Later that night, Ryan was lurking around in the darkness looking for a new victim. He looked for about an hour or so before he ran into an Obelisk Blue girl that was out for some reason, or another.

The Obelisk Blue girl, whose name was Heather Tosima, was on her way to meet her boyfriend. As she walked down the forest path, she saw that it was getting darker and darker as she walked. That night, the moon was supposed to be full. But it was so dark that she couldn't even see the stars.

Suddenly, Heather ran into an invisible wall. "What the…!?" she spluttered, stepping back.

Ryan smiled to himself. He had his prey trapped. He then made himself look as scary as possible, and stepped out into sight.

"Hello, my victim." he said in a low, threatening voice.

Heather jumped, and turned around. "Who are you?"

Ryan chuckled to himself again. "I'm your worst nightmare."

"What do you want?" asked Heather.

Ryan lifted his duel disk and activated it. "A duel…for your soul!" Heather got the picture, and activated her duel disk. "Ladies first." said Ryan.

Heather drew a card. "I'll summon Cyber Gymnast in attack mode (800/1800). Then I'll place two cards facedown, and end my turn."

Ryan drew a card. "I'll summon Armageddon Knight in attack mode (1400/1200). Since I summoned my Armageddon Knight, I can send one dark monster from my deck to the graveyard. Next, I'll activate my Heavy Storm to destroy your spell, and trap cards." A large storm appeared, and blew away Heather's facedown cards. "Next, I'll activate Rescue Machine from the Different Dimension. Now, once I have removed up to five cards from play, I can shuffle them into my deck. Now, my Armageddon Knight will destroy your Cyber Gymnast!" Ryan's Armageddon Knight charged forward and destroyed Cyber Gymnast, and Heather's life points dropped from 4000-3400.

"I end my turn."

"It's time to take things to the next level." Ryan thought, as Heather drew her card. Without Heather noticing, Ryan used all of his limited, for the time being, shadow powers to turn the duel into a Shadow Game. He winced slightly, as bolts of pain ran up his right arm, and small blotches of blood appeared up and down his arm on the bandage that wrapped around his arm.

"I'll summon the Gymnastic Swordswoman in attack mode (1800/1200)." A woman wearing a gymnastics leotard that was carrying a small sword appeared on the field. "Now, my swordswoman will destroy your Armageddon Knight." Gymnastic Swordswoman did a few flips forward, and cut Armageddon Knight's head off with her small sword, and Ryan's life points dropped from 4000-3600. "That take!" sneered Heather, and she looked up at Ryan. She screamed as she saw Ryan's head part company with his body.

Ryan's head fell to the ground laughing hysterically. "Woops, I guess I lost my head over that one!" Ryan's body then bent over and picked up its head, and placed it back on its shoulders. "Have you heard of a Shadow Game?" asked Ryan.

Heather gulped as she nodded. She knew had dangerous Shadow Games were. Each one was different, but the outcome for the loser was always the same. Their soul would be forever trapped in the Shadow Realm.

"It this particular Shadow Game," continued Ryan, "Anything that happens to our monsters, happens to us. Now, is it my turn?" Heather nodded, and Ryan drew a card. "I'll summon Dark Grepher in attack mode (1700/1600). Next, I equip him with the Sword of Lasting Evil. This will increase his attack points by 200 points for every dark monster in the graveyard that I remove from play. Since I have two dark monsters in my graveyard, I remove them from play to increase my Dark Grepher's attack points by 400!" Dark Gepher's attack points went from (1700-2100). "Now, my Dark Grepher will destroy your Gymnastic Swordswoman!" Dark Grepher ran towards Gymnastic Swordswoman, and slashed Heather's monster across the chest. At the same time, a large gash appeared on Heather's chest. She screamed and fell over, as her blood splattered everywhere. Then a few seconds later, the gash healed and disappeared. Her life points dropped from 3400-3100. "I end my turn."

Heather still covered in her blood, stood up and drew a card. "I summon Assassin Gymnast in attack mode (500/500). Next, I'll equip her with the Athletes' Determined Spirit!" Assassin Gymnast was covered in a pink aura. "Now my Assassin Gymnast will attack your Dark Grepher!" Assassin Gymnast jumped towards Dark Grepher, but was destroyed when Dark Grepher hit her in the waist with the flat end of his sword. Heather doubled over in pain as her monster was destroyed. "Due to my Athletes' Determined Spirit, I take no life point damage. Next, due to my Assassin Gymnast special effect, your monster is destroyed." Dark Grepher was destroyed.

"Since my sword was destroyed," said Ryan, "you take 500 points of damage." Heather's life points dropped from 3100-2600.

"Anyway," said Heather, "My Athletes' Determined Spirit second effect activates. You can't normal summon any monsters your next turn." Ryan shrugged. "I end my turn."

Ryan drew a card. "This duel ends now." he said ominously. "I'll activate the spell card Dimension Fusion! If I pay 2000 life points, I can special summon as many monsters that I have removed from play." Ryan's life points dropped from 3600-1600. "So I special summon my Armageddon Knight, and my Dark Crusader in attack mode (1600/200)."

"…No…" whispered Heather.

Ryan smiled evilly. "Both of my monsters will attack you directly." Armageddon Knight and Dark Crusader nodded, charged towards Heather, and slashed her. Heather's life points dropped to 0.

Heather dropped to her knees just as a dark pool of shadows appeared under her feet. She looked down and stared in horror as semitransparent arms rose up from the shadows, and started pulling her into the shadows. She screamed and tried to fight them.

"Your soul will be consumed by the shadows. Doomed to wander the shadow real forever." said Ryan, watching Heather's struggle with amusement. Heather still fought against the arms, until all put her head was sticking out of the shadows. She screamed once more and several more arms shot out of the shadows, and forced her head into the shadows. The pool of shadows rippled for a bit, and disappeared.

"Ryan!" someone shouted. Ryan whirled around to face the new threat. But he stopped when he saw who was coming out of the shadows of the trees.

Author's Note:I think you all knew that at some point or another, the Shadow Games where going to show up in this story.
Gymnastic Swordswoman

Type: monster

Level: 4

Stats: 1800/1200

Effect: This monster has no effect.

Assassin Gymnast

Type: monster/effect

Level: 2

Stats: 500/500

Effect: The monster that destroys this monster is destroyed.

Athletes' Determined Spirit

Type: Equip Spell

Image: a gymnast who is practicing on a balance beam.

Effect: This card can only be equipped to a monster with "Athlete" or "Gymnast" in its name. When the monster equipped with this card is destroyed, you take no battle damage. Your opponent can't normal summon monsters on their next turn.

Rescue Machine from the Different Dimension

Type: continuousspell

Image: a large machine with a portal in the middle of it. Monsters are coming out of the portal.

Effect: When you have removed five cards from pay, shuffled them back into your deck.

Sword of Lasting Evil

Type: equip spell

Image: A large, blood stained sword. the hilt looks like it is made of flesh and bone.

Effect: This card can only be equipped to a dark type monster. For every dark type monster that is removed from the graveyard from play, the equipped monster gains 200 attack points. When this card is destroyed, inflect 500 points of damage to your opponent.