The Gaming Hour

By: DMEX

Nadda is mine

Yami Bakura: What a tragedy for that woman… NOT! But here's something that will really make you scream and by God it will give you chills with all it might! And it's one of my personal favorites as well!

Ch. 2

Dead to the World

Miho wasn't always this "Dead to the World" but with so many possible choices in life, what else could she have chosen? Pardon, I better back up! I'm way too far, so let's go all the way to last Saturday.

It was Saturday Morning and one of Miho's favorite things to do is to watch The Saturday Morning War Zone on TV Tokyo. Granted if she didn't have to go to school towards the end of program, but on this particular Saturday; it was summer vacation.

She wasn't always very bright, let me tell you. Well not after Miho had suffered that minor head injury during her preschool year. After preschool, Miho lost her "smartness" and became the foolish lovable oaf of a woman that she is today.

After long hours at the Gaming Center she decided to head home. She played Namco Racing for about 6 hours. Oh and she has quite a potty mouth and road rage. The things she said makes Sarge look like a short guy with a alcohol fueled temper.

"GET OUTTA MIHO'S WAY, ROAD TRASH!"

"MOVE IT, YOU $^*#%&^% MORON!"

Like I said, quite a potty mouth. Anyway as she was heading home, something had stopped her. She's seen some weird things before but this was beyond strange to her.

She saw about 6 statues of what appeared to be young women. And the thing that was so weird about them? They were missing their heads. Miho was scared to find out where those heads were and turned extremely pale as if she saw a ghost.

Then she heard a harp playing from inside the building where those headless statues where at. Miho, being a girl with little or no brains decided to look for herself.

And where Miho walked into was a mansion-like house and in the main lobby was a beautiful young woman playing the harp. But Miho thinks she saw this before. The young woman then approached her.

"Welcome," said the young woman, "How do you like my Castle-Mansion?" She seemed honest enough. The young woman had bright red hair, dark eyes, black lipstick on, and she had a very distinct large golden wire-like choker on her neck. Her dress was quite beautiful.

"Miho was wondering about those odd creepy women-like stone statues out there?" Miho asked. The young woman then proceeded to take Miho to some room.

It was a lovely room, with a dim lit chandelier and something Miho wishes she never would see. This room had about 42 cabinets, each with a different woman's head. It was starting to creep her out.

"I think No. 23 will be the one today…" said the young woman. What she saw next was enough to make Miho want to vomit. The young woman grabbed the back of her long hair and then took her head off, unlocked Cabinet No. 46 and proceeded to put the head in there and locked the head up.

Then the headless woman walked exactly where Head Cabinet No. 23 was at, unlocked it and grabbed the head out and locked the cabinet door. She held her head and faced Miho. "What do you think?" asked the Headless Woman.

Miho was at a loss for words. This was like walking right into Return to Oz or The Twilight Zone, hell even Goosebumps. The Headless Woman's appearance completely changed (facially). She now had brunette hair tied into a ponytail, worn long gold hoop earrings, red lipstick, had green eyes, but still had that distinct wire-like choker on her neck as she put on the head.

The Headless Woman then pinched Miho neck. "Maybe about 3 hours and it will be plump enough to take…" muttered the Woman. She now could put 2 and 2 together. "NO! MIHO DON'T WANT TO BE COLLECTOR ITEM!" she screamed as she tried to fight her off.

Miho blacked out sometime while fighting her off. She woke up in a cellar-like dungeon.

"You know, it's your fault you discovered her like this…"

"Where am I?" asked the dizzy Miho.

"Her dungeon."

"Who's there?" Miho asked.

"Look down."

And there was a woman, just a head and neck on some silver plate. "I was one of the lucky ones." "Lucky?" asked a confused Miho. "I was donated by the Head Museum in another time." the head and neck girl said to Miho.

"Donated?" asked Miho. "Yes," started the head and neck woman, "My name is Mindy Greg, I'm 35 years old but in the era I came from, I kept losing my body on and off." stated Mindy.

"How could you lose your own body?" asked Miho. "I asked myself the same question, myself until doctors discovered that from the time I turned 23 I had some form of Bodylessengiotos; better known as Missing Body Disorder. A disorder that couldn't be cured in my era. So I was decapitated and kept alive in a Head Jar at the Head Museum as a survivor of this horrid disorder." Mindy explained.

But their something that Miho needed to know. "The numbers on the head cabinets were all of the women who have Missing Body Disorder at the age they were diagnosed with it. And the thing she fears, is her O.H.."

"O.H.?"

"Her Original Head. Not many have seen her actual head and has lived to brag about it." Mindy said sadly.

"What Number is it?" inquired Miho. "It's suicide but I'll tell you. It's not labeled. She keeps her Head Key in by her Harp." "Miho's going!"

"You may have to wait until nightfall. She doesn't sleep with her head on because it gives her bad migraines." explained Mindy. Miho checked her watch: 9:30 PM. It was dark outside so she decided now better than never.

Miho played enough Grand Theft Auto: San Andres and Metal Gear Solid to learn how to sneak by without being noticed. But now comes the hard part. Getting past her cabinet of heads. Of course they were all sleeping so Miho better be careful enough not to wake them.

But HOW was more the question. One false move and she could be dead. Of course the obvious thing to do is escape the building while she has the chance. But Miho realized the missing head was the key to getting those missing head back to their owners.

Quietly, Miho snuck into the head collection. It only took her about 10 minutes to find the O.H. in the Head Collection. The O.H. didn't look threatening. The O.H. had long blonde hair in a bunny tail, had shark tooth earrings on by chains, and had thick red glasses on. Now the moment of truth.

Slowly and as quietly as she could she unlocked the O.H.'s cabinet and saw some sort of spell book. As she went to grab it-

THE HEADS START TO SCREAM LOUDLY!

The worse possible scenario happened. She blew it. And guess who was behind her…?

Well, here's Miho; Head No. 43. It was her own fault for going into forbidden territory. She regrets not listening to her Mama and Papa. But hey, now she can really be Dead to the World…

Ch. 2 End

To be continued…!