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It was a quiet night on the Starship.......Butch. At least they assumed it was night, it was rather dark outside.
But anyway, deep within the bowels of the ships dining area a game was in session.
A game that required chance, craft, and mental stability.

You see, within the ship was contained a single card deck. And that card deck contained...well, cards.
But, the captain, Riku, took an interest in this perfectly normal card deck. After careful examination he took note that the deck contained a pair of nearly every number or letter. Actually, there were two pairs. But he noticed the Joker seemed to be lacking.
So, he called together the others into the dining hall to give them a grand annoucement. After five minutes of this annoucement, they began the game.
Yes, it was.... the one... the only... Sweet little Bummble bee, more then just a fantasy.....Um... Old Maid!

Yes, and so it came to pass that at some hour one of the guys held that Old Maid. (Also known as the Joker by some people or random sentences.)
Riku was reached forward toward the card, when he spotted, out of the corner of his eye, a cat floating through space with a football. Yes, right out the window.
He took this as a vision, and chose another card.

Reiya's turn came, and she reached for the same guys cards Alas, she pulled out (dun, dun, duuuuun) the Old Maid.
Reiya cringed, then smiled nervously at her companions.

"Say, why don't we play a game?" She suggested.
"We are playing one." Ricky stated.
"You know." She continued, ignoring Ricky's comment entirely. "Even though we live together, we hardly know anything about eachother. I thought a game might bring some of that to light."

Mia smiled, Riku looked back from the window to her, Kiron looked distracted, and Ricky assumed she was losing.
Silence passed for a moment, with only the sound of shredding paper in the background.

"What kind of game?" Kiron finally asked, without making eye contact.
Reiya smiled.
"Well," She explained. "whenever one of us pulls the old maid, we'll have to tell a little about ourselves. Like, maybe, something you did as a kid." She looked rather pleased with her sudden idea.

"Then you'd have to be first." Ricky retorted.
Reiya glared at him, then smiled slyly.
"What makes you think I have it?" She asked, blinking innocently.
Riku gasped then looked at her intently. He knew what she was doing.
"You obviously do. You gave yourself away earlier." Riku pointed out, in a rather accusational sort of way.
Reiya snickered.
"Alright then, prove it." She grinned evily."Pull it out of my hand."
"Fine, I will." Ricky put his hand forth and pulled out a card.
You could hear the hearts beat, time slowed down, and Ricky slowly turned the card around.

Ricky looked at the cards face. Seconds passed, a moth flew by in the back ground and crashed into the ground and left a trail of lines.
"See." Ricky looked at Reiya with a 'told you so' sort of look, and turned the face of the card towards them. T'was the Joker.

Reiya giggled evily.
"Why Ricky." She said in an evil manner. "You've got the old maid. Looks like your going first."
Ricky winced, a startled look in his eyes. He looked at her like 'oh, no you did not just do that.'
"I knew it." Riku sighed, a smiggin of a tear in his eye.

"Alright, I'll do it." Ricky gave an exasperated cry. "When I was younger, a couple friends and I used to run around with radios, or something like that, playing secret agent. We'd go around telling each other messages in code, and we all had a code name. Mine was- pft. It's stupid." He laughed nervously, most of the others looked at him unamused or to interested to agree. "Well, I went around as Lupin the Studmuffin. And don't repeat this."
He pointed at them like he was specificly pointing at someone, but he wasn't really. "And that's all I'm sayin' for now." He fanned out his cards to them.

Mia reached over to his hand and pulled out the Old Maid.
"Oh my." She said, looking at it funny. She placed her cards face down on the table and looked up thoughtfully.
After a bit she nodded and looked at them.
"There was this one time, when I was about six, when a woman my dad knew kidnapped me."
Riku and Ricky look at her disturbed. Mia continued, as if it were a fond memory.
"No. Now that I think about it, it was me and a girl he was fond of. We were surrounded by lots of this womans minions who were armed to the teeth.
Then my dad came crashing through the window and fought for us, sending blood and guts everywhere."
Reiya covered her mouth and gasped.
"This one guys head got chopped off and part of his br-"
"You know what, I'm just take that card here." Riku said, quickly.

He shuffled the Old Maid into his hand and fanned it out in front of Reiya.
"Pick a card and any color." He said, without changing speed or tone.
Reiya reached out and grabbed a two.
Riku tsked, and put his cards on the table. He placed his elbows on the table, motioned for them to come a little closer, and placed his chin on his hands.
Most of them leaned in closer.
"One of my favorite childhood memories..." He started. "was when these one guys came over. One of 'em was the cousin or siblin of one of my dad's friends, the other one was a relative of Fei's fiancee."

"Are they still engaged?" Reiya interupted.
"No, they married a long time ago." He turned his annoyed eyes to her. Then his look became concentrated and he looked straight forward.

"Now I'm gonna have to tell you about something else. Let me tell you about the time....Ah, forget it. One of my favorite pastimes was running my shop. Although my grandpa, who was in charge of the area, didn't like magic there was a magic school not to far from my house. So, I opened up a shop with mechandise aimed at the people there. I-"

"Hey, Riku." Reiya interupted, looking confused.
"What?" Riku leaned towards her like they were exchanging a deep secret.
"Who's Fei?"
"......He's my dad's cousin." He said.
"Oh, continue."
Riku looked back up and straight forward, but found Kiron reaching over and grabbing one of his cards.

Kiron looked at the card he'd slid over and found the Joker staring mockinly at him.
He sighed.
"There really isn't much to tell about my early childhood." He started out, a little eager to get this over with.

Reiya and Ricky stared at him.
"That was his first line in the whole episode." Ricky said flatly, yet suprised.
"He's acting calmly, must be day after all." Reiya stated in a similar tone.

"I spent a lot of it looking for my dad." Kiron continued, giving the other two a warning glance.
"And did you find him?" Reiya excitedly asked, disregarding his warning.
"Unfortunitly." Kiron replied, with a solem expression.
They sat silently for a few seconds, then assumed he was done for now.

Ricky started to reach for Kiron's cards when a shadow suddenly appeared out of the shadows.
Yes, it was Butch the squirrle. And he was hungry and fierce.
Butch jumped at Kiron's hand and pulled the Joker out of his hand.
Then the fierce squirrle, as fierce squirrles sometimes do, tore up the Joker and ate the corners off of it.
Oooooh, how hoooooorriblllle.

Everyone just kinda stared for a bit, not quite sure what to say.
Then, Riku reached into his shirt and started searching around.
"Don' worry guys, I got this all taken care of."
Then he pulled out a mysterious and previously supposed non-existent.... Second..Joker.