Wow. i finished this one faster than i thought i would. Finally the two worlds collide... i think this might be the longest one chapter.


Chapter 9

A Fangirl's Dream

It was true I was shocked. It was true I was confused. How can stepping outside a bedroom door that is on the second floor of a house, by the way, lead you to a busy street?

But instead of feeling scared I felt perfectly calm. I felt like I've seen this place before. But where?

Besides that, the town looked peaceful enough. The streets were busy, yes, but no crazies were on the road driving. The people on the sidewalks either stood there waiting for the bus or walked to their destinations. Both groups minded their own business. There were a few small children playing happily in the park across the road. The sky was a brilliant shade of blue; no clouds were in sight. The sun was shining bright.

Even though the sun was shining, people were waling around in heavy coats, scarves, and boots. So were the children in the park, one looked like a cute, big marshmallow with pink little feet. I swear she was cute.

Not until then had I realized that I was cold. I began to shiver. I was definitely not dressed to be outside in, what, 50 degree weather.

I was wearing a thin, light blue, long sleeved shirt with a big Kuriboh on the front; a dark blue skirt with a pocket on the side (it also kind of looks like a Japanese anime schoolgirl uniform skirt); long, white knee socks; and dark blue converse shoes. I also wore a light blue headband in my hair that had a cute, tiny Kuriboh on it too.

Trembling, I looked over at Aeron. She was smart enough to come over to my house with a jacket. A dark red jacket over a red t-shirt with the Red Eyes Black Dragon on the front. As a Joey fangirl, it's quite obvious which card is her favorite and favorite to wear. She had blue jeans on that had holes in them. A popular fad. She also had tennis shoes on.

She wasn't trembling from the cold. I was jealous of that jacket.

"H-hey, A-Aeron? Can we go back inside? I- I need to get my jacket." I asked her. She nodded.

We turned to go back through the door. On the door, a sign said OPEN. Above the door, a sign said that we were about to go into a store called "Tina's Jewelry Box". A jewelry store.

Aeron opened the door and we stepped inside. We didn't step inside my room though; we stepped inside of the jewelry store.

"Well, this isn't good." Aeron bluntly said. "Come on Erica, let's go. We might find an entrance to your room somewhere else."

Aeron turned to leave, but I just stood there instead. "No, it's warm."

She grabbed my arm and dragged me away from the warmth.

When we were outside, I began to shiver again.

"We need to find the entrance to your bedroom." Aeron stated.

"I-I d-doubt we w-will, Aeron. I got a-a f-feeling that will be im-impossible. I th-think were st-stuck here." I disagreed with her idea of returning home. Something just told me we couldn't.

"Well, then, we need to buy you a jacket." Aeron said, noticing how much I was shivering.

"I d-don't suppose you b-brought any m-money with you, did y-you?"

"No… what's that sound?"

"That's my teeth chattering."

"Oh."

We started to walk down the sidewalk. At the crossing road, we and some other pedestrians crossed the road to the other sidewalk that ran next to the fence of the park.

Aeron just followed me. She didn't really care where we went; we weren't in Sunnyside anymore so she, unlike me, thought it didn't matter where we went.

When I found the gate that led into the park, I went through it. I found a concrete path and walked along it. We soon came to bench and I curled up on it, trying to get warm.

I just stared out at the park that looked so different from the parks in Sunnyside, arms wrapped around my knees which I held close to my chest.

Aeron just silently sat down next to me. She was probably thinking the same thing as me. Where are we, and how do we get home?

A guy walked by. He threw a newspaper away in a fancy trash can that was not far down from us and the bench that, no matter how long I sat there, was freezing my butt off.

Suddenly, Aeron stood up and made her way to the trash bin.

"What're you doing, Aeron?" I asked her as she lifted the lid and stuck her hand inside it.

"Ewe." I said. She just rolled her eyes as she brought out that newspaper.

She came back and sat down next to me.

"Get that stinky thing away from me!" I leaned away.

"Oh it's not that dirty!" she said to me.

"Why'd you get that nasty thing anyway?"

"Because," Aeron scanned the front page of the thing, "newspapers always tell the date and the city and state the paper is printed. Don't you watch those detective movies? This is a simple trick to learn where and/or when you are."

"I get it."

"See, the date is the exact same as ours back home… so we didn't time travel." Aeron showed me the date on the page. I kept my distance while looking. I wasn't exactly a neat freak but, come on, it came from the garbage!

Aeron scrutinized the page once more for the city. When she found it, she let out a gasp.

"What?" I asked.

"E-Erica? Does Domino City exist?" she questioned in reply.

"You mean where Yu-Gi-Oh! takes place? No, I don't think so."

"Well, according to this, that's where we are."

"Wha- let me have a look at that." I demanded.

I seized the paper, thus putting me in a normal sitting position, and read the part that told the city. Domino City.

"Oh, gosh, we're in Domino." I thrust the document back to her.

I truly didn't know what to think of this. How the heck could we end up in Domino? I mean, Yu-Gi-Oh! was just a show, right? The only thing from the show that is real is the card game, right?

"Perhaps, we jumped dimensions." I reasoned. Actually, for some reason, I wasn't really reasoning with myself or Aeron. I- I knew it for true. Something… something inside me told me that. I believed it.

Aeron nodded her head in accord. I think she'd believe anything at this moment.


After the called he had with his two friends, Yugi told his grandpa and Atem about the conversation. They laughed at the part of Bakura watching Disney movies obviously, but listened intently to the rest. The other two didn't know what it meant either.

Not long after, Atem had grabbed his coat and a scarf and left saying that Joey, Tristan, and Tea were going to teach him and the thief some things they didn't know about living in modern times.

"Yeah… tell them I said hi and good luck with that." Yugi said. Knowing the Thief King, they were going to have to force it down his throat.

Not long later, Yugi called Ryou back to see if he was as bored as he was. It turned out he was so, as a result, they decided to hang out. they would meet at the park since it was a half-way point and they both were too lazy to walk all the way to the others house.

Before he left though, Yugi noticed that his grandpa was acting… normal.

"Grandpa? Have you taken your medicine today?" he asked Solomon Motto. Yugi's grandpa takes prescribed pain medicine every morning. One of the medicine's side effects is hyperactive-ness…or generally known as acting crazy. Like on Christmas Day when he thought he was a Wonder Pet. That was caused by the side effect.

"Um… no. I feel fine today." Solomon replied.

"Grandpa, the instructions say to take it once a day and to ask the doctor about skipping days. Grandpa, that means to not skip days."

"I know what it means." Grandpa moped as he headed toward the bathroom where the medicine was kept.

Yugi waited to make sure his grandpa took the medicine, and then left after he was sure the medicine was taken.

It's a good thing that he was wearing a lime green coat, dark jeans, tennis shoes, and a white sweatshirt or he would've froze out in the cold weather.

Running fast to keep warm, Yugi was at the park in no time.

"Gosh, where is Ryou. I'm freezing out here! He better not still be in his warm house making me wait here in the cold… nah, he wouldn't do that. Bakura would. But not Ryou." He muttered to himself, hopping from one foot to the other in a vain attempt to keep warm.

Five minutes passed and he was still waiting. Another ten and he heard Ryou shouting his name as he ran towards him waving.

The white haired teen was wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes, a grey shirt, and a purple coat (purple was his favorite color).

"Yugi! Sorry I took so long. Bakura must've hid my coat while I wasn't looking. It took forever to look for it before I found it in the fridge." Ryou explained.

"Why didn't you wear another coat?" Yugi asked, holding in a laugh. Bakura found a pretty silly place to hide a coat.

"This is my favorite coat."

Yugi shook his head while sniggering a bit. "Come on, I heard they're selling hot chocolate somewhere in the park."

"Good 'cause I could use a cup. I'm freezing."

"How do you think I've been for these past 15 minutes?"

The boys entered the park and made their way toward the back end. That was where everyone with a steaming mug of hot chocolate was coming from.

As they made their way down the concrete pathway, they saw two girls sitting on a bench not far down from them. One, a brunette, was reading a newspaper and the other one, a blond, was sitting with her knees to her chest, clearly freezing.

"Aeron," the blond said, "look, everybody here has hot chocolate."

The brunette answered her; apparently she was 'Aeron'. "Erica, we didn't bring any money. So we can't buy any." 'Aeron' didn't look up from the paper.

"Uuuuuggghh! Least let me borrow your jacket!" the blond called 'Erica' protested.

"No. I need it." 'Aeron' still didn't look up from the page.

"But I'm cold!" 'Erica' complained.

"Well, you should've worn a jacket."

"Well, how was I supposed to know my bedroom door was a portal to another dimension!? I didn't think I was going to need one! I didn't even know I was going to come here!" 'Erica' cried.

'Aeron' dropped the tabloid and put her hand over the other girl's mouth. She muttered something into the blond girl's ear, but Yugi and Ryou didn't hear it.

"Another… dimension?" Yugi looked over at Ryou, who was just as confused as he was. "Hey, Ry, do you think one of them is the 'person with tremendous power' that's going to save the world?"

Ryou had a look on his face that clearly expressed on how absurd the idea seemed to him. "Are you kidding me? They look no more than 13! The brunette might cut it for a little while but not long. The blond looks too fragile."

"But Ryou," Yugi looked up to his friend, the past six months did nothing for his height, "she said 'portal to another dimension', isn't that enough proof? Also, by the way you talked about them, it sounds like Bakura might be starting to rub off on you."

Ryou paused for a moment. "That's not good." He said at the thought of Bakura's personality affecting his attitude. Then he added, "Yeah, that does sound like enough proof. We should find out."

"But how?"

"We'll think of something."


"Don't say that too loud. That last thing we need is for people to think we're batty." Aeron crossly whispered. I hated it when I got her mad.

I pushed her hand away from my mouth. "Sorry. But I'm turning into an ice pop here." I muttered back.

I unfolded myself from my position and sat normally; I kicked my legs in the cold air thinking the constant motion would keep my legs warm.

After a minute, I sighed. "Hey, do you really think we're in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Domino? I didn't read the whole paper."

"We are definitely in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Domino. The first page talks about Kaiba Corp… and the rest of the paper talks about related things." Aeron said as she picked up the paper again.

I stole peek at it once again to see if that was true. It was.

I took the paper from her and held it. Aeron looked at me with an expression that said: "Should've known you'd do that".

"What're we going to do?" I asked Aeron once the silence and cold got to me. "How're we going to get home? We need to get home. Today's the day a new epi. of Yu-Gi-Oh! was going to come out. If I miss that I'll die."

Aeron didn't answer my question when she pointed and said: "Hey, don't those guys over there look cute?"

"What? Who?"

"Them." she pointed to three guys who were standing with hot chocolate in their hands. "Dare me to go flirt with them? I'll do it."

"Aeron!"


Yugi was getting tired of standing there doing nothing while Ryou tried to think of a way to find out about the two girls. The snow hair adolescent had already dismissed Yugi's idea of just walking up and asking them. He said that they had to do it secretly, without the two young girls knowing. Yugi could've sworn that Ryou was too heavily influenced by Bakura.

Yugi had enough. He left his friend and strolled off toward the hot chocolate stand.

"Where you going, Yugi?" Ryou called after him.

"To get some hot chocolate. I get you some too." He called back.

The hot chocolate stand was at the far end of the park. So to get there, it caused him to pass the strange girls.


I looked up as soon as someone passed. For some reason, I became a machine. Look somewhere, someone passes the bench, look in their direction, they pass, look somewhere else. I had done that for a while now.

This time, the cycle was broken.

A teenage boy had passed. He looked about our age, but I knew it for naught when I saw his hair.

His hair was tri-colored and stuck up in all directions.

When he passed the bench, I stared after him in bewilderment. Was that…?

I glanced at Aeron. She apparently saw him too. Her face had the same expression as mine.

"You know," she said, "I understood that we were in Domino City… but I never expected to see the King of Games."


As Yugi walked back with two hot chocolates in his hands, he heard a warning whisper that said: "Quick! Look away! Look away!"

Odd. He thought.

When he reached Ryou, who hadn't moved from that one spot, he handed the silver haired teen his cup.

"Did you see they way those two girls stared after you?" Ryou gossiped as he sipped his hot chocolate.

"Not really, I wasn't paying attention. But it wouldn't be the first time." Yugi laughed.

"Hey, wait. If those two are from another dimension, how would they know who you are?" Ryou realized this.

"I have…" Yugi began but he was interrupted.

"OH MY!" the two boys heard a feminine voice yell.

"…No idea." Yugi and Ryou turned to see the brunette swiftly turn to the blond.


"Erica!" Aeron yelled at me.

"Wha-at!" I replied just as loud.

"They heard you!" Aeron motioned to her left, where a fluffy haired teen and the pointy haired teen.

"Heard what?"

"You say we're from another dimension!"

"How do you know they- hey, we're you eavesdropping?"

"No. They're like, what, ten feet away? I can easily hear thing if they are within a ten feet radius!"

"So what?"

"So WHAT? So…" Aeron was cut off by the sound of laughter. We turned in the direction of the laughter to see that the two boys were giggling their heads off.

"W-what're you laughing at?" Aeron asked, slightly annoyed. She hated being laughed at.

"S-sorry." The taller teen panted.

"Yeah, we didn't mean to laugh. It's just that kinda looked funny." The other teen added.

"Sounds like you meant to laugh to me." Aeron countered, getting more irritated by the second.

I had a picture in my mind of what would happen if I didn't calm Aeron down. I didn't like it.

"Aeron, calm down. You gotta admit that was pretty funny." I reasoned.

"Humph." Aeron crossed her arms and looked away from the two boys.

The spiky-haired teen suddenly appeared behind us and was leaning on the middle of the back of the bench. "Sorry we made you mad." He said innocently.

We jerked toward the ends of the bench (me toward the right, Aeron toward the left) with faces that clearly showed that he surprised us.

"And sorry that my friend here surprised you." The other one walked up to the side of the teenager leaning on the bench.

"But is it true… that you're from another dimension?" Spiky looked at us.

I looked at Aeron. She gave me a sign not to answer, but I did anyway.

"I would say yes but she'd kill me if I did." I motioned to Aeron who face-palmed.

The males laughed at that.

"And here starts the crazy rep." Aeron said.

Spiky smiled, "We don't think you're crazy."

"Yeah," Snowy shrugged, "we have actually been waiting for you."

The two boys got replies of: "Nyeh?" and "I don't like where this is going."

"We'll explain in full later, but for now how 'bout you come with us to my grandpa's game shop? You seemed cold. You can get something hot to drink there." Spiky suggested.

"I don't know…" Aeron began but I cut her off.

"Sure," I stood up, "come on Aeron." I grabbed her arm and pulled her up. The boys walked out from behind the bench and motion us to follow them.

"Wait, Erica, you're actually going to trust them?" Aeron inquired of me.

"Sure, why not?" I countered, bluntly.

Aeron muttered something softly.

Snowy slowed to a pace to where he was walking beside me. "May I ask you something?"

"Sure." I answered.

"It's not that I was intentionally watching or anything, but I sort of saw the way you stared after my friend when he walked passed you as if you knew him. Did you know him or was it just because of his hair?"

"Well, yeah, we do kind of know him… and you."

At that, Snowy blinked. I could feel that Aeron was on the verge of face-palming again.

"Me? How? I understand my friend, but me?" Snowy was clearly confused.

Uh-oh. How do I explain this? I think Aeron was right when she motion me to keep my mouth shut. I would say right now 'me and my big mouth' but the dentist would disagree.

"Aeron, would you mind explaining?" I tried to get Aeron to explain my mistake.

"Oh no. You said it, you explain it." she said.

"Thaaanks."

"You're welcome."

I thought for a moment. Both Snowy and Spiky were looking at me now waiting for an explanation. Explaining this would be a bit embarrassing.

"Well, you see, in the dimension we're from, there is this TV show and manga called Yu-Gi-Oh! and you two are characters in it."

Now it was either because we were already there at the game shop (which we were) or because of surprised that they stopped in their tracks.

"What?" they said in unison.

"Yeah."

"Um… how 'bout you explain further when we're inside." Spiky said.

We entered the shop. They took us backshop to a living room.

Spiky motioned us to sit down on the couch while he got us some hot chocolate. Snowy explained that store bought hot chocolate was ten times better than the hot chocolate in the park. That is probably why they threw their cups away so fast.

After I finally had a warm cup in my hands, Snowy asked us- meaning me since Aeron wanted no part in the explaining- to explain the Yu-Gi-Oh! thing. And I did. (A/N: I will spare you the details since you readers probably could guess what she said exactly.)

"Now, that's cool." Yugi said.

"Wow. Wait. It sounds like Bakura isin it more than me." Ryou said.

"He is." I said.

Ryou didn't exactly like that, I wouldn't blame him.

Yugi thought of something, "You said something about an abridged series, what's that?"

Aeron and I sniggered.

"What?" he asked.

"You see," Aeron felt like explaining this, "the abridged series is a parody of the show. Same characters, almost same plot, but it is fan made. It is made to be hilarious, which it is, and made for fun."

"Yeah," I finished her explanation, "the guy who makes them, LittleKuriboh, or CardGamesFTW, he is known as both, started to make them for fun. But he began to get a huge fan base and many subscribers on Youtube who demanded more. So now he makes them for the fans. It is hilarious, even though it slightly makes fun of the show."

"Actually, it makes fun of 4Kids."

"Yeah, it makes of the 4Kids dub of the show. Poor 4Kids. Anyway, it is awesome. I watch it everyday. Even though the humor in it is a 'bit' mature."

"So this LittleKuriboh guy makes fun of the people who did the English dub of the Japanese show." Yugi made sure he had that straight.

"Yes." we replied in unison.

"Need us to explain anything else?" Aeron asked.

"Nah. Think we're good." Yugi said.

"So. Now that we explained our explanation, how about you explain yours?" I bargained.

"Well, ours is a bit simpler than yours." Yugi said. "But surprising all the same."

"You see, you know Atem and Bakura, they came back on Christmas Day. Back to the living, with their own bodies. We learned from Marik and his siblings that was part of a prophecy." Ryou said.

"The prophecy states: 'A person with tremendous power will come from another dimension and save our world'. And since you're from another dimension, it must mean you…two." Yugi concluded.

We looked at them for a second.

Aeron finally piped up and said: "Well, it ain't me. I don't believe a powerful destiny would be put on my shoulders."

"Are you saying it's me?" I asked her. Me of all people. I should be the least likely to be able to save the world or even have tremendous power.

"Well, none of this happened until right after you solved that puzzle." Aeron pointed to the puzzle around my neck.

Ryou and Yugi looked to where she was pointing and their eyes widened.

"W-where did you get that?" Yugi exclaimed as he reached out and held the golden puzzle.

He lifted it up to face level to get a good look at it.

"I got it from Santa for Christmas. I only started putting it together today." I said.

"And you finished it today! How long did it take?" he was apparently surprised.

"Within five minutes."

"Oh my-! It took me-"

"Eight years, we know."

Yugi seemed jealous. I didn't find any fault. He had a puzzle like this once (or this was his puzzle) and I claimed it for my own and finished it faster than he did. For a second, I actually felt pretty guilty.

I felt compelled to say that I was sorry, but before I could even open my mouth, Ryou spoke up. "Hey, Yugi, don't you think that we should call Marik and the others?"

"At least Marik." He replied, still looking at my puzzle.

"Could you call him? You're really the only one with his phone number."

"Oh sure. Um… here you go." He handed my puzzle back to me; I took it.

Yugi left the room. While he was making the call, Ryou asked: "So, about that abridged series, did this LittleKuriboh guy make me the cool one or…?"

Aeron and I began to giggle.

"It-it depends on how you look at it." I said.

Ryou cocked his head to the side in slight confusion.