as the Millenium Tin Stick
*snort*
Oh Ra, even the dubbers could never have come up with that...
Quote of the Day: "Get back, scum!"
~~I wouldn't talk if I was you, Ugluk~~
video clip: First Duel in the Air, Yami Bakura vs Yami no Yuugi ~ battle city first round of quarter-finals
Did you know in this ep, when Ryou goes Yami B, you can actually see his hair lift up, like the bat wings actually come up by themselves? That definetly should be made into an animated gif. The only problem is I can't do it. *sob*
KAIBA-KUN!! If your reading this - the message I said I had for you today, it's the previous post, before this one. Mmmkay?
Today: Pretty good, despite I had two tests. In English, Ms Ewing yelled at these tow really annyoing jerks, Matthew and Kyle, who never shut up; and they really deserved what they got. But really, she was giving it to them full blast, I bet the people all the way in the gym could hear.
In geo I believe I aced my test with 101%. Take that, Jaspreet the Stinky Feet. Waha.
Science was boring as hell. We played with magnets. Whoop.
At lunch I went out. I actually played some tag with Vero and Tanish (in my school shoes O_o). I get my really evil Yami B expression when I chase people. It's fun. It gives them the impression I've goit a pitchfork or something with me. Or so Ri-chan says. And Vero has officially been dubbed BMG. *squee* ^_________^
In french I believe I passed my test. Oh, we were talking when Vanessa suddenly randomly swatted me across the head with a book. It hurt, but a tiny book, mind you. I suddenly looked up and said "Flying book!!" an Wessy cracked up, and we were laughin so hard we couldn't breath. I was because earlier, in the locker room, I has been minding my own business, when suddenly, this GIANT, HARDCOVER BOOK, came flying out of nowhere, and I mean NOWHERE, and hit me smack in the head. *rubs bruise* Meh.
I now have this on-going joke with my friend Nico, because one day I said to him "Hi Nico!" and he turned around and said "Did you just call me Nicole?" So now for a joke I sometimes call him Nicole. But then he said he'd...reverse-genderize my name if I didn't stop..so we reached a compromise ^___^
Now I have to go finish math and practice my trombone. And make a layout to host me PICCIES!! YAY! So expect some new piccies, okee?
LARGE, FUZZY DICE!!
*snort*
Oh Ra, even the dubbers could never have come up with that...
Quote of the Day: "Get back, scum!"
~~I wouldn't talk if I was you, Ugluk~~
video clip: First Duel in the Air, Yami Bakura vs Yami no Yuugi ~ battle city first round of quarter-finals
Did you know in this ep, when Ryou goes Yami B, you can actually see his hair lift up, like the bat wings actually come up by themselves? That definetly should be made into an animated gif. The only problem is I can't do it. *sob*
KAIBA-KUN!! If your reading this - the message I said I had for you today, it's the previous post, before this one. Mmmkay?
Today: Pretty good, despite I had two tests. In English, Ms Ewing yelled at these tow really annyoing jerks, Matthew and Kyle, who never shut up; and they really deserved what they got. But really, she was giving it to them full blast, I bet the people all the way in the gym could hear.
In geo I believe I aced my test with 101%. Take that, Jaspreet the Stinky Feet. Waha.
Science was boring as hell. We played with magnets. Whoop.
At lunch I went out. I actually played some tag with Vero and Tanish (in my school shoes O_o). I get my really evil Yami B expression when I chase people. It's fun. It gives them the impression I've goit a pitchfork or something with me. Or so Ri-chan says. And Vero has officially been dubbed BMG. *squee* ^_________^
In french I believe I passed my test. Oh, we were talking when Vanessa suddenly randomly swatted me across the head with a book. It hurt, but a tiny book, mind you. I suddenly looked up and said "Flying book!!" an Wessy cracked up, and we were laughin so hard we couldn't breath. I was because earlier, in the locker room, I has been minding my own business, when suddenly, this GIANT, HARDCOVER BOOK, came flying out of nowhere, and I mean NOWHERE, and hit me smack in the head. *rubs bruise* Meh.
I now have this on-going joke with my friend Nico, because one day I said to him "Hi Nico!" and he turned around and said "Did you just call me Nicole?" So now for a joke I sometimes call him Nicole. But then he said he'd...reverse-genderize my name if I didn't stop..so we reached a compromise ^___^
Now I have to go finish math and practice my trombone. And make a layout to host me PICCIES!! YAY! So expect some new piccies, okee?
LARGE, FUZZY DICE!!
May 20, 2003
I....want...RA NO YOKUSHINDYUU!!!!!!!!!!!!
music: Race Car Ya-Yas ~ cake
The land of Race car ya-yas
the land where u cant change lanes
the land where large, fuzzy dice still hand proudly
like testicles from rear-view mirrors.
I live for that song.
Okay... this is when we panic...
Kaiba's got Obelisk no Kyoshinhei (Obelisk the Tormenter)
Steven's got Osiris no Tenkuuryuu (Slifer the Sky Dragon)
I CLAIM RA!!
Ra's mine, Kaiba-kun. I claim him in the tourney. It's only fair I get a Kami no Khaado(god card) as well. You can win it from me or whatev in the finals.
Yup.
Okay! In other earthly news, besides Kaiba's fixed his template, I saw the dub version of Yami Bakura vs Bones. It was okay. I have the screenshots for the jap ep, which is excellent, so go find it. It was some weekend in april or late march. I always do my screencappies on the weekend. They're worth seeing, because I always incorporate some humour ^__^ God, its easy making fun of those people... Oh, and I'm also working on another drawing, featuring three of my fav DM cards: Dark Necrophia, Black Magicien Girl and Ra no Yokushindyuu.
*is aware she has to study*
*is aware she wants to finish her drawing*
*is aware she should scan her Dark Necrophia picture*
*is aware she might have just disconnected her scanner when she moved it earlier...O.O*
*feels like relaxing..*
LARGE, FUZZY DICE!!!
music: Race Car Ya-Yas ~ cake
The land of Race car ya-yas
the land where u cant change lanes
the land where large, fuzzy dice still hand proudly
like testicles from rear-view mirrors.
I live for that song.
Okay... this is when we panic...
Kaiba's got Obelisk no Kyoshinhei (Obelisk the Tormenter)
Steven's got Osiris no Tenkuuryuu (Slifer the Sky Dragon)
I CLAIM RA!!
Ra's mine, Kaiba-kun. I claim him in the tourney. It's only fair I get a Kami no Khaado(god card) as well. You can win it from me or whatev in the finals.
Yup.
Okay! In other earthly news, besides Kaiba's fixed his template, I saw the dub version of Yami Bakura vs Bones. It was okay. I have the screenshots for the jap ep, which is excellent, so go find it. It was some weekend in april or late march. I always do my screencappies on the weekend. They're worth seeing, because I always incorporate some humour ^__^ God, its easy making fun of those people... Oh, and I'm also working on another drawing, featuring three of my fav DM cards: Dark Necrophia, Black Magicien Girl and Ra no Yokushindyuu.
*is aware she has to study*
*is aware she wants to finish her drawing*
*is aware she should scan her Dark Necrophia picture*
*is aware she might have just disconnected her scanner when she moved it earlier...O.O*
*feels like relaxing..*
LARGE, FUZZY DICE!!!
I summon...Dark Necrophia.
I found it!!
Yami Bakura: That was fast.
Me: I wouldn't let the fans miss out on a pic of YOU, my friend.
To see what I'm talking about, refer to the previous post. ^_^
Oh, and since I couldn't get a screenshot, this is a fanart, but it looks EXACTLY the same in the anime. This is froma very talented artist names Lesley Corinne Burt.
"I summon....Dark Necrophia..."
I found it!!
Yami Bakura: That was fast.
Me: I wouldn't let the fans miss out on a pic of YOU, my friend.
To see what I'm talking about, refer to the previous post. ^_^
Oh, and since I couldn't get a screenshot, this is a fanart, but it looks EXACTLY the same in the anime. This is froma very talented artist names Lesley Corinne Burt.
"I summon....Dark Necrophia..."
You have a BANANA tree?!
Quote of the Day: "Why should I welcome you here, Gandalf Stormcrow...?"
~~because I have cookies, theoden. ha.~~
music: Faint ~ linkin park
*dies*
sooo...hot...
*wants to be in Ireland where it rains pratically 24/7*
This country BLOWS.
It's uber-freeeezing in the winter and waaay to hot and stuffy in the summer. At least in spring there's rain, though *hugs giant raincloud*
Two tests in one day today. And two tests tomorrow. In english I got my Holes report back and got 10/10 and +10/10 for practically everything. Which means I got 100+%. Yay for moi. And Ms Ewing said she found...yes...!!THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!! *is very very exciting*. I saw the movie, but I can't wait for the book. I'm also going to re-read Midnight Runner at somepoint as well as Night of the Fox *huggles Kaiba-look-alike Field Marshal Rommel plushie*.
In info we had a test. I got 90. Whoopee. I hate typing with that stupid paper. Merde.
Isn't it fun being able to swear in 4 languages?
-baka
-merde, abruti, cretin
-fungu, cazzo, putana, pezzo di cazzo, testa di merde, stupido, idio, pazzo, cretino, schemo, schema, (I could go on...)
-i won't even begin to list the ones in english...
Rude, yes.
In art I died. Provancher was back. *goes after quebecois woman brandishing a stick and yelling "crever!!!"*
I actually did a pretty nice version of Dark Necrophia, waist up, with help from the comic. I even did the shading and everything. I wanted to do another but Tanish has the manga..i'll have to find a pic on the net. I gave her hair, though. Short black hair. Now instead of being freaky-alien-looking Demon Queen, she's sexy Demon Queen. And I got rid of the broken doll in her hands. That thing is just meant to be crucified, man. It's weird.
In math I think I almost flunked the stupid test. Besides the fact we were roasting like chikens in there - *mental image of Mme Flores licking her lips* - it was hard. I think I did the bar graph and broken line graph okay, but I totally screwed up on the pie chart *hates pie chart. destroys all pie charts*
Tomorrow I have a geo test and a french test. I will probably almost flunk french since I hardly remember the book (I didn't really read it anyway but I got 12/15 on my other test which was decent (at least I passed). I should pass geo. I always pass geo. Lowest mark ever was probably 94 or 95. Well, I least that's one subject I'm good at.
I'm going to take a shower now and then draw another piccie of Dark Necrophia *huggles Dark Necrophia plushie*. If ever a duellist and a duel monster made a pair, it's Yami Bakura and Dark Necrophia*starts thinking bout a fanart*. Oh, and in ep 97, when he summons her, he actually licks his lips *shivers*. I love it. I'll get a screenshot up of that if I can. And maybe my skecth of Dark N. too.
Quote of the Day: "Why should I welcome you here, Gandalf Stormcrow...?"
~~because I have cookies, theoden. ha.~~
music: Faint ~ linkin park
*dies*
sooo...hot...
*wants to be in Ireland where it rains pratically 24/7*
This country BLOWS.
It's uber-freeeezing in the winter and waaay to hot and stuffy in the summer. At least in spring there's rain, though *hugs giant raincloud*
Two tests in one day today. And two tests tomorrow. In english I got my Holes report back and got 10/10 and +10/10 for practically everything. Which means I got 100+%. Yay for moi. And Ms Ewing said she found...yes...!!THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!! *is very very exciting*. I saw the movie, but I can't wait for the book. I'm also going to re-read Midnight Runner at somepoint as well as Night of the Fox *huggles Kaiba-look-alike Field Marshal Rommel plushie*.
In info we had a test. I got 90. Whoopee. I hate typing with that stupid paper. Merde.
Isn't it fun being able to swear in 4 languages?
-baka
-merde, abruti, cretin
-fungu, cazzo, putana, pezzo di cazzo, testa di merde, stupido, idio, pazzo, cretino, schemo, schema, (I could go on...)
-i won't even begin to list the ones in english...
Rude, yes.
In art I died. Provancher was back. *goes after quebecois woman brandishing a stick and yelling "crever!!!"*
I actually did a pretty nice version of Dark Necrophia, waist up, with help from the comic. I even did the shading and everything. I wanted to do another but Tanish has the manga..i'll have to find a pic on the net. I gave her hair, though. Short black hair. Now instead of being freaky-alien-looking Demon Queen, she's sexy Demon Queen. And I got rid of the broken doll in her hands. That thing is just meant to be crucified, man. It's weird.
In math I think I almost flunked the stupid test. Besides the fact we were roasting like chikens in there - *mental image of Mme Flores licking her lips* - it was hard. I think I did the bar graph and broken line graph okay, but I totally screwed up on the pie chart *hates pie chart. destroys all pie charts*
Tomorrow I have a geo test and a french test. I will probably almost flunk french since I hardly remember the book (I didn't really read it anyway but I got 12/15 on my other test which was decent (at least I passed). I should pass geo. I always pass geo. Lowest mark ever was probably 94 or 95. Well, I least that's one subject I'm good at.
I'm going to take a shower now and then draw another piccie of Dark Necrophia *huggles Dark Necrophia plushie*. If ever a duellist and a duel monster made a pair, it's Yami Bakura and Dark Necrophia*starts thinking bout a fanart*. Oh, and in ep 97, when he summons her, he actually licks his lips *shivers*. I love it. I'll get a screenshot up of that if I can. And maybe my skecth of Dark N. too.
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