Chapter 2

Yugi stood in the doorway. He stared at the two friends. The he disappeared in a poof of smoke. Marshmallon was confused. "Wait. What? How?" He said.

"I have absolutely no idea what just happened." replied Winged Kuriboh.

"Me neither. I hope that someone can explain this to us." said Marshmallon.

Just then, Eggy burst into the room. "Sorry to keep you guys waiting, but I had to rus-" Seeing the two monsters staring into empty space and looking at it like it might just explode stopped Eggy and he stopped right behind them. "Uh, guys? What's going on?"

Marshmallon turned around. "Thank Ra you're here! We were worried that that guy with the black, red, and yellow hair had done something to you!" he exclaimed excitedly.

Eggy was now thoroughly confused. "What guy?" he asked.

"Well, obviously the guy that called himself Yugi Mut-" Marshmallon began, but was interrupted by Kurry.

"Wait, what? How did you know he was Yugi Muto?" asked Kuriboh.

"Well, it said on his Duel Disk that his name was Yugi Muto. It was glowing. Didn't you see it?

"Not really, but I know who he is!" said Kuriboh.

"Really? Who?" asked Eggy and Marshy in unison.

"He's a very famous duelist who won the most recent YUGIOH World Championships. We know that his Deck composes of very strong traps. He literally beat someone with ONE TRAP on the first turn! I'm definitely going to be his fan." answered Winged Kuriboh.

"Wow! He must be very strong! I wonder when I can be that strong." said Eggy, amazed.

"Yeah. Hey! Maybe we can train together!" added Marshmallon, and they all started training. They did special effects, abilities, and the ability to react when someone attacks them. Eggy also improved by fusing multiple Spells and Traps and seeing what they combine into. For example, when he combined Mystical Space Typhoon with Seven Tools of the Bandit, he got Dark Bribe. When he combined Creature Swap and Zero Gravity, he got Enemy Controller. By the end of the day, Everyone had gotten stronger. Marshmallon was now LV4, Winged Kuriboh was LV3, and Eggy had many new cards to add to his arsenal. He got Enemy Controller, Dark Bribe, Magic Cylinder (Which took a particularly long time, due to the fact that he had to tinker with many cards, such as Prime Material Dragon, Negate Attack, and a rare Reverse of Reverse), Draining Shield (Prime Material Dragon + Negate Attack), Ceasefire (Thunder Short, Swords of Revealing Light, and Cannon Soldier), and he even made three totally new cards, which were Marshmallon Glasses, The Flute of Summoning Kuriboh, and Transcendent Wings, a tough combo of Rank-Up Magic Astral Force, Rank-Up Magic Numeron Force, and Rank-Up Magic Barian's Force. It allowed Winged Kuriboh to Level Up to a much higher Level, but only temporarily. Marshmallon Glasses was much harder, though. It required five Negate Attacks, two Z-ONEs, and two sacrificial Marshmallons (Marshmallon cried a lot that evening, he didn't like to see his brethren get sacrificed, even though it was only a card). The Flute of Summoning Kuriboh was the easiest. All that Eggy had to do was put one Transcendent Wings, one Flute of Light, and a Kuriboh. (Kuriboh also cried). But other than spell cards, Marshmallon gained a new ability. When he entered the Data Scanner, it beeped:

"LEVEL: 4. ABILITY: CANNOT BE DESTROYED BY BATTLE OR CARD EFFECTS. WHEN THIS CARD IS ATTACKED, INFLICT 1000 DAMAGE AND DESTROY THE ATTACKING MONSTER."

"Wow, that's a really cool ability!" exclaimed Kuriboh.

"I agree. I feel stronger already!" said Marshmallon, who was glowing with pride when he stepped out of the Data Scanner.

"My turn! My turn!" said Kuriboh, eagerly entering the Scanner.

"LEVEL: 3. ABILITY: YOU CAN SEND THIS CARD FROM YOUR HAND TO GRAVEYARD TO PREVENT TAKING DAMAGE FOR THE REST OF THIS TURN. DURING THE DRAW PHASE, IF YOU CONTROL NO CARDS AND HAVE NO CARDS IN YOUR HAND, YOU CAN ADD THIS CARD FROM YOUR GRAVEYARD TO YOUR HAND without DRAWING YOUR NORMAL DRAW. WHEN THIS CARD IS BANISHED, DRAW TWO CARDS." beeped the Computer.

"Wow! That's a really good effect!" said Marshmallon as Kuriboh flew out of the Data Scanner.

"Whew! What a long day of training! Oh, that reminds me! you guys HAVE to come to see the World Cup tomorrow! It's at 10:00am! I'll meet you there!" said Eggy, remembering.

"Okay!, we might even see Yugi there, and ask him in person on why he was here! And we can see people duel!" Marshmallon said excitedly. Kuriboh nodded in agreement.

It was 7:00 pm when they all returned home and finished dinner. The gang played a bit at Kurry's house, and started to part ways.

"See ya tomorrow!" they called to one another. Marshmallon headed for home and slept into his bed. Little did he know that a shadowy presence was just outside, waiting for the time to strike . . .

Marshmallon found himself in a shadowy realm. "Where am I?" he wondered. He took a look around his surroundings. Trees were burnt and there was only one patch of grass still green. The rest were still burnt and yellow. A shadowy presence was in the air. A shadow came from the sky and landed in front of Marshmallon. "Who are you?" Marshmallon asked.

"I am Number 96." the figure said in a booming voice, seeming to come from all sides.

"Hey!" Marshmallon exclaimed, remembering a fact that he learned from school. "Aren't you the guy who's in the ZEXAL dimension, the guy who's supposed to look like Astral?"

"Well, yes. But Astral and that little punk Yuma forced me to hide out here, in the Chaos Dream World." said Number 96, shrugging as he turned into his form that resembled Astral. "I was so close to getting the Numeron Code!" he turned toward Marshmallon. "But now that you're here, I can use you to get myself out of here!" Number 96 walked closer to Marshmallon. Marshmallon, in his own opinion, had no intention of being used as a sacrifice or whatever Number 96 wanted to do with him. Marshmallon turned around, and fled. He fled as fast he could float, and looked back at ties to show that Number 96 was slowly gaining on him. He ran around the walls, hoping that he could shake him off. It didn't work.

Number 96 suddenly stopped, and his eyes widened. Marshmallon turned around to see what he was looking at, and gasped. In front of him was a giant Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, staring at them. Then it hit him: They were running around in circles! The so-called "wall" was the Dragon's scales, and the Galaxy-Eyes charged. Marshmallon screamed "AHHHHHHHH!" as everything went black.