November 15th: - 1721 Words
They’d given up on trying to get to the village a few hours ago and were now heading for the Dark Palace.
While it had only taken Yue and Elios an hour or so to reach Nuri’s house, they had managed to miss the rock that was the keystone to the spells protecting the village from attack and as such had wandered around for a good couple of hours trying to find it before giving it up as a lost cause (at least for now) and started towards the palace and home.
It wasn’t exactly an easy trip. While the forest they were travelling through was beautiful, it was swarming with Insect, Beast and Beast-Warrior monsters and, though the presence of Yue and Elios kept away all bar the strongest of the beasts, Yugi and Harry were under no impression that they’d be as safe if they’d tried this trip on their own.
However…
`Is it me?` Harry asked as the pair of them followed Yue and Elios through the forest, watching the antics of the two Spellcasters with amusement, `Or does this seem really familiar?`
Yugi chuckled, wincing slightly as he did so. Harry had a point, it did seem really familiar. If Yugi had to liken their behaviour to anything, it would, he mused as he watched the pair, who had started out acting mature and overprotective and just degenerated when it had become obvious that they were lost, be like that of Joey and Tristan whenever they got together. “Very.” The pair of magicians waved at them to catch up, “Come on, before they leave us behind.”
The pair scrambled after the pair of Spellcasters, who waited for them to catch up before continuing through the trees, clearing any danger and bickering the whole time about whose fault it was they were lost.
`A galleon says they start fighting inside ten minutes.` Harry stated, noting that Yue had started shoving his brother.
“I don’t take sucker beats.” Yugi commented, or he would have done if he hadn’t been interrupted by someone singing over the mind link.
Eighty nine bottles of juice on the wall, eighty nine bottles of juice…
Yugi froze. “Boh?!” He croaked out, looking around and not spotting the Kuriboh.
You take one down, pass it around, eighty eight bottles of juice on the wall. Eighty eight bottles of juice on the wall, eighty eight bottles of juice…
“Boh?” Yugi’s question over the link startled the Kuriboh out of his singing.
Yugi? Boh sounded shocked. Then delight rushed over the link. You’re here! How’re you here? Mahado said he couldn’t bring you! I wanted to show you my world but… Do you know how to beat Dark Elves?
“Yugi?” Yue asked, concerned, having heard Yugi’s question but, after looking around, hadn’t seen anyone.
“Boh.” Harry answered for the heir, who was distracted by happy hyper Kuriboh, “Yugi’s partner monster. He mentioned something about Dark Elves.”
“What do you mean Dark Elves?” Yugi asked, giving the concerned magicians a brief smile, “Boh, where are you? Are you alright?”
I’m so bored. Boh replied, frustration seeping over the link, I’ve been stuck here for weeks and this cage is tiny and they keep stealing some of my fur and…
“Whoa, slow down.” It wasn’t the first time Yugi had had to ask his partner monster to do just that, “Who’s got you?”
A pair of Dark Elves. Boh replied, They’re boring. Also they didn’t like my singing.
Considering that Boh had, apparently been there weeks and he’d only just hit eighty eight bottles, Yugi was surprised his partner monster hadn’t been forced to Resummon yet. “Can you sense me?”
Uh huh.
“Direct us to you and we’ll get you out.”
We? Yami and the others are here too? Boh asked, sounding happy about that.
"Harry’s with me and Yami and the others are around somewhere.” Yugi replied, “Yue and Elios, the Sunset and Sunrise Magicians are with me too.”
Cool! The mental equivalent of a grin was sent his way, This way! This way!
“Yue, Elios.” Yugi turned to the pair, who looked at each other, smiled slightly and rolled their eyes and then turned back to Yugi.
“We’re helping Boh out?” Elios asked.
“How?”
“We’ve been in your deck how long?” Yue pointed out.
“We know how you think.” Elios agreed.
“Which way?”
Yugi pointed and the two magicians chuckled and headed in that direction, ushering the two humans in front of them.
With Boh giving directions it didn’t take them long to find the place. It was a small shack in the middle of nowhere that looked like it had seen better days. A small cage that just about fit a Kuriboh in was easy to spot from the bushes, hanging from a pole in the ‘yard’.
“I can’t see either of the Dark Elves.” Harry murmured, starting to get up.
“Stay down.” Elios hissed, grabbing Harry’s arm and pulling him down. “Unless you want to get caught.” As he whispered one of the Dark Elves walked around the corner, glancing in Boh’s direction as she did so before adjusting something and sitting outside with a book, pausing every so often to stir her cauldron.
“Stay here. We’ll get Boh.” Yue nodded, standing up.
The Dark Elf looked up at the noise, startled, having been relishing the silence for a change.
“Yue... you don’t normally head this way.” She said, getting to her feet quickly. She knew the high level Dark Spellcaster, having had many discussions with the Sunset Magician on the pros and cons of certain types of magic and surprised to see him here. “Is Elios around?”
“Of course, Eris.” The Sunrise Magician nodded, standing up casually. “Who else would keep an eye on my idiot brother?”
Eris smiled. Not a pleasant smile, but a smile none the less. It hadn’t helped that she and her companion had left the village the two Magicians guarded on a less then friendly basis, “And what do I owe this honour? I mean it’s not every day you two come and visit.” She got to her feet, “And it’s a shame, because it gets so lonely, just the pair of us...”
“You chose to leave the village.” Elios pointed out.
“And your staying away is more a matter of you being bitchy rather than any exile we’ve imposed.” Yue added, earning himself a semi-amused look from his brother. “But that’s not why we’re here. You have a friend of ours.”
“Me?” Eris looked genuinely surprised. “I hold no one...” She trailed off, looked at the Kuriboh in the cage, looked back to the two in front of her, then burst out laughing. “Oh you’ve got to be kidding me? You’re friends with that fluffball? It’s a Kuriboh!”
Hey! Boh protested.
“Our Duellist is concerned for his safety.” Yue shrugged, having little patience for the fuzzball himself, but knowing that some of the weaker monsters in the village enjoyed when he came by with news and that his Duellist was concerned about him. “I’m afraid you’ll have to find another Kuriboh.”
Eris’s eyes flickered over Elios’s shoulder to where the second Dark Elf was sneaking up on something in the bushes, “Do you have any idea how hard it was to catch this one?” She protested, wondering what her companion had seen hiding there, “Or did you forget that Kuribohs explode on contact with an enemy?”
“I, for one,” The second Dark Elf stated as a pair of monsters scrambled out of the bush, away from her, the, seemingly, uninjured one pulling the injured one behind him, “Have no great urge to get blown up again for a good while.”
“Afternoon Lilian.” Eris said quite calmly, “Anyone else hiding there?” She asked the two Magicians before pausing and considering the two monsters who’d just appeared carefully.
Then she burst into laughter.
“And I thought we were trouble.” She gasped as Lillian moved to her side, having come to the same conclusion as her companion and finding it almost as amusing. “You’re not allowed to bring humans here!” She gasped in between fits of laughter, “It’s the rules! You’re going to be in more trouble than we ever were!”
“We didn’t bring them here.” Yue grouched, “Medan did.”
Eris’s laughter died down and Lillian looked less amused. “Medan? He’s around?” It wasn’t so much that they were really afraid of the Dark Magician who had been causing so much trouble for the Lord of the Dark Kingdom, more that they had no interest in hanging around if there was trouble afoot, as they valued their hides more than anyone else’s and Resummoning, while painless, would take time out of their busy schedule.
“No.” Harry said, the memory flashing over the link for Yugi to see, his tone subdued, “Yugi defeated him. He’s Resummoning.”
Yue and Elios, who had been told that the two were escaping from Medan’s clutches but hadn’t known this before, grinned at Yugi, who just looked bashful, not actually remembering his brief stint as a Duel Monster very well,
“He’s gonna be pissed when he gets back,” Lillian commented, examining her nails, as if bored, pretending not to be as amused as she was by this news.
“Give us Boh and we’ll go on our way.” Yue said, “And we’ll be long gone by the time he gets back.”
Eris and Lillian considered each other. They didn’t really want to hand over the Kuriboh, he was a resource that they didn’t get their hands on very often, but at the same time the constant singing was driving them crazy and if they got into a fight with Yue and Elios they wouldn’t win.
“Fine.” Lillian shrugged, “He was getting annoying anyway.”
Getting? Eris thought as the other Dark Elf unlocked the cage and the Kuriboh glomped Yugi. “Oh, by the way.” Eris said as the group prepared to leave again, “There’s a short cut coming up. A bunch of burrowing Duel Monsters have made a short cut from near here to the city.”
“Why are you helping us?” Yue looked suspicious.
“Because the further you are from here when Medan Resummons the better.”
“Thank you.” Yugi nodded to the pair, “Which way is it?”
Eris pointed.
The group left.
While it had only taken Yue and Elios an hour or so to reach Nuri’s house, they had managed to miss the rock that was the keystone to the spells protecting the village from attack and as such had wandered around for a good couple of hours trying to find it before giving it up as a lost cause (at least for now) and started towards the palace and home.
It wasn’t exactly an easy trip. While the forest they were travelling through was beautiful, it was swarming with Insect, Beast and Beast-Warrior monsters and, though the presence of Yue and Elios kept away all bar the strongest of the beasts, Yugi and Harry were under no impression that they’d be as safe if they’d tried this trip on their own.
However…
`Is it me?` Harry asked as the pair of them followed Yue and Elios through the forest, watching the antics of the two Spellcasters with amusement, `Or does this seem really familiar?`
Yugi chuckled, wincing slightly as he did so. Harry had a point, it did seem really familiar. If Yugi had to liken their behaviour to anything, it would, he mused as he watched the pair, who had started out acting mature and overprotective and just degenerated when it had become obvious that they were lost, be like that of Joey and Tristan whenever they got together. “Very.” The pair of magicians waved at them to catch up, “Come on, before they leave us behind.”
The pair scrambled after the pair of Spellcasters, who waited for them to catch up before continuing through the trees, clearing any danger and bickering the whole time about whose fault it was they were lost.
`A galleon says they start fighting inside ten minutes.` Harry stated, noting that Yue had started shoving his brother.
“I don’t take sucker beats.” Yugi commented, or he would have done if he hadn’t been interrupted by someone singing over the mind link.
Eighty nine bottles of juice on the wall, eighty nine bottles of juice…
Yugi froze. “Boh?!” He croaked out, looking around and not spotting the Kuriboh.
You take one down, pass it around, eighty eight bottles of juice on the wall. Eighty eight bottles of juice on the wall, eighty eight bottles of juice…
“Boh?” Yugi’s question over the link startled the Kuriboh out of his singing.
Yugi? Boh sounded shocked. Then delight rushed over the link. You’re here! How’re you here? Mahado said he couldn’t bring you! I wanted to show you my world but… Do you know how to beat Dark Elves?
“Yugi?” Yue asked, concerned, having heard Yugi’s question but, after looking around, hadn’t seen anyone.
“Boh.” Harry answered for the heir, who was distracted by happy hyper Kuriboh, “Yugi’s partner monster. He mentioned something about Dark Elves.”
“What do you mean Dark Elves?” Yugi asked, giving the concerned magicians a brief smile, “Boh, where are you? Are you alright?”
I’m so bored. Boh replied, frustration seeping over the link, I’ve been stuck here for weeks and this cage is tiny and they keep stealing some of my fur and…
“Whoa, slow down.” It wasn’t the first time Yugi had had to ask his partner monster to do just that, “Who’s got you?”
A pair of Dark Elves. Boh replied, They’re boring. Also they didn’t like my singing.
Considering that Boh had, apparently been there weeks and he’d only just hit eighty eight bottles, Yugi was surprised his partner monster hadn’t been forced to Resummon yet. “Can you sense me?”
Uh huh.
“Direct us to you and we’ll get you out.”
We? Yami and the others are here too? Boh asked, sounding happy about that.
"Harry’s with me and Yami and the others are around somewhere.” Yugi replied, “Yue and Elios, the Sunset and Sunrise Magicians are with me too.”
Cool! The mental equivalent of a grin was sent his way, This way! This way!
“Yue, Elios.” Yugi turned to the pair, who looked at each other, smiled slightly and rolled their eyes and then turned back to Yugi.
“We’re helping Boh out?” Elios asked.
“How?”
“We’ve been in your deck how long?” Yue pointed out.
“We know how you think.” Elios agreed.
“Which way?”
Yugi pointed and the two magicians chuckled and headed in that direction, ushering the two humans in front of them.
With Boh giving directions it didn’t take them long to find the place. It was a small shack in the middle of nowhere that looked like it had seen better days. A small cage that just about fit a Kuriboh in was easy to spot from the bushes, hanging from a pole in the ‘yard’.
“I can’t see either of the Dark Elves.” Harry murmured, starting to get up.
“Stay down.” Elios hissed, grabbing Harry’s arm and pulling him down. “Unless you want to get caught.” As he whispered one of the Dark Elves walked around the corner, glancing in Boh’s direction as she did so before adjusting something and sitting outside with a book, pausing every so often to stir her cauldron.
“Stay here. We’ll get Boh.” Yue nodded, standing up.
The Dark Elf looked up at the noise, startled, having been relishing the silence for a change.
“Yue... you don’t normally head this way.” She said, getting to her feet quickly. She knew the high level Dark Spellcaster, having had many discussions with the Sunset Magician on the pros and cons of certain types of magic and surprised to see him here. “Is Elios around?”
“Of course, Eris.” The Sunrise Magician nodded, standing up casually. “Who else would keep an eye on my idiot brother?”
Eris smiled. Not a pleasant smile, but a smile none the less. It hadn’t helped that she and her companion had left the village the two Magicians guarded on a less then friendly basis, “And what do I owe this honour? I mean it’s not every day you two come and visit.” She got to her feet, “And it’s a shame, because it gets so lonely, just the pair of us...”
“You chose to leave the village.” Elios pointed out.
“And your staying away is more a matter of you being bitchy rather than any exile we’ve imposed.” Yue added, earning himself a semi-amused look from his brother. “But that’s not why we’re here. You have a friend of ours.”
“Me?” Eris looked genuinely surprised. “I hold no one...” She trailed off, looked at the Kuriboh in the cage, looked back to the two in front of her, then burst out laughing. “Oh you’ve got to be kidding me? You’re friends with that fluffball? It’s a Kuriboh!”
Hey! Boh protested.
“Our Duellist is concerned for his safety.” Yue shrugged, having little patience for the fuzzball himself, but knowing that some of the weaker monsters in the village enjoyed when he came by with news and that his Duellist was concerned about him. “I’m afraid you’ll have to find another Kuriboh.”
Eris’s eyes flickered over Elios’s shoulder to where the second Dark Elf was sneaking up on something in the bushes, “Do you have any idea how hard it was to catch this one?” She protested, wondering what her companion had seen hiding there, “Or did you forget that Kuribohs explode on contact with an enemy?”
“I, for one,” The second Dark Elf stated as a pair of monsters scrambled out of the bush, away from her, the, seemingly, uninjured one pulling the injured one behind him, “Have no great urge to get blown up again for a good while.”
“Afternoon Lilian.” Eris said quite calmly, “Anyone else hiding there?” She asked the two Magicians before pausing and considering the two monsters who’d just appeared carefully.
Then she burst into laughter.
“And I thought we were trouble.” She gasped as Lillian moved to her side, having come to the same conclusion as her companion and finding it almost as amusing. “You’re not allowed to bring humans here!” She gasped in between fits of laughter, “It’s the rules! You’re going to be in more trouble than we ever were!”
“We didn’t bring them here.” Yue grouched, “Medan did.”
Eris’s laughter died down and Lillian looked less amused. “Medan? He’s around?” It wasn’t so much that they were really afraid of the Dark Magician who had been causing so much trouble for the Lord of the Dark Kingdom, more that they had no interest in hanging around if there was trouble afoot, as they valued their hides more than anyone else’s and Resummoning, while painless, would take time out of their busy schedule.
“No.” Harry said, the memory flashing over the link for Yugi to see, his tone subdued, “Yugi defeated him. He’s Resummoning.”
Yue and Elios, who had been told that the two were escaping from Medan’s clutches but hadn’t known this before, grinned at Yugi, who just looked bashful, not actually remembering his brief stint as a Duel Monster very well,
“He’s gonna be pissed when he gets back,” Lillian commented, examining her nails, as if bored, pretending not to be as amused as she was by this news.
“Give us Boh and we’ll go on our way.” Yue said, “And we’ll be long gone by the time he gets back.”
Eris and Lillian considered each other. They didn’t really want to hand over the Kuriboh, he was a resource that they didn’t get their hands on very often, but at the same time the constant singing was driving them crazy and if they got into a fight with Yue and Elios they wouldn’t win.
“Fine.” Lillian shrugged, “He was getting annoying anyway.”
Getting? Eris thought as the other Dark Elf unlocked the cage and the Kuriboh glomped Yugi. “Oh, by the way.” Eris said as the group prepared to leave again, “There’s a short cut coming up. A bunch of burrowing Duel Monsters have made a short cut from near here to the city.”
“Why are you helping us?” Yue looked suspicious.
“Because the further you are from here when Medan Resummons the better.”
“Thank you.” Yugi nodded to the pair, “Which way is it?”
Eris pointed.
The group left.