Please read this! The story is written for fun - I do not intend to offend anyone. If it happens, I’m really sorry, I never meant that to happen.

 I still haven’t watched V-force, so if you want me to rant about it, write the pro’s and con’s in your review, ‘k?

 I’m still using the original-version names.

Disclaimer:  Nope, I don’t own Beyblade. Takao Aoki does. Yu-Gi-Oh characters, who will have a guest appearance aren't mine as well. Frauke/The Prostitute is.

 

The Grumbling Room: Chapter 26

 

- Kai? - Takao gave his captain one of his famous confused looks. - You didn't like Johnny?

- No. - came a court reply.

- And you know, you get paired up with him?

- Bah! For some people quarreling with someone equals making a good pair.

- What bright prospects for the future. - sniggered Yuri. - 'Dear where is my soup? Answer you friggin' nitwit!'

- Some marriages look like that, cap. - said Boris.

- I know that. - the redhead growled. - Can't I poke fun of anything?

- Back to good ol' 'I claim the first!..' how about me and Max? - huffed Ivan. - I'm evil, he's good - we wouldn't get along.

- Sounds like great material. - said Kai his voice dripping with sarcasm.

- They could pair you up with Steve, Kai. - chuckled Takao.

- And the basketball player would want to skin me alive. Sure, I'm suicidal!

- How about that Emily? - asked Rei. - You did get paired up with her awfully often a while ago.

- I'll happily leave that annoyance to Max. She seemed to like *him* more. - answered the red-eyed Japanese angrily.

- She didn't seem to like you as well. - observed Takao.

- No wonder. - mumbled Yuri. – Say, don’t they pair you up with that new girl from V-force? Hiromi in Japanese and Hillary in American version, was it?

- Only because I helped her a few times. – the Japanese captain mumbled. – Big deal. So why don’t they pair up Obi-Wan Kenobi with Millennium Falcon? He saved the space ship too!

 Takao pressed his hand to the other boy’s head.

- He actually made a joke! He doesn’t have a fever!

- Kinomiya… - growled Kai.

- You know, to many people think cannon always means a weapon. - sighed Kiki. - They rewrite whole episodes just to insert their great and all-mighty OC's! And my poor team gets kicked.

- Or my. - added Rei.

- Or my. - chimed up Ivan.

- Can't they invent an OC, who doesn't beyblade for once?! - wailed Takao.

- Some do, but they drown in the flood of Blader-Chicz, Beybabes and whatnot. - remarked Boris dryly.

- And then there are those, who make me, Kai-sunshine and Cotton-Muffin too sadistic... - added Yuri. - Well, maybe in Boris' case is kind of excusable, I mean, he did try to kill people with his beyblade. But *me*? How can anyone believe that such a beautiful creature like me could really be evil?

- I don't know about evil, but you sure do sound vain. - snorted Kiki.

- So what? - the redhead shrugged. - I have every reason to be vain. It's better than false modesty, anyway.

- Is it me, or do the ideas get repetitive? - wondered the black-haired Chinese. - Every time somebody has on original and GOOD idea, people start copying him. Just look at all those 'Kai/Rei/Yuri/Insert-Name hates Insert-Name and vice versa. Will sparks fly?'

- They're all over the fanfiction... - muttered Boris.

- Bo~ring! - yawned Kiki in a cat-like way, showing that he also did have fangs. - And what's with all those stories where some team, mostly the Bladebreakers, get forced to run around in drag? It's quite funny when *they* do that, but what if my manliness gets damaged?

- At least you won't look like a girl, when dressed up as one. - mumbled Yuri. - I like my G Revolution design more... Even though I look like psycho. (A/N: Don't listen to him. He doesn't know what he's talking about.)

- It's embarrassing. - stated Kai firmly. - We're manly man and manly men don’t get dressed up as girls!

- Right you are. - nodded Takao.

- It's not going to help, anyway. - muttered Boris.

- You're so damn pessimistic, Cotton-Muffin! - snorted his captain. - If you'll be so negative all the time, you'll never achieve anything!

- Somebody tell him not to read that psychology-crap. - growled the lavender-haired teen. - Better explain me how come people make us live without any legal guardian? We're too young for crap's sake!

- They'd like to live without any adult looking after them? - suggested Rei.

- Wonder where would they get money from? - mused Kiki.

- Who cares! - snorted Boris. - It's not as if it would happen, until they're adult.

- Weren't Mao and Rai siblings? - mused Takao.

- Well, yes - at least in the manga. - answered Kiki. - Most people consider them to be at least cousins. I mean, they seem to have that sort of a relationship...

- So wouldn't it be incest to pair them? - inquired the blue-haired Japanese.

- If we take it so -yes. - Kai nodded. - It's to theoretic for my taste, though.

- Because it doesn't concern you, Burned-Chicken-Boy. - snorted Yuri.

- Dranzer is no chicken! - growled the dual-hair-coloured teen. - And he's definitely not burned.

- Roasted? - suggested Kiki helpfully.

- In flames? - added Ivan. The captain of the Bladebreaakers groaned and covered his eyes with his hand.

- Why don't we get back to pairings? - he pleaded. - Like... er... Gao and Emily?

- There were such? - Boris for once seemed surprised.

- Who cares? - the other tall Russian shrugged. - If it's none now, there'll be one soon. It's too silly to be left alone.

- I shall repeat it once more: they have never talked to each other. - added Rei. - They-Have-Never-Ever-Met-Before.

- Why do they make me nicer than I actually am? - wondered Kai. Suddenly some voices could be heard outside. They grew louder and louder until somebody yelled furiously: "Why the hell do they make me fuck my BROTHER?!". For a while nobody spoke and only walking could be heard. Then somebody, who most likely was in front of the door said: "We can stop by here before we go to our room." There were three affirmatives, one of them quite rude and the first voice barked something incoherent. Finally somebody opened the door - it was a youth of sixteen with blond hair and brown eyes. He appeared to be quite annoyed and was glaring at a taller male with brown hair and icy blue eyes. This young man had a sort of a dangerous and fierce aura, even though his face was blank. Then there were two women - one was a blond in an outfit, which didn't leave too much to the beholders imagination. However, something in her expression told you not to ever underestimate her. The last one was a dark-skinned blue-eyed black-haired lady dressed in clothes which were a successful mix of ancient Egyptian, Muslim and modern elements. You could also tell she liked gold and jewelry.

- You could be civil to Katsuya for once, Kaiba. - the blonde stated with a dangerous edge in her voice.

- And since when are you two one first name basis? - Kaiba replied.

- That is none of your business.

- Please, stop quarreling. - the black-haired woman spoke up, her voice calm and yet commanding. - I believe, we have some *important* matters to discuss.

 The three others nodded and proceeded to sit down in various places.

- Who are you? - Takao asked. The blond guy flashed him a friendly grin.

- I'm Jounouchi Katsuya. - he said. - The grouch over there is Kaiba Seto. The charming lady here - he pointed at the blond girl. - is Kujaku Mai and this is Ishtar Isis.

- Isis Ishtar, I'm Egyptian and my surname goes second.

- I thought, we wanted to sat, why *we* don't want to have our show crossed-over with this... pathetic childish... mpf! - the tall CEO had his mouth clamped by Isis.

- No need to be rude because of that, Seto.

- And he comments about *us* being on first name basis... - sighed Mai. - A-h-h, we can discuss that when we get to our grumbling room. On to business lads!

- We're too old to actually have much in common with them? - started Jounouchi. - I mean we're all at least sixteen.

- What about Kaiba's brother and your sister? - the violet-eyed Harpy duelist asked.

- Mokuba wouldn't play with such ridiculous toys.

- Shizuka is not fond of competitive games.

- Beyblades aren't toys! - Kai snapped angrily. The brown-haired Kaiba eyed him, as if looking at a small and stupid child.

- No, of course not. - the blue-eyed youth answered sarcastically. - They're made of plastic, they're colourful enough to damage your eye-sight...

- As if staring at a computer wouldn't. - mumbled Jounouchi.

- I'm not finished yet, mutt.

- DON'T CALL ME THAT!!!

- Am I supposed to insult you in Japanese? I wasn't that polite, like in the dubbed version...

- Were you ever polite?

- Gentlemen? - Isis chimed up. - Stop quarreling. I thiink, we were discussing why we are to old for a cross-over with Beyblade?

- That lame plot to take over the world, for example. - said Mai.

- Not that your psycho with blond hair had a better plan. - snorted Yuri.

- My brother is not a 'psycho'. - the Egyptian answered in a dangerously calm voice.

- Well, at least Pegasus wasn't such a flat bad-guy like your two. - sniggered Jounouchi.

- We figured out that much. - answered Boris promptly.

- How to combine the plots of our shows so it would make sense and we would interact? - wondered Isis. - I don't see a way.

- I don't see a why either. - stated three other voices. Immediately after that Jounouchi and Kaiba glared at each other. The blonde managed to wink to Mai, even though it seemed an impossible thing to do, while scowling at someone, as if you wanted to kill him on the spot.

- I guess, we should get going to our grumbling room. - suggested the blond duelist. - Before those two decide to kill each other or start an insult match and soil the poor kids' innocent minds.

- Innocent minds? - Rei raised his eyebrow, giving Boris a doubtful look. Meanwhile the four Yu-Gi-Oh! cast members walked out and soon their voices died off.

 

 The Big Bad Duo was still sitting Japanese fashion. Souichiro was drinking his God-knows-which tea and Balkov was starting to wonder, if there wasn't something seriously wrong with his superior. Didn't this guy have to pee?

 Suddenly, a white-haired man in red suit came in. He was quite handsome, although half of his face was obscured by his hair. He clapped his hands and one of the Realm's staff brought him a chair. The Russian scientist felt like a total moron after that.

- Hullo gentleman. - the man said politely. - I hope you don't mind my intrusion. I am Pegasus Jr. Crawford. Pleased to meet you.

- The pleasure is all mine. - growled the old Japanese. - Hiwatari Suichiro. And this is Boris Balkov.

- Mind if I ask, why don't you gentleman use chairs?

- Because it's against tradition.

- Unfortunately, being an intelligent and interesting villain seems to be against tradition as well. - sighed the American. The two Beyblade bad guys exchanged looks, one question written all over their faces: 'Is he poking fun of us or what?'. The silver-haired man raised one eyebrow (or maybe two, but you couldn't say, his hair still covered half of his face) and took out a comic book.

- 'Funny Bunny' - Boris Balkov read aloud and blinked. - An adult reading a comic book for children? What kind of a villain are you?!

- A complex one. - the creator of Duel Monsters answered modestly, not even looking up.

- You didn't even have a brilliant plan to take over the world! - snapped Kai's grandfather.

- Now, now. Your plan wasn't brilliant... And I'm quite sure those children would panic if I appeared. - Pegasus turned a page and grinned. - Now, this is funny! - he then looked at the watch. - My, my itt has gotten so late? I'm sorry, but I simply have to go. Good bye, gentlemen.

 The Big Bad Duo looked at each other with slightly crazed expressions. This was weird.

 

- Hello there! - Frauke cheerfully waved her hand. - Today I'm going to talk about historical stories or more exactly medieval stories. Writing any story based on times other than your own requires quite the knowledge on them. It might be quite annoying to find that a promising story annoys to no end just because the author forget to do proper research. So here are some things you should remember about:

1. The great witch hunts started in Renaissance not in Middle Ages.

2. People in Middle Ages were dirty. All of them - even the kings, knights and other nobles. Having fleas or lice was nothing out of ordinary.

3. Children in Middle Ages had to help their parents... Unless they were noble-born, that is.

4. Church was very, VERY powerful.

5. People couldn't read, unless they were scribes or monks.

6. Ancient stuff was forbidden, because pagans created it. Full-stop.

If you want to find out more about this epoch, I suggest reading a book about it. – she looked at the gameboy on the table, grinned like a maniac and turned it on. Soon she was too busy playing to even notice what was happening.

 

A/N

 The members of the Yu-Gi-Oh! cast, who appear in this chapter are:

Joey Wheeler = Jounouchi Katsuya (and Katsuya is his name!)

Mai Valentine = Kujaku Mai

Ishizu = Isis Ishtar

Kaiba Seto

Maximillion Pegasus = Pegasus Jr. Crawford

I recently bought myself the ‘Duelist of Roses’ game and decided I’m going to celebrate it… Plus my brother wanted me to do it. If you want I could make some people from other animes visit, provided I watched the show or read the manga. How about Gundam Wing for now?

 

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