"There's nothing funny about this..."


No...this isn't a humor story. There are rumors of a prank e-mail circling around Domino High. But the truth is that it's real. And Joey Katsuya just got it.

How's a little background information sound?

Anthy Kilik went missing about a week ago. Rumors flew that the singer died in a fight.

Some rumor.

But last Friday, Kaylynn Pegasus received an e-mail from Anthy. Kinda weird isn't it? Getting an e-mail from a missing person? It said:

"I'm not dead. I am not alive either. I live here. I temporarily abandoned my body to live here...in the Wyred."

Kaylynn Pegasus has also disappeared. She could have joined her friend. I really don't know.

Anyways...

E-mails began to fly around school. All were from Anthy, saying all sorts of things. The only thing that stayed the same was the message about the Wyred. The students sent back e-mails, asking questions like: What is the Wyred, and Why. The responses were all different, but she never answered what the Wyred was, but she did answer the 'why'.

'God is here.'

Anyways...

Joey received the e-mail. Here:

Hi Katsuya!
Haven't seen you in quite a while. I temporarily abandoned my body and at the moment, I live here. In the Wyred. God is here. Open the attachment and stop my the Wyred some time. You might want to become a permanent resident. Chat more later. Bye!
Anthy of the Wyred.

I can't duplicate the attachment for you. No one was sure if he visited the Wyred or not.

Joey Katsuya committed suicide a week later.

Thus, we begin our story.

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(I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, and this will be very weird.)

The frost is falling
It falls onto my body
My eyes
My eyes are torpid under the frost
The raven will come crying
"New! News!
Assemble your decks!
Play to be the best!"
I shall not hear
Dark magic returns
There runs a wire fence
To imprison this soul
I shall never see
My Pharaoh again...

And you don't seem to understand

Layer 01: Wyred

Yugi was worried. And Yami was more and more interested in computers and technology. More and more kids were killing themselves at school---going to the Wyred.

"No Yami."

"Come on Yugi! Let me get into the Wyred."

"NO Yami!"

Yugi's voice seemed urgent---fearful. Yami was taken aback by his aibou's sudden outburst. Yugi was even more concerned that usual. Something was troubling him. Was it the fact that Joey was dead? Everyone was dying? Anthy was missing? Was he afraid that Yami was going to kill himself? Hnn...

"Yugi, I'm not going to kill myself."

"Says you."

(Anthy...)

Go away.

(Anthy, become a full being in the Wyred.)

No. Go away.

(And why not? That star is here.)

I cannot worship a star.

(Then call it a god.)

If no one worships it, it isn't a god.

(What about you?)

I am flesh. I am alive

(You are foolish.)

I am me.

*Disconnecting from the Wyred*

Yami Yugi sat on the chair and stared out the window at the night sky. There was a black impala by the curb. Yami didn't like it...nor did he enjoy the two red dots moving across his hand---like a laser pointer. Someone was watching from inside the impala. They were watching him and his aibou. Yami's eyes narrowed.

"Go away." He hissed.

There was a ripple---a wave. Yami didn't feel the power he had unleashed...but he saw the effects. The windows and headlights on the impala shattered. The two figures inside scrambled to burn rubber and get out of there.

"What the hell?"

Yami turned to the laptop on the edge of the desk.

"Connect to the Wyred."

Connect me to the Wyred.

(Your boy has entered the Wyred.)

Permanently?

(No. But that can be arranged.)

Don't you dare...

(Ooo. Anthy is mad.)

The real world already knows about this. It don't matter.

(The real world isn't the Wyred.)

I know. Now...where in the Wyred is Yami?

(O lalalala la la la la O lalalala LA la.)

Stop singing that damn Hamtaro song.

(Lalalala la, la la la la.)

Computer, there is he?

*Go left*

(No.)

I am free.

(That's where you're wrong.)

Disconnect!!!

*Cannot disconnect*

NO!!!!


"Yami! Disconnect!!"

Yugi's harsh tone pulled Yami into a distorted reality. He toppled off of the chair and fell onto the floor. Yugi hit him.

"You went into the Wyred."

Yami hung his head.

"I thought I could find her."

Yugi sighed and closed the laptop before glancing out the window. There was a black impala parked across the street. Two men in black suits and odd mechanical glasses stood staring at the window. Yami noticed two red dots trace across the Sennen Puzzle hanging around Yugi's neck. Yami stood up and put his hands on the boy's shoulders, glaring down at the men.

"Go away!" Yami's voice was full of malice.

The windows of the impala shattered and one of the men cried out in pain as his glasses shattered. Little drops of blood splattered onto the pavement. The two shuffled into the car and sped off.

Yugi was aware of the power Yami had released.

The Wyred...

The POWER!

(You are property of the Wyred now.)

No! Why can't I disconnect?!

(You are mine now.)

...no...

(WHAT?!)

I am mine.

*sending e-mail*

All the rest is darkness.

(Dark...ness?)

I am the darkness.

(Darkness?)

Darkness.


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Spoiler:

"How could anyone like the Wyred?" Yami asked himself.

(Everyone. They kill themselves to leave your worthless reality. They love their fantasies. They want to stay because they love it. and they increase its power. Darkness is just there.)

Yami sat up and looked around. Who the hell? Did the Wyred exist in the real world?