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Previously
It should be mentioned that the other yamis and hikaris forgot to warn the Charmed Ones about the kind of monsters Kaiba and Jou had in their decks.
Oh boy, was it going to be a fun day tomorrow.
Chapter Thirteen: Here There Be Dragons
Piper sighed to herself. She missed her son. Oh, sure, she promised her father that he'd get to spend time with his grandson, but really, was it necessary for him to take Wyatt away for a whole month. She wanted her baby boy and she wanted him now, damn it!
She missed her husband, too. But not as much as her baby boy. Well, maybe she did. Damn it, she wanted her men back! Oh, sure, she had a bunch of bunch of pretty underage boys that any sane girl would want to stalk and molest living under her roof, but, firstly, they were all taken and secondly, they were all gay. Oh, and she was married so her husband would probably be less than pleased. And she was over eighteen while the boys were still underage so any relationship with them would be illegal (not to mention nonconsensual so it could be regarded as rape). Piper sighed again.
She wanted her baby and husband. But mostly her baby. She sadly made her way downstairs to make breakfast. Cooking always raised her spirits. Whenever she felt depressed or frustrated she'd go into a cooking frenzy. She hoped everyone was hungry because there was going to be plenty of food. The food from the previous day had completely disappeared thanks to the horde of teenage boys that had taken residence in the manor. She sniffled sadly as she shuffled around in the kitchen. A sappy smile appeared on her lips.
She could remember that one time where cute little Wyatt pulled a live dragon out of the television. Ah, good times, good times. She went to the sink to rinse some dishes. A sound made her look up, through the small window above the sink, and scream.
"Oh, my god!"
A large blue eye peered in, sleepily, looking quite upset of having some screechy human yelling at it for no reason. It opened its large mouth, filled with unnervingly sharp teeth, and roared in response.
Seto awoke that morning to the sound of his Blue-Eyes White Dragon. The recognizable roar was followed by the unmistakable voice of an angry Piper.
"Why the hell is there a dragon outside my window?" she screeched.
It went without saying that the occupants of the house all had an effective wake-up call. Phoebe and Paige were the first ones to arrive at Piper's side. Their career as accomplished witches taught them that three witches were better than one, Especially if there happened to be a demon(s), whose greatest desire was to see them dead, present. Seto was, of course, close behind, considering that the Blue-Eyes was his baby (though, when questioned, he'd deny it vehemently). Jou stumbled in shortly afterwards, still half asleep. In no time at all, the entire gang was crowded in the kitchen, quite a feat taken into account the rather small size of the kitchen and the large amount of people currently living in the manor.
"Wha's goin' on?" Jou mumbled sleepily. Piper turned and glared fiercely at poor Jou whose only crime was to be the first to speak. Phoebe and Paige learned to let Piper decide when to provide them details instead of asking for them because of Piper's short fuse.
"I don't know," she hissed, "What do you think is going on?"
A growl was heard from outside. The large, glinting blue eye was replaced by an equally large, glowing red eye. Jou's face lit up with surprise as his drowsiness was forgotten.
"Hey, it's my Red-Eyes!" Jou exclaimed happily. He turned to Seto and tugged on his sleeve. "Hey, hey! Our dragons! They're here, isn't that awesome?" Seto couldn't seem to look Jou in the face. His childish enthusiasm made Seto feel all warm and tingly, and he was positive that if he looked at Jou's face for too long he'd start to blush (and Seto Kaiba simply did not blush; he had some dignity after all). Jou didn't notice this problem because he promptly took Seto by the hand, dragging him outside.
The Blue-Eyes looked extremely smug. He was curled around a certain Red-Eyes Black Dragon who was snuggled contently into him. Apparently they had both been napping peacefully before Piper started screaming. Jou smiled exuberantly, looking up at Seto.
"Look, Seto. They're just like us," he said. His smile wavered unsurely. "Right? We're together for real now, right?" Seto mentally cursed. That warm tingly feeling came back with a vengeance. Abruptly turning away, he muttered an "obviously," walking away stiffly. Jou felt kind of put out before he noticed the red tinge that had appeared across Seto's face. No one else had ever been able to make Seto blush before. Jou considered that an accomplishment.
Curious as he was, Jou made no hesitation to approach the two dragons. The Blue-Eyes raised his head to watch Jou warily. The Blue-Eyes growled lowly, curling himself around the Red-Eyes protectively. The Red-Eyes rumbled soothingly, nuzzling his companion. Jou beamed. Red-Eyes was the best! He ran up to his dragon and petted him. The Blue-Eyes reaction was instantaneous. It roared snarled possessively and lashed its whip-like tail at Jou. Jou let out a cry of surprised and hurled himself to the ground. When no hit landed on him, he looked up. His Red-Eyes roared angrily, its own tail blocking the Blue-Eyes' attack. The two dragons were glaring at each other. In the blink of an eye, the two dragons took flight.
"Oh, crap," Jou said in shock.
Each dragon blasted at each other a couple of times before disappearing in a flash. Jou felt his stomach drop. Two flimsy pieces of cardboard flittered downwards as they were swept away by the strong breeze. His ultra-cool REBD card was blown away. Crap. Seto's super-rare BEWD card was also blown away. Double-crap. It was Jou's fault the dragons had taken flight in the first place. Shit.
Jou nervously walked into the manor where there was mass chaos as always. Everyone was holding different conversations all at once. The sisters squabbling good-naturedly over something while Malik and Mariku stood farther away planning some mischief or other. Bakura looked to be trying to convince Ryou to join him in the bedroom. Yami and Yugi were playing some card game with Seto watching. Seto looked up when Jou entered the room. He scowled.
"What's wrong?" Seto asked immediately. Damn it, thought Jou, wincing.
"Well, I guess the dragons and us are a lot alike," Jou laughing anxiously, explaining what had happened. Seto's eyes narrowed into slits.
"You did what to my Blue-Eyes?" he hissed.
"Technically, I didn't--"
"You STUPID MUTT!" Seto screeched. He began to hyperventilate. His shout had managed to grab everyone's attention. Phoebe clapped Seto cheerfully on the shoulder. Seto glared but Pheobe's grin just widened.
"You're gonna have to do better than that, buddy. I've got entire the entire Underworld after my and my sisters' heads. Let's face it, your glares aren't nearly as scary as a demon's. Besides, we'll get your card back. I just need to scry for it, easy as that," Phoebe said.
"Once we locate them, I'll go pick them up," Paige offered helpfully.
"After that, we'll send you all home," Piper said.
Phoebe dashed upstairs and scried for the cards. Once she found them, Paige orbed away to snag them just before they flew into the ocean. How they managed to get blown so far away, she didn't know but Paige thought it best not to tell Seto and Jou how close their precious dragon cards were to getting destroyed by seaweed-filled saltwater. Seto had quickly snatched his card from her as soon as she orbed back, so did Jou but at least he thanked her profusely for it.
Paige and her sisters had brought the Book of Shadows downstairs since all the boys were assembled there and it was roomier. The three witches quickly thumbed through the Book and found the Yin Yang page. The boys crowded around the Book to see the spell that dragged them into the Charmed universe.
"That's it?" Bakura complained. "There's nothing but words there. No pictures, no color, no fancy script…what a rip off."
"Yeah! How come all the other demons get cooler entries than we do?" Malik whined. "No fair!"
"Get over it," Yami said coolly, "We got mentioned, you should be appreciative of that."
"Thank you, Yami," Piper said.
"But don't worry, we always add stuff to the Book. That's how it grows," Phoebe added.
"Yeah, and now that we've met you all and gotten to know you better, we'll be able to jazz up the page," Paige said, eyes glistening with unshed tears. Phoebe sniffled. Two seconds later, the two sisters began bawling their eyes out.
"We're going to miss you all so much," Phoebe wailed, clinging to little Yugi, who looked very uncomfortable.
"The manor's going to feel all empty without you guys around," Paige said tearfully, hugging Malik for all his worth. Malik was crying and hugging back too. Between his sobs a "you always were my favorite!" could be heard. Even Piper sniffled a bit, although she was more controlled than her two sisters. She walked up to Ryou and pulled him into a hug.
"You should look into potion-making, Ryou. I think you'll have a knack for it," Piper said, as she let go. Ryou smiled gratefully. Paige and Phoebe made sure to snatch a hug from each of the yamis, though each yami displayed a rather high level of horror and revulsion after getting "mauled" as they called it.
"So how do you send us back?" Yami asked once he sensed the tear-fest begin to subside. Piper went to the book. A small note on the bottom of the Yin Yang. It read "To return, refer to page 73." She did so and found the spell they used to return from the past after meeting themselves as children. Piper felt like smacking herself.
"Here we go. Paige, Phoebe! C'mon," Piper said.
"Okay, okay, hold up a sec!" Phoebe cried. She grabbed a piece of paper and quickly scribbled something down and gave it to Malik. "You have a knack for spell casting, so here's a spell for all of you guys to come back here if you ever need any help or anything like that, okay? But Malik, you should try coming up with spells of your own. It'll be fun."
Phoebe scurried over to where Piper and Paige were waiting. With a quick glance at each other, they started to chant.
"A time for everything
And to everything its place
Return what has been moved
Through Time and Space."
As the witches chanted, glimmering orbs of light began swarm around them, circling faster and faster before disappearing completely in one blinding flash. The boys were gone, but in their place were a few scattered cards. A slip of paper read "To the Charmed Ones. Thanks for all the help! Signed, the Yamis and Hikaris."
The sisters picked up the cards. There were three spell caster cards, each holding a picture of Yugi, Malik, and Yami, and their attack and defense points. Three special summons cards, each with a picture of Seto, Jou, and Mariku. The final two cards were monster/effect cards holding pictures of Ryou and Bakura.
"Talk about special edition cards," Paige laughed.
Leo later built a special frame to hold the eight cards which Piper quickly hung in a tucked away corner in the manor which is kept there to this day.
The eight of them landed in a heap of tangled limbs at the game shop, making a lot of noise as they tried to get themselves composed.
"Yugi! Keep it down, please!" Grandpa shouted. Yugi cried out gleefully, hugging his grandfather.
"Grandpa, I missed you!" Yugi said. His grandfather gave him an amused grin.
"I was only at the store for an hour!" he laughed, ruffling Yugi's hair. "But it's nice to know my grandson cares." He then went about the kitchen, putting away all the groceries. The befuddled expressions on the boys' faces went completely unnoticed.
"That's messed up," Jou said aloud. Yugi's grandfather looked away from the cupboard.
"What is?" he asked. Yami discretely slammed his foot onto Jou's foot, making him yelp.
"Oh, er, nothing, Grandfather," Yami replied, ushering everyone into the living room. Bakura grumbled.
"Whatever. Those witches must've done something weird with their magic stuffs. Ryou, we're going home. I've had enough of these losers to last a life time…or ten," Bakura huffed, grabbing Ryou's wrist and dragging him out the door.
"Er, ah, see you all later, then!" he managed to cry out before Bakura hauled him out of view. Malik suddenly squealed.
"I have to tell sister that we met the Charmed Ones! She'll be so jealous! Let's go, Mariku!"
"Yes, Malik-pretty!" Mariku replied cheerfully. Camera in hand, he and Malik left without a word of goodbye to the others. Seto scowled.
"No respect for their betters," Seto sniffed, obviously implying who he thought were their betters. Mainly him…and maybe Jou. "I have to check up on Mokuba and KaibaCorp. If it turns out I missed any important business, those witches are going to have a meet and greet with my lawyers. Pup, come along, you're moving in with me. I will not have my partner living in that dingy, rat infested hole-in-the-wall you call an apartment." He stalked out of Yugi's house.
"See you, Yuge, bye Yami," Jou said quickly, running after Seto. "Hey now! Don't go insultin' my home! And how the hell do you know what my place is like anyway? Who said I wanted to move in with you?" Jou's shouts quickly faded away.
Yami pecked Yugi on the cheek, smiling sheepishly. "I hate to say it, but Bakura's right. I've had enough of them to last a millennia at this point." Yugi pouted.
"That's not very nice. Besides, I'm going to miss the Halliwells. They did get us together after all." Yugi protested. Yami shrugged, flopping onto the couch, pulling Yugi along with him.
"Yeah, but I'm still glad all that mayhem is over and done with," Yami suddenly sat up with a frown. "I can't help but think I'm forgetting something though."
Yugi beamed. "I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, Yami."
Mariku cackled gleefully to himself as he labeled a disk with a black marker. Isis called him from downstairs. With a squeak, Mariku snapped the disk into a case and shoved it under his bed. In a hurry to get to avoid Isis' wrath, he didn't notice that the disk was still visible for anyone to see.
The disk read "Yugioh Gets Charmed (Behind the Scenes!)."
While Isis scolded him for something or other, Mariku mentally beamed. Malik-pretty would be so proud of him. Oh, the chaos they would create with all that blackmail!
The End!
Jaazi: Wow. I'm finally done with this. Y'know, this was the first fic I ever posted. This is a big thing for me. (tear)
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Jaazi: Thank you for your sympathy.
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