//…..//- Bakura’s thoughts
ALL CAPS=ANZU’S RAMBLINGS OR MARIK’S FRUSTRATION!!!
Circus Madness
Malik opened the door and screamed in terror as the visitor squealed in her own annoying, irritating, stinging, pathetic voice, “MAAAARRRIK! HEYA, CUTIE!!!!”
Yes, people, Anzu has returned. Anzu pinched Marik’s cheek tightly. “Quit it! Ow!”
“I wouldn’t get him angry,” Malik suggested as the girl wrapped her slimy tentacles around the defenseless boy. “People get sent to the Shadow Realm for that.”
“That place was icky-wicky-sicky!”
“That was our home,” Marik pushed himself away from the clueless woman. “At least it was until you pumped in your music!”
Anzu pouted sticking her lip out at him and fluttering her eyes in a brain-dead kind of way. “ I thought you would like barney’s friendship song, Marik.”
“Not in the Shadow Realm!!!!” Marik tried to lunge for the girl, but Malik held his shoulders back.
“Why are you here?”
“I’m going to the circus!”
//Those poor animals. Anzu will scare them to death.//
“I want to see the silly clowns ….Wait!” The group held their breath for what was to come next. The group put on their coats as Anzu began another tireless, boring rendition on how friendship is like funny clowns with funny faces, warm smiles…you get the idea. Bakura was more focused on Ryou rather than Anzu’s insane, pointless ramblings. Marik screamed as in agony as Malik put a hand on his shoulder. “STOP IT WITH THE FRIENDSHIP RAMBLINGS!!! NO ONE CARES ANYMORE!!! STUPID @#$%^&*&^%$!!!!!!!!” The group stopped and looked at Marik’s face all red with fury.
Anzu, of course, didn’t hear a word he said and opened up her arms. “Somebody needs a hug!!!” Anzu gave Marik a bone-crushing hug as Malik struggled to free him. When he was finally released from her claws, he ran in circles, “I’VE BEEN POISONED! I’M TAINTED! GET SOME DISINFECTANT! GET SOME IODINE!” The group kept walking as Marik comforted his other half, traumatized by the hug of the brain-dead girl.
Bakura and Yami stopped at the entrance. Some people were dressed in scary, multicolored clothing surrounded by people laughing at them. Ryou was awake as Bakura shifted him so he sat on Bakura’s hipbone. Anzu burst in front of them.
“Let’s go see the CUUUTE aminals!” (No that is not a typo, people!) Anzu gave herself a big hug. “Friendship is like a cute, cuddly..”
The group just walked away as she followed them. “Why does she have to follow us?”
“This way she doesn’t get into trouble.” The three Yamis stopped and smiled at each other in a sneaky way. “We can torture her more.” They walked to the more vicious animals so Anzu could give a long winded randition of how cute they were. A clown offered Ryou a red balloon and he giggled. Bakura tied it around Ryou’s wrist loosely so it wouldn’t float away.”
They reached the lion’s cage where it growled at her.
“HELLO, MISTER LION! HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY KITTY!!!”
Anzu tried to get close to the cage, but Yugi tried to keep her away.
“That’s dangerous, you moron!”
“I wanna pet the pretty kitty!!!”
“Pretty kitty will take your arm off if you hug him,” Yami sneered at her, his patience wearing thin.
“That’s not friendly! Bad, Mister Kitty!” The lion in the cage went berserk and began clawing at the cage. Bakura backed away from it hoping the girl didn’t infuriate it to the point of escape.
“Let’s go, Anzu, before he breaks out.”
“I LOVE YOU, MISTER KITTY!!!!!” Anzu screamed as Yami pulled her away.
Marik bought a bag of popcorn and shared it with Malik. Yami bought peanuts for himself and Yugi. Anzu bought cotton candy figuring she needed to calm down from her sugar high, even though, as a dolt, she doesn’t know cotton candy is pure sugar). Marik shoved a handful of popcorn into his mouth as Anzu turned to him. “Here! Try this cotton candy!! It’s sugary sweet like you, my wittle Marik!!!” Anzu shoved a wad of cotton candy in his mouth. Marik coughed and gripped onto Malik’s collar desperately.
“He’s choking! Anyone know the heimlech?”
Bakura gave Ryou to Yami and gave Marik the Heimlech maneuver. This move had come in handy more than once with Ryou. Bakura dislodged the offending kernel and breathed in quickly.
“You almost killed Marik, you cold, wicked, cruel, sadistic-.”
Yami coughed and pointed to the children watching.
“Witch!”
Anzu smiled blankly. “Malik needs a hug!” Anzu wrapped her arms around his neck and Bakura ripped Malik from her clasp. Before he could yell at her, she yelled, “OHHH!! CROCO-DILLIES!!!” Anzu ran to the crocodiles who immediately submerged themselves. “Come and play, croco-dilles! Who’s cute?”
They jumped out of the water snapping their jaws, saliva pouring out of their mouths, their eyes red with fury, growling, snarling, and completely ready to kill. “THEY ARE SOO CUTE!! CROCO-DILLIES ARE LIKE FRIENDSHIP!!”
“Nice wildlife they have here,” Marik laughed.
“How?” Bakura asked holding a frightened Ryou close to his body.
Anzu:…….
“Well?”
“YEAH FRIENDSHIP!!!! I wonder if they will be friends with me!”
“I wouldn’t try, Anzu,” Yugi said as the Yamis began to chuckle.
Bakura turned to see an elephant parade. //That looks safer.// “Look, guys! Let’s go!”
Yami pulled Anzu to the parade as she was trying to climb the fence to the crocodile pond like an idiot. Ryou watched wide-eyed at the large elephants clapping happily. Anzu ignored the police and crowds and ran into the parade trying to hug the elephants and standing in their way.
“I LOVE LITTLE ELEPH-.”
* stomp *
“-PHANTS!”
* stomp *
“ THEY’RE LIKE-.”
*stomp *
“FRIENDSHIP!”
* stomp *
Bakura didn’t think a normal person could be stepped on by three elephants and live to tell the tale. Anzu was not human.” The children of the crowd stood aghast at the girl who could take being walked on my elephants and live. Ryou watched as Anzu was stepped on shock written on his face. He buried his face into Bakura’s shoulder.
Bakura took Ryou into the tent to get Ryou warmed up and to get him away from the ridiculous antics of Anzu. The others followed him.
Yami Yugi loved the clowns and thought they were funny while Malik, Marik, and Yugi looked bored to eternity. Bakura brought the balloon down from Ryou’s wrist as the baby touched it.
Anzu suddenly appeared before them. She looked unharmed. Marik cried on Malik’s shoulder. Malik looked at the highwire rope. “Anzu, go talk to the ringmaster. Ask him if you can climb the highwire.”
“I can’t fly!”
“You can, Anzu. Just to the whole Peter Pan thing and think of your happiest memory.”
“I just had a great time playing with the elephants!”
//Oh dear Ra in heaven!// Bakura thought.
“I can fly if I think of my happiest memory?!”
Malik started laughing. “I’m going to do this!” Anzu left.
Bakura turned to Malik. “Now why did you have to do that?”
“Just watch.”
Anzu went to the top of the highwire and remembered her “fun” time with the elephants and getting beaten up by their enormous feet. “I can do this! My friendship will carry me through!! AHHHHHHHH!” Anzu dropped off the top and fell like a rock. She returned to Malik. “It didn’t work.”
“Try it again. Think reeallllly hard this time.”
After getting Anzu to try to fly forty times, Bakura was bored. The group told Anzu to keep trying even if they weren’t there. Bakura walked past a game booth when Ryou squealed and pointed behind him. Bakura turned and saw a water shooting game. One of the prizes was a small stuffed toy duck. “You want that, hikari?” Ryou smiled at him and hugged him. “Hey, Pharoah! Come here!”
Bakura showed Yami the game and they asked the carnie how to play. It was $2.00 a game. “You have to hit the bullseye in the middle with the water spray and it fills the balloon up. The first one to burst it wins.”
“Why do we have to do this?”
“Ryou wants that duck toy.”
They paid their money and Bakura won. The carnie gave Bakura the little yellow duck. Ryou hugged it and laid his head on Bakura’s shoulder. “I have to get him home. I don’t want him to get worse.”
“I want to ride the rides, Yami!” Yugi said tugging on Yami’s jacket.
“Let’s go hit the bumper cars!” Malik said tugging on Marik’s arm.
Malik and Marik disappeared.
“Can I have the key to the Game Shop. Yugi? I’ll slip the key under the door before I leave.”
“Where are you going, Bakura?”
“I want to get him out of this cold and I have to get his clothes and formula back to Ryou’s house. How long will you be here?”
“It’s not everyday you have free admission to the circus! Here you go, Bakura. I have a spare set, so don’t worry. Just lock the door when you’re done.”
Bakura watched the group dissipate. Bakura wrapped Ryou tighter in his blanket as the chibi held his toy duck tightly.
Ryou: Anzu is so annoying here!
Bakura: Yep, she is.
Ryou: You got me a ducky!
Bakura:…Don’t you start acting like her!
Ryou: I won’t.
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