Me: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Happy dance!

Astral: And why are you so happy?

Me: Tenth anniversary of my first fanfic! Happy dance!

(ShadyVox's Stronger plays (I love that song))

Astral: So since you are on the tenth chapter, you do a happy dance?

Me: Yup! Happy happy happy happy happy dance!

Astral: I still do not think this is necessary.

Me: Oh just shut up and dance.

Astral: We do not own Yugioh Zexal in any way other than this fanfic.

Chapter 10: These halls are very dark

(I honestly have no idea who's POV this is so I'll just write and find out)

What happened a little bit earlier:

"So now how do we turn off this generator?" Takashi asked.

"How about by destroying it from the inside-ura!" Tokunosuke shouted.

"You're going to destroy this huge machine?" Takashi laughed, then stopped at the sight of Tokunosuke crawling into the machine from one of the vents. There were sound of crashing and slamming heard from the inside.

"I'll help out too!" Then Cat-chan ran and jumped onto the machine, clawing and scratching at it as hard as she could.

Takashi stared as they both started to break the machine. Finally he cracked. "Fine! I'll help out too!" Then he ran up and started hitting it with his shoes. It really was a strange sight.

After some hitting, the machine gave one final beep, then broke down. All the lights in the building went off.

"Yes! We did it!" They all started jumping up and down in joy as soon as Tokunosuke crawled out of the machine entrance.

"Yay!"

After they calmed down a bit and stopped jumping, they faced eachother. Finally, Tokunosuke spoke up.

"Now how do we find the others when it's super dark in here?"

Okay then, switching over to how Yuma and Kotori are doing.

Kotori and I ran down the hallway. Another scream was heard. "We'd better hurry!" Kotori said. "Yeah!" I said.

"The lights went off, so I guess Takashi and the others turned off the power." Kotori said.

"Yeah, but we still haven't found that map." I said as we kept on running.

After a while, we came to a fork in the hallways. "Uhh, so what do we do now?" I asked. I got answered with a punch to the head from Kotori.

"Isn't it obvious! I'll go down this hall and you go down that one!"

"So we're going to split up?"

"Yes!"

I ran down the left hallway while Kotori ran down the right.

"Yuma."

"Hah! What is it Astral!"

"I do not think it was a good idea splitting up."

"And why not!"

"If there are two people, there's a better chance of surviving here. When there's only one, there's less of a chance."

"That makes no sense! And besides, what's the worst thing that could happen!"

As you guys probably know, in movies, as soon as someone says something like that, something bad happens. Here is no exception.

I turned a corner and saw the scientists from before on the ground. They weren't moving. I'm guessing they were the ones who screamed from before. "Oi! Are you okay!" I shook the scientists. They still weren't moving. This wasn't good.

"We should get going Yuma!" Astral said.

"Yeah!" I kept running in the direction from before, turned a few more corners, and saw a corridor darker than the other ones. "Weird."

"It is not a good idea to go there."

"Which is exactly why we're going down there." I ran down the corridor. It was darker than everywhere else. Soon, I couldn't see anything except Astral.

"Umm, Astral?"

"Yes?"

"I think you were right about this not being a good idea." I turned around randomly, trying to find some light and a way out. After hitting a few walls,

"Yuma! Look out!"

I spun around just in time to see a black tentacle fly towards me.

"Ahhh!"

Back with Kaito (is there anything to talk about?)

Yeah yeah you might hate me for switching right at that moment, but hey, I gotta find some way to keep you reading this story!

(Kaito's POV (just saying but I might fail at how Kaito sees stuff))

I ran down the hallway, turned around a corner and saw Orbital rolling from a fork in the hall.

"Kaito-sama! It's this way!" And Orbital rolled down the other hall. I followed. What's going on! Who screamed? And why are all the lights out.

Along another hall, some kids ran up. He recognized them. "Hey! You're Yuma's friends, aren't you?"

The one with a blue mushroom hairstyle said, "Yeah! So to summarize, that means that you're Kaito!"

"What are you doing in Heartland Tower!" I demanded.

"Er, um, well, we were, lost! Yeah! Lost!" The short kid with a weird hat said. "We wandered in and have been trying to find our way out!"

"Visiting hours were over a long time ago. You do know that, don't you? That would have been the only time when you were allowed in." I looked at them suspiciously. Finally, the one who looked like a cat shouted.

"We're looking for Yuma and Kotori! We split up and then heard screaming! And now I'm worried about Yuma!"

"Kaito-sama! I can call security if you want!" Orbital said.

"Shut up!"

"C-Confirmed!"

I looked at her. She looked at me back with determination. I guess she isn't going to give up. "Fine by me. I'm just here because I heard someone scream and I'm going to find out who."

They all sighed. Am I really that intimidating? "Oh! By the way! Do you know why all the power just shut off?"

They all stiffened and turned away. The short one started whistling and stared at the ceiling. The blue mushroom head looked around and started talking about directions, and the one that was probably part cat just looked to the side and didn't say anything.

"Well okay then." They obviously knew something, but I'll find out later. "We should get going. The scream came from the 5th floor, and we're on the 3rd. We have two more flights of stairs."

We walked around in the dark. It's a good thing that I've been around this building so much. There was another scream.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"

That sounded like… "Yuma!" We all shouted together. We started to run faster down the hall with me leading. As we ran up the stairs, a girl with green hair bumped into me hard.

We both flew back. "Oww!" The girl said, rubbing her behind, then spotted me. "Ahh! Kaito! Wait! Why are you guys with Kaito!" She asked, pointing at the other kids.

"Why you! How dare you bump into Kaito-sama!"

"Orbital! Shut up!"

"R-right!"

"To summarize, we met him and he knows where the screaming came from."

"Well hurry! That was Yuma who screamed!"

"Right, but Kotori, you're going the wrong way."

"I am?"

"Yeah, it's another floor up."

"Oh."

"Lead the way Kaito!"

"Don't tell me what to do!" I snapped at the short kid. He gulped. "Come on!" I kept running up the stairs. They followed.

"Oh yeah Kaito!" The green haired one, Kotori I think, ran up to me. "Why'd you have to steal Tetsuo's soul!"

"There was no other way to get the Numbers." I replied simply.

"But you don't have to take Tetsuo's soul to do—" I shut her off with a glare.

"You have no idea what I have to do to get the Numbers and why I do it so don't start criticizing me about it!" I turned back to the hall and ignored her.

After another flight of stairs, we ran down the hall. Everything seemed to be darker, and it was silent.

"Umm, is it just me or did everything get darker-ura?" Shorty asked.

"I'm pretty sure everything did just get darker!" The cat answered.

"This isn't normal!" I said. "We'd better get moving!" I started running faster, while the other kids struggled to keep up.

The hall that we were running down seemed to get darker and darker. Soon it was pitch black and we couldn't see anything.

"Orbital! Lights!"

"Confirmed!" And then a bright flashlight shone from his eye lighting up the hall.

"This way we can see a bit." I said.

We walked a bit further, then heard a voice.

"Hehe, well this is a surprise! A Numbers Hunter and some of Yuma's little friends!"

"Who's there!" I looked around, although it was impossible to see who said it in the dark.

A figure appeared from the darker hall. Everyone behind me gasped. I just had one question.

"Astral? Why are you black?"

Me: Yeah, weird way to end it off but I couldn't think of anything else. It's not like Astral helps me with these things.

Astral: Most of the time, I just stand on the side and watch her type and think of disturbing ideas.

Me: You'll find what happened to Yuma in the next chapter. I think.

Astral: You think.

Me: Yeah. I think. I'll know after I'm done writing. Also, YOU'RE NOT DANCING

Astral: I do not think it is necessary so I will not.

Me: Jeez, now I have to happy dance alone.

Astral: So now what.

Me: Now I shout REVIEW at the people reading this.

Astral: Well what are you waiting for then?

Me: REVIEW!