Trial By Nightmare

Trial by Nightmare

Disclaime don don’t own anything you recognize, but I DO own Trial by Nightmare;-)

warning: swearing, drug use and flaming Yugi's.

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“No bullshit now” Ryou warned Marik.
Marik shrugged his shoulders
“I guess” he smirked as Ryou knocked on the back door.
Duke opened the door and welcomed them both inside. He seemed a bit surprised that Marik was
there, but didn’t mention it.
“Follow me” Duke said as he lead them to a dimly lit room.
The aroma of incense tickled Ryou’s nose. He observed posters of scantily clad women and
various heavy metal bands tacked up to the walls. Duke’s bass was leaning up against an
amplifier. Nearby a very new looking drumset sat, illuminated by a blacklight.
“Either of you need a beer or something?” Duke asked.
“Yes, a beer please.” Ryou said politely.
“The same” Marik added as he took a seat on the couch and stretched his legs out infront of him.
Ryou took a seat behind the drumset and started looking it over. It looked as if was barely used,
even the skins looked in impeccable condition.
Duke returned moments later with 3 beers and sat down in a recliner opposite of the couch Marik
was on. He set the beers on the coffee table and cracked one open for himself.
“Yugi called and said he’d be a little late. His grandfather needed him to help close the shop, so
he’ll be a while yet.” Duke reached into the arm of the recliner anlledlled out the same gold
pipe as he had in the car earlier that day. “You guys want some before Yugi gets here?” he asked,
holding up the pipe.
Marik raised an eyebrow and scootched down the couch closer to Duke. A big smiled grew
across his lips.
//Maybe this won’t be so bad after all// Marik thought to himself.
Some time later Yugi finally showed up.
“Sorry I’m late, I had to sweep, mop, and clean the bathroom at grandfathers shop before I could
come.” he groaned as he pulled his guitar out of its case and began warming up.
“It’s cool, we kept ourselves entertained.” Duke grinned as he stashed the pipe back in the arm of
the chair.
Duke and Ryou followed Yugi’s lead and started warming up.
Before long, they attempted to playing simultaneously. It seemed as if they were destined to
play together. After practicing briefly, they began playing cover songs. Even Marik
joined in and proved his big mouth was made for more than yelling curses and insults. He
actually had a very good singing voice to go along with his striking good looks. They continued
to play until the wee hours of the next morning, not even realizing how time was getting away on
them. Just as the sun started peeking in through the window blinds, Duke’s phone rang.
He excused himself and went to answer it.
Yugi set down his guitar and cracked his knuckles.
“Wow, I’m kinda tired.” he yawned.
Ryou looked up at a clock on the wall and gaped.
“7:30? No way, it can’t be”
Marik took a the last drink of his beer and stacked it on top the pyramid of empty beer cans
they’d consumed throughout the night.
“It doesn’t feel that late” he said as he sat down on the couch.
Duke walked back in the room grinning.
“Hey Yugi, that was your grandfather. He was calling to see if you were alright since you never
came home last night”
Yugi smiled and started packing up his guitar.
“I guess that’s my cue to get home. Thanks for jamming with us” he said, directing the last part
of his comment to Ryou and Marik.
“It was fun, we should do this again” Ryou noted.
Even Marik seemed enthusiastic about another jam session.
“Yeah, why don’t we all meet back here tonight?” Duke nodded.
“Sure, I’m free.” Ryou smiled.
“ I’m game.” Marik added.
“Cool. See you later than” Yugi said as he left himself out.
Ryou let out a long yawn and stretched his arms above his head
“I’d better get some shut eye if we’re going to do this again tonight.”
“Mind if I crash by your place? Ishizu had her boyfriend over last night.” Marik said with a
frown.
“Sure” Ryou nodded. He knew why Marik didn’t like Ishizu’s boyfriend. It was because he reminded Marik
of his father. Marik didn't like to think about anything havng to do with his father.

They left Dukes house and went back to Ryou’s to get some sleep. They returned to Duke’s later
that night and had another very good jam session.
They continued meeting at Dukes on weekends to rehearse for the remainder of the school year.
By the time school had ended, they had learned to play together flawlessly.
After they had let a few of their friends sit in on a few rehearsals, word started spreading about
how good they were. Before long, the news of their endeavor reached the ears of Seto Kaiba, via
his girlfriend Chasey Hammond. Kaiba decided to check out what all the hype was over and pay
a visit to one of their rehearsals.
He stepped out of his limo and proceeded to the back door. He lifted his hand to knock, but as he
did, the door flew opened and Yugi came rushing out passed him with his pants lit on fire.
“What the...” Seto mumbled outloud as he fanned the smoke that was billowing from the open
door out of his face. He watched in bewilderment as Yugi rolled around in the dirt trying to put
the flames out.
Seconds later Marik, Duke and Ryou walked out the door laughing.
“What is going on here?” Kaiba ask them, still watching Yugi.
Duke composed himself to some extent and grinned
“We were trying out something we were thinking of adding to a live show on Yugi.”
Seto stared at Yugi, who had managed to worm his way out of his smoldering pants and made his
way back to the door.
“You let them light you on fire Yugi? Are you bent?”
Yugi let out a long, relieved sigh and shrugged.
“All in the name of rock n’ roll Kaiba” he chuckled as he looked his legs over, making sure they
were still attached to his body.
“No pain no gain” Yugi added as he pulled his pants back on.
“I think we used too much lighter fluid” Ryou chuckled.
“No, we need to use more!” Marik snickered.
Yugi looked up at Marik with a side long smirk
“I think your right Marik. Next time we’ll light you up and use 2 cans instead of 1”
Marik held his hands out infront of him and shook his head reluctantly.
His reaction cracked Ryou, Duke and Yugi up. Kaiba just watched in amazement at how strange
these guys were.
“Wanna come inside?” Duke ask Kaiba after he’d stopped laughing.
Seto wasn’t sure he even wanted to anymore, who knows what kind of crazy stunts they might
come up with. He went against his better judgment and accepted the invitation.
The smell of smoke lingered in the room as they walked in.
Kaiba had been looking to expanding his cooperation and opening a record company up, but
before he started investing in his idea, he thought it would be best if he found out what kind of
music the local bands were putting out, just incase it wasn’t worth his time and money.
“So I hear havehave a band together” he said as he sat down.
Duke nodded his head
“Yeah, we do, want to hear a song or 2?”
“Yes, I’d like that.” Kaiba nodded.
They guys took their places and played 2 cover songs they’d been working on for Kaiba.
After they’d finished playing, Kaiba was very impressed and went on to tell them about his idea.
Everybody except Marik listened eagerly to that he had to say. Marik was busy looking through
some new duel monsters cards one of his mind slaves had acquired for him earlier that day.
“Wow Kaiba, you’ll actually sign us? And get us gigs?” Yugi exclaimed with enthusiasm.
Kaiba nodded his head yes.
“And groupies?” Duke grinned.
Kaiba rolled his eyes and continued talking.
“So do you have a name for your group?”
Yugi, Ryou and Duke shook their heads, they hadn’t even considered a name yet.
“Trial of Nightmare? What a shit card, I can’t believe Strings even had the balls to give it
to me!” Marik growled as he threw the card across the room.
Ryou stared blankly into space as Bakura started talking to him through their mind link.
//That could make a good name for your stupid band Ryou//
//No, it sounds wrong// Ryou thought back.
//Well alter it you stupid parasite! Something like ‘Trial by Nightmare’ That sounds catchy//
//Hmm, you’re right. It does. Thanks Bakura.//
//You should listen to ore ore often// Bakura retorted back. Ryou ignored his last comment.
“What about Trial by Nightmare?” Ryou suggested to the group.
They all looked pretty impressed with his proposal.
“I like it:” Yugi nodded eagerly.
“Works for me” Duke smiled.
“Fucking mindslave piece of shit! What the hell do I need another 13th Grave for? grrrrrr” Marik
growled, obviously still not paying any attention.
Seto cleared his throat and stood up.
“Than it’s settled. From now on you’ll be known as Trial by Nightmare.”


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Well, there you have it. Ive got so many more chapters to add to this yet it isn't funny. But I'll keep writing
this because it keeps me out of trouble.(grin) Bakura will be rearing his evilness very soon......once the tour
begins. So stay tuned if you wanna see what Bakura likes to do to GROUPIES!!!! *evil laughter*