A.N.: Wow, it'll probably be a while before I get this out . . . I'm having enough trouble with ONHS as it is. Oh well, enjoy at your own peril. Exact same disclaimer as the first time. Scene changes are a bit faster in this one, if you can mentally picture it . . . .O*
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TRAILER FOR ROYAL GAMES
Coming soon to ff.net . . .
[soft, anticipatory background music]
[scene fade in/out]
[narrator voice-over]
The time has come . . .
[Anzu bent over with her hands braced on her knees, looking at a poster in a store window, with Honda, Junouchi, and Yuugi looking over her shoulder.]
Anzu: Hey, look! A new tournament is coming to Tachiuchi City!
Honda: Hey, all right!
Junouchi: *shoving Honda* I wanna see!
The stage is set . . .
[group back at Yuugi's house, going over maps and plans for the trip to participate in the tournament. Junouchi says something, Yuugi jumps to his feet, a determined grin on his face.]
Yuugi: Yeah! I'm gonna win this!
For the King of Games . . .
[group at the boundaries outside Tachiuchi city, running hard for the gates with Yami in the lead, and Honda not with them. Group suddenly comes to an abrupt halt and stares upwards, gaping, a shocked and frightened look on their faces. Camera zooms on Yami's distraught face.]
To face . . .
[sudden explosion is heard. Camera switches viewpoint to show an unconcious and injured Honda, floating in midair several dozen feet above their heads, surrounded in a pale yellow-blue aura. A strange looking creature with a grinning, painted mask swoops out of nowhere and grabs Honda, disappearing out of camera view. All step forward, Junouchi with an enraged look on his face, Yami with an angrily helpless one.]
Yami: HONDA!!!!!!
A forgotten . . .
[group starts to take off after the creature then come to another short stop, a fearful look coming into their eyes. Camera zooms on Yami's face as his eyes go wide and he gasps.]
Past.
[scene suddenly goes to black with clanging noise like a slamming metal door. Silence until narrator's voice fades.]
[next scene, agitated action movie music starts playing in background.]
[scene change, to inside what looks like a dim room in a pyramid, or some other entombed desert building. Dim light from an oil lamp over by one wall. Yami standing just in front of camera, half cut off by the right of the screen, looking down as if examining something. Behind him, still unseen, is a young man who looks like him but a bit shorter, with navy-blue hair and violet-blue eyes, and Egyptian clothing. Navy-haired boy is staring wide-eyed at Yami with a disbelieving look.]
Boy: *quiet, slightly shaking voice* Brother . . . ?
[Yami's eyes widen considerably, drops the object with a crash and spins around.]
The cards have a master . . .
[scene change. Camera zooms on the face of a latina girl with dark crimson-and-black hair and roan-red eyes, speaking in a low, menacing voice.]
Latina: I am the creator of the Dungeon Duel cards.
[camera switches back and out to show Yuugi, Anzu, and Bakura giving the girl puzzled looks.]
Anzu: But Pegasus is the creator of the game!
[scene change; camera focused on latina's enraged form as she stalks angrily down a carpeted hallway, Anzu hurrying after her.]
Latina: I will kill Pegasus for this-!!
[scene change; Yuugi reaching out imploringly with one hand.]
Yuugi: Wait-!!
[Yuugi's exclamation cut off by loud explosion.]
[music pace pickup.]
The past has a face . . .
[change scene; Yami against a pitch black background, looking around wildly.]
Yami: Who are you?! Why are you here?!
[the masked creature that stole Honda melts out of the darkness to float towards Yami, the mask now looking demure.]
Creature: I am here for you, little Pharaoh . . .
And they want . . .
[scene changes to Mokuba, Kaiba, the latina, and Junouchi running, Junouchi in the lead. Behind them a frighteningly immense Red Eyes Black Dragon rears back as it charges a fireball.]
Junouchi: C'mon, hurry!!!
Retribution.
[music holds; silence while the huge beam of light streaks towards them.]
[switch scene change to camera zoom on Kaiba's face. Voice panting and strained from running, slightly dazed look. Music hold.]
Kaiba: We're not going to survive this.
[scene change back to a zoom on Junouchi, staring with wide eyes and small pupils as the firebeam streaks towards them. He ducks with arms over his head right before the beam hits. Music kicks back in with the noise as the beam hits the ground and explodes in a massive fireball. Tempo upped.]
Now they have to deal with new enemies . . .
[change scene to a distraught Anzu in the doorway of a dim, furnished room, facing the back of a hunched figure in shadow with long pale hair. Camera view from the front of the person, their face hidden in darkness.]
Anzu: *nervous voice* I know what you're up to! You can't have him!
[camera view switches back over to Anzu's viewpoint as the figure whips around, revealing the latina with white hair and a snarling, disfigured face. Latina narrows eyes and gives Anzu an evilly triumphant look as a faint image of the masked creature fades out behind her.]
Latina: I can have whatever. I. Want.
Anzu: *gasps*
Old friends . . .
[change scene to camera zoom on Kaiba's face. His eyes narrow, then widen. Voice is a stunned near-whisper.]
Kaiba: Damita . . . ?
New cards . . .
[change scene to a female hand tossing a card up into the air. Camera pans to follow the card as it spins upwards.]
Voice: SERAFINA!!
[card is suddenly engulfed in a bright white light that consumes the screen.]
And something darker than the shadows themselves.
[scene changes to a very dark, featureless room. Yami is crouched on the floor on his hands and knees, panting and struggling, nearly hidden by black tendrils creeping and wrapping around him. Zoom on his fearful face as the voice of the masked being voiceovers, echoing eerily.]
Masked: Surrender to the darkness within you . . .
[clanging noise as scene cuts to black. Silence. Then click and creak sound as camera views a door being opened in the black to reveal Yuugi, standing there with wide eyes and a frightened look.]
Yuugi: Yami . . . ?
Now it seems . . .
[scene cut, music starts up again, building to crescendo.]
The most important duel . . .
[Malik standing by the small doorway to a massive room with walls of huge golden bricks, piled high with goods, herding Bakura and his yami, Anzu, and Kaiba and Mokuba through the door as the room quakes and rumbling is heard in the background.]
Malik: *casting frantic looks between the group and collapsing room* Let's move!! Go go go go go!!
May be the one . . .
[Yami is seen far from the door, helping up the navy-haired boy as debris and stone crashes down around them. Yami heaves the boy half over his shoulder and staggers to the doorway, Malik rushing out behind them and narrowly avoiding being crushed.]
They can't . . .
[Malik turns to look back at the now-blocked doorway for a moment with teeth clenched in frustration before taking off after everyone else. The group is then seen outside, running across desert for all they're worth, a dilapidated pyramid behind them. Camera's view goes bird's-eye and pans, dropping around and down in front of them to reveal the large Egyptian temple to the right and front of the pyramid, a pinpoint of white light starting from its center and spreading outwards, growing brighter, the earthquake encompassing the entire area now. Music hits crescendo.]
Win.
[Music stops as the white light envelopes most of the screen. The group has stopped, staring.]
Anzu: Oh. God.
[all duck as white light fills the screen, then the sound of a massive explosion.]
[music starts again. Change screen to black background with sand-gold coloured letters stamping down, spelling out the title with clanging sounds.]
Royal Games: the Final Duel.
Coming to ff.net next winter. Don't miss it.
[clang, scene change to camera zoom on Junouchi's face.]
Junouchi: We're all gonna die.
[cut out with final clang sound.]
Y'know, I seem to recall liking this better the first time I wrote it . . . o.O