Me: Hello I'm eating cheese and crackers right now!

Astral: Why are you telling people about it?

Me: BECAUSE I LOVE CHEESE AND CRACKERS! IF YOU HAVE ANY CHEESE WITH CRACKERS GIVE THEM TO ME NOW! I do not own Yugioh Zexal or Yugioh Zexal II or Yugioh Zexal III or Yugioh Zexal IV or, wait a sec, there's no Zexal III or Zexal IV yet. Whoops.

Astral: Think a bit before you talk.

Me: Yeah yeah ENJOY AND SEE YOU AFTER THE CHAPTER!

Chapter 4: What This World Is About

Yuma yawned as he leaned on his desk in class. It was English class and they were reading a book called The Outsiders. Their teacher was nice so for this class they were just listening to the audiobook version of chapter 6 without doing any work.

"Yuma, don't fall asleep in class." Sarah hissed in his ear.

"But there's nothing to do." Yuma whined quietly.

"Just listen to the book. We're gonna have questions related to it next class."

The chapter ended off and the teacher stood up. "Okay, go back to your homeroom. That's all for today. Goodbye."

The class said goodbye as they gathered their stuff and left to wait in the hallway for the other class in their homeroom to finish.

"Hey, Sarah?" Two girls walked up to her and asked. "You seem to know the new kid Yuya well. How is that?"

"Oh, Yuya?" Sarah began thinking. "Well…."

"Are you going to tell them about how you found us in your room?" Astral floated over her and asked.

"Like I would say that!" She yelled at him.

"Um, are you okay?" One of the girls asked.

"Wha? Oh, just fine! Fine! Don't worry about it! Ahehe…." Sarah said quickly.

"How do you think he gets his hair like that?" Another girl asked.

"His…hair?"

"Yeah! How does it stick up lie this in the back," She motioned the four spikes in the back of Yuma's hair, "and this at the front?" she motioned the two spikes of Yuma's bangs.

"Uh…" Now that Sarah thought about it, she was so used to Yuma's hair by now she never thought of it as weird. Plus it was technically impossible in this world for someone's hair to stick up like that. "Well…."

"Kattobingu daze!" A yell came from down the hall. There was some cheering down at the end of the hall and the three girls turned towards it.

"What's going on?"

"Dunno."

"It seems Yuma just challenged a boy to see who could drink the water faster." Astral said. "They both have a large waterbottle filled and the first one to drink it all wins."

"What?!" Sarah ran down the hall to see Yuma done half of the water, while his opponent was only done a third, but was catching up fast.

"Oh jeez Yuma." His opponent was drinking faster, and soon Yuma was losing. Then his opponent yelled happily and threw his empty bottle on the ground and stepped on it. Yuma finished five seconds later. He gasped as he swallowed all of the water.

"You lost, now pay up!" The winner yelled at Yuma.

"Sure! Just gimme a sec!" Yuma ran over to Sarah. "Can I borrow five bucks?"

"What?! Why?!"

"We bet five bucks on whoever won. I don't have five bucks. Can I have five bucks?"

"I gave you all my money for lunch!"

"Oh." Yuma turned back sheepishly. "Uh, there seems to be a problem. I, uh, don't have five bucks."

"What?! I won so give me the money!"

"But I don't have any—"

"He'll give you it tomorrow!" Sarah interrupted. "Right Yuya?"

"Uh, sure!" Yuma nodded his head. "Yeah!"

"Hmph. Fine." Then the boy and his friends walked away. Sarah dragged Yuma away from the others.

"What are you doing?!" She whisper-hissed at him.

"The guy was bragging. I bet I could do better."

"You couldn't have won you know."

"Sure I could! If I Kattobingu—"

"You don't get it do you!" She yelled. "This isn't your world where anything is possible when you hope for it! This is our world! It's mean and it tears you down and nothing good happens from it! Don't try so hard on something you don't know how to do."

"You never know until you try."

"Nothing comes from hoping." She said. "You just get your dreams crushed on the way of trying when you realize there's no good coming from it."

Yuma stared at her. "Do you really think that way?"

Sarah turned away. "Come on. Class is probably starting now and you're making us late." She walked down the hall.

"Hey! Wait up!" Yuma yelled and ran after her.

-After School-

"Forget it Yuma!" Sarah yelled.

"But come on!"

"No!"

"Please?"

"No!"

"Oh come on!"

"I am not going to tell you what sumo bullfighting is!"

"But I want to know!"

"Fine!" She spun around. "It's where you sumo wrestle a bull! Happy?"

"Oh! That's cool! Can we do it some time?" Yuma asked.

"NO!"

The two teenagers and Astral were walking down the road. There weren't many people around today. Five minutes ago, when they were walking, they heard some boys talking about it and Yuma had asked what it was.

"Why would you want to wrestle a bull anyway Yuma?" Astral asked.

"Why? Cause it would be fun! That's why!"

Sarah sighed. "Are you really that clueless?"

They continued walking down the road, talking and arguing a bit. The a man wearing a suit walked up to them.

"Um, can we help you?" Sarah asked.

"Actually, you can." The man looked at Yuma. "By giving me your Numbers."

Sarah stared at him. "What?"

"You're a Numbers Hunter too?" Yuma asked.

"You are going to lose to me now." The man said.

"Like that'll happen!"

"Uh…." Sarah said. "What's wrong with you?"

"I'm collecting the Numbers. Is there a problem with that?"

"YEAH THERE IS!" She yelled. "Come on Yuma! Let's go!" She began dragging him past the man.

"I know how you can get back to your world."

Yuma stopped walking. Astral looked at the man.

"If you beat me, you might find out something."

"Fine!"

"What?! Yuma! That's crazy!"

"It's just dueling! I'm not gonna lose." Yuma smiled and gave a thumbs up. Sarah continued staring at him as he pulled out his D-Pad and D-Gazer. The man also pulled a D-Pad and D-gazer.

"How does he have one?"

"Oh hey, here!" Yuma tossed a d-gazer to Sarah, who caught it clumsily. "You left this in your room this morning!"

"B-But-" Sarah stuttered, "I don't have a d-gazer."

"Wha? Then how'd that get there?" Yuma wondered. "Oh well! I couldn't find your D-Pad so I just brought the d-gazer."

Sarah stared at him. "I don't have a D-Pad. All I have is that fake d-gazer I made for that anime convention downtown."

"Huh? Then where'd this come from?" Yuma cocked his head in confusion. "Oh whatever! Just watch our duel!"

"Not like I have any other choices." Sarah muttered and fingered the d-gazer. "Uh, how do you turn this on? I'm pretty sure you push this button and—" The d-gazer unfolded apart immediately and Sarah shrieked in surprise.

"Put it on." Astral suggested.

"R-Right!" She fumbled with it for a second before putting it over her eye. "This makes no sense…."

"Alright! Let's go!" Yuma yelled. "Duel disk, set!" He threw his D-Pad into the air and it attached itself to his wrist. "D-gazer, set!" He put the lens over his eye as it activated.

The man also took out a d-gazer and d-pad, and activated them.

"This seriously makes no sense." Sarah muttered to herself. "Why did we get ambushed by a weirdo man? Why the heck does he want Numbers? Why can't he just go buy booster packs like everyone else to try and get one? How does he know Yuma has Numbers? How does he know Yuma's not from this world? How does he have a way for Yuma to get back? Why does he have a d-gazer and d-pad? Why isn't there anyone else around? And how the heck are they dueling with AR vision and fancy duel disks in our world where everyone duels by sitting on the ground and CALMLY playing their cards?!"

"What are you talking about?" Astral asked. "Are you saying people duel differently in this world?"

"Uh, I'll tell you some other time." Sarah said. "You should probably help Yuma out with this duel."

"Yes. I feel there is something wrong in this duel."

"Oh you don't say. Did the fact that a random person you don't even know challenge you to a duel in a different world where dueling's considered stupid by most adults and three-quarters of the kids tip you off?"

"What?"

"Nothing." Sarah looked back at Yuma. "But I agree. There's definitely something wrong here."

"Yes. Now the question is, what?"

"DUEL!"

Me: And now some more things are happening! A random adult challenges Yuma to a duel! This would be considered in Yuma's world but not so much in our world. Plus for some reason the duel disks and d-gazers work. This is gonna get serious…. (snickers)

Astral: Why are you laughing?

Me: I don't know! For some reason I find the idea of an adult challenging Yuma to a duel in our world funny!

Astral: (sighs) You have a strange sense of humour.

Me: I know! Just like how I think someone wiggling on the ground like a worm is funny!

Astral: (looks at her, sighs)

Me: You sigh a lot! It's funny! Anyway, review the chapter, tell me what you think the mysterious man's up to, and see ya all later!