Near was clutching onto his chair, wondering why there were no puzzles around. There were always puzzles in Watari's office! Something was fishy. Wait.. He'd just magically poofed into a room full of dead people. Maybe that was a little higher on the fishy-o-meter. Where the hell is Kindell now?

"Kindell is dead." Matt said between puffs of his cigarette. "I saw her in heaven right before we dropped in here. Just for a second. Pretty sad. She'd gotten so cute."

"Will you not talk about my little sister like that?" Mello snarled.

"Aww. Are you jealous?"

"SHUT UP!"

"Near how did you die?" L asked, popping a chocolate covered strawberry into his mouth. So L had his sweets, Matt had his cigarette, Mello had his chocolate, but Near didn't have his puzzles? How was this fair?

"I'm not dead." Near said blankly, looking up at the ceiling wondering why logic had suddenly abandoned him.

"Then why are you here with all us dead people?"

"I'm assuming you have all come back to life."

"You assumed correct." Watari removed his hat and sat himself down in his seat. "Starting this year, you will partake in the... WAMMY GAMES!" Streamers dropped in from the ceiling, flowing around the room. L lifted one in his hand; the streamers were pieces of torn notebook paper.

"So what's the objective of the game?" Mello asked, biting off a piece of chocolate.

"Quite simple. You will all be put into a giant artificial environment fabricating the shinigami realm. You will each be given a death note and a shinigami. To win, you must be the last one left alive." Watari answered.

"So we have to kill each other? I have to kill my sweet Mello?" Matt stroked Mello's cheek slightly.

"STOP IT RIGHT NOW OR I'LL KILL YOU RIGHT HERE!" Mello reached into Watari's desk and pulled out a picture album consisting entirely of pictures of Kindell. He opened it to a page at random which featured Kindell in a yellow summer dress, looking lovely and graceful and kissing a butterfly. "Don't you want this Matt?"

"Yes." Matt said, his eyes wide. He reached towards the album longingly, but Mello pulled it away.

"Only if you promise to stop."

"Yes! Fine! Just give me the album!" Mello dropped the album in Matt's arms and turned back to Watari.

"So when are we going in?"

"Why are you asking me?" Watari asked.

"Yeah why are you asking the perv?" Matt echoed.

"How am I the perv?" Watari questioned.

"You had Kindell's picture album in your desk to start with. Pedobear."

"Excuse me-" "Let's just get on with this." L interrupted, sucking on a lollipop.

"YOU! You are my rival in love." Matt pointed a finger at L.

"Kindell's dead Matt. I think the only rival in love you have now is god." L tossed the empty stick to his lollipop into the trashcan and pulled out another one to suck on.

"LET'S JUST GET ON WITH THIS!" Mello shouted, kicking Matt in the… ^.^... Matt sunk to the ground in pain, holding onto Kindell's photo album for dear life.

"My Kindell, my sweet sweet Kindell. Only thoughts of you get me through my dreary, painful-Ow, oh so painful life."

"By thoughts you mean wet dreams." L interjected, sucking on his third lollipop.

"She's. My. SISTER." Mello tossed his chocolate bar to the ground. Everyone instantly quieted down. If something drove Mello so far as to tossing even his chocolate bar to the ground, then well.. heh.

"Ah, Now you're all fired off to kill. Head on to your rooms and rest up; tomorrow's the big day." Watari picked up his hat and set it back on his head, exiting the office.

"Wait..." Mello said.

"Yes child?" Watari asked, tipping his hat at the blonde.

"If our only means of killing each other are the death notes, well, we're in the shinigami realm without any technology or such, how do we figure out anyone's name?"

"You will figure that part out." And with that, Watari departed.

The next Morning:

Mello awoke to find that Matt's arms were around him.

...

"What was that noise?" L asked between a sip of tea.

"It sounded like Mello." Near said, his eyes focused on the 25-piece animal puzzle in front of him. This place was driving him nuts. It took him four hours to just find puzzles, and now it turned out to be but a stack of the things he used to solve at age two.

"Hmm. I wonder," L muttered as he added another sugar cube to his tea. Just then Matt walked out immersed in the Nitendo DS in his hand.

Matt has his video games and I can't find one single good puzzle? Near thought bitterly. For the first time in his life he wanted to throw something, destroy something. Why was this? Was it emotions? Whoa.

When Mello walked out, shirtless, things felt even worse to Near. Maybe it was everyone randomly coming back to life after so many years. Nothing was making sense. It was like logic had deserted him. How could people come back to life?

"Hey Near, you okay?" Mello asked, nomming on a chocolate kiss. Near tossed aside the puzzle piece in his and and rolled around to face Mello.

"Yes."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"WOOOHOOO! TAKE THAT BOWSER! AND BOWSER JR." Matt shouted, dropping the DS on the couch.

*silence*

The silence was stifled by none other than Watari. He ambled in to the kitchen holding his top hat firm on his head. He smiled widely and turned to the boys.

"Your match starts very soon. I should tell you right now however, you will not be alone in this fight. You will each have a mentor who will help you throughout the game. As well as a mentor, you will have supporters who will donate money to you in order for your mentor to send you supplies."

"S-supporters?" Near asked.

"Yes supporters. All of your fangirls." Watari answered.

"We have.. fangirls?"

Haha, I know it's not too long but I'm going to slowly build this thing up and kill all of you with anticipation. That's my revenge on you guys for making me get rid of my glorious MeMe.