YAY, THE SECOND CHAPTER IS HERE! Prepare for INSANITY, INSANITY, and more INSANITY! Prepare to have your minds DIE, to have your minds BLOWN AWAY, to have your minds BE EATEN BY ZOMBIES! XD

But in all seriousness...this is a very crazy chapter. You have been warned. XD Then again, since when was there EVER any sanity in the ZarcxRay parody universe?

*recalls 'By Your Side Forever* Oh...well, there is some seriousness there...maybe. Also, here is DONJUSTICA! And enjoy the next chapter! :D

Donjusticia's Author Note: THE BATTLE FOR EGAO CONTINUES! Even as the angsty Zarc X Ray fanfics multiply, the silly fluff continues to spread to each and every corner of this website, counteracting the darkness with its pure humorous light! And with this chapter, Corinne and I have combined our comedic powers to drop a figurative nuke on our figurative angsty frantic author enemies! Figuratively, that is.

So no, our dear readers! WE SHALL NOT STOP! We aren't heading towards a funeral for Zarc and Ray! No! We are heading for a wedding! The very epitome of comedic endings as set by playrights since before the time of Shakespeare himself! I dare any author to try and oppose this nonsense! But you cannot! We cannot be stopped! Bad reviews cannot stop this insanity! More angsty fanfics cannot dampen our happiness! Smiles shall grow into an all-powerful force that shall consume ALL fanfics on this website! So heed my words fellow fanfic authors! Join us, or die... of laughter!

Also, in case you guys were wondering how this atrocity came into existence...

MEANWHILE, BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE ABANDONED CHEMICAL PLANT WHERE DONJUSTICIA AND CORINNETHEANIME COLLABORATE!

Donjusticia: *Giving the musty concoction of their fanfic a stir before tasting it* Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Precious like! Precious like WAY MUCH!

CorinnetheAnime: DONJUSTICIA! Vhat are you putting in our collaborative vork!?

Donjusticia: Master must not be angry with precious! Precious only wanted to squeeze in a few drops of free advertising for his own fanfics!

CorinnetheAnime: VHAT!? HOW DARE YOU DO ZIS THING, DONJUSTICIA! HOW MUCH FREE ADVERTISING DID YOU PUT INTO ZIS CHAPTER!?

Donjusticia: *indicates 40 200 gallon tubs of free advertising*

CorinnetheAnime: DONJUSTICIA!

JOIN US NEXT TIME WHEN WE SNEAK AN EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK INTO THE MAKINGS OF "ZARC AND RAY'S CHRISTMAS PARTY THAT DEVELOPS INTO INSANITY!"

To all our beloved readers who have managed to stay with us this long despite the damage to their brains: thank you and enjoy!


"MWHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Dark Signer Ruri cackled, her dark powers enveloping and gathering around her body. "I have returned to ruin this stupid parody of a parody with my AWESOME and SUPER EVIL powers!"

Ray growled at this, not quite happy that her Xyz girl had somehow managed to awaken her dark half again...and proceeded to conduct a "Game of Darkness", nevertheless.

But what made things worse was that Ruri's words and power were affecting the other girls as well.

"Sit up straight and stop slouching your shoulders, you baka!" Rin roared at Yugo, sounding even more angry and tyrannical than usual.

"Huh?" Yugo grunted, directing his attention away from a fly he had been studying with profound interest. "Did you say something?"

"STOP IGNORING ME!" Rin bellowed, slamming both her knees into Yugo at the same time.

"DOUBLE KNEE COMBO!" An announcer voice declared from overhead as Yugo gasped for breath. "500 POINTS TO RIN!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH, YEAH!" Rin whooped, pumping her fist into the air. "IT'S TIME TO LEVEL UP!"

"Level up?" Yugo gasped, somehow managing to speak even though his internal organs had all been shoved into his throat by the force of Rin's blow.

In answer to his question, Rin became enveloped in a column of darkness as she began cackling madly. When the column disappeared, Rin stepped forward, with the sclera of her eyes turned into a midnight-black with glowing orange irises, a green whale mark glowing against her right arm, and the rest of her body clothed in a super-cool (literally and figuratively) skin-tight, black, leather riding outfit with neon green highlights. Cackling insanely, she threw her arms into the air, blasting black lightning and icy winds into the ceiling while running around the room with her newly acquired super speed.

Things weren't looking any better for Yuzu.

"WHY DID YOU GIVE ME A STUFFED HIPPO, YUYA?!" Yuzu snarled, grabbing Yuya by the throat.

""I thought you'd love it!" Yuya gasped.

"I TOLD YOU I WANTED AN I-POD!" Yuzu roared.

"Oh, come on!" Yuya protested. "I saw that cute hippo at the store and thought of you!"

That had been the wrong thing to say, and Yuya only realized his mistake when it was FAR too late.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Yuzu roared, morphing into her own Dark Signer clothing before conjuring a web of thorny vines to wrap Yuya in.

Serena looked at the super-cool transformations of the girl in awe before turning to Yuri.

"And I uh...hate you too!" Serena barked, before looking down at herself as if expecting herself to transform. However, nothing happened.

"OH, COME ON!" Serena whined. "WHY CAN'T I BE A DARK SIGNER!?"

"SHUT UP, SERENA!" Rin cackled. "You're not cool like we are!"

Serena huffed, crossing her arms. "I'm the one who lived through Academia's hardships and decided to defect from them despite this! AND THE AUDIENCE AGREES THAT I AM THE COOLEST RAY COUNTERPART IN EXISTENCE!"

Ray scrunched her brow, VERY unhappy that the once peaceful (though argumentative) scene was now devolving into chaos so quickly.

Zarc, however, was more annoyed that the others were asking him questions on what he had done to Ruri and the others (because, of course, anything that would cause Ray or her counterparts to fall in darkness was entirely his fault).

"What did you do to each of my respective 25% portions of my girl!?" Leo barked at Zarc.

"I SWEAR I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!" Zarc protested, throwing his clawed hands into the air.

"Well, SOMEBODY is responsible for this!" Horakhty snarled, glaring at Zorc and Yubel.

"Don't look at us!" Yubel hissed. "If we were corrupting anyone, they'd be WAY more evil than those punks!"

"I shudder to think what that would be like," Himika muttered.

"It still wouldn't be as horrible as Zarc." Leo growled.

"BABY GIRL!" Shuzo Hiragi called, bursting through the doors of the Akaba's mansion and rushing into the room.

"WHOA!" Yoko exclaimed. "How did you get here so fast?"

"FATHER'S INTUITION!" Shuzo gasped, panting for breath. "I felt that my Yuzy-woozy was acting EXTREMELY hot-blooded, but not in a good way! Are you messing with demonic powers again, Yuzu!" Shuzo interrogated, turning towards his daughter, who turned away her head and folded her arms like a brat. "This is the fourth time this week! I swear if you've been messing with that 5D's nonsense, then you are so grounded!"

"Shut up, Dad!" Yuzu pouted. "You can't tell me what to do anymore! Not when I can do this!" And before Shuzo could say anything more in protest, his entire body got wrapped up in a swarm of vines even thicker than the ones on Yuya.

Yusho looked on with a mixture of horror and confusion. "What do you think of this, Reira?" he asked.

Reira was rocking back and forth in his seat, his eyes bugging out of his head in horror as he clutched his teddy bear and chanted:

"Ring around the Rosie...
pocket full of posies...
Ashes...ashes...
We all...fall...down..."

Meanwhile, Shun had had it with all the nonsense.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, RURI?!" he bellowed. "THE ONLY ONE WHO GETS TO ASSUME A SUPER-COOL ZEXAL-LIKE FORM IS ME!"

"SILENCE, FOOLS!" Ruri roared. "I SHALL NOW DESTROY ALL OF YOU!"

"Ruri!" Yuto gasped. "Stop this madness now! I know you might be feeling angry, but you must know I love you! Come back to me, Ruri!" he pleaded. "Come back to the sweet and innocent girl I know you are!"

"FOOL!" Ruri cackled, draining a can of Red Bull before sprouting a pair of Dark Signer wings on her back and rising into the air. "I WAS WEAK AND PATHETIC AS YOUR GIRLFRIEND! DOOMED TO DO NOTHING BUT BE CONTROLLED BY A BRAIN PARASITE BEFORE DISSOLVING AWAY IN A TEST-TUBE! BUT NOW I CAN FINALLY BE THE MAIN CHARACTER I WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE, AND I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP TO DO IT!"

Yuto gasped in shock, looking utterly heartbroken. Shun, on the other hand, looked impressed.

"HOT DANG!" he exclaimed. "She just rejected Yuto!? Now THAT'S a sister I can get behind supporting!"

"Shun!" Yuto protested.

"NOPE!" Shun countered. "Already made up my mind! I am totes joining forces with this version of Ruri!"

"AAAAAAHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HAW!" Ruri cackled, "YES, MY BROTHER! AND NOW WE SHALL RULE THIS PATHETIC UNIVERSE AS BROTHER AND SISTER!"

"Make me yours!" Shun begged, holding out his arms as Ruri blasted him with a bolt of black energy.

"This could be bad." Zarc mumbled, while Ray looked on in utter horror.

As the room was enveloped in darkness and the insane laughter of both Shun and Ruri, the other participants of the game could only gape in fear as Shun's body was enveloped in a nuclear explosion of darkness before he stepped forward.

Shun's eyes burned with intense golden light more powerful than even his Zexal form. His black clothing was a combination of pure awesomeness and nightmare fuel, with a scythe hanging from his back, and a swarm of crows, magpies, and vultures fluttering about him. Looking down upon the other puny characters, he began addressing them in a god-like voice.

"I AM THE DARK SIGNER SHUN!" He boomed, causing even Zorc to tremble in fear. "I AM HILARIOUS...AND YOU WILL QUOTE...EVERYTHING...I...SAY!"

"OH, COME ON!" Yuto cried out, frustrated and scared on how his former best friend just got an even worse and super evil upgrade than his Zexal powers. "ARE WE ALREADY DEVOLVING INTO INSANITY AT THIS POINT?!"

"Sorry, no title drops allowed," Zarc glowered in a monotone, cracking his knuckles. "In the meantime, how do we calm down these two?"

Ray shuddered. "We don't. We can't...this is it."

"But..."

"WE CAN'T UNLESS THEY SNAP OUT OF IT THEMSELVES!" Serena interjected, waving her arms wildly as to not get ignored.

"Was that the wind?" Yuri asked, cupping his hand to his ear as if trying to hear something.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Serena roared, frustrated that she STILL hadn't gotten any major screen-time, much less evolved into a Dark Signer.

"IT NOW BEGINS!" Ruri cackled. "The ultimate shadow game! We shall continue the card game, but now, everything that happens in the card game shall happen for real! Not only that, but the losers shall be forced to consume jellybeans of the worst flavor...EVER!"

"No!" Yuya protested. "Superfight and Beanboozled should not be used as tools for conflict! They should be used to make people smile!"

"THEY DIDN'T MAKE ME SMILE!" Shun roared, causing Yuya to stay quiet in fear.

"ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT I'LL HAVE TO EAT KALE EVERY TIME I LOSE?! THAT'S IT, YOU'RE GOING DOWN!" Zarc snarled, gathering his own dark powers in his hands.

"BRING IT ON, DRAGON BOY!"

"WILL YOU ALL PLEASE STOP?!" Ray bellowed, her own angelic powers awakening as a result.

"That's my girl!" Horakhty whooped. "Show these demons who's boss!"

Ray blushed at her divine mother's praise, but continued.

"Even though I cannot forcefully make you girls return to the side of good..." Ray continued, addressing her counterparts in a godly angelic voice, "I can still make you see reason! Cease this nonsense immediately or suffer my holy wrath!"

Ruri, Yuzu, and Rin were giggling amongst themselves, as if sharing a secret only they knew about.

"You sure you wanna do that?" Dark Signer Ruri mocked, fixing Ray with a smug expression on her face.

"Of course!" Ray replied. "I shall always oppose darkness...well...when I'm not engaged to it anyway," she added, winking at Zarc.

"Well, what if we told you there was a way you could make Zarc like you even more?" Dark Signer Rin snickered.

"Yeah!" Yuzu giggled. "What if we told you we could make you even cooler than you are now!?"

"Oh, please!" Ray scoffed. "Like I'd ever..."

"Dark Signer Ray." Ruri interrupted.

"What?" Ray asked, looking confused.

"You...the most interesting female Yu-Gi-Oh character in history..." Ruri explained, pointing at Ray, "becoming a Dark Signer."

"Oh, yeah, right." Ray laughed, rolling her eyes. "Like i'd actually want to...I mean...I'm totally...I'm like a force of light...there's no way I'd...I mean, it would be pretty cool...but like...no...I'm totally not gonna..."

"Ray?" Zarc asked, noticing how his fiancé seemed to be wavering.

"I mean it would only be for a chapter." Ray mused with a thoughtful expression on her face. "And it's only a silly card game so there's no way we could actually...nah...there's no way I'd...but maybe?"

"RAY!?" Zarc growled, sounding alarmed.

"Do I get superpowers?" Ray asked.

In answer, Ruri showed off her wings, Yuzu summoned a bunch of vines like Poison Ivy, and Rin blasted some more lighting from her fingertips.

"Done deal." Ray shrugged, walking over to Ruri.

"WHAT!?" Everyone who wasn't already a Dark Signer exclaimed in unison. Even Ruri looked impressed.

"Wow...you just...without even thinking of the unintended consequences to signing a demonic deal? Are you sure?"

"I DO get superpowers, right?" Ray asked.

"Well, yeah, but..."

"Then done deal." Ray finished, taking Ruri's hand.

"Okay...let me take this in for a moment..." Zarc breathed upon realizing what Ray had done, judging from the darkness that now overtook her heavenly glow...literally. "RAY!"

"Now we can truly be together, Zarcy," she replied sweetly, the sclera in her eyes turning dark.

"YEAH, BUT I ALREADY LOVED YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE!"

"Yes, you did, but now we don't have to be opposites anymore." Ray smiled sweetly, almost too sweetly, the diamond ring on her finger turning into an opaque black. "Besides, it's only for one chapter...maybe."

"NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT!" Zarc replied, his own darkness radiating from his body to oppose Ray's darkness. "Come on, boys...and Serena," he called to the other counterparts. "Let's end the reign of this quartet of possessed yanderes AND this shameless free advertising for Donjusticia!"

"I'll bring back your smile, Yuzu!" Yuya promised, breaking free from her vines, "Just hold out and don't let the darkness take over your true personality, and I WILL save you!"

"Not if my fan has anything to say about it!" Yuzu countered, pulling out a demonic black iron fan with spikes on the ends.

"I'll save you too, Rin!" Yugo promised. "And return you to the ever-so-slightly less bossy and evil version of yourself!"

"Oh, but I'm actually much sweeter and seductive in this form." Rin purred, swinging her hips alluringly at Yugo while proving to the stunned Fusion...I mean, Synchro user that she could take away his breath with more than just her kneecaps.

Yugo started to move forward before Zarc grabbed him. "YOU ARE NOT BECOMING A DARK SIGNER TOO!" he snarled.

"You know...maybe I should become a Dark Signer." Yuto mused, looking over at Ruri and noticing just how awesome and hot she was.

"She flat-out rejected you." Yuya reminded him.

"Oh, yeah..." Yuto sighed, hanging down his head.

"I can't believe I'm stuck helping you out!" Serena hissed, folding her arms and turning her back to Yuri.

"You think I'm any happier about this?!" Yuri snarled. "I spend my whole life working to become the most evil villain in the universe, and now chicks show up and think they can one-up me with a bunch of 5D's nonsense!?"

"I guess I'll be okay so long as Corinne and Donjusticia don't try and ship us together again." Serena huffed.

Corinne then proceeded to use her writer powers to write a bunch of fanfic stories of Yuri and Serena, much to their displeasur-I mean, pleasure.

"I LOVE YOU, YURI!"

"I LOVE YOU TOO, SERENA!" They then proceeded to kiss.

"THIS IS QUITE A CLICHE MOVE!"

"YES, IT IS!"

"STOP IT!" Yuri and Serena protested before Donjusticia got in on the action, deliberately placing a mistletoe over their heads.

"NO!" Serena gasped, resisting the absolute power of the writers for just a moment to pull away from Yuri while both she and Yuri began wiping their lips in utter horror, looking like they would gag.

"I AM NOT KISSING THAT MESS AGAIN!" Yuri roared, drinking heavily from the bottle of cologne Serena had given him in an effort to wash away the taste of the kiss.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL MY FACE!?" Serena hissed while Yuri spewed out the awful-tasting liquid.

"I said I loved you, my darling!" Yuri snarled, angrily struggling against the shipping pair the writers were forcing him into.

"Predatorshipping for life!" Selena agreed, furiously puckering her lips against her will before Dark Signer Shun saved them from their embarrassment by blasting away the mistletoe over their heads with a blast of dark energy from his hands.

"Sorry. Reflex," he apologized, remembering that Ruri's chastity was no longer threatened by Yuto.

"YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT, YOU KNOW!" Yuri and Serena snarled, still fighting against their own feeling thanks to the writers of this parody. Their hands twitched, conflicted on whether to grasp each other or to punch Shun.

Ray cackled, his Dark Signer powers flashing brightly. "NOW, WE WILL RULE THIS WORLD AND THE EARTHBOUND DARKNESS SHALL OVERTAKE EVERYTHING!"

"I'm still here, you know." Zarc droned.

"Me too," Zorc added.

"And I will certainly NOT allow you to do this, Ray!" Horakhty scolded, wagging her godly finger. "Remember the last time you awakened the darkness?"

"Yeah! And it was the most fun time of my life!" Ray cackled before snapping her fingers and enveloping all the contestants in purple flames. "NOW, LET THE SHADOW GAMES BEGIN!"

Zarc used his own powers to pull himself from the flames, since he also was a dark force of nature as well. "Come on, Ray, snap out of it! I'm supposed to be the dark half of our relationship! Otherwise, there would be no balance!"

Ray laughed at this. "But it's so BORING been a goody-two-shoes all the time! Do you know how many restrictions there are in being a force of light and goodness? A LOT, LET ME TELL YOU!"

Zarc looked upon his now-darkened girlfriend with a saddened expression on his face.

"So be it, then!" He declared, pulling a card from his hand. "I shall begin this game! For my hero, I choose...Aang from 'Avatar the Last Airbender!', and he's..." he threw down another card, "gaining strength from his friend's support!"

As Zarc finished his play, the other counterparts gasped in amazement as Zarc began transforming due to the effects of the shadow game. His attire was swapped out for the brown-and-orange robes of an airbender, he held a wooden glider staff in his hand, and a blue airbender arrow tattoo mark appeared over the forehead of his determined face.

"So...basically, we become the heroes we play?" Yugo asked, looking both surprised and excited.

Zarc nodded his head before expertly twirling around his staff, causing a gust of wind to billow around the room. "It's your move, Ray," he challenged.

Ray chuckled lowly, picking her own character and attributes immediately. "I shall use...Maleficent and she has all the Dragons Balls AND she is armed with a death ray!"

Immediately upon setting down, her appearance transformed into an evil and powerful fairy, her crow-like wings spreading out with power. Her hands held a deadly ray and the powerful DBZ items floated around her.

"All that's needed is for me to transform into a dragon." Dark Signer Ray mused with a wicked grin spreading over her features. "Then you and I can be VERY much alike, Zarcy!"

"Don't think you've won yet!" Zarc countered, entering the Avatar State. "I still have mastery over the four elements AND the support of my friends!"

"But I have one wish!" Ray teased, indicating the dragon balls. "And I will use it at just the right moment!"

"SILENCE, RAY!" Dark Signer Shun boomed, stepping forward. "I AM STILL NOT DONE CHAPERONING YOU AND YOUR BOYFRIEND!"

Ray glared at Shun, annoyed that that part of his personality still hadn't gone away.

"FOR THIS EPIC BATTLE!" Shun roared, throwing down his card. "I CAN THINK OF NO OTHER FORM MORE APPROPRAITE THAN VAN HELSING! AND FOR HIS ATTRIBUTE, I SHALL CHOOSE...'IN A CRAZED, MURDEROUS BLOOD-LUST!'"

"So like you normally are with me," Yuto clarified as Shun began transforming, a wide brimmed hat adorning his head while multiple weapons and tools for slaying vampires, werewolves, and boyfriends appeared over his back. whipping out a pair of chainsaw pistols, Shun let out an almighty roar as Yuto and the other dragon-boy counterparts backed away in fear.

"I WILL DESTROY YOU AND MAKE SURE YOU WILL NEVER HURT MY PRECIOUS RURI!"

Serena walked over to Yuri and Yugo. "Um...didn't you say that he needed a girlfriend from another fanfic or something like that?"

Yugo scratched his head in contemplation, while Yuri understood what she meant. "Yeah, that girl from Shimmering-Sky's fanfic...what are you planning?"

Serena sighed to herself. "Whelp...this is gonna be super weird, but at least I won't have to be with Yuri if I do this...PREDATOR SHIPPING FOREVER!"

"WHAT WAS THAT, MY LOVE?!" Yuri exclaimed.

"NOTHING, MY DARLING CABBAGE HEAD!" Serena snarled with passionate rage. "THERE'S NOBODY I LOATHE MORE THAN YOU! LET'S CONSUMMATE OUR UNDYING HATRED FOR ONE ANOTHER WITH AN AGGRESSIVE HUG AND KISS!"

"YES, YOU STUPID CAT LADY WHO I ABSOLUTELY ABHOR MORE THAN ANY GIRL I HAVE EVER MET!" Yuri agreed, charging into Serena before they both began aggressively pummeling and cuddling each other in a sweetly romantic and painfully hostile fashion.

"Hmmm...still better than BruisedFruitshipping." Yuya shrugged, remembering the way CorinnetheAnime wanted to pair Yuzu with his berserk self.

Corinne purred contently at the thought. "Hmmm...my OTP...maybe if I sho-!"

"STOP THIS SCENE OF DISGUSTING DEBAUCHERY NOW!" Dark Signer Shun roared, throwing a bolt of dark energy into the two lovers/haters and blasting them against the wall. Groaning as they picked their smoking bodies off the floor, Serena and Yuri glared at each other.

"I hate you!" Yuri growled.

"I hate you more!" Serena growled/purred back, affectionately/spitefully punching Yuri in the face.

"Oh, get along, you two." Yubel snapped, finishing up the gigantic "get along" sweater she was knitting for both Serena and Yuri and slamming it over both their upper bodies.

"Good work nearly destroying them, big brother!" Ruri congratulated, giving her brother a sweet and evil hug. "NOW, TO FINISH THE REST OF THESE FOOLS OFF!"

"Hey! You can't fight now!" Yugo protested."We haven't even done our turns yet!"

"No rules in a Game of Darkness!" Shun sneered before throwing another bolt of energy at Yugo, who only barely managed to dodge out of the way.

"Hey!" Rin protested, "NOBODY GETS TO HURT MY YUGO!"

"RIN!" Yugo exclaimed with delight, "I knew you were still good!"

"Nobody that is..." Rin continued, a malevolent smile spreading over her face, "EXCEPT ME!"

"Oh, no." Yugo whimpered, reflexively shielding his stomach with his hands.

"For my villain," Rin cackled, "I choose THE WHITE WITCH FROM NARNIA! And I'll make her/my attribute...RIDING A MOTORCYCLE!"

Yugo screamed before hopping on his own motorcycle and riding away as fast as he could, Rin following close behind while cackling and throwing bolts of ice and lightning at him.

"I'm gonna get you!" Rin teased. "We're gonna reenact Jack vs. Carly, and I'm gonna get you and make you a Dark Signer!"

"I choose-..." Yuya hastily began before Yuzu cut him off.

"Nu-uh!" Yuzu giggled, "It's ladies first, and I choose Poison Ivy for my villain and make her attribute...CASTING A FORCE FIELD THAT BLOCKS OUT ALL CHARACTERS IN THIS FANFIC WHOSE AGE IS OLDER THAN RAY'S!"

"But that means..." Horakhty managed to get out before she, Zorc, Yubel, Leo, Himika, and Shuzo were knocked out of the game by a massive force field, forcing them to only watch the game while simultaneously greatly simplifying things for the writers of this fanfic.

"Well..." Reiji thoughtfully mused, "at least I'm still here."

"How old is...wait, Ray's his older sister," Yugo mused, making the other boys facepalm as a result...even Reira, who was still clutching his teddybear protectively, watching everything unfold with wide eyes.

"HOW COULD YOU FORGET THAT, FUSION?!" Yuri yelled exasperatedly.

"Well, Reiji is taller than her, so I assu-HEY, NAME IS YU-GO, NOT FUSION!" Yugo screamed, ready to pounce onto the cabbage boy along with Serena.

"I'M STILL NOT DONE WITH YOU, YUGO!" Rin screamed, pointing her wand at Yugo and nearly turning him to stone.

"See!" Yugo cheered, "Rin can get my name ri-OH MY GOSH!" he hollered as Rin nearly destroyed him once again.

"Well," Reiji sighed, pushing up his glasses, "I suppose that as the only serious character in this fanfic, it is up to me to restore a semblance of order and sanity to this game I will therefore choose as my character, Sherlock Holmes, and make his attribute, 'Immune to all Nonsense'."

"CURSE YOU, YOUNGER BROTHER!" Ray hissed. "To think you would have found a way to escape our insanity!"

"It's what I do best." Reiji shrugged. "And now, since none of your non-canon powers can work on me, you all have no choice but to surrender."

"You clearly underestimate the powers of Shun!" Dark Signer Shun rumbled, causing even the writers of this fanfic to tremble in fear.

"Give it up, fourth cousin once removed but now reclaimed." Reiji countered. "Not even you can stop me now. I'm immune to all nonsense."

"That may be true..." Shun sneered, "but you forget something!"

"And what would that be?" Reiji asked, looking skeptical.

"You forget..." Shun explained, "that by taking part in a non-canon fanfiction parody, you yourself BECOMES nonsense!"

"NO!" Reiji gasped, realizing his mistake.

"That's right!" Shun snickered, "YOU JUST MADE YOURSELF IMMUNE TO YOURSELF!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Reiji wailed, exploding in a puff of logic.

"It's kinda sad how his statement is true: this entire thing really is a bunch of nonsense," Yuya mused thoughtfully, much to the other counterparts' chagrin. "Then I guess it'll be up to me to put back some SENSE into this story!"

"WHAT?!" Shun gasped as Yuya placed down his cards again, not being interrupted by Yuzu this time.

"I play Yugi Moto and his attribute is "can banish all powers of Earthbound darkness!"

"WHHHHHAAAAAAAAT?! THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL!" All Dark Signer characters cried as the boy turned into the first protagonist in the first Yu-Gi-Oh series, save for his still red eyes.

"Alright, this Christmas party has officially devolved into insanity." Serena muttered, with Yuri casting a dark look at her.

"TITLE DROP!" Yugo shouted.

"Where were you living, under a rock?" Yuri exclaimed, gesturing to everyone. "It has fallen into insanity ever since the DATE!"

"Darn it!" Ray grumbled. "Do I ALREADY have to use my one Dragon Ball wish!?"

"Oh, don't worry." Yuzu grinned. "I got this. Oh, Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" she called in a sweet and seductive tone.

Yuya immediately heard her call. "YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUZZZZUUUUUUUUU!"

Oh, boy, here we go again," Yuri muttered, face palming himself.

"Could you be a dear, Yuya, and let us win? It would mean the world to me if we could spend some time together without having our Earthbound evil get banished."

Yuya nodded his head stupidly, completely entranced by Yuzu's evil beauty.

"Thanks, dear!" Yuzu giggled, using her powers to trap Yuya in a ball of thorny vines before he could even react.

"YUYA, YOU NUMBSKULL!" Yuri insulted, angry at how the Standard counterpart and main protagonist could be so easily fooled by womanly charms...

Then again, this was Yuya they were talking about.

"Dang it, another way to resolve this conflict is foiled!" Yuto growled, looking at his hand. "AND MY HAND IS USELESS AGAIN!"

"Give up, Toto!" Ruri sneered. "We've already won!"

Yuto's heart fell, until he realized Dark Signer Ruri, as evil as she was, had still used his nickname! "I KNEW THERE WAS STILL GOOD IN YOU!" he exclaimed with joy.

"What?" Dark Signer Ruri asked, looking confused.

"Even if my hand is useless, I will still fight for you!" Yuto exulted. "For my hero, I choose...Garfield! And his attribute is...WEARING A CUTE BOW ON HIS HEAD!"

Smiling, Yuto resolved to do all in his power to save his bestest friend in the whole world as he transformed into a cute, plump orange cat with an even cuter blue bow on his head. Scampering over to Ruri, he hopped into Ruri's arms and purred, hoping to conquer the evil overlord with his sheer cuteness.

"Is it working?" Yuto asked.

"Yeah, right, like I, the evilest and most powerful of all Dark Signers would ever fall for such a cute trick!"

Yuto lit up upon hearing her phrase. "She just called me cute!"

"ARGH, I'LL PROVE YOU HOW WRONG YOU ARE, TOTO-KUN!" Dark Signer Ruri then touched one of his orange ears, noticed that it was actually quite soft...and nearly melted metaphorically. "What is this...warm and fuzzy feeling...?"

"It's called love, sweetheart," Yuto purred contently.

Ruri's undead heart began to soften. "You...like me? Even after I was so...mean to you? I guess I could just...just..."

She was beginning to waver, and her true personality was returning. As she stroked behind Yuto's ears and looked into his warm kitty eyes, Yuto knew only one final push was needed.

And that's when Shun ruined it all.

"BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He roared, charging at Ruri and Yuto like an enraged bull.

"Merow!" Yuto yowled, fur puffing up in fear before leaping out of Ruri's arms as he tried to avoid her brother's wrath.

"YOU WILL NOT STEAL MY SISTER'S HEART AGAIN!" Shun vowed. "NOT SO LONG AS I REMAIN COMPLETELY FOCUSED ON HER PROTECTION AND UTTERLY UNDISTRACTED BY MY OWN GIRLFIREND OF WHICH I MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT HAVE!"

Serena huffed and interfered before Dark Signer Shun got close to separating Ruri and Yuto for all eternity. "Don't worry, this is just as hard for you than it is for you. I play Natsumi from Shimmering-Sky's fanfic, 'Code Rebirth', and her attribute is 'becomes Shun Kurosaki's boyfriend no matter what form he may be in at the moment'."

"You're gonna turn into an OC from Shimmering-Sky's fanfic just so you can smooch Shun?" Yuri snickered, causing Serena to growl at him in disgust.

"THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON WHO CAN BE NATSUMI!" A girl with black hair and a blonde bang over her left eye, Natsumi, bellowed, appearing through a random Psychic portal before Serena could undergo an awkward transformation. "AND I WILL MOST CERTAINLY BE SHUN'S GIRLFRIEND! NO MATTER WHAT HE SAYS!"

"FOOL!" Shun rumbled, "DO YOU HONESTLY THINK YOU CAN BE RANDOM ENOUGH TO BE MY GIRLFRIEND!?"

"Ain't nobody more random than me!" Natsumi countered, folding her arms over her chest.

"DARK ZEXAL MORPH!" Dark Signer Shun bellowed, transforming into a dark version of Zexal.

"PSYCHIC NATSUMI BARIAPHOSE!" Natsumi countered, randomly transforming into a mouthless Barian alien version of herself in a blast of chaotic power.

"FUS RO DAH!" Shun roared, unleashing his dragon born powers in a thunderous dragon roar.

"IMMA FIRIN' MAH LASER!" Natsumi retorted, unleashing the power of her own Shoop da Whoop meme blast right back into Shun and stopping his attack before it could reach her.

Shun and Natsumi stared into each others eyes, neither giving an inch as they continued their battle.

"It's on...girlfriend." Shun sneered.

"Bring it...boyfriend." Natsumi agreed.

"Really? Am I the only one noticing how ridiculous this whole game is?" Yuri questioned, crossing his arms as Natsumi and Shun continued their love banter. "I can't seriously be the only one who thinks this."

"I'm sure anyone who reads this will agree with you, but for now we have more pressing matters at hand," Yugo announced solemnly while wearing Reiji's glasses and red scarf, which was very much unlike him. This even made Yuri (of all people) raise an eyebrow.

"Alright, now I have seen and heard everything." He mumbled to himself. "What is wrong with you now, Yugo?"

"I'm not Yugo, I'm Reiji."

"No, you're not. Are you possessed...Fusion-kun?" That always got a reaction out of the Synchro counterpart.

Yugo, however, looked completely unbothered.

"As a matter of fact, yes, yes, Yugo is." Yugo/Reiji calmly explained.

"GET OUT OF MY BOYFRIEND'S BODY!" Rin roared, launching a bolt of lightning at Yugo/Reiji, who calmly deflected the blast with the sheer power of his logic.

"On to more practical matters," Yugo/Reiji continued, applying some starch to his red scarf in order to help it defy gravity, "I believe we have managed to successfully contain Shun's insanity..."

"AIN'T NOBODY CONTAININ' MY SWAG!" Shun called from the other end of the room.

"SHUT UP AND KISS ME ALREADY, BOYFRIEND!" Natsumi called back, as they continued their eternal internet meme showdown.

"But we will still have to take care of the other Dark Signers." Reiji continued. "Ruri was nearly defeated by Yuto's cuteness, but even if he can manage to sway her, we still have Ray to deal with."

"You got that right, little bro!" Ray cackled.

"So with everybody else already finished with their turns..." Reiji mused, "as much as I loathe to say it...our hope rests with..." he shuddered, "Yugo and Yuri."

Yuri glared at Yugo/Reiji. "If you're so logical, how the heck did you end up in Yugo's body?"

Yugo fixed Reiji's glasses again. "Well, that situation is quite simple to explain. Since I was defeated by the lack of logic, my form somehow was absorbed into the least logical person in the entire room...which was Yugo, since he can't even say his own name right."

"I can totally say my name right! Fusion, I mean... Yugo protested. "And I am not illogical! My parents were married!"

"Illogical, not illegitimate." Rin corrected, unable to help herself. "AND SINCE WHEN DID YOU HAVE PARENTS!? MUCH LESS KNOW IF THEY WERE MARRIED OR NOT!?"

"What's important is not whether I HAVE parents," Yugo explained with utter conviction, "but how I FEEL about my parents!"

Rin and Reiji facepalmed, Reiji causing Yugo to slap his own face in the process.

"Reira?" Reiji called. "Do you wanna join this game and fix things? I already lost faith in Yugo a LONG time ago, and there is NO WAY I am entrusting our future to Yuri."

"Why the heck not!?" Yuri whined as he proceeded to torment kitten Yuto with a stick while Serena glared at him.

"Please, Reira." Reiji continued, "I REALLY don't want to trust Yugo OR Yuri to do this!"

Reira stared off into space, his eyes as big as dinner plates.

"Life is meaningless..." he whispered, "...soon...we will all die."

"Right..." Reiji groaned. "Whelp...we're doomed."

"THAT IS RIGHT: YOU ARE ALL DOOMED!" Rin cackled, hugging her sides tightly. "So go and finish your pathetic turns already!"

Yugo snapped up at those words. "You...you think I'm pathetic? But...but I gave you strawberry ice cr-!"

"NO, I HATE STRAWBERRY, YOU BAKA!"

"What?" Yugo yelped, unable to believe what he was hearing. Surely, this had to be a result of the Earthbound corruption. "But, Rin! Think of the good times we had together! AND IT WAS ALL WITH STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM!"

Rin began thinking.


"Hey, Rin, Imma borrow your money so I can buy another part for my D-wheel! I promise to pay you back with a nice big tub of strawberry ice-cream BYE!"

"HEY RIN! JUST SO YOU KNOW I USED UP ALL THE HOT WATER IN THE SHOWER SO YOU'VE ONLY GOT COLD WATER NOW! BUT DON'T WORRY! IT'S GOOD AND COLD WATER! GOOD AND COLD LIKE STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM!"

"HEY RIN! I DIDN'T GET YOU THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT YOU WANTED, BUT I DID GET YOU A TUB OF STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM!"

"DON'T WORRY, RIN! WE LOST THE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN, BUT WE GOT A GREAT CONSOLATION PRIZE! STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM!"

HEY, RIN!?

RIN!?

RIN!?

RIN!?

RIN!?

STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM! EAT THE STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM!

EAT THE STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM!

IT MAY NOT BE MUCH, BUT IT'S STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM!


Rin snapped back into reality, looking even more enraged than ever.

"Oh, yeah...you are so dead!" she vowed.

Yugo scratched his head. "Was it something I said?"

"It's ALWAYS something you said, Fusion idiot," Yuri insulted, which caused the Synchro counterpart to growl and hiss in return.

"Don't! Call! Me! FUSION!"

"Last time I checked, the name's the same, so tough luck to whoever named you. Probably your 'parents that don't exist'."

"You take that back!" Yugo growled, shaking his fists at Yuri. "I will not let you insult my parents!"

"He does have a point about them not existing, though." Reiji commented through Yugo's mouth.

"Quiet, Reiji!" Yugo retorted, punching himself in the face without thinking. As Yugo fell over after giving himself a black eye, Yuri began laughing uncontrollably, clutching at Serena's shoulder as he continued snuggling against her in their "Get Along" sweater.

"Oh, that was great!" Yuri laughed. "HEY, REIJI! I never thought I could like anybody, but I think you might be my favorite character other than myself now! For that, I promise to card you last!"

Reiji fixed his glasses on Yugo's face again, the scarf still somewhat levitating against gravity. "Well, that is somewhat reassuring...not."

"After I card around 36 billion people, that is. I'll save you for a special time," Yuri ended with a wink, much to Serena's chagrin.

"I'm right here, you know."

"I know." He then gave the evilest, most annoying smile in the history of humans and smiles...which was around ten thousand years long.

"I love that beautiful evil smile so much." Serena mumbled with complete disgust.

"What!?" Yuri exclaimed in complete shock.

"I said..." Serena groaned, rolling her eyes in exasperation. "I hate your stupid smile so much!"

"Let's get married right now!" Yuri snarled, grabbing Serena by the throat as his rage grew.

"YES! LET'S!" Serena roared, grabbing Yuri's own throat and strangling him back.

"THE ONLY TWO PEOPLE GETTING MARRIED ARE ME AND ZARCY AFTER I CONQUER HIS HEART ONE MORE TIME WITH MY DARK SIGNER POWERS!" Ray roared.

"NOT BEFORE I WIN BACK RIN'S HEART!" Yugo countered, adjusting Reiji's glasses over his face.

Reiji sighed with Yugo's face. "This is the most illogical fanfic in the existence of fanfics."

Yuri guffawed in return. "You could say that...anyway, I play...the super evil and super awesome Deadpool and he can...control weather!"

Laughing with utter insanity, Yuri began transforming into an utterly insane and sadistic serial killer with the power to break the fourth wall (not too unlike his normal self...to be perfectly honest).

"YES!" Yuri laughed. "X GONNA GIVE IT TO YA! IT IS SLICEY DICEY TIME! PREPARE TO FACE MY WRATH, BRACELET GIRLS! MY TRANSFORMATION IS NEARLY COMPLETE!"

And with a final destructive blast, Yuri completed his transformation. It was only after he tried to take a step forward and unsheathe one of his katanas that he realized that Serena had been stuffed in the same skin-tight, red, Deadpool leather outfit he was now wearing.

"OH, NICE WORK, GENIUS!" Serena snarled as she hopped around on her two legs, which were stuffed into the tight left leg of the suit. "I'M GUESSING IT NEVER OCCURED TO YOU TO GET OUT OF THIS STUPID 'GET ALONG' SWEATER BEFORE TRANSFORMING!"

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Yuri snarled, generating a raging tornado with his fury and power to control weather. "I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AWESOME! NOW, THE ONLY THINGS I'VE GOT GOING FOR ME ARE WEATHER CONTROL AND DEADPOOL'S AWESOME HEALING FACTOR!"

"Give in to the darkness!" Supreme Evil Dark Signer Empress Ray laughed. "Even with Shun gone, you fools STILL don't stand a chance against us!"

"We will never give up!" Zarc countered, ascending into the air in a sphere of fire, water, air, and earth. "Or do you really think your evil has a chance at surpassing my evil!?"

"We shall see!" Ray cackled, sending a massive blast of dark energy towards Zarc's way, while he held her back with the power of the four elements and his own evil darkness.

"GO, YUGO!" Zarc ordered. "You're..." he gagged, "our last hope! PLEASE USE YOUR HEAD FOR ONCE AND FIND A WAY TO FIX THIS!"

"Okay!" Reiji began, determined to coach Yugo into making an intelligent and sensible play. "Ray still has her one wish from the dragon balls, but if WE could acquire those, we could use her one wish to-...!"

"I'VE GOT IT!" Yugo exclaimed, a 2-watt bulb going off in his head.

"Oh, no." Reiji groaned, knowing that Yugo's plan was going to be completely and utterly ridiculous.

Yugo smirked, slapping down his own cards. "I got Curious George and he...can control time!"

"WHAT ARE YOU, A MONKEY?!" Yuripool cried out. Yugo's transformation to the popular PBS Kids cartoon character proved otherwise.

"Oh, yeah!" Yugo chattered, scratching his furry backside before pulling out the bushel of bananas he kept hidden within his hair and chowing down on one of the sweet and starchy treats. Rin moved as fast as she could to intercept him, but with a snap of his fingers, Yugo snapped his fingers and stopped time for everybody except himself.

"Time to reenact the one good scene from 'X-men Apocalypse!'" Yugo whooped, putting on a pair of goggles and moonwalking across the floor of he living room, while "Sweet Dreams" from Eurythmics played in the background.

"Sweet Dreams are made of this,
Who am I to disagree..."

Yugo quickly zipped up to Dark Signer Ruri, took her hand, led her across the room, and deposited kitty Yuto into her arms.

"Travel the world and the seven seas
everybody's looking for something..."

Yugo used his monkey agility to flip through the elemental debris of Zarc's attack before briskly strolling over to the store to buy in I-pod for Yuzu.

"Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you..."

Yugo next stopped by the ice cream shop to get a special treat for Rin. He noticed with sorrow that they were all out of strawberry ice cream, so he settled for a tub of vanilla, hoping that Rin wouldn't get mad at him.

"Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused..."

Yugo then started heading back to the house, but the monkey bars at the park grabbed his attention, so he started playing on those for hours on end...or was it no time at all? Sorry, it's just that his time control powers were kind of confusing.

"GET OVER TO THE HOUSE AND FINISH THIS!" Reiji called from within Curious Quicksilver Yugo, snapping him back to attention.

"Moving on, hold your head
Moving on, keep your head..."

Yugo finally got back inside the house after an hour or so (give or take an hour) of picking the various bugs out of his fur. Once inside, he deposited the I-pod into Yuzu's hand before pulling Yuya out of his prison and pairing him up with Yuzu, giving the tub of ice cream to Rin, and then, with a mischevious grin, dragging Shun and Natsumi under a nearby mistletoe that had managed to escape Shun's overprotective rampage.

"And done!" Yugo sighed, exhausted but pleased with himself as he snapped his fingers again and resumed time.

Reiji shook Yugo's monkey head in exasperation. "You are definitely illogically hopeless, Yugo."

"What? No, I'm not! I'm just...very curious." Yugo quipped, eating a banana.

"YUGO, YOU ARE SO DEAD, YA HEAR?!" Rin hollered, seeing the NOT strawberry ice cream immediately. "And GET THAT DREADFUL AND DISGUSTING DESERT AWAY FROM ME!"

"NO! I WILL MOST DEFINITELY NOT GO OUT WITH YOU!" Dark Signer Shun snarled at Natsumi, before they cycled between holding hands and threatening the mistletoe...well, Shun mostly threatened the mistletoe.

Yuripool cackled before raising his twin blades and causing a massive hurricane in the area, preparing to blow everyone away with his sheer epic evilness and parody awesomeness.

Ruri watched everything unfold, her eye twitching. Yuto still snuggled up next to her, meowing consistently.

"I AM SO KILLING YOU FOR GIVING ME THAT HIPPO!" Yuzu roared, going for Yuya's throat. "WHY DIDN'T YOU GET ME THAT I-POD!"

"BUT YOU ALREADY HAVE AN I-POD!" Yuya protested, pointing at the one in Yuzu's hands.

"NO, I DON'T, I-...!" Suddenly, Yuzu stopped when she noticed she DID in fact had an I-Pod in her hands.

"You...got me...an I-pod?" Yuzu gaped, looking at the musical present she always wanted.

"Uhm...I guess?" Yuya shrugged, not sure what was going on.

"YAYA-KUN!" Yuzu exclaimed, rushing over to give her boyfriend a spine-cracking Dark Signer hug. "Oh, I should have known! All along, you only PRETENDED to give me that silly stuffed hippo when you were ACTUALLY planning on surprising me with this I-Pod! I should never have doubted you!"

"I really...want to...destroy...the world..." Ruri groaned, trying to summon an army of evil demons but hesitating whenever she caught a glimpse of Yuto's gigantic grey kitty eyes.

"Hmmmm...?" His kitty eyes expanded to Puss-in-Boots levels of cuteness.

"NO!" Ruri protested, "I WILL NOT BE DISTRACTED! I WILL...DESTROY...destroy..."

Yuto rolled onto his cute fuzzy belly.

"Oh, what the heck." Ruri shrugged, completely losing herself in rubbing Yuto's kitty belly while he purred and she made silly, high-pitched cooing sounds.

"Well, I'm still angry!" Rin snarled, "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING GIVING ME MORE STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM, YUGO!?"

"I'm sorry!" Yugo hastily apologized. "I was trying to make it up to you, but I was only able to find a tub of Vanilla Ice Cream!"

"DON'T GIVE ME THAT!" Rin shrieked. "I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THIS IS A TUB...of..." She looked at the label to see that the idiot baka Yugo had indeed given her tub of not strawberry, but vanilla, her favorite flavor.

Tears began coming to her eyes as happy memories came flooding into her mind.


"Ah man, Rin! I really wanted to spend all your money on another part for my D-Wheel, but I had to be responsible and work for a living instead! Here's a tub of Vanilla Ice Cream and half my earnings!"

"Sorry, Rin. I was only able to take a reasonable five-minute shower, so there is still TONS of hot water for you to use! It's all just hot and comfortable water like that bowl of melted vanilla ice cream we shared together in a romantic setting!"

"Hey, Rin, here's the boring hand-knit dolly you wanted for your birthday and a tub of vanilla ice cream!"

"I can't believe it, Rin! We beat everyone in this tournament, but the only prize we get is a great big tub of delicious vanilla ice cream!"


She smiled at Yugo and hugged him (even though he is a monkey). "At least you were not an idiot this time, you baka Yugo."

Yugo chirped in return, but Reiji was getting a little claustrophobic from the close proximity of the hug. "Can't breathe...in this body...mind collapsing...again...logically..."

"I'm sorry I couldn't get you the strawberry," Yugo began apologizing pulling his beloved RinRin closer as she nuzzled her head against his and Reiji's chest. "I was going to get you the strawberry, but-..."

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" Reiji gasped from within Yugo, stopping him from making the biggest mistake of his life.

"What was that, Baka-Kun?" Rin sweetly asked, her eyes slowly returning to their normal color as her Dark Signer anger vanished away.

"Nothing!" Yugo hastily corrected, sighing as he finally got to enjoy a tender moment without Rin kneeing him in the gut.

"Well...I think that about wraps up the loose ends." Leo Akaba shrugged, pouring himself, Yusho, Yoko, Himika, Shuzo, Yubel, Zorc, and Reira a glass of egg-nog Yugo had purchased during his speed run.

"Yeah..." Ruri agreed, returning to her normal self. "I mean...I still want to be a major character, but Yuto is so cute...I can't choose to become the central character if I lose him!"

"Agreed!" Yuzu replied, hugging Yuya tighter as she returned to normal.

"I still hate you." Serena grumbled as she and Yuri fell over on their backs.

"I hate you more." Yuri snapped back.

"I hate you most!" Serena hissed as they leaned in for an angry and romantic kiss to fulfill their undying hatred for one another.

"I hate to interrupt these beautiful reconciliations," Ray suddenly interrupted, her dark aura growing even more shadowy as she looked down on the others with hatred. "But you guys have conveniently forgotten about me!"

"OH, NO!" Yugo yelped.

"I TOLD YOU YOU WERE FORGETTING SOMETHING IN THAT SPEED RUN OF YOURS!" Reiji scolded.

"Well, what was I supposed to do!?" Yugo protested.

"Nothing." Zarc growled. "This battle is between me and Ray!"

"Indeed!" Ray agreed, using her Maleficent powers to transform into a gigantic black dragon before Zarc did exactly the same thing.

And thus...the final battle...BEGAN!

Now, if you were expecting a great and terrifying dragon battle that had both opponents claw, draw blood, bite, breathe fire and lightning, and just basically try to tear the other one apart...well, okay, that was a lie, they didn't draw blood...much.

But what basically happened was that they were both dragons who fought, one with powers of evil and darkness and the other with powers of evil...and...darkness.

As everyone watched with shock, awe, and eating popcorn, Zarc and Ray exchanged a few more words with each other (while fighting, because everyone knows that it's a perfectly logical idea to talk with your opponent while fighting).

"Impressive!" Ray complimented, using her feminine Angel/Demon Dark Signer Dragon agility to block another set of attacks from Zarc. "Your mastery over the four elements and summoning techniques is indeed impressive! But surely you don't think you can possibly defeat me!"

"I don't care if it's impossible!" Zarc countered, barely managing to dodge a blast of dark hell-fire from Ray's draconic mouth. "I'M BRINGING YOU BACK TO YOUR OLD SELF!"

"MY OLD SELF WAS WEAK!" Ray roared, deflecting a tail-whip attack from Zarc before barrel rolling through the air, and using Rin's own Knee-Smash technique to knock the wind out of Zarc's stomach.

"Your old self was PERFECT!" Zarc groaned, clutching at his stomach in pain.

"FOOL!" Ray cackled, preparing to finish Zarc off with her most powerful attack yet. "Don't you understand?! If we were to get married, it would have been one endless argument after another as our different natures and personalities clashed!"

"When have we ever argued!?" Zarc growled, preparing his own most powerful attack to counter Ray's power.

"Oh, where do I start!?" Ray laughed. "Let's see...I want to plant a flower garden, and you want to destroy all flowers! 'They're a threat to my power, Ray!'" she recounted, impersonating Zarc's voice. "'And besides, I'm allergic to them!' And then there was that time I wanted to build a birdhouse! 'We're not building a birdhouse, Ray! Birdhouses attract birds, and birds are a threat to my omnipotent demonic powers!' And don't even get me STARTED on that dinner that was cancelled! 'I'm sorry, Ray, but you wanted to do the dinner at night when the full moon would be out, and the moon's a threat to my power!'

"AND AS IF THAT WEREN'T ENOUGH," she bellowed, "you won't even have the decency to fly a kite with me! 'Are you kidding me, Ray!? Kites need wind to fly, and my omnipotent demonic powers are so weak that even the slightest gust of wind can completely wreck them!' I MEAN, COME ON! IS EVERYTHING A THREAT TO YOUR OMNIPOTENT DEMONIC POWERS!?"

"No, only those four things," Zarc muttered, but Ray still wasn't happy.

"THEN WHY ARE WE EVEN TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE?!"

"Because I still love you all the same!" Zarc snarled, narrowingly missing a dragon wing attack from Ray. "Even if we are different in nature and personality, even if we argue a whole lot, I still want to be with you! And besides...who else will I argue with anyway?"

"WHO ELSE WOULD YOU ARGUE WITH INDEED!" Ray replied, her fury reaching its climax. "BECAUSE I KNOW THERE IS NOBODY YOU WOULD RATHER ARGUE...WITH...than..." She paused as she considered Zarc's words.

There was nobody else in the entire multiverse he would rather argue with! It was so true!


"Hey, Zarc!" Leo roared. "Just for the record, I DO NOT approve of you going out with my daughter!"

"Sorry, old man! But I don't even feel like arguing with you!" Zarc retorted, taking Ray by the hand while they began vehemently arguing with each other about what movie to watch that evening. (Zarc wanted to watch a horror film, but Ray wanted to catch a chick-flick.)

"WE WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY THE UNITED WORLD!" A group of puny duelists called from their trucks as Supreme Dragon King Zarc used his powers to nuke another city block.

"Sorry, guys!" Zarc snarled, "But I don't feel like arguing with you now! I'm too busy contending with my sweet girlfriend, Ray!"

"Zarc, I know you're entertaining the crowds," a reporter commented, "but don't you think your aggression is a little excessive?"

"SHUT UP, REPORTER!" Zarc roared. "COME BACK AND ARGUE WITH ME WHEN YOU'RE RAY!"


Tears began trickling down Ray's Dark Signer Demon Dragon snout as she began recounting each of her treasured memories of the MANY arguments she and Zarc had shared over the course of their wacky lives. Why had she wanted to become an evil demon so they could agree on everything? How could she have been so blind to not see that their relationship was not only strengthened with mutual love and trust, but like iron strengthened with the constant heavy blows of the hammer, their relationship was fortified by the constant battering of their contentious bickering?!

She looked down at the cute demon dragon that was holding out his evil arms, as if to embrace her.

"Come home to me, my darling angel!" Zarc called.

Yes, that was right. She was his angel...the angel made to counterbalance his evil!

Ray looked at the dragon balls she had been saving.

"I know..." she began, her Dark Signer eyes fading back to their normal color, "what I want to wish for."

Zarc smiled, taking her hand (well, claw...since they were still dragons somewhat). "And what will that be, Ray?"

"I wish..."

Everyone held their breath.

"I wish that..."

"Yes?"

Ray smiled, enjoying the unnecessary suspense she was generating.

"I wish that we all went back to normal so I can get back to enjoying this Christmas party AND the one and only person I absolutely LOVE arguing with!" Ray wished, activating the power of the dragon balls and summoning a final massive green dragon to the field.

"OKAY!" Shenron roared, twisting his long green serpentine body through the air. "I SWEAR! IF ANYBODY IS WISHING FOR IMMORTALITY OR FOR ME TO BRING SOMEONE BACK FROM THE DEAD AGAIN, THEN I AM GONNA...!" Suddenly, he noticed Zarc looking up at him expectantly.

"Oh...my apologies, dark one." Shenron hastily apologized, bowing in deference to his omnipotent draconic master. "What is thy bidding for me, Zarc?"

"Actually, this wish is for Ray." Zarc clarified, indicating his still-draconic girlfriend.

"Oh...wow!" Shenron exclaimed. "She's...really thickened out."

"Careful..." Zarc growled, his demonic eyes glowing red.

"So, uh...what can I get for you!?" Shenron hastily continued before he could irk his master anymore.

"Nothing much." Ray shrugged. "Just for you to turn everyone back to the way we were before this silly little shadow game."

"That's it?" Shenron gaped, "You summoned the great divine wish-granting dragon for THAT?! FOR A SILLY CLEAN UP FOR THE SAKE OF PLOT CONVENIENCE!?"

"Hey, it's for my girl!" Zarc snapped, causing the divine dragon to glare at him, despite the fear he still held for his dark master.

"Very well." Shenron grumbled, his eyes glowing with power. "But I'm warning you know, master, that girl is gonna walk all over you!"

"I wouldn't have it any other way." Zarc purred, pulling Ray closer.

"Weirdo." Shenron mumbled under his breath before using his powers to quickly, conveniently, and instantaneously return everyone in the fanfic back to normal without the need for the authors to exhaust themselves with realism or consequences to past actions.

"Now, if you excuse me, I have some other more important matters to deal with...sir," Shenron muttered before taking the balls and disappearing into thin air, leaving the inhabitants of the house to themselves, some thinking of what the heck just happened, others trying to bleach their brains, and even some more who wanted to see that epicness again.

The last one was Yugo. Just saying.

Zarc and Ray, however, after being back to normal (somewhat, since Zarc was still a demon dragon boy), they returned to the game before them.

"Alright, that was an adventure...was there even a winner in that round?" Ray shrugged.

Zarc hastily stared picking up and putting the game away. "Either way, let's say this for a later time where we won't have to worry about...that all over again."

"Do we wanna play a different game?" Yuya asked, snuggling up next to Yuzu after putting on his own tomato sweater Yubel knitted for him. "You know...something less...apocalyptic?"

"You guys could always do a tame version of 'Truth or Dare.'" Yubel shrugged.

"That actually sounds like a good idea." Yuto smiled while accepting a glass of egg-nog from Leo.

"Yeah!" Rin agreed. "That game sounds totally safe!"

"There is absolutely no way THAT could devolve into craziness!" Yugo enthused, taking a bite out of his banana before picking a grub out of his hair and eating it, much to Rin's disgust.

"I completely agree!" Serena piped in. "I see absolutely no danger whatsoever in a tame game like that!"

"And there will most definitely not be any sick sadistic dares for me to kiss your ugly face." Yuri mused.

"Thank goodness for that." Serena sighed, washing out the taste of Yuri with a swig from her own egg-nog.

Zarc and Ray looked at each other.

"Oh, no..." Zarc began.

"Here we go again." Ray finished.

To be continued?


WELP...BADA BING, BADA BOOM, ANOTHER CHAPTER DOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNEEEEEE! :D What do you guys think? Was it hilarious? Mind-blowing? Did it...rocket you out of the stratosphere? *proceeds to make a Toy Story reference here*

XD Here are the responses to reviews before Donny says his words:

To Donjusticia: *holds up a glowing dragon claw* Do you wanna find out? XD But thanks.

To Ulrich362: Thanks. XD

To mcdinh: Um...I dunno if we're gonna continue with the jellybean gam-OF COURSE YOU CAN! XD

To XBrain130: FusedshippingPrevails2k...Infinity. XD

To KuriMaster13: Sorry, Danny is busy at the moment...too busy fighting ghosts and dating Sam. XD

To Sinking into Ruined Shadows: HE WILL NEVER STOP, RUINED SHADOWS! NEVER! XD Whelp, it's time for...a fandom zombie apocalypse, then.

To Epsilon Tarantula: I'm in pre-calc/advanced math AND I'm balancing chemical equations (soon with moles), and my mind is STILL numb. Does that count? XD

To Guest: Poor Shun, poor Shun...but the language is a little too much. I'm iffy with cursing, so please don't curse or swear. BUT YEAH, SHUN HAS HIS GIRLFRIEND!

To Nox Descious: But then...who was the little girl who changed his heart? Can't be Serena... XD WE NEED SOME MISTLETOE OVER HERE IN THIS AU!

To RubyTheLazyWhiteCat: Welcome to the club. :3

To KuroganeFang: Yeah...this is a little slower...and wackier. XD

To Technow: *in mystical voice* Sorry...but there is no "Yuya's Treat". That was all in your mind. It doesn't exist. You are getting sleepy...very sleepy... Also, have fun with that new studio! :D

To Lspaceship: Nope.

To Ghostkid33: And now you're a zombie. XD

To Shimmering-Sky: Reira, any words? Reira: I see a "dead fandom".

To Writertainer: JACK AIN'T GOT NOTHIN' ON THESE CHARACTERS, THOUGH! XD But yeah...those Kurosakis...Ichigo, Yuzu, Shu-wait, what?

To Soul of Innocence-Aamuet: How many times do I have to revive you or do you have to revive...you? XD

To Crystal Chimera: IT PROBABLY IS! And yeah...Yoko is cool. XD

To GXAL: XD Thank Donny for that...um, do you need some help to breathe for a few moments? XD

To Donvenganza666: YOU ARE EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! XD Yami Corrie: YAY, I'M IN THE AUTHOR NOTES! DONVENNY, COME HERE! Me: NO, GET OUT OF THIS DOMAIN! Yami: BUT I LOVE HIM! Me: GO, AWAY FROM HIM! NO, NO, NO, BAD YAMI!

Sorry, had to deal with a crazed cookie-loving Yami for a moment there...ugh, I think she's conspiring with Donvenganza to try and break into the ANs...ANYWAY, here are Donjusticia's words!

Ending Donjusticia Author Note: Whelp, another chapter under the belt! What did you guys think of it? Oh who am I kidding? The last thing anybody is doing right now is THINKING about what they just read after their minds have been blown!

But in all seriousness, thank you so much, dear readers! And now, without CorinnetheAnime's permission, I'm going to extend a special offer to all of you!

Since the next chapter will feature the game of Truth or Dare, you, the readers, now have the opportunity to submit your own (age appropriate) Truth or Dare questions and dares! Just choose exactly ONE character and submit with your review or in a PM, your question and dare for that character and your question MIGHT be featured in the next chapter! CorinnetheAnime totally approves! *Shoves CorinnetheAnime away before she can stop him*

(Certain restrictions apply. Absolutely no dares or questions will be considered if they are not at least rated K+ or lower and all dares and questions must be submitted BEFORE work begins on the next chapter! Donjusticia has absolutely NO SAY in whether or not this will even be implemented, so you guys should pay no attention to what this lunatic says.)

SUBMIT YOUR TRUTHS AND DARES NOW!

And now for a response to your reviews!

Ulrich362: *wipes a tear from his eye* Thank you! Your words are an inspiration to me and Corinne!

mcdinh: Unfortunately, Zarc has just destroyed all the jellybeans in order to avoid tasting more kale (his secret fifth weakness). However, if you want to contribute a truth or dare… *wink, wink, nod, nod!*

XBrain130: #ZARCRAYWEDDING2K17

KuriMaster13: Danny Phantom regrets not being able to make an appearance in this chapter. He was unfortunately detained attempting to prevent the spread of this nonsense to his own fanfictions.

Sinking into Ruined Shadows: NEVER!

Epsilon Tarantula: A2 + B2 = BREAK EPSILON'S BRAIN WITH INSANITY! (Sorry, I don't know Calculus, otherwise I would have given you something related to Calculus).

Guest: *Summons Captain America* LANGUAGE! Also, don't worry about Ruri. Shun will let her go on a date once she reaches her late 40s, when he knows she can act like a responsible adult.

Nox Descious: NEXT TIME ON ZARC AND RAY'S CHRISTMAS PARTY!
Yuri: BAH! HUMBUG!
Yugo: *rising up out of the floor like a ghost*
Yuri: Yugo! It can't be!
Yugo: Why do you doubt your senses!?
Yuri: Because, the littlest thing can upset them! The slightest thing can make them cheat! You are probably just a bit of undigested banana! Or a spoon of rancid strawberry ice cream! Yes! There's more of Yogurt than a Yugo about you!
Also, sorry man, but I think Moonlight Mood-Swings is going to be delayed. Nothing personal, it's just… Starve Venom's having trouble with the VHS.

RubyTheLazyWhiteCat: REALLY!? My mind is just fine! Oh wait…I DON'T HAVE A MIND! XD

KuroganeFang: How's this for wacky?

Technow: We are not responsible for damages to Shamar editing studios caused by collapsed roofs our blown-up brains created.

Lspaceship: No, it's not.

Ghostkid33: Then why are you still talking?

Shimming-Sky: Ah what can I say? Reira is just the most adorable creepy kid you could ever cuddle!

Writertainer: Shun is still battling Natsumi in case you were wondering. He is NOT going to chill out.

Soul of Innocence – Aamuet: Ok, why does your profile name have to be so AWESOME!?

CrystalChimera: That's because it is a FNAF reference.

GXAL: We are approaching marriage time! Eh, he he he he he, aw ha ha ha ha ha, aw haw haw haw haw haw, AHHHHH HAW HAW HAW HAW HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!

Donvenganza666: YOU ONLY POSTED THIS SO YOU COULD GET MENTIONED HERE!

Me: DONVENNY AND YAMI CORRIE WILL NOT GET TOGETHER! Please, my writers, band with Donjusticia and me to stop the two evil lovebirds from getting together! XD

Anyway, read, review, do whatever you want with this story (BUT NO LANGUAGE PLEASE)! And till next time, this is CTA out! AND GOD IS AMAZING AND POWERFUL! :D