"Aaaah! Yami LH-chan!" exclaimed Reiko and Otome in unison.
"Yami...LH-chan?" asked Yugioh slowly, thinking that, perhaps, he was in a little over his head.
"She's...she's....LH-chan's most powerful muse!" exclaimed Otome.
"Muse?" asked Yugioh. "You mean the mythological creature who gives artists and writers their ideas?"
"Uh, huh," muttered Reiko, looking rather horrorstruck.
"You do realize then, that means she's what you've been looking for all this time," said Yugioh, watching the strange muse-girl—who was currently floating in mid-air, and staring at them goggle-eyed—with mounting concern. She looked like a small, and rather cute, snake, ready to strike.
Reiko blinked, still staring at Yami LH-chan. "Uh, oh...he's right."
"Yeah," agreed Otome nervously.
Yami LH-chan cocked her head, still staring, then grinned broadly.
"Wow! Characters escaping their books...I'll definitely have to drop this to LH-chan as a plotbunny later!"
"Oh, please don't," muttered Reiko.
"Awww...why not?" asked Yami LH-chan, standing now, instead of floating, still staring. "If you're in more stories, you get to live longer."
"If...if you wouldn't kill us," ventured Otome, "we'd live longer, too."
"Gotta kill you," stated Yami LH-chan, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Your characters spoke to me and told me so."
She said the last part in a rather fake sounding spooky voice.
"Now wait a second!" exclaimed Reiko, unable to believe what she was hearing. "We're speaking to you right now, and telling you not to kill us!"
"That doesn't count," said the muse.
Reiko's mouth hung open in shock.
"But..." started Otome, stepping forward to stand beside Reiko.
Yami LH-chan stared at them, head cocked, once more.
"You two look good together," said the muse in a dreamy voice. "I bet I could come up with a way to slash you...maybe a plotless lemon, or something."
Reiko looked like she might scream.
"Um, Reiko," said Otome slowly, "I think we're giving her ideas by just standing here."
"You think we should run?" asked Reiko.
"Awww, don't! I bet if I watch you longer I can come up with all sorts of things for you to do!" whined Yami LH-chan.
That settled the matter; with a collective gasp of horror, the ill-fated girls disappeared back into the pages of their notebook.
"Awww," Yami LH-chan whined.
Unfortunately for him, this turn of events left Yugioh alone with the muse.
"Er...you play Duel Monsters?" he asked warily.
"Not now," said Yami LH-chan excitedly, "too many ideas."
"Any of them about me?" hazarded Yugioh.
"Not yet...but hang around for a little while...I'll come up with some," muttered the muse, now making notes in a small notebook she had produced from thin air.
"Er...right...thanks," muttered Yugioh.
Not only did he recognize a fortunate opportunity for escape, but he was also smart enough to use it; quickly, he retreated to his own notebook while Yami LH-chan was distracted.
"So many cameos," muttered Yami LH-chan. "This is so great! I can't wait to drop this plotbunny!"
And with that, the muse disappeared in one last burst of light and sound, leaving the room empty once more.
Empty, except for the two cats, who slept on, oblivious to everything that had gone one around them.
In a few hours, LH-chan, with many new ideas in her head, would see the mess the characters left behind, scream in horror, and wonder how two sweet little kitties could cause so much damage; before kissing each of them on the head and cleaning up the mess, bemoaning the fate of her chessboard all the while.
The kitties, for their part, would wonder why she was so upset.
After all, it was just a dream.
Owari.