2. Two Worlds Collide~
Kinou was standing in the middle of a room and she was being tested for something. The Dark Magician was standing in front of her and someone was commanding it to attack her but it didn't want to... then a girl who apparently didn't like Kinou very much arrived with a fire pokemon and shouted at it to attack her. It blew a stream of fire at Kinou and she created a protective shell around herself using some psychic ability. Morpheus from the Matrix was talking on an overhead speaker and saying that she was particularly strong against fire attacks. Then she was standing behind the girl who didn't like her who was standing in front of a panel of judges. "The Dark Magician likes her? That's why it wouldn't attack? She cheated!" Then Kinou was on the edge of a dueling arena and was being challenged to a team duel. Yugi was on her team, and the opposing team was two strange boys and the Dark Magician, who looked very confused and strange, holding dueling cards in his hands. A girl walked up and gave the Dark Magician a kiss and he started to cry. He hugged Kinou close to him, muttering and kissing her on the forehead. When he finally let go of her, she went to her place while Yugi explained the rules of the game. You needed to roll dice to summon monsters; a "one" would enable you to summon a level one monster, and "two" would give you a level two monster...etc. Kinou rolled a black die, which enabled her to summon a level four monster. Glancing into her hand, she realised with a jolt of her stomach that she had only pokemon cards, which would be useless in a duel monsters duel. She attempted to summon and electric pokemon called chinchou. Then Professor McGonagall appeared with a dazzling light shining behind her and said that Kinou had a fine collection and had been collecting pokemon cards for a long time...
Kinou awoke with a start with her hand over her eyes. What a weird dream, she thought. She noticed that something felt really different to her and she took her hand off her eyes and glanced around the living room. It was extremely dark, as though the shades had been drawn over the windows in the middle of the night. It looked like some light purple fog was swirling around the room as well. She propped herself up on her elbows and squinted at a digital clock on the desk beside the couch: It was only 10:00 in the morning.
She sat up straight and looked around warily. "That's weird," she said slowly, and she shrugged. "All well, I must still be dreaming." That satisfied her enough, so she lay back on the couch, but shot up almost immediately, for she had heard a quiet laugh from the shadows across the room from her, and a voice trailed out.
"This is no dream," it said.
Kinou went rigid. She knew that voice, but... it couldn't be. She straightened up and said confidently, "It has to be, how else could it be this dark? Unless the clock is telling me it's 10 at night; then my dad would have gotten me up by now and sent me to bed."
"This darkness is what happens when two worlds interfere with each other."
"Ummm, sure," she said. I might as well have some fun and try to make sense of this part of the dream. "Who do you think you are waking me up? How did you get into my house?"
"I have my ways," said the voice.
"Your ways? Oh, that's really specific, I understand completely now." she said sarcastically. When the person did not respond, she went on. "Why are you standing in the shadows? Why don't you just show yourself so that I don't have to imagine what you look like anymore?"
"Why are you asking? You should know who I am."
She paused. I hate it when my dreams play games with me and make me think. "I know who you sound like, but if this isn't a dream, then you can't be who I'm thinking of. You sound like Marik from Yu-Gi-Oh, which is a cartoon, and.... you can't be him," she finished lamely.
"Who says I'm not?" laughed the voice.
"I do! Come out of the shadows already!" Kinou shouted, standing up.
"As you wish," said the voice, and Kinou saw movement in front of her. As the person stepped into the light, she gasped. He was Marik, Millennium Rod and all, and he was smiling in the evil way she knew too well from watching Yu-Gi-Oh. He had long, light blonde hair, tan skin, and purple eyes and he was at least two inches taller than Kinou, making him a little intimidating.
Kinou slowly came to her senses. "Ok, so you are Marik, which makes me even more sure that this is just a dream."
He folded his arms. "I have told you already, this is real; no dream."
"So if this isn't a dream, why are you here in my world? Why aren't you still with the other anime cartoons?"
"I'd have thought you would have figured that out by now. I have come to fetch you."
It took a few seconds for the absurdity of these words to sink in. "Fetch me?" repeated Kinou blankly. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Exactly what it sounds like." Marik stepped closer and grasped Kinou's arm firmly above her elbow. "We're going."
"Where?" asked Kinou, trying to wriggle out of his grip.
"Back to 'the anime world' as you would call it," he said, squeezing her arm tighter; he waved the arm clutching his Millennium Rod. Kinou immediately felt as though she was falling down a deep hole. She yelled, but could not hear herself above the sound of wind rushing past her ears.
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