The Gate to the Shadow Realm
by Marik's Dark Queen
A/N: This fic is not based on the series. In this fic Joey Tristan Tea and Mai and Serenity live together and haven't met Yugi Malik and Ryou yet so they don't know anything about the millennium items and the shadow realm. (But they will meet them and learn all about it very soon…hihi!)
Summary: Tea, Mai, Serenity, Joey and Tristan live together. One day the house next to theirs gets sold. When they meet their new neighbors they realize that they are not what they seem. As time passes they realize strange things and noises coming from their neighbors house so they make the fatal mistake to enter it…
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh and I don't make any money from this story.
Chapter 1
Mai was about to enter the house that she shared with her friends when she noticed that the "For Sale" sign in their neighbors' garden was gone. "This means that we have new neighbors" she thought. She quickly went inside her house, getting the snow out of her clothes. It was an unusually cold winter. There was snow everywhere and the sun hadn't come out for weeks.
"Did you see them?" Tea asked her.
"See who?"
"Our new neighbors of course. They moved in yesterday, but I haven't seen them yet" "Oh well. I'm sure that they will visit us soon. We live next to them after all."
"Maybe we should visit them" Serenity suggested. "They probably are very busy with their new house and can't visit us".
"Sure but we can wait till tomorrow" said Mai.
"Ok then, fist thing tomorrow we visit our new neighbors!" said Tea cheerfully.
The next day Tea, Mai, Serenity, Joey and Tristan went to visit their new neighbors. Before they knocked on their door they took a moment to look at the house. It looked the same as before except of two things. All of the windows and the curtains were closed so no light could enter the house and it seemed to be something like a black cloud around the house making the sky above it darker. No sound at all could be heard from inside the house or from the garden. It seemed like all the birds had stopped singing and even the insects were quiet. "That's strange" thought Serenity "shouldn't there be noises from arranging the furniture and cleaning the house?". They all looked at each other like they were expecting them to knock the door and go into the house first, but no one knocked the door and they just stood there hesitating. "Maybe we should look around first. See if they made any changes" said Tristan. The others nodded and split into two groups to look around the garden. Mai, Tea and Serenity were one group and Joey and Tristan were the other. Joey and Tristan left first and soon they were out of sight. The girls looked around for a minute but didn't move.
"We are acting in a stupid way" said Tea "like we are afraid of them. We haven't even met them! I'm sure that they are very friendly people and they will be glad to meet us!" After she said that she went to ring the doorbell. Nothing happened for a few minutes. When the girls started thinking that no one was in the house the door opened revealing two people. One was very short with purple eyes and had unusual hair: very spiky, red, black and blonde and the other was taller, with lavender eyes, blonde hair and tan skin. They opened the door, got out of the house and then closed the door again trying not to show the inside of the house to the visitors. When Tea saw them she went to greet them immediately.
"Hi! I'm Tea and that's Mai and Serenity" she said while pointing at Mai and Serenity. "We live next door. Could we come in and get to know you?"
Yugi and Marik looked at each other worried and then turned to the girls.
"Well, you see, now isn't exactly a good time. Maybe you could come back later" said Yugi.
"Ok, sure. Won't you introduce yourselves?" asked Tea.
"My name is Yugi and this is Marik"
" Nice to meet you" said Tea and before she could continue a loud scream was heard from the house. The girls looked shocked but Yugi and Marik looked like they were expecting it. They looked at each other for a moment trying to decide what to do. Their thoughts were interrupted by Tea's voice.
"Did you hear that? It sounded from the house! Is there anybody else in there? It sounded like he got hurt!'' Tea tried to enter the house but Marik and Yugi stopped her. She looked at them strangely but didn't say anything.
"It was just the tv!" said Marik trying to convince them.
"But it didn't sound like the tv" started Tea but was quickly interrupted by Yugi.
"We've got to go. See you another time" said Yugi and the grabbed Marik's arm and dragged him into the house quickly before Tea had a chance to say anything.
Tea rang the doorbell again but no one answered. She turned around to look at Serenity and Mai. Serenity looked scare and Mai confused.
"That didn't sound like the tv" said Tea
"I know" replied Mai "let's just get out of here".
" We can't! We have to wait for Joey and Tristan" said Serenity.
Meanwhile in another part of the garden Joey and Tristan heard the scream too.
"What's that Joey?"
"I don't know. It was from inside the house"
"Let's just leave" said Tristan.
"We can't just leave! What if some one got hurt? We have to find him! Or are you just scared?"
"I'm not scared Joey"
"Then I dare you to climb on the wall and get inside the house from that window"
"Are you kidding me? That would be breaking into the house!"
"Well, if you're scared" Joey teased him.
"Fine, but whatever happens is you fault!" Tristan shouted at him and began climbing on the wall. He reached the window, pushed it open and entered the house. He found himself in a small dark room. He saw the door and opened it. The door led him to a corridor. He could see two rooms and at the end of the corridor was a staircase. He followed the corridor and reached the first room. The door was open, so he looked inside.
End of Chapter 1
Stay tuned for chapter 2 to find out what's in the house…
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