Me: CONGRADULATIONS TO HANA13 and YIN-YANG YO-YO FOR GUESSING OUR NEW GUEST!
Astral: That is nice, now can you stop yelling?
Me: CELEBRATING! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! I LOVE SHOUTING! NYEH!
Astral: (sighs) This is getting a bit too much (disappears back into the Key)
Me: Wow! That's like the first time he disappeared on me! Wow! Maybe I should stop yelling!
Me: Yeah you should stop yelling! It's hurting all of our ears!
Me: Yeah! Listen to your alter ego number 1!
Me: Wait! I thought I was alter ego number 1!
Me: Weren't you number 4?
Me: No! You were number 7!
Me: Do I have seven alter egos? I thought I only had 5!
Me: No! I have seven! You have 5!
Me: Wait! But you are me! So how do you have more alter egos than me!
Me: Duh! I'm the you from an alternate universe!
Me: No! That was me!
Me: OKAY! STOP IT ALREADY! YOU GUYS ARE ALL SO ANNOYING!
Me: U-Um, all 157 of us do not own Yugioh Zexal.
Me: I HAVE 157 ALTER EGOS! HOW ON EARTH DID THAT HAPPEN!
Me: DUH PEABRAIN! WE'RE ALL PARTS OF YOU AND WE ALL HAVE EGOS! SO IT'S OBVIOUS!
Me: Um, shouldn't we get to the story?
Me: Shy me is right! Let's get going!
Me: Jeez! This would have never happened if Astral was here!
Me: GIMME THE COMPUTER SO I CAN TYPE DAMNIT!
Me: IT'S MINE JEEZ!
Me: YOU ARE ME!
Chapter 3: Ownage by Sharks
"Yuma? What are you doing here?" A voice said from behind me. I turned around.
"You're Shark!" I took a step back, but collided with the wall.
"What's wrong?" Shark frowned.
"P-Please don't hurt me or steal my cards!" I cowered behind my hands. Well this day turned out just fine! Shark, the school bully, is about to steal my cards! And possibly beat me up!
"Seriously! What are you talking about?"
I stopped cowering a bit. A bit. "You're not going to duel me and steal my cards?"
"Why would I do that?"
"Well, you duelled almost everyone in the school and took their rarest cards. So, it's not my turn?"
"I stopped that a long time ago when you won against me!"
Huh? What is he talking about? "Won in what?"
"A duel of course!"
I froze. It's the same. It's the same as with those people! Even Shark's treating me like someone different! This is all too weird!
"Sorry! I have to go!" I ran away from Shark to my home.
"O-Oi! Yuma!" He shouted after me.
(Now Narrative to fill up some holes)
"What's up with Yuma?" Shark wondered as he turned away from the spot where Yuma was just standing.
"Shark!" He heard a voice yell and saw some kids running towards him.
"Kotori? What is it?"
"We just saw Yuma run off!" Tetsuo said.
"Hey! Do you know what's up with Yuma? He seems really weirded out! He was convinced I was still the bully that I had been before I dueled him!"
"There's something wrong with Yuma. He doesn't remember that we're his friends either!" Kotori explained.
"Seriously? What happened!"
"Well, everything was normal yesterday and Yuma went to duel a guy named III."
"III?" Shark looked agitated.
"Yeah."
"And he lost?"
"Well, sort of."
"What do you mean sort of?"
"III did something to Yuma halfway through. He said he erased the Kattobingu from his memories."
"Kattobingu? You mean Yuma's annoying catchphrase?"
"It's not annoying! And the thing is now Yuma's acting like this!"
"You forgot to mention Astrl-ura!" Tokunosuke said.
"Who's Astral?"
Yuma's friends all froze and looked away. Shark looked at them. You really think I'm falling for that?
"Who is Astral!"
"Astral's the spirit living in Yuma's Key that helps Yuma win duels!"
". . . . What?"
"And then III did something and killed Astral!"
"III, killed a ghost."
"Well he's more of a spirit but that's not the point! Now Yuma's all sad and depressed and hardly remembers anything and we need to help him and you're helping!"
"Wait. What?"
30 Minutes Later…
Kotori, Tetsuo, Cat, Takashi, Tokunosuke and a reluctant Shark stood outside the entrance to Yuma's house.
"Okay, remember the plan?" Kotori asked.
"Why does it have to be me!" Shark complained.
"Because when you two first dueled, Astral appeared! So if you duel again, maybe Astral will come out to help!"
" . . . . Astral came in our duel."
"Yeah."
"You said Astral helps Yuma win duels."
"Yeah."
"So doesn't that basically mean that Yuma cheated in our duel?"
"That's not the point here! Let's just go!"
Kotori walked up to the door and knocked.
"Coming!" A shout came from inside. The door opened and Akari stood in the doorway.
"Oh! Kotori-chan! What is it?" She asked.
"Has Yuma been acting strangely lately?"
Akari frowned. "You noticed too?"
"Yeah."
"He comes home yesterday acting like a total wimp! He doesn't argue when I tell him to get a report for me! He says he quit duelling 5 years ago! And he's upstairs actually doing his homework!"
Their jaws dropped. Yuma. Actually do his homework with his own free will. He's done it before, but that was because Kotori or Akari or his Grandma or the teacher pressured him into it. Yuma actually doing his homework from his own free will. The thought is mind blowing.
"W-Well," Kotori tried to snap out of it. "Could you call him down to see us?"
Akari sighed. "I'll try." She went back inside. "Yuma! Come down here!"
"Um, sure.." Yuma crept down the staircase. "What is it sis?"
"Dunno. Just come down." Akari walked away back to the living room. Yuma peeked around the wall, his eyes widening at the sight of Kotori and others.
"W-Why are you here?" Yuma asked quietly.
"Yuma!" Kotori ran in and grabbed his arm and started pulling him out.
"W-W-What are you doing?" Yuma asked as he got dragged out his house.
"Just go with it!" Kotori looked down at Yuma's chest. "Yuma? Where's your Emperor's Key?"
"What's that?"
"Is he serious?" Shark asked. "What's wrong with him?"
Yuma's eyes widened and started freaking out. "C-Can I please go now?" He asked.
"Not yet! First you duel Shark!" She said.
Yuma stared at her. "W-What?"
"You're duelling Shark! Come on! Get out your D-Pad and deck!"
"B-But I don't duel!" Yuma tried to protest.
"Just try!" Kotori pushed him out the door. "Tetsuo! Go get Yuma's stuff!"
"Sure!" Tetsuo ran into Yuma's house and returned a few minutes later with a red D-Pad and Yuma's deck case.
"W-Why do I have to duel?" Yuma tried to pull away but Kotori refuse to let go.
"Let's go to city square! That's where you duelled Shark the first time!"
"I duelled Shark?" Yuma didn't remember ever doing that.
"Yeah! When Shark beat Tetsuo in a duel and took his deck, you stepped in and duelled Shark and got Tetsuo's deck back!"
"Really?" Yuma doubted it and thought she was just making it up.
"Yeah! So now that we're here, duel!" She pushed Yuma to one side of the square and Shark walked to the other side.
"B-Bu-But—"
"No buts!" Kotori handed over a red d-pad, d-gazer and his deck to Yuma.
"W-What do I do with this?" Yuma asked.
"Activate it and put your deck in it and get ready to duel!" Kotori said.
"Uhh…" Yuma pressed a button on it and the d-pad unfolded into a duel disk. He took out his deck and put it into the deck slot.
"Duel disk! Set!" Shark yelled and his blue d-pad unfolded in the air.
"Now the d-gazer!" Kotori said to Yuma.
"R-Right!" Yuma pressed another button and the d-gazer unfolded. He put it over his let eye.
"D-gazer! Set!" Shark threw his into the air, caught it, and put it over his eye.
"AR Vision, link established." A mechanical voice said.
"DUEL!"
"D-Duel."
Shark: 4000
Yuma: 4000
"Yuma! You're going first!" Shark shouted. Yuma's eyes widened.
"R-Right! I-It's my turn, draw." Yuma drew a card. "I-I summon Ganbara Knight in attack mode."
A knight with a large shield rose up and yelled.
"Yuma! Ganbara Knight has no attack points!" Tetsuo yelled.
"W-What?" Yuma looked at the monster and at the card. "Oh. I-I end my turn."
"Yuma!" Tetsuo yelled.
"It's my turn! Draw!" Shark yelled and drew a card. "I summon Big Jaws in attack mode!"
A large shark rose from the ground.
"Now the effect of Shark Stickers from my hand activates! Since I just summoned a fish monster, I can special summon Shark Stickers!"
Another shark rose from the ground.
"Now I overlay my level three Big Jaws and my level three Shark Stickers! I build the overlay network with these two monsters! Exceed summon!"
The two sharks flew into a vortex and combined. Lights flew as if exploded.
"Appear! Submersible Carrier Aero Shark!" A large shark designed like a double plane flew out of the vortex with two lights flying around it.
Yuma backed up and freaked out silently.
"I detach one overlay unit to cause you 400 points of damage for each card in my hand! I have 4, so you take 1600 points of damage!"
Aero Shark shot out missiles towards Yuma. They exploded and sent him flying backwards screaming.
Shark: 4000
Yuma: 2400
"I'm not done yet! I play the spell Aqua Jet! Now Aero Shark's attack points go up by 1000!" A hologram next to Aero Shark showed 1900 rising to 2900.
"Aero Shark! Attack Ganbara Knight!" Shark yelled.
"Yuma!" Kotori yelled.
Yuma stared at the incoming shark with wide eyes. He freaked out and back up, only to fall down. The shark dived down and shot out missiles. The blast sent Yuma flying back.
Shark: 4000
Yuma: 0
Shark took off his d-gazer as the holo-space dissolved. "Guess you were serious about Yuma." He said to Kotori, who had run over to help Yuma up.
"Yuma, are you okay?" Kotori asked. Yuma got up and looked down.
"A-Are we done here? Was that just so you could prove that I'm useless?" Yuma asked quietly.
"W-What? No!" Kotori looked shocked as Yuma slowly took off his d-gazer and shoved it in his pocket.
"Oh yeah, Yuma!" Shark walked over calmly.
"W-What is it?" Yuma asked, obviously scared.
"Where's your pendant?"
"What?"
"The Emperor's Key. Why aren't you wearing it like usual?"
"I-I don't know what that is." Yuma said and turned away. "W-We're done here, right?" Then Yuma ran past Kotori and Tetsuo.
"Yuma?"
Yuma didn't turn around as he ran as fast as he could home.
"Y-Yuma!" Kotori shouted after his fleeing form. She could have sworn that she saw some tears on his face when he pushed past her.
They stood there for a while before Tokunosuke spoke up.
"I don't think it worked-ura."
They all turned to him and took a deep breath. "IT TOOK YOU THAT LONG TO FIGURE IT OUT?"
Me: I'm using the anime descriptions, not the TCG ones.
Me: Also, nobody ever told Shark about Astral.
Me: I think everyone just assumed that he knew over time.
Me: Well that's stupid. They should really keep track of the plot!
Me: Hey! That's not nice! Please apologize to the readers!
Me: Please shut your face! It's annoying!
Me: You're the mean me!
Me: And your just plain annoying! Go away!
Me: I can't go away!
Me: I wasn't talking to you! I was talking to her!
Me: No you weren't! You were talking to her!
Me: OKAY CAN WE PLEASE JUST SHUT UP! GODS I'M ANNOYING!
Me: It's not my fault! Blame—
Me: SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!
Me: Review the chapter.
Me: That's my line!
Me: No that's mine!
Me: Mine!
(large fighting commences)
Me: (sighs) I hope Astral comes back soon. I don't think I can stand another minute with myself.
Me: Hey! Why aren't you in here!
(grabs her and pulls her into the giant cloud of people beating up each other)
Me: Re-Review! Please!
Me: OH GODS ASTRAL HELP US! HURRY AND COME BACK! PLEASE!
