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Disclaimer: I don't own yugioh and never will -sniff!- (we hear shouts of hooray in the background from Kazuki Takahashi)Waaaah!

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Chapter 2: Maybe I'll stay this time?

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As soon as the words were out of her mouth, a new thought occurred to Willow: that she may never be anime-drawn again. Her back slumped as she remembered how skinny she was and how good her lunch tasted. Willow rose from the computer chair mournfully, wishing she could have been anime for just a while longer.

She started walking to her room when several things happened at once: something on the roof creaked, the doorbell was rung, and her cat, Neko Chan, started growling and hissing.

"What's wrong, Chan?" Willow asked, making her way to the door. Her cat rarely acted like this, even in the middle of the night when no one else was home and there was a knocking sound on the television.

Willow got to the door and opened it to find a box on her doorstep, addressed to her from her father. She got a pair of scissors and started opening the box, walking out to her front yard at the same time. When she opened the box she found inside it her clay replica of the millenium puzzle that she left at her father's house.

"Strange that this should show up today..." she murmured, and looked up onto her roof to see what it was that made it creak. And, just as Malik was faded before, she saw a faded Yugi on her roof, looking down at her. A small "Ack!" escaped from Willow when she recognized who it was and she took a step backward, closer to the road.

Then she remembered how she had turned anime before: she came in contact with the character. But Yugi was on her roof! Willow knew that there weren't any ladders propped up against the house, and if she went to get one, she might miss her chance.

So she stood there, box in hand, thinking about what to do, while the faded Yugi was waving frantically and pointing to the puzzle around his neck. When she finally did look up and saw his actions, he started pointing to the box.

"The box?" Willow asked, knowing that Yugi couldn't hear her. She held it up and Yugi started nodding. "Oh! I get it now! I can't come in contact with you, but I can come in contact with the puzzle!"

And as she was speaking she reached into the box and when she touched the puzzle Yami took over his hikari and the light from before came out of both puzzles.

When the light cleared Yami was gone and, of course, Willow was an anime character again.

This made her happy again, and even more happy when her surroundings came into focus. She hadn't been outside the last time she turned anime. A wind picked up, and she felt elated. It was strange, seeing everything you had come to know and love under a whole new light. Everything looked new, and fresh, clean. The smells seemed to be the same, but stronger, and sweeter, and though the sky was covered with bright white clouds that would normally have hurt her eyes, they didn't now.

Something seemed wrong, however, as Willow's eyes became more adjusted to the new lighting. Although she lived in a suburban neighbourhood, Willow was starting to see faint outlines of concrete buildings, like those found in a city. This can't be right. She thought. I don't live anywhere near a city like this.

The outlines became slightly more distinguished, and she saw on one of the buildings a sign that had writing on it. But it wasn't English, it was Japanese. And she could understand it. Willow was just able to make out what it said before the 'city' flickered and disappeared.

Domino City Jewelers.

"Since when do I know Japanese? ... Oh, it must be the anime thing... this is so cool!" Willow started to walk into her house when she stopped. When the city started appearing she put the box and the puzzle on the ground.

She walked back out to the middle of the yard and picked up the box and then the puzzle. But, most unfortunately for her, the puzzle started gleaming, activating the switch back to the real world.

"Drat!" she shouted, during the change. "This time was even less than before!"

She stalked into her house, put the box and puzzle on the coffee table, and plopped down onto the couch, wondering all the while if she would be able to get back to the anime world. It was 2:16.

Somehow (probably after affects of the fever) she felt tired, so she decided on going to her bedroom for a nap. She laid herself down on her bed, but sleep never came. So she just settled on closing her eyes for a while.

As she lay there she thought of several things. Of her transformations so far, of how she transformed, and most importantly, she stared considering why all of this stared happening. She supposed it could be some sort of prophesy, or that the characters needed her help. But neither of those really made any sense. Maybe she was going insane.

But what was really happening was that after all of the fantasy stories she'd read or watched unfold, she had started believing in them. And when nothing in her world pointed to the existence of such things, she had started to lose hope on life. She loved living very much, and wouldn't ever think of suicide, considering how much she knew it would hurt the ones she loved, but was losing hope either way. So a higher power had been invoked and was helping her from becoming completely insane, out of kindness and sympathy.

She would never know that though. It was too complex.

Willow was startled out of her thoughts when the grandfather clock announced that it was 2:30. She then knew that she would never be able to take a nap at this rate and decided to walk around a little bit.

She had a hobby of constructing the outfits characters on shows wore, which is why she made the puzzle. She had also made a millenium ring. It was of lesser quality than that of the puzzle, but she cherished it none the less.

It was by this ring that she passed on her way out of her room. She spotted it suddenly and jumped for joy: she had thought it was lost. The ring had made a habit of losing itself from time to time, even though most of the time it was in plain sight.

Willow reached out for it and, just as her fingers brushed across it, the paper and dream-catcher wrought sennen ring glowed a bright yellow and she was knocked unconscious. She fell on her back, fortunately, in an empty spot on her floor, sprawled out as if she had been physically shoved to the ground. Or as if she had slipped on something in the middle of a road...

Oddly enough, this time, there was no character appearance just before the transformation...

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He he! I'm going to leave it here for now. Just so I can post it before I pass out from exhaustion. I hoped you enjoyed it! Don't forget...R&R! Ciao! -tsuriai-