Hey everyone! Pearl and I have been exchanging messages for some time now, and out of it we've created a little roleplay. We thought it would be a great idea to share it with the rest of the world! I hope you like the first chapter!

~Perspective: Pearl Hikari~

The world of fantasy is always perceived as a senseless one. Reasoning and logic become unnecessary, even becoming seen as foolish.

I guess you can say I used that as an excuse. An excuse to ascend into life and throw a huge party bash for no reason, other than the fact I was in a happy, festival mood. And also because of the fact I had the ability of telekinesis for laying out the food spread. I didn't need to hire servants or waiters; I could easily manage it all with my thoughts.

However, that was all my power stretched to; I couldn't manipulate the minds of others with the desire to arrive at the party. I had to actually inform the outside world of the festivity, and distribute the invitations accordingly.

A few e-mail exchanges later, and my roster list was filled to my liking. I stood at the festival gate holding a checklist, marking off the names of the newly-arrived.

Netto Hikari and Rockman came the earliest, both of them expressing a wide smile, and extending a cheerful greeting as they passed through the gates. Afterwards, Enzan and Blues were the next arrivals, though I could immediately tell Enzan was a reluctant guest, as his irritated face refused to soften, his crossed arms unyielding to let loose and wave at the other party members; Blues had a more neutral expression, and his soft rebuke to Enzan for arriving with such negative karma had me suspecting that Blues had to convince his operator to even come.

I ignored Enzan, however, and greeted the next guest: Katsuya Jounouchi. His gleeful smile reflected excitement, and especially greed when I saw him staring hungrily at the food scattered all over the tables. I surpassed a tiny giggle at that, and turned back to await the upcoming arrival of more guests.

My gaze, which became gradually blurry when I tried furthering it, slowly focused itself upon the gates ahead, where the party members were required to submit their invitations before being admitted. I was seriously against that sort of system, but of course the other people who had helped me organize the party insisted on an "official" safety system and arranged for an "official" guard. I warned them that the guard would only keep my friends out, as the people I generally tended to invite where protagonists, who abided by the rules, and not evil forces bent on world domination.

Besides, a guard wouldn't be enough to keep out anyone in the latter category, as evil forces bent on world domination could just use their sinister talents to easily pass through and gate crash if they wanted.

That was beside the point, however, and even my weak eyesight perceived the scene which was occurring at the "official" gates: the twin spike-haired silhouettes of Yugi and Yami were arguing against the burly gatekeeper, arguing for entry in. I could see the golden Eye of Anubis glimmering on Yami's forehead, full aware that he was getting to the desperate point of a Mind Crush; I had to intervene.

Or rather...Melody did. She had just arrived at the "official" gates, merely held out three slips of paper, and the gatekeeper allowed all three of them through.

"Sorry about that," I apologized when they reached my own gate. "Look, it wasn't my idea to hire a gatekeeper. . ."

"It's okay!" Yugi reassured me. He turned to glare at Yami, and rebuked him, "See? Melody solved the problem without a Mind Crush!"

"He would have deserved it," Yami muttered.

Melody, however, said nothing. I marked down the names of this trio, and turned to announce to the party guests, "OKAY, GUYS! PARTY'S ON! WHO WANTS PIZZA?!"

Melody angrily clasped her hands into her ears, though I couldn't blame her; my voice was the volume of a megaphone, and she was standing right next to me.

~Perspective: Melody Hakurei~

Ok, I wasn't too keen on the idea of having a massive party for all protagonists at first. My reason, you ask? By experience I knew that festivities were never settled peacefully, especially with all of the good guys in one place at the same time. Or maybe it was the fact that I was sometimes seen as a cold, aloof, and mysterious person, not someone who'd usually go all out in a party. Or I was just a little tired. In any case, I had nothing better to do, so I went along with it. She did have me to thank for introducing her to some of the guests after all. Just one of the many perks of being a dimension traveler. I just hoped nothing would go wrong…

"Do you have to be so loud?!" I hissed angrily into Pearl's ear. She had just yelled her lungs out to announce to the rest of the guests that the pizza was ready.

"Yup!" The blonde replied cheerily. "I was afraid the others wouldn't hear me over all the chattering!"

"Actually I was being dead silent..." Enzan piped in from my right.

"Riiiiiiight," Blues said in response. "So it was Enzan-sama's identical twin I saw talking to Melody."

I sighed. I had already figured out that Enzan had a minor crush on me, and everyone else had noticed as well. They loved to tease him on it.

The boy sweatdropped, then turned back to me. "Well...want some pizza, Melody? No, don't stand up, I'll get it for you."

"Nah, I'm not hungry," I replied.

"But we are!" Netto and Jounouchi shouted simultaneously with huge grins on their faces. They then proceeded to pile pizza onto their trays, forming a tall tower.

Pearl looked on with a hint of embarrassment, but then added, "Well, I have no right to judge them since I'm also hungry..." She then followed suit.

"You starving beasts…" was all I could say in disgust.

Netto then gave me a funny look. "Um, but only Rockman can Beast Out…" Ah, density and stupidity, my biggest pet peeves.

"It's a figure of speech!" I said, exasperated.

Apparently that made it only worse. "Figure? Oh no, she's gonna tutor on me math problems!" the brunette whined.

Rockman, the more sensible of the twins, sighed. "N-Netto-kun, I think Melody would beg to differ…"

I nodded in agreement. "You're hopeless…knock some sense into him, will you Rockman?"

"Er…that'll take a while, Melody-chan," the Navi replied as he reached for a cookie.

"Seriously?! Where can I get one of those?!" Netto shouted. Obviously, he was still thinking with his stomach.

"Oh well…" I said. "not like I want to do that anyway…"

"Fair point," Enzan added, taking another cookie.

"Oh, c'mon, why doesn't someone tell me where those cookies are?!" Netto whined.

Enzan then pointed to the table. "On the table, Netto. They were there the whole time."

"Oh…" was all that the brunette could say.

I was starting to get fed up. "And you didn't notice THE ENTIRE TIME?!"

"Well," Rockman said, "Netto-kun can be flat out oblivious sometimes..."

"What was that?!" The brunette yelled indignantly. I couldn't help but smirk at his embarrassment. "You don't say?"

Before I could say more, Enzan tapped my shoulder and handed me a cookie. "Here," he whispered. "Do you like the chocolate-chip kind?"

"Why yes," I replied, but then stopped short. Something was up, and I knew exactly what it was. "Hold on a second," I added, and then made a gun shape with my right hand. I then fired a backhand homing amulet shot, hitting a small video camera. "Nice try Blues, but Reimu's homing amulets work extremely well."

The ruse up, Enzan's Navi came out of hiding, undoing a Invis chip that he had equipped to hide as he quietly filmed me and Enzan together. Luckily I stopped it before it could be used as blackmail. "I can't believe you tried a thing like that," Enzan said annoyed, glaring at him.

"Well," Blues retorted as he folded his arms, "you posted a video of me, WITH MY HELMET OFF, brushing out my hair...on YouTube. What do you think?"

Rockman applauded. "Impressive, Melody-chan…does this mean that you can see through invisibility and illusions?

"Well," I explained, "I mostly get it from my intuition. A Hakurei's instinct is always accurate."

~Perspective: Pearl Hikari~

I couldn't help but find it ironic when Melody mentioned the power of intuition. I couldn't help but feel my own intuition spouting a warning, informing me that the assumption of safety was a misjudgment. From a far-off corner in the distance, I could feel the air shimmer, and I heard the winds whispering amongst themselves, hissing like snakes in argument.

"Oh...that means she'll notice us!" the deeper voice said furiously.

"Rocky, don't you even try jinxing it," protested the second, and more feminine voice of the two, "Because if we get spotted, I'll-"

I immediately recognized the second voice; since I was a child, I had become aware that my alternate, darker self-whom I thus termed "Pearl DS" (dark soul)-had received her own physical form and was who I could become if I misused my powers. I had no idea why she came into existence, and all I could gather about it was that Pearl DS's purpose was to retain a balance with me, the opposite side of the same coin.

I never understood that, and one of my greatest fears is of something I don't know. I hate to admit it, but a part of me still fears her. I call myself "Hikari" "light" because I'm scared of the opposite-I'm scared of turning evil. And the fact that she was here with Dark Rockman didn't exactly boost my confidence meter either. She and Dark Rockman usually carried out their evil plans together, and Dark Rockman is the only person Pearl DS terms "Rocky". Apparently, they were invisible, but hearing them speak made me aware of their presence, though before I could take action-

"Hm...Yugi, can you do something for me?" Melody said loudly. There was an eerie confidence in her voice, one so befitting the cryptic and omniscient persona I associated her with.

"What is it?" Yugi asked.

"Use that staff I gave you and fire a spell card right...over...there," Melody responded, pointing in the direction of the two dark sides, a valiant smirk surfacing upon her features.

I grinned as well; I immediately realized what Melody was referring to, and the sinister humor derived the pain my dark side would feel brought a true evil smirk to my face.

Yugi, still not comprehending the situation, merely replied, "There's nothing there...but alright."

He summoned a glyph-ridden staff, and proclaimed the spell: "Silent Gamer's Magicannon ~ Monochrome Spark"!

The tip of the staff ignited, and the gray, spark-coiled beam erupted from the wand, colliding head-on with the ground and forming a gigantic crater as a memento of the blast.

I heard the dark sides' source-less voices pipe up again: "C'mon, Dark Rock! Keep running!"

"I-" Dark Rockman was about to retort in a rude manner, but his voice suddenly screeched with concern, "Pearl DS, watch out!"

Too late. Pearl DS discovered the significance of his warning the hard way; she crashed straight into Yami Yugi, whose former neutral expression changed to one of cartoony bafflement, and reconfiguring to pure, cold rage. I heard the collision sound of a distant face-palm, and Dark Rockman muttered, "Looks like it's one of those days..."

Yami, however, saw no humor in situation and stared cold daggers at Dark Rockman when he made himself visible. In the piercing-ice tone of a threat, Yami snarled, "And what do you think you're doing?"

Dark Rockman recognized the danger. Hastily, he replied, "Nothing happened, Pharaoh! Just pretend you didn't see anything, okay?"

"Um...I'm still invisible. Technically, he DIDN'T see anything," Pearl DS pointed out, in a careful, hoarse whisper.

Dark Rockman face-palmed again, and muttered, "It's a figure of speech. . ."

Yami's voice did not soften at that attempted appeasement, and his threatening tone persevered. "You just called me Pharaoh...you're hiding something," he said icily. "Spill it. Now."

~Perspective: Melody Hakurei~

With those words, I knew Dark Rockman was screwed, big time. One of the traits I had learned about Yami and Yugi was that they were masters of deception, and they could usually detect it as well. I guess it's another thing you have to know if you're called the King of Games.

Dark Rockman had lost his cool by this point, and was desperately trying to save face. He somewhat instinctly stood in front of what I already knew was Pearl DS with his arms spread out, as if he was defending her. "Nothing! Nothing! Just get lost, Pharaoh…!"

The hidden dark side then said the exact thought I had in my mind: "You practically gave it away right there, Rocky…"

Yami's expression narrowed, as he had come to the same conclusion. "There you go again…" he said in a low, dangerous voice."Well, if you're not going to tell me, then I'll find out myself." With that, a golden eye appeared on his forehead, a symbol that was iconic for him: The Eye of Anubis. With it, he finally saw Pearl DS, and the question he asked next was more of a forceful demand: "Now, what do we have here?"

Needless to say, both dark sides were starting to seriously lose it. "Dark Rock, do something!" Pearl's dark side screeched. "NOW!"

"Uh…um…well…" Dark Rockman stuttered. Out of options, he did something that I already knew was kind of stupid and foolish, but he still did it with a desperate hope. He poked Yami straight in the third eye. "There. I did something."

There was a short silence, then a miffed Yami spoke. "Did you seriously think that would do something useful for you? It's an indicator of Millennium magic, not another physical eye." The Pharaoh's tone of voice then plummeted another 10 degrees: "Now scram, unless you want to be on the receiving end of this." He held up a single spell card that I instantly recognized; the distaff counterpart of the card Yugi had just used earlier. I decided that I would inform the victims what they were up against. Call it cruel mercy, if you wish.

"Oh, and FYI," I piped up with a hint of amusement, "that's a Spark Card. I assume you already know that since Yami is probably the only dark side on our side, he's also the most brutal."

It seemed though that the matter would be settled quietly. Dark Rockman sighed and then said, "Look, I did the first thing that came to mind, okay? Don't rub it in."

"But fine," Pearl DS added bitterly. "We'll leave." She grumpily stomped off, still invisible, but I could still see her angrily whacking the air. Just her luck, she happened to hit Yugi in the process. Dark Rockman took one glance at Yami and then gulped. "The Pharaoh's not looking too happy right now…"

A rule you might want to know if you ever hang out with Yugi and Yami: if you value your life, do not try to hurt Yugi. His dark side will see that revenge is served, painfully.

"I suggest you start running…oh, I don't know, now?" I said, indifferent to the scared look on Dark Rock's face.

"Why you little…" Yami spat out. He summoned a sword, one I had given him the same time Yugi received his halberd staff, and pointed the blade tip at his target. "Shadow Gamer's Magicannon ~ Penalty Spark"!The tip ignited, and a purple and black laser burst out, barreling right for Pearl DS.

"Grr, you won't scare me away that easily!" the dark side shot back. "Scythe Sign: Black Cutter's Defiance"~!

And with that, explosions erupted, signaling the first fight in what would be the least of our problems.

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