Mafia
A/N: After reading all those And Then There Were None stories by The Inspector and Sirithiliel, I decided I wanted to write a fanfic that involved murder and character deaths. So... here it is! I mean murder is IN. Plus, I'm going to use dub names to avoid my complications of translating Japanese names and because I don't know some of their Japanese names... so... here goes!
Disclaimer: I WISH I owned Yu-Gi-Oh, but I don't. So there.
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Of those who know the card game, you may skip to the next section of this chapter.
Mafia is a card game where strategy, cunning, and other skills are needed. It consists of five different roles – the narrator, the mafia (killers), the nurses, the cops, and the townspeople. Everyone playing is handed a random card. There are certain cards that represent what role they are playing. Usually, a mafia is an ace, the nurses are queens, the cops are kings, and the townspeople are the rest. The narrator is the one in charge of the game.
When everyone has a card, the narrator tells everyone to go to sleep (put their heads down and close their eyes). The narrator then tells the mafia to wake up and silently point to who he/she/they wish(es) to kill. The mafia returns to sleep. The nurse/nurses then wake up. They point silently to who they want to save (who they think the mafia had pointed at). They return to sleep. The cops are next. They point to who they think is the mafia. The narrator will nod or shake his/her head to tell them if they're right or not. Then the cops return to sleep.
Everyone then wakes up. The narrator tells a story of the person who died and whether s/he had been saved or not. When the narrator is down, people start accusing others of the murder. The accused defend them, naturally. When everything settles down, we have a vote, and whoever has the most votes, is hung. If all the nurses die, the game goes to the mafia. If all the mafia members are hung, the game goes to everyone else.
The mafia must pretend they're innocent and accuse someone else. At times, they must betray one team member in order to stay alive. I mean, if everyone KNOWS it's that guy over there, and you don't vote for him too, it'd be kind of funny, right? Mafia must also think up quick answers if someone accuses them.
Nurses are pure luck. But, they must be sharp. If they see a pattern in the deaths, they should try to go ahead and pick the right person.
Cops have to make up fake things to try to prove a person is a mafia member if they've found out who the mafia are. (Ex. "I heard a noise in that direction!")
Townspeople figure out whom to side with and have to be able to tell between lies and facts.
Remember! Character death is the name of the game! Unless you luck out, you're gone!
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Characters to be in this game:
Atemu
Bakura
Duke Devlin
Espa Roba
Ishizu Ishtar
Joey Wheeler
Mai Valentine
Mako Tsunami
Malik Ishtar
Marik
Maximillion Pegasus
Mokuba Kaiba
Noa Kaiba
Odion Ishtar
Panik
Rebecca Hawkins
Rex Raptor
Ryou Bakura
Serenity Wheeler
Seto Kaiba
Shadi
Solomon Motou
Tea Gardner
Tristan Taylor
Weevil Underwood
Yugi Motou
There will be 4 mafia members, 4 nurses, 4 cops, and 14 townspeople. No one knows who is who except for the others in their category, with the exception of townspeople who know nothing. Now for the first murder:
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"Damn... should've never followed Weevil and his army of bugs around!" Rex sniffed himself and grimaced. "Now I smell disgusting! Hmph!"
Rex stripped down and stepped into the shower. He twisted the faucets and let the warm water run down onto him and sighed contentedly. This was the first shower he had had in quite a while.
And that's when it all happened. It started out with a faint smell, but soon it grew strong. Rex ignored it and shrugged. Perfume wasn't dangerous, after all. But he forgot it was flammable. And so the match was lit.
The whole house burned down, with Rex in it.
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"Fire... smart. Burns down the evidence along with the house," Seto stared at the space where the house had been, as did all the others.
"Hmm? Are you trying to say something, Kaiba?" Mai raised an eyebrow. "This was obviously attempted. Just like the rest of the deaths that have been going around in this city. I'm sure of it!"
"Are you saying that I was the murderer?!" Kaiba gave her one of his infamous cold glares. "I don't even have a damn reason to kill anyone!"
"Guys! This is neither the time, nor the place!" Yugi cried out. "One our friends is dead and we have to find out who killed him or if it was just an accident."
"Yeah, that's a good idea Yugi." Tea let out a small smile. "I don't think we should be shouting out accusations just yet."
"He was but a mere acquaintance to many of us." Now Noa frowned. "I see no reason to investigate. Leave that to the police."
Panik looked over at the child and nodded. "I agree." Ishizu let out a shudder.
"It was one of us."
"Excuse me?" Ryou stared at her in bewilderment.
"I just have a feeling. If anyone wanted to kill Rex, he or she must've had a motive, and no one outside of this group probably even knew him well. Some people here don't even know him well anyway..." Ishizu looked around warily.
"Well, if this is true, I say we kill-"Marik grinned sadistically. "...whoever we think did it."
Bakura smirked. "Well, I haven't sent anyone to the shadow realm lately... we can take a vote."
"Hey! But that's not fair! What if we vote someone who isn't the murderer out?" Rebecca pouted angrily at the pair. "That person would die when he or she wasn't even the killer!"
"But that would also narrow it down," Atemu pointed out.
"Atemu!" Yugi frowned disapprovingly at him.
"Dat IS true though," Joey tried to think about it. "Man, detective work makes you hungry! You want to go to Burger World to try to figure it out there?"
"I'll go!" Tristan grinned sheepishly. "I haven't had any breakfast..."
"If my big brother is going, I'm going with him!" Serenity smiled her best smile, trying to lighten up the mood.
"Then I'll go too!" Duke grabbed a hold of one of Serenity's hands and smirked when Tristan gave him a glare.
One by one, they all agreed to go to Burger World. When they arrived, Joey spoke up.
"I think Weevil did it." Everyone turned to face him.
"Excuse me? I was one of his better friends! Unlike some of you..." Weevil protested angrily.
"Well, why Weevil though?" Mokuba looked up at Joey, flabbergasted.
"When we were at the spot where the house burned down, I smelled something like perfume but with a weirder stench, like bug spray!" Joey turned to face Weevil. "So it must've been you!"
"Come to think of it, I'm sure I smelled something too..." Marik put in, eager for another death. Bakura caught Marik's gaze and nodded.
"I did too."
"Actually, it smelled kind of sweet. Like some of Mai's perfumes," Mako said thoughtfully. "The odor was like... roses?" He shrugged.
"Well, I don't think Mai would want to kill Rex," Serenity frowned, protecting her friend. "She isn't like that."
"Yeah, if anything, Rex would've wanted to kill ME for kicking him out of his room when we were going to Duelist Kingdom," Mai flipped back some hair.
Maximillion laughed. "Didn't he duel for you and lose against Joey?"
"Hey... that's right." Tristan face scrunched up in confusement.
"Hey! What about Weevil? He DID help ruin some of their partner plans, right?" Mai growled, trying to get the attention off of her.
"And he threw Yugi's exodia cards into the ocean too! I dived in and tried to get all the pieces and Yugi had to save me afterwards!" Joey shouted. "You can't trust that little creep more than you trust Kaiba!"
"Hey! YOU could've murdered him!" Mokuba pouted. "It didn't have to be my brother!"
Seto grunted. "The mutt just revealed a motive for Yugi or Atemu or even himself."
"Hey! Were you the one that ripped the Blue Eyes my grandpa gave to Yugi's grandpa?" Rebecca gritted her teeth. "If you did something mean like that, you could've burnt Rex's house up too!"
Tea snapped her fingers. "I just remembered something. Remember when Panik was dueling Yugi? He used fire... he could be a pyromaniac!" She took a few steps away from Panik.
"I was working for Pegasus!" Panik thrust a finger toward the white-haired wealthy gentleman. "He was the one who installed the program for the fire!"
"Actually, I bought that contraption from Kaiba," Pegasus said calmly.
"It was custom-made especially for you!" Kaiba shot back.
"Panik was the one who suggested the fire. All I supplied was the cuffs." Pegasus led it back to Panik.
"I never suggested anything like that at all!" Panik roared in desperation. Many people in the restaurant were staring nervously at the group.
"So, who did it?" Tristan suddenly brought up.
"What?!" Random members of the group shouted in unison.
"That's what I mean. This whole conversation isn't leading us anywhere," Tristan said intelligently. "We should drop it and just vote now."
Atemu sighed in frustration. "I agree."
"Atemu!" Tea now shouted out.
"Let's vote."
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Well, who do YOU think was the murderer? It's YOUR vote that counts. Whoever is voted for will die and we'll see if you got him/her or not. Remember, the more incorrect votes, the more innocent deaths.