Saiyan Jedi: wakes up groggily (by the way, when it's bold in the authors notes and stuff, then it's an action. I did that because it won't let us do asterisks any more)
Kageka: I thought she'd be out for at least one more chapter! Darn!
Dragon Child: You knew it couldn't last.
Saiyan Jedi: What's going on?
Kageka: very worried look on her face Um … we wrote your last chapter.
Saiyan Jedi: I currently don't care as long as you did a good job of it, which it seems you did. Thank you.
Kageka: she didn't blow up? Sweet!!
Saiyan Jedi: Just say the disclaimer.
Kageka: I knew I forgot something last chapter.
Dragon Child: We don't own a thing. You sue and you get the wrath of all the anime characters (the group is comprised of the deadliest ones, by the way) who are having a party over here. SJ's awakening already pissed them off.
Saiyan Jedi: That reminds me, I think I'll kill you two for throwing a party while I was unconscious.
Dragon Child and Kageka: EEP!
Saiyan Jedi: one more thing. Dragon Child, will you tell them?
Dragon Child: We are assuming in this game that the queenside white rook is a1. I'll explain the rest of the notation later, for those non-chess players out there. I (SJ let me write the chess game) included the notation so that you could follow along.
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"You challenge me to a shadow game? After seeing the easy in which I destroyed your friend? You're crazier than I thought." Necare said, incredulous.
"Yes." Yami nodded, his eyes shining with hate for Necare.
"Alright. What will the game be of?" Necare asked, getting serious. Yami looked around at the crates of boxes on the pier. One, sporting the title, "Queen City Classic Chess Tournament Surplus" caught his eye. He walked over to it and started yanking up the top of the crate.
"Malik, Marik, could you assist me?" He asked, struggling to get the crate open. They complied and ten minutes later, several dozen worn looking chess sets were visible. Yami turned to Necare. "I challenge you in a chess game. Of course it will also be a shadow game." Yami started carefully taking the chessboard and pieces out of the crate, whispering, "This shadow game will reveal your true nature." Malik and Marik had gone bad to stand off to the side, noticing an odd change in the former pharaoh. His eyes were lit with a fierceness that no one had really seen on his face since before Duelist Kingdom. As the ancient spirit silently set up the chessboard on top of a crate he was thinking of Seto and Mokuba in the hospital, Bakura dead and what Ryou's reaction could have been, and of course he was thinking of his own hikari, captured and held somewhere, no doubt being tortured either mentally or physically. "Necare has trespassed in too many souls." He muttered, using a line he hadn't said in a long, long time. He was truly back in his pre Duelist Kingdom style.
"Are you ready yet?" Necare asked as Yami placed the last piece on the board.
"Yes." Yami grabbed two smaller boxes and handed one to Necare. "You may chose which color you will be." Necare sat down on the white side as shadows swirled around them, dark and foreboding. One of the two would not survive the game. Malik, knowing how interested Seto would be, quickly found a piece of paper and pen and jotted down the notation as the game went on.
Necare started off moving a pawn to e4, Yami countering with the move Nc6. Without hesitation, Necare moved Nf3. Yami moved d6. Necare hesitated slightly, but then moved Bc4. Yami's swift counter was e5. Necare smiled and pulled 0-0. Yami looked as if expecting it, then moved Qf6. Necare took a long time deciding his next move, starting to sweat a little. Finally he moved Nh4. Bad idea, for Yami's swift retribution was Qxe4. Necare looked very shook up as he took a lengthy amount of time and eventually moved g3. Yami quickly moved Qg4. Necare gulped, knowing this game was not on his side, and moved Qe1. Yami, in turn, calmly moved Nf6. Necare, apparently attempting to capture Yami's queen, moved h3. Unfazed, Yami moved Qxe3. Necare seemed not to know where to move, so he moved d4, a very useless move. Yami moved Ng4 and allowed himself a smirk. One more move and he would beat Necare. Necare seemed to sense that and panicked, performing another useless move, f3. Yami calmly moved Qh2. "Checkmate." He said softly, then stood and glared down at Necare, hate growing in his eyes. Necare was staring at the board, dumbstruck. Yami continued, louder. "As your punishment game, you get to suffer a physical checkmate." The Puzzle glowed sharply and the Eye of Horus appeared. Yami pointed at Necare and yelled, "Checkmate!" the queen grew and began to look like a real woman. When she stopped growing, she was tall and regal, everything about her the same ebony black as the chess piece she was spawned from. Her hair was long, down to about her waist, and her dress flowing. Instead of a crown, she had a regal looking cap. She had something of a vest on over the top of the dress, one elegant hand gripping the long sleeve. In her other hand she held a flower. She turned to Necare and held the flower in both hands, stretching it until it was as long as a sword. She let go with one hand and with the other, gripped the flower's head. The flower turned into a sword and she thrust it through a rather enchanted looking Necare. Her narrow face showing anger, she then yanked the sword out of his chest and decapitated him. Then she turned to Yami, who bowed. She returned the bow and regained her original stance. She shrunk back down, but not to her original height. She was somewhat taller and had the same features as she'd had when human sized, though her face had a neutral expression and the flower was a flower once more. The other chess pieces were the normal shape and size. Yami pocketed the queen and let the shadows go.
"Shall we go check on Kaiba, Mokuba, and Ryou?" Malik asked. Yami nodded and they set off for the hospital.
They returned to the waiting area outside of Mokuba's room to find a doctor there, waiting for them.
"Did something happen?" Yami asked, worry in his voice.
"You are Yami Muto, Marik Ishtar, and Malik Ishtar, correct?" the doctor asked.
"Yes, that's us." Malik said anxiously.
"About forty-five minutes ago Ryou Bakura friend fainted while waiting here, we have him in a room in another wing waiting for him to get up, but he hasn't awoken yet. Seto Kaiba is awake and in a normal room, demanding to see you. Mokuba Kaiba is not doing so well. We believe he may not last the night."
Saiyan Jedi: and that would be the end of the chapter. It's really short, I know. But it took me forever to write.
Dragon Child: First off it took us forever to figure out what we wanted the shadow game to be, then it hit us. Chess. I am the best at it, though all three of us love it. That game was actually played. I was against a boy at the Third Annual Queen City Classic Chess Tournament. I lost. He only had a rating of 805, but I think he hasn't played in many tournaments to get his rating too high. My dad, a good player himself, looked over the notation and saw one big mistake (where I played my knight right into the kid's hands) but other than that, I played a good game. It's just that kid, in my opinion, has the makings of a grandmaster. Anyways, the capital letter in the notation indicates what piece was used.
Q = queen
N = knight
B = bishop
R = rook
K = king
No capital letter = pawn
x after the letter is a capture to that space.
The letters are from "a" to "h" and go along the side with the pieces and the letters are 1-8 and go along the other side. The 0-0 means a king side castle. Castling (on the kings side) is where the king is moved two spaces towards the rook and the rook is moved just to the other side of the king. For those who don't know, the setup of the pieces is rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, and rook. After that, all you have to do is play the game out to see the moves.
Saiyan Jedi: to write that, we had to find our notation booklet from the tournament, which took forever. Then I had to find that blasted queen. We have a chess set that has that queen in it. After the school year starts I might be able to get a particular friend of mine with a digital camera take a picture of it and download a picture or two of that queen if any one's interested.
Kageka: who's the friend?
Saiyan Jedi: not telling. coughGarethOrciunecough
Dragon Child: you're odd. Anyways, we're also having a contest. We want you to tell us one place in the manga (up to the most recent Shonen Jump) where Yami says the shadow game revealing your true nature bit. If you name the one we used to get the quote from (exact quote "This shadow game will reveal your true nature"), you win Yami, Marik, Bakura, or Seto (or if you wish for a female muse you win one of Saiyan Jedi, Kageka, or Dragon Child) to act as a muse in one chapter of one of yours stories! Of course, as far as the four boys who are currently looking at me in terror, you'd have to use their personalities from this story at any point in the story. Even a dead Bakura is an option. And please tell us where you use your prize; we'd like to check it out. We did get that quote from one particular part in the manga, and it is quoted directly. The contest is only discontinued when someone wins.
Kageka: We also have another contest. You may have noticed, but we changed our summary for the story. If you can think of a better one that we like, you get the same prize as the above contest. You CAN win two muses if you win both. You are also allowed to chase us around with fiery mallets, if you win us, for killing Bakura… and whoever else may die before this fic is over. This contest will also last until someone wins.
Saiyan Jedi: On to the replies! And in alphabetical order, too!
Kageka: you dork! You have a fifty-fifty chance of getting it that way randomly!
Saiyan Jedi: So?
Ceribi Motou – You really don't have liscence to threaten me like that. I could just kill all of them to spite you. Anyways, it was Kageka who wrote it!
Kageka: You are a pain, SJ. Besides, you told me your plan! You said that Bakura, Y-
Saiyan Jedi: quickly covers Kageka's mouth
Kageka: mphf!
Saiyan Jedi: What was that? Uncovers mouth
Kageka: and M-
Saiyan Jedi: covers Kageka's mouth again. After some muffles from Kageka, she uncovers it
Kageka: and-
Saiyan Jedi: covers her dark's mouth again, then releases it You licked me!
Kageka: still continuing previous sentence would all die! And now you will too for covering my mouth.
Saiyan Jedi: After I finish this reply. Anyways, Ceribi, I will withhold whether or not they will be "brought back" until later. Seeing as the yamis all have their own bodies, it would be a tad bit harder to bring them back. It's not a matter of just getting sent to the shadow realm and coming back like Bakura has the frightening tendency to do. So, I take it this Altariel person is your yami? They can be a pain in the butt.
Kageka: WATCH IT CHIBI!
Dragon Child: If you didn't read our bio, then I'll tell you our odd way of doing things. SJ is actually our chibi side. The only reason she's also got the penname is because I write novels and short stories (and homework, I won't let them touch the homework!) and Kageka Role Plays, and all of us have something of a talent/passion for writing and it just wasn't fair to not let her write somewhere. I am the hikari, and Kageka is the dark. Her name means, roughly translated, shadow fire.
Haku and Kohaku – I realize I may be insulting when I ask you this but, who's Chihiro? I recognize the name, but can't place it. Though no doubt I'll smack myself in the forehead when you tell me. Read over the reply for Ceribi starting with Kageka's first statement and ending with her statement of "and you will too for covering my mouth" you'll see a conversation that will interest you. (I STILL can't believe she licked my hand!) But if you really wish for a fight, then ask me for one when I finish this fic. I want you to be either as mad or as happy with me as you'll get.
Saiyan Jedi: Ok, end of replies! I know most of this is author's notes, but that was so Dragon Child could explain the basics of chess. And the chapter is short because I found the absolute perfect cliffhanger! Insert maniacal laughter
Kageka: someday you're going to fall off one of your cliffhangers.
Saiyan Jedi: you can shut up now. To the rest of you;
Carpe diem!